Forum:Instance Pages

How do you think the sections should be arranged? Currently most instances have a sections on "In-game history", "Walkthrough", and "Story", but they don't always have the same definitions and sometimes different pages put the equivalent material into different sections (the area vs challenge/duo/alert/raid duality isn't helping). Some pages have their descriptions taken from DCUO official forum announcements, but I can't find that for some other instances. Atheist723 (talk) 21:10, January 30, 2019 (UTC)


 * Good question :) This has shifted over the years and an effort to uniquify would be appreciated.
 * We don't have infoboxes for instances, so every page should start with the intro text (availability, requirements etc.) and an image to the right.
 * Then In-game History or[Story? I don't particularly care which of both. Story seems the better name, but keep in mind that especially older instances may have different story settings for heroes and villains.
 * Characters and Locations can be a subsection of Story, meaning Inhabitants should move to Characters
 * Content should not be on instances, existing data should go to Rewards.
 * Then Map and Walkthrough, no brainer
 * Collectibles is a relatively new addition, so many older instances will not have it. Nevertheless it is an important source of information and should be always there.
 * Then Trivia, then Gallery, then optionally Videos


 * As far as the story text is concerned, I am aware of the problem. Sometimes the in-game text is in the intro and the longer forum/update note text is under story, but sometimes there is no longer text. Well, we have to work with what we can get here.


 * Another problem is the differentiation between duos, alerts, raids on the one side and 2-player, 4-player and 8-player operations. We have different pages for Raids and Operations, but this seems to be less and less cared for. Atlantis: The Throne is an fact an operation, since it has mutiple locations, but it was announced as a raid. We either can keep sorting such content to different pages or we need to think of merging those pages which also would be a big project.


 * Also, should operations have multiple sections for all stages? What about the content in the old format like on Assault and Battery?


 * Datasentinel (talk) 11:55, January 31, 2019 (UTC)