BattleTechWiki:Project Clans

Welcome to BattleTechWiki:Project Clans. Several users have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving BattleTechWiki's coverage of the Clans to include such things as their Way of Life, Rites, Customs, Organization, and other such articles. Additionally we look at how the organization of information and articles on this topic should be standardized. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and various resources to these ends; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other editors interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the discussion page, and see the to-do list, below.

Featured content

• Clans
• List of Bloodnames

Goals

The goals of this project is to improve dedicated to improving BattleTechWiki's coverage of the Clans to include such things as their Way of Life, Rites, Customs, Organization, and other such articles.

To that end, with the upcoming release of the IlClan Era it makes it a wise choice to begin a major update and standard for all of the Clans not only still active, but those lost along the way.

The many editors over the years have done an awesome job of making sure the entries of the militaries or Toumans of the Clans have been kept up-to-date however the culture entries seems to either lack fullness, are in dire need of a clean up, or in some cases are grossly out of date.

Scope

THe scope of this project is broad so we will be coming out with different focus points as we see how much content there is to edit. As we are dealing with such a big part of Battletech it will take time to make sure our references are correct. However also the Clans had many personalities that were involved with the fiction that we need to make sure are also referenced correctly as they may have references already on the wiki yet not marked.

Editing advice

• The issues you will find the most notable is either the grossly out of date articles or articles missing complete areas of history. This is mostly due to some of the resources coming out in the last few years, as well as the crowd of players that believes nothing is happening after 3067. Popular ones are:

• Historical:_Operation_Klondike
• The Wars of Reaving
• Era Report: 3145
• Field Manual: 3085
• Field Manual: 3145
• Shattered Fortress
• BattleTech: Battle of Tukayyid

• For editing of the Clan articles themselves please remember that you are giving brief summarized paragraphs. As you will be than linking to the full article as a "see also"

• A Clan's main article page should be like this:

• History - Brief overview with the Main article link to the Clan's history Article.
• Culture - Overview of the Clan's way of Life.
• Military - Brief and Main article link to the Clan's Touman page.
• Bloodnames - Main article link to the List of Bloodnames page.
• Inter-Clan Relations - Brief Overview
• Leaders - Khan, saKhan, Loremaster are all links to their respective articles.
• Era Specific Data - At this time I don't know if this really should still be included as it's not really of value to really anyone but let use know in the talk page.

Resources

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This article is within the scope of the Project Clans, a collaborative effort to improve BattleTechWiki's coverage of Clans. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

Pages

• Glossary of Clan Terms
• Trial (Clan)

Sources

• To be done

Open tasks

Discussion Points

• Clans becoming something else page policy

Smaller Items

• Link the Bloodnames to their individual pages and/or create them if need

• Category the Bloodnames to the Clans that hold them, no matter how they hold them. (How should this work for the shared ones though post Wars of Reaving...)

Medium Items

• Scour the Wiki for all the Clan Warriors of each Bloodname and add them to their individual pages

Bigger Items

• List of Bloodnames

• Particularly those absorbed, annihilated or abjured Clans indicate just how dead (or not) their Bloodnames are.
• Finish any remaining tables, fix any linking issues and find refs for the narratives.
• Take out the little bit of narratives on the individual bloodnames in the sections parts and put them in those individual pages.
• Use the Special:Concepts to assist users to understand what they are looking at

• History of the Clans

• find and include more refs
• Flesh out more

Participants

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

• Deadfire (talk) (Currently Working on the Bloodname tables) 14:58, 8 January 2021 (EST)
• Lethewaters25 (talk) (I am interested in working on Historical References and Bloodnames)

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• BattleTechWiki:Project Biographies
• BattleTechWiki:Project Factions