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:Nope, that's a bona fide giant cave spider.  You can see it towards the centre of the web.  Phantom spiders are vermin-sized critters which appear only on evil maps. --[[User:JT|JT]] 01:06, 6 November 2007 (EST)
 
:Nope, that's a bona fide giant cave spider.  You can see it towards the centre of the web.  Phantom spiders are vermin-sized critters which appear only on evil maps. --[[User:JT|JT]] 01:06, 6 November 2007 (EST)
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You should probably upload that web picture to the wiki rather than an external host.  -[[User:EarthquakeDamage|EarthquakeDamage]] 02:18, 10 November 2007 (EST)

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THEY ARE EVIL. One killed 2 of my proficient miners on its own! It has a breath attack that shoots webs and it rips off people limbs! Dont attack them if you know whats good for you! --User:Diabl0658

What is this? I did not write this in the comments! Diabl0658 22:23, 31 October 2007 (EDT)
The article page was cleaned up - less personal (the 'my' aspect of it - that only applies to your (Diabl0658's) experience and not necessarily that of any future editor). JT copied the anecdote in the article to the talk page and attributed it to you. (Side consideration sub pages of /anecdote for this type of thing?) --Shagie 22:44, 31 October 2007 (EDT)
What Shagie said. I figure the articles themselves should be left for "fact" (you can inject subtle humour or hearsay if it's between the lines), while any personal experiences or questions can be mentioned on the Talk pages. (I dunno if an anecdotal page is necessary. Do we really need so many more stub pages?) That's the general idea on Wikipedia, anyway... --JT 23:13, 31 October 2007 (EDT)
The sub page idea could be a way of clearly making a place for anecdotes that would otherwise show up in article pages or talk pages (where talk pages would (in theory) be more about the factual/design content of the articles themselves. One of the wikis I am involved with is particularly prone to vandalism - the funny vandalism they move off to a sub page. This way, its still there as a record but isn't hampering discussion or reading the article itself. Realize I'm not calling anecdotes vandalism, but rather suggesting a similar way that they can be put somewhere so they don't hamper discussion or the article. --Shagie 23:25, 31 October 2007 (EDT)

Should this article not be under the "creatures" section? --Talith

I've noticed a few references to "phantom spiders" in material lists and such. Is it possible that a phantom spider is in fact what created that hellishly large web in the picture, or is it known that that was a regular giant cave spider? --AlBorland

Nope, that's a bona fide giant cave spider. You can see it towards the centre of the web. Phantom spiders are vermin-sized critters which appear only on evil maps. --JT 01:06, 6 November 2007 (EST)

You should probably upload that web picture to the wiki rather than an external host. -EarthquakeDamage 02:18, 10 November 2007 (EST)