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I am playing with this feature.
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== Backtracking Entries ==
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I have to record this somewhere becasue I always forget.  This is sort of a checklist to see if I recorded everything everywhere it needs to be:
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In the entries themselves it is:
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* Body Text
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* Citations: 1 existing, 2 phantoms (only 1 new - since 2<sup>nd</sup> round)
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* Signature
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* Category (in the form [ [ Category:''blah'' ] ]  ) since you can never seem to remember this you git.
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After the entry is complete then the backtracking begins:
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* [[Ghyll Phantom Index]]: Add new Phantoms and remove old ones.
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* [[Ghyll Index]]: Add new entry.
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* [[WhoIsWho|Ghyll Who's Who]]: Add new entries and link any defined ones.
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* [[Encyclopedant Calendar|Ghyll Timeline]]: Update any calendar entries needed.
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I think that's about it.
  
 
== Spurious Terms ==
 
== Spurious Terms ==
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As I find them I'll add them here for reference:
 
As I find them I'll add them here for reference:
* glugfeffil [[Looliers]]
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* anomilumina ([[Pinky]]) - A quality of light?
* verapsnik [[Looliers]]
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* couthblossom ([[Hattie's Day]]) - A plant presumeably?
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* elhenberry ([[Aminfarances]]) - Something that can be made into beer.
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* emphyteusis ([[Doc Rockett]]) - as used it implies a disease but I found it defined in the real world as the act of emplanting or improving land.
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* gargarational ([[Brothers of the Lantern]]) - Your guess is a good as mine
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* glitterthought - ([[Battle of Barnum Stones]]) - some sort of narrative?
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* glugfeffil ([[Looliers]]) - a tool or artifact?
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* hobosopher ([[Systematic Epistemological Action]]) - Altifur Witherspoon was one.
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* honng/hongg ([[Brothers of the Lantern]]) - Your guess is a good as mine
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* knackerbat ([[Quiver'n'bend]]) - It was good enough to name a group after.
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* obith ([[Awal shrinkage]]) - Some property of mass?
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* plonk ([[Acineen]]) - Probably a rude term applied to a Kebro-Shepnor liquor.
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* shep/shepskin ([[Aliens Everywhere]]) - What ''Aliens Everywhere!'' is printed on.
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* sparkularities ([[Pinky]], [[Songs of Odgar The Fourth]]) - open to sparculation.
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* mureannor ([[Pickers]]) - a sort of occupation or lifestyle (per [[User:Clsn|clsn]])
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* trefk (in a scholarly comment in [[Aelfants]]) - Presumeably a rude word
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* treefiddy ([[Systematic Epistemological Action]]) - An expression of disbelief?
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* trunggalist ([[Doc Rockett]]) - An occupation
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* verapsnik ([[Looliers]]) - Some sort of religious items?
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* wither-pipes ([[Acineen]]) - Something for smoking.
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* wizzlard - ([[Jemima and the Square Do-Gooders]]) - Profession?  Title? Some sort of -mancer?
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'''Defined in context:'''
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* breakas ([[Captain Riquiras]])- A rude exclaimation (from "By Riquiras").
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* canoralists ([[Battle of Barnum Stones]] & [[Harv Gretborn]])- N. Traditional producer of ritual music.
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* canoral (ibid.) - N. A form of ritual music.
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* dovination ([[Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge]])- N. The use of dove calling patterns to determine the future and lost memories of the past. (and a righteously bad pun)
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* fecksadecimal ([[Gyll Hill]])- N. The numbering system for counting sexual intercourse frequency.
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* ghoulanaut ([[Sphoxolis Trees]]) - some variant of [[EctoMechanauts|EctoMechanaut]], possibly an urban legend. (see Narthcuhgylliandonelfherendkeflugen in [[Darkened Lantern]])
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* sdhim ([[Aminfarances]]) - A fund-raising consortium.
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* smilch ([[Battle of Barnum Stones]], [[Awal shrinkage]])- N. the light produced by [[Theoalchemy]] or [[Technomancy]].
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* smilching (ibid.)- V. To produce light through [[Theoalchemy]] or [[Technomancy]].
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* smilcher (ibid.)- N. A traditional producer of light via smilching.
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* tri-menth ([[Betrothal march]])- N. One-third of the betrothal march.
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'''Speculative:'''
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* stationary omnilocational research ([[Zed Varren]]) - Something to do with [[Orthogonalities|Othogonality]]?
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* Universal Geomantic Compass (ibid.) - Something to navagate [[Orthogonalities]]?

Latest revision as of 14:05, 26 May 2005

Backtracking Entries

I have to record this somewhere becasue I always forget. This is sort of a checklist to see if I recorded everything everywhere it needs to be:

In the entries themselves it is:

  • Body Text
  • Citations: 1 existing, 2 phantoms (only 1 new - since 2nd round)
  • Signature
  • Category (in the form [ [ Category:blah ] ] ) since you can never seem to remember this you git.

After the entry is complete then the backtracking begins:

I think that's about it.

Spurious Terms

I had this idea that there are a few "spurious terms" that have no Earthly analog and that are not references, citations or phantoms. This means that there are essentially UNDEFINED terms in the encyclopedia.

As I find them I'll add them here for reference:


Defined in context:


Speculative: