User talk:Mbear/archived

References

Hy Mbear, I would to say you makes a great job on the Wikipage. Have you any ideas about the yearlist's there is a mess so many addings without references ...I added in last time some stuff and references on it and I hope to bring structure on it. I know my english is not very good but I learn. Greetings Doneve 16:44, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Tormano Liao

Hello Mbear. I'm not sure if you understand what you've done. You took a article and turned into a REDIRECT that loops back into itself. I suggest have page completed deleted, so either yourself or someone can make new article. -- Wrangler 20:23, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Whoops! I was trying to get it to redirect to something else. I'll delete it.

Don't delete. I put that redirect there for a purpose: Tormana Liao is frequently spelled Tormano in canonical sources (like Shrapnel). The main article does not exist yet, so the redirect links to a redlink. But that does not invalidate the redirect. Frabby 20:47, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Um, checking the articles again, it seems that Tormano should be the article, and Tormana is the frequent misspelling that should be redirected. Either way, one needs to be expanded into a full article and the other needs to be a redirect. Sorry for the confusion. Frabby 20:50, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Actually I hit the page and started to edit without realizing I didn't have all my references to hand. So I'm going to hold off until later.Mbear 21:30, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

OK. The Tormana Liao article has some stuff in it now. Of course it needs more to cover the 3040-3070 time frame, but I don't have that handy so I'll leave it for someone else. Hopefully it'll get the ball rolling.Mbear 16:45, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Hello Mbear. I left a comment about a problem in Tormana's bio. Since its your article, i've decline to mess with it. But the problem lies in the After his deather part, because you name Kia Liao as his heir to Free Capellan. Which isn't correct. It goes into detail on discuss part of the article. -- Wrangler 16:31, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Wrangler, I have no ego when it comes to these pages. Feel free to make any changes you like to them. (Especially since I can't find any more information about Tormana.)--Mbear 18:26, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

MWDA dossiers

Hi Mbear, I heard you maybe able divide up the MWDA dossiers from other website. That would be great if you could do it. There number of articles citing individual dossiers when they were still on wizkid's website. Do you think you seperate the dossiers and up load them? As long I know where to find them. I can re attach the dossiers to the article that were citing them. -- Wrangler 00:18, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Wrangler, it looks like the MWDA dossiers are in PDF files that Photoshop can get to. So I might be able to separate them out into individual pages. It may not look great, but it's a place to start. As soon as I finish up the Kurita ranks I'm doing I'll start on the dossiers.Mbear 12:20, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Cool, let me know when there ready and i'll start get cracking at doing re-attaching. -- Wrangler 12:22, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Downloading the PDF's now. I'm going start by breaking the multipage PDF's into single page PDF's, and then I'll separate them out by content. (So instead of having Janella Lakewood and Tundra Wolf in same page, we have Janella Lakewood on one page and Tundra Wolf on another.) I'll also put a table showing progress on my userpage. Mbear 16:54, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi Mbear, thanks for give me those links. I'm started the process of re-connecting/relinking the articles. Thanks alot! -- Wrangler 16:31, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome! --Mbear 20:40, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

All Caps Titles

I saw you created a number of redirects from subject titles written all in capital letters (like COMSTAR, HOUSE LIAO, etc.). May I ask why? Frabby 20:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

For the Table of contents in the Intelligence Operations Handbook. When I tried using HOUSE DAVION as a link, nothing came up. Rather than recreate the pages I thought it would be better to just redirect to the existing file. --Mbear 20:15, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I see. You don't have to create redirects though; just use piped links. The format is thus: [[Link|Whatever you want to call it or refer to]]

Using this system, when you write [[BattleTech|Look here!]], this is what appears in the text: Look here!

