User talk:Ceangail

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Hello Ceangail! Welcome to UESPWiki. It's always good to have new members. If you would like to help improve any of our pages, you may want to take a look at the following links:

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And, may you kindly use the "Show Preview" button before saving an edit. Each small edit you make is an edit on the Recent Changes page that one of our patrollers has to stop and review. It's just easier on everyone when minor edits are clumped together into one larger edit. Thanks, and have fun! —--Snowmane^{(talk•email)} 23:36, 9 January 2013 (GMT)

Thank you, I used a lot of userboxes! Goodbye! User:Ceangail

User Summary Box

Hello, Ceangail! I was just clicking the "patrol" button when I noticed that the templates in your user summary box on your userpage were improperly formatted. The faction section is full of red-links because you used {{Faction:factionname}} instead of {{Faction|factionname}} (or, if you wanted the names to be a little different, {{Faction|factionname|altname=whatever you want}}). I was just going to ask you if that was what you wanted (red-links and all), or if you simply didn't know how to fix it. ;) Let me know if you want me to change it! --Vulpa 23:12, 20 January 2013 (GMT)

Hi, thanks for the hint, i really don't know this informatic language properly (All the things on my user profile are a bad copy of someone else's...)

I'd like to edit it the way you told me without help, so I can learn from my mistakes.

I have only two questions: is this the proper way to answer (editing this discussion)? And how to create a grid like the one on my user page? (I copied it from a NPC page, but it's not working correctly [see Follower, Marry, etc. are not shown...]) It's like on wikipedia?

Thanks in advance! ▲▲▲Cean Gail 07:54 21 January 2013 (GMT)

Hi again :) . First of all, you are entirely correct in answering here. If you had a specific question for another editor, you would contact them on their own discussion page (such as mine here). However, if an editor contacts you on your own page (like I did), then you would reply just like you have.

As for the grid, I'm sorry about getting back to you so late. You seem to have figured out a better way to do it, so I won't touch anything. :P If, however, you want it back the way it was with the "Follower", "Marry", and other sections included, you just need to change most of those semi-colons to equal signs. For example, Follower:Yes in the editing screen would become follower=Yes. (Most sections of these charts don't use uppercase letters, and as you evidently found, many have abbreviations, such as "aggress" meaning "aggression".) Also, a few of your lines simply won't work in NPC charts (I'm referring to "Steward" and "Protected"). These charts use specific computer codes (that I don't really understand, myself), and only certain code words will have an effect on the table. Otherwise, the program will simply ignore it and you won't see any "Steward" line show up on your page.

As for learning from your mistakes, that is a worthy goal-- I'm sure you'll do fine here. Everyone has made their fair share of foolish edits (myself certainly included!). :) If you have anything else you want to ask about, you can reply here, add a new section on my talk page, or contact a mentor.

Finally, about Wikipedia: I have limited experience with it, and thus can't answer your question with certainty. I do know, however, that most of the UESPWiki's charts and templates were originally from Wikipedia and adapted with their permission to fit the site.

Sorry about the TL;DR... :P --Vulpa 23:00, 22 January 2013 (GMT)

OK, thank you for your time!

I used the WikiHelp of Wikipedia and the codes are the same, so, with some workaround, I fitted it to my userpage.

Don't worry about writing me too long, there are a lot of things I don't know, so a word more is better than a word less.

Goodbye! Keep up the good job as patrol! ▲▲▲Cean Gail 08:58 23 January 2013 (GMT)

No problem, I hope some of what I said made sense and was actually helpful :P

Also, stupid error on my part that I just wanted to make clear: if you end up using one of the NPC boxes (like what you were using earlier on your page), "protected" is actually an acceptable code. You've probably already noticed, but I wanted to make my mistake clear in case it messes you up later. :)

And finally, I just noticed that you manually changed your signature on this page. Have you been to this page yet? Scroll down to the signature section, put in whatever you want your sig to be (like making it green and adding those triangles), and make sure to check the "treat the above like wiki-markup" box. Then, whenever you add --~~~~ to a talk page, it will automatically include these changes. Just wanted to let you know if you didn't already. :) --Vulpa 23:21, 23 January 2013 (GMT)

Oh thank you but I found that out earlier. By the way I undertood what you said about the NPC boxes, so don't blame yourself for a little mistake :). You were really helpful!

See you around! ▲▲▲Cean Gail 20:53, 25 January 2013 (GMT)