User talk:Koschei
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Human companies
Hi, just been looking at some of your recent edits (brilliantly detailed!). The companies listed on the Human companies article should all have their own pages rather than just linking to that page. Thought I'd mention it rather than just copying your info to other individual pages. I've done some minor editing to the human companies to make it more in-universe for now. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 12:36, January 13, 2010 (UTC)
- Even minor companies should have their own pages. (There are several articles that exist as only a sentence). The human companies article page, rather than being a list of major/minor companies should instead be a general article that references those (and other) companies to talk generally about human companies. Take the Wikipedia:Company article, the Human companies page would be of similar detail, a basic overview of human companies. As this wiki is an encyclopaedia the human companies article would be an overview of human companies, so it could start with basic overview for example; Global Chemicals, Autoplastics, International Electromatics through to IMC, Butler, Imogen etc. Also these could be within a category of Human companies (possibly as a sub-category of Human businesses). --Tangerineduel 12:06, January 14, 2010 (UTC)
- Yes...but we're not Wikipedia. And they're not stub pages, they're just pages with a small amount of specific information. --Tangerineduel 12:28, January 14, 2010 (UTC)
Timeline template
Hey, just wanted to say great work with the timeline template, I've often looked at how it was achieved and thought 'really need to sort that out' (and just never got around to it). Thanks. --Tangerineduel 15:44, March 26, 2010 (UTC)
- They're editors not minions...but if you want to start a topic on the Forum:Panopticon alerting and explaining to everyone the template you've created, how it works and all that I'm sure people will praise you...or something. --Tangerineduel 16:37, March 26, 2010 (UTC)
Year articles
To save Doug86 following your edits could you add the required categories when creating the year pages? Thanks. --Tangerineduel 05:30, March 27, 2010 (UTC)
