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Hello, BOZ, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I noticed you've been quite busy creating D&D articles--your help is appreciated. You may be interesting in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Role-playing gamesRobbstrd 20:43, 11 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey dude, good to see someone working on some D&D articles, so thanks for your help. If you dont mind me saying though, its not necessary to have individual articles (especially stubs) for anything and everything relating to D&D. For example, its better to have one article with many sections (as long as they arent too big) than many stub-like articles with little content.

Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure is one example, we could write stubs for every module out there, but that would be pointless unless we actually have something interesting to say about them all. Just something to think about, I would hate to put you off doing stuff. Happy editing.

-- Lewis 15:34, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I plan on going back and adding to each of those in time (soon, in fact). Right now I'm just adding them, to give others a chance to add info first, which in some cases they have been. BOZ

Cool thats great to hear, sorry for me jumping me gun, but you know what some people are like. Ill attempt to add to these too. Good luck dude. -- Lewis 15:55, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Baklunish Basin has been proposed for deletion. If possible, please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baklunish Basin. Thanks. --Robbstrd 17:50, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just had an opportunity to read it, and noticed you did a great job writing AND using sources. Thanks! Beatdown 18:25, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Since I don't have any of my books at hand, I'm really unable to improve this article. If you could, that'd be great. I'm not sure if it's notable--dunno if it's even made it to 3.0 or 3.5. As for Thoul & Nilbog, I'm not really concerned, as neither of them have made it into 3.0+ to my knowledge (or Greyhawk). The tag's already been removed from the Draeden article.--Robbstrd 21:03, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I just noticed your creation of these two articles. While your effort is appreciated, I'm not sure that either character is prominent enough to justify their own page. There doesn't seem to be a lot of information available that couldn't be presented in the Power Pack article. I almost redirected them but wanted to find out if you had plans/ideas to expand them before doing so. CovenantD 23:26, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do you IM? I'm at peregrinefisher@hotmail.com. I say this because you, User:Robbstrd and I seem to be the main D&D editors. It might be good to coordinate. - 08:24, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That was more or less my reason behind putting it together: Give a place where the multiversal characters could have the MU multiverse scheme explained without the jargon showing up in the lead.

That said, I'm hoping it doesn't wind up on "Mainline" Marvel character/team articles where no alternate universe characters or teams are discussed.

- J Greb 07:18, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, after reviewing the edits, I believe that it's not a bot alright. Still, the entire spree of edits seems to be damaging many articles as those additions apparently lack context and substance. An editing pattern such as that can often alert recent changes patrollers and be halted with an emergency block until an admin investigates the situation, which I'm doing now. Regards, Húsönd 15:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, please don't continue with these edits which prompted the block. I'm still trying to understand this "The Initiative" flood. Perhaps you could explain it to me. Thank you. Regards, Húsönd 15:16, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is not appropriate. It lacks connection with the rest of the article. Furthermore, I recommend reading WP:CRYSTAL as a reference on also why is this not appropriate. Not to worry though, I've been rollbacking the damage. Keep up the good work but in the future please avoid editing articles in a way that resembles spam. Thank you. Regards, Húsönd 15:24, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A call to all members of the D&D wiki project. We are currently having a major dispute that needs to be settled by all members of the D&D wiki project. The dispute is as follows. 1. Should we put disambiguation tags on D&D articles preemptively or should we wait until there is an article conflict with some other Wikipedia article. Vote on preemptive or wait.

