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::::Had to see what all the hub-bub was and I, too, was impressed. I'm really glad to see an Editor doing this kind of detailed research and proud for BTW when these kind of articles get referenced elsewhere (such as CBT's forums and even eBay!). These aren't easy to do, even when just using one title. But to seek out multiple titles to get the broadest picture takes work. I'll second Frabby's nomination when the time comes.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 12:57, 20 March 2010 (UTC) | ::::Had to see what all the hub-bub was and I, too, was impressed. I'm really glad to see an Editor doing this kind of detailed research and proud for BTW when these kind of articles get referenced elsewhere (such as CBT's forums and even eBay!). These aren't easy to do, even when just using one title. But to seek out multiple titles to get the broadest picture takes work. I'll second Frabby's nomination when the time comes.--[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 12:57, 20 March 2010 (UTC) | ||
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+ | :::::Thank you! I felt the subject matter lent itself well. We like references and footnotes? Well, that's pretty much what the Waco Rangers were. They were never featured, but whenever the writers needed an idiot villain to show up, act like an ass, get their butts kicked and then survive, there they were. They were a throw-in - the story was never about them. Their existence can easily be boiled down to some footnotes and references. [[User:ClanWolverine101|ClanWolverine101]] 20:56, 20 March 2010 (UTC) |
Revision as of 16:56, 20 March 2010
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Welcome
Sign
As a courtesy for other Editors, it is a BattleTechWiki guideline to sign your talk page and user talk page posts. To do so simply add four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comments; you can also use the 3rd button on the left of the edit bar () to automatically place it in the location of your cursor. Your user name (or IP address, if you are editing anonymously) and the date will be automatically added along with a timestamp. Signing your comments helps people to find out who said something and provides them with a link to your user/talk page (for further discussion). For further info see the talk page guidelines. Thank you.
- ClanWolverine101, please /do/ sign your comments on talk pages. If you don't, someone (usually me), has to do the research to find out who it was that made the comment. Thank you. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 05:02, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
- Apologies - I missed the appropriate command to do so. I'll reread your protocols. ClanWolverine101
Cosara Weaponries
Evening, ClanWolverine101. I saw your removal of the statement regarding Cosara Weaponries from the Northwind Highlanders article. Because I don't want to discourage a new Editor, especially one working so hard as you, I'm not gonna dispute that, but it is generally our policy to post a {{citation needed}} tag after something that doesn't seem right to you. That way, multiple Editors have the opportunity to research the fact, rather than just losing the information. If someone hasn't updated the statement with a verifiable citation, then you are free to delete it. That tag, and others, can be found in the left-side column in the Template gallery. Thanks. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 02:08, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
- Understood, and thank you. I started having second thoughts about my original note, thinking maybe it was in regards to the Cosara factories on Terra, not Northwind that I was thinking of. Regardless, I would not have zapped it arbitrarily if it had been someone else's posting.ClanWolverine101
- Well, shoot - I'd never just delete a section of someone else's work without at least sticking something specific in the discussion page. When I think something is incorrect, I usually just post to "Talk", and see if I get a response. ClanWolverine101
Random Act of Appreciation Award
ClanWolverine101, I grant you the Random Act of Appreciation Award for your numerous improvement edits this past weekend, especially in regards to cleaning up citations, such as those you made to 145th Jaguar Regulars (Clan Smoke Jaguar):
I took the liberty of adding an awards board to your main page. You might want to check your user count and self-award yourself an Edit Count ribbon after a few more edits. Thanks. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 01:56, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you!!! ClanWolverine101
Notable Pilots Project
So something I'm planning on focusing on is hitting all the 'VIP' type bios and listing what mechs they were known to use, in the standard section. Conversely, I would go to the mech pages and add the 'VIP' types as 'Notable Pilots'. Does this sound good? ClanWolverine101
- Yep. But it would have to be a really notable person, because we don't want to spam the 'Mech entries with pilot names. Most "notable pilots" from the TROs are in fact nobodies who may get their own IC character entry on BTW, but do not deserve a mention as a notable pilot. Further, I feel (but this is just my personal opinion) that the 'Mech and its notable pilot should be identified with each other to some notable degree. Natasha Kerensky and her Warhammer are an immediate match; by contrast, Sun Tzu Liao piloted numerous designs at various points but is not really associated with any particular 'Mech. Frabby 21:12, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
- Oh, I agree. When I say 'notable pilots' I do mean significant characters from the novels and such, who actually had a connection to the machine. Sun-Tzu was never much of a mechwarrior, so I wouldn't bother with him at all. ClanWolverine101
