Giving the EG a Bit of a Remodel

[Drashner1]

If we put terms at the start of the article. Is there a possibility that we put the same terms on different articles.

Possibly - but a couple of things:

a) Putting terms in at the start would generally be limited to Topics on the site (Topic and Article are distinct terms used in our Content Management System - a Topic is one of the 300 or so main pages the EG is built around, like Galactography or Modosophont or Vec. An Article is usually about a specific example of something described in a general way by a Topic) rather than appearing in every Article. The exception would be Articles that are more technical, such as the Layman's Guide to Wormholes, or maybe an article about Halo Drives or something. So the overall number of times we would do something like this is for (at most) some hundreds of entries in the EG, rather than the literally thousands of articles that it actually contains.

For example - we might put a list of terms on the Vec page, because it introduces the concept of vecs in general. But we probably wouldn't put a list of terms at the start of the article about Cryovecs since that is a specific clade of vecs.

b) If we do find ourselves looking at two (or more) entries with the same or nearly the same terms at the start - that may be a strong indicator that we should consider combining those articles into a single one.

Hope this helps,

Todd