User talk:Ackleygc

Promotion

• Thanks for adding all these previously missing Moria quests! :)

The Wiki is successful because of dedicated fans like yourself.

You have been promoted - see: Ninja.

• Tip: when creating a new page, use the Article Management Tag: {{Stub/Construction|[[User Talk <User-name>]]}}

--Tharondir (talk) 07:29, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

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Calendar

Hey, the idea of the calendar sounds like a god idea, I don't know if you're still working on it at all but all I have done was move the page from the MAIN site into what will be a 'calendar' sandbox page off of your user name. This is quite a common thing for users to utilise. The page was move to User:Ackleygc/Calendar. This also helps with categorisation of pages whilst being worked on. Thanks,

Ketrez (talk) 09:48, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Editor

I've bumped your wiki rights to Editor. Thank you for your continued contributions to the wiki! --Tharondir (talk) 06:54, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Creating instances and quest formatting

Hi. You are doing a great job in creating the new harvest quests and the quest groups. There are a couple of things you should look at to improve your output quality:

• When creating an instance use the Quest: page type - they should appear as "Quest:instance: <name>"
• You don't quite have the formatting correct for the Objectives and speech sections - see the changes I have done to Quest:The Haunting of Wistmead. I captured the missing text for you a well.

Keep up the good work!! Noddi (talk) 05:29, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Yearly Travels Quest

Hi Ackleygc!

I reverted the changes you made to Quest:Eriador Year 5 Travels: Bodies of Water. The reason is that there are two different versions of these (and the similar) quests; those with 'Eriador' in the name differ from the others in that they only have quest objectives in Eriador, such that they are to be "reachable by characters of any level". LotroCompanion confirms this differentiation as well.

It seemed from the changes you made that you had confused the two versions and were, in fact, playing through the full version of this quest (i.e. without 'Eriador' in its name), as the quest objectives and other additions you made were more consistent with that one and very much outside Eriador. :D
Hence why I reverted the changes, to once again separate the two different quests. :)
--Stargazer (talk) 09:48, 25 April 2022 (UTC)