RingoRoadagain

yes i am aware. I should empty it more often but i prefer to leave a period of discussion given that the wiki is not that active.

Thank you for your offer but do you have experience as a "staff member" of another wiki?

Yep, am admining on w:c:twilightsaga and w:c:dresdenfiles.

However, I wound up in a bit of a disagreement with other members of this wiki, so it's probably best to let you deal with it.

Well, I meant the header.

But I would indeed also remove the "in-mythos" category if it's redundant (eg "Characters" is a sub of "in-mythos" and thus pages who have the "Characters" category do not need the in-mythos one).

Every page should still get at least one category and not become an orphan one. And every category should be somewhere under one of the main ones seen here: Category:Browse

So yeah, in some cases a page can get the "in-mythos" category but that's quite uncommon

Do tell me if i am not clear in my explanation.

Great, thanks!

Nothing to be sorry about.

I guess we should have two different categories for real person from characters. The current category seems to be 50/50 at the moment. I leave to you to decide if you want it to be real life person or character.

(of course, the real person who got incorporated into the Mythos narrative can be in both categories.)

If you mean the folks from The Battle That Ended the Century, sure. Otherwise I don’t know who that is.

I think I’ll delete the original tag and just create Deceased (Realworld) and Deceased (In Mythos).

Thanks for the speedy response,

Fil

I was more along the ines of, for instance Lovecraft himself who was a character in Robert Bloch's stories, or in the Swamp thing comics. Many Necronomicon books also give him a fictionnal biography.

Alan Moore's Providence comics intentionnally blurred the lines between reallity and fiction and many of his character exist in the real world. (lovecraft's family, bloch, ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, Robert Howard, among others)

Fair enough. I think that someone with greater knowledge on this (such as yourself) might be better placed to add the tags that I’ve missed at some point. However, I’d argue that blurring the lines between real-life individuals and story characters would mean that they need to have at least a paragraph or two explaining their fictional representation in the Mythos.

Fil

I changed the Manual of Style some weeks ago to decomission it so I delete it when I see it. I sent a notification to this wiki userbase about the update this was a part of.

Now, all articles are be considered in universe by default unless they have the realworld tag. Most wikis i went through operate as such and i did not see much of a reason to continue using that practice of the previous admin team.

I'm always up for debate but I really don't see much advantage about using it to be honest with you, especially considereing we put a mythos era tag already.

I don't think we have. Do you think it is necessary or can you just use the "infobox story" one?

I can use the "infobox story" one. Wanted to make sure I created those articles correctly. 

Hi, I'll think about and come back with an answer next week-end.

I am hesistant only because I would not want an army of wannabe moderators asking me after that.

To be perfectly honest, I would only really need the rights for a few days, just long enough to rename the files I mentioned previously. I’d be happy to have them revoked as soon as that little project is complete, if that makes any difference.

Fil

If it's jsut that you can just give me a list with the old and new names and I would do it no problem.

Sure, I can’t really think of any other reason I might need them. I’ll put together a list and pass it on in the next couple of days.

Fil

Not really, you are the first to ask to my knowledge.

Have you been an admin on a wiki before?

Besides the candidate for deletion section, is there anything you need admin rights to do?

I'm currently an admin for the Gone with the Blastwave Wiki but given that it's just under 99% smaller than this one I don't know how much of a qualification that is. Thankfully we've got a pretty healthy community so I realise that there isn't too much blocking to do there but even so there's a lot of housekeeping for one person to do. As far as admin rights go it would be handy to be able too weed out stubs and duplicate pages without just dumping all of it onto you.

I also have to admit that I'd be proud simply to be labelled an admin on a wiki I'm so fond of but I'd try not to let it go to my head.

Ultimately it's your call but I thought it would be worth throwing my hat into the ring either way.

Okay, since I never thooght about the matter before, I checked FANDOM's recommendations.

https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help%3AUser_rights

It seems that what you ask for is cloder to "CONTENT MODERATOR" rights.

I remember that you particpated much and gave interesting opinions before you went away for some time.

Therefore, as FANDOM prefers that long standing active memebers can get user rights, I would prefer that you remind me in about a month or so after your return to make you a Content Moderator. In the meantime, to help me better assess, you can already as a normal user point to me actions you believe are required related to:

Sorry if I appear reluctant or something but I'd rather not rush such process.

To be fair I'd never heard of a content moderator before but it seems to be exacty what I was looking for. It's perfectly reasonable to want leave a gap while I get my bearings back and I look forward to working with you again. 

Ps: I've been talking to someone on another about marking pages for deletion. I've always left my explanation in the edit notes but would you prefer that it goes on the actual page?

I updated the "delete" template. You should be able to give a reason when adding it to a page.