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Contents 1 Thanks for Stepping Up 2 Mapping 3 Mass template additions 4 Anglophone 5 Pharasma 6 You Leveled Up! 7 Bots 8 Just trying to help 9 Theandra Darklight 10 Hello and thanks! 11 Thanks! 12 Wanted Page 13 Plagarism - Help Needed! 14 Thanks for the welcome! 15 Thanks! 16 Thanks for the Welcome!

Thanks for Stepping Up

Just wanted to give you thanks for stepping up to the plate regarding the Neolithid article. If I hadn't happened to be online when I was (I really need to add Refresh Recent Changes to my Userbox), well, it makes things easier for myself and Mark if such instance are stopped before they grow too out of hand.

I also noticed you added the delete template to the article and then removed it; adding it was the right thing to do. Usually we'll want to delete and revert a page fully in instances of crunch or copy, so by all means throw it up there if something like this happens again. -- Heaven's Agent 18:48, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem. I looked around for another template (something like "Candidate for Rollback") but couldn't find anything which is why I put up the deletion template. I never intended to mean I wanted to delete the whole page (I'm the one who wrote the Skaevling article after all!) but I didn't know what else to put there. Now I know to put it up anyway. --brandingopportunity 18:59, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Even when deleted edits are never truly gone, and can always be restored. Selectively, even. ;D -- Heaven's Agent 19:14, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps we will create more detailed templates for deletion candidates in the future but for now it should be used for any article for whatever reason, with that reason included in the template itself. We'll use our best judgment on how to get rid of unwanted information without removing the hard work that we or others in the community have already put into it. --yoda8myhead 22:42, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Mapping

OK so here is a really crappy into to how I do my maps. It's so bad and incomplete that it probably not a lot of use to you. That said, keep hounding me to fill in the blanks. —aeakett 17:04, March 15, 2010 (UTC)

Mass template additions

In the future, you can send me a list of pages to which you'd like to mass add templates or put them in User talk:YodaBot and I'll have the bot do them. Unless you like doing them manually over and over again.—yoda8myhead 03:26, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

Er, no not really. Thanks, Yoda. --brandingopportunity 12:00, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

Anglophone

I notice you "de-anglophoned" my Whispering Way article. Do we have a policy of not using anglophones? Not that there's much I can do about it if there is, since I'm not up to the task of writing in a foreign language :) --Amethal2 22:43, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

there's no policy, except that an article should be consistent throughout. In general, I change them when I see them, mainly because Paizo's official material is in american english, but british english or other derivations thereof are perfectly acceptable on the wiki. —yoda8myhead 00:54, June 13, 2010 (UTC)

Just please no Glaswegian. Nobody can understand that except ... well, Glaswegians. brandingopportunity 01:36, June 13, 2010 (UTC)

Pharasma

Thanks for giving the article a once-over. I really should have done so myself... some weeks, just finding an article with an image for the feature is a chore (this was one of those weeks). Thanks again. —aeakett 12:11, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

No problem. Please feel free to let me know in advance what you are planning on making our featured article, and I will look it over. You can always email me at brandingopportunity at gmail. Now that we've been nominated, I want to be extra-careful about our "public face", so we can make as good of a first-impression as possible. --brandingopportunity 13:52, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

You're right about our public face, though I suppose we should always be vigilant. Unfortunatly, I don't usually plan ahead on the featured article. I normally spend sunday morning with a pot of coffee and the "Random Article" button. Some weeks it's more forthcoming than others. That said, I'm always open to suggestions (my main criteria are that it include a picture, and be fairly complete). —aeakett 14:07, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

Do we have any good articles that relate to the Paizo products nominated for ennies? might be a good idea to give a nod to their nominees for those looking at our main page.... just a thought. -- Cpt kirstov 16:55, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

I like the idea, Cpt kirstov. If nothing else, we can make sure that our product pages for the ENnie-nominated titles don't have any red links. --brandingopportunity 19:35, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

You Leveled Up!

Congratulations, Alex! I've given you wiki admin privileges, so you can now delete articles, rollback edits, and ban spammers and vandals. Let me know if you have any questions about your new powers or responsibilities. — yoda8myhead 16:49, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

Yay, welcome to the janitor squad (because about the only extra things you can do now is clean up after people). Seriously though, congratulations! —aeakett 17:07, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

Congrats! -- Cpt kirstov 18:11, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, guys. :) --brandingopportunity 18:12, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

Bots

The bot software that Mark and I use is pywikipediabot. I think this is probably one of the better places to get started. It was a bit of a pain to get set up, but we finally managed. We could probably cut down on your startup time by giving you our config files. Now, I've got to say that if you are a windows user, setup is going to be even more painful since you'll have to install a python interpreter (which MacOS has by default). I know that there are other pieces of bot software out there (this might be a good place to look), but I think we went with pywikipediabot because it seemed to be one of the more common ones, and it's pretty flexible (if overwhelming). Let me know if you decide to give pywikipediabot a try, and I'll try and help you out. —aeakett 11:53, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, User:Aeakett, I'll check it out. --brandingopportunity 16:23, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Just trying to help

Thanks for the welcome,I will contine to help where ever I can. --User:Cylerist

Theandra Darklight

Just thought I would answer your question that was later deleted. I am adding inhabitants from the index in Guide to Korvosa prior to adding a lot of the businesses that they run. She is included so I created a page for her. Where did the information about the Darklight Sisters being on their way out come from? Thanks for the feedback and guidance from edits. Takeyabue 15:14, September 24, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry Takeyabue, I had misread the edits on this article and thought the Yoda8myhead had created the article. Someone at Paizo, I think it was James Jacobs, said on the messageboards a while back, that the Darklight Sisterhood was being slowly written out of the canon material. But perhaps I misread that. I just did a quick search of the boards, but couldn't actually find the quote. --brandingopportunity 19:26, September 24, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, the Darklight Sisterhood won't really be developed further, but what information as exists on it won't be eradicated from existence, much as some would like to do so. —yoda8myhead 20:00, September 24, 2010 (UTC)

Just wanted to apologize for messing up so much over the past week. Legal text almost invites one to skim over the tough bits, and, unfortunately, that's what happened, causing me to miss some of the important parts. If there's anything I can do to help clean up, just send me a message, and I'll put it at the top of my to-do list. TheEldritchMrShiny 17:45, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

Hello and thanks!

