User talk:Poiuytre

Welcome to StrategyWiki!
Hello Poiuytre! 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 editing article or 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! -- Rocky http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/7/78/Rally-X_Rock.png/25px-Rally-X_Rock.png (Talk - Contributions) 10:30, 7 May 2007 (CDT)

Sonic Advance
Hi Poiuytre! Just a few comments on the Sonic Advance guide that you've started writing: Other than that, you are doing a great job on the guide and I hope you continue to do so! --Ryan SchmidtTalk - Contribs 15:32, 21 May 2007 (CDT)
 * Please add the Header Nav at the top of each page (it goes in automatically when you click the "new game guide" button, so maybe use that)
 * Please add links to other pages on the table of contents instead of in the walkthrough page (they can go there, but the walkthrough is usually sequential).


 * Okay thanks! I usually remember the nav bar but must of forgotten it today! Poiuytre 15:41, 21 May 2007 (CDT)

Guide of the Month
You might want to put a note on his talk page because he contributed two days ago and whenever he logs in, he'll see the message bar. I'd wait for a few days with the message on his talk then start finishing the walkthrough. To put it up, for promising guide, click here and follow the instructions. Hope this helps.--Rocky http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/7/78/Rally-X_Rock.png/25px-Rally-X_Rock.png (Talk - Contributions) 08:47, 26 May 2007 (CDT)

Comments in Promising Guide
Hi Poiuytre. I noticed the comments that you left in Promising Guide, and I'm a little concerned. As a sysop, Ryan is more than entitled to his opinion about the content of a page, and he has been contributing to SW long enough to be considered an accurate judge of such content. Chastising him for expressing his opinion, or challenging him to do a better job is not going to reflect well upon you. We are a collaborative community here, and as such, we value a cooperative spirit over an opinionated spirit. I only mention this to you for your own personal consideration. You can choose to abide by it or ignore it, but the choice you make will have a strong effect on how you are perceived by other members of the community. Take care. Procyon (Talk) 14:29, 29 May 2007 (CDT)


 * Yes but he didn't seem to explain himself as too which parts of the guide he didn't like and it made me annoyed that he seemed to express his dislike for the parts of the guide that I did. Sure they don't have pictures but alot of work has been put into those pages so that people can complete the game at the highest difficulty - veteran, which is why they might seem a little longer than the other parts of the guide. And for a moderator to describe it as drival, or "crap" as an American friend later told me what that meant (I'm english and had never heard it before), well it's not very nice and doesn't make you want to write the rest of the walkthrough. Poiuytre 14:43, 29 May 2007 (CDT)


 * I understand how you feel, and I hope that you are not complete discouraged. I think drivel is better described as disorganized, regardless of quality.  It is true that we tend to hold editors up to very high standards.  I've personally examined the pages that Ryan commented on, and after a cursory glance at the content, there are definitely issues that need to be addressed, primarily NPOV and organization.  At SW, we enforce a NPOV or Neutral Point of View policy.  That means no use of the words "I" or "me" in any of the content that you write, and you use "I" fairly frequently, so that needs attention.  Secondly, very long blocks of text are extraordinarily difficult for readers to wade through and find the content that they are looking for.  Big blocks of text like that tend to have a "heavy eyelid" effect, in that readers get discouraged from picking out the bits of information their interested in.  In other words, if I get stuck at some mid-point of your guide, and I want to find out what to do next, I am forced to examine nearly the entire thing from the beginning until I start finding out about the section of the game I'm actually curious about.  So organizing your guide better with headers to break up the content and identify what part of the walkthrough each section is concerned with would be a step in the right direction towards making it promising.  I hope you understand that this is just constructive criticism.  Above and beyond that, you are going to encounter a lot of people's opinions about your work, some good and some bad.  The point is not to take it personally.  Some people are going to find your work objectionable, just as you are going to find other's work objectionable.  There's no reason to lash back at a person who expresses a point of view that you disagree with.  All you have to say is, you disagree.  Anyway, don't give up on the guides.  If you put a lot more polish into them, they truly will become promising guides.  Good luck.  Procyon (Talk) 15:30, 29 May 2007 (CDT)