User talk:GuardianOfTheWastes14836



Hello there, feel free to leave a message about anything, even if just for a chat and I'll try to help as best I can.





Re: Symbol of Order
The year long badge is called "Savior of the Damned". It's a platinum badge with the "Jesus" Vault Boy you see when you have Very Good karma in Fallout 3. However, instead of all white, like you see in the "Finding the Garden of Eden" achievement/trophy, his robe is blue, similar to vault suits. An image, albeit a small one, can be found here. --Kastera (talk) 16:14, November 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you! May I ask what day you're on?
 * ...Not quite 200, but who cares? The achievement tracks seem to have lost the steam they had back in June. Tell me: if you contribute for two weeks, get the badge, miss a day and then contribute for two weeks again, do you get the same badge a second time or is a one time deal?


 * Sure, I can help with your history project. I'm a bit of history nerd, if I do say so myself.

History
My internet is acting up, so none of messages to you were getting through. Seems like we have to rely on talk pages :/. --Kastera (talk) 22:52, November 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * I see where you're going. We already have things like Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln memorial; Thomas Jefferson for the Jefferson Memorial, etc. I don't see why we can't have Herbert Hoover for Hoover Dam. However, yoto keep in mind, that because Fallout is in an alternate timeline, so some facts may be skewed. Hoover Dam isn't the case because it was dedicated in 1935 and divergence happened around WWII and thereafter. --Kastera (talk) 23:10, November 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Divergence occurred some time in the 1940's so anything before that is considered canon, I think. Since Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, I think the Booth assassination is still valid.
 * Tomorrow would be fine. It's getting late in England, isn't it? Good thing it's the weekend.

Just send me a message anytime you want. I'll probably see it within the hour.

History II
That generally sounds like a good outline. I only have one question, dealing with your first point: how far back are we going into the United States' history? Are we going back until the time of Erik the Red or Leif Eriksson who discovered Greenland, Canada and Maine? Or should be only go back until 1750's when the United States were formed? --Kastera (talk) 20:03, November 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * Alright... would the best course of action be to go through all the location articles and find any people who the location was dedicated to? We could record them down and come back with new suggestions for historical people articles. --Kastera (talk) 20:20, November 6, 2011 (UTC)
 * We can use my sandbox; just record down any people that you think should be included. After we've written everything down, we can begin making articles and check them of as we make them.

Gothemasticator
Where did you hear that Gothe was leaving? I couldn't find anything on his page that said he was leaving. --Kastera (talk) 23:54, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

Demonym
Sorry Ci, it's been a time thing. I've forgotten what it is exactly that you want me to overhaul, do you want to only accommodate Statesian, or both of them? --User Avatar talk.png 03:03, November 7, 2011 (UTC)

Vandal
Yes, that was annoying. Good thing there were some admins around. Jspoel  18:43, November 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * He's been banned forever.

New Vegas Meme
Made a New Vegas Meme, if you want anything like this for your profile, let me know. I am pretty clever, and know my way around Photoshop as well as other paint programs. Shoot any ideas my way so I can pay you back for the Talk Link. Rocco 21:37, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

I didn't even know what a damn meme was until a few weeks ago. I don't even make many of them, but I do make a ton of demotivational/motivational posters. Here is a link to my page so you can see some of the ones I have made. http://cheezburger.com/Chimaira667/lolz If you see any you like, or you come up with any deas for something I can make for you, let me know brother. Rocco 23:31, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

Thankyou you have enlightened me and completly 180ed me thanks you so much but do you think we were both in the wrong or just me

Oh sorry i did not mean it to come out like that umm, what the jist of it was, i was just as bad for even using the word in the first place, just because i am negro does not mean i have a free pass.

Vault Dweller
I count only 49 hours for the time he's been banned from chat, but leave it like it is. Let's say it's his lucky day. Jspoel  17:49, November 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm fine, thanks for asking. Hope you're doing ok too. Already started taking driving lessons? (since you're 18). And I didn't know the reason for the ban, so when it's racism, 3 days is going easy on him I'd say.

