Talk:Small Solar Panel

Large vs. Small Naming Conventions
I know there's already been some talk elsewhere regarding naming conventions over the solar panels and batteries since they both suffer from sharing the same names in the game. So let me float another idea for consensus before I go changing anything.

How about we list the "backpack" versions under /Battery_(small) and /Solar_Panel_(small), and redirect /Small_Battery and /Small_Solar_Panel to them? That way, we can talk about and link them in other articles organically (and with our sanity in tact), but the pages themselves respect the naming conventions as they exist in the game.

--Infinimbal (talk) 22:28, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

The "consensus" (from 3 peoples) was that "small [item]" was the way to go. I renamed the small solar panel page yesterday, I wanted to to that for the battery but I was at work and sidetracked by a damn customer... "Small item" is better than "item (small)" IMO because because we pronounce it the first way. The advantage of the second way is taht all items of the same type are listed alphabetically together, but I don't think it's that important.

FlorentPoujol (talk) 08:36, 22 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I think there's a lot of value in having them alphabetized, actually—it means searches for "Solar Panel" would yield both the Solar Panel and Solar Panel (small) articles when autocompleting. But ultimately I just think it's better practice to keep the pages named after the items as they exist in the game, appending clarifying information (using parentheses) only as necessary. This avoids any confusion, however momentary, for wiki visitors who may wonder why items are named differently between the game and the wiki. --Infinimbal (talk) 14:57, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

I do like the alphabetized part, but I think readability will go further than that. Because not many people who will come here for information are going to be using the All pages screen. Also I believe "Small Solar Panel" will show up in a search for "Solar Panel". But it means we need to have Large Solar Panel as the other option. not just Small Solar Panel/Solar Panel. --Crychair (talk) 18:48, 22 December 2016 (UTC)