Halopedia:Standards Council of Halopedia/Legislative Branch/Standards/Weapons Format Standards

Proposal
Since, as Forgottenlord pointed out, he has had to write almost every poposale, I belive that it would be a good idea to do this myself. It seems nessesary to do this anyways, considering there are 38 articles in need of such a standard. Note: this format is based off of the MA5B ICWS article.


 * Introduction: Contains a basic description of the weapon, who uses it, ect.
 * Scematics:Goes into the specs of the weapon, for instance, the MA5B ICWS is a bullpup fully automatic rifle that fires 7.62x51mm Full Metal Jacket/.308 Caliber rounds.
 * Advantages:Detailed paragraphs describing what gives this weapon the user an edge in combat.
 * Disadvatanges:Describes the weaknesses of the weapon and how one can exploite them.
 * Tactics:Includes ways to better kill your enemies, both campaign AIs and multiplayer enemies.
 * Lethality: Contains a desctription of how lethal the weapon is ei. how many shots dose it take to kill someone ect.
 * Glitches (if aplicable):Describes easy glitches one can preform with the weapon, such as the Battle Rifle's Double Shot.


 * Other notes (If aplicable):Includes other interesting facts about the weapon, things that wouldn't fit in the previous sectoins or is to long for the trivia.
 * Trivia:Contains interesting sentence long facts about the weapon that wouldn't fit anywhere eles, or facts that are interesting as a form of recap.
 * Gallery:A gallery of pictures of the weapon, a character wielding the weapon, and the weapon in action.

Possible section: Use/Useage:Who uses it, how it is used ect.

Comments/Disscusion

 * Where would the glitches that don't help you go? Dragonblaze-052 14:45, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps in a special "What not to do section"? No really, those glitches should go in the glitch section as well, as long as they clearly state NOT to do them.


 * I can do the "Gallery" thing, because I like images. | Ki| n| g- Of - Ki n  gs  14:55, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Due to the fact that we are a CANON based wikia, and we specialize in that, I really think we should get rid of all Tactics, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Glitches, etc. sections. Though what we could do is a small "lethality" section, with canon-based material in it, with some of it based off of real-life info. But like I said, we should move from a Canon and Gameplay wikia, to a Canon wikia. Commander ,  Administrator of Halopedia ''' Talk 10/04/2008
 * FIXED-Notanoob


 * Not sure where to suggest something like this, but here seems good. I have noticed many weapons articles going in detail regarding how they work, function, and other things.  I personally don't feel this is necessary, or at the very least shouldn't be as detailed.  At least, not for human weaponry.  If I brought this up in the wrong area, feel free to correct me. Thoughts? XRoadToDawnX 06:11, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I think that it's fine to have details, but the thoughts should be organized. Most of it would go into the schematics sectoin. I personaly think that it is a good idea to have them in there, to give the impression that we are not a Halo fan site. But the workings of a gun should be second priority to organizing the known information. -Notanoob
 * True. But, in reference to the M6D Pistol article, the technical specifications goes through some detailed information describing how to reload and use a gun of not only that type, but of real world models as well.  I am not saying that it could cause real world problems (it's the web, finding that information isn't difficult), but at the same time, it seems that the information seems extraneous and unnecessary.  I just feel that the detail on weaponry function seems a little too... detailed, at least for what I feel we are trying to accomplish. XRoadToDawnX 05:09, 30 November 2008 (UTC)