User talk:Shadowcrest/wiki archive 1

clr

Oh why can't this wiki have a Template:Clear like Guildwiki? /sigh.. --Shadowcrest 04:14, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Many wiki(a)s have them located at T:Clr, T:Clrl, and T:Clrr. :) --Sky (t · c · w) 22:25, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Win! I've only used GuildWiki and other Guild Wars wikis, didn't know that. Thanks! --Shadowcrest 20:36, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Fighter Pages

First of all, thanks for helping out with cleaning up the character pages. Secondly, just so your not editing something that is going to go away soon, take a look at SmashWiki:Post-Merge Cleanup to see the format that all the fighter pages are going to be put in once I/we get enough time to do them all. Falco (SSBB) and Meta Knight (SSBB) are already in this format. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 14:07, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I had noticed the format on different characters was off. I'll work on it when I get the chance (eg now). --Shadowcrest 02:50, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Or not, I apparently share an IP with GalaxiaD and have been banned until tomorrow. Unless Randall checks his email between now and then. Remind me to rant on the admin noticeboard (wherever it is) about not using the auto-block feature. --Shadowcrest 03:10, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, we have to use the auto-block feature because many of the vandals have a range of computers or a slightly variable IP. Hitting with auto-blocks keeps them from just logging out after they are banned. It's much easier than calculating a binary range block code, and most of the admins wouldn't even know what to do. Plus, that can go wrong and lock out whole continents. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 20:52, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I have a perfectly reasonable and rational explanation in my head, but it doesn't look good on paper :<

On an unrelated note, who are the prominent members here? There are a couple sysops that I can think of, but other than that I don't know anyone but Entrea, GalaxiaD and Oxico (and they have both left, or so I hear). --Shadowcrest 21:02, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, Randall00 and I are the most active sysops on here. I take care of a lot of the day to day work and gameplay information and Randall does a lot of the back end work, although we really do whatever is needed at any point in time. Sky2042 is another sysop, and he's probably the most knowledgeable about templates and MediaWiki type stuff. Also, Silverdragon706 is a sysop, but she hasn't been around as much lately. The active non-sysops that I often work with are Gargomon251 and Wolf O'Donnell, as well as my crewmate Ax. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 21:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

re-write of Zelda (SSBB) article

moved to User:Shadowcrest/Zelda

qualms with merge-cleanup

1. Costumes, Entrance, idle poses, victory pose
2. changes from melee->brawl
3. debut
4. audio
5. rename of tilts

auto-block

go rant. --Shadowcrest 04:46, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

And prepare for a policy invasion. Must set up for that too. --Shadowcrest 04:51, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Let me have a look at fixing the block. --Sky (t · c · w) 16:46, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Should be fixed. --Sky (t · c · w) 16:52, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Still blocked. #818, if you need it. --Shadowcrest 16:54, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

To clarify, only my IP is banned. My account is fine. Since Galaxia and I share(d) an IP, autoblock banned my IP for a day, and I am thus unable to contribute outisde my talk page. --Shadowcrest 17:09, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, that stinks. (By the way, Hi!) I must be missing something here, what with mostly being outside the community here, but... what exactly got Galaxia (and, by extension, you) banned at all?–Entrea Sumatae 17:38, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Entrea! How'd you find me here? You weren't even on IRC when I brought SSBwikia up.

I'm not quite sure, really. I think it involved him being a prick to someone who was an admin and they blocked him for it. Oh, and it might have also involved impersonating a user (who I think was an admin, and the same admin at that). Except for the impersonation, would you agree that would not have happened on guildwiki? --Shadowcrest 17:48, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I found you here because I RC patrol here too. I usually just correct facts and such, mostly ignoring talkpages and such except for rumors or stuff that are up for deletion. As for what happened, I still have no idea what event sparked it, but I'm sure as hell that a 3-month ban for a first block wouldn't last more than a couple hours on GuildWiki before someone overruled it.–Entrea Sumatae 17:56, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

It's odd that on GWiki I don't do a lot of mainspace overhauls and crusades, but here I am planning on cleaning up a bunch of stuff. Did you know this place merged with Wikia like we did? And they all hate monaco? If I could figure out how to change the logo, I'd give them the "monobookization" customization Pan/Jedi/May did.

Unless it was Raptors (raa!) a 3 month ban would never have passed, I agree. I also saw a threat to ban anyone who disagreed with the blocking of Galaxia- am I correct in saying that that would have resulting in possibly a consequence as severe as desysoption on Guildwiki?

Do you think it would be a good idea to import a bunch of our commonly referred to policies? NPA, 1RV, maybe YAV, AGF, AUNC (users not content)? And the admin noticeboard. --Shadowcrest 18:02, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure it would be a cause for desysoption (unless they actually carried out the threat): everyone overreacts sometimes.

