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Skills
while your effort is commendedable, the prefered fix is to replace instances of skills with skills. welcome to the wiki. --Honorable Sarah 17:06, 9 August 2006 (CDT)

hi :) new here at guildwiki and made a stupid mistake XD I thought the page Skills didnt exist when in fact it did, only under the name Skill so I made a new one. I'd send a reply but couldnt fine one in my message box so I'll write it here.  You said we should delete the page, but would it not be better to just wipe the work and write See: skill or does this add unnecesary space or something? I'd go and find the instances of links to skills and change them to skill except a) I'm not really sure how to find them and b) with such a common unexisting page link it seems we'd have to periodically change the new "skills" links that pop up anyways.  I;'m guessing the same problem arises with the Attribute(s) links, as that also appeared in the highly wanted page list right next to skills lol. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by Not a fifty five (talk &bull; contribs) 03:52, 10 August 2006 (CDT).
 * ok, i think i gather your meaning. couple of points
 * pluralization is a language construct, not a game construct, so in general it's not our responsibility to record it.
 * MediaWiki, the engine that runs guildwiki, has a special type of page called a redirect. redirects contain nothing but a pointer to another page, that's how we get Rurik and Prince Rurik to point to the same page. we don't redirect plurals either, though i think this is being discussed by people smarter then i at Guildwiki_talk:Redirect.
 * you'll note that all instances that are pointing to skills, rather then skills, are on talk pages and are serving an argument by their absense. when links like the above show up in the regular name space, someone who is patroling Special:Recentchanges, such as i, will catch it. incidentally, this is how i found your new page.
 * i hope that clears things up a bit. i'll be watching this page incase there's any other questions. --Honorable Sarah [[image:Honorable_Icon.gif]] 09:04, 10 August 2006 (CDT)