The Elder Scrolls Wiki talk:Style and Formatting/Archive 1

Just a general style question: is there a preference for the way to represent the plural of mage? I have seen both mages and magii on this wiki. I can't find a definition for magii, but the term magi is valid, though it refers specifically to priests from ancient Persia. Most fictional/fantasy references use the simpler plural mages, but I don't want to change the spelling from one to the other unless there's a clear preference. Kutulu 12:12, 14 June 2007 (CDT)


 * According to dictionary.com, magi is a plural of magus, and as you stated, there is no magii. I think mages is more appropriate, as it is the closer plural of mage. -- theSpectator talk 13:10, 14 June 2007 (CDT)


 * IMO mages is best. --Avfanatic 18:40, 14 June 2007 (CDT)

first-person?
The style guide at UESPWiki requests that articles do not contain the use of the first-person perspective (ie: "When I..."). Is first-person something that should be edited out on this wiki, or is it okay to just leave it there? —This (talk • contribs) 7:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC). Please sign your posts with


 * Yes, first-person should be edited out in this wiki as well. -- theSpectator talk 02:25, 27 June 2007 (CDT)

Box/Table colors?
Box/Table colors?

Given the color issues with the boxes I'd like to offer some of my time to propse new color standards and then try and update the boxes if people agree on the standards. I think it might be as simple as changing the text to black? To be honest I'm not familiar with Wikia's standards, but I'm a quick learner and have been around computers for 30 years so I'm not timid.

Didolgi (talk) 18:38, March 17, 2011 (UTC)


 * You have my go vote. There's only been a few regulars lately, so if no one openly opposes (which they shouldn't, as this has been on my long list of things to slowly start fixing) your proposal is the new format. Mbjones90 (talk) 23:56, March 17, 2011 (UTC)
 * Very cool - Just to make sure anybody has a reasonable amount of time to comment I'll wait a few days then if nobody objects I'll start editing the pages as I run across them. I did send an e-mail to the Wikia.com admin staff to see if there is a quciker way to do this. Didolgi (talk) 00:24, March 18, 2011 (UTC)

Amenities should be changed to Facilities
In Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the first definition of "amenity"  is "the quality of being pleasant or agreeable". Another definition given is "something that conduces to material comfort or convenience".

The same reference describes a facility as "something that makes an action, operation, or course of conduct easier" and "something (as a hospital) that is built, installed, or established to serve a particular purpose".

We feel that, as forges, etc. are not comfort items, rather utilitiarian ones, the header should be changed from Amenities to Facilities. DarthOrc (talk) 18:39, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

Location sample needs more
I am trying to update the Kolbjorn Barrow article to make it fit with the location article standard, but the standard is missing a lot of pieces. For example, the standard has no place to put major things like Word Walls (they aren't "Facilities" like cooking pots, and they aren't "Notable Items" because they aren't inventory items). it seems that most articles put things like this in the Facilities section, but is that what really we want?

Another issue is that this article currently has a description of how you need to find a book (Ahzidal's Descent) to get a miscellaneous quest to find it. Where sound something like that go? It's in the "Location" section right now, but according to the standard, there should not be any such section. Cubears (talk) 16:02, January 18, 2014 (UTC)

Small (confusing) typo
Hello. I'm new here to the Wiki so I'm unsure what some of the terms are to describe the roles of editors here but I noticed that there may be a possible typo at the Profanity sub-heading where it says "chat moniker". I think this was meant to be "monitor" but I thought that I would bring this up seeing as most new editors will be reading this article. --WikiaWizard (talk) 23:16, June 24, 2014 (UTC)
 * No, that is actually correct. They are talking about usernames, and a chat "moniker" is just another name for a chat user name.Cubears (talk) 03:39, June 25, 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. I've not heard of that before. Learn something new everyday. Thanks for the clarification. --WikiaWizard (talk) 19:43, June 30, 2014 (UTC)

Locked ?
Is there any reason why this is locked? I know it's a policy page, but sysop protection is rather high and most editors don't even edit Project: namespace pages anyway. There are quite a lot of changes I'd like to make on the MOS since there are many errors and they are too numerous to write about in a thread or talkpage post: most of them are just things that are bad editing practices or are way too wordy. --SuperSajuuk Talk Page 17:41, July 5, 2014 (UTC)

Color
What is the color you use for the main page, it looks pretty cool I wouldnt mind using it?

Edgy.knight (talk) 03:35, April 19, 2016 (UTC)


 * If you mean the color thats on the main page background, the gray itself is somewhere around #3E3E3E or #3D3D3D.