Wow im being the racist, yea i can go on other users and see messagages and FYI i wasnt being sacastic yo vindictive assholes and your gonna have to permana ban me for this. I aint even negro wow all of are corupt i thought that jeapolstra was the only not corrupt but i see it you all are, i use to come here to get info but now its just shit. i mean ausir is doing a fine job but you admins are all corrupt and the reason i sed i was black is so scarbellend would stop saying N**** oh before you ban me be sure to message me back
 * Gavvy banned him for three days for insulting other editors, Ci. Hugs [[file:MadeMan2.png|20px|link=User:Scarface11235]] "Say 'ello to my little friend!"

Red link
That's thoughtful to remove that red link,; I'm on a quest of my own to remove all red links on the wiki (wanted pages). Still 1300 or so to go. You can help if it's your cup of tea (probably not but I can try). Jspoel  23:06, November 13, 2011 (UTC) 21:21, 20 December 2011 (UTC) the pages they are red-linked on of course. But you understand that I'm sure. Just browse a bit trough them to see which you can do. Jspoel  23:18, November 13, 2011 (UTC)
 * Great! Btw to be clear, I mean make pages of the red links, not simply remove the brackets on

Derp
Good enough? <3 Hugs  "Say 'ello to my little friend!"

YouTube players
If you could you give me an example (page here vs page on Wikia), I'll look into it. I don't usually pay all that much attention to videos. -- Porter21 (talk) 20:12, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Seems Curse installed a YouTube extension which doesn't support resizing. I've added it to the bug reports thread; I hope they'll replace it eventually. -- Porter21 (talk) 10:20, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Current forum discussions
If you have a moment of spare time, I'd appreciate your input on these forum discussions: Thanks in advance. -- Porter21 (talk) 19:16, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Forum:Community site
 * Forum:Help pages
 * Forum:Infobox person


 * I've sent this message to everybody I've noticed as active here, but I do appreciate everybody's input on these topics :) -- Porter21 (talk) 19:21, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll post a reply later (or tomorrow) - I'm heading out in a few minutes and don't have the time right now :) -- Porter21 (talk) 19:30, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Forum
I actually bumped most of the relevant topics by adding a single space to them. If I missed a few, just do the same to bring above the bot edits. User Avatar talk.png 20:28, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Unfinished Vault
Do you know where it is in the game(Fallout 2)? I ask this because its artical dosen't say.--Ant2242 20:38, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
 * So its not a set location?--Ant2242 21:23, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

RE: Because you state on your userpage under user info "This user is almost inhumanly knowledgeable about Fallout 2." and my knowlage is limited to what i've read on this wiki.--Ant2242 21:23, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Re: Here
Yes, I'm staying here predominately, but I'm also helping out around Wikia. --Kastera (talk) 19:33, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm hesitant to say there's enough demand for it to require an actual project. With other projects, the target pages all need to be uniformed to have the same layout, like characters of creatures, but historical events and people, I'm not so sure. I would ask a bureaucrat; currently GhostAvatar is the only active bureaucrat (Porter's on vacation and Ausir's likely working on Curse's objectives and not The Vault's. --Kastera (talk) 21:05, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I have not been adding to my sandbox; been preoccupied with other tasks. --Kastera (talk) 21:39, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Did you just sort out the YouTube players?
Sorry, it wasn't me. I do believe it was from when we added the youtube extension to this server. User Avatar talk.png 20:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Bot
Will do. User Avatar talk.png 20:39, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Swedish version
For now, only the English version of The Vault has been copied to Curse. If the communities on the other versions are willing to come to Curse as well, we can copy them here too, but for now they are only at Wikia. Ausir 14:06, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

A long time ago...
hey. im michael and ive been the biggest fan of the fallout series and this wiki since well... they both came out. excellent work to those responsible. just wanted to take a little time to point out something that i figured out finally after all these years of playing FO1. one of the loading pics, the comic book with the vault dweller being held hostage(?) and the man in power armor, the bad guys have puzzled me for years... ive wracked my brain trying to figure out wtf they're supposed to be, eventually giving up thinking they were in fact made up, but after playing old world blues NV i discovered they're lobotomites! it was the masks that really tipped me off. idk if they were lobotomites originally or if they were based off that old pic, but either way, thought someone should know. keep up the good work guys. 1-25-12 1:52am

