User talk:Nae'blis

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[edit] question

hi, you look like the main person on this wiki, and i just wanted to know if you knew anything about a possible wheel of time movie, since i recently saw this at This Place(

over and out -Asha'man Nellis, Jearn Rift Sept of the Codarra Aiel

Hmmm, that's coming up as a broken link for me. Do you have another page for it? We could always start a page to collect any rumors about that sort of thing at Wheel of Time film or some similar title. -- nae'blis 23:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-Power related happenings

Wondering about things like Miasma from book 4 (chapters 3 and 4) and I believe I remember this happening again later in the books. Is there a category for supernatural events such as these? i was not sure how to categorize the page I created there or if I even created it the right way. 68.226.5.103 02:06, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

For now, I've categorized it under The Shadow and Extradimensional entities. Thanks for the head's up! -- nae'blis 17:05, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Back

*waves* --Gherald 20:21, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Hallo there - finally found a bit of time to skeeve off from work and get on here.... -- nae'blis 21:15, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Statistical Analysis

Hello. Somewhat pursuant to the discussion at User talk:The Confessor, I wanted to ask a few questions.

I've done a word count analysis of the POVs for the eleven main books. I've got percentages and counts and all that good stuff. Could we still have a Statistical analysis page to agrigate all of the information.

Also, wheather we do or not, the percentages on the pages are kind of skewed. For example, On The Eye of the World page, it lists Rand and Moiraine as having half of chapter 53. But when you look at what is actually written, Rand has about 3,200 words in his POV while Moiraine only has 124. This gives the percentage as 96.3 for Rand and 3.7 for Moiraine. There are many more like that as well. Another point; some chapters have more words in them than others. In the same book, chapter 33 has over 10,000 words while chapter 22 has just over 2,000. While it is nice to have the breakdown seen on the book pages (i.e. Rand has these chapters, Egwene has these, ect), that also kind of skews things. Overall percentages seems to be fairly decent in my opinion.

Just wondering your opinion on this. Feel free to ask me any questions.

And now, for some interesting tidbits:

There are eight people that have over 1% in the books out of 114 different individual POVs and 857 total POVs.

POV	%
Rand al'Thor	25.5%
Perrin Aybara	13.2%
Egwene al'Vere	12.3%
Matrim Cauthon	11.1%
Elayne Trakand	9.3%
Nynaeve al'Meara	7.1%
Min Farshaw	2.4%
Faile Bashere	1.7%

The other 96 individuals in the books start at .86% all the way down to .003%. Just thought you might like that. :) ---- Willie^LLAP 17:35, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Another question; should I start redo the statistical analyses on the book pages, or just link over to Statistical analysis? Or, to put it another way, what format should be used on the book pages themselves? I didn't want to overload the casual reader with a whole bunch of numbers and explinations and such. Thanks in advance. ----- Willie^LLAP 22:22, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much!!!! Should we go ahead and put a link, maybe at the top, of each of the book's stat ani pages to link to the full version? There is some explination on the full page. Maybe even a Category:Statistical analysis? Just a thought. Let me know what you think. ---- Willie^LLAP 20:04, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] My Sign Pic and Introductions

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it. By the way. I'm Zero. I hope to be an asset to this wiki. I have great skills in Templates. Nav or otherwise. For proof go to My User Page on the Avatar Wiki. If you need any help feel free to ask. I'm at your service. There seem to be a lot of redlinks on the books Pages. I'll see what I can do to turn them blue. It might take a while though. But dont worry. Once I start I dont stop untill my work is done. - Zero - Talk 16:57, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. Though I can't start at once. But I will do it. Seriously I will. Thanks for the chance. - Zero - Talk 17:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

BTW. Do you guys need any help with templates. Thats my real forte after all. - Zero - Talk 17:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] The Edit Help Template

You know the template at the end of every page when you edit something? Why is it like that? There are no wiki codes that are mostly used. Like nowiki, redirect, hide text, etc. It's just linkless. Why? - Zero - Talk 17:04, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Try deleting the page. It should automatically switch to the standard version. If it doesn't you can undo the deletion. Of course you might have to Hard Refresh, Ctrl + F5, to see any changes. - Zero - Talk 18:26, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Nah. Just experience. - Zero - Talk 18:13, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Character

