User talk:Timdc

Hoy there :)

Just need a word in your ear... you're welcome to contribute to the YPPedia (and you did make some very good points in your edits), but I've reverted them because of quality. The YPPedia is like an encyclopedia, so we like our content to be professional-looking, as well as useful. That means that you need to keep an eye on things like capitalization, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and write formally instead of socially... write the same way you'd write for an English assignment, and you'll be fine. Fair winds! --Ponytailguy 07:50, 15 June 2006 (PDT)

Tutorials
It's a good idea, but most of what you're suggesting is already being done or worked on at the puzzle pages... navigation, sailing, etc. Unless you plan on producing something totally, wholly, and completely distinct to that, your stuff might get deleted for duplicating existing content. :-/

Feel free to improve the existing pages if you aren't sure that what you'd be producing would be unique enough, though! --Ponytailguy 08:29, 21 June 2006 (PDT)

Spades
I'm sorry, but you still need to work harder at sections like this before you should be adding them to existing articles. :-/

I've reverted your edit, but I'll leave what you added here so you can work on it and put it back once you've done some more work on it. You've got good ideas, and your strategy is accurate, but formatting, spelling, grammar and punctuation are just as important as good ideas when you're writing for someone else to read.

A few things in particular:
 * Use the enter key instead of br to add line breaks. Add two enters to get an empty line, add three enters to get two empty lines, etc. etc.
 * Don't use or other horizontal lines unless you're seperating sections that shouldn't be appearing independently in the Table of Contents and it helps with readability. Instead, use ===Title===, ==Title== and =Title= to divide your sections up, depending on how important a section is. (Feel free to experiment with those to see how they look.)
 * When you're creating numbered lists, use # instead of 1), 2), and so on. Makes it easier to change later, and lets us do sitewide formatting if we need ot.
 * Use spaces before brackets. This(is wrong), but this (is right).
 * Never, ever, ever sign edits outside of Talk pages.

I hope this is helpful... thanks again! :) --Ponytailguy 10:13, 21 June 2006 (PDT)

-- Another tip that could help you deciding wether to risk Nil: When having for example 5(or more)diamonds and those diamonds are let's say;2,4,6,8,Q. The diamond Q looks dangerous,but when you do some chance mathematics, you will discover that the Q is harmless since: 1)You have 5 of the 13 cards,leaving only 8 daimonds to be divided under 3 players,so the diamonds in there hands will be ranged from 1to6. Meaning that one of them will have to possibly lay the diamond                        A or K,if they would play low you can cover it with the low cards. 2)Also note that becuase having a big amount of diamonds,it's very likely that some other suits will be quite low on cards and thus giving the advantage on getting rid of the Q. This strategy can be implemented on any suit except spades,even 4 cards or more of the same suit with one higher card(The A could be managed by playing it on a suit you can't follow becuase of the lack of amount cuased by having a lot of cards you have of one suit). I hoped this will help you in making more nils succesfully. --Timdc

HTML
Hehe. The wiki actually has a lot in common with HTML, but if you're really interested in web design, you should try and learn other coding languages like wiki, PHP, ActionScript, and ASP... and the more languages you learn, the easier it is to learn new ones, so if you make an effort to learn wikicode, it'll make learning others much easier as well, because you'll already know tips, shortcuts, and how parsing works. --Ponytailguy 10:24, 21 June 2006 (PDT)

Re: Question
When you have a complete and shiny section to add - I don't see any reason why it couldn't be added to the main article. You could add a section to your User: space (such as User:Timdc/Sandbox) to format your section in, and get it looking good before adding it to the main article. I often have a play with an article or section of it in a sub-page in my User: space so that it's not too bad if I mess up while experimenting. --Sagacious (talk)
 * Feel free to ask an administrator or other user to look over a section before you add it to a page... it's no big deal and it saves everyone headaches down the line. :) --Ponytailguy 10:32, 21 June 2006 (PDT)

Thanks once more for the help.

Bilge & Talk Page
It sounds like what you're proposing "to help new players" is going to be too esoteric for them to grasp, so might not be appropiate for a tutorial article. :-/

And please don't remove stuff from my talk page. Just add new comments below your last one. Otherwise it just confuses everyone. --Ponytailguy 12:55, 21 June 2006 (PDT)

Tutorials
As long as your article is useful, not seriously flawed from a technical perspective (grammar/spelling/formatting) and put in the right place, you can write whatever you want. --Ponytailguy 09:40, 6 July 2006 (PDT)

Re: Flash/.swf files
Sadly, it's not currently possible to put Flash anims on a wiki page, because tags needed to make the whole thing run are disallowed. If you wanted to make a bilging tutorial video, you could always video capture you doing some bilging, upload the video to a site like YouTube or Google Video and link to your video from the bottom of the Bilging article. --Sagacious (talk) 08:22, 22 August 2006 (PDT)

Crafting puzzles
I'm not involved with the crafting puzzle project either way, mate. ;) --Ponytailguy 16:18, 21 October 2006 (PDT)
 * I dunno if you can be of help. You'd have to ask someone involved with the project. --Ponytailguy 11:08, 22 October 2006 (PDT)