Talk:Inventory/@comment-26273934-20150529202637

First things first, this comment thread and its replies might help understand the context of why these pages exist and look unfinished. You already mentioned most of it, so these comments are mostly a historic reference, to the degree that you can call something "history" that only dates back a few weeks ;-)

What's happened since is that I believe I figured out a way of doing what I claimed I would be unable to figure out in above comments, but would require editing permissions on some major wiki templates (Item, Storylet, and Action at least, ideally also including a merge of Item_Action and Item, removing the former) … and then to actually edit them without breaking the entire wiki while adding the desired features :)

If you're interested, the technical details involve "including" relevant parts of that page in the original item page automatically, i.e. without the duplication of content that you mentioned. There's a bit more to it, but a somewhat clumsy example within the constraints of userspace templating is found here for demonstration purposes: User:Achris/Appalling Secret  (Check the source of that page, the item action page and the template in my namespace for the code so far. I'm somewhat confident I can make it work even better in Main with a bit of tinkering)

My plans for some distant future after making those edits involved generating the needed item action pages (which indeed will be a lot of work) in the format that will turn out to be the best way of solving the task. Starting now might work too, but has some risk attached due to not knowing exactly how that best format will look in the end, so it potentially adds more work instead of reducing workload.

Of course these are my plans, and only mine. Other editors might very well weigh in here and propose a different approach!