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== My Bot ==
 
Hi Ederchil, is it possible you could add [[User:Mithbot]] to the [[Special:ListUsers&group=bot|bot usergroup]] (no idea why that's a redlinks: it works for me) so I can do some menial and boring tasks quickly? Thanks, --{{User:Mith/sig}} 19:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:I'm only a sysop, not a [[wikipedia:WP:BUR|bureaucrat]], so I can't change user group rights. You could PM or email Hyarion for this. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 20:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::Oh, OK, I thought you were (wishful thinking!). Thanks anyway! --{{User:Mith/sig}} 21:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Actually, I thought I was too :) -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 22:21, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 
== Main page spelling mistake ==
 
Hello - while using this wiki, I noticed that main page's featured article has a spelling mistake. It should be '''borne''' not ''born'' in the sentence "Glamdring was the sword once born by Turgon, King of Gondolin." I can't edit the page! :) [[User:Darth Newdar|Darth Newdar]] 17:27, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:Thank you. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:40, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 
== The Peril to the Shire page ==
 
Just wanted to know why you keep editing the page I'm building on "The Peril to the Shire".  I worked rather hard on it, yet you keep re-arranging and deleting stuff.  It would be nice if you asked first, or at least let me know what you are up to.
 
Doug Dunklin, producer/director of "The Peril to the Shire"
"[[User:Ltcdunk|Ltcdunk]] 20:29, 19 January 2010 (UTC)"
 
:I figured you were involved in production. First of all, thank you for contributing.
 
:I basically rearranged a lot to make it fit our [[TG:MOS|Manual of Style]] and deleted a lot because it was (in my eyes) repetition. Also, a lot of text in long sentences does not improve readability, and detracts attention from your own website (we don't want to be ''too'' complete now, do we?). --{{User:Ederchil/sig}} 16:04, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 
== An image page won't load ==
I was trying to load the entry page for [[:Image:Middle-earth (large).jpg]], and all I get from the server is an empty page.  I reloaded repeatedly, and I still get an empty page.  I tried other images in [[:Category:Non-canon maps|the category I found it in]], and many other pages load fine.  But this page won't.  A couple others won't too&mdash;I suspect that the large file size may have something to do with it, but that's just a guess.  Maybe the server is failing to generate a thumbnail for images that size?  I just don't know. - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 17:07, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:I'm not really having trouble with the image itself, but I think you're referring to [[MERP: Middle-earth Role Playing Poster Maps]], the page on which it is embedded. I have the same issue. I managed to sneak into the history via [[User:Morgan|Morgan]]'s contributions and removed the image (resizing it gave problems again). -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:50, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
 
Now an entire ''category'' page won't load, and I didn't exactly embed images into the page body either. o.o [[:Category:Maps of Minas Tirith]].  It displayed mostly alright after I created it, but now the category page is just a white blank, like some of the image pages.  Is it possible that MediaWiki or one of its backend programs is running out of memory?  Or another kind of error?  How do we fix this kind of thing? - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 09:32, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:Apparently a new image problem, "Error creating thumbnail: Invalid thumbnail parameters". Don't know about the category. i'll see if I can email Hyarion about this. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 14:24, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::I've seen that problem before, on Wikia.  The problem is, an image has too many millions of pixels to buffer into memory to create a thumbnail.  It doesn't matter if the file itself is small&mdash;if it has very large dimensions, the thumbnail backend software runs out of memory trying to generate a thumbnail for it.  This can be fixed by increasing the amount of memory it's permitted to allocate, if that is possible.  I've been thinking that memory increase may greatly benefit the particular Tolkien interest that involves very highly-detailed maps, as Tolkien is full of those.  Either that or we split up some of the largest images into multiple segmented image files.  That'll be easy for PNGs, but not for JPEGs.  Recently I uploaded some very large maps, including one of Middle-earth (Role-playing Game canon, I think), and another absolutely gorgeous non-canon map of Minas Tirith (which may have been involved in making that category page show blank).  It would be a shame if those couldn't be displayed. - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 14:53, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 
[[:Image:Minas Anor 2000.jpg‎]] is the new Minas Tirith map I uploaded.  (It's fantastic, don't you think?)  It's the only Minas Tirith image of the new maps I recently uploaded, and it almost certainly is related to the page [[:Category:Maps of Minas Tirith]] showing blank now.<br/>
Honestly, Tolkien wiki has hundreds of wonderful maps, and it would be in our interests to be able to display all of them, even the very large files or the images of very large dimensions. - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 15:01, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 
==Anna Lee==
Sorry about the peacock-term "beautiful". - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 15:10, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:No problem. Though I do agree, it's just not encyclopedic. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 16:26, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 
== On the future of dictionary-style entries ==
 
