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Might it be a good idea to have some kind of rules about what is and is not appropriate in a User page? I mean, I do tend to think of them as a User's personal space, to do with as they like, but it should be at least ''somewhat'' related to the Wiki or Fallout 3 modding. For example, [[User talk:Greyditch992|Greyditch992's Talk page]] is recruiting for a real-life organization (sort of). While FO3 related, it has nothing to do with ''modding'' the game, and I'm not sure this is the place for this.<br /> | Might it be a good idea to have some kind of rules about what is and is not appropriate in a User page? I mean, I do tend to think of them as a User's personal space, to do with as they like, but it should be at least ''somewhat'' related to the Wiki or Fallout 3 modding. For example, [[User talk:Greyditch992|Greyditch992's Talk page]] is recruiting for a real-life organization (sort of). While FO3 related, it has nothing to do with ''modding'' the game, and I'm not sure this is the place for this.<br /> | ||
[[User:DragoonWraith|DragoonWraith]] · [[User talk:DragoonWraith|talk]] · 00:16, 7 August 2009 (UTC) | [[User:DragoonWraith|DragoonWraith]] · [[User talk:DragoonWraith|talk]] · 00:16, 7 August 2009 (UTC) | ||
== External Links == | |||
I've just found the [[Links]] page, which seems to be used for linking to external tutorials and the like, and it's got me wondering about the availability of external resources (excluding those hosted on the Oblivion CS Wiki). Although the [[Links]] page is linked to from the main page, I feel like it's not particularly obvious so these extra resources can be quite difficult to find. Lumping them all together like that also removes them from any relevant context, making it harder for the user to find what they're looking for. | |||
Anyway, I was wondering what policy (if any) the Wiki has for including relevant external links in regular articles. I would be surprised if there was any problem with doing this (after all, the Wiki is all about making information accessible, right?) but given how few I've seen I thought I'd ask for a bit of clarification. Would it be appropriate to include such links in ''See Also'' sections? | |||
What I'd quite like to do is include external links to tutorials that I've written on [http://www.cipscis.com/ cipscis.com], so that they can be accessed by people looking for information on the Wiki without requiring me to essentially give up authorship by hosting them here. This'll also allow me to link to updated (by which I mean re-written) tutorials of mine that have their previous iterations hosted here on the Wiki, without having to remove the information currently available on the Wiki. | |||
Personally, I think that each article should link to as many relevant (useful) resources as are available, so I'm going to go ahead and add these links to what I feel are the relative articles in their respective ''See Also'' sections. However, I'm still interested in finding out how others feel about linking to external resources, as the Oblivion CS Wiki seems to be pretty much the only external resource linked to around here. | |||
-- [[User:Cipscis|Cipscis]] 13:07, 11 October 2009 (UTC) | |||
:Well, for one thing, convention (though not explicitly policy) is to have new discussion topics appear at the bottom of the page. I've moved it down here. I don't really know ''why'' this is, but that's how Wikis usually work and I think a lot of people expect things like this. | |||
:Anyway, the policy is "we really should be doing that better... do you have time to do it? Yeah, me neither." So if you're volunteering, go for it. Typically it would be in an External Links section after the See Also section. The only thing I would comment on is that it would likely be confusing/frustrating for a user to finish a tutorial and then see "Updated version of this tutorial on cipscis.com" - that would be kind of annoying. At the same time, I'm not sure it's appropriate to have pages on the Wiki that consist entirely of just a link to your site. That's an issue I'm not really sure how to handle. | |||
:[[User:DragoonWraith|DragoonWraith]] · [[User talk:DragoonWraith|talk]] · 20:43, 11 October 2009 (UTC) | |||