Tips to Editing the Wiki

[Icy]

I have been criticized for being too harsh in the past.

For the curious, these are the actual numbers of enforcements of Section 13 currently recorded:

Entropy - 50 counts, Triumph - 29 counts, Icy - 23 counts, Rightclaw - 4 counts, Fullback1719 - 3 counts.

Of the 50 instances of enforcements exercised by Entropy, 12 were 1-month bans, while Icy has only handed out 2 1-month bans out of 23 total.

Not all show a correlation between the total number of enforcements carried out and harsh deliverance like Triumph, who handed out, amongst his 29 total, one 1-month ban and 4 infinite bans.

Notably Rightclaw, who has only ever given 4 bans, only delivers infinite bans.

As for Fullback1719 who comes at the bottom of the list in reverse order of the total number of enforcements with a meagre total of 3, all were infinite bans, and on a very special note, 2 of them were delivered to the same ill-fated person. (meanie!)

So, I don't think you're harsh, Triumph.

[Triumph]

Updated 24 June 2008.

I've decreased leniency a bit.

[Icy]

Actually, seeing as how blocks only restrict editing privileges, I am all for lots of infinite bans. Hurray to your decreased leniency.

[Ivramire]

4. Unencyclopedic Content

There have been occurences in the past where individuals have created pages that are dedicated to guilds, people, or other various in-game entities. Whereas there is no harm in doing so on your own user page, keep in mind the Wiki is like an encyclopedia: It is for strictly instructional purposes, not a database for free advertising.

6. Credits

Since the Wiki is a collaborative project involving multiple users, it is considered unnecessary and insofar as bad etiquette to include a small post about yourself as the author. As the history of each article in the Wiki can be viewed by everyone, it naturally is redundant to include a credits section in each page.

This page will be updated as more issues come to mind.

Not to rain on anyone's parade but..

[Triumph]

Six months later, finally an update!

Sections 14 and 15 added.

[Icy]

Six months later, finally an update!

Sections 14 and 15 added.

Icy review

In simple terms, these are battles in which a minimum of two parties repeatedly revert, or undo, each other's work.

True.

These are generally pointless and a waste of time,

Depends on how the parties perform this.

not to mention memory.

Depends on code size - most of the time this is irrelevant.

If you take someone's ideas, give credit, or it's plagiarism.

Still an act of copycat, nevertheless...

[Triumph]

Fixed to make the frostbitten one happy.

[Ivramire]

I know it's said to include a 'edit summary' but is it absolutely necessary to include one every time?


For example- I don't want to always be putting "I changed 'teh' to 'the' or "I corrected punctuation" etc.

[Enraya]

^ Minor change?
I think there's a check button for that in the edit page.

>edit
Nevermind, misunderstood what lvra said xD
I'd like to know the answer too

[Icy]

My suggestions?

(Triumph is lame)

(I write this to please Triumph)

(Keeping Triumph happy)

(Nothing to declare)

(zzzzzzz)

In simple terms, these are battles in which a minimum of two parties repeatedly revert, or undo, each other's work. These are generally pointless and a waste of time, not to mention memory, regardless of how how much. If you want to take someone's ideas, first ask, and then give credit, or it's plagiarism.

I think you screwed up