Board Thread:Suggestions on Baldur's Gate Wiki/@comment-3234315-20191128083600/@comment-3045005-20191130163025

The trouble with "starting now, this is how we're doing it moving forward, and we'll fix old pages as we come across them" is that new users who stumble across the wiki and want to make changes or additions are completely lost, as you can see I have fallen afoul of constantly. I wanted to create a new NPC, so I copied some other NPC's infobox, and it turns out that infobox was old and outdated and wrong. I can't rely on any particular wiki page to be a good, shining example of how things should be done, because 50% are one way and 50% are the other. I asked if there was some style guide and I believe you had said there wasn't, no one has written up a guide on how things should be here.

So as a new user if I visited here and I wanted to make a new page right now, and I see 90% of pages have title capitalization because someone didn't go back and change that 90%, I would make a capitalized page, and then be told I did it wrong, and then be discouraged from further editing.

Another change that you just made to a page I wrote was to change thief to rogue, but I swear I haven't seen rogue used anywhere else on this wiki. I know it's about the class group being considered "rogues," but to my ear that sounds wrong because I know in later editions of the game the thief class was changed to rogue (since not all rogues are thieves). It feels like yet another instance of deciding "we need to change all thief links to rogue" and then no one followed through on it. So again I defer to what I see elsewhere on this wiki for consistency, which is linking to thief.

I'm probably going to keep running into this with every edit I make. I can't rely on any pages as I see as being the way things ought to be done.