Thread:Toodles78/@comment-25827645-20141208030611/@comment-9531161-20141208201705

I've already said we can add a new category just for you, so I don't understand what the essay was for. Did you even read my whole comment, or did you skim the first paragraph? Just like your response, it wasn't meant to be offensive, it was just meant to be informative, AND I said I'd do exactly what you asked for. Here, now it's time for my essay:

Thanks for the input on my tutorial. You're right; I didn't say what kind of skills were necessary for it. However it's a stand-alone tutorial and not part a of a series, so telling users to go read articles that don't exist doesn't make any sense (I don't think we have actual tutorials for DATE/TIME function calls; just a description of how to call them). I also don't think who wrote it is really important; if you want you can put your name in each tutorial you write, but I've been on the receiving end of tutorials and I couldn't care less who wrote it. HOWEVER: that being said, if you're making a series without a unique title, it's probably a good idea to let people know they're still reading the same tutorial by putting your name on it.

Many of these tutorials are just meant as a "This is how you do this specific thing" one-off, which is super common. Here, let me gather some from around the internet:

http://www.stuffwithstuff.com/robot-frog/3d/hills/hill.html http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_perlin.htm http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Gaussian.html https://www.clear.rice.edu/comp130/12spring/editdist/

These tutorials aren't part of a series because they don't need to be. This is basically what we have in our tutorial section: a bunch of individual tutorials without relation to each other, which is why there isn't an "order" to read them in AND why we don't have extra categories at this point. This is sort of what Wikia promotes: a public place which anyone can contribute to, so our tutorials are jumbled up because they were all written by different people.

I'm super happy that you're so adamant about the quality of the tutorial section and the ease at which newcomers can get help. Trying to connect our individual and self-contained tutorials isn't really practical, but like I described in the previous comment, I can add a category just for you so that people can quickly find a list of your tutorials. Here, check out the tutorial page now:

http://petitcomputer.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Tutorials

Is this acceptable?