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This is gonna be a quick one because I was going to bring it up in "References to Worldbuilding", but that thread has already been locked, so…

I always found the ordering of our pages' References, Notes, and Continuity sections to be kind of illogical. References and Continuity are typically about the in-universe stuff, while Notes are facts about the stories themselves, right? So why is Notes sandwiched between the other two? Surely a more logical progression would be References > Continuity > Notes? WaltK ☎ 12:58, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

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I agree with this. The current placement is confusing. Aquanafrahudy 📢 13:39, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

I hadn't considered this, but, taking another page out of the Jenny Everywhere Wiki's format, they do just this:

== Contents ==
=== Plot ===
=== Worldbuilding ===
=== Continuity ===
== Behind the scenes ==

This is from The Time of the Toymaker. I think we may need to consider, apart from References (or Worldbuilding)/Notes/Continuity, sections such as Gallery, which are both somewhat in- and out-of-universe.

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17:22, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

We don't really have a lot of gallery sections. I didn't even know we had them until found it in use on The Minister of Chance (series), where it was empty until I added some images to it. Perhaps they should be made use of a bit more? Aquanafrahudy 📢 17:29, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

I'm not entirely convinced, though it's a fair point (and I also suspect it would be harder to automate a change like this, though I may be wrong). I think a fair rationale for the status quo is that Notes, like Plot and Worldbuilding but unlike Continuity, is entirely focused on content relating to the work at hand, whereas Continuity is separated out by discussing its connections to other works. Unrelatedly, in a purely user-flow sense, I think there's value in sandwiching "Story notes" between the other two rather than banishing it to the end of the page, because this information is frequently of more immediate value to readers than the continuity points. Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 21:10, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

I agree with Scrooge's analysis, and I like the current setup as it is. – n8 (☎) 13:21, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

I too think Scrooge's argument makes sense. Aquanafrahudy 📢 13:23, 6 September 2023 (UTC)