User talk:Gumption

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Hello Gumption! 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! -- Baejung92 (talk) 02:22, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Edit summary note

Could you please actually write one? Just typing aaa isn't very helpful. It doesn't take very much time to write a little more. RobJ1981 05:57, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Also, when adding new pages to a guide, please add the links to the Table of Contents. -- Prod (Talk) 06:05, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

For attribution, please put the links/usernames in the edit summaries rather than on the page. Anyone can remove links from a page, but it's impossible to remove it from the edit histories (which should follow the content wherever it goes). Keep up the good work :) -- Prod (Talk) 06:34, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Since this seems to be such an issue at this site I'll state my response once here. This isn't a big deal. Multiple edits in less than an hour by the same person is obviously someone tweaking things around. I try to make generous use of the comments and "minor edit" check box but at somepoint it's just a pain when making many minor tweaks. Preview is great for a quick edit but when working with large amounts of data and major changes it sometimes isn't the best save practice. I've lost edits before so I prefer to save small and often. You guys should relax a little especially on a new page. Thank you for your other comments though as I found them helpful.--Gumption 23:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Mount&Blade

The table on the Companion Comparison page is huge and forces some major side scrolling. It would be better to split it up into different sections, perhaps along the lines of the subheadings at the top of the table (i.e. Companion, Attributes, Personal Skills, etc.). Also, because we have our own navigation system ({{Header Nav}} and {{Footer Nav}}), the "See also" sections aren't really necessary. The {{details}} template or just a normal link while explaining related pages in the text fits more into this particular wiki's style. Thanks for all the great info you're adding into the M&B pages, it's looking really great! - najzere 17:04, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

The page looks much better, good job. In the future if you use the "Show preview" button below the edit text box, right next to the "Save page" button, you'll be able to see how the page is coming along without having to put up notices on the page and without multiple edits going into Recent Changes and the pages edit history. - najzere 23:34, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Regardless of what it takes to make a campanion choice in Mount&Blade, we don't have huge amounts of whitespace on any of the pages on the wiki. I understand you spent a good deal of time on the tables and you feel that is the best way to present the information, but if it breaks the layout, then we have to find another way. It's okay to mix in some narrative explanation to help users understand what's on the page, and it may be necessary if the tables get broken down further. - najzere 00:15, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Learn to be flexible

Dude, if you don't like what najzere is doing, he's offered you several avenues that you can use to air your grievance and have the matter discussed and decided upon. As a sysop, it's najzere's job to be concerned with format. You're responsible for the content, but you have to let najzere do his job. We are contractually obligated to show the ads, and therefore, any content that may interfere with the display of those ads must be corrected. Not to mention the fact that the size of that table is ridiculous. I don't care what kind of display you use, no one wants to look at a spreadsheet in order to get that kind of information. This is a wiki, not Excel. Add all the content that you want, don't fight with the sysops, and bring your complaints up in the proper places, or we accept your resignation from the site, it's that simple. Procyon 01:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)