elanthipedia talk:Manual of Style/Items

Article Names

I think item titles should be the entire item name, minus any articles (a, an, some) (this will help or else everything's going to index under either "a" for "a,an" or "s" for "some"). In addition, since I added the core noun field to the item template, we may want to force each item to index by their core noun rather than whatever descriptor happens to be first. I can make the template do that if desired. -Caraamon Strugr-Makdasi 14:04, 19 April 2008 (CDT)

I personally kind of hate item articles since there are literally thousands of items in the game, but most people seem to want them, so... I'm ignoring this one ;) --Farman 14:19, 19 April 2008 (CDT)

Ditto. --Aetherie 14:42, 19 April 2008 (CDT)

Likewise. --Basselope 14:12, 29 April 2008 (CDT)

I think the reason we started doing item articles in the first place was to avoid having stats, LOOKs and other such info on shop pages. It kinda exploded from there. The articles can stay in the names for all I care, as long as the sort name of the article (ie what it's sorted by in the category) is set to something else. Example: User:Naeya would be sorted under U in the Category:Elanthipedia Admins unless we did the quick sort change to read [[Category:Elanthipedia Admins|{{PAGENAME}}]] (to sort by Naeya instead of the namespace User). Alternatively, it could have read [[Category:Elanthipedia Admins|Naeya]].

--Naeya ^(talk) 15:06, 19 April 2008 (CDT)

Well we should figure it out, either all or no articles included. Oh, and as for indexing, we could just do it by the core noun like I mentioned. -Caraamon Strugr-Makdasi 03:19, 20 April 2008 (CDT)

I am all for letting the item articles exist. I'm not sure if our current "category" system with these is the best way to handle all this, but unless we install a special mediawiki extension, it is the best we have. I'm not particular for/against the (a/an/some/etc.) but if I had to choose, I'd say without. and where possible, sorting in categories by "primary noun" is best as well, imho. --Callek 12:41, 20 April 2008 (CDT)

Uh, just to be sure I haven't been too confusing, I am using articles to mean the english language type of word, "[[1]]." I meant to start a debate about whether pages should be allowed to begin with a/the/some/an. -Caraamon Strugr-Makdasi 16:30, 20 April 2008 (CDT)

Reading this thread over again, I think everyone understands the difference, but yeah we are using the same word in two meanings. My objection is to the existence of item pages in the first place, but that's another topic. The question of whether to include grammatical articles in page naming has more general applications beyond item pages, however.

So I'll weigh in with a strongly agree that articles should not be included. An item page represents and describes the general, idealized item and not a specific one; therefore there should be no article in the title. --Farman 12:51, 18 May 2008 (CDT)

Item templates

The proposed new manual states that appropriate templates should be used, but provides no directions or guidelines on where such templates can be found or how to know which templates would be appropriate. Furthermore, there are an enormous number of templates available. How can a new user (one possibly new to using wikis) going to find them? --Basselope 14:12, 29 April 2008 (CDT)

Once I've finished the item templates, I'll link them in. Caraamon Strugr-Makdasi 17:24, 29 April 2008 (CDT)

As a general point when making a new article about anything, people should be directed to emulate existing ones, including all formatting with templates, etc. --Farman 12:51, 18 May 2008 (CDT)

Once I finish the forms for everything, I'll link to them from the Item MOS.--Naeya ^(talk) 21:46, 30 May 2008 (CDT)

Forged Equipment

I was working on an combat item template when it struck me that forged items are going to be a major pain in the butt. Not only are they all named the same, the possible variations are nearly endless. Therefore, I think we should have one page per template, listing the commonly found versions, as well as their makers. I made up a possible example at Bastard sword (forged). -Caraamon Strugr-Makdasi 16:39, 20 April 2008 (CDT)