Talk:Abbreviations
i hope i'm not overstepping bounds creating this page, but sometimes i see TF abbreviations (including on various pages of TFWiki) and i don't know what they mean, or they don't make sense because i know they mean something else. i've been thinking about a page like this for quite a while, and i couldn't sleep, so i finally decided to start it (i'm sure i'm missing plenty). i hope others will add to it as needed.
i wanted it to be http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Acronyms but i couldn't figure out how to make it a chart like http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Shattered_Glass_Decepticons or http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Computers ,so i guess it wound up less of a category and more of a list like http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Popular_Earth_vehicle_alternate_modes
Rhymus (talk) 06:40, 18 November 2013 (EST)
- Seems like a good idea to me. For too long I've wanted to see a page explaining what "CHUG" is. This does it one better, I think. -- Repowers (talk) 07:36, 18 November 2013 (EST)
Thanks! / Help!
Thanks to everyone who approves of and/or assists with the "Acronyms" page!
i was mainly thinking of acronyms when i created this page, but i've also seen (and occasionally misunderstood) abbreviations which are not acronyms. Should this page include non-acronym abbreviations? Such as:
- Alt (which i've seen refer to Alternators or altmodes, but not Alternity)
- Arm (which i've seen refer to Transformers: Armada (franchise) but not Cyclonus's Armada)
- Cyb (which i've seen refer to Transformers: Cybertron (franchise) but not planet or the faction)
Back on the subject of acronyms...
i can't remember if "OP" sometimes means "original packaging", or if i made that up.
Does "SS" ever refer to Sunstorm or Slipstream? i feel like i'm forgetting uses of SS that i've seen...
Other acronyms i remember seeing but can't remember the meaning:
- GT
- GTS
- RTS (@hx)
- TOC (@M Sipher)
i would prefer to list FIBRIR, FIRRIB, RIBFIR, and RIRFIB separately instead of in pairs; anyone who sees one of those acronyms and fails to recognize it won't know to look up the counterpart.
Do people prefer, for example, Optimus Prime or Optimus Prime (disambiguation)?
Opinions about capitalization variants (such as MTMTE or MtMtE, TRoOP or TROOP, WFC or WfC)? List them all, or just the most commonly used, or any of them as long as it includes all the right letters in the right order?
