Talk:Erimem (series)

Revert the Table

Why was the formatting changed to a messy table without talking about it on the talk page first? It's bulky and only makes editing this page needlessly difficult. I am opposed to this format and would like it to be changed back to subsections the way the Lethbridge-Stewart (series) and Dr. Men (series) pages are. Mewiet ☎ 04:32, January 12, 2018 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. I figured it was simply a matter of things not getting done; most big book series overviews have tables. Personally, I dislike the simple lists due how little information they convey and the amount of empty space they create on the page.

Erimem is slowly but surely growing and I don't think that this article can continue to divide the novels and short stories. Auld Acquaintance, for example, is just as important to the ongoing plot as any of the novels. For the sake of readers going into the series, I think it's important to indicate that Into the Unknown and All I Want for Christmas were released before The Three Faces of Helena.

I can see your point about chronology in terms of physical release date. Just recently I was going through the stories and trying to connect them by release date and I was jumping between multiple browser tabs to try and get it right. My biggest problem with the table is that, as you note, the series is growing, which means the table has to be huge to cover all the information and will only get more complicated as the series grows. (And then it's so easy to make a simple coding error on a huge table in the editing process and bungle up the entire page.) IMO, tables work best for contained situations, like on anthology summary page. So looking at your proposal of using the tables but separating them by year does look a lot better and I think that's a good way to go. Mewiet ☎ 05:32, January 12, 2018 (UTC)

How would you feel about keeping the table, but simplifying it and dividing it by years of release, like the navigation box? Then have the information that was bulking up the table in paragraphs at the bottom of each section. Something like:

Stories by year of release

2015

Title	Type	Writer(s)	Release date
The Last Pharaoh	Novel	Iain McLauglin	2015

2015 was the first year of Erimem. These things happened.

The Last Pharaoh introduced the characters of Andy Hansen.....

2016

Title	Type	Writer(s)	Release date
The Last Pharaoh	Novel	Iain McLauglin	2016

You get the idea.

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You're completely right that the current thing is too bulky, and I think that^ is the solution. Thoughts? I can't really think of any other way to divide Erimem. CoT ? 05:05, January 12, 2018 (UTC)