Now Hear This! Please Double-Check Your Log Titles Before Posting!

[MSW]

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Hey, folks!

 

Your friendly moderating staff at MSW have been editing a lot of build log titles in the past several weeks -- including three just today alone! The usual reason for editing a build log title is that it does not follow our site guidelines for naming build logs. Why do we have such guidelines? To keep our site looking spiffy and to enhance its functionality.

 

There are two ways you can check to see if you have titled your log correctly:

• Consult the pinned topic on naming build logs -- it's pinned at the top of every build logs sub-forum.
• Take a look at some of the other build logs. The moderators make every effort to catch and fix all of the incorrectly titled logs, so 99% of the logs you look at should be correctly titled.

Two more things: 1. Please don't freestyle or get cute with your titles. Titles are considered formal writing, not creative writing (you can get as creative as you like in the log itself). 2. If a moderator has edited your build log title, please don't edit it again yourself. This can make your moderators cranky, and we don't want them to quit on us! Remember, the moderator has fixed your title to conform to site guidelines.

 

Thanks in advance for helping us make this not only a great site but also a great-looking site!

 

Your MSW Staff

[ccoyle]

Folks, PLEASE read this topic! I have fixed another two log titles already this morning!

[CDR_Ret]

It might be helpful to provide a link to the relevant article in the OP of this topic. I'm not sure where to find it myself, never having created a build log!🤔

[Gregory]

Here is the basic format:

 

Name of the ship by your user name - the mfg name - the scale

 

For example....

 

HMS Victory by Chuck - Caldercraft - 1:64

[robert952]

There was also a suggestion to add SMALL to the title if it was a model of a small vessel (not a small model).

 

Example

 

Dinghy by Robert952 - Midwest Model - 1:12 - SMALL

 

Not critical, and not my idea. However, I do like looking at the small boats. Besides being great models for beginners, they give an opportunity for a lot of extra details. 

[ccoyle]

42 minutes ago, robert952 said:

There was also a suggestion to add SMALL to the title if it was a model of a small vessel (not a small model).

 

Example

 

Dinghy by Robert952 - Midwest Model - 1:12 - SMALL

 

Not critical, and not my idea. However, I do like looking at the small boats. Besides being great models for beginners, they give an opportunity for a lot of extra details. 

 

This tag was used inconsistently and fell by the wayside some years ago. It would take far too much effort to retrofit it to all of the smallcraft builds that have been undertaken since then.

[robert952]

2 hours ago, ccoyle said:

 

This tag was used inconsistently and fell by the wayside some years ago. It would take far too much effort to retrofit it to all of the smallcraft builds that have been undertaken since then.

NP. I know there wasn't a lot of use.