Forum:Rewriting faction articles project

After reviewing our various faction articles, I've come to the conlusion that they are a mess. They do not provide an organized overview of the faction and often mix gameplay information that belongs in separate articles with lore and become pretty incomprehensible. What I propose is an organized Project to rewrite them in a standardized manner, to cover all available information and condensing them, so that users can read it and understand it without the need for playing the game beforehand.

I've taken the liberty of rewriting and creating an example of how I think such an article should look here, basing on the layout of this article from TOW.

The way I see it, we split history sections into separate articles in case of e.g. NCR or the Brotherhood, leaving a condensed version on the main page, then reorganize data and write it in an easy-to-use way in the main article. I think it'd be best if each participant (should a Project be started) chose a particular subject to cover and write a segment of the article, which will then be gradually put together.

I suggest we start with the Brotherhood of Steel. Thoughts? http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/08/Personal_Sig_Image.gif Tagaziel (call!) 12:58, November 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think this is a great idea. The layout of the Caesar's Legion page is really well written., I was actually amazed when I saw how organised it was. I was shocked to see how much of a mess the Brotherhood of Steel page is in. I'd be happy enough to help clean up the BoS page. CHIEF Talk to me 13:49, November 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm in. -- 14:24, November 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * This sounds fantastic. While Caesar's Legion is very well done, I'd like to see some gameplay related sections (a section dedicated at the end to units, gear, etc). thoughts? Riptidez 14:42, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

Excellent work Tagaziel ;), I agree completely that choice with two separate page, like what makes for weapons and armor. For cons, I think the ranks used by army of the faction should be in the faction page and not in the game page (rather than just the gameplay would give different variants of existing enemies). For exemple Frumentarii doesn't exist as an enemy in Fallout: New Vegas, although the rank exists. Same for the currency, which is a part of their culture. What do you think ? Itachou [~talk~] 14:53, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to update the Bright Brotherhood page to the new standards -- --Riptidez 15:14, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

I love the idea so I took some time to start the template and project pages ^_^. I set Tagaziel and myself as the project leaders. If people could help me finish setting up the project page that would be great! Links: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Fallout_Faction_Overhaul_Project http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Vault:Fallout_Faction_Overhaul_Project SuDoX 16:46, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

Cool. I'm in. Just point me in the right direction, tell me what to do, and I'll do it to the best of my abilities. There are lots of shit pages. MFToast - talk 17:53, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

Tagaziel finished the guidelines so just follow what is up on the project page. Add pages to the need help or the active pages (don't forget to put the Template at the top); good luck. :) SuDoX 16:55, Novermber 5, 2010 (UTC)