User talk:Nanomat

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Feel free to contact me on my talkpage if you need anything. Master Sima Yi (talk) 13:10, May 29, 2015 (UTC)

RE: IRL image policy

Hi Nanomat,

Generally we do not allow real life images with no relation to Assassin's Creed to be used, but this applies to the main bodies of articles; the history sections and infoboxes etc. You are allowed to use real life images elsewhere on the wiki (provided they are also sourced correctly; read Assassin's Creed Wiki:Images) but they really have to contribute to the article and not mess with the article's formatting. As trivia sections often contain references to real world events and people etc., having real world images in these sections only is not a problem. -- Master Sima Yi _Talk 21:59, September 17, 2017 (UTC)

Tracing weapon origins

Hey there, I have actually been meaning to say this, but I'm actually very fascinated by your ability to trace each of the Assassin's Creed weapons down to their original source or inspiration. :) That was something I had been hoping we could do, but I was clueless as to how. You've been doing a great job, how have you managed to trace so many of them? Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 17:23, October 3, 2017 (UTC)

Multiplayer muskets

Hey Nanomat, I was wondering if you can identify the make of some the muskets in multiplayer:

I'm not sure if most of them are just highly stylized fictional muskets. Thank you! Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 17:18, October 7, 2017 (UTC)

Volley gun

Hey Nanomat, so for the sake of organization, I'm creating an article describing duck foot pistols in general. However, I did not know what to call a general article for all the multiple-barrel pistols such as the Double-Barrel Pistol and the American Flintlock, which aren't duck feet. The name "multiple-barrel pistol" did not seem right to me because technically duck feet are multiple-barrel pistols too. So, I have mostly settled on creating an article at volley gun which covers both types in one article. I am taking this from Wikipedia's own article on volley gun which describes it as a general term for any multi-barrel gun that fires them either sequentially or simultaneously. This avoids having to explicitly name the type that fires sequentially. You can check out my draft for a clearer idea of what I mean. However, I forgot if the Pepperbox Pistol, which is not a duck foot, actually fires all its barrels simultaneously or not in the game even though its Wikipedia article says it fires them sequentially. The Wikipedia article on pepper-box pistol also confusingly says that volley guns are defined by firing all its barrels simultaneously.

Anyways, I just wanted to ask for your advice. Do you think it's a good idea to create just one page for duck foot pistols and the other kind of multiple-barrel pistol that fires its barrels sequentially, or do you think they should be separate? And if they should be separate, what should be the name for the type that fires its barrels sequentially? Can you confirm the proper definition of "volley gun"? Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 05:51, October 11, 2017 (UTC)

I think you misunderstand. It was never a question that we would have separate articles for every weapon, but I was also going to create a more general article for a category of weapons. This is part of my project to better organize our weapon articles.

1. The rule is that if there are multiple weapons who share the same generic name, we merge them into one article covering the weapon type in general (e.g. katana).
2. If we have many different weapons of the same type, but they all have different names, we have articles for each separate weapon and an article covering the weapon type in general, especially if one of the weapons of that type shares the same generic name as the weapon type. For example, there are many weapons that are maces. We would have separate articles for each mace, but since there is also a specific weapon named simply "Mace" in Unity, this creates an awkward scenario. The mace named "Mace" here is on the same tier as all the other maces with less generic names. If we have just an article at mace for "Mace" the specific weapon in Unity, this may cause confusion since readers might be expecting mace to be about maces in general not a specific mace named "Mace". The temptation by most editors would be to have a separate article for each mace, but then for the mace named "Mace" it would be merged with a general article on all maces, but this is also poor organization because the mace named "Mace" is on the same tier as all the less generically named maces and so deserves its own article as well. As a result, the policy with cases like mace is to have both an article for maces in general and a separate article for every specific mace, including the mace named "Mace" which would have an article at Mace (Unity).
3. If a few weapons are of the same type, but their group is small, we only have articles on each of them without having a general article for their type. For example, we have an article at Corseque and Crusader's Corseque but no article on corseques in general because there's only two examples of corseques.

I believe duck feet and weapons of the type which American Flintlock is an example would fall under case 2. There should be articles for each specific weapon and an article covering the weapon type in general since there are many cases of the weapon type rather than just a few. There is a specific weapon named Duck Foot Pistol which like the mace named "Mace" causes an awkward scenario where someone might expect the article to be about duck foot pistols in general rather than a specific duck foot pistol. Hence, a compromise is to have an article on both the specific Duck Foot Pistol and an article at duck foot pistol in general. However, since this is also the case for Double-Barrel Pistol, the type of weapon shared by American Flintlock, we also need a generic article for that type as well (as well as articles for each ndividual case). I was thinking, however, that perhaps the general article on the type represented by American Flintlock can merge with the article on duck foot pistols in general under the name volley gun because I don't know a proper name for the type represented by American Flintlock. But of course, we will always have separate articles for specific duck foot pistls and other multi-barreled pistols. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 13:59, October 11, 2017 (UTC)

EDIT: I seem to have not applied the last case consistently since the article at corseque does read as corseques in general when under my policy, it would be about the specific corseque named "Corseque", but I will think over the last case then. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 14:06, October 11, 2017 (UTC)