Board Thread:New on Monster Hunter Wiki/@comment-765166-20131004233240/@comment-184612-20131005014514

Let's start with the naming archetype. I go to search for Rathalos armor because I'm playing MH1. I pull up http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Rathalos_Armor_(Blade) Well gee, that's nice and all, but I see this is the MHFU version. How am I going to be able to find which version for which game? By making it's own page with it's own identifier, it makes it much less confusing.

Shortening the in-game name of Blademaster to Blade is just lazy, but minor. Naming the armors to Series is more correct to the Japanese version. In the Japanese versions シリーズ "Shirizu" or Series, is in every full armor name. The localized versions just drop the Series part, but "Rathalos (Blademaster) (MH4)" isn't quite right. I can counter this whole argument by asking the question "What would a normal person search for on the wiki?". Since we obviously should be tailoring to the fans, one would assume we'd be making it easier for them to find info, right? I don't see a typical hunter typing in "Rathalos Series" into the search. The naming of "Rathalos Armor"  seems the most logical.

As for actual information, you both are almost exactly the same. Mckrongs's version missing the Armor Spheres table is just due to not having all that info at this time, but that will change when it is available. The main difference is Mckrongs's version also has the Japanese text, which makes it much easier for anyone importing the game. It is also side by side with the English text, making it easier to compare so people don't get confused. I don't see how helping people play the Japanese versions can be a problem.

I also saw complaints that The Gold Guild Knight's version is more compact than Mckrongs's version. That makes sense because smaller text is used in some spots on TGGK's version, as well as the Japanese taking up extra lines on Mckrongs's version. The funny thing is Mckrongs's version is actually smaller in comparison. The easy way to notice this is having each page as a tab and switching back and forth. A bigger side scrolling bar = a smaller page. To further compare, I had Mckrongs drop the Armor Spheres table from TGGK's template into his own, and only then was it bigger, but not by too much considering all the extra lines added by the Japanese text. To go one step beyond that I had Mckrongs remove all the Japanese and it ended up being much smaller. Lastly, on the subject of looks, Mckrong's version also goes along with the current standard color scheme of the wiki, compared to TGGK's brown and black with light blue background color scheme.

As for improvements to the template; I suggest links to different versions of the armor set. One for the Gunner, and ones for any other game versions of the armor set, be it different rankings within the game (S, U, ect), or to other versions from other games.

Btw, hi, I'm Kogath. Been with the series since the first game came out and am a current player of MH4. I am a former member of Skies of Crimson/Croda for those who have been around long enough to remember them, as well as a member of Minegarde and helped minorly with Team HGG's MHP3rd patch. I've lurked here for ages as well. I also supply Mckrongs with the information he uses via the various guidebooks I own as well as my knowledge from actually playing the game. I majorly would let him create the pages and I would fill in the blanks because I do not know the formatting and such the wiki uses. Would you care to doubt my seriousness now?