Thread:JoePlay/@comment-34588764-20180425225442/@comment-34588764-20180426161443

Thank you very much for fixing the Portal page JoePlay! The wikia has gotten pretty quiet in the past year. Pretty much no one left edits much any more. Mass Effect: Andromeda was a flop of sorts and people just didn't want to add content.

I've only been editing pages for about 4 months and have had to teach myself a brand new set of skills. Mostly I use what someone else has already created as a template and then figure out how they did it. I can then do a websearch for the main wikia help pages and read up on the in and outs. Some of this stuff is so advanced though. I have an ever increasing set of rules to follow built into my head now. I had no clue how to find out what the main top of the page was called or even how to find the pages to look at.

Thank you for the links to the navigation page. I had no idea how to websearch or even what to look for. I tried but all I got was nonsense. The last admin left doesn't provide a lot of help unless you really poke at him and he doesn't like that. His rules are 1. talk to whoever created it first, 2. go do a websearch, and 3. read up/teach yourself first before asking dumb questions, 4. if you make a mistake it will be reverted with little to no explanation and you had better not make that mistake again. It's like being the brand new quality assurance technician with a pointy testing stick at a landmine factory, Oh you know when you did something wrong and you don't do that again. :)

I asked for your help on the portal page because after looking at the history, you were the creator on all of that stuff. Per the admin rule, I should talk to you first. :) I made sure I had everything mocked up first and ready so that you wouldn't have to waste any extra time. (rule 5).

As for the navigation page, that was exactly what I needed. I had to do some math this morning to figure out the 312 total links but now I understand. I will make the modifications to the proposal and talk with the admin again.

Thank you very much for your help and guidance. I know you are a very busy person, get asked a lot of questions all the time, and yet you took the time to give me specific detailed answers to my questions. I wanted you to know that I appreciate that level of detail and support. Have a great day and thanks again. :)