Forum:Establishing a guideline for article usage

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There isn't a set guideline how people should use articles (A, An, The) in their sentences, and I believe that there should be a certain "rule" or something to go by when creating pages. Some sentences start like:

The adamant mace is a tier 40 melee weapon, requiring 40 Attack to wield.

While other sentences of the same structure are like:

An adamant platebody is a tier 40 platebody, requiring 40 Defence to wield.

For items that are plural, or multiple of the same item, there would not be a word before the item, like:

Rune arrows are a tier 50 arrow, requiring 50 Ranged to wield.

So which of the first 2 are correct? Would we only use The for weapon's belonging to a certain person i.e. Vesta's spear?

The Vesta's spear is a tier 78 weapon blabla...

Here's dictionaryblog's definition of how we are supposed to use "The" - Use the when it is obvious which thing we are talking about or when there is only one of something: Please close the door. I cleaned the bathroom. He traveled around the world....

This is RuneScape, not the real world, and the only thing there is only one of is a Wikian book. Thoughts? User:Manhattan2/signature 04:16, November 23, 2017 (UTC)

Discussion

Commanet Isn't this just grammar? Use a(n) unless we're in the rare situation of it being unique such as the Wikia Book or a location, e.g. the castle in Lumbridge. Unless you have numerous examples of it being incorrect, I'm disinclined to support adding it to the style guide and would rather fall back to RS:UCS and RS:BB if you come across it. User:Cqm/Signature