Talk:StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty/Archive 4

message: Twice now this has happened—someone has fired up the creation log and filled out a page that ends up on afd. This lastest page (Units and Buildings of Starcraft 2) makes me think we need to take this campaign against lists of units and structures up a level. I think when this page gets deleted we should see about getting an Administerator to block this page and the other one so they won't be recreated, and I think we need to add a notice about not creating unit/structure lists here; otherwise, we are going to end up with this same problem again. Thoughts on this? TomStar81 (Talk) 19:18, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll move for a "delete and salt" the next time it shows up.  --Haemo 07:28, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It will be impossible to protect all names. (Units and Buildings, Units and buildings, Units, of/in/appearing in/ Starcraft II, Starcraft 2, with the possible additions of "confirmed" or "announced".)Agreeing to speedy delete it next time is the only thing we can do. --User:Krator (t c) 13:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The End (and this time I mean it)

message: how about putting something more that indicates towards the starcraftwikia and strategywikia. I just read the discussion here and realized that those sites exist. If you had something more indicating towards them then just the external links, I would have never bothered with my units page, and no one will bother you again I can guarantee it. We are happy as long as it's somewhere, and it's ok if it's not wikipedia. Thanks for those links to whomever! (Not everyone reads the whole page including the external links! - upgrade that top of the page) Addictgamer 20:35, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I made an attempt. Suggestions, remarks, and donations are welcome. --User:Krator (t c) 22:15, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I hate these giant boxes for external links. The Wikia link is clearly visible right there in plain sight. No need for a box, sorry. --- RockMFR 03:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Though clearly visible, the editor above indicated that he did not find it, and unnecessarily created a list article because of it. I have changed the section order to increase visibility. --User:Krator (t c) 09:50, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seriously. People should check whether the information they're about to put in is already in a more appropriate place. --Capefeather 21:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Actually The End

message: Since it's generally been decided that people should go watch the gameplay video itself, rather than coming here, to find unit data etc., perhaps we should make a section entitled "Promotion," which mentions the various media that Blizzard has created and distributed to promote the game (Gameplay video, cinematic trailer, artwork trailer, website, PC Gamer article, PC Gamer video, etc.) as well as possibly a brief description of the data that was revealed in each.
This should allow people to find the data that they're looking for (which seems to be a common complaint from the people who want the unit data included here), without including non-encyclopedic data in the article itself. Nimelennar 16:24, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You could just send them to StrategyWiki.  --Notmyhandle 20:52, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt that will solve the problem: It will just be shot down as an "unreliable source."  I think a Promotion section will solve a lot of the problems we're having right now.  That would be quite a good thing, considering that we haven't made any progress on this issue since full protection was enabled, so it looks like we'll be right back into an edit war when the protection expires.  I just have no idea how to write it. Nimelennar 16:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think he meant to direct people to the other wiki, not link to it in the article as a source. Just like Wookieepedia is a better place for Star Wars trivia, StrategyWiki would be better for SC2 trivia. -- Kesh 22:26, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We've had the link to "StarCraft II at StarCraft Wiki at Wikia" for almost as long as this article has been in existence, and that hasn't stopped the units problem from occurring.  I think we need something in-article to refer them to the promotional material, and thus the much-coveted unit list. Nimelennar 22:35, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Promotion" Section