User talk:NikoAk-47

Welcome to StrategyWiki!
Hello NikoAk-47! 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. Please remember to sign your name on, and only on, talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (    ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field as this helps to document all of your hard work. Feel free to delete this message from your talk page if you like, or keep it for reference. Happy editing! -- 05:11, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Wiki markup
Hey, I see you're enthusiastic about contributing to StrategyWiki, and that's great. Please take the time to read through the Guide, which will explain how we set our pages up and how to properly mark up pages to create links and add categories. For examples, take a look at the changes that have been made to NBA Live 2002, Virtual Kasparov and the NBA Live 2002 controls page.

The reason I deleted the NBA Live 2002/Walkthrough page was because it had no Header Nav or Footer Nav templates and the small bit of information should have been on the NBA Live 2002/Getting Started page. It takes a little while to get the hang of how to do all this wiki stuff, but just keep paying attention to how people are cleaning it up and read the links in your welcome message, and you'll be making edits just fine in no time. For starting new pages within a guide, just use the "Guide page" button above the edit text box to automatically insert the Header and Footer navs for you. Have fun, - naj zere 06:34, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Please take the time to read through the links that have been provided to you so I don't have to keep deleting your contributions. Thanks, - naj zere 07:00, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Why did you keep NBA Live 2002 and Virtual Kasparov but not Rig Racer 2 or Quake III Arena? I'am very confused right now btw i also read the guide about how to start a new page i guess i have been leaving out an introduction??? --NikoAk-47 07:07, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I guess i just don't know how to write strategy guides for video games i shall be off then... unless you want me to stick around? --NikoAk-47 07:13, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Please do stick around. I've restored those two pages and cleaned them up a bit as I believe they're a good starting point.  I believe you followed the format relatively well, so do continue to contribute. -- Prod (Talk) 07:21, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I can see how naj has been giving you a hard time, however please understand that it's in both of our best interests to urge you to follow our current standards. You see, the less work the admins have to do managing users (vandalism, education, and revision), the more productive the whole site becomes. So with that in mind, think of naj as your personal trainer =) On a side note, feel free to start new pages. We encourage users to be bold. You will not be "punished" or shunned (or banned) from our community unless you are truly a negative influence. -- 10:06, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I think the issue at hand here, is that it is not enough to simply create a page using the Main Page template button. Having an empty new main page is as practical to the site as not having any page there at all.  It's great that you want to add new games to the site, and we totally encourage you to continue doing that.  But before you do, please be prepared to provided a little information about the game, including information missing from the infobox (developer, producer, systems, genre, etc. all of which is readily available and easily found), and at least one or two introductory sentences so people can learn what kind of game it is.  Please take this advice into consideration before you start a new game page.  Thanks very much.   Pro  cyon  21:18, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Edit: I see part of the problem here. Please make sure you including your introductory sentence below the templates (stub, infobox, etc.) and just above the Continue Nav.  People see the stub box and tend to ignore everything about it.   Pro  cyon  21:21, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Bio FREAKS
I see you're starting another game. Why don't you look at the past main pages you've created, which I've had to clean up, and attempt to format them in the same manner? I thought you said you would try to learn to use the wiki. I'm awake in chat now, BTW. - naj zere 22:58, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

New pages
Before creating any more new pages, look at the previous pages that you've made and various sysops have cleaned up. You consistently manage to neglect the work that others have to exert in order to clean up the stuff that you make. While this is fine for your first couple of contributions, this is beginning to reach the point where it is simply ridiculous. If you can't find the time out of editing to look back at other pages to see the templates they use, how they are formatted, etc. (especially in the infoboxes), then you will be temporarily banned so you have plenty of time to do so. Your inability to look back and change the way you do things is creating more work for the sysops that are already flooded with things to do. Would you rather see StrategyWiki free of vandalism and full of cool features or would you rather see a mess of people following your every edit and adding an rd tag because you just used plain text for a release date? My point is, go into your contributions (there is a link in the top right that leads you there), and go to all the various pages that sysops have cleaned up for you. Look at them, and figure out what you can do differently so that we don't need to clean them up anymore. Then, look at some of the featured guides to see how those are formatted, and apply those concepts to your new pages as well. -- 01:06, 2 January 2009 (UTC)