GuildWiki talk:Style and formatting/Armor

Template brainstorm
I started to toss one together myself, but then realised I know nothing about wiki style formatting stuff. so we get text-talk first instead. ;p

upper right portion of article: two tall-rectangle images; one with a female character in a full suit of the armor with its default color; and a complimentary male image of the same. I'm thinking having these images on a colored background would be pleasing to the eye?!

Kind of outlined the rest of what I'm thinking at Talk:Armor_Types but I'll repost it here:

==Description== General text description + image of the armor in its -default coloration- ===Stats=== important things: armor factor, modifiers ===Usage=== This is the kind of environments/player styles it's good for ===Customisation=== Color combinations that look particular interesting? Possibly also something with runes ===NPCs that craft it=== * (begin list of npcs; link to the NPC) ===NPCs that will trade for it=== * (begin list of npcs; link to the NPC)

ALSO! As stated on that Talk page, the Armor:Whatever I came up with is bad! If Armor/Whatever is fine with people, switch to that; otherwise perhaps just name the articles  Armor Set, or something similar.

ALSO-ALSO! re: Stats: I'm not sure we really need a taxonomy box, if for no other reason than.. it'd be ridiculously huge, or there'd be too many. I think "armor set" pages are the way to organise this stuff. Specific instances of "this armor with this protection level" can be left to the individual NPC (collector, crafter) pages. Nunix 16:15, 20 Jun 2005 (EST)

More Brainstorming, and a little bit of doing
Ok, I read Nunix's ideas, and have begun to put something together.


 * 1) Pictures in top right
 * 2) * I agree with this completely.
 * 3) * LordBiru recommended using item-stub for this, so I have.
 * 4) * You can get pics for 20 of the armor types by creating a PvP. That's 40, when you include M/F.  I've uploaded all 40 of these now.
 * 5) * The rest of the armor pics will have to come from users. I'm unsure if user images posted to other fan forums would qualify as free to distribute.  Since the users posted them publicly, I think it may be ok to use these.
 * 6) Stats for the top right
 * 7) * I think we need to show which materials are used for building this type of armor
 * 8) * "Salvages into..." could be a useful stat.
 * 9) * "Sells for..." may be useful. It would be a range.
 * 10) Armor:Whatever for name of armor types
 * 11) * I agree with this. I think we should keep 's when they appear in the item names.
 * 12) * I am in the process of converting all the other pages to this type of name.
 * 13) * I created Armor:Class Headgear for each of the classes
 * 14) Armor Stats (on left side of page)
 * 15) * Personally, I see the purpose of armor pages to help people decide when to buy armor, and when to wait to the next city. So, I think stats for each city are very important.
 * 16) * Wyvern Armor had stats for 3 cities in a really neat mono-spaced text format. I kind of like it.
 * 17) * I've been playing around with the tables, to see if I can make it look better. See Armor:Elementalist Armor to see what I mean.  So far, I'm not impressed, but it can be improved.
 * 18) * I'd like to hear more inputs about which format to use. (Please message me!)
 * 19) Types of armor: standard, collector, 15k, fissure
 * 20) * My proposal on how to arrange all this stuff for each class:
 * 21) ** One category for all the headgear (Standard and Collector's)
 * 22) ** Separate categories for each type of armor (Standard and Collector's)
 * 23) ** Separate Categories for each of the types 15k armors and headgears (they look different then standard and collector's)
 * 24) ** One category for all the Fissure of Woe armor (these all look the same)
 * 25) * If we go with this proposal, we'll have about 15 armor sets listed for each class from the main armor page. (total 60)
 * 26) * If we go with this proposal, some of the sections suggested by Nunix won't be applicable in some cases. Other than those sections, I have no problem using what he has suggested.

I'm still kind of new to wiki too, so let me know if I'm doing something wrong. I'll probably end up doing most of the work for the armor, but I'm going to pause now for a little more input before I go to far to turn back.

-- 10:49, 8 Jul 2005 (EST)