User talk:CyberSkull/Archive 1

Hi CyberSkull, Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Andre (talk) 22:01, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

Recategorizations on Metroid articles.

Hi, I'd like to talk about your recategorization of various Metroid articles. I notice that you're adding the categories "Nintendo characters", "Metroid", and "Video game characters" to a lot of them. Well, the thing is, the category "Metroid characters" encompasses all of these categories. "Metroid characters" is a subcategory of "Nintendo characters", which is a subcategory of "Video game characters", and "Metroid". Adding these categories is redundant and unnecesary. That's why they're getting removed from those articles, okay? : ) --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 06:35, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

I hadn't actually noticed. ^^' CyberSkull 23:03, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)

Jean Grey as fictional elemental?

I don't think Jean Grey qualifies as a fictional elemental. The Phoenix Force has never really been called a fire elemental, has it? And what with the "Jean was never Phoenix" retcon, one could argue even if the Force were a fire elemental, Jean never was. At most she was linked to the Force.

I've seen the phoenix referred to as a sort of primal force of the universe, the embodiment of life itself. I never meant as a fire elemental. I don't think the phrase "life elemental" was used though. CyberSkull 08:52, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

Edit summaries

You've added a lot of redirects lately without edit summaries. This makes doing edit reviews a lot harder; could you please try to remember to include edit summaries when creating redirects (and in fact on all edits)? Thanks. Kelly Martin 23:38, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I've goofed on some, sorry. CyberSkull 23:38, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)

Testing new signature

Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:02, 2005 Jun 20 (UTC)

E3

I reverted your most recent edit to E3 because we're trying to be consistent with the article title and how it is referenced. Andre (talk) 17:48, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Adultswim

Template:Adultswim has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Adultswim. Thank you. —Cryptic (talk) 07:43, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Future games

Thanks for cleaning up after Pearle. I fixed a small bug which should prevent the same thing from happening in the future. -- Beland 01:56, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

CVG Infobox

The CVG Wikiproject discussion page. I don't see why you'd want to make the image optional. The infobox collapses if you don't use an image anyway. ?? K1Bond007 03:59, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Chrono Media

Hey,

I am just letting you know, i undid all of the changes to chrono media items by adding Category:Square media to the page. All of those images belonged to Category:Chrono media which is a sub cat of the category you added. Therefore the change was redundant, and I deleted the cat from the images you added them too. --ZeWrestler ^Talk 12:21, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Use of Category:Computer and video games

Hi! Thank you for adding the infobox to the article on Children of the Nile. I had no idea this was available.

I wanted to let you know I added back the category "computer and video games". I notice that many but not all games are categorized this way. Perhaps there is a systematic effort underway to make all title articles accessible? I did go ahead and add the game to the list. Also, there is no category "city building games". Is there a way to create this and add it as a subcategory under the master category? Thank you for your help! -- Sitearm | Talk 00:36, 2005 August 13 (UTC)

Ok I created the new subcategory "City building games" (per your edit) under existing subcategory "Computer and video game genres" which is under master category "Computer and video games". I will remove the master category from the article. Thank you for your help! -- Sitearm | Talk 03:55, 2005 August 13 (UTC)

You said: Game articles are usually categorized by platform, year of release, company and even by franchise. But game articles are also categorized by genre, yes? I realize genres may be dynamic but folks are paying attention to them, I observe, at least from talking to K1Bond007. Thank you for your patience! -- Sitearm | Talk 06:04, 2005 August 13 (UTC)

Oops, forgot that one. ~ Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:12, 2005 August 13 (UTC)

Category:Censored anime

I listed it for deletion as it is not NPOV and a lot of series are edited when they are taken to the U.S. WhisperToMe 21:29, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

MusicBrainz

To avoid stepping on each others' toes and duplicating stuff, I've converted Template:Musicbrainz to Template:Musicbrainz track in the same style as your templates... Use it well (and often) ;-) --Azertus 19:32, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

I also noticed you created Template:musicbrainz wiki box. This is currently not accepted by the Wikipedia community IIRC (it looks good though). I read not long ago that only sister projects recieved the box treatment. There are even editors who don't like the use of images in templates like Musicbrainz artist/album/track (they were taken off the IMDb template)... --Azertus 10:50, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

I just had another idea. What about adding categories to the Musicbrainz templates? Like Category:Musicbrainz artist, Category:Musicbrainz album & Category:Musicbrainz track? Would these be useful/accepted by the WP community? --Azertus 10:59, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Note: I had to edit the above post with semicolons to make the category links visible. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠

Categories would be ok, however it should probably be something like Category:MusicBrainz listed artist, Category:MusicBrainz listed album & Category:MusicBrainz listed track. Whatever the category is, the spelling has to be "MusicBrainz", with a capita M & B ;). As for the images, I just put them on because MB explicitly allows people to use them to link to MB. I tried to copy their example and the IMDb example. ~ Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:48, 2005 August 16 (UTC)

I've visited your link on MusicBrainz page—is there official ontology for MusicBrainz metadata? — Anrie Nord 15:57:36, 2005-08-29 (UTC)

I didn't post that link. Here is a search for "metadata" on the musicbrainz wiki: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=metadata&fullsearch=Text Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 21:09, 2005 August 29 (UTC)

