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Minithepeanut·7/29/2014 in Suggestion Box

i bet you thought we were done with these annoying housekeeping threads

You were wrong.

Anywaaaaaay. Housekeeping, if you've never done it, is an absolute turd. Also, we have a hell of a crapton of pages which need to be added to everytime you make or delete an OC. It's an exhausting job.

So here's a great suggestion for how to make this task a million times easier, divided into neat little sections.

Street pages

Basically nothing happens on them except you can see who lives near your character.

So...

This page conveniently already keeps track of that. As far as how we'll know what streets are where, there can be a list of streets on the town page, i.e. Barfield, Blackwood Mountain, Miduna Beach, Lebeaux. That's really all that's needed.

Stores/businesses

Also another location where nothing happens.

So...

Again with the town pages - they're greatly underused and it's so weird because we could make this a million times easier. If you've seen Barfield Mall you can see how we organised the employees thing. My suggestion is that we have a similar table on the Barfield/Miduna Beach/Lebeaux/Blackwood Mountain pages for stores, their addresses, their types and their employees. Simple as that.

Pages like Barfield Mall (I think there's one in Miduna Beach) and Lebeaux Shopping Center can still exist so they can more easily list individual stores within them. Stores which aren't a part of a major shopping center get to stick to the town page.

Face claims

Are now also conveniently listed on this page along with everything else you ever need to add about your character.

So...

Basically masterlist can replace the face claims page and it means less changing pages you need to edit in order to make or remove a character.

Birthdays

Unfortunately this is one that we're stuck with. If you've ever looked at the main page (which you should, it's pretty), you'll notice that each month the table on the side tells you whose birthday it is that month. This only works if you add your character to the appropriate birthday template. Thankfully, it's pretty easy and you can just click the link above the birthday table.

Anything else

I don't think I've forgotten anything else here but yeah, I think that's it. Night y'all.

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InsaneBlueberry·7/29/2014

You already know I agree, so yeah.

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HeyLookItzTanni·7/29/2014

Yeah, I agree.

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ShorRoss44·7/29/2014

You guys work so hard. I agree.

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Minithepeanut·7/29/2014

Okay, so to make things a bit easier with all the broken links on old pages, instead of deleting the street pages, I'm just going to redirect them to their city page.

If you wanted to assist and don't know how to do that it's just

#REDIRECT [[Link]]

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ArianaGrandeForever·7/30/2014

Agreeeeed.

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InsaneBlueberry·7/30/2014

So I had an idea when I was editing the Blackwood Mountain page to add locations and stuff, so what I did is added a table for street pages and put the streets down and then added a second column listing if there were any locations (shops and stuff) on the street. I'm going to go ahead and do this to all the town pages, but hopefully everyone likes it. I think it seems pretty good. Plus, it lets you know what is where.

I also added another column for the street "type." Basically, the type is really what it is - commercial, residential, combination (usually commercial + residential), and rural. Obviously there are other types (industrial, agricultural, and historic), but we don't really have anything like that around here. I know that's probably a bit much, but I think it'd help keep the different streets organized. From what I can tell, no one lives on Main Road in Blackwood, so why not keep it as solely commercial where major businesses and such are located?

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HeyLookItzTanni·7/30/2014

I like what you're doing. It gives the streets and the wiki in general a sense of realism because they're very diverse with different types and different people (depending on where they live). Maybe instead of listing the employees like you'd be listing them in a sentenct, we could list them using line breaks.

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InsaneBlueberry·7/30/2014

Yeah, we could do that with the employees. It'd look neater too. I was mostly just going off what Mini had already done with the Barfield Mall page, but yeah, I'll go ahead and start changing that stuff.

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InsaneBlueberry·7/30/2014

Okay, so I obviously kept some location pages around because obvious reasons. I kept the schools and malls because duh. I left the Barfield Sportcenter, Honeymoond Avenue, Barfield Community Center, and Murkoff's Asylum pages because I felt like they actually needed a bit of explaining about things. So yeah.

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Minithepeanut·7/31/2014

This all sounds really good, and yeah. Most of what I did was just a general guide. Sounds awesome.

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What do you think?