User talk:Matthewest/Arc 200801

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Welcome

Hello Matthewest! Welcome to the wiki. I hope you enjoy using the site and find the information on it useful. If you decide you want to help improve any of our pages, we're always welcoming to new editors so feel free. You might want to look at our Getting Started page for some tips on how to begin, then play in our Sandbox for a while to practice. If you need any help or advice, please ask one of our mentors. Enjoy! –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 06:25, 20 January 2008 (EST)

Houses

Hello, and thanks for your interest in UESPWiki! I hope you enjoy the site and find it useful, however, concerning your recent edits to Oblivion:Houses; Most of the information you've added is already available through the links provided in the table or in the text. Please do not add redundant information. (I'm sorry if this sound harsh, I don't mean it to, I just want to catch you before you do too much more; you're going so fast!) --GuildKnight^Talk2me 22:56, 20 January 2008 (EST)

No problem at all. The great thing about a wiki, I can just change it back, and there are a couple of things I'll probably incorporate into the page. Let me know if there's anything I can help with. --GuildKnight^Talk2me 23:02, 20 January 2008 (EST)

Help?

Just let me know if there's anything you need help with (I am a Mentor, after all). Check out Oblivion:Houses page when I'm done changing it. --GuildKnight^Talk2me 23:10, 20 January 2008 (EST)

And you tick the "This is a minor edit" box when the edit you're making is only a spelling or link correction, or something that doesn't change the content of the page. Oh, and sign your name with --~ ~ ~ ~ without the spaces to get your "signature" when you edit a talk page. --GuildKnight^Talk2me 23:12, 20 January 2008 (EST)

A Second Welcome

Hi, Matthewest, welcome to UESPWiki. I noticed one of your comments on GuildKnight's talk page, and wanted to let you know that you already are an "official editor" of UESP. There isn't much more to it than just setting up an account and starting to edit :)

Also, I noticed that your signature always says "Oblivion and Morrowind player. Xbox user only." I'm guessing that have edited your preferences to make that text appear. If you click on the "my preferences" link that appears at the top of every wiki page, on the "User Profile" tab that comes up there is a "Signature" box. The text in that box appears every time you sign a wiki talk page. It's best to have your name appear in whatever signature that you use, so that other editors can easily see who made the comment. For example, just having your name alone, e.g. "Matthewest", in the "Signature" box would be perfectly acceptable. If you want other editors to know additional information about you, the best place to provide that information is on your user page, e.g. at User:Matthewest, rather than adding it to every one of your posts. --Nephele^Talk 00:59, 22 January 2008 (EST)

Images

Hey, just wanted to let you know that the proper way to put images on the site is to upload them, using the "Upload File" link on the sidebar on the left. While it is possible to have images hosted off-site, we do not generally do this as a matter of course, because it is more difficult to control things like size and placement when you do it that way (as you noticed on Rpeh's talk page). See the Help:Images page for more detailed instructions on the best way to put images on the site, and let me or any of the other staff-artists on the site know if you have any further questions about this. --TheRealLurlock ^Talk 23:01, 25 January 2008 (EST)

I fixed the images so that they're not being displayed on Rpeh's talk page any more (the choices with offsite images are either full-sized image or just a link; I opted for links). However, neither of the two grave image links work: is there a typo in the link names? Also, if you would like to help with providing images there's a very long list of Morrowind pages that need images at Category:Morrowind Pages Needing Images. Thanks :) --Nephele^Talk 23:39, 25 January 2008 (EST)

Three of the images look good but the first two get Not Found errors. Also, I haven't got to that point in the quests so don't know which image would be best, so why not add it yourself? Now that Lurlock has posted the help link you're best off following the advice on that and picking your favourite image. Thanks for the help! –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 03:20, 26 January 2008 (EST)

Your enthusiasm for helping to improve the site is appreciated. However, spamming the official forums with requests for other people to supply images for minor pages really isn't the best way to go about helping the site. We flag pages on UESP with requests like NeedsImage for the benefit of our editors and contributors, to help them find pages to work on. But that doesn't mean that the request is an emergency requiring us to go and annoy non-contributors demanding that they provide an image. There are hundreds of pages that need images; starting to post a request on the forums for each of those pages is pointless. And then there's the problem of how to use the images you were provided in that forum post. We would prefer that editors upload screenshots that they have created themselves. That ensures that the correct person is given credit for the screenshot and prevents problems with plagiarism and copyright. Therefore, you can't upload the images that other editors provide you through forum requests, and therefore the images can't be used on the site.

If you would like to help the site by providing screenshots, please try reading the help page and learn how to create screenshots yourself. But please don't misrepresent the situation on UESP by making unnecessary posts on the official forums. --Nephele^Talk 16:31, 27 January 2008 (EST)

Creating New Pages

Could you please stop creating articles that contain nothing more than stub tags, and perhaps take the time to read Help:Starting New Pages? In particular, the guideline there that says start a new page only if ... you are ready to create the page, and you are planning to add more than just one or two sentences. The wanted pages list (and red links on pages) are tools used to identify pages that need content. Adding a stub tag to the page does not address the problem, i.e., it does not add any useful content to the site. But it makes it impossible to now identify that page as one that contains no content. In other words, we'd rather have red links for empty pages rather than make readers waste their time following a link, just to find out that the page contains absolutely nothing. --Nephele^Talk 23:02, 31 January 2008 (EST)