User talk:When Bagpipes Sound

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-- New user message (talk) 20:00, 29 June 2024 (EDT)

Sniper Artillery Cannon

Hi there, I'm curious why you moved the page for the Sniper? The official canon name is with "Artillery" in the name, as can be seen in Tactical Operations. --Csdavis715 (talk) 00:14, 6 July 2024 (EDT)

So I was trying to unify formatting. There were some pages linking to Sniper Artillery Cannon and others linking to Sniper Cannon. I have no preference as to which we use, though if the canon name includes "artillery" we should use that. I first noticed the issue with Long Tom Cannon. These inconsistences are all throughout the wiki on both pages and in mech/vehicle sidebars. I am more than happy to start going through and converting everything to Sniper Artillery Cannon, Thumper Artillery Cannon, and Long Tom Artillery Cannon --When Bagpipes Sound (talk) 18:38, 6 July 2024 (EDT)

I have done so for Sniper cannon everything has been converted to link to Sniper Artillery Cannon and that page has been restored with sniper cannon redirecting. About to do the same for the other two. --When Bagpipes Sound (talk) 18:56, 6 July 2024 (EDT)

I took care of thumper and sniper, waiting for confirmation that the official name for Long Tom Artillery Cannon includes "artillery" as well before adjusting that one. My copy of tactical operations won't be here until my kickstarter is.--When Bagpipes Sound (talk) 02:39, 7 July 2024 (EDT)

I appreciate the help with formatting things in a consistent manner. As you figured out, Thumper was the page needing to be moved rather than Sniper. Sarna is a community wiki that has been growing for the better part of two decades, so there's bound to be some irregularities. Formatting standards and policies have been improving over the years and it takes time to update everything that was created before it. Article naming takes a little time to figure out. If there was just one item in all of BattleTech called "Thumper," then that could be the page title, but since there are multiple (albeit related) articles, we need to differentiate it either with parentheticals such "Thumper (Combat Vehicle)" or the full canon name such as "Thumper Artillery Cannon." At first glance, the various Long Tom pages look like they will be organized almost exactly the same way as Thumper, including setting up a disambiguation page for it. Let me know if I can assist. --Csdavis715 (talk) 00:00, 7 July 2024 (EDT)