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http://fonline2238.net/wiki/index.php?title=Weakness&curid=6300&diff=21290&oldid=21289

Lets talk about this.

1) "when in doubt about any aspect of any article, use the discussion page to ask your questions, not the article itself LOL"

It's not really a question. It's more like information for visitors. I let them know, that info is not entirely correct. In fact, we provide them most recent info we have, so they can find out, for them selves. And maybe, one day, post update on wiki.

When speaking about it, devs should have put "Outdated" on every page, after a wipe and massive update.

How about a link to discussion page saying: "Some information on this page are a subject of discussion on discussion page"

2) "To ensure the successful healing of an n-level player's weakness, the healer's Doctor skill must be higher than or equal to 10%×n."

It might be my poor english, but it feels like i have no chance, of healing weakeness when my DOC skill is lower, than 10%xN.

3) And for the "question" on http://fonline2238.net/wiki/Talk:Weakness you can just put those informations, to articles, where they belong.


1) "It's not really a question"
If it does not provide the reader with any information whatsoever, it is superfluous and should be removed from the article, irrespective of whether it is a question or a statement, or whatever.
2) To ensure = to make sure or certain.
Allow me to paraphrase this sentence for you: 'If you want to be 100% certain that your attempt to heal someone's weakness is successful, you need to make sure that your Doctor skill is ≥ 10% multiplied by the level of that person. Otherwise, your attempt might be unsuccessful.'
3) What information? The first piece is already there (implied by the word 'ensure'); the second one is not worth mentioning. Imagine what would happen if we were to enumerate ALL the factors that do NOT matter at all as far as healing goes! The article would become extremely unclear and confusing. As a rule of thumb, if some piece of information is not relevant to something, it's probably not a very good idea to include it in the article on that something.
Prof. Torr 15:33, 5 April 2012 (CEST)

Please, come to #2238wiki to discuss things. Ronillon (talk) 15:35, 29 May 2012 (CEST)

Done.

Hi, don't know what is wrong with red links. They will turn blue, sooner or later. Ronillon (talk) 20:08, 29 May 2012 (CEST)

There are 282 'wanted pages' already, why add new ones? Wouldn't it make much more sense to write an article BEFORE linking to it? Prof. Torr (talk) 20:48, 29 May 2012 (CEST)
  • Special:WantedPages are there, because there are missing articles on the wiki. Sometimes, because of wrong spelling, or because of non-consistency in the in-game naming. Anyway, nothing bad happens even if there were thousands of them.
  • I just link things, that i think should be linked. Sometimes that thing does not have it's page at that time. But will have when I or someone else writes that article. It often takes time and is dependant on other pages/game mechanics to be tested.
Red links are nothing bad, sure, but they are nothing good either. I would suggest avoiding them whenever possible simply because they serve no purpose. Prof. Torr (talk) 14:21, 30 May 2012 (CEST)

  • You do not seem to understand, that those texts on the beginning of the page in italic are "IN-GAME DESCRIPTIONS". I copy them, as they are. So please, do not alter them, unless they were corrected/changed in/game. The fact, that they have tons and tons of flaws (Language, game mechanics, spelling, common sense, you name it) is for another debate, preferably with someone from dev team. Who can correct these.
  • I admit, that while/when gives me really a grief. To be honest after using Google.com im even more sure, that my version is right. My native language is Czech, and we have only past, present, furute timing in the sentences, so this is probably the source of problems.
  • I'm not sure, what exactly you mean by "BE CONSISTENT" i tried to maintain consistency with Effects descriptions on Stimpak and other medicines ex.(Immediate: +4 to Current Hit Points)
1) Not any more. They once were nothing but duplicates of in-game descriptions but only because there was nobody willing to correct them. Now they are more than that - they have all been revised and corrected. It all started about 4 months ago, try to keep up.
2) http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhileVsWhen/dkbxg/post.htm
3) You used the phrase 'current hit points' in the table whereas in the article you used the phrase 'hit points.' I see no problem with either of the two, but once you decide which one to use within any given article, use it consistently throughout it. Prof. Torr (talk) 14:21, 30 May 2012 (CEST)
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