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I have brought this discussion up before (you can find that discussion [[Forum:New_Discussion_-_Should_we_separate_The_Sims_4_information_from_the_Original_pages?|here]]), and the general consensus was in favour of a change to how information about [[Sim]]s that appear in both the original universe ([[The Sims]], [[The Sims 2]] and [[The Sims 3]] etc) and [[The Sims 4]] should be displayed. However, a specific way to display the information was not reached and therefore the topic was dropped. It has almost been two years since that topic, so I have decided to bring it up once again as no change has been made.
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:Biography is the main page info where many category is placed. the other page is tagged only by 1 category with this format "(page name) subpages". example: Development page is only tagged by "development subpages" category and gameplay is only tagged by "gameplay subpages" category to avoid confusion.
:I think we can use their category format like "Character alternate universe subpages" category (or other better category name) to tag Alternate universe pages in sim wiki. [[User:Wiryawan310|Wiryawan310]] ([[User talk:Wiryawan310|talk]]) 16:47, April 25, 2017 (UTC)
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I'm going to perform threadcomancy on this dead-but-not-yet-archived thread, in response to the introduction of several Sims from ''[[The Sims 4: Get Famous]]''. For instance, there's [[Holly Alto (Del Sol Valley)|Holly Alto]], who in no way resembles the [[Holly Alto (Sunset Valley)|original Holly Alto]]. There's also some older examples as well, such as [[Bella Goth (Lunar Lakes)|weird zombie Bella from Lunar Lakes]]. I think the solution that JaseyJasee has proposed is potentially the way to go. If anything, I'd change the subpage names to be more clear as to what they're referring to (maybe "original timeline," "The Sims 4 timeline," etc). I'd be interested to know what K6ka means when referring to "strange duplicates" of categories - does that not already happen on Sim pages when Sims have different physical/personality features between games? I guess I don't really understand what was meant.
In any event, this seems like it might be a workable solution. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 19:38, November 19, 2018 (UTC)
:I was referring to how, in the case of, say, Bella Goth, you would wind up having the "Female Sims" category having "Bella Goth/The Sims 1", "Bella Goth/The Sims 2", "Bella Bachelor/The Sims 3", and "Bella Goth/The Sims 4", which quickly fills up category pages and clutters them. I guess it's not really an issue that would bother a lot of people but it does cause category pages to fill up rather quickly. —[[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁</span> ([[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF">Talk</span>]] · [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F">Contributions</span>]]) 19:42, November 19, 2018 (UTC)
::Okay, that makes sense. I would point out that you run into that issue in any instance where Sim biographies are split onto two or more pages, whether subpages (as is being proposed) or separate pages (as are sometimes used currently). That said, I'm not sure how big of a problem it would really be, and it might actually be beneficial if you think about it.
::Consider if you were looking for a Sim in a particular game that matched a particular category. But, when you pulled up that Sim's article, you saw that the match you were looking for doesn't exist because. The Sim was categorized accordingly because of a particular trait that they had in a different game. Since all the instances of a Sim's biography across all games are (usually) included on one page, the page might have categories ascribed to it that don't apply in all instances. I hope I'm being clear enough in what I'm saying - this seems like a really complicated thing to describe. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 19:51, November 19, 2018 (UTC)
I'm archiving this thread, as it has not been posted to in over half a year, and [[Forum:Merging/Separating pages for Sims that appear in multiple games|this thread]] is discussing similar issues and is more active. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 16:21, June 13, 2019 (UTC)
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