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 If it's not allowed, I'll just go through as I have been, and just manually add a list of the scripts that use each function onto each page, though people will have to look them up in the GECK, as they do with the TES CS wiki.
+:Considering that those scripts do ''nothing'' without the game, I doubt they'd mind. Maybe a special template for the sake of indicating what they are and giving copyright notices. Anyway, the real thing is that frankly, a list of what scripts use a function is just not that useful. We had lists like that for several Oblivion functions, and they were just cumbersome, bloated, and never, ever used. You can get that information pretty easily by using Find Text... in the Edit menu, if you need it.
+:I don't feel ''very'' strongly about the issue, but I am against it. More importantly, it would be an absolutely ridiculous amount of work; that would certainly not be worthwhile.
+:[[User:DragoonWraith|DragoonWraith]] &middot; [[User talk:DragoonWraith|talk]] &middot; 07:58, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
+::I'm with DragoonWraith on this, scripts are easily found with [[Find Text]]. Listing them all here seems superfluous.
+::I can see the added value of having the function pages one click away. So having a hand-picked selection scripts may be a good idea.
+::--[[User:Qazaaq|Qazaaq]] 09:31, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
+::: I '''massively''' underestimated "Find text". I'd assumed it only searched text fields and, from posts like this: http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php/Talk:GetUsedItemActivate I'd assumed that it couldn't find, say, conditions. I was so wrong! You can even search for FormIDs and RefIDs! Wow, I think I'm in love with a menu option.
+::: A better method than selective scripts might be a universal mod for all text editors that provides context sensitive help for GECK keywords: the context-linking in any app is easy enough, but a prerequisite for it is getting a dump of all keywords (formnames, refnames, functions, conditions, etc), which is something for which I have no clue. Programming projects are wildly offtopic for policy page, so suggestions to my talk page please! [[User:DewiMorgan|DewiMorgan]] 14:38, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
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 :::<p>I share DW's concerns about this, but I do think knowing a bit about the authors and the developers in general gives the tutorials an extra touch. I'd say we follow [[User:Jesse Tucker|Jesse Tucker's]] example - list the tutorials on the userpage and remove the profile from the talk pages.</p>
 :::<p>--[[User:Qazaaq|Qazaaq]] 11:51, 12 December 2008 (UTC)</p>
+== User Page Policy ==
+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]] &middot; [[User talk:DragoonWraith|talk]] &middot; 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]] &middot; [[User talk:DragoonWraith|talk]] &middot; 20:43, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
+::I agree that in general pages shouldn't be created just to link to pages on my site.  I've listed it on the [[Links]] page so that should be sufficient.  However, I have created a page to link to my [http://www.cipscis.com/fallout/utilities/validator.aspx Script Validator] because I think it's something that Wiki users could find helpful but, it can't actually be mirrored on the Wiki.  I have no plans to do the same thing for other pages.
+::If I make an update to a tutorial hosted both here and on my website that doesn't consist of a total re-write then I'll mirror the update here as well, but given that others can edit the tutorials hosted here it's entirely possible that the content will evolve differently in each location, so I think it would be appropriate to make both versions available.  Perhaps a note about other versions could be included at the top of the page, with the actual links at the bottom in an ''External Links'' section?
+::Most of the external tutorials that I know about are my own, which of course I'd be glad to link to from appropriate articles on the Wiki.  I'd be happy to include other external links as I find them as well, but most of the external links I include will probably end up linking to my site.
+::P.S. Thanks for the tip about new discussion going at the bottom of the page.  I'll keep that in mind from now on.<br />-- [[User:Cipscis|Cipscis]] 23:15, 11 October 2009 (UTC)