User talk:Cookie

Piped Links
Hey, there. Welcome to Zelda Wiki! I've been watching silently in the background like a ninja, and I'm not entirely sure you fully understand how piped links work around here. Basically, they work like this:



(article) is replaced with the name of the actual page you're trying to link to. (text) is what displays on the screen. So  will generate Zelda. It says "Zelda", but it takes you to "Princess Zelda". It's preferred that piped links take you directly to the article desired instead of to a redirect (that's really the point of a piped link, after all), and have the text that you see on the screen be what you need it to be. 19:37, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Haha, yeah, I actually realised that. It was just my way of dealing with changed usernames. I actually had been doing them the way you've done them, but then I discovered the redirect.

It's just that I thought people might use the search function and use a different username than their current one. If there was a redirected page, it'd take them to the updated one instead of a blank.

But I dunno, how does the wiki usually deal with changed usernames? - Cookie 21:07, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Awesome, I figured you'd eventually gotten it. The thing about searching is that a straight-up search won't actually give you any user names - the system only searches the actual articles by default. You'd have to actually tell the system to search the User namespace (an option available on the search page), and I guess that the problem could be rectified by having a "previously known as [name]" on the person's userpage so that the page shows up when you do said search.
 * We've never really had to deal with changed usernames from ZU - only usernames that have changed here on the Wiki. Most of the ZU-article-editing-only members that join end up leaving, so most haven't even been here for months or even years, and we've never really dealt with the effects of their name changes on ZU because they haven't bothered to come to us to update them here, since, you know, they never come here. If they want us to, we CAN actually change their username upon request, but I'd rather not change their username without their consent - they wouldn't be able to log in if they didn't know! 21:22, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * This was actually worded very confusingly but I'm too blitzed to set it straight - I hope you can understand it. :P

XD Yeah, I understand. But like in my case the username I made for Wiki wasn't the one I used on ZU necessarily, I made a separate article for that.

Also, is it a problem if the articles on the BA Council are a bit more comical as well rather than just factual? And from what I can see some would like to include more details about their roleplay characters and whatnot. Are these okay or are they not what you'd call wiki material? - Cookie 21:34, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * We've talked about the ZU articles. We've sort of agreed that they are supposed to be factual and not comical. 21:49, November 30, 2008 (UTC)