User talk:SacValleyDweller/Abilities and the Classical Elements
Shouldn't "Water Mimicry" be under water? >_>; I'd put anything involving lightning under Wind too.--Riddler 23:00, 6 December 2007 (EST)
- I thought that at first too. But it appears that the abilities are categorized differently. "Energy manipulation or generation" would go under "fire".--Ice Vision 23:04, 6 December 2007 (EST)
- Um, I've got a jump on you... Check out "User:MiamiVolts/Portal:Abilities". Though my categories are a bit different.--MiamiVolts (talk) 23:14, 6 December 2007 (EST)
- Empathic Mimicry would go under all four, and Invisibility and Replication would go under Manipulations and/or Enhancements of One's Own Body.--Riddler 23:51, 6 December 2007 (EST)
- I saw that. Interesting classifications...I like mine better because they kinda go with what Mohinder said about there being four power genes in parasite--SacValleyDweller (talk) 01:32, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- Um, I've got a jump on you... Check out "User:MiamiVolts/Portal:Abilities". Though my categories are a bit different.--MiamiVolts (talk) 23:14, 6 December 2007 (EST)
Promote?
add a few images and perhaps a few other edits and I think this might be a humdinger of a page! what's everyone else think? wouldnt hurt me none if no, however Im just so proud of this page... :)--SacValleyDweller (talk) 01:47, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- It's a nice classification. However I'd think it was more of a theory than a fan creation. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 01:54, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- OOOOO, you're right! how bout a promote to there somewhere?--SacValleyDweller (talk) 02:09, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- Well, you could add four entries into Theory:Abilities in general (one for each element), or one long entry, but would that defeat the point? An alternative is that we could provide three portal views for Portal:Abilities, a single listing (no grouping), a classical elements listing, and a Activating Evolution listing. I realize that both are perhaps a bit subjective, but we could note that. What do you think?--MiamiVolts (talk) 02:32, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- Since it's kind of a standalone theory, I'd rather see it as its own page, sort of like theory:time travel or red. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 06:52, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- That's what I'm suggesting, but that the page be linked from one of the portals. Perhaps a new section can be added to Portal:Theories about Abilities for links to new portal pages containing categorical sortings of the known abilities since they are theories.--MiamiVolts (talk) 11:59, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- Since it's kind of a standalone theory, I'd rather see it as its own page, sort of like theory:time travel or red. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 06:52, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- Well, you could add four entries into Theory:Abilities in general (one for each element), or one long entry, but would that defeat the point? An alternative is that we could provide three portal views for Portal:Abilities, a single listing (no grouping), a classical elements listing, and a Activating Evolution listing. I realize that both are perhaps a bit subjective, but we could note that. What do you think?--MiamiVolts (talk) 02:32, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- OOOOO, you're right! how bout a promote to there somewhere?--SacValleyDweller (talk) 02:09, 7 December 2007 (EST)
Links
Is there a reason at least some of the repeated abilities are not linked? Can't they be marked in some other manner? (With a star, perhaps?)--MiamiVolts (talk) 02:47, 7 December 2007 (EST)
Name
Since you're looking for a short name for the subpage, might I suggest "Abilities by classic element"? The "and" in the name implies that the abilities and the elements are separate. And, the name would be shorter. What do you think?--Ice Vision 15:18, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- I think if we go with my suggestion, then the article names should be "Portal:Theories about Abilities/Classical Elements" and "Portal:Theories about Abilities/Mohinder's Categories". However, the links from the "Portal:Theories about Abilities" page could well be titled "Abilities by classical element" (classical sounds better, imho) and "Abilities by Mohinder's category".--MiamiVolts (talk) 16:16, 7 December 2007 (EST)
- I'm working on my suggestion now and have renamed my user page accordingly to User:MiamiVolts/Portal:Theories about Abilities/Mohinder's Categories.--MiamiVolts (talk) 23:15, 8 December 2007 (EST)