User talk:Bob the Orc

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Greetings Bob the Orc! Welcome to UESPWiki!

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Links

Good work on integrating all those links! It's really helpful. I have a suggestion though. Use this page of Templates as a word bank. An administrator explained to me that instead of having a format such as [[Shivering:Hill of Suicides|The Hill of Suicides]], the format {{SI|Hill of Suicides}} is not only more concise, but if they make some change affecting the destination of your link, the curly bracket template will follow the page there, whereas the square bracket link will have to be changed by hand on every page that it appears, which will make all the work you are doing right now go to waste… -Zhukant 04:53, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

First, let me second Zhukant's message: Good work on the links! Thanks a lot for that.

Following up on his post, though, the {{OB}} and {{SI}} templates will ultimately be replaced by a bot with the full expanded links in any event, so there's little benefit in doing it one way instead of the other; use whichever you find easiest. A third way of doing it is to use: [[SI:Hill of Suicides|]], which is about as short as using the template, but provides the added benefit of being able to use a substitute text if you need to (e.g., [[SI:Hill of Suicides|I see dead people]]→I see dead people).

Finally, while we sometimes do it anyway here, since we're not Wikipedia, it's generally seen as undesirable to put links into headings. Instead, put the link on the first mention in the body of the text below it if possible.

Thanks again for all the hard work! ‒ Robin Hood↝talk 17:47, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

"Thirded" I guess you could say :P anyways, thanks, the glitches page can always use a little bit of help. MikeTalk 01:38, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Hey, small suggestion.

Could you add like a space to your user page so that it doesnt keep showing up as a red link all over the recent changes? Obviously you dont have to, but if you did it would be awesome.--Catmaniac66 17:05, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks man, keep editting!--Catmaniac66 17:17, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Sorry to badger you, but I've noticed you've been making many small consecutive edits to articles. Please remember to use the show preview button when editing. The six edits to Lore:Jagar Tharn could have easily been done in one. This way, it makes it easier to patrol your edits. Legoless 17:27, 28 May 2011 (UTC)