User talk:Myth

Welcome to StrategyWiki!
Hello Myth! 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 community portal talk page. Please remember to sign your name 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! -- Prod (Talk) 19:26, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

Editing Tips
Hello Myth! I've noticed you've been making a few edits lately and I thought that I'd drop by and give you a few tips. (centered text)
 * Use the "new guide page" preload button whenever making a new guide page to populate it with the proper formatting (like the All Game Nav)
 * Check out the wiki markup section of the guide to using StrategyWiki.
 * Don't put spaces before your text that you write, as it treats it as preformatted (where no wiki markup works and the font face changes)
 * Don't repeat a page's name on the page. It is already at the top and does not need to be stated twice
 * If you want to center your text, enclose the text inside of (centered text), it appears like so:
 * Don't center major points, but instead make them headings (enclose them within two equal signs - ==Important Heading== ). That produces a bar like the one above that says "Editing Tips."
 * Read the rest of the guide to using StrategyWiki

Keep these in mind while making future edits, and you'll be doing just fine! --Ryan SchmidtTalk - Contribs 20:41, 17 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Also, don't add your signature to non-talk pages. It degrades from our goal to have professional-looking guides, and attribution to your work can always be found on the page's history and in your contributions. If you want to test out how to do something, please use the sandbox instead. --Ryan SchmidtTalk - Contribs 20:53, 17 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Don't create categories unless they are for good reason. Categories are designed to hold pages with similar content for easier navigation between them. Creating vanity categories or categories that don't really contribute that much to StrategyWiki is discouraged against, and such categories will be deleted. Thank you (and please please please please please please please read the StrategyWiki Guide)! --Ryan SchmidtTalk - Contribs 21:41, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

What you did
At the beginning, I was referring to when you were creating the pages in Spectrobes. While it can be expected that every new user won't know our guidelines (which is what the welcome notice is for), it usually is not a good idea to continue editing in a fashion that makes you seem like you haven't read your talk page. Specifically, I was referring to your lack of using the "new guide page" button over the edit box when creating a new guide page, and the fact that you kept trying to space out everything with actual spaces (putting 1+ spaces before the first word in a paragraph puts it into a different font and negates any formatting that you try to add to it). I'm truly sorry that I exploded on you like that, but I didn't think that you were taking the time out to read your talk page and our guidelines--although now I know that you did. As for the categories, see my above message (and feel free to remove any of those messages--it IS your talk page after all). For reference, you need to hit "return" or "enter" twice before it starts a new paragraph, and you can indent paragraphs by putting a colon before the first letter (not by hitting "tab"). Numbered lists are created by starting a new line and putting # before the first letter (bulleted lists with * instead). If you have any questions, feel free to ask on my talk page or in the staff lounge. Again, I'm sorry that I blew up like that, and your edits DO help contribute to StrategyWiki. Thank you. --Ryan SchmidtTalk - Contribs 21:51, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

What you continue to do...
Myth, I highly recommend that you take Ryan's suggestion very seriously. One major rule that you are not adhering to is maintaining NPOV, or a Neutral Point of View. That means refraining from ever using "I" or "me" in the body of your writing. While our guidelines may appear excessive and discouraging to new editors, we enforce these rules for a very good reason. We are extremely serious about the quality of the writing on this site, and we ask for the very best from every single editor who joins our community. You are not being singled out in any way. When a new editor insists on using a different style from the rest of the site, it becomes a waste of time for everyone. It's a waste of time for us because we need to rewrite the sections that you wrote, and it's a waste of time for you because much of what you wrote will only end up being replaced. Please don't take any of this as criticism or rejection, I know how easy that is to do. We welcome anyone and everyone to join the project hosted by this site, but we do ask that everyone conform to a certain range of style that has been thoroughly discussed and agreed upon. Thanks very much for your cooperation. Procyon (Talk) 22:09, 17 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Myth, if it's personal choice, feel free to submit your content to one of us (any "regular" user, you'll find us on most talk pages and the community portal) for review and then we can either post it for you or just send it back. Otherwise, definitely get used to it.  It's not just StrategyWiki, it's all Wiki's.  Plus, when you're reading another guide, you're not even going to know who wrote it so it's completely unnecessary.  If you're feeling singled out, I can gaurentee you I've gotten a lot more crap for just being me than you probably will.  If you like to contribute, I encourage you to do it for yourself rather than for others.  It's fun; don't even let the admins get to you. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 23:43, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

Contributions
Hey, welcome again. Unfortunately, for the moment we have very few people around here. We're working on ways to attract people, as well as trying to maintain the "feel" of the website at the same time (those two don't always go together as I think you saw :P). I would personally disagree with the suggestion above of submitting info for review and then having them post up the info. Just put up the info wherever you think it belongs, with whatever formatting you believe is correct. At least one or two of the sysops will end up looking over your edits within a day or two, and will make changes accordingly (or if it's major, leave a message on your talk page). Just be sure to keep all pages you edit in your watchlist and pay attention to the changes made. If you are unsure about something, ask on any of our talk pages, or the Staff lounge. Happy editing! -- Prod (Talk) 12:06, 18 May 2007 (CDT)
 * I just wanted to back Prod up here on this one. You should never feel afraid to post your own contributions here.  The longer you contribute to SW, the more natural it will become, and pretty soon, you'll be helping the rest of us welcome and correct new users as well.  The only way to get to that level is to practice, so please continue doing what you're doing, but don't be afraid to read the guide, ask questions, or even look at how other guides have already been set up.  That was how I learned best, just by looking at other examples of people's work. Procyon (Talk) 12:30, 18 May 2007 (CDT)

Spectrobes/Kolin suggestions
Hi Myth. Since you asked for some feedback, here is mine. I don't know anything about the game, so the only thing that I am commenting on is the formatting. Please learn how to make use of headers. See The Tower of Druaga (PCE)/How to play as one of many good examples on how to make use of headers. Boss Battle, for example should be made at least a level 3 (three equal signs) header. Additionally, I know that what I'm about to suggest is difficult for a majority of users to do, but artwork and screenshots goes a long way to improve the look of a page. Even if you can't capture any screen images, if you can find and upload artwork of the boss that you are talking about there, it would help the page a lot. But this is usually not something that the average editor is confident doing, so don't worry about it too much. Procyon (Talk) 14:51, 18 May 2007 (CDT)