User talk:SwordSlayer
WelcomeEdit
Hello SwordSlayer! Welcome to the wiki. I hope you enjoy using the site and find the information on it useful. If you decide you want to help improve any of our pages, we're always welcoming to new editors so feel free. You might want to look at our Getting Started page for some tips on how to begin, then play in our Sandbox for a while to practice. If you need any help or advice, please ask one of our mentors. Enjoy! --Rpeh•T•C•E• 07:38, 25 November 2007 (EST)
- Thanks for your interest in adding walkthroughs to the Oblivion Places pages :)
- However, the walkthroughs you've been adding are actually somewhat too detailed to be useful. The difficult thing about these walkthroughs is that every person playing Oblivion has their own style of gameplay. So a walkthrough that explicitly tells every reader that they must sneak past the occupants (for example) won't actually help readers who don't like to play that way. And the creatures that each player encounters in the dungeon could be different. Where you found a rat or a timber wolf in Ninendava, another player is more likely to find a vampire or an undead creature; telling readers to prepare solely for a timber wolf will only make it more difficult for readers to finish the dungeon rather than easier.
- I realize that you're just trying to help improve the wiki, and the help is appreciated. But given that all of your walkthroughs have needed substantial revision, I thought I'd try to provide some feedback. If you'd like to continue to provide walkthroughs, you may want to read about the Oblivion Places Redesign Project, especially the section on Walkthrough information and the links there to other pages with completed walkthroughs. Overall the walkthrough is not supposed to be an exact step by step explanation of how to make it through a dungeon, just because in Oblivion there is no one single way to accomplish any task. To some extent, the walkthrough is as much about validating the information that's already on the page (all of which is computer generated and has not been checked against in game experience). Please feel free to ask if you have any questions! --NepheleTalk 03:23, 1 December 2007 (EST)
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- Thanks for continuing to expand the place pages. However, could you please refrain from deleting the cleanup tags on those pages unless you have done the requested tasks in the cleanup tags? As emphasized in the wording of the cleanup tags, on the project page, and in my previous comments: the primary objective of the requested work is to confirm and enhance the existing information on the page, not to add duplicate information to the page. Looking through the followup edits made to any of the pages where you've contributed will give you some ideas of what type of information needs to be checked. For example: if a gate says "opened remotely" expand that line of text to specify how the gate is opened; where it says "10 Welkynd Stones" provide a brief description of where the stones are; explain what activates any traps; etc. Any additional descriptive information should be clearly integrated with the rest of the page: any chests, gates, or doors should be identified using the labels on the map (and if the chests or enemies aren't labeled on the map, they're probably not interesting enough to be mentioned again unless they're hidden).
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- But the main point here is that cleanup tags should be left in place unless your edits clearly do all of the tasks requested by the cleanup tag. While some (limited) additional walkthrough information is needed on the articles, that is not the focus of the cleanup tags, so simply adding a walkthrough section isn't enough to delete the tags. --NepheleTalk 13:02, 5 March 2008 (EST)
AdviceEdit
Hi there. Please can you use the "Show Preview" button when making changes to pages rather than making lots of small saves? The way you've been doing it creates extra work for those of us who have to watch out for the site. Thanks. –Rpeh•T•C•E• 11:35, 8 February 2008 (EST)
Things To Do When You're BoredEdit
Could you please stop creating new pages for this? If it needs splitting it needs doing in the same sort of way as the Roleplaying or Glitches pages rather than creating several pages with abbreviated names and no common purpose. The fact that you get a warning about page size when editing the original is immaterial. Several pages are longer than that one and still don't need splitting. Thanks for your efforts in any case. –Rpeh•T•C•E• 06:59, 9 February 2008 (EST)
