GuildWiki talk:Style and formatting/Suffix example

shoudln't Ranger skills point to Marksmanship skills?


 * I dunno. Should it? 19:14, 15 March 2006 (CST)


 * My opinion is it should. Marksmanship skills is naturally a subcategory of Ranger skills... -PanSola 19:17, 15 March 2006 (CST)


 * All right, making this change. 19:19, 15 March 2006 (CST)

Wait again. A category should only contain sub-categories of the same "criterion". If there are sub-categories of more than one criterion you should put a level in between, saying " by ". This means: Category:Marksmanship Skills should not be in the same category as Category:Ranger Core Skills. Instead, Category:Marksmanship Skills should be a sub-category of Category:Ranger Skills by Attribute, and Category:Ranger Core Skills should be a sub-category of Category:Ranger Skills by Campaign. Both these categories should then be a sub-category of Category:Ranger Skills. The following tree might exlain a little better:


 * Skills
 * Skills by Profession
 * Ranger Skills
 * Ranger Skills by Attribute
 * Marksmanship Skills
 * Beastmastery Skills
 * Ranger Skills by Campaign
 * Ranger Core Skills
 * Ranger Prophecies Skills
 * Monk Skills
 * Skills by Campaign
 * Core Skills
 * Core Skills by Profession
 * Ranger Core Skills
 * Monk Core Skills
 * Skills by Skill Type
 * Skills by Aquisition Method
 * Monk Core Skills
 * Skills by Skill Type
 * Skills by Aquisition Method
 * Skills by Aquisition Method

You can matrix and cross this tree as much as you want. It is close to impossible to sort any category by any other category, because the number of subcategories grows exponentially. I don't think it makes sense to sort "Skills by Campaign" by any other criterion by Profession. -- 23:36, 15 March 2006 (CST)


 * OK, but this is a change from the categorization you suggested before. I will now update the figure. 02:53, 16 March 2006 (CST)


 * Two questions:
 * What about skills like Antidote Signet that are unattributed. "Non-Attributed skills" cannot be a subcat of "Ranger skills", or can it? And if not, is AS in just one cat, "Core Ranger skills"? In the figure I've noted two possible cats using dotted arrows.
 * Each "Campaign skills" cat has just one subcat, "Campaing skills by profession". As this seems like a rather linear subdivision, why not simply merge the two levels?
 * TIA. 03:17, 16 March 2006 (CST)