Interested in New CoX wiki for lore?
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Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2010-05-31 13:47 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Right, I'm not saying the timeline needs to be expanded, it's fine. What I meant is that I imagine people who want lore aren't going to want a timeline, they'll want a biography, so the link to said biography should be more prominent. Or you could, as you said, provide a small sentence or two of concise bio, then link to the full one.|
Originally Posted by Durakken
See the reason why I left a lot of the info surrounding the events out is because more or less the only thing Statesman does is hit people. He's not the one finding the cure, racing around, or doing the really heroic stuff... He's hitting people. So when it says He thwarted a foe with the help of x... it means X did all the leg work for whatever and Stateman hit the foe...more or less. And we're talking about what Statesman did, not what Freedom Phalanx or Nemesis did... Also remember all that stuff will be linked to the other pages when it is all completely up...
tldr ver... Statesman page = Helps thwart Nemesis with the Help of the Freedom Phalanx Synapse page = Distributes antidote in the nick of time along with x, while the rest of the Phalanx takes down Nemesis Freedom Phalanx = Synapse and x distribute the antidote in the nick of time, while Statesman, Sister Psyche, etc.. take down Nemesis. So that the part that the person/group contributes is the part that is in their page, which just seems better to me. What say others? Also i think there needs to be a small background above it, but not the info from Statesman's history as all that info is just prose form of what's in the timeline, and doesn't have all or as exact dates... So maybe the History section should be turned in to Biography section with a quick Bakground paragraph and then the timeline. |
Also, about your multiverse page (refer to the thread you made in the Wiki forums): the way the second section is now, it is formatted with headings and sub headings, which I feel is used if you have things to put in the sub headings. Since it's only a way to help organize the cosmology, just use the "Cosmology" header, then do the rest with font size, bold, and indents. Then in the third section, where you put the universes we know, you could add a fourth column that tells us which of the types in the second section it falls under.
I want a timeline, one that links to more in-depth stories.
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better?: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/User:Dur...th/Marcus_Cole
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Originally Posted by Felderburg
Right, I'm not saying the timeline needs to be expanded, it's fine. What I meant is that I imagine people who want lore aren't going to want a timeline, they'll want a biography, so the link to said biography should be more prominent. Or you could, as you said, provide a small sentence or two of concise bio, then link to the full one.
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Does anyone know where the source of this information is?
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Marcus_Cole#Background
I need it for the Elite Five reference...
Also, Statesman's electrical abilities...power wise... anyone got a clue on how it should be called? Electric control seems wrong.
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A lot of it probably came from the novels, Web of Arachnos and The Freedom Phalanx. They deal extensively with Statesman's background.
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Originally Posted by Durakken
Does anyone know where the source of this information is?
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Marcus_Cole#Background |
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The important information I need from there is a reference to the Elite Five and Surviving Eight. It seems it was on the original website or something like that, but i can find no source for the information, let alone, mentioned very often.... and I've been looking for hours now.
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Originally Posted by TonyV
A lot of it probably came from the novels, Web of Arachnos and The Freedom Phalanx. They deal extensively with Statesman's background.
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Reasoning: people who are looking for lore will surely be interested in what he did (the timeline) but are also going to want to know why he did it, or what sorts of things led to it, and general things that go deeper. The link is relatively easy to pass over, and it's really what I think people who are going to be looking at this project will be looking for. Since the idea here is to make lore streamlined and easy to find, making that link more prominent is a good idea.
Maybe a section called "background" that just says "See this page: <link>"? Or a little note that says "For a more detailed background, go here: <link>"?
tldr ver...
Statesman page = Helps thwart Nemesis with the Help of the Freedom Phalanx
Synapse page = Distributes antidote in the nick of time along with x, while the rest of the Phalanx takes down Nemesis
Freedom Phalanx = Synapse and x distribute the antidote in the nick of time, while Statesman, Sister Psyche, etc.. take down Nemesis.
So that the part that the person/group contributes is the part that is in their page, which just seems better to me. What say others?
Also i think there needs to be a small background above it, but not the info from Statesman's history as all that info is just prose form of what's in the timeline, and doesn't have all or as exact dates... So maybe the History section should be turned in to Biography section with a quick Bakground paragraph and then the timeline.