Talk:Squire

Marked as inproper format
I've done some editing to the page, though I've gotta say the wiki guideline of "Do not boldface, underline or italicise headings." really ruins pages. Bold/underline helps to break up 2 seperate bodies of text from being mashed together and helps pages to be easier to read. Any page that relies on table of contents to easily differenciate 2 stories is a poorly written page in my books. Also the guideline of "Do not use vague headings. Be concise and descriptive" Why? What's the point of writing a nonfictional piece of art if you're not allowed to be artistic with it? This especially applies if a page uses a non liniar format like journal styled perspective writing or intentionally scientific themed pages. Either way my page has been updated to be proper and the tag can be removed (unless I've missed something in which case please mention it). its 100% properly boring and devoid of written art, just like wiki mods like it :P


 * Hello there. Thank you kindly for providing your opinion on this matter. As of the current revision, all body text in the article is written in italics. Furthermore, the article contains needlessly long headings. Large parts of the article are also written in the first person, which is to be omitted, except in articles reflecting in-universe pieces of literature.


 * Regarding your question as to why encyclopedic articles are to be written in encyclopedic rather than literary style, I would recommend you to consider that the Stoneworks wiki is in the unique position of providing its readers with information on both the lore and the history of entities within Stoneworks. To do so, the wiki is required to provide information in an objective and unbiased form, in order to accurately depict the lore and events its subjects. Other than pieces of literature or art, the purpose of wiki articles is to provide information to its readers in a concise and unbiased matter. In this context, I woul ask you to consider that the Stoneworks wiki explicitly permits articles to be written in literary style, provided they are marked as pieces of in-universe using the appropriate disclaimer template to indicate their nature to the reader. Articles marked as literature are exempt from wiki formatting guidelines, as is indicated in the formatting guidelines.


 * You referenced "journal styled perspective writing or intentionally scientific themed pages" as examples of "non liniar format". Both cases reflect instances of in-universe literature rather than encyclopedic articles and are to be marked as such. Seeing as you appear to be disinterested in applying encyclopedic formatting or style, it may be benefitial to consider reframing your article as a piece of in-universe literature and marking it accordingly. To do so, simply add the LiteratureDisclaimer template to the top of the article and write a brief introductory paragraph concerning information on the author, date and place of writing or publishing as well as a brief summary of the texts central contents. Lastly, add a first level heading to indicate the beginning of the in-universe text. Be aware that it may be neccessay to change the pagename of the page if any user was to create an encylopedic article concerning the entity described in the page at hand.


 * If you have futher questions regarding this matter, feel free to ask anytime. - Metagall (talk) 15:37, 28 December 2022 (UTC)