Board Thread:Improving Battle Nations Wikia/@comment-1160253-20130712193115

Per an earlier discussion about our lack of guidelines concerning editing, this forum is to come to a consensus on those.


 * Wikipedia's Article on it's Manual of Style.


 * CoD Wiki's Manual of Style.


 * Sample*

We can't follow either of those to the exact letter but we can use their example to form our own and change it to suit our needs. The following are basic editing guidelines:


 * Personal opinion or bias of any form is unacceptable on any page. There are ways to express a unit's effectiveness without such things. Pages should have a neutral view on its topic unless the numbers and facts support it such as "A rank 5 Heavy Tank is overall more effective in combat than a Mini Tank of the same rank." That does not mean comparisons between related units ,such as the variety of snipers, are not acceptable.


 * Avoid time sensitive words such as "new" and "recent" seeing as words such as those can be subject to personal interpretation and will have to be removed once the next "new" unit or patch is released.


 * The commonly accepted writing style is third person.
 * Wrong: You buy this unit in the Vehicle Factory.
 * Right: Players buy this unit in the Vehicle Factory.


 * Use sources for things that are not well known and easily found out within game. If a statement is not sourced is should be either removed outright or given a tag. If you personally know a statement is true it may be more effective to place a tag instead of removing the statement.


 * If at all possible use in game terms and lore since it comes directly from Z2live themselves. The Trooper has lore that was on the previous website for Battlenations as such came directly from an official source.


 * Speculation is only meant to be in forums and comments.


 * Pages for what is found in the game files should be created if more than a picture and a name are present.


 * Linking to other pages should be left to each editors discretion but a common rule of thumb is to link the first time something is mentioned.

Contrary to the sample page strategies, tips, tactics, and page specifically for such were removed from the mainspace due to an abundance of poor/useless advice.

Page Format
This is the current layout for most of the pages.

1.Relevant Quote 2.Lore 3.Overview 4.Attacks 5.Stats 6.Cost 7.Updates 8.Gallery 9.Trivia  