Forum:Updating Universe templates to link to pages detailing sources of elements in Smash

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This discussion is in regards to a proposed change on SmashWiki. The discussion must first meet with a consensus before it is implemented.

Sorry for the long-winded title. Basically, I’ve noticed that for many of the universe articles, the list of games/media from that universe is sufficiently large that it has been broken off into its own page. By my count, this is the case now for 12 universe articles.

Those new pages detailing the referenced media fittingly include the navigation template for their respective universe, but what I see as a shortcoming is that those pages are themselves not linked in the infobox, requiring one to first visit the universe’s main article and then access the page about the referenced media elements from there.

I saw this as a rather clear and simple problem to be fixed and thought it would be fine to simply add those in myself, but another editor reverted those additions and pointed out that such a change should be discussed first, so I am making this a proposal.

Specifically, I propose the addition to universe navigation templates, of, when applicable, a direct link to the pages listing the material from those series featured in Smash and the particular games/media from which those hail (That is, pages of the format: <x> (universe)/Elements appearing in the Super Smash Bros. series).

I believe these are important pages pertaining to those universes as they exist in Smash and are thus warranting of a direct link in the universe template. I admit that deciding what to call this new field on the template, as well as formatting it to look nice, may take a bit of work, but I believe the change of adding this field to the nav template would only be beneficial for the purpose of navigating this site, and thus should be implemented for all universes for which such a page exists. Pk62001 (talk) 05:59, May 6, 2023 (EDT)

Oppose. As the person who reverted those edits, I think it looks ugly the way that it was. I might be more accepting if the linking was simplified, but overall I don't think it's necessary to have such a thing in the universe template that links everywhere else, especially when only 12 of the 39 universes with a playable character (note that that's just barely under a third of them) were expanded in this format. Aidan the Gamer 11:09, May 6, 2023 (EDT)

I grant you that the way I formatted them before did not look that nice, but I don’t think that means it is necessary something that would look out-of-place. I assume that if instead of the full page name being in the template, it was a shorter name with the link to that page inserted into it, that would already look much better.

I really don’t see how the fact that only 12/39 fighter-featuring universes have that to be an argument against it; many of the fields that template can have, only appear on a relatively small number of them, such as Bosses (only 10 templates use this field) or Masterpieces (18 out of all universe templates, as Balloon Fight, Wrecking Crew, and Pilotwings have them), and I see this as no different.

I hope no one would object to the fact that these are now important pages for the 12 universes that do have them, and so assuming the linking to them on the template would be made to look nice, I don’t see what objection there could be to the links/that new template field being added.

Pk62001 (talk) 16:05, May 6, 2023 (EDT)