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<font face="Century Gothic" color="forestgreen" size="8">Jorey28's Talk Page!

<font size="3" color="white" face="Gabriola">Hello, I'm Jorey28! I see you have stumbled upon my nifty little talk page. First off I must say, Welcome to my Talk Page! Secondly, be appropriate. Finally, remember to leave a header (Heading 2) and your signature (4 ~'s) and I'll check it as soon as I can! Thanks again for reading!

Possible Blog
<p style="text-align:center;">Wassup my DARPies?

<p style="text-align:center;">I'd just like to address an issue I've found, and I think there's a pretty simple way to solve it.

<p style="text-align:center;">There are more than 1,000 templates that do not have categories on them. By my estimate, more than 80% are created by users for characters or personal stuff, nearly 40% or more are talk-bubbles, and about 60% of the templates are actually used. Basically, we need a clean-up with templates, because I don't think we need templates that people don't use.

<p style="text-align:center;"> (Note to admins, I also noticed there are about 90 categories that start with "Db" and I don't know what they're for?)

<p style="text-align:center;">When templates don't have categories, it makes finding old templates that we don't need any more very difficult to find. I think this is pretty important when it comes to site clean-up. But don't worry! I have a solution that can make this easier for everyone!

<p style="text-align:center;">One of the best help we can get to try and accomplish the mission of having less uncategorized templates is categorizing templates belonging to users that are used for users.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Please consider the following:

Word Bubbles
To clean all of this stuff up, can we get every user to find the Word Bubble templates they've created for their characters and add the following categories to them: Also, if there are Word Bubble templates that you had for a character you no longer use, please put the deletion tag on the template. An admin will get to it soon.
 * Category:Word Bubbles
 * Category:USERNAME's Chars (example:Category:Jiskran's Chars)

User signatures
Nearly all users have a signature template (when you put 4 ~'s on a talk page), so please add Category:User Signatures to your template.

User templates
"User templates" basically means templates that are created by users used by users for many things. Lots of users create their own templates for their own personal use all of the time. If you could please categorize your templates Category:User use templates it'd be very much appreciated. Also, if you could try and add categories yourself according what categories you believe should be added to the template, that would also be appreciated.

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="Confused about adding categories to template pages? Click me!" data-collapsetext="hide" style="width:100%>

If you're confused about how to add categories to template pages, it's actually quite simple; at the bottom of the template page, type in , hit enter/return on your keyboard, add your category (example: [[Category:Ding dong] ]), press enter/return on your keyboard, and type in . An example has been provided below:

See? Wasn't too hard, now was it?

Possible New Delete Template
Remember to check what links here and [ the page history] before deleting.

Re-newing Ravenclaw page
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<p style="text-align:center;"><font color="royalblue" face="Brush Script MT Italic">"Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,

<p style="text-align:center;"><font color="royalblue" face="Brush Script MT Italic">If you've a ready mind,

<p style="text-align:center;"><font color="royalblue" face="Brush Script MT Italic">Where those of wit and learning,

<p style="text-align:center;"><font color="royalblue" face="Brush Script MT Italic">Will always find their kind."



<font size="3" color="mediumblue" face="Monotype Corsiva">House Founder - Rowena Ravenclaw

<font size="3" color="mediumblue" face="Monotype Corsiva">House Ghost - The Grey Lady

<font size="3" color="mediumblue" face="Monotype Corsiva">Common Room Location - Ravenclaw Tower

<font size="3" color="mediumblue" face="Monotype Corsiva">Traits - Intelligence, Creativity, Resourcefulness, Cleverness, Knowledge, Wit

<font size="5" color="mediumblue" face="Monotype Corsiva">History of Ravenclaw
<p style="text-align: left;"><font color="darkgoldenrod" face="Trebuchet MS">Professor Rowena Ravenclaw was a Scottish witch who lived in the early Middle Ages. Noted for her cleverness and creativity and regarded as one of the greatest witches of the age, Ravenclaw was one of the four Founders of Hogwarts along with Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin, and was the namesake of Ravenclaw House. She wished to make Hogwarts the very finest wizarding school in the world, and thus had a preference for students with great intellect. Ravenclaw was "beautiful yet slightly intimidating" and her motto was "Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure," something which she engraved on her famous diadem.

<p style="text-align: left;"><font color="darkgoldenrod" face="Trebuchet MS">It is a popular historical theory that the location and name of Hogwarts were both chosen by Ravenclaw, who dreamt that a warty hog was leading her to a cliff by the lake. It is also thought Ravenclaw came up with the ever-changing floor plan.

<p style="text-align: left;"><font color="darkgoldenrod" face="Trebuchet MS">Ravenclaw died sometime into the eleventh century, after she fell fatally ill. Legend had it that a broken heart —from the loss of her daughter, Helena — contributed to her early demise.

<p style="text-align: left;"><font color="darkgoldenrod" face="Trebuchet MS">Rowena is a Latinised form of an old Germanic name: "Fame" (cf. the Anglo-Saxon hrōd, or hrōð), and "Joy", (cf. the Anglo-Saxon wyn(n)), or "Friend", (cf. the Anglo-Saxon wine). Rowena, Queen of Britain, is a figure in Britain's traditional history; she was supposedly the daughter of Hengest and the wife of Vortigern. Ravenclaw is simply 'raven' + 'claw'. A raven is a large black bird that belongs to the crow family; however, Ravenclaw's symbol is an eagle. In legend, ravens are known to be smart birds; Ravenclaws are known to be wise and quick learners.

