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About recent edits of mine and categorization
I've been working on this wiki for a while and made several changes. At first place, since wiki isn't supporting StarCraft 2 anymore those StarCraft prefixes looked at least redundant and confusing, so I've made a total revision to get rid of them and moved everything to pages with simpler names (except of the only template Template:StarCraft Unit Infobox yet, but that is needed to be renamed too).
Then honestly the difference between concepts and tutorials is very vague. Concept in fact (in application to our case) is a set of ideas and interconnections between them that theoretically allow one to accomplish a certain task, something like a tutorial that is there in your mind but isn't written on paper yet. On the other hand Tutorial is an exposition (in written or other forms) based on an example that allows to teach people doing a certain task or achieve a certain goal. That way, I've left Tutorials but redid former Concepts into General reference, so that now the difference (hopefully) is vivid enough: articles that are a step by step explanations how to do a certain task are tutorials, and articles that simply provide reference information and explain aspects of the game in a manner of "How it works?" are reference articles. However, many reference articles (i.e. Terrain) still contain many explanations on accomplishing particular tasks, in my opinion those should be cut into separate articles and put into Tutorials. The plan is that General reference articles should indeed contain only reference and descriptive information. They however may have interwiki references so that tutorials may reference the appropriate descriptive topic and vice versa a descriptive information may link to tutorials that use it.
Then I've hooked many pages that were initially unaccessible from the tree starting at the main page to one of those categories that are linked on main now. Hopefully more people will be able to find them.
About StarCraft article. Why in the world we treat this word so special that it is italicized and linked everywhere throughout the wiki?! In my opinion description of this term is out of frames of our wiki, which is mainly focused on description of game mechanics. I think general wikipedia pages like StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War should be used instead of this. Why to write something when it's already written for us? In my opinion, in our wiki we better focus on things we are doing best: description of game engine and mapping practices. Also, I'm a lil scared about the number of pages that link to StarCraft, we use links to StarCraft everywhere. Cmon, people! We should only link StarCraft once on the main page: everyone who is beyond the main page should already have a general idea about StarCraft! (Oh, Jesus!) The same thing goes about racial pages unless they are going to describe game mechanics. IMO we don't need them and should use external links (like Terrans) in appropriate places.
Then I wish we could use common conventions for naming pages. A little reminder goes here from there: "I also should've noted that category names, unlike article titles, are case-sensitive, and that it is generally best practice to only capitalize the first letter and the proper nouns of an article or category title. Like I said, though -- it's an easily-fixed mistake. DavidJCobb 20:46, 7 May 2010 (UTC)", "I prefer lowercase, but regardless of what I prefer, Wikipedia's Manual of Style advocates lowercasing. The StarCraft Wiki on Wikia does this as well, though sometimes excessively. DavidJCobb 21:09, 7 May 2010 (UTC)". In my opinion it's better to stick to a lowercase practice too.
Um... don't know what then guys, but let's continue to improve the wiki!
--Wormer 18:23, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
One more thing, since I don't have sufficient rights for pages deletion I've made a Template:Deletion requests that puts a page into the hidden category of the same name and adds a note to the page. All pages that are in this category are safe to delete: all necessary data have been moved and all links to these articles have been fixed. Administrators, please commit an administrative action on these pages! =)
--Wormer 18:38, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
