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Title: A couple of things
Post by: Mars on December 21, 2010, 04:33:34 pm
I had an issue today with the word Apocalypse, and I wonder if a disambiguation template might be in order?

Also, I was wondering if anyone would object to me making a Blue Planet ships category.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Snail on December 21, 2010, 06:45:58 pm
About the first issue: There is already a disambiguation page template, however I didn't think it was applicable to this particular situation. Instead what I did was move the Apocalypse article for the mission to its original location and added a simple "This article is about the mission from the main campaign. For the weapon from Blue Planet, see Apocalypse (torpedo)." note at the top. I assume most people would be looking for the canon mission.

About the second issue, I'd be all for creating a new category for Blue Planet ships.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Mars on December 21, 2010, 08:30:38 pm
Thank you kindly!
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Snail on December 22, 2010, 02:44:52 pm
Say, Mars, should the same category be used for individual ships, or just for ship classes?
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Droid803 on December 22, 2010, 03:44:50 pm
We should probably put both on there, IMO.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Mars on December 22, 2010, 07:00:15 pm
Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.

I was actually wondering if I should make a list of all the warships used in Blue Planet al la the one for Freespace 2.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Droid803 on December 22, 2010, 09:27:30 pm
Sure, I mean, INFR1 has one.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Mars on December 22, 2010, 10:57:47 pm
That must be a long list.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Droid803 on December 22, 2010, 11:11:10 pm
kinda (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Inferno_R1_Ship_Database)
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Snail on December 23, 2010, 12:54:22 pm
I was actually wondering if I should make a list of all the warships used in Blue Planet al la the one for Freespace 2.
That would be awesome. And maybe people would actually use it.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Mars on December 23, 2010, 03:56:40 pm
lol, I appear to have pushed  TopAce's buttons. Or maybe his typing just 'sounds' pissed. I'll write lines: "I shall follow the capitalization conventions."
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: TopAce on December 23, 2010, 04:26:46 pm
I'm not pleased, but please use sentence capitalization for titles. Capitalize the initial letter and proper nouns only. So It's "Blue Planet ship database", "List of GTD Orion destroyers that survived the Terran-Vasudan War" etc.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Mars on December 23, 2010, 06:08:50 pm
I'm not pleased, but please use sentence capitalization for titles. Capitalize the initial letter and proper nouns only. So It's "Blue Planet ship database", "List of GTD Orion destroyers that survived the Terran-Vasudan War" etc.

I was using the Freespace 2 Ship Database as an exact template. I do apologize for not following proper convention, but it was a replication of a very old error. I honestly was not trying to cause a move war, I was honestly trying to follow the convention.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Mars on December 23, 2010, 06:35:18 pm
Unless there's something else troubling you?
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Snail on December 23, 2010, 07:08:23 pm
CP5670's list was made before the capitalization convention became widely adopted, (it remains an unofficial thing anyway) back when the Wiki was still the FSDoc (I think) which explains why it and a few other old articles don't follow the convention.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: TopAce on December 24, 2010, 05:01:13 am
I'm not pleased...

Oh... I meant "pissed." I don't know why I typed it as "pleased." :lol:
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Snail on December 24, 2010, 06:07:01 am
Pissed TopAce is not pleased! :P



Okay about the ship listings, should "Actions:" have its own sub-listing within it with double-indented bullets, or should it be like the regular ship database where the actions are all single-indented bullets?
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Mars on December 24, 2010, 08:42:02 pm
Oh... I meant "pissed." I don't know why I typed it as "pleased." :lol:

I literally laughed out loud. I was wondering what you were so displeased about.
Okay about the ship listings, should "Actions:" have its own sub-listing within it with double-indented bullets, or should it be like the regular ship database where the actions are all single-indented bullets?

I think the lack of a top *Actions font made sense when most ships only saw one mission. In Blue Planet more  ships seem to have a longer list of actions, and it doesn't really add much more clutter or effort to have the top bullet.

I actually made the current Terran one without looking at the UEF one you made - it depends on what people like more overall. I'm not going to work on this this Christmas but I'll start up again the 26th. If we decide to keep the *Actions bullet then I can go through and touch up the official ship databases as well.
Title: Re: A couple of things
Post by: Snail on December 25, 2010, 05:42:41 am
It shouldn't be hard at all to add.