A Man In Black
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Infobox CVG syntax guide
I began drafting a syntax guide to go along with aforementioned infobox and I'm inquiring if there's any interest in one being made. I suppose the reason is mainly to clarify certain fields and bring it closer in line with other projects such as films and books etc. Anyway, you'll find it at User:Combination/Sandbox. Thanks for your time. Combination 18:50, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Atomic Fire images
Hi. I just closed Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 July 19. While removing the images you nominated from articles, I noticed a number of other images from the same source. I did not include them as part of your deletion request, but I'm not sure if it makes sense for us to be republishing them. Thoughts? Jkelly 23:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
- Anything from Atomic-Fire not attributed to a specific primary source is copyvio, and the only user who could have sourced most of it recently left Wikipedia, so I think they all need to go. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 23:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
- Are you able to identify them all? Jkelly 00:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- Identify them how? List the images from AF, or identify where they came from? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 00:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- I meant list the images from this website so that there is a list one could go through for deletion. Jkelly 01:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- I've been tagging them with {{nsd}} whenever I see them, but I don't know any good way to list them other than going through Category:Mega Man media one by one (a laborious task on dial-up). - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- I see. That's not ideal. The thought of going through that cat is intimidating. By the way, given your comment here, would you mind repeating it? This is still going on, even after both of our comments on AN/I and a comment I made at the user in question's talkpage. Jkelly 19:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- I've been tagging them with {{nsd}} whenever I see them, but I don't know any good way to list them other than going through Category:Mega Man media one by one (a laborious task on dial-up). - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- I meant list the images from this website so that there is a list one could go through for deletion. Jkelly 01:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- Identify them how? List the images from AF, or identify where they came from? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 00:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
- Are you able to identify them all? Jkelly 00:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Note to self: hack {{Pokémon species}} to make Minomadam work. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 16:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Also, make {{Infobox Air character}} and {{Tenchi Muyo Character Infobox}} not suck. Plus any other template still using {{Oh My Goddess Infobox-Generic/Text}}. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 01:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and credit Mark Newland (ahuxley in #alephone) for the M1 scan. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 07:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Cleaning the castle
Following a seemingly unsuccessful AfD nomination of Castlevania timeline I thought it would be a good idea to get a reality check before contesting related articles, such as Castlevania recurrences. These two, to me, are redundant and don't really stand on their own as separate articles, and sources are virtually non-existent with parts grabbed and assembled from a number of fan sites which may well be based on direct observations by the authors. Perhaps I was simply not clear enough in my argument?
Anyway, thanks very much for your time. Combination 18:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Those articles hurt my head. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 08:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Fancy having a go at the template? I've arranged them by release order here and omitted a few, but it could probably benefit from some additional tweaking. Combination 19:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Well, seeing this subject on your talk page, I feel compelled to direct you all to List of characters in Castlevania: Sorrow series, a recent mergist project of mine where I merged separate character articles like Mina Hakuba and Julius Belmont into there, and one of my own reasons for doing that is because Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow are two Castlevania games featuring the same characters, so the characters are notable enough to have a list page. I think. Just to let people know. Erik Jensen (I appreciate talk!) 19:30, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Fancy having a go at the template? I've arranged them by release order here and omitted a few, but it could probably benefit from some additional tweaking. Combination 19:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Speedrun
You have a great eye for detecting what is necessary and what isn't (aka cruft), so I was wondering if you could review the Speedrun article. It's at a staggering 77KB and I know it could be trimmed down a lot. Hbdragon88 19:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
What the heck do you think you're doing? Why are you removing a majorady of the freaking Sonic games? ~~Drewdy
- Per lengthy, lengthy discussion at WT:CVG#Navboxes yet again and Template talk:Sonic games. Basically, when you have dozens of links, the clutter overwhelms any useful content. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 21:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you for writing your last summary on you edit, before i get blocked for the 3RV. Ok I think it would look nice. And I was sort of modeling it after my fdavorite anime Oh My Goddess, because tell me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a show of pokemon based on the diamond and Jade games?? Also the movie Pokemon Power of the One i was modeling after Oh My Goddess. I hope you will consider my contributions to a anime that I'm don't like. 谢谢各位 (Thank you very much) !! LordPrincess (洛德公主) 22:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)~
- The problem is that they're dissimilar, and that you stated that the pages avoid spoilers when they actually don't. Also, you added the second Pokémon movie to the episode list, which is a cotnentious issue. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 22:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
May you please see my userpage to see if it looks Wikiful. Tell me what you think! LordPrincess (洛德公主) 23:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)~
Wasn't this just deleted recently? Combination 22:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Block me?
