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: 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> (as you suggest). 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)
::: That's good to hear, and I have to agree with you. The "exactly" probably came from the ''Article names'' section of [[Project Gorgon Wiki:Formatting|this page]]. I think I will be updating that section in a day or two, as there is an exception and instance when spelling mistakes should be fixed. That would be when the typo prevents the proper linking of a character/zone/item with a known name. The seemingly important background character of ''Dalvos'' is mistakenly referenced to as ''Davlos'' in some older in-game material. This is leftover from when the character was actually called ''Davlos.'' Citan changed his name back in 2014. There was also at one point an NPC that called the town of [[Sinoca]] by ''Cinoca,'' which was a spelling error that has been fixed. I'll make this sound nicer tomorrow after I get some sleep and, add it as an exception on the Formatting page. Thanks! [[User:BetaNotus|BetaNotus]] ([[User talk:BetaNotus|talk]]) 12:45, 6 May 2017 (CDT)