Frabby 23:04, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Jeez. I've been doing that for a while. I must've had a huge brainfart to not think of it. I'll modify the page. Thanks!--Mbear 14:20, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

WarShip Weapons

I saw on the Wanted Page that there were a lot of links pointing to various warship weapon types, so I created stub articles for them. Please add data as you find it. I did get the Naval Autocannon types linked up, but the Naval Particle Projection Cannon and Naval Laser pages could use the production table. Thanks! (It's pretty cool knowing that 17-20 red links for each weapon are now blue because I did that.) There's also a couple categories that I thought were appropriate for WarShip weapons: Capital Weapons and WarShip Weapons (the latter includes subcapital weapons, which I have no reference for).--Mbear 18:36, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Mbear. Don't you have the Tactical Operations? It lists all the information (including the Sub-Cap stats) you were looking for. -- Wrangler 19:17, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

No, I don't have Tactical Operations. Good to know that's where it is, but I need to put my money towards other things right now. Maybe someone who has TacOps will fill it in for me.--Mbear 21:02, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I have PDF and book, but i'm not that good translating rules into text. I'll try. -- Wrangler 21:16, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I know what you mean. The various NAC, NL, and NPPC pages (like Light NPPC)are a little sparse just because I couldn't think of how to write what I wanted. I'd be happy to help you but I don't have the pages. --Mbear 21:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Did you download the free Tables for Stragetic Operations? If you look here (free download from Classic Battletech site. PDF for Records sheets and Tables for Strategic Ops. You'll find on page 31 the elusive tables information you need for your articles. -- Wrangler 12:30, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll get to work on putting that information in place.--Mbear 15:04, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Ranks

Hy Mbear, really good work about the Rank's and Insignias. Allways forward. Sorry my english is not perfect. Good Luck --Doneve 18:08, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! I was wondering if people would like them, so it's good to hear you do! --Mbear 18:24, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer.Why you are wondering, its a really good work. One question...i woud to update the timeline structure...have you any ideas...i write in the last time to other user's, but i become no feedback or answers about it. --Doneve 19:02, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I can't think of anything at the moment. Let me take some time and ponder the issue and if I think of anything I'll let you know. --Mbear 19:03, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Sorry Mbear I mean the yearlist structure and then the timeline, my fingers type to fast ;) --Doneve 19:17, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I'd like to jump on this bandwagon, too. I really do appreciate the details and consistency your articles are showing. Good job! --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:40, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! It's good to know someone appreciates me!--Mbear 14:44, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Awards

Mbear, I took the liberty of installing an awards board on your main page. Please place it where it best fits your design. Happy New Year! --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 05:21, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! It's in place now. I thought the "I love me" section was most appropriate. Happy New Year to you as well!--Mbear 17:22, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Sub-Capital Weaponry naming

Hi Mbear. Great job working on the Sub-Capital weapons. Questions, why you leaving out the "-" between the names? Sub-Capital how its actually spelled. -- Wrangler 16:30, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I just forgot it. I'll add it now. Thanks for catching this. --Mbear 16:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

All Purpose Award

Hey, Mbear, in lieu of the not-yet-existant Admin Community Service Award, I'd like to grant you your first Editor's All Purpose Award, for improving the design and functionality of all weapons articles thru the modification of the InfoBoxWeapon template:

Appreciate the effort to improve upon the site. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Founder's Honorable Mention Award

Wow, you've made a ton of great contributions to the site over the last year. It's great to have you be a part of our community~ Nicjansma 06:49, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Great to be here.--Mbear 13:26, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Random Act of Appreciation Award

Mbear, for jumping on the Phoenix Hawk LAM page and cleaning it up, I award you the . That was nice work! ClanWolverine101

Thanks. I don't know that I did a whole lot, but I appreciate the award.--Mbear 14:11, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, at the very least, you beat me to the edits. ;)ClanWolverine101

Infantry Weapon Box Help Request

MBear, i an trying to address both infantry Weapons and use the fluff from various TROs to do RPG data pages for Brand Named Weapons (IOW the GM Whirlwind AC/5 that fires 3 shot bursts would be different from a standard/generic 10 Shot burst AC/5). I seam to have O'er reached my self as usual. could you take a look at Help:CreateInfantryWeaponArticle and Template:InfoBoxInfantryWeapon, and let me know if there are easier ways to do things? --Cameron 18:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, one thing that I notice right away is that there's a lot of duplication in the categories you've created. I understand why it's there, but that looks overwhelming. Is there any way to combine some of them? For example could you eliminate the "Both" lines and put the Clan/IS stuff on the same line, possibly separated by pipe symbols or slashes or something? That would make the template a lot shorter and less intimidating.

