User:Safflle/Adoption

The references
(That was a level 4 header, with four equals signs)

Other stuff
You can make lists and indents by adding characters to the beginning of a paragraph, like so:

A space before your paragraph will make the paragraph display in a box with machine font, and will cause it to run off the page if it is long enough. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, A colon will cause a block indent, with all lines starting away from the edge of the page.

An asterisk (*) will make a bullet. A pound or number sign (#) makes a numbered list. You can mix and match the last three characters to get several different effects. The only caveat, though, is that you must have a continual line of #'s in order to maintain the numbering. This does not mean, however, that the numbered list has to be displayed at all times. See below for an example: Note that you don't have to hit enter twice when starting a new line from one of these types of paragraphs. However, when you don't use them, you do. Those last two sentences are on a different line from this one in the editing box, but there is no line break when they are displayed.
 * 1) First item
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Create a sandbox or subpage and just play around. Show at least one example of each code type (except redirects) listed above.

My sandbox: User:Safflle/Sandbox


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Discussion
Hi Roux. Thanks for checking what I've done so far! It took a while to read up on everything but I think it has definitely helped me. I'm not quite ready to write my own article at the moment but I've been trying to do a bit of cleanup on other articles. A problem I seem to keep encountering is excessive amounts of cruft (see I am learning the lingo!). For example this page: Sorcerer Lord has loads of detail but I don't want to take too much out. How do you decide what to take out or what to leave in? I would probably cut down the "game" section to about 4 sentences but this would leave it as a stub. Is this too drastic? Many thanks, Safflle (talk) 03:16, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh my freaking ugh that article is awful. I personally don't think it would be too drastic to nuke the whole thing and start over from scratch ;) How about you make rewriting the article your first big cleanup project? Don't worry about removing anything, just rewrite it to halfway-decent English, and find a couple more references. Be sure to also remove the in-universe style of writing! [  roux  ] [ x ] 04:03, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * LOL! Yes I like to search out really bad articles! I've had a go at re-writing it. I couldn't find any better references but at least the style is improved. Cheers, Safflle (talk) 15:22, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandal patrol
Hi! I was looking at the recent changes page and noticed that any vandalism seems to be reverted in seconds. Surely there are so many people patrolling this page that they must often find that another user has fixed the problem first? Do the tools they use help them to spot the vandalism faster? I know these are probably very silly questions! Safflle (talk) 03:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)