Pages that share their name with multiple different things

Mogura

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Some things in the game have the same name for different things and I was considering what the best approach might be. For cases where the name refers to two completely different things it makes sense to have the distinction in the title, like "Bandit (Enemy)" vs "Bandit (Career)", but in other cases the same name can refer to the same thing with small differences. Here is my attempt at a solution for seashells. Is this better or should all pages like this have the distinction in the title?
 

BattleLord

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Yes, that solution for the seashells is good in my opinion.
The seashells are all pretty much the same, except for a different picture and selling price, so having a separate page for each would be excessive and confusing.

It is just something that needs to be looked at on a case by case situation.
 

MikeB

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Clever. I never intended to put multiple things into the same page when constructing the templates, but it actually seems to work pretty well.

The only things that needs to be taken into account is that every text between the template calls needs to be put into <noinclude>...</noinclude> markup, otherwise it gets transcluded into the overview tables and completely scrumbles them.

I will have a look into the templates and see if I can find a way to make the separation between individual items a bit clearer (text and infobox are not properly aligned at the moment), and maybe get rid of the repeated navbar. But I think that in general this approach has huge potential, also for other things (looking at Barbarian Attire).
 

MikeB

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I generated a template called Template:Headline - Archaelund Wiki which can be used for cleanly separating individual entries within a single page. I edited Seashell - Archaelund Wiki accordingly to show the result.

Having an actual headline for each sub-item is important for a properly structured TOC on that page.
Note that the headline template still has to be called within <noinclude> markup in order to not mess with the overview tables.
 

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