Is that the kind of feedback you're looking for? --Mbear 14:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

All Purpose Award

In lieu of the not-yet existent Community Service Admin's Award, I'd like to present you the All Purpose ribbon with 1 bronze oak leaf (to represent your 2nd receipt of the award):

...for the service of developing & creating the ProtoMech infobox template and supporting it on the Help & How-to page. Thanks for serving the BTW community. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:51, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! It was my pleasure. --Mbear 19:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Image Import award

Mbear, I really wish I could space these two awards out, but I've waited weeks for the Image Import award to go 'live' so that I could grant it to you. In fact, it was because of your extensive work developing the rank graphics that I kicked my awards program into shape. So, in recognition of your work developing and uploading the various and numerous ranks graphics and improving articles, such as Lieutenant, I present you BTW's first Image Import award:

Seriously, good work. And keep it up. (Just don't expect any more awards from me for a few weeks!) --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 22:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Just trying to help.--Mbear 00:09, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Image Question

Hy Mbear, superb work about the rank insigias. Can you tell me what you use to create your Images? I think Photoshop, but i'm new in this spart, i want to start with the Inner Sphere Units insigias (emblems) I know my english ;). Can you give me a little instruction, how to build I.GreetingsDoneve 18:30, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I use PhotoShop to build my images, but if you don't want to spend ~$700 (~DM1000) you can try The GIMP, GimpShop or Paint.NET, all of which are free.

As for building the images, I usually try to see the simplest shapes in the rank insignia and create the image from there. The best advice I can give you is to experiment with whatever program you decide to use. It's like playing BattleTech, every time you do it you get better. --Mbear 18:38, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, i give you in the next time a example of my creation.Doneve 18:44, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I'm looking forward to seeing it! I also forgot to mention that there are a lot of good tutorials online. PSDTuts is one of my favorites. You can find a lot by searching for "Photoshop tutorial". I also use books from my local library. --Mbear 18:48, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

SLDF Royal Links

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)

Year page discussion

Mbear, would you take another look at the consensus wrapup and renumber your point issue? I think you were targeting in on the changes between the initial 3053 and my testbed, and really mean #3 from the wrap-up. I've changed the changes to a bulleted list, so that there is less confusion. (I didn't want to change your statement, but I'm certain you meant #3.)--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:26, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

You're right. I realized that after I hit "submit". It should be good now though.

I do have a couple other questions about the year pages though.--Mbear 16:29, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Feel free to bring them up there. I do want to respond to your initial statement. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:31, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

For your Hard Work on the Rank Project

I am taken back hard your working on the ranking project of yours. I wouldn't have been able to produce creative & original amount of work you have done for Sarna.net. So I am taking the liberty to giving you the All Purpose Award, 3rd Ribbon. . Awesome job Mbear! -- Wrangler 17:26, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! It's nice to have it finally complete. I hope someone finds it useful. (Maybe even the powers that be over at CGL. It'd be cool to see my work in a sourcebook.)--Mbear 17:47, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Properly won't happen. Anything that already out in public is for all purposes not allowed in canon sadly. -- Wrangler 18:11, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey! Congrats on the completion. If you were describing your project to someone, how would summarize it? (The more material you provide me, the better.) --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 21:58, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

