Terraria Wiki talk:Projects/Guides

Location/naming
Should guides be in the mainspace or should they be under a subpage somewhere like "Guides/PvP"? --JonTheMon 02:51, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
 * For right now, they go in mainspace... they will be moved to their own namespace later. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  02:56, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Guide Suggestions
I'm going to cobble together a concise guide listing suggested activities for a player's main base. If there are any suggested topics for guides please post something here. Thanks! --Theothersteve7 14:29, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

List of Guides
I think we will need one, and it will need to be in an easily accessible place. I suggest the creation of the introductory Guides:Guides page, which will help point users to the guides that interest them. Currently, the guides are in the side bar, but as their numbers grow this will not be maintainable. Furthermore because guides get little wiki-link exposures, they become forgotten and lost unless referenced some other place. 08:30, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It'd help to put all guides in a Guides category, so that you'd have a list automatically maintained by the wiki software. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.141.47.199 (talk).
 * I've added a nav box on all the linked guides. Please sign your talk page comments :D -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  20:39, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Skeletron guide?
I'd like to take a stab at the Skeletron guide if no one else will. It'll very likely involve migrating most of the existing info to the new guide page and expanding it from there. If anyone wants to help out, screenshots and videos would be awesome. MasterShizzle 23:00, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * That's perfect :D -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  23:36, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * First draft of the guide is up, now we need to expand on it. Pictures would help a lot. Anyone else is encouraged to dive in and contribute, and the talk page is up as well. MasterShizzle 06:17, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I've moved the three boss guides to the In Progress section because, well, they are. ILiaWneK 11:13, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Walkthrough Guide
I'm going to start a walkthrough guide. Just posting here so that I can be sure not to step on anyone's toes. The goal of the guide is to give an idea of the order players should attempt the biomes and bosses in, and equipment suggestions. I think I'll put links to other guides in, where appropriate. --Mr. Farenheit 23:36, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

The "save file implementation" idea
The new post on suggested guides is what I'm talking about. This does not require a full guide. Here's your guide:

"Go into C:\Users\Username\Documents\My Games\Terraria\Worlds and copy your world file and put it into a different folder. Same with player files."

I do this a lot. I have about 12 worlds and 7 players. Takes me about 5 seconds to switch. Can we please take that suggestion off now? Reed501 02:54, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Renaming the boss guides
Their titles are unnecessarily long-winded; I propose to shorten them down to Guide:Fighting (the). I will go ahead with the moves if there are no objections after 1 week. iLiaWneK'''|talk|contributions]] 20:03, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. However, I think "Eye of Cthulhu Strategies" might work better, as it's more likely people will search for "Eye of Cthulhu strategies" than "Eye of Cthulhu fighting" on Google. Mark (Talk) 20:31, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * They are slightly long-winded, and "(Boss) strategies" seems fine to me. --JonTheMon 20:40, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Anything to shorten their names is already an improvement, so I don't really mind which we go with. iLiaWneK'''|talk|contributions]] 21:06, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed. "Guide:Eye of Cthulhu Strategies" seems perfect, but anything would be better than the current titles. MasterShizzle 17:22, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Guide Idea!
I want a guide with instrutions on how to make a PvP arena with wiring, sudden death ect. Can someone make one? --Cats 55 08:55, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Names
Do we really need a creator/editor list? You can see that simply by looking at the page history. Some aren't even maintaining their articles; I see a few where the guy spent like 4 days on this wiki then never came back. That's fine and all, but it kinda makes the name list meaningless since others may have spent way more time on the articles. If the intention was to make someone responsible for a particular article, that doesn't work either since they're general articles (and not things like, say, "Tim's Guide To Building A Clay Greenhouse"); anyone can edit them just like regular articles, and if things need to be fixed, anyone can fix them just like regular articles. - Spinfx 06:07, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * You've got my vote. Less personal ownership of a page tends to mean less edit wars or opinionated info, things like that. If my name is wiped off of the Guides page for good, I'm fine with that. MasterShizzle 07:55, 10 January 2012 (UTC)