User talk:Stu1131181

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Welcome
Hi! I made a little reference and edit to the 1436 DR article. While 99% of the wiki is written in the past tense, for individual years we keep the entries written in present tense. Thank you for filling in information btw, the early 1400's is probably one of the periods of time I am not super familiar with. Happy editing and please feel free to ask any questions here, on my talk page or those of any of the wikis admins! Ruf (talk) 01:07, January 1, 2019 (UTC)

Undermountain Project
Hello, and welcome to the Forgotten Realms Wiki. Your project to detail the levels of Undermountain is quite ambitious and certainly needed, but are you aware that the dungeon has been documented in many publications over the years? There is an entire boxed set followed by a sequel, plus adventures, novels, and entire works on Skullport. I'm not asking you to cover all of these sources in your work, but please write your articles as if they are just one slice of history. We have decided to date Waterdeep: Dragon Heist in 1492 DR, so you can use phrases like "around 1493 DR" to give a time frame for your work. Others will eventually add details from those previous publications and it would be convenient if they did not have to rewrite what you have already written.

Note that this wiki has a no crunch policy. We cannot afford to infringe on the copyrights of WotC and therefore must keep the game-mechanical details to a minimum as we try to write in an immersive, in-universe style. For example, please do not use "rounds" as a measurement of time&mdash;use minutes and seconds instead. Do not refer to a character's level by number, except in an infobox about that character, and so on. Please write in past-tense and in your own words. You can quote certain things, like the writing on the wall, but everything else must not be too close to the original source material. Admittedly, this is a judgement call, so others might make changes to your wording if they feel it borders on plagiarism, is too crunchy, or even too specific. Take a look at some other articles, particularly those noted as good articles or featured articles to get ideas and pointers on how things work best.

Above all, have fun, and ask questions on any Talk page or make a Forum post if you want to start a discussion about a topic. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 17:00, January 1, 2019 (UTC)


 * Moviesign,


 * Good evening. Thank you for correcting me. I realise there are propably plenty of works on Undermountain and Skullport. The reason, however, is not everyone can afford or wants to buy every single DnD sourcebook ever printed. I understand that you are an exception. In my opinion, this wiki is for people who need information they don't have. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but a) you have every sourcebook ever printed (I have read your profile) and b) not all DnD fans can afford or want to buy everything. I am one of the people who would prefer not to buy everything. DnD, after all, is not about having the most sourcebooks or making all the campaigns excactly like what Wizards of the Coast print it but about making immersive and fun worlds. I believe that this wiki is solely to help people do that, for the articles in this wiki can really spark the imagination. I would still greatly appreciate, however, if you could send me via the talk page interesting information or even the link to somewhere I could download the books.


 * With all due respect,


 * Stu1131181 (talk) 17:39, January 1, 2019 (UTC)


 * I have copied your response back to here so we can keep it all together.


 * The advice I gave you was not meant as a correction but more of a course adjustment. This wiki is the result of work by hundreds of enthusiasts just like yourself, and I'm trying to give you a sense of the scope of what you are undertaking as well as an appreciation for those that have proceeded you and those that will follow you. We value your input and want to see it be used for those purposes you so eloquently described, but it has to conform to a few guidelines. First and foremost, it can't infringe on WotC's copyrights. Second, we are a canon wiki, so all additions must come from official, licensed, or blessed by WotC Forgotten Realms sources. Third, in order to save us from rewriting articles when the "present time" becomes the past, we write all articles in past tense (aka narrative tense, like all the FR novels), a policy agreed upon by the community some time ago. There are many more policies and guidelines, but my point is that you can save yourself and other editors lots of unnecessary effort by becoming familiar with them and putting them into practice. In that spirit, here are a couple more:
 * We encourage all editors to use the Source editor. You can choose it in your preferences or from the drop-down menu in the Visual editor. It makes using templates much easier with fewer errors. For example, your Undermountain level pages should be using the Location template with the appropriate fields filled in and the rest left blank. It's easy to copy and paste the blank template from its page into your document using the Source editor. Then just follow the documentation or ask for help. You should never need a  tag in normal editing (I saw a couple in your two pages).
 * Use the Citation templates. At least every paragraph should have a citation of the book and page where it came from. See Help:Citing sources for a quick tutorial. The auto-suggest makes it easy to find the one you are looking for because it makes suggestions as you type (again, in the Source editor).
 * That's all for now. We all do what we can with what we have in the time we can spend on our hobbies. I want to encourage you to maximize your enjoyment by minimizing conflict. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 21:25, January 1, 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi! No one expects anyone to cover everything, only to take care that one set of work fits neatly with previous work and later work done by others. Hence, dating stuff, using precise citations, and arranging general and specific lore separately.


 * I went over the Arcane Chambers and made a bunch of changes, like adding the Building infobox, converting to past tense, applying an easy standard format, footnoted citations, and categories. Please check the revision history to see what you can take on board for your Dungeon Level and others. In particular, you don't have to detail whole plots in general descriptions, you can save that for history sections and individual character pages. It also spoils current adventure modules for people who just want background. The mystery of the missing key did not seem very relevant to a description of the Arcane Chambers, so I removed those passages. — BadCatMan (talk) 02:59, January 2, 2019 (UTC)

Drow
For information about the drow I would recommend Drizzt Do'Urden's Guide to the Underdark, The Drow of the Underdark, The Dark Elf Trilogy and probably Underdark (sourcebook) and Underdark (4th edition sourcebook). I'm actually not SUPER well-read on the subject, but I have the second book I listed and its helped quite a bit. Ruf (talk) 03:36, January 2, 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Unkown User 11. Before the winter vacation was I that was working on the pages about Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. I appreciate your contriburion but please check my correction on Ambrose Everdawn and Ammalia Cassalanter in order to improse your skills. Good luck and welcome

Bonesnapper
Hi again Stu, I made a few corrections to the Bonesnapper article. There's a big improvement with the use of references but I did make a few changes as to their placement. Also, please use the entire infobox as many 5e characters are present in 4e or even 3e material and there is often additional information about them.

