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Andre (talk) 22:01, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

Contents

Recategorizations on Metroid articles.

Hi, I'd like to talk about your recategorization of various Metroid articles. I notice that you're adding the categories "Nintendo characters", "Metroid", and "Video game characters" to a lot of them. Well, the thing is, the category "Metroid characters" encompasses all of these categories. "Metroid characters" is a subcategory of "Nintendo characters", which is a subcategory of "Video game characters", and "Metroid". Adding these categories is redundant and unnecesary. That's why they're getting removed from those articles, okay? : ) --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 06:35, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

I hadn't actually noticed. ^^' CyberSkull 23:03, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)

Jean Grey as fictional elemental?

I don't think Jean Grey qualifies as a fictional elemental. The Phoenix Force has never really been called a fire elemental, has it? And what with the "Jean was never Phoenix" retcon, one could argue even if the Force were a fire elemental, Jean never was. At most she was linked to the Force.

I've seen the phoenix referred to as a sort of primal force of the universe, the embodiment of life itself. I never meant as a fire elemental. I don't think the phrase "life elemental" was used though. CyberSkull 08:52, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

Edit summaries

You've added a lot of redirects lately without edit summaries. This makes doing edit reviews a lot harder; could you please try to remember to include edit summaries when creating redirects (and in fact on all edits)? Thanks. Kelly Martin 23:38, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I've goofed on some, sorry. CyberSkull 23:38, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)

Testing new signature

Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:02, 2005 Jun 20 (UTC)

E3

I reverted your most recent edit to E3 because we're trying to be consistent with the article title and how it is referenced. Andre (talk) 17:48, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Adultswim

Template:Adultswim has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Adultswim. Thank you. —Cryptic (talk) 07:43, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Future games

Thanks for cleaning up after Pearle. I fixed a small bug which should prevent the same thing from happening in the future. -- Beland 01:56, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

CVG Infobox

The CVG Wikiproject discussion page. I don't see why you'd want to make the image optional. The infobox collapses if you don't use an image anyway. ?? K1Bond007 03:59, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Chrono Media

Hey,

I am just letting you know, i undid all of the changes to chrono media items by adding Category:Square media to the page. All of those images belonged to Category:Chrono media which is a sub cat of the category you added. Therefore the change was redundant, and I deleted the cat from the images you added them too. --ZeWrestler Talk 12:21, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Use of Category:Computer and video games

Hi! Thank you for adding the infobox to the article on Children of the Nile. I had no idea this was available.

I wanted to let you know I added back the category "computer and video games". I notice that many but not all games are categorized this way. Perhaps there is a systematic effort underway to make all title articles accessible? I did go ahead and add the game to the list. Also, there is no category "city building games". Is there a way to create this and add it as a subcategory under the master category? Thank you for your help! -- Sitearm | Talk 00:36, 2005 August 13 (UTC)

Ok I created the new subcategory "City building games" (per your edit) under existing subcategory "Computer and video game genres" which is under master category "Computer and video games". I will remove the master category from the article. Thank you for your help! -- Sitearm | Talk 03:55, 2005 August 13 (UTC)

You said: Game articles are usually categorized by platform, year of release, company and even by franchise. But game articles are also categorized by genre, yes? I realize genres may be dynamic but folks are paying attention to them, I observe, at least from talking to K1Bond007. Thank you for your patience! -- Sitearm | Talk 06:04, 2005 August 13 (UTC)

Oops, forgot that one. ~ Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:12, 2005 August 13 (UTC)

Category:Censored anime

I listed it for deletion as it is not NPOV and a lot of series are edited when they are taken to the U.S. WhisperToMe 21:29, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

MusicBrainz

To avoid stepping on each others' toes and duplicating stuff, I've converted Template:Musicbrainz to Template:Musicbrainz track in the same style as your templates... Use it well (and often) ;-) --Azertus 19:32, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

I also noticed you created Template:musicbrainz wiki box. This is currently not accepted by the Wikipedia community IIRC (it looks good though). I read not long ago that only sister projects recieved the box treatment. There are even editors who don't like the use of images in templates like Musicbrainz artist/album/track (they were taken off the IMDb template)... --Azertus 10:50, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I just had another idea. What about adding categories to the Musicbrainz templates? Like Category:Musicbrainz artist, Category:Musicbrainz album & Category:Musicbrainz track? Would these be useful/accepted by the WP community? --Azertus 10:59, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Note: I had to edit the above post with semicolons to make the category links visible. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠

Categories would be ok, however it should probably be something like Category:MusicBrainz listed artist, Category:MusicBrainz listed album & Category:MusicBrainz listed track. Whatever the category is, the spelling has to be "MusicBrainz", with a capita M & B ;). As for the images, I just put them on because MB explicitly allows people to use them to link to MB. I tried to copy their example and the IMDb example. ~ Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:48, 2005 August 16 (UTC)

I've visited your link on MusicBrainz page—is there official ontology for MusicBrainz metadata? — Anrie Nord 15:57:36, 2005-08-29 (UTC)

I didn't post that link. Here is a search for "metadata" on the musicbrainz wiki: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=metadata&fullsearch=Text Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 21:09, 2005 August 29 (UTC)

Ghost in the shell + Catcher in the Rye

Thanks for doing the leg work for me, I'm still new here. Didn't even know wikipedia had movie, etc. information. --Gryn 07:00, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

The Category again

Just because the category survived VFD doesn't mean I am not trying to do something to the category. As a matter of fact, only you and one other person straight voted to keep it.. everyone else voted to "keep if renamed" or "delete or rename". WhisperToMe 02:14, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Onimusha breaks

Hi, I was wondering what the difference, if any, between <br clear="all"/> and {{-}} are? I'm guessing the latter is just the wiki interpretation of the break? hansamurai 飯侍 (burp) 02:52, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

It's a template. {{-}}. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:25, 2005 August 30 (UTC)

hi... regarding Template:Infobox Warcraft character

regarding Template:Infobox Warcraft character... sorry i didnt document it properly... anyway i copied it from Template:Star Wars character...

parameters:

  • IMAGE - is the code to display the character's image (insert a html comment if no image yet)
  • BGCOLOR/FGCOLOR - background color and foreground color (i copied from star wars' infobox... supposed to be the background color and foreground color of the infobox)...
  • GENDER - character gender: Male/Female
  • RACE - character race: e.g. Orc/Night Elf
  • CHARACTER - the character of the unit in the game: e.g. Death Knight/Paladin
  • AFFILIATION - who is the character aligned with: e.g. The Horde/ The Nathrezim
  • OCCUPATION - role of character: e.g. Frostwolf Clan Chieftain, etc.

hope this clarifies things =) any questions feel free to drop me a message...

thanks :: Debroglie 14:30, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

About language templates

Why did you make Template:User la-1 link to Latin in the left frame? As far as I can tell none of the other language templates do this. Neither do any of the other User la-* templates. So, if you want to make la-1 do that, you may as well make 2, 3, 4, and native do that too. Or, if you have no objections, I'd prefer the link removed. (The template already says latinitate; people should have a fairly good idea from that alone, don't you think?) Regards, Andyluciano 01:26, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Okay, as I've seen no response I've reverted this change. I also don't agree with your other babel edits (you seem to have created templates for each of your -- and only your -- computing interests. I would consider myself a c-N and an sh-N and a bsd and a w3m and a firefox but you don't see me creating templates for all of those. I'll be frank -- your user page has way too much babel stuff) but I'm not going to touch those. Andyluciano 03:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
it's all good. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:09, 2005 September 1 (UTC)

Category asm-1

CyberSkull,
Hi. I'm not sure that this is actually doing what you may intend.
brenneman(t)(c) 05:48, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

DOH! stupid typo… Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:50, 2005 September 4 (UTC)

Love the template!

CyberSkull, I love your {{User language subcategory}} template. I normally consider myself an expert at template editting, but there's a small error and I cannot figure out how to fix it. On the category pages, the language code in the box on the left has an extra space in it (it says "en -3" instead of "en-3"). I can't see where to get rid of the space... -- Reinyday, 15:21, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

I've been trying to figure that out too. I think it may be a bug in the software, it may not be chop() -ing the text from the parameter. I'm still trying ;) Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 15:25, 2005 September 4 (UTC)
Ok, I think I fixed it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 15:40, 2005 September 4 (UTC)
Looks great! You might want to consider making a separate template for the programming languages that does not include a "native category". Personally, I also think there should be no "foo-0" templates, except for English. -- Reinyday, 17:07, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
The language-category parameter is now optional. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 17:16, 2005 September 4 (UTC)
Now the pages have a redlink to "Template:User language/category". -- Reinyday, 21:10, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, what's up with that? Ddawson 22:26, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Do not like the template

Please have a look to Template talk:User language category#Discussion (and then the dozens of non existant interwikis for Category:User xh. :o) Hégésippe | ±Θ± 19:18, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Warcraft Category

Hey thanks for going through and putting at least 50% of the Warcraft images into the [[Category:Warcraft media]], I followed your example and went through all the articles and stuck in the other 50%. Thanks for picking up my slack! :) - UnlimitedAccess 18:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Templatized Babel for other Wikipedian categories

Hi there. I kind of like your 'blank' templates, with their color coding. (Was it your idea, or did you copy it from elsewhere in Babel? Never mind, I should check these kinds of things before I say something.) I think Hégésippe has a point about the {sub,}category templates, though: there probably shouldn't be interwikis in the template.

Anyway, I thought I'd let you know, I'm planning on doing something similar for Category:User instruments. Ddawson 22:43, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

User leet

Why did you create this after the existance of User 1337? Redwolf24 (talk) 23:29, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

I didn't notice that until after I made mine. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:01, 2005 September 6 (UTC)

wow revert

im sorry that my revert caused some of your edits to be lost, but you introduced a very weird effect where all info past virtual world was put into a sort of box and i was unable to find out how to fix that. check the history to see what i mean. again, i apologize. Boneyard 07:49, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

No, it was a coding error in the {{World of Warcraft instances}} template that caused the effect you were talking about. Look at the history here to see it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 19:10, 2005 September 6 (UTC)
that's also possible, anyway when i reverted to the other one from you it was fixed, prolly because that template wasn't in there yet. Boneyard 08:20, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Template: User py

You changed the colours over to a green scheme. I think they should be reverted back to a blue set (like I had it set to) in line with other programming language templates (ref: Template: User php-3). Thoughts? -- Palfrey 12:56, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

The color system I copied is from the lang series, green being the appropriate one for that user level. See templates {{User en}}, {{User en-0}}, {{User en-1}}, {{User en-2}}, {{User en-3}} and {{User en-4}}. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 13:49, 2005 September 7 (UTC)

Vandalism Count

Yes the Jack Thompson (attorney) page seems to be the most vandalized article after Dubya, however we don't really like vandalism counters on article pages. However, most of us are okay with it being hidden text. Redwolf24 (talk) 01:48, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Messy template category

Hi. I see you discovered what we're doing over in Category:User instruments. You added Category:Wikipedian musicians to {{User instrument}}. I understand it's logical to put a user in that category based on their playing an instrument. However, doing this will eventually result in the category being spammed with every single template that uses this template (and there are dozens with more on the way), albeit not immediately (each one only appears there once it's edited again); they already appear in the User * categories and don't need to show up elsewhere. It's cleaner to just require a user to add the category manually. Thank you. Ddawson 02:19, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Commons images

Hi, I was gonna delete some of the images you listed at IFD, but noticed that some of the Commons images had a tag that said "This file was tagged for being under a free license, but is missing information required for that license" (basically, "Who made this logo, and is there any reason to think it's GFDL?"). Coffee 15:29, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Jenn Dolari Bio Page

Howdy. :) Sorry I took so long to get back to you, but I've kinda left Wikipedia. I signed on only to put in a new message on my talk page, and caught your post on it. Feel free to use whatever you'd like on the Bio page, and if I can help you with any additional info, I'd be happy to fill you in. My EMail address is on the comics page. :) Jenn Dolari 15:36, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

By the way, I find it INCREDIBLY ironic that after nearly getting my comics deleted for vanity last year, I have my own biography on the site.  ::laughs:: Jenn Dolari 15:41, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
Well, that was before I became active ;) . It's mainly that NPOV thing. If u need any updates done to your comics, just post them as proposed or send them to one of the webcomics project members. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:38, 2005 September 9 (UTC)

Font sizes for babel boxes -- Templates the answer?

