Thread:MG1982/@comment-10507735-20171102143721

Your diligence is refreshing, but consider whether you are "making sticks to beat your own back".

The simplest description is often the best description. This is a poorly stated version of Occam's razor (choose your own language for possible better explanation)
 * Or

The KISS principle (this being the 'keep it sweet and simple ' version just to be polite) is also useful.

As far as the wiki goes, we TRY to use code or names that the devs built into the game code. Sometimes they get lazy and use the same name more than once, so THEN you need to distinguish between them: . . Old device 5 for example.
 * Old device 1
 * Old device 2

Similarly there are plenty of Loner camps, but the target article might be best considered as an "overview" for places that are individual, but so far do not have much significance as individual locations (until the devs write plotlines that make them important - if ever)

Or Bandit camps, for that matter.

Basically, a thing is what it is, or where it is, but it doesn't need to be overspecified until there really is some form of conflict. ALL locations are understood to be "Lost Alpha" because that's OUR wiki.

(The reason that major locations (levels) have the format "Some Place(Lost Alpha)" is historic. We started as a mod on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wiki and NEEDED to distinguish levels that had the same name (Yantar(Lost Alpha) is very, very different from Yantar proper)

We found that trying to cross-link to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. site for what was effectively a fourth (but non-canon) game would quickly become problematic (just the artifacts would be a mess) so a certain person encouraged another to "start a wiki"...

3.5 years later, this is what we have. A more "ground-up" treatise of the wiki knowledge base for a game that may not be developed further.

Good 'eh? 