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.
Periphery Mercenary units
I'm trying to build articles on the minor periphery mercenary units like Cavanaugh's Cavalry (already done) and then then Arms of Thor, the Larsen's Loners (the one I'm working in now), the Nelson's Longbows and for sure other minor ones that I'll find