User talk:XP-Cagey

Wikicode

Hi, welcome to the wiki. I noticed that you used pure html in your user page and character page. You might be interested in Help:Editing. Once you get used to it, wiki code is easier to type than html. Reply here if you need any help :) -- ab.er.rant 08:23, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello, and thanks for the welcome :). For any contributions outside of my user area I'll be sure to adapt wiki code so that everything is easy to use for other editors; in the case of my user/character page, however, I prefer using HTML over wiki partly out of habit (I was a professional web developer in the dot com era) and partly because some of the more advanced items (like the table with sized columns in my user page) can become unwieldy in wiki code--I'll still convert it if using HTML in user land is frowned upon. On a related note, I do have a bit of experience with wiki templates, if there are any utility items that would be helpful to generate. -- XP-Cagey 02:48, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

No restrictions of that sort, you can write your user page in HTML if you'd like . But you can specify width in wiki-code too. CSS as well. If you're interested in templates, some users have added their templates to Category:Users providing user page layouts, mostly character boxes and such. You might also be interested in {{Title list}} (example on User:Tanaric/Real. -- ab.er.rant 07:17, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Guild page

I'd just like to point out that your guild page is pending deletion for inactivity. I won't delete it myself yet to give you a chance to take care of it yourself first, but I can't promise one of the other sysops won't. If the guild is still active, feel free to remove the {{inactive guild}} notice on your guild page. — Galil 12:35, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate the warning, but it was too late when I signed in a few hours later. The guild is active in game, but we weren't updating that page simply because the information hasn't changed. Why are sysops deleting guild pages? Why is the burden on the author to fend off deletion? This is probably the aspect of Wikis that makes the least sense to me; the size of the page is minimal, and it did contain useful information. XP-Cagey 19:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

It's cause guilds get disbanded in-game, but articles related to those guilds rarely get deleted. In case someone creates a guild with the same name, they can't create a guild page since the page already exists. We leave a notice on the guild pages in question for a month before deleting them though. If you wish, I could "undelete" the guild page, but you'd have to re-upload the cape as images are deleted permanently. — Galil 20:30, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

That makes sense, I suppose--though I don't see what prevents the newly formed guild with the same name from editing the entry to match their new status :). No active XP guild members were checking the page, which is obvious since we didn't see the notice. I might restore the page later, but it's not making a practical difference now. Thanks for the explanation. XP-Cagey 22:03, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Restored the guild page. poke | talk 22:08, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks :). XP-Cagey 22:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC)