Category talk:Vehicles: Difference between revisions

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Anybody Want to be a massive help to the community?

What I think would be a great addition to all of the individual vehicle pages would be a small table to the right hand side of the page, which simply lists "Games this vehicle has appeared in" and would simply link to each of the GTA pages which have that vehicle in.

For example, the page for the PCJ-600 would have a table similar to the following:

Games which this vehicle has appeared in

GTA3
GTA Vice City
GTA San Andreas
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Vice City Stories

The page for the Kuruma would have a table like this:

GTA3

... those game names obviously being links to their respective pages.

If you would like to help out with this task, please sign your name here, I'll paste the table code here which you can use.

--Chris 20:01, 27 April 2007 (BST)

I'd like to help. My main concern with these lists is they have the potential to get long and unsightly in the case of vehicles that appear in almost every game in the series, like the Taxi. If there's a way to start another column so there are two side-by-side (there most likely is but I'm too lazy to look it up), that would solve the problem nicely.

We should also come up with some kind of standard layout for the vehicle articles, because right now they're all laid out differently and it's messy as hell. Look at the huge variation between these pages, for example. Esperanto, Police Car, and Yardie Lobo. They're all laid out differently (Police Car is tidiest). Some pages don't have enough content for it to matter how it's arranged, but all too often the articles are full of content, but it's arranged a different way every time. --MattyDienhoff 18:32, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Standardize Layout?

See discussion here. --MattyDienhoff 15:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Which image should take precedence?

For vehicles that appear in more than one game, the article on that vehicle typically has an image of that vehicle in each game in which it appears, right? The thing is, only one image goes at the top of the page, the rest typically go in a gallery down the bottom. So, how should we determine which version of the car's image is most important (and should go up the top)?

A: The image of the earliest (3D) version of the car should be at the top of the article. B: The image of the latest version of the car should be at the top of the article.

--MattyDienhoff 07:49, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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 ::We should also come up with some kind of standard layout for the vehicle articles, because right now they're all laid out differently and it's messy as hell. Look at the huge variation between these pages, for example. [[Esperanto]], [[Police Car]], and [[Yardie Lobo]]. They're all laid out differently (Police Car is tidiest). Some pages don't have enough content for it to matter how it's arranged, but all too often the articles are full of content, but it's arranged a different way every time. --[[User:MattyDienhoff|MattyDienhoff]] 18:32, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
-=Standardize Layout?=
+==Standardize Layout?==
-Okay, I've been doing some pretty hard thinking on this and I've already put the idea to work in a few articles. I've made it my long-term goal to standardize the layout of the vehicle articles, at least from the GTA III era games onwards. Obviously, not all fields are applicable to all vehicles (like Sub-Mission), and I haven't made any provision for modifications as in GTA:SA, but that information can probably go in the overview. Here's an example of the layout I've been using, the information is divided into sections as follows.
+[[Grand_Theft_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal#Standardized_vehicle_article_layout|See discussion here]]. --[[User:MattyDienhoff|MattyDienhoff]] 15:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
-==Introduction==
+==Which image should take precedence?==
-This should be brief and simple, e.g. "The '''Kuruma''' is a four-door sedan featured in [[Grand Theft Auto III]].", and list only the most basic facts about the vehicle, stating what it is and in which game it first appears. More detailed information (such as information about it's handling) should go into the overview instead.
+For vehicles that appear in more than one game, the article on that vehicle typically has an image of that vehicle in each game in which it appears, right? The thing is, only one image goes at the top of the page, the rest typically go in a gallery down the bottom. So, how should we determine which version of the car's image is most important (and should go up the top)?
-==Overview==
-More detailed information goes here. If this section is sufficiently wordy/detailed, you may want to divide it up with the following sub-headers.
-===Design===
-For detailed information about the vehicle's design, structure, and real-world origins (if any)
-===Performance===
-Detailed information about the vehicle's performance. This often bleeds over into gameplay tips, e.g. advising what the vehicle is best used for.
-==Sub-mission==
-A link to the vehicle's sub-mission, if any.
-==Appears in==
-List of games the vehicle appears in.
-==Variants==
-Other vehicles based on this vehicle. For example, [[Mr. Wongs]] is a variant of the [[Mule]].
-==Trivia==
-Any additional facts that don't belong in the summary or overview.
-==See Also==
-Related articles. For example, the [[Taxi]] is related to the [[Police Car]], because they invariably share the same model.
-==Gallery==
-Additional pictures. This should always be down the bottom because, due to the gallery's visibility, any other section placed beneath it will be stifled and less noticable.
-[[Cabbie]] is a great example of this layout in action as it makes use of all of the above sections. --[[User:MattyDienhoff|MattyDienhoff]] 15:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
+A: The image of the earliest (3D) version of the car should be at the top of the article.
+B: The image of the latest version of the car should be at the top of the article.
+--[[User:MattyDienhoff|MattyDienhoff]] 07:49, 13 January 2009 (UTC)