Forum:The Icon Situation

I'm seconding the pop-up menu. As cluttered as it all may seem, getting rid of a few extra icons will not get rid of the pages they link-back to. As long as every game and its iteration has its own page, it will need a quick and simple link-back. This is a wiki. We're supposed to be informative. Trying to oversimplify it to the point where entire game entry pages go unnoticed is counterproductive, to say the least. So to prevent clutter, I say the pop-up menu is the way to go. --Webber22 (talk) 16:06, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

You guys are forgetting something: This isn't going to work for tablet users. --Webber22 (talk) 23:33, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Part 0.2 -A fragmentary continuation-
So we're basically still were we started, same with the naming policy (see here), but using the wiki the last months I've leaned more and more to Kryten's opinion. All this HD categorization doesn't make thing clearer, it just gets worse.

So I propose to remove the 1.5 and 2.5 icons and replace them with the actual game's icon in case the content is exclusive to the HD remasters and go with the "new title ==> new game page" kind of rule, which essentially means more footnotes. Same for the crazy HD naming policy because with the "aboutfile" template there is a convenient place to explain the origin of a file as detailed as desired and if for whatever reason a difference should be made more clear there is always this method.

It's obviously not a perfect solution, but it's much simpler to use. So what do you think, anyone for or against this? We could also vote if everyone already made up their mind. -- 13:03, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I think I'm the only one here to thinks things are fine as they are. I have no problem navigating the pages.  I mean...it's not our fault the series has become as convoluted as it is, but as far as things go it's not too cluttered for me at the moment.  There's no doubt it'll get bad one day in the future, but I think it's fine as it is right now. --Seagram (talk) 13:46, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and added a tiny tweak to the portals box, if it helps for the moment. --Seagram (talk) 13:50, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I agree on removing the HD icons, although it should be done by the bot to prevent flooding the RC. About the images, I feel we don't need to upload HD images separately (unless it's a new render, like File:Sora KHHD.png), and I think we should just use the template that is used on the image Shard linked, although we should change it so we can use the same template for both HD ReMIXes, and maybe other games too. 15:31, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
 * The hardest possible yea. We're talking yippee-ki-yea. Perhaps even motherf***er levels of yea. 20:56, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Since no one protested I guess we can go through with it. Who has the login information for the bot? -- 19:45, 28 June 2016 (UTC)