User talk:Gunslinger47

Welcome to the Forgotten Realms wiki Gunslinger :) Zerak talk 20:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: Unmerge of Randal Morn
Sure thing. We tend to make an article for every individual character, place, thing, building, item etc. no matter how big or small. So depending on the ammount of information available, you'll find articles on this page of all types and sizes. Waterdeep for example is well-explored and thus is quite a legnthy article. Galaghard I is not mentioned too often therefore the article is rather small and, as of right now, is only a stub. Hope that explains my changing the articles a bit. Cheers! Johnnyriot999 22:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm the same way and I'm always looking to bust red links and write new articles. Anyways, great job on the articles. It's awlays good to have experienced editors around here.Johnnyriot999 22:48, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Article scope and size
The main reason for giving each person, place and item its own article is that it can then appear in category lists as a separate entity. You're definitely right about Wikipedia's anti-stub policies, and while I'm sure everyone prefers very detailed and complete articles, this is a comparatively tiny wiki with many, many stubs, but we'll get there in the end. There might easily be a few articles for which it is only possible to write one sentence, because there is no more to say about that person or thing. In my opinion, it is still beneficial to have these as their own articles because it provides continuity (the reader will expect each person to have their own article) and for the categorization purposes. Having said all that, we're far more dynamic than Wikipedia because it's a much smaller operation, so if there's something you want changing, you need only to discuss it or create a proposal. Welcome to the wiki! Fw190a8 00:25, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Personally I wasn't aware that redirects could be categorized, so thanks for the information! You're right, the ability to categorize redirects does diminish the argument for separate articles. Maybe this is a good reason to cluster information and redirect to it? Fw190a8 09:35, 22 July 2007 (UTC)