User talk:ElizatronicWarfare

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Image Uploads[edit]

Hi! I'm curious what was the source of the four Alan Blackwell BattleMech images you uploaded? I like to make sure everything is properly credited. Thank you! --Cache (talk) 17:37, 29 October 2024 (EDT)

Per the existing sources listed for all four, they were found on Alan Blackwell's personal site. His gallery serves 2500px wide copies of the images if you delete the URL parameter telling the site to scale the images down to 1000px. I've tried getting in touch with him via email to ask if his other Battletech portraits could be made available in a similar fashion, but I haven't heard from him for about a week. --ElizatronicWarfare (talk) 04:53, 1 November 2024 (EDT)
I had not even noticed the scaling parameter, thank you. Great work!--Cache (talk) 08:14, 1 November 2024 (EDT)

Merchant class[edit]

I saw that you moved Merchant to Merchant (JumpShip class). Given that no disambiguation was required and the former redirects to the latter straight, I'm wondering why you saw the need to implement a change here? Frabby (talk) 08:28, 6 January 2025 (EST)

I'm currently writing a page for a member of the Clan Merchant Caste, and linking to "merchant" makes it sound like they're a jumpship. I felt that the article for the Merchant-class jumpship needed to be renamed to fit the naming convention of other jumpship classes that use common words (i.e. Trader, Star Lord, Scout, Liberty, etc.). I'm in the process of fixing all the [[Merchant]] links to instead point to [[Merchant (JumpShip class]]. --ElizatronicWarfare (talk) 08:45, 6 January 2025 (EST)
Ah, so you're disambiguating against Merchant caste. Forgot about that one. That does make sense, though we need to set up a proper disambiguation page then. And root out any calls of "Merchant" that haven't been changed into "Merchant (JumpShip class)" yet. Frabby (talk) 11:04, 6 January 2025 (EST)
Yeah it's a big undertaking that's taking me more than a few hours, so it looked like a dogshit mess when you looked at what I was doing. --ElizatronicWarfare (talk) 16:15, 6 January 2025 (EST)