There has been a recent heavy debate on this at [[Forum:Quenya declension template appearance]].  Since you have weighed on this before, could you weigh in now?  I originally went ahead with this project after asking about it, and you seemed to approve.  To be honest, my concern is mainly linguistic and grammatical, and I didn't want to get so involved in a debate about whether linguistics on this wiki are at all even noteworthy. - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 01:35, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:Sorry, my attention tends to drop away with long paragraphs and no images :), so I didn't respond. Will do now. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 13:54, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::Thank you for your feedback.  You always seem like a gentle voice of wisdom here and I appreciate it. - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 18:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
 
== Withdrawing inflection templates ==
 
Considering the highly-controversial and sometimes flame-war-bait nature of trying to fully inflect Tolkien's languages in this wiki, I want to withdraw the entire inflection project.  But I'm not sure how to do it.  I think it would involve deleting all the embedded templates and "Inflection" sections.  But considering the heavy time and energy I put into it all, it may take about as much just to remove them.  I just don't know how to get it done quickly.  But I want to get this all behind me and away from this controversy.  And I swear, swear, ''swear'' that I didn't have a clue about the elvish.org vs. Ardalambion controversies, etc.  My primary source of all data was Ardalambion and closely associated sites.  I didn't know there was such a heated holy war involved in the issue.  I think I would generally agree with Ardalambion (elvish.org's FAQs sound really stuck-up to my inner anti-copyright liberal socialistic streak), but I don't want to be on the front lines of this&mdash;I don't want to be confrontational, not on purpose.  I'd rather practice the fan-standardized aspects of the languages in my private user pages or other informal venues, and only practice harder data in the articles.  Ederchil, please help me.  Are there any more powerful wiki tools (bots, etc.) we can use to clean this up?  I have to make this right. - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 05:12, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:It's a pity, because you've certainly put lots of time in the process. But you could blame us in a way; we should've responded earlier.
:We do have bots, though I fear this kind of job would have to be done by hand. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 08:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::Ouch.  Well, at least they're all marked with "inflection" (an easily searchable word), and the templates are currently hidden from display (but near "inflection" making them easy to edit).  I suppose this is a job that could be done gradually over time...if everyone pitched in, I mean.  It's just...well...I want to get past the issue, very much so.  I want to get past potential future forum postings of "what are all these invisible templates and why are they all over the place"?  I cringe thinking of that.  And I feel like having a wikistress attack when I search "inflection" and see hundreds of results that are all my work.  I wish there were an easier way through this. - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 09:21, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 
I just removed one search page's worth.  About 19 or 20.  And then I clicked "500", and it refreshed the first page, and...there are ''more'' than 500.  How on earth did I embed so many in seemingly such a short time?  I've ruined your wiki. :( - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 09:58, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:It's not mine, so it's okay :). I'll see if I can do some of them. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 10:13, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::I know you don't ''own'' it, but you are a sysadmin.  It's practically yours.  You have so much work to do here as it is, and I'm certainly no help.  I mean, I do...maybe...IPA, categories, userboxes, navboxes...  ...oh.  Well, I guess I've done ''something''.  And then I filled half the wiki with controversial inflections.  I have this feeling like I'm a small child who's been caught covering the walls of an entire house with crayon.  This all would be hilarious if it weren't all so...inconveniencing to people. XD - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 10:34, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 
I've removed some more inflections (a few dozen, maybe), and now there are less than 500 articles with the word "inflection" in them.  I've been working from the opposite end of the search results, so that I wouldn't step on your toes in case you were working from the top of the list. - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 21:45, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:I just want to apologise. I didn't intend for all of these to be removed in their entirety, there was definitely something there worth having, just probably not in its current appearance or scale. Does that make sense? I am sorry, though, you've felt the need to remove the lot.
 