Ghost in the shell + Catcher in the Rye

Thanks for doing the leg work for me, I'm still new here. Didn't even know wikipedia had movie, etc. information. --Gryn 07:00, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

The Category again

Just because the category survived VFD doesn't mean I am not trying to do something to the category. As a matter of fact, only you and one other person straight voted to keep it.. everyone else voted to "keep if renamed" or "delete or rename". WhisperToMe 02:14, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Onimusha breaks

Hi, I was wondering what the difference, if any, between <br clear="all"/> and {{-}} are? I'm guessing the latter is just the wiki interpretation of the break? hansamurai 飯侍 (burp) 02:52, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

It's a template. {{-}}. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:25, 2005 August 30 (UTC)

hi... regarding Template:Infobox Warcraft character

regarding Template:Infobox Warcraft character... sorry i didnt document it properly... anyway i copied it from Template:Star Wars character...

parameters:

• IMAGE - is the code to display the character's image (insert a html comment if no image yet)
• BGCOLOR/FGCOLOR - background color and foreground color (i copied from star wars' infobox... supposed to be the background color and foreground color of the infobox)...
• GENDER - character gender: Male/Female
• RACE - character race: e.g. Orc/Night Elf
• CHARACTER - the character of the unit in the game: e.g. Death Knight/Paladin
• AFFILIATION - who is the character aligned with: e.g. The Horde/ The Nathrezim
• OCCUPATION - role of character: e.g. Frostwolf Clan Chieftain, etc.

hope this clarifies things =) any questions feel free to drop me a message...

thanks :: Debroglie 14:30, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

About language templates

Why did you make Template:User la-1 link to Latin in the left frame? As far as I can tell none of the other language templates do this. Neither do any of the other User la-* templates. So, if you want to make la-1 do that, you may as well make 2, 3, 4, and native do that too. Or, if you have no objections, I'd prefer the link removed. (The template already says latinitate; people should have a fairly good idea from that alone, don't you think?) Regards, Andyluciano 01:26, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Okay, as I've seen no response I've reverted this change. I also don't agree with your other babel edits (you seem to have created templates for each of your -- and only your -- computing interests. I would consider myself a c-N and an sh-N and a bsd and a w3m and a firefox but you don't see me creating templates for all of those. I'll be frank -- your user page has way too much babel stuff) but I'm not going to touch those. Andyluciano 03:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

it's all good. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:09, 2005 September 1 (UTC)

Category asm-1

CyberSkull,
Hi. I'm not sure that this is actually doing what you may intend.
brenneman^(t)(c) 05:48, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

DOH! stupid typo… Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:50, 2005 September 4 (UTC)

Love the template!

CyberSkull, I love your {{User language subcategory}} template. I normally consider myself an expert at template editting, but there's a small error and I cannot figure out how to fix it. On the category pages, the language code in the box on the left has an extra space in it (it says "en -3" instead of "en-3"). I can't see where to get rid of the space... -- Reinyday, 15:21, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

I've been trying to figure that out too. I think it may be a bug in the software, it may not be chop() -ing the text from the parameter. I'm still trying ;) Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 15:25, 2005 September 4 (UTC)

Ok, I think I fixed it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 15:40, 2005 September 4 (UTC)

Looks great! You might want to consider making a separate template for the programming languages that does not include a "native category". Personally, I also think there should be no "foo-0" templates, except for English. -- Reinyday, 17:07, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

The language-category parameter is now optional. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 17:16, 2005 September 4 (UTC)

Now the pages have a redlink to "Template:User language/category". -- Reinyday, 21:10, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, what's up with that? Ddawson 22:26, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Do not like the template

Please have a look to Template talk:User language category#Discussion (and then the dozens of non existant interwikis for Category:User xh. :o) Hégésippe | ±Θ± 19:18, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Warcraft Category

Hey thanks for going through and putting at least 50% of the Warcraft images into the [[Category:Warcraft media]], I followed your example and went through all the articles and stuck in the other 50%. Thanks for picking up my slack! :) - UnlimitedAccess 18:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Templatized Babel for other Wikipedian categories

Hi there. I kind of like your 'blank' templates, with their color coding. (Was it your idea, or did you copy it from elsewhere in Babel? Never mind, I should check these kinds of things before I say something.) I think Hégésippe has a point about the {sub,}category templates, though: there probably shouldn't be interwikis in the template.

Anyway, I thought I'd let you know, I'm planning on doing something similar for Category:User instruments. Ddawson 22:43, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

User leet

Why did you create this after the existance of User 1337? Redwolf24 (talk) 23:29, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

I didn't notice that until after I made mine. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:01, 2005 September 6 (UTC)

wow revert

im sorry that my revert caused some of your edits to be lost, but you introduced a very weird effect where all info past virtual world was put into a sort of box and i was unable to find out how to fix that. check the history to see what i mean. again, i apologize. Boneyard 07:49, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

No, it was a coding error in the {{World of Warcraft instances}} template that caused the effect you were talking about. Look at the history here to see it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 19:10, 2005 September 6 (UTC)

that's also possible, anyway when i reverted to the other one from you it was fixed, prolly because that template wasn't in there yet. Boneyard 08:20, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Template: User py

