User talk:Skierpage

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Hello Skierpage! Welcome to StrategyWiki. Thank you for your contributions. If you have any questions, just contact a sysop through their talk page or post on the staff lounge, and they'd be happy to help. If you need help editing, check the StrategyWiki Guide. If you have a question about the content on this wiki, you can check out our staff lounge page. If you want to ask questions or hang out in IRC, we're usually around. On the other hand, if you have ideas for StrategyWiki, bring them up on the forums.

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Super Mario 63
You article has been marked for deletion. Please review our scope policy and voice your opinion at the related discussion. Thanks, — najzere T 05:31, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response. Now for the real editing! :P Please edit the Super Mario 63/Table of Contents page and add links under the Walkthrough section to pages based on the information in the walkthrough. It needs to be split up into separate pages, and you'd be the best judge of where to make those distinctions (by level is usually a good rule of thumb). You can use the "Table of Contents" preload button when creating the ToC. Thanks! — najzere T 17:37, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Consolidate your edits
Hi, thank you for your contributions. Please use full page editing and the preview button to help reduce the amount of edits to the pages you're working on. You can edit the entire page by clicking on the "Edit" tab at the top of the page. Take your time to work out all of the changes you are going to make before submitting them. Making multiple minor edits makes it harder to use a page's history, and an administrator has to patrol every one of the changes you make. If you are editing a page more than three or four consecutive times within 10 minutes, you need to slow down. If you're worried about losing your work, copy the contents of the page into a text editor where you can even save it to your computer if you like. Thanks, —  12:46, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
 * "Patrolling edits" doesn't just mean we just look at them all - we have to go to every (and I mean every) single edit made on the wiki and mark it as patrolled, and since it doesn't work with multiple edits we have to do them one at a time. 16:36, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * We're not asking you to improve the history of a page. We're asking you to alleviate the work (time invested) necessary in reviewing all edits. Scrutinizing submissions takes place on several levels: 1) checking for vandalism, 2) skimming for spelling errors and drivel (copyedit worthy), 3) previewing the page for visual layout issues and template errors, and 4) fact checking. Typically, each contributor has their specialization; if their focus is on a game that is unknown to the administrators, the edits are typically not checked for #4, as this requires knowledge of the game. Also, the message you first received from Melon is a boilerplate, as seen at consolidate. -- 02:41, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Part of what has made SW as successful as it is is the dedication of sysops like Melon and Najzere, who do take the time to review all of the edits that people submit. We rely on your expertise to provide the guide, but we also rely on the sysops to help implement page standards, such as navs and so forth, to keep each page consistent so that readers don't get lost.  Their job can be rather time consuming, and by consolidating edits, you are cutting down on the time they must invest to make sure each of your edits conforms to the standards.  While we share a lot of common ground with Wikipedia, we run our operation slightly differently.  It is a practice that has, thus far, proven very successful and "if it ain't broke..."  We fully appreciate your cooperation.   Pro  cyon  03:44, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Staff lounge
Yes, you belong on the staff lounge. :) It's not limited to actual staff, but is just a place where you can ask a staff member something. If you have anything worthwhile to add to a discussion, then you're more than welcome to jump in. Thanks for participating! — najzere T 23:00, 30 October 2009 (UTC)