User talk:ChrisNichols

Welcome, Chris! Always great to have new editors, and to have one of the esteemed Creators here, it even better. :) Happy editing! -- Gonzoron 14:19, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Hola Chris,

Great to see you here. Could you please go to Van Richten's Arsenal and clarify which parts you authored?

Thank you,

Robert (Cure)Cure 00:03, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey Chris,

When you get a chance, take a look at our Levels of Canon page. Note that anything you wrote for the products you worked on that was ultimately not published gets the special designation of {{Potential Canon}}. Anything you created that was not intended for publication (Like the teeny tiny tales would be {{Homebrew Non-canon}}, like the rest of us.  :) May be difficult to sort out here and there, of course, so use your own judgement, but we're trying to clearly denote the canon, to avoid having a split wiki like Memory Alpha/Memory Beta (the Star Trek wikis), or forcing the reader to sort things out themselves by the citations and references (like wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki).

Thanks, Ron -- Gonzoron 16:48, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I would argue that Canon related tags, or at very least Canon and probably Potential Canon tags, should go at the top of the material. First, this gets them into first spot on the categories at the bottom as other Canon tags get added. Second, pages often end up with multiple levels of canon and if the first thing a reader sees is a Homebrew tag a reader might instantly dismiss it and move on rather than seeing that the article concerns canon augmented by homebrew.Cure 20:21, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

For example, Mount Nirka. Having put it together, everything in it is in fact, to the best of my memory, canon, although I do need to back and reference it at some point. But by sticking the Canon tag at the bottom is not immediately evident and if someone where to add a line of homebrew at somewhere and would have to think to move the Canon tag to in addition to carefully making evident the limits of their own contribution. And frankly, for most new contributors, that is going to be beyond them. It took me quite a while to grasp the wiki language and I am long getting up to see on tagging.Cure 20:21, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I've added my thoughts on this topichere. I was just trying to comply with Gonzoron's request that I add canonicity level notes to all the articles I'd added. --ChrisNichols 20:34, 18 April 2010 (UTC)