Deus Ex Wiki talk:Community Portal

Welcome to the Deus Ex Wiki. I would like to start getting the community established so we can get this wikia off the ground finally.

Game categorization
There are various ways that people have been specifying what weapon (and probably other items) belong to which series. e.g. some weapons are appended with (DX) to denote that it's the original. I would suggest that rather than this method a single page for each weapon with the differences listed for each game. A different method would be needed for e.g. characters as most of these don't carry over.Cameron Brewis 17:23, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * How about like the new Leo page, that uses short tag in front of the article to show which game it from for new disambiguation pages from now on?--User:Blood sliver 17:40, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Also, what i mean by like uesp is how in depth do you want the wiki, and about what. The main thing is that we could make a walk threw for the game, it ranging from just a basic list of your objectives on the levels, or a step by step guide. I just wanted to use uesp because it is so far the best example of the 2 I could think of.--User:Blood sliver 17:47, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * With regards to characters though I would suggest to only create a disambiguation page such as Leo if the ambiguous handle is a common occurrence within the game world.Cameron Brewis 17:55, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I am a fan of uesp myself, and do like the layout.  The main problem with adopting their format is the lack of articles currently on this wiki.  UESP adopts a main page that doesn't have a list of pages, it uses a set of featured pages and expects the user to search for the rest.  With regards to the matter of the walk through that sounds fine.  I would suggest creating a walk through index page for each game having the list of levels/directions that the player could take, either each on their own pages or using the bookmark format (#).  Make sure all walk through pages are clearly marked as spoilers though because I am sure you will agree that discovering the story in Deus Ex is one of the best parts of the game.Cameron Brewis 17:55, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It's not exactly that way. What says in which game a weapon was used is a category. Those suffixes only help to distinguish weapons with the same names, like sniper rifles. And I don't really think, it's a good idea to merge articles about weapons in DX and DXIW. They have very little in common, most of the time not even the names. DXIW has a shotgun while in DX1 there are two similar weapons: sawed-off shotgun and assault shotgun. Which article should IW's shotgun be merged with?--Nathan2000 23:14, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I see your point Nathan. A disambiguation page would come into play there, different pages e.g. sawed-off shotgun, assault shotgun and shotgun (DX2). with a disambiguation page titled "shotgun".--Cameron Brewis 04:28, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thinking about it, I'm not sure I am 100% happy with the idea of having "shotgun" as a disambiguation page when there is actually a weapon called simply "shotgun".*Backtracks* --Cameron Brewis 04:38, 19 March 2009 (UTC)