Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-4199297-20130716210139

Sorry about the popup / messagewall spam, but in my opinion this is rather important.

Page style wise, this wiki is rather "wild west" like; everybody using different styles for similar page and I hope the following can do its part in transitioning it a bit into a more "organized town" feeling... ;) How to do that?   Well, designing some Templates that everybody can agree on and is willing to use would greatly help that.  I'm starting this discussion here to see if we indeed can find some common ground and avoid a situation where some people use the templates and some absolutely refuse to and we end up with an edit war... :(

(By the way, in case consensus is reached quickly: because of work, I probably won't have time to work on my first attempt on advanced Template crafting/fusing until friday. :

I've worked a bit on my personal ideas both in infobox logic and infobox mockups at User:SDMarukokun/sandbox/Armors_test. (if you think the ideas listed there are horrible, please say so! ;) ) And in addition to that there were a bunch of other questions I could think of: (if there isn't already a default Template for that last one, it shouldn't be too difficult to make; see for ex. http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Nunu/SkinsTrivia )
 * What should go inside the infobox, what outside it? (also applies to my examples above)
 * Two infoboxes per page: one for non-plus and one for plus?
 * Should EP worth of the armor/EP to max the armor maybe be listed?
 * What's the best place to screenshot pictures of armors from to keep it consistent?
 * the "My Knights" 2x3 block view?
 * the "dressing room view" for 1 of your knights? (unfortunately doesn't show the elements)
 * Arena/Friend Battle?
 * somewhere else?
 * Are images different between non-plus and plus versions? (I think "no", but not 100% sure)
 * How many pictures do we want?
 * 1
 * all 3 visual evolutions
 * all 3 visual evolutions both male and female (some of the armors look quite different between the genders...)
 * male and female in 1 image like http://knights-and-dragons.wikia.com/wiki/File:Basic_Air_Armor.png ?
 * if more than 1 image, how do we arrange them?
 * grid
 * gallery showing 1 image at a time + page arrows to page through them.
 * Do we want to list at each armor page at which levels the visual evolutions happen or do we leave that to the Armor page?

I'm thinking of adding the following 13 armor categories (did it alphabetic) since they're relevant to combining/fusing:

(maybe also "Kaleidoscopic armors" and "Nemesis armors"?)
 * Air armors
 * Air + Earth armors
 * Air + Fire armors
 * Air + Spirit armors
 * Air + Water armors
 * Earth armors
 * Earth + Fire armors
 * Earth + Spirit armors
 * Earth + Water armors
 * Fire armors
 * Fire + Spirit armors
 * Fire + Water armors
 * Water armors

(yeah, yeah, I know, if you play optimally, you only fuse when quests ask you to or to create 50 EP enhancement fodder, but if people want to gamble, let's give them all available/useful info... ;) ) Good idea? Too much categories clutter?

Consistent naming styles:
 * names of armors, monsters, locations etc.: every word capitalized?
 * other things: first word capitalized, rest not?

I had some more things noted down on non-armor stuff, but first things first and this post is already long enough.

Previous forum topics about this subject:
 * http://knights-and-dragons.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:8913
 * http://knights-and-dragons.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:10701

Me collecting some helpful wiki links that might be of use to you: User:SDMarukokun/sandbox/Wiki_stuff 