User talk:Prometheus77
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"(verify?)"
In your recent edit to the Lawful Quest page you added "(verify?)" after a statement. Please don't do that. There's {{fact}} for most of these cases (and {{todo}} for worse cases); in case you're not sure about whether something is true at all, just leave a note on the talk page.
The issue with adding "(verify?)" is that it's basically saying "I'm not sure, actually, perhaps this should be verified?" which isn't a great message. {{fact}} does have a bit of this, too, but it's more "this still needs a reference, don't rely on it too much yet". (Also, it doesn't jump out at the reader as much.)
Much more importantly, though, {{fact}} is a template; (verify?) is not, and for the reasons mentioned above likely wouldn't be a really good template. (A wiki filled with information that noone knows to be correct/incorrect isn't really helpful, after all.) This means it's easy for anyone to look at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Fact (specifically, the list of transclusions) and go through the pages listed there and "verify" the marked statements (or rather, add a source code reference – or remove the incorrect bit if it turns out to be incorrect, of course, though this shouldn't happen as much). Similar things apply to {{todo}}, though of course that's for greater issues.
Thanks! —bcode talk | mail 21:37, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Edit summaries
I noticed your recent edit to the Special level (SLASH'EM) page. Please add an edit summary when changing an article this much, especially (but not limited to) when removing this many bytes. (Of course, using edit summaries is generally a good idea, but this kind of edit might need them the most.)
In this case, other edits show that this was eliminating redundant information after it had been copied to more specific pages, but without looking at those, the edit would seem rather strange, IMHO. —bcode talk | mail 22:22, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks, will do so in the future. --Prometheus77 (talk) 14:05, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
uploading lots of little files
Hi, in response to your request to upload all those tiles: User:Paxed usually decides such things, since he's the one running the server. However, he's traveling right now, so please don't take it personally if you don't get a speedy reply. Once he's back, the quickest way to reach him is via irc.freenode.net in #nethack.
That said, I'd vote to give you a bot account. You might want to prepare by making User:Prometheus77bot (or similar). --Tjr (talk) 19:20, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
- I'd probably recommend against creating User:Prometheus77bot now so in case the files are uploaded via the maintenance script, there's no unused account around. (Of course, one user more or less wouldn't change much, but somehow it would seem a little bit odd, IMHO.)
- (Besides, if someone is going to upload it the "hard" way, it might be best to avoid sending the files from my system to User:Prometheus77's system who'd send them to NetHackWiki and instead have me upload them directly (as User:bcodebot or whoever). That's assuming uploading it the hard way is the way that'll be used, which might be somewhat painful anyway (testing on localhost makes me think it could take hours, perhaps – though my local system isn't exactly a good approximation of NetHackWiki's server).)
- (Also, all this fragmentation probably makes the discussion hard to read… so far there are parts on NetHackWiki:Community Portal, User talk:Bcode, User talk:Paxed and User talk:Prometheus77. A bit surprising none of it is on Template talk:Alternate tilesets, which might be the most appropriate page for the discussion.) —bcode talk | mail 20:03, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
