User talk:Anjilicus

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Hi Anjilicus! Thank you for making such in-depth contributions, especially those taken from Dungeon magazine articles.

If I may I'd like to show you a bit about referencing. If you wanted to cite Dungeon magazine 170 for example you would add. " <ref name="DunMag.170-p.47-82 " to the end of a sentence or paragraph. The "47-82" page numbers would differ depending on where the info you cited actually appeared. As always, we cannot copy directly from source material.

If you would, please go ahead and add these citations to the articles you have already created. We appreciate the enthusiasm demonstrated by making a lot of new articles but each one we put up has to be fully referenced. Thank you! I look forward to sitting down and reading your contributions. Ruf (talk) 02:24, June 17, 2020 (UTC)


 * Follow up! By your own edit comment it seems Monument of the Ancients was mostly copied from the source. The wiki absolutely does not accept articles that have plagiarized from their sources.


 * Please edit the article using your own words and add references linking to your sources or it will have to be deleted. The same thing applies to the other articles you have added as well. Thank you. Ruf (talk) 09:55, June 17, 2020 (UTC)


 * In addition, please use infoboxes such as Location and Mountain for your pages, and remember to add references to each paragraph and even individual sentences to make all the sources clear, else information may be removed. And do feel free to research sourcebooks and stuff, not just what Ed says. I've made a bunch of changes to Abbey Mountains to demonstrate.


 * And please respond to messages here, or else you may be blocked. — BadCatMan (talk) 11:24, June 19, 2020 (UTC)

Hello;

My apologies to — BadCatMan, I did not see your entry on my Talk page until just now, and couldn't discern how otherwise to communicate with you.

So far, I have worked out placement of the inboxes & categories, and I'd been trying to cite every factual point I publish, while breaking out indirect facts to their own appropriate entries. Yesterday I'd been putting in stubs for Vaasan locales as I reworked content from Dungeon 177 to wikia spec, and planned to go back and update them with categories and inboxes after I'd completed the set and worked up a suitable template. The ban caught me as I was incorporating an update on Telos City.

The Monument of the Ancients entry should currently be rewritten to wikia spec, content wise; it probably needs dressing & categorizations though, likewise for the newer Anchor of Chaos entry.

Assuming I can, I will use the Abbey Mountains entry as well as the helpful revisions on the Frozen Flindyke entry, as baseline templates for future work.

Anjilicus (talk) 20:12, June 20, 2020 (UTC)


 * If I may, your more recent additions have been really well researched and referenced. It may take some time with the formatting and use of templates and categories - but we can help with that.


 * If you look at Clefts of Razack and Moortown you can see some formatting changes I have made, as well how to fill in the infobox. Again I really enjoy the pages you are making as I know little about that region of Faerûn. If you click the history button on an article page you can see the changes character-to-character. Thank you!Ruf (talk) 21:05, June 20, 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for applying the updates Ruf, your updates on my work are very helpful. the last thing I don't know the dark of is from where/how to generate cite references to the game books; the 4e Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide has a lot of current Lore on Vaasa, and there's more historical refs all though the Bloodstone campaign work from 2e days. Whats the trick of such?

Anjilicus (talk) 21:28, June 20, 2020 (UTC)

oh, I found them; thanks again for your help Ruf

Anjilicus (talk) 21:47, June 20, 2020 (UTC)


 * Awesome! One thing to add, we always recommend using the Source Editor rather than the visual editor. To do this:


 * Sscan over your profile icon - my preferences - editing tab - preferred editor - source editor. For a full list of citation templates go here


 * I hope that helps! Once you get a bit more comfortable with citations you can include info from several sources from multiple editions. To me those are some of the most well-written and fun-to-read articles.


 * I think your temp ban has been lifted. Happy editing! Ruf (talk) 22:05, June 20, 2020 (UTC)

I took to use the source editor soon after- thanks for the setting tip tho. The ban no longer shows on my account page but I still cant edit pages; clearing cookies didn't help. Hopefully this will resolve soon. thank you again Ruf.

Works now. Now for inspiration. Actually, lots to fix first; la. Anjilicus (talk) 01:51, June 21, 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for getting back to us. I apologise if I was a bit terse earlier, and for the block. It's sometimes our only way of getting people's attention or confirming they've seen their Talk page.


 * Please remember to actually fill out the infoboxes, and to arrange the text under the section headings, and don't leave unused ones in your pages. I recommend focusing on one topic at a time: tell us everything there is to know about the subject, get the page complete and polished, then move to the next. That way you can guarantee not leaving unfinished pages behind you. — BadCatMan (talk) 11:19, June 21, 2020 (UTC)

Thank you; I have ben working through the list of pages I have created and/or worked on to tighten them to a steady spec. I am still weak on filling out infoboxes, as the table entries aren't always clear as to what they will look like when published. I also cleaned up the page for Maram of the Great Spear, if there is a formal way to handle working on pages flagged as needing cleanup, (or if you have any issues with my work today) please let me know. Anjilicus (talk) 19:54, June 21, 2020 (UTC)


 * Are you using the Preview feature of the editor? It's a great way to see how things look and tweak them in quick iteration rather than getting bogged down in an edit-save-edit-save cycle. You can also look at some finished pages of the same type you are working on (Item, Location, Person, etc.) for examples of how things work. If the template documentation is not clear, please let me know what is confusing you. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 00:33, June 22, 2020 (UTC)