:If [[User:Mithbot|Mithbot]] had been approved by [[User:Hyarion|Hyarion]] (where is he?!) I would get it to do all this work on (y)our behalf. --{{User:Mith/sig}} 11:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::Since Hyarion finished school and has a job, he has found himself having less and less time for the internet.
::I think it's better to do it manually, actually, because it also gives you the opportunity to clean the articles up a bit. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 11:28, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::It won't be a complete loss.  Once all the templates are removed, someone can go back and make a brief note about Quenya nouns' stem forms and Sindarin nouns' special conditions (like whether a noun that begins with b/d/g mutates like b/d/g or like mb/nd/ng), and also notes regarding Sindarin plurals and Quenya irregular plurals (that may have just been fickle because of Tolkien changing his mind at least once).  Then, if you ''believe'' in regular rules, you can read them and ascertain inflections for yourself.
::Anyway, Mith, I'm also sorry for grating on your nerves before.  You can read my final explanation on my chronically abnormal way of communication at the forum post where we did most of our talking.  I'm always going to be very strange to talk to, and I don't want you grated or anything (I never did in the first place), but I'm hoping you can at least acclimate to it and see my good faith, even if most times I have no common sense.
::And if you need your bot approved, and Hyarion is not available to provide approval, then does anyone (perhaps Ederchil) have the authority to (at least tentatively) approve it? - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 18:49, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Nope. I'm not a bureaucrat. See above. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:37, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::::Mith, you don't ''have'' to have your bot user made into an official bot for it to work; the only thing it will do is hide the bot's edits from the recent changes page - so if the other  contributors don't mind it clogging up the recent changes page, I'm sure you could use it. ;) --{{User:KingAragorn/sig}} 11:34, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
 
== MediaWiki memory limit ==
 
I read on various MediaWiki support sites that the reason categories and image pages with very large images (in file size or dimensions) show a blank page is because of a PHP error caused by running out of memory.  Since Tolkien Gateway is never going to have a shortage of highly-detailed high-resolution maps, is it possible we could ask Hyarion to increase the wiki's memory limit?  Perhaps to 64MB or more? - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 05:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:I don't know yet when I'll mail him, but I'll ask him. You can also mail him yourself, of course :). -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 08:46, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::I didn't know how to contact him.  Besides, he and I have never been acquainted in a wiki-working interaction.  I'd be a stranger who was feature-begging. - [[User:Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] 20:55, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:::I have so much free time now (a cold took my voice away and a sprained ankle) that I keep forgetting to mail him. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 22:19, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 
== Main Page ==
 
Hi, could you make another article the next improvement drive article? I think [[Barad-dûr]] has improved quite much and although the "Portrayal in adaptations" section lacks some information about the earlier films I think that we should take the next article on the Main Page. What do you think?
A few suggestions: [[Angband]], [[Battle of Dagorlad]], [[Bywater]], [[Dale]], [[Glaurung]], [[Peter Jackson]], [[Mount Doom]], [[Treebeard]], [[Tuor]] -- [[User:Eldarion Telcontar|Eldarion Telcontar]] 23:23, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:I've been meaning to do the Adaptations section but I keep forgetting. Since I only now realize I'm already already half an hour into Sunday, let me just say I'll do it this afternoon.
 
:As for the new one, my vote's for [[Tuor]]. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 23:27, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
 
::I was just about to suggest Tuor! Great minds... --{{User:Mith/sig}} 00:13, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Great! Then let's take Tuor. -- [[User:Eldarion Telcontar|Eldarion Telcontar]] 08:49, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 
 
== Games ==
 
hey
 
Ringen is a LOTR-game. So maybe the link has to stay on the games-year article.
 
--[[User:Amroth|Amroth]] 17:13, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:Already reverted it. I'm busy cleaning everything up. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 17:14, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
:: okay, I'm adding the game called Shadowfax here. --[[User:Amroth|Amroth]] 17:15, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 
== .mp3 ==
 
How can you upload .mp3, because I tried to upload a mp3-file and didn't work, it said it was the wrong file.
 
En zou de grootte van het bestand kunnen verhoogd, voor een dag ofzo. Dan kan ik een paar liedjes van Blind Guardian uploaden zodat ze gelijk te beluisteren zijn. --[[User:Amroth|Amroth]] 14:00, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:Hele liedjes is geen fair use. .ogg en .mp3 zouden gewoon moeten werken - er staan er al [[:Category:Pronunciations|heel wat op de wiki]]. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 14:10, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
== My Source ==
 
Ok, you recently sent me a message explaining why you ''deleted'' (not very grateful about that) the pages I wrote.
 
