User:Eirik Ratcatcher/SeeAlsoPlot

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The part that distresses me about the state of SeeAlso is not really that folks want to axe {{AlsoSee}}, it's that the replacement they chose doesn't really cover all the uses.

This started the See Also Crusade (hey, you got a better name?).

Starting in editing, I ran across Magic, which used a number of templates that I thought "I could do better". The {{for}} template referred me to wikipedia... and now I mourn for my lost ignorance.

So... A correspondance between Wowwiki and Wikipedia.

Wikipedia	WoWwiki	Notes
---	{{AlsoSee}}	no Wikipedia equivalent that I can find, "see also" comes closest
see	no direct equivalent	creates "Further Information: xxx"
See also	{{Seealso}}
main	{{main}}	direct port, it looks like
Detail (née 'more')	no direct equivalent	{{for}} can create the equivalent text

I would like to see this trimmed down:

! WoWwiki	Notes
{{main}}	top section association
{{AlsoSee}}	mid/end section association
See Also section	page-level association

I care not the slightest if 'AlsoSee' is named something else.

If folks want to replace {{AlsoSee}} with (the new) {{see also}} I am fine with that, too. I think the icon calls out the link a bit better in cases where there isn't a big visual interruption (like a section header) above it, but perhaps it's simply that's how my eye has been trained.

I think at least some cases of {{AlsoSee}} should be See Also sections instead, which would involve reexamining the bulk of its uses.

But, I put this up for inspection, proposal-ish, so I don't end up changing things poorly.

--Eirik Ratcatcher 00:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)