User talk:Lhynard

Welcome!
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— Moviesign (talk) 02:34, November 23, 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the welcome! Lhynard (talk) 23:04, November 23, 2014 (UTC)

Welcome
Hi. Welcome to the wiki. Thanks for making an account and getting involved.

That was a great first start on Rontal Qirattar. I've made some additions to it: the full infobox, our footnote reference format, extra categories, and some extra information. Have a look, see what you think, and try the other features in few articles. Ask any of use admins (User:Moviesign, User:Darkwynters, or me) if you have any questions.

Rontal will be in next week's Did You Know? :)

One word of advice: Too many new users come in, make a bunch of new articles, then seem to burn out and fade away. So, pace yourself, make one or two articles when you have the time, see what other users add to them, learn various wiki features, and steadily advance yourself. There's no hurry. :) — BadCatMan (talk) 08:08, November 23, 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the welcome and tips! Lhynard (talk) 23:04, November 23, 2014 (UTC)


 * Lhyn, excellent work so far on your recent pages :) - Darkwynters (talk) 00:10, November 25, 2014 (UTC)


 * thanks! ~ Lhynard (talk) 01:06, November 25, 2014 (UTC)

Ethnicity
Lhyn, High admin BatCat has stated using page 80 of the Races of Faerûn for citing ethnicity to not be official. Please check out Talk:Zespara Alather and my talk page under the section User talk:Darkwynters... if have concerns, feel free to ask BadCat about his thoughts. - Darkwynters (talk) 00:38, November 25, 2014 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. Thanks for letting me know. (I think I only did that once.) Lhynard (talk) 00:53, November 25, 2014 (UTC)


 * Totally cool, my man! - Darkwynters (talk) 00:56, November 25, 2014 (UTC)

Tips
Hi Lhynard. I just want to say again, good work and thanks for getting involved. It's nice to have another dedicated wiki editor around. Zaranda Star looks to be on its way to a featured article. :)

Though it seems my recommendation to slow down and pace yourself went unheeded? :p You're new, so us admins spend some time checking your edits, looking over your shoulder, to make sure there's no problems. You're so hard to keep up with! :o But fortunately, you seem to be quickly getting the hang of everything. I just a few tips to give.

You made about 36 edits to Zaranda Star over four days, most of them today. You can make it easier on yourself by using the Preview button — that'll show you what the page looks like, and you can see if you need to make any changes or corrections before saving and publishing it. What I like to do is work on my articles in a Word document, where I can add and change stuff until I'm happy with it, then copy-paste and publish parts when I'm ready. That's what I'm doing with Warlock's Crypt currently. It's a lot easier.

At Vajra Valmeyjar, I noticed you wrote a lot of content in the present tense. Our policy, at Forgotten Realms Wiki:Remove wiki from timeline, is to use past-tense for all in-universe content. That shields us against the changing time-line.

I noticed that some pages like Jimena you tagged or categorised as stubs. Stubs are articles that have only one line, lack crucial information, and are place-fillers for more complete articles. But if an article is complete according to the source, then it isn't a stub, even if is only one line. — BadCatMan (talk) 05:58, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback.


 * Re: 36 edits: That was because I was concerned with edit conflicts&mdash;which actually did happen. I'm a coder, and we use GitHub, so I'm used to the mantra "check-in often". However, your recommendation to use an off-line editor is fine. I'll do that from now on, if it will help you all keep better track of me. :) (I do use the preview button constantly, FWIW.)


 * Re: present tense: Those were slip-ups on my part. I've been trying hard to write in past tense, but sometimes the present just escapes me!


 * Re: stubs: noted ~ Lhynard (talk) 06:50, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * Lhyn, I completely agree with BadCat... excellent work... but I believe you did over 100 edits today... take it slow and make careful edits... you have ALL the time in the world :) - Darkwynters (talk) 06:19, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * I just finished updating or adding all NPCs who have appeared in the 3.5e campaign I DM, so I have a good reason to slow down a bit now. My thought was that I could "catch up" with my campaign, and then add/update relevant articles when they are introduced to my players. ~ Lhynard (talk) 06:50, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * Don't burn out like the others, please, we want to keep you! :D — BadCatMan (talk) 06:34, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * :) ~ Lhynard (talk) 06:50, November 27, 2014 (UTC)

I used Fortran 90 for modelling, I know the trials of coding. :) But I find off-line editing most useful for large projects. Plus, you get everything done before running into a conflict. Unless of course someone makes changes that render your offline copy broken. (Darkwynters...) — BadCatMan (talk) 09:58, November 27, 2014 (UTC)