And I did know about the Wikia merge (except they actually did merge, Wikia didn't have a Guild Wars wiki when we were absorbed). And if they don't like Monoco, showing them how to monobookize would be great. And yes, every wiki should have the exact same policies and stuff as ours, but it's probably unneeded to do a major overhaul.–Entrea Sumatae 18:14, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Also, stupid line.–Entrea Sumatae 18:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Since I can't post anywhere other than my talkpage, I have to do everything here until I'm unblocked. Including importing policies, test revision of the Zelda (SSBB) article, and any other main/wikispace action I would have taken until then. I'm separating the talk from the policy with (you guessed it) a line. I hate licensing. A lot. Why couldn't guildwiki be GFDL?!? :( --Shadowcrest 18:20, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm sure there must be some way to have our customizations without our logo (Smashwiki with Guildwiki logo in the corner lol), so I'm going to find it.–Entrea Sumatae 18:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

The simplest way would be to ask Pan, but he hasn't been seen in quite some time. --Shadowcrest 18:34, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Easy. Copy [1] to it's SmashWiki counterpart (Or your monaco.css). Monobook background looks a little wierd with Beach, but that can be changed.–Entrea Sumatae 18:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Way to edit conflict me. That's basically what I was going to say. We'd have to persuade smashwiki to set the same code but with their logo as their default to import it. I think. --Shadowcrest 18:37, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

The code there will use SmashWiki's own code. On my own .css, I fixed the colors too. It has the right colors and logo, so anyone who likes the monobooco skin can just copy (or import) that. By the way, monobooco is now the official name for the Monoco/Monobook hybrid.–Entrea Sumatae 18:44, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

According to who? Lol

I'd test importing your page, but I probably can't edit my own monaco.css. Anti-lol. --Shadowcrest 18:52, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

You should be unblocked now. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 20:36, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much. --Shadowcrest 20:39, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

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I am auto blocked, once again. #857. --Shadowcrest 02:14, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Posting so I can add an edit summary to make this request more visible. --Shadowcrest 02:16, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Lol. SmashWiki hates you.–Entrea Sumatae 02:19, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

The rant in my head is getting better by the second ;) --Shadowcrest 02:20, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Charitwo. --Shadowcrest 02:27, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Im Toast

I'm toast aren't I. Im gonna get banned pretty soon. Zmario (talk) 00:51, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Mah boi...

Are we allowed to have PIs? Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 23:16, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

...what? 4srs, cnt ndrstnd u --Shadowcrest 20:29, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I meant are we allowed to have P3450|\|/-\|_ images. --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 21:32, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, if they're in the beta template. Read. --Shadowcrest 21:35, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I guess not. This. Mine is related to Smash Bros., so I don't really know. Ask the admins somewhere... Admin noticeboard, perhaps? --Shadowcrest 21:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Whoa

← moved to User talk:Blue Ninjakoopa

Two things about the poll

First of all, last week I removed the same poll that you put up today. If you didn't read my reasoning, it was that polls about the "worst" thing tend to be either a troll in and of themselves or an invitation to other users to troll. This is why GameFAQs doesn't allow top ten lists about the "worst" or "most overrated" games.

The bigger problem I have, however, is you contacting a blocked user and putting up content for him/her. Users get blocked for a reason; Cafinator's has been discussed extensively. I don't know a specific policy to point to, but I would extrapolate the no sockpuppets rule to include getting another user to do things for you. You are obviously an intelligent and devoted editor, and I'm sure you can understand the reasoning behind my thoughts here. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 17:04, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

I didn't read your reasoning for removing it because I didn't know where to find it. (I just now checked the history.) Tbh I didn't even know you removed it a first time. So, apologies for that, and I can try to come up with a better poll in a little while.

I read your post on Talk:Main Page after I had posted the poll, and I couldn't just revert (the numbers had already been reset, would have looked stupid, etc. etc.) I do understand your reasoning, though I have some reservations about specific instances. --Shadowcrest 17:31, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Edit: I see you've already changed the poll, so that's good. And I must also assume the extensive discussion about Cafinator's ban has happened privately elsewhere, because as far as I know the only discussion that has occured was between Cafinator and Randall, though of course I could merely be unaware. --Shadowcrest 17:35, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Most of the discussion happend priviately between Randall and Cafinator, although there is some on his talk page where I added my two cents about why he is and should be blocked. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 22:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

BNK talk

Now what do you possibly have to gain from starting a debate on a subject you weren't even a part of? That conversation ended when BNK was banned, and we're keeping it that way. If you have anything to say, go ahead, but don't expect me, BNK, or anyone originally in the conversation to hear it. MarioGalaxy {talk} 19:39, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

What do I personally have to gain? Nothing. What could other people gain from it? The fact that your reasoning sucked and you should stop criticizing KirbyKing for nothing. (That 'you' is collective.)