Well, my source is a book I checked out a few weeks ago (before I discovered this site) called something like "Tolkien's World". It explained the history of Arda, but was not writen by any member of the Tolkien family, but by a close "associate", so I don't know how accurate it is.
 
The pages I wrote is based on a series of maps within the books, the first being a ''complete'' map of Arda, witch was divided into four continents: Aman, Hyarmenor, Middle-Earth and Eastland. Middle-Earth was inturn divided into Endor (the northern half) and Harad (the southern half).
 
After that map, there were five more maps - one of Aman, Hyarmenor, Eastland, Endor and Harad. The map of Endor realy grabbed my attention, because is showed the region of Middle-Earth (in detail!) east of Rhûn. Apparently, Rhûn goes on untill the Red Mountains (labelled "Orocarni") and an unnamed river that flows north-south from there down into the Enegaer (Inner Sea - can not believe that this site does not name it). This region is labelled "Rómen" (with "The East Lands" writen below in brackets - should not be confused with the ''continent'' "Eastland"). The region of Rohan, Rhûn and Rhovanion (everything between the Misty (I think) and Red Mountains) is labeled "Central Endor".
 
The map also names the north most region "Formenor" with "The Northern Waste" writen below in brackets (like with Rómen - this probably implies that the region has an alternative name).
 
After looking around in Google images, I managed to find a version of the full map of Arda, though it is coloured differently and is labeled unlike in the book:
 
[[image:John Ohara - Arda in the Second Age.jpg|right|150px]]
Middle-Earth is dreadfully mis-labeled, though. The "Formenor", "Endor" and "Harad" labels are correct (though Endor and Harad should be writen larger to show that they are the names of a group of regions). Also, "Hither Lands" wasn't writen there. Instead, "Middle-Earth" was writen in the centre of the continent in large letters.
 
Everything else is basically exactly as shown on the map in the book. I was unable to find the exact map or the detailed maps of the conitinents.
 
Do you think that counts as a reliable source? -- [[User:Explorer of Arda|Explorer of Arda]] 19:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:You're going to have to be a bit more specific - there's at least six books going by the name "[[Tolkien's World (disambiguation)|Tolkien's World]]". I know for a fact that it's not in Helms' book or ''Paintings of Middle-earth''. I haven't read Day's books, but he has a reputation for making stuff up. None of the authors are "close associates" of the Tolkien family. It wouldn't have mattered either way.
 
:The only full World map Tolkien made can be found in "[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]". It does not contain the names "Formenor" or "Eastland". A quick google search on either term only results in fan fic sites. They're not in the index of ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'', the ''Reader's Companion'', or the "major" reference works by [[Robert Foster]] and [[J.E.A. Tyler]].
 
:As in terms of reliable, if it's not primary (i.e. by Tolkien himself) it's ''caveat lector''. If it cites a source, double check. If it doesn't, double check anyway. Can't find it? Don't add it. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 18:35, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
::Ah. But I just want to know something. This site doesn't mention the Eastern or Inner Sea (as far as I know of) at all, though they appear in the inacurate map suplied. I know that there are some pages on this site with something at the top that says the page is speculative/inaccurate, so couldn't the pages relating to the above mentioned regions/seas be topped with that? -- [[User:Explorer of Arda|Explorer of Arda]] 19:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:::I think you mean [[:Template:Noncanon|this template]]. That's for stuff from ''The History of Middle-earth''. Meaning it did come from Tolkien, but he abandoned or revised the concept, or it doesn't fit into later work. Or [[:Template:Fanon|this template]], which concerns wide-spread fanon and unlicensed adaptations. Or [[:template:Adaptation|this one]], for licensed adaptations like movies, games and [[MERP]]. But without the source, I can't tell if it's any of them. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 19:07, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:::P.S. You can sign by typing four tildes: <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>
 
::::Yes. That's what I mean.
 
::::Oh, and thanks for the tip! ^^
 
::::Anyway, do you know if Tolkien ever made a complete map like that? if so, I'd love to see it. For now, I think I'll keep the fanon version of Arda in my own augmented reality of it. -- [[User:Explorer of Arda|Explorer of Arda]] 19:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::The only thing closely resembling a map is a pencil sketch in ''[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]''. The shapes of the continents are consistent with the map above, but it's a very rough sketch, nowhere near as detailed as the other maps. [[:Image:Arda001.gif|Here it is.]]
 
