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:I am planning to embark on a MASSIVE typo report in-realms, which will cause the original and the Chronicles text to line up. It may take some time, but eventually everything should be fixed. I do, however, largely agree with your assessment! Being a voracious hater of typos both in realms and out, I plan to correct 'em all. — [[User:Kenner|Kenner]] 02:36, 11 April 2008 (GMT) | :I am planning to embark on a MASSIVE typo report in-realms, which will cause the original and the Chronicles text to line up. It may take some time, but eventually everything should be fixed. I do, however, largely agree with your assessment! Being a voracious hater of typos both in realms and out, I plan to correct 'em all. — [[User:Kenner|Kenner]] 02:36, 11 April 2008 (GMT) | ||
::Unless you wield some awesome, hidden influence I don't know about, I predict you'll have much difficulty trying to get typo reports on things such as that passed. Remember that most documents were penned by the hands of adventurers; thus, the Divine tend to leave the spelling/grammatical/content issues in them for the adventurers to address (namely, leaders of the organisations to which the documents apply). It took how many years for the Charter of Oakstone to resolve its issue of still referring to Demeter as an existing Goddess? --[[User:Krypton|Krypton]] 02:47, 11 April 2008 (GMT) | ::Unless you wield some awesome, hidden influence I don't know about, I predict you'll have much difficulty trying to get typo reports on things such as that passed. Remember that most documents were penned by the hands of adventurers; thus, the Divine tend to leave the spelling/grammatical/content issues in them for the adventurers to address (namely, leaders of the organisations to which the documents apply). It took how many years for the Charter of Oakstone to resolve its issue of still referring to Demeter as an existing Goddess? --[[User:Krypton|Krypton]] 02:47, 11 April 2008 (GMT) | ||
:::I dunno, I've got typos in adventurer-tailored clothes changed before, and these documents ''are'' public or 'official' ones. I will likely file an issue to ask about this, though, if that makes you feel any better. Not just entering ''TYPO The spelling in Cyrene's laws is terrible!!'' or putting them in one by tiny one. | |||
:::Still, even if the typos aren't fixed, should we really keep them in there? Consistency is important, but the changes were quite minor. Yes, it's the principle of the thing, but ... Meh. If you/Head Chroniclers don't want it changed, though, I'll gladly revert what I did! — [[User:Kenner|Kenner]] 03:01, 11 April 2008 (GMT) | |||
Revision as of 03:01, 11 April 2008
Regarding the recent changes to various documents, content in those articles should be verbatim, grammar/spelling mistakes and all, no? If typo reports result in getting them corrected in realms, then it's obviously okay to go ahead with changes in the lore article. But otherwise, it is only natural to keep the original text. --Krypton 02:34, 11 April 2008 (GMT)
- I am planning to embark on a MASSIVE typo report in-realms, which will cause the original and the Chronicles text to line up. It may take some time, but eventually everything should be fixed. I do, however, largely agree with your assessment! Being a voracious hater of typos both in realms and out, I plan to correct 'em all. — Kenner 02:36, 11 April 2008 (GMT)
- Unless you wield some awesome, hidden influence I don't know about, I predict you'll have much difficulty trying to get typo reports on things such as that passed. Remember that most documents were penned by the hands of adventurers; thus, the Divine tend to leave the spelling/grammatical/content issues in them for the adventurers to address (namely, leaders of the organisations to which the documents apply). It took how many years for the Charter of Oakstone to resolve its issue of still referring to Demeter as an existing Goddess? --Krypton 02:47, 11 April 2008 (GMT)
- I dunno, I've got typos in adventurer-tailored clothes changed before, and these documents are public or 'official' ones. I will likely file an issue to ask about this, though, if that makes you feel any better. Not just entering TYPO The spelling in Cyrene's laws is terrible!! or putting them in one by tiny one.
- Still, even if the typos aren't fixed, should we really keep them in there? Consistency is important, but the changes were quite minor. Yes, it's the principle of the thing, but ... Meh. If you/Head Chroniclers don't want it changed, though, I'll gladly revert what I did! — Kenner 03:01, 11 April 2008 (GMT)
- Unless you wield some awesome, hidden influence I don't know about, I predict you'll have much difficulty trying to get typo reports on things such as that passed. Remember that most documents were penned by the hands of adventurers; thus, the Divine tend to leave the spelling/grammatical/content issues in them for the adventurers to address (namely, leaders of the organisations to which the documents apply). It took how many years for the Charter of Oakstone to resolve its issue of still referring to Demeter as an existing Goddess? --Krypton 02:47, 11 April 2008 (GMT)