Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-7697305-20150327005515

Hi everyone.

Following pointing out some problems which the removal of disambiguation pages caused, a discussion about possibly reversing (partially or fully) this project started in chat. This thread is intended to create an easier to follow and less ephemeral discussion on this matter, in addition to allowing people who weren't in chat at the time to have their say.

So, initial points of discussion are as follows:
 * For one thing, it has been brought up that some types of pages like Banners, Paintings, Statues, and various furniture pages (like Tables) a) have too many members for all of them to be kept updated consistently, and b) don't individually have enough content to be worth separate pages.
 * As a corollary to the above, it was suggested that the pages for individual members of such categories be redirected to the more general page title (ie. Gold Chest, Web Covered Chest, etc. to Chests).
 * Finally, to address the problem in the first bullet point here, there would be some infobox changes so that info which does differ from item to item (such as crafting info) can be noted separately.
 * One concern which was raised on the above point is that this is how the Curse wiki does things, which some users seemed to be against.

Some extra musings from me:
 * I'm thinking the above will either apply not at all or only in a limited manner to monster pages, as there is far more of a difference between, say, Lava Bats and Cave Bats than Steampunk Chests and Honey Chests.

Thoughts? Corrections (from those who participated in the chat discussion)? 