PCGamingWiki talk:Sample article

Please direct any deep discussion about the Sample Article on the Development section of the forum.

This question is about editing pages. What does acceleration_option=true mean? Because every time, I add a table I wonder - if this means, that the game has an option for mouse acceleration or that it means - it has mouse acceleration (as in - it's enabled). I'm guessing it's about an option for mouse acceleration in options, but I'd be nice if someone could confirm that.

If so - if a game has mouse acceleration disabled by default and doesn't have an option - this would be false, unless acceleration can be enabled by editing ini, in which case it would be hackable. If a game has mouse acceleration enabled by default and doesn't have an option - this would be false, as well - and the rest goes into notes, am I correct?

This is correct. If it's unchangable it'd be false, however make a note that it's enabled by default when it is.

Mouse sensitivity, invert mouse, etc. are not considered mouse acceleration. Those are different things.

Can we add this to the cheat sheet? It's in the article, but not up-top.

===[[Save game cloud syncing]]===
{{Save Game Cloud Syncing|
{{Save Game Cloud Syncing/row| [[Steam Cloud]] | false |  }}
{{Save Game Cloud Syncing/row| [[Origin]] | True | Syncs save games and settings. }}
{{Save Game Cloud Syncing/row| [[GameSave Manager]] | hackable | In the database. }}
}}

1. According to the official Wikipedia rules (not that those are necessarily important here, simply a good guideline) there should NEVER be headers to sections that use only a single =. These are reserved for the title of the article. I believe that the Windows, Mac, and Linux headings should be switched to "==" so it's a smaller size.
2. I also wanted to suggest that System Requirements be combined into one section at the bottom of the page for all OS'. I don't find it necessary to separate them into their own categories.
3. The code template should include a Mac (and possibly Linux) section so we know what to separate between them. It's a bit confusing currently as to what is separated by OS when there's only a single OS listed.

Thanks,

1) h1 headers to denote OS were implemented to make it easier to convert a page from single OS to multiple OS. If you have the time to change every header level, we can do this.

2) System Requirements move is discussed here: http://forums.pcgamingwiki.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=85

3) My original vision for each page was to have each OS under a different heading, with every subsection repeated (different Video Settings, Game Data, tables etc.) but there has been push from other editors to combine the tables together. I don't know what the 'ideal' situation would be. There are 3 options:

a) Each OS with repeated tables

b) Subpages (e.g. Team Fortress 2 (Windows), Team Fortress 2 (Mac), Team Fortress 2 (Linux))

c) Combined information, e.g. Game data with 3 rows for each OS.

Explored in this thread: http://forums.pcgamingwiki.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=107

The Input settings text provided links to a section titled Controller, but the section title suggested below it is Controller support; anyone copying this part of the sample into a page will end up with a link that doesn't work.

Thanks I redirected everything to Controller.

Our 'guides' to non-game stuff like hardware, controllers and things like graphics terms are very underdeveloped. I'm hoping to put some serious time in to get them up to a good standard. If you have any input, please voice them in our new forum.

This instruction makes no sense to me: "Virtually all sentences in all game fix pages should use these codes". No one follows it because it would be a mess of icon overload, and I'd say it's used too much ever now. Can someone explain the rational behind this?

Why do both ID|Steam and Distributor|Steam exist? What's the difference between the apart from the tag? I noticed Amazon is missing in ID but exists in Distributor which is why I've opted for the latter in Far Cry 3 since it has the correct image and I can't modify templates.