Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-26091666-20160716030846/@comment-26154973-20160717132652

Copying original proposal behind using "Partials" (and not just "Updates", since reusable by RU/threads pages is just a part of this thing) Suggestion: create a "hub" for pages like Template:Hard Anti-installation Weapons, Template:Anti-Installation Weapon Chart, Template:Event Drop, Akizuki/AACI, Sandbox/List of ships by combat performance, tables for ASW gear, bombers, etc. (any table or piece of info that can be reused on several pages, but not necessarily a complete article by itself). Why main namespace: it will enable comments (can be disabled when needed), each page should have an edit link and a link to itself when included, so it's easy to edit from anywhere, and people can go and give feedback (suggestions or just bash it for being bad). Why have it under a common root: it can have a list of those pages ...explain what it is...

Combat

 * ...parts related to combat mechanics (e.g. OASW or AACI)...

Events

 * ...parts related to events (e.g. event only ships)...

Updates
A sub-hub, should list its pages. ...etc... A namespace/common root also allows searching by prefix. Basically, what I meant is moving them all under Partials, while maybe improving names: Akizuki/AACI -> Partial/Akizuki-class Anti-Air Cut-In, Template:Hard Anti-installation Weapons -> Partial/Hard Anti-Installation Weapons, Template:Event Drop -> Partial/Event-only Ships, Partial/Ships with Opening ASW, etc. Then you can list all those pages in Partials under respective headings (see the code above: all combat related parts under Combat, etc.). Then you can unify all those pages/parts: table sizes/fonts, edit link for each page (to go directly to editing from the inclusion place), link to itself for each (to go to comments), etc. Also, in general, I think I'm talking about entity that is a fourth main entity after the main namespace, modules, and templates. Like so: it's wiki/Some Page (normal pages in the main namespace, usually just simple wikitext), wiki/Template:SomeTemplate (templates in Template: namespace, used to produce output based on input using Lua functions or wikitext templating functions), wiki/Module:SomeModule (Lua code in Module: namespace, can be used with invoke by normal pages, templates, and partials), and wiki/Partial/Some Part (or wiki/Partial:Some Part) (and then there are also special and auxiliary namespaces). By definition, partials are similar to templates, the main difference is that templates usually don't provide any useful info by themselves (e.g., you visit Template:ShipInfoKai or Template:ShipCategoriesKai only for documentation) and only generate something useful when included, while partials are useful by themselves (e.g., you can visit or link OASW table), but also intended to be included in other pages (e.g., Combat/Main and 1-5 for OASW), and, as templates, can have parameters, use Lua functions from modules or wikitext templating functions, to affect how they look when included. Currently we have those "partials" in the template namespace and in the main namespace. Also, this can be applied to the Recent Updates/update threads issue (i.e., using Partials/Updates/30th June 2016, etc.).