User talk:Futhark

New Categories
I have taken time off the fluff bible project and started some category structure refinements. I figured that I should tackle them while they are still small issues. Besides I can add the fluff bible categories as I edit the pages.


 * Category:Imperial weapons is now a subcategory of Category:Weapons.
 * I have made categories for Eldar, Necron, Tau weapons. They are all subcategories of Category:Weapons
 * Category:Category:Imperial Technology is now a subcategory of Category:Imperium.

busy, busy, busy bee

Futhark 23:44, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Weapons
This is a question I've had for awhile, so I thought I'd ask for your opinion. How should we handle weapons (and vehicles and whatnot) for each race? Currently we have some massive articles (such as Weapons, equipment and vehicles of the Craftworld Eldar) but also smaller sub articles (like D-Cannon). The only reason we have the large lists is that they were imported from Wikipedia in that form, but I'm not sure this is the best way to handle it. Might it not be preferable to split each weapon into a separate article? To comply with the GFDL we'd need to leave the original article (Weapons, equipment and vehicles of the Craftworld Eldar) in place as a redirect (so we have the edit history), and make a note in the edit summary when we split out a new page.

What are your thoughts?

Here is what I mean: I split a part from Weapons, equipment and vehicles of the Craftworld Eldar into D-Cannon. I left notes in both edit summaries. Of course, I might want to make a template for this... Maybe I'll give that a shot. --Falcorian (talk) 23:35, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Alright, I made a template: Template:Imported From Wikipedia and Split or Template:IFWS for short. I used it on the D-Cannon page. It takes two arguments, the first is an article name on this wiki, and the optional second argument is the name of the article from Wikipedia (if it's different than the one here, for example they often add (Warhammer 40,000) at the end of names whereas we do not). If you think splitting is a good idea, I can start to work on it. --Falcorian (talk) 23:52, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Long pages have always been a pet peeve of mine. I agree that the pages should be split and use the label to link to the new article, and add the summery information about the move.

Some of the transwiki pages are a bit problematic, they have links to a different set of pages, so many of the links show as unsupported. but that is another can of worms that may not be fun to open at this moment.

Leaving the main page is no problem it does provide a node page we can link from to the new articles. and as the material is moved off the page we get smaller file sizes which gets the article back into compliance with safe file size limits.

A template might be the way to go, think about and let me know.

Futhark 00:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)


 * What's the transwiki issue? Is it that Wikipedia pages don't exist or is it something else? And is it a problem with the articles listed in Category:Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia or Category:Articles imported from Wikipedia? --Falcorian (talk) 03:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

I was some unsupported pages, and images. Minor issues that will get ironed out. I chalk up my reaction to geezer fatigue.It's not a mountain, just a mole hill. ;^D Futhark

Go for it! I saved the template from D-Cannon page to one of my pastebooks. I will join in as soon as I finish the categorization projects, and my titan project. I am working on a page for Titans in general with links to articles about Titans for the other races. I have edited all the pages linking to Titans to either Imperial Titans or Eldar Titans, and got rid of the clunky redirects, but some of the links need another option. I will beat it into shape after I upload the new generic Titan Article. Futhark 00:46, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright, I'll start with the Eldar weapons, and I'll leave a on the page for now to point to the new one. --Falcorian (talk) 03:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

cool! I have been busy building category hierarchies. I am using a basic format. It will reduce the number of categories that need to be listed on individual articles, and dynamically build several categories simultaneously. Here is what I mean: Category:Eldar Weapons→ Category:Eldar Technology→ Category:Eldar/Category:Warhammer 40K Technology

I hope I am making sense and that you approve. Futhark 03:31, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a good plan! I'm all for categories as I think they really help organize things. --Falcorian (talk) 04:31, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Weapons of the Imperium
Just a heads up, I'm importing the Wikipedia copy (we have a copy currently, but it's not correctly attributed). It's going to take awhile as I have ~100 MB of files to upload by hand. :-/ So, please don't move the page Weapons of the Imperium (Warhammer 40,000) while I'm doing it, even though it's at the wrong name. I'll fix it up when I'm done. Thanks! --Falcorian (talk) 01:21, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Yikes, that's a lot of content! No worries, I am still building the category trees and categorizing pages. I am pruning down articles needing cat work slowly but surely. I am saving the duplicate pages for last to see which need redirecting. but I will cross that bridge when I am free to go there. Good luck, talk to you later. I'm starting to feel like a librarian. ;^] Futhark 01:42, 26 September 2008 (UTC)