Forum:Articles for inhabited lots: Difference between revisions

While working on splitting [[Goth home]] into separate articles, I came across an inconsistency with how the wiki handles articles about occupied lots. Namely, for lots in ''The Sims'' and ''The Sims 2'', we have an article for the lot itself, and another article for the family that lives in the lot. For example, the [[Burb family]] article states that they live at [[63 Gunther Goth Highway]] in ''The Sims: Unleashed'', and the [[Pleasant family]] page shows that they live at [[215 Sim Lane]] in ''The Sims 2''.

 

However, the article on the [[Bachelor family]] in ''The Sims 3'', for example, includes information about their lot, and there is no independent article written about the lot itself. This pattern seems to hold true for most households/families that appear in ''The Sims 3''. The information included about the lots themselves is usually very sparse, often only consisting of the lot's name, the lot address and the in-game description of the lot. Additionally, some pages about TS3 worlds list out only the unoccupied lots, while never listing the occupied ones, while other articles do list even the occupied lots, but provide no link to any page with additional information about those lots.

 

 

What should we do? -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<font color="navy">LostInRiverview</font>]]^{[[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] ~ [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]]}''' 23:03, October 24, 2014 (UTC)

:::::I think we should separate family and home lot articles for <i>TS3</i>, for a couple of reasons: (1) I believe it's always best to deal with different aspects of the game in separate articles rather than trying to cover all the ground in one, which always ends up making something look like it's been included as an afterthought, and (2) it makes a more useful, navigable, and comprehensive resource, for example for players who don't play pre-made families but would like to use the wiki to get information on pre-made houses. Obviously it would take some time to add and properly write all the articles, but five years ago hardly any NPCs from the <i>TS2</i> era had their own character article, and now practically all of them do. I trust wiki magic to work on this one as it did in the former case. [[Special:Contributions/137.205.238.128|137.205.238.128]] ([[User talk:137.205.238.128|talk]]) 15:50, December 2, 2014 (UTC)

:::::Just to let people know, the above post was me: my computer crashed just as it was posting, and must have logged me out, hence why it wasn't signed. Sorry about that. [[User:Beatrice Monty|Beatrice Monty]] ([[User talk:Beatrice Monty|talk]]) 14:23, December 3, 2014 (UTC)