User talk:LordofOnions

Welcome
Hi, welcome to Game of Thrones Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Talk:Dhoshkhaleen page.

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Enjoy your editing and please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Werthead (Talk) 18:15, May 24, 2011

Categories
Good question. Until now, 'Geography' has included geographic features (rivers, mountains) and man-made locations (cities and castles). Essentially everything related to a map of Westeros would go into 'Geography', with additional categories for cities, castles, rivers, mountains, seas etc. My preference would be to have a 'Geography' master-list and then sub-categories for everything else. What do you think?--Werthead 22:39, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

Signature
Might I suggest you add a working link to your user profile and possibly talk page to make it easier for other users to contact you. Cartman! Talk!

My signature should lead to my talk page when you press on it now. Is that good enough? LordofOnions 23:20, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

Bronn
He isn't of House Lannister, he's a freelance sword. User:Cartman! Talk
 * Also, be careful how you add those infoboxes, you're managing to unintentionally bold entire first paragraphs.
 * Lol it's okay.

Qotho pic
Great work so far. I've been looking for good pics of Mycah and Ser Ilyn for ages but couldn't find any that were good enough. However, you mis-labelled a picture of Rakharo as Qotho. Rakharo is Dany's bodyguard, the guy who whipped Viserys around the throat and later talked weaponry with Jorah Mormont. Qotho is a guy who hasn't done much, but appears to be Drogo's right-hand man. He accompanied Drogo to 'inspect' Dany in Episode 1 and in Episode 6 is the guy who broke Viserys's leg and held him for the 'crowning'. I don't think he's even said anything yet. I haven't found a good picture of him either.--Werthead 10:20, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

Banner/Great Houses
Good idea. Distinguishing between the two is a good move. However, the 'noble house' category could remain as an over-arcing category. Both the Great and lesser Houses are still subservient to the Iron Throne, and a lot of vassal houses have vassals of their own (at least if they follow the books) so a unifying category could be useful. What do you think?--Werthead 20:20, May 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Technically I suppose a landed knight house is not a 'noble' house, but I think the distinction is not hugely important (especially as the Cleganes are the only landed house we 100% know about, though I think the Selmys might be as well), not enough to fiddle around too much with the categories. I don't see a noble house subcategory under the main noble house categroy, but there's actually a page about noble houses - how the hierarchy works and so on - which you might be seeing there.--Werthead 20:42, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

Attempts to add spoilers to the site
I've had to revert several attempts to add spoilers to articles, particularly the Eddard and Daenerys ones. Just to ask people to keep an eye out for that, as I might not be around much over the weekend. Thanks to everyone for their great work, looks like we've got a good team building up here now! --Werthead 13:10, May 27, 2011 (UTC)

Sigils
From the HBO website. It occurred to me that the banners, whilst nice, don't show the correct colours (gold on black for the Greyjoys, for example), so using those ones seemed to be a good idea. I'm also going to be putting together a House infobox template, and those smaller sigils will work better in that :-) --Werthead 10:48, May 30, 2011 (UTC)

House Baratheon
I'd hold fire on it for now. Assuming the TV show follows the books, the split happens in Book/Season 1 but it does not become codified until Book/Season 2, when Stannis and Joffrey get their own emblems and their own descriptions in the book glossaries. The split is worth mentioning in the House Baratheon article (though remember that Renly hasn't formally claimed the throne yet and we can't get ahead of the TV show), but I wouldn't start creating new pages just yet.--Werthead 23:54, May 30, 2011 (UTC)