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Animus perspective?

I know Sol is wary of this kind of language but what about writing from a more in universe animus perspective ie "Enigma" was an animus designation for a series of puzzle found and solved by Basim during his time in Baghdad and the surrounding areas in the early 860s. Otherwise we might as well merge this page with Papyrus Puzzles, Ainigmata Ostraka, Treasure Hoards, and possibly even the Nostradamus Enigmas. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 03:39, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

There's nothing about this topic that involves bringing in the Animus at all. These are simply riddles scattered across Baghdad as part of a scavenger hunt. Our interpretations of the Animus aside, one of the issues with leading with "Animus designation" is "Wikipedia is not a dictionary". Writing as though the subject of the article is the word as opposed to the thing itself is supposed to be avoided as much as possible. I am open to a discussion on whether a merge with the riddles in other games is warranted though. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 05:54, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Well if we are going to do it this way, then I do think we should merge them as the only appreciable difference between the various iterations is the animus designation in my eyes. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 06:05, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

You mean the name. And a more appreciable difference is the setting of each scavenger hunt set. So it depends whether we want all riddles in Baghdad to be merged with all riddles in Greece with all riddles in Egypt, etc. in one page. And I think the main question is just whether we think that is good for navigation and organization or not. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 22:37, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Yes the name which we are only told via the animus interface. But I disagree with the setting being that important to the topic like we have deer that occur in the US and deer that occur in England but they are still just deer. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 06:42, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

My point was that "Animus designation" is a term you came up with, and it's not necessarily the most natural-sounding term either. I want to avoid accidentally and prematurely canonizing another term that turns out to be a mistake again. From what I understand, you were just talking about the name/article titles enigma vs. the name ainigmata ostraka, etc., so it came across as so extra to say otherwise. In this context of article organization and navigation, we're not even necessarily talking in-universe.

If you don't think setting is significant, I suppose you would want them all to be merged then? Personally, my concern is just ease of navigation, like whether the page would be too bloated, and the logic of organization. They're different riddle sets even if similar types of riddles. Nostradamus Enigma stands out as more distinct as well, and I wonder if it'd be confusing for readers searching for it specifically to have to come to an "enigma" page then scroll through it. The temptation to merge them all I think may be influenced by the generic name of the Baghdad riddle set being just "enigma". I think we could alternatively consider moving this to "Baghdad enigmas" or "Enigmas (Baghdad)". Pluralization can also be appropriate since it would be an article about a closed set of things. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 08:06, 31 October 2023 (UTC)