Thread:Silicon Soldier/@comment-28398369-20160507125409/@comment-25916964-20160508012244

Hi Matt, welcome to Destiny Wiki. Of course, I'd be glad to help.

I guess the best place to start is the revisions to the article in question.
 * 1) Added images flag as the provided image(s) are low quality.
 * 2) *I'm assuming you play on Xbox 360. Getting a quality screenshot on 360 is difficult without image capture hardware, so I can't give much in the way of advice with this point.
 * 3) The screenshot of the chest armor was moved into the infobox's image parameter.
 * 4) *Here it only needs the name of the image (so TwilightGarrisonCloseup.JPG).
 * 5) *For more information about the Armor infobox, see Infobox/Armor.
 * 6) Moved additional image to a newly created gallery section.
 * 7) *This is common practise for additional images in the articles that detail an inventory item on our site, as it makes is significantly easier to maintain the several thousand articles that detail inventory items with automated bots like DestinyWikiBot.
 * 8) Removed the extra lines.
 * 9) *If the infobox is pushing down an image that should be next to a particular paragraph or section, use the Clear template above both the paragraph/section and image. This will achieve the same effect in a much cleaner way.
 * 10) *The Clear template was not used as once the images were moved, there was no need for it.
 * 11) Modified some sentences.
 * 12) *Its difficult to give advice on this point. Generally, these sorts of edits are made when an editor feels as though it can be improved.

Moving on, depending on how good you are at understanding wikitext, I find that the classic editor (when viewing the article in Source Mode, might be the default now, I'm unsure) is generally much more successful with larger or more varied edits compared to the default visual editor, which is more suited to quick minor changes. (in short, the more you mess around in the visual editor, the greater the chance something unexpected happens). For more information on both, see Help:Classic editor and Help:Visual Editor. You can set your preferred editor in preferences, or just use the arrow next to the edit button.

There are several templates on this wiki that may be of use. You can find them all via Category:Templates. All the templates intended for use on articles should have documentation that explains their purpose, and how they are used. There is also some more information on them at Destiny Wiki:Templates.

Another thing to aim for is minimising the number of edits consecutively made to an article. This can be done my using the classic editors preview button to see how the article turns out, or instead using a sub page of your user page like User:Vektorgon/Sandbox as a save space.

Also, when editing always try to adhere to the manual of style.

There is much more I could go on about, but I think I'll stop here.

If you need help in the future, you can look at the terrible Media Wiki technical documentation at Media Wiki or the equally terrible but less technical documentation at Wikia Community Central, the Questions and Answers Forum, one of the Administrators, or just reply to this thread.