Lastly, I changed the Monster Manual 5th edition reference from Monster Manual as your original citation linked to an older edition. If you are using the source editor you should see a popup appear as you begin to type a template or link. If you are using the visual editor, I recommend swapping as the source editor is much more intuitive. This can be done in the "My preferences" page under your user section, "editing" tab and "editing experience" subsection. Good luck editing!Ruf (talk) 19:04, January 3, 2019 (UTC)

Person-Infobox
Hello Stu1131181,

I'm Saya222. I read about your problems regarding the person-infobox. I think that I can help. Just follow the following steps:
 * 1) Every time you want to create a page with an infobox, go to Help:Templates under Infoboxes.
 * 2) Look for the appropriate template and click on it, in the case of a person-article, it would be this one.
 * 3) Under the heading Usage, you will find the full template. Copy it from the top to the bottom and paste it into the top of the article you want to create.

Please write back when you found my explanation hard to understand. I'm happy to clarify things.

Best regards and I wish you fun at editing.

Saya222 (talk) 14:37, January 5, 2019 (UTC)


 * Sorry I don't understand)))
 * Stu1131181 (talk) 19:24, January 5, 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello Stu1131181,


 * thank you for reading and I'm also sorry for that my explanation did not seem to be understnadable. I assume that the problem was that there were too many steps to the goal. The full Person-Infobox is this one:
 * You can find it in a more lean and horizontal form here. I'd love to suggest to copy-paste it.
 * As mentioned above, I'm just assuming where the difficulties lay. Please write me back, if I had the wrong assumption. Also, you can write the answer on your talk-page. People who wrote at least once on your talk-page receive a notification when you or another person writes on it.
 * As mentioned above, I'm just assuming where the difficulties lay. Please write me back, if I had the wrong assumption. Also, you can write the answer on your talk-page. People who wrote at least once on your talk-page receive a notification when you or another person writes on it.


 * Best regards


 * Saya222 (talk) 20:10, January 5, 2019 (UTC)


 * Saya222,


 * Thank you for your reply. My problem is, in fact, that when I: insert<infobox<select infobox, the person infobox option isn't there. While I propably could copy-paste it from my talk or it's article, but that would be rather tedious. Do you know how to solve this? Also, it seems you have doing a lot of work about drow. This a subject I am planning to address soon. Do you happen to know any good books/websited on drow? If you want, I can send you the link to several books I believe you'll find are enriching on the subject.


 * With all due respect,


 * Stu1131181 (talk) 09:41, January 6, 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello Stu1131181,


 * to you too thank you for your reply and for clarifying your problem. The -infobox can be found under Insert=>Template=>Person. However, as tedious as it may sound, I'd love to suggest you to use the copy-paste option for it allows you to have all parameters at once. I hope it helps you regarding the infobox-problem.


 * Regarding the drow-matter. I'll give you a list of sourcebooks that may help you, one per edition.


 * 2e:In 2e, there is The Drow of the Underdark, a book that describes how the drow live. If your goal is to have comprehensive knowledge about them, that book is the way to go.
 * 3e:In 3e, there is Drow of the Underdark. This book is not part of the FR-setting. So, its lore-content is generally not applicable one-on-one. However, if you're looking for ideas to run drow in your campaign and especially in combat, that book would be my recommendation.
 * 4e: In 4e, there is Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue. This book deals with Menzoberrazan, the most typical of drow cities, meaning you can apply the content to any other city. If your goal is to run a city-adventure, using that book's like a template makes things really east.
 * 5e:5 edition has not yet produced a drow-specific book, but it has a drow-chapter in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. I guess that you're running or playing a 5e-campaign. That book's content is the most up to date and also the easiest to apply in the current setting.


 * You also asked for websites. WotC once had a "Year of the Drow". A compilation of it is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20030624202531/http://wizards.com:80/default.asp?x=books/forgottenrealms. Granted, the organization of it is really haphazard.


 * I hope it helped.


 * Best Regards


 * Saya222 (talk) 19:10, January 6, 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello Lemony Sn,


 * thank you for the response, my apologies, I fear the information was not clear enough. When you go to the editor&mdash;not the source-editor&mdash;you'll find a tab called "Insert". When you click on it, there is a tab called "Template", second from the top. On clicking it, you find the -Template, if you don't, there's a search-bar that allows you to search for it. However, the -Template has the peculiarity of not having tabs to make edits in it, so you'll need to manually add the parameters, which'll be really tedious. Therefore, it's actually easier to copy-paste from the above template, which I'd love to suggest you to do.


 * Please write me back, if you need help.


 * Best regards


 * Saya222 (talk) 17:42, January 11, 2019 (UTC)

New Templates
New templates for the wiki should be discussed by the community before they are put out where the public can see them. Please start a Forum post about your ideas and let the others comment and make suggestions before creating something unilaterally. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 14:48, March 9, 2019 (UTC)