Talk:Main Page

It seems to be a lot of hassle to have a seperate page for an area and gear in an area. I highly suggest these get combined to say on category clutter and help ease of navigation. (You'll simply list the gear in an area IN the area page itself)

-PirateHero (re-edited to bring to top of list)

Seperate pages for everything. Categorizing will automatically create pages that have the list. Although I agree with your point about the summaries being easier than having to click on each link, I wouldn't find it unacceptable if both exisited. I know that for low mort this might seem like over kill but in the lord game I think most people would agree that having a seperate page for each is important.

Also don't worry so much about formating, I'm glad you like the way you're doing it, some people (perhaps even me) may change it, and that's okay too.

--Mel 10:38, 26 Apr 2005 (EDT)

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Guilds

It might be nice for somebody to put in directions to all the guilds, and by guilds I mean trainers.

--Mel 22:02, 30 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Well i would do it but i dont know how to create a new page, i know how to edit but not create pages. -Elfangwor

This is a little trickier than it should be. The easiest way to create a page which doesn't exist yet is to create a link to it on some previously existing page. Then when you follow the link you'll be brought to a page where you can edit this new, nonexistant page. -Waite

So how about instead i find these and post them and someone makes the page for me eh?

Archer | arc Aelmon 5s, 3e, 2n, up, n, w
Cleric | cle Aelmon 4w, 3n, 3w
Mage | mag Aelmon 8s, 2w, 4n, open west, w, open north, n, 2u (requires see magic)
Warrior | war Aelmon 6w, n, 2e, 4n, 3w


thats what i know from memory (yes i tested), im working on the rest.

-Elfangwor (hates making links)

Creating new pages

Another way to create a new page is to just directly go to the URL. See in the address bar of your browser where it says ?title=Talk:Main_Page just replace the 'Talk:Main_Page' with the page you want to create. So the complete new link would be http://avatar.melanarchy.info/index.php?title=My_New_Page_Name to create a new page 'My New Page Name' for a new category put Category:New_Category_Name I think you see where this is going.

The reason why there isn't a way to create new pages other than what Waite said (linking to them and then following the link) is because if you don't link the page from any exisiting pages nobody will be able to get to it. The page becomes what the wiki calls an "orphaned" page. You can see the orphaned pages by following the link from the Special Pages section of the tollbox. Orphaned pages don't do anything helpful and are not really a part ot the wiki.

What does all this mean Mel?

I don't believe anybody should ever be using the method I described above to create new pages. Figure out what page is going to bring people to your new page, make a link, follow that link, add to the page, categorize the page. That should be the work progression that everybody follows when making a new page.

--Mel 22:40, 3 May 2005 (EDT)

Contact Information

It may be helpful to provide some means of contacting those folks in charge of this site.

Also, I recently posted a table of quick ways to increase one's gold supply, which I and others have found handy. I titled this article Treasure and put it under the Miscellaneous category. For some reason, it looks just fine in the page preview but messed-up when I follow the WIKI link to it. I don't know what the problem is. I was also wondering if perhaps there was a better name for it, a more appropriate place to put it, a better way to organize its content, or a better way to integrate it with the rest of the site. Or if it's just dandy like it is. Anyway...