User talk:Gem Hound

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— Hashimashadoo (talk) 21:04, November 14, 2015 (UTC)

Welcome and advice
Hi Gem Hound.

Welcome to the wiki and thanks for your contributions. I hope you decide to stick around. Please have a look at the above welcome notice for some general tips and polices to see how we do things.

For some advice, please get to know the Preview button. Don't make a change, then publish to see what happened, then make another change, and repeat, on and on. That just fills up the edit histories and activity pages with dozens of minor changes, and makes it very hard for us to see what you did and fix it up. Instead, use Preview to see what the result is without publishing, so you can easily undo it and go back or make a new change, then save the final result. Another technique is to write your article in a separate program like Word before copying the final product to the wiki.

Please also make sure you use the correct references on an article. I spent some time looking through Dragon #255 for mongrelman, when it was actually #242.

We all make mistakes in this, especially starting out, and that's fine. Just slow down, take your time. I recommend making one article at a time, then waiting to give the rest of us a chance to look it over, make revisions, and offer advice like this, then use what you learn for the next article.

Anyway, once again, welcome aboard! — BadCatMan (talk) 03:51, November 18, 2015 (UTC)


 * Please also remember to use the Information template when uploading images. The Upload Photo page should tell you everything you need to do. You should also add categories, from Category:Images and so on. — BadCatMan (talk) 04:03, November 18, 2015 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for cleaning up my mess. I'm currently working on upgrading the Aldani page and would really like for you to add in your input. I have doubled the references and am slowly adding to it, I've so far added stats, tried to condense the references a little by book instead of page(since there are about 8 book references - still have pages listed), I've also added history I found on the wiki on the timeline that pertained to them. I've decided to combine crabmen and lobster men on the same page there since both are Yurians. Any help would be thoroughly appreciated!

Note: I'm still not done with the mongrelmen either. — Gem Hound(talk)


 * (I like to keep conversations together, so I moved your response back to your page.)
 * Thank you, I started the aldani page a few years ago, though just to rehabilitate a copied article. I had no idea what they were. It's nice to see it grow like this.
 * On references, just add as many as you know of. It gives a reader multiple choices of book to look up, as they probably won't have all of them. Make sure that all statements have a reference, and that all references that apply are applied.
 * Combining two/three different-named creatures like that requires some explanation: it may just be that different designers independently thought of crab-people, but they might be very different in concept. The 3e yurians and 2e crabmen share the same lore, so must be the same creature with a new name. I'm not certain about the aldani/lobster-men, as the lore is rather different, but it doesn't actually contradict, so I would accept it. Consider adding a note of explanation in the appendix of the article. — BadCatMan (talk) 06:48, November 18, 2015 (UTC)