User talk:Stratadrake

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Stratadrake, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Wikipedia Boot Camp, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Wii Move

No problem - that seems like a good idea, since the name debate keeps coming up :). RN 11:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why

Why did you give WP:WTH that strange name? Wouldn't WP:WSIC be more appropriate? Stephen B Streater 09:28, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Stephen B Streater 22:23, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Powerpets

Thanks for the improvements you've made to Powerpets and for your continued efforts to keep the page from being vandalized. I've just completed a fairly substantial rewrite of the page, which I think improves the article substantially (and I've summarized the rewrite on the discussion page). I'm bringing it to your attention, since I know you'll be able to tweak it to improve it further. -- Heath 68.191.7.126 16:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wii Talk

I'm not sure what happened, but FYI that when you archived the Wii Talk page it now redirects to Archive 12 instead of going to the main talk page. I'm not sure how to fix it. Danny 16:30, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

It's a standard side-effect of page-move archiving, and takes a few minutes to clean up after it. Done now. --Stratadrake 16:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah. I didn't know that, thanks for the update. Danny 16:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citation style

Please see Wikipedia:Citing sources for guidelines on citation style. Your changes to Caterpillar violated two of the guidelines: 1) go with the accepted style of the discipline (in Biology, this is author, year in the text, with the whole reference at the bottom, not footnotes). 2) the other is to defer to the style of major contributors. Satyrium 21:32, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pokémon glitches?

While I understand the reason for the revert, how exactly are we going to get an OFFICIAL report on this? I don't think Nintendo's going to back us up on this. Any research that is done on the subject is going to be personal, unofficial research. At least we could leave the info up there in the section (I know it works; I've done it myself) and leave a link to the page (while saying that it's unofficial) in External Links. - Mewtation 17:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

It's true, Nintendo has no real interest in confirming the average glitch to the general public; however if we are upholding Wikipolicy then all information still needs to be related to a source anyway, and remember, the task of doing this falls on the person including the information rather than the person removing it later. And the sources don't have to be official, just reliable (e.g., professional). Phrased another way, it's not whether the info is true or not so much as it is who said so. --Stratadrake 23:19, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

All right, I understand. And it looks like someone went ahead and took care of the issue; the way the article was worded before, it made it sound like Missingno. couldn't be found in Yellow. So all's good now. - Mewtation 14:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I saved the OR version of Glitch City at User:The Hybrid/Glitch, and then I went ahead and merged it. Cheers T H L 17:29, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:DAFT

Thanks for fixing up the links to those deletion debates - I went through looking for AFD subpages, forgetting that it used to be VFD. Grutness...wha? 03:18, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CVG importance assessment

Hey Stratadrake, in case you don't have the template on your watchlist, I just wanted to point out that I replied to your comment here. Cheers! jaco♫plane 17:49, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for editing the Wild Arms 2 page.

And raping and removing a year worth of work and content. You're the best Wikipedian ever. Please don't die any time soon. - The Norse 05:37, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

And thank you for your sarcasm. The article was full of indiscriminate lists, and Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, nor a video game guide.--Stratadrake 14:45, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] hello

thank you for your nice words XD at first I thought of making two entries one spiro and another one spyro, but as far as it goes with the greek name entries had already the spellings interchangeable. and there was that band spyro gyra, that although its name comes from spirogyra, it has the y variation as if it was a name. well anyways, I decided to merge the two into a big disambiguation page, and I liked how it turned out. of course spyro the dragon is the most famous bearer of the name (and really deserves it more than those uknown people I listed XD) but since wikipedia is kind of formal I listed the politicians etc first. I am a fan as well (who wouldn't be a fan of such a nice game, especially when it demonstrates your virtually unknown to English name? :P) and I think that when it come to dense disambiguation pages the best practice is to ctrl + f whatever you want, in this case dragon. ok um that was random rant by me, so mind me.. thanks again —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spyroware (talk • contribs) 05:29, 9 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Doing something about the ridiculous date autoformatting/linking mess

Dear Strata—you may be interested in putting your name to, or at least commenting on this new push to get the developers to create a parallel syntax that separates autoformatting and linking functions. IMV, it would go a long way towards fixing the untidy blueing of trivial chronological items, and would probably calm the nastiness between the anti- and pro-linking factions in the project. The proposal is to retain the existing function, to reduce the risk of objection from pro-linkers. Tony 00:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Bot edits to Neopets: The Darkest Faerie

