User talk:Crazed Marines
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Happy editing! → Fris Θtalk 03:06, 17 Nov 2004 (GMT)
Tell me that you see the counter at the very bottom of the screen, dead center. If you don't, you may need to go to Preferences and change skins. I'm using MonoBook, I think. → Fris Θtalk
I swear you already asked and I already answered about Category:Wars (but it's not in the history pages, so oh well). Rule of thumb: If two or more nations were in an active NS topic about a war, then it can reasonably go in the Wars category. If your civil war was backstory and the only other participants were just commenting, or offering assistance without being part of the roleplay, then it belongs in your factbook only. Pretty much anything related to your nation can be added to your factbook (unless it's already in a bigger category - Roleplay doesn't need to be added to every roleplayer's factbook). Things that are of general interest to other nations, that can be used and edited by other authors, those can go in the broader categories. → Fris Θtalk 20:27, 21 Nov 2004 (GMT)
- You can add it to Category:Wars if you want. Of course, other people can remove it later if they don't think it belongs there. Such is the nature of wikis.
- Also, don't sign your articles or list update information. All that is automatically recorded in the History of each page. Signatures are used only on Talk pages and votes and such. Check the help pages for that and other useful info. → Fris Θtalk 05:12, 22 Nov 2004 (GMT)
Flag
You go to your nation page on NS, and right click on the flag (in Windows with Internet Explorer). Properties gives you the filename, which you copy and paste into your infobox. By the way, this took me far longer to type than to actually do. Took me about 8 seconds once your wiki nation page came up. Nice flag. Good design. → Fris Θtalk 03:04, 17 Dec 2004 (GMT)
duplicating National Leaders thread
On first glance, my advice is not to copy the national leaders thread from the forums to NSwiki. Lots of good reasons why ...
- it goes against NSwiki:policy to copy/paste from NS or other easily linked sources
- each edit creates a complete backup copy of the article. Daily edits of a large topic (especially just changing a name here and there) would suck down wiki storage space like a sponge
- Nation pages already have a space to post leader names, and folks can create entire articles about their leadership if they want. Seems like duplicated effort to me.
I'm happy for you that you got a stickied thread, but I can't see duplicating it here. I'd consider it completely reasonable to post links on your User page, possibly on your nation page, and perhaps in other articles where entirely appropriate. I just created one such link in Characters on your behalf.
If I've missed some good reasons for doing so, please respond here on your talk page (so we can keep the conversation flow intact), and I or other wiki community members can comment on it. → Fris Θtalk 04:30, 19 Jan 2005 (GMT)