<font size="5" color="mediumblue" face="Monotype Corsiva">Quotes
<font color="darkgoldenrod" face="Trebuchet MS">Feel free to add some quotes, and yes, even character quotes!

Interview Questions for Kinsel

 * How did you decide that Orion Tulen would be acceptable to return to Hogwarts?
 * Don't you believe that students at Hogwarts will be in danger with Orion there?
 * What does the Auror Office think of your decision?
 * How do you think other parents will react to Orion being reaccepted?
 * Orion will be returning to Hogwarts for his Sixth year, is that correct?
 * What will students think of Orion's return?
 * Orion will have a hard time fitting in with his peers, how do you think this will affect his learning, and the other student's?

New Char page Format
This is what I want in a char page: So if I put those into different sections it could be: Now let's get how it'll look by using Alrick Kunze...
 * History.
 * Personality.
 * Appearance.
 * Includes gallery
 * Likes and Dislikes.
 * Relations.
 * Basic Info.
 * OOC Info.
 * Word Bubble
 * Model
 * Role-Player (Colin687)
 * Skills.
 * Best Subjects and Spell List.
 * Traits.
 * Family.
 * History
 * Personality + Appearance
 * Personality
 * Appearance
 * Info
 * Basic Info
 * Likes and Dislikes
 * Skills
 * Traits
 * OOC Info
 * Relations
 * Relations
 * Family
 * Relationships

Char Page
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<div style="font-size:450%; font-family:'Courier new'; text-align:center; padding:3px; -moz-border-radius:3ex; border-radius:3ex;"> Alrick Kunze

<div style="font-size:250%; font-family:'Courier New'; text-align:center; padding:3px; -moz-border-radius:3ex; border-radius:3ex;"> Director of the Daily Prophet

Role-Played by Colin687. Bio=

<div style="font-size:150%; font-family:'monotype corsiva'; text-align:center; padding:3px; -moz-border-radius:1ex; border-radius:1ex;">"It is our choices that show who we truly are far more than our abilities."

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On a Saturday Spring evening in the Hog's Head while talking to Morgan, a patronus message had arrived to the place informing Alrick that his father had died. Of course, Alrick was still furious about his father abandoning him, so he attempted in pretending he didn't care. Eventually he went to St. Mungo's where his father's body had been (with Morgan) and learned how he'd died. Apparently to the healers, he had been stung by a manticore and the venom (unusually) was eating him up slowly, rather than instantaneous. Not only that, but he'd been attacked before his death.

Later that night, Alrick had arranged a plan to get into Shadow's home and get some answers. To find his location, Alrick needed Morgan to help him get there and ask the questions while he lay under the invisibility cloak his father had given him when he was eight. After further discussion, Morgan had told Alrick that she had rejoined her father at which point they had an immense argument and fought. Alrick left soon after. After Morgan helped Alrick figure out who killed his mother, the two, including her fiance/husband Sebastion, and their daughter Lili, moved in with him after he graduated from Hogwarts.

After two years of being in a relationship, Raya and Alrick had broken up. Alrick had gotten a job at the Daily Prophet and Raya had gotten really invested in her job. The two just started to split apart, and they split paths.

After Raya and Alrick split up, Alrick got really invested in his work at the Daily Prophet. He spent most of his time there, working on big stories. One day, a cute girl named Finley Maddox had started to work at the Prophet. Alrick and Fin met, and had an odd way of hating eachother that was both playful and mean at the same time. They started to get along well in their work, and Alrick had started to have feelings for her.

One night, as Fin and Alrick were leaving work, Fin's boyfriend at the time, Alex, came by to pick her up. He suspected that Alrick and Fin were a thing. Alrick saw what was happening. Alex shoved Fin down on the ground, and Alrick yelled at him. Fin told Alrick he should go, and Alrick started to, and then Alex and Fin pulled out their wands on eachother. Alrick predicted it and used the Expelliarmus jinx to get their wands away. Alrick then charged at Alex and tackled him. As he went to make sure Fin was ok, Alex got his wand and sent a spell at fin. Alrick jumped in the way, and it cut him. He'd used Sectumsempra. Alrick, furious, went back over to Alex and started punching him as hard as he could, until eventually he passed out from the loss of blood.

After that night, Fin and Alex had split up, and Alrick was made the Director of the Daily Prophet. Alrick has also now asked Fin if she would like to get a cup of tea with him some night.

Even though Alrick was sure he was crazy about Fin, things just didn't click between the two of them. They didn't enjoy all of the same things, stuff like that, so they went there seperate ways. Fin decided that she wanted more time on her radio show, so she quit the Daily Prophet, and Alrick hasn't heard from her since.

Morgan and Alrick got into a big fight over what she's been doing with her free time one night, and Morgan decided to move out. Alrick hasn't heard anything from her other than getting an owl that he was no longer the godfather.

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<div style="font-size:150%; font-family:'monotype corsiva'; text-align:center; padding:3px; -moz-border-radius:1ex; border-radius:1ex;">"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

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Testing Char page Templates

 * Find a way to get those paragraphs so they are litterally invisible when not in use!


 * Add the other stuff to the template!