Help talk:Style guide/Weapons

Crafting Ingredient Blueprints

Recently I have seen many edits to the weapon pages, where blueprints have been added regarding the weapon's use as a crafting ingredient. Please discuss whether such blueprints should be added to the guidelines and embraced, or whether they should be removed altogether.--Focusknock 11:23, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

 Information: For example: Razorback#As_a_Crafting_Ingredient

 Remove: While I see the reason for how to craft the weapon itself, how often do you ask yourself: Oh, what could I make out of that? --CruelCow 11:27, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

 Comment Well if I had a spare weapon and I was missing a few other weapons I might be interested to know what I could make. I think it's a pretty good idea.  – Smashman _(talk) 11:41, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

 Why not?: It's not as if they're harmful to the wiki or anything.{{subst:void|This template should always be substituted. Please change {{Unsigned}} to {{subst:Unsigned}}}}— The preceding unsigned comment was added by The Neotank (talk) • (contribs) 16:46, 17 October 2010

 Sure: It can be useful for pepole who don't know what they can do with their spare weapons. --Parseus lm(pl) 19:00, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

 Comment If they're kept on the wiki, the template needs a serious update. It's an eyesore right now. ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 02:07, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

The discussion is now closed.

Bug section

Currently the trivia section is host to a number of statements concerning cosmetic and gameplay bugs concerning the weapon. I propose the addition of a Bugs section in order to seperate these from the trivia section but keep them relevant to readers.--Focusknock 10:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

As a sub-section of trivia, or a new section altogether? I think a sub-section would be more appropriate. --Underyx 10:07, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

I was thinking more of a new section. A sub-section would simply clutter trivia up more, but I can see the merits of it.--Focusknock 10:08, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Screenshots as new section and as sub-section. The latter one seems nicer to me. --Underyx 10:18, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

 Approve Ya.  – Smashman _(talk) 10:11, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

 Tentative Support: It's always been my opinion that bugs really don't have a place in the Trivia sections, but usually if it's just one bug of notable interest I would leave it in. Some weapons though seem to just have bug after bug listed. I have already created a new section for Your Eternal Reward because there were so many and it didn't seem right to remove so much information just because it wasn't technically trivia. In this case it certainly deserved its own section. Actually, now that I think about it, "Previous Changes" might better fit as a subsection of the Bugs section. Anyway, if it'll help clean up the page, then I'm for it. Such a section would require more maintenance though, since new bugs would need to actually be verified. -- -- 10:13, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Technically bugs are not previous changes so I do not see why they need to be grouped with that section. They can be moved there with a relevant link to the patch that fixed them, but not beforehand.--Focusknock 10:19, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

 Yes, you dummies!: Why was this not done earlier? Bugs aren't trivia, argh. --Vaught 20:24, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

 Neutral Depends on the article. If there is only one bug, it should be put in the main article/trivia since an entire section would be overkill. If there is enough to support it like in the eternal reward - go for it!. --CruelCow 12:09, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

 Support Sounds like a good idea to me, if trivia needs clearing up separating out the bugs can't be a bad thing. GeneShark 13:27, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

 Conditional support As long as we have some guidelines that ensure bugs that influence game-play are not posted. -RJ 18:16, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

 Support My only concern is what constitutes an appropriate bug to list. The Mackarel being all wonky in left handed view would be a good one, but the small red triangle in one of Spy's knife animations is kind of not needed. -- Balladofwindfishes 13:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

I would have to disagree. Cosmetic bugs have just as much importance as gameplay bugs. It just depends where it goes. The red triangle, for instance, would be better suited on the Spy page since it's not fixed to any weapon. --Focusknock m 14:50, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

The discussion is closed. The overall majority is in favour.

Videos

...are not a necessity for every friggin weapon article. I don't need a video of an Eyelander-wielding demo to know what it is. Can we remove videos unless they're insanely interesting? ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 21:46, 6 November 2010 (UTC)