Category talk:Armor

Can this category be an exception to the naming convention? 'Armors' doesn't sound grammatically correct. Dedridd 10:49, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * Why isn't that grammatically correct? I am not a native English speaker, but it looks ok to me -- Tihocan 12:45, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * I was thinking that 'armor' was like 'deer' and doesn't change for plural. I have no proof of that though, and could very well be mistaken. I was just going by how it sounded. Dedridd 12:57, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * Google lists lots of armors ;) -- Tihocan 12:59, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * No they list multiple suits of armor. I agree it looks OK but it just seems wrong.  Probably because you could own multiple suits of armor but also own multiple weapons.  Usually that armor is not plural, instead the suit of armor is plural.  Same thing with stuffs, you can talk about foodstuffs, but you dont have many stuffs you have a bunch of stuff. -- koolkat 13:01, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * Heh, and I was just going to say - In the armory, do they store armor? Or do they store armors? The latter just doesn't sound right. Ok, regardless, we've proven that there's not a clear-cut answer to this. So do redirects work on categories? We could have both in the system if so, and then it'd work for whichever way people searched for it or linked to it. Dedridd 13:04, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * I dont know how to link them possibly redirect armors to category armor for a search somehow. I came up with another oddity, what about fur coats.  You can have multiple fur coats, and likewise multiple furs, but not multiple furs coats.  (except wouldnt a fur coat be made of multiple furs especially if it came from a small animal?  English is funny sometimes -- koolkat 13:06, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * I meant create a Category:Armor and a Category:Armors, and redirect one of them to the other. Unfortunately, I bet this breaks because if someone puts a Category:Armors tag on the page of a special magical armor, it wouldn't automatically be put in the Category:Armor category. Unless Category:Armors is also part of the Category:Armor category? I haven't figured out parent and child categories yet, so I can't say if it'd work or not. And while 'Armors' may not sound right, it's consistent with all our other categories, so we should probably use it anyways. Dedridd 13:17, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * Periodically check the Category:Armors page for pages put into it, then edit them and move them into the category:armor category. 17:22, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * Simple answer to all of this: english is fucked up. Simple truth. gallahe, though, is nobody here native english? Wow I feel alone. Anyway, Category:Armor is the correct name, nobody says armors ROFL. Although the fact there there are 8 posts on it on this page, I guess a redirect would be in order because there must really be that much incomprehension among you 'foreigners' lol. 17:22, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * There's only one of us here who thought 'armors' was correct. ;b Which is why I asked if I could go against the naming standard in the first place. Sorry, Tihocan, I think you're out-voted. Since you're admin though, you could decree that a redirect is necessary. I won't bother adding it otherwise. And my alias may be celtic, but I'm a native english speaker. :) Dedridd 18:29, February 16, 2006 (PST)


 * I only said it looked ok to me. If this is grammatically incorrect, use Armor instead -- Tihocan 12:06, February 17, 2006 (PST)

Magic Armor
I don't think we should mix up basic armor and magic armor. We already have tables for basic weapons, armors and shields. IMO it would be good to have categories for "Magic armor", "Magic shields" and "Magic weapons". Maybe they can be sorted by the minimum required level. Currently I think only "named" items should get an entry. For random generated items a table would be good. We already started this with the Armor Enhancements site, but it's not really structured so far.--Ziu 04:38, March 3, 2006 (EST)