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[Inquisitor #5]

Hi, I'm relatively new to 17thshard but I possess extensive Cosmere knowledge, especially regarding Mistborn and, well, I'd like to help the Wiki out.

Exuse me but it seems rather... lacking. And I really would like to help out so if somebody could point me in the right direction, well, I could be a powerful tool. Preferably Mistborn related. That is, so to say, my field of expertise.

So, yeah, what can I do to help out?

[Chaos]

Ooo, I certainly would not dissuade you from editing There's certainly a lot to be done. There a lot of sinfully bad stubs which aren't at all useful.

Here's the list of Mistborn articles: http://coppermind.17...tegory:Mistborn

I don't know what you're thinking of editing, so hey, pick whatever tickles your fancy. I'd recommend you away from the magic-related articles, since while those ones aren't necessarily the best, they at least display most of the necessary information. People, places, and lore need the most help.

Some particularly awful ones:

Urteau. So... descriptive, especially for a city we've actually been to.
Hero of Ages. This could be radically expanded, since there's a ton to talk about when it comes to the Hero of Ages, with all the backstory with Alendi and Kwaan and everything.
The Ascension. Again, vast expansions needed.
The Final Empire. This one has stuff, but it isn't displayed very effectively, and could be a far more complete analysis on that time period's history and culture.

Anyway, there's plenty to do. Pretty much any article you click there, there's improvement to be done. I seriously appreciate you editing even one thing, man.

[Joe ST]

I concur with Eric, any and every contribution you make, whether it just be lots of little spelling or layout tweeks, or bigger more grand rewrites of what we have to be more complete and particularly more readable, every idea you have is welcome. Pretty much anything and/or everything you do we will be grateful for.

So yeah, just edit away. Any and every article is up for pretty much constant improvement, and as long as you dont mind others tinkering with your edits, everything goes

[Inquisitor #5]

Well, the Urteau article just got expanded by a couple hundred percent. I am, however, sure that it could have been phrased way better.

[Chaos]

Well, the Urteau article just got expanded by a couple hundred percent. I am, however, sure that it could have been phrased way better.

Don't you worry about that. The beautiful thing is that wikis are all crowdsourced, so don't worry, we can all edit each other.

It's great!

[SOM1else]

I've added to the Hero of Ages article but it still is pathetically small

[Bunyod]

Well, the Urteau article just got expanded by a couple hundred percent. I am, however, sure that it could have been phrased way better.

Good work.

R u planning to continue?

[Nya Ellir]

>.> Cause I am procrastinating... Was working on Penrod.

Okay like that? If that's fine then I'll jump in and help out on others!

Edited by Nya Ellir, 10 May 2012 - 06:26 AM.

[Joe ST]

Hey Nya, thanks for editing that's exactly what we want Great contributions btw

[Nya Ellir]

Apparently my grammar sucks though, so someone has to fix that

[Windrunner]

Nice job Nya, it looks great! Also welcome to the forums I know what you mean about grammar, it seems like every time I write an article I slip from past tense to present which makes for some funky reading.

[Nya Ellir]

I have more questions! Starting a new thread seemed sorta pointless. So, I was wondering if there's a list or something where people specified what articles they're researching/ writing. Cause atm I am just snapping up random pages in the stubs/ redlinks and working on them, but I'd feel bad if I were to jump into a major one and put in work if someone else was doing so already. Waste of resources and such.

Or can I just continue the random editing?


Also I was wondering if there's a specific format you guys are wanting to use for characters, houses etc cause so far I haven't really considered it much, and when I looked at other pages to see if I could just copy a pattern from there I couldn't really figure something out.

So far I've just done a few seperations, but of course they're just at random and I'm more than willing to change them to whatever you guys would like >.>
For example Kliss and House Tekiel

[Joe ST]

At the moment there's not really enough activity to require any sort of mutexing of articles, and I dont really want to encourage ownership/maintainership of articles, I'd rather everyone felt happy to edit everything.

Other than the infoboxs there's not really any structure to any of the articles. I'd prefer there to be less structure than more. Another rule of thumb, other than the Notes section, there should probably be less than 2 sections on any stub, and all sections should be at least a paragraph in length. Sections like 'appearance' and 'family' are probably always going to be too small, and should probably be left in the space prior to the first heading.

[Nya Ellir]

Got it And fixed

[Rik]

I'm also new here and I have already edited some articles. But English isn't my native language, so I worry about my grammar. I do my very best though.
And then I have one more question, concerning the Mistborn trilogy...

Spoiler

Is there an official term for the war between the New Empire and Ruin's koloss army? I've always called it the "Atium War" so far, since it's all about Ruin trying to find the Atium ... But I'm not sure.

[Windrunner]

I don't thin we've named the war really. We've got some names for the battles like the Siege of Fadrex City and the Battle for Scadrial but nothing for the war itself. Or the Alethi Parshendi war come to think of it.

[Joe ST]

well the Alethi vs Parshendi is so far only the Vengeance Pact (afawk) which could cover the whole conflict, with particular battles (like the battle of the Tower) too.

BTW, thanks for the contributions Rik, I've been looking through them and they're pretty awesome

[Windrunner]

Eh, a pact is different from the name for the war in my opinion. A pact would seem to be an agreement to go to war among the highprinces, the war would be the name for the actual conflict between the Alethi and the Parshendi. So they'd create the Vengeance Pact to start the ________(insert eventual canonical name) War. It might just be semantics though.

[Joe ST]

I'm fairly sure they refer to the war as the Vengeance Pact. Until we have any other canonical names for the whole thing, that's probably the best thing to call it

[Rik]

Okay, I was just wondering, because it I think it deserves an article. Just one other question:

Spoiler

Is "Battle for Scardrial" the term for the battle for the Pits of Hathsin or for the fight between Ruin and Preservation in general?

And thanks alot @Joe ST! I really appreciate it!!