You changed the colours over to a green scheme. I think they should be reverted back to a blue set (like I had it set to) in line with other programming language templates (ref: Template: User php-3). Thoughts? -- Palfrey 12:56, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

The color system I copied is from the lang series, green being the appropriate one for that user level. See templates {{User en}}, {{User en-0}}, {{User en-1}}, {{User en-2}}, {{User en-3}} and {{User en-4}}. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 13:49, 2005 September 7 (UTC)

Vandalism Count

Yes the Jack Thompson (attorney) page seems to be the most vandalized article after Dubya, however we don't really like vandalism counters on article pages. However, most of us are okay with it being hidden text. Redwolf24 (talk) 01:48, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Messy template category

Hi. I see you discovered what we're doing over in Category:User instruments. You added Category:Wikipedian musicians to {{User instrument}}. I understand it's logical to put a user in that category based on their playing an instrument. However, doing this will eventually result in the category being spammed with every single template that uses this template (and there are dozens with more on the way), albeit not immediately (each one only appears there once it's edited again); they already appear in the User * categories and don't need to show up elsewhere. It's cleaner to just require a user to add the category manually. Thank you. Ddawson 02:19, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Commons images

Hi, I was gonna delete some of the images you listed at IFD, but noticed that some of the Commons images had a tag that said "This file was tagged for being under a free license, but is missing information required for that license" (basically, "Who made this logo, and is there any reason to think it's GFDL?"). Coffee 15:29, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Jenn Dolari Bio Page

Howdy. :) Sorry I took so long to get back to you, but I've kinda left Wikipedia. I signed on only to put in a new message on my talk page, and caught your post on it. Feel free to use whatever you'd like on the Bio page, and if I can help you with any additional info, I'd be happy to fill you in. My EMail address is on the comics page. :) Jenn Dolari 15:36, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

By the way, I find it INCREDIBLY ironic that after nearly getting my comics deleted for vanity last year, I have my own biography on the site.  ::laughs:: Jenn Dolari 15:41, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, that was before I became active ;) . It's mainly that NPOV thing. If u need any updates done to your comics, just post them as proposed or send them to one of the webcomics project members. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:38, 2005 September 9 (UTC)

Font sizes for babel boxes -- Templates the answer?

Noticed you reverted the font change to Template:User re-2... I was trying to make all the font sizes match (as you might notice, looks a tad ugly with them all random sizes!), which is why I changed re-2 and the like... But quickly gave up, as there's way too many of them!

I'm thinking of replacing all them with a template, i.e. {{userproglang-2|re|regular expression|Regular expression}}, so only one place needs to be edited to change the appearance of all -2 programming language boxes... (instead of the current situation, which seems to be massively cut-and-paste based). But since you seem to also be working on these, figured I should get your opinion first.

What do you think? Extra server load, using templates instead of subst? Not needed? Wait until there's a bot to automagically generate the templates and categories instead of doing it by hand, given the language code, language name, and article? Any ideas?

Thanks, Bushytails 03:32, 25 September 2005 (UTC).

I'd prefer to use metatemplates, but there has been a huge backlash against them. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 03:36, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Afraid I'm not familiar with metatemplates... have a reference on them? Thanks again, Bushytails 04:23, 25 September 2005 (UTC). (Or do you mean just using templates like I described, and I didn't figure out what you meant? Bushytails 04:24, 25 September 2005 (UTC))

A metatemplate is a term for a template used inside of a template, specifically a template designed to be used in another template, like the old Template:Sisterproject template. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:31, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Comics

We have recently set up a Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight, which you may be interested in. Please feel free to vote on the articles listed, although bear in mind that a vote for a particular article means you are pledging to help improve the article. The goal of the collaboration is to improve articles to Featured Article status, as we feel Comics is under-represented in that area. Thanks for your help.

The current collaboration of the fortnight is X-Men. Please help improve it in any way you can. Steve block talk 11:27, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

New CfD for La-N

Flex restarted the CfD for La-N, despite it being resolved less than one month ago, and has gone around to people's talk pages informing them. Just fyi.--Prosfilaes 23:20, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Grim Tales from Down Below

The usual standard (in English in general, and also on Wikipedia) is to lowercase prepositions such as "from" (unless they're used as a noun, like "under" in Down Under for Australia, or "below" in "Down Below" here). -- Curps 15:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Babel-18

Wow, if I understand the 'what links here' correctly then you are one of two people using Babel-18. Just thought you deserved some recognition of that. :) --Syrthiss 18:27, 4 October 2005 (UTC)== Re: re == Sorry, didn't know about the babel box. Maybe some sort of rewriting could be done? -- Marumari 04:57, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Self-references

I believe that the bulk of your recent edits at Criticism of Wikipedia go the wrong way. Wikipedia:Avoid self-references discourages links from articles into Wikipedia space. The problem with them is that a mirror site that only includes the encyclopedia pages (which is typical) gets a bunch of dead links. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:54, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Could you be more specific? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 07:47, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Category:Computer and video game templates on CFD

