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Cruise Missile 120

'nuff said. Consider yourself flogged and thoroughly publicly humiliated. :)

On a more serious note, I am somewhat disappointed with myself over the "apocryphal" tags on the Objective Raids, Luthien, and 1st Ed. Periphery sourcebooks. I did notice them being added and knew it was wrong, but then it somehow dropped off my radar. Fixed now. Frabby (talk) 04:18, 5 January 2013 (PST)

It may be because you and I had a conversation over how the wording in the apocryphal template doesn't match the intent you had for it, after I argued that the wording on the apocryphal content template matched what Herb had said about the three books. BrokenMnemonic (talk) 10:52, 5 January 2013 (PST)

Bing! That was it! Thanks for the reminder, I'll add it to my to-do list. Frabby (talk) 11:22, 5 January 2013 (PST)

No problem. I am publicly humiliated. I guess that'll teach me to try to use logic and real world systems to try to fill in the gaps in a weapon system's history. ;) --Mbear^(talk) 04:37, 7 January 2013 (PST)

Oh, and while I'm at it, what a way to start the week. Having someone tell you your work is complete crap is a great way to suck the wind out of your sails.--Mbear^(talk) 05:12, 7 January 2013 (PST)

Don't let it eat at you - Paul may have told you off, but when a bollocking's done, it's done. Mistakes are bound to happen here; there are only, what, half a dozen of us regularly editing? And from what I've seen, we're all running around with our collective hair on fire trying to get information uploaded, rather than busily checking each other's homework. You do good work - don't let this get to you, ok? BrokenMnemonic (talk) 23:35, 7 January 2013 (PST)

I'm also sure Mbear wasn't offended. (Then again, I wasn't at the receiving end of all that... constructive criticism. Mbear certainly showed exemplary handling of the situation.) Just for the sake of clarity, I think Paul wasn't condescending at all - he just pointed out mistakes in a very matter-of-fact way and even said he likes and still uses Sarna. I regard the whole issue as something of a tongue-in-cheek PR show for Sarna. See the bright side: Sarna got off much better than in previous threads complaining about article quality. We're definitely improving. :) Although I certainly felt the sting myself of having failed to correct/remove the apocryphal tags on those three sourcebook articles. The overall lesson here is that quality is waaay more important than quantity if Sarna wants to be taken seriously - not something we didn't already know, of course. Frabby (talk) 02:41, 8 January 2013 (PST)

It wasn't too bad until some other folks started to jump in and rip me a new one. That was irritating. But when all's said and done I screwed up and then fixed it. So it's done now.--Mbear^(talk) 04:20, 8 January 2013 (PST)

Planet InfoBox

Mbear, as the resident expert on infobox construction, is there any way to amend the Template:InfoBoxPlanetStandard template so that if the image is already less than 225 pixels in width, it isn't increased automatically to a width of 225 pixels? Some of the info boxes (like Denbar) are suffering from image bloat because the long, think planetary flags are being scaled up dramatically... BrokenMnemonic (talk) 12:27, 9 January 2013 (PST)

I don't know off the top of my head. Let me look into it.--Mbear^(talk) 04:17, 10 January 2013 (PST)

Updated the InfoboxPlanetStandard to include a new paramater: imagewidth. If you have an image less than 225px, you can enter the width in pixels on this line to show image w/o scaling. Leaving line blank will assume width of 225px.--Mbear^(talk) 04:30, 10 January 2013 (PST)

That's great, I'll go back and revise the entries with issues now. Thank you kindly - please accept this Assistance Appreciated award as thanks: BrokenMnemonic (talk) 05:09, 10 January 2013 (PST)

Rewritten: 4th Skye Rangers

For your approval, I give you the 4th Skye Rangers. You've understandably questioned my use of the "Update Needed" tags in the past. I'm hoping this will show you how I intend to use them. (Not that I intend to rewrite all those articles - just saying I want to write more than a footnote. :P ) ClanWolverine101 (talk) 21:30, 21 January 2013 (PST)

