BattleTechWiki:Project Infantry Weapons

Welcome to the Infantry Weapons WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving BattleTechWiki's coverage of Infantry Weapons. Feel free to join in by adding your name to the group, grabbing an article to complete or weighing in on the discussion.

Goals

• Catalog every Infantry or BattleArmor weapon used in BattleTech, BattleTroops or each of the 4 Role Playing Games And BattleTroops

Classic BattleTech [underway]

MechWarrior First Edition

Battle Troops

Mechwarrior Second Edition

Mechwarrior Third Edition or Classic BattleTech RPG

A Time of War

• Ensure all variants for all infantry weapons are present

Scope

• A little vague right now, but we'll need to discuss the differences between CBT, BTroops, RPG1e, RPG2e, RPG3e (or RPG3e) & RPG4e entries.

Suggested Books

Main Page

• Total Warfare
• Tech Manual
• Tactical Operations
• Strategic Operations

/BTroops

• Battle Troops
• Clan Troops

/RPG 1e

• MechWarrior, First Edition
• Technical Readout: 3026
• BattleTechnology (apocryphal)

/RPG 2e

• MechWarrior, Second Edition,
• MechWarrior Companion
• Chaos March

/RPG 3e

• MechWarrior, Third Edition (or Classic BattleTech RPG)
• LosTech, The MechWarrior Equipment Guide
• Classic BattleTech (RPG) Companion
• Combat Equipment

/RPG4e

• A Time of War

Guidelines

• Cameron developed the current format used for the RPG Weapons from the format used for BattleTech Weapons. The current concept for infantry weapons has that there are five sections:
  • Description : a basic description of the Infantry Portable or BattleMech mounted Weapon
  • Variants : Generic Weapons that lead a category can have variants, Recomend that weapons that have been given their own stats are linked to from this section.
  • 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). If there is a place for a stat in the infobox, do not use it in the description if you can avoid it.
• 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!
• In the variants section, list the whole designation again. For example, if the Auto-Pistol is the primary article, in the variant section, start off each entry with the differenced name Auto-Pistol (Sternsnacht).

Sub-Pages

• The Article for the BattleTech Stats should use the {{InfoBoxWeapon}} side bar as described in Help:CreateWeaponArticle. With {{InfoBoxWeapon}}
• The Transclusion Template [[Template:Name of Infantry Weapon]] should have the descriptive section that will be on each article with <onlyinclude> at the top of the article and </onlyinclude> at the bottomn.
• the Main BattleTech Stats article with transcluded {{Name of Infantry Weapon}} encyclopedic text.
• A sub page for each of the RPGs relevant to the weapons

Format

• Main Page in format Class Name (Proper Name)as in Gauss Rifle, Light (King David) with transcluded text {{Gauss Rifle, Light (King David)}}.
• If there is both a Battle Armor Mounted and Infantry Portable Weapon, then Class Name (Proper Name)(Support Weapon) and Class Name (Proper Name)(Battle Armor)
• Transclusion Page (Description, Models, References & Bibliography) Template:Gauss Rifle, Light (King David) <onlyinclude> at top, </onlyinclude> at bottom.
• Each Role playing game has its own subpage as seen above e.g. Gauss Rifle, Light (King David)/RPG4e with transcluded text {{Gauss Rifle, Light (King David)}}.

Open tasks

• Discuss what categories, outside those limited to Infantry Weapons, should be attached to each infantry weapon article article. (See talk page.)
• Edit for mis-spellings, grammatical and formatting mistakes for current articles.
• Place the Project Infantry Weapon messagebox (see Tags below) on each Infantry Weapon discussion page.

Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Cameron, adding initial entries and cleanup of new entries
2. Doneve, copyeditor.
3. Neuling adding initial entries and make cross addition to infantry units TRO + Field Manual when possible.
4. BobTheZombie: Grammatical editing, adding finishing touches
5. LittleWolf: addition initial entries, minor editing

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. The List of the Core Articles to be written for this project are found on the Infantry_Weapons_and_Equipment_Lists or Battle Armor Weapons and Equipment Lists. When Creating Infantry, Power Armor, or Battle Armor weapon articles using BattleTech Stats, please follow the red link on the Infantry Weapons article. For Consistency purposes, Role Playing Game Stats should go on dedicated subpages.

New Articles Review

See Template:WikiProject Infantry Weapons 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 Infantry Weapons 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:Infantry Weapons 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 BattleTech Weapons
• InfoBoxWeapon template (Main Article - BattleTech Stats)
• Quick Create article for Infantry Weapons
• InfoBoxRPGWeapon template (each of the RPG Suppages)

Tags

• {{WikiProject Infantry Weapons}} (please see the template itself for usage documentation) displays this:

• [[Image:BTW PMInfantry Weapons.jpg]] displays this:

Categories

In order to make the BattleTechWiki as accessible as possible, proper categorization is paramount. Since this is Project Infantry Weapon, one of our tasks will be focusing on categorizing infantry weapons.

• Right Now — categorization that is meant be already underway:
  • Currently, the only 'required' categories are:
    • Category:Infantry Weapons, All Infantry Portable Weapons should be in this category upon article creation.
    • Category:Battle Armor Weapons, All Power Armor or Battle Armor mounted Infantry Weapons should be in this 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 Infantry Weapons into the more specific aspects (such as classes, weights, etc.) is currently on the back burner; but feel free to at populate the class (e.g., Category:Support Weapons) and Crew Requirements (e.g., Light Support Weapons, Portable Support Weapons, Semi-Portable Support Weapons, Heavy Support Weapons) categories if you have the time. Remember to further complicate things there is the Light Weapons for infantry bladed weapons, staves, bows, pistols and rifles and Medium Weapons for all three classes of Support Weapons as well as Category:BattleArmor Mounted Weapons. The Third type Heavy Weapons, is a re-issue of the class for Vehicle Mounted Weapons.

Note

'Official' categories you can add 'Infantry Weapons' to may be found at the Project Infantry Weapons Portal.

Resources

Related projects

• Project Infantry Units