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Ed, Wiki IS case sensitive. And we could end up with separate pages for 'Fighter' and 'fighter' if we are not careful. Actually, we could end up with 4 separate pages if you throw in 'Fighters' and 'fighters'. This is why Lazarus has been trying to establish some consistant standards early on.

Geoschmo

[ October 29, 2002, 20:22: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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Regarding the "Armor" vs "Armour", and other such spelling issues.
IMO, the best way is to spell it the way it is spelt in the game. Anybody who is looking these things up will probably use the spelling they see on their SE4 window http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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What are the standards? lower case no plural? that sounds right but im not sure and if that's so i've already violated that.

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Right. Standards for article titles are:

Lowercase (unless (1) something's normally capitalized or (2) there's some other good reason for capitalization, as in Alphabetical Index (a very important page) or Imperial Ego (because it's talking about Ego and makes sense))
No plurals (again, unless something would make less sense without. "resources" and "shields" come to mind.)
No abbreviations
American spelling

Of course, if you say "armour" or "colour" in the *text* of your article, we won't complain. I think I need to post these in a "Standards" page http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Here's a good thread for general info

http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...18;p=12#000166

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yay, I get to be an American chauvinist pig and get away with it! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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From the Population growth entry:

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">TC, are you sure about this? I only get a population increment every tenth turn (at the beginning of each new year) in my games.

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That is Proportions DS. In normal games, it grows at the listed growth rate / 10 each turn.

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Thanks IF. Reading this thread I'm beginning to think I should play less proportions.

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*Bump*

Is it me or is interest in the EM waning? entires have been getting less and less frequent, but there's still so much to be added.

This encyclopedia could serve as a really cool faq and introduction for newbies - not just to the game but to the community and culture that surrounds it. It could also serve the rest of us as a handy place to store and retrieve knowledge without having to trawl through the forums.

So c'mon, people, ANYONE can add to or edit it easily and instantly, and there's a wealth of information still unwritten. Even if you only correct someone else's mistakes or expand a little on something already written or just add in your own name and webpage, you will have made a contribution.