Hi - thought I should tell you that I've just taken Category:Computer and video game templates to Wikipedia:Categories for deletion. The category is an incredibly bad idea. I can see what you wee trying to do, but the way you have done it will not work. A better way is to create a subpage for the project or a section of the project's page, with links to each of the templates (which is what all other wikiprojects do). If you put a category label on a template, then any page that uses that template will also go into the category the next time it is edited. Soon you will have a category full of templates, articles which use any of those templates, and stubs which were previously sorted into separate categories. The whole thing will be a huge mess and will take a LOT of work to sort out. Grutness...wha? 05:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Untrue. I am using the <noinclude> feature, which guarantees that any pages using the template are not included in the category. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:47, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi again - firstly apologies for not realising what was going on with the way you did that category, and sorry also for any annoyance at my stupidity! Can ask one favour though with it - it's very useful to be able to see what stub category stub templates feed into, so please make those categories visible on the templates when you add them to Category:Computer and video game templates! Cheers. Grutness...wha? 23:04, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Offensive

Template:Offensive has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Offensive. Thank you. Superm401 | Talk 05:59, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Icons

I just created the template today, I moved the format to point to Logos keeping the template as "logo". LordBleen 00:14, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

I've noticed you're removed some Icons that I have previously upoaded to Wikipedia with your copy of the exact same Icon or in the case of Microsoft Entourage you uploaded the Icon for v.10 when I had v. 2004 (v.11)'s icon up there. LordBleen 17:47, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Oh, that was the newer one? Sorry. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 21:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

"Code style"

With regards to this edit of the album infobox, you should be aware that the xhtml specification requires that all values be quoted. I am also puzzled as to why you added an empty pair of noinclude tags at the end. ed g2s • talk 01:35, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I thought it was the other way with quotes. Oh well. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:38, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Signature

I don't suppose you could use a one-coloured signature? The way you have it now may look nice, but it is very annoying that it takes up 10 (!) lines in edit mode. Jon Harald Søby \ ^{no na} 15:12, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Golden Sun

Why the hell did you remove all of that content from the Golden Sun article? I wrote it in the first place because people said the article was confusing because it didn't talk about the gameplay at all. Some guy 19:28, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

It was mostly instruction manual type material, I moved it to b:Golden Sun. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:27, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed. You should have kept at least some of it; an article on a game should discuss gameplay. If we aren't going to cover gameplay at all then why even mention the game at all? You also could have marked it for cleanup or something instead of just removing that much.Some guy 08:30, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Blue screen of death/Xbox 360 screen of death

For your comment in Talk:Xbox_360_screen_of_death, I'm messaging you about the Definitive Pool. I much appreciate your opnion, Thanks. --Mateusc 01:20, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Anne Onymous and Robin Ericson

I redirected these two to the comic that they write. You've reverted them. Was there really any point? What do people know about someone who uses the pseudonym Anne Onymous? The author obviosuly does not want people knowing who he or she really is, what have they done other than The Wotch? There wasn't anything in their respected articles that were not in the main article at The Wotch. I will probably be looking to redirect them again soon unless you have some major grievances. - Hahnchen 18:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Infobox codes

Hello there. I noticed your infobox code for Template:Infobox_television and wondered what the "infobox code" is all about. I have created an infobox but it seems like you need a code for it to be used on a page (otherwise the infobox is on the page and you can't edit it). Could you please explain to me what it is about and how to do it? --Eeee 21:44, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Anything for a fan of The Bunny! Certain templates require parameters to work. I simply formatted them in a convenient manner for people to use .Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:52, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Ghost in the Shell: Kanji

Can I ask why you changed the standard # codes for the kanji in the Ghost in the Shell article to the actual kanji characters? Not all peoples machines will display the actual characters without the coding for them. Ben W Bell 19:47, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Uh, I usually convert articles to Unicode, since wikimedia 1.5 supports it and it makes editing the pages easier. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes but isn't it true that not everyone and all browsers will read that properly unless they have the right unicode pack installed? If that is the case then it should be converted back as Wikipedia should be about as wide an audience as possible rather than easier editing for that kind of thing. Ben W Bell 08:16, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Ehm, sorry for interruptiong this discussion but, if what Ben says is correct then Unicode should not be supported at all, what is the purpouse of Unicode if it should never be used? But, by implementing Unicode, Wikimedia is showing their intention to use it. This may sound rude but if someone can't read unicode it's their fault, Unicode is an open standard isn't it? Now if we were talking about closed standards, nobody should be forced to adopt (e.g. buy) those. --Requiem the 18^th_(email)

Wikimedia software sends an alert for anyone using a browser that does not support unicode when editing. Furthermore it temporarily converts such characters into hexadecimal entities for that edit. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 09:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Final Fantasy stub templates

Creating those two redirects was not appreciated at all. Template redirects are a bad thing and so all you've done is add at least one more template to be deleted, two if the proposal to rename should fail, tho if we follow the usual conventions it shouldn't. Caerwine 02:10, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Ghost in the Shell template

