Talk:Diplomacy screen
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This page needs to be broken out into many smaller pages describing the rules and the UI.
I have now moved the listing of diplomatic actions to diplomatic actions. And many of those are now their own pages.
Still want to chop out half of this page, to "diplomatic map mode", or maybe "diplomacy map". Wonder what the tooltip calls it. The map mode is not that important, certainly should not be first, since you don't use it much except insofar as it comes up when you are doing diplomacy.
Wreck 21:56, 17 July 2008 (CEST)
Abbreviations
Some abbreviations are listed in this article. Do we need an own article for abbreviations? It may be useful in the "Beginners Guide" article.
Olav 18:51, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
This page used to be a lot bigger, before I broke out the diplomatic actions into their own page. So some of it is obsolete, including most of the abbreviations which are not used here any more.
In general, I don't like to use any but the most common abbreviations here at the wiki. I.e., CoT and DoW are ubiquitous, and useful, and they are defined on the proper page, and there are redirects (from CoT to center of trade, etc). But "DA" is not something we even need to define, IMO. Write "diploannex" and link it up if you absolutely cannot stand to write "diplomatically annex" or "annex diplomatically", etc.
On any page, when you first use any term that a newbie might not understand correctly, you should either define it on the spot, or use it as a link to the article where it is defined. I don't enforce this for the opinion pages (strategy guides), but I try to for other pages.
Wreck 20:20, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I agree that the wiki shouldn't contain abbreviations except for the ubiquitous ones. However, as many different abbreviations are used at the forums, I think it would be nice with an article for reference here at the wiki. A newbie might want to have easy access to a list of all abbreviations, instead of having to search up each single word.
Olav 21:28, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
