User talk:ISD Salpsan

removal of FOFF ticker page

Hi there i just wanted to inquire as to why the page for our ticker was removed? We simply wanted to ensure that when people searched for FOFF (our corporation ticker) they would be guided directly to our evelopedia page (federation of Freedom Fighters) as we intend to use it for recruitment and marketing purposes.

We have already had our ticker removed by ccp once back in 2004 only to now find another corp which was formed only a month ago that has been allowed to use that ticker! We just want to ensure that our identifying tags will not be hijacked again.

If you could explain to me how i might better develop the wiki page regarding our ticker so that it wont be deleted it would be appreciated. kind regards Potes

Band of Brothers (Player alliance)

Ah, thanks for fixing the category designation at the top of Band of Brothers (Player alliance). I completely failed to notice it being changed when I did a search/replace for the other occurences of [[Category:%s]].

Auto linking

By the way, I see autolinking vandalised the page again, adding obnoxious/redundant links ... such as irrelevant links like PIE and industrial (without them contextually referring to the corporation and vessel class) - as well as BoB, Band of Brothers, coalition, Goonswarm etc. being the offenders of redundancy.

Is there any way to avoid this automatic behaviour? I can imagine if I just missed a check box somewhere - I still have the clean article as a draft; Elyon Itari/Band of Brothers (Player alliance).

I've also started a subsection on this matter at Talk:Band of Brothers (Player alliance)#Correcting_Links, and added this as an example to the discussion at Talk:Main Page#Auto linking is overzealous

Elyon Itari 12:17, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Deletions/redirects

2009.02.15 Oh well, I understand you would want to keep vanity redirects to a minimum, sorry about that. Thought that redirections would keep it clean.

I would please like to keep however a Catherine Delorois (Character) page redirected to Quintrala (Character). The first is my RP full name and the other is the in-game character name - I have gone as far as creating an alt ingame just to keep the name blocked. Mine mine mine.

Please?

-- 2009.08.17 OK, thanks for the explanation. I think it does make a lot of sense in cases where the character and alt are not supposed quite the same (i.e. Clark Kent - Superman). In this case they are however the same so I would like to do what the help page on redirects suggests ("If a page name is vaguely meaningful there's no harm (and some benefit) in having it as a redirect to the most relevant existing page in your wiki.") Much like Gordon Sumner -> Sting; Edson Arantes do Nascimento -> Pelé. Content from a RP point of view should be the same.

As for the other redirects... marking territory? LOL <blush> yes... I will not do that anymore. Thanks again.