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Beligaronia

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  1. I want to see Gemmel push Kelsier off a building.
  2. An excellent inquisitor for an excellent season.
  3. An ARC would mean less Cadmium I have to burn to make Alloy of Law come faster.
  4. Probably what started me on fantasy was the Redwall series (although probably what led me to that was the works of Dick-King-Smith but that's not quite Fantasy). I also met and fell in love with the Dragon riders of Pern leading me into the strange world of Science fiction. At this point my course was set, what I read would have Magic or Far off science (or on a good day both). (Despite several well-intentioned english teachers trying to get me to read things about this world.) Redwall remained ensconced as my favourite series for quite some time before finally being displaced in time by a chance introduction to "The Carpet People" by Terry Pratchett. Pratchett has maintained his chokehold on my literary landscape for the past 10 years. At some point in all this Harry Potter caught me but in their turn they were cast by the wayside. (I enjoy the books and occasionally even reread them but still find it more fun to pick holes in them affectionately.) And in no particular order the following authors have been read in their time: Jonathon Stroud (Bartimaeus Trilogy) David Eddings (Belgariad, Mallorean, Elenium and Tamuli) David Weber (Honor Harrington series among others) Brandon Sanderson (You may have heard of him) Mercedes Lackey (Heralds of Valdemar and others) Many many others In summary: Redwall led to Pratchett. Pratchett led to everything else.
  5. If you're logged in then you should have the option of moving a page. Unless we've inadvertently decided to be mean and disabled that for users. Have a look at the top next to the edit button. There should be a tab marked move. I've moved Eshene for you. That way it also creates redirects automaticaly.
  6. Yeah. The wiki was attacked just recently. A bot was replacing with everything with "This page is under construction. Please follow this link." I've fixed the damage so hopefully it's gone for the moment. The Main page is now protected so this should not happen again. The rest of the wiki may not be so lucky. Sorry for the inconvenience.
  7. I would argue that in "Page (subpage)" the "(subpage)" is a continuation of the title and thus is bound by the restrictions of what I will call "title case" (only first words, book titles and proper nouns are capitalised) whereas in the case of Page/subpage, the "subpage" is itself a new title of the subpage and thus should have the first letter capitalised as per "title case". My apologies for my lack of wiki knowledge. Could you give an example of an occasion one would have to use {{lc:}} or ucfirst nested with {{lc:}}. I assume you would use them in some template but fail to see their necessity.
  8. One question. Should subpages have a capital letter or should they be lowercase? My instincts are saying the first letter should be uppercase but then I believe most things should be capitalised. E.g. "Elantris (book)/Summary" vs "Elantris (book)/summary" Also: What should the disambiguation note be for "The Way of Kings" (the in-universe text that Dalinar follows)? Book is already taken, possibly "in-universe text" would be suitable? Are we going to be consistent and move all the books to "Book title (book)" or just those that need disambiguation? (I'm going to say we should be consistent). In the interests of making book linking easier would a link template e.g. {{b|The Way of Kings}} be useful instead of having to type out the full piped linking? "The Stormlight Archive". Should we anticipate an in-universe object and move this to "The Stormlight Archive (series)"? Agreed. Agreed Sure.
  9. There have been some suggestions made to improve and standardise the wiki. These may be found here: http://www.17thshard.com/wiki/The_Coppermind:Suggestions_and_Issues and here: http://www.17thshard.com/wiki/The_Coppermind_talk:Suggestions_and_Issues Anyone with an interest in the wiki should feel free to comment. You don't need to be an editor, so if any of our readers (he says optimistically) has an idea of how they would like the site to look or work feel free to chime in. Also if anyone has anyone has any suggestions beyond those already mentioned they should feel free to mention them. Thank you for your time.
  10. They just recently went to flagged revisions. (Each edit must be approved by a long-standing user.) Before that they just used the almighty power of thousands of wiki-slaves. And a strong blocking policy.
  11. Given the sudden outbreak of spambots on the wiki I would appreciate any suggestions on how to deal with this problem. Obviously one option is just to continue reverting and hope they go away. Another is to have one of the admins block their IP adresses as and when they appear. This is something I would recommend just as a matter of course to any admins who read this. A third that I am not yet recommending is to lock the wiki so only logged in users can edit. Actual contributors without accounts would still be able to create accounts and keep editing but the step of creating accounts may block some of the spambots. Your thoughts? Any other ideas?
  12. Beligaronia

    Redshift?

    I disagree. Light would not be altered unless the allomancer was moving, in which case due to the great speed the light would be blue or red shifted according to the normal laws of physics. However this still depends on the scale factor the metal produces. Working on a hypothetical 10 times faster or slower there would probably be little to no red shifting. Suppose that an Allomancer on a pewter enhanced horse (a Mustang Misting) travels at 10ms^-1. Then the allomancer burns metal slowing time by a factor of 10, the horse is now traveling at 100ms^-1, about the speed of a bullet. (for a large value of -ish.) This is still only a minuscule fraction of light speed so there would very little red/blue shift. (The 10 comes from a desire to keep the misting effective but not at god level.) When passing through the walls of the time bubble there is no change in media, no physical properties that would cause the light to alter. The supposed change in speed would actually be compensated for by the change in time scale. The light would still move at 3*10^8 ms^-1 but the seconds would be shorter from the perspective of the outside world thus there would be no alterations to the properties of the light. Since the observer can only be on one side of the bubble they will see no change in the light since it will, to them, always be travelling at the same speed since they can't see the time shift itself. Then again I may be wrong.
  13. If you have a copy of any of the images, along the sidebar there will be a link labeled Upload file. That'll let you upload from your computer to the wiki. Probably for code you want something like: [[File:File.png|200px|thumb|right]] Which would give you an image at the right of the page. You may need to play with the size till it works with what you want.
  14. If you want to help go for it. Don't worry too much about wikicode, it'll be reasonably easy to codify anything you do after it's there. (For me, since I'm lazy, the hard part is getting it written in the first place.) Basic wikicode can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup. If you want anything specific just ask us (we'll be happy to help). To start editing, go to the page you want to change and click edit at the top of the page. this should open up a text box and you can make changes from there. If you want to see how everything looks then click "show preview" before saving.
  15. I am a Recent Changes stalker. This means that I see everything. If a windspren twitches on the wiki, I will know. I noticed about half a day after you did it. And yes, it's funny but maybe not on a wiki. Perhaps move it to "The Coppermind:Ash" or "Ash (meme)" and tag it for in-jokes and silly articles.
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