Category talk:Craftable Decorations

I don't think this category is necessary at all. We can get the same thing with Category:Decorations and Category:Crafting. --Browncoat Jayson (talk) 13:41, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

So should we be adding all craftables to Category:Crafting? That's not currently happening and there's not right now anywhere to get a list of craftable deco. CanVox (talk) 18:01, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

No, but they should be getting a category of what they are crafted with, such as Category:Carpentry, which is a sub-category of Category:Crafting. Then we can use a query to pull them both, i.e.:

Crafted Items

The following items are crafted:

Icon	Item
	Alchemy Station
	Backpack
	Basket
	Bedroll
	Bench
	Blacksmithing Station
	Bookshelf
	Bucket
	Butchering Station
	Carpentry Station
	Cooking Station
	Corner Rough Stone Fence
	Dresser
	Founder Expert Alchemy Station
	Founder Expert Blacksmithing Station
	Founder Expert Butchers Station
	Founder Expert Carpentry Station
	Founder Expert Milling Station
	Founder Expert Smelting Station
	Founder Expert Tailoring Station
	Founder Expert Tanning Station
	Founder Expert Textiles Station
	Gated Rough Stone Fence
	Guillotine
	Harp
	Headstone
	Hedge Archway
	Hedge Sphere Tree
	Large Cabinet
File:Large Rough Stone Paver icon.png	Large Rough Stone Paver
File:Large Rough Wood Paver icon.png	Large Rough Wood Paver
	Long Rough Stone Fence
	Medium Rough Stone Fence
	Milling Station
	Mounted Stag Antlers
File:Mug.png	Mug
	Oval Rug (Dark Red)
	Piano
	Podium
	Rectangle Rug (Orange and Black)
	Round Rug (Avatar)
	Rustic Bed
	Short Corner Hedge
	Short Little Hedge
	Short Long Hedge
	Short Medium Hedge
	Silver Candlestick
	Skull Candle
	Small Bag
	Small Cabinet

... further results

Which can be included in a template and placed on any page, and dynamically updates. --Browncoat Jayson (talk) 21:02, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

I see what you're saying- I'm not sure how I feel about it, though, MW already has a mechanism to group together several dozen similar articles & it works very well. With this, we have the choice of either making a standalone page and shoving it in the See Also section, or sticking the template into the page itself. Neither one of them is great for discoverability since the first one sticks it in a link that users will often ignore in favor of checking the categories, and the other grabs a ton of vertical space for information the user may or may not find useful. CanVox (talk) 07:16, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Maybe we can get the best of both worlds with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryMagicWords - the discoverability of putting what groups the articles belong to in the categories, with the improved L&F of the SMW template? CanVox (talk) 07:16, 1 September 2016 (UTC)