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Title and Position Box

Hello Rev. Do you know where I could possibly find a 3 tiered box to track someone who was a Loremaster/saKhan/Khan? I recieved an answer at the BT Ask the Writers forum for Gerek Tchernovkov, he was indeed elevated to Khan in 2845 after serving as saKhan (still waiting for confirmation on this last bit) since Dana Kufahl stepped away from reality for a bit. :) I'll also use it for Lisa Buhallin who likewise held all 3 positions. --Rebs 14:27, 5 April 2012 (PDT)

Hey there again. I took a good look at how the info box for Title and position was made and produced another row, so it's all good. Not that I am terribly impatient or anything, it just seemed to be something I could and should do. --Rebs 15:50, 5 April 2012 (PDT)
I'm glad you're so self-sufficient! I would have been cross-eyed trying to figure that out. I've forcefed myself how to do things here when setting it up, but Mbear has shown a real talent for devising code.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 08:30, 6 April 2012 (PDT)
Yes, he has set things up very nicely. I know a bit of html from running a blog for a long time, but other than that, I mostly stumble through stuff. This isn't bad at all. The place is set up nice and very user friendly, even for those of us who are not gifted technically. As for self sufficient, I'm just glad there are people to ask or spontaneously help out when I do run into a wall. --Rebs 11:52, 6 April 2012 (PDT)

Back

Rev - Sorry for the delay on U.B. I was knocking out my Sarah Weisz article. Will begin again on JTP:NA tomorrow. ClanWolverine101 19:29, 5 April 2012 (PDT)

Dude, no worries. I've been on travel the last few days (had really expected to get considerable time editing here but had zero) and was pressuring myself to get into the assignment to answer anything you might have asked/responded to. Glad to see you're not waiting on me.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 08:32, 6 April 2012 (PDT)
Hey - I got some stuff for you here: BattleTechWiki talk:Project Unfinished Book/JTP:New Avalon/Unwelcome Guests. ClanWolverine101 19:30, 9 April 2012 (PDT)
On the way!--Revanche (talk|contribs) 12:09, 15 April 2012 (PDT)

Question

Hy Rev, when an UBP article must not edited as copyeditor, i leave a short note to comments on the BattleTechWiki:Project Unfinished Book/JTP:New Avalon/Unwelcome Guests page as "must not copyedited" etc. etc, how we handle this.-Doneve 13:55, 15 April 2012 (PDT)

I think you may mean something other than what you said. Is it correct, you want to know how to indicate an article does not need copyediting?
If so, your review (even with no edits) is the same as copyediting, for our purposes. In that case, just don;t make any changes to the article, but record it as complete on the tracker.
Does that help?--Revanche (talk|contribs) 10:34, 22 April 2012 (PDT)

Sidebar updates

Rev, in case BTW won't give you the message, I responded to your request. Have a look at your sandbox talk page.--Mbear(talk) 11:12, 19 April 2012 (PDT)

Mbear, I'm glad you contacted me here. Changes to user subpage discussions don't notify the user.
I think I do need some clarification (both from you and to provide you). If I understand you correctly, you're saying for an article sidebar to display correctly, there would have to be a CSS page created for each user (i.e., either by the user or individually on his behalf)? That seems problematic.
Questions:
  • Is this CSS needed only in order to provide shading?
  • Can we create just the (completely) bordered sidebar (without scheme shading) via a template?
Ideally, for BTW, the sidebar code I borrowed from another non-MW wiki, would have the border from the top, down the left side and closing at the bottom. Scheme-specific shading would be nice, but is far from required. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 10:31, 22 April 2012 (PDT)
Using Sarna as an example if we wanted to implement a sidebar, I'd update the five skins with the relevant CSS so that the user would see it automagically. In other words, if you provide the sidebar markup to Nic, I can update the CSS file so the formatting is correct. We wouldn't have to put the CSS on each and every page that has the sidebar though. (I just did that so you could see it.)
  • Is the CSS needed only to provide shading? <-- not just shading, no. The layout that you have now (float:left, margins, etc.) are also set in CSS. (Again, I could incorporate that into the main CSS files.)
  • Can we create just the completely bordered sidebar without scheme shading via a template? <-- possibly. I haven't looked into it, but my first instinct is to say "probably". We just need to decide what we want to include in it and experiment to get the correct effects.
I'm not sure how the border will look on Sarna. We'd have to do a little more testing.--Mbear(talk) 10:03, 23 April 2012 (PDT)
Ok, so I'll get the code to Nic and we'll go from there. Thanks, Mbear.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 17:34, 25 April 2012 (PDT)

