User talk:The Light6

Welcome
Hi, welcome to ! Thanks for your edit to the Troll (Homestuck) page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! Somarinoa (talk) 05:56, April 28, 2013 (UTC)

Reason behind the naming style
The manual of style is in fact that if an article has a name that is not entirely original and comes from something else, such as a word or some mythological creature. We simply have not gotten around to converting all things into disambiguations where necessary, but pages are intended -- such as the Cherub page -- to keep that origin in parentheses because it is considered likely, sometimes even extremely likely, that a page of that same name will eventually appear. For instance, even though Troika (a gun used by the Locust Swarm in Gears of War) sounds like a pretty original name, it's an actual word, so if the page for it was ever created it would be prudent to be named "Troika (Gears of War)", as the wiki is intended to have as close to every single alien species ever shown in media and since that likely numbers into the millions, we don't want to make assumptions that only Gears of War (in this example) has used that word. With that in mind, Cherub comes from a mythological source, being a species/rank of angel. It really should have been left with the origin titling as it had been. — Somarinoa (talk) 07:13, April 28, 2013 (UTC)


 * Ah, fair enough, corrected my mistake and made a disambig page. Also I would have to point out the titling still needed to be fixed as it should have been "Cherub (Homestuck)" as opposed to "Cherub (homestuck)", I also corrected that when I corrected my error. So perhaps it might be a good idea to delete the unneeded and miscapitalised redirect? Depending on what your redirect policy is of course. - The Light6 (talk) 07:53, April 28, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey, no problem. It might even be an unwritten manual of style around here.  I completely agree about that proper grammar thing with the titles, also.  I'm not sure if we officially have a redirect policy, but I'll take some time here shortly and check on that, see how it all works out.  I'm sure it's all good.  — Somarinoa (talk) 08:05, April 28, 2013 (UTC)

In Regards to the "Alien Species" Category
Thank you for being proactive and beginning to remove them. It's always great to see a fresh editor committed to helping out the community come along. Thanks again! мет еж   01:29, May 8, 2013 (UTC)


 * Its no problem, on a side note, I just realise there was another arguement for removing them that wasn't brought up; the "Read more". The "Read more" feature displays pages which share similar categories, but putting all aliens in a single giant category it means that a page is likely to have random unrelated articles being suggested to readers as opposed to articles which feature other aliens from the same universe or aliens with similar features. Thus by only categorising by narrower categories the "read more" is likely to display pages which are more likely to interest readers of that particular page. - The Light6 (talk) 02:03, May 8, 2013 (UTC)


 * Good luck dude! I will help out if I can find time, I promise not to add teh category uselessly to new articles. ralok (talk) 03:43, May 8, 2013 (UTC)