Here's how our enemy articles are currently laid out as according to the MoS:
- Infobox
- Intro (including location and battle circumstances and just things summarised)
- Story (optional, for minor story character bosses)
- Bestiary info (optional, only if applicable, and also Mark information-- information of the enemy as part of a game-specific system)
- How to find (optional, usually for optional bosses/rare game)
- Stats (optional, for FFVIII enemies)
- Battle
- Strategy
- AI Script (if we can)
- Gallery (optional, for enemy abilities and artwork)
- Trivia (optional, most things can go in the intro)
- Related Enemies
I don't know if "How to find" should go above or below the game-specific info. It's not in the MoS, but it should be. "Stats" isn't in there either (it's only for one game... I don't know how XII works but I imagine it might have a similar system, but unless we have formulas we can't really do anything), however above "Battle" makes most sense.
Suggested changes:
- Make "Strategy" a sub-section of "Battle". It only makes sense is the strategy info is primarily based on info from the Battle section.
- Add a section for formations. I also think we should add all enemies that can appear in the same battle as the enemy in question should be placed in related enemies, but at very least we need a list of the different formations the enemy can appear in. This is also going to effect the strategy section, and could help us bulk out random encounters more. This section would only apply to random encounter games really. This is very possible for implementing to I and VII immediately, and most games have an "Enemy formations" section on location pages.
- In the "Locations" section in the infobox: List all sub-locations. If we don't want to do that then we could perhaps consider making it a section of the article. Even if an enemy appears in all areas, by not stating that they are in all people won't know for sure they are in all. And I wouldn't like just saying "All areas" for the same reason I don't like saying "Ribbon prevents all statuses".
The formations and locations sections could be related. The same random encounter might appear in multiple locations. We might want to consider how we would link this information up. We could number up the formations (we know VII's internal numbered system, but we number them on a per-page basis, from 1 up) and then the Locations sections could be a table with the name of the Location, and then a list of numbers which link to the enemy formation further up the page.
We may also want to consider a List of Enemy Formations page. User:JBed/FFVII/Enemies/Formations does this, but we would obviously have to use the enemy names and link to when they are fought.
I think there's something else I forgot, but that will do. Anyone disagree? Other suggestions? JBed (talk) 00:48, April 20, 2013 (UTC)