User talk:Kraelyst

User talk: Kraelyst

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My AIM is KraelystTheHand
My Email is Kraelyst@hotmail.com

Talk page history

It's probably best to retain the history of your talk page (as is the nature of a wiki) and not delete it all.--Naeya ^(talk) 23:44, 23 October 2007 (CDT)

Gamemaster talk page

Hey Kraelyst, why did you delete our little exchange about tables on the GM article talk page? IMO (and as is standard, accepted practice in wikis), article talk-page discussions should never be deleted, no matter how trivial the content. That stuff about tables is admittedly pretty minor, but it might be useful to someone else at some point. Archiving is ok after an appropriate length of time, but editing talk pages is OK only as absolutely necessary if someone says something really awful/inappropriate.

The underlying idea is that it's considered really bad form in a wiki to edit someone else's comments on a talk page as it's considered anti-collaborative. In any case I think there's a lot that can be done to improve that table on the GM article, eg sortability and maybe some borders/cell coloring to improve readability. So for all these reasons I'm going to un-delete that discussion, and add to it.

Your User page is your own kingdom as it were and you can do whatever you want on it, but to expand on what Naeya said above, unless there's some kind of offensive comment, harassment, or something of that nature, most people leave the talk in place since it represents the contributions of other people. --Farman 00:13, 24 October 2007 (CDT)

Deleted Histories

Thanks guys. I'm new to Wiki anything. I don't recall deleting the GameMaster Talk page and couldn't find any record of it in the GameMaster Talk Page log or my own Kraelyst Contributions logs, but I'm sure you wouldn't have written if my name hadn't popped up somewhere. I guess I did it and forgot or did it by accident. But now I know. --Kraelyst 14:55, 24 October 2007 (CDT)

You can see all this info at the Deletion Log--Naeya ^(talk) 20:17, 24 October 2007 (CDT)

No worries, there's definitely a learning curve to get into the wiki mindset, not to mention the mysteries of wikicode. I know it took me a little while getting up to speed on both counts--heck, I'm still learning ;) We aren't anywhere near as formally organized as wikipedia, and we're a much smaller community, but I've always approached elanthipedia with wikipedia in mind as a model.

If you haven't already, you should skim the Five Pillars of Wikipedia Policy. Not everything there is appropriate for us--we're not an encyclopedia and our scope is very small. So verifiability, no original research, and similar strictures don't make sense here. But IMO, a lot of it does: Be Neutral, Be Civil, Anyone Can Edit, Act in Good Faith, Follow Consensus, Be Bold, I think all of that is really good stuff. --Farman 21:48, 24 October 2007 (CDT)

reply to your comment on my user page

Glad you appreciate the help, Kraelyst. I don't know how frequent my contributions will be, but I do intend to pop in now and again to dump some of my notes here. Maybe somebody will find them helpful. If there are particular things you think would be helpful to have added first, just let me know. --Basselope 11:39, 23 October 2007 (CDT)

reply

Thanks Basselope! I think you're doing a great job putting in all the historical figures. It's probably best if we all work on the topics we enjoy most. --Kraelyst 19:23, 23 October 2007 (CDT)

libraries

Wow, look at all of the edits to the books! Thanks; you have much more patience for that than I do. --Basselope 15:25, 9 November 2007 (CST)

Re: NeedShopInfo

Is there a preferred method for doing 2+ room shops? I finally found a shop that has the info split up onto a single shop page. Is that how you guys want it done?

I'm actually quite new to the site myself, but I think 2 rooms on a single page is pretty typical. Another tip... whenever you post any messages at the end click the Signature button at the top. It will produce the following information: --Kraelyst 22:21, 12 November 2007 (CST)

spell tree images

I'm new to the Wiki and not sure who runs things... also not very good with wiki formatting in general sooo... I just uploaded two images for WM and MM spell trees that aren't linked to anywhere and I'm giving you a heads up, in case you'd like to put them somewhere. Mantive 18:13, 2 December 2007 (CST)

Thanks, Mantive. I'm sort of new myself but I am indeed the one "in charge." I'll take a look and see if I can figure out where they belong. --Kraelyst 19:35, 3 December 2007 (CST)

FYI - I put em where they should go... or so I deemed they should go. I left a note on Mantive's talk page about it.--Naeya ^(talk) 19:39, 3 December 2007 (CST)

Thanks, Pythea!! I'm so glad you're here! --Kraelyst 19:41, 3 December 2007 (CST)

eh? Maybe ye saw Naeya and thought Pythea? :D --Naeya ^(talk) 19:44, 3 December 2007 (CST)

Heh heh... yeah, thank YOU, Naeya! That's what I meant. --Kraelyst 19:48, 3 December 2007 (CST)

YAY me! :) And... welcome! --Naeya ^(talk) 19:49, 3 December 2007 (CST)

Locksmith Union -- Official?

