Category talk:Game Series

Proposal: turning "* (series)" articles into "Category:*" pages
Since you can treat a Category page like a regular article, this would make some degree of sense, and make it simpler to connect all games from a series to each other. The existing article could become redirects to the categories once the data is moved. IkariLoona 10:05, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't like this idea at all. It makes it harder to consolidate information in one place that wouldn't necessarily fit on disparate game pages. The drama cds, anime, manga and other related media that is linked on the series pages would be scattered on different pages. I suppose using the category for that would serve the same purpose but not everything has a page yet as it is and such information would be lost as a result. Then there's information like the character list which tells you exactly which character came from which game/introduced. This wouldn't be known to the average reader unless you read every page, played all the games or had it in a list as it is now on the series pages. It just seems a more messy and complicated way to do something that's already done. Kyosei 23:45, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No information would have to be lost - perhaps it's simple to explain if I provide an example from another wiki I use often, the "Swords" page in the FFXI wiki - it allows all the relevant information to be there, with a list of everything that fits in the category (and as equipment gets added to the game but not enough is known about it to have its own page, having red links there is acceptable and actually encourages contribution) with some essential information that need not go into major detail, while keeping the "raw" list of articles in the category below. Something similar could apply with game, and infor like introduced characters wouldn't be lost, it'd just be a matter of putting *_(series) page content in Category:* pages and redirecting from there. IkariLoona 10:26, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems redundantly, redundant. It's pretty much doing the same thing the series page is already doing. There's also my personal feelings that categories shouldn't really be used to replace pages in this manner or fashion. Categories are useful tools for organizing things similar things together to an extent but that's it. When I click on a category, I want to see everything that's related to it in a nice list. I don't want to be bombarded by extra information that can be accessed on the pages listed in the category. Kyosei 14:25, 17 August 2009 (UTC)