:::::Also, I deleted your image as it turns out it was already uploaded. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 19:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::That's fine. I've allready saved the image to my PC! ^^
 
::::::As for the pencil-map, I see that it must be from a time quite a while before the third age, since Beleraid is still there, the Sea of Helcar hasn't dried up yet and the Misty Mountains haven't formed yet. Harad, Hyemenor, Eastland and Aman are basically the same, though.
 
::::::You sea the mountain range running north-south east of the Sea of Helcar (the inland sea in the middle of Middle-Earth)? Those are the Red Mountains. East of that (apparently) lies Rómen and west of that lies what is to become the regions of Middle-Earth seen in The Lord of the Rings.
 
::::::The sea that separates Middle-Earth from Hyemenor (aka The Dark Land) is (apparently) called ''Enegaer'' (the "Inner Sea"), while the sea that separates Middle-Earth and Hyemanor from Eastland (the cresent-shaped continent to the far east) is called the "East Sea".
 
::::::Say, now that I come to think of it, does this site have pages on how the Misty Mountains were formed? Because (according to the map you provided) there was once a time when they didn't yet exist. -- [[User:Explorer of Arda|Explorer of Arda]] 19:40, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
The Misty Mountains were formed by Morgoth, hoping to delay the Elves on their great march West. That was after Aulë created all the other mountains. The map shows Arda at its creation. No other full world maps exist.
 
I know where the Orocarni are; it's just that Hyarmenor, Romen and Enegaer are unattested in Tolkien's own work. They're later fabrications by I don't know whom. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 19:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:Of course! *Facepalm* I knew that!
 
:Anyway, so Tolkien origionally left those regions unnamed? Did he atleast name the ''seas''? I know he atleast named the Outer and Great Seas, but I want to know if he also named The East and Inner Seas (the "Inner Sea" being Enegaer). -- [[User:Explorer of Arda|Explorer of Arda]] 19:57, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
::The East Sea is the sea between Harad and the Dark Land. The Sea between the Dark Land and the Walls of the Sun is not named. I can't find any indication that Tolkien came up with "Inner Sea" or "Enegaer". -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 20:05, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Ah. Guese the auther of the book I read (aswell as the map) realy ''did'' make stuff up. A shame, realy. It's also quite a shame that Tolkien never finished the naming prosses, but, meh, we can leave that to his decendants.
 
:::Well, that's all I need to know. Thanks! ^^ -- [[User:Explorer of Arda|Explorer of Arda]] 20:16, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
::::There's also a map in [[The Book of Lost Tales]] 1. But thats a verry old map, and not canon. The only place with isn't renamed is Cuivienen. However its fanon, it would be funny to read. --[[User:Amroth|Amroth]] 18:20, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 
== 8000+ ==
 
Tomorrow or today we'll probably have 8000+ pages! Keep up the good administrative (and all other) work, Ederchil! --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 23:54, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:You keep up the actual editing ;) -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 07:43, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 
yeah, we have 8000 articles. Hopely we once get bigger than the wookie-pedia, hopely it wouldn't be as much a mess as there. If I see that there, there is almost no canon there. They use books with are not of George Lucas, the inventor.  --[[User:Amroth|Amroth]] 18:23, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:The Expanded Universe is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is.
:WookieePedia has a lot more articles, and personal taste in canon aside, it is a well-kept wiki with lots of sysops and editors. It's even more bureaucratic than Wikipedia. Three seconds after some anon creates a new page, three editors have wookieefied it.
:This wiki still needs work, though. A lot of characters miss categories, sources, are straight rips from Wikipedia, need images, or otherwise a major update. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 18:30, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
::but its the expanded universum, expanded by other people. I think thats uncanon. I know its realy big, but your rigth I can't say how big it is. LOTR idem tito, however it is still smaller because the Tolkien Estate deosn't want more authors of the work, while George Lucas doesn't care. (or am I wrong?) --[[User:Amroth|Amroth]] 19:03, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 
== Idea ==
 
