User talk:Dolohov

Dolohov, headings should use two equals signs, never just one -- Nicholas July 26, 2005 21:33 (CEST)

Why not? My intent was to make that the title of the page, not just the heading. --Dolohov 26 July 2005 21:35 (CEST)

Well, I guess it's a stylisic issue then, but I think that the page title should be the name of the article. If you want a differant page title, why not change the page name? -- Nicholas July 26, 2005 21:58 (CEST)

Easy: I wanted to be able to change the text of the question without renaming the page,as well as keep a uniform naming convention for the Basic pages. It's not a big deal, though. --Dolohov 26 July 2005 22:00 (CEST)

Hello, all! Feel free to comment here if you want to say "hi".

Hi. - Nicholas July 18, 2005 19:02 (CEST)

Feel free to work on your articles "in place". You might as well move your nice article on death to it's own page. This keeps the edit history of the page all in one place. It also allows other writers to comment on your article. If you don't feel it is ready yet, you can always put a

{{stub}}

at the top of it. -- Nicholas July 18, 2005 23:59 (CEST)

Fair enough. My chief reason for not working "in place" was that I wanted to double-check my facts first. It's not a big deal with this article, though. -- Dolohov 19 July 2005 00:03 (CEST)

Seriously, feel free to write the Manual page. Tom is a busy person, and you, me and him have written the vast majority of the manual so far. I'm sure you'll come up with a great way to organize it. -- Nicholas July 19, 2005 22:14 (CEST)

I've got a few ideas. I'll mull it over a bit while I get some other work done. -- Dolohov 19 July 2005 22:17 (CEST)

Dolohov, just so you know, links like tortured and judges will work correctly if you place the brackets right. They will link to the article without the suffix.

links like [[torture]]d and [[judge]]s will work correcty

--Nicholas July 21, 2005 19:47 (CEST)

namespace

Thanks for all the hard work, you're doing an amazing job here.

Just one thing to remember, please: Try not using the "Dolohov:something" naming. It does not create a new namespace, but leads to confusion with those that are (such as Help:something). It could also make people who join later believe that namespaces can be created that way.

My suggestion would be that we all agree on a prefix for "testing" pages, such as "Test" and use that, e.g. "Test Manual" or "Test/Manual".

--Tom 29 July 2005 14:08 (CEST)

How about just using the Sandbox? DorianGray 29 July 2005 14:20 (CEST)

I had started off intending to use the sandbox, but as soon as it became clear that I needed multiple pages to make sure that it all worked, I decided to go with the lesser of several evils. I didn't so much care about the namespace as I did about making sure that it was all clearly separate from the rest of the wiki, and making it easy to change later (By removing the "dolohov:" bits).

I'll try to be good about that in the future. --Dolohov 29 July 2005 14:42 (CEST)

That's why I try to use a slash instead of a colon, it links everything back to my user page. That way it's all kept with my mess. DorianGray 29 July 2005 14:45 (CEST)

OK, (showing my ignorance, here) what exactly is the difference between using the colon and using the slash? I thought they were equivalent. --Dolohov 29 July 2005 14:46 (CEST)

A colon is used to denote a namespace, as you will see when you look at pages such as User:DorianGray or [ [Category:Island News] ] or Meta:General Talk. These make things fit under a specific category, and should be used sparingly. Using a slash makes it the equivalent of a subpage, as you will see if you look at User:DorianGray/Avamar_Times/Issue_One, it has a link back to the original page. This way, it doesn't show up on the list of namespaces, which is around somewhere. DorianGray 29 July 2005 14:50 (CEST)

Why is my user talk page considered Island news? --Dolohov

Nevermind, I found it. Thanks, Dorian ;) --Dolohov

Sig different from user name

I filled in the nickname in preferences.

(test, test) --John 6 August 2005 23:11 (CEST) Cool, thanks!

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Discussing form and usage on talk pages

Is not silly. I hate just rewriting others people stuff. It has gotten me very frustrated and I am not fond of rewriting ours. Please don't get so agressive on the little things... it makes others want to be agressive and though I love to debate and fight I don't have the will and energy to do it here. --Eric S P 21 August 2005 23:24 (CEST)