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Hi Luantty, Welcome to Brickimedia! Thank you for the updates to our articles; as you can tell, many of them are out of date, so we're grateful for your contribution!

For some of your articles like Ayrton Senna, it looks like the text may have been sourced from Wikipedia or another wiki; for example, they include in-wiki links to pages like [[Prost-Senna Rivalry]] which Brickipedia (understandably) does not have an article for. Thus, in on this wiki, the link shows up red and dead, even though the page exists on wikipedia. For content that's taken from Wikipedia, there are two important things to note. First, {{Template:Wikipedia}} must be added to the page so that there is proper citation of where the content comes from. Secondly, if you want to preserve the links to Wikipedia for pages that do not have Brickipedia equivalents, you can do so by putting "wp:" in front, e.g., [[wp:Prost-Senna Rivalry]] instead of [[Prost-Senna Rivalry]]. Or, at least, that's how you'd do it in the source editor; I do not know off-hand how to make those links in the visual editor. I'll try to get around to making some of these fixes on Senna's article here eventually, but if you want the practice and beat me to it, that'd also work!

Another couple of things to note about articles like your write-up Dick Grayson as Robin is that we cannot really have both it and Robin (Dick Grayson) as duplicate articles on Brickipedia, so the contents of yours will have to be merged into the original at some point; you can do this if you want, but if not, I'll try to set aside some time in the next month or so to do it (I'm very behind on a lot of other tasks, haha). When the contents are merged, some of the non-LEGO background might be dropped, as it's not something that Brickipedia focuses on too much (since there are other non-LEGO wikis for that). That being said, there was a (very old) forum discussion on whether or not reference photos should be allowed on Brickipedia, so I think that, so long as you follow what that discussion decided on, some reference photos might be fine! Also, if you want to keep a copy of your article exactly as you have already written it, then you are free to create a page like User:Luantty/Dick Grayson as Robin, though perhaps some of the categories would have to be removed to reflect it being a user page.

Finally, on a much less important note, you might be interested in our Manual of Style, which features guidelines on how to structure and format article contents. But this is a much less critical thing than the above points, and sometimes it's good to be bold in editing rather than worrying too much about consistent style. Mostly I wanted to link it in case it helps answer any questions you had while editing!

All that being said, we're grateful for the edits, and none of the above is meant to overwhelm or discourage you! Brickipedia does not have a ton of active editors anymore, with most having moved on to other things like jobs, university, etc. So there are a lot of contents missing, and we're grateful to have the help! If you have any questions or concerns about the above, please feel free to leave me a message on my talkpage and I'd be very happy to reply!

Cheers,

BrickfilmNut (talk) 05:27, 23 November 2024 (UTC)