Category talk:Wide-Ranging Monsters

I started this category to begin collecting all the monsters that appear in multiple zones in one place. It might take me a bit to go through everything and and get the monsters listed here. Once the monsters are all categorized here, it will make it possible to maintain the pages using a bot. Once a finalized format/template is chosen for these types of pages of course. Ransel (talk) 18:11, 15 August 2021 (EDT)

Should be possible/easy for a bot to check the number of Template:MOB Locations on each creature page to determine if (internal) disambiguation is needed. --Alleryn (talk) 12:53, 17 August 2021 (EDT)

I might give this a try soon. It's been a while since I used a bot, but they were fairly straightforward if I remember correctly. Although, I have classes starting soon and I'm not sure how busy I'll be in the coming weeks. I may not be able to get around to it soon. I'm not a computer guy by any means, but I do try to help out where I can. Hopefully that helps other wiki contributors understand where I'm coming from.

If you want to perform the bot run and update the category that'd be fine with me. I'm not really a professional at this, I just see stuff and slowly try to make it better. That's the little hobby of mine while I play games. Ransel (talk) 17:20, 17 August 2021 (EDT)

I guess i'm just trying to say that any bot would likely have to iterate over the Template:MOB Locations anyways as it is generating the sections for each zone (or at least that's what i'm imagining). It would probably make most sense to have it looping over all creature pages, since just because a creature is limited to one zone now, doesn't mean it won't be found in two different zones in the future. --Alleryn (talk) 04:11, 18 August 2021 (EDT)

Also just to clarify, i didn't mean to make it sound like i thought it was easy to just use a bot to do this or that your efforts were not useful. I just meant that if you were adding this category for a bot's future use, it might not be entirely necessary, since once the bot was being written it would likely be having iterate over each mob location anyways, and if it found there was only one, it would know the monster in question wasn't wide ranging. So in that sense, for the bot, that part would be 'easy'. --Alleryn (talk) 12:08, 18 August 2021 (EDT)