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"One day every page will have a tag. I call it my nightmare"
Funny you should say that Blue, I think the opposite. I prefer to have tagged pages. I donno, it just seems to make everything simpler. People who can't link will be picked up on the radar straight away... it will force people to link to the correct articles because they have to think what game they are in. :D ILHI 22:35, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
And it will make linking impossible accept for those insane people who are obessive enough to actually remember (or even care to remember) what tags go where. I guess you're one of the insane, so I'm sure that nightmarish would appeal to you. The Command and Conquer wiki follows that philosphy, thus making navigating the Search Bars impossible. I wonder if you had a hand in that fiasco of a site. | |||
To be fair, our tagged pages are by game. If you are referring to a game the tag is obvious. If you are referring to a series element then a simple tag system is used. Of course, I'm not for changing the system to tagging here, but I vaguely remember many cases here where link-fail has occurred because people don't remember any links. Most of them have been cleared up with disambigs, but still, CSM's FFIV walkthrough still links to Minh (redirects to Minwu) when it is not who he is referring to. (Actually, that's his fault. Someone says Minh, referencing FFII's Minwu (who was Minh) but CSM believed the elder was Minh. Funny times) Though this case is unrelated.
However, the wikis I manage don't tag pages needlessly. Mainly because it's needless. The only case here is "Final Fantasy", but that's for simple reasons, though I'm thinking some people meaning the series link to just "Final Fantasy".
If a term is only used once, then I'd prefer it to be untagged. If it can refer to 2+ things, then yay tags. ILHI 22:47, 21 November 2008 (UTC)