User talk:Lor the God of Lore

Tiamet
Sure, Lor. Most of that page was simply taken from the Lexicanum page on the same topic, with some additions thrown in. You can't do that. Every page must be researched and written independently. You can certainly use the Lexicanum page to check facts as you assemble the article, but not incorporate chunks of it in or basically use the same structure.

However, the real problem is that as a brand new editor, you're starting way too big. That page would have to have been ripped apart and entirely rewritten by myself or one of the other Admins if it stayed up, and that takes time away from us doing what we need to do every day unless the number of required edits to a new page is very small. In general, the wiki has a master plan of what needs to be contributed and when, so the Hive Fleet Tiamet page will be added anyway when we get to the Tyranids Codex in the 8th Edition update cycle currently underway.

However, if you would like to help contribute, I would suggest first that you read ALL of the Important Links on the main page before making any further edits. Next, I would not start by creating whole pages until you are much more acquainted with all of the wiki's standards and formatting requirements, how the staff works and what work we actually need done that isn't already in the queue to be done. Right now, I would suggest making small edits on existing pages fixing typos and grammar and/or doing fact-checking on existing pages until you've become a trusted editor. If that goes well and it's clear you're a trustworthy editor and your work meets our quality standards, you may be asked to do specific pages as assigned by myself of another Admin. Montonius (talk) 19:50, June 27, 2018 (UTC)

T'au
Hmmmm, good question. Officially, the name has been changed from Tau to T'au with the 8th Edition. So I have been changing it everywhere I find it in the normal course of business. I would say yes, but you can't yet change it for words that are linked without changing the title of the linked page or you will break the link. So you could change it ONLY for literally the terms "Tau" and "Tau Empire" where they stand alone. But if you encounter things like "Tau Drone" or "Tau Battlesuit" where the term is linked to another page, you can't change it unless the title of the page it links to has also been changed. Does that make sense to you? Montonius (talk) 17:03, July 8, 2018 (UTC)

And remember to make it a direct link and not a redirect/ T'au and T'au Empire are now in the database. Montonius (talk) 01:03, July 9, 2018 (UTC)