User talk:Scaletail

Archive 1 (Dec. 2006-Sep.2007) includes welcomes, as well as discussions about the list of Davion rulers and why there is confusion between Blue Diamond and Menkent.

Thanks man !

Hi, I saw your message. Seen I'm a noob in the wiki, it's a real pleasure to see I can help the community. I noticed you completed my Warhammer IIC and Behemoth entries. I'm also a bit lost in how to talk with someone so I'm not sure it's the good way to send you a message. All in all thank you, and glad to see Clans are not dead over here !!!

Star Captain Loys "FIVE-one" Vickers 88.123.75.238 14:47, 6 December 2007 (CST)

I got another comment for you Scaletail : I noticed you added some stuffs to Marauder II entries. However I also saw someone put the Marauder IIC in the Marauder II variant but it's completely false : Marauder II and Marauder IIC are completely parallel designs : one from the Clans, the other in the Sphere. The most typical detail in the Marauderr IIC is its tonnage : 85 tons while the Marauder II weights 100 tons and has, since Phoenix Project, a totally different design and look. What do you think about it ? From my opinion, IIC needs a full entry for its own. FIVE-one 13:52, 7 December 2007 (CST)

This particular confusion strikes again. The good folks over at Catalyst Game Labs, in their infinite wisdom, decided to added a variant to the Marauder II. Since this 'Mech is a Wolf's Dragoons 'Mech, it was modified to use Clan-tech. As with all the other Dragoon Clan-tech variants, it got a "C" put at the end of it (e.g. Annihilator C). This resulted in the "Marauder II C", which is completely different from the "Marauder IIC". I didn't do it, I'm just the messenger. --Scaletail 19:08, 8 December 2007 (CST)

Would that not technically have to be the Marauder II IIC then? (No kidding!) Frabby 19:23, 8 December 2007 (CST)

By the naming conventions that CGL created for this, no. This may help.

Ok thank you for your answers guys. I'm gathering infos about the Marauder IIC (Clan's, not Wolf Dragoons'). Howether, I wanted to ask you where you found the info such as the type of weapons a 'Mech use or the producting plant of a 'Mech (just like you did with the Warhammer IIC and the Stone Rhino) and, at least, where did you found the explaination of the alternative configuration.FIVE-one 06:37, 9 December 2007 (CST)

See the "References" section at the bottom of the article. The production data comes from the Technical Readouts, while the variants usually comes from the Record Sheets (though there is usually some description of the variants in the TRO). --Scaletail 11:25, 9 December 2007 (CST)

Yeah I already knew about it, but it generally doesn't tell what is exactly the name of an equipment (such as Mk. XVII ER PPCs or the fluff text with an alt config). I own the TRO 3055 which presents the Warhammer IIC but you had some infos I haven't in it. Do you had thos infos in the Phoenix Project TRO ?FIVE-one 11:46, 9 December 2007 (CST)

Battlemech Manufacturing Center Question

Hello, pretty new to the wiki scene, and as I was cruising around looking for ways to help out, I noticed broken links in the manufacturing center links. I began fixing them, but then I came across some that you had done, and they were different. I figure we should have a standard approach. If the mech is the LCT-3D Locust, I linked the entire text "LCT-3D Locust" to the locust page. However, you linked just "Locust". Does it matter, and if so which way is proper?

Thanks Reuban 07:28, 29 October 2007 (CDT)

With no idea what was originally intended, I cannot answer which way is "proper." Nic autogenerated the manufacturing center articles before the BattleMech articles were created, so the red links were not supposed to go to anything originally. Personally, I like the way you have done it better, so if it were up to me, I'd say we should be doing it that way. Scaletail 16:42, 29 October 2007 (CDT)

Sounds good, I will edit them all to be the same. Reuban 08:59, 30 October 2007 (CDT)

Isn't this the exact same sort of situation for which redirects exist… so that no one has to manually pipe-trick every instance of a keyword that is synonymous with another keyword? --Xoid 06:29, 1 November 2007 (CDT)

I suppose, but, at the same time, most of the instances as singular. In other words, there is really no other place that "BLR-4S BattleMaster" is linked to other than the article of the manufacturing center that produces it. Besides, I think it would actually be more time-consuming to redirect every single one of those links than pipe all of them, since you can do all of the piping in one edit. Either way works, but, again, I'm not sure if one way is "right." Scaletail 10:01, 2 November 2007 (CDT)

Only singular instances? 'K, makes more sense now. --Xoid 10:07, 2 November 2007 (CDT)

SysOp

Scaletail, you've been a great contributor to this wiki. I would like to bestow SysOp privileges to you, unless you object? Let me know. Nicjansma 16:15, 2 December 2007 (CST)

Sure! Thanks for your confidence. --Scaletail 16:20, 2 December 2007 (CST)

Cool! You're now a SysOp with all rights and responsibilities. Thanks for all of your help! Nicjansma 17:09, 2 December 2007 (CST)

Edit toolbar

Hey, Scaletail: did something happen to the dit toolbar with the last upgrade? Do you have access to it when you edit a page? It sill pops up when I'm on Wikipedia, so i don't think I have a Hava failure. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 11:44, 6 December 2007 (CST)

You know, I noticed that, but I didn't think anything of it because I don't use it. No, it's not just you. I'll leave a note on Nic's talk page. --Scaletail 11:52, 6 December 2007 (CST)

Thanks, man. I'm going to start a Counter-Vandal project and having that toolbar would be helpful. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 12:01, 6 December 2007 (CST)

Well, knock on wood, but it's been five days since we've been vandalized. I'm hoping that whomever set the bot to work realized it was doing nothing constructive and sent it elsewhere. Well, that's not my best case scenario, but I'll leave the graphic parts out. --Scaletail 12:04, 6 December 2007 (CST)

Gracias

Im glad someone saw that, i posted that before i really got down and looked for how to create an account and whatnot. Im new to this whole online wiki thing, i have a wiki'd digital notebook that has tons of crap ive harvested so ill compare them to what is needed on the want list, so again thank you — The preceding unsigned comment was posted by MasterOfDisaster (talk • contribs) on 01:05, 7 December 2007.

Using warnings

• Congratulations on being the first to use a warning at the frontlines. Just a bit of technical knowledge: because you want the warning to be specific to that editor and not change if the master template is changed, be sure to substitute the template. Simply type 'subst:' in front of the template name and it will 'copy' the current version of the template onto the user's talk page, rather than an always-exact version. Ex: {{subst:Vandalism-2|Neveron}} . Cheers! --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 10:47, 9 December 2007 (CST)