Ok, i have started the Efu wikipedia page, and done quite a bit. But anyone else who knows wikipedia mind helping me out a little?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_the_underdark

Remember though, anything that could be taken as biased or controversial cite to avoid deletion of the page. Feel free to add pictures, but try to add 2 paragraphs of text for 1 image to avoid clutter. Thanks for any help, I'm still going to continue to work on it also.

Hammerfist, you're contributing more and more to EfU every day!

Thanks! :wink: I'll try to add to the page-if I can figure out some of the more confusing parts of Wikipedia editing.

-Ace

You used my screenshot :) I feel loved.

I editted it pretty extensively. It mirrors the content on the site now. Take it or leave it.

why dosent Efu have its own forums and website?

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www.escapefromunderdark.com

Dr Dragon why dosent Efu have its own forums and website?

Stop trolling us, Dr Dragon.

Metro_Pack ...

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Lulz DrD.

The Wikipedia page is immense.

Alas, it will likely be culled.

Okay, several pointers to the people who made this, especially to Terry if he edited it heavily:

- Don't talk about "us" or "our world" in a Wikipedia article. This should have been obvious; Wikipedia is a dictionary, not a collection of advertisements.

- Linking keywords internally to other Wiki articles is especially important in the case of an article that is likely to be labeled as "not important enough" and then promptly deleted. The first paragraph is critical in this regard, yet no one had wikilinked such words as "Neverwinter Nights", "Forgotten Realms" or "Underdark" -- and the most important name of all that your average Wikipedia reader might recognize, Dungeons & Dragons, wasn't so much as mentioned in the whole article.

- On the same note, linking other articles to yours is even more important if you want to show that the article is important enough. Not only does it distinguish the article through Wikipedia's structure, but it also increases the visitor count of the page. As I'm writing this, the article is placed in only one category (multiplayer online games).

- You can't expect the average person to know what such acronyms as "PC" (in this context) or "OOC" mean. You have to spell them out and preferably even link them to the appropriate articles, if such exist.

- How important are details such as the current sheriff of the Watch or the current leader of the Spellguard to your average reader who's never played on EfU? Paying too much attention to irrelevant details such as these only reinforces the impression that the article has been written as an advertisement.

Lastly, everyone should make sure that they've got the code of the page copied somewhere so that the article can just be posted back if it gets deleted. I'm not sure if that's allowed, so make sure you do it from a public computer >.> (save the page in an email account)

It's a rather informative page nevertheless as it is currently, kudos to all who contributed -- it just needs some additional work if you want there to be even the chance that it won't get deleted. It also still needs to look more like a dictionary entry and less like the server's homepage: pay attention to the perspective as you write. (This doesn't mean, of course, that you couldn't take advantage of the information provided on EfU's website.) The "server features" -part requires particular attention, too many emphatical, ad-like adjectives are used even after I corrected all the "we"/"us"/"our" sentences.

Edit: I decided to delete the part about server features, it needs to be redone completely anyways (if at all) and was putting the page in bad light due to the way it was copied directly from www.escapefromunderdark.com.

Feel free to edit it as much as you want. I like your changes. I just changed the page to reflect the content on our site, I didn't really take the time to start linking other pages.

Anthee Okay, several pointers to the people who made this, especially to Terry if he edited it heavily: .

Yeah, my hair kinda stood on end when i saw that also. You seem to have fixed it... kinda. Ill see if i can make it more encyclopedic later today though. :)

I fixed mostly the first paragraph and added some internal links, the bulk of the article still needs to be fixed and links added to other, relevant articles.

The whole page will probably be culled, but I can't help but point out that it should be "Escape from the Underdark" not "Escape from the underdark"

Avilis has a wikipage and so do most PW's. It wont be culled. (I think/hope)

I hacked away some of the worse areas. This might take a few days, lol. :lol:

Hammerfist0 Avilis has a wikipage and so do most PW's.

These kind of articles always run into notability issues.

Howl: I noticed that too, but unfortunately I'm not sure how the entry name could be changed. Can't be done via regular editing, anyways.

Bad news, folks.

If you can find notable references to EfU other than the Bioware interview that was done a while back, now's the time to dig 'em up.

Why not post it on NWN Wiki? A LOT of PW's have pages there, and It wouldn't likely be taken down due to "lack of real world references"

Just a thought.