User talk:Blademaster Jauffre



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 * --Cheatcodechamp (talk) 16:18, August 15, 2015 (UTC)

Fourth Legion
Oh man that's really embarrassing. Thank you again. —Atvelonis (talk) 22:10, November 7, 2015 (UTC)

Re: Morrowind Characters
Are you referring to the preload templates? Everything in those is suggested for articles, but if it doesn't apply to the page you're making then you can remove it. So for example if the character is not a merchant, you don't have to keep any of those merchant sections. The Morrowind one is a little more complicated than some of the other ones but I don't know the reason for this. So you can keep using the preload templates but only keep the sections you're going to add information to. —Atvelonis (talk) 16:09, December 18, 2015 (UTC)

Augurius Bucco
Hi Jauffre. When you're making a lore page like Augurius Bucco, you have to include references to where the information is coming from. Now, I know that the stuff on there is coming from the The Blackwater War books, but readers don't know that, and they can't read the source text if it isn't linked. Plus, not referencing things makes us look sloppy and unorganized, which is what we should try to avoid. I don't know how familiar you are with references in general, but here's how to make a regular reference:

Bucco commanded the Fourth Legion.

You'll notice very soon that you'll have to reference the same book more than once. Here's how to properly do this:

Bucco commanded the Fourth Legion.

Then, when you want to make another reference to that same text later in the article you're writing, you'd just have to do this:

He was a young and charismatic commander.

Don't forget the / at the end if you're using this trick in particular, otherwise it won't work. Anyway, if you're going to be using any references, you also have to insert at the very bottom of the article so that the references have somewhere to appear.

Some other things: if you're going to continue editing I would HIGHLY suggest you do not use Visual Editor in articles. It creates a significant amount of useless  codes for example, which you can see here, and we have to clean it all up. I would recommend using Source Editor instead of Visual, as it is a lot more stable and offers a lot more features. To do this, go to your preferences -> Editing -> Editing experience -> Preferred editor -> Source editor, then hit Save at the bottom. You may or may not see color highlights in the code when you edit. These can be disabled by selecting the "Do not show syntax highlighting in Source mode" box just under that, if you don't like them.

One last thing—when writing lore articles in general, you want to paraphrase and summarize, not copy directly from the sources. They are usually not written the best and even if they are the only time you should be directly quoting a text is if you're actually using the Quote template. If you're ever unsure of how to properly format something, take a look at an article written by Dovahsebrom such as Reman Empire or Alessian Order etc., as they are near-perfect, or ask an administrator about it—we'll do our best to help. —Atvelonis (talk) 23:20, January 26, 2016 (UTC)


 * Also, forgot to mention this in my previous message, but it's a good idea to organize an article into specific topics which you differentiate using headers. I'll likely end up rewriting the page at some point, but in the future you should be a little more watchful with how you write lore pages. It might be a good idea to use a sandbox page like a lot of us have (either on our userpages or on a subpage of that), as that will give you somewhere to experiment with different approaches and all. —Atvelonis (talk) 03:56, January 27, 2016 (UTC)

Re: Aldmeri Navy
Re-read comment #42 of the thread, I already explained that. I edited it in bold and italics and underlined it, since you seem to keep missing it over and over again.  DRAEVAN13  15:44, February 7, 2016 (UTC)