Thread:Bryan Tassava/@comment-27025402-20160322044131

Hi, Bryan!

You're doing awesome work! Thanks so much for contributing to this wiki! I especially like that you're standardizing the style to the D&D materials, such as lowercase races and classes when used in sentences. I'm thinking of drafting a small manual of style, like some other wikis do, so that people won't keep trying to revert your standardization. (People are really attached to seeing "Duergar" or "Paladin", even though the Player's Handbook and Monster Manual use "duergar" or "paladin" in sentences.  A few style guidelines should help with that confusion, though.)

One thing for disambiguation, though... When there's an inline list started by a colon, I think we should separate the items in the series by semicolons, not commas. For example:
 * Arcanist Allura Vysoren:  Famous human sorceress; friend of Vox Machina.
 * Arbiter Brom Goldhand:  Human; former captain of the guard; Master of Law; head of the Watchful Hall.
 * Seeker Asum Emring:  Halfling ranger; Master of Secrets.
 * Guardian Tofor Bratorus:  Dragonborn paladin of Bahamut; Master of Defense.

I know that some style guides allow commas, resorting to semicolons for disambiguation, but clarity really demands the stronger semicolon—especially because this information may not make sense to people new to Exandria. For example, Bahamut is not the Master of Defense, although a comma would suggest he is. As another example, a semicolon prevents people from thinking that Arbiter Brom is the captain of the guard, and that the name of the city's guard is "Master of Law" (similar to how the Kraghammer guard is known as "the Carvers" or an entire thieves' guild is merely called "the Clasp"). Taken together as a comma-separated list, readers unfamiliar with this material could probably deduce the correct meaning with minor effort and confusion. However, if it makes sense to you, I think we should remove that stumbling block and stick with semicolons to denote separate items for the sake of disambiguation.

Also, Kaylie is the correct spelling of Scanlan's daughter's name. The spelling reference is on her page. When a spelling is unconfirmed, I try to add spelling next to every instance (unless it's used repeatedly in one paragraph or section, and in that case on the first instance). Once a spelling is confirmed, I try to put the reference on that person/place/thing's page.

Anyway, though, I'm serious—you're doing Sarenrae's work, here! Thanks! (I'm stuck in the middle of a busy couple of weeks at work, so I won't be contributing as much as I'd like for the next few days.)


 * –VeganCritter (talk) 04:41, March 22, 2016 (UTC) 