At the risk of sounding cliched (but I've always wanted to use this phrase), you and what army? "..on a subject you weren't even a part of? That conversation ended when BNK was banned, and we're keeping it that way." It's a wiki, in case you've forgotten; you're not going to stop me just by telling me that you declared it over. If you don't wish me to comment on your failures, take them somewhere I won't see them (eg. off wiki). If you guys refuse to listen to solid logic and wish to retain your erronous thoughts, I can't stop you. --Shadowcrest 19:51, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Your Sig

...Has no link to your talk page. And if you are against link hovering for unknown or abbreviated signatures, then you should really be against not having a link to your talk page.Smore Talk 15:19, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect; you misunderstood my opposition, and I don't quite follow your logic. I am opposed to unidentifyable signatures. Having a link to my talk page doesn't make it more easily identifyable than just a link to my userpage, it just makes for less code. What does link hovering have to do with a talkpage link? --Shadowcrest 22:50, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Um, I know I'm not in this conversation, just one question. Link hovering is when you hold your cursor over the sig, right? Well, I get your point. MarioGalaxy {talk} 22:52, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome to participate in any conversation held on wiki imo, that's why it's a wiki :P

Yes, that's what link-hovering is. Whose point do you get? --Shadowcrest 22:56, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Your point. You're talking about sigs that don't identify the user (RJM, FyreNWater, etc.), while SmoreKing thought you meant sigs that don't have links to a user's talk page or contribs. MarioGalaxy {talk} 22:59, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, not necessarily contributions, but talk pages yes. I'm just saying maybe you should put a link to your talk page.SmoreKingxg456BOO! 23:29, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Shadowcrest/~ is good.SmoreKingxg456BOO! 23:36, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Like I said in my edit summary, your logic still doesn't make sense to me, but I guess it doesn't do any harm. I've changed my preferences to reflect the change. --Shadowcrest 23:38, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. SmoreKingxg456BOO! 23:39, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Article Requests

← moved to User talk:Miles.oppenheimer

Disambig

Thanks for dealing with the leftover redirects from moving by changing 'em to disambigs. Could you maybe help clean up the split articles? Thanks! {My name is Miles, and I approve this message.} 23:14, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

RE:elitist and overbearing

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Vandal

Please help un-move what he moved. It's blocking me from moving because of how many un-moves I've already done. Thank you! {My name is Miles, and I approve this message.} 18:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Because of wikia's restrictions on moving pages, once someone posts on the page it's supposed to be on, it can't be moved back except by sysops. So I can't help with those, and Eulalia seems to be getting those. And the move throttle probably helped us more than hurt us, so I can't really complain about that. --Shadowcrest 18:34, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't fail

← moved to User talk:Miles.oppenheimer

Merging

Just out of curiosity, I have a question to ask you. Why do you always tend to support merging similar articles (Blaster, Reflector, Fire Fox/Bird/Wolf, Glire/Glunder/Glice) and only disagree when there's no practical way to do it? I usually tend to lean the other way and was interested in why you think these types of things should be merged. {My name is Miles, and I approve this message.} 15:14, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Because they're all mostly the same thing with minor variations. Glice/ire/under all do the same thing, just with different side effects; the blasters are just Fox/Falco/Wolf's spammable special (and they're all semi-clones anyway imo), etc. There's no point in having 3 separate articles when 1 could cover it all. --Shadowcrest 15:19, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... I disagree, but I'll respect your opinion. {My name is Miles, and I approve this message.} 15:21, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Why do you disagree, out of curiosity. --Shadowcrest 15:22, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Because all of the Blasters, despite their similairty, are different enough to warrant their own pages. The same works for the rest of them in my opinion. I'd rather have a few smaller pages that focus on individual moves than one big conglomerate page. {My name is Miles, and I approve this message.} 15:26, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Well then I guess agreeing to disagree is the only viable solution, because there's really not a middle-ground in between :P --Shadowcrest 15:27, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

So be it. O_o {My name is Miles, and I approve this message.} 15:31, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Don't ever...

hate ParaGoomba348. He is the best person in the world. Red Heart (talk) 14:18, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

...but can he dance? Sorry 'bout that. I have a question for you: if you were me, would you run for sysop, or run for rollback? I can't decide which I need more. Cheezperson {talk}stuff 04:14, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

uh... you know, that brings up a good point. I have no fucking clue how you guys (meaning you and other AD members, primarily) would use the block function, which is a big point of my general support/oppose criteria for sysop. However, I'd say go for rollback for the time being. --Shadowcrest 04:20, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

this might sound strange, but I'd like to be sysop (for the most part) for the other tools, like merge and delete. I always feel insignificant when I have to ask a sysop for assistance with something like that. Cheezperson {talk}stuff 04:23, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

