Editing BattleTechWiki:Project Ground Units

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Welcome to the '''Ground Units WikiProject'''. This is a group dedicated to improving BattleTechWiki's coverage of ground units. Feel free to join in by adding your name to the group, grabbing an [[BattleTechWiki:Project Ground Units#Articles|article]] to complete or weighing in on the [[BattleTechWiki talk:Project Ground Units|discussion]].

;Goals
*Catalogue every ground unit used in BattleTech that is not a BattleMech
**Classic BattleTech [underway]
**MechWarrior: Dark Age [awaiting action]
**Computer/Video Game Systems [awaiting action]
*Categorize the ground units:
**Tech Base/Faction [underway]
**Mass (by Weight Categories & specific tonnage) [underway]
**Motive System [underway]
**Role on the battlefield [underway]
*By type:
**Battle Armor [completed up through ''[[Technical Readout: 3075]]'']
**Combat Vehicles [underway]
**ProtoMechs [template needs creation]
**Support Vehicles [template needs creation]

;Scope
* Create and maintain all articles on [[combat vehicle]]s, [[support vehicle]]s, [[battle armor]], and [[ProtoMech]]s. This includes tracked, hover, and wheeled tanks, VTOLs, WiGEs, and blue-water naval vessels.


== News ==
*28 January 2008 ([[User:Scaletail|Scaletail]])
::Project:Ground Units is created

*17 March 2008 ([[User:Scaletail|Scaletail]])
::All canon battle armor designs have been created

== Guidelines ==
*[[User:CJKeys|CJKeys]] developed the current format used for BattleMechs. This has been adapted for every other unit type. The current concept for units has that there are five sections: 
**Description : a basic description of the unit
**Armament : what does it carry and some notes on the same; not to be a simple list, but a narrative
**Variants : list each type of variant seen, and if not from CBT, indicate so, ''in italics''.
**References : links to the books or other source material used in any way to contribute to the article (include page numbers)
**Infobox : created with pre-established fields that need to be filled in with the relevant info
*One thing to consider is that the articles tend towards to an in-character (IC) role, though there are some obvious out-of-character (OOC) bits included (ex: BV). In the text, if going OOC, use italics.
*Link everything, at least once. If the term is [[Star League]], link to it. If [[House Marik]] is referenced in the text, link to it. Link to other unit types, like [[DropShip]]s. If the same term is used a lot, especially in the same paragraph, please link only once. But link, even if the linked article does not yet exist: it will someday!
*Add any date information available for the unit and make sure it has a link associated.  This makes updating the timeline and associated year articles much easier.
*Bold the first instance of the name, as with all articles.
*Only some unit names are italicized. The names of specific ProtoMechs should always be italicized, while those of vehicles and battle armor are not.
*In the variants section, list the variant name as appropriate. For example: There is a variant of the [[Gabriel (Combat Vehicle)|Gabriel]] fielded by the Taurian Defense Force entitled "TDF."
**TDF - The variant entry looks like this...
*When adding categories to combat vehicle articles, use the following order: Combat Vehicles, weight class, tonnage, motive type, role, and faction.

==Open tasks==
*Edit for mis-spellings, grammatical and formatting mistakes for current articles.
*Place the Project Ground Units messagebox (see '''Tags''' below) on each article's discussion page.
*Create needed pages. See '''New Articles Needed''' below for some examples.

