Talk:X-COM

Shouldn't this page be named "X-Com" instead of "X-COM"?--Ethereal Cereal 19:55, 13 October 2006 (PDT)

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Technically, X-COM in caps is the correct form. At least, that is how it is shown in the manuals, boxes and liturature. ;)--Zombie

You know, I think I checked that at one point and confirmed it was 'X-COM', but I've seen it typed so many ways I can't even remember anymore. Even in-game it's spelled "XCom"... but I'll go with X-COM as the official spelling.--Ethereal Cereal 15:43, 14 October 2006 (PDT)

In UFO, it was originally XCOM, no hyphen. Then the later games came along and introduced the hyphen and somehow we ended up using it in sentence case. - NKF

NKF, you mean the original European release, right? I have the US release (X-COM: UFO Defense box (c)1994 with floppies) and it looks just like the pic seen here. Everywhere in the manual says "X-COM", including in sentences (not just titles). So by "later games" you include the US release eh? FWIW I used to type it various ways in this wiki in the past, but now just use X-COM. --MikeTheRed 07:37, 15 October 2006 (PDT)

I was referring more to in-game usage. 'X-Com' is rarely used in the game, when you think about it. Speaking of covers, do we have scans or images of both of the original covers? They'd be nice to have up here for comparison. - NKF

What to name articles?

Do we name everything specifically about the first game as Whatnot (UFO Defense) or Whatnot (Enemy Unknown) or just Whatnot hoping there's no collision? Heckruler 13:11, 30 January 2007 (PST)

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Hiya Heck, and welcome.

Good question. :) Seriously... originally the Main Page was smaller, and all the big "leading pages" appearing on it had (Game Name) in parentheses... and then there were a ton of "smaller" pages without the parens, past those leading pages. But later the Main Page got highly re-organized so that a lot more info could be found at once, and a bunch of the smaller pages (without parens) appeared there. So it's a mix, now.

Also I think that part of the original idea was that many of the various X-COM games would all have their individual pages and thus need the parens... but since many aspects are the same across games, that didn't really come about. (Why repeat something practically identical?)

The upshot - at least for me - being, you don't need to add (Game) unless you are making a point of it, such as if you are specifically making a topic for one game, when a topic of the same name also exists for another one of the X-COM games. But although you rarely have to do it, you can always do it simply if you want, shrug.

That's my two cents. Why not give it another couple of days to see if anybody else chimes in. Our usual rule here is, it's a democracy unless somebody presents a real convincing argument or wants to put in the effort to effect a change, assuming no one objects. :P

BTW you don't really need to worry about collisions; you can readily see if a page exists just by monkeying with the URL. If there is one and it is indeed on your topic, just add to it. If it's the same name but you mean something different, probably you should slightly change the name you want to give to yours so that you make a new page. Clear as mud?

Welcome again! - MikeTheRed 16:24, 30 January 2007 (PST)

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We didn't really have any proper naming conventions at first, but things have evolved since then. UFO was the core title that the wiki started on, we added the other games as we went along. If you spot any articles that have (UFO Defense) or (Enemy Unknown) in them, feel free to rename them and repair the wikilink that points to it.

Anyhow, this is how I see where we are at:

UFO - no title required.

TFTD - only topics specific to TFTD need to be labelled, otherwise it piggybacks on UFOs topics to a T.

Every other title in the series including fan-made games like UFO2000 must be labelled to avoid ambiguity.

- NKF

Works for me. Thanks for the clarification, NKF. I probably should've just waited until you spoke. :P - MikeTheRed