Forum:Page Suggestions

So I've been coming to this page pretty consistently over the years and only recently decided to start doing edits of my own. So far it's mostly been clean-up, but i've noticed that there are a couple pages in dire need of some retooling that aren't open for editing, so I'll put the ideas here:


 * General Clean-up
 * For the Cultural References page, it would help significantly to have the large headers denote medium, with subtopics for the actual material referenced (re: have a 'Film' topic, under which 'Aliens,' 'BladeRunner' and etc are placed).
 * Content
 * Since NCR's page isn't open for editing anymore, maybe someone who's got access to it can point out that in spite of the bad blood between the NCR and Brotherhood, NCR officers wearing power armor in FNV are still referred to as 'Paladins' when their name shows up on-screen. I'd only just noticed it during this play-through. I've looked to see if this is mentioned anywhere on the Wiki and couldn't find anything, but it might be somewhere. (this might be a bug and not an actual 'thing')
 * A page for the various factions and their reputations with one another would be interesting as an offshoot to the one focussing on the player, but might be redundant? It'd be nice to have an overview of it consolidated to one space. You be the judge.
 * This might be overtly nit-picky, but since I'd rather not litter character/quest/timeline pages with little gripes about plot inconsistencies, are there any pages dedicated to the noticeable plot-holes in the various games? I haven't found any. If it'd serve any purpose, it could help direct some of the more ambitious modders to go in and do dialogue adjustments. I would, but my computer sucks too hard to attempt actual modding with it. (call it a 'fill in the plot-hole wish list').

I'm sure I'll run across more things that are un-editable that could use some clean-up or additions, so I'll just keep a running tally of suggestions under this topic for whomever feels like making the edits (or not! doesn't matter!) Figure some other folks might have suggestions they want to make on the locked pages as well, so this seems like a good medium to do it in.

Dog Thing 02:07, December 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * " spite of the bad blood between the NCR and Brotherhood, NCR officers wearing power armor are still referred to as 'Paladins' when their name shows up on-screen. " - don't you mean the actual BoS paladins that show up at the battle of Hoover Dam if you talk the Brotherhood into a truce with the NCR? Ausir(talk) 02:12, December 4, 2010 (UTC)


 * I might. I'd noticed it prior to approaching the BoS about an alliance (as well as confirming the alliance to the NCR), though, so that might just be a really odd bug that popped up out of nowhere. If it is, forget I said anything. Dog Thing 02:45, December 4, 2010 (UTC)

Regarding a topical organization of cultural references, I'm not too sure. We could put a film header, a book header (which could include comic books, I suppose), and a music header. But then we'd be left with a whole bunch of miscellaneous still - historical figures, speeches, places, idioms and folk-tales. The main cultural references pages are basically list pages which include all the references from individual pages, so I'm not inclined to organize them other than alphabetically. What would be nice is a reverse-transclusion function, whereby individual behind the scenes sections were automatically added to the main pages. But I don't think that's possible.--Gothemasticator 13:29, December 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Not possible, especially given that "behind the scenes" sections include also things other than cultural references (e.g. info about which developer wrote a given character). Ausir(talk) 14:14, December 5, 2010 (UTC)