I noticed you reverted my edit on Template:Ghost in the Shell because you feel the Ghost in the Shell article isn't about the movie. It is about the movie and should be, although it's been bastardized to include information about the whole series. A working link is far better than a red link. If you really want an article specific to the film again, I suggest you create a Ghost in the Shell (series) or similar article and merge the extraneous information in the Ghost in the Shell article, and then recover the Ghost in the Shell article to be primarily about the movie with small reference to the rest of the series, maybe with a link at the top to Ghost in the Shell (series). I understand that you might think having a red link in the template might prompt someone else to write the article, but Wikipedia is better served with an actual link to an article that does discuss the movie in some detail. Ziggur 13:36, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Actually the article should be about the original manga, since it came before the movie, but since the article started out about the movie and evolved into an article about the series we should really copy the elements of the film out and put it in it's own article. The organization of the template was merely the first step in that process. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:52, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Samus vs. Master Chief

Don't you think this article should be placed on the AfD? - A Link to the Past (talk) 10:07, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

I was thinking that myself, but I wasn't entirely sure. It should probably be put into whatever list there is on fanboy/girl debates that wikipedia has. Barring any final judgement, I thought I'd spruce it up a little since I have seen a lot of those threads. In theory the fanboy article could cite this as an example of the video game fanboy mentioned therein, so it may have merit as merging as an example. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:21, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Well, I was at GameFAQs, and the person who created it (in a Samus Aran vs. Joanna Dark topic) said he made it for a user named Luminaire to create arguments as to who would win in a fight. - A Link to the Past (talk) 13:04, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Ah, trolling. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:05, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

StarCraft Icon

Hey CyberSkull. I removed the StarCraft Mac OS X icon from the StarCraft page on User:Carnildo's suggestion during the FAC discussion (Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/StarCraft). We are not allowed to use this image under the fair use provision, and it therefore cannot be part of a Wikipedia article. Please do not put it on again. Phils 11:04, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Template:Zelda series

I've left a note regarding the formatting of Template:Zelda series on it's talk page. But basically the &nbsp;'s keep things wrapping nicely. —Locke Cole ^{(talk) (e-mail)} 10:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I've left another note at Template_talk:Mario series regarding the reversions. Incidentally, it's for the same reason as above. Locke Cole 13:55, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I didn't remove any of the non breaking spaces. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 13:58, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

I see that now, I apologize for reverting your edit. Locke Cole 14:13, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Parasite Eve...again

I'm inquiring about PE again, since it seems no one noticed my last request above...Does anyone here know about the analytical aspects of Parasite Eve....? Or at least played the two video games..?-MegamanZero

I've played and beaten them both, though not recently (and I sold my copy of PE2). Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:51, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

• That's great. I need someone to fill me in on the story for PEII and/or expand the article so we can list the stroy of the game more in detail. Please ethier expand the story in the article in detail, or if you don't want to, send me the info (maybe a dialoge script) and I'll write it. Thanks!-MegamanZero 13:41 29,November 2005 (UTC)

Fictional Time Travelers

Are you the one working on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_time_travelers page? See my comments on the talk page, and at the very least, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, as well as the entire supporting cast of Chrono Trigger don't deserve categorization there since they don't do it by their very nature.--BigCow 00:35, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Sources for Blizzard Downloader

Hello, good work on Blizzard Downloader, and thanks for the contribution. However, you forgot to add any references to the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. What websites, books, or other places did you learn the information that you added to Blizzard Downloader? Would it be possible for you to mention them in the article? Thank you very much. - SimonP 04:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

My references in this case came from my observations of the software. You would have to have the game. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:54, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Or download something from blizzard that uses the client. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Archiving

When archiving a talk page, it's best to copy and paste the old discussions to the archive pages, not moving the page entirely. No biggie, just letting you know. K1Bond007 02:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok. I was just trying to preserve discussion history. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:33, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Macintosh

Thanks for joining! We're currently focusing on the Apple Mac article; it's almost ready for FA nomination and we'd be honored if you help out. Oh, and just a freindly reminder: put a note that you're now a member of the WikiProject on your userpage, with all the other projects. --HereToHelp (talk) 02:08, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

FFbestiary images

I know that I might've been the one known for uploading mass of images to this article in the past, but now, per Fair use law, as mentioned on the Wikiproject Final Fantasy talk page, there should not be more than 15 images per game in the whole Final Fantasy bestary article, meaning from A-Z and then again, they need to be commented and 15 might even be too much considering that we're talking about more than 10 games on those pages. So I think you should stop, just like I did, uploading images like Ice Flan, unless you're using them for another good reason. Please note that this is just an advice, if you don't agree, you should discuss about it at WPFF's talk page to make sure that we get others' opinion about this.--DarkEvil 03:33, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

DVD Player (Apple)

Hi there,

I noticed your new page on DVD Player. Because of the likelihood of confusion with the article DVD player, I have moved your new page to DVD Player (Apple). DVD Player now redirects to DVD player (the hardware) which in turn has a disambiguation link to DVD Player (Apple).

