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This page contains an archive of news posts on the wiki. [[Category: Root]] All new content will be posted on the [http://harmonys-coppermind.tumblr.com/ blog]
=== Words of Radiance Spoilers ===
Hey all. Words of Radiance is out in two days, and while we're all pretty psyched about that, I just wanted to take a second to remind everyone about out spoiler policy, as it seems a number of people have received their copy early. Until the fourth, there will be absolutely no Words of Radiance spoilers permitted on the wiki beyond what has been revealed in pre-release chapters and readings. I will personally be keeping a close eye on the wiki for any spoilers and terminating them with extreme prejudice. :P On the fourth, spoilers will be allowed on the wiki, but they should all be marked with a spoiler tag, so as to not ruin the book for anyone. Six months or so after the book is out, these tags will be removed. Thanks for your patience and understanding everyone, and happy reading! --[[User: Windrunner|Windrunner]] ([[User talk: Windrunner|talk]]) 23:16, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
===Stormlight 2 Readings===
Let's talk a moment about the titles of books for a moment. For those you who care about content and not categorization (psh, '''content'''), this news post is not for you.
[[User:Fbstj|Joe]] has persuaded me that the titling conventions for books have been a little silly. Before, they always had the prefix (book) to them. Now, this works great for [[Elantris (book)|Elantris]] because Elantris can refer to the [[Elantris (city)|city]] or the book itself. It makes less sense for [[the Way of Kings]], however.
So now all titles that are unique, like [[The Alloy of Law]] are simply titled The Alloy of Law, rather than The Alloy of Law (book). So Way of Kings, Warbreaker, and all of those are the obvious titles. Any links that go to, say, The Way of Kings (book) should redirect, but hopefully I weeded out anything that linked to the old title.
The [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn series]] is a little more complicated. The first Mistborn novel, for one thing, can be referred to as MB1, Mistborn, [[The Final Empire]], or [[Mistborn: The Final Empire]]. It's annoying. In any case, here's the deal on the Mistborn novels. [[The Well of Ascension]] and [[the Hero of Ages]] articles are simply titled that. There's some confusion, because [[Brandon Sanderson|Brandon]] liked to refer to those as Mistborn: The Well of Ascension, but those weren't actually the titles written on the book (the hardbacks of those were The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn, and we're just going to exclude the subheading here). Hence, [[the Well of Ascension]], [[the Hero of Ages]], and [[the Alloy of Law]] are all the obvious titles, without the (book) suffix. Note that [[Well of Ascension]] and [[Hero of Ages]] actually refer to in-world things. For your wiki links, if you want to refer to the books, include the "the."
Mistborn 1 is the most complicated. Amazon is schizophrenic, naming it the nonsensical Mistborn : Final Empire Series (Book #1) (Mistborn, Book 1). Usually, people just refer to it as [[Mistborn]], but for the wiki, that has a lot of meanings. Therefore, I have decided to make Mistborn 1's article be [[Mistborn: The Final Empire]]. (I hope that there is never such mass confusion over the title of a book in any other time in Brandon's career.) You can refer to it as [[The Final Empire]] and it will redirect to the correct page.
So, hooray, all the unnecessary (book) suffixes are gone. However, for series, we will probably use the convention <nowiki>[[Mistborn (series)]], [[Warbreaker (series)]]</nowiki>, etc. when the series doesn't have a spiffy title like [[The Stormlight Archive]]
Clear as mud, right? Feel free to discuss it on the Coppermind forums or a talk page.
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