Talk:Coal
huh? are going to document every mundane object? Iron? Sock? Spoon? :) -- Gonzoron 12:47, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
Coal is actually very important for several reason. It is the leading industry and export of Nosos, underwriting the wealth of the darklord there. Hence it plays a significant role in unravelling the economy of the Core and beyond, and in destroying the enviroment in Nosos. In an evidently related vane, it is a leading type of mine, and mines are always of interest in a world with few dungeons. Finally, we have primative steam engines in Ravenloft, and in particular paddlewheelers, and most of them are going to burn coal. Coal then is the energy of future in Ravenloft's leading lands. It is their oil.
And while on the related topic, salt is great consequence in a world without refrigeration. No plans for pepper. But spicies generally might get a mention eventually.Cure 16:28, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
- You do not need a separate page for every object, especially when its definition is the same as real world. Make a page listing industrial components or the like, and have a paragraph on the importance of coal to Nosos and steam power. It simply does not merit its own page. --Nerit 21:28, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
- I would agree.. Important to Nosos, definitely. Important to the world.. sure. Important to the wiki... I don't think so. What's the page going to say that one couldn't find at wikipedia? If someone wants to know all about coal in Ravenloft, they can search for it and Nosos, etc, will turn up in the search results. I don't think they need to land on this page and then navigate to all those places. -- Gonzoron 01:55, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
- This is part of the problem with organizing information for a wiki. Another example is Church of Hala and Hala. What needs to be said for Hala that merits its own page? We hardly know anything about the goddess outside of the faith following her, thus all information on her is relevant to Church of Hala and can be contained therein. --Nerit 08:03, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hrm... you may have a point there. But something in the back my mind is saying there's merit to keeping the religions and deities separate. I can't really articulate it, though. For the sake of reference, note that wikipedia has w:Islam and w:Allah and w:Buddha and w:Buddhism, but granted, since those are real religions, much more source material will exist on them than any fictional faith. As another reference point, the FR wikia is a little inconsistent. All the deities seem to have their own pages, with a section on their worshippers, but some (Cyric for example) have a Church of ___ page as well, and some have a catgory for their worshippers. Not sure which is best for us, especially considering so much more has been written on FR's pantheon than RL's. (How cool would a "Faiths and Pantheons of the Mists" book have been?) -- Gonzoron 14:40, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
- True, hummm. It's just that Ezra and Hala are both so mysterious and don't have precedence outside the religions, you know? There isn't much to say on their own page. They belong on a list of gods (so-called god in Ezra's case?), but what can we put on their pages? In real religions there's a lot to say about the nature of each god, religious references, interpretations.... At this point it seems easier to have Hala's story on the Church of Hala page for easy info access? The same could be said for Ezra. Page splitting should happen when it's so long it becomes hard to read. Oh, well. --Nerit 17:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
- Hrm... you may have a point there. But something in the back my mind is saying there's merit to keeping the religions and deities separate. I can't really articulate it, though. For the sake of reference, note that wikipedia has w:Islam and w:Allah and w:Buddha and w:Buddhism, but granted, since those are real religions, much more source material will exist on them than any fictional faith. As another reference point, the FR wikia is a little inconsistent. All the deities seem to have their own pages, with a section on their worshippers, but some (Cyric for example) have a Church of ___ page as well, and some have a catgory for their worshippers. Not sure which is best for us, especially considering so much more has been written on FR's pantheon than RL's. (How cool would a "Faiths and Pantheons of the Mists" book have been?) -- Gonzoron 14:40, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
