User talk:Revanche/Archive 2018

Thanks for the welcome

I already have a wiki or two to handle, just thought I'd do a little cleanup where I saw a few issues. :-) 86.182.39.216 23:24, 6 May 2018 (EDT)

We're certainly eager to make use of your wiki experience.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 08:40, 7 May 2018 (EDT)

Spambot War Effort

I have been tagging spambot pages with the deletion tag, Is this helping the war effort or is there something else i should be doing when i see these pages pop up? I do not want to leave them be as many of them have some shady links Straw Boss (talk) 09:38, 19 May 2018 (EDT)

Overall, it's helpful. It reminds us admins that Editors do care about this. It does require an extra step when you tag them...but I don't care, because it proves to me that these attacks are bothering everyone. So thanks for that. By the way, the analysis I've been doing on the ones you tagged yesterday and today are working; the abuse log shows about 50% are not going thru. I was also planning on awarding you a Vandal Cop ribbon when I came to a suitable stopping point. So, thank you for the good fight. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 09:48, 19 May 2018 (EDT)

Character infobox

Morning Rev, I suspect it was not intentional but the Birth date stat does not seem to populate on the revised Character Infobox. I would have a look myself but I don't actually know the code (House box was pure trial and error).--Dmon (talk) 04:05, 14 June 2018 (EDT)

The parameter was "birthdate" originally, but Rev shortened it to "Born" which is why the InfoBox doesn't recognize and display it. I've just been called away from my desk but will fix this later today. (Though I'm not sure why we needed that change in the first place. Granted, we don't know the dates in most cases, but it's such an important thing about people that I never considered not making it a fixed entry when I created the InfoBox.) Frabby (talk) 04:43, 14 June 2018 (EDT)

Update: Fixed. The template is working again. I've considered leaving the template as-is and changing the articles instead - Rev's approach was way more elegant. But there's now many hundreds of articles out there using the InfoBox. Even if only a fraction of those has the "birthdate" field filled out, they would all have to be corrected so that the outdated parameter doesn't linger; and even just sifting through them all to find those actually using the field would be a chore and not worth the effort, imho. Frabby (talk) 07:34, 14 June 2018 (EDT)

Wow...apologies. I'm not sure how I made that mistake (changing "birthdate" to "born"). Glad you were able to suss it out. And apologies for not testing it better. I just wanted it to disappear when it wasn't in use, and didn't check beyond that.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 10:06, 14 June 2018 (EDT)

History of Clan Sea Fox

Greetings,

I wanted to let you know that I had intentions on merging the Clan Diamond Shark and Clan Sea Fox pages together. However before I could, I made a buffer article called History_of_Clan_Sea_Fox to add information of both Clan Sea Fox and Clan Diamond Shark. As such, I am leaving the two articles alone so I can add their information to the buffer article. The reason I wanted to do this was to show both the Diamond Sharks and the Sea Fox's history together in one article since they are both the same clan in a similar manner to the Lyran Commonwealth and the Lyran Alliance. For example, we both know that they are still House Steiner, but underwent a name change and switched back. So to go with the article, I made a slight change to the Clan Diamond Shark Touman changing them to "Former Galaxies" and explaining their changes from Clusters and Galaxies to Aimags and Khanates. As for the Clan Sea Fox Touman, I went ahead and added the Khanate and Aimags. With that said, do I have you support for the buffer article to later merge?

Oooh, wow...I'm glad you asked the question, Will, and I do agree with your logic.

However, I am about to hit the road for a few weeks AND I'm really not a strong Clan editor. I'd like to bring others into this. Before you go far down the road, I'm going to ask Frabby to weigh in and maybe start a consensus discussion.

Frabby will contact you on your page, to get your attention. Again, thanks for asking.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:30, 2 July 2018 (EDT)

Medal Ribbons

Hi Rev,

I've been having some trouble concentrating lately because of work, so I decided to sit down and start slogging through some of the site admin stuff that hangs around. I've been going through and adding categories to articles and files that need them, and as part of that, I've created a gallery for all of the award ribbons to go in. As you're the artist making them, I thought I should let you know - hope I've not overstepped. At the moment, I'm sorting them all into a single category, Category: Sarna Award, but it would be easy to sort them into subcategories for the various ribbons - although where ribbons don't stack (such as the Founder special awards) I'd suggest using a misc or one-off category tag. I'm designating those versions of the standard awards with a founders tag as number 11 in each series, for consistency. BrokenMnemonic (talk) 05:18, 12 October 2018 (EDT)

As Luke Cage (and Pops) says, "Always forward." I have no issues and appreciate the effort to improve it. Thank you.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 09:18, 12 October 2018 (EDT)

Hi Rev,

I was churning through the files without categories list, and I hit the edit count ribbons, and I think I've screwed up somewhere. I've got a ribbon on my awards board for reaching 30,000 edits, but the gallery doesn't have one at that level - did I mess something up at some point? BrokenMnemonic (talk) 18:20, 17 October 2018 (EDT)

No, you didn't miss anything. Whatever my templates were originally, I remember I was limited in how to create ribbons to something that would not count every 5 or 10k mark. So, to encourage new users, I made the first ones easy to earn, but jumped from 10k straight to 25k, and then every 25k thereafter to 100k. We may have to limit them to every 100k after that point....unless we can come up with method that has a better display of iterations.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 14:32, 21 October 2018 (EDT)

OK, so I should drop back down from the old 30k ribbon to the new 25k ribbon, as the old 30k ribbon is (I think) now the new 50k ribbon? BrokenMnemonic (talk) 16:20, 21 October 2018 (EDT)

Dude, I apologize. I understand your question better now (I thought this was about your gallery work), but, yes, the 30K was retired. Again, I apologize.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 09:11, 22 October 2018 (EDT)

Planets Coordinates

• The discussion of the Nearby Systems tables has been moved here.

• The discussion of marking of apocryphal systems on the new maps has been moved here.