Going through admin things to iron out and I've got some ideas:
Redirects
- The redirects list is long. Very long. There doesn't seem to be a system to it. For example, some characters have "(Name)" redirect to "(Title) (Name)" where others have "(Title) (Name)" redirect to "(Name)". This happens even with the "same" characters such as "Princess Allura (Legendary Defender)" redirects to "Allura (Legendary Defender)" but "Allura (DotU)" redirects to "Princess Allura (DotU)".
- Because titles such as ranks can change within the series (See: Thace going from lieutenant --> commander), I propose the standard be "(Title) (Name)" redirecting to "(Name)" and all page be named the character's name only. If title redirects are even necessary.
- Similarly, Altea is named "Planet Altea" right now with "Altea" and "Altea (Legendary Defender)" redirecting to "Planet Altea". Would it not be better to have the page be named "Altea" and "Planet Altea" redirect to it? (Again, if such redirects are even necessary.) Does the redirect URL with "(Legendary Defender)" need to exist when the different incarnations of the planet don't have separate pages? The page on "Arus" is simply named that, not "Planet Arus", which is a redirect to it.
Categories
- Currently it seems like every page relating to X franchise is categorized with that franchise's name, or at least most of them. So some character pages are, some aren't. Should character pages be categorized with that franchise name? I was thinking of just putting the "(franchise name) characters" category under the franchise category and letting that subcategory fulfill the same purpose. Same with putting the subcategories for the Lions. So the category tree would look like:
: Voltron: Legendary Defender - Pages o' general stuff like series page comics page. :: Voltron: Legendary Defender Characters - Character pages. :: Lions (Legendary Defender) - Lion pages. - Voltron robot page?
- All Robeasts are under the Robeast category, which is under the Drules category, even though Prorok and other Robeasts from Legendary Defender aren't Drules. Should we have subcategories of "Robeasts (DotU)" and "Robeasts (Legendary Defender)" and nuke Robeasts from the Drules category unless the Robeast was specifically a Drule?
- Similarly, an "Alteans" category was started for Legendary Defender but GoLion Alteans were a thing, yes? So should we have "Alteans (GoLion)" and "Alteans (Legendary Defender)? Should they be in a bigger category of "Alteans"? The question applies to Arusians and Galra as well. What about "Humans"? Since those appear in all franchises and there so far is not a difference aside from timeline and culture.
- Can we shorten franchise categories to "Defender of the Universe", "The Third Dimension", and "Legendary Defender"? This would make text less redundant throughout pages and a shorter list to read through when categories pop up automatically in the editor. (Example: Type in "Voltron" and you get tons of categories popping up.)
- Can we shorten "Voltron: blah blah blah characters/episodes/etc." to "Characters (DotU)", "Characters (Legendary Defender)", etc as is seen in categories for the Lions already with "Lions (Golion)"? This would narrow down categories for people to go through as well when they automatically pop up in the editor.
- Is it "GoLion" or "Golion". I've seen both used.
- If we shorten things, should Legendary Defender's distinction be "(Legendary Defender)", "(LD)", or "(VLD)"?
- Should categories be capitalized every word? So "TV series" would change to "TV Series".
- There's probably more to iron out but this is already long.