Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Age of Empires

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Contents 1 Logo image 2 Are we taking lists? 3 Guard Tower? 4 Real-time strategy article needs help

[edit] Logo image

This WikiProject looks like a good idea to improve the AOE articles. The current WikiProject logo (Image:Age of Empires Series Unnoficial Home-Made Logo.JPG) is rather hard to read though. I'd like to offer this one as a replacement:
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It was made from scratch with MS Paint. If there are no objections, I'll put it into Template:AoE Banner after 5 days. Robotman¹⁹⁷⁴ 13:03, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree with you, my image is dificult to read. But, ive got a suggestion: You could add 2 tildes (~~) around the word of so that you get something like this: ~of~; this way, the logo will be more siiliar to the official one. Also, could it also be employed in the wiki-project userbox? TomasBat (@)(Contributions)(Sign!) 20:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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I'll make and upload an alternate version with "~of~" in the middle, but I'm not sure if this should get any closer to the copyrighted logo. In any case, here's what the project template and userbox would look like with the new image:

	This article is within the scope of the Age of Empires WikiProject, an effort to improve articles on the video games and expansions of these which compose the series.
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Robotman¹⁹⁷⁴ 20:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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With the new alternate image Image:ProjAOE.png:

	This article is within the scope of the Age of Empires WikiProject, an effort to improve articles on the video games and expansions of these which compose the series.
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I think that newer one looks better actually. Robotman¹⁹⁷⁴ 21:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree... Thanks for the preview! TomasBat (@)(Contributions)(Sign!) 21:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I think neither un-offical logo is good; they don't look "real". I think we should look for something better (no idea what though; I'll try to think of something). · AO ^Talk 21:58, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I say that we employ the last un-official logo until we find something better, if we auctually do get to find something better... TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 22:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't think copyrighted images are allowed for this kind of thing, but I'm not sure about that. Anyway, I'll insert Image:ProjAOE.png into both templates now. If something better does come up though, I'm all for it. Robotman¹⁹⁷⁴ 22:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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I realize I'm getting to the party late, but I'd like to contribute a new image for this project. I'll get started on that... --Jophus00 (talk) 06:35, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Are we taking lists?

I noticed that there are two lists ( here and here) that certainly fall under the category of Age of Empires, but I'm not sure if this project includes lists. Could someone confirm, then add the banner to their pages if appropriate? ~ Giggy! _{Talk (reply here)} 06:56, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I suppose so... If you find any, please insert the banner and add them here. Also, we need to cover all these... ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 10:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, and they should be all rated as low improtance, since we focus more on the actual games and expansions. ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 21:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Also, it'd be a good idea to add it to any templates, categories, or project pages (like this one, or the template itself), with class and importance of NA. This will add it to the Category:Non-article Age of Empires pages, which should be useful to you guys. ~ JohnnyMrNinja _{talk} 05:47, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

And please don't add it to redirect pages (someone did). This will confuse anyone who clicks on the link from the category and ends up at the target page. ~ JohnnyMrNinja _{talk} 05:51, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guard Tower?

Why is there a stub on "guard tower?" If this is accurate, is this in anticipation of adding a stub on every single building and entity in the Age universe? I can't imagine that would be wise or useful. Thoughts? -- Jophus00 (talk) 06:27, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Barracks and stable, for instance, are stubs about buildings that are notable in real life, but that also happen to be AoE buildings. Settler Wagon has been redirected to Conestoga wagon, because in that case it wasn't notable as an aricle for just the AoE unit and not also the real life wagon. The Guard tower article talks about the the real life tower ("Eventually in the 1590s, it was replaced by Keeps."), but also seems to talk, apart from the "In popular culture" section, about the tower in the game (the sentence "They can be also improved by Murder-holes, which allowed them to attack the enemy attacking at the tower's base" seems to talk about the game because the precise technology to make guard towers attack enemies that have gotten too close to the tower for any arrows to be fired at them, eliminating minimum range, is called Murder-holes; and it also talks about real life, since adding a murder hole would logically permit soldiers hitting the wall to be damaged from above). Dihydrogen Monoxide, the user who added the project's banner, adding the article to the scope, included in his edit summary "AoE related....ish". While the guard tower is kind of a typical AoE element, it would be illogical to add to the project's scope articles like University, Monastery, House, Militia, Galleon, etc. I suppose best would be to keep the article but remove it from the scope of this wikiproject. ♠TomasBat 00:23, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

I've removed the banner. CloudNine (talk) 23:11, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Real-time strategy article needs help

Hey folks. Just wanted to direct some eager and intelligent minds to the real-time strategy article. Right now, the article is B-level status but it's important enough that it needs to be pushed to good article status. More than anything, it needs research and references to verify the statements in the article at this point. Please check in when you can. Randomran (talk) 15:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)