Talk:Warhammer 40,000 spin-offs

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[edit] List style

I have just finished changing the list from the old style:

• Blah - Blah blah
• Bleh - Bleh bleh

to:

Blah 

Blah blah

Bleh 

Bleh bleh

I did this because the old style was far to disorganised for the amount of information being presented.

I also removed the huge amount of italicised text (nearly all names, links etc... were in italics). We need to decide on what needs to be in italics and what doesn't. Also, I removed some extra links to various addons and expansions as the information for this is covered in the main article for the particular game and the likelyhood of the information being expanded upon enough to warrant its own article within a reasonable time is very slim. -Localzuk ^(talk) 23:16, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

• The Manual of Style says that italics should be used for various things, which while not explicitly including non-computer games, I strongly believe that this is due to the fact a list like that can never be complete rather than because of a belief they shouldn't be italicised. To take a "random" example, the Settlers of Catan page certainly uses italics for the titles of both the game itself and all the spinoffs. Any other opinions on this? Cheers --Pak21 16:12, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

I think all names of games (including computer games) should be italicised. However, I've asked the question of the bods over at the Games Project. I was also just about to get rid of all the bold type before I looked on here and saw it had been done intentionally. I really don't like it and firmly believe that bold type should only be used in the opening paragraph. There are other things we could do if the bulleted list was really that bad (which, personally, I don't think it was). - Heavens To Betsy 19:46, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion of dead mods

I'm somewhat leary of this section:

Battlefield 40k a Battlefield 2 mod.

Battlehammer 40k a planned Unreal Tournament 2007 mod.

Battlefield 40k was originally a BF1942 mod, that never went anywhere and now it's a BF2 mod, that still hasn't gone anywhere. On the eve of BF2142, I'd imagine that the team will likely abandon their work under BF2 for the new game and still not produce anything. Battlehammer 40k has abandoned BF2 for UT2007. Considering that the UT2007 version of UED doesn't exist (outside of Unreal's HQ) it's pretty safe to call this mod dead, too. EvilCouch 10:59, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

More generally, are these mods actually notable at all? I propose that we just delete the section entirely. Cheers --Pak21 12:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

To tbe best of my knowledge, they never existed in a playable form, which pretty much removes them from the realm of notable in my book. If no one's played it, it's probably not that important. I really did like the concepts of the mods, but I'll agree that they should go. EvilCouch 06:11, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comics

As Damnation Crusade (by writers Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton) is about to be launched by Boom! Studios (details [1] [2] [3]) I was wondering if it was worth someone more knowledgeable than I starting a Warhammer 40,000 (comic book) entry detailing the various outings. (Emperor 04:03, 19 November 2006 (UTC))