Maybe its a idea to add the voices of actors who speak memorable quotes (like "I see you" from Sauron) by adaptions. Or is that against fair use. --[[User:Amroth|Amroth]] 18:26, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:I'm not sure I get what you mean. You mean sound files? They're okay, we already have some of those uploaded. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 18:32, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 
==Categories==
Something which often confuses me when creating pages is that some categories have initial capitals on some words. For example, we have "Images of Authors", "Images of Merchandise"; but on the other hand we have "Images of books" and "Sindarin locations". By now I've memorized some of the variations (since "Images of Books", e.g., will yield a red link), but do we have a standard for how to write categories? --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 08:48, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:No, but we probably should. I favor the non-capital version if ti comes up for a vote. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 10:38, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 
==Standards for bibliography==
 
Where can I find the standards for how to write a bibliography on Tolkien Gateway? Thanks / --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 20:11, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:There's not really a standard. I usually just use <br>
* Year: ''Title'' (editor or something)<br>
for books and <br>
* Year: ''Magazine Title'' #issue
** "Article"<br>
for articles. See [[Tom Shippey]] for a long example. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 20:17, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 
==Spams==
 
That was quick! I thought the hour was late, but your eyes weren't far away! ;-) BTW, seems like the spammers are quite active right now, sometimes you feel like writing angry emails to the companies that hire spamming services (like the Bluemountain Trips, or whatever their names were). Cheers/--[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 21:42, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 
:Na, wasted effort. They won't listen. They're just a nuisance, as the links aren't picked up by search engines.
 
:Just be glad neautograph hasn't popped up yet. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:48, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
 
==Deletion request==
 
Is it possible for you to check the page "A Long Expected Party: MECCG Sites & Scenarios"? It's still left in Category:Books, but the page doesn't exist. --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 20:52, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 
:It's the ampersand problem again. Will check it out. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 20:56, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 
::Thank you! --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 21:12, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 
== Deleted question ==
 
The question about the Angus McBride picture was because I wanted to know who else was in there besides Galadriel. I have never be able to figure it out, despite how much I read.
 
Was my question wrongly put? Should I not ask such things?
 
Thank you. - Kementari02
 
:I've deleted so many things over the past few weeks that I can't quite remember what you're talking about. What image was this about? -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:10, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 
::I assume you mean this pic: "Image:Angus McBride - Galadriel.gif"? If so, then it is a fanon scenario. You find a description of the other characters in the art/rpg book ''[[Angus McBride's Characters of Middle-earth]]'', published by MERP. (Maybe move this thread to the forum?) --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 21:32, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 
Thank you. That answers my question. - Kementari02
 
==Writings, books, essays, etc.==
 
Ederchil, I've been examining the Cat:Writings, and it's quite difficult to know how to handle it. Right now, it contains anything written by JRRT which it's not published separately (in general). The idea of the category is of course good, but I find a couple of questions and thoughts:
#Should the category only include JRRT material (the cat, e.g., included [[Epic Pooh]], although I recatted it to "Published articles" for the moment)?
#If not, do we need a "...by J.R.R. Tolkien" for every sub-cat? I guess the more TG expand, the more "writings" by other authors will need to be categorized.
#Perhaps we should state that the cat only contains writings which haven't appeared in a publication on their own (or published under their own title)?
#The head-cat for Cat:Writings should be Cat:Real-world, and perhaps stating in Cat:Publications that this category only contains media published separately with a title of their own (or something like that).
Thanks for you time/--[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 21:41, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 
:I'd go for "Published articles by J.R.R. Tolkien" as a sub cat. Re: 3, yes. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:50, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 
::I've been moving some book chapters from the head-category "Writings". However, as it's a big difference of the (related) chapters of, e.g., ''The Lord of the Rings'', and the chapters of, e.g., ''The History of Middle-earth books'' (as these often are a presentation of a single manuscript), I created the Cat:Manuscripts. --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 23:13, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 
==Books portal==
 
