Talk:Community Spy strategy

Is this necessary?

Is it just me, or is this a completely unedited version of the normal strategy page? This just asks for becoming a huge mess. Do we really need this page? The Spy strategy page is already rather large and is technically a user guide in itself, unless the community as a whole agrees to everything on it. --Kurathedog 21:31, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

They're exactly the same page, the one you linked to will redirect to this one. --Firestorm 21:33, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

It is rather big, i would be surprised if too many people got all the way through. Mabye there would be a way for a veterain editor to fix it up a bit? make it more readable, or at least, seperate it up into colapsable sections, IE:kinfe's, watches ectCaptain Craven 23:27, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm not a veteran editor, but I would like to give this a try. Judging from the length, it might take a while. My work will appear on my talk page, so we can compare against the original article. ShunyValdez 06:08, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

There are a few typos on this page such as, "Keep your Revolver at less [that] full ammunition and you will automatically pick up the weapon and hide all evidence of the stab." And reading the blocks of text is a very unappealing prospect to potential readers. Separation through titles such as "Offensive Play", "Defensive Play" and "General Play" or something of the like for weapons would be helpful. Hot Chips 02:46, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

There's also a lot of technical data on disguises, which doesn't fit the nature of a strategy page. I propose we move the data to the disguise page. ShunyValdez 06:18, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Ironically, that data was actually removed FROM the Disguise page and moved here, as it was decided it didn't belong over there, but it was also asked that some of the removed strategy info be put here. Perhaps it ought to be removed altogether (or just completely re-written to be less cluttered - I think there are a few good points in there)? Will-T 21:57, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Interesting. On my current draft, it looks better without the technical data. I'm going to try rewriting it after I'm done organizing the strategies. I don't want to remove it from the wiki because its interesting, but it has to be put in the right place. ShunyValdez 01:21, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Request for feedback on my draft

I need feedback so I would know if I should continue or discard my work. Here's the link: http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/User:ShunyValdez/Community_Spy_strategy

Some things to note:

• Instead of a huge list of general strategies, I tried to break the strategies into different sections. What do you guys think?
• I've removed the example weapon combination. Most of a spy's loadout is dependent on the situation. And yes, I know that the community strategy guidelines recommended them, but I wish to make a case that its unnecessarily.
• This is still a work-in-progress.

ShunyValdez 14:19, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I've emulated this article's practice of adding icons for each of the weapons on some of the other Community Class Strategy articles; it makes the article a little easier to read as opposed to being a large mass of text. I have no opinion on removing the example weapon combinations, but either they or the following text might be redundant unless we just want to treat the example weapon combinations as a sort of quick suggestion for readers instead of them having to read each section in-depth. ButteredToast 14:24, 24 November 2010 (UTC)