User talk:BobTheZombie
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Heavy Metal
Metallica and MechWarrior; two of my favorite things. Also, I hate it when people call "Modern Warfare 3" MW3. That is MechWarrior 3, stupids. Ah, the unenlightened...
For Hire
If there is a page that you know of that needs some grammatical attention, please tell me, and I will do my best to respond and help ASAP.
- That would be pretty much any article I go near :-p. On a serious note welcome to the wiki man. Nice to see another metalhead. Also as a little tip when your editing on a a talk page be sure to use the signiture button on the tool bar to sign your comments. --Dmon (talk) 19:14, 19 June 2013 (PDT)
- It's mine, so I thought it was a given :P BobTheZombie (talk) 23:16, 23 June 2013 (PDT)
Hy
Hey, great start on sarna and i appriciate your edits on Emma Centrella, now i have a feeling to give you your first 
award, keep up your good work, when its ok i install the awards board on your user page.--Doneve (talk) 15:19, 19 June 2013 (PDT)
- I'm only about halfway done with the page, so I'll try to finish it later today. Thanks for the recognition, too! BobTheZombie (talk) 16:44, 19 June 2013 (PDT)
- No problem, if you have some questions, set up a talk to me.--Doneve (talk) 16:46, 19 June 2013 (PDT)
- I'm [currently] working on other horrendously worded pages, so give me a little while to get the Emma Centrella page done. BobTheZombie (talk) 23:11, 19 June 2013 (PDT)
- No problem, if you have some questions, set up a talk to me.--Doneve (talk) 16:46, 19 June 2013 (PDT)
Operation MAILED FIST
Can you please stop reverting MAILED FIST to lower case - NATO military options have the name capitalised (i.e. Operation DESERT FOX) and the writers/line developers have indicated that this is the format they intend to use for BattleTech, which is why the more recent publications have shifted to full capitals. Ta. BrokenMnemonic (talk) 11:31, 24 June 2013 (PDT)
- Should Operation Mailed Fist be edited within the Reunification War page to the capital letter form of MAILED FIST in order to form to standard military ops and then have all of the pages re-edited to link to the new capital form of the page? DerangedShadow (talk) 12:08, 24 June 2013 (PDT)
- Oh, sorry, I thought I was doing something right, because there was another page with things in caps, and they wanted it changed; I noticed the trend and tried to help. Good thing I didn't get that far... should I revert those that I changed back then? BobTheZombie (talk) 14:28, 24 June 2013 (PDT)
- Then there is also an issue with "Taskforce MAILED FIST"; I've seen it both ways on different pages. BobTheZombie (talk) 14:44, 24 June 2013 (PDT)
- All-caps spelling for operations has only crept up relatively recently; older BattleTech books didn't do this. While there is obviously a new standard here that we should adhere to, whenever an older canonical source spelled an operation out with only the starting letter capitalized then that, too, is a correct spelling. Since Sarna.net BTW is case sensitive, I'd say the article name about a given operation should spell it in all caps but a redirect should be installed from "normal" spelling for older material where the op was spelled normally. Frabby (talk) 02:12, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- Well, I don't know how to add redirects, sooo... could someone do it themselves or show me how to? BobTheZombie (talk) 09:00, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- I set up a redirect for Operation Mailed Fist.--Doneve (talk) 09:02, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- The Task Force MAILED FIST version still doesn't link to anything. Should it have its own page? BobTheZombie (talk) 09:06, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- Yep you are right.--Doneve (talk) 09:15, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- A redirect page gets the content #REDIRECT[[target page name]], which results in a call to that page being moved to the other page indicated. You can even sort a redirect page into categories separately from the main page, if you think you need to do that. Frabby (talk) 09:45, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- Oops, I meant Operation MAILED FIST right up there about it having it's own page, not Taskforce Mailed Fist. Sorry, it's hard to think when you are hungry. BobTheZombie (talk) 09:56, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- Task Force MAILED FIST and Operation MAILED FIST don't have entries yet because I haven't written them yet, but they're on