User talk:Warpguncody

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SLASH'EM deity pages

Unless the pages you are creating for SLASH'EM deities have interesting content that would warrant their own pages (such as special game mechanics that occur when playing with a certain god, other than the regular mechanics for that role and alignment), there isn't a need for separate pages for each god. Pages whose only content is "X is the [alignment] god for [role] in SLASH'EM" without even an encyclopedia entry for the god are useless, and redlinks to them should be removed rather than given a useless page.

Arguably there could be a "God (SLASH'EM)" page, but I don't think that's needed either since the information can fit onto the regular God page just fine. --Phol ende wodan (talk) 00:42, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Oct 2019

Please consider not making wide-ranging changes to pages' lead sections without discussing it with others. Please also remember that in English sentences start with capital letters. Pinkbeast (talk) 23:24, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

August 2020

Hi, you've been adding a lot of articles with lists of rank titles recently. For example, Elementalist. Can you please specify what variant they appear in? Even just a sentence like "The Elementalist is a role in VariantName." would be helpful. --03:14, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

These pages are basically spam. They're just a list of rank titles, with no information that a player could actually use. Do these roles have any unique mechanics? Are they simply a set of intrinsics and skills with a few rank titles and an inventory slapped on top? If so, which intrinsics does the role get? Please put useful information on these pages. Rank titles don't give us anything. Testbutt (talk)

OK, so what we have here are a bunch of new pages, in the main namespace, that generally contain:

  1. "the foo is a role in slash'em extended". No punctuation or capitalization, and "slash'em extended" redlinks because of the lack of capitalization.
  2. A section containing rank titles of the role.
  3. A section containing gods of the role.

As it stands, these pages contain no useful information of any sort about their subject. No starting items, intrinsics, skills, strategy discussion, any of the sections commonly found on role pages that actually help players. It seems like you're adding deity lists just because Testbutt complained about pages with only rank titles. Well, adding the deity list and stopping there doesn't really improve the page.

My main concern here is that you're cluttering the wiki's main namespace with low-quality, useless pages that don't follow NetHackWiki style guidelines. Either put in the effort to add useful content to the pages and follow basic rules like capitalization, or stop creating these pages. --Phol ende wodan (talk) 00:53, 19 August 2020 (UTC)