Customization
Sorry, didn't notice your message until now. Having instructions for skin customization sounds like a decent idea (could probably be added to Help:Skins, but I'd keep it to basic things (changing the banner image and background, for example) so it doesn't require constant updating. Not sure whether a link to it should be added to the welcome template - it's important not to flood new users with too much information if you want them to read the welcome message at all, and I don't think skin customization is something most new users need to know about (unlike the policies or where to find help, for example). I think it belongs more in the "something of interest for long-time/regular users" category. -- Porter21 (talk) 13:16, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Help?
The script is set to work only on one specific page so it doesn't unnecessarily bog down the site. I'll extend it to the whole "Forum" namespace. -- Porter21 (talk) 00:21, 28 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, I'm afraid that would take more time than I have to spare. I'm sure you'd get more out of a good JavaScript tutorial anyway; I'm not a particularly good teacher. If you run into any issues, feel free to ask me though. -- Porter21 (talk) 15:41, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Can't understand the issue on my small scale CSS
You were targeting the wrong element. I've fixed it. -- Porter21 (talk) 21:36, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Not yet ;) -- Porter21 (talk) 05:42, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Concept art
Yes. Consider helping me out here. Tagaziel 17:04, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * My brain's blowing fuses! D: Tagaziel 17:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I have AdBlock installed. Isn't there an option to right click on the image, click View Original (download Hi-Res originals always! D:) and then click Download the Original Size? eg here. Tagaziel 17:22, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Nah, no problem. I'm going to call it a day and go watch Alien with my wife :D More tomorrow. Thanks for being awesome! Tagaziel 17:49, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Flickr
GLORIOUS Tagaziel 09:47, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

User creation log
You can add this to Special:MyPage/common.css: body.page-Special_RecentChanges #bodyContent table[class*=mw-changeslist-log-newusers] { display: none; } This hides all "user creation log" entries on RC if you have "use enhanced recent changes" enabled in your preferences. If you don't have that enabled, I'm afraid you're out of luck without JS. -- Porter21 (talk) 00:36, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Sharing your present
I honestly would have made your present that same as Tag's, but I wasn't able to make the pencil smaller. Enjoy your new clipboard.

Helping out
I'll try to, but keep in mind that I moved recently and am on very limited Intertnet speed-wise :( Tagaziel 12:40, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Image
The issue is the size of the image, the max the software can support in generating thumbnails is 6000 pixels. I have fixed it by re-uploading the image at 6000*3909. User Avatar talk.png 22:21, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah I know, unfortunately I had to cancel the time off I was going to have from work, due to unforeseen circumstances. User avatar tag.gif Avatar talk.png 23:34, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Enviro(n)mental
You're welcome ;) -- Porter21 (talk) 09:36, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

RE: Velkommen!
Hi there! Yes, I decided to make the switch. In addition to having worked a lot with Ausir a couple years back, I really prefer the software used on the wikis here over the one Wikia uses. More freedom, looks prettier, and a lot more space.

You might've seen that I've already created a couple pages on the Wasteland wiki, as well as added a couple of pieces of news. I am planning on working on that wiki, yes, and I'd be glad to work alongside you! I'm not sure which forum you're talking about, haven't been active on the one here on The Vault or the one on Nukapedia, but I'll check it out. As soon as I can migrate my account over to the new Wasteland wiki I'll start working on the cleanup. I'm guessing it would be a good idea to lay down some plans on revising the entire wiki first. It's been quite inactive for a long time, and there's a lot of work to be done for it to not only be aesthetically pleasing but also easy to navigate and informative. -=KAG=- SPEAK 17:09, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Sure. All you need to do is copy MediaWiki:Vector.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js to the equivalent pages on the Wasteland wiki - then the skin should be identical to the one used here. You'll probably want to customize the colors/logo/banner etc though. -- Porter21 (talk) 18:30, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Forgot one thing - you'll have to get the Curse guys to add the global-wrapper div like they did here. -- Porter21 (talk) 18:36, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a good idea to me. I see you got some tips from Porter, do you by chance have any skills with any image editing software or css? Can't say I have. If you set up a sandbox and link me, type in any ideas you might have, and I'll check it out, give you input and add some ideas of my own, and we'll take it from there. Things like portals, colors, setting up a news section and so forth. I gotta hit the hay right now, but if you do anything after this, I'll check it out when I wake up. -=KAG=- SPEAK 19:42, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Check this out. Just a short summary of what I could think of right now. -=KAG=- SPEAK 19:50, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah, another question, what's the configuration for a bot here? It can't be the same as on wikia, so just wondering what it was, and if you knew what the configuration would be on the Wasteland wiki? The family file n such. Cheers -=KAG=- SPEAK 12:06, 9 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Uh, nevermind, I found out what to do. -=KAG=- SPEAK 12:18, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Where has Ausir gone?
Ausir told me today that he had the stomach flu, so he's probably been sleeping (that and it's around midnight in Poland right now, so he's definitely asleep). If you leave him a message on his talk page, he probably will promote you on the Wasteland wiki. --Kastera (talk) 23:47, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I've been doing well. Spring Break has finally allowed me some much needed relaxation. As you know, the FNV creatures project finally closed, so I'm happy about that. If only we could get the base ID's on abominations we could finally close the FO3 project. On a separate note, my FNV add-on reviews are still going poorly; I'm stuck on Old World Blues and have been for quite some time. But I digress; how have you been? --Kastera (talk) 06:12, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I've just been stressing out about life in general; there are a lot of things that need to be done like assignments, relationships, etc. but there's too little time to do it all well. The Spring Break is the "Girls-Gone-Wild/party hearty" spring break that happens every March. Teachers have to share their Spring Break with the students as far as I know :(. As for content, I wrapped up WWII before break and am planning the Cold War and McCarthyism/Red Scares (y'know, "Better dead than Red") when school resumes.


