This policy now creates exceptions to the Wiki-wide policy of breadcrumbing for some pages within the Fandom by Source Text category. (Breadcrumbing is the policy of manually overriding the nested display of categories and pages by placing all categories back to the top level on every page.) As I understand this post, what it is saying is that only the main fandom page within a fandom category will be breadcrumbed, all others will not be (unless they contain categories from other parts of the tree--Challenges, Newsletters etc.)
I think breadcrumbing should be scrapped altogether. I can't actually find any reasons for doing it on policy pages or help pages. It is referred to as an ideal, but why is never explained. If I've missed some point to it, please enlighten me or point me to where the purpose of it is discussed.
Short of a total removal of breadcrumbing, the exception should be extended up to the Fandom by Source Text category. It should only be applied to fandom pages that do not have a fandom category of their own. As it stands now, the Fandom by Source Text list is very difficult to navigate and I feel it is a barrier to finding fandom information. I'm trying to imagine how I would explain using the page to a new Fanlore user, and I think I'd tell them not to try.
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I think breadcrumbing should be scrapped altogether. I can't actually find any reasons for doing it on policy pages or help pages. It is referred to as an ideal, but why is never explained. If I've missed some point to it, please enlighten me or point me to where the purpose of it is discussed.
Short of a total removal of breadcrumbing, the exception should be extended up to the Fandom by Source Text category. It should only be applied to fandom pages that do not have a fandom category of their own. As it stands now, the Fandom by Source Text list is very difficult to navigate and I feel it is a barrier to finding fandom information. I'm trying to imagine how I would explain using the page to a new Fanlore user, and I think I'd tell them not to try.