User talk:DeletedAccount/Categories for reputation items/reply (6)

I have to admit I was a little baffled by this change at first.

First, it looked like the item category could be calculated from the name of the faction. I do not see the value in adding an additional parameter to the Template:Reputation Item that is going to have the same value as the faction parameter in all cases. As recently implemented with "type=" or "rep-category=", every rep item would need to be edited - a lot of work.

Second, I question the value of creating a separate category for the reputation items for each faction. These categories are going to be very small, off the top of my head, either 3, 4 or 6 members.

There are 29 factions, counting crafting guilds, festival factions, and two new U6 factions.

We have items that grant reputation when consumed, items that can be purchased when you have acquired a certain rep, items that can be used when you have a certain rep, and items that can be bartered to reputation vendors. All of these items also fall into many other categories independent of their faction relationships.

Right now, I think the Reputation Items category is getting messed up. The some of the reputation granting items are ending up under the reputation vendor items.

I would like to suggest that it would have more value to categorize an item into two large categories "Mathom Society" and "Reputation Granting Items". All things which depend in one way or another on your Mathom Society reputation go into the first category (regardless of use). All items which grant reputation when consumed go into the second category (regardless of faction). If you want to see those items which grant reputation to the Mathom Society, you use a Dynamic Page List. See User:RingTailCat/Sandbox-2 for some examples related to repeatable quests for the Malledhrim.

Instead of building a small category for Mathom Society rep items, I would use a dynamic page list like:

<DynamicPageList>
  category      = Mathom Society
  category      = Reputation Items
  shownamespace = false
</DynamicPageList>

No pages meet these criteria.

(The above does not work right now, because the items are not categorized by faction.)

Classifying things into small categories is very static.

Classifying things into several large non-overlapping categories allows for much more dynamic access to sets of things.

If you then want a page for just mathom society reputation items, you can put the dynamic page list code on that page to create it on-the-fly. Or you can translude that list into a page where you need it.