 * You can see my FO3 add-on reviews here. After writing those just for fun, I decided I should follow up with FNV reviews when all the add-ons had come out. I think I just have writer's block or something. I've already read over my FO3 reviews to get inspiration again and also looked at the Old World Blues article to see if any of that sparks a memory. I'm considering playing through it again to really immerse myself in the experience again.


 * Although it sounds like a fun game, I'm really no good at RTS games. I always get caught off guard by another group while I focus on the primary group and get swarmed. I'll just stick to my open world action RPG's (like Fallout). --Kastera (talk) 20:47, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * There's only so much you can do with a country that has about 400 years of history; plus a third of that is just Englishmen starving/freezing to death when they tried to colonize Massachusetts and Virginia. It's not until around the 1750's where stuff starts getting fun!


 * Actually, the part of the reviews that was putting me in a bind was just starting the section. I'm a terrible writer, in that I can't just throw words down on a page and then revise it later. It needs to be basically perfect when I write it or else I get stuck. If I could get past that, I'd be on easy street. Although I was able to write a paragraph or two last night. The rest should be simple. Maybe I should write Lonesome Road first? I have a basic outline of my (dis)likes about it, so maybe if I get the juices flowing there, I can write OWB in a snap.


 * On the note of Imperial Japanese history, I basically have no knowledge of it. I do however know that the shogunate was the household of the shogun (who were Japanese military dictators). They weren't very nice to their enemies :P. --Kastera (talk) 04:36, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

