Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Paintball/Archive 1

message: Talk about whatever. Paintball, guns, tanks, your kitchen sink.
Yay, a paintball Wikiproject...I have been wanting there to be one of these for a long time!  I just couldn't figure out how to make a Wikiproject!  I'm excited :) I must go write some articles about paintball now...lol  Caleb09 23:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Glad to hear it! We certainly need more members. I have big plans for this category, but I myself have far too little time to carry them out myself. Feel free to add things to the 'Tasks' section, and welcome to the Project! ~ Maximilli, 00:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

text: You're welcome. Good luck with your work.  ~ Maximilli, 22:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: That thin gelatin shell...

message: I come bearing gifts! The following is a userbox that may prove useful to members' senses of loyalty....
Additionally, for us woodsball specialists, I've created this userbox....
Enjoy! ~ Maximilli, 16:21, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Userboxes

message: Please list proposals here. 
I wouldent mind a improvement on the Paintballing article. Anarchyforever 12:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, what kind of improvements are you talking about? Do you have something specific in mind? Don't forget to sign yourself up for the Project if you're interested. ~ Maximilli, 13:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposals

message: Talk about various articles which should be brought under special consideration of the Project.
I separated Glossary of Paintball terms from the main Paintball article a few months back but now it's getting unruly, with semi-regular vandalism and lots of random, irrelevant slang now included. I'm not sure if I would go as far as to say the article should be deleted, but it definitely needs a major overhaul. --Donutmonger 07:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I gave it a major re-hash. What do you think? --RavenStorm 00:29, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

text: You're right, AGD should have a separate article. We should try and model it after the Tippmann article. Speaking of which, does anyone here feel up to working on the Empir3 article? I know virtually nothing useful about the company, or I'd work on it myself. ~ Maximilli, 19:46, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Don't worry about it, Caleb09. It's coming along. Thanks for starting it and doing the initial research. One thing you could do, if you're looking for a specific task, is look on PB Review.com and try and find reviews on the gun. Then you could assimilate information from those into the article - remembering, of course, to rewrite everything to avoid copyright infringement. I'll come along later and check it out.  ~ Maximilli, 22:36, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article talk

message: Sorry about making the Spyder Victor II article messy :X...I create stubs alot and I forgot that you need the little specifications thingimajig...
:Don't worry about it, Caleb09. It's coming along. Thanks for starting it and doing the initial research. One thing you could do, if you're looking for a specific task, is look on PB Review.com and try and find reviews on the gun. Then you could assimilate information from those into the article - remembering, of course, to rewrite everything to avoid copyright infringement. I'll come along later and check it out.  ~ Maximilli, 22:36, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Spyder Victor II

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. Also, I note that yours is a comparatively new project. You may be interested in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide, which has a lot of information regarding project organization from several of the most successful WikiProjects. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.      B2T2 19:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: Some of you have noticed that a couple of pages (Woodsball and Paintball marksman, mostly) have images that switch sides. This has been accused as random, but actually I've put these images in such layouts as to be most graphically interesting. For those who aren't familiar with that phrase, something is graphically interesting if it draws the eye all across the page, instead of down the center (like most articles do). A page that is graphically interesting more directly involves the reader when viewing the article. 
In this spirit, I've realized that many images in paintball articles across the category have players pointing their markers away from the article's main body of text. In a revelation (not really) I realized that if we had the guns pointing inward, the articles would be more properly graphically interesting. 
I'm not suggesting that someone switch all the images around, because that would be a lot of really boring work. Since I was the one who figured this out, I think I should be the one who fixes them all. However, what I am asking is that people who place new images in articles (in Bunker (paintball), or Speed paintball, for example) have the images orienting the gaze toward the text. If you have any questions about a particular image, please go ahead and ask me. My parents are both scientific illustrators, and I myself have a job as assistant researcher in dioramic/mural research, and we work very closely with a number of firms that deal with this sort of thing exclusively, so feel free. :) ~ Maximilli, 19:46, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article images