User talk:WendolynCK

Advice and Assistance
Hi there! Welcome to the wiki and thanks for your articles. Turmish is an area we need good coverage of. I had some advice and requests for you to help improve your articles. Take a look at the histories of articles you've already written to see how I've updated them.

When making your articles, please be sure to fill in the infobox entries fully, with  and the rest. Check out Person, Organization, Location, Conflict, Event, and others to see how to fill them in effectively. If you're trouble with the templates, we really recommend switching to the Source Editor from the Edit menu or set in your Preferences. That'll show you the basic wiki code, which will help you learn it in no time. The default VisualEditor really doesn't work well with templates.

When writing an article, start with a lead (or lede) which briefly introduces and summarizes the topic, has the name in bold, and so on. Take a look at any of other pages to see some examples. It's a standard wiki convention.

Moreover, please make certain that everything is referenced, with page number.

If you have questions or need help with something, don't hesitate to ask any of us! BadCatMan (talk) 12:00, 1 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your advice and encouragement! I will be sure to do all of the above. I am new, and eager to learn, so will steadily improve in following the Wiki standards! WendolynCK (talk) 13:27, 1 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello again. While you've made some improvements, there are still the same issues to address. The Illistine article needs some references (do you have a source saying they're all related and not just a common name?) and you didn't fill in the infobox.


 * You also need to make sure you don't copy any text, deliberately or even inadvertently, as this is against our Forgotten Realms Wiki:Plagiarism policy. While I see you've altered some phrasing, there are still some close similarities that I saw in Dempster Turmish and now History of Westgate.


 * For example, the FRCS 3e said "The largest of these was Westgate, a human town ruled cruelly by the great dragon Kisonraathiisar." and you wrote "The largest settlment was the human town of Westgate, ruled cruelly by the great topaz dragon Kisonraathiisar." which is still much too close. Then you wrote "Saldrinar destroyed Kisonraathiisar and became Westgate's first human king." which does no more than remove some information and switch to past tense.


 * I brought in some of the other information from the original texts, split the first sentence in two by topic (Westgate's growth among the others and then Kison's rule over the town), reversed the structure to follow the sequence of events and flow of ideas, embellished a bit, and wrote "This area of the Dragon Coast was first settled by humans from the Vilhon Reach around −1000 DR. They founded various settlements, of which Westgate grew to be the biggest. However, in time, the tyrannical topaz dragon Kisonraathiisar reigned over the fledgling town. Finally, in the Year of Bold Poachers, −349 DR, Kisonraathiisar was slain by Saldrinar of the Seven Spells, a Netherese wizard, who took over as the first human king of Westgate." That's a marked improvement, being more dramatic and original and more easily expanded with future information.


 * If you persist in this, we will take measures to block you and remove suspect work, so I advise you to go back and clean these up and take more care in future.


 * You seem to be jumping between different projects, Myth Nantar to Turmish to Silvanus to Westgate, and while they're all worth having, any one of them is a major undertaking that even I would flinch at and spend a few weeks or months on, not a day or so. This is especially a problem for new editors still learning the codes and styles, and we see a lot of them just burn out. Please slow down, take your time to learn the ropes and get things just right before moving to the next page, and get one project complete before picking up another. Relax, this should be fun. :) BadCatMan (talk) 06:29, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Welcome and a Few Tips
Hello and welcome to the wiki!

I see you're making a lot of useful edits, thanks for those. However, you've left a lot of your earlier pages with quite a few errors, such as Church of Silvanus. There are several major errors (large red text throughout the main body of the article), other reference errors, and no in-line citations for some sections, etc. Could you please fix these pages before moving on? Thank you very much! ~ Possessed Priest (talk) 15:31, 4 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the encouragement and advice! Yes I am new and learning the syntax. I will be sure to go back and clean up my earlier mistake-ridden edits! WendolynCK (talk) 15:45, 4 April 2021 (UTC)