User talk:Talvin

Direction Appreciated Award:

For assisting Allterboyant regarding his question on how to spotlight a potential need for an edit (via Discord), as well as encouraging their confidence in editing:

--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:50, 12 February 2022 (EST)

Thank you! I will pin it next to my Master Punster Ribbon...left that here somewhere...or maybe I left it on Dieron.... Talvin (talk) 20:03, 12 February 2022 (EST)

Humor and Orphanages

At risk of over-inflating your ego, I wanted to give you a second award, one which I have never seen bestowed on anyone, the Good Humor award: . I lol'd at your comment on that accidental twitter reference, and that vibe is always appreciated.

The other thing I wanted to mention was that I had noticed your Project Orphanage, and I thought that was a super cool idea... Is there any way I can help out? It would be great to give some love to those pages that are floating around in the deep periphery, so to speak. -BobTheZombie (talk) 11:22, 18 February 2022 (EST)

Thank you for both! Project Orphanage is a collaborative thing, and I have most of the pages marked "Permission to Edit" (I need to add that to all of them.) It is not an official project, so I keep it in my userspace, is all. I am *so* close to getting it down to where Special:LonelyPages will show all the orphans, not just the first thousand: when I started it ended in the E's, this morning it is in the early T's. As for how to help, plenty to choose from, this list is not exclusive:

• Grab anything you see in the Miscellaneous section and work on paring them down. Some, like Battles and Planetary Governors, are just *tedious*, and sometimes you have to fix up the pages they need to be linked from. Some, like Deandra Lowe's many rides, I am at a loss. The Clan Loremasters would be quick and easy.
• While User:Talvin/Project Orphanage/Wolf's Dragoons Roster is likely to just be with us for a long time (as of this writing, just over 1 in 39 pages on the Wiki are linked from that page, and I am not done yet), the spacecraft section up at the top is another one of those "tedious, but very achievable" goals for P:O.
• This is a short list, but it is on its own page because it is very important (at least to me): User:Talvin/Project Orphanage/Orphaned Fiction We have some pages about fiction, primarily from the old Battlecorps site, that are not linked from anywhere. I know BrokenMnemonic has been trying to link some of them in, but I feel it is especially important that we put those forward, in hopes they eventually get reprinted and not forgotten.
• Or look around and find something that interests you! Adopt an Orphan!

Talvin (talk) 11:35, 18 February 2022 (EST)