User talk:BobTheZombie

Proofreading

Feel free to add any pages you want proofread or cleaned up to the bottom of this list and I will go through and clean them up.

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For your consideration - Epsilon Regiment (Wolf's Dragoons)

BTZ - Epsilon Regiment (Wolf's Dragoons) has been re-written. I want you to know i accepted your critique of my Beta Regiment article (posted back in 2013), to heart. As such, this article is about 40 percent shorter, where i trimmed and summarized a lot of redundant material. I feel the end product is superior, and hope others will find it so. At some point, i will go back and perform the needed revisions to Beta Regiment and the other Dragoon articles. But please give Epsilon a look and let me know. Thank you. ClanWolverine101 (talk) 12:59, 16 April 2016 (PDT)

Clan Smoke Jaguar Minor Characters

I noticed your comment that you think the article needs a lot of work. I spent a lot of time on that page and am wondering what you think is wrong with it? Dark Jaguar (talk) 10:26, 29 May 2016 (PDT)

I didn't say there was a lot wrong with it, I just thought I saw something grammatical near the end that could be fixed so I wanted to check back on it later. Perhaps it was nothing. I put that tag (and the comment that I "will come back and work on") when I see something to possibly proofread later. Sorry for the confusion. -BobTheZombie (talk) 10:54, 29 May 2016 (PDT)
Ok, its just normally I've seen that tag used when the page is so bad it requires a complete rewrite! Dark Jaguar (talk) 11:18, 29 May 2016 (PDT)
The way I use it, it can range from "Needs to be proofread because I found a couple things and didn't have the time" to "Oh no this is very bad". Yours was obviously the former; don't worry, you're doing great :) It's awesome to see you around again and it's great to be back. -BobTheZombie (talk) 11:37, 29 May 2016 (PDT)
The template actually generates a message at the top of the page that says "more detail is available on the article talk page" - it presumes that if the reason for the tag isn't obvious, then information will be in the talk page explaining what the issue is. To avoid the risk of confusion (or, in all honesty, feelings getting hurt unintentionally) I'd recommend making use of the talk page just to flag up why the tag has gone on the main article page - that way it'll be a lot easier to see if someone means "this article is terrible and needs to be rewritten" rather than "the grammar in paragraph 57 of 100 needs a bit of tweaking". BrokenMnemonic (talk) 02:54, 1 June 2016 (PDT)
Yeah that's good thinking; I always try to explain in my edit summary what I intended with it, namely the "will come back and work on", which just means grammar stuff. For bigger formatting/rewriting I usually put something else in the summary or <-- --> comment it in the article what needs to be addressed. I intend to go through all the {cleanup} tagged pages and proofread all of them, but that'll take a long time...
P.S. I'm back sooner than expected :) -BobTheZombie (talk) 19:15, 1 June 2016 (PDT)

Blackjack

Hi Bob,

I'm doing my usual morning poke around, and I noticed your amendment to the Blackjack article base don the dev-level errata issued. When you're updating an article based on errata or ATW comments from the CGL forum, can you make sure to quote the forum text in either the notes page of the article or on the article talk page, please? The CGL forums have been wiped at least twice, so if we don't keep a copy of the text here and it happens again, no-one will be able to substantiate the amendment, and it could lead to us being accused of writing fanon again.BrokenMnemonic (talk) 00:24, 2 June 2016 (PDT)

Oops, I was rushed last night - it's been updated. -BobTheZombie (talk) 09:20, 2 June 2016 (PDT)

Hi

Hi Bob, hope all is well with you. Great to see you back on sarna, i read your talk on Dark Jaguar's talk page, you need work for sarna Wink.gif, i found this awesom post from Mendrugo on the CBT forum (http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,25780.0.html), then you have a lot to data mine and add update needed templates :), cheers.--Doneve (talk) 09:01, 4 June 2016 (PDT)

I read your response on my talk page, if you want to help out, you can involve in the Planet Overhaul project and help to update nearby system tables, here is the spread sheet link we are working from http://www.mediafire.com/view/p9d1q19qd2av791/distances.xls, if you have questions about the sheet, etc. talk to me or BrokenMnemonic, cheers.--Doneve (talk) 12:11, 6 June 2016 (PDT)
I'll have to check into that soon and get back to you

Grey Keshik

Spotted your request to flesh out the Sub-Stub, hopefully it looks a little better now. Dark Jaguar (talk) 10:37, 7 June 2016 (PDT)

Awesome, it looks great now! Thanks so much for taking care of it so quickly! There's a lot of pages that were started by a user by the name of Neuling that, though some of them are useful, many are simply incomplete, badly formatted, or just way out of left field. If you are ever bored, you could see what you could salvage from his edits and what pages that he started you could fill in/update. Thanks again! -BobTheZombie (talk) 13:50, 7 June 2016 (PDT)

Deletion

I notice your deletion tagging, i disagree, if the image is on a valiable page its ok, if the image is not used on a page, save this for future edits, make this sence to you! Oh i forgot your cleanup tags, do you really come back and fix it by canon sources?--Doneve (talk) 13:26, 9 June 2016 (PDT)

I agree with Doneve, images are always useful. I'm always looking to add images to pages and these galleries are actually quite a good source, thanks for bringing them to my attention. Dark Jaguar (talk) 14:00, 9 June 2016 (PDT)
1) I'm not saying we should delete the pictures by any means, but rather that this sort of stuff is better done with a category rather than a page just sitting there with little to no article value. I remember a while ago that it wasn't wiki-ish enough to just have these pages with loads of pictures on them. Perhaps they have a purpose though. If we are to keep them I think it might be a good idea to put a summary or something to explain what it is so a new person can tell what's going on.
2) I do intend on coming back and cleaning up these pages; I usually do them in chunks and its easy to tag a bunch when I have little spurts of time. It's much harder to do the cleanup when I don't have consecutive time to sit down and do it. Mostly I'm not changing the information within the articles but rather clarifying, proofreading, reformatting, etc. so it's easier to read and understand. If the info is confusing or might be wrong I tag it as such and let others with more knowledge worry about it.
3) Yeah, adding more pertinent pictures to articles is something I've wanted to do for a while but something that I never get around to doing. P.S. if you do a page name search with the keyword "gallery" you'll find a ton of these. -BobTheZombie (talk) 14:58, 9 June 2016 (PDT)

3145 updates

I have finally finished the DCMS part of the FM3145 updates for your review. The CCAF is also done however not as thorough as part of my updates in places is missing history however all the new units have been made with Officers and Composition History. I may go back to it, however as of right now I'll start on the AFFS.--Deadfire (talk) 17:40, 12 June 2016 (PDT)

Sounds good, just do it at your own pace; don't get all BattleTech-ed out in one sitting Wink.gif. And yeah, I'll be sure to check it out soon. Plus, thanks so much for adding all this new stuff! Don't ever take offense to me putting a {cleanup} tag on something you've worked on, because usually it's just very minor errors. Keep up the great work! -BobTheZombie (talk) 17:57, 12 June 2016 (PDT)
Oh I'm sure I've made a good many mistakes in writing for so many articles no offence will be taken for you having to clean some (or most) of them up. In addition I'm sure other parts of some of those articles need clean-up as well. Thanks for taking a look at them, and I'll remember to practice safe Lorewarrioring :) --Deadfire (talk) 18:01, 12 June 2016 (PDT)

1st Jaguar Guards

Hi Bob, I noticed you have tag the first for a clean up, given that I did this last week I'm surprised to say the least. Its also one of the ones I'm still working on along with a major overhaul of the SJ clusters Dark Jaguar (talk) 10:30, 14 June 2016 (PDT)

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