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Revision as of 08:48, 19 March 2022
Welcome to Project Orphanage.
The MediaWiki software on which Sarna operates automatically generates a daily report (Special:LonelyPages) listing all the pages that have no other pages linking to them, i.e. "orphans". (The report's cache is limited to the first thousand entries.) In an ideal Wiki, every page will have a "home" somewhere, and you should be able to find any article—eventually—by starting at the home page and following the links.
- The goal of Project Orphanage is to find "homes" for as many "orphans" as realistically possible.
Contents
How to Join
Just add your UserPage and what sorts of things you want to focus on here!
- Talvin: Keeping the cache down to a manageable level so it doesn't overflow again, project leader.
- BobTheZombie: "Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die." (Wherever I'm needed!)
What to Do
Adopt an Orphan! Even just one page that is "homed", or added as a link to another page, is a big help. Try to avoid "bubbles", little sections of the Wiki that just link to each other. How can someone clicking around through the Wiki find that page? Categories aren't always the best way.
If you have a particular area of interest, check out the related Official Projects below!
If you have have any issues, questions, concerns, etc., to discuss, please ask on this project's Talk page (also found on the Discussion tab above this page) or on in the "Wiki" category of channels on Sarna's Discord server (also accessible on the sidebar to the left).
Welcome aboard!
Intersections with Other Projects
Almost every Official Project is represented among the "Orphans", and when dealing with those areas, the work of those projects should be respected. To make it easier to find orphans of interest, they are arranged by related Project below.
Project Characters
- See Also: Project: Characters
Due to the evolving nature of the BattleTech Universe, there are no minor characters. A character that got one line in a sourcebook may be picked up by an author and turned into the protagonist or antagonist of a short story or novel later on. That said, there are a lot of orphan articles about characters that got just one-line mentions. Many of these have been put in "roster" pages to keep them out of the Orphaned Pages.
We also have a page for Noble Houses, their members, and affiliated titles. User:Dmon has a personal project related to this as well.
Project GameRules, Project Infantry Weapons, and Project Technology
See Also:
All of the orphans related to those projects are kept in one place:
As of 20 February 2022: Keep in mind that the GameRules Project is likely to be making significant changes to some of these pages soon.
Project Military Commands
- See Also: Project: Military Commands
General Staff Officers
These need to be attached to their relevant commands. Some of those pages need to be either created or possibly split up into multiple articles.
Federated Commonwealth
Federated Suns
- Cameron Fenlon
- Charles Shelton
- Delbert Yates
- Felix Thornton
- James Collins
- Matthew Davion (32nd c.)
- Melaine Davion
- Michelle Edwards
- Oliver Romera
- Pedro Davidson
- Ralph Stanley
- Reinhart Vossler
- Sasha Gorge
- Shawn Cox
- Sheila McGuire
- Sidney Zweibel
- Tanya Sanromea-Davion
- Timons Davion
- Winston Holt
Lyran
- Almida Zec
- Angela Kouranth
- Chris Kidd
- Galina Yodkovsaya
- Gustav Ramier
- Iris DuBois
- Kassie Bradford
- Klaus Essen
- Martha Steiner
- Michael Hastings
- Michiko Tomasov
- Narhwaz Pavletic
- Nathan Steiner-Armstrong
- Stefan Holstein
- Ytzak Arran
Project Planets and Project Systems
See Also:
Miscellaneous
These don't really fit neatly under any of the projects above.
Fiction
There is published BattleTech fiction that is not linked from elsewhere in the Wiki.
Food and Drink
Man does not live on coolant fluid alone.
- Chava
- Crogh
- Cromarty Black
- Glen Rhanna
- Glengarry Reserve
- Glengarry Rosé
- Li Lung (beverage)
- Loeches Reserve
- Naranji
- Pajarito Smooth Agave
- Schamig Light
- Tharkad Nichtlager
- Tilman River Cask Finish
- Timbiqui Light
- Tyrone Rain
- Yangtze Pale Ale
Deandra Lowe's Rides
The Orphans list contains many of the ships that Deandra Lowe used in her travels. The entire list known (not just the orphans) is parked here in hopes we can figure out what to do with that: Tamarack, Discipline, Alacrity (Individual JumpShip), Heart of The Republic, Esther Maize, Regal (Individual JumpShip), Mercury (Individual DropShip), Star of Kerensky, Hollyberry, Periphery Express XI, Murphid's Law, Tradition, Manifest Destiny (Individual JumpShip), Luxor (Individual JumpShip), Solar Dart, Star Dart, Galaxy's Gates, Mercury (Individual JumpShip), Swift (Individual JumpShip), Gemini Gleam
Battles
A number of these have been homed. The ones that remain will likely require someone with access to the sources to sort things out, due to limited and/or conflicting data available.
- Battle of New Aragon (3134)
- Battle of Pajarito (3095)
- Battle of Redfield (3013)
- Battle of Regulus (3147)
- Battle of Thestria (3139)
- Battle of Trolloc Prime (2785)
- Battle of Tsamma (3003)
- Battle of Tsanna (2997)
- Battle of Van Diemen (2903)
- Battle of Wapakoneta (3139)
- Battle of Wei (3001)
- Battle of Wing (2994)
- Battle of Wyatt (2992)
- Battle of Xieng Khouang (2970)
- Wolf's Dragoons battles This is *effectively* an orphan, it only is linked from User Talk pages. There seems to be a strong consensus that it should be mined for data to put on other pages and then deleted.
Video Game Elements
All of these are connected to one of the video games, and thus Apocryphal:
Not Up For Adoption
Anything here is either being handled by someone else, or is otherwise to be left alone (like unreleased products, moratorium, etc.)
Moratorium/Unreleased
- BattleTech Universe (Sourcebook)
- Brush Wars: Burrock Absorption
- Dominions Divided
- MechCommander’s Handbook
- Spotlight On: Payne’s Raiders
- Spotlight On: Snord’s Irregulars
Someone Specific Handling
Senior Editor Cache is overseeing these.
- Battle of Luthien Gallery
- Battle of Tukayyid Gallery
- Battle of Twycross Gallery
- Camo Specs Gallery
- CCAF - Uniforms
- DCMS - Uniforms
- Day of Heroes Gallery
- Gallery - Fourth Succession War Maps
- Operation Flashpoint Gallery
- The Falcon and the Wolf Gallery
- Uniforms of the FWLM
Tagged for Deletion or Merging
No point in finding them a home. They are parked here to keep them out of the Orphans.
- BattleTech (Technology)
- Black Dragon (group)
- Clan Fast Recon
- ComStar/Timeline
- ComTech (Technology)
- Daggerstar Keychain
- Facing After A Fall
- Free Worlds League/Timeline
- Independent Commands - AFFS
- Industrial 'Mechs Timetable
- IndustryTech (Technology)
- Infantry Weapons List
- Lyran Commonwealth/Timeline
- Machine Gun, Support (Support Weapon)/RPG3e
- Magistracy of Canopus Assets
- Military District (Free Worlds League)
- Operation CHIEFTAN
- Raima's Mercenary Company, Ind.
- Rimward Veterans' Militia
- TransporTech (Technology)
Technical Pages
These pages are showing up in the Orphans, but they are not articles. Instead, they are part of the code that make portions of the Wiki work. Parking them here to note that they are not for most folk to mess with.
- (2 March 2022: Linking these here does not remove them from the Orphan Cache.)
- Module:LuaTest (Shows as deleted AND in the Orphans, this is likely a bug.)
- Property:Extinction Year
- Property:Production Year
- Property:Reintroduction Year