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Greyhawk

I notice you have been adding articles to the Category:Greyhawk, while I have been removing them from it. I guess we should discuss our reasoning.

I believe the articles should not be in the general Greyhawk category, as this makes the category bloated. Furthermore, many of the articles you added, don't really deal with the Greyhawk campaign setting, even if they are canonically true in that setting. Adding all these points to greyhawk is redundant, surely. Perhaps we could compromise, atleast with the modules, by creating Category:Greyhawk modules and add modules that are advertised as being for use with the Greyhawk setting to it. The Greyhawk modules category would then be added to the general modules category, so that users interested in general modules can find all modules there, while greyhawk users can find their specific modules there.

I do not (yet) agree with adding all gods mentioned in Greyhawk to the category Greyhawk, as these gods exist in the entire standard cosmology.

-- Ec5618 17:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Please see Category:Dungeons & Dragons modules. I have added a subcategory for all Greyhawk modules, Category:Greyhawk modules, including modules that can be used for Greyhawk as well as others. Feel free to create similar subcategories for the other campaign settings, and feel free to add articles to the subcategory. Please do not add modules to the general Category:Greyhawk. -- Ec5618 20:15, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to express a general note of confidence, you seem tireless.

Thanks. :) Robbstrd 21:51, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Have you noticed WikiProject Role-playing games? It was recently created, and still lacks direction, but could use your signature. Preferably as a participant. -- Ec5618 21:43, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm, looks interesting. It looks like it needs more D&D people. Robbstrd 21:51, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Page Blanking

On 23-Jan, you blanked Greyhawk Adventures. Blanking pages is generally considered a bad idea. I've reverted it to the previous version. Your edit summary was "Grehawk adventures is a hardback book for the setting, & shouldn't be redirected." However, a redirect to a semi-relevant page is much better than a blank page. If you wish to turn it into a stub, that's fine, but please don't blank. Thanks! -- JLaTondre 00:44, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Dungeons & Dragons

Hi, I notice you've been changing the spelling from "Dungeons & Dragons" to "Dungeons and Dragons" in a number of articles. "Dungeons & Dragons" is the correct rendering according to sourcebooks and the official website, so this is the spelling Misplaced Pages articles should use. --Muchness 01:51, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, it's just habitual for me to spell things out.Robbstrd 01:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

It's no problem :) --Muchness 01:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

References in D&D articles

Hi, just wanted to clarify what you meant about me changing references. Was it that you wanted me to use the reference format as described on the project page or the specific order that references should be listed? All I've been using is the standard {{cite book}} template to make references. I apologise if ive undone something important. -- Lewis 22:55, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Okay I understand, I've just been reading through your recommendations for references format on the project page and it would appear that they are almost identical to the layouts produced by using the {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}} templates. I'd advocate switching to using these, since in my mind it is much harder to make mistakes with these and a uniform appearance across all articles in guaranteed. Additionally since it is widely used across wikipedia it would give the RPG articles more credibility perhaps? Since data such as ISBN an be easily included, sources can be found quickly by readers. Theres nothing wrong with your method, just something to consider. Hope you dont mind my suggestion. -- Lewis 23:19, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Greyhawk Deity Template

Nice Touch!  :)

Melf

Someone deleted the Melf article for no apparent reason, but I restored it. We may need to keep an eye out for stuff like this. BOZ

here's the proof

and Tenser.

see talk:Melf. —Charles P._(Mirv) 22:01, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

melf again

This was the content of Melf (written by User:Ulgoikez) at the time I deleted it, less a {{delete}} tag:

Dear Melf,

    I am writing to you today to tell you of a number of things that might intrest you. 

— The Journal is up and running and those involved have been eliminated — Those who wern't eliminated who should have been eliminated have been eliminated — Your clothes are ready to pick up from the cleaners and — Le cheese has been purchased

    I hoped you will use this information to your advantage. Those of you who were involved in the ******* **** *** (This segment has been edited out for confidenciality)

— Slater Victoroff — Connor Fordham — Gestire Grapes

nothing to do with anything, as far as I can tell. —Charles P._(Mirv) 23:47, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Greyhawk detail

I just wanted to say thanks for your admirable focus on detail in terms of getting everything for Greyhawk-related articles exactly right. I'ts good for Misplaced Pages that there are editors as careful as you are to get the details really nailed down (e.g. your fixes over the last day or so to From the Ashes. Thanks! Fairsing 02:32, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you--both for noticing, & for your own contributions to Greyhawk on Misplaced Pages. My goal is to make Misplaced Pages the most comprehensive Greyhawk source on the web.--Robbstrd 22:58, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Shackled City

Nice touch, adding the blurb about Cauldron's fate to the Shackled City page. I had not thought to do that. -Harmil 18:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought it better to place the blurb there, as the event was part of the AP.-Robbstrd 22:44, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeenoghu

Thanks for the edits on the Yeenoghu article. I'm still learning Misplaced Pages, and you cleaned up the formatting a lot better than I could have. Appreciate it!

NP. Thanks for your contributions.--Robbstrd 23:15, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

30 Greatest Reference

Hey, I noticed you've been changing all of the 30 Greatest D&D Adventures references tags to "Erik Mona, James Jacobs, et al". That effectively removes all of the links I built that point to Dungeon Design Panel, which I think is an interesting little page (although probably more POV than other articles I will post in the future).

Any particular reason you did this? I'm still trying to get the hang of how to contribute to Misplaced Pages vis a vis dos and don'ts, so if there's something I'm missing, please let me know.

Thanks!

--Erik Mona Iquander 22:14, 6 July 2006 (UTC)