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Welcome!

Hello, DoomsDay349, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  -- ReyBrujo 02:34, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there!

I just noticed you answered something in my Talk page. [1] Let me quickly explain you how Talk pages work. When someone wants to tell you something, he goes to your talk page and posts a new section telling you something, like:

== Question ==
Do you know how many primary colors are? -- ~~~~

When you check the question, you are supposed to talk to his page directly. In other words, you go to the talk page of the one who asked you the question, and post the reply in a way he can easily find it, in example:

== Re: Question ==
Yes, they are 3. -- ~~~~

If he wants to tell you something more, he will go to your talk page and write what he wants there. In other words, conversations are usually split, what he said in your talk page, what you said in the other's talk page.

Sometimes, people will ask you that they will post replies in their own page, to prevent splitting the conversation.

So, when you find a question in a user's talk page, like in my case, he has most likely answered in the other's talk page. Talk pages are somewhat like "private" messages, so unless you want to say something or someone asked you something, don't reply in third's conversations. Hope it is clear :-) -- ReyBrujo 22:05, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on user's talk page. DoomsDay349 22:10, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Tanis Half-Elven Stub

Hello there. Yes, the article is mature enough. A stub means that the article gives the minimun information about the topc (in example, "Tanis Half-Elven is a fictional character in Dragonlance"), enough to answer "Who Tanis Half-Elven is?" but not enough to answer "Why Tanis Half-Elven must have its own article in Wikipedia?" -- ReyBrujo 01:51, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on user's talk page.DoomsDay349 20:16, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, DoomsDay349! I saw your article: Kith-Kanan. It is kind of confusing for me, a non-Dragonlance person, to understand it. Remember that Wikipedia is for ALL audiences! Let's work together to clean it up!

RelentlessRouge 01:57, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on User's talk page. DoomsDay349 02:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers, DoomsDay349! I'm glad to see that you are contributing on a subject that Wikipedia doesn't have much of! Anyway, replying your message, it doesn't make enough hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles. If you could contribute some of your valuable time to making articles related to Kith-Kanan, it would be great! Also, if you could provide more background, it would be a superior article. Hope to see you around!
RelentlessRouge 02:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello once again, DoomsDay349. About your message to me about "what does background mean?", I'll give the following examples: What's a griffin? What's an elf? Those kinds of things. Let's work together!
RelentlessRouge 02:11, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Alright! That's the spirit! If you need help, go to this page or the associated talk page. I'm sorry if I sound dumb asking those questions on what undoubtedly for you are basic vocab questions, but once again, Wikipedia is meant for a general audience. Good luck, and have fun!
RelentlessRouge 02:16, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Marcantel

On that article, I just created it this second, and that's really all the information I can find at the moment, so no I'm not planning on expanding at the moment, but I hope to be able to come upon some soon. Registered user 92 (talk · contribs)

Silveran Kanan

Hello - sorry I didn't respond any sooner, I've been away from my computer.

Originally the Silveran Kanan article needed a more thorough introduction, but it seems since I placed that tag on the article you've pretty much taken care of this. The only thing I recommend adding at this point would be the author of the series - perhaps make it read "...the fictional series of Dragonlance novels, written by <x>". Good job! --AbsolutDan (talk) 02:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dragonlance image

This is just a heads up that if you're going to upload any dragonlance images, please place them in the [[Category:Dragonlance images]] or the [[Category: Dragonlance Covers]]. Thanks. ddcc 01:09, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New Dragonlance pages

Also, please remember to categorize your new dragonlance character page with the [[Category: Dragonlance characters]], or else it's hard for other people to find and contribute to your article. ddcc 02:50, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry I didn't reply earlier! Somehow, my computer didn't alert me that I had a new message, so... anyway, I've looked them over, and they look much better! Great job! A few thigns that could be tweaked:

1. In the K.K.S. article, could you explain the countries a bit more in addition to using Wikilinks?

2. In the S.o.t.S. article, is it a position, a person? How do you get the position, if it is a position?

Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia!

RelentlessRouge 15:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, DoomsDay349! Cheers! Very nice userboxes... =)

Anyway, I looked through the two above articles. I really don't have much time right this minute, but...

1. What is a diety? Is it a god or something? I mean, I know what the definition is, but others might not. Please explain it in greater detail.

2. Great job on the Paladine page! You could make it even better by explaining what an avatar is instead of just Wikilinking it!

Cheers!

