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conflict template - multiple location type choice

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conflict-template

When making a conflict, I found out I can only choice one location. But what if the conflict is fought over several locations?
I would like that box to behave in such a way that I can choose multiple locations.

The Team's Response

Thanks for the suggestion! The intent behind the Military Conflict template is to use multiple Conflict articles if you want to write about an entire war: a parent conflict would describe the war in general and have the theater as a location, while specific articles would describe battles with specific locations. While we see why your suggestion might be useful, we're declining it for now because 1) It requires a full database migration because it changes the format of a field, which is very risky given the databse contains millions of entries, and 2) We have plans for this template, so we'd rather avoid changing this template for now.

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by Ryznir
on 2025-08-10 22:08
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by Suirei
on 2025-08-05 09:14
+100

by OriontheBluejay
on 2025-08-04 10:18
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by HunterChristmas1247
on 2025-08-02 20:52
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by chairlegcharlie
on 2025-08-02 15:19
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by Kranjax
on 2025-07-31 17:42
I have this issue with several of my conflicts. If there is a war, and there are multiple battles or fronts, then it has seperate locations. It would be nice to have multiple entries, though from a database standpoint, it's a bit of a pain
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by Writing Bishop
on 2025-07-29 06:36
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by Elias_Zephyr
on 2025-07-29 02:10
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by spooktacular
on 2025-07-28 11:25
I agree with others in that this could definitely be expanded across multiple formats eg. organization leaders!
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by MatriarchDacey
on 2025-07-26 19:25
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by Spurenleser
on 2025-07-24 09:57
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by EthanB2112
on 2025-07-23 18:40
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by Jupiter Melichios
on 2025-07-22 07:10
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by ChroniclesofEvalaw
on 2025-07-18 20:00
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by JetpackMonkey
on 2025-07-18 14:23
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by ss2020
on 2025-07-18 01:45
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by Mochimanoban
on 2025-07-17 17:57
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by Hasmed
on 2025-07-17 09:55
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by DMFW
on 2025-07-15 11:09
I can understand how this makes the WA database design and interfaces more complex so we might not get it, but purely from a user perspective lots of the "single selection" options would be really nice if they supported multiple choices. I'd really like it for events, for example, which can often occur in more than one location.
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by Scalenex
on 2025-07-14 09:52
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by Failedcreation
on 2025-07-13 15:33
+100

by PheonixTears589
on 2025-07-12 19:40
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by TheRealCheese08
on 2025-07-12 00:47
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by Dreadwish
on 2025-07-12 00:08
I concur with this as well.
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by Lonnie makes mayhem
on 2025-07-11 22:29
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by Daedalus_Arts
on 2025-07-11 00:35
I feel like this issue occurs in many fields and areas, like Leaders of an Organisation: what if there is more than 1? This should be an option across everything, tbh.
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by A Enfeebled Mimic
on 2025-07-10 15:27
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by Michael Chandra
on 2025-07-10 11:17
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by Dragolithic
on 2025-07-10 01:41
Either have multiple location fields, or allow for commas in the location field.
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by TheDoctor292
on 2025-07-09 23:28
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by IBB
on 2025-07-09 18:38
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by bphilippe
on 2025-07-09 06:22
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by Laurabones
on 2025-07-08 22:15
+300

by AuraGuard
on 2025-07-08 19:52
+100

by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2025-07-08 19:39
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by JoellaKay
on 2025-07-08 17:50
Not sure if this will have database performance impact, but if not, would love to see this implemented.
+300

by Ratha
on 2025-07-08 16:51
+300

by A Beloved Dryad
on 2025-07-08 15:55
+300

by User51
on 2025-07-08 14:09
+100

by kaixabu
on 2025-07-08 13:39
+300

by cow2face
on 2025-07-08 12:47
+300

by Jacob-W
on 2025-07-08 11:44

Community Suggestion: conflict template - multiple location type choice

conflict template - multiple location type choice

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