May I change the intro to "Welcome to the Books gateway, here you will find links and information relating to any and all publications relating to J.R.R. Tolkien and his works."? ''Books'' is too specific a word for all the info we've so far covered on Tolkien Gateway. I thought I'd ask first since it's one of the main pages of TG --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 19:48, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 
:Go ahead. I hope it fits on the line. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 20:01, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 
==Talk:Tar-Elendil==
Is there a way to lock [[:Talk:Tar-Elendil]] from being edited? It appears it has been the target of a spam bot. --[[User:Pinkkeith|Pinkkeith]] 19:09, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 
:When the spamming first started, I protected all spammed pages and blocked all spammers, but that didn't seem to help much. It merely shifted the spam to other pages. I'd rather have them make a useless talk page 7 times a day than having to revert or delete higher profile pages. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 20:52, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 
==Youtube==
I noticed that the <nowiki><youtube></nowiki> command is either bugged or taken out. If it has been taken out could you let me know, please? I can remove it from some of the LOTRO articles. Thanks. --[[User:Pinkkeith|Pinkkeith]] 19:09, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 
:Yeah, it's a problem on more wiki's. For now, I think it's best to just put the video's between <nowiki><!-- --></nowiki> tags, so it'll be easier to revert once it works again. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 20:52, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
 
== Concerning S.R.T.O. d'Ardenne ==
 
"S.R.T.O." seems to be the name she used most, and by which is referred to in scholarly books (like J.R.R. Tolkien, we don't write John Tolkien). --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 14:55, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
::On a second thought, "Simonne d'Ardenne" is used both in ''The Tolkien Family Album'', and by Johan Vanhecke in "Tolkien and Belgium" in ''Lembas Extra: Proceedings of the 5th Unquendor Lustrum''. I'll create a new page and redirect "S.R.T.O. d'Ardenne".--[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 23:57, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 
== Dates and Rock-roses ==
 
Hello Ederchil; two quick things:-
 
#What are [[Rock-roses]]? (I see you added them to [[Rose (disambiguation)]] yet I have no idea what they are.)
#I've just made [[Template:SR]]; I was wondering whether you thought it was worthwhile changing it (or making a separate template) so that is displays converted dates, rather than simply linking to them, as well? --{{User:Mith/sig}} 16:07, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:# "yellow rock-roses" are mentioned in "[[Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire]]".  See also [[wikipedia:Cistaceae|here]].
:# I like the template. I think something along the lines of "[[Shire Reckoning|S.R.]] [[Third Age 3000|1400]] ({{TA|3000}})" could work. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 16:43, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 
::# A-ha! Thanks.
::# Thanks - hopefully it will save people having to (sometimes incorrectly) calculate dates themselves. Couldn't doing that get a bit messy, though? I think that could look very untidy, particularly in infoboxes. --{{User:Mith/sig}} 17:21, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
::::2. I think it would look better in infoboxes, but not in situations like [[Rose (disambiguation)|these]], so I now favour the short version. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 18:04, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::2. Great! If it makes you feel more comfortable, on my to-do list is a template which displays Shire Reckoning dates on the individual year pages so when people click on, e.g. SR 1400 they're not too confused when they see they've got TA 3000. (This is for when I get off disambiguation pages and back onto dates.) --{{User:Mith/sig}} 21:37, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::It'll be long work, but all year pages probably need a header of sorts, like the real worlds years. It could include an automated option for SR, of course. Probably need #explode for that. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:54, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::::I've just been playing around in my sandbox and I don't think we have the requisite extension installed: #explode (or, my other option, #sub) doesn't seem to do anything at all, which throws a pretty big spanner in the works. Unless I'm doing something wrong? (My current rough code is: <nowiki>{{#ifexpr: {{#explode:{{PAGENAME}}| |-1}}>=1601 | This is the equivalent of the year {{#expr: {{#explode:{{PAGENAME}}| |-1}} - 1600}} in [[Shire Reckoning]]. }}</nowiki>)
 
:::::::Re: spam. Well done on keeping on top of all the spam; I've been dipping in and out whenever I can to try and help but, alas, there is only so much I can do.--{{User:Mith/sig}} 21:06, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::::I'm getting a bit tired of it, really. And it's nearing bed time, I don't want to know what I wake up with tomorrow.
::::::::Got a reply from Hyarion, he would try to increase the Captcha requirements "this afternoon". But he's on Pacific Time, so that's gotta be soon now.
::::::::If he pops by, ask him about #explode and #sub. The StringFunctions extension is required for that to work. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:20, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 
==Anti-spam strategies==
 
Not sure if I can be of any help concerning the attack storm of today, but I just wanted to recommend [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anti-spam_features Mediawiki Anti-spam features]. Do we have any of these features enabled? --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 10:05, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:I emailed Hyar about it, but still don't have a response. I'll see If I can think of something, because today's horrible. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 10:09, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
:Sent him another one. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 10:16, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
 