Sorry to poke my nose into the conversation, but as it's Christmas and I've no idea how often Betacommand checks his bot for new messages, I'll answer for him ^_^ We asked that the bot add the banner to the talk pages of everything in Category:Massively multiplayer online games; Inside that category is the 'Neopets' sub-category, which has a handful of non-MMO articles inside. I'm removing the other unneeded ones now, thanks for bringing this to our attention ^_^ ShakingSpirit^talk 08:52, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Like this one

Sorry about that, I didn't know about that yet. But it looks like it has been taken care of, so that's that. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 02:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks for getting back to me. Sorry for accusing you of hating me. But thanks for the clear up.--Runningcupcake03 01:44, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Oh sorry, thanks for telling me, I am a new wikipedian.

[edit] {{User:Aeon1006/Userboxes/User furry}}

Thanks so much for the paw picture addition. It looks a lot better now. Bl a st 05,03,07 1403 (UTC)

[edit] I love you

For this edit.

[1]

I really do. Huggles! Blueaster 05:26, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:AFD

I hate April Fools Day. Nice one though. TJ Spyke 06:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re Talk:Cars

I just thought people could know about Talk cars Sonic ridersSonicrules3 12:42, 2 July 2007 (UTC)Sonicrules3

Sorry, but Talkpages are not forums for idle discussion (such comments are regularly pruned, especially on active topics), and should be limited to discussing how to improve the article to which the Talkpage applies. See WP:TALK. --Stratadrake 12:51, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

it is okay I forgive you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonicrules3 (talk • contribs) 14:09, July 2, 2007

No big deal. (But thanks.) --Stratadrake 01:47, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey listen I could use a sidekick will you accept —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sonicrules3 (talk • contribs) 01:18, July 4, 2007 (UTC)

Dunno, I'm not sure what you mean by 'sidekick' and that's not a type of question I can easily answer for someone I (essentially) just met. --Stratadrake 04:04, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

I mean help me —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonicrules3 (talk • contribs) 11:11, July 4, 2007

Uh... with what? I don't read minds. But here's a few tips:

Uh... actually, scratch that, your User Talk page says you've been blocked from editing. I can't help you here, only Wikipedia sysops (administrators) have the power to enact or lift blocks. But I can offer some research on the subject, refer to your user log, this shows which Wikipedia admin created the block and what the reason is. And mind that if you're blocked once, creating a different Wikipdia account to "get around" it is against the rules and will result in your alternate accounts being blocked too. --Stratadrake 00:57, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Furry

Thanks, but no. Not a furry. Nor the one who tagged my userpage as such. --Stratadrake 23:26, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Combining dates in Vgrelease

Do you think that combining the regions with the same date should be done? Like what I did with F-Zero X? If so, is there a way to have that option in the template? FMF 21:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Let me review what I did with the template syntax ... yes, if you specify multiple (wikilinked) regions as the first parameter, and the date as the second; i.e. {{Vgrelease|[[North America|NA]] / [[Europe|EU]] | mmddyy}} produces ^{NA / EU} mmddyy. I'll update the documentation to reflect that. --Stratadrake 00:53, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:MP1

Template:MP1 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Black Falcon ^(Talk) 22:17, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Lamest edit wars

Hi Stratadrake - apologies. It was my bad on Cyprus-geo-stub - the actual teplate that had been causing problems was Cyprus-stub (I'd been dealing with geo-stubs earlier in the day and must have automatically typed the extra four characters without thinking). In any case, WP:LAME is hardly the place to start a lame edit war :) Grutness...wha? 01:32, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

No big. It was kinda weird though, I checked the history for Template:Cyprus-geo-stub and that thing had only a handful of edits since forever. --Stratadrake 12:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

...and as a matter of fact, by the time I had checked my Watchlist, your edit had already been superseded by PrimeHunter's clarification of the proper page, so I never saw your edit summary to begin with. :) --Stratadrake 01:07, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:LAME

Though I preferred the original "battlebots" label, your rewrite made me laugh out loud. Bravo! Circeus 18:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hey, The Island of Doctor Moreau is fixed.

You wondered aloud why there was no plot description. I dipped into article history and restored it from when in was lost in an incomplete vandalism reversion in AUGUST. --Kiz o r 03:26, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:ProseTimeline

Template:ProseTimeline has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 17:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)