Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26564307-20160103050421

Okay, so I wanted to start a thread for a very great, but somewhat dis-organized page on this wiki: the Building Tips page. I've looked at this quite often, and have noticed a couple of ways it could be impoved. I felt like it would be best to discus as a group on how to organize that page.

My opinion is this:

1) “What materials should I use in building?” and “Where are good places to build faction buildings?” should be incorperated with each seperate faction as a sub-part of it.

2) Each faction should have a small gallery (3-5 images at least, more if needed). Obviously a simple Fangorn build wouldn't need as many pictures for inspiration and example showing as a Dwarven build.

3) The organization (as in Elven, Orcish, Dwarven, Mannish, and Other) should stay, as should the introductory parts (Village building, Fort Building, Basics, etc.)

4) Each faction section should go in this order with content: What Materials to Use, Where To Build, Basics of the Building Style, Alternate and Other Styles (Like with Tauredain or Gundabad), Gallery. The reason I choose this style is that it would go from least detail to most. I would like to say that in theory, the “Where to Build” section should include why that biome is okay, and a style that would best fit. An example is how Mirkwood Corrupted is okay to build a Wood-Elven thing in, but explain that it should be a hidden underground hid-out type build, not a tall, pristine tower, along with how it would most make sense to be up in the Northern part of the Biome, and not down by Dol Goldur.

5) The above mentioned sections would be just bolded wording like how Gundabad does it, as where the section title is a “paragraph” of its own (look at the page for better explaination).

6) The beginning should have an explanitory section that will tell people the organization of the page, as well as how to best find what they're looking for.

I hope this helps with the development of the page. It's a huge project, and though what has been done up to now is very good, and I'm not trying to say its wrong, I think its time for it to be orgainized into a more optimal system for people to use. Feel free to put in your own ideas, because I'm willing to bet a better way could exsist to improve the page, and some parts I think should change could have a very good reason for staying.  