This move and redirect was done because I feel that someone typing DVD Player into a search box is more likely to be looking for the hardware than the Apple software; if they were looking for the Apple software, your article will still only be a click away. Stifle 11:51, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Category: Infobox templates

Perhaps having a subcategory, Category: Computer and video game infobox templates, or something like that, is a good idea. What do you think? Jacoplane 01:13, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Infoboxes are a broadly used, so I don't think it's a good idea at this point. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:14, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Lot's of infoboxes though. Jacoplane 01:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Mario series template

Someone has been messing with the formatting of Template:Mario series, and I've been reverting back to your unicode version of the template. Unfortunately it seems the unicode is getting lost in the reversion (which is odd considering I'm using Firefox 1.5, and I was pretty sure it had unicode support). Can you–

1. Revert it to your unicode version?
2. Explain why reverting it discards the unicode?

I already left a note to the user regarding the MoS, so hopefully this ends the back and forth editing on that. Depending on what you find out re: unicode disappearing, I may end up going back to HTML character entities (e.g. - &nbsp;). —Locke Cole 00:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

It looks like Mozilla Firefox is dropping out the non breaking spaces in favor of regular spaces. I use Safari for most of my editing, so I haven't had that problem. You should report it as a bug to the Mozilla Foundation. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, with this limitation in mind, would there be any objection to going back to the HTML entities? It seemed to lose the dashes too. :( I'll do some more testing, see if I can replicate the problem, and if so, report it to Mozilla (assuming it's not already known). —Locke Cole 00:47, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Why did you move D. C. Simpson back to David Craig Simpson?

I moved David Craig Simpson to D. C. Simpson because, as I understand it it, the artist is most commonly known by that name. After that, he is most commonly called David Simpson. The page was called David Simpson before it was changed to avoid ambiguity. I have rarely seen his name written in full, so I believe the abbreviated form, which he himself prefers, is more appropriate.

See for example

• Comixpedia interview with D. C. Simpson

and note

• Statement by D. C. Simpson regarding his preferred name.

as well as the copyright notices and signatures on

• Simpson's autobiographical blurb
• Ozy and Millie site
• I Drew This site

I therefore believe the move is appropriate according to Wikipedia Guidelines Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), and the help page Help:Renaming (moving) a page. Could you explain why you moved the page back?

--Dfeuer 23:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Nothing was cited in the move or the article as to why it was being moved to a more ambiguous title. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:38, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Do you think it would be reasonable to move it again?

--Dfeuer 02:37, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Final Fantasy XII characters

CyberSkull, I understand why you reverted the individual articles about Final Fantasy XII characters (Ashe, Vaan, et al.), but I would like to draw your attention to WP:FICT. Specifically, the first section, which discusses how fictional characters are to be handled on Wikipedia. You can take a look yourself, but the gist of it is that there are two acceptable reasons for having articles devoted to individual fictional characters: either that character is a cultural icon, transcending their work of origin, or information about that character is too lengthy to fit in a general list. Neither of these can be applied to any of the Final Fantasy XII articles. In the future, when more information and/or the game itself has been released, these articles might be necessary, but until then, they belong together in a singular list. Sorry. – Seancdaug 03:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I repeat: please either contribute to the ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Final Fantasy, or on the article talk pages. The Ashe article, in its current state, consists of little more than a incomplete character sketch and a lot of unencyclopedic speculation about clothing styles. I'll grant you that there was a section there about her marriage to Rasler that didn't get incorporated into her entry over at List of Final Fantasy XII characters, but even with that info added, the entry is still barely even at stub level, and it is difficult to justify individual articles when our current prospects for expanding the entry is essentially nil (at least until the game is released). – Seancdaug 08:18, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

I have. Ashe here was the only article I reverted, since the others could easily be merged into the list I have left those alone. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:20, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

I ask you once again: what, at this point in time, is present in the Ashe article that is not present in Ashe's entry at List of Final Fantasy XII characters that warrants a seperate article? The only information present there is speculation about character design that is baldly unencyclopedic original research and speculation. Even with that section, the length of the entry is still only 425 words, and articles of comparative length can and have been merged into lists before (the Kefka entry at List of Final Fantasy VI characters, for instance, is 421 words). Furthermore, the consensus from the Final Fantasy WikiProject was to merge the individual character articles for Final Fantasy XII for the time being. Your continued reversion of the article, coupled with your general refusal to engage with others on the issue despite repeated invitations to do so, is bordering on vandalism. – Seancdaug 00:39, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Software logos: 48px

Hi! Why did you do this? --P3d0 16:20, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

With icons the convention for sizes are exponentials of 2, and 48px is supported by all the modern GUIs. I haven't heard of an OS with a 40px icon resource. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:30, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok sounds good. 48 is not a power of 2, and this is for logos rather than icons, but I see your point. --P3d0 02:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

My math is getting worse by the day :( Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:42, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Taxobox

Hey, nice work on the the new Taxobox look! One thing to note is that there appears to be a space in-between the name of the species and its status. See American Black Bear for an example. Is there any way to fix that? --Khoikhoi 03:13, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

A simple fix, I just had to remove a line break, a really stupid thing for me to forget. Also, if anyone wants the old style back please just change the style and class elements, don't do a wholesale revert. I've added features to enhance editing. Your the only one who seems to like it ;). Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:46, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Ken Kutaragi

I'm requesting your opnion about this dispute. Lot of POV-Pushing, the article is currently blocked. --GroundZero 00:05, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Frankly I don't know enough on the subject to be of much use. Sorry. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:29, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

