Template talk:Silent Hill series

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[edit] Soundtracks

Does there relly need to be seperate sections for the soundtracks of the games? These can be so ealisy integrated with the main articles. --Thaddius 13:16, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Maybe not, but why have all the character and other media articles been removed? The template is supposed to provide easy access to all important Silent Hill articles, so people don't have to click through a bunch of other articles or do a search to get to them. True, the future works are far off, but if they actually have articles, then this should link to them so more people are aware and can improve upon them. Pomte 09:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Someone got edit happy with the template. I suspect there will be some edit wars over the template. --Thaddius 13:27, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expand?

Is it worth renaming this to simply "Silent Hill" as it includes the film and could also include Silent Hill influences and trivia, Silent Hill: 0rigins, Silent Hill Experience, Silent Hill (comics) and posibly some others. I just did some work on Template:The War of the Worlds and this might also benefit from having two columns as at the moment everything seems crammed in the middle. (Emperor 23:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC))

I agree with you wholeheartedly but WT:CVG has decided this convention. –Pomte 00:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I suppose the thing is that is now dealing with games, books, films, comics, etc. and this fals outside of the remit of one single project area (I don't have much to do with CVG and am arriving from a film/novel/comics direction). For templates covering mixed media like this see e.g. Template:Alien (which I also had a hand in). Basically the current format is fine and dandy if you are just listing games in a series but once you start adding in things that aren't games it gets messy. It is already confusing with the film lumped in there with no clear differentiation and expanding this will only make matters worse. (Emperor 02:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC))

As a couple more examples have a look a the navboxes on War of the Worlds (2005 film) - the ones with the same media (like Speilberg's films) are lumped together but when you mix the media you have to start splitting things up and differentiating between them. As is also done for Template:Terminator. (Emperor 04:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC))