User talk:Tor DaiShan

Edits

I couldn't help but notice your recent string of editing action. Firstly:

Allow me to introduce you to a very useful feature of the BattleMaster Wiki:

Please use it.

This feature will allow you to make sure there aren't any little, glaring mistakes that could easily be corrected before publishing the modified page. That way, you won't have to go back and re-edit the page (and unnecessarily flood the recent changes page).

Next, please read and follow Meta:Style Guide, particularly the parts pertaining to proper subpaging, as most all of your contributions aren't named and subpaged according to the style this wiki has decided to adopt.

If you just clean up your method of editing a little bit, I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time on our little wiki. Thank you. --Ignatius 03:46, 30 December 2008 (CET)

Question

Hi Ignatius,

Sorry about the edits, it was my first time ever actually doing a real contribution to a wiki. Now for the subpaging, I'm retarded what do I need to change? Just add a link back to the main page and the previous pages?

It's fine, we all make mistakes at first. Now in order to properly subpage, you need to name your articles in a particular fashion. The general outline is "Parent Page/Subpage" with the possibility of additional subpages beneath "Subpage". The system is very similar to several file cabinets full of folders:the BattleMaster wiki itself is an office, each page you create is a new file cabinet, its drawers are the first level of subpages, and then any folders inside those drawers would be the next "nested" layer of subpages. As per this metaphor, Caligus Post is a file cabinet and /Issue 1 is a drawer. Both of these were constructed correctly, but instead of filling these up with proper documents, you left them empty. All of the pages you created afterwards (various battle reports, the treaty, and rumors) were named seemingly haphazardly. They'll make sense to whoever created them, but they aren't exactly named according to conventions already in place. So instead of "filing" these "documents" away in the drawers of your filing cabinets, you lefts them strewn about your desk, where anyone just glancing at them can't make heads or tails of what everything is and where it should go.I took the liberty of renaming these various pages ("re-filing" them, as it were) as subpages in several cabinets. I put the battle reports pertinent to the time period under Caligus Post/Issue 1, the rumors in Caligus Post/Battle Rumors/December, and the treaty in Fontan/Treaties/Second Comprehensive Peace. Now, these may not necessarily be the best method of filing them, so if you can think of a better way (maybe putting all the battles under Caligus Post/Battles, with a subpage for Caligus Post/Battles/Rumors, or any other naming scheme), then you are more than welcome to move/rename the pages (or if you can't figure out how to do this, you can leave a message here with the suggested names of everything that should be moved). Oh, one last thing, whenever you add a message to a talk page, please sign your comments by either typing "--~~~~" or clicking the signature button above the editing box (the one that has cursive font, also second from the right), thanks! --Ignatius 21:48, 30 December 2008 (CET)

Thank you for your help --Tor DaiShan 03:55, 31 December 2008 (CET)

You're very welcome :) --Ignatius 18:57, 31 December 2008 (CET)

Additional Notes

Thank you for helping him Ignatius. I loved your analogy and might have to steal it. :P Tor, I might add that you should always try to use wiki syntax before html. Help:Editing and Meta:Style Guide should help you get started. I'm glad to see a newspaper get started on EC again. As a former editor of the Itorunt Informer and numerous less-known newspapers, I've always loved to see newspapers competing with each other. --Vita Family 18:46, 31 December 2008 (CET)