- Event ID
- 184105
- Award
- Sapphire Blade
- Quantity
- 1
- Requested by
- Master Bentre Stahoes
- Primary reason
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It's my honor to be recommending this award for Morax Darkblade. Darkblade has both been extremely active and competitive, while also contributing a huge amount of content to Naga Sadow. This includes 22 wiki pages which Darkblade fully fleshed-out or started from scratch, totalling more than 15,000 words that he has added, as well as tables, pictures, and wiki formatting. These wiki pages cover almost every CNS event from 2014 up to August 2018. Darkblade read dozens of pages of old fictions to find out the storylines for these events and transpose those onto the wiki in his own words. He also looked through each competition - as well as the parent competitions - to determine the placements and standings for these events. Then he formatted it all on the wiki.
This would drive me insane after two articles, let alone 22. To give a sense of the time and effort involved in this, I can only offer the following: I witnessed a little bit of what went into this, as Darkblade spent hours interrogating me about past events and their stories, and then later came back to fact check me and tell me everything I got wrong as he added it to the wiki. This demonstrates that Darkblade didn't just throw things together: he also made sure it was correct, to the best of his ability.
In addition to his wiki work, Darkblade has been a constant contender in Naga Sadow competitions. He has participated in 58 competitions, resulting in victory in three Clan events in a row: Veiled Origins, A New Dawn: Sanctuary, and Encounter at Citadel. In addition to the ego boost and being able to wave this over our heads (I'm still trying to find someone to dethrone him…), Darkblade has put together an impressive crescent count: one Diamond, one Ruby, six Amethyst, five Sapphire, 14 Emerald, and six Topaz, for a total of 33 crescents. That's a 56% win rate in his competitions.
Darkblade has additionally earned 6 Pendants of Blood, 25 Clusters of Fire, 20 of Ice, 2 of Earth, 20 of Graphite, 2 Dark Side Scrolls, and 1 Seal of Loyalty. He's also passed 11 SA courses and gained 4 degrees, including Dark Mavens in Galactic History, Legends, Leadership and Communication, as well as a Dark Sage in History and Lore.
I'm glad to have Darkblade in CNS. He's improved our wiki presence more than any other member in years. He's consistently not only participated in events, but participated to win, and given other members someone to drive to contend with. He's shown that he really cares about his Clan, and for all of that I am glad to recommend this award for him.
Congrats, Darkblade!
Augur Locke Sonjie
Night Hawks Battleteam Leader
Master Bentre Stahoes, 2018-09-22 00:05:06 UTC
- Additional reasons
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In his services as a member of the Wiki Staff, Darkblade assisted in the implementation of a tag which helped the Wiki staff in making the stub category less of a receptacle for abandoned pages and helped to make it of use again to both my staff and the Brotherhood as a whole. This work involved going over greater than 200 pages that were previously in the Stub Category, reviewing the content of each page, looking at attached dossiers and determining what pages were had been left alone, which had been left over from previous projects and the status of player characters who had been placed in the stub section. Taking all this information, he worked with myself when needed to determine whether a page should have the STUB designation removed, or should be placed into the new HISTORIC CHARACTERS category via template, or left alone. He and I worked to complete the project. One hundred and twenty four of the pages in the new HISTORIC CHARACTERS category are thanks to Darkblade. He worked quickly and efficiently to execute the changes I desired. While this work can be relatively quick to complete, it is rather tedious and involved.
Another smaller project of note- and one that he largely took up on his own, with my blessing- was the work Morax Darkblade put into giving categories to pages and images which lacked them. This meant going into the Uncategorized Categories, Uncategorized Pages, Unused Files, Wanted Categories and Wanted Files with the goal of clearing those categories out. These actions, which have covered another seventy one pages since his last recognition have helped to make the Wiki a more ordered place. Among my current Wiki Staff members, Darkblade has continued to possess a tenacity, picking up one project after another, seeking yet another thing to keep himself busy when he completes a task to satisfaction.
More recently, he has also worked particularly to bring pages concerning Clan Naga Sadow up to date. These pages have included: Red Fury, Leadership for Kel Rasha, Operation: Homeland, Shattered Ties, Project S.P.E.C.I.A.L, Null Zero, Sands of Time, Veiled Origins, New Ties, Below Zero, Discovery, Inferno, Encounter at Citadel, Operation: Firestorm, Abomination,Ashes Fall, A New Dawn: Exsanguination, A New Dawn: Sanctuary and Operation: Cobalt.
Once he reached a point where the events that he had covered the better part he knew of from his time in the Brotherhood, Darkblade was not content to stop there. He has continued his work, creating pages for events that he is less familiar with, such as Homecoming and Proving Grounds, with the intent to continue his updating work.
Given my staff as Wiki Tribune, I do believe I would be remiss if I did not point out that Darkblade has earned two Dark Side Scrolls. One he recieved for having a Featured Article and the other for being July's Wikipedian of the Month. He has shown a marked commitment to helping to organzie and improve the Wiki.
Of late, he has also both participated and competed in competitions, in particular those that deal with CNS and HMR with a fire. I have particularly noticed this since he moved over to House Marka Ragnos. Noteably of late, Morax was also one of only three people who took part in both Phases of Encounter at Citadel and one of only two who took part in all available competitions. To put a pin in the whole thing, Morax won the whole Clan event by 16 points over the second place contender. Before that, he won first place in A New Dawn: Sanctuary. For that matter, his placement in Veiled Origins (which was, hey hey, another first place) is worth sitting up and taking notice of.
I whole-heartedly join my voice in recommending Morax Darkblade for a shiny new Sapphire Blade. Congratulations on the new shiny, and keep up the great work!
Bentre Stahoes
Consul of Naga Sadow & Wiki Tribune
Master Bentre Stahoes, 2018-09-19 04:01:25 UTC
Not long after I became Quaestor of House Shar Dakhan, Darkblade and I spoke about him helming a wiki restoration project for the House Shar Dakhan. I assumed when he decided to transfer to House Marka Ragnos that those plans were on hold indefinitely. But he surprised me by contacting me about the project some months later. Since that brief discussion he put many hours into what was at first an HSD Wiki article census on Google drive. He first cataloged the 3 main articles for HSD, but then was inspired to add 4 main articles for HMR and 5 entries for the Clan. But then he went wild and added another 97 entries for Clan NPCs, 22 articles for current and former Clan vessels and another 19 entries for Clan article categories. For each and every article on the census he listed the name of the article, the URL and how it should be modified. Following the expansion of the wiki census, the entire endeavor grew into a Clan level project and became the basis for updating many Clan wiki articles.
~ (#8075) Battlelord Etah Kilij Bloodfyre
Warlord Etah Obsidyn, 2018-09-19 04:02:15 UTC
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