Roboshed

Hey

I just wanted to drop a line and say hello. I'm quite glad someone else seems to have noticed the Woodsball article, since I've put a lot of effort into it, and I hope that this will continue. If my plans for a WikiProject come through, I hope to have every article in the category to that quality, hopefully better. One of my plans was to create a sort of project-based image collection, basically a page with thumbnails of all the paintball images, so everyone knows the paintball images that we have here, and also so they know what we're missing. Images and video are musts in my opinion, because one just cannot illustrate, for example, how a player moves about behind a bunker while under fire without writing pages and pages on it, or how a player can become part of a bush or a tree with the right camouflage.

Also, I'm hoping that we can remove a lot of the separation between speedball and woodsball. There's all this hype about how different they are and how there's no cross-type movement going on, but in practice (and I'd imagine you've noticed this too), this barrier is much less than people usually think it to be. My woodsball team has no fewer than two divisions of speedballers in it, with about three speedballers each. Every one of them is an integral part of the team, even during woodsball games. Just because their uniforms are more flashy than the rest of ours (we're migrating from woodland BDUs to SpecOPS Ultralight) and their guns shoot ten or more RPS than ours, doesn't mean in the slightest that they shouldn't be playing on the field.

Put the glove on the other hand, though, and you can see woodsballers playing in airball tourneys. I myself have not played any, but my second best friend who is also a woodsballer is one of the team's most hardcore attendants of speedball events. In fact, he played a speedball event last Sunday. Got something around a 3:1 kill-death ratio, too. So the removal of the impractical separation between speedball and woodsball would be one of the issues I'd want the project to combat.

I've got a lot of other stuff I want to do, but I'll put that into my work for the temporary Project Page. I'm just posting it here 'cause I want to get a feel for your slant on things. Get back to me when you can. - Maximilli, 15:29, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Sorry for putting this message out of chronological order, but the formatting got all weird when I put it beneath that welcome table.

WikiProject Paintball

The Paintball WikiProject has been created. Please take a moment to visit its page, and join if you are interested. Thanks! - Maximilli, 18:53, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Paintball Category: Paintball Announcements
WikiProject Paintball News edit The term "paintball gun" is no longer to be used in any article: please change this wherever you see it! We must use the term paintball marker at all times from here on out. Keep up the good work. RavenStorm, Lead Coordinator It has been strongly suggested by fellow member Three ways round that we add references and sources to our articles and make this our priority for now, as expansion and addition of articles has been slow of late. Go find an unsourced article and get some good references! Together we can make the WikiProject Paintball more authentic and encyclopedic. RavenStorm, Lead Coordinator
Category News edit The player positions pages have been renamed according to game type to be more accurate. Two more subcategories have been created: Woodsball, and Speedball. If any new pages are created that are related to these, please use their respective category tags instead of [[Category:Paintball]]. Thanks!
Priority Tasks edit 1. Find sources for all articles to remove original research issues. Resist the urge to simply enter new information based on your own playing experience (this applies especially to strategy and role based articles). 2. Pages about paintball markers, unless very notable and well sourced, should be either merged back into the main company's page - or a page detailing the company's series of products. Having a single page for each marker model is too unwieldly and yields a lot of stubs. 3. Top priority articles should reach at least C class.

I'd suggest to have that template link moved to the top of your talk page, as I and the others have done. That is, if you're still interested in the project. ~ Maximilli, 22:20, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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