User talk:FaceLicker

Hi! and thanks
You've been doing a fantastic job. If you need any help at all, feel free to drop me a line on my talk page. — Game widow (talk) 12:46, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Administrator rights granted. (sorry for the delay, i've been having ISP issues) — Game widow (talk) 13:54, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Dwarven Chronicles page
Hi again. I see you've put a lot of work into that page, especially with the alphabetised list at the bottom, but simply making a category would achieve the same thing. If you put the Dwarven Chronicles page in a category of the same forcing it to sort first, then as you add items, they'll automatically appear under the appropriate sorting header (letter) in that category. To do that, you'd just have to add  to the Dwarven Chronicles page itself (the pipe symbol followed by a space at the end forces it to file first). Then simply add  (without the pipe-space) to the other pages to have them sort normally. — Game widow (talk) 13:11, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm fairly new to wikis and I figured there had to be a better way, heh. I was actually just logging on to ask you how to do it! - FaceLicker (talk) 14:54, 21 August 2013 (UTC) 14:54, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Now that I think about it.. I know all pages should have a category but adding the category to the pages simply creates an alphabetized list on the category page. It doesn't actually do anything for the Dwarven Chronicles page itself right? - FaceLicker (talk) 15:18, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * True, other than adding the category link at the bottom of the page. but you can then just point to the category rather than manually typing in all the alphabetic guides ... to make a link to a category but not actually place an item in it, you just precede the link name with a colon, eg.  or, if you want to use alterative text:   — Game widow (talk) 15:39, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Categories in general
You can also fine-tune how things sort within a category by use the  magic word. For example, if you wanted The Legendary Artefact to sort under L for Legendary, rather than T for The, you could just add  or just   anywhere on the page (though i tend to put it at the bottom, same as any categories) and that forces it to appear in the category list under L. — Game widow (talk) 15:44, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Major sweeps
If you ever need to make a sweeping change ... like if you put a bunch of things in a category, then decided that you would prefer to use a different category, or change the name of the category you used, just let me know and i can run a sweep with a bot account and AWB. Or if you're ambitious, you can check out AWB (AutoWikiBrowser) for yourself. It's a very handy tool for making changes to a bunch of pages at once. — Game widow (talk) 15:46, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Infoboxes
Would you like me to make some infoboxes for items ? I swear this is the last thing i'll go on about today :) — Game widow (talk) 18:40, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * That would be great actually. I, myself, can do basic html and css to get by, but I'm not too great at visual presentation on wikis. - FaceLicker (talk) 21:09, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * OK then, i'd just need a list of the sorts of information you'd like for the items, and what categories they fall into, etc. If there's a page or two with specific examples that's helpful as well — Game widow (talk) 17:17, 22 August 2013 (UTC)