Noticed you reverted the font change to Template:User re-2... I was trying to make all the font sizes match (as you might notice, looks a tad ugly with them all random sizes!), which is why I changed re-2 and the like... But quickly gave up, as there's way too many of them!

I'm thinking of replacing all them with a template, i.e. {{userproglang-2|re|regular expression|Regular expression}}, so only one place needs to be edited to change the appearance of all -2 programming language boxes... (instead of the current situation, which seems to be massively cut-and-paste based). But since you seem to also be working on these, figured I should get your opinion first.

What do you think? Extra server load, using templates instead of subst? Not needed? Wait until there's a bot to automagically generate the templates and categories instead of doing it by hand, given the language code, language name, and article? Any ideas?

Thanks, Bushytails 03:32, 25 September 2005 (UTC).

I'd prefer to use metatemplates, but there has been a huge backlash against them. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 03:36, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
Afraid I'm not familiar with metatemplates... have a reference on them? Thanks again, Bushytails 04:23, 25 September 2005 (UTC). (Or do you mean just using templates like I described, and I didn't figure out what you meant? Bushytails 04:24, 25 September 2005 (UTC))
A metatemplate is a term for a template used inside of a template, specifically a template designed to be used in another template, like the old Template:Sisterproject template. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:31, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Comics

We have recently set up a Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight, which you may be interested in. Please feel free to vote on the articles listed, although bear in mind that a vote for a particular article means you are pledging to help improve the article. The goal of the collaboration is to improve articles to Featured Article status, as we feel Comics is under-represented in that area. Thanks for your help.

The current collaboration of the fortnight is X-Men. Please help improve it in any way you can. Steve block talk 11:27, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

New CfD for La-N

Flex restarted the CfD for La-N, despite it being resolved less than one month ago, and has gone around to people's talk pages informing them. Just fyi.--Prosfilaes 23:20, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Grim Tales from Down Below

The usual standard (in English in general, and also on Wikipedia) is to lowercase prepositions such as "from" (unless they're used as a noun, like "under" in Down Under for Australia, or "below" in "Down Below" here). -- Curps 15:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Babel-18

Wow, if I understand the 'what links here' correctly then you are one of two people using Babel-18. Just thought you deserved some recognition of that. :) --Syrthiss 18:27, 4 October 2005 (UTC)== Re: re == Sorry, didn't know about the babel box. Maybe some sort of rewriting could be done? -- Marumari 04:57, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Self-references

I believe that the bulk of your recent edits at Criticism of Wikipedia go the wrong way. Wikipedia:Avoid self-references discourages links from articles into Wikipedia space. The problem with them is that a mirror site that only includes the encyclopedia pages (which is typical) gets a bunch of dead links. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:54, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Could you be more specific? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 07:47, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Cat:Computer and video game templates on CFD

Hi - thought I should tell you that I've just taken Cat:Computer and video game templates to Wikipedia:Categories for deletion. The category is an incredibly bad idea. I can see what you wee trying to do, but the way you have done it will not work. A better way is to create a subpage for the project or a section of the project's page, with links to each of the templates (which is what all other wikiprojects do). If you put a category label on a template, then any page that uses that template will also go into the category the next time it is edited. Soon you will have a category full of templates, articles which use any of those templates, and stubs which were previously sorted into separate categories. The whole thing will be a huge mess and will take a LOT of work to sort out. Grutness...wha? 05:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Untrue. I am using the <noinclude> feature, which guarantees that any pages using the template are not included in the category. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:47, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi again - firstly apologies for not realising what was going on with the way you did that category, and sorry also for any annoyance at my stupidity! Can ask one favour though with it - it's very useful to be able to see what stub category stub templates feed into, so please make those categories visible on the templates when you add them to Cat:Computer and video game templates! Cheers. Grutness...wha? 23:04, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Offensive

Template:Offensive has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Offensive. Thank you. Superm401 | Talk 05:59, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Icons

I just created the template today, I moved the format to point to Logos keeping the template as "logo". LordBleen 00:14, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

I've noticed you're removed some Icons that I have previously upoaded to Wikipedia with your copy of the exact same Icon or in the case of Microsoft Entourage you uploaded the Icon for v.10 when I had v. 2004 (v.11)'s icon up there. LordBleen 17:47, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Oh, that was the newer one? Sorry. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 21:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

"Code style"

With regards to this edit of the album infobox, you should be aware that the xhtml specification requires that all values be quoted. I am also puzzled as to why you added an empty pair of noinclude tags at the end. ed g2s • talk 01:35, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I thought it was the other way with quotes. Oh well. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:38, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Signature

I don't suppose you could use a one-coloured signature? The way you have it now may look nice, but it is very annoying that it takes up 10 (!) lines in edit mode. Jon Harald Søby \ no na 15:12, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Golden Sun

Why the hell did you remove all of that content from the Golden Sun article? I wrote it in the first place because people said the article was confusing because it didn't talk about the gameplay at all. Some guy 19:28, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

It was mostly instruction manual type material, I moved it to b:Golden Sun. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:27, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, I noticed. You should have kept at least some of it; an article on a game should discuss gameplay. If we aren't going to cover gameplay at all then why even mention the game at all? You also could have marked it for cleanup or something instead of just removing that much.Some guy 08:30, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Blue screen of death/Xbox 360 screen of death

For your comment in Talk:Xbox_360_screen_of_death, I'm messaging you about the Definitive Pool. I much appreciate your opnion, Thanks. --Mateusc 01:20, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Anne Onymous and Robin Ericson

I redirected these two to the comic that they write. You've reverted them. Was there really any point? What do people know about someone who uses the pseudonym Anne Onymous? The author obviosuly does not want people knowing who he or she really is, what have they done other than The Wotch? There wasn't anything in their respected articles that were not in the main article at The Wotch. I will probably be looking to redirect them again soon unless you have some major grievances. - Hahnchen 18:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Infobox codes

Hello there. I noticed your infobox code for Template:Infobox_television and wondered what the "infobox code" is all about. I have created an infobox but it seems like you need a code for it to be used on a page (otherwise the infobox is on the page and you can't edit it). Could you please explain to me what it is about and how to do it? --Eeee 21:44, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Anything for a fan of The Bunny! Certain templates require parameters to work. I simply formatted them in a convenient manner for people to use .Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:52, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Ghost in the Shell: Kanji

Can I ask why you changed the standard # codes for the kanji in the Ghost in the Shell article to the actual kanji characters? Not all peoples machines will display the actual characters without the coding for them. Ben W Bell 19:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Uh, I usually convert articles to Unicode, since wikimedia 1.5 supports it and it makes editing the pages easier. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Yes but isn't it true that not everyone and all browsers will read that properly unless they have the right unicode pack installed? If that is the case then it should be converted back as Wikipedia should be about as wide an audience as possible rather than easier editing for that kind of thing. Ben W Bell 08:16, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
Ehm, sorry for interruptiong this discussion but, if what Ben says is correct then Unicode should not be supported at all, what is the purpouse of Unicode if it should never be used? But, by implementing Unicode, Wikimedia is showing their intention to use it. This may sound rude but if someone can't read unicode it's their fault, Unicode is an open standard isn't it? Now if we were talking about closed standards, nobody should be forced to adopt (e.g. buy) those. --Requiem the 18th(email)
Wikimedia software sends an alert for anyone using a browser that does not support unicode when editing. Furthermore it temporarily converts such characters into hexadecimal entities for that edit. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 09:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Final Fantasy stub templates

Creating those two redirects was not appreciated at all. Template redirects are a bad thing and so all you've done is add at least one more template to be deleted, two if the proposal to rename should fail, tho if we follow the usual conventions it shouldn't. Caerwine 02:10, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Ghost in the Shell template

I noticed you reverted my edit on Template:Ghost in the Shell because you feel the Ghost in the Shell article isn't about the movie. It is about the movie and should be, although it's been bastardized to include information about the whole series. A working link is far better than a red link. If you really want an article specific to the film again, I suggest you create a Ghost in the Shell (series) or similar article and merge the extraneous information in the Ghost in the Shell article, and then recover the Ghost in the Shell article to be primarily about the movie with small reference to the rest of the series, maybe with a link at the top to Ghost in the Shell (series). I understand that you might think having a red link in the template might prompt someone else to write the article, but Wikipedia is better served with an actual link to an article that does discuss the movie in some detail. Ziggur 13:36, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Actually the article should be about the original manga, since it came before the movie, but since the article started out about the movie and evolved into an article about the series we should really copy the elements of the film out and put it in it's own article. The organization of the template was merely the first step in that process. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:52, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Samus vs. Master Chief

Don't you think this article should be placed on the AfD? - A Link to the Past (talk) 10:07, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

I was thinking that myself, but I wasn't entirely sure. It should probably be put into whatever list there is on fanboy/girl debates that wikipedia has. Barring any final judgement, I thought I'd spruce it up a little since I have seen a lot of those threads. In theory the fanboy article could cite this as an example of the video game fanboy mentioned therein, so it may have merit as merging as an example. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:21, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Well, I was at GameFAQs, and the person who created it (in a Samus Aran vs. Joanna Dark topic) said he made it for a user named Luminaire to create arguments as to who would win in a fight. - A Link to the Past (talk) 13:04, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Ah, trolling. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:05, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

StarCraft Icon

Hey CyberSkull. I removed the StarCraft Mac OS X icon from the StarCraft page on User:Carnildo's suggestion during the FAC discussion (Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/StarCraft). We are not allowed to use this image under the fair use provision, and it therefore cannot be part of a Wikipedia article. Please do not put it on again. Phils 11:04, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Template:Zelda series

I've left a note regarding the formatting of Template:Zelda series on it's talk page. But basically the &nbsp;'s keep things wrapping nicely. —Locke Cole (talk) (e-mail) 10:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I've left another note at Template_talk:Mario series regarding the reversions. Incidentally, it's for the same reason as above. Locke Cole 13:55, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I didn't remove any of the non breaking spaces. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 13:58, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I see that now, I apologize for reverting your edit. Locke Cole 14:13, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Parasite Eve...again

I'm inquiring about PE again, since it seems no one noticed my last request above...Does anyone here know about the analytical aspects of Parasite Eve....? Or at least played the two video games..?-MegamanZero

I've played and beaten them both, though not recently (and I sold my copy of PE2). Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:51, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
  • That's great. I need someone to fill me in on the story for PEII and/or expand the article so we can list the stroy of the game more in detail. Please ethier expand the story in the article in detail, or if you don't want to, send me the info (maybe a dialoge script) and I'll write it. Thanks!-MegamanZero 13:41 29,November 2005 (UTC)

Fictional Time Travelers

Are you the one working on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_time_travelers page? See my comments on the talk page, and at the very least, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, as well as the entire supporting cast of Chrono Trigger don't deserve categorization there since they don't do it by their very nature.--BigCow 00:35, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Blizzard Downloader

Hello, good work on Blizzard Downloader, and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. What websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Blizzard Downloader? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 04:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

My references in this case came from my observations of the software. You would have to have the game. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:54, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Or download something from blizzard that uses the client. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Archiving

When archiving a talk page, it's best to copy and paste the old discussions to the archive pages, not moving the page entirely. No biggie, just letting you know. K1Bond007 02:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok. I was just trying to preserve discussion history. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:33, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Macintosh

Thanks for joining! We're currently focusing on the Apple Mac article; it's almost ready for FA nomination and we'd be honored if you help out. Oh, and just a freindly reminder: put a note that you're now a member of the WikiProject on your userpage, with all the other projects. --HereToHelp (talk) 02:08, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

FFbestiary images

I know that I might've been the one known for uploading mass of images to this article in the past, but now, per Fair use law, as mentioned on the Wikiproject Final Fantasy talk page, there should not be more than 15 images per game in the whole Final Fantasy bestary article, meaning from A-Z and then again, they need to be commented and 15 might even be too much considering that we're talking about more than 10 games on those pages. So I think you should stop, just like I did, uploading images like Ice Flan, unless you're using them for another good reason. Please note that this is just an advice, if you don't agree, you should discuss about it at WPFF's talk page to make sure that we get others' opinion about this.--DarkEvil 03:33, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

DVD Player (Apple)

Hi there,

I noticed your new page on DVD Player. Because of the likelihood of confusion with the article DVD player, I have moved your new page to DVD Player (Apple). DVD Player now redirects to DVD player (the hardware) which in turn has a disambiguation link to DVD Player (Apple).

