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Edits made. Let me know if there are other notable recent appearances that I've missed. It looked like the All-New, Not-So Different Tag Team Tale was leading up to some groovy stuff with him and Vagimus, but it never got very far.
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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I'm trying to do the Cobalt Kid article and just have so much to put in there I'm really starting to worry about the length. Is there a limit to how long they should be? I could try to cut some things down (or out), I guess...
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Chief Lardy: I hope the eventual length of this Lard Lad article won't be a problem. While I'm not including everything, there are SO many documented essential details to Lardy's story, it pretty much has to be really long!
If the length of the article become unwieldy, you can always create "subarticles" linked within later on. For example there might be an article about Lardy's romantic involvements that the main Lard Lad article could link to. I wouldn't recommend doing that right away, but if the article becomes longer than you think would be practical, you may want to consider it.
quote:Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: Wikipedia recommends a maximum length of 6000 to 10000 words. We can cross that bridge when we get to it!
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Very simply: 1) Log in when you edit 2) There's no strict limit, but if it gets very long then... 3) ...start moving sections out to pages of their own, and leave only a quick summary in the main article.
PS: Could you bump the last PM I sent you back, please? There's a quick question I want to ask.
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quote:Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: If the length of the article become unwieldy, you can always create "subarticles" linked within later on. I wouldn't recommend doing that right away, but if the article becomes longer than you think would be practical, you may want to consider it.
Wikipedia recommends articles of no more than 10,000 words for readability's sake, but that's not a hard-and-fast rule. The Cobalt Kid article comes in around 8500 currently. Characters like Cobie, Lardy and Lash who have such a long and rich history are going to have long articles. At some point, you may want to have smaller articles about one aspect of the character's history, but that's totally up to you.
Okay, I see Dev quoted the same thing!
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From: The Pyngwyn Colonies of Planet Hyustyn | Registered: Aug 2005
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Thanks Rocky. I started to get concerned because I'm only up to about 3005 in the history! I still have a lot to go, but on the other hand, all the early pre-LMB stuff is out of the way and that was a bit.
I'll stay on top of it and maybe once its all typed, I can decide then.
I may call upon your editorial skills for advice later.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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As Reboot was kind enough to remind, and I'll echo, please do remember to log in before you edit so we can be sure that the edits are genuine.
Thanks!
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From: The Pyngwyn Colonies of Planet Hyustyn | Registered: Aug 2005
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And Reboot, just saw your note above. PMed you back and thanks for the advice!
I didn't even realize I wasn't logged on in this laptop--will correct!
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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I have to update SL's page with some stuff from a couple of Onevisions and the recent Twovision with Dev...
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From: The waters off eastern Long Island | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Dev Em: How do I add the categories at the bottom of the page?
Add [[Category:(category name)]] to the bottom of the page, obviously subbing the actual name of the category for "(category name)".
(PS: To link to a category or image, rather than adding them to the page, add a colon to the start - so [[:File:IMAGE.EXT|(link text)]] and [[:Category:(category name)|(link text)]])
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Rocky, a quick (and possibly silly) question:
For the categories: "Legion World locations" and "Legion World institutions"... what is the difference?
Are "institutions," to your mind, physical buildings while "locations" are just general geographic areas? Or are "institutions" those entities that have governmental hierarchies, like the Office of Security and the Rookery, while "locations" would include both geographic area and businesses, such as Cafe Cramer and SHAKES?
(PS... if this message falls on the bottom of the page, could you quote it so it carries over to the next?)
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