User talk:Takedown

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Hey, your page Takedown was moved to User:Takedown/Bio because it did not meet the requirements to be an official page on the site. SO, instead of deleting it we moved it for you so you can edit it still. Also, please don't say editor for us since you're not an official staff member on the site. Please say something like volunteer. If you have any questions in general or about why your page was taken down then please contact me and ask. --Ghost (talk) 03:42, 1 October 2016 (UTC)

Page Feedback
Hey, Jarrett will talk to you, but here are a couple pieces of feedback.


 * Don't delete unused section headings, as they exist to preserve order.
 * Please try to avoid the word "would" in biographies. Instead of X would go on to Y and Z would go on to A etc, just write X did Y and Z would do A, keeping everything in the past tense.
 * Try not to add too much detail to any page about any one given tournament; only include information that will continue to be pertinent months (or years) later; this stops the page from getting clogged, and all of the details can be seen by viewing the tournament pages directly.

Thanks! --RheingoldRiver (talk) 08:53, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Stress (and the others)
Let me first say that I appreciate your input. However, to be frank, the biography parts, specifically, were far too detailed and written in a format far removed from the style we prefer to present on this site, which was agreed upon by River and myself. While I appreciate the fact that you took an hour to write them, I do not have the time to go over the bios you wrote and spend upwards of half an hour essentially entirely rewriting them in the site's format, so I kept the raw info (tournament placings, etc) and deleted all of the unnecessary paragraphs about irrelevant online tournaments. How do you think OGRE2's page would look if we had long paragraphs about every event he's ever taken part in, with detailed descriptions of each match and the players on each team they faced? It's entirely unnecessary.

I also have no idea where you got that "8,400 views were lost" statistic. I think you might be confusing that with the amount of data I removed from the page. I recommend going over some of the pro players' pages which I maintain on a semi-weekly basis for an idea of how to do a properly written bio. If you have any further questions feel free to contact myself or River on Skype or Twitter, but please refrain from reverting my edits in the future. Ahawowow (talk) 11:04, 10 November 2016 (UTC)