User talk:Ziu

Welcome! 08:16, February 15, 2006 (PST)

Topic naming
Just to save time, please try to respect the official topic naming policy, though I can't really find anymore where it was discussed (it was on the forums at least, but they seem down). Anyway, the bottom line is that exceptions aside, the only capitalized letter in a topic should be the first one. Thank you! Tihocan 09:07, February 24, 2006 (EST)
 * Ok, I'll keep it in mind. It's a bit confusing because I learned to do it the other way around. What's about proper nouns, does the policy apply here too?--Ziu 09:21, February 24, 2006 (EST)
 * I dug up this link: Enter:Policy/Naming. It covers proper nouns, too. Dedridd 10:10, February 24, 2006 (EST)
 * The whole capitalization thing is still a bit confusing, because I can't see a rule behind it. For example: it's Armor Class, Base Attack Bonus, Jump skill, Small creature or Charisma, all capitalized. On the other hand saving throws, evasion, damage reduction or hit die, all are in the lower case (source: DnD PHB3.5). It's a bit hard to figure out which is a proper noun and which isn't. In the current pages many expressions can be found both, capitalized and in lower case.--Ziu 12:09, February 24, 2006 (EST)
 * Yeah it's confusing (and the policy is currently not respected on most of the Wiki). Basically, if there exists an acronym (AC for Armor Class, BAB for Base Attack Bonus for instance), it makes more sense to keep the capitalized letters. Tihocan 12:19, February 24, 2006 (EST)
 * First letter capitalization DOES NOT MATTER. We are talking about past that, for links with two or more words - Evasion is the exact same link as evasion. For things with two words, they should be as you would say them in speech - I cast magic missile is correct, as is I saw Lord Dracomath the other day. Really only places, people/named mobs, and named items should be capitalized; and we are following the convention that spells are not proper and stay un-capatalized, even for things like Otto's irresistible dance - were the name the irresistible dance of Otto, then the link would be modified to fit the capitalization scheme of the site - Irresistible dance of Otto - see, Otto is proper, regardless of whether anything else is. Ohhhh that brings up something else too, always remove The or similar articles from a page name UNLESS it is a proper title, for instance, if there were a character named 'The Most High Lord' just like that, you would link to Most High Lord, The, same for book names; however, in most ANY other case, you just completely ignore the 'the' in a name. Right? 12:22, February 24, 2006 (EST)
 * Just to clarify (because I feel like all information here is correct, but may not be totally lining up), there's a difference between pages and links, right? Page names always follow the naming convention, whereas links to pages can be capitalized or not capitalized as is appropriate - Evasion would be a page name, but you could say 'a rogue is good at evasion' on some other page. It links to the same page, but you capitalize as is grammatically appropriate. Dedridd 12:53, February 24, 2006 (EST)
 * Nope, page names and links are the same. The only thing is that http://en.ddowiki.ws/w/home and http://en.ddowiki.ws/w/Home are interpreted the same by the server (on purpose). So, even though home links to http://en.ddowiki.ws/w/home and Home to http://en.ddowiki.ws/w/Home, they both work. RIght? 12:56, February 24, 2006 (EST)
 * Thanks for clearing things :] -- Tihocan 14:01, February 24, 2006 (EST)
 * Glad to be of service. Anytime I can air my misunderstandings to your benefit, just let me know. ;) Dedridd 14:54, February 24, 2006 (EST)