User blog:AgentMuffin/Lists

You know what this wikia could use? Lists.

Okay, okay. Now you might be all like "wtf argnt? :m" here, but try listening to this befor u jmp two cncloozhn o-key

We have a "Full List of Bloopers". First off, let's move this to "List of videos"—note the lack of unduly capitalization—for convenience.

Now SMG4 has made a few non-blooper videos. However, those are currently listed on the page that's supposed to list bloopers only. That's why I say we move that to "List of videos", then just copy-and-paste a list of the bloopers to "List of bloopers".

We could also add lists of videos from each season. "List of Season 1 videos", "List of Season 2 videos", etc. We pretty much have these made already, so we could just copy-and-paste those sections from the Full List of Bloopers videos.

Then we could also list bloopers per series. I say this because large parts of series pages are just lists of bloopers in that series. This isn't how that should work. Let's focus those pages on meta-info, like when the series started, how often SMG4 tends to make new videos for it, that kind of stuff. Then we can just link to the lists. For example, "List of Super Mario 64 Bloopers", "List of Guards n' Retards bloopers", and so on. Hell, "List of miscellaneous videos", too, and "List of theawesomario videos" if we're covering those (we are).

Now, we already order bloopers in a halfway-similar fashion using our handy-dandy blooper infobox. We link to the previous and next video, blooper, and even blooper-in-a-certain-series on each page. We could also add list-looking icons to the right of those sections, which would link to the list page in question. For example, the infobox on the article for a hypothetical GnR blooper which would be followed by a non-blooper vid:

Previous/Next (video), with an icon to the right to link to "List of videos". New section. "Blooper", with an icon to the right for "List of bloopers"; new line, Previous/Next. New section. "Guards n' Retards", with an icon linking to "List of Guards n' Retards bloopers"; new line, Previous/Next.

We'd drop the separate "section" for bloopers if the previous and next videos were both bloopers as well. However, there would be two icons for the main Previous/Next: one linking to "List of bloopers", and the other to "List of videos". And as for, say, an SM64 Blooper directly preceded and followed by SM64 Bloopers, we'd drop the Super Mario 64 Bloopers "section" as well (its contents are the same!) and have three icons linking guess where.

I also had the idea to put tabbers in the blooper infobox as well. Again, hear me out. We'd have a tab for basic video information, as we do now; a tab for characters who appear; and finally, a tab for locations that appear. This means we could move those meta-ish lists off of the blooper articles, as we have with galleries and transcripts, yet still have them in a convenient and sensible place. And usage of the template would barely have to change, at that—we'd just have new fields with lists inside.

What do you say? Do you like these stupid ideas, or do you think I 'm stupid for even thinking I could get away with suggesting them?  ˜ AgentMuffin ”