User talk:Ancient History

Minor edit marking

Oi! For all those redirects you're messing with... can you mark 'em as "minor"? It's clogging up the "Recent changes" page something fierce. --DeMatt 17:15, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Double Redirects:

So basically, those double redirects were all VERY intentional. For a practical reason too. Consider the redirect chain Wrestling -> cv:Wrestling -> cv:Combat skill. This is definitely one of the ones you've changed. As it stands in that chain, if someone decided to create a "Wrestling" article, all they'd have to do is change the page contents of cv:Wrestling from a redirect to a normal page. You might be thinking that it's a silly reason, because it only saves one edit. But that's not true, take a look at wrestle, and hopefully you'll see what I mean. I'm going to try to roll back as many of them as I can, but I'd appreciate it if you'd take a look through. Emi [T] 20:37, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

It's fine, I'm just trying to figure out the best way to revert them now. Also please use the four tildes ~~~~, which will automatically create your signature. Emi [T] 21:19, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, that's a couple hundred changes undone for nothing, then. I would have undone the double redirects by hand. -AH

Sadly, it was the fastest way we could figure out to restore them. I'll be going through later and restoring the good edits once I have a chance. Sorry about all this mess! :( --Briess 23:59, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Creature Templates

Please don't change the {{creatures}} template links, I know they are still showing creatures that don't exist in 40d, etc... but the way you're doing it isn't the best way, I had meant to change up the creature template earlier, but I guess I'll do it now. Emi [T] 04:47, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

<shrug> Well, not any more they aren't, except for the demons - I was pretty much going through and re-doing the changes undone when all the double redirects were restored. -AH

We undid those ones as well because we don't want {{40d creatures}} we want {{creatures}}. And the previous reason for adding 40d is no longer there, as I changed the way the creatures template works. Expect another mass undo of changes. Emi [T] 04:55, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Right, that's it, I give up.

Don't give up!

You have good intentions, and good ideas, unfortunately the way you do it isn't usually the best way. What I do when I get some idea is I consult with other people on the wiki that have more experience than me, and know the better way to do what i want to do. I only edit something big when I get the green light from them because doing stuff wrong, no matter how good the ideas are, is just going to waste time. Just make sure what you want to do is proper, before you actually do it. Cheers, Speed112 11:46, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

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