Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Pages Needing Review

Working list of pages that need editorial attention. This is a manually maintained starting point — 58 pages carry the {{Article status}} tracking category automatically once tagged; this page is for human notes that don't fit neatly into that.

Engineering section — populated (2026-08-07)

All 25 Ship Engineers and 13 Odyssey Engineers now have real, sourced content (locations, unlock requirements, specialties — see each page's own Sources section), not structural placeholders. Depth varies: Broo Tarquin, Felicity Farseer, Liz Ryder, and Hera Tani got full research passes and are the quality-gate examples; the rest are researched at an "achievable depth" with single-sourced items explicitly flagged inline. All carry status=Needs review — none should be moved to Verified without a named reviewer checking claims directly against the live game, per Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Verification Policy.

Content architecture phase — demonstration content (2026-08-07)

Structural backbone (categories, templates, JSON/Lua data pipeline, topic hubs, redirects, editor docs) built this pass. The following are proof-of-concept pages, deliberately small and marked Draft, not yet complete:

• List of Engineers, Engineer Capability Comparison — structured-data proof of concept, only 4 of 38 Engineers backed by a JSON record so far.
• Unlocking Broo Tarquin — the only guide built so far demonstrating the encyclopedia/guide split.
• Thargoid War History — Galactic Archive structural placeholder, no researched history yet.
• Trailblazers — Game Update proof of concept; date/version corroborated by two sources but Frontier's own update-notes page couldn't be fetched directly to confirm the exact client version string.
• Exploration, Exobiology, Combat, Trade, Mining, Background Simulation, Fleet Carriers, Guardian, Thargoid — new topic hub stubs, no individual articles yet.

Still structural placeholders, no gameplay content yet

• Start Here
• New Commander Roadmap
• Returning Commander Overview
• Field Procedures
• Game Reference
• Ships and Equipment
• Odyssey
• Powerplay
• Colonisation
• Operations
• Lore and History
• Engineering Blueprints, Experimental Effects, Engineering Materials — browse hubs, thin.

Pages with real content, not yet human-reviewed

• Tools and Resources — populated with a categorised list of established third-party community tools/sites; needs a named reviewer to confirm current URLs and that nothing has shut down or been superseded before it carries a Verified status. The new EDEngineer entry (2026-08-07) hasn't been independently checked beyond its GitHub page being live.
• All 38 Engineer pages (see above) — need a named reviewer with in-game access, not desk research, before Verified is appropriate.

Open project decisions

• Structured-data approach: resolved this pass — Scribunto/Lua + JSON content-model pages, no new extension. Cargo was considered and explicitly deferred; revisit only if list/comparison generation genuinely outgrows this.
• Namespaces: resolved this pass — no new namespaces added; guides and archive content stay flat-titled in Main namespace, matching the existing site convention.
• 18 of 19 requested infobox wrapper types (Ship, Module, Weapon, Material, Commodity, Power, Faction, Station type, Settlement type, Colonisation facility, Equipment, Guardian technology, Thargoid entity, Location, Character, Organization, Event) are not yet built — only {{Engineer infobox}} and {{Game update infobox}} exist. Build each on-demand, the first time that entity family gets a real content pass.
• Whether/when to enable public registration — see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Contributing.
• Whether/when to enable SVG uploads — see Elite Dangerous Field Manual:Screenshot Policy.
• Whether/when to lift the sysop-only upload restriction — uploads themselves are technically enabled (PNG/JPEG/WebP, 30MB), just not yet available to non-admin accounts.