Forum:Decide how to handle pages for Arenas in Battles/Battles 2
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Before a few days ago, no one had created a dedicated page about the Arena mechanic in Battles/Battles 2, but recently User:NotActuallyAllie created Arena (Battles 2). Right now, the links for Arena-related pages are really inconsistent; the main page links to a page just titled "Arena" (since I was expecting to have a single page covering the topic in both games due to their similarities), but some pages, like this navbox, already had red links to this new Battles 2-specific page before it was created. Although, I wish this person communicated with other people about how to approach this instead of creating a Battles 2-specific page and changing the links on every single page for Battles 1 arenas to link to a different page on their own. I also disagree with titling the article for the Battles 1 arenas "Battle Arena", since while that name is used in a few places (like on the main menu), it's used far less frequently than just "Arena", both in-game and in things like patch notes.
Since I can't decide what the best way to organize these articles is, I'm leaving it up to vote.
- Option A: move Arena (Battles 2) to just "Arena" and rewrite it to cover Arenas in both games. The link on the main page will not change and Arena (disambiguation) will be deleted.
- Option B: keep them separate, but named Arena (Battles) and Arena (Battles 2). The link on the main page will be updated to link to the latter and Arena (disambiguation) will stay.
- Option C: keep them separate and named Battle Arena and Arena (Battles 2) (how it currently is). The link on the main page will be updated to link to the latter and Arena (disambiguation) will be deleted. This is essentially the status quo.
(EDIT) I should clarify that "Arena (Battles)", "Arena (Battles 2)", and "Battle Arena" can also be redirects, depending on the option chosen.
Option A
- My preference. I know the Fandom wiki separates the mechanic into two pages, but it also does that for Bloon sends, which just feels wrong to me. po●la●vux
- I honestly don't know that much about Battles, but I agree they could be grouped if they are too similar, we have things like Boss Bloon and Power across multiple games and in general I think we could make a wiki policy to group game mechanics/modes into a single article, we can always separate them later if they get too long with the main article template. Drgoku282 (talk) 21:09, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
Option B
- My second choice. po●la●vux
- Arenas are very different between the two games in the series, so this is where I'll pick a side. --Planterror (talk) 21:06, 29 August 2025 (UTC)
Option C
Comments
- In case separate articles wins, I'd go with option C, as I think game menu might have preference over other sources, Arena (Battles) can always be just redirected. Drgoku282 (talk) 21:09, 29 August 2025 (UTC)