Neocron Wiki talk:Article Policy

Article Policy updates

Ok, the Epic guides and Jones guides are looking real nice. Thanks for everyone who worked on them, espically Logan who work hard on the Jones guides and set the standard for everyone to match. I've asked Dragonette to contribute since she did a lot of work on some of the epics as well.

However on the Epicguides there is a bit of inconsistancy with layout. Thats not to say any of them is right or wrong, so I would like to throw in a few proposals that will make all the missions have a consistant layout, as in future more missions will get put up on the wiki.

What gets agreed here will be added form part of the article policy guide.

General layout

The current layout I think is good and simple to follow. Carry out these steps in this order, and you get this at the end. Usually most missions are talk to this NPC, then to the next one, then back to the first NPC.

In Logan's versions he has a thumbnail of the NPC in the guide, where as mine I have links to the NPC pages, which use the NPCbox template. See the Twilight Guardian Epic for the way I done it, and the Tangent Epic for how Logan has uses NPC thumbnails. (Ignore the HTML formating issue thats squashing the pages)

Some Q's.

1. Do we combine both formats, or stick with one or the other?
2. Could we use NPC's in a better way?
3. Is it possible to Transclude just the NPCbox from a NPC page?

Tipline and Tipbox

Which one should be used in guides, or does either template need tweaking? Some examples.

Tipline

• Talk to Figaro and buy some Whiteflash off him for 500nc.

General Tip:
{{{Content}}}

• Return to Constantine and talk to her twice.

Tipbox

• Talk to Figaro and buy some Whiteflash off him for 500nc.

He can be found in PepperPark 3 by the old Crahn Church entrance.

• Return to Constantine and talk to her twice.

Links

One problem I've notice with the FA epic, is the linking. I think it looks a bit too much to see something like.

• Talk to Grimm and give her A
• Talk to Constantine and give her B
• Talk to Grimm and give her C
• Talk to Constantine and give her D
• Talk to Grimm and give her E
• Talk to Constantine and give her F

Ok you can clear the red links quite quickly, but is the above a bit overkill or acceptable?

Tempoary mission items

Some quests give out items to take to an NPC, like a Package. Should these be added to the Item DB, and then added to the guides?

NPC's

Search for Mark Cole. If you hit the go button, he comes up as a page. How does the layout look, and does it need expanding?

Also it would it be good to see what pages link to this NPC page? In the case of Mark Cole, there are 3 epics that link to him (CS,FA and TS), but right now you have to click on the "What links here" link. Is there a way to transclude that information into the NPC page?

Anything else

Add it to this talk page and don't forget to sign. --Brammers 13:43, 6 May 2008 (BST)