Responses

Rev - Got some questions here : [[1]]. ClanWolverine101 09:51, 23 April 2012 (PDT)

Ronin Wars Plagiarism

Rev - This might be an issue elsewhere, but I noticed it here : Talk:2nd Genyosha ClanWolverine101 20:58, 3 May 2012 (PDT)

My response can be found there. Thanks, CW.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 05:04, 4 May 2012 (PDT)

Question

Hope all is well! This one is for you or anyone else who wants to chime in, sorry I don't know of a better place to ask it. The period of The Wars of Reaving... I consider it pretty much the length of ilKhan Brett Andrews' reign. However, a lot more went on during that time than will ever need to be in his bio whenever it does finally get written. Should a page be made called War of Reaving (or something similar) to separate the series of events from the Catalyst publication? Various redirects already in place have made this somewhat complicated. edited: I think part of my issue was that it is simply not a clearly defined period of time to begin with, so defining that is part of it as well.--Rebs 19:49, 7 May 2012 (PDT)

I'm really not the most knowledgeable Clan scholar, but to me the Wars of Reaving were a Clan era, like the Age of War. As such a, article named something like Wars of Reaving (era) seems appropriate to me, that details in general terms what happened, with redlinks to articles that expand upon the individual events. As for re-directs, those are very easy to identify and repoint to the era article. My two bits. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 17:58, 10 May 2012 (PDT)
Cool. Doneve also pointed me toward that massive Wars of Reaving - Timeline that had been produced but is in need of serious trimming. I think both pages can be constructed to link several items to each other in order to have a comprehensive explanation of events. I think that as the timeline is trimmed, excess info from that might become a good base to construct the main article. I'll do more bios first to get a better sense of it all. But it will get done. --Rebs 18:45, 10 May 2012 (PDT)
Sounds like you found a bone to gnaw on, Rebs. ;) --Revanche (talk|contribs) 21:13, 10 May 2012 (PDT)

Unit info boxes

Hello Rev, I am having a little trouble and I am not sure if it is me or not. I want to be able to add and subtract fields from the infoBoxStateUnit in an attempt to refine the look of the articles of units that have changed their name. I know it is possible to add fields because the 2nd Sword of Light has a disbanded field in their info box.. But when I attempt to add something (even so far as to copy and past the extra section from the SoL box) it does not show up in my previews of the article I am working on. Is there something I am missing on how to apply this? --Dmon 05:06, 12 May 2012 (PDT)

Dmon, I'll take a look a bit later today. I'm gonna have to bring myself back up to speed on how they work. And I'll probably have questions for you. --Revanche (talk|contribs) 08:12, 14 May 2012 (PDT)
Thank you, I look forward to your response. --Dmon 14:25, 14 May 2012 (PDT)
Dmon, I think what you're asking for is a conditional field, where if it is not included on that page, it doesn't show up as empty. Is that right? For example, if the 2nd had not been disbanded, the year 3075 would not have been added to the 'disbanded' field and the whole field would not show. If that is correct, give me an example field you'd like to see added to the master template and I'll show you how it was added.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 17:02, 14 May 2012 (PDT)
Yes conditional fields are exactly what I am after. The primary one I want is for use on units that have changed their name. A good example would be 1st FedCom RCT/1st Federated Suns Lancers. I would like to replace Formed field in the top infobox with renamed or redesignated so people can see exactly when the change occured at a glance. I also think the aforementioned Disbanded might be useful alongside Destroyed and possibly Reformed for use in circumstances like the 4th Sword of Light who's designation was unused for over 200 years. --Dmon 17:29, 14 May 2012 (PDT)
I'm going to work on this tomorrow, but one thing to keep in mind is something that applies to one unit may not apply to all. Therefore, if I 'replaced' formed with renamed or redesignated, then every unit would show that way. What we have to so is be both crafty and clear with this: we cannot take formed from the template but we could make it conditional. However, since all units have an initial formed date, it would make sense to leave that as static and add redesignated as a conditional field. That way, you would see Formed 3028 and Redesignated 1st Federated Suns Lancers (3067) for 1st Federated Suns Lancers, while other units would only show Formed xxxx. Does that make sense?--Revanche (talk|contribs) 19:10, 14 May 2012 (PDT)