Hey,

I really appreciate you saying hello and just wanted to return the favor. I and my group are huge fans of Pathfinder and really enjoy using the world as a spring board into our own unique adventures. I thought it would be fun to add in whats happened currently in our game to the Ardis page for the country of Ustalav where the beginning of our adventure is taking place. I wanted my group to have some references to look at online and this works very well because I can make little additions as needed.

I promise not to start cursing like mad or put up some offensive and probably impossible thing that the party did if it has no reference to Pathfinder. I really respect having someplace to share our thoughts online and look forward to adding more as we continue through Ustalav.

Let me know if you disagree with any of the additions or if there's something I can do to help the Pathfinder Wiki World grow.

Thanks,

Seero

Thanks!

Bodhisattva 03:34, 17 November 2010 (UTC): Thanks for the advice!

Wanted Page

I think you should create an article for Alex Greenshields. —Yoda8myhead 23:06, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

I will as soon as I finish writing the scenario :) --Brandingopportunity 23:13, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Plagarism - Help Needed!

What should I do if I come across an article that is lifted directly from the source material? The Tarn linnorm and Gomnit articles were pretty much word for word as published by Paizo. They seem to have both been created by TheEldrichMrShiny in early October 2010. I re-worded those two so as to be original work, but now I see that the Grothlut article is the same, and I expect the other articles TEMS created at that time are going to be the same. --Amethal2 18:15, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Mr Shinny did a lot of articles in a 2-3 day span after signing up, and it took a few days for him to get the hang of the proper procedures of rewording articles and how to properly use the citation templates. Many of his articles were cleaned up by himself and others once he understood what needed to be done, but I'm sure there are a few more like the ones you found sitting out there. I would suggest marking these with the cleanup template and in their talk pages mention that they need to be reworded to be different from the source material. -- Cpt kirstov 19:07, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

OK, thanks, I'll do that if I come across any more. --Amethal2 21:38, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!

Hi Alex,

Thank you for welcoming me to the wiki! I am eager to get started working on articles, though I was holding off the past couple of days due to the discussion regarding the Inner Sea World Guide. I think I might start by focusing on updating some of the smaller fluff articles which stem from Dave Gross' fiction in the Council of Thieves, as I have recently read and enjoyed this material. I noticed that there is an index of nouns from this AP, most of which are red, so it looks like this might be a good area to work on. One request for advice though: I noticed mention of the "unwritten rule" that articles should contain a minimum of 3 sentences. I'm not sure if this is necessarily going to be possible in the case of many of these particular articles. Isn't some information (however slight) preferable to no information?

Again, thanks for your advice and all your work on the wiki.

Laura

Similar things came up when I was doing the fiction for the first 3 APs. (which is kind of when the 'unwritten rule' I mentioned came about) see Happy Fellow as it was a one sentence article, it got copied into the orc article, and I thought it was getting deleted... When I write an article and realize that it is going to be only 1-2 sentences, I take a few minutes to think "can this be grouped into another page, and a redirect to that page be used instead of a new page?" If I think it can, then I put it there, if I don't think I can, I'll add it as a new page anyway... at least that is my thought process Special:ShortPages will list examples of these (you'll have to browse past the past wikia blogs to find them though). -- Cpt kirstov 16:58, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Cpt kirstov has a very good point, Laura, and one I have followed many times. In addition to adding your "stub" article to another page which includes related subject matter (generally as a sub-section), you can also collect groups of smaller articles into a big one. For instance, when I wanted to create an article on a Darklands language named Aklo, I quickly realized that not too much had been written about it. I decided to move the article into my Sandbox and develop a larger article detailing all of the languages of the Darklands: Darklands languages. Other subject matters that have used this method are Diseases of Golarion and List of works. Hope that helps.--Brandingopportunity 18:51, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!

I appreciate the welcoming words. Also, if you're confused by the Burning Toast comment, I suggest a two-minute viewing of this wonderful Canadian propaganda: http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10211 --Feegle 13:10, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Wow, the "greatest Canadian alive", well, at least until 1976. The funny thing is that he was born in Spokane! ;) So much for being a great Canadian. --Brandingopportunity 13:16, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the Welcome!

Thanks for welcoming me. I've started using the wiki quite heavily as I prepare for my group's Jade Regent overland trek. It's extremely helpful as we only recently started playing in the Golarion setting so I have very little in-depth material. The wiki has become a godsend, it's the least I can to do return the favor by tweaking it here and there. If I can ever get the free time, I'll try to do more than be a grammar cop. :) --Captain Kidd 14:00, October 14, 2011 (UTC)

Melding work on a AP campaign and work on the wiki can be incredibly helpful, in my opinion, in that it helps you really digest the setting material. And we always need a grammar cop! --Brandingopportunity 05:54, 15 October 2011 (UTC)