User talk:A Man In Black

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A Dick on my talk page

Infobox CVG syntax guide

I began drafting a syntax guide to go along with aforementioned infobox and I'm inquiring if there's any interest in one being made. I suppose the reason is mainly to clarify certain fields and bring it closer in line with other projects such as films and books etc. Anyway, you'll find it at User:Combination/Sandbox. Thanks for your time. Combination 18:50, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Atomic Fire images

Hi. I just closed Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 July 19. While removing the images you nominated from articles, I noticed a number of other images from the same source. I did not include them as part of your deletion request, but I'm not sure if it makes sense for us to be republishing them. Thoughts? Jkelly 23:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anything from Atomic-Fire not attributed to a specific primary source is copyvio, and the only user who could have sourced most of it recently left Wikipedia, so I think they all need to go. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 23:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you able to identify them all? Jkelly 00:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Identify them how? List the images from AF, or identify where they came from? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 00:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I meant list the images from this website so that there is a list one could go through for deletion. Jkelly 01:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've been tagging them with {{nsd}} whenever I see them, but I don't know any good way to list them other than going through Category:Mega Man media one by one (a laborious task on dial-up). - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see. That's not ideal. The thought of going through that cat is intimidating. By the way, given your comment here, would you mind repeating it? This is still going on, even after both of our comments on AN/I and a comment I made at the user in question's talkpage. Jkelly 19:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Minomadam

Note to self: hack {{Pokémon species}} to make Minomadam work. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 16:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, make {{Infobox Air character}} and {{Tenchi Muyo Character Infobox}} not suck. Plus any other template still using {{Oh My Goddess Infobox-Generic/Text}}. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 01:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and credit Mark Newland (ahuxley in #alephone) for the M1 scan. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 07:26, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleaning the castle

Following a seemingly unsuccessful AfD nomination of Castlevania timeline I thought it would be a good idea to get a reality check before contesting related articles, such as Castlevania recurrences. These two, to me, are redundant and don't really stand on their own as separate articles, and sources are virtually non-existent with parts grabbed and assembled from a number of fan sites which may well be based on direct observations by the authors. Perhaps I was simply not clear enough in my argument?

Anyway, thanks very much for your time. Combination 18:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Those articles hurt my head. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 08:10, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fancy having a go at the template? I've arranged them by release order here and omitted a few, but it could probably benefit from some additional tweaking. Combination 19:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, seeing this subject on your talk page, I feel compelled to direct you all to List of characters in Castlevania: Sorrow series, a recent mergist project of mine where I merged separate character articles like Mina Hakuba and Julius Belmont into there, and one of my own reasons for doing that is because Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow are two Castlevania games featuring the same characters, so the characters are notable enough to have a list page. I think. Just to let people know. Erik Jensen ^{(I appreciate talk!)} 19:30, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The template is now in full effect, though I am a bit puzzled by our own Castlevania article whhich refer to Vampire Killer as port. Is it? Combination 20:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC, Vampire Killer was the first game. I'm no authority, though. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:32, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speedrun

You have a great eye for detecting what is necessary and what isn't (aka cruft), so I was wondering if you could review the Speedrun article. It's at a staggering 77KB and I know it could be trimmed down a lot. Hbdragon88 19:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template: SonicGames

What the heck do you think you're doing? Why are you removing a majorady of the freaking Sonic games? ~~Drewdy

Per lengthy, lengthy discussion at WT:CVG#Navboxes yet again and Template talk:Sonic games. Basically, when you have dozens of links, the clutter overwhelms any useful content. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 21:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you for writing your last summary on you edit, before i get blocked for the 3RV. Ok I think it would look nice. And I was sort of modeling it after my fdavorite anime Oh My Goddess, because tell me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a show of pokemon based on the diamond and Jade games?? Also the movie Pokemon Power of the One i was modeling after Oh My Goddess. I hope you will consider my contributions to a anime that I'm don't like. 谢谢各位 (Thank you very much) !! LordPrincess (洛德公主) 22:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)~[reply]

The problem is that they're dissimilar, and that you stated that the pages avoid spoilers when they actually don't. Also, you added the second Pokémon movie to the episode list, which is a cotnentious issue. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 22:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

May you please see my userpage to see if it looks Wikiful. Tell me what you think! LordPrincess (洛德公主) 23:20, 1 November 2006 (UTC)~[reply]

List of Mega Man weapons

Wasn't this just deleted recently? Combination 22:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 22:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Block me?

