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Sounds great! Right now, my focus is on starfighters, ships, and bases. Those are all in the Ships Images category. Let me know if there's anymore I can do. I'm categorizing every new image I upload now.


-Aeronautico
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Got your last message, Dund. Thanks a lot for the heads-up. That will be a big help to me.
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-Aeronautico
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I'm so sorry, Dund, I actually didn't check to see who wrote it. You normally have better stuff than that, so I didn't think it was you. I thought also that you prefer to use the discussion pages for drafts, etc. I don't think it's a good idea to submit half-finished articles on the main article page. - Wedge
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My intention when signing up was to just proof-read articles and make minor corrections for spelling, grammar, tenses and general presentation. That has not changed. I think I already spent far too much time reviewing those numerous articles yesterday and I feel I really need to cut back. It was never my intention to write new articles or rewrite large chunks of current ones - I leave that job to those who know what they are doing.
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ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:2634


I want to do what I can to help, but I fear I am already starting to get more involved than I can afford (in terms of time spent on this). So I need to cut back now before I get too 'sucked into it'.
# there is no automatic collision detection,
# so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap


I hope this does not upset you too much. - Wedge
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As requested, some things that I have noticed in articles repeatedly:
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* Articles should be written in a neutral tone. Yes, we are writing from the perspective of a Confederation historian, but I think words like 'fortunately' and 'unfortunately' should be avoided - there should not be any bias towards one faction over another.
  from:2634 till:2634 shift:($dx,5)  text:[[McAuliffe Ambush]]
  from:2654  till:2654 shift:($dx,5)    text:[[Wing Commander 1]]
  from:2655  till:2655 shift:($dx,5)    text:[[Secret Missions 1]]
  from:2656  till:2658 shift:($dx,5)    text:Leonid~[[Brezhnev]]
  from:2660  till:2664 shift:($dx,5)  text:Yuri~[[Andropov]]
  from:2665  till:2667 shift:($dx,5)    text:Konstantin~[[Chernenko]]
  from:2668  till:2669  shift:($dx,5)  text:Mikhail~[[Gorbachev]]
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* Do not assume that ships only exist within the era we see them in a game. Certain ship types also make appearances in novels and the Academy TV series, avoid saying things like ship X was phased out in favour of ship Y, or that a particular ship was only introduced in 2681 because we only see them from Secret Ops without supporting evidence from the literature.


* Avoid using the term 'Confed'. The abbreviation is fine in speech and informal writing, but to maintain a formal tone, the Terran Confederation should not be abbreviated to anything shorter than 'the Confederation'.
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BLAH BLAH BLAH
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* Avoid just using the term 'war-time', specify what war you are referring to even if it seems obvious. We have the Kilrathi War, the Nephilim War, plus several other wars besides.


* If we don't know anything about a ship for a particular part of its history, don't say anything about it. Stick to writing about things we do know and avoid trying to 'fill in the gaps' even if what you are writing is logical from what we currently know. Future games can change many things, as what happened with Arena and Star*Soldier.
Hello, Dundradal. Yup, trying to get back into the game a bit. I got your message, when's the next Wingnut meeting? I'll try my best to be there if I can make the time. I can see most of the most recent updates are from Privateer 2 and whatnot; I'm afraid I won't be much good to you guys in that department, I never did play Privateer. But if there's anything else major in the works, I'm wide open to lend a hand if I can.


These are just what I can think of for now. - Wedge
-Aeronautico
 
Thanks for the welcome. If I have an problems and questions, shall I ask you? --[[User:FekLeyrTarg|FekLeyrTarg]] 20:30, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 
Will do.--[[User:FekLeyrTarg|FekLeyrTarg]] 20:55, 24 May 2010 (UTC)


OK, will do. I will check your pages and see if mine need revision. I did feel a small need to double-check them for details. Moving out, double time! (Had to say it ^^) -Aeronautico
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Sorry about the mess today. In for a penny, in for a pound, as the old saying goes. When I start something, I like to be thorough and do everything that I can to make things consistent. I hope you approve of the moves/changes. - Wedge
Tuesday, May 01, 2012


Okay. So I may have gone a little overboard, once I discovered how easy it is to play around with images. For your benefit, I thought I'd summarise what I'd wasted (spent?) my time on the past couple of days:
OK, I've posted two pages in battles but I don't think I did it right as the content is not showing up under the battles Subcategories page, what am I doing wrong? "cheers in advance"
Magnus :)


* Uploaded a better image of Maniac in Prophecy, plus a nice render of WC4's Banshee.
== Ships ==
* The point I'm most pleased about: I uploaded a Confederation flag matching the one in Star*Soldier.
* Replaced the lossy JPEGs of WC1 fighters with lossless PNGs.
* Replaced some of the zoomed, dithered WC1 images with clean originals.
* Hunted down as many duplicates as I could and flagged them in their respective discussion pages.


Phew. I've had enough now, I think I'll go back to passive monitoring of updates. - Wedge
I believe the page to which you were referring regarding the novel/manual texts is the Hornet page (of course, the example page) http://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/F-36_Hornet - Iceblade

Latest revision as of 17:53, 26 July 2012

Timeline using year/no month/no day

<toggledisplay> BLAH BLAH BLAH </toggledisplay> Hello, Dundradal. Yup, trying to get back into the game a bit. I got your message, when's the next Wingnut meeting? I'll try my best to be there if I can make the time. I can see most of the most recent updates are from Privateer 2 and whatnot; I'm afraid I won't be much good to you guys in that department, I never did play Privateer. But if there's anything else major in the works, I'm wide open to lend a hand if I can. -Aeronautico

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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

OK, I've posted two pages in battles but I don't think I did it right as the content is not showing up under the battles Subcategories page, what am I doing wrong? "cheers in advance" Magnus :)

Ships

I believe the page to which you were referring regarding the novel/manual texts is the Hornet page (of course, the example page) http://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/F-36_Hornet - Iceblade

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  id:gray value:gray(0.6)

BackgroundColors = canvas:gray

DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:2634 till:2669 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:2634

  1. there is no automatic collision detection,
  2. so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar

PlotData= 

 bar:Leaders color:red width:25 textcolor:white mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S

 from:2634 till:2634 shift:($dx,5)   text:McAuliffe Ambush
 from:2654  till:2654 shift:($dx,5)    text:Wing Commander 1
 from:2655  till:2655 shift:($dx,5)    text:Secret Missions 1
 from:2656  till:2658 shift:($dx,5)    text:Leonid~Brezhnev
 from:2660  till:2664 shift:($dx,5)  text:Yuri~Andropov
 from:2665  till:2667 shift:($dx,5)    text:Konstantin~Chernenko 
 from:2668  till:2669  shift:($dx,5)   text:Mikhail~Gorbachev

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