User talk:Ruf67

Welcome to the FR-wiki. Those are some nice changes you have made! We hope you enjoy your stay! Fw190a8 05:19, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Im kinda new at this wiki-editing, but I love the idea and the Realms! If there's any advice you could give me or point me int he direction of some sort of tutorial in how to better use the editing system Id be most appreciative. Cheers, Johnnyriot999.


 * Hey Johnny, welcome to the Wiki! :) I'd recomend you go and read Wikipedias tutorials, they're really good, and when leaving comments on a talk page, please end them with four tidles (~), (like so: ~ ), this will sign your comment with name time and date, thanks and happy editing! Zerak-Tul 11:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey Johnny, thanks for the Kudos, but I can't take credit, it was originally created by David Latapie who is one of the project managers of Wikipedias Forgotten Realms project See [Talk:Main_Page#Wikipedia:WikiProject Forgotten Realms|the Main Page talk page] for a bit more detail. Also now that I'm here, fill something into your user page so it isn't a red link, it's bugging me :P As usual, you're doing a good job, and any questions feel free to ask! Zerak-Tul 08:35, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Baldur's Gate
Go for the eyes Boo, go for the eyes! RUAAARGHH! :) Zerak-Tul 08:44, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Article quality
Your recent submissions have been great, and much appreciated. Excellent work! Fw190a8 16:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks buddy. Just trying to keep up with everyone, lol. I love the new templates that are out, especially the timeline has been formatted and structured so well. Cheers. Johnnyriot999 06:14, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Edits
Thank you for editing Vierna Do'Urden and making it a bit longer. I started it but I did not know some of the things you put there so thank you! DrizztTheSlayer 01:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Admin question
Hi Johnny. Regarding your question on my talk page about which sources to use, you can reference anything you like! Canon materials are the TSR and WotC products (including things like the Monster Manual, not just FR-related products), the WotC novels and the WotC website. The computer games are non-canon but they are probably much more familiar in general than the D&amp;D game itself, so they're worth including!

You shouldn't assume that a source is suitable for referencing just because it has been referenced in an article before, because anyone could just come along and write a reference from "Elmo's ABCs" or something, which is obviously not related to the wiki! Also, you should verify your own references rather than relying on someone else to do it for you, where possible. For example, if someone else has stated in an article that a red dragon favours its breath weapon, and given a reference, you should check the source before you use that piece of information in another article, rather than assuming it's correct.

With regard to copyrights, large chunks of text taken straight from the books or the Wizards website are breaches of copyright. It is assumed that a small quote (one or two sentences) is all right, but your article should be describing the issue, rather than the words in the source. For example, assume I have just read "The da Vinci Code". It would be a breach of copyright for me to type out the book exactly on a website, but it is fine for me to summarize the events in the book, or go into detail about one of the characters, because the words are my own.

On this wiki, the aim is to provide a decent reference to about 25 years of source material. As an example, I recently scoured pretty much all the material for information on the Aurumvorax. This was all the monster manuals and related books, a very useful index of topics in Dragon and Dungeon magazines, and all the FR products relating to creatures. The article combines all this information so it's easy to find out about the creature, even though the original passages were scattered far and wide, and now someone else doesn't have to bother spending the amount of time that I did searching through the sources.

The GFDL is the licence under which the information here is presented, and really means that anyone is free to use the information in pretty much any way they want. The sources we are using are not GFDL, but we are summarizing, listing and referencing this information, rather than copying it outright, so don't worry about that! Fw190a8 01:21, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Changes to capitalization
I wanted to talk about the changes you made recently to the staff of night article! You changed "umber hulk" so that it links to "Umber Hulk" (capitalization of second word) but as far as I understand, creature names should be in lower case. For example, if you were writing about a dog or a fox, you would write "the dog jumped over the fox" rather than "the Dog jumped over the Fox" so in the same way, the creature names should be in lower case. Also, I am of the opinion that spell names should be in lower case too, but there is no general rule for this as there is in the English language, so perhaps go with the way it's written in the source material? I haven't got any to hand right now but I will try to remember to check later. Fw190a8 01:37, 24 February 2007 (UTC)