The story about the embassy cracked me up. Damn Yankees thinking they can steal land from the Queen like they did the Injuns! I jest, but it's good to know the US gov't can't have pull everywhere. Since I only teach US history, any other kind of history unrelated to events the United States isn't in the curriculum, so Imperial Japanese and Roman history is right out. As much as I like to study mythology of all kinds (Japanese, Roman, Greek, etc.), there's rarely any kind of cultural class like that at a high school level. I guess it'll have to stay a hobby. --Kastera (talk) 01:23, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Generally, yes 'injun' is considered an ethnic slur, but I was going for the "stereotypical ignorant Yank" perspective. And I think you may misunderstand the education system in the US. In Poudre School District in Colorado at least, juniors (11 graders) have to take US History as a graduation requirement. I think it's freshmen (9 graders) that have to take World History, so they still get a taste of other world affairs (so they know about the world, they just choose not to leave, which is beyond me). As for Korean/Vietnam War censorship, the history books do, but I definitely don't censor it. My grandfather was in Korea and my father was in the USAF in Vietnam, so I've got firsthand accounts of the really messed up stuff that happened over there. --Kastera (talk) 21:00, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't really have all the details, but I can give the basic gist of it. It was the beginning of the war in July 1950 (the war started in June). My grandpa was in the 24th Infantry Division stationed in Taijon. As we all know, Taijon was the headquarters of the 24th and thus a target for the North Korean Army. Gramps and his division were able to hold out against the Koreans for a couple days, but when he was repelling an assault on his squad, a Korean tossed a grenade in an office building or something they were holing up in. Being closest to the grenade, he tossed it back out the window. But he was a bit too late. The grenade had just been thrown out, but after about a half second, the grenade blew. Luckily, concrete walls are good at deterring shrapnel; otherwise, he would probably be dead. That's not to say he made it out unharmed. The concrete wall got demolished, throwing chunks of stone and rebar on him. He got a concussion, several broken ribs, and a broken and dislocated leg. His comrades pulled him from the wreckage; while they dragged him to safety he was letting loose with his Thompson at the Koreans that weren't killed by the blast. He counted four of them, but he said one was enough for him. He got put in a field hospital were he stayed for about a month, so he had to stay behind while his buddies were off defending the Pusan Perimeter. He says that he started getting his nervous ticks after that. Thankfully, that was the last time (to my knowledge) that was seriously injured in the war. However, it wasn't the end to him killing more Koreans. He doesn't really like talking about it. --Kastera (talk) 22:35, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Since my dad was only in the air force, he never saw any on-ground combat. He says he ran a couple dozen air missions, mostly for ground units calling in air strikes. Most of the time, he was letting loose napalm on thick jungles so he couldn't see any of the Viet Cong. The most entertaining story he has was when a stray bullet hit his wing and his engine failed... for about 15 seconds. He fell behind, but eventually caught back up with the rest of his flight and went on to fly the rest of his year long tour. --Kastera (talk) 00:14, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Hallo!
No worries, I'm certainly not going to hate someone for trying to do things by themselves ;) The issues you ran into were indeed likely caused by the missing global-wrapper, so you should be fine once Curse added that. You might, however, run into a few issues with the skin's JavaScript since the Wasteland Wiki is currently still running an outdated version of MediaWiki. I've left a message on Ausir's talk page, I'm sure he'll see what he can do once he's better.

Regarding the templates (etc), I'll see what I can do to provide you guys with a solid base repository of templates. I'll probably be busy with MW 1.18-upgrade-stuff over here for a few days, but there are some technical problems at the Wasteland Wiki which need to be resolved by Curse first anyway - once that's done, I'll take a look.

Changing the favicon works differently here than it does on Wikia - Wikia has some special functionality with which users can change the favicon by simply uploading it to the wiki with a specific name, but Curse doesn't have that. Long story short, you can't change the icon yourself, you need the Curse techs to do it - so it's probably best to shoot a message to Ausir. -- Porter21 (talk) 18:58, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah, once the technical issues have been sorted I'll set up the basic skin and templates - you guys can then tweak these however you see fit. -- Porter21 (talk) 17:05, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

FO3 creatures
That's it for content, yes. Now I'm determining how many of the "participants" actually participated in the project, removing them and alphabetizing the participants. I made the medal a bit ago, so you can be expecting your momentarily after I get finished with that stuff. As for Nukapedia, I'm waiting for SigmaDelta to do a peer review of abominations, so I can close both projects at the same time. You can review it if you'd like, if Danny hasn't already. --Kastera (talk) 19:59, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

History
Alright, I guess I'll see you later in June. Message me when you get back. Have fun with you exams. :P --Kastera (talk) 23:08, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Gender fixes
Can you please be careful that documents are kept in there original transcript and not corrected. 18:53, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

What on earth are you doing?
Heh, what do you mean? 23:03, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Ohhh, it isn't invisible text, see here Fred Zeleny. I am reviewing and removing the bot tags from the pages that have been converted, and fixing the mistakes it did along the way. I am just doing the easy fixes atm to get the list down to a usable size before going back and redoing the more complex jobs User avatar tag.gifUser Avatar talk.png 23:22, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * J was doing the same thing cus Porter let Nukapedia use the same script to convert there infoboxes also. And yes I am planning on sorting all those pages out, I have recently added Category:Credits table missing data and Category:Employment history table missing data to help to the end of improving the pages also. Just need to clean out Category:Converted person articles pending review before doing so. User avatar tag.gifUser Avatar talk.png 19:15, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Autoblock
What do you mean name it? 10:53, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Unused images
Just adding these here ([[Media:GOTWPersonalBanner.png]], [[Media:GOTWPersonalBackground.jpg]]) so as to get them of the unused images list. 11:34, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

No, thank you
Well, this is certainly unexpected. Recently, people have been telling me that I'm actually a VIP in the Fallout wiki community, when I don't think I'm more important than any other user. Honestly, I can't see myself ever stop working here. It's basically my only hobby; I wouldn't know what to do with myself. Really, I feel that editing is like some form of therapy; stress magically disintegrates when I demonstrate my "know-it-all-ism".

