User talk:Pserratv
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Welcome
-- New user message (talk) 07:54, 8 June 2016 (PDT)
Personal Welcome
Thanks for joining! You're right, the spanish edition BT is mostly unknown territory here on Sarna. Heck, German was the biggest translated edition and I haven't come round to giving it a good coverage here yet.
Going by the differences in the German edition, a few questions:
- Which novels were translated?
- Did they change product content in Spain like they did in Germany? Like, changing short stories, art, "kitbashing" stuff from several sourcebooks together into a new one, or even add content such as new 'Mech variants?
Frabby (talk) 08:54, 27 November 2017 (EST)
- I hope I answer correctly:
- Which novels were translated? --> When I started only the basic ones (the two trilogies), though they expanded. Now we have all these:
- http://www.tercerafundacion.net/biblioteca/ver/coleccion/56
- Did they change product content in Spain like they did in Germany? Like, changing short stories, art, "kitbashing" stuff from several sourcebooks together into a new one, or even add content such as new 'Mech variants? --> There was nothing changed in spanish in terms of mech names, but in terms of weapon names, all were changed, this included the recordsheed themselves.
pserratv (talk) 17:10, 27 November 2017 (EST)
Magazines
Very happy to see your magazine articles - this is good info, so thank you! I've put them on my to-do list for tidying up, but they arent't too bad. I've been toying with the idea to create a "BattleTech articles in magazines" article and if and when that happens I may fold those articles into the summary article. But that's a long time in the future, if ever.
As for articles on individual 'Mechs, I don't think they are notable enough because none of those magazines had any official sanction. So they are fully non-canonical (as in, their content was never a "BattleTech" publication but instead a tie-in). As such, the 'Mechs and scenarios featured therein are non-canon and not apocryphal. Frabby (talk) 09:23, 29 November 2017 (EST)
TCI Model Kits
If you're interested in more detail about those model kits, drop me a mail to frabbybc /at/ googlemail.com. ;) Frabby (talk) 17:58, 8 December 2017 (EST)
MY LIST OF WIKI PROJECTS
SPANISH MAGAZINES
I'm trying to add all Spanish magazines to our wiki. At this moment I've added all the ones I do know about, though they need some adjustments like covers and similar.
Sir Roger --> Pending some additions
Lider --> Pending some additions
Guia del Juego de Rol Battletech --> Pending some additions
Dos de Diez --> Pending some additions
GLOBAL MAGAZINES
Here I'm trying to add magazines on other markets that I do find and that do not yet exist in the wiki
Mecha Press --> Pending some rework
SPANISH SUPPLEMENTS
Here I'm trying to add all the Battletech products that were translated to Spanish.
List of BattleTech products in spanish --> Pending addition on covers and as much additional information I can add
SPANISH NOVELS
Here I want to add all the Battletech novels translated to Spanish. Work is on-going recovering all this information
MISCELLANEOUS
I do have a few pet projects with ideas to develop, like missing units, missing personalities...
My first addition:
==> This is a pack on Scott Bradley history, a minor player in the 4rth Succession War that nevertheless I do like a lot :)
Reinventing the wheel
Pserratv, whilst I appreciate the enthusiasm and we encourage people to be bold, you do not need to reinvent the wheel! If you find yourself writing an article have a look at other articles and see how they handle things (like multiple planets in a system or brigade level commands), a lot of these things have been talked out and done in a very specific way for a reason. There are still gaps in the wiki but a lot of things have also already been done.
I refer you to project BattleTechWiki:Project Military Commands and BattleTechWiki:Project Planets, BattleTechWiki talk:Planet Article Overhaul where a lot of these things where standardized, these might help. Keep up the good work and feel free to ask if you want help with anything.--Dmon (talk) 10:17, 30 December 2017 (EST)
- I fully understand your comments, but I would like to explain myself better.
First, on the Mica planets, I saw the Mica Majority entre, and there I saw: Planetary Data
Colonized Planets: Mica II, V, VII Star Type: K3V Positions in System: 2, 5, 7 Time to Jump Point: 4.3, 4.6, 5.1 days Recharging Station: Zenith HPG Class Type: B
Where there was no link to Mica II because the entry did not exist. Only Mica I, V and VII. So I decided to copy & paste Mica I as Mica II to amend this. Indeed the existing planet is Mica II. Then I amended the links between them. Maybe the correct way of doing was having a single article for the 3 Mican planets (as they are in the same system). If that is the issue sorry for doing just a partial amendmend.
On mercenary commands, I was copying Wolf Dragoons format. Let me explain: if you look in any of the Mercenary Handboods/Readouts units are named by their big name: Kell Hounds, Wolf Dragoons, Khorsakiv's Kossacs, Lindon's Battalion... The last one has a "single unit" so everything is in a single article. The other ones have several regiments and they list the global information and then the regiments one by one. It makes sense to have a placeholder article with the global information and then articles on each regiment, which has already been done. So what I think and I did already explain is that in the mercenary list we have to link only let's say the parent unit, not the subcommands. While doing my first test I saw that in Wolf's Dragoons there was a subcategory to easily list the subcommands and I though... let's copy it. If the general idea is to keep this only for iconic units... we need a "list" of iconic units. But I still think that the list of mercenary commands should only link the global units.