Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25620113-20171006020328

Considering we're redesigning the wiki, I though what better opportunity then to talk about what's wrong with the categories.

1) Upcoming death battles category.

If you know me, you know about my disdain for the upcoming death battles category. The category is just pointless, only used as another category to add on to the next death battle coming up but this serves no purpose. Everyone knows the next death battle is coming up but if they looked at the upcoming death battles category, they would think that was the only death battle confirmed which is pointless because they just had to watch the previous death battle for that.

Now on the original thread there were some pretty good substitutes. UTF came up with the idea to make an Upcoming Death Battles page where we put all confirmed death battles that we know are going to happen. Alternatively we could just add a heading to the main death battle page that says "Future Death Battles" and list the confirmed matchups there, not unlike the arrow wikia. Hell, the DBX page implements this already so why can't we just do this to the main page?

2) Fights made for commemoration

OK this category definitely needs to be handled handled better. Some people assume that just because something is coming out for a franchise that one of the combatants was part of, death battle must have been done to commemorate it. There would be nothing wrong with this, except for the fact that Ben and Chad plan death battles 10 episodes in advance and now that we're doing the seasonal pattern thing, they likely plan the entire season out at the start of the year.

To be fair, there are battles that you could see were done for commemoration for example Thor VS WW was likely done for Thor: Ragnarok and maybe Justice League as it was common knowledge that those two films were going to premiere this year, last year so Ben and Chad would likely have known about it.

However, others don't make much sense when you think about it. Android 18 VS CM is apparently commemorating the universe survival arc despite the fact that Ben and Chad would not have known about this when planning the season and don't have the foresight to do a Halloween episode much less have the precognition to know when a specific arc of DBS is going to be airing and plan their season accordingly to have a specific episode coincide with it. It still might have basis as MVCI was announced at the start of the year.

It doesn't help that some fights don't even say what they're commemorating such as Dante VS Bayonetta. I assume its put in the category because her announcement as a combatant was on the same day as her announcement as a Smash Bros character but that was a complete coincidence. SA was going to do this battle regardless of whether or not Bayonetta was in Smash.

So that's my ideas for handling of the categories. Let me know what you think. 