Board Thread:Wiki discussion/@comment-1828842-20200521221354/@comment-18014300-20200523153411
Oof, weapons now; alright, we know we combine weapons that are the same across multiple games... but do we know that the → Sword of Altaïr is the same as "Altaïr's Sword", the blade used by Shay, or the two "Altaïr's Swords" wielded by Edward? They don't use the same name as every other appearance, there's multiple of them (one of them has a knife!)... It just feels like we can't exactly confirm if they're... well, the same.
Actually, maybe this was what Lacrosse was referring to earlier. I had only been thinking about how if Shay and Edward's Swords of Altaïr were mods, we won't need separate pages for them. However, you're right that if, on the other hand, they were actual swords that they had in their possession, then the matter changes because unlike Queen Anne's pistol, the Sword of Altaïr isn't a mass produced model; it's one, single, unique sword of which only one exists in the world. The Sword of Altaïr would be different from swords modeled off of the Sword of Altaïr. I think this might have been why I hesitated merging them all those years back, but I had forgotten the reason. Thanks for bringing this important detail up.
I think if we are really unsure, the side of caution would be to merge them for the sake of cleaner organization. It's probably less confusing for our readers if we don't have multiple pages of Altaïr's Sword floating around. We can explain in the behind-the-scenes section that their appearance in Black Flag and Rogue might be Animus mods. But I would feel most at ease if one of us could maybe contact Ubisoft and ask about it. Hopefully, it's a simple enough question that they won't dodge it.
I hesitated to merge the AC3 Cuttoe Sword with the Liberation Cuttoe Sword before because I couldn't tell from the images whether or not they're the same "model" of cuttoe sword. Yes, the hilts are different colors, but in real-life, weapons of identical design, model, and make can be different colors as with anything else. It could just be the hilt wrappings that are different but that won't change the design of the sword being the same. I can't confidently tell if the hilt of the Liberation one actually is shorter because it could just be the angle.
What about privateer doesn't make sense? I don't understand what this means at all. o.O"
By the way, I don't want anyone to feel intimidated by my strong stance on "Assassin leader" and "Templar leader" pages being deleted or merged into "Mentor" and "Grand Master of the Templar Order". If you guys really wish to keep it, that is okay with me, as long as we really look into rewriting them and making them distinct from the latter two pages.