User talk:BadCatMan

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Bot Requests

 * Replace all instances of  with  . ~ Lhynard (talk) 23:51, January 2, 2017 (UTC)


 * Are you pranking me? Why change? I thought we had the existing system working (not pretty, but working). Devolving it like that will be very difficult and will lose level and multi-class information, as well as the plural names we've worked. I'm not good at regular expressions, so I'd have to do this manually. And I really don't want to do that. — BadCatMan (talk) 00:33, January 3, 2017 (UTC)


 * Actually, this was in direct response to you asking me to post this here: Template talk:Class table. I do not want  replaced! ~ Lhynard (talk) 19:51, January 3, 2017 (UTC)


 * Lhynard, what problem are you trying to solve? Give me an example. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 19:40, January 3, 2017 (UTC)


 * As noted above, this is an old issue the three of us have discussed before that I dug up again as I was sorting through my e-mail Inbox as part of New Year's clean-up: Template talk:Class table ~ Lhynard (talk) 19:51, January 3, 2017 (UTC)

Last year, Lhynard requested: I've since found that  and   were also in common use. I'm running the bot over the wiki again now. This will take a few hours, and already has done. In fact, I also need to check pages starting V or above, since the All Pages option didn't quite do all pages. — BadCatMan (talk) 11:49, February 6, 2017 (UTC)
 * Replace all occurrences of  and   with.

Spells: The Zakharan Connection
Hello! Al-Qadim material provides a Realms connection to many spells, but only with the information that they exist in Zakhara (Arabian Adventures) or may exist in Zakhara if it is ok with the DM (The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook), and the respective province. You have marked some of these, like blink as unrelated. Just so that I understand the reasoning: Do you think it is to thin a connection, or do you want to motivate the addition of more Realmslore with the tag, or did you miss the Al-Qadim source, or...? Thanks for letting me know! Daranios (talk) 21:31, February 2, 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, I keep forgetting and missing a chance to respond to this.


 * I think it's a little of all three. Yes, sometimes I miss the Al-Qadim, and sometimes I think that just because a caster class can cast a spell, it doesn't necessarily mean the spell has Realmslore. In any case, a bit of crunch (being on a class's spell-list) doesn't amount to any Realmslore for the main text of the article. But I've been rather inconsistent about applying the Unrelated template, and we also don't have hard guidelines for it. (The discussion on Candlekeep that motivated me making it was a concern that an article might not be worth reading if it didn't have Realmslore.)


 * In fact, my main concern was that Arabian Adventures might not be a Realms source. I remembered looking at it or another Al-Qadim book and not finding a single blip of setting lore, only information for a generic Arabian Nights–like setting (as the name would suggest). But looking again, I see it certainly does reference Zakhara, so I was completely mistaken there. — BadCatMan (talk) 12:23, February 6, 2017 (UTC)


 * I see, partly at least. The lists do give the information that a spell is common or uncommon in Zakhara, but indeed that is quite a small bit of lore. Well, Lhynard and me are very slowly working on the inventions of many spells from the Player's Handbook in Netheril, so this will bring in Realmslore for a big chunk of the spells in question. Daranios (talk) 21:02, February 10, 2017 (UTC)


 * Okay. Being common or uncommon is sufficient Realmslore, if mentioned in the article. Anyway, I'll try to be more observant about Unrelated tags in future. — BadCatMan (talk) 09:15, February 11, 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I have seen I have only applied that info twice (elemental aura and shadow evocation). Maybe a project for the very distant future. Thanks for explaining the reasoning! Daranios (talk) 13:37, February 11, 2017 (UTC)