User talk:Zippertrain85

This is my talk page. If their is anything you want to say to me, please feel free to leave it here. 

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 * --Jimeee (talk) 11:58, May 29, 2013 (UTC)

Re: Aspiring to be an Administrator.
Yes, becoming a Patroller is the first step to becoming and admin, which is dependent on various factors. How active and involved you are in editing the wiki's mainspace; not just the forum's Off-Topic or Roleplay areas. It is also very helpful to become familiar with all the functional aspects of the wiki, such as being able to switch from visual mode to source mode when it is necessary, creating and editing templates, organizing, and categorizing pages. Most of an administrator's duties will involve page maintenance as I'm sure you've seen before in the Recent Changes feed.

Other tips, continue improving the wiki's mainspace articles, answer users questions regarding the games and editing on the wiki, show that you are familiar with the policies on the wiki by adhering to the policies yourself, and by being fair and just so that users won't feel intimidated to come to you with questions. If you become a Patroller and after sometime an admin notices you have improved in various areas on the wiki, then one day they might nominate you as an admin. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  05:14, January 20, 2014 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but that is not how it works. You have to be nominated by someone, without asking them to nominate you. Asking someone to nominate you looks bad. None of our current Patrollers asked to be patrollers. They were noticed for their work on the wiki and nominated. Give it time and don't rush it. It will happen if you continue the work you have been doing on the wiki. Asking will only make others hesitate to nominate you. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  05:52, January 20, 2014 (UTC)


 * No problem. But, yes, keep doing what you are doing. I have taken notice of your recent edits, and as long as you continue productive edits, that is very helpful to the wiki, and so helps your chances of becoming a Patroller one day. Don't forget to report vandalism when you see it to the VIP page, so an admin can spot it quickly and deal with it in a timely manner. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  06:12, January 20, 2014 (UTC)

Sourcing
Hi Zipper, I saw your question at EbonySkyrim's talk page. It depends, on wheter the entire article is sourced by a single source (or if the content appears exactly the same on more than one source), or if certain parts of the article are referenced by one source, while other parts are from other sources. If the former, you just need to add the " ==Source(s)== " heading and write down the source behind the entire article. The latter is... a bit messy. To add a source to one statement, sentence, or part of an article, write " " after the statement, write the "==References== " heading at the very bottom of the page (see the guidelines for where exactly to put it), and, under the heading, write " ". If more than one part of your article is sourced by the same source, but theese parts are far from each other, write " " on the first statement, then write " " on the second statement. The best way to master this messy process (as I think my explanation is not the cleanest) is to view the code on pages such as Imperial Legion, where one source backs up more than one part of the article. Hope this helps. 21:40, January 20, 2014 (UTC)

Re: Sources
Hi Zipper, glad to see you want to contribute more. :) About sources and references, well I'm not that good myself in these matters. Here you can read about it and how to add it to articles The Elder Scrolls Wiki:Sourcing. Hope it helps. 23:12, January 20, 2014 (UTC)

Archive
I've archived your first page, it was getting a bit long. :) 23:19, January 20, 2014 (UTC)

Source?
You created a page named Hans the Fox, where did you take the information from? Ikabite (talk) 01:23, January 21, 2014 (UTC)


 * Oh, boy! That is now how you write pages, Zippy. Ikabite (talk) 05:34, January 21, 2014 (UTC)
 * To clarify - simply do not create pages if you are not at least familiar with the subject matter. If not much is nown about a character, they dont need a page. And NEVER reword a uesp page. Jimeee (talk) 12:11, January 21, 2014 (UTC)

Patroller nomination
Greetings - hope its not too cold there. (Living in southwest Florida, we just can't resist!)

Thank you for thinking enough of us to want to nominat us.

While we visit this Wiki on an almost daily basis, we can rarely spend much more than an hour and most of that may be devoted to a single edit.

