New proposed plan
The Move lists project is a project to collect and display all of the special moves from every available fighting game. The idea was to contain a characters moves in two locations: the game in which contained the character, and a seperate character specific page that listed all of the character's moves from every game that he/she was in.
Originally when I kicked off the Move lists project, I thought having one contained location for all of the moves was a good thing. It had one flaw that I knew of, and another flaw that Prod pointed out to me. They were:
- The two lists with the same information can become out of sync is a user updates a character on the game page but not the character's page, or vice versa. Plus, this method was redundant.
- The organization of a game's information was now split into two different places, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just generally confusing.
So we wanted to organize the information a little better to solve both problems. Through the use of transclusion, we can eliminate the redundancy/out-of-sync problem by putting one characters moves from one game on an individual page, and transcluding it as many times as necessary wherever we want. And by moving that information to the game's or (series') specific guide, there is no question where the information belongs.
So the plan is as follows. Using Street Fighter II as an example, every game from the SF2 series is collected together under one Table of Contents. Specific character are placed in the directory structure of Game Name/Character Name. So for example, Ryu's moves from Street Fighter II Turbo are found at Street Fighter II Turbo/Ryu, whereas Ken's moves from Super Street Fighter II are found at Super Street Fighter II/Ken. This way, if a move list needs to be updated, it only needs to be updated once, in this location. The updates will automatically appear wherever the list is transcluded.
All of a specific games moves are transcluded from those individual pages. So Street Fighter II transcludes all of the moves from the SF2 pages. Additionally, to accomplish nearly the same task as the old specific character pages (without quite as much information), we place all of the series information for that character (including biography and storyline information) under Series Name/Characters/Character Name. So all of Ryu's moves through the Street Fighter II series can be found at Street Fighter II/Characters/Ryu. The move lists are transcluded from all of the games that Ryu appears in.
Although this arrangement is not perfect either, it is still better than some of the problem we faced with the original arrangement. Please feel free to discuss this matter here, or directly with myself or Prod. Thanks very much for you help and understanding. Procyon (Talk) 15:21, 7 October 2007 (CDT)