User talk:BabylonAS/Archive 1

Templates in signature
Just a note, your signature should not contain templates, unless they are substituted. See the rules. --KnightMiner  (t 15:42, 5 September 2014 (UTC)


 * The signature editor did automatically substitute the template. The signature entry has . Also, it does fit into the character limit of 250 characters.
 * P.S. I may need to change my Russian signature due to this.
 * -- 16:23, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The Russian template is requested for deletion, while I've designed a navigation template for talk pages...
 * -- 17:13, 5 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm refering to your use of ItemLink, EntityLink --KnightMiner  (t 17:39, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, I shall change the signature like I did with the Russian one.
 * But I still have checked the size of the signature template page. It is <250 even with the category setting.
 * By the way, I discussed my Russian signature with a Russian contributor by the name of Dand0 and I found out that the rule about using templates in signatures doesn't exist in the Russian wiki.
 * There is the Dand0's quote from a Russian talk page, translated by myself:
 * "I shall tell something: When the wiki (not only ours) about Minecraft only started to exist, Russian and English wikis about Minecraft were different, because our wiki was made by Minecrafting community, while who made the English wiki - I don't know. Rules of ours were made by HEKP0H, Teksel and probably Norrius (I hope you know who he is), but who made rules for the English counterpart - once again, I don't know. Only when projects started to know each other, contributors started to just add interwiki links. Nobody wanted to change the rules. Then, they merged into a single domain (English wiki was www.minecraftwiki.net, while we had a "ru" sub-domain (i.e. ru.minecraftwiki.net)), and later we've incorporated into Gamepedia, but because then-administrators declined (the reason is written below) to change the rules, no longer anyone wanted to change them. Since the creation of rules by the users listed above, they didn't change (however GreenStone replaced a letter "е" with an "ё" in a word). But, if we copy rules from the English wiki, "some" pages will be deleted, some - "a bit" changed, but this is the labor of users (e.g. pages about NEI and TMI). And at all, some wikis must be different from others. If a wiki is in the same domain as another, it doesn't mean that they must be identical."
 * "I shall tell something: When the wiki (not only ours) about Minecraft only started to exist, Russian and English wikis about Minecraft were different, because our wiki was made by Minecrafting community, while who made the English wiki - I don't know. Rules of ours were made by HEKP0H, Teksel and probably Norrius (I hope you know who he is), but who made rules for the English counterpart - once again, I don't know. Only when projects started to know each other, contributors started to just add interwiki links. Nobody wanted to change the rules. Then, they merged into a single domain (English wiki was www.minecraftwiki.net, while we had a "ru" sub-domain (i.e. ru.minecraftwiki.net)), and later we've incorporated into Gamepedia, but because then-administrators declined (the reason is written below) to change the rules, no longer anyone wanted to change them. Since the creation of rules by the users listed above, they didn't change (however GreenStone replaced a letter "е" with an "ё" in a word). But, if we copy rules from the English wiki, "some" pages will be deleted, some - "a bit" changed, but this is the labor of users (e.g. pages about NEI and TMI). And at all, some wikis must be different from others. If a wiki is in the same domain as another, it doesn't mean that they must be identical."

- Dand0


 * The link to the Russian (!!!) discussion. If you don't know Russian language, then assist with a translator.
 * --Regards, Naista2002 (RU T C) 08:11, 6 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I did check the russian wiki's rules, and they are somewhat different than here, so that signature would be fine on the Russian version. The main reason we have that rule here is to prevent some issues with template caching, since signatures get used a lot more than most templates. --KnightMiner  (t 16:43, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note that I first made an edit in this, English, wiki, despite me being Russian. --Regards, Naista2002 (RU T C) 17:04, 6 September 2014 (UTC)