Thread:Montinevra/@comment-26304798-20190123171625/@comment-26304798-20190124175112

I can understand where you're coming from and I actually do agree with some of your points. I could definitely get behind changing the navboxes and possibly breaking them up, but my problem was that it was done without consultation. Let me explain my point of view so you may understand where I'm coming from.

A wiki is by definition a public project. Anyone can edit things for better or for worse, so most wikis are ran and maintained by the entire community. There is semi-unwritten rule in the wiki/fandom community that being an admin on a wiki doesn't mean you are the owner, or get a final say like some sort of dictator. As the (current) only active admin on the Oddworld Wiki I try to run this place in the same way, without imposing my own vision too much and without getting involved in every tiny edit (even if I don't always agree). However, publicly editable spaces need rules to some degree. If we decide on something today, and tommorow a completely random person decides that Navboxes should be bright pink with rainbow letters, that's just going to turn into madness. Hence my request to always discuss large changes to common templates before making them. Not because you need my approval percé, but because there needs to be some sort of process. I hope that makes sense.

That said, before I was an admin here this wiki was a Mess with a capital M. I've spent the better part of two years cleaning it up with certain standards in mind and that's (broadly - there's still much to do) what you see today. For those standards I've looked at larger established wikis, and you'll primarily see many influences from the Fallout Wiki. Many of the current templates have been copied directly from there, including the Navbox template, and I try to follow a similar method of organisation and administration.

So on that subject, I could get behind a dedicated "Oddworld Series " navbox that is structured in a similar fashion to how the Fallout Wiki does it, though I would like to avoid too many subcategories. I'm not a fan of the spin-offs, handhelds and rebooted subcategories because there's simply not enough to fill them with. 3 pages does not justify a category in my mind. I'm also not entirely sure about seperating the first quintology from the reboot, though that does have merrit. I do absolutely like putting things like DLC and HD pages in brackets behind the original. Looks very clean.

Right now I'd propose this:

Games

- Classic series

- Second series

- Spin-offs (For handheld stuff and smartphone apps)

Other media (Movies, books, soundtracks)

Canceled projects (All canceled movies and games)

Then we could have Oddworld Inhabitants as its own Navbox with people, studios and whatnot.