This move and redirect was done because I feel that someone typing DVD Player into a search box is more likely to be looking for the hardware than the Apple software; if they were looking for the Apple software, your article will still only be a click away. Stifle 11:51, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Category: Infobox templates

Perhaps having a subcategory, Category: Computer and video game infobox templates, or something like that, is a good idea. What do you think? Jacoplane 01:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Infoboxes are a broadly used, so I don't think it's a good idea at this point. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Lot's of infoboxes though. Jacoplane 01:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Mario series template

Someone has been messing with the formatting of Template:Mario series, and I've been reverting back to your unicode version of the template. Unfortunately it seems the unicode is getting lost in the reversion (which is odd considering I'm using Firefox 1.5, and I was pretty sure it had unicode support). Can you–

  1. Revert it to your unicode version?
  2. Explain why reverting it discards the unicode?

I already left a note to the user regarding the MoS, so hopefully this ends the back and forth editing on that. Depending on what you find out re: unicode disappearing, I may end up going back to HTML character entities (e.g. - &nbsp;). —Locke Cole 00:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

It looks like Mozilla Firefox is dropping out the non breaking spaces in favor of regular spaces. I use Safari for most of my editing, so I haven't had that problem. You should report it as a bug to the Mozilla Foundation. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
Hmm, with this limitation in mind, would there be any objection to going back to the HTML entities? It seemed to lose the dashes too. :( I'll do some more testing, see if I can replicate the problem, and if so, report it to Mozilla (assuming it's not already known). —Locke Cole 00:47, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Why did you move D. C. Simpson back to David Craig Simpson?

I moved David Craig Simpson to D. C. Simpson because, as I understand it it, the artist is most commonly known by that name. After that, he is most commonly called David Simpson. The page was called David Simpson before it was changed to avoid ambiguity. I have rarely seen his name written in full, so I believe the abbreviated form, which he himself prefers, is more appropriate.

See for example

and note

  • Statement by D. C. Simpson regarding his preferred name.

as well as the copyright notices and signatures on

I therefore believe the move is appropriate according to Wikipedia Guidelines Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), and the help page Help:Renaming (moving) a page. Could you explain why you moved the page back?

--Dfeuer 23:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Nothing was cited in the move or the article as to why it was being moved to a more ambiguous title. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:38, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Do you think it would be reasonable to move it again?
--Dfeuer 02:37, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Final Fantasy XII characters

CyberSkull, I understand why you reverted the individual articles about Final Fantasy XII characters (Ashe, Vaan, et al.), but I would like to draw your attention to WP:FICT. Specifically, the first section, which discusses how fictional characters are to be handled on Wikipedia. You can take a look yourself, but the gist of it is that there are two acceptable reasons for having articles devoted to individual fictional characters: either that character is a cultural icon, transcending their work of origin, or information about that character is too lengthy to fit in a general list. Neither of these can be applied to any of the Final Fantasy XII articles. In the future, when more information and/or the game itself has been released, these articles might be necessary, but until then, they belong together in a singular list. Sorry. – Seancdaug 03:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I repeat: please either contribute to the ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Final Fantasy, or on the article talk pages. The Ashe article, in its current state, consists of little more than a incomplete character sketch and a lot of unencyclopedic speculation about clothing styles. I'll grant you that there was a section there about her marriage to Rasler that didn't get incorporated into her entry over at List of Final Fantasy XII characters, but even with that info added, the entry is still barely even at stub level, and it is difficult to justify individual articles when our current prospects for expanding the entry is essentially nil (at least until the game is released). – Seancdaug 08:18, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
I have. Ashe here was the only article I reverted, since the others could easily be merged into the list I have left those alone. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:20, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
I ask you once again: what, at this point in time, is present in the Ashe article that is not present in Ashe's entry at List of Final Fantasy XII characters that warrants a seperate article? The only information present there is speculation about character design that is baldly unencyclopedic original research and speculation. Even with that section, the length of the entry is still only 425 words, and articles of comparative length can and have been merged into lists before (the Kefka entry at List of Final Fantasy VI characters, for instance, is 421 words). Furthermore, the consensus from the Final Fantasy WikiProject was to merge the individual character articles for Final Fantasy XII for the time being. Your continued reversion of the article, coupled with your general refusal to engage with others on the issue despite repeated invitations to do so, is bordering on vandalism. – Seancdaug 00:39, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Software logos: 48px

Hi! Why did you do this? --P3d0 16:20, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

With icons the convention for sizes are exponentials of 2, and 48px is supported by all the modern GUIs. I haven't heard of an OS with a 40px icon resource. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:30, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Ok sounds good. 48 is not a power of 2, and this is for logos rather than icons, but I see your point. --P3d0 02:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
My math is getting worse by the day :( Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:42, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Taxobox

Hey, nice work on the the new Taxobox look! One thing to note is that there appears to be a space in-between the name of the species and its status. See American Black Bear for an example. Is there any way to fix that? --Khoikhoi 03:13, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

A simple fix, I just had to remove a line break, a really stupid thing for me to forget. Also, if anyone wants the old style back please just change the style and class elements, don't do a wholesale revert. I've added features to enhance editing. Your the only one who seems to like it ;). Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:46, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Ken Kutaragi

I'm requesting your opnion about this dispute. Lot of POV-Pushing, the article is currently blocked. --GroundZero 00:05, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Frankly I don't know enough on the subject to be of much use. Sorry. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

The Wotch: My Sister, Myself

The article The Wotch: My Sister, Myself is about an upcoming fangame. I don't think it is really appropriate to create such articles. If fangames are actually released, then perhaps they deserve an article. I won't nominate it for AfD, but don't be surprised if someone does. Cheers, Jacoplane 15:49, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I only added it because it is canonical and supported by the series creators. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 03:12, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Infobox

"nowrap should never be used in an infobox!" - a bold statement. Take a look at the ugly line-wrapping on Doom and say that again. We've been discussing this issue on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer and video games. That infobox has included nowraps for a long time, so I think we need a better description of the issue from your point of view. -- Netoholic @ 04:04, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I've seen long strings stretch the box all the way across the screen where someone put in a nowrap. In addition, I don't see any problems on the Doom box, or at least nothing that could be solved by a few <br />. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:07, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
The single nowrap was on the row header, which is a strictly set length, not on the variable content. Adding BR's is the "evil", not the nowrap as designed. By the way, the version immeditaly preceding today's changes had a lot more nowraps. The version you reverted had only one. -- Netoholic @ 04:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

D. C. Simpson?

I corresponded with you a while back about my reasons for moving David Craig Simpson to D. C. Simpson, but you never said whether my reasons for moving the page were adequate. I'd appreciate a response so I can decide whether to move the page again or not. If you don't think my reasons are adequate, I'd like to know why not.

--Dfeuer 04:43, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Like I said on his page, nothing was cited in the move. You should amend the article as to how he prefers his name. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:44, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Mea culpa and apologies

I apologize for the situation surrounding Ashe: I clearly misread the situation, and thought there was a consensus when there clearly was not. I still don't feel that it should remain as a seperate article at this time, but I never thought (nor intended) to act without consensus. Sorry for the confusion, and I offer you my sincerest apologies. I hope there are no hard feelings. – Seancdaug 02:08, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

None :) Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:09, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

MacRogue

Hey, I've seen you've been working on the mac game articles for the wikiproject - Are you sure this is the right icon for MacRogue?, I have MacRogue on my computer and it has a different icon. Also, I wouldn't really call it a port since it uses its own codebase - only the game-play/concept is based upon Rogue. Thanks! — Wackymacs 09:04, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Really? Lemme see if I can find the search path I used to find the program. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:52, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
That's the program I got from the link in the given article. Upon further investigation that page has nothing to do with Rogue. It has a Mac OS port of Rogue (MacRogue) and U Mac Rogue, a graphical version. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:59, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

That template

If you are online and want to work on it, gimme a yell on my talk page and I'll unprotect it for you. I didn't see it on the list of protected pages (looking for why in particular its protected), but similar templates that show up lots of places tend to be protected in general. Thanks! --Syrthiss 14:35, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Usagi Yojimbo

Usagi Yojimbo uses Japanese order with all characters. Therefore all Usagi Yojimbo characters should have their names in that order. WhisperToMe 15:06, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

I am aware of that, however I'm just trying to keep it consistent with other Japanese name articles. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Page moves

Please do not move pages to titles that Windows XP doesn't recognize. Georgia guy 01:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

???? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Windows XP recognizes the Greek letter Phi, but not the 4 superscript. Georgia guy 01:55, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
So install a unicode font. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

{{underscore}}

Thanks for the hint, but it's not only about the underscore, but the initial capital letter as well, so I'll keep {{wrongtitle}} ;) -- grm_wnr Esc 02:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Oops, sorry, I didn't notice the first letter. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:41, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Why, thank you very much! ;) -- grm_wnr Esc 13:23, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I know this is an old conversation, but I was doing some work with these templates... which article? Perhaps {{Lowercase and underscore}} would apply. — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 13:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Unicode numbers

Please don't use Unicode numbers because most users don't see them correctly. This issue has been discussed before.--Jyril 09:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

edit summaries

Do not lie in edit summaries. That edit was basically a full revert of several editors, not "copyedits". Discuss on talk when you are outnumbered, provide a rationale. -- Netoholic @ 21:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

P.S. You also removed a key component of the hiddenSructure method - the extra "pipe" ( | ) is critical to correct operation. -- Netoholic @ 22:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Sir/Madam: I deeply resent the accusation of lying. I did not revert the infobox at all. I merely made all the parameters visible on the page and removed the example infobox (it is somewhat confusing). I scanned the talk page but saw no mention of the example there. I probably should have moved the example to the talk page. I recognize this error now. I should have perhaps written "wikilinks". Good day. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
As for the pipe, it is only necessary when most do not use a particular parameter, forcing visibility of a particular structure and the visibility of the given variable. As far as I am aware, all of the variables used in this infobox should be present for all instances of the infobox. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:08, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Infobox software example

Hi. If you're going to delete a sizeable contribution from someone else, it's customary to explain why in the talk page. --P3d0 23:32, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Images on Commons with strange license

Why are these two images: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Azureus.png and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Azureus_torrent.png licensed as GNU GPL? It's not software, so it makes little sense to do this. Isn't the copyright still retained by the original author of the logo? What about the second one; if I'm not mistaken, it's the Azureus logo on a Mac OS X file icon; that's definitely not a free resource. I think it should probably be fair use. --Michiel Sikma 00:22, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Azureus is a GPL application, thus it's components are GPL as well. Therefore the images commons:Image:Azureus.png and commons:Image:Azureus torrent.png, being components of the program, are under GPL. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Upsilon Andromedae

Hi, I noticed you moved Upsilon Andromedae to Υ Andromedae - I'm not sure if this is a good idea, the title now looks like "Y (Roman letter) Andromedae" which refers to a completely different star. For clarity I would think that writing out the full name of the Greek letter would be better. Chaos syndrome 13:35, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I'm sorry to say that using uppercase Greek letters is not only bad idea, but it is also wrong. And yeah, I read it 'Y' too ;). We gain nothing using uppercase Greek letters, so let's not use them (I already reverted your move). However, I think it's ok to use Greek letters in the article text; if the Greek letter looks unfamiliar, just hover the mouse pointer over the link and the full name pops up (like here: α Centauri). Unfortunately, I doubt that others agree.--Jyril 21:49, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Look at the page history. I was merely complying with the use of {{wrongtitle}}, which was clearly supported by the software. I apologize for the severe tardiness of my reply. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Flytrap

just FYI, i've nominated Flytrap for deletion. Kingturtle 05:02, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Uh, ok. Can't say I really care. Thanks anyways. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:14, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:Video game console timeline colors

Hi, could you take a look at Template:Video game console timeline and update the colors for the Xbox 360? I tried to have a go at it but I can't really figure it out. Cheers! Jacoplane 05:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I know how to change the color (just change the bar class), but it looks like I need to make a new bar for the dual color. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images

I notice that you have a lot of fair use images on your user pages (according to this report, over 400 across User:CyberSkull/Images and User:CyberSkull/Images/Icons). You should know that, in accordance with Wikipedia:Fair use#Fair use policy, you can't display these images on user pages. I suggest that you either remove them from your user page, or write the link like so: [[:Image:Somefile.jpg]] (note the colon at the front) so as to link to the image without displaying it. --bainer (talk) 01:07, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I took the libery of listifying these images for you. If I accidentaly listified any free licensed images (I just ran a few quick search & replace commands on it) feel free to put them back in a seperate gallery, but please don't display fair use images on userpages or user-sub pages, thanks. --Sherool (talk) 17:15, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

King of Fighters

Hello. Thanks for improving my template design for the King of Fighters. I'm glad someone finally showed some interest in the series; I've been overhalling, making new links and creating all-new articles and templates for KOF all by myself for awhile now. Also on another note, may I inquire why you added a Stub template to character articles like Chris..? That article was too informative to warrnet a stub template. I've removed it in the meanwhile. -ZeroTalk 14:26, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I prolly stubbed it because it looked short or something. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:23, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

PSP

I have reverted your edit which redirected PSP to PlayStation Portable rather than PSP (disambiguation) - PlayStation Portable is not the only use of this term, there are other widely used meanings. Please see discussion at Talk:PSP and Talk:PSP (disambiguation)). Thanks/wangi 14:08, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

In regards to your edits to the Underbar Summer article...

http://www.hook-net.jp/_summer/

The title of the game is written as both "_summer" and "アンダーバーサマー". The latter of which is "Andaabaa Samaa", or "Underbar Summer".

