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:::I'd agree with all that. You're right, providing at least some sort of requirement skeleton as a baseline, upon which editors may salt and pepper as needed, definitely sounds like something we could use. Did you have a rough draft in mind already? I'm all ears. =) {{:User:Embyr_75/sig}} 00:02, 20 November 2012 (UTC) | :::I'd agree with all that. You're right, providing at least some sort of requirement skeleton as a baseline, upon which editors may salt and pepper as needed, definitely sounds like something we could use. Did you have a rough draft in mind already? I'm all ears. =) {{:User:Embyr_75/sig}} 00:02, 20 November 2012 (UTC) | ||
::::Well, I have a few basic ideas for a good skeleton. First, if an area can, it should get a section devoted to the background of the Area, organized chronologically, and adapted to fit the needs of the article in question. For instance, [[Agon Wastes]] would get a pretty sizable chunk dedicated to the Luminoth settlement there, the history before the Leviathan strike, during the war with the Ing, and after the Space Pirate arrival. [[Brinstar]], on the other hand, would maybe get some details from the game manuals of ''Metroid'' and ''Super Metroid'', some manga refs, and that'd be all. Sectors like [[Sector 1 (SRX)]] would get brief sections dedicated perhaps to the noteworthy ''Fusion'' or ''Other M'' plot events that occur there and maybe a mention of how the sector was set up by the Federaton beforehand. | |||
::::After that, there should be some section(s) devoted to describing the area in detail in terms of its appearance; layout, architecture, general types of terrain, structures, whatever. Again, the sub-headers can be customized to fit whatever the Area is like. Obviously, we aren't going to want detailed descriptions of biological features in [[Phazon Mines]] or industrial complexes in [[Phendrana Drifts]]. | |||
::::A bit of a quandary I'm having at the moment is whether to give the inhabitants/mechanoids/military forces in each Area a section of their own, or to incorporate those into the sections about the area's layout and such. I can see benefits and drawbacks to both, so it might be best to work with those on a case-by-case basis for each Area. In either case, it'd be best to give a nice description of the creatures, mechanoids, or things like Space Pirate forces in each Area at some point in the article. Also, somewhere, probably its own section, there should be something about the upgrades, but I'd like details about acquisition kept to a minimum since there's other pages that should go into more detail about that sort of thing. | |||
::::Also, there should hopefully be a gallery on each page and references for all these sections, as those are fairly important, and other side info like that. | |||
::::After that, the categories mentioned earlier should be applied so that the Area gets some sort of game-specific category as well as categories based on geographical location. I believe I went into more detail on this earlier in this topic. | |||
::::I'm entirely open to suggestions, feedback, comments, whatever on this. No matter how you slice it, this is a pretty big project and an equally big set of changes, but I hope this will drastically improve our content in a type of article that is pretty underwhelming as things stand right now. {{User:Bop1996/sig}} 23:01, 21 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
