Help:Tips and tricks

This will detail some of the advanced editing techniques you can use to make articles appear a little nicer.

Linking

The linking system is very flexible and allows for you to link so that the text flows naturally in articles regardless of what their names are. Here are a few ways to make links fit into the text better.

Singular article, plural text

If the article you're linking to (such as Rogue) is singular, but the sentence you're linking within (such as "Rogues are great.") uses the word in a plural form, simply place an s at the end of the link, as in [[Rogue]]s, which will produce Rogues.

Capitalized article names

The names of all articles are forced to start with a capital letter as a result of how the software works. However, because of that, the case of the first letter in a link doesn't matter for the link target. Thus, [[rogue]] will produce rogue, which properly links to the Rogue article. Therefore, you should use the proper capitalization for the sentence, such as "The spell's success rate is based on the player's casting strength" rather than "The spell's success rate is based on the player's Casting strength", which looks weird.

Arbitrary link names

In some cases, you may way to label a link as something that is completely different than the name of the article, for instance, in the sentence "Warriors have cheaper costs for some physical skills than the other square profession." you might want "other square profession" to be a link to the Rogue article. To achieve this, you would do [[rogue|other square profession]], which would produce a link to the other square profession.

Redirects

In some cases, an article may have more than one reasonable name, for instance, "CS" and "Casting strength". In this case, you can use redirect pages to make both names go to the same article. To do this, pick the most canonical name ("Casting strength") and create the article there. Then create an article under the other name(s) ("CS") with the only text being "#REDIRECT [[Real article name]]". Then, if someone visits the other names, they'll automatically be sent to the canonical name.

Don't abuse this to make only vaguely related things go to the same article, though. Redirecting "Lock Mastery" to "Pick locks" or "Pickpocketing" to "Justice" would be a bad idea, but redirecting "Lockpicking" to "Pick locks" or "Combat maneuver list" to "Combat maneuvers" probably wouldn't be.

Automated updates

One or more bots runs on this site making automated updates. If you see something that you think needs to be done frequently, you might check the bots page to see if there's already a bot set up to do it, potentially saving you the time you might have spent doing it manually. If you wish to have the same or similar kinds of updates made on a frequent basis, you can use the requests page to request that someone write a bot to do so.