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)