The Wotch: My Sister, Myself

The article The Wotch: My Sister, Myself is about an upcoming fangame. I don't think it is really appropriate to create such articles. If fangames are actually released, then perhaps they deserve an article. I won't nominate it for AfD, but don't be surprised if someone does. Cheers, Jacoplane 15:49, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I only added it because it is canonical and supported by the series creators. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 03:12, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Infobox

"nowrap should never be used in an infobox!" - a bold statement. Take a look at the ugly line-wrapping on Doom and say that again. We've been discussing this issue on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer and video games. That infobox has included nowraps for a long time, so I think we need a better description of the issue from your point of view. -- Netoholic @ 04:04, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I've seen long strings stretch the box all the way across the screen where someone put in a nowrap. In addition, I don't see any problems on the Doom box, or at least nothing that could be solved by a few <br />. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:07, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

The single nowrap was on the row header, which is a strictly set length, not on the variable content. Adding BR's is the "evil", not the nowrap as designed. By the way, the version immeditaly preceding today's changes had a lot more nowraps. The version you reverted had only one. -- Netoholic @ 04:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

D. C. Simpson?

I corresponded with you a while back about my reasons for moving David Craig Simpson to D. C. Simpson, but you never said whether my reasons for moving the page were adequate. I'd appreciate a response so I can decide whether to move the page again or not. If you don't think my reasons are adequate, I'd like to know why not.

--Dfeuer 04:43, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Like I said on his page, nothing was cited in the move. You should amend the article as to how he prefers his name. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 04:44, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Mea culpa and apologies

I apologize for the situation surrounding Ashe: I clearly misread the situation, and thought there was a consensus when there clearly was not. I still don't feel that it should remain as a seperate article at this time, but I never thought (nor intended) to act without consensus. Sorry for the confusion, and I offer you my sincerest apologies. I hope there are no hard feelings. – Seancdaug 02:08, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

None :) Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:09, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

MacRogue

Hey, I've seen you've been working on the mac game articles for the wikiproject - Are you sure this is the right icon for MacRogue?, I have MacRogue on my computer and it has a different icon. Also, I wouldn't really call it a port since it uses its own codebase - only the game-play/concept is based upon Rogue. Thanks! — Wackymacs 09:04, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Really? Lemme see if I can find the search path I used to find the program. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:52, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

That's the program I got from the link in the given article. Upon further investigation that page has nothing to do with Rogue. It has a Mac OS port of Rogue (MacRogue) and U Mac Rogue, a graphical version. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 11:59, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

That template

If you are online and want to work on it, gimme a yell on my talk page and I'll unprotect it for you. I didn't see it on the list of protected pages (looking for why in particular its protected), but similar templates that show up lots of places tend to be protected in general. Thanks! --Syrthiss 14:35, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Usagi Yojimbo

Usagi Yojimbo uses Japanese order with all characters. Therefore all Usagi Yojimbo characters should have their names in that order. WhisperToMe 15:06, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

I am aware of that, however I'm just trying to keep it consistent with other Japanese name articles. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:43, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Page moves

Please do not move pages to titles that Windows XP doesn't recognize. Georgia guy 01:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

???? Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Windows XP recognizes the Greek letter Phi, but not the 4 superscript. Georgia guy 01:55, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

So install a unicode font. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 01:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

{{underscore}}

Thanks for the hint, but it's not only about the underscore, but the initial capital letter as well, so I'll keep {{wrongtitle}} ;) -- grm_wnr Esc 02:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Oops, sorry, I didn't notice the first letter. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:41, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Why, thank you very much! ;) -- grm_wnr Esc 13:23, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Unicode numbers

Please don't use Unicode numbers because most users don't see them correctly. This issue has been discussed before.--Jyril 09:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

edit summaries

Do not lie in edit summaries. That edit was basically a full revert of several editors, not "copyedits". Discuss on talk when you are outnumbered, provide a rationale. -- Netoholic @ 21:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

P.S. You also removed a key component of the hiddenSructure method - the extra "pipe" ( | ) is critical to correct operation. -- Netoholic @ 22:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Sir/Madam: I deeply resent the accusation of lying. I did not revert the infobox at all. I merely made all the parameters visible on the page and removed the example infobox (it is somewhat confusing). I scanned the talk page but saw no mention of the example there. I probably should have moved the example to the talk page. I recognize this error now. I should have perhaps written "wikilinks". Good day. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:06, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

As for the pipe, it is only necessary when most do not use a particular parameter, forcing visibility of a particular structure and the visibility of the given variable. As far as I am aware, all of the variables used in this infobox should be present for all instances of the infobox. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:08, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Infobox software example

Hi. If you're going to delete a sizeable contribution from someone else, it's customary to explain why in the talk page. --P3d0 23:32, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Images on Commons with strange license

Why are these two images: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Azureus.png and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Azureus_torrent.png licensed as GNU GPL? It's not software, so it makes little sense to do this. Isn't the copyright still retained by the original author of the logo? What about the second one; if I'm not mistaken, it's the Azureus logo on a Mac OS X file icon; that's definitely not a free resource. I think it should probably be fair use. --Michiel Sikma 00:22, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Azureus is a GPL application, thus it's components are GPL as well. Therefore the images commons:Image:Azureus.png and commons:Image:Azureus torrent.png, being components of the program, are under GPL. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:57, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Upsilon Andromedae

