User talk:DM/ArchiveJan06 Jun09

Please Link the images like this



--Shadow Dragon 21:43, 24 Mar 2005 (EST)

Hey when you are making the creature pages it would be best if you keep to the standard we set up earlier. Look at the Tibiawiki:standards page. Also look at vampire and you can see a good example.

Like someone pointed out already, please look up how our standards looks like and write your articles/pages after them. Also, do not sign every page you edit/write on with your name. Your name is logged in the database along with your changes so everyone can look that up anytime they want. Also, do not copy descriptions from Tibia.com or any other website. I noticed some things you've written are copied from |Tibia.com. I will block your user for 1 hour so you can get some time to find this message and read about our standards before you make more pages that do not follow the standards.

Don't let these notes kill your spirit in adding information into TibiaWiki. Take it as good help to write better pages. :)

--Alreth 17:38, 24 Mar 2005 (EST)

"Back to Creatures Page"
As you can see, I added creature list link to the template per your edit note. Now we need to remove the link from the pages that had it manually added, because any of them would now show 2 links to the same page. &mdash;Rune Farmer–(talk)–(Profile) 06:31, 24 May 2005 (EDT)

about item images
i noticed that you are addin categories to the items pages like me.... well you should add category to the Images too...like Image:Rose Shield.gif -- 15:57, 17 Jun 2005 (EDT)

Promotion
Congratulations on your promotion, DM! :) Keep up your good work. -- Alreth ¦› Message me ¦› My contributions ¦› 09:42, 21 Jun 2005 (EDT)

Hi There
Hi there ! as i said on Pocoloco talk page i knew you were going to pull my ear about the standarts, and using the preview function :D. sorry for messing up but im still finding my way around here. I know that it is impossible to keep an article concerning levels always up to date, but i saw that the levels were out dated and it did not hurt to update them :D. Baruk 19:59, 23 Jun 2005 (EDT) (talk)!

I forgot to tell you : i wasnt the one who made the Edron Herocave article, so youll have to pull someone else´s ear for that :p


 * I redirected Edron Herocave to Hero Cave instead. -- Alreth ¦› Message me ¦› My contributions ¦› 21:18, 23 Jun 2005 (EDT)


 * Thanks for picking it up, was busy otherwise --DM  ¦› talk to me ¦› Contribs ¦›]] 22:06, 23 Jun 2005 (EDT)

13:00, 27 Jun 2005 (EDT)
 * hey thx again. I uploaded the images Club.GIF and Barbarian Axe.GIF but they werent working. then i uploaded Club.gif and Barbarian Axe.gif (with extention in lower case) but didnt set up the old ones as IFD (i was traveling on the weekend sorry). Thx for doing that, and sorry for messing up again :P . but im trying to improve I swear :D

A question about the images
Hey DM, I'm just wondering if you got all those images off Tibian Library, when to upload images you sign an agreement saying that all the images are first-hand. Sorry. --Rekujot 11:46, 13 Jul 2005 (EDT)
 * I get my images from tibianews, world of tibia and my tibia. Is tibian library a fansite or the library on the tibia webpage? Uploading images to the wiki if from those sites is alright and you can just agree. Copyright images used for the promotion of the game, such as a fansite are allowed and permissable by Cipsoft; and all images on other fansites are also gotten by the game. --DM  ¦› talk to me ¦› Contribs]] 15:04, 13 Jul 2005 (EDT)

DM, I think Rekujot is referring to the website formerly located at http://www.tibianlibrary.com/ which is now "temporarily" hosted at http://myweb.cebridge.net/tlttemp/ This is where I got all the images from that I uploaded. It's a bit more obnoxious now because their administrator has used javascript to disable right-clicking on the images to save them. It's easy to bypass, believe me. I don't see the point (or legality) in them copy-protecting images they don't hold copyright to, so if anybody needs to know how to rip images from there, I will be glad to explain.
 * 16:40, 15 Jul 2005 (EDT)

NPCs
Call me crazy, but I think it's a bit verbose/redundant for an NPC page to: "Don't overdisambiguate" (big word, I know). Can you think of an NPC whose name (as shown onscreen when you play tibia) is not different than any thing else relating to the game? Here's what I think would be sensible:
 * use a big template that shows they are an NPC.
 * be a part of Category:NPCs
 * have page title that starts with NPC.
 * An NPC named Bob should be at article Bob.
 * Benefit: When referring to Bob in another article where the reader already knows that you are discussing NPCs, you can link to Bob by writing Bob, and not have to use the annoyingBob


 * NPC Bob will redirect to Bob.
 * Benefit: This way, a new user (or somebody here for information only) who searches for an NPC's name with or without writing "NPC" before the name will be successful in finding the correct page.


 * In the event that "Bob" may refer to more than one topic (which I, for one, haven't thought of yet) you can make a disambiguation page called Bob and have NPC Bob at Bob (NPC)
 * Example: King Tibianus III has a dog named "Noodles". What if someday, there is a food item called "Noodles" that players can eat?  Then you move Noodles to either Noodles (NPC) or Noodles (dog), depending on consensus, and put the food item at Noodles (food).  Also clear the redirect at Noodles and turn it into a disambiguation page that links to the other two.
 * Benefit: Then you can use the so-called pipe trick. Typing Bob (NPC) –note the pipe (vertical line) character "|" with nothing after it–automatically hides whatever is in the parentheses, making a link that looks like Bob.

If this actually calls for a policy vote I'll help out by setting it all up and notifying users.
 * 10:39, 18 Jul 2005 (EDT)


 * At the time of making the template I was bored and thought it wasn't a bad idea. I am just trying to keep up what others started with the 'NPC' in front so as to differentiate between Users or game players, etc. When i see different pages of similar topics or categories, like NPCs, and they are all over the place it almost makes the need for some structure whether a template or not. I dont really care if the template stays, the structure you had for H.L. wasnt bad. I will rollback to what you had before if you like, tho i will add some of the info(shop prices). Are you asking for the template to be deleted? -DM  ¦›  Contribs ¦› talk to me 11:33, 18 Jul 2005 (EDT)

GFB and Flame_Strike.gif
I dunno if you noticed, but I actually made a 7 x 7 table with 37 of the cells displaying the Flame_Strike.gif image and the other 12 blank. It requires lots of big ugly code, but I think that the big ugly code would take up less server space than a screen shot.
 * 10:46, 18 Jul 2005 (EDT)


 * o, i was busy and didnt look to closely, tho in the future perhaps we should get pictures of what certain rune spells look like, rather than put up 'big ugly codes'-DM