As you don't even know what the title of the game is, you really shouldn't be editing the article. Please refrain from doing so.

Thank you.

Omgwtflolz 17:31, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't 100% sure and I admit that. Underbar just looked like a mistake. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Image galleries

Stop reverting back the galleries. Displaying fair use images in that manner on user pages is explicitly forbidden by official Wikipedia policy (Wikipedia:Fair use criteria) and the user page guidelines (Wikipedia:User page). You where told this over a week ago too, so consider this your final warning. I'll give you a little bit more time to fix the problem yourself (untill this time Monday), but if you have taken no action to comply with policy by then the offending pages will simply be listed for deletion. --Sherool (talk) 16:42, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

If your going to insist on editing a User page, do it right or don't do it at all. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:36, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
So what is the right way to edit a user page? Yes I know general wikiquette is to not edit other people's userpages, but it's not forbidden. I saw something that violated policy, so I fixed it (and many other gallery pages). Explaining the reason (IMHO politely) both in the edit summary and on your talkpage. Anyway if it's any comfort I can inform you that point #1 in our "rant" is no longer the case,linked images produce redlinks like any other page now, Image:See this image doesn't exist and is a redlink.jpg. As for wasting your hard work, sorry but it can't be helped. The amount of work that has gone into something can't be a factor in wether or not it should be allowed on the site, and if you where allowed to keep your fair use galleries (the two biggest in the whole userspace) then others would be much harder to convince to remove theyrs, and the ban on fair use from userspace would be hollowed out and made powerless. I'll start giving active people a couple of days to fix theyr own pages though, fixing them myself right away do seem to cause a bit of "friction" on ocation. --Sherool (talk) 01:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Melissa Pearce

Dear Cyberskull, what happened to the article..? If I recall correctly, this article was much more expansive. Where is the previous information.? -ZeroTalk 19:29, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

The page was deleted as a copyvio. I have remade it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:20, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Then we need to re-expand it. -ZeroTalk 02:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey, thanks for the heads-up on the underscore thing. ^_^ Jedi Amara 06:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

No prob. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

ResKnife

I noticed you contributed before to the article on ResKnife. You might like to know thee's a new version (see VersionTracker URL). — Nicholas (reply) @ 04:59, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

plist

File format infobox in plist is not appropriate. Read the rest of the article. The "format" is not "owned" by Apple nor is it extended from XML. What a plist is is a serialization of an NSDictionary. The serialization may be realized in different ways in the file, and there are currently three different file formats supported by Mac OS X and GNUstep that can be used for plists. Also try to keep in mind that plists were in use long before Mac OS X. – Andyluciano 05:37, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

You could have just made such changes yourself and put the appropriate note in the change log. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:53, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
What I'm trying to tell you is that it's not a file format. It's 3 file formats and more importantly an abstract interface to them. – Andyluciano 18:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
That actually is much more clear than your first statement. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:42, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Stub image

hey, I created the new stub I was talking about earlier in the week: Template:Educational-cvg-stub. You asked if I had an icon in mind. I added the gamepad one for now but if you have a better one then please add it. Thanks. Thunderbrand 04:59, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I myself favor the Nuvola and Crystal Clear (I haven't finished uploading it) icon sets for GPL stuff. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Done. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks again. It does fit it better. Thunderbrand 17:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Stranger (Myst) and silent protagonists

I responded to your comment at Talk:Stranger (Myst), you might want to check it out. SFT | Talk 18:35, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

substing

I figured out you were referring to my edit on this page. I hope you don't mind my asking, why you say substituting project notices is "annoying and counter productive"? I'm not arguing against you, I just honestly don't know if it is or isn't, so knowing why might help me decide if other subst'ing is also bad. Do those templates change often or something? Thanks. ApolloCreed 13:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

It really depends on the project. In the case of the CVG project, we just redesigned our project notice. Other projects update theirs to reflect current project events. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:41, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Category:1990s webcomics

What is the intent of Category:1990s webcomics? Is it for webcomics that began in the 1990s or that were only in the 1990s? It doesn't say in the category description (there isn't one). RJFJR 16:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

At this point it would be webcomics published in the 1990s (with new material). Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:39, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Renaming templates

Re this edit and other redirects - please do not rename a bunch of templates without asking on a talk page first. Template:R from other capitalisation has almost 1000 uses while I can't find any uses of Template:R from other capitalization. The "s" spelling is also used for the category, and in Wikipedia:Redirect. Wikipedia policy is not to change spelling in articles without good reason (eg. incorrectness or inconsistency). ··gracefool |☺ 03:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Well, it was the wrong spelling. See capitalization. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:20, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Microsoft Office Logo

Hi CyberSkull, please do not replace the logos of some of the Microsoft Office products. Most of the logos for MS Office used here are Windows version. Changing it would create inconsistency. If there is a sufficient reason for changing the logo, reply in the talk page instead. Thanks. 165.21.154.10 13:40, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

SNK template

I've replied on my talkpage. -ZeroTalk 11:54, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

concensus on cvg character categorzing

Zero wanted a concensus on that. Your input would be appreciated. --Dangerous-Boy 07:37, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

A Cruel Angel's Thesis

Please respond to my comment on Talk:A Cruel Angel's Thesis. -℘yrop (talk) 21:15, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

DRV for Blog Torrent

Howdy! I responded to your DRV entry at Wikipedia:Deletion_review#27_February_2006. I'm guessing you may have neglected to review WP:CSD and the history for the page in question. Please let me know if I can help you out any more. I suggest a little bit of study before you use the phrase "out of process" again, otherwise people might not listen to your message. Best regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 06:57, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

See my reply at on the page. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:59, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I've replied again. Regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 07:04, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Just a friendly heads up, I've replied again. A request, if you feel I've abused my deletion, please let me know directly instead of just suggesting it obliquely in DRV. If I've made a mistake, I'll be glad to clean it up. If not, I'm more than happy to help educate you on the appropriate policies. But a tenet of WP:AGF that's applicable here is the following:
"Assuming good faith is about intentions, not actions. Well-meaning people make mistakes, and you should correct them when they do. You should not act like their mistake was deliberate. Correct, but don't scold. There will be people on Wikipedia you disagree with. Even if they're wrong, that doesn't mean they're trying to wreck the project. There will be some people you find hard to work with. That doesn't mean they're trying to wreck the project either; it means they annoy you. It is never necessary that we attribute an editor's actions to bad faith, even if bad faith seems obvious, as all our countermeasures (i.e. reverting, blocking) can be performed on the basis of behavior rather than intent."
When you suggested that I was guilty of deletion abuse, I felt that you were not assuming good faith. It's no big deal, because we have the tools to work things out here with discussion, but I'm troubled at the thought that your first assumption might be that a 'rouge admin' (as the meme phrase goes) is out abusing his/her delete button.
A suggestion, be direct. If you think people are doing abusive edits, call 'em on it, but invest a little in conversation first. In the case of a new user, it might be the difference between creating a helpful contributor or scaring off a well meaning newbie. In the instance of talking to another seasoned editor, you might make a friend instead of an advesary. Anyhow, best regards, and see ya on the project! - CHAIRBOY (☎) 07:36, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I have replied again as well. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 07:38, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
....and any thoughts on my last message? - CHAIRBOY (☎) 07:47, 28 February 2006 (UTC)


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Um, try scrolling down the page. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:31, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Manga

You voted for Manga to be the comics collaboration of the month and it has been selected! Let's knock this article into shape. Remember, to make it to featured article status, it will need to be well referenced. ike9898 14:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

PS2 Europe Release

Hi, I am writing in regards to Template:Video_game_console_timeline. The PS2 is missing from the Europe section due to an unknown release date - I have found that it was November 2000 SCEE PS2 History. I have no idea how to use the timeline so I thought I'd just let you know :). --Cornflake pirate 07:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I just noticed that it's already stated in Playstation 2. Anyway if you could fix it that would be superb (sorry, I know that sounds like I'm being lazy but I don't want to wreck the timeline) :) --Cornflake pirate 07:35, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, uh, I haven't had squat to do with that template since I got it started. This is something you should bring up on it's own talk page. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 07:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:LOOM.png)

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Venom

Hey,

I found your name on the Wikiproject Comics page. I was wondering if you could weigh in on a discussion going on at [1]. I don't have a lot of background knowledge on this stuff, and it seems like I'm standing between two editors, neither of whom really want to give.

--MikeJ9919 22:05, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

{{newinfobox}}

Hey, i think I updated all the old arcade infoboxes you tagged. If there any more, send 'em my way! Thunderbrand 01:33, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

RE: WikiProject Anime and manga participantion

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MobyGames template usage

CyberSkull, why did you change the usage information for the MobyGames template (here)? What you changed it to doesn't use wikimarkup and is wrong (some of the <i> tags are reversed). I didn't revert it, because I wanted to find out if you had a good reason first. Thanks. — Frecklefoot | Talk 17:33, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Generally, it should be up to the templates to provide the styling of the text. Wiki markup in a title may break a template later on if it has to change for some reason. Take a look at {{Infobox CVG}} or {{MusicBrainz album}} for examples. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:47, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

List of Apple software

I noticed you added Apple File Security with it's icon [[Image:Apple File Security.png|right|Apple File Security]] to the list History but there is no file for the icon. Were you planning on adding the image latter? Also the Mac OS 9 and earlyer icons had look out of place so i changed all of them to [[Image:???.png|16px]] from [[Image:???.png|right|]] Althou it may make thoes OS9 and earlier icons smaller and harder to see and not stand out, I feel it might look nicer having less things pop out. I had posted it on the dicussion bord and latter changed them all but I wanted to make sure i wasn't missing someting before I revert an edit.--E-Bod 21:18, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't have access to Adobe ImageReady CS on the weekends to optimize the icons. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:31, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything

This movie is not set to come out in 2007. It has already come out. Check your facts and do a re-write.--WatchHawk 04:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I have no idea what you are talking about. Furthermore, if you spot an error you should just fix it yourself. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:12, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Ok, I found the page in question. I just added a sortkey. Please check the page history before posting rants in the future. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:14, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

...Why are you getting so pissed off? I didn't go a a "rant," I asked as nicely as I could. Actually, a "please" would have made it sound nicer, but still.--WatchHawk 23:09, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Please don't ask an editor with minimal involvement in an article to completely redo it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:11, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Shoot. Sorry for saying you were wrong, I just thought it had already come out because a couple of weeks ago, I saw a short part of a Veggietales movie, and the "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" were on there.--WatchHawk 23:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Shelf (computing)

I note you requested an image -- one is now provided. Thanks Dysprosia 12:09, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Although, next time could you upload it in PNG format? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:46, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Last time I checked, only diagrammatic-type images were to be uploaded in PNG? Dysprosia 11:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
PNG is pretty good for screenshots, particularly computer screens as it does not loose detail like JPEG does. Older system UIs that confine their interfaces to limited palettes are particularly suited to PNG. Look at the Mac screenshots category for examples of what I am talking about. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 12:08, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Gamecube Pics

Please don't revert the edits on the Gamecube Pics again!

