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This page looks ugly, is not easy to browse (despite the guides being sorted) and a lot of guides are from version [[0.12]] or earlier. In addition, the bright red advice banner discourages visitors to continue reading this page (I suggest a cyan-ish or purplish colour instead). What can we do to improve this? Can/should we update some of the better but slightly outdated guides? I'm not very familiar with wiki formatting, but can we improve the formatting somehow? --[[User:Lokkij|Lokkij]] ([[User talk:Lokkij|talk]]) 17:26, 16 March 2015 (CET) | This page looks ugly, is not easy to browse (despite the guides being sorted) and a lot of guides are from version [[0.12]] or earlier. In addition, the bright red advice banner discourages visitors to continue reading this page (I suggest a cyan-ish or purplish colour instead). What can we do to improve this? Can/should we update some of the better but slightly outdated guides? I'm not very familiar with wiki formatting, but can we improve the formatting somehow? --[[User:Lokkij|Lokkij]] ([[User talk:Lokkij|talk]]) 17:26, 16 March 2015 (CET) | ||
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| + | : That's actually a pretty good thing to discuss. For the records, the wiki's gotten a lot of flak over the years, in large part because of this page. It used to be that anyone could post their advice up here without attaching responsibility to it, and there were no limitations on what could be posted. As a result, there were a lot of really atrocious guides posted on the wiki that much of the Crawl fanbase openly ridiculed, and for valid reason. | ||
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| + | : Eventually I started pruning out the most egregious ones, and moved them to the archives. If I were to move stuff out simply because the version number isn't up to date, pretty much everything on this page would be filed away, so usually I only move stuff for really terrible inaccuracies. As for whether or not you can update the guides, I personally feel uncomfortable doing so, but there's nothing stopping any editor from either making suggestions on a guide's Discussion page or just making edits themselves. Most authors never seem to come back, so yeah, adjusting things is unlikely to ruffle any feathers. I'd say knock yourself out, particularly for the older ones. | ||
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| + | : As for the color of the warning at top, go for it. So long as it's eye-catching and somewhat cautionary, that's fine. It doesn't necessarily have to match the tone of obsolete articles. And when I have a bit more time on my hands I'll consider how to go about making the page prettier :P --[[User:MoogleDan|MoogleDan]] ([[User talk:MoogleDan|talk]]) 17:42, 16 March 2015 (CET) | ||
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TODO: Add Template:Character guide to all these articles. --Flun (talk) 17:21, 10 September 2013 (CEST)
Slude Elves are no more. I think their guides should be Archived. I`m not sure how to do it myself though --BlueCrake (talk) 17:17, 18 May 2014 (CEST)
- Most of these should honestly be archived. It's on the to-do list... --MoogleDan (talk) 13:44, 20 May 2014 (CEST)
This page is kind of a mess
This page looks ugly, is not easy to browse (despite the guides being sorted) and a lot of guides are from version 0.12 or earlier. In addition, the bright red advice banner discourages visitors to continue reading this page (I suggest a cyan-ish or purplish colour instead). What can we do to improve this? Can/should we update some of the better but slightly outdated guides? I'm not very familiar with wiki formatting, but can we improve the formatting somehow? --Lokkij (talk) 17:26, 16 March 2015 (CET)
- That's actually a pretty good thing to discuss. For the records, the wiki's gotten a lot of flak over the years, in large part because of this page. It used to be that anyone could post their advice up here without attaching responsibility to it, and there were no limitations on what could be posted. As a result, there were a lot of really atrocious guides posted on the wiki that much of the Crawl fanbase openly ridiculed, and for valid reason.
- Eventually I started pruning out the most egregious ones, and moved them to the archives. If I were to move stuff out simply because the version number isn't up to date, pretty much everything on this page would be filed away, so usually I only move stuff for really terrible inaccuracies. As for whether or not you can update the guides, I personally feel uncomfortable doing so, but there's nothing stopping any editor from either making suggestions on a guide's Discussion page or just making edits themselves. Most authors never seem to come back, so yeah, adjusting things is unlikely to ruffle any feathers. I'd say knock yourself out, particularly for the older ones.
- As for the color of the warning at top, go for it. So long as it's eye-catching and somewhat cautionary, that's fine. It doesn't necessarily have to match the tone of obsolete articles. And when I have a bit more time on my hands I'll consider how to go about making the page prettier :P --MoogleDan (talk) 17:42, 16 March 2015 (CET)