 * Hehe *DW looks around* What? - Darkwynters (talk) 05:27, November 28, 2014 (UTC)

Not a dead language yet
On your profile, you use the words "formerly" and "informerly" but I think you meant "formally" and "informally". I just, uh, thought I'd point that out. We wouldn't want anyone making fun of PhD's now, would we? ;) &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 01:41, November 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * :) Ha! Thanks for the typo catches. (How embarrassing!) ~ Lhynard (talk) 01:50, November 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * The worst part is that those awful spelling errors were on my Wikipedia user page for years. *sigh* ~ Lhynard (talk) 01:52, November 30, 2014 (UTC)

Creature vs. Inhabitant
Okay, Lhyn has given me an opportunity to discuss the question on whether creatures are inhabitants... a long time ago, High admin FW stated only specific persons, such as Drizzt Do'Urden go into Category:Inhabitants of Toril and drow do not... so I would like to have another vote on what other editors think... just pasting, since you are SO fast with the edits :) - Darkwynters (talk) 16:53, November 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * Got it! Replied over at Talk:Dragon turtle. ~ Lhynard (talk) 16:58, November 30, 2014 (UTC)

Read: Help:Writing an article about a person... now we might change this, but let's wait to see what others think. - Darkwynters (talk) 17:00, November 30, 2014 (UTC)

Copyright Question
Are we not allowed to post pics from sourcebooks? I've seen hundreds of pics taken directly from D&D sourcebooks on this site. Artemas Entreri (talk) 12:39, March 20, 2015


 * It is considered "fair-use" to use a low-resolution picture/image to illustrate a page about a topic about that picture. However, a scan of text is a different thing altogether. Copying text verbatim is a form of plagiarism, and that's precisely what a scan of text is. If you wish to include the information in that table, it needs to be rewritten in your own words and in your own format.


 * Check with the admins for more information.


 * It's good to see more info about Zakhara, by the way. Thanks!


 * ~ Lhynard (talk) 18:02, March 20, 2015 (UTC)

Manshaka
Hi Lhynard. As you wished, I added some more about Vajra Valmeyjar. Enjoy!

At some point in these comics, I'll need to do a lot of work on Manshaka. Thanks for starting an article stub on that. I made some notes on the place, but didn't get around to writing an article; the amount of work required just to start adding the comics lore was what put me off the comics for a while. I would at some point, but to avoid stepping on each other's toes, did you have plans to work on Manshaka in the future, along with your Calimshan work? — BadCatMan (talk) 09:55, April 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * Great!


 * Yeah, it's tough summarizing down large chunks of story.


 * Yes, Manshakalaka is on my list. (One of my key NPCs is from there.) I'll bump it up in my priority and get to it sometime this week. ~ Lhynard (talk) 10:50, April 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * No hurry, we don't visit the place until issue #13 :) Big Vajra story, that one, with flashbacks to her past. For now, I'll focus on Pasha Abon Duum and his bounty seekers, and add to Manshaka as I come across lore. I think we can make a pretty cool article together. :) — BadCatMan (talk) 11:44, April 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * Ok, all finished with Manshaka. See what you think. ~ Lhynard (talk) 21:35, April 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * Damn, you work quick! Excellent work. See, you know all about Calimshan's history and know what drudachs and such are, which saves me some hassle. :) I'll add what else I've found later. It's amazing how many people claim to have survived and escaped the unsurvivable and inescapable Blood Arenas... — BadCatMan (talk) 08:37, April 7, 2015 (UTC)

N-Dashes
FYI, you do not need to bother putting n-dashes in page ranges inside a Cite template. Dashes are automatically converted to n-dashes by the template. It won't hurt if you do, but it's an unnecessary step while editing. If you discover otherwise, please let me know. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 15:19, April 7, 2015 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I know. BatCat did that; I didn't bother correcting him.
 * By the way, I was impressed when I figured out that you auto did it! It's a pet peeve of mine when folk don't use en dashes in ranges. Honestly, it helped keep me involved here, because I saw that the admins care about details. ~ Lhynard (talk) 15:24, April 7, 2015 (UTC)


 * Fonts, typesetting, and mathematical notation have been a minor fascination for me since the days of (showing my age here) the Selectric typewriter. I think it adds credibility to our wiki if we keep it scholarly, focused, adhere to our policies, and pay attention to detail. And hey, if it prompted you to stick around, it's working! :) &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 19:09, April 7, 2015 (UTC)