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I think I'm really beginning to overdocument areas now.. I made a bunch of changes to the Cult Site tonight and after taking a moment to check over everything, I realized it was all pretty confusing, useless, and unnecessary. Larger stuff like the Tomb on the Isle of Prisoners and the Temple of Hyath is helpful, but smaller residences, Inns, and other less important / smaller buildings probably don't need it. I don't want people to read an article and be inundated with a slew of links to useless things like "this is the basement" and nothing more. I expanded the Bear Pit tonight, and I'm not sure about that one. It's kindof interesting to see what characters are on each individual level, but that could also just be documented on the main article. For smaller multi-level structures that aren't worthy of individual documentation for each level, it's probably just good enough to say what needs to be said about the level, then put an image in the gallery page.

If anyone sees obvious overdocumentation on minor areas, feel free to consolidate everything on the main page, just be sure to unlink anything that links to it using the What links here thing on the main navigation. If there's questionable areas, just post back here. I don't know that I'll actively hunt out these areas, but I'll definitely clean them up as I come across them.

--Superlgn 03:18, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, the Area category made it easy to see which areas had multi-level documentation and I think I got pretty much everything that didn't need to be documented. I left the kitchens and Nathan's Rooms in the Bear Pit, because of the character documentation. --Superlgn 15:45, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

I thought of a better idea.. Characters, items, and maybe a few links in a gallery or the walkthroughs, could be linked to their exact location in the infobox and/or description, and then if the area it's on isn't deserving of it's own page (or there are higher priorities), we could just redirect the floor/level/area to it's parent. Like The Wildcat, upper floors -> The Wildcat. I wish I would have thought of that earlier, it would have saved me some edits the other day. :P And then later on, if someone decides the area is deserving of it's own article, the redirect can be removed and actual content put in. I think the only thing we wouldn't want to do is have a link within the parent area that links to the redirecting child area. So for The Bear Pit, we'd exclude the link for the ground floor in the main description since the user would just go right back to The Bear Pit. Make sense? --Superlgn 16:46, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

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