If you see for yourself, the Article has too many damn pictures, and when uploading a picture, it cleary shows only 1 picture per article! (Although people don't carely listen to that, so I won't judge/ or pick on this one!)

Second, If you look at other articles relating to consoles, you will notice, they havn't got that much damn pictures. And this article features 17 damn pictures! This article an't special you know!

Third, pictures need to be deleted, because there is about 4 damn pictures featuring Mario games, 4 sets of pictures making it 17.

I will clear out the pictures now and only leave 10 pictures! Which means I will delete 7 unuseful pictures ...please when replying, list the pictures you don't want me to delete

"Thanks:P" >x<ino 02:57, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

If you want to remove images from the page, bring it up on the GCN talk page first. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 03:00, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Punks

On 07:55, 26 November 2005 you moved Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Punks to Wikipedia:List of Wikipedian punk rockers. Unfortunately, the latter is now deleted and showing up on the list of orphan redirects. Do you know anything about this? Is there a better place to redirect to, or should the original page be deleted? Matchups 04:53, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of Wikipedian punk rockers. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 12:14, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I couldn't find it on AfD, now I know why. I put a speedy delete tag on it. Matchups 15:56, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

MusicIP Mixer

Hi, I see you reverted my MusicIP Mixer removal from the MusicBrainz page because "It contributes data to MB". Can you please explain me this? I think I know something about this MusicIP/MusicDNS/PUID stuff, and as I said in my edit comment - MusicIP Mixer doesn't use nor contribute any data to MB. MusicIP/MusicDNS and MusicBrainz are two completely different services. MusicBrainz uses the MusicDNS data (PUIDs), not the other way round. --Luks 09:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh, I thought the mixer contributed data to MB somehow or will is my understanding. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright categories

Hi CyberSkull. Please note that Category:Icons and Category:Computer game icons are for fair use icons only. Cheers, dbenbenn | talk 01:10, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia survey

Hi. I'm doing a survey of Wikipedia editors as part of a class research project. It's quick, anonymous, and the data will be made available to the Wikipedia community later this month. Would you like to take part? More info here. Thanks! Nonplus 01:31, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

code in the box is supposed to match the template title, thus it is lower case

It's incredible the assortment of completely invented rationales I have heard for keeping that lowercase C. What to say, don't forget to put your "matching rule" in our Manual of Style, together with the examples "User tcl" and "User tcltk". --Gennaro Prota 02:02, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

I based the templates off of the conventions used in {{user en}}. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

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Yeah. I only updated it. Though I did enter a typo in the license. That has been corrected. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:13, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Category:Temporal templates

Brilliant! That's all. Melchoir 10:00, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

hehehe. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 13:01, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair use

I am very concerned about the number of copyrighted images that have been uploaded to illustrate Warcraft (Category:Warcraft media). There are a couple of things you should remember:

  • Fair Use usage should be kept to a minumum and should only be used when absolutely necessary, see WP:FUC.
  • For Warcraft sub-articles, this means there should be at most one picture per page.
  • Images should be of a suitable low resolution - that is web resolution so probably less than 600px.

Although many of claims may be legal, Wikipedia is primarily about providing a free resource, and polluting it with hundreds of copyright images is not particularly helpful most of the time. Please just bear in mind that templates such as fairuse and game-screenshot are not a carte blanche to add copyright images whereever you like. ed g2s • talk 17:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand how providing relevant illustrations (36 out of 300ish) constitutes pollution of Wikipedia. The fact of the matter is there are no "free" screenshots of Warcraft. If you want free media, check out the Wikimedia Commons. They have loads. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:33, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

#if

Saw your note on Ian Moody's talk page: You're looking for m:ParserFunctions. You might also want to watchlist Wikipedia:Qif conditionals, which will hopefully be updated (and moved) to cover the new #if (and related constructs). —Locke Cole • t • c 00:59, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Category sorting

Thanks for undertaking the tedious task of category sorting (I've done a few categories myself). Just be careful; you changed the sort key fo This Spartan Life from its default to "Spartan Life, The". Unless I'm mistaken, "This" is normally kept in place for the sort key. Thanks. — TKD::Talk 11:45, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Oops. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:48, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Tagging images as {{opaque}}

If you look at previous versions of Image:Stardockcompanylogo.png, you can see that I did indeed upload an image in that format. It looked like crap on IE6, though, so I replaced it. I could upload an 8-bit transparent version but then it'll look bad if it's on anything except white anyway, since the grey of the shadow fades to white. I've noted this at on Wikipedia talk:Preparing images for upload. GreenReaper 19:39, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Eh. They seem to think it's OK too. Well, if that's how people want it . . . GreenReaper 23:45, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

CVG Barnstar

The CVG Barnstar
For your amazing contributions to the CVG WikiProject, I award you the CVG Barnstar! jacoplane 21:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
SQEEEEE! Thanks! <(^_^)> Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:43, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Your "usage" info messed temporal templates

Hello. Please, three comments about your recently adding "usage" info to various templates:

  1. The way you did it was messing the local template (not its display on article pages, but its local rendition on the Template: page itself). The local rendition should give us a quasi WYSIWYG rendition of the what the template will look like on article pages, which is a form of documentation in itself. But your adding "usage" info right inside the template itself was modifying its appearance and messing this:
    • (before) A template your modif messed
    • (after) Same template with a fix: usage info separate and below actual template
  2. I'm not sure that adding such basic "usage" info to each template is necessary, or desirable, or good for servers' workload (that's non-vital information the server still need to strip from the code before inclusion). I don't know of any major Wikipedia template that provide such info, so it seems non-standard, possibly prohibited. Maybe you should ask somewhere (Technical Pump?) about doing that or not.
  3. I have fixed only two of the templates you changed ("Future album" and "Future single"). Maybe my fix can be improved first before you propagate it to all other templates you have been doing this to. Or maybe you'll first get information that it shouldn't be done at all, in which case you'd have to strip it from all edited templates rather than fixing them, so I thought better not to try and "fix" everything like this right now.

-- 62.147.112.44 11:10, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Adding usage is a good thing, especially for these templates. These templates accept a sortkey that is often ignored. As for other usage, look at {{Infobox CVG}}. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 12:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

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Once again. Now with pictures, since words and links failed me.

Current event marker This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future album(s).
It is likely to contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the album release approaches and more information becomes available.		 Album
  • You messed its local rendition to this:
Current event marker This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future album(s).
It is likely to contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the album release approaches and more information becomes available.		 Album
Usage: 
{{future album|sortkey}}
  • I fixed it to this:
Current event marker This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future album(s).
It is likely to contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the album release approaches and more information becomes available.		 Album

Usage: {{future album|Title, the}}

This made the template's rendition normal again. While keeping your "usage info". It's even improving it, since someone clueless enough to ignore how to use a one-liner template and needing such documentation may not necessarily know what a "sortkey" was or how to use it, i.e. that he has to type "Beatles, The" in it. The documentation was thus kept, and improved, yet didn't mess the template any more.

  • Yet, after being clearly informed of that, you reverted it again to this:
Current event marker This article or section contains information about scheduled or expected future album(s).
It is likely to contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change dramatically as the album release approaches and more information becomes available.		 Album
Usage: 
{{future album|sortkey}}

Thus you have messed its local image again.

-- 62.147.113.206 10:59, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

What do you mean by "local image"? The images display fine for me. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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The "local image" is the rendition of the template a user sees when he goes to the Template:Future album page, the template's local rendition, its local image (not its embedded icons), which is the only place the "usage info" is displayed on, since it's a <noinclude. As initially said above:

  1. The way you did it was messing the local template (not its display on article pages, but its local rendition on the Template: page itself). The local rendition should give us a quasi WYSIWYG rendition of the what the template will look like on article pages, which is a form of documentation in itself. But your adding "usage" info right inside the template itself was modifying its appearance and messing this:
    • (before) A template your modif messed
    • (after) Same template with a fix: usage info separate and below actual template

The local display (i.e. the page where the "usage info" is visible) is messed because you have inserted the "usage info" inside of the template's framed table, messing its appearance and making it different than what it'll actually look like on real articles. My fix is to move the usage info outside of the template's table and put it below. The examples above and the two original links make the difference perfectly clear.

-- 62.147.113.206 11:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Extra HTML in your sig

When you sign talk pages, the "fading color" effect in your sig takes up quite a bit of space, and I find it quite distracting when editing pages you have signed. I would like to suggest you create a template, such as User:CyberSkull/Sig where the HTML is stored, and then change the four tildes to be replaced by something like {{subst:User:CyberSkull/Sig}}, to hide all that HTML. (This is, of course, only my opinion.) Thank you.
PS: Red links are commonly associated with broken ones. Just a heads-up.
PPS: I suggest archiving some of your talk page. It's rather large.--SheeEttin 01:33, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

They say not to use templates in signatures. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:53, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Yes, as transclusions take up a lot of server resources (relatively). They also say not to use excessive HTML, as it can be bothersome to editors. That's why I suggest substing it. Though now that I think of it, substing it would not do anything, as it copies the target template to the place of use. Oh, and I'm not sure what those two characters are in your sig--I don't have the language installed. What are they? --SheeEttin 02:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Unicode pencil and skull & crossbones. They are in the Miscellaneous Symbols area. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 12:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Weird... now that you've said what they are, I can see them correctly. But then again, this is a different computer from my regular one. Before, they either appeared as "??" (Firefox) or as those boxes (IE). --SheeEttin 19:23, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Those are substitution marks used when your computer doesn't have the required fonts. I use Mac OS X which comes with Apple Symbols, that provides most of these glyphs. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

made you something

I like the work you did for the iconfactory page and others I seen you do, so I decided to make you a little something fun. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/sirevil/cyberskull.jpg

have fun with it Sirevil -April 24, 2006

Thanks, that's cool! Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Unicode heads-up

Don't miss Talk:List of webcomics#HTML entity &ndash; vs. Unicode –.

How does List of indie game developers look in Safari?

Hi. I recently edited List of indie game developers to use a HTML table with the Cascading Style Sheets rule background: none. A semi-random search for Safari users found you. Could you please look at that article using Safari and check that the background color is the same throughout? You can reply here or at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#CSS_setting_.22background:none.22. Thanks, CWC(talk) 20:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)


Screenshots

I deleted the templates "free-game-screenshot" that you added to three images because they essentially made false statements about the program. The template "game-screenshot" would have been perfectly accurate, but would also have been completely redundant and unnecessary in all three cases, since the images were all released to the public domain anyway (as was clearly and redundantly stated on all three).

I'll see about the possibility of replacing the JPG images with PNG, once I read the reasons and decide if they make enough difference to be worth the hassle.

If you wish to reply, please use my talk page for the entire conversation, as this one is such a colossal size it is difficult to read and edit. Aumakua 02:08, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

case infobox?

