Board Thread:Deletion and Overhaul/@comment-10099917-20130529120421/@comment-7404610-20130531202902

8100DSTAR wrote: You're right, we can't have pages for some planets and not for others. It'll be Booze all over again. Not quite. Distinguishing between different kinds of Booze is only relevant to the implicit Purchase Mission to get 1t Magnetar Juice. That makes it very easy to mention that fact on a single Booze page, and let the table of names, systems, and prices supply all the differences in one place. The fact that the in-game description of every kind of Booze is identical

In the case of planets, some of them have a lot of special information that warrants separate pages. Kaamo, Valkyrie, Coromesk come immediately to mind. In those cases, have the link for each of them go to a page that covers it in depth. In others, redirect that link to the system in which it is located. Just so the information a reader seeks shows up "where" he's likely to look for it.

"Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The consistency we absolutely should have is that the LINK for each planet resolves to a page. Whether it does so as a separate page or a redirect to the system in which that planet is located depends on whether there is enough information specific to the planet, and not general to the system, to warrant a separate page. Padding out pages with redundant verbiage just to avoid being a Fancy Leather Jacket* is backwards.

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 * Fancy Leather Jackets, Octopod Arm Wrestling, etc. could redirect to Space Lounge  trivia section with some of the actionless conversations that may take place.