User talk:Rainith

Unique items
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Policy for capitalisation
I see you deleted the page "Galen trask". Is there some official policy on capitalisation? I always think that it is a good idea to have such redirects, because if you just type "galen trask" into the search box and hit enter, MediaWiki will ask you if you want to create an article called "Galen trask", rather than taking you to the correct article.

It does really annoy me sometimes, maybe just because I am lazy. But I would never actually link to an article such as Galen Trask without the proper capitalisation.

Just wondered if there was some official policy page on this, since my queries about policies tend to go unanswered (see e.g. Template_talk:Item begin. Kidburla 06:47, 17 February 2006 (CST)
 * I couldn't give you the page (I'd try the Style and formatting pages, it might be there), but in general the decision was made to not bother with redirects for all the different ways things can be CaPiTiLiZeD. On a personal note (and this may sound harsher than I intend it to, so as a disclaimer, no offense is meant to anyone), if you can't bother to capitalize correctly when you're punching the keys for a search, we shouldn't make life any easier for you, because you've had it way too easy already.  (Again, not directed at you or anyone else in particular, just people in general).  --Rainith 10:42, 17 February 2006 (CST)
 * It's just quicker to type in lower case, that's all. Wikipedia tends to make redirects for people who type in lower case (e.g. "Guild wars -> Guild Wars"). It really doesn't take up much space on the server (less than a KB per entry, I would think), and it just makes things easier for everyone. And it's not every single CapItIliZATion, it's just literally a completely lower case article to redirect to the correct place (apart of course from the initial upper case character which is mandatory and case-insensitive anyway). Kidburla 07:15, 22 February 2006 (CST)


 * Here is the issue you would run into, from the Main Page: We are currently maintaining 4,475 articles...  Creating 4500 redirects is not a viable solution.  Yes, I know not all the articles have multiple words in their titles.  So, say cut the number in half, 2200 redirects doesn't look that good either.  --Rainith 07:25, 22 February 2006 (CST)


 * Isn't it possible, though, to simply disable the destinction between caps in article names in Mediawiki? I believe so. In my opinion, articles should of course be created with correct capitalization, but it should not be required for a simple search. Remember, not all users are native english speakers and may not know how to correctly capitalize titles. --Bishop 09:13, 28 February 2006 (CST)


 * There may be a way to set that in MediaWiki, if so I don't know how and probably don't have access to it. That would be something to take up with Gravewit or Nunix.  As for people who are non-native english speakers, we have lots of them on the wiki, many of them long time members, they don't seem to have a problem with it.  And in what language are proper names not capitalized (with the exception of Asian languages that use a characters for words as opposed to letters)?
 * If anyone feels that the current way the wiki handles the capitalization of articles and the use of redirects, they should post somewhere that many people are likely to see it and comment, like Talk:Main Page. I'm not making the law, just trying to uphold it.  --Rainith 09:45, 28 February 2006 (CST)

Question about blocked...
(edit: block in question... I guess it expires in 3 hours anyway)
 * 19:09, 28 January 2006, Rainith blocked 68.229.231.220 (expires 19:09, 28 February 2006) (contribs) (Vandalism)

On Jan. 28th, my IP (then, and until 5min ago 68.229.231.220) was blocked for a period of 1 month (and since I'm on cable modem, it stays the same) however mysteriously today, while playing GuildWars it lost connection and then reconnected with a different IP. The reasoning behind this was Vandalism, for creating a page(NOT editing an existing one) with a 'random mishmatch of skill descriptions' based on easily placing the signets on one page (see Glyphs) However, this was not my intention and I've been unable to get ahold of anyone here via email (the one I found, at least, has not responded).

Here's the thing: I hit Save Page instead of Show Preview, and while working to correct the errors, my IP was blocked. Further still, the reason for the errors was a either a mistake in spelling (Signet of Judgement rather than Signet of Judgment) or an error in Wiki's formatting engine (copied from Glyphs, thusly like, I formatted the signets likewise:  as that is what I used as a template). This produced rather unexpected results... instead of a nice small table listing a short description of the skills, it copied the entire article from each skill (I'd listed every Signet skill) onto the same page. Although, now that I think about it I might have forgotten to include the table tags.

Before I made any changes, however, I'd like clear things up before doing *anything* as technically I'm supposed to still be blocked.


