User talk:Moose N. Squirrel

Introducing myself

As the name implies I have an interest in cartooning and animation. I find myself seeking information/criticism on Western pop culture generally, including comic books, music, movies, television, novels, advertising campaigns; anything that creeps into mass conscious/gestalt gets my antennae wiggling. Finding reliable information in these realms is particularly tricky because the source of the topic can sometimes be the major source of misinformation ( see Salvador Dali or Nico). In fact, a long tradition of lazy journalism being given a pass by print editors when the subject is pop culture is a likely explanation for the popularity of Wikipedia.--Moose N. Squirrel (talk) 22:44, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hello! Thanks for your comments on my user page - and I couldn't agree more about the "help" pages - I broadly picked things up by browsing through a page in "edit this page" format and guessing what the coding meant..! The benefit of your user page (and better yet - you can also add a forward slash and create a SUB user page to test things out on - you can use User:Moose N. Squirrel/Test for example) and the "official" Wikipedia:Sandbox test page is that you can trial things without messing with the "real" pages.
I'll give you a quick heads-up, though, if you're interested - there's really very little coding or programming required for the most part and what little there is is reasonably straight forward, overall:

• (Asterisks make bullet points, by the by, and adding additional asterisks indents the bullet)
• Two square brackets either side of a key phrase creates a link to that page. So [[Dark Horse Comics]] goes to Dark Horse Comics (and using one of the few 'code' aspects "<nowiki>" and "</nowiki>" allows you to type the code and have it appear on the page).
  • If you want to link to a page but use a different "link word", you wimply create the link as above, but insert a "|" between the PAGE LINK (left) and your word (right). So you can make a link to Dark Horse that reads "link" by typing "[[Dark Horse Comics|link]]".
• Single speech marks "'" are the major tool - two either side of a word makes it italicized, three either side emboldens the word (and five does both).
• A colon indents the text (N.B. Indenting it yourself with tabs and spaces causes slight formatting problems, so you should try to avoid that) and two indent it further, etc.
• Carriage returns can be made by leaving a line's gap, or can be forced by using the 'code' <br> at the end of a line.
• Other than that it's really only the double "=" to create headers (and then triple creates a sub-header, etc.) that is worth knowing - very little else matters much. (And if it does, someone will likely mention it.)

I'd be more than happy to help you incorporate your Legend comments, and/or do it for you if you'd prefer to leave comments either on my talk page, or User:Ntnon/Legend.

Hope I haven't confused things further for you! It can look complex, but winds up being reasonably straight forward for the most part. ntnon (talk) 00:19, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

N.B. Your introduction above might be better suited to being copied onto your "actual" User page, which is Moose N. Squirrel

Sources might be tricky but there is Dark Horse Comics: The First Twenty Years (see the reference section of Dark Horse) - a library should be able to get a copy for you and it should be a gold mine for background. Not neutral but it'd certainly provide their side of the story. (Emperor (talk) 20:16, 18 June 2008 (UTC))