Portal talk:Places

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Look, I know it's a point of national pride, but shouldn't we have the UK, Britain or something listed as a categories, and then Wales, Scotland and England listed as further sub-categories of the UK ?

Also I think it would be much better if we stuck with using the "Portal:Places" completely, it arranges the links much better than the categories does. - DevAnubis 04:29, 15 December 2006 (MST)

I think that we should make the wiki as easy to use as possible. The thing is we could put countries in many different groupings, but this wont really make the wiki any easier for the end user, and it may make it harder to find information they want. Great Britian, the UK and the British Isles are all different things and putting England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland into these groups many different times would just not work. I dont want to be making new categories for the sake of it.

As for the "Portal:Places" idea vs categories, i think they could work well together.

Categories are handy because when a reader finishes an article it is quick for them to find a river in the same area if we go with the country>county/state>river idea.

Categories do however look kind of bland and i do like the idea of a "Portal:Places" similar to a Wikipedia style portal which would make it easy for users to find what they want. We could also do country portals etc. --George Drummond 16:29, 15 December 2006 (MST)

Yes, I suppose you're right. But I think we should at least put rivers into a country categories too, as well as a region/county one so people can look for rivers within one country (ie. Wales) because they may not be familiar with (or they may not really care) which region they want to paddle in. - DevAnubis 06:14, 18 December 2006 (MST)

How about if we have each river in country>county/state>river but then also in a category called something like English Rivers or something like that? --George Drummond 06:58, 18 December 2006 (MST)

Yeh that could work. But recently I've come up on a flaw in the idea of one page per river... it's going to be damn near impossible to categorise them by difficulty (eg. having a category like "Grade 3" so people can search for... say, "Grade 3 Rivers, in Wales").

The only way I think we could do something like that would be to categorise the whole river as each of the grades, and then affix a "3" or whatever to the end of the section titles so people can look at the contents box and find sections by grade easily. Should we try that, or scrap everything before we go too far and go back to how you were doing it originally and do one page per section?? - DevAnubis 08:50, 18 December 2006 (MST)