 * I vaguely remember this... Ok, went back and looked at it. You have my apologies as it sounds like you were actually trying to do something and not just screwing around, but when I saw the page you created, I'm not sure what I was supposed to think.  Here is just what the Table of contents looked like:

* 1 Description * 2 Acquisition * 3 Description * 4 Progression * 5 Acquisition * 6 Notes * 7 Usage Notes * 8 Usage Notes * 9 Acquisition * 10 Related Skills * 11 Description * 12 Progression * 13 Acquisition * 14 Notes * 15 General Description * 16 Usage * 17 Acquisition * 18 Capturing Elite Skills * 19 Capturing Non-Elite Skills o 19.1 Capturing Quest-Reward-Skills o 19.2 Capturing Skill-Trainer-Skills * 20 Description * 21 Progression * 22 Acquisition * 23 Usage Notes * 24 Description * 25 Acquisition * 26 Usage Notes * 27 Description * 28 Acquisition * 29 Usage * 30 Description * 31 Progression * 32 Acquisition * 33 Usage Notes
 * In the future, if something like hitting Save page instead of Show preview happens, make another small edit (delete/add a word) and put in the summary that you are working on the article. As for how to get yourself unblocked, check most of the admin's user pages, like mine and you will see the characters that admin plays.  You would not be the first person to contact me in-game from the wiki (you wouldn't even be the first person I had banned to do so).  --Rainith 10:02, 28 February 2006 (CST)

Aeroele
Thanks, that guy was really offensive. What a jerk. Shandy 21:33, 28 February 2006 (CST)
 * NP, that's what I'm here for. :)  --Rainith 21:33, 28 February 2006 (CST)
 * That was quick work Shandy. You beat me to the chase at every turn. :P I guess this happens a lot. --Gares Redstorm 21:39, 28 February 2006 (CST)
 * You can't read? More likely the original person can't spell.  Not that I'm one to talk....  --Rainith 21:41, 28 February 2006 (CST)
 * Hmm... a thought: it seems like almost every vandalism happens when someone edits a section by pressing the edit box over that section, rather than modifying the whole article by hitting the edit tab. Seeing someone edit multiple sections of the same article in order especially. Not sure if anyone's commented on this being a pattern before, but I just finally noticed it after several months of being on the wiki--130.58 21:44, 28 February 2006 (CST)

Not the *first* mistake I made today...
Just the worst (appologies for the (level 11) thing.. I put that as a side note and neglected to remove it.. then I went and copied the bloody layout). The Rhitt Windmelt article I posted earlier is minsnamed and a dupilicate and needs to be deleted, as I somehow overlooked Ritt Windmelt (thanks PanSola). The image, Image:Rhitt Windmelt.jpg is likewise misnamed, but the Ritt Windmelt article does not have an image, and I don't know how to go about fixing that at all. - Evil_Greven 15:17, 1 March 2006 (CST)
 * No worries and no need to apologise for an honest mistake. :)  If something needs to be deleted put the following at the beginning of the article  and I (or one of the other admins) will delete it.  As for the misnamed picture, you can either re-upload it with the correct name (and mark the old picture for deletion), or change the article to look for the misnamed picture, your choice.  Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with, but I probably won't be on much longer tonight.  --Rainith 15:24, 1 March 2006 (CST)

Item Value Entries
Need some help? Its for weapons, salvage items, and?

Are you going to remove static collector drop item values too? --Gares Redstorm 01:49, 2 March 2006 (CST)
 * It is only for articles with the template.  This is mostly because most any weapon has a value that varies (wildly in some cases) and there is no real benefit to having it there.  Skuld made a change to the template to take out the info, so there is no rush to get it out (the info that was there is gone already), just more of a housekeeping thing.  You can see the 3 templates that I took out of Eerie Staff, those are the 3 to go.  --Rainith 02:28, 2 March 2006 (CST)
 * Here is a link to the pages that this needs to be removed from. :(  --Rainith 02:33, 2 March 2006 (CST)
 * I went through all the weapons, didn't find any item values, but I did find other goodies to work on :D --Gares Redstorm 03:22, 2 March 2006 (CST)
 * You won't see them on the page, you have to look on the edit screen. I just took one out of Bone Staff.  Pretty much any one that has Item Details a small blank line and then Weapon Details will have it.  --Rainith 03:24, 2 March 2006 (CST)
 * Arrgh!! Just kidding. Alright. I'll go back through 'em then. --Gares Redstorm 03:42, 2 March 2006 (CST)

Skill Article formatting
Do you know if a standardized skill article format been decided on? I assumed GuildWiki talk:Style & Formatting/Skills/Everything Example was the correct way, but the discussion page on it leaves it kind of open. I'd like to modify the skill articles in a more standard order, but I need to know that order if there is one - Evil_Greven 06:22, 2 March 2006
 * Honestly, since I've started here, the skill articles have been a bit of a mish-mash. For the most part I've tried to stay away from them.  The most current conversations are here: GuildWiki talk:Style and formatting/Skills, and the current standard should be here: Style and formatting/Skills, but I haven't looked to see if that is up to date or not.  (One of my future projects is to update/create the style and formatting pages.)  Current conversations seem to center on the skill box, and which icons to use.  That's about all the help I can give to you at the moment.  I'll try to look into the S&F page for skills more when I get home.  --Rainith 06:37, 2 March 2006 (CST)