User talk:Dzylon

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Hello Dzylon, and welcome to the Terraria Wiki! Thanks for your contribution to the Environments page. Here are several pages that can help you with where to begin:


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There's a lot to do around here, so we hope you'll stay with us and make many more contributions. And again, welcome to Terraria Wiki. Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Gracey91 (Talk) 21:17, 4 January 2012

Noticed your edit to King Slime page. Please keep in mind 2 things while editing. 1) Update info needs to go in its own section. If you see it in the first sentence, rather than just rewording it, please remove any reference to what patch the monster was added on and instead create a new section at the bottom of the page called "Update Info" and write something like "1.0.4 - Added to the game" under that new section. Example: Dark Mummy. 2) I'm not sure why/how you put those there, but please don't add those random "{C" things into the page. Mathmagician ( Σ talk ♥ blog ∞ contributions ) 23:59, January 5, 2012 (UTC)

Harpy
Hey, I saw that you're trying to do some formatting on the Harpy page. I'm glad you're trying to help out, I just want to give you a couple more pointers. Some of this you may already know:

Mathmagician ( Σ talk ♥ blog ∞ contributions ) 20:21, January 6, 2012 (UTC)
 * When editing, there is a "Preview" button that you should always click on before you "Publish" your edits. This will show you what the page is going to look like. If it doesn't look like the way you want it to, then you can go back and make more changes before publishing. This will help prevent scenarios where you're making a bunch of test edits in a row and then saying things like "This should fix it..." We always want to try to make many changes to the page all in one edit, rather than making a large number of edits in a row which do very little or make no changes to the page.
 * Update info is actually intended to go in reverse chronological order, with the most recent changes on top and the oldest changes on the bottom. The Version History page is a good example. You see newest patch information on the top. And older stuff on the bottom. This is because more people play the newest patches and are always interested in the newest information first and foremost. If a few people want to know older stuff, then they should be willing to dig a little deeper/scroll down further to find out that information.
 * Even after looking at your edits, I'm still not sure exactly what you were trying to do with the "monsters box being cut off" or whatever. Maybe it looks different in your browser than in mine, but the older version before you made any changes looked fine to me? Here's something that may help you. If you edit in "Source" mode rather than in "Visual" mode, you can use the template, which will cause text and stuff to go below floating tables/pictures/movies. It's a very nice formatting tool.
 * If you click the arrow on the blue "Edit" button, you can look at the page history and check older versions of the page by clicking on the date/time of the edit. This is helpful for reverting vandalism, undoing your own test edits, or comparing 2 revisions of the same page.

Thanks for the pointers. Referring to the monsters box being cut off, I meant that a large portion of the box was simply not showing up. It was rendering fine in the preview box (which I did use) as well as the previous version boxes, but not the page itself. I did test the page on three browsers (IE, Google Chrome, and Firefox) as well as two computers. It seems fine now, with the latest edit, so no worries. Again, thanks for the tips... I'm still getting used to the Wikia software.

Also, I had no idea about the reverse chronology thing... the pages I've seen so far have been split up pretty much half and half when it comes to how the update history is sorted.

Question - How do you respond to a message on the talk page?

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 * Just like you did, by editing the talk page and putting your reply below, and then your signature at the end by typing ~ . Making a new subsection and/or indenting can be helpful. Then you might want to leave me this message: . It will let me know that I have a new message on your talk page. Here's an example of what the template looks like:


 * Also, if you ever have questions around the wiki, the admin Gracey91 would probably be glad to help you. He also has a Testing Wiki (which I just recently found out about) which you might want to try out if you'd like to become more familiar with wiki markup and such. If you want to learn more about templates, you may wish to start here.

Mathmagician ( Σ talk ♥ blog ∞ contributions ) 21:49, January 6, 2012 (UTC)