Talk:Taipei: Difference between revisions

Yes, all great points! Thanks for your work on the wiki & support; it's really appreciated! Okay, so thoughts: I've wrestled with the fact that we have nearly duplicate information on both pages -- and, in some cases, like Taiwan/Taipei, the exact same information. The way this happens is that, usually, the city page is created first (and, when the wiki was started, it was only city pages). Then, after the city page is complete, the information is used to create the corresponding country page. The hope is that, over time, the country pages can discuss regional variations (in things like laws, social stigmas, costs, etc). Currently, not all city/country pages are identical -- but they're almost identical. The main difference is that the country pages sometimes don't include specific recommendations for things like hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, ob/gyns (which I think is the right approach). Instead, in the case of the Canada page, for example, they may say something like, "For information on STI testing facilities in Canada, please visit the city pages, like the Toronto page, as recommendations will vary by city." The reason why the Taiwan page doesn't have this distinction is because this extra step (i.e. removing city-specific recommendations) wasn't taken when the Taiwan page was created. However, this is (I think) a flawed approach anyway. As you can see, it's very difficult to ensure that edits from one page are displayed on edits from another page. Meanwhile, even if the same edits are placed on both city and country pages, we still have the issue of redundancy of content. Overall, I would like to find a better solution. Now regarding potential ideas/solutions: I really like that you bring up redirection vs. merger. Perhaps we can redirect country pages to city pages IF there's only one city page for that country (and, therefore, no major difference in content between the two pages). And perhaps Gynopedia can use a slightly different template (content-wise) for the country pages, so users are encouraged to think about country pages differently. I'm curious to know your thoughts! Of course please feel free to take your time to explore the site and see what you think, but I'm looking forward to knowing what you think! Thanks :) [[User:Lani314|Lani314]] ([[User talk:Lani314|talk]])