Thread:Aximillio/@comment-6042046-20130828004124

Things have been crazy on my end. They're only going to get crazier during the next 3 months, but here's my late reply to http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Lose_half_your_Nightmares#comm-19931

"Yes, outdated is completely unnecessary if we change stubs.

''I don't agree with axing ventures and friend invites, simply because we'd have to integrate them in stories or some different template. Acquaintance is almost 100% the same as stories, so that could pretty easily be merged. The only potential issue is that acquaintances aren't exactly stories and will get the story category, but that's not too bad..."''

'Ventures' template is 'Stories' with a fixed Progress and Conclusion layout. It's handy at times, and it can be merged if necessary. I'm far more bothered by the way ventures are linked than anything else. The individual pages frequently don't link to their original storylets or cards, and the categories are sometimes nonexistent or blank. It's very confusing over in Ventureland. I believe most of the blame goes to the fact that 90% of the Venture options are named the same. :P

'Friend Invites' isn't used on any of our social action articles, surprisingly. 'Social Actions' is used for polite invitations to Surface and Neathy friends alike. In fact, it was made last year because 'Social Actions' was found lacking: http://fallenlondon.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Template_for_Friend_Invites But then I guess someone edited 'Social Actions' to be more inclusive, so 'Friend Invites' went unused. ...Checking 'Social Actions' History, it seems that "someone" was you, haha. XD

Our major 4 acquaintances (Forger, Singer, Soldier, Functionary) are sorted under "Acquaintance" in the Myself page, but the newer ones (Mercies, Detective, Poet, Princess and probably Silas the Showman) are placed in "Story". Does this mean they won't be our long-time pals like the first 4? Is FBG reserving the option to turn them into story branches rather than people intimate with our characters? Is coding the "Acquaintance" section really, really hard? The more I think about it, the more puzzled I become!

Anyway, we can vote later to rename "Stub" to "Incomplete" (or something else if someone comes up with a better name). I would really like to ask people if they're aware of the "Article stub" category and what it means in the first place. 