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I noticed that you are bringing the story [[Good Son]] over from the other site. I'm happy to see that more of the banned stories are migrating here from there. I also noticed that you are using a colon <code>:</code> after your story title for your options instead of a forward slash <code>/</code>; while this is perfectly acceptable, it will remove some of the benefits of using the forward slash. Using the forward slash makes the page a sub-page of the original page. This has some benefits, the most obvious of which is a link that will appear at the top of all the sub-pages back to the first page. For more on sub-pages you can look here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages Colons are generally used as a namespace prefix (such as <code>Help:</code> for help pages) and for interwiki links (links to pages on other wikis using MediaWiki) but they are fine if you want to use them. In fact, they have a benefit. If you use a pipe character <code>|</code> after the link it will ignore anything before the first colon when displaying the link. For instance if you have <code><nowiki>[[Good son: general information and route progress|]]</nowiki></code> as a link (notice the pipe after the page name); it will display <code>general information and route progress</code> just as if you had used <code><nowiki>[[Good son: general information and route progress|general information and route progress]]</nowiki></code> as the link. It doesn't do this for sub-pages, and you would have to use the longer format to hide the story title in your link. The decision is yours on which you prefer . . . I just thought I'd let you know what the options were. --[[User:Elerneron|Elerneron]] ([[User talk:Elerneron|talk]]) 06:25, 26 February 2016 (CET) | I noticed that you are bringing the story [[Good Son]] over from the other site. I'm happy to see that more of the banned stories are migrating here from there. I also noticed that you are using a colon <code>:</code> after your story title for your options instead of a forward slash <code>/</code>; while this is perfectly acceptable, it will remove some of the benefits of using the forward slash. Using the forward slash makes the page a sub-page of the original page. This has some benefits, the most obvious of which is a link that will appear at the top of all the sub-pages back to the first page. For more on sub-pages you can look here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages Colons are generally used as a namespace prefix (such as <code>Help:</code> for help pages) and for interwiki links (links to pages on other wikis using MediaWiki) but they are fine if you want to use them. In fact, they have a benefit. If you use a pipe character <code>|</code> after the link it will ignore anything before the first colon when displaying the link. For instance if you have <code><nowiki>[[Good son: general information and route progress|]]</nowiki></code> as a link (notice the pipe after the page name); it will display <code>general information and route progress</code> just as if you had used <code><nowiki>[[Good son: general information and route progress|general information and route progress]]</nowiki></code> as the link. It doesn't do this for sub-pages, and you would have to use the longer format to hide the story title in your link. The decision is yours on which you prefer . . . I just thought I'd let you know what the options were. --[[User:Elerneron|Elerneron]] ([[User talk:Elerneron|talk]]) 06:25, 26 February 2016 (CET) | ||
You haven't been adding the category to the pages in [[Good Son]] properly. Make sure you add <code><nowiki>[[Category:Good Son]]</nowiki></code> to the bottom of EVERY page in the story. Since you are copying it over, the category should still be on the page at the other site, as they also require the pages to be categorized. If you choose to edit the page over there and copy the whole thing (as opposed to just copying it from the read view), the category should be included. It is very important to add the category to all pages for all stories. I'll be fixing the pages if you don't get to it, but make certain all future pages have the category. --[[User:Elerneron|Elerneron]] ([[User talk:Elerneron|talk]]) 19:03, 26 February 2016 (CET) | |||
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Welcome to the site. I hope you enjoy your stay. If you have any questions, or need any help please feel free to contact me on my Talk Page. Feel free to remove this welcome notice if it bothers you. --Elerneron (talk) 15:01, 6 December 2015 (CET)
I noticed that you are bringing the story Good Son over from the other site. I'm happy to see that more of the banned stories are migrating here from there. I also noticed that you are using a colon : after your story title for your options instead of a forward slash /; while this is perfectly acceptable, it will remove some of the benefits of using the forward slash. Using the forward slash makes the page a sub-page of the original page. This has some benefits, the most obvious of which is a link that will appear at the top of all the sub-pages back to the first page. For more on sub-pages you can look here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages Colons are generally used as a namespace prefix (such as Help: for help pages) and for interwiki links (links to pages on other wikis using MediaWiki) but they are fine if you want to use them. In fact, they have a benefit. If you use a pipe character | after the link it will ignore anything before the first colon when displaying the link. For instance if you have [[Good son: general information and route progress|]] as a link (notice the pipe after the page name); it will display general information and route progress just as if you had used [[Good son: general information and route progress|general information and route progress]] as the link. It doesn't do this for sub-pages, and you would have to use the longer format to hide the story title in your link. The decision is yours on which you prefer . . . I just thought I'd let you know what the options were. --Elerneron (talk) 06:25, 26 February 2016 (CET)
You haven't been adding the category to the pages in Good Son properly. Make sure you add [[Category:Good Son]] to the bottom of EVERY page in the story. Since you are copying it over, the category should still be on the page at the other site, as they also require the pages to be categorized. If you choose to edit the page over there and copy the whole thing (as opposed to just copying it from the read view), the category should be included. It is very important to add the category to all pages for all stories. I'll be fixing the pages if you don't get to it, but make certain all future pages have the category. --Elerneron (talk) 19:03, 26 February 2016 (CET)