Talk:Cheese

Improvements

I've been thinking about possible improvements to the page, and here's what I came up with:

• Firstly, SB+ will be moved to Standard Cheese, which will be renamed Cheese (Standard). It should be classed as standard because it is almost always used in place of the other cheese such as Swiss, Brie, Gouda, etc.
• Then comes the Special Cheese. This will be a section that will hold

• Cheese (potions), and will include all cheese types that can be created using potions, and link to the various potion articles.
• Cheese (crafted), which will link to Crafted cheese.

Handling of Standard Cheese

Handling of individual cheese pages. All standard cheese information will be merged into this page, except for SB+, which contains a ton of information. Most of it is duplicate information anyways. Redirects will point to the individual cheese which will have div tags.

Handling of Special Cheese

For the Special Cheese section, each will hold a table that will have 3 columns, namely Cheese Name, In-game Description, and Used In. This way, it will be a summary page of where each cheese should be used. While it would be more logical to redirect all cheese names to this page, most players would be looking for the formula, thus all crafted cheese will continue to point to the respective cheese on the crafted cheese page, except for Ancient

Handling of Cheese created from potions

As for Potion created cheese, mainly RB and Gnarled, the information should be moved to Radioactive Blue and Gnarled, since both articles are closely related. As for Ancient, the issue has already been somewhat solved by redirecting to Ancient (disambiguation). Many articles now begin with the word Ancient, so that is one good solution. Alternatively, we could treat it the same as with RB and Gnarled, with a statement on the formula pointing to the crafted cheese page, as well as a link to the disambiguation page, since the majority of searches for Ancient should still be on the Cheese.

As there are a number of steps presented here, when replying please be clear which segment is being discussed, thanks :) Oh and if anyone wants to take the changes up once discussion is concluded (or I'm talking to myself), please go ahead. The steps required have been clearly listed here :D -- Grexx 17:17, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the Special Cheese - some cheese, namely Runic and Ancient would be hard to categorize into either (potions) or (crafted) because they can be created using both methods. Unless you mean to put them in twice in both categories? -- Camomiletea 17:24, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh right, totally missed out Runic as it wasn't listed under the current special cheese. Yes with regards to cheese that can be acquired in both ways, it will be listed as such, possibly with a note stating that it can be acquired by the other means. We'll see how it turns out visually and if it is really necessary, but this will be kept in mind. -- Grexx 17:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I am in the midst of editing the Standard Cheese section, and noticed that Brie can also be converted using potions. However, it will remain solely under the standard cheese section as the definition of special cheese will be those that are specific to 1 or 2 locations. Therefore it will not be listed under the 'Cheese (potions)' section. Ultimately, Brie Alchemy Potions are more of an indirect gift of gold to players. -- Grexx 19:54, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Completed the conversion. I settled on merging the potions and crafted cheese into a single section under 'Cheese (Special)'. Let me know if there are any further improvements that can be made. Not sure how the images should be handled though. Quite useless to put it into its own column in the tables, and not very useful as a list at the bottom. -- Grexx 08:18, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Images

Using this as a temporary holding area for existing images until the page is finished.

• Cheddar image
• Marble image
• Swiss image
• Brie image
• Gouda image

-- Grexx 20:30, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Reorganisation

Plan on reorganizing the way the cheese are laid out as currently it isn't really user friendly since players need to run through the whole long list of cheese before they can find the one they are looking for (especially for those near the bottom). It will be reorganized based on regions, similar to what is currently being used on the Crafted cheese article. Will be doing away with the specific cheese names and retaining region names instead, so that the article retains a broad overview of cheese usage and source for each region, while further details can be followed using existing links once players zoom in on a particular cheese.

Using a simple example, a new player with little idea about cheese would be unlikely to ever chance upon White Cheddar since he currently needs to read through 28 cheese names separated into 2 broad categories (30 lines/mini-sections). Once organized into regions, the maximum he would need to go through is 6 standard cheese and the 2 categories.

Let me know if there's any comments on this, if not I will be proceeding with it in due time. -- Grexx 16:53, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm all four paws for that, but speaking about White Cheddar - isn't it more related to Harbour then Town of Gnawia or Meadow? After all without going to the Harbour you can't really craft it. --Nux 17:39, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Yup, players need to reach a certain location or rank before they have access to a certain type of cheese, but that's not the main purpose of region sectioning. As with Crafted cheese, it is meant to highlight the areas where players can utilise the cheese found under that particular regional section, which is more helpful than just a list. So for example, if players so choose, they could hunt in the Town of Gnawnia with White Cheddar and avoid the red boxes in the Harbour, especially if they didn't use their gold wisely and are short of gold to buy the next trap. -- Grexx 15:09, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Redirects on cheese names

I'd like some feedback on cheese name redirects. At the moment, most if not all the crafted cheese names redirect to their respective Crafted cheese section, ie Moon, Crunchy etc. However that assumes everyone is looking for the crafting formula, which probably isn't the case. Do bear in mind that the previous iteration of the Cheese just had simple Cheese descriptions/usage information.

So what I'm wondering is, would it be better to now redirect to the respective Cheese section instead (ie, Cheese#Moon)? This way all cheese names will be standardized to point to this article, which will serve as a jumping point for the relevant search terms. The furthest a player will be is 2 jumps/links away from the required information, be it where the cheese is acquired, or where it is deployed, or what other related cheese there might be.

Let me know your thoughts on this. There's no rush to this, since players should be used to the current redirects, but I'd like to improve on the landing point of a redirect when possible. -- Grexx 18:22, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I am supportive of this change - this page gives a better description and context for the cheese than the current redirects to the crafting formulas. -- Ralphminer 23:23, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Completed the switch. This article is now a one-stop information page for all cheese. -- Grexx 03:32, 3 January 2010 (UTC)