Parented to "religion" pro-tem. Probably needs to be re-posted to "Judaism" if/when that page is created.
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It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to sort by number linked from rather than alphabetical, so that the pages with the most demand are at the top. Do we know whether Wikidot can do this?
Decided to pick a direction and go with it, so picked the most RPG applicable context I could think of. If anyone meant aught else, they can disambig.
Anyone think "vorpal" sounds like it should originate in German? Like a "vorsprung" or something?
…in the spirit of having to parent it somewhere…
Second attempt at this page - the first one memory holed itself…
As I mentioned elsewhere in the forum discussions, we should try not to orphan pages. The search function is on the fritz, and has been for years. So a page like this, which has no links to it from elsewhere in the wiki, and had no page tags either, is likely to never be seen. I only found it because I wandered onto the second page of the "100 Newest Pages". Eventually, as new pages are made, this will be buried so deep in that list that no one is likely to find it.
When you make a new page, you should always find at least one existing page where you can mention the new page and provide a link. If you can't think of anywhere that the new page could logically be referenced from anywhere else on the wiki, think twice about making your new page. If no one can find it, you're probably wasting your time.
Other than (or in addition to) creating a new link (on an old page) to your new page, other options that would help draw eyes to your new page are page tags and breadcrumb navigation. But both of those are less useful than a direct link from an old page to a new one. Embedded links and inline references are the most common way that one stumbles across a page here. The others may help for tracking something down, but like the search feature, their execution leaves a lot to be desired. Organic cross-linking in the main text is key.
Some jerk, or AI, decided to spam our General Discussion Forums in 2025. They created 329 pages of Thread listings. Deleting them would take over 1,000 clicks, and probably the better part of an hour. I don't think I'm up for that right now. So if you are looking for actual General Discussion threads, you'll find them on pages 329 to 333 of the lists.
At the moment, you can skip to the page where the real stuff starts by going to: http://arcana.wikidot.com/forum/c-49492/p/329
Unfortunately, it numbers/arranges the threads from newest to oldest. So a day may come when page 329 no longer has any real threads. When that happens, just no that you have to skip back nearly all the way to the beginning. ~328 pages of garbage listings exist between this thread and the next one of any import or interest. It might be easiest to just use the button that lets you jump to the very oldest thread.
Kontraktor Pemborong, the person who posted all those, has a full color community confidence bar next to his handle. So he either played the long con, or his account was hacked. I don't see him on the current site members list. Perhaps one of my other moderators deleted him already? Or maybe he got a global wikidot ban? Or he did his damage and unfollowed our site?
I click on the "report as abusive" button, but it doesn't automatically ban someone.
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I just stumbled across this page since it was still near the top of the "100 Newest Pages". There are ZERO pages that link here (you can verify this on a page by clicking "options" in the lower right corner of the page, then clicking "backlinks" from the list that expands from that). It also had no tags.
And since the "search" function at wikidot has been on the fritz for years, that means that the only way to find this page is to find it on the list of newest pages. Months from now, when it's no longer near the top, that's going to be extremely unlikely.
We need to make sure that whenever we create a new page, we also create some other link to it on another existing page. Otherwise, you're just wasting your time and server space, as no one is likely to ever read your page. If you can't think of at least one other existing page where it would make sense to mention this new page, then it's probably not worth making the new page.
There might be some odd exceptions to that, like a page that you've given a specific tag so that it comes up in our random generators, or a page that other pages are likely to use as their parent page for breadcrumb navigation … but even then, if you think about it there's probably also some sort of index/list page somewhere that it could be connected to. Don't orphan your creations.
Wrote this after listening to several "RPG nightmares" collections on YouTube and thinking that at least some of the individuals involved needed professional help.
Sounds like a metal band … does anyone know if this is actually a proper name or is it a topic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_men_of_the_Minch
Would seem to be in about the right place - if not in a longship - and can be driven off with a rhyming duel, so may be a starting point. Although the idea of it having something to do with Moorish slaves seems like nonsense, and the bit about "rap-battling" sounds like a racial sterotype.
Usually for this sort of thing, we default to following Wikipedia's standard.
- On wikipedia, "Solar System" is about our system, as we have here.
- Then Wikipedia adds "Planetary System" for discussing any random star and the various planets (etc) that orbit it.
- They also have "Star System" for binaries and other groupings of stars that orbit each other.
- They also have "Solar Systems" (note the "s") which just redirects to "Planetary System".
Way back in the day when I was doing lots of astronomy/space pages, I intended to eventually mirror that structure, I just never found the time to implement it.
No, we should leave this page as-is, but then add these pages to compliment it: by 
r_b_bergstrom, 17 Nov 2024 23:39
?Should we rename this page "Sol" system and split off a generic for "solar system" for all the other ones that aren't centred on Sol?
Is this another one of these cRPG derived combat roles? I was tempted to fill it in, but then remembered that business with having to filter between a sniper and "the sniper".
Is this the polite name for what we used to call "pixel bitching"?
…did it the old fashioned way.
Is there a quick way of reformatting this into calendar layout?
…was there some reason for removing most of the cross linking from the page?
Alright, thanks.