User talk:Prod

Archive 1 - October 16, 2006

Maplestory
I'm trying to sign up for MapleStory Europe and it is not working. It keeps sending me back home when I press OK after the alert. Is this because they're developing something or what? --Kyron 21:57, 8 October 2006 (CDT)

Dominions 3: The Awakening
Nice work with the Table of Contents. I'm very busy just with the Nations list ATM so this is cool. --Morkilus 21:44, 16 October 2006 (CDT)

Ulm Hero Pages
It's not really my work, but I don't see why they can't go in the individual nation page, since there isn't much strategy to be written about a single hero. --Morkilus 16:31, 17 October 2006 (CDT)

Helheim
I decided to put this under Vanheim, since it's related intimately to that nation and it's that way in the official manual. PS thanks for all the help, you've been awesome!--Morkilus 17:34, 17 October 2006 (CDT)

Category:Pages now merged into other pages
Sorry I'm making such a mess on your talk page >.>. What's supposed to be done with those? On wikipedia they keep all their redirects, no matter how useless. But here useless redirects are deleted. Merging histories (i'm assuming like the transwiki process) would make a mess, but I would assume it has to be done. -- Prod 16:47, 17 October 2006 (CDT)
 * I've got no idea, and ianal. You'd probably want to talk to Garrett (and apologise to him from me for forwarding so much stuff to him :-P ). --DrBob (Talk) 16:50, 17 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Well, the GFDL is satisfied when the authors are specified and a link to a transparent version is provided. On wikis it is usually held that a backlink is sufficient; the source later disappearing isn't an issue as it was handled correctly at the time. You could merge the revisions, yes, but what I usually do is simply put "merged from (some page)" in the edit summary. That ties a transparent source link to the page, thus the GFDL is satisfied. GarrettTalk 20:48, 17 October 2006 (CDT)
 * But can we delete the old page? For the pages I have currently put there, the attribution is pointless since the other contributor already did tons in the main page so his name is already there. -- Prod 21:07, 17 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Oh, of course. GarrettTalk 21:41, 17 October 2006 (CDT)

Monobook.js
I noticed that you have a monobook.js subpage and I wanted to ask if it works as expected. I have created one, but it doesn't seem to function. --inarius(T) 20:31, 18 October 2006 (CDT)
 * Ah-- BlueCloud.js-- That was the ticket! Silly me (I use the BlueCloud skin). --inarius(T) 00:38, 19 October 2006 (CDT)

I thought you could use sysop...
You've been a very diligent and respectable contributor, so I definitely feel you can handle the sysop privledge. It'll help when nobody is around except you, or when you need to perform rote moving/deleting tasks. I hope you don't mind!  ech elon  23:57, 18 October 2006 (CDT)

Toolbox Layout
Please check out the recent updates to the Article Tags Toolbox proposal and let me know what you think of the current version. Thanks! --inarius(T) 12:40, 20 October 2006 (CDT)

wikifying the Dominions 3 demo guides
Go ahead with them, I'm just happy that someone is willing to clear them up for me. Thank you. --CCurio 15:49, 23 October 2006 (CDT)

Question
Howdy. I have left a question for you on Category talk:Volition Inc.. --inarius(T) 15:59, 26 October 2006 (CDT)

Question about merging / deletion
Hi, thanks for the hint with the merged / now merged templates. I understand that the merged flac comes into the talk page. Also the now merged flag ? and should i put a delete flag into the merged now page ? or into the talk page ?--Horstjens 12:00, 27 October 2006 (CDT)

ESRB
Great job on all the ratings images and pages, but you seem to have missed out the (now defunct) ESRB K-A (kids to adults) rating, otherwise known as 6+ (I think). --DrBob (Talk) 11:32, 5 November 2006 (CST)
 * Thanks :D. Fixed that and added info to ESRB. I don't think it'll be used much though, since it's replaced by E. -- Prod (Talk) 15:14, 5 November 2006 (CST)

Playstation 2 tag
I noticed you removed the Playstation 2 category marking from the Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal page. Since I'm very new here, I'm wondering why you did that. Wouldn't it make sense for this to be on the Playstation 2 page? --Visual77 18:53, 9 November 2006 (CST)