Hey Rev, have you had time to look into this yet? --Dmon 19:27, 23 May 2012 (PDT)

Ready for more

Rev - Got some more stuff for ya. BattleTechWiki:Project Unfinished Book/JTP:New Avalon/Unwelcome Guests ClanWolverine101 11:12, 14 May 2012 (PDT)

Excellent. I'll check in tomorrow, CW.--Revanche (talk|contribs) 19:11, 14 May 2012 (PDT)

Incorrect Artist Listed

I was just looking at the cover art for [2] The artist you have listed is incorrect. The correct artist is Alex Iglesias. This is his Deviant Art profile [3] and you can find this particular piece in his gallery here [4] He is also the current artist doing all of the concept art for Mechwarrior Online. I'm fairly new to this whole thing and I'm afraid I'm going to break something if i edit it myself. -FRYBOTH

For your review: Delta Regiment

Delta Regiment (Wolf's Dragoons) is up. Obviously, a lot of work went into this one.
As usual, thanks go out to Doneve, who uploaded several images that were ultimately used. Obviously, the pics add a lot to this article, and keep it from becoming just a mindless block of text.
One of my goals with this project was to improve upon the design of my Alpha Regiment (Wolf's Dragoons) article. To that end, I've streamlined several processes, most notably the reference tags, using what's become the accepted approach. In short, I updated my own style. While it took a lot of time, I think it went okay.
As you can see above, I've written a number of articles about Delta's commanding officers and so on. This means I can reuse some of that material when I write a comprehensive article like this one. As it turned out, the writing still needed to be massaged, but if that wasn't the case, I would have been doing something wrong. Nevertheless, its easier to write a bunch of small articles before trying to put together a beast like this.
When I decided to write comprehensive articles on each of the WD regiments, I always knew Alpha would be my first and Delta my second. There were two reasons, there: First, Delta has a lot of extra material on it from its involvement in the Coventry campaign. Second, Delta avoided the Dragoon Civil War/Elson's Challenge (popularized in Wolf Pack). That particular event will prove very difficult to cover, as it exists only in broad terms in the sourcebooks and we only get certain perspectives in the WP novel. But that's a talk for another day.
For now, please enjoy reading about Delta Regiment. Thanks, and I look forward to your feedback. ClanWolverine101 16:10, 1 June 2012 (PDT)

Unknown Planet/No record

User_talk:Mbear#Unknown_Planets. (Because you created the articles in the first place.) Frabby 13:45, 11 August 2012 (PDT)

Updated conflict infobox

Rev, please have a look at User:Mbear/PlanetPageTest. I've got a prototype for the updated infobox up and running. I'd like to hear your thoughts. Thanks!--Mbear(talk) 07:25, 2 November 2012 (PDT)


My sincerest apologies and humble gratitude

Gentlemen, first off apologies: a personal assignment followed my a family loss and then a major career re-assignment did a great job of sucking up all my time away from this endeavor. While I definitely used BTW in my editorial absence (who wouldn't?!), I couldn't get myself to log-in and even attempt to make myself a presence here again (except for that one time). I just felt (and feel) that this plays deserves a certain level of dedication from its admins and I just didn't have it in me.

Unfortunately, while my situation has improved a bit, my available time just isn't what it was. And the agency I work out has this place blocked (can you believe?!). So the time I have at home is even more precious to me. What I would like to do is take on normal editorial duties and jump in as I have time available. I presume no one will mind my keeping my admin powers and as I practice better time management, I'll do what I can to help out the admins too.

I wish I could say I'm back-back, but I really do appreciate the kind words on the Founder's Awards. I truly respect the work each of you has done here and want to re-join you. Now...how do I sign my edits again...? --Revanche (talk|contribs) 16:46, 8 February 2013 (PST)

Welcome back, even on a limited scale! We missed you! ClanWolverine101 (talk) 20:25, 8 February 2013 (PST)
Glad to have a little update from your absence, CW say all! We missed you, hear you in next time.--Doneve (talk) 21:02, 8 February 2013 (PST)
Yes, your presence was sorely missed, sir. Come back in any capacity that you can, and any time that you can. --Rebs (talk) 17:35, 9 February 2013 (PST)

For your review: 4th Skye Rangers

Rev - When you have time, I redid the 4th Skye Rangers article. ClanWolverine101 (talk) 21:48, 8 February 2013 (PST)

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