Talk:Bioware Enhancements

Hey guys, let's leave the phantom pages uncreated until someone dibs them. That way, the unwritten articles show up red and it's easy to tell which they are.

Plus, it'll be easy to see at a glance what has already been dibbed on the phantom page - the links turn blue.

Dfaran L&#39;Eniarc 05:37, May 4, 2010 (UTC)

We are supposed to be able to reference phantoms. If the page is created, then you can drop links in easily, and variations in spelling won't make it so some references to phantoms don't match up.

We could move the articles from the phantom page to the written page upon dubbing.

I just find it much easier to link to existing but unfilled pages than to leave hanging links and hope they will all connect when the page is created.

Aquil Hakim 05:46, May 4, 2010 (UTC)

I don't get how it makes a difference. If you spell a link wrong, you've spelled it wrong whether the page exists or not. Unless you're using a linking method I'm unfamilliar with?

I just find it much easier to know what's going on when I can tell phantom links apart from article links without having to go look them up. I don't find misspelled links to be a huge issue, and readability is important since this is also supposed to be a functional encyclopedia as far as the existing articles are concerned. I'd rather look up the spelling once when I write an article and save myself a whole bunch of trouble later on when it comes time to do research (or just read articles at random.) Clicking on links that go nowhere is a bummer.

I guess there could be good reasons to do it either way.

My vote is still for leaving in the hanging links, though.

Dfaran L&#39;Eniarc 06:58, May 4, 2010 (UTC)

If you click the link button to create a link it will autocomplete existing articles.

Since you need to see what pages link to a page, broken links will not allow you to see everything that references it, which could lead to inconsistency.

Aquil Hakim 07:37, May 4, 2010 (UTC)

You don't need to see what pages link to a page until it comes time to write that article, at which point you can create it.

We only had inconsistency errors once in all of Ghyll, and we did it this way.

Let's see what Mr. Eldritch says, though. He's the guy in charge.

Dfaran L&#39;Eniarc