User talk:Kottr

Golden Lance from Eowyn

Hi! I just saw the proposed design for the Order of the Golden Lance (great idea, BTW) - the badge has clearly been "Caidanized" by adding the embattled bordure. If it is not too late in the process, I suggest that the embattlements be turned slightly, so that the lance is not shown going from battlement to battlement (which makes it look like the long thin gold thing is joining them), but rather that the lance goes from merlon to merlon, which provides some blue space around the gold object. I also suggest that the lance be drawn a bit thicker, even though that wreaks havoc with the proportions. That makes it easier to figure out what the long thin thing is, from a distance of greater than a few inches. These are just suggestions to make the badge more legible.--EowynA 11:18, 17 November 2008 (PST)

Rotating the embattlement does not require a heraldry change. It is just artistic. I'll see what I can find on a more distinct lance (probably in a heraldry book, actually), and scan it and make a vector drawing. --EowynA 13:22, 17 November 2008 (PST)

Crown Poems Summer 2008

One of the participants in the most recent crown came to the wiki to look up their poem. Unfortunately, their poem has not yet been added. I know you're hella busy. Do you have a guess when the poems will be "filled out"? Would there be anyone else who could copy the poems in?--Lachlan 11:30, 20 January 2009 (PST)

• Well... the agreement with the crown poem staff is that I won't add new poem books until the next coronation, so that the paper copies can be sold out. They just allowed me to put up the poems about us, so I could link to our royal page. So I'm under obligation not to put them up until June coronation. If they need them earlier, I can send hard copies. --Kolfinna 12:49, 20 January 2009 (PST)
• I haven't found anyone else with pagemaker, which is the program required to open the source files. If we can find someone with that program and the time and inclination to do it, I'll happily send the project along. --Kolfinna 12:53, 20 January 2009 (PST)
  • Thank you. Understood. I have let her know of the necessary limitation. I also do not use Pagemaker.--Lachlan 13:05, 20 January 2009 (PST)

New Users

• Sorry. I've been having so much fun editing event pages I forgot to look for new users. Thanks for picking up my slack. Shouldn't this system email the administrator when a new account is made? What criteria did you use to determine some accounts should be "deleted"?--Lachlan 07:25, 4 February 2009 (PST)
  • Well most wiki's allow any users (even anon folks) to make changes. We're using the wiki differently than it was intended, which is why I guess it doesn't email the administrator. There is probably an add-on that will do it, talk to Lorenz about that, to see if he can find one. The criteria I used for the spammer accounts were the very spammer sounding names... I've edited/spam patrolled a lot of things over the last decade, and those just yelled spammer to me from experience. --Kolfinna 10:55, 4 February 2009 (PST)

Knowledge Bases

I think the Lyondemere Knowledge Base is really cool, especially using the category to brows related articles. Should we do that elsewhere? Dreiburgen now has a ton of articles, so maybe it could use a DKB. ...Or do we not want to get carried away with that stuff?--Lachlan 17:42, 17 March 2009 (PDT)

• I think if it's cool, lets do it :) --Kolfinna 02:09, 24 March 2009 (PDT)
  • Though personally I'd just categorize them as "Lyondemere" or "Dun Or" rather than "Dun Or Knowledge Base". --Kolfinna 16:46, 24 March 2009 (PDT)
    • Agreed that "...Knowledge Base" is ungaingly, but would there be confusion between "Dun Or" the category and "Dun Or" branch page?--Lachlan 10:22, 25 March 2009 (PDT)
      • I don't think so, because at the start of the category page, we'd put a See Dun Or... just like all the other categories. --Kolfinna 10:24, 25 March 2009 (PDT)
        • Yeah. OK. That seems to work. If you enter, say "Laurels" into the Search box, it takes you to the article, not the category. That's what I'd expect the users to want. Then they can navigate from there to the category. Maybe on each Baronial article there should be specific link to the category within "More Information", rather than relying on the user to notice the link the wiki adds at the very bottom.

Template talk

• I was following your edits removing the code from the incorrect page of the populace template. Obviously, we're having some difficulties explaining how to use templates. (You might recall I didn't figure it out until I asked you) I've received exactly "0" comments regarding the use of nowiki tag and extra instructions on the Template talk pages. Is there a way to add instructions on the Template page for the user to navigate to Template talk? I'm certainly thinking of adding some instructions on the help page.--Lachlan 10:58, 25 March 2009 (PDT)