Hi, I noticed you moved Upsilon Andromedae to Υ Andromedae - I'm not sure if this is a good idea, the title now looks like "Y (Roman letter) Andromedae" which refers to a completely different star. For clarity I would think that writing out the full name of the Greek letter would be better. Chaos syndrome 13:35, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I'm sorry to say that using uppercase Greek letters is not only bad idea, but it is also wrong. And yeah, I read it 'Y' too ;). We gain nothing using uppercase Greek letters, so let's not use them (I already reverted your move). However, I think it's ok to use Greek letters in the article text; if the Greek letter looks unfamiliar, just hover the mouse pointer over the link and the full name pops up (like here: α Centauri). Unfortunately, I doubt that others agree.--Jyril 21:49, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Look at the page history. I was merely complying with the use of {{wrongtitle}}, which was clearly supported by the software. I apologize for the severe tardiness of my reply. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Flytrap

just FYI, i've nominated Flytrap for deletion. Kingturtle 05:02, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Uh, ok. Can't say I really care. Thanks anyways. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 05:14, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Template:Video game console timeline colors

Hi, could you take a look at Template:Video game console timeline and update the colors for the Xbox 360? I tried to have a go at it but I can't really figure it out. Cheers! Jacoplane 05:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I know how to change the color (just change the bar class), but it looks like I need to make a new bar for the dual color. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 10:05, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Fair use images

I notice that you have a lot of fair use images on your user pages (according to this report, over 400 across User:CyberSkull/Images and User:CyberSkull/Images/Icons). You should know that, in accordance with Wikipedia:Fair use#Fair use policy, you can't display these images on user pages. I suggest that you either remove them from your user page, or write the link like so: [[:Image:Somefile.jpg]] (note the colon at the front) so as to link to the image without displaying it. --bainer (talk) 01:07, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I took the libery of listifying these images for you. If I accidentaly listified any free licensed images (I just ran a few quick search & replace commands on it) feel free to put them back in a seperate gallery, but please don't display fair use images on userpages or user-sub pages, thanks. --Sherool (talk) 17:15, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

King of Fighters

Hello. Thanks for improving my template design for the King of Fighters. I'm glad someone finally showed some interest in the series; I've been overhalling, making new links and creating all-new articles and templates for KOF all by myself for awhile now. Also on another note, may I inquire why you added a Stub template to character articles like Chris..? That article was too informative to warrnet a stub template. I've removed it in the meanwhile. -Zero^Talk 14:26, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I prolly stubbed it because it looked short or something. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:23, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

PSP

I have reverted your edit which redirected PSP to PlayStation Portable rather than PSP (disambiguation) - PlayStation Portable is not the only use of this term, there are other widely used meanings. Please see discussion at Talk:PSP and Talk:PSP (disambiguation)). Thanks/wangi 14:08, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

In regards to your edits to the Underbar Summer article...

http://www.hook-net.jp/_summer/

The title of the game is written as both "_summer" and "アンダーバーサマー". The latter of which is "Andaabaa Samaa", or "Underbar Summer".

As you don't even know what the title of the game is, you really shouldn't be editing the article. Please refrain from doing so.

Thank you.

Omgwtflolz 17:31, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't 100% sure and I admit that. Underbar just looked like a mistake. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Image galleries

Stop reverting back the galleries. Displaying fair use images in that manner on user pages is explicitly forbidden by official Wikipedia policy (Wikipedia:Fair use criteria) and the user page guidelines (Wikipedia:User page). You where told this over a week ago too, so consider this your final warning. I'll give you a little bit more time to fix the problem yourself (untill this time Monday), but if you have taken no action to comply with policy by then the offending pages will simply be listed for deletion. --Sherool (talk) 16:42, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

If your going to insist on editing a User page, do it right or don't do it at all. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:36, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

So what is the right way to edit a user page? Yes I know general wikiquette is to not edit other people's userpages, but it's not forbidden. I saw something that violated policy, so I fixed it (and many other gallery pages). Explaining the reason (IMHO politely) both in the edit summary and on your talkpage. Anyway if it's any comfort I can inform you that point #1 in our "rant" is no longer the case,linked images produce redlinks like any other page now, Image:See this image doesn't exist and is a redlink.jpg. As for wasting your hard work, sorry but it can't be helped. The amount of work that has gone into something can't be a factor in wether or not it should be allowed on the site, and if you where allowed to keep your fair use galleries (the two biggest in the whole userspace) then others would be much harder to convince to remove theyrs, and the ban on fair use from userspace would be hollowed out and made powerless. I'll start giving active people a couple of days to fix theyr own pages though, fixing them myself right away do seem to cause a bit of "friction" on ocation. --Sherool (talk) 01:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Melissa Pearce

Dear Cyberskull, what happened to the article..? If I recall correctly, this article was much more expansive. Where is the previous information.? -Zero^Talk 19:29, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

The page was deleted as a copyvio. I have remade it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:20, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Then we need to re-expand it. -Zero^Talk 02:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey, thanks for the heads-up on the underscore thing. ^_^ Jedi Amara 06:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)