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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Wiki Project => Topic started by: Snail on August 06, 2010, 06:50:17 am

Title: Name Origin thingy
Post by: Snail on August 06, 2010, 06:50:17 am

I'm going to go through and delete the factfile in the name origin section. It's mostly useless and people have been deleting them anyway, guess someone should finish the job. (The actual name origin section and the full explanation will remain but the factfile will be removed)

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, I mean these things:

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    Meaning: Unknown
    Language: Greek (Latin?), imported in English
    Alternate spellings: Diana (Latin)

Everyone sunshine and sparkles about this?

Title: Re: Name Origin thingy
Post by: Snail on August 06, 2010, 10:52:29 am

Well if anyone wasn't sunshine and sparkles about this, bad luck I already went and did it. :P

Title: Re: Name Origin thingy
Post by: SypheDMar on August 06, 2010, 12:36:52 pm

Good. I always thought it was ugly and redundant. I was more disappointed when it was added than when it was removed. :D

Title: Re: Name Origin thingy
Post by: Mobius on August 07, 2010, 08:19:57 am

IMHO they should be replaced with links to Wikipedia articles, but that is just a suggestion.

Title: Re: Name Origin thingy
Post by: Goober5000 on August 10, 2010, 12:54:30 am

I'd prefer to see all the Name Origin sections removed, in favor of a single Name Origin article.

Title: Re: Name Origin thingy
Post by: Snail on August 10, 2010, 02:23:22 am

Quote from: Goober5000 on August 10, 2010, 12:54:30 am

I'd prefer to see all the Name Origin sections removed, in favor of a single Name Origin article.

Anyone else in favor of this?

Title: Re: Name Origin thingy
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 10, 2010, 03:25:32 am

I'll second the motion.

Title: Re: Name Origin thingy
Post by: Droid803 on August 10, 2010, 12:10:40 pm

Sure.
Might make it more difficult to separate the canon and non-canon though...

Title: Re: Name Origin thingy
Post by: Mobius on August 10, 2010, 12:28:29 pm

Everything in one article seems ok.

Quote from: Droid803 on August 10, 2010, 12:10:40 pm

Might make it more difficult to separate the canon and non-canon though...

Just add them at the end of the article or create a different article.