Forum:Marine Ranks merge

As I'm generally not a big fan of all things stubby I thought it might be a good idea to merge all the Marine Ranks into one page, with a tabbed style if necessary. --Panda 12:33, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

Agree 18:24, May 16, 2011 (UTC)

Sure, the tabs work. 18:28, May 16, 2011 (UTC)

For me it's fine either way. If we proceed with the merging process, then I suggest to move the text in Marine Ranks in the main page "Marine Rank System" (or whichever you'll call it) which would lead to each ranks in the tabs. Then in Marine Ranks put some lines and a "read more" link (template ). Or if you want to make it even simpler, move the ranks page as hidden tabs in Marines, so Marine Ranks will be like a index. leviathan_89  19:03, May 16, 2011 (UTC)

We can just merge the pages with the Marines page/Marine Ranks tab..but making a new tab for each rank is a pretty bad idea :)

My suggestion would be:


 * Choreboy->Seaman Recruit->Seaman Apprentice-> Seaman First Class = 1 Tab


 * Petty Officer->Chief Petty Officer->Master Chief Petty Officer->Warrant Officer = 1 tab


 * Ensign-> Lieutenant Junior Grade->Lieutenant->Lieutenant Commander = 1 tab


 * Commander->Captain->Commodore = 1 tab


 * Rear Admiral->Vice Admiral= 1 tab


 * Admiral->Fleet Admiral = 1 tab

This way it would be sorted by rank somewhat while still remaining with a relatively low number of tabs. Honestly, The only big pages in this whole bunch are Admiral and Vice Admiral, the rest are mainly 1-2 sentences and a list of known characters with that rank. If we wanted we could probably merge the whole Infantry and Sailor division (anything below Ensign) into 1 page, the articles are that short. Panda 09:41, May 20, 2011 (UTC)

All for it, but can we change the order? The "frontpage" should be the (Fleet-)Admiral page, since that one is really made with love and contains a lot of information. Basically reversing the above order, from highest to lowest. 11:37, May 20, 2011 (UTC)

I thought there could be a single page titled"Marine Ranks" or may be a tab in the Marines page;


 * Rather than a tabbed page with some tabs being poor and others being developed, wouldn't it sufficient to have a single "Marine Ranks" page, with all ranks as sections, and for the well-developped ranks, a redirect to the full article? (Like, "For more detail, see...") sff9 (talk) 11:54, May 20, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sff9 told excatly what I think:)
 * That'd work too, I just want to get rid of the stubby pages. --Panda 12:03, May 20, 2011 (UTC)
 * So yeah,when do we start the work?
 * I'll get on it, as soon as I have the time/motivation ;-) 09:38, May 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll get on it, as soon as I have the time/motivation ;-) 09:38, May 26, 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I'm quickly going to make a list of ranks that I'll merge, and ranks that'll stay as a seperate page:

Merge: Chore Boy; Seaman Recruit; Seaman Apprentice; Seaman First Class; Petty Officer; Chief Petty Officer; Master Chief Petty Officer; Warrant Officer; Ensign; Lieutenant Junior Grade; Lieutenant; Lieutenant Commander; Commander; Commodore;

Keep Captain; Rear Admiral; Vice Admiral; Admiral; Fleet Admiral

Yes, I realize that that is a lot of pages to be merged, but if you look at them, none of them are worth keeping as a solo page. Anyways, if you disagree with me, let me know which pages you want to keep/not keep etc. 09:52, May 26, 2011 (UTC)

I don't understand, those page are on their own or are tabs of the Marine Ranks page? And also I want to bring up a problem related on the marine ranks. See the section below.

Promoted Marines
I point this out in Forum:Gallery Templates Problems, but we should really remove the categories of the former-ranks of the characters "promoted", there is no point in putting them there, because, by logic, every high-ranking marine was once in each lower-rank class, even if we didn't see it. So, if by any chance we see Kizaru as rear-admiral, commodore, captain, lieutenant, einsign and so on... we will add all of those categories in his page? It doesn't make sense. 10:30, May 26, 2011 (UTC)