User talk:Lhynard

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Appearances section tip
Thanks! I will revert my previous edits to the proper format. Ty for the heads up. --Regis87 (talk) 21:36, January 3, 2018 (UTC)

Appearances vs further reading
Hi! Thanks for the help, I would like to clarify which is considered appearances and what is further reading. So i know now instead of making erroneous edits/additions.

Source books (now i know ha) and magazines are further reading, and novels and computer games are appearances. Is there anything else? modules, for example.

Cheers! --Regis87 (talk) 00:50, January 4, 2018 (UTC)


 * Appearances are used for stories and adventures. The source is not about the person, place, or thing; the person, place, or thing appears in the source.


 * Further reading is for learning more about the person, place, or thing.


 * A true sourcebook is a book that contains a bunch of information, whereas an adventure module is more of a guided story.


 * Sometimes, sourcebooks include adventures and vice versa. For example, see Polar bear, where there is an adventure module in the sourcebook that counts as an appearance.


 * I hope that helps!


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 00:55, January 4, 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for clearing that up! --Regis87 (talk) 01:22, January 4, 2018 (UTC)

Seelie Court
Thanks for fixing up my page on the Seelie Court! It is much better now and will be much more useful to people in the future! I'll be sure to expand upon the information on the page in the future!--Retrofish


 * No problem; I'm glad that you were not scared off. ~ Lhynard (talk) 01:15, January 23, 2018 (UTC)

Doubt with names
Hi. I'm working in an article about the Cloaktower of Neverwinter. However, while the name "Cloaktower" is used in Volo's Guide to the North, the place is named "Cloak Tower" in both the Neverwinter Campaign Setting and in the MMO. Which name should I use for the article? Thanks. --Zero (talk) 19:23, January 29, 2018 (UTC)


 * Usually, our policy is to use the more recent naming, unless we can build an argument that there was a typo or mistake in the more recent source.


 * So, in your case, I would go with Cloak Tower and make Cloaktower a redirect to Cloak Tower.


 * You should also use the  field in the infobox template to put the alternate name and note it in the lead sentence: "The Cloak Tower (also written Cloaktower) was&hellip;."


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 22:17, January 29, 2018 (UTC)

Yearbox Category Order
I've been doing a lot of work Obarskyr events to the timelines and I'm wondering if there's a set order for the categories. I feel like there really should be, but there's some inconsistencies between years. Considering that there are a LOT of years, this is understandable, but some sort of order in the Template:Yearbox/doc would be helpful.

As far as I understand it's something like in-conflicts > in-deities > births > deaths > in-politics > misc > novels. Is it the case that most important sections in the given year are first? Is it alphabetical?

~ Soar (talk 03:28, February 9, 2018 (UTC)


 * Good question. I've always just went with my gut feeling for these. I would suggest asking one of the other admins or starting a forum post with the question. It may be that we don't actually have a policy, but I am not sure either way. BadCatMan made a ton of edits to year pages, so he's probably the one who would know.


 * Thanks again for also working on the year pages. You basically are doing exactly my Line of Succession Project. :)


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 04:05, February 9, 2018 (UTC)


 * AFAIK, we don't have a set order. When I redid the Years pages (rewriting copied entries), I either left them in the existing order or shuffled them to make the page easier to follow. That is, I arranged the yearboxes so that events were in broadly chronological order so that earlier events added context and clarification to the following events. That wasn't always done, however, especially in the busy years of the 1300s, as I only needed to rehabilitate the pages. We do need a new way of organizing events on busy Years pages, so that events occur in chronological order or are divided by storyline, but it's never been a priority.
 * The only requirement would be to put lists of novels set in a year last, as it's an out-of-universe thing. — BadCatMan (talk) 08:15, February 9, 2018 (UTC)