BattleTechWiki:Project Ground Units
Welcome to the Ground Units WikiProject. This is a group dedicated to improving BattleTechWiki's coverage of ground units. Feel free to join in by adding your name to the group, grabbing an article to complete or weighing in on the discussion.
- Goals
- Catalogue every ground unit used in BattleTech that is not a BattleMech
- Classic BattleTech [underway]
- MechWarrior: Dark Age [awaiting action]
- Computer/Video Game Systems [awaiting action]
- Categorize the ground units:
- Tech Base (Inner Sphere, Clan) [awaiting action]
- Battle Values (ranges of 500 each) [awaiting action]
- Mass (by Weight Categories) [stalled]
- Scope
- Create and maintain all articles on combat vehicles, support vehicles, battle armor, ProtoMechs.
Contents
News
- 28 January 2008 (Scaletail)
- Project:Ground Units is created
Guidelines
- CJKeys developed the current format used for BattleMechs. This has been adapted for every other unit type. The current concept for units has that there are five sections:
- Description : a basic description of the unit
- Armament : what does it carry and some notes on the same; not to be a simple list, but a narrative
- Variants : list each type of variant seen, and if not from CBT, indicate so, in italics.
- References : links to the books or other source material used in any way to contribute to the article
- Infobox : created with pre-established fields that need to be filled in with the relevant info
- One thing to consider is that the articles tend towards to an in-character (IC) role, though there are some obvious out-of-character (OOC) bits included (ex: BV). In the text, if going OOC, use italics.
- Link everything, at least once. If the term is Star League, link to it. If House Marik is referenced in the text, link to it. Link to other unit types, like DropShips. If the same term is used a lot, especially in the same paragraph, feel free to link only once. But link, even if the linked article does not yet exist: it will someday!
- Bold the first instance of the name, as with all articles.
- In the variants section, list the variant name as appropriate. For example: There is a variant of the Gabriel field by the Taurian Defense Force entitled "TDF."
- TDF - The variant entry looks like this...
Open tasks
- Edit for mis-spellings, grammatical and formatting mistakes for current articles.
- Place the Project Ground Units messagebox (see Tags below) on each article's discussion page.
Members
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
- Scaletail: adding entries, basic cleanup, not copying things directly from sourcebooks
Articles
Collaboration and review
Note: Editors, please remove the article from the list once you have weighed in. Please add new articles to the list from the bottom.
- New Articles Needed
- Please add articles that need to be written.
- Kage
- Purifier
- Void
- Hauberk
- Raiden
- Gnome
- Infiltrator
- Infiltrator Mk. II
- Sloth
- Sylph
- Fenrir
- Longinus
- Clan Battle Armor
- Fa Shih
- New Articles Review
- See Template:WikiProject Ground Units for instructions on how to both flag new articles for review, and flag that you have reviewed them.
- If you wish to review new articles, a listing may be found in the New articles needing to be reviewed tracking category.
- Peer Review
- See Template:WikiProject Ground Units for instructions on how to both flag articles for peer review, and flag that you have reviewed them.
- If you wish to peer review articles, a listing may be found in the Articles needing to be peer reviewed tracking category.
- Team Assessment
- Add an article that you would like to see graded by a Project:Ground Units team member [grading system yet to be introduced].
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Featured Articles
Previously Featured
- None yet.
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Candidates
- Also none yet, but we definitely could use some candidates here.
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Templates
- Quick Create article for Battle Armor
- InfoBoxBattleArmor template
- Quick Create article for Combat Vehicles
- InfoBoxCombatVehicle template
Tags
- {{WikiProject Ground Units}} (please see the template itself for usage documentation) displays this:
Categories
In order to make the BattleTechWiki as accessible as possible, proper categorization is paramount. Since this is Project Ground Units, one of our tasks will be focusing on categorizing ground units.
- Right Now — categorization that is meant be already underway:
- Currently, the only 'required' category is Category:Combat Vehicles, Category:Battle Armor, or Category:ProtoMechs; as appropriate. All such units should be in the appropriate category upon article creation.
- On the Back Burner — categorization that is slated to begin when the previous task is, at a minimum, near-complete:
- Categorizing units into the more specific aspects (such as classes, weights, battle value, etc.) is currently on the back burner; but feel free to at populate the class (e.g., Category:Light Combat Vehicles) and tonnage (e.g., Category:3 ton ProtoMechs) categories if you have the time.