See, I need to do a ton of work on a site due to an HDD crash to make up for lost revenue, and Wikipedia's distracting me. Could you please block me for the span of a month so that I can do this with no distractions? - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- Last I checked, "I need a break from Wikipedia" blocks tend to get the blocking admin yelled at, sorry. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 15:26, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Spider-man
You shouldn't have merged Ultimate Spider-Man (Story Arcs) into Ultimate Spider-Man. I don't care what society you belong to, if you made a redirect, you should at least have put some of the content from the former into the latter, had you been needed to merge it. But you weren't! You acted completely against what the readers of the discussion part of that topic had agreed, which had been to keep the page. You might have noticed the large button proclaiming that it was kept and required cleanup, but I'm guessing you were too lazy to even read it. SaliereTheFish 13:50, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- I see consensus not to go into this kind of extreme detail at both Talk:Ultimate Spider-Man (story arcs) and WP:CMC. Additionally, an appropriate level of detail was already present at Ultimate Spider-Man, so no merge or cleanup was necessary or even possible. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 22:16, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with this, and it is why I redirected the applicable links. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 22:28, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
You're missing the Point! If you'll look at the big button on top of Talk:Ultimate Spider-Man (story arcs) then you'll notice that the button on top reads (I'm presuming you can understand english) 'THE CONSENSUS WAS: KEEP'. Therefore, the article should have been - need I say it - Kept. You broke a rule in making an unnecessary Redirect for a topic that an awful lot of people liked and relied on. The reason we needed 'this kind of extreme detail' is that the article is about a comic better selling and mor epopular than any of the others.
Change it back. Now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SaliereTheFish (talk • contribs)
- The insults and implied threats and commands aren't doing you any good. AFD results aren't binding on anything but deletion, and all I did was redirect it. Feel free to bring this up at WT:CMC if you think I did the wrong thing, but be prepared to be disappointed. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:32, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Articles for deletion
Do you think it would be reasonable if I deleted nearly all of the articles I created? A few exceptions, like Nasir Gebelli, seem like they're somewhat notable. I'm appalled that I created a List of Final Fantasy characters article and a List of Final Fantasy locations article (even worse). I've propagated fancruft and trivial information at Wikipedia for over a year and pissed all over the fair use clause. I badly want to merge, well, nearly every article pertaining to the Legend of Zelda universe into something like The Legend of Zelda series universe. Can you imagine how well that would go over? I mean, where would scholars begin to research information for Keese or Deku Babas? At the very least, I don't cry when I see the articles over the Legend of Zelda series. I save the tissues for Pokemon articles. --Tristam 08:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- The best bet seems to be just to merge and redirect, so that's what I'd suggest. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Just an update
Nah, not nagging, since Raul already trimmed the FAC list and it'll be some time before he hits MNSG. But I did want to note that development on the article is "complete" now that I've had four or five editors review it. I've also added a sequel section. I'm ready to edit things should it need more attention. Do you think the WP:FICT objection will stall it? --Zeality 19:09, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Bullets in templates
From what I can see at {{Navigation}} and related templates, the actual convention on Wikipedia seems to be to use {{·}}, over the pipe and bullet. Anyway, it might be a good idea to suggest to our fellow editors that all CVG navigation templates switch of over to {{Navigation}} as soon as we have the latest round of bugsrequested feature over there working correctly. —DavidHOzAu 00:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Ideally, we wouldn't be using metatemplates. I know we're using Tnavbar right now, but ideally we wouldn't have transclusions in transclusions. I'm also not a fan of using hide/show functions; one of the reasons I went to the effort of standardizing appearance was to get rid of that often-glitchy hack. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:44, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, and as for the middot template, I'm indifferent. All I was aiming for was a standard divider, not a particular divider. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:49, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Anyway, from what I can see {{·}} happens to be just a nonbreaking space followed by a middot; in that respect it is a bit much. I think I'll subst it in future. --DavidHOzAu 12:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Metal Gear series template talk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Metal_Gear_series
Is it you who is always changing the complex template to the simplistic template? People prefer the old, more complex template. Please let it stay.
Bulbasaur FAR/Discussion
Well, it seems as though there's more approval of having a mere discussion topic on Talk:Bulbasaur in regards to your recent comments on WP:PCP than actually bringing Bulbasaur to a second FAR. I suggest, then, you bring the topic to Bulbasaur's talk page and have brainstorming sessions and discussions with everyone else on how to improve the Pokemon FAs and GAs. It may be overkill to put Bulbasaur through FAR right away. Erik Jensen (I appreciate talk!) 03:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, WT:PCP might be the best place to do this. I dunno, I need to better articulate my gut problems. I think it may be put off temporarily; I just got another job, and Wiki stuff always comes after real-world stuff. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
- Hey, just wanted to wish you luck with the new job. That's a definite reason for a wikibreak. — TKD::Talk 04:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)