Spelling
Hi Prod, i already use Firefox but the built in Spellchecker is in german. Do you know how i can change that ? (Ubuntu Edgy) --Horstjens 13:07, 10 November 2006 (CST)

New games
I noticed you started some new game pages. An easy way to set up all the basic layout is to use. -- Prod (Talk) 11:31, 10 November 2006 (CST)

Thanks for the tip. 0-172 19:33, 10 November 2006 (CST)

Gears of War Achievements
Thank you for the big edit on the Achievements page. It looks a lot better. Next time I'll be sure to use the page for a reference to any other page I edit/create.--Kcman13 17:44, 12 November 2006 (CST)


 * I was wondering if Gears of War should now be a 1 in the 0-4 overall completion rating. Referring to the "Usage of num" section in the Template:All Game Nav--Kcman13 18:55, 12 November 2006 (CST)

Main Page Links
Hey Prod! There is a link back to the main page of guides anyway, just click the Table of Contents/Walkthrough bar. Phoenix499 11:57, 13 November 2006 (CST) Edit: Thanks about the skaters pages :)


 * Oh, I'll talk to him then. It's just that they are incrdibley uncessary and look stupid. The main page is the link left to the Table of Contents. I also don't agree with placing the tables of contents on the front page, and think that only the Indroduction, Infobox and External Links should be on the "Main page". I'll bring this up then. Thanks. Phoenix499 12:05, 13 November 2006 (CST)


 * Nah, not the ToC, I meant something like this, http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Feel_the_Magic:_XY/XX Where all the ToC and Walkthrough is on one page. It doesn't look as good, not as neat and there would be no point in havign the actual ToC bar if the links where all on the main page.
 * This has been discussed before, and the verdict was that the ToC in the All Game Nav is not visible enough for the front page, where people want to get somewhere quickly. Having the ToC on the front page eliminates the time spent finding the link to display the ToC in the All Game Nav, click it, then find the page for which you are looking on the ToC. --DrBob (Talk) 12:55, 13 November 2006 (CST)
 * Oh come on, thats a joke right. Can't be seen, can't be accessed quick enough. It's right there, infront of you! Oh well, rules are rules. It's just it looks very stupid. Maybe the decision should be raised again is all I'm saying. Phoenix499 13:12, 13 November 2006 (CST)
 * Just to make sure we're on the same footing: you think the tables of contents on the main page should be removed because you can access the table of contents through the "show" link on the All Game Nav, yes? The "show" link may be obvious to you, but it might not be obvious to a lot of other people, and it's a fairly small target (as things go) for people to click. A table of contents on the main page is a lot more obvious, and more book-like (which is basically what we're aiming for with these sub-paged guides). The table of contents accessible through the "show" link is more of a courtesy. --DrBob (Talk) 16:30, 13 November 2006 (CST)

Table of Contents
I have noticed that you are putting the table of contents for articles on their main page. I know it is for convenience, but why? To me it clutters the page and whats the point when there is the article Nav at the top of the page? 0-172 3:56, 15 November 2006 (CST)
 * It means that the ToC is easily visible to anybody (many guests may not know that there is a ToC hidden at the top of the page), and having it on the main page means that there's only one click from the main page to get you anywhere in the guide, rather than two (clicking on the ToC at the top, then where you want to go). For key navigation, this is important, as it makes things a lot faster. Besides, having a ToC on the front page of a guide fills it up, and gives a good at-a-glance indication of how well the guide is progressing. --DrBob (Talk) 00:22, 15 November 2006 (CST)

Image:SW Main Page.gif
It's probably not all that necessary for SW Main Page.gif, but I included the user name deliberately, as I will on other screenshots for the Guide. The username I included is simply an IP address, and it is fake, as can be noted by the prefix of 278. which cannot occur in IPv4. I wanted to have something in that area, because I will reference it when talking about the user controls.

The inclusion of the Firefox controls was deliberate as well, though I'm not a stickler about that one. It is the only image I planned to include browser controls on, just because it is obvious that this is a webpage. So, I use the mini controls used when switching to Full Screen, which lacks the actual browser name.

What do you think about the username area? --inarius(T) 14:47, 18 November 2006 (CST)

User Page
Thanks for the idea on my user page, that works better than what I originally had. 0-172 1:27, 20 November 2006 (CST)