==Members==
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
# [[User:Scaletail|Scaletail]]: adding entries, basic cleanup, not copying things directly from sourcebooks
# [[User:Haruspex|Haruspex]]: Making red pages blue :) And adding little details basically, mostly from novels but also from free sources like previews and the like (i'm cheap).
# [[User:Dmzline|Dmzline]]: Working on 3025/6 vehicles, letting Scaletail clean up my articles.
# [[User:Communibus locis|Locis]]: Catching dates and adding to [[timeline]] and year articles as appropriate.
# [[User:The Big Eye|The Big Eye]]: Adding information sifted from the Mechwarrior 4 and MechCommander 2 games, random spelling and grammar checks, and generally making things irritating.
# [[User:Jherbert2|Jherbert2]] Finding and adding articles. I link this wiki in my website for descriptions of mechs and vehicles. (see [[links]]).
# [[User:Doneve|Doneve]] update BV.
# [[User:Wrangler|Wrangler]] - Adding and filling info on articles. Helping where i can.
# [[User:BirdofPrey|Bird of Prey]]:  Categorizing vehicles and editing for readability.
# [[User:BobTheZombie|BobTheZombie]]: Grammatical editing, adding finishing touches
# [[User:ClerkTechGB72|ClerkTechBG72]]: Portal Faction categories - creating wanted pages, checking/adding links for Faction-manufactured vehicles, and listing vehicle manufacturers per Faction. Doing this along side my "Improvement Effort: Manufacturing".
# [[User:Dark Jaguar|Dark Jaguar]]: Infantry units - these really need a major overhaul

==Articles==
===Collaboration and review===
'''''Note: Editors, please remove the article from the list once you have weighed in. Please add new articles to the list from the bottom.'''''


;New Articles Needed: ''Please add articles that need to be written. Anybody may request an article be written.''
''Combat Vehicles''

''Battle Armor''

''ProtoMechs''

''Support Vehicles''
*[[Skimmer]]

;New Articles Review:''See [[Template:WikiProject Ground Units]] for instructions on how to both flag new articles for review, and flag that you have reviewed them.''
:If you wish to review new articles, a listing may be found in the [[:Category:New articles needing to be reviewed (Ground Units)|New articles needing to be reviewed]] tracking category.


;Peer Review: ''See [[Template:WikiProject Ground Units]] for instructions on how to both flag articles for peer review, and flag that you have reviewed them.''
:If you wish to peer review articles, a listing may be found in the [[:Category:Articles needing to be peer reviewed (Ground Units)|Articles needing to be peer reviewed]] tracking category.''


;Team Assessment: ''Add an article that you would like to see graded by a Project:Ground Units team member [grading system yet to be introduced].''
*…

===Featured Articles===
====Previously Featured====
* None yet.
* …

====Candidates====
* Also none yet, but we definitely could use some candidates here.
* …

==Templates==
*[[Help:CreateBattleArmorArticle|Quick Create article for Battle Armor]]
*[[Template:InfoBoxBattleArmor|InfoBoxBattleArmor template]]
*[[Help:CreateCombatVehicleArticle|Quick Create article for Combat Vehicles]]
*[[Template:InfoBoxCombatVehicle|InfoBoxCombatVehicle template]]
*[[Help:CreateProtoMechArticle|Quickly Create - A ProtoMech Article]]
*[[Template:InfoBoxProtoMech|InfoBoxProtoMech template]]

==Tags==
*'''{{tl|WikiProject Ground Units}}''' (please see the template itself for usage documentation) displays this:
<p>{{WikiProject Ground Units}}</p>

==Categories==
In order to make the BattleTechWiki as accessible as possible, proper categorization is paramount. Since this ''is'' Project Ground Units, one of our tasks will be focusing on categorizing ground units.

**Currently, the only 'required' category is [[:Category:Combat Vehicles]], [[:Category: Support Vehicles]], [[:Category:Battle Armor]], or [[:Category:ProtoMechs]]; as appropriate. All such units should be in the appropriate category upon article creation.

**Categorizing units into the more specific aspects (such as weight classes, weights, motive type, combat role, faction, etc.) is currently optional; but feel free to at populate the class (e.g., [[:Category:Light Combat Vehicles]]) and tonnage (e.g., [[:Category:3 ton ProtoMechs]]) categories if you have the time.

==Resources==
===Related projects===
*[[BattleTechWiki:Project BattleMechs|Project BattleMechs]]

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[[Category:WikiProjects|Ground Units]]