Personally, I think that both sites have their advantages and disadvantages. Nukapedia has more users, yes, but they're mostly there because of community reasons (chat, SMN, polls, etc.). I only know of about ten people who are actually editing content (but Jspoel counts for three of those people). When it comes down to it, I think we have better content than Nukapedia.

Let me close by saying that Itachou is going to come back. It may be long time, but he will come back. If I know him (and I'd like to think I do), I know he will come back. Cheers, Kastera (talk) 01:09, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It does look like the release of Fallout 4 is going to make or break us, but I'm not too confident that people will find The Vault. Googling 'fallout wiki' still has Wikia as the top result with us being the third. --Kastera (talk) 21:02, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It pains me, Gen. Lafayette, to say that we don't have the support that the Continental Army did. We don't have the metaphorical Spaniards and French to back us up and supply us. Honestly, I don't know what we need to do. Bureaucrats and admins should have a meeting or something to set up a battle plan. --Kastera (talk) 21:12, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Offensive-defensive-conflict
I am not debating whether it is a defensive or offensive, honestly I am not to up on the lore. I simply changed the word because in didn't flow correctly using the word defensive. I suppose I could have changed it to the defence in Alaska or the defensive action in Alaska both of which would flow better, but I just picked the first neutral word that sprang to mind, that covers all military engagements both large and small, defensive and offensive etc. There is no need to take anything personal by it, just a simple edit to help sentence flow. 19:09, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It works fine, just had to do a little correct as you had in twice, but other than that it is all good. User avatar tag.gifUser Avatar talk.png 23:13, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Keep it up!
lol, I am probably doing more via my bot than my actual account. 19:24, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia links
GA suggested the image to be added, so I'd suggest you discuss it with him since I can't really cater to conflicting preferences ;) -- Porter21 (talk) 20:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah I suggested it, it was merely an extension of the blue icon used for external links. As the blue one notifies users that the link is external, the grey one notifies them it is a link to another wiki (not just Wikipedia). I thought it would be helpful to others, since I added it to my own CSS file I have found a few pages that have links to Wikipedia where we have are own pages on the subject, example. If you really don't like it and since it is a simple bit of CSS, I might suggest making it a gadget as a compromise, what do you think? User avatar tag.gifUser Avatar talk.png 20:49, 17 April 2012 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks for your input on the subject. Personally I think it will be quite helpful, for the simple fact that if we have to link out to Wikipedia in the main body of a pages content (excluding behind the scenes), then there is an argument for having that content on our site or the editor didn't express themselves in a sufficient manner and decided to use big words and laziness. User avatar tag.gifUser Avatar talk.png 21:31, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Something else you might be interested in to help editing and making sure links point to the right place with ease. If you go to the appearances tab of you preferences and change Threshold for stub link formatting (bytes): from disabled to 500 B. Then add the following code to your CSS, it will highlight links to short pages (most of the time these are disambiguousness pages) in green. a.stub { font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; color: #0A0; } It helps me a lot in checking pages for anything that needs editing. 22:17, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Zeta Reticuli
In hopes that you get this message, reading about paranormal activity tends to put people on edge, so you're not alone. Obviously, we are not alone in the universe. --Kastera (talk) 01:46, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Youtube
I don't think our extension is at fault; it rather seems YouTube changed something on their end. The mini players seem to be broken on all websites I checked; e.g. Wikia is affected as well although they use a completely different extension for embedding videos. -- Porter21 (talk) 16:52, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

