Talk:Wiki Improvements/@comment-5395153-20121017221340

Harmata, the above is a forum post, not a set of guidelines. As such, I will move your post here:

Harmata's Guidelines

These guidelines should resolve style and organization issues and provide basic framework for the new users. Feel free to comment and expand, and most importantly, bring all the problems to public attention, so that we could resolve them together. --Harmata
 * Every description of a race should start with the race's overview, that will contain general information about the race. Right now every race description page starts with lists of units or buildings, and the actual description (“The Race” chapter) is at the bottom of the page. This is not right, because when person opens a race description page he expects to see an overview at first, not details like units. Another problem is that since not all lists are finished or contain pictures, they look unfinished and give bad impression. The Race chapters are mostly written very well. The race's lore should be used everywhere to create more colorful description, not simply in one chapter. Direct quotes from the game or manual should be in separate chapter titled Quotes.
 * Please do not use phrases like the “best race/the best unit” since they are very subjective. Just describe strong and weak points of the race or unit, and then let the reader decide where and how he should use them to succeed. WBC never was a competitive cybersport discipline (thank God), and we all know that you can beat campaign with any and every race, class and race/class combination. Besides, such phrasing leaves an impression that game lacks balance and might provoke questions like “Why is it the best race really?”.
 * When uploading the pictures use the transparent background. This will allow seamless transition if the wiki’s background color will be changed. Pictures with black background will require a new version with transparent background.
 * When referring to unofficial patch write its name like this: 1.03.24. This will allow better readability and will match the style in the patchinfo.txt from the game’s folder.
 * Write the Race's name with capital letter.
 * At some point we should consider moving lists of units to separate pages, or even making a page for every unit, like in CnC wiki for example.