Why'd you recommend a new info box for Miller v. California? This seems to comport to all the other Supreme Court case articles. See Roe, for example. Is there some new infobox I don't know about? --Kchase02 06:31, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Please re-examin the template. The box on the page has been substituted in, thus any updates to the box are not propagated to the article. Looking at the box there, it is quite old. Please see {{Infobox Court Case}} for a bit more info. If the supreme court requires fields not mentioned in {{Infobox Court Case}}, let me know and we can work on it or create a new infobox. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 07:05, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
It's not so much that other fields are necessary, as that it would be easier just to create a new infobox consistent with what's been done. I think I've created a reasonably satisfactory infobox for the US Supreme Court. We don't appear to have many case pages for things that didn't go to our Supreme Court. Scott Peterson, for example, is the latest stupid obsession, but it doesn't have a case page. In any case, I need help with two things about this proposal:
  1. I'm not sure how to consistent formatting (such as the pretty blue box for "Case opinions", or the fact that only certain things go in certain sections of the table.
  2. I don't know how to format it so that unused items will not show when unnecessary (dissenting opinions in unanimous cases, for example). Wikipedia:Don't use hiddenStructure seems to say that's a bad idea.
Any help you can offer would be great and then we can propose the template.
{{Infobox Court Case (US Supreme Court)
| name = 
| image = 
| court = 
| argued = 
| decided = 
| full_case_name = 
| citations = 
| prior_history = 
| subsequent_history = 
| holding = 
| court_membership = 
| chief_justice = 
| associate_justices = 
| case_opinions = 
| majority_by = 
| joined_by = 
| concurrence_by = 
| joined_by = 
| dissent_by = 
| joined_by = 
| laws_applied = 
}}

Cheers. --User:Kchase02 (T, C, e) 19:38, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I've started it at User:CyberSkull/Template:US Supreme Court Case. Feel free to edit it. By the way, you listed "joined by" several times. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 21:10, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

The basic structure is complete. Please comment on it's talk page. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 21:37, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I got your msg about the new infobox. I'm moving this weekend, but I'll take a look at it next week and get back to you. Thanks! --User:Kchase02 (T, C, e) 23:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Dread Lord, I saw the other infobox described at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases. I regret to say I was unaware somebody still had the clean template for SCOTUS cases. I'm sorry your work on the new infobox was for nought. Anyway, thanks for your help, and I will be more careful next time. --User:Kchase02 (T, C, e) 21:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

24.154.158.141 report on WP:RFI

Hi CyberSkull. Please note that I've archived or removed your recent request for investigation. That page is only for very specific cases, as described by the page's guidelines. Your alert would be better placed on Administrator intervention against vandalism (WP:AIV), where it will usually be processed within minutes. Many alerts that are incorrectly placed on Requests for investigation are never dealt with, simply because they become old before an administrator gets to them. Thanks for your efforts. :) Petros471 17:50, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Infobox Arcade Game

Hi! I noticed you reworked the template but something went amiss apparently. I've tried to fix it but wasn't able to and I have reverted it back to the last known working version for the time being. ~ Vic Vipr 13:40, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Gingerfield rocks (talk · contribs) did a total hatchet job on the template was the problem. I reverted it to the last version by me. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 13:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, just wanted to say thanks again for fixing my stupid mistake with the template. I'm glad you caught it before I did any more damage ;). (Sorry for not noticing your suggestion on the {{logo}} talk page as well. I'll read more carefully next time.) Robert 04:43, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I caught it when I saw an update to a PS2 boxart file I uploaded. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging for Image:ISync2.png

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Stupid bot. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:41, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

freedb

I noticed today that on 5 February 2006 you made an edit claiming that freedb doesn't support Unicode. Even though more than three months have passed and the edit has been reverted, I would like to comment on this. First of all, I sincerely hope this was not an intentionally incorrect malicious edit in order to misrepresent freedb which has supported UTF-8 for more than 2 years now. Nevertheless, assuming the edit was not intentionally incorrect (WP:AGF), I find it saddening that a MusicBrainz moderator was not aware of freedb's UTF-8 support since MusicBrainz imports large amounts of data from freedb. If the efforts made for the "Unicodification" of freedb are not taken into account by MusicBrainz and it is continued to assume the data is only in ISO-8859-1, garbage will be pulled from time to time, which surely will not end up helping MusicBrainz. Megari 16:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I've never seen any unicode data in freedb. The developer I talked to about it said there is not unicode support in freedb, though that was a long time ago. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

— PS: ever heard of Wikipedia:Assume good faith? It's really quite rude to be insinuating such things. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:37, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I do. If you read my message closely, I tried to make it explicit that I would assume good faith by linking to WP:AGF no matter how confused I was because of your edit. It seems I failed horribly in spite of that. In retrospect, it seems that my choice of words was overall rather inappropriate despite my efforts not to go out of line. My sincere apologies. I should refrain from all communication when tired and grumpy. As for never seeing any Unicode data and getting wrong information from a developer (who?), I guess it can't be helped if you've been misinformed and haven't seen signs that would suggest towards Unicode support in freedb. This is perhaps a sign of a failure in informing people from freedb's part. Still, I would ask you to always verify your edits from an authoritative source in order to prevent things like this in the future, if humanely possible. Regardless of these two unfortunate issues of a factual inaccuracy and me going out of line commenting on it, I would like to reiterate that I think it may be useful for MusicBrainz to know that freedb does support Unicode. Cheers. *offers peace pipe* Megari 09:22, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I didn't even notice that link. As for the unicode stuff, all I have seen is the MB importer converting the data. I ran a search on google for unicode and finally found a small reference in the faq, I don't even know when that section was updated. Of course all this could have been skipped if your edit to the article simply said "as of version 6 of the client freedb now accepts unicode data". Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:14, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

List of Battle Arena Toshinden characters

They merged it anyway! I don't remeber this being agreed upon. --Dangerous-Boy 20:16, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Zuh? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:10, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

List of piracy computer and video games

Hey, I voted to keep this list. One comment though, which I didn't post in AfD because I don't want to confuse issues: Would you consider renaming the list to List of pirate computer and video games or List of pirate-themed computer and video games? The reason is, "piracy" is typically associated with illegal copying and trading of media, not actual pirates. When I first checked out the article, I was expecting to see a list of games that are frequently pirated or something. :) Aguerriero (talk) 13:23, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Piracy is defined as theft at sea, so that is the proper usage of the word. The RIAA and other organizations have co-opeted the term for their own uses. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:35, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Yargh. Aguerriero (talk) 13:17, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Commonist

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Commonist, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Importance). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at Talk:Commonist. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Zanaq 21:40, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


Orphaned fair use image (Image:Network Utilily lookup any en.wikipedia.org.png)

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If you have uploaded other fair use media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --elias.hc 21:02, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I've speedied it. It's misspelled. And next time subst this template. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:25, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Ahoy :)

Ahoy there, it's Lizthegrey from Three Rings. I appreciate all the hard work that you've put into maintaining and expanding the pages about us and our games. As I have an obvious conflict of interest, I was wondering whether you think it would be appropriate to add Three Rings to the List of indie game developers page currently in existence. As far as the criteria listed on the talk page go, we satisfy both the 'two released games' criterion as well as the 'in the black' criterion. The one borderline bit is our brief association with Ubisoft specifically for the production of the box game (which was quite a bit of a disappointment), but we certainly aren't financially dependent upon sales of the box for any significant portion of our revenue. Oh, also, we're missing from List of video game developers. I believe, but am not sure, that we belong to IGDA. Captain Cleaver almost certainly does individually though. --ElizabethFong 09:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. Any info you want posted about yourselves you should post on the talk page of an article and let the regular editors of the article incorporate it as they may. In addition if any of you have wikipedia accounts and an article about yourselves please state that on the talk page of your article. Someone will add a {{notable Wikipedian}} banner to the article talk and list you in Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles. Regular rules & procedures apply to everything not about you guys :) . Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 12:05, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Warcraft

Template:WPW invite Havok (T/C/c) 09:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I already beat you to the punch ;) . Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 12:08, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey! Can you help me? ^_^

CyberSkull, I would like my info similar to how yours is layed out. Every time I try, it overlaps my award. Please help! *_*

Starmenclock 20:06, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

The Last Bounty Hunter

Hi there. In the article on The Last Bounty Hunter, you decreased the size of the image showing the game's logo; a minor issue, but I think it looked a bit better in the article in its original size. Would you mind if I restored it to said size? Thanks. Cromag 18:19, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Uh… Whatever. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:28, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Is that a "yes" or a "no"? It's a simple question I asked about an article I started, so I would be grateful if you would be so nice as to at least try to give it enough attention to deliver an actual answer. Meanwhile, I'm editing it back to its original form (sortkey stays, of course). Thanks in advance. Cromag 14:28, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Template discussion

See here. -ZeroTalk 19:11, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

HEY I GIVE YOU THIS! The Barnstar of Good Humor!

The Barnstar of Good Humor is yours!

The Barnstar of Good Humor
I give you this for being kind, and having a good sense of humor! ^_^ Starmenclock 19:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

The... vote

Hi CyberSkull, would you mind taking a look at the vote for the way we represent articles about consoles and handheld systems? Thank you. Havok (T/C/c) 23:01, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for finishing off fixing the templates broken by cydebot, I only got as far as the C's :blush: Shiroi Hane 23:22, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Music field in Infobox CVG

Hello, what do you think about optional "Musician(s)" field in Infobox CVG? You've deleted once this field, but in my opinion, quick information about music credits would be really appreciated by readers. You said it should be go to the designer field, but a game designer isn't the same as a game musician. Music engine isn't similar with music composer or performer. I really don't know why it shouldn't exist. Try to reconsider this problem. Best regards, Visor 22:30, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

No unicode characater

Please read my comment at Talk:It's On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa. Thanks. —johndburger 15:38, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

IEatBrainz links

Hi, I noticed that you disagree with me on the links needed on IEatBrainz, about the link to Jay Tuley and MusicBrainz's website. I honestly don't know Jay Tuley, so I left the link although I have big doubts about him needing an encyclopedic article, but I removed again the direct link to MusicBrainz's website. If you think it should be added again, please explain its importance on the Talk page.--Chealer 18:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and similar for the numerous links to MusicBrainz's website.--Chealer 19:00, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

webcomicsproj

Hey, noticed you built assessment categories into the webcomicsproj template. Think you could run through a summary on the WikiProject? –Abe Dashiell (t/c) 05:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Template:Cvgproj

This template is used on over 6,000 pages. Every time you update the template, MediaWiki has to make an automatic null edit to every page that this template is included on in order to update the page. The recent changes you have made to this template have caused over 70,000 pages to be edited, resulting in a severe strain on Wikimedia's servers. In the future, please be sure to check your changes by using the "preview" feature before submitting any more edits to this template. Thanks, Naconkantari 04:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

The edits I was working on could not be previewed. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Make a copy of the template as a user subpage, and make a copy of the article that uses it, also as a user subpage. Change the inclusions in the article copy to use the template copy. When you're satisfied with the result, update the main template. -- Tim Starling 06:05, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Either way I'd have to change a dozen variables to get in a proper preview. And I'm not about to toss a dozen of my subpages into the middle of the assessment project. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:07, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Furthermore, the only viable testing for the conditions I have set up therein is a production environment. Any non article sandbox may not give me the proper results. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:24, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Please stop doing that, or I'll block you from editing the template namespace until the job queue recovers. -- Tim Starling 06:24, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
I haven't made an included category change in the last series of edits anyways. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Actually, that is incorrect, I had to make another edit to ensure that only article talk pages get tagged. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:32, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

In contrast to what's been said, someone has to do the potentially dangerous work you're doing with the cvgproj template, and I'm sure everyone appreciates it. Kil (talk)' 16:56, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Template:Low-importance

Hello, did you mean to create {{Low-importance td}} instead of modifying the existing template? I created the td version for you and reverted the edit to {{Low-importance}} because that was breaking existing project banners. — TKD::Talk 00:43, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

That was a miss-save on my part. Sorry. The td versions are for {{cvgproj}}, {{webcomicsproj}} and {{WikiProject Anime and manga}}. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:15, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Signature again

Hello there, I just noticed your signature here. Could you consider shortening it? There have been a lot of stressful discussion with other users with signatures as long or longer than yours, and I don't want to see another. According to the guidelines, it should not be longer than 200 characters, and currently yours is at 349-353 (ASCII-UNICODE count). Thanks! -- ReyBrujo 03:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Warcraft Logo

When did we decide the logo without anyone voting? That's not democratic. --Shandristhe azylean cat 08:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Um, why don't you just start a vote? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:26, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm quite new here at Wikipedia, I don't know how to do, would you mind assisting me? --Shandristhe azylean cat 21:22, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Just make a new section on the project talk page with a place for a person to sign under each image. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)


Hi! I'd like to have your opinion on what logo to pick for WikiProject Warcraft. --Shandristhe azylean cat 12:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Code cleanup?

Err, have you read this message from Brion? I'm fairly certain that the code you're introducing will be horribly broken if/when that change goes live ;-) Kirill Lokshin 00:17, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Which template are you referring to? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:44, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Any of them, really. If you have a <td> in one template and the corresponding </td> in another (or, apparently, if both the tags are inside one of the ParserFunction templates), the thing won't render properly. Kirill Lokshin 00:51, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
What I mean is, can you point me to the page with the error? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Well, it doesn't happen on Wikipedia, obviously, because the change isn't enabled yet. If you're really curious (and have some free time to experiment), you can copy some template code over to Brion's Wiki and try it out there. Anything that combines HTML table tags with {{#if}} breaks in various interesting ways. Kirill Lokshin 01:05, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Giants icon

Is that icon really neccessary? How does it improve the article? Thunderbrand 04:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

US Supreme Court infoboxes

I think you'll be pleased to hear that we have a new template for US Supreme Court infoboxes. It was designed by someone who knows far more about template syntax than I (frankly, I have no idea how it works, but it works). It's at Template:SCOTUSCase, in case you want to borrow coding ideas. We'll quit subst'ing it onto pages, of course.--Kchase02 T 04:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

About time :) Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:50, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Lemmings

Hi, according to the article history [2] for Lemmings (video game), you were the one who made the {{cvgproj|class=B}}) edit. Is there some page that listed specific comments regarding the rating assessment for that specific article? Basically I want to know how they arrive at the rating so the article can perhaps be improved in specific ways. Thanks. 24.19.184.243 08:05, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer and video games/Essential articles. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:49, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Legend of Zelda Categories

As someone who has previously voted or commented at the recent CfD discussion about the naming of Legend of Zelda categories, I thought I would let you know that I have started a new discussion in an attempt to reach a consensus. The current position of having 2 sets of categories serving the exact same purpose is unsustainable, and we need to reach a consensus on which set should be removed. If you have previously voted on this proposal, I would ask you to reconsider your vote, and ask yourself whether you are willing to give a little ground in order to reach a compromise. This is a generic message I am leaving for everyone who took part in the previous discussion. Thank you for your time. Road Wizard 14:30, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: Metroidvania

Hi, I noticed that you recently rated the Metroidvania article as a Stub-class article on the ratings scale. While I do agree that the article still needs work, I was wondering what specific areas you feel could use improvement?

Cheers, Lankybugger 17:28, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Nascar

During my recent switching of a lot of sports-cvg-stubs to racing-cvg-stub, I came across several[3] [4] [5] [6] NASCAR pages filled with junk detail. What do you think of seriously editing each article/redirecting them all to NASCAR (video game)/deleting them (though a lot of them are filled with junk anyway)? Something to put on Articles for Deletion/Redirect? Thanks +Falcon9x5 21:21, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

"God Mode" up for VfD

Just a quick note to let you know that I've put God Mode, an article you seem to have created (in its current form), up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/God Mode on the basis of non-notability. I'm sure you'd notice eventually anyway, but I thought I should let you know. - makomk 18:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

webcomics advice

CyberSkull, I've interacted with you a bit before, so I was hoping to grab some advice about webcomics and notability. I came across some Newshounds cruft during new page patrol. Apparently the same person has created two subject categories and filled them each with a half-dozen character and anthology articles. This seems ridiculously crufty to me, though perhaps the most diplomatic thing to do would be to turn a blind eye. Thoughts?--Kchase T 08:47, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Working Man's Barnstar!

The Working Man's Barnstar
For your myriad contributions to article and image maintenance, I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. Enjoy! RandyWang (raves/rants) 07:15, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

User:Randall Brackett/Test

I've made a slight redesign on the uniform Template:General CVG character. I've stated reasoning on the WP:CVG talkpage. Any comments on the new design would be appreciated. -Randall Brackett 07:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:USB Prober.png

Any reason why you removed the orphan tag from Image:USB Prober.png? As far as I can see, it is not used in any article... --Fritz S. (Talk) 09:36, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

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Award

I, Banes, am honoured to present this Tireless Contributor Barnstar to CyberSkull for his tireless work on technology and video-game related articles. Keep it up! -- Banes 20:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I, Banes, am honoured to present this Tireless Contributor Barnstar to CyberSkull for his tireless work on technology and video-game related articles. Keep it up! -- Banes 20:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Crystal Clear Icons

Hi, I come from CrystalXP, looking for some extra crystal icons. Great Work!. Where can I find the Flash, Netscape, Msn and other banned icons? Thanks.

Simonlebon

Those were deleted. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 15:38, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

response

I've added a response to the comment you left on my talk page. Kowloonese 19:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Just a thought

I was looking around some of the member pages from the Wikiproject fro Apple/Mac and noticed that your talk page is HUGE. An archiving system might help. Just a thought... --Slyder PilotE@ 20:01, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

RfC: Dark Castle icon

Hey, would you take a look at the current discussion on allowing icons in the Dark Castle article? It is one that is most likely to influence other vintage mac games as well. Regards, Arru 20:55, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Pac-Man Vs. changes

You changed the Media link (from Nintendo GameCube#Media to GameCube Optical Disc), but if you try the optical disc link here, you'll see redirects do not allow linking to sections.

I removed (Pac Man vs.) from the designer field because I thought it was extraneous, since the page does not cover Pac-Man World 2. OTOH, I added in the caption because it's the box cover itself that might be misleading that it was the same game. Also, I removed the Mario Kart GP mention because it bordered on original research without a citation. What do you think?--SevereTireDamage 23:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I was reverting another edit. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Crystal clear

Thanks for pointing that out - I've changed them over. Cheers, Ziggurat 20:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Crystal Clear app ktip.png

Changed in the template as requested. Thanks for letting me know. ➨ ЯEDVERS 13:04, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Warcraft AfDs

I would like to redirect you to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Warcraft character articles. Could you please voice your opinion on this, as it will sett precedence for what to do with articles like this. Havok (T/C/c) 06:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Ugh, that nomination is crap. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:14, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I find it funny how they give eachother barnstars for putting up AfDs.. User talk:Kaustuv/archive 3#Warcraft_character_articles. And how he blatently says that games are not is interest. Havok (T/C/c) 11:23, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't think I've nominated anything for AfD that I don't know about. (I'm not sure if I've nominated anything at all…). Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Neither have I. Oh, maybe one thing, someone made a joke Game Boy article once which was speedy deleted. Other then that, if I feel something is wrong with an article, I would rather change it and make it "better" then delete it. As I have tried with Criticism of World of Warcraft. Havok (T/C/c) 11:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Current Mac project collaboration

The current WP:MAC collaboration is Apple II family. Please devote some time to improve this article to featured status. — Wackymacs 13:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Re:Cuthbert Goes Digging

I responded to your comment made regarding this article up for WP:AFD. Thanks! --Porqin 17:20, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

How did you do that

When you did the "square writing" for the disscusion page for the template {{{future game}}} how do you do it? I want to know. iswatch19 09:30 15 August 2006(UTC)

I'm sorry, I don't follow. Do you mean the last 2 characters of my signature? If you see square blocks there that means you don't have the appropriate font installed. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:31, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

WPW Logo Vote

We never finished the voting; it got 3:1:1, and we didn't repick the other logo. Can you help? WPW Logo voting --Shandristhe azylean 12:20, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

New Game Article

Hey, just a reminder, when you make a new game article, like Game & Watch Collection, please add it to the list of new articles on the CVG Project page. I added it for you this time, but I can't see every article that's created, so I only catch those that have "game" in the title. Thank you! --PresN 20:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Next time you revert a series of my edits without discussion or informing me, please at least refrain from labelling them as vandalism. Christopher Parham (talk) 16:59, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Perhaps you could explain what purpose a category serves to this template? How have you used this category in the past? I did take the first and largest of these categories to CFD, and it was deleted. I feel pretty strongly that these don't belong. Just let me know if you want me to take these to CFD as well, which should provide some final resolution to the issue. This may be best if you are pretty committed to the categories existing). (BTW -- by "these categories" I mean maintenance, non-content categories that don't appear to be part of an ongoing process to direct people to problematic articles.) Christopher Parham (talk) 18:58, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Renaming articles

I think you should refrain from moves like T1 space to T₁ space. Is there any policy about that? I started a discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Unicode_article_names about that, wonder if you could comment. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 21:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Template:Tfdl

  • I saw your edit summary and wanted to drop you a note. Based on how the rest of [[Category:Deletion templates]] and [[Category:Templates using ParserFunctions]] were sorting, when I removed the alpha sort key, I knew the would fall under "T", which is what I wanted to do. As long as the page didn't change names (and I was thinking it probably wouldn't), I skipped explicitly putting the T back on there. We both ended up in the same spot, I just took a different road to get there. — MrDolomite | Talk 06:06, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Falling under T isn't the issue, but where under T it goes. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Can you confirm

this edit was because they were sorting on 'Template:PAGENAME', instead of by 'PAGENAME',
   or was there another rationale?
   I should have realized that sooner, me thinks! // FrankB 15:18, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Warcraft stub

Hello. It seems that the warcraft stub template doesn't have a picture to it. Could you please fix that? And on a side note, your talk page is really long, and archiving could probably be a good idea. Thanks! Mar de Sin Speak up! 16:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I suggest that you check your browser's settings, the stub has an image. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:34, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair use galleries

Fair use image galleries are not permitted on Wikipedia. This is non-negotiable. Do not revert their removal from the various Warcraft articles. You have been around a long time, you should know better. Perhaps it's time to review Wikipedia:Image use policy. I also think Wikipedia:Removal of fair use images is worth a read. Thanks. ~MDD4696 18:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but the image use policy says nothing about galleries of fair use images being forbidden. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
It says that the non-free images must comply with fair use. Non-free images in galleries without any direct connection to the article text are not fair use. ~MDD4696 06:38, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
It still dosn't say anything against using them in galleries. So please, do not interprete the rules of Wikipedia as you see fit. Havok (T/C/c) 06:56, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
It's merely a consequence of policy, fair use images are for illustration and critical commentary. Unless the images are discussed at any length within the article, they have to go. Combination 12:34, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
I'll paraphrase what I left on User:Havok's talk page. Give yourself some justification for keeping the images. As of yet I've only read excuses. Give them captions, or put them in context. Without that, they don't serve any purpose in the article. I'm sure you can find a way to improve the article and incorporate them. ~MDD4696 03:22, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I've addressed this over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Warcraft, explaining a bit more specifically. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 20:12, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Template:Days_in_month

There seems to be an error in your last version of the template - see test at Template_talk:Days_in_month... the previous version is ok. --katpatuka 09:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

All I did was add a sortkey, I didn't touch the functionality. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:49, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


Infobox help

I see where you have been involved with the creation of InfoBoxes so am hoping you might help our: Wikipedia:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing. One of our participants created Template:Thoroughbred racehorse infobox but it has a few problems that none of us have the technical skills to repair.

