User talk:Moose N. Squirrel

Introducing myself
As the name implies I have an interest in cartooning and animation. I find myself seeking information/criticism on Western pop culture generally, including comic books, music, movies, television, novels, advertising campaigns; anything that creeps into mass conscious/gestalt gets my antennae wiggling. Finding reliable information in these realms is particularly tricky because the source of the topic can sometimes be the major source of misinformation ( see Salvador Dali or Nico). In fact, a long tradition of lazy journalism being given a pass by print editors when the subject is pop culture is a likely explanation for the popularity of Wikipedia.--Moose N. Squirrel (talk) 22:44, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello
Hello! Thanks for your comments on my user page - and I couldn't agree more about the "help" pages - I broadly picked things up by browsing through a page in "edit this page" format and guessing what the coding meant..! The benefit of your user page (and better yet - you can also add a forward slash and create a SUB user page to test things out on - you can use User:Moose N. Squirrel/Test for example) and the "official" Sandbox test page is that you can trial things without messing with the "real" pages. I'll give you a quick heads-up, though, if you're interested - there's really very little coding or programming required for the most part and what little there is is reasonably straight forward, overall: I'd be more than happy to help you incorporate your Legend comments, and/or do it for you if you'd prefer to leave comments either on my talk page, or User:Ntnon/Legend.
 * (Asterisks make bullet points, by the by, and adding additional asterisks indents the bullet)
 * Two square brackets either side of a key phrase creates a link to that page. So Dark Horse Comics goes to Dark Horse Comics (and using one of the few 'code' aspects " " and "  " allows you to type the code and have it appear on the page).
 * If you want to link to a page but use a different "link word", you wimply create the link as above, but insert a "|" between the PAGE LINK (left) and your word (right). So you can make a link to Dark Horse that reads "link" by typing " link ".
 * Single speech marks "'" are the major tool - two either side of a word makes it italicized, three either side emboldens the word (and five does both).
 * A colon indents the text (N.B. Indenting it yourself with tabs and spaces causes slight formatting problems, so you should try to avoid that) and two indent it further, etc.
 * Carriage returns can be made by leaving a line's gap, or can be forced by using the 'code'  at the end of a line.
 * Other than that it's really only the double "=" to create headers (and then triple creates a sub-header, etc.) that is worth knowing - very little else matters much. (And if it does, someone will likely mention it.)

Hope I haven't confused things further for you! It can look complex, but winds up being reasonably straight forward for the most part. ntnon (talk) 00:19, 17 June 2008 (UTC)


 * N.B. Your introduction above might be better suited to being copied onto your "actual" User page, which is Moose N. Squirrel


 * Sources might be tricky but there is Dark Horse Comics: The First Twenty Years (see the reference section of Dark Horse) - a library should be able to get a copy for you and it should be a gold mine for background. Not neutral but it'd certainly provide their side of the story. (Emperor (talk) 20:16, 18 June 2008 (UTC))