Talk:Portal:Theories

I just have to say how much I like the improvements to the theories pages. They are very navigable, user-friendly, and almost all the pages are under 32k. I especially like that we've been able to keep the theories in a centralized location, while providing room for growth. (We are, afterall, only halfway through the first season!) Well done, Hardvice! — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 06:24, 5 February 2007 (EST)

Suggestion

Some of the collected theories pages are becoming very long and a bit difficult to read. Have we considered having a theory page attached to each main page as a separate tab instead? (as they have done on lostpedia. Just a suggestion, I don't mean to offend all the hard work that has gone into these pages. I actually think the structure of this portal page and the way the theories are grouped is very good. I don't have the technical know-how to put it in place but I guess someone here must know? Rufus 12:11, 5 March 2007 (EST)

• It's a good idea, I'm going to look into it. Until then if the theories are getting too cumbersome then we can always move them to subpages and then just change the theories template we have on each article to point to the proper subpag. In either case then the Theories pages could just be replaced with portals or categories with links to the different theory pages. (Admin 12:25, 5 March 2007 (EST))
• I am hugely in favor of splitting the theories into individual pages, linked on tabs from the base page. It will be a big project to get it set up, but the maintenance will be a lot easier. Perhaps we should work on this on the week when there is no episode. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 13:14, 5 March 2007 (EST)
  • Actually, if you get the tabs working, it would be very easy to have the portal templates check to see if a theories page exists for each article and add a link to it on the portals -- like the links on the Powers template to the examples pages, only automatic.--Hardvice (talk) 12:58, 5 March 2007 (EST)
    • How would it be automatic? You'd still have to add the base articles to the portal, right? And it's not dependent on the tabs necessarily, just dependent on moving to subpages, right? (Admin 13:02, 5 March 2007 (EST))
      • If the pages are named consistently, which I'm guessing is required for the tabs, then it's easy to make the template check to see if Theories:LINK exists, and if so, link to it, and if not, insert a blank line. Doesn't work so nicely with the examples because of capitalization (though with some finagling it probably could): the main page is "Rapid cell regeneration", and the examples page is "Examples of rapid (little r) cell regeneration".--Hardvice (talk) 13:20, 5 March 2007 (EST)