NetHackWiki talk:Style guide

Formality

So when can we start calling this the official style guide? --ZeroOne 18:34, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I think that the style guide still needs more work. The style guide makes some assumptions that I fail to understand, and even makes recommendations that I might want to disagree with.

The good thing about this style guide is that when someone wants to know the best way to cite source code in footnotes, or to make pretty tables, or which templates to use, then we can refer them here.

The things that might or might not need changing: (1) the recommendation against ==Introduction== at the start, because maybe we want the TOC at the top of some pages. (2) the Wikipedia-Memory-Alpha-et-cetera "{{disambig}}" feature, which seems unnecessary to me. (3) the general principles which defer to Wikipedia, because this wiki is not part of Wikipedia. (4) possibly something else. --Kernigh 20:24, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I used {{disambig}} on Fire, which seems appropriate. Wikipedia isn't perfect, but I do think it is, in general, sane enough to be better than nothing. Please do feel free to modify this guide. I hesitated to call this a formal/official style guide, since this wiki is still young and doesn't need an excess of rules just yet. --Jayt 21:59, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually {{disambig}} looks good for pages that need to be like redirects, but to more than one page. Like fire is now. Later maybe someone will write a longer document about fire, and it might not be a "{{disambig}}". Interestingly, there is also a Special:Disambiguations page, but I do not seem to understand it yet. --Kernigh 03:28, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

I added Template:otheruses a few days ago... it seems to be pretty useful. GreyKnight 05:11, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

History vs Mythology

"The History section should be for explaining what the thing did in previous versions of NetHack. Actual history should go in Mythology."

What about cases where the thing is drawn from real life, not mythology? :-( GreyKnight 05:16, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

In that case, ==Origin== may be better. I've added this to the style guide. --Jayt 19:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Templates

Should the "name" section of a template include the item type? For example, potion of object detection lists "potion of object detection" as the item name, and scroll of genocide lists "genocide" as the item name. I'd prefer the latter because the item names can get pretty long and make the template table wide. --Eidolos 23:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Should "Cost" be renamed to "Base cost" or "Base price"? The internal field name (cost) can obviously stay, but should the output remain an unqualified "Cost"? --Eidolos 23:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)