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If you really feel any "see also" information should be in a section of its own, convert it wholesale and drop this template entirely. Leaving it in as a "convert this to a section" will encourage bad - hard to trace/edit - behavior. --[[User:Eirik Ratcatcher|Eirik Ratcatcher]] 19:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC) |
If you really feel any "see also" information should be in a section of its own, convert it wholesale and drop this template entirely. Leaving it in as a "convert this to a section" will encourage bad - hard to trace/edit - behavior. --[[User:Eirik Ratcatcher|Eirik Ratcatcher]] 19:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC) |
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| + | :More examples of where turning AlsoSee into a section creates bad style: |
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| + | :* [[Gem]] - multiple sections, immediate references |
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| + | :* [[Libram (item)]] - no sections, adding a section for the one line creates, IMO, bad style. |
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| + | : more to be added as I run across them. --[[User:Eirik Ratcatcher|Eirik Ratcatcher]] 20:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 20:04, 3 March 2008
deprecated?
Not to be a pain, but {{AlsoSee}} is useful when a particular note in a page deserves further reference. Like a footnote, but with hyperlinking in mind.
A 'See Also section is useful for things the page as a whole indicates reference to. And even then, only if the thing you are referring to "can wait".
An example: Patch 2.1.2 (Undocumented Changes).
A Counterexample: 
[Alabaster Plate Pauldrons]
... that is, I agree, it is overused. --Eirik Ratcatcher 22:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Before you alter the template ...
If you strongly feel that this template should be deprecated, examine all the pages that use it, first. I have strong feelings that it IS useful, for pages such as Morbent Fel quest chain. There ARE pages that use AlsoSee in ways that converting it into a section heading is not appropriate.
If you really feel any "see also" information should be in a section of its own, convert it wholesale and drop this template entirely. Leaving it in as a "convert this to a section" will encourage bad - hard to trace/edit - behavior. --Eirik Ratcatcher 19:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
- More examples of where turning AlsoSee into a section creates bad style:
- Gem - multiple sections, immediate references
- Libram (item) - no sections, adding a section for the one line creates, IMO, bad style.
- more to be added as I run across them. --Eirik Ratcatcher 20:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)