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I had not been linking, changing case, or correcting any spelling inside quest texts. My understanding was that we should provide the text from dialogs exactly as provided by the game, without any further manipulation. Mentioning because I noticed you made such changes recently on [[Find an Amethyst]]. '''Summary''' information is directly from Quest Journal and, of course, the '''Preface''' text is from dialogue with the NPC. I ask this question because I seem to be the only one adding the quest text to quests. :) [[User:Arindor|Arindor]] ([[User talk:Arindor|talk]]) 09:35, 6 May 2017 (CDT)
: Good question. The only reason I made those changes was to improve connections between pages on the wiki. There were a few players in-chat last night that requested improved information on Amethysts, so I added a few links between pages to hopefully alleviate some of their concerns. In my opinion, it would be beneficial for users of the wiki if editors were to link to wiki pages of items, characters, and locations that appear in the Quest '''Summary''' information. To preserve spelling and capitalization, [[Amethyst|things could be linked like this, which would work]]. What is your opinion? [[User:BetaNotus|BetaNotus]] ([[User talk:BetaNotus|talk]]) 11:50, 6 May 2017 (CDT)
:: In my opinion, I think linking and even correcting are fine, as long as we stay "faithful" to the intent of the developers. I am asking the question because I thought I saw somewhere (perhaps in one of the templates?) to quote '''exactly''' as written, and not to attempt to correct. Final opinion (just a grammatical item), I think technically it should be amethysts and not Amethysts in the text; in those cases use <nowiki>[[Amethyst|amethyst]]</nowiki>. But opinions aside, I'm happy conforming to whatever standard we choose! [[User:Arindor|Arindor]] ([[User talk:Arindor|talk]]) 12:19, 6 May 2017 (CDT)