2. What should we label these tags? Example "child's play (module)", or "child's play (adventure)" and at this point we are taking all suggestions.

email me at Dm2ortiz@aol.com or post on the D&D wiki project talk page

He's been making those edits for some time, now. I left a message for "Luke" at User talk:The real melf. Hopefully, he'll catch on.--Robbstrd 07:17, 23 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Normally, you'd make a link like so, but that's not really the point. External links are for websites which provide a unique resource beyond what the article could (key word) provide were it brought up to code. Other Wikis generally don't fit this description. — Someguy0830 (T | C) 06:05, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Succubus (Dungeons & Dragons), an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Succubus (Dungeons & Dragons) satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Succubus (Dungeons & Dragons) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Succubus (Dungeons & Dragons) during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Eyrian 17:41, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Basilisk (Dungeons & Dragons), an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Basilisk (Dungeons & Dragons) satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Basilisk (Dungeons & Dragons) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Basilisk (Dungeons & Dragons) during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Eyrian 17:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

You may be interested in this: Greyhawk wiki.--Robbstrd 23:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's mainly just for GH, but given that there's a lot of crossover, it'd probably be okay to transfer some monster articles, such as I did with Death knight. However, since non-GH content would be marginalized or not listed at all, you may want to look at something else, such as this wiki. Either way, I welcome your help.--Robbstrd 02:10, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to be powering through the minor Marvel characters and filling in the gaps but could I make a couple of suggestions:

• When you create an entry drop a note into the "recent creations" section of the Comics Project Notice Board. I've been trying to keep up with your pace but am starting to lag behind ;) Having them posted there can be very handy as it lets other editors know about them and they can cast a quick eye over them and
• Watch out for over-ambiguating, e.g. you created Hidden Races (Marvel Comics) but there is no Hidden Races and I noticed you moved Iron Cross (comics) to Iron Cross (Marvel Comics) but general principles are to go for the least disambiguated naming. Obviously, there might other comics/characters of the same name but that isn't clear from the above (which are only a couple of recent examples) so if there are then think about dropping a note in somewhere or even sketching out a disambiguation page as I just did here: Hecate (comics).
• If you make non-ambiguous pages then check back for a disambiguation page to add a link to (as it'll help people find it if they are struggling), for example I made this one Hildegarde (Marvel Comics).

Hope that helps. If you need a hand starting disambiguation pages then drop me a line - I've done more than I can count. ;)

Keep up the good work. (Emperor 15:57, 10 September 2007 (UTC))[reply]

OK cool. I had assumed that might be the reason but it ends up with odd things happening like the DC Comics team now redirects to the Marvel character or something like that. As I say I have no objections to creating disambiguation pages (as I'll do with Iron Cross now you have pointed it out to me) so if you spot anything like that drop me a note and I'll fix it up. (Emperor 17:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Cool. Well as I say if you want a hand (after all you are doing a lot work - I can help dot the is and cross the ts if need be) just drop me a note. (Emperor 17:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Blimey - I should be careful what I ask for ;) That's great stuff - well spotted. This does seem to be a big deal in comics and I suppose if you are working through the Marvel characters alphabetically you are going to spot a lot of them. Anyway plenty to be going on with there (and it looks like they all need sorting out to help people find the right person) and I'll get cracking on it later. Thanks for that. (Emperor 12:05, 11 September 2007 (UTC))[reply]

That's great - thanks for all the hard work. I am working through the list (but ran into a touch of "disambiguating fatigue" yesterday ;) ). Basically what I've been doing is creating disambiguation pages when the potential page is either empty or a redirect. In cases like Apollo (comics) I've just disambiguated (although if other characters of the same name started cropping up then a move might be in order). Scarecrow (comics) is tricky as it is the major character and moving it would lead to a lot of broken links so I'd like to avoid that if possible - I'll return to this one in the future. Others (like Agent (comics) will need moving but I'll get around to that later after I've fixed up the ones that are simplest to address. It'll take a few sweeps through the list to get everything fixed up but when finished it should mean everything is running a lot more smoothly (as this is a big deal for comics where the Big Two, and others, seem to have had similarly named characters ;) ). (Emperor 18:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC))[reply]

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Thank you for backtracking and taking care of the little edits such as spelling for me. When I do rewrites of questionable articles - such as Korvac - I often just keep writing and don't get back to doing the minor touches straight away. It is appreciated.

Asgardian 00:19, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]