User talk:KnackisCack42

Hi, I've received your message, and I'm confused by the assertion of "haphazard editing" and left completely unsure as to what you mean by "all the mistakes" that you say you're correcting (especially since I'm already in the habit of going through the transcripts while playing the respective video whenever I edit a page, so I doubt it's an issue of the transcripts being noticeably wrong on my part). The only recurring thing I've noticed as far as my edits are concerned are various other users abbreviating links to other Fandom pages (which only happens because there's no option in the visual editor to use those abbreviated links that I'm aware of), and some rather contentious removal of italicization that I put in for the sake of including the vocal emphasis as part of the transcript to make the transcript even clearer. I'm open to the idea of altering habits if they actually are interfering with what the wiki aims to do, but your message gives me literally nothing to go on as to what that should be. Artemy Musha (talk) 17:14, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Let me clarify: adding italics is harmless, if a bit annoying. (I don't really care much about vocal emphasis in text.) Even the regional spelling edits are fine. But when you start haphazardly removing commas and semicolons, and/or add unnecessary spaces between paragraphs, that's when problems arise. (E.G. on the Far Cry 6 page, removing the semicolon between "I don't see why I should put the effort in if the game won't" and "tug of war with only one player is just..."). To be fair to you, though, this is from the perspective of a relative newcomer (my first page was Cyberpunk 2077), so maybe I'm missing something. KnackisCack42 (talk) 01:09, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense. I suspect the unnecessary paragraph spacing (assuming I've understood that correctly) is more likely an issue with the visual editor interpreting something wrong, but I nevertheless will correct that wherever it comes up. My rearrangement of the comma splicing during longer run-on sentences is a bit of a trickier issue, particularly when it comes to the hundreds of ZP episodes written before The Escapist started including the transcripts below the video player (and even the official transcripts can still get minor things wrong if my time creating the Extra Punctuation video pages is to be believed), but it's not really set in stone outside of that, so I can axe that habit if necessary. Artemy Musha (talk) 09:27, 5 November 2021 (UTC)