Talk:Art index

Catalogue of Books Fully Integrated into Art Index

Here is a list of works that have been incorporated into this Art Index in their entirety and may be amended as authors add more works here:--Fleanetha 09:29, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Pathfinder Adventure Paths

Pathfinder 1: Burnt Offerings
Pathfinder 2: The Skinsaw Murders
Pathfinder 3: The Hook Mountain Massacre
Pathfinder 4: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Pathfinder 5: Sins of the Saviors
Pathfinder 6: Spires of Xin-Shalast
Pathfinder 7: Edge of Anarchy
Pathfinder 8: Seven Days to the Grave
Pathfinder 9: Escape from Old Korvosa
Pathfinder 10: A History of Ashes
Pathfinder 11: Skeletons of Scarwall
Pathfinder 12: Crown of Fangs
Pathfinder 55: The Wormwood Mutiny

Pathfinder Campaign Setting

Book of the Damned, Vol. 2: Lords of Chaos
Lands of the Linnorm Kings
Rival Guide

Pathfinder Modules

Pathfinder Role Playing Game

The Godsmouth Heresy

Errors

I think you've got some stuff mixed up. Nocticula wasn't on the cover of PF1, for example. These might need to be double checked. —Yoda8myhead 05:06, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

That one was a copy/paste error was supposed to be Lords of Chaos (I accidently copied that one when I went to do Nualia, and when I went to change her book I changed Nocticula instead) I'll go through and double check it all again tomorrow.. Is there an easy way to convert an excel spreadsheet into a wiki table? might be easier to do and double check on excel and convert over if it is possible -- Cpt kirstov 05:37, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Cleared up that and another cut/paste error, and figured out a cleaner process to do an entire book on one sitting without causing more issues. -- Cpt kirstov 16:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Questions

Maps: Right now I only included maps of landmarks- (IE for The Hook Mountain Massacre I didn't include the farmland map.. Should I include these? How about other maps where encounters take place? I'm torn on this, including maps for the fort and clocktower (although the clocktower has art in the map as well) but not including the graul homestead or some of the smaller encounter areas in The Skinsaw Murders, anyone else have an opinion. -- Cpt kirstov 16:00, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

If the entity has its own page then a map of it should be referenced I think. If it's a small encounter area of part of a place then I'd be less inclined but use your judgement - hard and fast rules here will be difficult. --Fleanetha 16:03, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

My inclination would be to include them, FWIW —Aeakett 17:01, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Lords of Chaos

Any ideas what the art portrays on pp 3, 32, 41, 42, 51, 52 of Lords of Chaos?--Fleanetha 23:27, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

I don't have my books with me right now, but don't be afraid to use the 'uncategorized art' at the bottom for those without topics, then if we find what they are we can update the index, it also brings attention to what art we may need explanations on, so we can ask on the boards if needed. -- Cpt kirstov 04:18, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

3 is an image of the Abyss, as is 41 (I don't know what layer, but James Jacobs probably does). 32 looks like a balor to me. 42 is Nualia Tobyn. 51 is a qlippoth or possibly qlippoth lord, and 52 looks like a retriever attacking a hezrou. —Yoda8myhead 04:25, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Perfect - thanks both - will update later; I rearranged this page also so the book list doesn't keep sinking. Am unsure if that needs a page on its own as it seems like 'metadata' to me, best left behind the scenes??--Fleanetha 08:52, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Just realized: putting multiple sources on on sources box means that if you click to sort by source, it won't have an entry for sources beyond the first.... Doing one source per line of the sources box is the same space-wise as another row of the table, guess there might need to be multiple entries for these. -- Cpt kirstov 11:45, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Links

Started thinking about how to make this better if I ever get it up to date. thinking about linking that pictures that are part of the CUP where I list the page(using the page number as the link) Also looking at other projects (such as the list of alien races on Wookiepedia, they split it up at M - having A-L on one page and M-Z on another. I don't think that would help in this particular list, as it would prevent people from sorting by product to see "what's this creature in the picture of page 45?" but this means that it's going to be long, and ever growing. Should there be some instructions to help users? -- Cpt kirstov 15:23, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Rival Guide

All included here except the 2 characters on the front cover / inside back cover and the chap on p3 - any ideas? --Fleanetha 22:02, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

I posted this question on the boards. We'll see if anyone bites. --Brandingopportunity 06:19, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Nope, nobody has bitten. Has anyone else figured it out? --Brandingopportunity 16:46, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Warning

Hmm, I just got this message when I edited the page:

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Do we need to worry about this as I predict this page is only just starting? --Fleanetha 13:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

It looks like this is an issue that doesn't really affect modern browsers. I'll edit the message to reduce future alarm. —Aeakett 12:27, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Aeakett --Fleanetha 12:33, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Consolidation

It seems to me that the index looks a lot neater (not as in cool-neat, but as in organized-neat) if all the citations for a given topic are all on the same line, separated by commas (see what I just created for Art index). I think it's also more confusing to have multiple citations on different lines, as it is for the Art index entry. What do others think? --Brandingopportunity 05:15, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

I originally started doing it that way too. The reason I switched was with both in one box, the second source doesn't come up when the user clicks on the column to sort by source. If the user did search by source and then used used ctrl+F to find the Shadows of gallowspire, they would find the knights pages before any other Shadows entries, eliminating the ease of finding all of the art from one source. As I saw this as one of the secondary uses (What/who is the picture on page 8 of source X? I'll go to the index and sort by source to find it quick). I had decided on doing one row per source. If only there were some way to have it split into two when sorting by source! -- Cpt kirstov 12:25, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for explaining it to me. --Brandingopportunity 17:32, 13 August 2011 (UTC)