User talk:Ijkay

Getting Started
This is to start talking!

--Ijkay (talk) 19:55, September 20, 2012 (UTC)

Welcome
Welcome to our little fellowship... (Nice question you expressed in Cronje's page...a probable answer might be in Talk:Nesm%C3%A9 by BadCatMan) Feel free to ask anything or help others anyway you can :-) Jandor (talk &sdot; contribs ) 20:28, September 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi there, and welcome. I fixed up the userbox thing on your user page. Take a look, see what you think.


 * On Talk:Nesmé I was referring to a free online article. A free book would be very different, though I'd say the same rules apply. Especially now it seems that WotC has taken them down / lost them. -- BadCatMan (talk) 12:55, September 21, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Copyright Questions
Sorry about the late response. Here are my thoughts:
 * 1) Unfortunately, even the short entries are copyrighted. I know it's difficult, but not impossible, to change even short entries into original words. However, if it's something as short as "The Fifth Serôs War ends," that's fine to just use. You should always try to see if you can find more information, though, so you can expand the entry and truly make it your own. Maybe something like (I'm totally making this up, so don't take it as canon!) "The Fifth Serôs War ends when the mega-kraken Moogooboozoo sends an thousands-strong army of enslaved sahuagin to the submerged cities, utterly destroying them."
 * 2) Those two are copyrighted, I'm afraid. If/when WotC decides selling that once-freely-given information to its fans (something they can certainly do), they'd surely come at anyone still distributing it freely.

Hope that helps answer your questions! Cronje (talk &sdot; contribs) 14:04, September 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * This helps a lot. Thanks. Further along these lines I'm a little confused about map images. I understand the 3e map was put out by WotC as a freebee so it can be used. But I see a lot of images from the The Forgotten Realms Atlas and other sources (usually just a small chopped section). So they can be used? Also the policy led me to templates for boxes containing info about the source (eg. Template: Interactive atlas export) but I don't see them being used. But should they be?--Ijkay (talk) 15:46, September 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * As far as I'm aware, the Forgotten Realms Atlas is indeed copyrighted. However, I'm not sure if images taken from it would fall under the Creative Commons License (and thus be allowed) or not. It's worth doing some research. Cronje (talk &sdot; contribs) 23:20, September 21, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Method
By all means, create as many stub pages as needed, so long as the information on those pages is correctly cited. If more editors add little bits of information to many articles, eventually we'll have a number of complete articles! Cronje (talk &sdot; contribs) 23:20, September 21, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Crunch
The crunch policy page spells out the wiki's policy on crunch. As for numbers, really only character levels (in the character's article's infobox) and item properties (such as a cloak of elvenkind +3) are allowed. Things like the amount of damage a fireball spell does or how much health is restored when a cleric casts cure light wounds isn't allowed. Cronje (talk &sdot; contribs) 23:20, September 21, 2012 (UTC)