E-mail
Yeah, I got it. I didn't have time to properly respond, I'll write you back tomorrow. Ausir 17:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Spam
mw:Extension:Asirra is just an extension that we have added as part of the mw:Extension:ConfirmEdit extension. It is only utilised for account creation and nothing else at present. The spam filters that are in place as part of mw:Extension:AbuseFilter are still active, and at the moment blocking a few hundred spam edits a day. Obviously they are not 100% effective and a few slip through at a time, but this is to be expected if we don't want to make the filters to aggressive and block genuine edits as well (false positives). Those ones we have to deal with ourselves, which at the present is only a handful a week. To me that is an acceptable amount, plus each one that does get through, I am always looking at improving the filters where I can to prevent those ones in future. 13:36, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikia have there own way of dealing with spam, one of which is the AntiSpamInput extension written by one of there staff members. I cant really rate the effectiveness of that extension, as I know not what it actually blocks in practise. The only filters that should have been disabled from the import are the sandbox filter (used for testing and logging only of new filters - to check for false positives before going live) and the account creation filter (which was redundant after the introduction of Asirra for account creation). At present Asirra is only used here for account creation, however it can be used to confirm edits as well (when combined with the ConfirmEdit extension), if the option is enabled and set to certain user rights (i.e. anon edits). Something which we have not enabled at present. It is something we have to weight up, comparing the user friendlessness of editing the site (would you really want to jump through hoops each time you wanted to make an edit, I know I hate confirmation mechanics - especially when I get them wrong) to the scale of the issue it can prevent. At the moment, the issues that do crop up are more than manageable by use through simple deleting, reverting and blocking. So I would rather not scare off potential future editors for the sake of saving a little effort on out part. However if the issue did get worse, that is something that would have to be re-evaluated. User avatar tag.gifUser Avatar talk.png 14:16, 26 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Seems GA has already answered this question ;) The current batch of spam bots do not perform any actions which trigger a captcha (creating accounts, adding external links) and simply adding a varying amount of text is nothing which trigger any of the filters either - if it did, we'd likely be blocking legitimate edits as well. -- Porter21 (talk) 14:49, 26 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Just to give you the low down on this current bot. It seems to come around once every few weeks and only lasts a couple of days. It doesn't trip the abusefilter as it seems to harvest genuine comments from other sites (mainly YouTube) and then redistributes them to the sites in it list. The only conclusion I can come up with, is the coder is using a updated/new script and testing it before going on a advertising companion. It is also the only one that enters these junk summary comments. That being said, your suggestion is a good idea, just needs a few tweaks so it doesn't block edit summarys like ZAX. I will give it a try in the sandbox filter and see how it goes. User avatar tag.gifUser Avatar talk.png 16:09, 26 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Filter is set-up and now logging, we will see how it goes before making it live. User avatar tag.gifUser Avatar talk.png 16:19, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Chris Jones
Looks like we need one more article for Chris Jones. If you have time, could you please take look at Forum:Another one Chris Jones? veryblackraven 23:52, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

New message
Replied. -- Porter21 (talk) 16:48, 6 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Replied again. -- Porter21 (talk) 18:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Hey Ci
Yep, I got my degree and am now a functioning member of society :D. But at the moment, I have to a work at a bagel shop until I can go back to teaching in the fall. Now that we both have time on our hands, I wouldn't mind restarting the history project (I noticed you already started it at Nukapedia). We can catch up tomorrow on chat; I'll get onto chat at 11AM/12PM (your 6 PM/7PM). Let me know if this works for you. --Kastera (talk) 21:06, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not having much luck, though I think a page for Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauss rifles/pistols) would be a good addition. I'm starting to think this should be an unorthodox project that never really ends, rather than a well detailed project with all the bells and whistles. It seems that the progress will be really slow-going and kind of spur of the moment historical epiphanies. --Kastera (talk) 22:13, 26 June 2012 (UTC) P.S. I'm diggin' the snazzy new sig.

Fallout Fanon Wiki
It's up at http://fanon.falloutwiki.com if you're ready to help set it up. Инкуиситор Саша Ехренстеин аус дөм Стурмкриг Сектор (Contributions) (Edit Count) Contact: CW - SK (de) - MW.org 03:07, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

UV
I'm very sorry, I must have missed your message since it was followed by some others. As for Unwashed Villagers, unfortunately it turns out that Curse isn't interested in hosting them, as much as I would like that myself. :( Ausir 22:29, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

Porterism
Well, to be honest I'm not sure whether I'm comfortable with the whole thing. Appreciation is nice and all, but this is a bit "too much" for my liking (no offense). -- Porter21 (talk) 08:41, 1 September 2012 (UTC)