Talk:Glossary of player terms

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Split

I think we should split either the competitive terminology or both the competitive and trading sections into their own respective glossaries. We have the Wiki glossary on its own, which we can link to when necessary.

The benefits:

  1. Easier to navigate a single article with a dedicated purpose than an article with three separate large lists that may list similar terms in different lists.
  2. They can be individually linked on each relevant trading/competitive article at the top of the page. For example, all competitive articles have {{competitive}} and could also feature a line saying "This article uses a lot of competitive terminology. See Glossary of competitive terms for a list of the terminology and their meanings". This would save individual links to many terms in every article as well as set up the expectation that users are familiar with these terms.
  3. Can provide a clear difference between a term that may be used in competitive and casual but with different meanings, or provide additional competitive-specific context for some terms.

Please let me know what you think.
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 18:03, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Pictogram plus.png Support, I don't see a reason why not.
User Slimyboi500 Logo.png User Slimyboi500 Profile.jpg Talk Speech voice.png Contribs Wrench IMG.png Steam Steam tray.png 19:29, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
Pictogram neutral.png Neutral I'd be okay with a split but I'd also be okay with it staying as is. Lot of the "competitive" terms overlap so not really sure if they need to be treated differently. Bombing, charge, rollout, etc are all listed as competitive terms but they feel like things that get used frequently in regular play. Or at least are things that most players would be familiar with. The majority A bunch of the "competitive" terms could get merged into the regular terms and feels like they would fit right. Not sure if there's enough actual competitive jargon to justify a split when a lot of them get used frequently by regular players. Splitting trading seems fine I guess as the lingo is a lot less likely to be used by non-traders. Mediarch User Mediarch PFP.pngTalkMy Edits 14:57, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
I feel like that's exactly why it should be separated, the comp one can include more comp-specific definitions (e.g. a "bomb" can be just rocket jump where you shoot rockets from down below, but the comp one could specify when it's usually done or which targets it's most often done on). Doing this right now means most people that Ctrl + F the article get the casual player one instead of the comp one (would also mean having 2 different anchors).
BLU Wiki Cap.png | s | GrampaSwood Praise the Sun! (talk) (contribs) 15:32, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
Just feels like splitting will mean the general glossary will have the exact same terms with less detail for arbitrary reasons. I just struggle to see how "Bombing casual" and "Bombing competitive" are really different enough to justify having different definitions in two different places. So the competitive definition would basically just add "and is typically used to kill high priority targets such as the medic" at the end? Don't really see why that can't just be included in the general definition. Same goes for terms like lit, destroyed, have/has, force, fat etc. They mean the same thing and are used in the exact same context so don't see why they need to be separated. They should just be merged in with the rest of the general terms imo. Mediarch User Mediarch PFP.pngTalkMy Edits 16:58, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
Pictogram plus.png Support The glossary itself is huge. It can really be divided into separate topics: the main part, trade, competitions

DrotEroNoxt (talk) 16:35, 2 April 2025 (UTC)