I'd describe it to someone as "Identifying the military ranks used by faction's military forces, how they relate to each other (equivalence of ranks across factions), and creating images of the rank insignias used by each faction." Does that sound good?--Mbear 22:03, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Gallery Template

Hy Mbear i give you this award for helping out, about the Gallery Template..GreetingsDoneve 19:04, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! be sure to look at the Policy_Talk:Images discussion. --Mbear 20:05, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Solaris Stables

Hi Mbear, thanks again for your help. Can you move or link the template to category: http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Category:Solaris_Stables? I'm not sure how were support to set up, but thats where should be linking too! Thanks! -- Wrangler 16:12, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Do you mean you want it to link to: Help:CreateSolarisStableArticle? The template already has Category:Solaris Stables in it.--Mbear 16:14, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Solaris stables template

Forgive me if I'm jumping the gun, especially if it's still being undertaken, but I'm responding to your request for feedback. I'd ask that the code that you included on Help:CreateSolarisStableArticle be added to the doc for the template. That's so people who find their way thru an autopsy of a pre-existing article and don't find the QuickStart help page can easily create their own article, as well. (I believe each of the templates for the other article types also do the same thing.) --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:59, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

OK. I've done that. Let me know if you need me to do anything else.--Mbear 17:01, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, Mbear. Quality work. Seriously.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:26, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Problem Solver Award

Mbear, to acknowledge your volunteer involvement in developing a new series of articles (i.e. Solaris stables) by creating the template and associated Help pages, I'd like to grant you this Admin award, the Problem Solver ribbon:

Good work and keep thinking of ways to improve the site. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:30, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Wow! Thanks.--Mbear 17:45, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Arcadia DropShip

I Mbear please can you take a look, on my uploaded Arcadia image, i can't find the error, i think i have tomatos on my eyes, thanks.Doneve 20:09, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

They must've been big tomatoes! The problem was you forgot to include the file extension (jpg). So the wiki couldn't find the image. Adding the JPG extension solved the problem.--Mbear 23:34, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh yeah there big, thanks for fixing ;).Doneve 23:36, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Sub-Capital Missile Category

Hi, Mbear. I know this maybe something of nickpicking. But your category should be Sub-Capital Missiles verses the singlar name. All the other categories have "s" in them. -- Wrangler 17:50, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Fixed it.--Mbear 18:11, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Editor Userbar

Hey, I made this pitch to Ebakunin a few days ago, but thought (after seeing your newest images) maybe you'd like to take a crack at making something similar to these for all Editors. Interested? --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 14:43, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Maybe. What are you looking for? Just something in the same dimensions that says BTW Editors?--Mbear 16:08, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Exactly. With some flair on it, like the other examples. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:39, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

What the hell. I'll take a stab at it. Are there any files I should use (templates, BTW logo, etc.) already made up or do I get to start from scratch?--Mbear 16:46, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

You get to start from scratch! Yay, you! --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:33, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh year, please make beautiful userbars for the community, please can you make a user bar for Manufacturing Centers, it's my litte baby, thanks for your great work.--Doneve 18:31, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Image policy

Mbear, are you at all interested in writing the policy for images?--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 18:59, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

I actually tried to bring the information together on the policy talk page under the Possible Image Policy Page heading. If you copy everything between that heading and the Consensus Review heading, you'll have everything I wanted to say.--Mbear 19:07, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Okay. When you have time, please move the relevant data over to the policy page and put a {{construction}} temmplate on top. I'll get 'in-character/mindset' and start prepping it for policy release.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:11, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Done!--Mbear 19:13, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Image Import award

Mbear, for uploading what will probably be the most linked images on BTW for a while (i.e. the six Editor Userbars), I award you your second Image Import:

Thanks for running with my idea and bringing it into the light so quickly, with so much vividness and so many options. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:31, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! I still have some more ideas for new bars. Once they're completed can I just put them on the Userbar gallery page or do I need to ask you to do it?--Mbear 14:19, 5 April 2010 (UTC)