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by **greenoaks** on Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:15 am

Concise description:

Combine all the articles in a series in one locked thread

Specifics/Details:

series such as DaveH's Tournament Tips should be put in 1 thread with an index in the 1st post

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

i don't have to open every friggin newsletter to find another related article i want to read

by **chapcrap** on Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:19 am

I wouldn't be opposed to this... Maybe I can help with this, as far as DaveH's stuff goes.

by **DaveH** on Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:42 am

Thanks for the feedback, mate - glad that someone reads them and hopefully finds bits of interest!

I have already archived the tips into two sets of articles, as suggested by Dukasaur, but at the moment they are in the Newsletter section, so not visible to everyone.

I tried to archive into one set of articles, but they are now so long I keep coming back with error messages whan I try and add an article to the original set, even though individually they are OK.

However, as soon as I am back from holiday, I'll see how we can make them available in one of the public forums.

Dave

by **Dukasaur** on Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:52 am

Yes, Dave has all the articles archived in groups. I was planning to move his archive into a forum accessible to more people, such as the TO Usergroup and/or Tourney Q&A, once the series is finished. However, if there is popular demand, and if Dave doesn't mind, we could do it sooner.

by **greenoaks** on Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:44 am

the thread should be made available now + Dave's articles should end with a link to that thread. that's free advertising to a captive audience. :-$

i was thinking it would look like the CC Tournament Handbook ie. the first post is a Table Of Contents with links to the relevant posts. when an article is published in the newsletter a new post is added to the thread and a link to it included in the first post.

i was thinking it would be in the Newsletter forum but i like your idea Dukasaur of putting it in the Tournament forum. it should be stickied.

do you have a name for the thread?

by **Dukasaur** on Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:26 pm

greenoaks wrote:the thread should be made available now + Dave's articles should end with a link to that thread. that's free advertising to a captive audience.

i was thinking it would look like the CC Tournament Handbook ie. the first post is a Table Of Contents with links to the relevant posts. when an article is published in the newsletter a new post is added to the thread and a link to it included in the first post.

i was thinking it would be in the Newsletter forum but i like your idea Dukasaur of putting it in the Tournament forum. it should be stickied.

do you have a name for the thread?

Tentatively we've just been calling it the Dave's Tips Archive. I know, it's not particularly creative..

Anyway, Dave is on vacation for another week. He promises when he comes back he'll assemble an index for it and we'll get it posted.

by **greenoaks** on Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:17 am

as much as i'd like to give credit to Dave imo youshould go with something more inclusive of future contributors as it would allow others to have their tips or articles added to it.

Newsletter Tournament Tips

the index could say who the different authors are. it would also allow chapters in addition to the excel tips on things like add-ons or use of outside sites (random.org, challonge, etc)

by **Dukasaur** on Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:22 am

It's not a bad idea, although the details will take some work, so don't expect it overnight. But I'm already running the Q&A Library in the TO Usergroup, and in addition to the Dave's Tips archive we also have the Amazzony's Tips archive in the newsletter vaults, so I can see somehow linking them all in a kind of grand spiderweb of articles, including also the Tournament Handbook and other things.

Still, how to organise it efficiently will take some thought. Don't expect me to move too fast on it.

by **chapcrap** on Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:07 am

Dukasaur wrote:It's not a bad idea, although the details will take some work, so don't expect it overnight. But I'm already running the Q&A Library in the TO Usergroup, and in addition to the Dave's Tips archive we also have the Amazzony's Tips archive in the newsletter vaults, so I can see somehow linking them all in a kind of grand spiderweb of articles, including also the Tournament Handbook and other things.

Still, how to organise it efficiently will take some thought. Don't expect me to move too fast on it.

I can offer my assistance.

by **greenoaks** on Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:48 am

Dukasaur wrote:It's not a bad idea, although the details will take some work, so don't expect it overnight. But I'm already running the Q&A Library in the TO Usergroup, and in addition to the Dave's Tips archive we also have the Amazzony's Tips archive in the newsletter vaults, so I can see somehow linking them all in a kind of grand spiderweb of articles, including also the Tournament Handbook and other things.

that's the thing about vaults, they get forgotten.

chapcrap wrote:I can offer my assistance.

hey, that's twice chap has offered assistance. a third time is legally binding, right.

by **DoomYoshi** on Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:40 pm

Interesting that I was just thinking of doing this, but found there was already a suggestion.

by **Dukasaur** on Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:30 pm

Forgot all about this. Getting on it now...

by **Victor Sullivan** on Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:08 am

If there are other article series that you'd like us to compile, feel free to let me or the appropriate Executive know. I'm sure we'd be able to do it faster than the speed of lack! *chuckle*

-Sully