Thread:Rogie99/@comment-24150802-20150215064930

Hi Rogie99. I've noticed you've recently started editing the wiki, which is great! We can always use more wiki editors! However there's a couple of small problems with some of your edits - mostly things that many new editors have trouble with - so I thought I'd give you some tips now.

This is specifically about your changes to the FAQ page, which has a few good examples of things that aren't obvious to new editors. You can see your exact changes at this history page.

Your first change, for the Warriors link, wasn't incorrect as such, but it's not necessary to change links like that. Pluralising a link by putting an s outside the square brackets is a valid thing to do, and in fact is easier to read when you're looking at the raw code.

For your change at Line 447 (the drop cap link), if you clicked on the drop link you'd find that it actually takes you to a redirect page, rather than to the correct drops page. Whenever you create links, it's a really good idea to preview your changes before posting them so that you can test the links. Any links that go to redirect pages should be changed to go directly to the correct page. Just as if you aren't sure about why that's important, or what it means!

The change at Line 540 puts a full stop in the wrong place.

For Line 546, we typically use "and" instead of "&" since "and" is the correct English word. Also there's a spelling mistake in the visible text for the Contributor Rewards link (-er instead of -or). When you're making links where the visible text is the same as the page name, there's no need to specify the visible text - you can just use the page name alone. That removes any chance of typing mistakes!

Not far under that change, there are links to "armor" and "Quest Scroll". From memory, I think both of those are redirect links.

At Line 590, there's nothing really wrong with putting "the" inside the visible text of the link, but there's also nothing really wrong with having it outside. In general, when a change is purely stylistic, it's often better to not make it. That reduces the number of edits that require reviewing. :)

The "Rare Pets" link is good, but it should be a wiki link instead of an external link, so creating it like this would be best: rare pets. Also note that "rare" doesn't need to be capitalised in the visible text portion of the link.

At Line 645, I think the Snowball link is another redirect, but I'm relying on memory again here, so I might be wrong.

Line 696 (the "How do I join a Guild? / Is there a Newbies Guild I can Join?" title change) is actually a really important problem. When the title was changed like that, the corresponding link in the table of contents stopped working. In the FAQ it's important to ensure that all ToC links always work. If you really need to change a title, you must also always change all links that point to it. The same is true for any titles on other wiki pages; the ToCs on other pages are usually automatic, but there are often manual links in other place. Because of this, it's usually best to not change titles at all, unless there's a very good reason to. Capitalisation isn't really important enough to make it worth the effort of finding and changing all links, especially when you consider that links can be from other pages, and even other websites!

Under Line 758, I think the "API" link isn't actually the correct one to use for describing tokens. From memory the "API" page is a disambiguation page. This shows another good reason to always check links - as well as ensuring that they aren't redirect links, you can also check that the page linked to is relevant.

Because a few of these problems were fairly important to fix, I've reverted your change, but you are welcome to make a similar change again if you wish, keeping in mind the tips I've given you. In particular, all links should be tested from preview mode before posting. Once you have more experience with wiki editing, you won't always need to test all links, because you'll just remember which pages are the correct ones (especially for the common pages that are linked to often) but in the beginning it's a really good idea to always test them.

If you have any questions about any of this, you're welcome to ask! 