Research Realm:Guidelines

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This description will update if we have some sort of style guide. For now, the guidelines so far are:

• Stay objective. No subjective sentences or opinions. Certain smaller jokes might be okay.
• Create new wiki pages for a topic when there is a decent amount of information on it. For example, we have a lot of information about Rock Raiders' prototypes, so they should only be described briefly on the "Rock Raiders" theme's page, but expanded on a dedicated "Rock Raiders prototypes" page (name pending)
• The structure of the Wiki should follow a hierarcy, similar to Bricklink. You should be able to navigate from a page about 1999 as a year down to a Rock Raiders part that was released in that year. As an example, the Rock Raiders theme could branch like this:

Rock Raiders (Theme)

• Minifigures
  • Chief (one page per character)
  • Axle
  • More minifigs...
• Sets
  • Main sets (each set in the series is linked individually)
  • Promotional sets
• Introduced parts (each part has its own page)
  • 71612cx1 Chrome Drill
  • 30298 Roll Cage
    • Observed mould numbers
    • Mould variations
    • Prototypes
    • Found in which sets? (lot of work, maybe not needed)
  • More parts...
• History and development
  • Prototypes
  • Information on years of development etc
  • Cancelled sets
  • Changes over time?
• Legacy
  • What remains of the theme today

Klavvy (Baraklava) — 01/16/2023 6:10 PM If there is nothing more to say on the set, definitely just link to Brickset (not Brickipedia I think - their articles can be pretty messy and Brickset has more verified info)

I think if there is anything else to say about the set, it's a good idea to give it a separate page. For Rock Raiders, you'd be interested in how they work in the PC game, for example, so that's more info needed. For some sets, perhaps there are prototypes of the set that would be nice to feature. Many sets though, won't have much to add to a separate page

That said... have you guys seen the website https://www.backoftheboxbuilds.com/ ? It is unfortunately very messy, but this is something I'd love to have that's missing from the broader internet. Just pictures the box of each set in high-resolution. It would make a ton of sense to have them available in a wiki rather than a separate website just for boxes, right? And that would warrant a Wiki page for sure I think

But all of that is not very high priority, it's something that I want to do eventually. Getting a complete archive would take a lot of time. Or, if someone would have access to the Lego Vault...

You guys are more into Rock Raiders and the PC games - so I think you should focus on expanding those pages in the meantime. Things like

• A main page for each game, with information on levels and things in the game
• How to run the game (A separate page, optimally)
• How to mod the game (A separate page, that then points to separate pages on modding specific parts)
• Betas, prototypes and cut content of the game perhaps, though that is widely covered my TCRF

Again, the Realm is a vision of mine that is a bit fuzzy, and you work on the parts of the Wiki that you want. For example I would be interested in cataloguing how many mould numbers there are for each part, and when they were produced, and... everyone else probably doesn't lol. As long as it's detailed nerd information, it goes!