Hey, can you just check my statement in Category:Official_Orders and adjust to be accurate if it is not. and by the same light, do you (or any union member you know of) have an "Order Titles"? if so, that section in Official Orders might need to be edited. --Callek 19:15, 4 December 2007 (CST)

I saw your updates earlier and everything looks exactly right. The Locksmith Union is officially acknowledged but we are definitely not an Official Order. As far as titles, all we have is the standard affiliation title "of The Locksmith Union." I also have a custom title of "Union Leader." --Kraelyst 19:19, 4 December 2007 (CST)

AIM?

If you could jump on AIM, I need to chat with you for a few...thanks. ~--Naeya ^(talk) 19:35, 4 December 2007 (CST)

template inclusion

Hey Kraelyst, just a quick note, having checked out your use of {{spoilers}} just now: when putting a template call in an article you don't need to name the article space if it's Template. eg. {{spoilers}} = {{Template:spoilers}}. --Farman 10:52, 5 December 2007 (CST)

Thanks, Farman. I just cut and pasted from wherever I found it. Looks like it worked the same either way. --Kraelyst 14:31, 5 December 2007 (CST)

New User Welcomes

I'm glad to see you picked up my old habit of welcoming new registered users!  :) I see you modified it to include your info as well!

I propose an idea where if any sysop welcomes a new user, how about we direct them to Elanthipedia:Administrators instead of our individual talk pages and such? Just an idea. That way, if perhaps one of us is gone for a time due to RL issues, they know they can turn to one of the other sysops.--Naeya ^(talk) 00:53, 6 December 2007 (CST)

For what its worth, I agree wholeheartedly with that, though I don't expect myself to be *as* available as either of you for a while. --Callek 01:04, 6 December 2007 (CST)

Okay, sounds good. Directly below is my new message. Feel free to suggest changes:

Welcome

Welcome to Elanthipedia! Please have a look at our help section for a quick reference on how to get started. If you need anything please leave a note at the Town Green or contact any administrator by clicking on their name on the Elanthipedia:Administrators page. You may also feel free to leave a note on my talk page, or via AIM at KraelystTheHand.

--Kraelyst ^(talk) 10:23,5 October 2024 (CST)

== Welcome ==

Welcome to Elanthipedia!  Please have a look at our [[Help:Contents|help section]] for a 
quick reference on how to get started.  If you need anything please leave a note at the 
[[Elanthipedia:Town Green|Town Green]] or contact any administrator by clicking on their name 
on the [[Elanthipedia:Administrators]] page.  You may also feel free to leave a note on my 
[[User talk:Kraelyst|talk page]], or via AIM at KraelystTheHand.
:--[[User:Kraelyst|Kraelyst]] <sup>([[User talk:Kraelyst|talk]])</sup> {{CURRENTTIME}}, 
{{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} (CST)

Book edits

Some of the book edits you made around 12 November (eg, A History of Trefan Draus (book)) erased all of the tags I had put into those books. It appears you were doing some sort of weird copy and paste process that destroyed the tags. Any chance you could revert those edits? Thanks. --Basselope 23:17, 6 December 2007 (CST)

I'm not sure what happened there, Basselope. I can see that I did a MOVE of the books from their call numbers to their names, and then put in some standard formatting. It looks like the links that got removed were to characters mentioned in the book - the only thing I can think of is maybe at that time I was thinking that incidental characters in books shouldn't get their own article so removed the links, but I don't know for sure and I wouldn't do that now. The only options are to rollback my last change and then re-add in the formatting, or go back and re-add in the links. Seems like about the same amount of work either way. --Kraelyst 07:05, 7 December 2007 (CST)

Okay, I just thought of an even better and more likely explanation for what happened. Probably there were duplicate books, so I picked the one that was better formatted and cut and paste that to be the single new article. --Kraelyst 07:17, 7 December 2007 (CST)

Fangs articles

Thanks for moving those. I realize now I probably commented on the talk page like just minutes after you made those changes. Sorry! --Naeya ^(talk) 21:35, 9 December 2007 (CST)

Templates and Standardization

Templates and Standardization It occurred to me that standardization seems to be a big issue all accoss subjects. Take a look at this and see what you think. --Caraamon Strugr-Makdasi 13:57, 19 April 2008 (CDT)

Policy on Negative Posts

You may want to take a peek at this: Elanthipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/PCs. I'm trying to get a consensus on the policy for adding negative information about players and player groups. -Moderator Caraamon Strugr-Makdasi^(talk) 23:24, 21 January 2009 (UTC)