RelentlessRouge 11:31, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't add the stub designator on the Paladine article. Good job, and keep it up. I'll try to review the other articles when I have time. Great job overall on the Dragonlance articles!
Excellent job!
RelentlessRouge 17:10, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: I'm not sure how to handle this

Geez, what bunch of nonsense. Note that in the second edit in the history the article was prodded, [2] which was later removed without comment. [3] When the prod is removed, you need to take the article to WP:AFD. Include what the user who made the prod wrote, state that it was removed without comment, and add that Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day. Also, note that Googling for the names and the game name gives no significant results. -- ReyBrujo 18:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, note that no article links to it. [4] -- ReyBrujo 18:40, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Try to be bold and follow the instructions that appear here. I will correct if you make a mistake. -- ReyBrujo 18:40, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Good. Some things: 1. When you want to wikilink a user, use the {{user}} template; 2. Note that when sending fan-made articles to deletion you may get those fans to post offensive comments at your page; and 3. If you have doubts about if an article should be deleted, prod it. If the article has already been prod'ed, send it to AFD. -- ReyBrujo 19:17, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Now there will be a discussion for a week or so, depending if the consensus is too big to either delete or keep. People will come, read your argument, check the article, and "vote" with Delete or Keep, sometimes adding modifiers like Weak or Strong, explaining why they think that way. You should keep both the article and the votation page in your Watchlist, sometimes editors of the article will delete the AFD tag, and you should restore it. Others may ask you questions in the AFD page, you should reply to them. After a week or so an administrator will review the discussion and determine if the article should be deleted. -- ReyBrujo 19:40, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Seems the article was speedied, that is good, saves a lot of time. One last thing (again): When you send something to AFD, you don't usually "vote", that is, you don't put Delete in your statement, nor "vote" after the AFD started, otherwise people will think you are taking the AFD process as a votation, which is not. -- ReyBrujo 00:46, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reybrujo's Draognlance tasklist

I've noticed you're using Reybrujo's tasklist, can you mark the articles that you've changed/fixed to done, or missing image so that it's easier for the rest of us? ddcc 04:25, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How's it going, man?

Hello, DoomsDay349! Long time no see! If you need any help on Dragonlance articles, just pop me a message at user talk: RelentlessRouge. Thanks!

Cheers!

RelentlessRouge 11:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, what's up, DoomsDay349! I've looked over the aforementioned article. I think that a number of changes would help make it a very nice article!

1. What are all the locations described in Early Life? Where? What are their importances? Is there a map to show where she's travelled?

2. Who is she? Physical descriptions? A picture? A picture would be nice.

3. Too many subcategories. Merge them just into a single article with no sections. That'd be nice. A subsection with only a few sentences isn't that good.

4. The middle and ending sections were very confusing.

I hope that my comments will help to guide you in making Mina (Dragonlance) a better article!

Cheers!

RelentlessRouge 01:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S.: And thanks about my signiature. I can help you out with yours, too. =)

Thanks for the equick reply! Lol about the picture. I'll try a Google search. I'll be kidna busy, so maybe I'll take a diety a week. Maybe.
Cheers!
RelentlessRouge 01:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Infobox

Hello! For now I believe we should wait some. Currently there is a discussion about infoboxes, and based on the consensus, we will change the infoboxes, create or delete them. -- ReyBrujo 17:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: References

First, you need to create the reference. To do it, use <ref name="somename"></ref> Note that "somename" is a unique name. If you are going to use the same reference twice (in example, the same page can be used as source in two different statements), the first time create the reference, and the second just use it as <ref name="thefirstname" />

To create the reference itself, you need to use the {{cite web}} or {{cite book}} template inside the reference. To quote a book, use {{cite book}}, to quote a web pate use {{cite web}}. In example, if you want to reference a URL, use {{cite web | url=http://www.test.com | publisher=Test | accessdate=2006-08-30 | title=A test }} It is similar with the one for books. Just check the cite templates to see the arguments.

Finally, you need to create a References section with the following text to make them appear:

<div class="references-small"> <references /> </div>

Only the <references /> is needed, but the DIV makes the references smaller so that more can fit in the article. I hope that helps. -- ReyBrujo 02:10, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: 8-bit Theater

I'm not having any problems viewing the site, no. -The Splendiferous Gegiford 17:26, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

You should not just slap a completely new article into another. As you finish sections here, put them there. Otherwise, people who had been working in the article would just someday find all their contributions gone, and since you will just copy a version, there will be no change history in the main article. -- ReyBrujo 05:48, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will see if I can check that later. I am right now focusing on an article about a MUD, and hopefully finishing reading the Annotated Chronicles. I add notes from time to time when I find something very interesting, but for now I am trying to limit my work on DL articles to prevent burning myself out. -- ReyBrujo 01:42, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Problem

Hey there. Are you still having that problem? I can access your user page without problem. However, as the images may be stored in a different server, if the server is down, your page may not show correctly or not at all (happened a couple of times when the server that stored the archive icon went down, and trying to access a talk page would time out). If that happens, and really bothers you, you can try accessing the history of your user page, and trying a previous version, until you are able to see the user page.

