Editing User talk:Ibraesil

== Capitalization ==
Hello. I have noticed that you have done a great job with the articles. Specially with the grammar. As I am not a native English speaker, some of the grammar rules are confusing to me. You recently have changed capitalization of secondary skills. For example, in [[Alamar]] you changed expert Scholar to <b>E</b>xpert Scholar. While I do not doubt that it is correct, I am interested in why it so? Why not justa advanced or expert Scholar? And to be honest, I do not undestand why secondary skills' first letter is capital. :) –[[User:Kapteeni Ruoska|Kapteeni Ruoska]] ([[User talk:Kapteeni Ruoska|talk]]) 06:29, 8 September 2015 (CEST)

:Thank you.  I remember seeing it being capitalised elsewhere on the wiki (for example on the [[Scouting]] page, it says, "The following heroes all start with Basic Scouting:" and, "The following heroes all start with Advanced Scouting:").  I don't have a physical copy of the manual, but according to [http://www.student.oulu.fi/~mioja/Hum/H3Manual.pdf this pdf] copy of the manual (pages 35-39), it lists the effects for "Basic", "Advanced" and "Expert" versions of each skill, rather than "basic", "advanced" and "expert".  Also [http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Heroes-of-Might-Magic-III-HD-Edition-Review-471496-19.jpg this screenshot] and [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue60/misc/andreiana/homm_astral.jpg this screenshot] of gameplay use capitals.  I could well be wrong in thinking that it should be capitalised (none of those examples were in the middles of sentences), but I think it's safe to assume that they should be capitalised.   [[User:Ibraesil|Ibraesil]] ([[User talk:Ibraesil|talk]]) 08:11, 8 September 2015 (CEST)

::I do have that same PDF-manual, and that is reason enough for me to write them with capitals. :) –[[User:Kapteeni Ruoska|Kapteeni Ruoska]] ([[User talk:Kapteeni Ruoska|talk]]) 08:31, 8 September 2015 (CEST)

::: From what I can tell, the game designers are attempting to follow the rules of English in the manuals, but they do make a few mistakes. For example, the word 'angels' is capitalized at the beginning of sentences and also when it's part of a title. Everywhere else it's lowercase, with the exception being once in the tutorial manual when 'Archangels' is randomly used in the middle of a sentence (however, in the very next paragraph, it's back to 'archangels'). So if we are following the manual, we are also actually following the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(capitalization) wikipedia capitalization conventions]</span>. Like Ibraesil mentioned on the [[Talk:Crypt|Crypt talk]] page, the problem is deciding when something is considered a proper noun by the game designers. For this we can search the [[Word_list_from_the_manuals|word list]] and if it is unclear, we might need to check the [[:Category:Manuals|manuals]] to see the context and decide if it has been most consistently used as a proper noun or not. For each subject, we can put our decisions in the [[Capitalization Reference|capitalization reference]].
::: --[[user:imahero|imahero]] 22:38, 7 January 2017 (CET)


::::: I think most of what we see are the creature names being used in titles. It makes them look weird when they're in the middle of a sentence lowercase. This is probably how it should be, but I'm fine with whatever at this point.
::::: --[[user:imahero|imahero]] 07:37, 12 January 2018 (CET)

:::::: That's a possibility I hadn't considered.  It is also easier to have them capital, though, because that's how the wiki is at the moment, and it'd take a lot of effort to change everything [[User:Ibraesil|Ibraesil]] ([[User talk:Ibraesil|talk]]) 07:42, 12 January 2018 (CET)

::::::: I couldn't help myself looking through the manual, and it does seem like creature names are lowercase, when they're not used in titles.  [[User:Ibraesil|Ibraesil]] ([[User talk:Ibraesil|talk]]) 07:59, 12 January 2018 (CET)

== Starting spells ==
Just to be sure, have we set all the starting spells for all the heroes? –[[User:Kapteeni Ruoska|Kapteeni Ruoska]] ([[User talk:Kapteeni Ruoska|talk]]) 06:56, 16 February 2016 (CET)

:I've just finished going through the heroes in the Rampart Heroes Template, etc (for all the towns), and they have all been done, except [[Gem]].  Gem has been done, but [[Gem#Campaign New Beginning|Gem the Sorceress]] doesn't (because there is only one Hero template for that article).  I can't be sure about other heroes (Like, for instance, [[Ordwald]]), although I did just find Allison via Category:Campaign who has not been done, so I'll fix that article up after this. [[User:Ibraesil|Ibraesil]] ([[User talk:Ibraesil|talk]]) 08:41, 16 February 2016 (CET)

::Ok, good. Personally I am not too interested in these storyline characters like Gem the Sorceress, but I do not mind about them as long as they do not interfier with the "default settings". –[[User:Kapteeni Ruoska|Kapteeni Ruoska]] ([[User talk:Kapteeni Ruoska|talk]]) 06:47, 23 February 2016 (CET)


== <span class=plainlinks>[http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/index.php?title=Market_of_Time&diff=prev&oldid=20483 Market of Time]</span> ==

 however it was intended to let visiting heroes to unlearn secondary skills.
I'm curious as to your what your source is for this information. Do you have a link to a source or is this something you were personally involved with? ―[[user:imahero|imahero]] 19:56, 6 August 2018 (CEST)

:I have no real source.  I added that line to the article for consistency across articles - it says the same thing in the [[secondary skill]] article (4th paragraph, 2nd sentence).  Kapt. Ruoska added the information there, but I'm not sure how best to contact them any more. [[User:Ibraesil|Ibraesil]] ([[User talk:Ibraesil|talk]]) 03:10, 7 August 2018 (CEST)