Talk:Patch Tree Template

Suggestion for turbine articles

From the Talk:ACC Wiki Home page:

For patch pages, I think it would be a cool idea to give the teaser, roll-out article, and release notes a background color or some other styleing make them seem more like they are from the Turbine website, i.e. official (kind of like we do with dev posts). Would kind of help separate them from the rest of the patch page. Any thoughts on this? --Atarax 28 October 2008 (CDT)

I've added an Archive of Internet Article Template for the current site design. So, if others think its a good idea to start using the internet article templates for patch notes, we have the two most recent templates available. We could also just use the light grey dev post template, so all patch pages use the same style. --An Adventurer 12:47, 31 October 2008 (CDT)

What do you think? I would like to suggest that we begin to use the internet article template to archive all turbine articles, following the naming format already in place on Category:Turbine, and only post links to our archives in the patch page. This will cut down the size of the patch pages a lot, and put new content right at the top of the page. --An Adventurer 22:04, 11 November 2008 (CST)

I'd be all for it. The only suggestion I would have is because it's difficult to make the section names consistent across all patches (ie dev notes vs release notes, letter to the players vs letter from the team, etc) as well as in number (eg multiple teasers or letters), I think we should make a single page with headings so you can use the actual name used originally as well as not have a problem with additional entries and we'd just link to the sections. It would avoid orphaning content by keeping it all together in one place and would avoid arbitrary names. Because it's a big change we should probably change the last few patches then wait for a month to see if anything occurs to us to add/remove before changing all of the patch pages. --Tlosk 16:48, 28 November 2008 (CST)

So just to be clear, we would move all of the turbine announcements for a single patch to 1 page that would contain them all? If so, sounds good to me. How should they named? Should we just go with Turbine Announcements - yyyy/mm or should we include the patch name as well like this Turbine Announcements - yyyy/mm - Patch? And should we stick with Turbine Announcements, or change it to something like Offical Patch Articles, Turbine Patch Notes, etc? --An Adventurer 14:43, 2 December 2008 (CST)

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Old Discussions

I think we should add a new titles section under discoveries. This will make it easy to find titles you need and will make updating the actual title list on the the titles page easier. --An Adventurer 18:45, 25 March 2008 (CDT)

Should we add a miscellaneous section too? To cover things like new animations for creatured added (in A New Threat, mites had a new backflip animation added)--Jedismj 11:15, 9 August 2008 (CDT)

Yeah, the template is a base, for each patch whenever there's things that don't fit into any of the categories in the template feel free to add either a unique section, or a Misc section, whichever you think works best. And if it's something that is common to more than a few patches add it to the template. --Tlosk 20:06, 9 August 2008 (CDT)