Category talk:Locations

Proposed Changes
At the moment, the list of locations could easily become very long and difficult to use once more articles are added. I would like to suggest that several subcategories are created for this category and that individual articles relating to locations are placed in the relevant subcategory.

As an example, I have created the Category:Rivers and placed Unicorn Run in it. As per #3 on Wikipedia Categorization Guidelines, articles should not be in a category and its parent, so a river should be in Category:Rivers alone and should not also be in Category:Locations.

Settlements
One potential problem occurs with settlements, which could be of many different sizes from thorp to metropolis. On the one hand, a user might want to see a list of all settlements (he/she might want to find out about settlements of any size beginning with G) but on the other hand, a different user might want to see only towns beginning with Y.

I'd like to propose putting all towns, cities, etc into Category:Settlements and also a second category dependent on their size:
 * Category:Thorps (20-80)
 * Category:Hamlets (81-400)
 * Category:Villages (401-900)
 * Category:Towns (901-5000)
 * Category:Cities (5001-25,000)
 * Category:Metropolises (25,001+)

There is no differentiation between small town and large town because I do not think the distinction is great enough to warrant a separate category. Since there is never likely to be information detailing every single thorp or hamlet in the Forgotten Realms (such is the nature of the campaign setting that it is up to the DM to flesh out smaller settlements for his/her campaign) there is not too much risk of having huge categories.

Any input on the above or how best to handle the various locations would be greatly appreciated! Fw190a8 00:34, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Page references to game material
See my Abbey of the Sword stub for an example... this could be an invaluable tool to DMs looking for info and adventure hooks for a location so they know where in their library to search. DarthXaos


 * I think that there could be a specific "Adventure Hooks" category containing links to articles of all kinds that would prove valuable to DMs preparing adventures or campaigns. Fw190a8 04:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Regions
Shouldn't Regions be a category? DarthXaos 15:16, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Indeed, although what is the difference between a "Region" and a "Country"? Are all countries regions, or can multiple regions exist within a country? I think for the most part it's clear in the Wizards source material where one region ends and another begins, but there are a few grey areas. Fw190a8 04:47, 5 July 2006 (UTC)