That may not be enough to be of much help, but if the Community thinks we would be more helpful with the title/tools then O.K.DarthOrc (talk) 04:12, January 22, 2014 (UTC)

Article grammar
Zipper, please double-check your edit before publishing. Several of your edits had grammar issues. Thank you. 18:50, January 22, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Message removal
The messages on TsukasaKiryu's talk page are a personal matter which would have been better suited to PMs or email. None of the contents was to due to editing or conduct on the wiki. As for Twistedsystem004, this user only removed the default welcome message, which is allowed. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  19:07, January 22, 2014 (UTC)

Edits
I would just ask you to double-check your edits, some of them had grammar issues or just weren't needed (like exchanging hero for player), and one time you reverted an edit that removed vandalism. Try to summarize what you want to add or correct in one edit, instead of gradually editing like in the Reaver page. 07:12, January 23, 2014 (UTC)
 * I'll add this here to give you an example. Like in this edit. Valid alternatives for the wording you've added are "if she heard any rumors" or "about any rumors she has heard", not "if about any rumors she has heard". Hope this clarifies what I'm trying to say. 07:17, January 23, 2014 (UTC)
 * Zipper, why did you remove the part of the children article that stated that all children have the same skin tone? I'm going to restore it, as it is correct; even Redguard children like Braith and Alesan have white skin. 17:08, January 23, 2014 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, my bad, Thunderkitten reworded it. 17:13, January 23, 2014 (UTC)
 * Braith has the same tone as Sofie, and their races are completely different regarding skin tone. Going by the images provided on the wiki, the only one who seems to have a slightly different tone is Alesan, but some checking may be in order. I do believe all children are the same except for clothing and hair style, but I can't play right now. Could you check it out later? 17:24, January 23, 2014 (UTC)

Removing redlinks
Please don't. Redlinks are there so people are aware which articles require creation. Removing them means the wiki will be less complete as people do not realise there is a missing page.
 * He is right Zipper, the red links should stay unless one is really sure there isn't going to be an article about it. So please leave them. 07:08, January 24, 2014 (UTC)

Re:Unique RP
I would like you to join my RP...

8991kcitek (talk) 00:53, January 24, 2014 (UTC)Ketick1998

Removal of Services?
I was just wandering why removed the services from the character Torvar, did have a reason? Or was it a mistake? If you did on purpose, please don't do iot again. The services are there for a reason.

Badgehunting?
Hi, I got your message on my profile. That's not a problem about doing all the edits at one time - I was mostly just doing grammar and spelling cleanup - but I was confused when you said that it could be viewed as badgehunting. What is badgehunting? I've edited many different wikias on this site, but that's the first time anyone's ever mentioned badgehunting. LadyNorbert (talk) 02:57, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't think you were accusing me of anything underhanded :)  I just wasn't familiar with the term - I never edited a wikia that gave out badges to its users.  Now that I've earned some, I know what you're describing and I can see how what I did might be misinterpreted that way. Thanks for the tip! LadyNorbert (talk) 05:09, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

Categories
All Skyrim categories exist now. Things like Forsworn Item is an invalid category so you should not be adding cats that do not already exist. See this link to see all the categories: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ACategoryTree&target=Skyrim&mode=categories&dotree=Show+tree

Jimeee (talk) 17:54, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

Morrowind Pages
Hey Zip. Since I don't think you own Morrowind the only thing you can help with is categorizing the pages. Many of the pages are missing categories. Start with the West Gash locations. Most don't have the category: Morrowind: West Gash Locations. 22:06, January 27, 2014 (UTC)
 * For now that was all I could find. When I need help with large undertakings like putting categories on a few dozen pages I'll message you.  22:36, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

Jylkurfyk
Hey Zip I was wondering why you changed: Jylkurfyk was said to be on the southernmost point of Atmora. back to Jylkurfyk was said to be on the stouhernmost point of Atmora.. I'm confused, as far as I know stouhernmost isn't a word.... 01:44, January 28, 2014 (UTC)

Reason behind revertion
Hi Zipper, just like to put the reason for undoin your edit on the Mabrigash article here, as I couldn't use the summary function on my phone. LayNorbert improved the article's grammar, as Mabrigash does not refer to a single person, and may not necessarily be put on the singular form. Thank you. 02:43, January 28, 2014 (UTC)