Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31135835-20170214071155/@comment-1883569-20170222231501

Hello Sycamirage,

Sorry I responded quite late on this topic. I am quite busy at the moment, so I don't have a lot of time and I am not as active for this wiki as I used to be like two years ago. If there are questions that I can answer, it is best to leave a message on my talk page.

It's good that you want to improve information about status effects and made the page Acid as your first pilot page for status effects. My first tip is to explain every status effect quite comprehensive. The infobox serves to summarise the most vital information about a subject in a consistent manner and is easy to interpret. Not all information in the infobox should always be mentioned in words. I have edited the page, so you have an example.

About you questions:

1. I can create an infobox for status effects, but it seems you already made one today. Nice job, especially if you have never edited on a wiki before. I have only changed the name of the template in to keep the name constistent with similair templates. I do think it has all field for the negative effects, but which fields do you want to add for positive effects?

2. Creating categories is easy. I can learn you how to make categories in about five minutes. But I am quite careful when it comes to creating new categories, as it is quite some work to remove an existing category when used on many pages. Before I will teach you how to create categories

Which categories would you to have for status effects?

What is the purpose of every category? (sometimes self-explanatory)

What is the structure of the whole category tree for status effects? Take for example the category Armor. This category has the subcategories shields, headgear and body armor. The subcategory body armor does have it own subcategories, robes, hide armor, mail and plate armor.

3. I don't understand your third question. Do you think it is necessary that all images of the status effects should have a file category, just like item icons and item artwork have a category?