Forum:Policy regarding Jury Rigging perk

There seems to be a disagreement regarding whether or not Jury Rigging info should be included in the relevant articles. I can see the benefit of having the information but I'd like to see it presented in a different manner, as part of the infobox for the item. The infobox serves as a place to quickly find basic information about an item, so I think it's best put there.

For the poll below, there are three options:
 * Include jury rigging as a simple line of text in the article
 * This is the easiest way to include it, as it doesn't require altering weapon and armor infoboxes


 * Include jury rigging as a line in the infobox for weapons and armor
 * This seems to me to be the better choice, despite the additional work involved


 * Don't include Jury Rigging info
 * This requires the player to guess at what can be used to repair an item. Certainly not ideal for what should be an information resource, that is, this wiki.

Include Jury Rigging info?
Yes --

Yes - RASIC

Yes http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/08/Personal_Sig_Image.gif Tagaziel (call!)

Yes--Ryker6105:17, June 7, 2011 (UTC)~10:15pm 6/6/2011

Yes Kingclyde

Yes User:Veazey21

Yes Agent c 10:48, June 7, 2011 (UTC)

Yes - Itachou

Yes -James Jr 07:07, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

If included, should it be part of the infobox?
Yes --

Yes - RASIC

Yes http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/08/Personal_Sig_Image.gif Tagaziel (call!)

Yes--Ryker6105:17, June 7, 2011 (UTC)~10:16pm 6/6/2011

Yes Kingclyde

Yes User:Veazey21

Yes Agent c 10:48, June 7, 2011 (UTC)

Yes - Itachou

Yes -James Jr 07:06, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

Comments
The thing about Jury rigging on the pages at the moment is that is just thrown in anywhere, and I also feel that it should have something like this for the link: "The laser rifle can be repaired by other Energy rifles" - RASIC Talk User blog:Crazy sam10 16:30, June 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * Jury Rigging perk information should be added as a general statement, as above as long as it also links out to the perk page. Detailed information should be maintained in the actual perk page and not the weapon pages e.g. a detailed list of all the weapons in the group. As for the infobox, that is already bloated. We dont need to be adding in more information at present. However, once the new infoboxes come into play with collapseable sections then that is a different matter. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 18:37, June 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * What about including it in the repair part of the infobox?--Kingclyde 19:00, June 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * What, the type of weapon or the list of weapons? User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 19:12, June 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * Just the type of weapons. For example, something like "JR: 2h auto guns" or whatever. -- 23:36, June 6, 2011 (UTC)

Can you mock up an example of how it would look? Agent c 00:47, June 7, 2011 (UTC)

Mockup
There, this is what it would look like with it added in the infobox. I figured this would work good as we already do not state which weapons can be used for repair in the articles, why at a separate line for jury rigging when we can do this.--Kingclyde 02:22, June 7, 2011 (UTC)

Nice mockup. I have a different idea. Why don't we create weapon and armor categories as listed here, add the appropriate categories to all armor and weapons, and then replace Kingclyde's generic link to Jury Rigging with a link to the appropriate category?--Gothemasticator 03:08, June 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * I edited the mock-up, does that link look and/or act any better? Also I tried to give JR its own tab but that would mean changing the templates themselves at the source so I improvised.- RASIC Talk User blog:Crazy sam10 05:28, June 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Perfect!!--Kingclyde 05:42, June 7, 2011 (UTC)

Did a small adjustment, I think it's better to have the type first and then the perk name/image, because that way it's intuitive - you first see the weapon it can be repaired with, then the general type it can be repaired with. http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/0/08/Personal_Sig_Image.gif Tagaziel (call!) 05:58, June 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * That one looks good, too bad the perk icon looks like vault boy playing a guitar. - RASIC Talk User blog:Crazy sam10 07:37, June 7, 2011 (UTC)

Nice with the image, it means everything, the text is less instructive for the infobox. Itachou [~talk~] 20:02, June 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * Great solution. I like it!--Gothemasticator 00:31, June 8, 2011 (UTC)

Result
The poll has been unanimous. The agreed-upon plan of including the jury-rigging info under "repair" in the infobox, with icon, can now be used across the wiki.--Gothemasticator 00:34, June 15, 2011 (UTC)