User talk:Sajuukkhar9000

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— Hashimashadoo (talk) 10:02, January 11, 2016 (UTC)

Hordelands Edits
Thanks for your contributions to some of the Hordelands pages. Don't forget that all in-article written text needs to be in the past tense. Happy editing!Artemaz (talk) 14:04, January 11, 2016 (UTC)

Howling Gap
You did a pretty good job setting up the basic content for the Howling Gap page. The next step is to add bold to the page subject, Howling Gap in this case, and then add links for other subjects within the page that have or will have their own pages ... these are usually all proper nouns. Adding an infobox and categories also helps fully flesh out the page.

I made these changes using the source editor, but you can see how it's done by looking at the edits. Let me know if you have any questions. Artemaz (talk) 17:13, January 11, 2016 (UTC)

Temporary Edit Block
Hi, welcome to the site.

You have done a good job in writing the text of your new articles and including citations. It's good to have new editors. However, I am temporarily blocking your account, until you acknowledge (here) that you understand the points Artemaz raised above. The reason is because it takes a lot of work to go through your new entries and correct them to the standards of the wiki. Please acknowledge that you will try to follow the guidelines, and I'll quickly remove the block for you.

We'd rather you add information slowly and according to our guidelines than a lot of information not in the proper format.

Feel free to ask questions if you have them and many of us would be glad to help.

~ Lhynard (talk) 17:56, January 11, 2016 (UTC)


 * I completely agree with both Art and Lhyn here... please read our Help:Contents page for rules and advice on editing... thanks :) - Darkwynters (talk) 23:19, January 11, 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for writing your newest entry in past tense. However, you still seem to have ignored the other comments about using bold for the title of the page used in the first sentence and the use of links (indicated with double brackets) to other articles.

Again, please respond here to let us know that you acknowledge these things.

~ Lhynard (talk) 23:47, January 11, 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry, its site for some reason doesn't give me notices like most other wikis when someone adds a new post to my page. Ill remember to use past tense, and bold the name of the location, as well as add info boxes to new pages. Still kinda new to the whole wiki thing. Didn't even know how to add an info box, since its not explained anywhere obvious.


 * Ive just been trying to add most of the named locations described in The Horde campaign box set manuals. Read through them and The Horde camping adventure books recently, and noticed a lot of places in them missing. Areas outside of faerun don't get much love. Sajuukkhar9000 (talk) 00:20, January 12, 2016 (UTC)


 * Great! Thank you for responding.


 * Again, I think your text was great, but I didn't want you editing countless articles if we could not communicate with you successfully!


 * Try going here and making sure you have a confirmed e-mail address at which to receive notifications and checking the box for "...my user talk page is changed".


 * Infoboxes are indeed a little confusing at first. Check over the changes we all made to your several articles today. You can copy-and-paste the code for them for starters and tweak as needed. Linking, though, is easy; it's more important than infoboxes, because links are the main part of what makes a wiki a wiki.


 * Happy editing! (You are un-blocked.)


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 00:41, January 12, 2016 (UTC)

Uploading maps
I do have one question, about an unrelated topic... what is the wiki's policy on those old maps from the various boxes/adventure sets? such as this one: http://i.imgur.com/B4VAibQ.jpg. Are we not allowed to use those because they are copyrighted or something? I ask because over the years I've collected or made a number of them from various sites and sources, and noticed few of them get used here in the wiki, all, or even parts. Like, I have a map of the layout of Dhaztanar, at least how it was during the year "The Horde" materials are set, and was wondering if you would want them to add to the image sections. Sajuukkhar9000 (talk) 01:47, January 12, 2016 (UTC)


 * It is considered fair-use to employ low-resolution crops of such maps, provided the image files include details about the source and a notice of legality.


 * A good example of how to do this properly is found here.


 * To upload an image, use the "Contribute" button and select "Add an image". After you upload the image, edit the page and add the file information. I would copy the wiki code from File:Moonsea2eR.jpg and edit that to fit your case.


 * Once you've uploaded a map and attributed the image, you can insert it by name into an infobox or directly into a file using something like


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 02:04, January 12, 2016 (UTC)


 * Those maps are copyrighted. That said, we do allow excerpts from them, but they need to be "low resolution", which is open to interpretation. I think I read somewhere that wikipedia uses 100Kb as a rule-of-thumb max file size. I take a full-sized image (usually an excerpt of a bigger map) and reduce it 50% in height and width, making it 25% of the size of the original, and call that low resolution. It is a gray area for which no one has an official ruling. Look through Category:Copyright tags for the various reasons we justify uploading things. For example, if Wizards puts a map on their web site, we tend to treat that as Promotional. Basically, if you upload something that does not meet the criteria specified on the Special:Upload page and/or makes us uncomfortable about it being fair use, we will probably delete it and perhaps ask you to try again. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 02:26, January 12, 2016 (UTC)