Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-1990160-20141016153036/@comment-1957439-20141115112947

ProtonZero wrote: Regarding parentheticals in article names, if the only ambiguity is between a current version and a historical version, I favor only using the parenthetical for past versions. For instance, "Some Mastery (Season 2011 mastery)", but "Some Mastery" alone for the 2014 (current) version. The current article would then have a hatnote in the style of "For previous versions of Some Mastery, see Some Mastery (Season 2011 mastery)." You would be relatively just, especially to newer users/players, to suggest the current and up-to-date data be held as regular information while the rest is appropriately treated as old news. However, and I suspect this is just my personal preference since I've played through the seasons and think it's worth seeing and understanding the changes that have been made over time and how they have affected the shifting meta over the years (hooray commas), I think it would be nicer to see all data about a particular mastery, assuming it maintains a similar form or name over the seasons, as a single cohesive page. None of this Mastery (Season X) nonsense.



My suggestion would render all such things, being a good example, as one page with a tabbed template for associated mastery trees and information about the particular seasons, perhaps also with a presentation that fluently compares them (mastery tier, effect, icon, etc.).

Given all of this, though, I'm at a loss as to the effort required to make such changes and the effort that would be required to avoid affecting existing links and such that each relate to a separate page as the system is now.

This would, however, remove the need for disambiguation (and multiple wiki pages) when regarding each mastery over different seasons.

I am indifferent on the matter of naming each particular season, but if the wiki stands to present information in the way that it is officially handled, I would vote for changing the one/two/three/four/etc. references to their respective years. Who knows, perhaps changing the references to a year-based one will influence users to actually remember when the seasons have changed instead of just that they have changedm, period.

Disclaimer: someone please let me know if I'm off the mark in the subject(s) of my contribution to the discussion here. I'm still not entirely sure I am.

P.S.: It would be nice to know what I can do to help refine the current result of many icon templates on the wiki as of right now, since you can see above that has the season 2/3 icon, and things like  have the icon from the mastery but link to the item page for the boot enchant.