Agge:
"I made an edit, removing the bulk of the Archvillain power lists, similar to when the subfactions were separated out to other pages (Wolf Spiders, Mu Mystics, Night Widows, etc.). I kept the links to the main articles, and the "short bio" from in-game info lookup on the main Arachnos page."
I understand the point of this, but I don't think this is the solution. The Enemies section raison d'etre is just that: the powers. Removing the powers leaves the section with no meaning at all, IMHO.
"Maybe or maybe not removing the EBs as well. Probably can leave the named enemies section in there though."
If the AVs' powers are gone, the EBs powers must leave as well. or it will create confusion: some critters will have a power list, some others won't. That means a new page for EBs.
And what to do with the nameds? It's the same case...
"And I recommend doing this with 5th Column and Circle of Thorn as well, creating subsections for the basic enemies (Human, Spirit, and Demon for CoT, for example), then separating out the AVs into their own "___ Archvillains" page. Not EBs, not enough to make a big impact on file size.
As is, both are over 100 kb."
After Arachnos my next stop will be the 5th, whose AVs' powers and pictures I've already added. I want to go after the Praetorians and Longbow after that. Once those are done, it's CoT time. I plan to divide it into cultists, demons and spirits, leaving EBs and AVs in the main page, following Arachnos model.
I like to first have the info and then arrange it. I do it this way because thus I know what I'm working with. Since they released AE it has been much, much easier. My God, it's a new world today
Arachnos is an extreme case. Putting together the faction's critters could probably create a page longer than ten other factions combined. So the info should be divided, I completely agree with you there, and that's why I did the Subgroups pages, but the AVs are a different song: those guys are completely unique, so there's no easy way to create an Overview; there's nothing common to them to create a sense of cohesion, a sense of group (in the case of Patrons they even fight among themselves), and their powers aren't even related, so there's no sense of progression like you can see, for example, in the Council's Galaxies or Arachnos' own Bane Spiders. While all of this can be overcome (more or less), I don't think these are good bases to create a subgroup.
The most logical option would be adding the powers to each AV article and be done with it. But again, the Enemies section is for powers. Background, quotes, appearances and all have their place in the AV articles.
Just to clarify, I understand the point and I agree with you: this page is too long. But my vote goes for leaving it as it was -it hasn't caused any trouble so far, no one has complained- then create a sandbox and start experimenting, to see if we can come up with a good solution to this issue, because if there's something sure is that the Arachnos page is not going to become smaller with every CoH issue they release, that's for sure.
Yak
