Talk:Main Page

Organization

Clean up the front page list; use a table; check out: http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Main_Page as an example. --Squashua 17:24, 18 January 2006 (EST)

Need some form of organization here. If anything is a duplicate, suffix it with (RPG) or (Fiction) or whatever is appropriate (see Wikipedia and search for "Orion" for examples)

I suggest the following categories:

• Fact
  • History
    • The Development of the Cthulhu Mythos
    • History of the CoC RPG
  • Writers
    • HP Lovecraft
    • August Derleth
    • CJ Henderson
    • etc.
  • Media
    • CoC as Pop Culture
    • Music
      • Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
    • Films
      • Deep Rising
  • Organizations
    • HPLHS
    • etc.

• Fiction
  • Books
    • Name of Book Here
    • Name of Another Book Here
  • Stories
    • The Call of Cthulhu (Fiction)
    • The Dunwich Horror (Fiction)
    • etc.
  • Magazines (Non-Gaming)
    • etc.

• Games
  • Role-Playing Games
    • The Call of Cthulhu (RPG)
      • Rules Books
        • Investigator's Companion
        • Keeper's Compendium I
        • etc.
      • 1890's Setting
      • 1920's Setting
        • Cthulhu Classics
        • Masks of Nyarlothotep
        • etc.
      • Modern Setting
        • Delta Green
        • etc.
      • Magazines
        • Pyramid (Magazine)
        • White Dwarf
        • etc.
    • GURPS Cthulhupunk
  • Video Games
    • Alone in the Dark I
    • Alone in the Dark II
    • Alone in the Dark III
    • CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth
    • etc.
  • Card Games (CCG)
    • Mythos (CCG)
    • Call of Cthulhu (CCG)
    • INWO (CCG)
    • etc.
  • Board Games
    • Arkham Horror (Classic)
    • Arkham Horror (2005)
    • Illuminati (Board Game)
    • Cthulhu 500
    • Cults Across America
    • etc.

Changing the URL

I'd like to suggest changing the URL. Currently the URL is under a wiki subdirectory of Yog-Sothoth. I am under the impression that the laws have changed so that if you OWN a url, you own *.yoururl.com; meaning that this could be changed so that the primary website at www.yog-sothoth.com directs to the PHPNuke site, and that [b]wiki.yog-sothoth.com[/b] directs to the wiki. --Squashua 09:01, 19 January 2006 (EST)

Cthulhu Mythos vs. Mythos Vade Mecum

• I think that the category Cthulhu Mythos would be better than Mythos Vade Mecum; it is much clearer. How will we differentiate between the real life literary discussion of themes and tropes, and the entries that are like those in Encyclopedia Cthulhiana? --Jeff Campbell 10:39, 2 February 2006 (EST)
  • The reason you think that, is because it is much clearer to say "Cthulhu Mythos." Using Latin terms in place of well known and well used English ones is going to keep folks from adding new pages. --phobia @ the Shoggoth Network 11:20, 2 February 2006 (EST)
    • <MORTAL KOMBAT>IT HAS BEEN DONE!</MORTAL KOMBAT> --Squashua 17:36, 2 February 2006 (EST)

• • If we separate fact vs. fiction within the scope of each entry, we should be fine. To every factual entry, we can have a "So and So within the Cthulhu Mythos" section. This could easily work for Historic Locations/Figures, etc. Items that have both fact and fiction entries, such as Aleister Crowley - he appears in Golden Dawn (Adventure) IIRC - can be listed under both Category:Historical Occultists and Category:Tenebrous Persons --Squashua 11:13, 2 February 2006 (EST)

Basic Wiki Rules

Need to establish basic wiki rules of use/conduct. Make sure that people know how to use the wiki. I recomment signing any comment you make as follows: append "--~~~~"; this will produce a signature like the one that follows this paragraph. See Tutorial:Cthulhuwiki Rules. --Squashua 13:48, 19 January 2006 (EST)

The Date/Year Pages

I see that a lot of information has been extracted from the original Wikipedia. Since this is simply a smaller, more-focused, and less-travelled wiki, I recommend that you remove the year pages and stick with each era: 1890s, 1920s, Modern, and link individual years as necessary, leaving only what information would be relevant to the Cthulhu Mythos. The enormous linked list of deaths, etc. is overkill. To summarize: I would recommend cleaning out these pages, outside-linking to the relevant Wikipedia entry from a centralized era page, and keeping internal links as needed. --Squashua 10:46, 31 January 2006 (EST)