my list of things to do in the immediate future, when I've finished updating/creating the regiment and corps level articles. Although I should get the minor character articles done too... BrokenMnemonic (talk) 12:58, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- If I may - I'm personally against the ALL CAPS naming on Operations, simply because its obnoxious. I realize the recent books have been using it, but those are in-universe reports, not wiki articles. ClanWolverine101 (talk) 23:03, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- To my eyes, the all caps format is actually easier and cleaner to read - but then I've been dealing with military operations in real life for almost 20 years now, so I'm used to seeing it. We follow BTech convention in other areas, such as italicizing certain equipment names, and this is much the same for me. BrokenMnemonic (talk) 09:36, 29 June 2013 (PDT)
- If I may - I'm personally against the ALL CAPS naming on Operations, simply because its obnoxious. I realize the recent books have been using it, but those are in-universe reports, not wiki articles. ClanWolverine101 (talk) 23:03, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- Task Force MAILED FIST and Operation MAILED FIST don't have entries yet because I haven't written them yet, but they're on my list of things to do in the immediate future, when I've finished updating/creating the regiment and corps level articles. Although I should get the minor character articles done too... BrokenMnemonic (talk) 12:58, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- Oops, I meant Operation MAILED FIST right up there about it having it's own page, not Taskforce Mailed Fist. Sorry, it's hard to think when you are hungry. BobTheZombie (talk) 09:56, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- A redirect page gets the content #REDIRECT[[target page name]], which results in a call to that page being moved to the other page indicated. You can even sort a redirect page into categories separately from the main page, if you think you need to do that. Frabby (talk) 09:45, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- Yep you are right.--Doneve (talk) 09:15, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- The Task Force MAILED FIST version still doesn't link to anything. Should it have its own page? BobTheZombie (talk) 09:06, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- I set up a redirect for Operation Mailed Fist.--Doneve (talk) 09:02, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
- Well, I don't know how to add redirects, sooo... could someone do it themselves or show me how to? BobTheZombie (talk) 09:00, 28 June 2013 (PDT)
Planet Infobox
I notice you added some empty infoboxes to Deshler and Harpster, the second is you use the false template, please take a look on Luthien as example, we use a planet and star styem infobox, oh and i delete the infoboxe's on both pages, if you have canon sources bring this up that where cool, but when the infobox is empty i do what i do, fell free to talk.--Doneve (talk) 20:48, 30 June 2013 (PDT)
- Okay, I noticed two different types and tried the larger of the two (the kind on Luthien) after the first one, but it had weird text above the picture (something about "255 px"), so I reverted them back. Oh, and you removed the pictures along with the boxes... I left them empty in the hope that someone who had the sources would fill it in when they noticed. BobTheZombie (talk) 21:41, 30 June 2013 (PDT)
- Although the system articles and improving their format are important to me, I never got into this particular project too deeply, and I am sadly barely familiar with the planet overhaul procedurs. But I seem to recall that we agreed that systems about which almost nothing is known beyond the name of the inhabited planet (or a name, without specifying whether it refers to the sun, the planet, the entire system, or all of it) should not get the full infobox treatment, because we lack information to put into those infoboxes. If this is wrong, any project members please correct me. Frabby (talk) 01:35, 1 July 2013 (PDT)
SPAMBOT
Ahh! There is one at User:Zhang22! Please help Admins!!! BobTheZombie (talk) 22:59, 30 June 2013 (PDT)
Thanks to Frabby for taking care of that quickly. BobTheZombie (talk) 23:28, 30 June 2013 (PDT)
Year Pages
Hi Bob, I'm afraid you've just done what most of us have done at one time or another... according to Policy:Year Pages each line entry on a Year page like 3085 should only have one link in it. BrokenMnemonic (talk) 07:46, 1 July 2013 (PDT)