Looks good! My question about your use of Update Needed was motivated by their use for things like TRO:3058 on pages like the 4th Skye Rangers. A couple of those TROs mentioned the unit in one sentence. It just struck me as odd that you'd put that update needed tag in place instead of just making the update. But from what I see here, it makes a lot of sense.--Mbear^(talk) 03:08, 22 January 2013 (PST)

Its a contextual thing. Most of the Update Needed tags I put up are done when I'm doing something else. I can either stop what I'm doing and spend 20 minutes putting up a sentence, or I can put on the Update Needed tag. I connect the two in my 4SR article because I want you to know that I do go back and make the changes, it sometimes just take me awhile. :) By the way, do people on the CBT forums complain about the update needed tags? ClanWolverine101 (talk) 11:45, 22 January 2013 (PST)

I haven't heard any complaints on the forums. And if I did I'd just invite them to come on over and lend a hand!--Mbear^(talk) 12:07, 22 January 2013 (PST)

Okay, just checking. Thanks. ClanWolverine101 (talk) 12:20, 22 January 2013 (PST)

Viborg

(Psst... You've got your dates mixed up on Viborg. You're looking at a 2581 map, but the Commonwealth/Republic war was in the 2770s, end of the Star League era.)
As an aside, are you working through Historical: Reunification War chapter by chapter, or are you whacking away at the Updates Needed tags? I worked through the chapters on UNION HOLD and the Magistracy campaign whose name escapes me last year, and I was debating tackling the Rim Worlds campaign as one of my big projects for this year, but I don't want to step on your toes if you're already working on it. BrokenMnemonic (talk) 10:52, 22 January 2013 (PST)

cough Ahem. I knew that. I was just testing you to see if you were paying attention. Congratulations! You passed the test. ;)

I'm just looking at update needed tags. I'm not going to dive into any of the big things, so feel free to take on the Rim Worlds campaign.--Mbear^(talk) 10:55, 22 January 2013 (PST)

Harira/Hahira

Saw you deleted Harira, with a note that it was a misspelling for Hahira. Where did that notion come from? Because I'm working on a BC story set partly on Harira, where it is spelled thusly. Frabby (talk) 12:13, 6 February 2013 (PST)

You'd have to ask BrokenMnemonic. He put it up for deletion originally. I just hit the delete button.

(diff) 03:29, March 21, 2012 . . BrokenMnemonic (Talk | contribs | block) (5,132 bytes) (Added deletion request template - entry is a duplicate, based on the mis-spelling of Hahira as Harira)

Sorry!--Mbear^(talk) 04:04, 7 February 2013 (PST)

Hello

Hello Mbear. I know you are easing back for a sit, but if you were ever interested in something different, would you ever feel like writing/expanding some of your somewhat-namesake Clan characters? The Ghost Bears, of course. I'm on a track that will not be in the IS Clans for a while. Khans Like Bjorn Jorgensson and Aletha Kabrinski could really use some work. Only if you felt like a change. They will be sitting for a while if you wanted to. It definitely would not be working an obscure red link, for certain. And everyone loves Ghost Bears for some reason. Win win, when you think about it.

Also, and I hope you don't mind my saying this, Paul almost got me when I asked the Writers if it was safe to assume Royce Chapman was an Elemental. Just enough to remind me of what I had read silently and did not comment on before, and reminding me that assumptions are not safe. I have an eye toward making sure everything I've done is in-line now, and I'm not afraid to edit, we all know that. I don't want to tread into their territory and I'm pretty aware of that line now and it was mostly because of that thread. We're documenting and commenting in the manner of non-biased articles whenever possible. And yes I agree that the infuriating thing for me to read was the third, fourth fifth users in mentality that exhibited in Paul's wake. I'm sure he was displeased by that as well, I would be, and you would too if you were in Paul's position, I imagine. I think he wanted to help and took it for granted that he would have the floor in that setting. Sorry to bring up old stuff, but just wanted you to know that that was something that helped at least me to take a good look at what I am writing. His addressing me about Royce did not feel like happenstance, so I think he just wants to help Sarna in the direction we're supposed to have relative to that of TPTB. Just an observation. I was most thankful that I was not flayed publicly, while I was reminded that you took that for us. Thank you for that at least. --Rebs (talk) 00:05, 21 February 2013 (PST)