User blog:Madbaron/Considerations On Form

Salutations, Terris Wikians!

I was just browsing around the LoT wikia here and decided to toss in my opinion where it had not been clearly asked. So, ahead!

I saw a few misspellings here (notably, the word "ascension" is misspelled "ascention" several times on this site) which led me to pondering the form the text on this wikia ought to take. Giving the matter several seconds of thought, I decided to post the same "rules" that I used when writing rooms for the game or fiction for the message boards, and gently put forth that this wikia might consider to adopt them.


 * 1) Use British Grammar & Spellings. Seems obvious, since the game originated in the UK, but consider that the majority of players have been Americans, and that the English-ness of Terris has eroded over time.
 * 2) Standardise the Names of Institutions. I cite the Monk's Guild as an example. When Terris began, it was usually (but not always) written as "Monk's Guild", but there are variations that move or omit the apostrophe: Monks' Guild; Monks Guild. For the sake of clarity within this wikia these variations ought to be excised. In my own Terris work, I favoured the form "Monk's Guild" as that was how I originally encountered it. This can be applied to all of the guilds and several other institutions in Terris.
 * 3) Cite Temples Under Their Spheres, Gods Under Their Names. By this I mean to list the Temple of Alvogyl under Temple of Light, and then have a separate page for the God Alvogyl. As much as I loath the present desire of Terris Staff to focus on the "spheres" (and, indeed, I loath that application of the word) as apart from the Gods, it makes sense that it be applied here. Otherwise, each temple would have several incongruous entries scattered about the wikia.
 * 4) Write Dates in the British Style. And by that I mean Day/Month/Year, not Month/Day/Year. 8 Awakenings 174 rather than Awakenings 8, 174. (Bonus points to anybody that responds with the significance of that date.)

That's all that I have for now. I intend to post a little bit, and I hope this wiki takes off better than past attempts.

MB 21:18, January 25, 2010 (UTC)