Anybody Want to be a massive help to the community?
What I think would be a great addition to all of the individual vehicle pages would be a small table to the right hand side of the page, which simply lists "Games this vehicle has appeared in" and would simply link to each of the GTA pages which have that vehicle in.
For example, the page for the PCJ-600 would have a table similar to the following:
Games which this vehicle has appeared in
- GTA3
- GTA Vice City
- GTA San Andreas
- GTA Liberty City Stories
- GTA Vice City Stories
The page for the Kuruma would have a table like this:
- GTA3
... those game names obviously being links to their respective pages.
If you would like to help out with this task, please sign your name here, I'll paste the table code here which you can use.
--Chris 20:01, 27 April 2007 (BST)
- I'd like to help. My main concern with these lists is they have the potential to get long and unsightly in the case of vehicles that appear in almost every game in the series, like the Taxi. If there's a way to start another column so there are two side-by-side (there most likely is but I'm too lazy to look it up), that would solve the problem nicely.
- We should also come up with some kind of standard layout for the vehicle articles, because right now they're all laid out differently and it's messy as hell. Look at the huge variation between these pages, for example. Esperanto, Police Car, and Yardie Lobo. They're all laid out differently (Police Car is tidiest). Some pages don't have enough content for it to matter how it's arranged, but all too often the articles are full of content, but it's arranged a different way every time. --MattyDienhoff 18:32, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Standardize Layout?
Okay, I've been doing some pretty hard thinking on this and I've already put the idea to work in a few articles. I've made it my long-term goal to standardize the layout of the vehicle articles, at least from the GTA III era games onwards. Obviously, not all fields are applicable to all vehicles (like Sub-Mission), and I haven't made any provision for modifications as in GTA:SA, but that information can probably go in the overview. Here's an example of the layout I've been using, the information is divided into sections as follows.
Introduction
This should be brief and simple, e.g. "The Kuruma is a four-door sedan featured in Grand Theft Auto III.", and list only the most basic facts about the vehicle, more detailed information (such as information about it's handling) should go into the overview instead.
Overview
More detailed information.
Sub-mission
Information on the sub-mission associated with the vehicle, if any.
Appears in
List of games the vehicle appears in.
Variants
Other vehicles based on this vehicle, for example, Mr. Wongs is a variant of the Mule.
Trivia
Any additional facts that don't belong in the summary or overview.
See Also
Related articles.
Gallery
Additional pictures. This should always be down the bottom because, due to the gallery's visibility, any other section placed beneath it will be stifled and less noticable.
Cabbie is a great example of this layout in action as it makes use of all of the above sections. --MattyDienhoff 15:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)