User talk:Fleanetha
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Welcome
Hi Fleanetha, just wanted to drop by and welcome you to the project! Thanks for the work you're putting in -- Cpt kirstov 18:37, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Talk pages
While i'm here, I noticed you including "A link to this page has been made from..." to the talk pages of various pages after you add information that links to them. This shouldn't need to be done, if you look on the left of the page in the 'toolbox' area there is a 'what links here' link. If you click that it should give you every page that links to the page you are currently on. Just thought I'd save you a bit of extra work! Thanks again! -- Cpt kirstov 18:37, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you Cpt kirstov for your kind words of welcome.
I am fairly new to updating wikis so my edits so far have been additions to existing articles where I can see what others have done to copy it. I do hope to be able to help here now that I have some wiki skill after finding and using Obsidian Portal; though some things are different here from there. I also was encouraged by an article on a Know Direction podcast to have a go.
Thank you so much for pointing out that I no longer have to add links on pages I reference - that will save a lot of work. I had read the Manual of Style and thought I had to do it. Here is the section that made me think so:
PathfinderWiki:Manual_of_style#Section_management
That should perhaps be better worded, unless I have completely missed the point of that section.
I have been a user and admirer for some time of the Wiki and now feel I can help out. -- This unsigned post was made by Fleanetha. Please sign all posts with ~~~~.
- The type of notation mentioned in that section of the style guide applies to sections within an article and uses hidden notes instead of the article's talk page. If, for example, you added the line Flail snails have their own [[Darklands languages#Flail Snail|language]] to the body of the Flail snail article, you would be linking to the specific subsection "Flail Snail" within the larger article Darklands languages. Since this link would cease to function were the "Flail Snail" subsection be renamed, adding a notation to that page would alert other editors of the repercussions of making a change to it. Thus, you would add the following text to the Darklands languages article:
== Flail snail ==<!--This section is linked from [[Flail snail]]-->
- This way anyone changing that heading will know where else they need to look so there are no broken links. —Yoda8myhead 20:39, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
- That makes sense now in both understanding and why one needs to do that - thank you --Fleanetha 20:44, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Updating Gods
When updating a God / Philosophy the following pages need amending or checking as appropriate:
Portal:Religion/Pantheons [direct edit]
http://www.pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Category:Deities_by_pantheon [adding Category template for appropriate list(s) to God page and checking this page]
http://www.pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Category:Deities_by_alignment [ditto]
http://www.pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Category:Deities_by_domain [ditto]
http://www.pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Category:Deities_by_power_level [ditto]
Then check this page:
Portal:Religion [and its links]
Empty pages
Generally, we try to avoid empty pages on Pathfinderwiki. If there isn't enough information to create an entire page on a given subject, it is wiser to include the item in a list of related items. If the page is a work in progress, it can be developed on a sandbox page. Let me know if you have further thoughts or questions. --Brandingopportunity 05:49, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- Hello Brandingopportunity, first thanks for improving my pages and correcting typos (I looked at those pages so much and still missed them).
- Second to address your point above, I'd agree empty pages serve little purpose but would suggest that the pages I created over the last two nights are not empty and are useful. Bear with me:
- I think all the sections created are worthy of their own page (the list of related items you mention is already there on the Heights page)
- They are now fully categorized (except around the category issue I raised in the forum here: Forum:Categories about people inconsistency) and thus are searchable in that way
- They have a proper reference so anyone wanting to know about inns in the Heights (or generally) gets hits on these pages and has information about where to go to look them up (this I think is really useful as the wiki is a guide to the sourcebooks rather than a replacement)
- It fills the gaps from other pages getting rid of the red links - there is some information there to be of use for someone hitting the link.
- So in summary, I think something is better than nothing and there is something on those pages.
- On the sandbox point, hmm, I can see the use there and I have used it, Brandingopportunity, but when messing with categories I found it less helpful because they all blur at the bottom and you wouldn't get the right item text in the category you were testing - any advice/experience here would be useful. Also, I cannot commit to doing every part of Korvosa (!) [current plan is to try to do the parts referenced in Winter Witch but to add peripheral material too as a bonus]. So, sitting on them in my sandbox may imply to others that I am making that commitment and they may shy away from doing those pages; plus you'd lose all the benefits outlined above.--Fleanetha 17:42, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- Fleanetha, I agree with your points, but it still doesn't remove the issue of the empty pages. I would rather have red links than empty pages, even if those pages have categories. Empty pages just don't look good. I would suggest that you and I work on turning those empty pages into at least stubs. There isn't enough information on most of them to field a full article in any case. It's only a little more work, and as I said, it doesn't have to be a full article. Even two to three sentences would be enough in my opinion. --Brandingopportunity 18:55, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- Deal, Brandingopportunity, but no work tonight for me I'm afraid. But with 2 of us we could do the whole Korvosa gazetteer (!): chapter 2 of Guide to Korvosa - not much of it looks like it was included in detail. What say you? Happy for you to choose districts.--Fleanetha 23:25, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
- Fleanetha, I agree with your points, but it still doesn't remove the issue of the empty pages. I would rather have red links than empty pages, even if those pages have categories. Empty pages just don't look good. I would suggest that you and I work on turning those empty pages into at least stubs. There isn't enough information on most of them to field a full article in any case. It's only a little more work, and as I said, it doesn't have to be a full article. Even two to three sentences would be enough in my opinion. --Brandingopportunity 18:55, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Re:Art index
At some point I'm going to update all of them with the badge, but as it is, I'm already to the amount of time it would take me to add a whole module to make all the badges... When I look at it as add a module to the index, or add badges, I would rather be closer to up to date on the index itself...at least that's how I've been looking at it. If you can think of a better way time-wise, I'm all for it, but since i only have like an hour to two a day on the days I have time to work on the wiki, I thought having the index itself up to date would be a better use of my time. (actually thinking about it, would this be something a bot could do, find the anchors on the index page and add the badge to the actual page? hmm....) --Cpt kirstov 16:55, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
- Bots always a good idea - sounds good.--Fleanetha 23:10, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Funny, and thanks...
Nice category on that spam article :-D
Also, I just wanted to say that I'm really impressed and appreciative of the work you've been doing. You're on here almost every day doing total grunt work, and that is to be commended. I know I haven't been around much lately (life sure can get hectic at times), but if you ever need to get ahold of an admin for something (like deleting a spam page), fire me an email (aeakett@gmail.com). —Aeakett 17:16, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your kind words and offer Aeakett: it's good to be part of a great team working on a great project.--Fleanetha 11:55, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
Worshypers
Sorry 'bout that, I thought it was a typo - I didn't know "worship(p)ers" was spelled differently in the UK and US.--Filby 21:47, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
- No problem, thanks for seeing the joke. More importantly, thanks for all the hard work especially the deity/pantheon/philosophy edits just recently --Fleanetha 22:07, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Congratulations
Welcome to the janitor squad Fleanetha. You'll likely want to add {{User admin}} to your userboxes. —Aeakett 19:10, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
- Yay! Congratulations! Now grab a mop. --Brandingopportunity 04:57, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- For the record, and there is a record on this website to check, I remember very little being mentioned about mops and janitors BEFORE I got this new role. Nevertheless, thank you for the trust and well-wishing; I hope I can mop as effectively as you chaps.--Fleanetha 10:58, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
- I would say you mop more effectively than most of us, especially when it comes to categories. --Brandingopportunity 07:42, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
- For the record, and there is a record on this website to check, I remember very little being mentioned about mops and janitors BEFORE I got this new role. Nevertheless, thank you for the trust and well-wishing; I hope I can mop as effectively as you chaps.--Fleanetha 10:58, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
