User talk:MichaelAB

Welcome to StrategyWiki!

Hello MichaelAB! 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! -- Ryan Schmidt^{Talk - Contribs} 22:08, 19 May 2007 (CDT)

Subpages

Hi Michael. I understand that our use of subpages may appear unusual to the regular Wikipedia editor, but we work under a different philosophy. Since we are aiming to have complete walkthroughs and capture guides for each game, we expect to contain a lot more information per game than Wikipedia does. As a result, we try to avoid forcing our readers to wade through extremely long pages of information, and prefer to break down the information on individual pages. This way, a reader can examine the table of contents and jump right to the information he or she is looking for. We have established a fairly comprehensive system of navs and guidelines for different types of guides, which you can read about in the StrategyWiki Guide. And if you have concerns about some of the choices or decisions, you're always encouraged to raise them in the staff lounge or the Community Issues page. Once you've been an editor at SW for a while, I'm sure that the use of sub-pages will begin to feel more natural. Give it a shot before you make any final judgements about it. Let me know if you have anymore questions. Procyon (Talk) 22:59, 22 May 2007 (CDT)

That does make sense to me considering that so many pieces are meant to be expanded over time. I just did not know that was the policy on SW. MichaelAB 23:24, 22 May 2007 (CDT)

Games with their own Wikis

Hi again. While I understand your suggestion with regard to games that have their own wikis, and while in an ideal world, your suggestion makes sense, it is our goal here at SW to be the largest and most comprehensive video game wiki site in the world. Therefore, we don't want to encourage the off-loading of information on to other sites. Rather, we would like to encourage other wikis to collapse into SW. Truthfully, the likelihood of other wiki voluntarily giving up their autonomy is not high, but we always want the option to be there since we will hopefully outlast many of them, and can absorb the ones that shut down. We want to be the GameFAQs.com of wiki sites; and entire collection of information about every game imaginable. And we're well on our way towards achieving that goal. We look forward to your contributions towards that end. Procyon (Talk) 09:43, 23 May 2007 (CDT)