Common Mistakes

[zackmann08]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

It'll be nice to standardize the type of tables we're to use. Like does the show title and episode go in the same box, or does episode go with notes, or does it go movie, actor, character, or actor, character, movie.

Show title goes with the Notes and it goes Title, Actor, Character.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by zackmann08

Show title goes with the Notes and it goes Title, Actor, Character.

That's what I've been going with. It'd good we're making that standard.

[zackmann08]

So I had a thought while working on this. Perhaps it would be better to make a couple of template pages. Not templates like the infoboxes but like the Manufacturer Template. Basically a page where users can just copy and paste the code when they create a new page.

On the page we could also include a list of common mistakes to avoid when creating a page. If this idea is liked by admins, I propose making a template for each of the following:

• Gun
• Video Game
• Film
• Television
• Anime
• Actors

This way instead of telling a new user "look at the M1911 page" or look at how the "Call of Duty" page is organized, they could be steered to the template. Again, I don't want to make useless, cluttering pages. I honestly think these could help.

-Z

[funkychinaman]

When we do actor pages, what size subheadings do we use for film and television? Is it == or ===? I've seen both.

[funkychinaman]

Can someone finally make a ruling on hash marks? Not even the admins can agree.

[zackmann08]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

Can someone finally make a ruling on hash marks? Not even the admins can agree.

Agreed. Can we PLEASE make a consensus...

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by zackmann08

Agreed. Can we PLEASE make a consensus...

Originally, the layout was that we defaulted to the highest level of hash mark and only moved downward if there were more subcategories. What it ended up being was different depending on the type of page.

Thus is the movie page was broken down into groups of weapons it was:

=Pistol=
==M1911A1==
==Browning Hi Power==

=Rifle=
==AR-15==
==AK-47==


etc.

Now we sometimes have pages which have the ENTIRE page divided into categories, aka, the ones which denote GERMAN versus RUSSIAN armies, for example. If we did GERMAN ARMY then we would do:

=German Weapons=
==Pistols==
===Luger P08===
===Walther P38===

=Russian Weapons=
==Rifles==
===Mosin Nagant M91/30===
===M38 Carbine===

Or that's what I remember us doing.

As for actors, since there was not a higher level of category, I was going by what I saw the originators do back in 2007, i.e. default to the double hashmark for Film, Television, etc. Personally I think it looks better to have the line than just to have it boldened. Also it separates the title from the tables (which have taken over most of the pages ... which is a good thing). But with subcategories, I think members began being inconsistent with their hashmarks, because of how they were on OTHER pages. But these older ordering of hash marks came from the times when we did NOT have tables and we were nesting information.

So I always did it:

Joe Schmoo used the following guns in the following:

==Film==
INSERT TABLE HERE

==Television==
INSERT TABLE HERE


Now I believe weapons should be the same.

The AK-47 has appearing in the following:

==FILM==
INSERT TABLE HERE

==Television==
INSERT TABLE HERE

the reason why is that with constantly changing widths of pages (determined by the MONITOR of the viewer) the underlines of the double hash marks helps visually separate the tables and categories. Again, this slowly morphed because we started creating more and more tables. I never liked the Triple hash mark for an entire category. That is less visible as a major section title, IMHO.