User talk:DrBob

System Images
We already have one for GameCube. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 11:29, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * I know. Now we need ones for the other consoles (and the GC one may have to be redone if Blendmaster does the others in a different style). --DrBob (Talk) 11:32, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Personally, I happen to love this guy's work, but they're not 25px, they're more like 32px (standard icon size). Although, I thought they might be a nice replacement to the system logos you use on the Main Page WIP.  But I assumed I'd be alone in that opinion.  Procyon (Talk) 12:50, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * They are nice, but they're pixel art, and the rest of our icons use a smoother (more modern, if you will) style; they wouldn't fit in. --DrBob (Talk) 13:04, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * /me <3 pixel art Procyon (Talk) 14:41, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Just resize them and apply a little blur if that's the only problem XD --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 13:48, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * That would never ever work. Procyon (Talk) 14:41, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * It worked for Image:GameCube icon.png. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 15:44, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * I'm not so sure; you can still see aspects of pixel-art-ness in the image. --DrBob (Talk) 16:18, 8 August 2007 (CDT)

Template:System browser
Well, I resized it so that it would get rid of this effect on 800x600 resolutions: http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6056/browseryx1.jpg --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 16:22, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * The changes I made mean that it should spawn a scrollbar when it starts overflowing. It does for me. What browser are you using? Have you hard-refreshed (hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift and refresh) the page? --DrBob (Talk) 16:42, 8 August 2007 (CDT)
 * I'm on IE 7, 800x600 res while at work. As the picture shows (even after clearing the cache) the table sticks out.  On FireFox, 800x600 the table is squished close enough together that even though a small bar appears, it is very minimal (lets you scroll maybe 8 pixels).  --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 11:20, 9 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Doesn't look like anything changed. The "other" image and text still goes over the right edge and gets covered by the ads. -- 16:34, 10 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Well I got it to work on User:Notmyhandle/Sandbox2 which uses the template from User:Notmyhandle/Sandbox. Notice I got rid of the surrounding box, and changed some stuff.  The strange part is that in 800x600, it gives a scroll box for IE, but resizes it perfectly for Firefox.  In 1024x768, IE looks perfect and Firefox has a scrollbar... Lol.  -- 23:49, 10 August 2007 (CDT)
 * The change I made was prior to my sandbox stuff... and I was hoping we could save an edit by progressing rather than reverting, but oh well. -- 03:32, 11 August 2007 (CDT)
 * It still doesn't work. Why can't we just use all the changes I made?  It works just dandy (we can probably get rid of the bar on firefox by extending the margins a little more). -- 12:32, 11 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Actually, I just checked, it looks excellent now (my Sandbox/2). IE7/FF both render perfectly at 1024x768, and FF does 800x600 perfectly while IE7 creates a scrollbar.  -- 12:43, 11 August 2007 (CDT)

What do you mean "completely sorted?" What's there to "sort?" Sandbox2 works as it should, yes. -- 14:20, 12 August 2007 (CDT)

@#$*(!? apostrophes...
Man, I had no idea how prone to that one particular mistake I was. I mean, I would catch myself sometimes thinking, "Hmm... that apostrophe doesn't belong there," but it was really scary looking at your clean up and seeing just how frequently I'd make that same mistake over and over. I dunno, I always considered myself a math student, and never much of a writer. Naturally by writing so much content for this site, I'm beginning to realize just how bad certain writing skills of mine have become :P Anyway, thanks so much for taking care of that mistake, and I'll remain mindful of "its vs. it's" in the future. Procyon (Talk) 09:17, 9 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Not many people are aware of how often they mis-apostrophise things. I'm just glad to have been of service. :-) --DrBob (Talk) 09:25, 9 August 2007 (CDT)

Company Category Cleanup
Thank you. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 11:23, 10 August 2007 (CDT)

Template:Rd
Shouldn't us be na? -- Prod (Talk) 22:53, 11 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Nope, because there isn't a single flag for "North America". --DrBob (Talk) 04:39, 12 August 2007 (CDT)

Civ 1-4
The getting started page is supposed to be different I think. They may have some commonalities, but the text needs to be split up to the relevant guides --, sometime yesterday
 * I've had it with the Civ guides. I never want to see them again! I think they were all imported from the same page (Civ:The_Basics) though, so they should be the same. From what I've read of the text, it would be tricky to split them out, and since all the games are quite similar tactics-wise, I'd be fine with leaving it as one transcluded page. Feel free to rip it apart, though. :-) --DrBob (Talk) 04:41, 12 August 2007 (CDT)
 * The same is true of the terminology pages. I was thinking of putting the general stuff in a trancludable section in Civilization/Terminology, transcluding it into other terminology pages and adding the game-specific stuff, but there didn't seem to be enough game-specific stuff to make it worthwhile. I'll take another look at it, though.
 * Done. --DrBob (Talk) 05:59, 12 August 2007 (CDT)
 * I've also noticed you've reverted my edits to the Alien Crossfire factions page. Why? I had it nicely set up so that it transcluded the Alpha Centauri factions page, and added in its own stuff. Now it's just the same as the SMAC page was. Perhaps we should discuss this on IRC/IM. --DrBob (Talk) 05:36, 12 August 2007 (CDT)

Patrolling
Ah, I see. I was still a bit confused as to what that meant. I thought it was adding them to a list to be patrolled. Yes, I will do that. --IsaacGS 15:00, 13 August 2007 (CDT)
 * What's the point in the mark all pages visited button then, that marks all pages as patrolled and non-admins have the button, isn't that a bit pointless or have I got it wrong???--Rocky http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/7/78/Rally-X_Rock.png/25px-Rally-X_Rock.png (Talk - Contributions) 15:03, 13 August 2007 (CDT)
 * There's a patrol button? I've never seen it... By the way, is there a way to sort out non-patrolled edits?  -- 22:06, 13 August 2007 (CDT)
 * Yes, there's always been, (at the top of the right-hand side of an unpatrolled diff against the previous revision), and no, not as far as I know. You just have to look for diffs in recent changes with an exclamation mark to the left of them. --DrBob (Talk) 03:59, 14 August 2007 (CDT)