BattleMaster Wiki talk:General Talk

Formatting

Please format your comments the same as everyone else. Otherwise it will quickly become unreadable. Your name should come immediately after everything you wrote. e.g.

I think that turnips should 
be considered a fruit. They are tasty and 
delicious, it only makes sense. -- ~~~~~

Note that 4 tildes will expand to your name and the date, 3 tildes will expand to just your name. 2 tildes will expand to simply the date.

You can also use one or more colons (:) in front of your paragraph to indent the text. More than one asterisk (*) will indent the bullet.

Discussion

Minor Edits

I consider "minor edits" to be anything that does not actually contribute any useful information, and does not radically change the page. So, spelling, grammar, and punctuation edits (unless large in scale) would be considered minor. Small corrections to style or format would be minor. However, any factual corrections are not minor.

I would go so far as to say that it's better to make minor edits separately from editing substance, so that if something is incorrect it can be safely rolled back without needing to re-edit spelling and grammar and such. -- JPM

I tend to agree, minor edits should be changes that do not add or remove facts. Note that you can use three tildes to automatically insert your name into the page. -- Nicholas

Ah hah! Useful, thanks. -- Dolohov

I agree grammeric, punctuation, style, and form et al. would all be minor edits. I think adjusting appearance of a page to either match the appearance of the rest of the page or a particular section or subsection to match and be more pleasing to to the eye should also be concidered minor edit. There is nothing that is a bigger turn off to reading an item than when it doesn't have a smooth uniform look. --ESP 18 July 2005 20:22 (CEST)

Style

I would really like to see a consistent style over all the articles. Use of sections and subsections is a must, and it might even be a good idea to mandate a kind of abstract/summary at the beginning. A naming convention for articles is also a good idea. -- Dolohov

I think that the only way we're going to be able to hash out a good consistant style is if everyone tries their hand at adding a few articles. This will allow everyone to become used to mediawiki and give us a place to start in our criticism. If you're looking for a place to start, try the Special:Wantedpages -- Nicholas July 19, 2005 03:42 (CEST)

Spelling

I guess we can all agree (so far) on this at least. I put my chips in on all that has been previously said.

However, I have one minor question of concern. It is to my knowledge, words like "armour/armor" and "colour/color" are spelt differently in different forms of "English".

Are we going to have any preference as to which is used? Again, as I said, very minor. -- Darfix

Looks good to me, but I've had the same thought as Darfix concerning different spelling for words and such. It might be a bit annoying going through different edits and seeing letters that shouldn't be there (or that should be there, depending on where you're writing from). --Thraymn

I'd say the standard is pretty obvious. Tom has used British Spelling for Battlemaster, we should probably do the same. (i.e. put that u in honour) -- Nicholas

The simpler standard would be to spell everything as it appears in the game. It's not always clear which is the British and which the American spelling, and I for one am not always aware that there may be a different spelling for a given word. -- Dolohov 19 July 2005 04:09 (CEST)

British spelling is what I use in BattleMaster, at least where I know the difference. There are two reasons for that. One is I just like it better, two is that while English changed over time, certainly US english didn't exist in the middle ages, and british english is as close as we get without making everyone learn 12th century english. --Tom 19 July 2005 17:47 (CEST)

That is going to be difficult for most Americans, myself included. We really are a people separated by a common language. We don't even think about the spelling differences other than the really common ones because even our the way we pronounce the words with spelling differance is different... even if just slightly. The only example I have off the top of my head is Color and Colour. The way the Brits and Americas prounounce the words are completely different (incidently the American version is correct, being the same word as the latin word color). It would make no more sense for us to enunciate color as colour in the Middle English Old French way than it would for us to enunciate it as colos in the Old Latin.

To make a long tirade slightly longer, you will lose a lot of Americans to those spelling corrections. I think we should leave them both uncorrected.

--Eric S P

Never have a seen such a passionate hatred of the letter "u". :-) Seriously: honour, colour, armour are about the only ones I can think of off the top of my head. The vast majority of the differances are completely irrelavant to a medieval world. Who cares whether you call it a lorry or a truck, there aren't any in battlemaster! As for prounounciation, well, that's completely irrelavant to the subject at hand too. -- Nicholas July 19, 2005 23:23 (CEST)