User:Yaulendil

"Young Beruthiel with Cats" by Juliana Pinho
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Yaulendil
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Other names	Miuendil (NQ. or MQ.) Mýgdil (NS.) ?Philaílouros (Gk.) ?Amacattus (Lat.) ?Catoin (Lom.) Cattwine (O.E. and R.) ?Catwin (E.)
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Hello, I'm Yaulendil.

About

I'm a Tolkien fan. I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in my youth. More recently I've read The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle-earth aside from Volumes VI to VIII, and Nature of Middle-earth.

Joining Tolkien Gateway

My first interaction with the wiki was pointing out that Melian has no red clothes. Her page no longer says she does, but looking at fan art of Melian across the web I found enough red or reddish depictions of her clothes to believe that, in the eleven years that edit was visible (and having hid within the source code for five years before that), artists incorporated that one line in an infobox into their work.

Later, someone pointed out that there's no basis for the claim that Númenóreans tried to sail the Outer Sea and sank, so I made an account to edit it out of the Vaiya article. But the claim had already long ago migrated to Wikipedia and One Wiki To Rule Them All.

Ongoing work

There's no project I'll list below that you can't work on in my stead, if you want to. Most of this I'll probably never get around to.

To-do lists

Editing to-dos:

• Timeline articles to-do lists
  • General to-do list
  • Timeline/First Age to-do list
  • Timeline/Second Age to-do list
  • Timeline/Third Age to-do list
  • Timeline/Fourth Age to-do list
  • Timeline/Years of the Trees to-do list
  • Timeline/Days before days to-do list
  • More experimental ideas
• Valinor
• Chronology of Tolkien's writings
• Poisoned Meads
• Lost Road and Notion Club Papers
• Tolkien Gateway
• Small changes

To possibly create:

• Beastlike hroa
• Morgoth's "puppets"
• Extraterrestrials in Tolkien's writings
• Language capabilities of animals
  • Maybe the name should be something like "Animals and speech" or "Kelvar and speech". Is there a word for olvar and kelvar collectively?
• Cursory ideas

Template ideas:

• Template ideas for better citing
  • Template:AA and Template:GA ideas
  • Other citation template ideas like for Template:AA and Template:GA
• Languages navbox
  • A different organizational idea than Template:Languages, more out-of-universe
• Other navbox ideas
• User infobox changes
• To-do: Add individual things from User:Yaulendil/Template ideas to this list
  • At the moment there's not much in that subpage that isn't present elsewhere in this list, on the sandbox or Rp expanded page.
• Rp expanded
  • Won't use this since we have (and/or will have) sub-referencing. But there are plenty of individual ideas, concerns, suggestions and observations you might find useful in this page.

Images ideas:

• Artists to suggest or reach out to
  • And other art- and images-related ideas.

Other to-dos:

• Transwiki stuff
  • If I've gotten rid of unsourced claims on TG, I should track down what other wikis they've migrated to and make sure they're deleted there too. (Done. The Numenoreans drowning in Ekkaia was the only thing, right?)
    • Could also fix up Wikipedia's mentions of Noah's flood in relation to the Ireland portion of The Lost Road, which misleadingly suggests that Noah's flood is mentioned in those sketches. The editor must've been aware of the dating in the Book of Invasions, and added that context in even though it doesn't come up in HoMe V. Check if it's on OWTRTA too.

Ideas

Other general ideas:

• Periodization of OVOTL
• Shared universes in adaptations
  • Trying to figure out if certain games and things are "meant" to take place in the particular versions of the legendarium from different adaptations.
• Comprehensive guide to Tolkien's languages, with all names used for each of them
• Mapping real world locations
• Other

Sketching out ideas I have for infographics and things:

• Timeline evolution infographics
• Annals evolution infographics
• Languages evolution (in- and out-of-universe) infographics

Ideas to improve referencing

• Thoughts on and preparations for sub-referencing
  • A guide to sub-referencing.

Extras

Guides

• Guide to differences between Tolkien's versions and Christopher & GGK's version of the Ruin of Doriath (work in progress)
• Guide to the changing family relations of characters (work in progress)

Subpages

• User:Yaulendil/sandbox
• User:Yaulendil/Sandbox 2
• User:Yaulendil/Template ideas
  • User:Yaulendil/Template/Rp_expanded
• User:Yaulendil/Timeline ideas
• User:Yaulendil/sig
• User:Yaulendil/autosig

Useful links

• Digital Tolkien Project

A ghost story for wiki editors

• Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia#Plagiarism, Super Mario Wiki