User talk:Beatsandskies

References

Hey, thanks for adding in the Player's Guide decklists. Just a couple of things in regards to the referencing. We try to avoid naked URLs across the Wiki. I recommend using the {{WebRef}} template. You can read the documentation here: Template:WebRef/doc.

If you are referencing one source multiple times you can do one full reference and the a ref call each subsequent time. This is done by adding the name variable to the <ref> tag.

• The first time will be <ref name="[unique name]">{{WebRef|url=|title=|author=|publisher=|date=}}</ref>.
• Subesquent times are just <ref name="[unique name]"/>.

-- RivalRowan (talk) 08:51, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, cool as. Bit of a learning curve here and there’s still a bit to add to that page so will be easy enough to pop in and improve that.

Beatsandskies (talk) 09:57, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Hey Beatsandskies, I've just seen that the Cathy Nicoloff has all references using naked URLs. These should be WebRefs. If you're using the Internet Archive snapshot, you can add two parameters to cover the snapshot (<ref>{{WebRef|url=|title=|author=|publisher=|date=|archiveurl=|archivedate=}}</ref>). "date" will be the original publication date and "archivedate" is the date of the snapshot you're using. -- RivalRowan (talk) 04:42, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

It's an older page so the references were like that already. Definitely something which would be good and check through and update though: I'd mentally added it to my to do list.Beatsandskies (talk) 04:45, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, unfortunately it's just an extra step on your edits but because you're going through a bunch of old articles we may not have a chance to fix these up otherwise. If noone's editing these articles, nobody's checking them is the problem. There should be a lot less now we've fixed up the majority of broken references. Fingers crossed! -- RivalRowan (talk) 07:54, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Product names — MTGO and MTGA

Hey Beatsandskies, as you've started uploading the Magic: The Gathering Arena decklists now I just noticed a couple of minor things.

1. Magic product names, including software, should be italicized per the MTG Wiki:Manual of Style.
2. To save yourself some pain, the first time an article refers to MTGO or MTGA it needs to be the complete product name (i.e. Magic Online or Magic: The Gathering Arena). Thereafter feel free to abbreviate it.

Us admins haven't been super consistent with this, so I apologize for the many times you'll see it not italicized, but we're trying to fix those up when we encounter them. -- RivalRowan (talk) 04:11, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Midweek Magic event dates

Hi Beatsandskies, I've just been reviewing the updates you've made to the Into the Future Midweek Magic series. Nice work on bringing those together. I did notice that you've been listing the event dates as the Friday of that week (e.g. "October 13, 2023" for Into the Future (Eldraine)). Midweek Magic events aren't usually one day affairs and should run for three days. Both the schedule announcement and the MTG Arena Event Calendar for October 2023 show the event running October 10-12, 2023. Please double check those because we want readers to have an accurate timeline when WotC inevitably deletes the MTGA calendar. Otherwise, it's looking good. -- RivalRowan (talk) 00:37, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Cool as, I'll go back through and check all the dates (and other copy/paste errors). I did want to expand them to give the range rather than just the start point. It just means going back and finding all the updates (to cite them too).Beatsandskies (talk) 00:45, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Also I wasn’t aware of that calendar — or at least I never thought to see how far it went back. That’s actually incredible: would be amazing if it could be scraped somehow since we certainly can’t trust WoTC not to break it, and I don’t think that it’d be very useable through internet archives with how it is structured. Beatsandskies (talk) 04:54, 26 March 2025 (UTC)