Talk:Community Medal

Consistency

I think if this page is intended for Community Medals, even those obtainable through competitive play, such as Australian Hightower Highjinx, should be included. Let's not forget that they have the "Community Medal" item type. This also contradicts the creation of these pages, in some way Mgpt (talk) 04:18, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

I'll start working on the updated version, will be available on my sandbox Mgpt (talk) 17:29, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

When I made the distinction between the two, I made the decision to put anything related to a tournament in the Tournament Medal page, since that's where people would logically expect it to be. The same way that Tark said "the average user doesn't care that a medal is painted, it's not a different medal," I believe the average user would see a medal awarded for a tournament, and believe it to be associated with tournaments. Additionally, tournaments with donor medals for an external charity drive often have the whole set labelled as a Community Medal set, despite their main medals being for a tournament, since there were some that could be obtained outside of it. These are still medals, for a tournament, and therefore they went under the Tournament Medal page. Originally, all charity donor medals were also listed in the promo items page, but as part of a move away from that article (and removal of these medals from the Promo Nav), I felt it best to put them in with the other tournament medals, as detailed in the promo item page subsection. Community Medals, as listed, are for non-tournament events, such as a charity drive without a competitive play background, a design contest, or a community Mann vs. Machine operation.

In a similar distinction, were I to make the decisions about this today, I also would move Arms Race and Journey to the East out of the Tournament Medal distinction, they are not tournaments, but are instead design contests that had medals with a similar naming convention. At the time, I felt that was the easiest way to convey them, based on the formats we used -- but today, I would move them to event pages for Arms Race and Journey to the East. While we're on the subject, I'd like to propose that we do that. — 03:39, 28 January 2024 (UTC)