Topic on User talk:Jason taylor

Advice on writing an example.

When adding an example, such as you recently did on Noble Savage, don't just drop a character name and assume everyone will know who he is. And don't misspell the name while you're at it. Examples on trope pages must have the name of the work in which they appear and where possible the name(s) of the work's creator(s). I have fixed your entry about Alan (with one "L") Breck Stewart on Noble Savage by providing this information and more -- were you aware that Stewart was a real person used as a Historical Domain Character by Stevenson?

While we appreciate the enthusiasm with which you have been contributing to the wiki, I personally would prefer it if you were to slow down a bit and take the time to make sure your punctuation, spelling, grammar and facts were correct.

Yes I was aware of the fact. But the Stewart in the novel was pretty much a construct of Stevenson's.

The point here is that you need to provide the work and the author. The character name by itself means nothing.

OK, thank you.

You're welcome.

aka "^[context?]"

Could you please elaborate?

What TBeholder is saying is that we have a special markup tag to put on deficient examples: {{Context}} puts that little superscripted "[context?]" link in the page, and also puts the page in a list of pages which have sloppy, incomplete examples so someone can find and fix it. If you are familiar with how we do things here -- which you weren't, five months ago -- it's a shortcut for saying what I did in more words and full sentences.

That is fine. I hope I have fixed it.