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Italics

I think we need to add a part that says that Bedrock Edition and Legacy Console Edition should not italicized. While other versions need. Skylord wars (talk) 00:06, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

 Support--Orange Glazed TerracottaMadminecrafter12TalkContributions 14:13, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
Well on the main page, most editions name are already italicized. Well, I still think "Legacy Console Edition" should be named as "Legacy Console Edition". See Talk:Legacy Console Edition#Italic words--Skylord wars (talk) 14:26, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Move the page to Minecraft Wiki:Manual of Style?

Hello. I think this page to be moved to Minecraft Wiki:Manual of Style to match Wikipedia's title, instead of Minecraft Wiki:Style guide. A redirect can also be created from MCW:Style guide. --Philip57sundfors (talk) 12:00, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

 Oppose, style guide suits our wiki better. We're a small wiki with not as many people as the big wikipedia, where they need many regulations to deal with so many editors. Here, we just have a guide and that's formal enough IMO. We don't want to dictate and scare away our new editors haha. – Jack McKalling [ User page Talk page Contributions ] 13:27, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 Oppose: Seems like a change just for the sake of changing it. Style guide is clear enough to state the purpose of this page. KnightMiner · (t) 17:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 Meh. The exact name isn't important here; both "style guide" and "manual of style" communicate the page's purpose just fine, so there's really no strong argument for changing from one to the other. Redirect the redlink and move on. ディノ千?!? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 23:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 Done Redirect from redlink created. – Jack McKalling [ User page Talk page Contributions ] 23:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
 Slightly oppose. In my opinion either way works fine, but if the title is already Style Guide, I don't see any major benefit of moving it.--Orange Glazed Terracotta Madminecrafter12TC 00:51, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 Oppose “Manual” seems to sound too vast, like the UNIX man system including hundreds of pages. Plus it doesn’t look like a rational change; on both stances I agree with others. Also, “it is done on Wikipedia” can’t be a good argument by itself. — BabylonAS (talk | ru.Wiki Admin) 17:00, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

References

This wiki doesn't really have any rules regarding references; editors usually just add plaintext links. I find that this doesn't look that good and also doesn't give the reader much information on the page. I have created a few templates ({{Article}}, {{SnapshotLink}}, {{Link}}) that are loosely based off of Wikipedia's citing templates, but I seem to be mostly the only one using them (although {{Article}} is used on all recent snapshot pages). I just think there need to be some guidelines of linking references. Thoughts? – Nixinova Grid Book and Quill Grid Diamond Pickaxe Grid Map 07:00, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion: strongly recommend to use the most specific template possible with plaintext links as a last resort. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 08:00, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

New textures in images

When adding screenshots to an article, make sure the screenshots use vanilla textures and UI. Screenshots that use custom texturepacks, UI mods and other custom content are not allowed.

Does this apply to the new textures? – Nixinova Grid Book and Quill Grid Diamond Pickaxe Grid Map 07:10, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

The rule does not apply when the purpose of the screenshot in question is to demonstrate said custom content. This seems to be mentioned immediately after the sentence you quoted: "This does not apply to articles covering mods."
Yes, when this rule was created, nobody could have thought content may be officially developed as an alternative to default data. Even if this case isn't an exact match (the new textures are intended to eventually replace the old ones, and are temporarily offered as a beta release), I think we should clarify this guideline a bit. --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 07:57, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

“Weaknesses” sections

On some new pages such as Dolphin there are “Weaknesses” sections. I propose that these sections be disallowed, as tutorial information is generally excluded from normal pages. The BlobsPaper 22:44, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Definitely part of non-tutorial information in this case. It describes properties of the mob, it doesn't provide instructions as to what to do. In other words, Trolls are weak to fire, taking 25% more fire damage. is fine by itself, and should be in the article. However, if someone added So don't forget to include your fire mage in your party whenever you're going through troll territory! after the first sentence, that should be removed as "tutorial content". (Yes, these examples aren't Minecraft related at all, but the concept still applies.) --AttemptToCallNil (report bug, view backtrace) 22:57, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

Removal of the "American English" mention

Hi!

I would like to suggest to remove the following line: "Pages on the wiki should use American English unless the in-game name is British English. For instance, “colour” should be “color”, and “centre” should be “center”. " And probably replace it with something way more appropriate, like the text of the help wiki: gphelp:Gamepedia_Help_Wiki:Tutorial/Keep_in_mind#National_varieties_of_English. I really think however that it should be clear that the in-game terms of en_US are the one to use on the Wiki, as they are the official language of the game.

Every user should feel free to write the way they learned to, and there is no good reason why to require users to use rules from a particular place or country in the world. We should also avoid to "correct" something good in another region, simply for the sake of correcting.

Of course, consistency is something important, and we should perhaps state that we should spell words (like "center"/"centre") the same way everywhere in a same article. (wp:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English is a good reference on that matter).

JSBM (talk) 01:50, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

The in game name part should not be removed as you really need to follow the in game name. The strange thing is, although Minecraft (game) uses American English as their default, Minecraft.net uses British English instead. I  Agree with removing the line saying that the wiki should be using American English. skylord_wars (talk) 02:07, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
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