WTS YAV $19.99 --Shadowcrest 04:27, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

i didn't mean it like that, I meant it like "I wish I could just do that myself." Think I should give it a try? Cheezperson {talk}stuff 04:39, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

RfA archive

Can you just leave it alone? I understand what you're trying to do, but it's not going to accomplish anything except make other users think that they can edit the archives of failed RfA's. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 18:50, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I was planning on making an "archived" template to place on them. Would that be acceptable, or would you prefer I not touch the old ones? --Shadowcrest 18:52, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Just don't touch them. People ignore the archive template. Plus, it defeats the purpose of an archive if we change the content or ordering. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 18:54, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Fine, fine. Though they're still ugly :p --Shadowcrest 18:55, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

I'll agree that they are. I'll also agree that your new method is very good. Feel free to implement it into the current RfA's. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 18:59, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, working on it now :) --Shadowcrest 19:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Conflicts

I know how to settle conflicts, I do it all the time in scouts! I'm the head guy there, and they turn to me whenever there's a problem. I suppose being somewhat "new" at this may be a urn-off, but like Obama, I will do my best for the site despite what others may think of me. Cheezperson {talk}stuff 23:18, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

While I am glad you are self-confident and believe in your abilities, I can not in good faith excuse my doubts because of real-life^(TM) circumstances. For example, one of GuildWiki's previous bureaucrats was, as a friend put it, "prO with debate club and peer mediation" (and he was), but he still acted like an elitist ass on wiki and was also very successful as a bureaucrat. His success may have derived from his RL experiences, but that wasn't what made him a good bureaucrat. What made him a good bureaucrat was that he knew what he was doing; he has had a lot of experience with wikis. While the wiki-success may have been derived from RL, RL was not what made him successful. Therefore, I can not accept your conclusion... I'm sorry. --Shadowcrest 01:18, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I accept your conclusion, to an extent, as not all people are alike. Thanks for moving that talk page thing btw. Cheezperson {talk}stuff 03:35, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

if i has an idea for a move for midna, do i just add it or wut? Xtrme Talk 2 X Wut X is doing 00:41, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Sure. It'll show up on my watchlist anyway, so go ahead. Thanks :) --Shadowcrest 00:44, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

vandalism

← moved to User talk:MarioGalaxy

Yeah...

← moved to User talk:Kperfekt722

Mm, Maybe I Should Mention It's An Attempt To Prevent Arguements. Your Off The List Due To Your... I Don't Know. Your Off The List Cuz You Were Nice About It Ha Ha. I Don't Have A Big Vocabulary XD KP317 (talk) 03:02, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Gif

I made a GIF for SmashWiki, but...it's 3 MB over the limit. Any suggestions? --Posted by Pikamander2 (Talk) at 16:25, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii222/Pikamander2/RecoveryGIF1.gif

I... really have no idea. I am inexperienced at such things... perhaps Sky will know, but I really can't help. Sorry. --Shadowcrest 16:46, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Try breaking it in to two parts. Maybe it will help.^Smoreking^ Give Thanks 17:02, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Policy

I was wondering, seeing as you just made a nice policy about signatures, if you could help me improve my image policy. It's under project since I had originally had it as a project but have tried to make it a policy. Feel free to edit the page yourself after I make one small change. Miles (talk - contribs) 01:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I'd say the image project is more of a project than a policy. How would you make it a policy? Cheezperson {talk}stuff 01:14, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, I figured it out. Cheezperson {talk}stuff 01:15, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish with that page. Are you trying to make a style & formatting guide regarding images, or are you trying to make an "image use" policy? --Shadowcrest 01:24, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

A sort of combination regarding what images are allowed and when to use them. It's vague, and that's part of the problem. I'm not trying to do this kind of guide, but rather trying to establish a sort of explanation of why the wiki needs images, what articles need them, etc. Miles (talk - contribs) 01:28, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

So you want a style and formatting guide? --Shadowcrest 01:30, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

trolling

← moved to User talk:Blue Ninjakoopa

My Sig

That's strange, it shows three lines on my screen, and my Internet Explorer is on full screen. Maybe it's your computer? MarioGalaxy ^{Death has a price. I've paid it...} 22:49, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Enough

Quit stirring the pot. We're done arguing, so there's no need for you to call me a troll anymoar. Koopa Klaus 23:09, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Then please don't link to me in things like that. :/ --Shadowcrest 23:11, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

I expected you to write something completely different, but I see your point. Sorry. In your summary, you could've wrote "Plz don't link me in this forum" or something like that. :^) Koopa Klaus 23:15, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm

People seem to turn to you for rules here. Is there any pressing tasks that need to be done?User:DCP

Osry

← moved to User talk:Blue Ninjakoopa