Talk:Mods

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Standardizing the list

Here's a couple issues with this article that I think we should try and achieve an agreement upon:

1. Items order:

Currently seems to be the date it was added to the wiki.

One of the two folloing would be best (please VOTE! (by replying to this discussion)):

A- Alphabetical

B- Date of RELEASE

2. Item "description"

Currently, there is no standard - each individual person adding a faction, just does as he/she pleases.

My suggestion (please VOTE (yes / no / other) and comment)) is to include these itmes in the following order in one single line (I'll break it up for the discussion):

(* = mandatory data, + = desired, ~ = optional)

• Faction/Techtree/Mod TITLE (NO LINK TO DOWNLOAD!, discussion, nor listing-site! (see bellow) Link to faction/techtree/mod's dedicated webpage by the author, if such page exists, alright.);

• RELEASE NUMBER OR NAME, if available. Mandatory if there have been more than one releases of the project;

+ TYPE - either "faction" (one faction to be added to Magitech or any other techtree), "techtree" (including two or more factions in the same techtree) or "mod" (adds something more than factions and techtree - e.g. Labyrinth mod or SST:LD - (NO link!);[1]

• /+ "released DATE RELEASED", mandatory info if list ordered by release date, desired otherwise;

+ "by AUTHOR(S)" (link(s) to Wikia/Forum profile or personal webpage/blog also desired);

+ "(original author: ORIGINAL AUTHOR)" - Mandatory if different from the referred release author;

• "DOWNLOAD" link;

+ "FORUM DISCUSSION" link - Mandatory if it exists. Should link to the most recent corresponding topic, if several exist;

- Other site link (e.g. ModDB, ...), the link name is the site's name, whereas the link itself would naturally point the the mod's page in that site;

- Short comment

Example:

Dwarves Gimli, released 2009.08.23 by wciow : Download : Forum discussion

Notes: [1] Alternatively, we could just build those three categories and list each item under its corresponding type category.

--188.80.214.170 19:08, December 3, 2009 (UTC)