StrategyWiki:Staff lounge/2014/May

Editing privileges for 77.251.240.152
I am really concerned about both the quality and quantity of the edits coming from the user at IP address 77.251.240.152. I'm sure all of the staff is aware of this. I don't feel that these edits significantly improve the quality of the guides that are altered. It was one thing when it was the addition of controller input, but simply adding shrunken down inline images of items, or boldfacing occurrences of the word "map" do not strike me as constructive, and personally, I feel lowers the quality of the guide. I would like to ask the staff for their opinion on this matter. The fact that the edits are aggravating to me personally is not reason enough to block him/her, so I would like to know how others feel about it. At the very least, I would like to propose that we block edits from the IP address, but permit the creation of an account from that address. How do the rest of you feel?


 * Control edits were helpful, but anon has not been wholly aware of the cleanup I have been doing. Slow to learn, no desire to be fully engaged. A ban for wasting our time is fine. We should give them an explanation of our requirements for this particular editor to continue editing here (e.g. registration is mandatory and other improvements in their guide editing). Registration will help them learn more quickly.
 * Inline images are great, btw. He may be referring to the section I added to SW:Guide, Guide/Polishing a guide. There I wrote about in-line graphics as being beneficial and desired. -- 18:18, 30 April 2014 (UTC)


 * I feel like it is fine that we let him continue. Although it "adds work", it is beneficial that anon is spurring us (me/proc/paco/whoever) to improve our guides where possible. I have been working on im in response to help ease the process of setting up guide-specific in-line image templates. -- 15:56, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Strife
There doesn't seem to be any content here on Strife: Quest for the Sigil (Rogue Software, 1996). However, as the link indicates, there is ample information on the Doom Wiki, and there would be no legal problem with copying this here as (1) Wikias operate on the CC-BY-SA license, so as long as they are acknowledged they would have no problem with this; and (2) I wrote the walkthrough pages (mostly from scratch) and created all the maps, so I wouldn't need to obtain permission to copy those.

However, I'm wondering if there would be any ethical/social problem with respect to the culture of this wiki; some wikis have a problem with copying (even with editing of the copy), others don't, so I've decided to float the idea here before taking any action. — RobertATfm (talk) 16:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)


 * We are completely cool with it, and actively encourage it. If you are interested in helping to bring that content over, we would be more than happy to have it.  Thank you very much for checking with us.   Pro  cyon  18:19, 10 May 2014 (UTC)


 * You may add the source to this list: Content import. Remember to add a link back to the source whenever you are adding info or images you copied. -- 22:04, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
 * If copying text from another wiki, and not all the contributions are yours, you need to either attribute the previous authors (or put a link to the original page/history) in the edit history of wherever the text is copied to. I would rather not encourage copying data from another wiki, but as long as attribution is preserved, there's no issue. All uploaded images here are assumed to be under fair use, unless explicitly tagged with something like GFDL. -- Prod (talk) 02:38, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Pharaoh/Walkthrough table issue
I don't know where to put this, but I've placed it here for a quicker response. :)

I checked on the wiki page just to see if it had been vandalised or the links changed at any point, but it appears that due to the left panel and the narrower layout, that the video links are lengthening the table and make the layout messy. Is there any way to fix this or is the wiki simply using a fluid layout so that the issue doesn't materialise on larger resolutions? --Super Sajuuk Talk Page 11:41, 12 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Please ignore this message, I've tinkered about with the page and fixed the layout problems. --Super Sajuuk Talk Page 12:01, 12 May 2014 (UTC)