GuildWiki talk:Style and formatting/Bestiary/Archive

Currently the Bestiary articles are very badly formatted. I would like to see them formatted like the article Fauul the Windburner (this is an arbitrary example, there could be better examples using this formatting). As far as maps go, I think they should be linked to from articles, but not included in articles themselves since maps are generally not uniform in their dimensions. 22:16, 28 Jul 2005 (EST)
 * How can I make a link to an internal image, so that it shows as a link not as an image on the page? --Geeman 00:55, 29 Jul 2005 (EST)
 * You precede the link with a colon, just like when you link to a category Image:Prince_Rurik.jpg produces Image:Prince_Rurik.jpg. Obviously you could replace that with some interesting text.
 * "You can find this boss in the Scary Place."
 * or something like that. 02:33, 29 Jul 2005 (EST)
 * Thanks, I think the format in Fauul the Windburner is great. So the Bestiary articles should contain the beast template and use this order in things: Description, Location, Skills used, Items dropped. And maps to Elite Skill Bosses locations should be like this Harn Coldstone. Maybe a differnet wording though? And you might also like to use some text to tell where the boss is (maybe not needed if an image is available) or how often etc. --Geeman 03:11, 29 Jul 2005 (EST)
 * I'd recommend an optional "Notes" section too as we have with skills for things like notes on monster behavior, useful tactics against them, etc. Another thing to consider with this is defining a set of categories to use for these as well. I know that corrected me on a few that I did a while back, so perhaps he could provide some additional insight into his thoughts around that. :) On second thought, maybe a Notes section isn't needed and Description can be used for everything. A couple of other problems to consider. Some bosses appear multiple times with the same name (see The Judge) and I've noticed several appear with no unique name at all (boss Snow Ettins that are just named "Snow Ettin" but are a higher level/have more skills). Any thoughts on representing those? MartinLightbringer 05:59, 30 Jul 2005 (EST)
 * As far as a 'notes' section goes I think this is a good idea. I think the best way to document multiple bosses with the same name would be to use disambiguation pages. If a monster boss is only ever one profession then we can just call the article Snow Ettin (Boss) otherwise we could say Snow Ettin (Warrior Boss). Does that sound reasonable? 08:12, 30 Jul 2005 (EST)

While Fauul's page looks nice, does anyone really care about the info that's in the description? No one will really ever look up non-elite bosses, and even then, I don't know if that info's of much use. There are also a lot of bosses considering only the ones with elites. --Fyren 06:39, 30 Jul 2005 (EST)


 * I don't think having the information there is any problem, although I agree it is probably a bit useless. I think we should prioritise those bosses with elite skills, and if there are some non-elite bosses missing then no one will worry too much :) If they do they can complain :P 08:12, 30 Jul 2005 (EST)

Skill listing
I have been keeping a private list (sortable Excel table) of all boss skills in GW. I'm updating this list constantly. First I started out adding the information at the skill description entries under heading "Capture". But someone told me, that you had decided against that earlier in guildwiki history. Instead I should be updating skill entries I was told.

I have now visited several skill entries. And I have observed, that in some of them, the skills are listed in (for me) arbitrarly order (i.e. not sorted). Shouldn't they be sorted alphabetically?

Please excuse me, if this is not the right place for this comment - and please inform me of where to put it, if it is not the right place.
 * Yes please do sort them in alphabetical order when you come across them (-: I believe for boss articles, we want to know all the skills they got.  However, for skill articles, if a skill is available from trainer/quest in an earlier region, then capture information for a later region is not of interest (at least that seems to be the decision).  Welcome! -PanSola 10:08, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

More elite flagging
Quite a few of the bosses with elite skills are have been flagged in their articles thusly:
 * Cleave (elite) or (elite) or even sometimes (elite)

Usually this is being done by anon edits, if this is something that we want to do I think we should note it here so that it is done in a standard way. Any thoughts? Anyone? Bueller? --Rainith 19:28, 26 February 2006 (CST)


 * I have noticed that, too. I don't really mind it myself, but it seems that quite a few people would like elite skills to be flagged, so we might as well do it. I'd go for (elite). --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 20:07, 26 February 2006 (CST)