Sometimes, however, the Wikipedia servers are just too busy. I almost never edit at nights because the server is extremely slow for me (usually taking 15-20 seconds to go to a new page, and most times getting a time out when trying to save a page). Growing pains, I would say. Just in case, don't worry, your user page did not break Wikipedia ;-) -- ReyBrujo 18:41, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit to Calnar

Your recent edit to Calnar (diff) was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // AntiVandalBot 22:13, 7 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just putting this down for the record, the edit to Calnar was not vandalism, it was an honest mistake. I meant to put a redirect there, but accidently just blanked the page. DoomsDay349 06:03, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Empire of Ergoth

Since you've done such a wonderful job on Lists of Ergothian Emperors, could you update the Empire of Ergoth template to reflect those changes? ddcc 02:29, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently the only way for it to work is the way you're using right now; using the template to link to a page, and then have the page redirect to the list, however, redirects cannot handle anchors, so either way it won't work very well. ddcc 17:16, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Confusion

The full quote is:

Wikipedia has its own fair use criteria, which is much stricter than the US law. This is to both minimize non-free content, and to comply with the law (in example, if the law says only 18 years old or older can write in wikis, but Wikipedia requests you to have 21, the rules is stricter and, thus, probably "safer").

That was an example to clarify that, while US laws are strict, Wikipedia uses stricter rules to be sure to fall within US laws. -- ReyBrujo 01:33, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, there are people from all ages contributing to Wikipedia. We even have bureaucrats that are under that age. That was an extreme example intended to explain that any restriction Wikipedia imposes will usually be tighter than US law. You don't need to be of a determined age to contribute, so don't worry. -- ReyBrujo 20:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Signature Customization

Hi there, sorry for the late reply. You can find information about signatures here, and how to customize them here. You can use HTML to set colors and fonts, but remember to keep your full signature shorter than 200 characters, which is usually when signatures begin to become a nuisanse. -- ReyBrujo 18:32, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't customize my signature, so I don't know exactly what it does. You should begin trying out some tests. Write something, sign, change your preferences, sign again, change your preferences again, sign again, etc, until you get your signature right. I believe you don't need to check that, otherwise it would have been checked by default. -- ReyBrujo 20:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Try Font color:
<font color="blue">[[User:DoomsDay349|DoomsDay349]]</font> <font color="green">([[User talk:DoomsDay349|talk]])</font> gives DoomsDay349 (talk)
<font color="#777777">Dooms</font><font color="#888888">Day</font><font color="#999999">349</font> gives DoomsDay349
<font face="Comic Sans MS">DoomsDay349<sup>([[User talk:DoomsDay349|talk]])</sup></font> gives DoomsDay349(talk)
Google around for more HTML information about FONT, and you may come up with some interesting stuff. -- ReyBrujo 20:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Note that when you are in your talk page, any link to your talk page is bolded. That is, in this talk page, User talk:DoomsDay349 is bold and not linked. When you are in any other page, it looks like User talk:ReyBrujo. That is on purpose (if you see the navigation templates, when you are in the article AAA, the item AAA in the template is bold and without link). White is an awful color, especially because most have white as background color (in other words, an invisible signature, which is awful). And I don't understand the part about the parentheses... -- ReyBrujo 21:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Red is also an awful color, because it indicates the page does not exist. So, anyone seeing your talk page link in red will think you have never had a message in your talk page, or that someone deleted your page. -- ReyBrujo 21:07, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That is because it is an hyperlink. You would need extreme black magic to hide the hyperlink too, and I suggest not doing so, because it may bring problems (white foreground on white background is not useful, so they will ask you to use black or another color). -- ReyBrujo 21:32, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Quick test. DoomsDay (talk) 21:34, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As I told you in my first reply, don't use more than 200 characters. Yours have almost 250 right now. I suggest removing the Contributions part, as nobody ever clicks that. -- ReyBrujo 00:34, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, DoomsDay349, to Esperanza! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is Stressbusters, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Proposals.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Natalya by email or talk page. Consider introducing yourself at the Esperanza talk page! Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, you may find help at an IRC tutorial. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, DoomsDay349, to Esperanza! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is Stressbusters, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We will send you newsletters to keep you up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Proposals.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact Natalya by email or talk page. Consider introducing yourself at the Esperanza talk page! Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, you may find help at an IRC tutorial. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to work!

