Talk:Clampdown (RID)

Why are we keeping the Kre-O version of him on this page? We don't do that with other Kreons, do we? Not saying I disagree, they're clearly the same guy. But there are lots of other Kreon versions of guys the wiki declares to be seperate and I'd like to understand the thinking. --Giggidy (talk) 00:36, 25 October 2015 (EDT)

I think there might be a bit of a push to list the toys on both pages. M Sipher added Strongarm's Kre-O and Hero Mashers toys to her page. I generally agree with this, though for some characters that have lots of Kre-O toys, maybe putting a link to their Kre-O counterpart toy section would be more viable. Though I don't really believe that's really an issue as of right now. Even the characters with the most Kre-O releases wouldn't bog down another page too much. --Ascendron (talk) 02:51, 25 October 2015 (EDT)

Kre-O is another universe. Confirmed in Ask Vector Prime. -StarWars_Jedi 10:28, 25 October 2015 (MSK)

This was a thing I pushed for a while back, because redirecting the reader to a second page that contains precisely fuck-all that they wouldn't have gotten on the page they left is utterly pointless pedantic horsehockey that does nothing but obfuscate information, and make for a worse reading experience for any reader no matter how involved with the franchise they are, but way moreso for the casual. Why would redirecting someone to a Clampdown Kreon page that adds nothing more than "this toy is based on the character whose page you just left" be desirable? That's a toy of Clampdown, the character from the cartoon. Pretending it's not is willfully idiotic, regardless of what one person writing a Facebook thing says, and is the sort of garbage we need to brutally excise from this wiki.
The only semivalid argument for having the information not on the source character page would be article size concerns. But I can count the characters this would theoretically apply to on one hand. Basically just the Bumblebees and Optimuses from G1 and the movies, and I'm not convinced they'd really add all that much more per.
I just haven't gotten around to this really going at this specific task yet because I've had multiple far more important obligations these last few months, and frankly the aforementioned pedantic horsehockey that certain sources have been flooding the place with has made me loathe to spend time on it anyway. --M Sipher (talk) 04:01, 25 October 2015 (EDT)