Good Point. I had only got to B. - Zero - Talk 17:34, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

This falls under the character template: Auto-links. Take a look at Setalle Anan and Merean Redhill. By using a template that automatically links, it kind of breaks a few of these. Just thought you should know. ---- Willie^LLAP 20:23, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

[edit] New chapter stubs

We might not want to create blank chapter stubs for every page because it's harder to tell what's been done; you can't just glance at the Chapter Index link colors. Also, while it's more a pet project of mine I'd advise looking up the "wotmania=" variable when filling out the template for a new chapter summary : ) --Gherald 18:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Chapter Summary Format

Hey, I'm new here, but I'm reading through LoC for the umpteenth time and I'm interested in writing up the Chapter Summaries for it. Is there some sort of preferred format I should use? I looked at the existing summaries, and most of them differ in structure. I'm a total newcomer to wikis, so complicated code isn't really illuminating to me, but I'd like to get started on LoC. Thanks. --Alantin 12:45, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm also a bit confused about the chapter summaries. The current format seems almost too complete in that I'm slightly offput about the level of detail needed to do one. A guide for the minimum might be a good idea in the style guide.. There are just over 500 chapter in the entirety of the books thus far. I don't think there will be enough volunteers to replicate the level of detail in the early chapters for the rest of the chapters. I'd suggest that a good summary, character mentions, appearances and maybe some notes and comments would be enough. Mentions of items and concepts are only good if they are of any significance and could be dealt with in the additional notes. We also have to get all the chapter icons right, which is a bummer. If a few of us could get together and turn this into an active project it would be pretty useful. :)

Cheers! Moridin_2000 13:13, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh and, BTW, Alantin, I was totally daunted by the wiki code at the start too, but it isn't too bad to settle into since most of what you will need will be links, bold, italics and headers. Master those and you can pretty much get 95+% of what needs to be done accomplised without any bother. Templates are simplified for us too - I'm not very confident on their inner workings but using them is not a biggie.

Moridin_2000 13:17, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been able to find most of what I need, but the concept is a bit daunting. In any case, about the chapter formats, there are chapters like TEOTW 1 and ones like TFOH 56. I can't really find a common format for them (except for the first TEotW chapters). --Alantin 16:40, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Ouch, those tFoH ones are seriously flawed with bad spelling! I'd go for a basic format of the event summary and chapter icon template. Anything else can be added later and it being missing won't look seriously out of place. Adding templates for the listing of chapters can be done afterwards. Personally, I wouldn't bother with character listings if it is too much trouble. It's nice to have, but the more basic summaries the better. The other lists are more trouble than they are worth, IMO. A quote is nice, but not essential. As for myself, I'm concentrating on getting a lot of the character entries up to scratch and adding a character template to anything that needs it, but I'll do anything that's useful. GuanYu is doing a good job at adding little snippets all over the place as he does rereads and Werthead writes some really quality articles on many of the more obscure details. The fun thing about this place is there isn't much you can do wrong if you know WoT well and there is always plenty to do. :) Every edit counts!

Moridin_2000 18:21, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

TFOH 56 is actually the highest voted article on the wiki. Scary, huh? --Alantin 20:37, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Booknav on chapter summaries and a question

Honor to serve. By the way, I posted a question here. I know Optimous replied and voiced his opinion and said that he could change it, but I was wondering if you might also take a look. Not the highest priority. Thanks in advance. ---- Willie^LLAP 15:16, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

The thing about changing that template is it messes up where people were mentioned or appeared in the character template(The main reason for the abbreviations of book titles)--Optimous 15:27, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Logos

So what do you think of the new logos? Need to change anything? Wotwiki:Logo--Optimous 15:52, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Bureaucrat/Administrative rights

Hmm, I could have sworn I had already made Optimous a sysop months ago. I'd talked about it with him; must have goofed it up somehow :S. Oh well, it's done now, and you're a bureaucrat as well --Gherald 19:12, October 21, 2009 (UTC)

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