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Why Put Quests Under "Quests" Article?

I just finished putting all of the Morrowind Main Quests under Morrowind:Quests/, and I'm wondering why we do it? Doesn't this infringe the namespace policy? Should we continue to do this or should we move the quests back to the main namespace? I think we should move the pages back to the main namespace to keep confusion down and because of our namespace policy (which states that we shouldn't have sub namespaces).— Unsigned comment by Aristeo (talk • contribs)

I think you're just trying to find ways to keep boosting your edit count! :) One reason is to distinguish between quests and people/places with the same name, i.e. [[Oblivion:The Forlorn Watchman]] vs [[Oblivion:Quests/The Forlorn Watchman]], or [[Oblivion:Desolate Mine]] vs [[Oblivion:Quests/The Desolate Mine]].--Nephele 12:45, 15 July 2006 (EDT)

That's what disambiguation pages are for. For instance, Morrowind:Vivec links to both Morrowind:Vivec (god) and Morrowind:Vivec (city). [[Oblivion:The Desolate Mine]] could be renamed to [[Oblivion:The Desolate Mine (place)]], and [[Oblivion:Quests/The Desolate Mine]] could be renamed to [[Oblivion:The Desolate Mine (quest)]]. The [[Oblivion:The Desolate Mine]] redirect could then be turned into a disambig page. And no, I'm not just looking for ways to boost up my edit count, I'm just doing repetitive jobs that just need to be done. Besides, it's high enough already. ;P --Aristeo 14:04, 15 July 2006 (EDT)

Doing some research, it seems like everyone was either against or neutral about putting things under /Quests in general. Not only does this make the titles look tacky, but it is against the namespace policy. And I'm sure this confuses the stew out of new readers on the wiki. (Putting things under namespaces is bad enough.) Therefore, I think we should move everything under /Quests back to their proper namespace. --Aristeo 02:01, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

I agree that the disambiguation pages could easily cover the cases where there is overlap/confusion between people/places and quests. And it does seem more efficient than having to type in "Quests/" for the 99% of articles that don't have any issues with confusion. Finally, at this point I'll vote yes to anything that introduces consistency: until all the pages are set up the same way, all of the quest link templates are almost useless.--Nephele 02:16, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

Cool. What does everyone else think? --Aristeo 03:03, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

I went ahead and started converting them, as I noticed that even the Oblivion quests were under the Quests/ pages sporadically. It was painful, but I did it. Some of the links still need to be fixed, but all of the pages have been moved to my knowledge. --Aristeo 21:55, 20 July 2006 (EDT)

I'm in favour of this move. I was never very happy with subpages, since they create a bread crumb of their own (apart of the one we already have) and make the page titles longer. I beleive there's also Places and Books subpages as well as Quest. Would you like to move them as well? --DrPhoton 02:57, 21 July 2006 (EDT)

I didn't see any subpages under Places (looked under Oblivion and Tamriel namespaces). As for books, I believe we would have to talk to a few more people because the Tamriel books are more established. (As for the Oblivion quests, they were sporatically under Oblivion:Quests.) --Aristeo 15:47, 21 July 2006 (EDT)