Thread:Lightmagician60/@comment-25090143-20141231025744/@comment-35019468-20141231073949

It takes time for me to think of replies.

I was also waylaid by real life.

Anyways.

Quackciel is correct that the reason we don't have lists of [Color] [Type] cards is that, eventually, the lists are going to become impractically long. We do have lists for LRIG-restricted cards and SIGNI classes, but that's because, unlike more general lists, they're unlikely to become as excessively long.

In theory, Special:CategoryIntersection exists to relieve the need for these pages. The reason you probably haven't heard of it is because an admin has to specifically ask Wikia staff for their wiki to get CategoryIntersection, so most wikis don't have it. (I got the idea from the Duel Masters Wiki, which I used to edit regularly.) I had it implemented in the WIXOSS wiki in the first place because dealing with people asking for card lists was getting bothersome.

One of the problems CategoryIntersection had is that it's rather hard to find and obscure. I put a link to it on the main page, but that might not be enough. Still, the other option, making pages for general lists, is unsustainable, so the only solution is to make CategoryIntersection more visible for those who need it. I have just decided to implement a crude solution by putting a reminder on top of every card page, which would definitely raise awareness, but also looks awkward.

Also, I don't get your objection to having a search engine inside a search engine. The wikia search bar isn't a very potent search engine in the first place, and there will always be things it misses. CategoryIntersection is far more successful when it comes to searching for cards, even though you can only search for two categories.