Mechforce Quarterly
I gather from your question at Talk:Hansen's_Roughriders that you were a member of the MFNA for a time at least, and also have the magazines? May I kindly request that you look over my MechForce article and check if you can add something, and perhaps also create the articles on MechForce North America, 'Mech (magazine) and MechForce Quarterly which are redlinked so far. Frabby 20:38, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
- How I wish I could. :( Sadly, they are in a box in a pile of boxes in a closet in a basement in parent's house 1,000 miles away. I probably would have needed help referencing the article. Its just that when I read the entry that the Roughriders never fought in the clan invasion, I suddenly remembered that scenario. I miss the old magazine, though. I even got paid $20 for a submitted scenario. Don't think they ran it though. Maybe I could hunt those mags down eventually. ClanWolverine101
Setting up a redirect
(copied from Talk page)
Question : In many of the source materials this is referred to as the Treaty of Tukayyid. How do i set it up so that "Treaty of Tukayyid" redirects here? ClanWolverine101
Click go the page you want to create, in this case I'll just add Treaty of Tukayyid here as there are no existing redlinks on BTW for that, when you edit that page hit the #R button along the top so it dumps in #REDIRECT[[Target page name]] and enter in the page you want the redirect to lead to, in this case #REDIRECT[[Truce of Tukayyid]] Cyc 22:33, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
- Minor addition on the sidelines: I added the <nowiki> tags to Cyc's explanation so that it displays the code as text instead of wikicode, for clarification. Frabby 12:06, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
SLDF Royal Links
Copied from my talk page to yours.--Mbear 12:14, 16 March 2010 (UTC) Hey Mbear - I noticed you've been adding the SLDF Royal links to all the relevant mech pages. I was wondering what TRO or other sourcebook those were from? I ask because I'd like to make the article all of those are linking to. ClanWolverine101
- I found a lot of them in Technical Readout: 3075. I can't recall the exact page number, but I think it was the third or fourth page into the "Age of War" section.--Mbear 11:58, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
- Also The Star League sourcebook, pages 41, 61, 85, 105, and 110 talks about recruiting and policies for the SLDF Royal divisions.--Mbear 12:05, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'll try to bust this out soon. ClanWolverine101
- Also The Star League sourcebook, pages 41, 61, 85, 105, and 110 talks about recruiting and policies for the SLDF Royal divisions.--Mbear 12:05, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Date request
Hey, CW: this is only a request, not a mandate by any means. Can you start signing your posts the traditional way (i.e., with four tildes or using the 'sign with timestamp' button), so that readers can follow when you made them? Its not normally a big thing, but because you are much more involved in the behind-the-scenes of the wiki than most new Editors, and because you are influencing discussions, I've often been checking page history to see if a cocnern of your's is recent or older (and possibly thereby needing a response by me). Again, if its a thing of your's to not do that, roger that and I'll adapt.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 16:21, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
- Absolutely, I can do that. When I first started, I was told three was standard. ClanWolverine101 17:08, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
All Purpose Award
You get the All Purpose Award
for the Waco Rangers article. --Neufeld 08:48, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks! I was actually quite proud of that one. ClanWolverine101 08:55, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- Neufeld beat me to granting you that Award, but I still wanted to chime in and congratulate you. This is exactly the type of articles that I want to see more of: Detailed, well-researched, well-referenced. Incidentially, I was preparing a Waco Rangers article myself (because they're among my favourite units), but I'm glad you beat me to it. I may add a few bits and pieces to the article in the future. Oh, and you're now earmarked for a nomination for the Superior Article Award (once it gets released). :) Frabby 12:06, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks! It took me longer to get to this than I had intended, but I was happy with the result. (I hope someone can post an insignia graphic for me at some point.) ClanWolverine101 12:49, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- Had to see what all the hub-bub was and I, too, was impressed. I'm really glad to see an Editor doing this kind of detailed research and proud for BTW when these kind of articles get referenced elsewhere (such as CBT's forums and even eBay!). These aren't easy to do, even when just using one title. But to seek out multiple titles to get the broadest picture takes work. I'll second Frabby's nomination when the time comes.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 12:57, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you! I felt the subject matter lent itself well. We like references and footnotes? Well, that's pretty much what the Waco Rangers were. They were never featured, but whenever the writers needed an idiot villain to show up, act like an ass, get their butts kicked and then survive, there they were. They were a throw-in - the story was never about them. Their existence can easily be boiled down to some footnotes and references. ClanWolverine101 20:56, 20 March 2010 (UTC)