Category talk:Dragon Age: Inquisition texts

Move

  Not sure if "notes" would be the proper term for this category, as it also includes such things as Landmarks and Samsen's short story. Perhaps moving the notes into their own separate category would be a better alternative. --♫ Kelcat ^Talk 06:31, June 3, 2015 (UTC)

Agree with kelcat, they're not all notes. I think texts lets us cover a broader array of items without trying to cram too much into one category -HD3 ^(Talk) 13:53, July 15, 2015 (UTC)

Veilfire glyphs

This shall become a collection of all those notes only readable in veilfire – to see, how much of them exist and if a separate category or listing would make sense. I place my signature here, the list will follow then; updates will not include a new sig (I hope, this is okay). -- -- You talkin' to me? -- cCContributions -- 12:32, July 19, 2017 (UTC)

1. Note: Ancient Writing
2. Note: An Apostate's Message

Inquisition Notes format discussion

I think we should create a universal format for Inquisition notes, in order to simplify the process.

My suggestion is to treat the notes as codex entries (quick example). At the top we have the "See also" (optional). Afterwards the paragraph is named "Codex text" in this case it would be "Note text". After the note text we should have optional paragraphs: "Acquisition" typically needed when the listed location found inside the Template:NoteTransformer is not explanatory enough, then "Trivia", and finally "See also".

As it is the case with Codex entries, no screenshots of the ingame text of the notes should be added ("Gallery" paragraph). It serves no purpose since you have already extracted the content of the screenshot. A respectable number of them has been added around the wiki and it should be removed. 12:15, November 21, 2017 (UTC)

In general – fine by me! (Though I might have not the time at the moment to help a lot. "Guten Tag" – )

That formatting basically would eliminate the introductory text, I placed in most notes I have done until now. That's something, where codex entries do deviate from the general layout of pages. As there for now are no plans to transform the notes, as it is done with many codex entries, might it be okay to keep that section? Of course acquisition content can be moved to its own section.

About that screenshot-gallery thing: I only tried to find a continuation of what I found on many, many pages that dealt with notes – many contributors have upped many screenshots of those notes, and added them to many articles (locations, quests). I simply didn't want to remove all their work.

And their purpose as "proof" for the correctness of the note: well, you can always look after that specific codex entry in your codex in-game – but these notes are gone after the message pop-up, and aren't comprehensible anymore. Do the screenshots hurt? -- -- You talkin' to me? -- cCContributions -- 12:39, November 21, 2017 (UTC)

Frankly I think we should treat Inquisition's notes in the same manner as Codex: Notes of Origins, they just don't have the word "Codex entry:" in front of them. So what happens in codex entries should happen to notes. If one gets an introduction then so does the other.

As for the screenshots. I think it started this way, before people created independent pages for the notes. Now they have no use, frankly when I first read them I was confused I thought there was something new I could read in those. Also repeating the same text over with an image is reduntant, don't you agree? 13:23, November 21, 2017 (UTC)

"Go!" for the first topic.

How about placing the screenshots as IB image?

It's been a lot of work, cleaning all those images up, giving them a pure black background, and such … But it still would require a lot more of work to do the same for all the remaining notes.

Perhaps somebody else has additional thoughts on this?

-- -- You talkin' to me? -- cCContributions -- 13:42, November 21, 2017 (UTC)