User:Stargazer

I started reading Brandon's works in 2015 and have been following the community on and off since then. I finally decided to start contributing here in 2019. I'm using this page to keep some resources. I also have a few Subpages for working on big changes to articles that aren't ready to go in the actual article yet.

I'm also a Keeper, which I guess means I'm qualified to answer questions about how to do wiki things or how to handle weird situations. Feel free to contact me on my talk page or on our Coppermind editors Discord server (I'm Stargazer#6905 there if you want to ping me or would feel better direct messaging me).

My thousandth edit came in the middle of a spree to fix the book parameter in all the Skyward infoboxes (I note that only so that I can remember in five years exactly which page it was).

Stormlight Major Characters History Status

• Kaladin: Pretty detailed through end of OB part 1, though there might be some gaps. Nothing past that.
• Shallan: Pretty detailed until departure for Kholinar in OB, extremely light past that.
• Dalinar: Fairly detailed through WoR and very beginning of OB, nothing really past that.
• Venli: Short, though I think everything's just about there. Could maybe use more detail, since she's going to be the main character.
• Eshonai: The basics are there, more detail might be good though. Since she's dead, maybe it's worth trying to complete this so that the only thing left after RoW is whatever flashbacks she gets?
• Adolin: Extremely detailed through WoR, OB barely started.
• Szeth: Looks pretty good actually.
• Renarin: Practically nothing from WoK or WoR, minimal OB content (Part 1 might be covered okay, but that's it).
• Jasnah: Looks okay through WoR, very basics of OB look like they're there, but could use more detail.
• Navani: In pretty good shape; some attention wouldn't hurt, but I think it'd be okay if it doesn't get much.

List of Commonly Linked to Disambigs

• Kholin
• Sadeas
• Red
• Veil
• Radiant
• Wyrn
• Sand master
• Khal
• Mistborn
• Patji
• Diagram
• Lightweavers
• Krell
• Rira

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Projects

Personal

• Cosmere: Was updating some references here and saw it could use some help. See User:Stargazer/Cosmere for work in progress and Small Workspace below for outline. Mostly revisions left; hoping to wrap this up fairly soon.
• Re-check the type of infobox on whatever we end up calling the article for the delver training maze after Skyward 3 comes out.
• Updating the new articles from Starsight (most pages are created, just need to be filled in):
  • Make sure species names and variations of "cytonic" are lowercase. Biggest offenders are probably Category:Defending Elysium
  • {{character}} needs to be updated for new species (and worlds?), but that's not something I'm going to try doing
  • Check world parameter; I think we said this should be homeworld, not wherever the species happens to appear
• Move Death Rattles not from epigraphs from The Way of Kings/Epigraphs to Death Rattles. Death Rattles page might need reorganizing.
• Look into editing {{wob ref}} to auto-tag all articles with unimported WoBs
• Maybe update our picture of Brandon, maybe with this: [1]
• Upload missing Alcatraz full covers (Book 1, Book 2).
• Organize Coppermind:Artists/taratjah's tarot cards, but that also requires working out galleries
• Consider making redirects for commonly searched pages (see Special:SearchStats).
• Tanavast and Honor: Working out the difference between Vessel and Shard pages and adding detail. Haven't actually gotten to work on this, but work in progress will be at User:Stargazer/Tanavast and User:Stargazer/Honor. See Rayse and Odium for general split between Vessel and Shard.
• Things I've noticed may need some help while working on the cosmere page and may try to work on later:
  • Realmatic Theory
  • Splinter
  • Cognitive Shadow
• Other articles to maybe work on some day
  • Elendel#Government
  • Summary:Sixth of the Dusk
  • Sigzil

General quality

• Fix Category:Sidequote with lazy parameters (User:King of Herdaz took care of these, but check them occasionally for new ones)
  • Is it worth trying to change the sidequote template to eliminate this (assuming that's what does this)? I'm not sure how helpful it is.
• Articles in need of help: See Category:Articles in need of attention, Category:Articles in need of citations, Category:Articles in need of clarification, Category:Articles missing information, Category:Articles with disputed content.
• Removing disambiguation page links. All of the ones not in the User namespace are gone, but recheck every so often. See Category:Disambiguation pages and Special:DisambiguationPageLinks.
• Check articles linking to {{17s ref}}, {{Qa ref}} (should only be User pages left), {{Twg ref}}, and {{Sots ref}}.
• Other: See list at Special:SpecialPages, especially Special:BrokenRedirects and Special:DoubleRedirects.
• Check on Category:Current discussions tags; these can probably be removed. Also check the underlying template.
• Find chapters for Category:Chapterless references.
• Go through articles with merge suggestions.
• Add links to Summary:Skyward.
• Review articles. List of {{complete}} articles that interest me separately, but also look through the ones in Category:Once reviewed

De-stubbing the cosmere (Last checked 2020-02-01):

• Coppermind:Elantris#Stubs (0 stubs)
• Coppermind:Emperor's Soul#Stubs (0 stubs)
• Coppermind:Mistborn Era 1#Stubs (1 stubs)
• Coppermind:Mistborn Era 2#Stubs (<20 stubs)
• Coppermind:Stormlight Archive#Stubs (0 stubs)
• Coppermind:Warbreaker#Stubs (0 stubs)
• Coppermind:White Sand#Stubs (1 stub)
• Coppermind:Cosmere#Stubs (<5 stubs from short stories and general cosmere)

Subpages

• User:Stargazer/Cosmere
• User:Stargazer/EC
• User:Stargazer/Top Level Cats
• User:Stargazer/Tanavast
• User:Stargazer/Honor

Small Workspace (Currently for cosmere revisions)

Note: I'm not putting too much effort into layout (sidequotes and images mostly) just yet, because the text isn't set in stone steel yet and if it changes that could impact layout. I do intend to add more though, especially images.

Outline
Code: Not Started, Started, Written; Needs Extensive Revisions, Written; Needs Minor Revisions, Revised; Ready for Style Review

• Intro
• Properties and Forces
  • Realms
  • Investiture
  • Adonalsium
    • Shards of Adonalsium
• Planets
• History
  • Before the Shattering
  • The Shattering of Adonalsium
  • Odium's Quest
  • The Ascension of Harmony
  • Splintering of Honor and the True Desolation
  • Trell and Scadrial
• Worldhoppers
  • Hoid
  • Worldhopping Groups
    • The Seventeenth Shard
    • Silverlight
    • The Ire
    • The Ghostbloods
  • Other Worldhoppers
• Development
• Bibliography of the Cosmere
  • Forthcoming Change this to "Forthcoming Novels"; I'm not talking about all the novellas Brandon's mentioned. Maybe add {{for|Unpublished works}}.
  • Chronological Order
• Trivia If there's more trivia, I'd like to simplify the capitalization section to a bullet point. If not, I'd prefer to get rid of this entirely.
  • Capitalization
• See Also Considering nixing this as well; all of these topics will have {{for}}s throughout the article. The articles (and TOC) is already pretty long.

Stuff Cut from Cosmere Page

Content I wrote for the new cosmere page, was too detailed, but might be useful elsewhere

Odium's Impact on Selish CR
First, it made the Cognitive Realm around Sel incredibly dangerous, as Devotion and Dominion's Investiture is trapped together in a high-energy state known as the Dor, without enough "escape valves" to stabilize the system. Second, because the Cognitive Realm was distinct locations and the Spiritual Realm does not, systems of Investiture on Sel became highly-location dependent—different systems of Investiture exist in different regions and the symbols used to access the Dor are often derived from geographical features.