Editing Talk:Armor (BattleMechs & Combat Vehicles)

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==Fluff Text==

As Written, the majority of the fluff text appears to better fit what should be on the main page for Armor in general vice what is being used on the main page for Standard BattleTech Armor.  All in Favor of moving Fluff?  All Opposed?--[[User:PerkinsC|Cameron]] 19:08, 4 December 2009 (UTC)


Also suggest adding in fluff text that fits what is known of this technology.  "Composed of Ferrus materiels for effectiveness against Ballistic, Explosive/Missile & Physical/Mele attacks laced with diamond fibres and backed with ceramics to defeat Laser and / or energy based attacks, this type of Armor is used by both the InnerSphere and the Clans and has a [[Technology Rating#D|Technology Rating of D]] due to its being developed in the Age of War.  First introduced on BattleMechs, it was rapidly fitted on the Combat Vehicles that followed in responce to the vast superiority of the BattleMech over the vehicles of the time (closer to [[:Category:Support Vehicles]] than [[:Category:Combat Vechiles]]).--[[User:PerkinsC|Cameron]] 19:08, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
:What main page for armor? When did that happen? --[[User:Scaletail|Scaletail]] 00:08, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
::Category Page.  or having a "same name" (my latin sucks) page.  Having the Generic data for armor in general on the Standard Armor Page doesn't fit how Ferro-Fibrous & Ferro Aluminium have the fluffed out desctription for the armor.--[[User:PerkinsC|Cameron]] 16:08, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
:::Information really shouldn't go in the category page. If you feel that a page devoted to the general concept of "armor" is in need, I'm all for it. My only suggestion about your above proposed text is this: when I write articles for weapons and equipment, I make clear distinctions between background information and game stats. I would split up what it actually is from the in-game "tech level". --[[User:Scaletail|Scaletail]] 01:38, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

==Ruthless Cleaning==
Some may have noticed that I am doing some housecleaning here.  Alot of old Fanon still persists in these old articles, some of it coming from a wholesale import of a fansite that has since been shown to include Fanon with Canon.  If something is "citation needed" and I can't find a citation for it anywhere in the wiki, it's gone.  I am not promising that what I put here will be error-free: I don't have the cited books to check against, in most cases.  But at least there will be a citation to verify against.--[[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 14:20, 27 May 2022 (EDT)
:I am 100% certain this is not complete, and 99.9% certain there are errors in here. Alot of fanon and erroneous information appears to have circulated around the components part of the Wiki over the last 15 years, and cleaning it up is going to take time and more than one set of eyes and hands.  Please treat this as a beginning to work from, not a complete or satisfactory work by any measure.--[[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 22:16, 28 May 2022 (EDT)
::Now with no red-links.  I have created redirects for all the redlinked armor brands, to match those that already redirected here.  Some of them may need to redirect to Ferro-Fibrous or some other page, this is an iterative process of clean-up.--[[User:Talvin|Talvin]] ([[User talk:Talvin|talk]]) 09:38, 29 May 2022 (EDT)

== Cleanup ==

The table needs broken up somehow so that the last four columns don't rely on screen width to display properly in relation to each other. Either use rowspan with the armour type or split it into numerous tables as some other technology lists do. [[User:Madness Divine|Madness Divine]] ([[User talk:Madness Divine|talk]]) 20:14, 3 September 2022 (EDT)