User talk:Melina Loonie

Helpful hints re: your recent edits:

• Consider using Template:skills
• Adding Contributor sections to articles is superfluous, as MediaWiki maintains the list of contributors via the History page of each article
• Adding (what is presumably) a contributions section to your user page is superfluous, as you can direct people to Special:Contributions/Melina Loonie
• Semantically speaking, you're not a Category:Private Estates- if categorising yourself under the Private Estate category was in error, prefix category wiki links with a colon, e.g. [[:Category:Private Estates]]

- SignpostMarv Martin 01:29, 31 December 2007 (PST)

Mel's answer

What you really can see in a contribution section is who added valuable information to the page. In the history you can see whoever changed anything. I don't feel that your deletion of the contribution section (which is ok to me) is really a contribution. ;-) But this is just my point of view.

Regarding the Skill-Template, I don't have a clue how I could use it for my two mentioned skills.

BTW: Am I allowed to create pages that are only meant to be included as sections into other pages?

Happy New Year! Melina Loonie 08:49, 31 December 2007 (PST)

Contributions

• The size of a Resident's contribution can be estimated (albeit poorly) based on the article size difference over several edits
• What constitutes a 'major' contribution to an article hasn't been established
• The presence of such a section can lead to elitism or a false sense of authority over the contents of an article

Skills

I've added a few extra options to the template- you would likely use: {{skills|SLogistician=*|Terraformer=*}}

Including articles as sections

The best way to do this is to create the section as either:

1. a Template if it is meant to be included across several related articles and be context-aware,
2. or a sub-page of the current article, e.g. User:Torley Linden and User:Torley Linden/Office Hours

SignpostMarv Martin 12:04, 31 December 2007 (PST)