Your sig

The turqouise blue nine is hard to see on the monobook skin. Typiclally, many Esperanzas will color their Esperanza links green, so you could conert the "Doom" to a link to ESP. I also think that three colors ia a bit distraction, but that's just my opinion. Hbdragon88 03:57, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Many Thanks!

Thanks for the approval! Rey has done more work than me though, as he was helping out ages before I even registered. ddcc 01:54, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Quick Question

Not at all. I read it just after reading War of Souls. -- ReyBrujo 02:43, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Istar

Hmm... the Kingpriest Trilogy has most, if not all, what you need, as it covers maybe the last 40 years of the place. There are a lot of short stories talking about it, but overall, they don't describe the place or customs, but situations (The Cataclysm recompilation has several stories about events transpiring just before, during, and shortly after the Cataclysm). -- ReyBrujo 23:11, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Question

Sprcifically, what are you talkinhg about? [[--Briaboru 20:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)User:Briaboru|Briaboru--Briaboru 20:49, 27 September 2006 (UTC)]][reply]

Vandalism

Sprcifically, what are you talkinhg about? Briaboru 20:50, 27 September 2006 (UTC)]][reply]

Pan African Parliament

That was probably me deleting a section of the above article that i initinally copy and pasted without editing, i guess i thought no one was watching. Briaboru 20:50, 27 September 2006 (UTC)]][reply]

Re: Possible Offense

You know, I'm Indian, and I don't really mind about the poem, but, it's only me....Why don't you ask some Indian Wikipedians? That's my 2 cents anyway...--Suit-n-tieTalk About The Suit 03:11, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am deeply offended

I am deeply offend at Wikipedia's attempt to try & throw such a beacon of my religion! I thought it was only joke, but it is bad & yes. Stop now. Thanks for cute kitty Dooms! He's soooo cute!!! -- Spawn Man 11:57, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was only kidding. I'm not actually Indian. ;). BTW, The kitten seems to be coming up on my screen, maybe it's your browser? Mine plays up a lot too... Have a nice day, Spawn Man 09:47, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks..

Thanks for the welcome. I've had an account on here for a while, but I'd forgotten my password, so I created a new one :D

Also, I've already added myself to members on the project page!

- Moe 21:08, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nothing specific, I just fixed up articles that needed fixing, adding what little knowledge I possessed.- Moe 06:11, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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...Sigh...I was reverted again, eh? OK, again, this is for the record. The edit was done in good faith and was not vandalism. I'll explain. The intro on that Category appeared as either out of place or an advertisement. I removed it, and was reverted. I am currently inquiring about it, and will have this cleared up soon. DoomsDay349 21:31, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note

Thanks for dropping me a line. I typed a little blurb in my user page like you suggested. I'll keep looking around the Dragonlance articles and see what else I can find/improve. -- Finnicks 22:30, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Userpage Content.

I wasn't aware I was limited in what I could could put on my userpage.. I've changed it to co-incide with what rules could apply. Any swearing (though I don't think I could find any), has been removed, 'hate' (which is the word that should have been used, because I really do 'dislike' those things with a passion) has been changed to 'dislike'.

I apologize if you were offended. - Moe 01:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do see your point, and I thank you for alerting me. Cheers. - Moe 01:07, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Defined Task List

Because you're here, I'm proposing that perhaps we should set out a clear and concise 'To-Do' list, for any of those (like me), who are unsure which articles require the most work, fixing, etc, etc.

Something along the Star Trek Project lines perhaps..?

Template:StarTrektasks

- Moe 01:13, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest, I didn't even know that the list existed! Haha.. to make things a bit easier, do you use MSN Messenger? - Moe 01:35, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Doesn't matter about Messenger :P Perhaps.. we should select a few articles at a time, and create a miniture 'to-do' list. For example, (it might be already done, I just haven't checked), The Graygem of Gargath, we could set up a table which stated which parts needed to be completed in relation to it.. Origin, History, Current Location, etc, etc.. It should (hopefully), get articles completed up to the point where they contain most relevent information about them. - Moe 01:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]