We've put a few things in place to keep the pipeline from database request to production running smoothly; something that would assist greatly is you could use the following format when making a request.
Each request has 4 elements: Type, Summary, Detail, Evidence
Type: Either 'ADD' or 'UPDATE'. Add is for new entries, update is for existing entries.
Summary: A one sentence description of the request e.g. 'Hypothetical A-7F' or 'new fuel info for MiG-29'. It will be truncated at 70 characters so brevity is essential.
Detail: The body of your request, similar to what people have been posting up until now
Evidence: This is where all of your links and photos etc go, reference them as [1], [2], [3] etc in the Detail element and list them numerically in the Evidence element
---------------------EXAMPLE 1---------------------
<type>UPDATE</type>
<summary>Egyptian Romeo submarine has harpoon missiles</summary>
<detail>It seems that the Egyptian Romeo submarine has Harpoon missiles.. UGM-84L Harpoon Block II AShM
#245 - S 849 Romeo (Egypt - 1995)
During excercises this week a Harpoon was (un)succesfully launched. [1][2]
And one succesfull launch in 2019 [3]
It has no Harpoon yet in the Database. Upgraded in 1989-1996
</detail>
<evidence>
1: https://t.co/nwxEv8Kspi?amp=1
2: https://twitter.com/JosephHDempsey/stat ... 5775143947
3: https://twitter.com/JosephHDempsey/stat ... 0263914496
</evidence>
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---------------------EXAMPLE 2---------------------
<type>ADD</type>
<summary>A-7F Corsair II hypothetical platform</summary>
<detail>Could we get an entry for the A-7F Corsair II hypothetical platform please?
See this article from the Drive[1]
Doesn't give a lot of specifics but I think using DB 3028 (A-7K LANA) as the base, adding an after burning F100-220 engine, longer range and a few more modern weapons would do it.
</detail>
<evidence>1: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3 ... ng-program
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_YA-7F
3: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/thread ... ojects.11/
4: https://www.airplanesofthepast.com/a7-corsair.htm
</evidence>
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Many will recognise that this is XML style formatting, except in this case capitalisation inside the tags doesn't matter: <ExAmPle> is just as valid as <example> or <EXAMPLE>, however the backslash in the closing tag (e.g. </example>) is important.
Only <type>, <summary>, <detail> and <evidence> tags will be recognised so there is no point in adding others [:)]
Note that this is not mandatory but as I said above, it will help us process these requests much faster. If you wish you can of course continue to make requests in the same manner it's been done up to now.
Thanks for your cooperation, and thank you for the time and effort taken to research these items. There's some exciting developments on the horizon for DB requests [:)]
