User talk:RavensfireTR

Formerly known as EarthStyrke, I'm a transplant from CoX. My normal name was taken, so tried my alternate (and was way, way too tired to type correctly!). In a moment of irrational sanity, I went back to my normal name, with TR appended. --RavensfireTR 17:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Quotes in Dialogs part on mission articles
Hi, I'd like to ask you about quotes you are using in the mission articles around spoken text in dialog part. I'm not using them on articles I wrote because I used the same text that's in the game = without any quotes. For instance, some part of the dialogs are not speech: Bootcamp Bypass have a NOTE: part... On some of your articles, when the source of the text is not living person you are not using quotes as well: Quarantine. Can we decide on one way of doing this? I don't like to start any edit-revert war. Personally I'm against using quotes, because: What is your opinion about the subject? -- Zarevak 02:47, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) It's obvious the text is someone's speech
 * 2) It's easier to not use them, because we don't have to decide if they are appropriate or not (for not living sources or NOTEs parts). What about texts from diaries and other logs?
 * 3) The game is not using any quotes.
 * 4) Currently the quotes are around each paragraph. Shouldn't there be grammatically just one set of quotes around the whole speech?
 * Honestly - it's kind of a habit for me. When I started updating the missions, I saw a discussion about the quotes, but no real definitive answer.  Some missions used them, some didn't, so I started to use them to denote speech.  In Quarantine, that was text on the computer screen, so I did not use them.


 * I honestly don't really care one way or the other - I'm just not sure which way to go. Would be nice to see something definitive in TaRapedia:Formatting, AND to see that page actually accessible except through accident (happened to click on the discussion link on the main page).


 * For me, besides habit, I use them as a way to differentiate between spoken text and non-spoken text. It's quite simple to use them - instead of a space after the colon I hit the quotes.  If we don't use them, we should consider if there's a need to differ between verbal and non-verbal communication (ex - text on a computer screen).


 * Barring something definitive, I'll probably continue with the quotes, but if the approach is not to use quotes, I will pull them out of all missions I've created with them. It's a lot, but hey, if I do it, I certainly can't complain about fixing it!  --RavensfireTR 03:06, 30 October 2007 (UTC)