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Combat mission article

Today I opened up the first Combat Mission article, that I've ever been on. I had no idea what it was, until I looked at the bottom of the page, to see which category it belonged to. If you look at the hyper link of  Blow by Blow, unless you knew the specific mission, you'd have no idea that it was a combat mission, nor would you know it, had you opened the page, without looking around on the article for information on what it was, there is no clear indicator. I believe that it would help identifying combat mission articles a lot more, if they had a tag like quests do: Quest:Haha_Gotem_Thrall. Or perhaps a header, to show off that it is a combat mission.

--Junkerd (talk) 00:57, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm honestly not sure what you're asking. It labels the combat mission in the infobox and by category. The wowhead link even shows combat mission when highlighted over.

Also don't know what quest you're referring to. "Quest:Haha_Gotem_Thrall" doesn't exist. Sssssssssssssssssssssssss For Pony! (^Sssss/_Slithered) 01:43, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I think he says that the mission pages don't really show they are missions, hence the quest example? Mordecay (talk) 01:45, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

As in to say a "namespace" created for them, like Mission:Blow by Blow to match the Quest:Hunt a Trogg, or to allow little icons to appeared next to the linked mission like quests do showing off faction and levels? Sssssssssssssssssssssssss For Pony! (^Sssss/_Slithered) 01:51, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

If that is what Junkerd means, doing the latter is WAY more likely than doing the former. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 01:55, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind icons. Mordecay (talk) 01:57, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Mentions a header as well... so something like {{WorldEvent/Feast of Winter Veil}} on the top of each mission article? ... so I suppose the real question is, are you trying to have it more easily identified on the actual article page or when linking to it from other articles? Sssssssssssssssssssssssss For Pony! (^Sssss/_Slithered) 01:58, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Possibly from linking to it from other articles like how items format to the color and can also provide a tooltip of the item. — SurafbrovWarcraft Wiki administrator T / C 04:07, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind a unique namespace for missions, but I think I'm the only one wanting that :D Xporc (talk) 08:35, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind it either, but I also have no strong opinion on this topic as it is. PeterWind (talk) 08:48, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Only issue with that is that I know there was a whole discussion about getting rid of the Quest: namespace. — SurafbrovWarcraft Wiki administrator T / C 08:52, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Well I'm against getting rid of that namespace, for the same reasons I believe there should be a Mission: namespace :D Xporc (talk) 10:06, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Well, I also wouldn't mind the mission namespace. I like and use the quest prefix (when searching for smt) so I would be sad to get rid of that :-( Mordecay (talk) 12:17, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Right, I'm sorry. What I actually hadn't realized, is that Combat Missions aren't the only type of mission and that there are other types of missions as well, like:  Clean the Latrine. What I was getting at, was that you wouldn't know if the page you were on was a mission or not, without at least looking around for a bit, there is nothing indicating it being a mission, other than the external links and category at the bottom of the page. The title of this thread shouldn't only have been combat missions, but missions in general. What I'd like to see is a "namespace" made for missions themselves, like mentioned you've mentioned in another comment: Mission:Blow by Blow and if this is not a possibility for some, have text at the top of the page saying: "This is a Combat Mission from the garrison in Shadowmoon valley...", like some quests do:  [60G] The Scarlet Oracle, Demetria. Junkerd (talk) 13:11, 20 December 2017 (UTC)