Thread:Roscoe Coaltrane/@comment-37223231-20190309193241/@comment-35249357-20190312044751

Tense is something that is edited by others on my contributions. It *should* all be past tense, but I don't think it always has to be. Especially where things get difficult when Captain Atom meets his past self, but in his future. But generally, yeah. "He did". "After she said." Etc

Thanks for clarifying my comments. I thought Custer meant Cassidy because of the flow of the story, that's all. For using broken-down names, I am sure that there's a style guide under 'Community' that's useful : https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/DC_Database:Manual_of_Style. I try to use codenames for clearly 'professional' life events (eg "Superman beat Mxyzptlk") and civilian names for more personal events or feelings. ("Clark wrote about beating Mxyzptlk.").

As for 'why didn't I preview'. That's prolly half my edits. The other half are Earth-One El family members. A few suggestions: (apart from 'Hit Preview!)

Under 'Following' in your personal profile, do you have a User Page called 'Empjoker/Sandbox?' If not, ask one of the admins for one. It gives you your own 'secret' personal wiki page to use to edit and perfect your work before copying and posting on the Database, if that helps.

It's also handy to have a notebook of wikitext that you often use. , , , , ,  etc. Check https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Index and https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Contents if you haven't already. I have such a thing because I pre-write my pages in Notes or in Word while sitting on the subway (or at work. Shhh.). My craziest thing so far is the template in the House of El page. Big time graph paper!

And no, you haven't ruined anything for me! I still look forward to Preacher after I knock off some more of my fave guy Metamorpho. Looking for grit, you must have already read Sin City and I know you've read Constantine.

As far as the links in a characters history, if they a part of a larger story as Jesse Custer is, and you are copying much of the same information, you can provide a briefer summary and cite the main wiki article. Check out Kal-El (Prime Earth). And you see that the wikitext creates a hotlink to the larger article called Superman and the Men of Steel that has been summarized.

Again, this is mostly brute-Force editing. There's visual editing, which I don't begin to understand, and many advanced features of wikitext and templates you'll see in Help. Good luck. I see God (Preacher) doesn't have a history. Ironic.