User talk:Scaletail

I encourage you to read through my archived talk posts. A question you have may well be answered there. You should also check out the FAQ. --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.

Archive 2 (Oct. 2007-Feb. 2008) includes responses to welcomes, an explanation of the difference between the Marauder IIC and the Marauder II C, my opinion on linking from manufacturing center articles, becoming a SysOp, a discussion concerning the consensus policy, years & the timeline, usage of .svg files, and the reason that red-linked categories give that weird message at the top.

Archive 3 (Apr. 2008-May 2009) has all sorts of stuff.

Moratorium

Scaletail, good job with the tag. I was thinking that adding a Category:Moratorium to the tag itself, so that each article under the moratorium would be in the cat, would allow us to better police expired periods. I'd do it myself, but my wiki-break has resulted in a loss of some wiki-skills. In any case, open for discussion. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 09:13, 31 May 2009 (PDT)

Hm. I thought I had done that. Let me go fix.... Nice to have you back, btw. You on leave? --Scaletail 11:43, 31 May 2009 (PDT)

Naw, not really, no. I was transferred back before the ship (she's on deployment) and now am located in Gulfport (at a Seabee base). Still getting settled in but just got my PC set back up. I am simply amazed at how much work has gone on here. Great to see...though we still need to increase the weekly base of editors. Frabby, Cyc and you are still the most common editors, but I can see some relatively new faces (Wrangler, for one) that are making their marks. I, for one, would love to get the MW software updated. I'll see what I can do to get Nic inspired. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:00, 31 May 2009 (PDT)

Don't forget about Alkemita, who has really taken charge of articles on commands. I know I've slowed down a lot. Alas, being thrust into the real world has taken its toll. No more two-day marathon writings sessions for me. I'm mostly just trying to keep the level of quality up. --Scaletail 18:30, 1 June 2009 (PDT)

Empty Articles discussion

Hey, Scaletail: I'd like you to weigh in here, since I know you have an opinion on this. Thanks. --Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 14:39, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Ion Rush

A seriously good bio. Good job.--Revanche ^{(talk|contribs)} 03:07, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Looking for a Battle Template

I am looking to list all the participants in the Capellan Civil War. Do you know any good templates I can use? --Aldous, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Military_Conflict. --Scaletail 17:33, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

24.34.239.208 unsource articles

Hi Scaletail. I'm trying to clean up the articles that 24.34.239.208 if rapidly posting, which are unsourced. Some of the information author is posting is correct, but some of it has wild eye mentions i can't figure out where they got them from. Operation Scatter and Free Worlds League-Lyran Commonwealth War‎ for examples have mentions of don't come from sources books i've found. Is there way to talk to this person about citing some of the information their posting? I believe Rev has tried contact the author, but no response. I'll try to sort these article out, but i'm not sure if you want keep articles as they appear. Their basicly timeline notes verses actual articles. -- Wrangler 02:56, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

To my knowledge, nobody has made an attempt to directly contact the editor in question. I've posted numerous statements and questions on talk pages, but it's almost impossible to get in touch with an unregistered user whose IP keeps changing (to the best of my knowledge). The articles contain no sources or citations and little attempt at wikification. For all intents and purposes, these articles are being created and abandoned. I believe this is exactly the situation Revanche had in mind when he suggested deleting unsourced articles. If you want to take the effort to find sources for the information, it would be appreciated. With sources, at least I can feel good about merging the information into other articles. Information that is being created and not referenced may simply be deleted, though that would be the last recourse. --Scaletail 01:43, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Okay then. I'll attempt to source the ones i think i Can salvage. Hopefully the poster will realize they need register and add references to the the articles. -- Wrangler 11:54, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

MWDA Dossiers

Scaletail, I just posted this on Wrangler's talk page, and thought I should let you know as well.--mbear

Wrangler, I've split the large PDF's from http://www.warrenborn.com/ into single page PDF files. Before I upload them though, or do any other modifications, I wanted to let you know that apparently I can export the PDFs to plain text which we could upload directly to BTW. (Be a big help for the Principes Guards, Hastati Sentinels, and Triarii Protectors articles.) I would have done this text export, but thought I should talk to you and Scaletail first. Thoughts? (Will crosspost to Scaletails talk page.)--Mbear 17:16, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Kept them as PDF files, and uploaded them. Wrangler's working on fixing deader links.--Mbear 21:48, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Awards

Scaletail, 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)} 04:57, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Hetzer

Hey, thanks for the variants! they aren't included in my ancient german version of the TRO! learn something everyday and stuff :D --RagTag 21:03, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Founder's Outstanding Member of the Year Award

Hi Scaletail. I wanted to give you Founder's Outstanding Member of the Year Award. I've seen the contributions you've made over the past year reach all parts of the wiki, including interacting with other editors and admins, which I think is a big part of what makes this wiki so successful. You've done a lot to "clean up" posts which isn't the most glamorous thing to do, but needs to be done. Thanks for all of your hard work, edits and contributions. Congrats! Nicjansma 06:32, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Remove of Blood Spirit table

Hi, the tables that I added to every clans was the first step. In the next phase I will add insignias and a short information about the unit. Please let my work unchanged. decide when i finished. I think a overview which galaxy containts which clusters is helpful. Tnx Neuling 06:49, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Game Notes

Hey Scaletail - I saw your post on the "Armor Tonnages" discussion, and I wanted to know specifically what we are and are not allowed to put in equipment descriptions. One of the projects I've been working on is adding "Game Notes" to many of equipment articles. (You can see one such example of my work in the MASC section.) Please note I do not copy from the book, nor do I quote it more than absolutely necessary. Is this permitted? ClanWolverine101