::Great! Let us know if something gets implemented - it would be interesting to see if it has any effect. --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 23:40, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 
==Siege of Mirkwood==
The expansion known as Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood did include the final book to Volume II: Mines of Moria. Also, the expansion Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria included the final book to Volume I: Shadows of Angmar. Turbine makes you buy the next expansion in order to complete the previous one. It is a marketing tool to get you to buy it. Siege of Mirkwood is an expansion in its own right and not sololy the final book to Mines of Moria. --[[User:Pinkkeith|Pinkkeith]] 21:22, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 
==Years before JRR's birth==
Is there a consensus on TG to not include year pages before JRRT's birth? I was on my way to add the birth of Charles Williams when I discovered this detail of the year pages. --[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 23:40, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:If you want to, go ahead. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 05:44, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 
== Ad Nonsense ==
 
You probably won't find my contributions worthwhile at all then. (I see what you are doing here.)
 
It would be against tale logic for Entwives to be lost forever. The sadder the story, the more pressing somebody will feel the urge to amend.{{unsigned|Wasdf}}
 
:Still not making sense. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 21:13, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 
::It's more like interpretations and guesswork. You may basically remove my username altogether.{{unsigned|Wasdf}}
 
:::Interpretations of what?
:::Also, it's impossible to remove an account. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 06:30, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 
== Adaptation info- how much is TOO much in an article? ==
 
Having browsed Tolkien Gateway for several years prior to joining as an editor, I'm familiar with its book-heavy leaning, and wanted to make sure going in that I knew how much information on the adaptations was appropriate to put in "Appearance in Adaptation"-type sections of articles. In particular, I've always been a big fan of the Rankin/Bass animated adaptations, and I noticed the Sting article has nothing on its appearance in those in it, and that's what prompted me joining. But before I added that information in, I wanted to make sure I knew how much information on sources other than the books themselves was TOO much, so I don't go overboard and make the more knowledgeable and experienced editors have to waste time they could spend on more important things cleaning up after me. Wouldn't exactly be the most GLORIOUS start to a career editing here, now, would it? [[User:Dinosaur bob|Dinosaur bob]] 01:51, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:All licensed adaptations can have as much information as there is available. So go ahead, add it. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 06:07, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 
== Large Family Trees ==
 
Is is possible that you could delete these three family trees: [[User:Aule_the_Smith/GiantFamilyTree]]? They won't (and never have) load for me and my bot keeps stumbling over them in an attempt to fix things, but, obviously, all it does is create loads of 500 server errors. If you could get rid of them of them it would be handy for me otherwise my bot is going to keep on getting stuck. Thanks. --{{User:Mith/sig}} 18:58, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:I can understand your concern; I can't load the first two either. However, I won't delete a personal sandbox without that user's permission. I know Aule hasn't been here in a while and it's simple to undelete something, but still. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}}
 
::OK, I understand (although disagree). How long would Aule have to be gone before you would consider deleting it? --{{User:Mith/sig}} 19:16, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:::A lifetime, maybe two. :) -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 19:22, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 
::::But hey, it seems kind of strange to keep a userbox if it's causing internal problems. If, as you say, it's easy to undelete and if the user hasn't been active in a long time -  I believe it's fair enough to empty the problematic page for the moment being (and perhaps create a special template to put on such pages). Just my two pennies worth--[[User:Morgan|Morgan]] 22:51, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::My other reason was: if it gets a 500 server error, I can't delete it. But I figured out I can by accessing it via the url.
:::::I'll delete them, for now, but I'll leave a message at Aule's to notify him. -- {{User:Ederchil/sig}} 07:44, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::Thank you! (Although I had actually done a work-around to avoid it, but thank you nonetheless!) --{{User:Mith/sig}} 10:23, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
 
== Bot ==
 
I just wanted to apologise if [[User:Mithbot|Mithbot]]'s clogging-up of the [[Special:RecentChanges|Recent Changes]] has been an irritant over the last few days. I've just been very keen to sort out some of the mess and make TG that bit more professional. Hopefully when Hyarion is next around he'll make it an official bot so it will be hidden from Recent Changes. --{{User:Mith/sig}} 12:23, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

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