BattleTechWiki:Project Unfinished Book

Welcome to the Unfinished Book WikiProject. The purpose of this project is to fully incorporate the contents of FASA/FanPro/CGL titles into BattleTechWiki, through multiple-Editor collaboration and coordination.

Scope

The Unfinished Book WikiProject (UBWP) intends to choose one book from the extensive 25-year library of the BattleTech gaming universe and divide the contents of the book into manageable sections for the inclusion into BattleTechWiki, through the efforts of individual Editors. Once one book is considered fully incorporated into BTW, it will be marked as 'complete' and the project will then move onto another title.

For example, if the book FedCom Civil War was the focus of the Unfinished Book WikiProject, the project would have progressively smaller sections assigned to volunteer Editors, who would work exclusively (in regards to the Project) on that section, incorporating each fact (people, events, dates, names, etc.) into the appropriate articles, until it was completed.

Example Sections:

Countdown to War (completed)

Pre-Flashpoint Battles (in progress)

Nashuar (completed)

Skye (Member A)

Ko (Member B)

Imbros III & Yorii (Member C)

Solaris VII (Member D)

Robinson (Member E)

Markab & Dobeval II (unassigned)

War Within the Federated Suns (unstarted)

War Within the Lyran Alliance (unstarted)

Inspiration

The project is named after the Unfinished Book Movement (UBM), a continuous project from within the Federated Inter-Faith Congress, a Federated Suns council of religious leaders comprised of that state's various faiths. The comparison between the two projects comes from the desire to document all that is known from a library of tomes, as compiled by a disparate group of scholars from all walks of life, interests and philosophies (i.e., the editing staff of BattleTechWiki). Whereas the members of the UBM seek to bring peace to the Inner Sphere through the promulgation of all known spiritual wisdom, the members of UBWP seek to bring knowledge of the BattleTech universe to all of its fans, including themselves.

Goals

• To document each fact presented in (the current title of focus),
• To create new & relevant articles,
• To expand and update existing articles,
• To incorporate each fact into BattleTechWiki in a method in sync with the policies of the site,
• To enlarge the database of knowledge of BattleTechWiki with canon facts from the BattleTech universe,

and in the process, help to define and refine the policies of the site that help guide article creation and expansion.

News

• 10 July 2009: (Revanche)

Project Unfinished Book is under development

Current Focus

• Under discussion

Current Project Page: (the current title of focus)'s Workpage

Members

Please feel free to join up to work on the Project by adding your name to one or both Project groups.

Section Recorders

These members are the driving force of the project, incorporating the facts of their assigned sections into BattleTechWiki. They should be familiar with at least the Specific References method for citations:

1. Revanche (Project lead)

Copyeditors

These members double check the associated articles for the currently assigned book sections, to ensure they each meet BattleTechWiki's Manual of Style. They should also be familiar with the first method of Detailed References for citations, so as best to assist Section Recorders who chose to use that method for their assignments:

1. Revanche

Tools

Tags

• Place the following tag on article talkpages needing peer review: {{WikiProject UnfinishedBook}}

Displays:

This article is within the scope of the Unfinished Book WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve BattleTechWiki through the data-mining of official BattleTech publications. 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.

See the template for for usage documentation.

• Place the following tag on the book article talkpages currently under the project's scope: {{WikiProject UnfinishedBookTarget}}

Displays:

This article's subject is currently within the scope of the Unfinished Book WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve BattleTechWiki through the incorporation of complete BattleTech publications. 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.

• Place the following tag on book article talkpages considered 'complete': {{WikiProject UnfinishedBookCompleted}}

Displays:

This article's subject was once within the scope of the Unfinished Book WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve BattleTechWiki through the incorporation of complete BattleTech publications, and is now considered completed or fully incorporated into the wiki. 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.

• Place the following tag on articles that can & need to be expanded: {{Stub}}

Displays:

Relevant Policies

• Manual of Style

How to use italics

How to cite references

Articles: Another Look

Members and non-members alike, the following categories list articles needing peer review (see the template for instructions on how to remove from the category once peer review is complete):

• New articles needing to be reviewed (Unfinished Book)
• Modified Articles needing to be peer reviewed (Unfinished Book)