The Scadrial Article

[Joe ST he/him]

From the chat box:

Chaos: Dude, nice job on the Scadrial article, Windrunner!

Joe: Aye to that, its awesomeness incarnate

Windrunner: Thank you! I'm nearing completion on it. Then on to Roshar

Windrunner: If anyone had a chance I'd appreciate some feedback on the Fina Empire section. I feel I may have gotten carried away with the details.

Windrunner: It is still in the Scadrial article though

Chaos: It's mostly fine. But most importantly, you need to break up those paragraphs.

Chaos: It's hard to read when it's this wall-of-texty

Windrunner: Alright, thanks for the comments, I'll try to find more places to break it up.

Joe: to be honest, I think I'd prefer the history section split up onto the relevant Category:Events articles, and then sumarized (and linked to) on the Scadrial article

Joe: rather than delving into all the nittygritty of the story on just one page, since it should be duplicated per-event and in the $BOOK/Summary articles too.

KChan: You know, this would be a good subject for a forum topic. I think that'd work better than the CBox for what you want.

So Windrunner, thank you again for your awesome article-writing Like I've said before, I'm just no good at writing prose, so your contributions have really helped flesh out everything.

What I meant is that we now have (or are in the process of generating) these Events articles for a detailed description of any event or period of history on any planet in the cosmere. This would be a perfect place for the parts of your detailed history of Scadrial, leaving a much easier to read and briefer summary on the Scadrial article.

[Chaos he/him]

Honestly, I like the depth of the information on the Scadrial article. I kind of want to go into wiki articles thinking "wow, I really spent forever reading this, and now I know everything I need to know. Also, what the crap, I forgot to eat dinner." That said, each individual event could and should have its own article, expanding even further on the information on the Scadrial article.

And cloning some content across articles is fine, too, in my opinion, if there's additions to it.

[LevenThumps]

Just looked at the article. It is amazing.

[Windrunner he/him]

Alight, I'll try to tone back the details a tad, while still hitting the big points. I think I understand what you mean Joe, like links to event articles at the top of the Section saying Main Article XXXX. I think I probably didn't have to describe the whole crew and their responsibilities. I started working on the Well of Ascension summary, and it seems to be a little more concise, how does it look? The biggest problem I'm having is untangling the web of details that Brandon wrote in. Every time I write about an event it requires explaining several things. I eventually end up feeling like it would be faster to type the whole book u, haha

The Events section is a good thing, I was actually wondering if that existed. Is it admin only who can create articles? Because I was thinking the Battle of the Tower could use a page. Also, is categorizing articles difficult? Because if someone could explain it I can categorize articles I write too.

[Joe ST he/him]

The Events section is a good thing, I was actually wondering if that existed. Is it admin only who can create articles? Because I was thinking the Battle of the Tower could use a page. Also, is categorizing articles difficult? Because if someone could explain it I can categorize articles I write too.

Nope, you should be able to create articles, and add categories.

To create an article, go to the page you want to create. In this case, its Battle of the Tower. There it should either ask you if you want to create or search for the article OR it will show you the edit box. Just click on 'create' and this should also take you to the edit box. That is indeed a good idea for an article, btw

To add an article to a category you just need to add some wiki-code to the end of it. You may have seen it already. It is just the following: [[Category:Allomancy]] to add it to the Allomancy category. (You might ask, how do we link to the category itsself then? [[:Category:Allomancy]] should work just like a normal link (as in, you can put in some random text to hide the nastiness of the page-title XD))

[Chaos he/him]

Yeah, you can always create and categorize. Sorry creating articles is so hard. I personally just put in the URL to the wiki article I want to make and do that.

It'd be great for you categorize stuff. Just one thing I'd like you to do when do so: always, always make sure you include the series category in the list of categories. For example, the Battle of the Tower would need [[Category:Stormlight Archive]]. Any Mistborn article would need [[Category:Mistborn]], etc. This is super important that we are consistent so that way when we look at Category:Mistborn, we get all of the articles.

I remember a while back that we had people making articles about Roshar's plants and animals with only the tag [[Category:Roshar]], but I think I switched them all to [[Category:Stormlight Archive]]. We should only use [[Category:(insert name of Shardworld here)]] if it is an explicit place on that world. A weird distinction, I know, but we do need the series identifiers correct. I'm less concerned about the Shardworld categories.

[Joe ST he/him]

Indeed, Category:<world> is for places. Category:<city or country or nationality> is for characters. Category:series is for everything related to the series.

Thats probably a reasonable split, so far XD