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The FFXI abilities are done like this. Or they will be. — YuanSalve!Acta 07:13, May 21, 2010 (UTC)

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Old topic is finished, but I read something and thought I must say something. Firstly: All abilities should be on a "List of Abilities" page, or on one of its childs. This wiki doesn't do this at the moment, but according to the old rules decided by an ordinary user, it's what we should do, just because it makes sense. However the structure was never decided upon and nothing happened. It disgusts me still to this day.

"we set FFXI aside because our scope does not fully cover the game as a whole"

Lies! We cover XI as fully as reasonably possible. And actually, that's just as much as any other game all most. We don't want to overkill the wiki with XI, but we don't have to. XIclopedia makes an article for everything (and is actually a pretty lame wiki when you look past the colossal article count and start to see what it lacks) but the FFWiki does not do that for any game. Are rule is that an item has to have three (? I think I moved it up to four in the cases of armor, weapons and accessories, but items were not discussed) appearances to be an article, or be a rather notable key item. So by not making a page for every item in XI, we aren't "not fully covering it", we are covering it as much as reasonably possible.

Basically, when I was thinking about how to organise XI, I looked at the wiki in a way I've never done before. The wiki has become a collection of lists. To cover all of Xi's content, we needed:

  • A List of enemies (had to be split into subpages because there are many) - and creating pages only for genera and enemies that give a title upon defeat (when I came here a while back this wasn't been kept to, and no one cared - surprised I am not). This results in as few articles as possible: however within these articles we are covering every enemy as much as is needed. Each member of a genus doesn't differ that much, makes it easier.
  • A List of weapons. These articles are huge - technically we need to split them into more subpages since each weapon should have its stats in a table, each entry anchored.
  • And the same as above for armor, accessories, and items. But take note, this is what we do for other games. An XI appearance counts as a +1 appearance just like any other game.
  • List of characters. If a character is important enough it gets a page. Like any other game.
  • A List of jobs of sorts, and each job gets a page.
  • A List of abilities. This is organised differently to other game's but functions in the same way. Enemy Abilities works in the same way.
  • And some terminology articles. In fact more than usual since XI is very different.

I don't know if I missed something, but if I did it's the same as other games. Oh, locations. Yup, works the same as other games. Sub-locations go on main locations page under a subheader, just like every other game. Except XI locations are a bit bigger, that's it.

However, XI's coverage is in shambles since our source sucks (that's XIclopedia, not XI, XI's a better source, but takes time), and therefore I can't (or, couldn't) create articles to perfection without certain information. Maybe this means XIV will be much easier to handle. Anyway, the XI structure is pretty much in place. Too much information for a non-playing community to handle.

I've gone far from the original subject. Hmm... 88.108.97.77 14:44, June 11, 2010 (UTC)

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