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Saving Civilians

Did we count saving civilians from harrasers like in AC1, Brotherhood as activities? In AC1, we unlock DNA part like for the viewpoint. Francesco75 (talk) 14:37, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Probably. Basically anything that is noted on the map as something to complete that isn’t noted as a memory should go here whether it’s a collectible, location to complete, or mini event like those in Unity where you rescue a person. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 18:09, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, saving civilians is definitely an activity although I'm personally not much in favour of this article about literal gameplay. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 22:11, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Article merit

This is an ongoing discussion.

Addressing Sol's comment in the above topic I would argue that this is an animus derived designation as seen in the synch and DNA progress log interface. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 04:46, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Of course you would, and I argue as usual that we should always refrain from "Animus-izing" every gameplay element in the series except when needed as a last resort. This article is a good example of one of the reasons why. It is an entirely OOU article disguised as an IU article by the mere mention of being set in an Animus except a video game and is very awkward. However, there was no need to open up a new topic about this because I was only mentioning my disfavour to this article off-hand and did not propose for its deletion. This is part of a broader issue that needs to be revisited later. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 05:12, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Okay actually, I would carry on this discussion to make one quick suggestion: it should at least be moved to "Animus activities". Just calling it "activities" is quite vague and ambiguous. It also needs an appearances section and citations and technically is liable for deletion on their absence lone. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 05:22, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Renaming this has been on my mind but I need to go through the various games to see what they are called in each to figure out the best title: the manuals for AC 1 and AC 2 (which are framed as emails between lucy and vidic and lucy and rebecca respectively) are called Additional Memories and Secondary Memories; Rogue has them split as Collectibles and Activities; Unity just lumps it all under Miscellaneous. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 06:11, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

I personally like "Secondary memories" if you think that works better than "Animus activities". Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 06:25, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

My one concern is I also wanted to include these as their own section in navboxes (see Liberation's as an example) and I think "Secondary memories" would be a section name for that. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 10:02, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Is that a concern or an additional idea? Because it's a fitting idea. Am I misunderstanding that there isn't a contradiction? Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 16:32, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Oh I mistyped. I think “Secondary Memories” is a weird group name for a navbox compared to something like “Activities”. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 22:38, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

The page name can be "Secondary memories", but the link to it read "Activities" in the navboxes. How about that? Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 23:33, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Seem a bit weird to (couldn’t say why though) but okay. I do want to see what they are called in all the games before we move the article though. Lacrossedeamon (talk) 15:58, 25 June 2024 (UTC)