Daggerfall talk:Hints

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[edit] Article in incorrect namespace?

According to the prefix index, this article is in the main namespace listed as "Daggerfall:Hints". This page is also listed under the Daggerfall namespace under "Hints". Editors and administrators alike have tried to toggle the page's status by deleting it, moving it around, and neither have worked successfully. Since this is not causing anything but cosmetic problems for the prefix index, let's just leave this page alone until Daveh can figure out what's wrong. --Aristeo 21:16, 20 September 2006 (EDT)

I happened to come across an explanation for this problem and how to fix it on mediawiki. I figured I'd add a link here in case we ever want to fix this. --Nephele 00:23, 10 January 2007 (EST)

18 months later, problem has been fixed :) There used to be two files named "Daggerfall:Hints" -- one in the main namespace and one in the Daggerfall namespace. I was able to rename the main namespace one to "Daggerfall-Hints". Which revealed that the problem file plaguing us for three years was a test file, created by the user "Test" on Feb 8 2005. The entire text of which was "Testing hints page" (it was created back when Daveh was first setting up and experimenting with the wiki). I speedy-deleted the problem file. End result: we now have only one file identified as "Daggerfall:Hints". --Nephele^Talk 17:28, 12 June 2008 (EDT)

[edit] This is a mess

The subject matter here is all over the place. As I try to clean up other sections, I will probably do some copy and paste work utilizing some of it. But completely revamping this section might be hopeless given my limited amount of time that I can spare to this wiki.

That being said, is there another way to format lists that would improve the list of Inns? Perhaps some way to lessen the page length? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by James Wildspell (talk • contribs).

Yep, it's a mess ;)

I've done a few formatting tweaks. In particular, the inns have now been stuffed into a table so they take up less space on the page. And the table of contents now only lists the main sections so it's not swamped with sub-sub-sections. But given that I haven't played Daggerfall, formatting is really all I can help with.

What's been done with a couple of other pages that started out as "Hints" pages is that they were morphed into FAQs pages (e.g., Oblivion:FAQs, Shivering:FAQs). Not that a name change really helps you too much. But perhaps some of the other ideas that have been (somewhat) used on those pages will help. The focus has been on trying to move the content wherever possible into more specific articles (perhaps tying into your idea of copy-and-paste use of the content), and then turn the main Hints/FAQs page into brief summaries that contain as many links as possible to related articles. So the page becomes more like another portal to the Daggerfall namespace, pointing readers to information that might not be easy to find from the main Daggerfall page.

Not that I'm suggesting you need to try to take on all or even part of this! But if, while you're working on other articles, you notice sections from the Hints that fit in elsewhere, I'd say you should feel free to move the content, and replace that section with a link to the new location. --Nephele^Talk 00:48, 18 February 2008 (EST)