Talk:Mines and mining sites

About all of these are ripped straight from Runescape's Knowledge Base! user talk:Dreadnought 18:32, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Merger
See Talk:Mines for discussion. 03:13, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

this page
I think there should be an article about Mines. Or perhaps a redirect to Mining. But I think there is too much information in that page for people who only want to know what each mine contain and its location. Aurora sword 08:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I think this page is neat, with the chart and all!--Atlantima 18:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Merger
I think Mines and Mining sites should perhaps be the same article, as they both seem to document where the mines are and what ores can be found there. About the only difference is that one has a text table and the other has graphics, but I think there should be some satisfactory way of putting both into one article. 03:14, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Disagree. This page is now much more comprehensive that the section in the mining article, and it would make that article too big if merged there. Inelcirc 21:00, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Creating pages
There are quite a lot of red links in this article. Should we create an article for each mine that is red-linked? 15:55, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. 15:57, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay then, I'll start some of them. 15:59, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Coal colour
The coal colour on the chart is green-can someone change this to someithing mor eappropritate, maybe changing font colour as well?

Members-only Mines
Could we have a section on the chart saying "Members Only?" (yes/no) Or perhaps 2 seperate articles wiht a disambiguation page??

Changing Mines names
This is following on from a discussion between Degenret, Inelcirc and Super awesome happy dude. It is located on Degen's talk page if for some reason you ever have an urge to read it.

The names of mines are very inconsistent, and need to be cleaned up imo. The game guide names each and every mine in RuneScape, though the only way to see this name is to hover your mouse over each individual image and/or reading the image file names. This is a list of everything that will have to be moved for both my convenience and so that people can know why I am doing what I plan on doing.

Game guide free mining site

I will add a members table another time. 02:48, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
 * For the ones that do not match we can just do page moves right? Page moves will change every link to a page and direct it to the new page?--Degenret01 03:50, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
 * Moving doesn't automatically update all the links that like to it, since if it did then there might be 100s of pages that would be changed without any human monitoring the changes. I find it easier to change all the redirects so that they are not double redirects as well as change a few minor pages where it matters (such as the navbox). Every page just about would need to be edited because they all say the page name on them. 04:33, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for being the guy that doesn't totally get it, this just isn't something I have done much (any?) of in my time here (but I do want to help with this). So to spell it out step by step instructions (where this is wrong just modify it, instead of adding afterward). Ya?--Degenret01 10:16, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
 * Page move to proper name
 * Change every redirect to redirect to the new page, as to prevent double redirects.
 * If there are obvious easy mistakes in the name (such as southeast instead of south-east), then create redirects for them.
 * As each is done we should strike it out in the list you have above.
 * For the second point, I prefer to just change any redirects to save time. The only time that you will need to change every link is if you are splitting a page since clicking on links will result in you going to the wrong pages. I also added a redirect step. And the last 2 don't need changing. 05:48, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * At this point I am (at least temporarily) conceding that I don't have the foggiest regarding the tricky hidden aspects of templates. I just don't get how when I can click one and its empty, how is it linking to the first page to begin with? When nothing is there? What? Reading the source material Az provided failed to illuminate me and...well, basically, I can do moves and link fixing except where said links go to or from a template. If me doing this will just make it harder for people as I would only be doing half the job on a page, then I will get off this project. Anyone else working on it say how you want it to make it work easiest for you.--Degenret01 14:36, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * After a bit more playing, I realize although I still can't undo template links, I can add the new ones in. So I will do all I can, and worry about taking away the old templates later.--Degenret01 16:19, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
 * I have the solution, you don't need to change links when they are on templates such as navboxs. Wait until later today, then I will get all the members mine names and change the navbox template, which should remove a large chunk of the links. 03:11, December 15, 2009 (UTC)

Members mining sites


 * Desert Mining Camp underground mine doesn't exist in the game guide, though the surface mine does.
 * There are many Keldagrim mining sites which are grouped together in the Game guide without a proper name. We might have to invent one for it.

I will remove the red links after I have changed the navbox. 09:47, December 15, 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, when I change the navbox, I will redirect every un-moved page to keep the navbox in working condition. 09:50, December 15, 2009 (UTC)