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* Unit pages uses both "tread" and "Tread" for movement classes, and the ship movement class is called "Ships" for some reason. Why plural? | * Unit pages uses both "tread" and "Tread" for movement classes, and the ship movement class is called "Ships" for some reason. Why plural? | ||
* I think [[Infantry (unit)]] should be moved to [[Infantry]], since that is (by far, IMO) the main usage of the term/word (in AW contexts, of course). Perhaps [[Vehicle]] should be moved to [[Vehicle (unit type)]] (or whatever we decide to call it) anyway, for consistency. | * I think [[Infantry (unit)]] should be moved to [[Infantry]], since that is (by far, IMO) the main usage of the term/word (in AW contexts, of course). Perhaps [[Vehicle]] should be moved to [[Vehicle (unit type)]] (or whatever we decide to call it) anyway, for consistency. | ||
* Speaking of page titles, we have [[Advance Wars (Series)]], but I think [[Advance Wars (series)]] would be more proper, no? | * Speaking of page titles, we have <s>[[Advance Wars (Series)]], but I think</s> [[Advance Wars (series)]] <s>would be more proper, no?</s> | ||
* "[[Medium Tank]]", but also "[[B Copter]]"? Also, [[Battle Helicopter]] redirects to [[B Copter]], but not [[Battle Copter]] (as of now). Also, I think [[Rocket]] should be pluralised (or maybe I'm just remembering wrong, was a while since I last played an AW game). | * "[[Medium Tank]]", but also "[[B Copter]]"? Also, [[Battle Helicopter]] redirects to [[B Copter]], but not [[Battle Copter]] (as of now). Also, I think [[Rocket]] should be pluralised (or maybe I'm just remembering wrong, was a while since I last played an AW game). | ||
~ [[User:FireFly|FireFly]] 09:21, 17 June 2010 (UTC) | ~ [[User:FireFly|FireFly]] 09:21, 17 June 2010 (UTC) |
Revision as of 08:37, 19 June 2010
Undecided conventions
There doesn't really seem to be lots of order here :), so I want to ask some questions of conventions and things we need to decide about. Here's a start:
- Infantry (unit type) vs. "unit class" (Vehicle) vs. Ship (defensive class)
- Unit pages uses both "tread" and "Tread" for movement classes, and the ship movement class is called "Ships" for some reason. Why plural?
- I think Infantry (unit) should be moved to Infantry, since that is (by far, IMO) the main usage of the term/word (in AW contexts, of course). Perhaps Vehicle should be moved to Vehicle (unit type) (or whatever we decide to call it) anyway, for consistency.
- Speaking of page titles, we have
Advance Wars (Series), but I thinkAdvance Wars (series)would be more proper, no? - "Medium Tank", but also "B Copter"? Also, Battle Helicopter redirects to B Copter, but not Battle Copter (as of now). Also, I think Rocket should be pluralised (or maybe I'm just remembering wrong, was a while since I last played an AW game).
~ FireFly 09:21, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Also, I took the freedom to rework one of the damage chart images into a wiki table, since after all, it is a wiki, and it is undoable. I think it should be done to the rest of them too, but I don't feel like doing it right now, and perhaps it's good to have some consensus before applying it to all of them. Anyway, what do others think of it? ~ FireFly 09:25, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Adding with even more: We really need categories for all these images. Also, I think it would be nice with (small) images for each unit (presumably in red?), to be used next to unit names, a bit like the miniature pokémon sprites of Bulbapedia. Perhaps even a utility template, so that you can do something like {{unit|Infantry}}, and get sprite + linked name? ~FireFly tc 09:43, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- I think we should use Advance Wars (series), I think it looks better that way. We should probably use the full name on a unit's page (Medium Tank vs Md Tank, Battle Copter vs B Copter), with redirects to handle other "nicknames". I like your idea to mimic Bulbapedia's mini sprites; I can probably write up a template for it, but I don't know how to rip the sprites for that... — KC 11:10, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- For the record, the names used for units in AW:DS (on the info screen when you hover over a unit, so there's certainly no need to keep down on the length) are: Infantry, Mech, Recon, Tank, Md Tank, Neotank, Megatank, APC, Artillery, Rockets, Anti-Air, Missiles, Piperunner, Oozium, Fighter, Bomber, B Copter, T Copter, Stealth, Black Bomb, Battleship, Cruiser, Lander, Sub, Black Boat, Carrier. I think we should use these names for the article, as I'd say they are the most official. Don't know if the names are changed in DoR though. ~FireFly tc 08:01, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
The "wikitable" table class
The CSS class "wikitable", being used on wikipedia for those neat, grey tables, doesn't seem available here? I don't know if it's nonstandard mediawiki or something, but it'd be really useful. I haven't checked Bulbapedia in a while, but I think they use it too. ~ FireFly 09:21, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- Hrm, actually, it seems Bulbapedia don't use it, but instead resort to a header-/entry-/footer template model (looking at how their learnlists works). I think we could use Template:Unitlist/header, Template:Unitlist/entry and Template:Unitlist/footer, perhaps? What other lists are often used in AW contexts? ~FireFly tc 10:42, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
- It's been a while since I played an Advance Wars game, but maybe we could use the same setup for terrain (Factory, Airport, Port, etc)? --(unsigned comment from KC-Earthshaker)