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 and then then Arms of Thor, the Larsen's Loners, the Nelson's Longbows and for sure other minor ones that I'll find.
Project Battles standarization
I want to amend all Battles and align them. There are a lot, so I'll try to list them all here (feel free to add) and then go for the Operations (which are bigger battles and something similar has to be done).
Battle:*
Battle of WolcottBattle of CholameBattle of Northwind (Fourth Succession War)- Operation Broken Blade
- Deep Raid of 2987
- Battle of Tukayyid
- Battle of Luthien (Clan Invasion)
- Battle of Radstadt
- Operation Odysseus
- Battle of Mars
- Operation LIBERATION
- Operation KOBALD
- Malagrotta Affair
- Battle of Epsilon Indi
- Operation VIJAY
- Case White (event)
- Battle of Luthien (Jihad)
- Promised Land Assault
- Novaya Zemlya Incident
- Naval Battle over Oriente
- Federated Suns-Chesterton Trade League Conflict
- Capella Prime Massacre
- Battle of Beckvern Hill
Operations: [more than one planet]
- Operations Ambush and Riposte
- Operation Götterdämmerung
- Operation RAT
- Chain Gang Missions
- Minnesota Tribe
- Operation Concentrated Weakness
- Operation Freedom
- Fourth Succession War
- Operation BIRD DOG
- Operation BULLDOG
- Burrock Absorption
- Operation Guerrero
- Jade Falcon Incursion (3058)
- Jade Falcon Incursion (3064)
- Operation Scorpion
- Task Force Serpent
- Red Corsair
- Clan Invasion
- Invasion corridor - Clan Ghost Bear
- Invasion corridor - Clan Jade Falcon
- Invasion corridor - Clan Nova Cat
- Invasion corridor - Clan Smoke Jaguar
- Invasion corridor - Clan Steel Viper
- Invasion corridor - Clan Wolf
- Wars of Possession
- Hidden Wars
- First Hidden War
- Second Hidden War
- Third Hidden War
- Republic-Commonwealth War
- Reunification War
- Operation CHIEFTAIN
- New Vandenberg Uprising
- Operation EXODUS
- Case Black
- Case Amber
- Amaris Civil War
- Wars of Reaving (event)
- Operation THUNDERSTRIKE
- Operation STEEL HAMMER
- Operation SOVEREIGN JUSTICE
- Operation SCOUR
- Operation MATADOR
- Operation ICE STORM
- Operation BROKEN FIST
- Victoria War
- Operation Homecoming
- Operation Hammerfall
- Operation Golden Dawn
- Fortress Republic
- Clan Wolf Invasion of the Republic (3137)
- Operation BATU
- St. Johns Assault
- Rim War
- Principality of Rasalhague Invasion
- Long March Offensive
- LC/FWL Border War
- Geralk Marik's Lyran Campaigns
- DC-FoS Border Dispute
- Capellan Border Occupation
- Campaigns of Persuasion
- Ariana's War
- 1st Draconis Combine - Lyran Commonwealth War (2407)
Non-Canonical
- Operation Damocles