Random Comments from Fandyllic
WoW is SUPER ADDICTIVE! Don't play it if you value your free time... ;-)
Someone made me an admin?
I'm not sure when it happened, but I think AlexanderYoshi made me an admin at some point. It may have happened around the time he obliquely agreed to add some more admins, see "another admin or two please" section of his discussion page.
Since I just found this out (and don't know what it means exactly), please don't bug me with requests right away.
- --Fandyllic 2:09 PM PST 29 Dec 2005
- That was me, actually; check your yahoo email account or toss me an email from another account that you prefer :)
- -- Rustak 10:47, 31 Dec 2005 (EST)
- "Quote: I'm not sure when it happened" - actually, it was 10:30, 29 Dec 2005, incase that helps (-: -- ℑilver§ℑide 12:03, 31 Dec 2005 (EST)
- Congratulations. --Powerlord 23:33, 31 Dec 2005 (EST)
- Congratulations. Remember to fear the Power! --Dracomage 09:01, 12 Jan 2006 (EST)
Because of this, you shouldn't be the head of any of the community teams, right? I mean, of course it's your decision, and I have no problem with it I guess, but you need to be able to give what time you have to administering the wiki at large. In any case, I guess you could just outline stuff and let your team members deal with the execution of it all. Just a thought. Schmidt 00:39, 14 Jan 2006 (EST)
- Didn't think of that, but since I'm not a community team leader anyway, it doesn't matter. Hopefully, I won't be the only active admin most of the time, but we'll see. --Fandyllic 7:56 PM PST 14 Jan 2006
Comments to Fandyllic
You can see old stuff in:
Tome Wraith from Dark Tichondrias
The Tome Wraith is an undead unit seen on the second map of the Blizzard-made Campaign Exodus of the Horde. I believe, you must have the updated version of Warcraft the Frozen Throne. Then, look in custom campaigns and you'll see the Blizzard-made campaign "Exodus of the Horde" that starts off where Thrall left to Kalimdor unitil he arrived. The Tome Wraith is not found the Warcraft RPG book to my knowledge but I don't know.
- I added your source info to the Tome Wraith entry.
- --Fandyllic 10:13 PM PST 8 Jan 2006
Couatl Dark Tichondrias
Coatl is not the correct spelling. Couatl is correct. 1//11/06
WoWWiki:Policy/Category
It would have been better to move the article back to what it is now rather than to move the information from one page to the other. That way you could have all the history go along with it. It's probably not that important anyways. Did you just forget that, or did you not know about it? (You can move articles over redirects, in case you were wondering.) Schmidt 22:25, 13 Jan 2006 (EST)
- Yeah, I should have thought about the history thing, but I figured since alot of policy was just added without any real consensus by SilverSide, moving the talk pages was good enough.
- --Fandyllic 9:04 AM PST 17 Jan 2006
World of Warcraft API
On World of Warcraft API, you removed everything and just lumped them into different groups. Fine. It was way too much in one page. However, it might help if you list each group (like Battlefield functions and so on) under each page link so you can kind of get a table of contents so you know what you're looking for. I hope you don't mind, but I'll be doing that in a second now. Schmidt 01:33, 17 Jan 2006 (EST)
- Good idea. I felt like I forgot something, but I coouldn't think of it at that late hour.
- --Fandyllic 9:04 AM PST 17 Jan 2006
Congrats!
- Sigh* everyone assumes I am an admin (see this). Anyway, since you stated you don't know what you can do as an admin, here are some things:
- Unlock, or make the requested edits, on this page (if you need help figuring out how to unlock it, leave a note on my talk page)
- Dunno if you are a bureau or just an admin, but if you are a b.u. make D.F. schmidt and admin - he deserves it too
- Ban pitz92 (again ask me if you cannot figure out how)
- Check the articles in Category:Terminated articles - open them, and delete them. Not blank them out, but actually delete them.
- Give SilverBot bot rights, if you can figure out how; again ask me if such is necessary.
- For god's sake, do something about the main page... *shudders* perhaps post on the Main Page Dev's Talk page that you are now an admin, and if we can come up with a consensus version of the main page you will apply it or something. I agree that the main page either A) needs to be locked or B) needs to be constantly patrolled for spam if it is unlocked (not both) but if it is locked it should *still* be in the hands of the community instead of some 'higher realm' in-accessible to members. the point of locking it to prevent spam and malicious botters, not to make a page the home of the admins
- Finally, pat yourself on the back - the users support you all the way! By no means take all this as some regimental order or plan, just some tips to someone who "don't know what it means exactly" from someone who does (-:
Have a nice day, -- ℑilver§ℑide 22:46, 29 Dec 2005 (EST)
- P.S. I really hope I helped, I typed that really quickly, have a bunch of stuff to do now that I have internet access again! -- ℑilver§ℑide 22:46, 29 Dec 2005 (EST)
Yeah, congrats. Now the burden of pleasing the people is on you. Haha. Just kidding. Take as many steps as you need. For the Main Page, I'd recommend sealing it, but keep the templates that it calls open for editing (or maybe seal them too even). Definitely there are many articles and categories that should be deleted as soon as possible (not necessarily now) so we don't have any more confusion about them. Schmidt 18:54, 30 Dec 2005 (EST)
- Oh! I just remembered. If you have access to it, you may want to consider changing the CSS to include stuff like this:
.uncommon {color: green;}
.epic {color: purple;}
.tooltip { (whatever the contents agreed upon for template:tooltipcss) }
- If you need help with CSS, you could contact me and I could help you out. Either email or my talk page. In any case, my user page includes links that would help with studying CSS. Those links have been there mostly for myself, but they'll help anyone. Schmidt 19:14, 30 Dec 2005 (EST)
- He has no access to CSS (no FTP access) - I checked, he isn't even a B.C.! Oh well there are some hopes gone...
