Thread:Mhommer/@comment-7451135-20140102210936/@comment-15636815-20140106232420

Okay, I see your point about the dag page. If someone types "Winter Steel", we have no idea which one they want, so we send them to dag so they can figure it out themselves. If someone types "Santa", they want Santa now. If someone wants historical Santa, and they don't know how to find it, they'll probably type "Santa" and see what happens.

Therefore, probably the best implementation is that "Santa" always points to the current year--as all of us already agree--with a link at the top of the page to one page that has links to all years. It probably shouldn't be called dag, since there's no ambiguity or confusion. Maybe we could call it "Santa (overview)" or "Santa (historical)" or "Santa (prior years)" or something along those lines. In any case, the page should be nothing more than links to the different "Santa (year)" pages.

As for the Navigation Bar, I think that clicking on just plain "Santa" should send peeps to the "Santa (now)" page, following the same reasoning as in the first paragraph. Newer users won't be thinking about prior years at all. They're just thinking, "I want Santa; here's a link that reads, 'Santa'. That's what I want." People actually looking for history are more likely to select the prior year directly, anyway. And of course, all Santa pages, regardless of year, should have a link to the overview page or whatever we end up calling it.