I used the infobox from Nijinsky II to set up one for Sir Barton but the box has some visual problems such as very wide spacing, the color bar not going all the way to the end, and others. Both I and the infobox creator have no idea what happened so thought I would solicit your expertise to look at it for us. If you can fix and improve this (feel free to be creative if you want), at the same time could you add a line for "Honors" at the box bottom (after Prizemoney) where the editor could insert "Horse of the Year", "Hall of Fame" and the like? Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanx. Handicapper 13:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok, done. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 03:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)


Thanx, your help was much appreciated. We still had a small problem that was my fault as I didn't properly explain to you the setup we wanted. My technical skills are zero but I played with it and got the layout okay but the spacing problem came back when I used this new template for Slew O'Gold. Also, the bottom part for "Honours & Awards" has its text off line, too. I want this section to have nothing but centered text. Can the colored Caption at the very top be made maybe larger with larger text and the whole info box itelf a little wider? Maybe like the width at Template:Infobox golfer that you can see in Tiger Woods. Many thanx again for some more help. Handicapper 12:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

MusicDNS Portable Unique Identifiers

I can see that you've done a fair share of linking to "Portable Unique IDentifier" (I believe it should be lower case "portable unique identifier" WP:MOS (capital letters)). Do you think a separate article on PUID would really add anything, in addition to the existing MusicDNS? Perhaps PUID ought redirect to the MusicDNS article, although that would currently break the PUID dab page? Ideas? You can respond here, I'll be watching. -- intgr 07:45, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Using this search ("portable unique identifier" musicdns|musicip|predixis) most of the references I found are "Portable Unique IDentifier". The most major "portable unique identifier" I found on a single post in the official forums. It can seem to be spelled either way it looks like at this point, though I would lean towards the "Portable Unique IDentifier" spelling. As for it warranting an article, I dunno. That's why I linked it. Someone more knowlegeable in the subject than me can see the redlink and figure out if there is an article there. In the meantime though, relinks are not a bad thing. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:06, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Indeed, the official capitalization seems like the one you suggested. The OFA protocol specification uses "Portable Unique IDentifier" and "Portable Unique ID", both once. Other than that, though, neither musicip.com nor musicdns.org use any expansions for PUID. I agree that redlinking is not bad - my intention was to ask your opinion on it, as I'm the original author of the MusicDNS article. I personally don't think PUID warrants its own article and should be redirect. So if you have any thoughts, I'm listening. :) -- intgr 08:41, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Ah. I think it should probably be an article given that PUID or Portable Unique IDentifier would come up more, especially if people are using them as lookups. They (and I) would want to know what they are and how they work. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Wrong title templates

Now that the underscore debate is over, the category is going to be deleted. I would like to edit all the wrong title templates to delete the categorization. Once empty, I'll nominate them to be deleted. I don't want to get into an edit war with you about this. If you object to removing the categories from the templates, let me know, and I'll first nominate them all at CFD before changing the templates. Thanks, -- Samuel Wantman 20:26, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I believe you mean the lowercase debate. As long as the categories are there, why shouldn't we use them? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 12:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Sorry. Yes, the lowercase debate. I (and others) want to get rid of these categories because they are self-references that just plain look bad on articles. Categories are designed as a method for users to browse through articles. Maintenance categories are best put on talk pages. Because of the nature of the wrong-title templates, they don't go on talk pages. But since they are not needed (you can use "What links here"), why have them at all? When someone reads the article on iPods why do we need to advertise to the general user that we have not only have a problem displaying the title of the iPod, but they can click on a link to find lots of other articles with the same problem? --Samuel Wantman 20:27, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Music Portal Anniversaries

Hi, I noticed that you started the Anniversaries section on Portal:Music , but the listings for September are missing. All the other months apart from November, December and January seem to be there, so it's very useful for the portal otherwise - it's just because it's now september, a blank box is showing up. Could you possibly put in some anniversaries for September, and maybe also November, December and January? Thanks for all your help :-) Madder 19:13, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

The pages exist, but they are blank. I've added one entry to September. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 03:30, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Did you get the anniversaries for the other months from a list of anniversaries or some document that you have? It's just I'd like to add more, but don't know where you got the others from. Thanks :-) Madder 20:15, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
I just copied the one from September. If you want more, you'll have to dig around. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:32, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Metal Gear/Resident Evil glossaries

Noticed your support for keeping the RE glossary, we would really appreciate your help for the Metal Gear one. Thanks if you do

(The Bread 23:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC))

Oh look you already have, way to go

(The Bread 23:41, 8 September 2006 (UTC))

Hexley images

Please do not upload any more images of the Hexley mascot. The license[7] is clear "personal use" and "...to mass produce ... you need to request permission in advance...". Neither of which are acceptable on Wikipedia or Wikimedia. [8] AlistairMcMillan 18:18, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Mac OS X

Why did you merge the template for Mac developer tools? I was the only one who commented on it, and I opposed the move. -- Steven Fisher 17:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

It was already merged. I just did a redirect. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:39, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

MusicBrainz logo

Hello, why did you replace the MusicBrainz logo (Image:MusicBrainz_logo.png)? The current one looks awfully scaled and stretched IMO. (Note that its aspect ratio is most certainly not the same as the original logo). I would insist on reverting it unless you really have a good reason. -- intgr 08:55, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

The system has yet to fully update with the new graphic. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:29, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Err, okay, after refreshing the page it now looks better than before; how you managed to change the image without showing up in file history totally escapes me. But why fix something that isn't broken in the first place? This one has lower resolution and now includes silly empty space at the top and bottom of the image. I'd much rather still have the original. -- intgr 10:46, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
As I said, the system had yet to fully update to the new graphic. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:48, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Never mind that; What I wanted to know is why did you consider it necessary to replace a perfectly good image with one of lower resolution and unnecessary padding? -- intgr 10:59, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
The first image had an opaque background. I wish I had a better one to replace it with. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Oh, sorry, I didn't notice that at first. I uploaded a transparent version of the full-resolution logo now. :) -- intgr 11:24, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the transparent version! Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:25, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

editing of 3 (Soulfly album)

I noticed that you removed {{wrongtitle}} from 3 (Soulfly album), saying that, despite the name, the template does not apply. Why do you feel that it doesn't belong? -- kenb215 00:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

The article assterted that 3 is the correct title. Otherwise it should be moved to ॐ. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:56, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
It seems to me that the article, in the second sentence, says that (or ॐ) is the correct title, but isn't widely used due do poor support. -- kenb215 17:31, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Mainframe vs. PC Games

After you tagged the two Star Trek mainframe games as "incorrectedly cat'd as PC Games" (which was a good catch on your part) I removed the PC Games cat and your tag. You then subsequently re-tagged them. Did I miss some issue somewhere? These were mainframe games, not PC games. One theory: These were later ported to early micros by people -- are you looking to get these ports classified as DOS, Windows etc.? I'm just concerned that categorizing them as any kind of PC game confuses their principal role as mainframe games. Open to any clear solution though -- please advise! Thanks for starting this cleanup. Coll7 02:08, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I tagged everything in Category:PC games. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

The other issue with that though is there are some arcade platform games listed in the PC Games category that shouldn't be there, and every time you do a mass tag update it changes the status for those as well even though their entry is listed as Arcade Game for "platform". Specifically: Breakout, Joust, Jung Hunt, Marble Madness, Puzzle Bobble, Puzzle Bobble 2, Puzzle Bobble 3, Rainbow Islands, and Space Invaders. While ports of those games did appear on pc's and consonoles, the main platforms (platform of introduction and therefore main platform type) are Arcade Games. In fact, every time you do that with the tags, these entries automatically get "This computer game has been incorrectly referred to or categorized as a PC game. Please check to see what the software platform actually is (e.g. Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) and update the article accordingly" put at the top. I tried to remove those games from the listing, but there's no direct way to edit that section (that I saw). --Marty Goldberg 04:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

As I said, I tagged everything in Category:PC games. There is no such thing as a PC game, and being categorized as a PC game is an inaccuracy, so I flagged those articles. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:18, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Please see the WP:CVG talk page for more info. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I understand, except the tag says the platform needs to be updated to the specific software, etc. and that's not accurate. Their platform is already defined arcade, and in fact somehow the previously mentioned games got dual listed on both the Category:Arcade games and Category:PC games.--Marty Goldberg 16:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

A game is categorized by all the platforms it is for. PC game is a misnomer, as there is no such platform. So it must be corrected. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:57, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Your revert on cvgproj

Could you explain this revert on {{cvgproj}}? I don't see what #switch being case-sensitive has to do with it — both versions of the code cover the same cases, but Kingboyk's version is shorter and easier to read. What is so "horrendously bad"? Pagrashtak 06:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Because #switch is case sensitive, removing half of the cases will suddenly cause some articles to be unmarked. If #swich was case insensitive I would have never put in so many cases. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:16, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Here is an example:
{{#switch:{{{foo}}}
|bar=lowercase
|BAR=uppercase
|Bar=proper noun?
|bAR=lowercase initial letter
|default=something else
}}
If foo is "BAR" the switch will return "uppercase".
If foo is "bAR" the switch will return "lowercase initial letter".
If foo is "cheese" the switch will return "something else".
Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
That's not a very good example, as the different cases on cvgproj are all intended to return the same string. Here's a better example:
{{#switch:{{{foo}}}
|Bar|bar|BAR=Hello world!
|default=something else
}}
If foo is "Bar", switch returns "Hello world!".
If foo is "bar", switch returns "Hello world!".
If foo is "BAR", switch returns "Hello world!".
If foo is "b4r", switch returns "something else".
Take a look at my cvgproj test page at User:Pagrashtak/cvgproj, which you'll notice uses the condensed version of the switch logic. Preview the code on a couple of talk pages: You'll notice that {{User:Pagrashtak/cvgproj|class=GA}} and {{User:Pagrashtak/cvgproj|class=ga}} return the same result. So what's the problem? Pagrashtak 20:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Ok, it looks to be that #switch is case insensitive now. When I did my original tests, it behaved in a case sensitive manner. You should have just said that #switch is case insensitive. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:55, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
No, it's still case sensitive. If you try {{User:Pagrashtak/cvgproj|class=STuB}} it doesn't work. Pagrashtak 06:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Really? In that case we should leave in all the switch cases that I put in, they cover the common usages of the parameters. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 09:14, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Both versions cover exactly the same cases! I've been trying to explain to you that the version I'm trying to switch to does not change the functionality at all — I just want to make the code easier to read. Please read meta:ParserFunctions##switch:. Pagrashtak 13:02, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
This is also the method used by {{Class parameter}}. Pagrashtak 19:43, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Fictional "resurected" characters.

Do not add anymore pages to Resurected fictional characters. As you're seemingly too oblivious to tell, you misspelled the word resurrected several times. As such, I've emptied the category. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 19:27, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Oops. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:52, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
There was no need to empty the category, especially without a replacement. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
There was quite certainly need. Then again, your careless spelling is probably a good sign that you'll never get it. Also, as far as I can see, no replacement is required. It's your creation; your initiative. Perhaps if you hadn't been in such a hurry, you'd have spelled properly. BTW, what's the rush? Wanting a speedy renaming to fix your mistake is one thing, but trying to populate a nonexistent category is another. Present a category that utilizes proper spelling; then, and only then, should you even think about recategorizing Jay, Ollie, Harold and anyone else, for that matter. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 02:48, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
I do apologize for the typo, I was tired and forgot to check my spelling. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:51, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Thought you might want to know that the old category was deleted and a new one was a made. I'm re-adding the characters you selected. ACS (Wikipedian); Talk to the Ace. See what I've edited. 16:03, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
I put it in for a speedy rename. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 03:52, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Logo Font

Check Wikipedia_logo#Puzzle_ball_logo_.282003_on.29 - it says "caption in Hoefler Text Small caps." exolon 16:35, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

GameFAQs

That anon user keeps adding the stupid LL stuff that's not backed up by any ref. H eeven reverted your template changes. I'm already up to two reverts, so I was wondering if you could do the revert. Hbdragon88 16:33, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind. User seems willing to talk about it on the talk page. Hold off on my request. Hbdragon88 16:42, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Uh… Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:44, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, this is odd... Funny way to bypass WP:3RR... --- 164.107.252.198 05:07, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I honestly don't know what's going on… Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 18:59, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Worker's Barnstar
For listing numerous articles in the Mac OS X category or whatever (pardon me, I'm a Windows user), I give you this barnstar. Also, you might want to consider archiving your talk page bibliomaniac15 00:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

CVG Barnstar

The CVG Barnstar
CyberSkull has been awarded this CVG Barnstar for his tireless work on most every issue and article relating to computer and video games. — Frecklefoot | Talk 19:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, and archive this talk page. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 19:15, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Mop?

Hi there! I've noticed your extensive and competent contributions to diverse areas of Wikipedia. As such I was wondering if you were interested in a nomination for adminship. Yours, >Radiant< 12:23, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I'd be happy to accept any nominations. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 21:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:Cvg-hardware-stub

Thanks. It was almost midnight and I was staring at the template code knowing that something somewhere was wrong. Thanks - X201 08:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it took my brain a few tries to get it right too. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:08, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Archive request

Hello. I am considering your RfA, and I'd like to review your talk edits, as I always do for those, but this page is much too long. Please archive. Jonathunder 19:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Ultimate Wikdown of Pedia Destiny

Congrats! Congrats CyberSkull/Archive 1. You have been a participant in The Ultimate Wikdown of Pedia Destiny, as Bill S. Preston.

DarknessLord | T | C 00:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Um, what? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 03:27, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

REH

What code can I use to bypass the REH in warcraft?

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.69.123.136 (talk • contribs) 16:41, October 16, 2006

Um, what? I don't know what you are referring to. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:Wii Remote Controller.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Wii Remote Controller.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 02:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)