- Here are some of things I've done with my new evil powers:
- Languages doesn't seem to be locked.
- If I can get in touch with Rustak or AlexanderYoshi, I'll float the idea of making Schmidt and admin. I think I can do it myself, but that seems improper.
- I'm taking it slow right now, though.
- --Fandyllic 2:55 PM PST 4 Jan 2006
LOL. By no means would I reject the nomination for being an admin. It interests me that my name of all stands out. However, as some of you might see, I haven't spent a lot of time here lately. I go to school full time (barely – 13 hours this semester), work full time (essentially – 36+ hours a week). I used to spend more time on the wiki than I do now because I was willing to trade my grades for fun playing WoW and contributing to this here wiki. I am no longer willing to do that (or at least, not to the same extent). So now I'll be studying more, not to mention playing more. (I recently bought a laptop that has 1680x1050 resolution widescreen. Until then I had to play on my brother's computer, and it was hard to get a hold of that.) So from time to time (probably weekly), if I was to be an admin, I would come through and perhaps delete articles that never should have existed and what-not, especially if there was already a list of these (and of course there is a category), and do whatever else that was tasked to me, but I won't be contributing a whole lot other than that. Schmidt 21:20, 13 Jan 2006 (EST)
Forums
Mate, I am trying to bring the forums to life by getting a few of my closer wowwiki friends to register and post. I don't care what you post, so long as you just post some stuff reguarly and get a few conversations going to incite other members to register and join in. I already got schmidt in, along with hammersmith - could you register a.s.a.p.? Thankshoe mucho hehe! -- ℑilver§ℑide 20:45, 2 Jan 2006 (EST)
About the Rumored races
Moved to Talk:Rumored Races#More Pandaren Likelihood...
Warcraft 3 info in the WoW Wiki
User:DarkTichondrias appears to be creating a lot of W3 content. While more content is always good, i'm not sure this will make the wiki any more " clear " if units from W3 are not properly descibed as being only available in W3. this is the "wow-wiki" after all. While historical notations on W3 units and background are very welcome.. specific details such as armor or health will only confuse the readers. Especially listing them as "factual" as was done in an older version of the Golem page, does not contribute to the wiki quality. CJ 04:02, 12 Jan 2006 (EST)
- I, Dark Tichondrias, have heard Crazy Jack's message. I agree. I will specify that the statistics from Warcraft III are from Warcraft III and the units that are only found in Warcraft III to my knowledge will by specified as Warcraft III only units. This will also happen for Warcraft I. I intend to add pictures of pictures taken off the screen with my digital camera of three heros and the two end-game bases. These will be specified as coming from Warcraft I. 1/12/06
- Me, I see that yes, the name of this wiki, fully spelled out, would be World of Warcraft Wiki. That said, I don't think it has to be exclusive to the game that we call WoW. After all, I think the whole idea with calling the game World of Warcraft is that it covers the whole world (or universe if you will) that the games called Warcraft belong to. So I think the name of the wiki lends itself to talking about any Warcraft game. Is that just me? As for confusion between WoW and WarIII, all that needs to be done is emphasize that these units (or at least their stats) are not from WoW, but WarIII instead. Schmidt 21:20, 13 Jan 2006 (EST)
Changing User Name Question
I'm user Dark Tichondrias and I want to change my user name to be Dark Tichondrius. Is it possible to just move my page and change its name or will this ruin everything and/or not change my account name?
- When you say change your user name do you mean make a new account? I don't think there is a way to change your user name. You can only change your signature name. For example, if I changed my signature name to FAN-DYLLIC from Fandyllic, using
~~~
to put my signature would put[[User:Fandyllic|FAN-DYLLIC]]
instead of the previous[[User:Fandyllic|Fandyllic]]
. - You could create a new account "DarkTichondrius" and put
#REDIRECT [[User: DarkTichondrius]]
in your current User:DarkTichondrias user page to redirect people and#REDIRECT [[User talk: DarkTichondrius]]
in your current user talk page. This way, even though your old user page links would still show up, they would redirect to your new one. I could even put a note in your new user page that says that an admin approved of this redirect.- --Fandyllic 12:03 AM PST 16 Jan 2006
Okay I see. User:DarkTichondrias
- I would say the same thing. It's easy enough to just redirect your user page. Now, I don't know what it's like to be an admin, but I know that at Wikipedia they have a page where if you want to change your user name for whatever reason you can put your name on a list and an admin will change the user name. That's as much as I know though. If you can deal with your current username, that might be best, but you just have to go with what you want and if you want a different username, like he said, just redirect your page if it can't be changed any other way. Schmidt 01:27, 17 Jan 2006 (EST)
Please restore the API page
Please put the API page back the way it was, you may not like the organization, and it can be kind of unweildy, but it was the way it was for a very good reason. The new 'layout' isn't effective for developers to use, by all means help with the categorization effort on the API pages themselves so that there's an alternate browsing path, but leave the main API page as it was.
-- Flickering 21:53, 18 Jan 2006 (EST)
I agree...finding information within split pages is somewhat painful. In any case, any updates that I would do would more likely occur on the /All page because this is what I use. I'm not going to revert this myself however, as I don't want to get in a revert war.
--Endx7 22:05, 18 Jan 2006 (EST)