BattleTechWiki:Project Unfinished Book/FirstBook

First Book Discussion

Welcome to the unveiling of Project: Unfinished Book. At this point, before we start discussing procedures for ensuring we capture all pertinent details and doing the best job we individually can, we should discuss which book we'd like to tackle first.

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• I have four suggestions to start off this discussion:

1. Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised: this title is stillrelatively recent, so a large number of Editors may have access to it. it also has a wealth of information on so many units, that by finishing the book not only will we have populated BTW with plenty of new articles, but many of them would be informative unit pieces.
2. Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex: I have a soft spot for this oddball TRO. It would allow us to generate well over 100 solid new articles (plus all of the associated smaller stub articles that will result), but it would also hit double as a vehicle project for the site.
3. Technical Readout: Project Phoenix: Though much of it has been incorporated via Project:BattleMech already, many of the smaller facts can now be assembled onto BTW. Plus, because of its small size and easily digested 'sections', we'd be able to complete one full title sooner, plus be able to test and refine the P:UB tracking system.
4. Handbook: Major Periphery States: this book is still under moratorium at the moment, but there is a good chance it'd be out by the time the project were to launch. The scope of the book is huge, meaning there'd be thousands of new small articles, but there would be few new full-sized article to come out of this. It would also take a considerable amount of time to complete (especially for a first book).

My preference is for Periphery States, but of the 4, I think Project Phoenix would be saner. Other title ideas (and why)? --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 04:35, 19 July 2009 (UTC)