See, I need to do a ton of work on a site due to an HDD crash to make up for lost revenue, and Wikipedia's distracting me. Could you please block me for the span of a month so that I can do this with no distractions? - A Link to the Past (talk) 07:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Last I checked, "I need a break from Wikipedia" blocks tend to get the blocking admin yelled at, sorry. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 15:26, 4 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spider-man

You shouldn't have merged Ultimate Spider-Man (Story Arcs) into Ultimate Spider-Man. I don't care what society you belong to, if you made a redirect, you should at least have put some of the content from the former into the latter, had you been needed to merge it. But you weren't! You acted completely against what the readers of the discussion part of that topic had agreed, which had been to keep the page. You might have noticed the large button proclaiming that it was kept and required cleanup, but I'm guessing you were too lazy to even read it. SaliereTheFish 13:50, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see consensus not to go into this kind of extreme detail at both Talk:Ultimate Spider-Man (story arcs) and WP:CMC. Additionally, an appropriate level of detail was already present at Ultimate Spider-Man, so no merge or cleanup was necessary or even possible. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 22:16, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with this, and it is why I redirected the applicable links. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 22:28, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're missing the Point! If you'll look at the big button on top of Talk:Ultimate Spider-Man (story arcs) then you'll notice that the button on top reads (I'm presuming you can understand english) 'THE CONSENSUS WAS: KEEP'. Therefore, the article should have been - need I say it - Kept. You broke a rule in making an unnecessary Redirect for a topic that an awful lot of people liked and relied on. The reason we needed 'this kind of extreme detail' is that the article is about a comic better selling and mor epopular than any of the others.

Change it back. Now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SaliereTheFish (talk • contribs)

The insults and implied threats and commands aren't doing you any good. AFD results aren't binding on anything but deletion, and all I did was redirect it. Feel free to bring this up at WT:CMC if you think I did the wrong thing, but be prepared to be disappointed. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:32, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion

Do you think it would be reasonable if I deleted nearly all of the articles I created? A few exceptions, like Nasir Gebelli, seem like they're somewhat notable. I'm appalled that I created a List of Final Fantasy characters article and a List of Final Fantasy locations article (even worse). I've propagated fancruft and trivial information at Wikipedia for over a year and pissed all over the fair use clause. I badly want to merge, well, nearly every article pertaining to the Legend of Zelda universe into something like The Legend of Zelda series universe. Can you imagine how well that would go over? I mean, where would scholars begin to research information for Keese or Deku Babas? At the very least, I don't cry when I see the articles over the Legend of Zelda series. I save the tissues for Pokemon articles. --Tristam 08:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The best bet seems to be just to merge and redirect, so that's what I'd suggest. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just an update

Nah, not nagging, since Raul already trimmed the FAC list and it'll be some time before he hits MNSG. But I did want to note that development on the article is "complete" now that I've had four or five editors review it. I've also added a sequel section. I'm ready to edit things should it need more attention. Do you think the WP:FICT objection will stall it? --Zeality 19:09, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bullets in templates

From what I can see at {{Navigation}} and related templates, the actual convention on Wikipedia seems to be to use {{·}}, over the pipe and bullet. Anyway, it might be a good idea to suggest to our fellow editors that all CVG navigation templates switch of over to {{Navigation}} as soon as we have the latest ~~round of bugs~~requested feature over there working correctly. —DavidH Oz Au 00:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ideally, we wouldn't be using metatemplates. I know we're using Tnavbar right now, but ideally we wouldn't have transclusions in transclusions. I'm also not a fan of using hide/show functions; one of the reasons I went to the effort of standardizing appearance was to get rid of that often-glitchy hack. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:44, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and as for the middot template, I'm indifferent. All I was aiming for was a standard divider, not a particular divider. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:49, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough. Anyway, from what I can see {{·}} happens to be just a nonbreaking space followed by a middot; in that respect it is a bit much. I think I'll subst it in future. --DavidH Oz Au 12:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Metal Gear series template talk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Metal_Gear_series

Is it you who is always changing the complex template to the simplistic template? People prefer the old, more complex template. Please let it stay.

Bulbasaur FAR/Discussion

Well, it seems as though there's more approval of having a mere discussion topic on Talk:Bulbasaur in regards to your recent comments on WP:PCP than actually bringing Bulbasaur to a second FAR. I suggest, then, you bring the topic to Bulbasaur's talk page and have brainstorming sessions and discussions with everyone else on how to improve the Pokemon FAs and GAs. It may be overkill to put Bulbasaur through FAR right away. Erik Jensen ^{(I appreciate talk!)} 03:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, WT:PCP might be the best place to do this. I dunno, I need to better articulate my gut problems. I think it may be put off temporarily; I just got another job, and Wiki stuff always comes after real-world stuff. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, just wanted to wish you luck with the new job. That's a definite reason for a wikibreak. — TKD::Talk 04:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Feureau

I wonder if you can help. I have just received a warning from the above that I shall be blocked if I continue vandalism. You can easily access the correspondance which appears on my User page and on the Talk page of Paul of Tarsus. I foolishly made a light comment on one of the huge number of descriptors which had been put up. (To be honest, there is a widespread view that I was articulating) For my part I try, as an editor, not to spend my time making comments about other people's sutbstantive contributions eg. stub, or over-long, or POV etc. I am much more interesting in the work of increasing the scope and quality of material than playing at the margins. I did not think I was offensive, merely playful. I have seen much more robust contrib utions in Talk pages. I am not aware of how the hierarchy of WP works or who is entitled to issues a Last Warning. I feel very offended by it, attempting as I do to reduce the sum of human ignorance. I Ifeel like asking if Feureau could be blocked, certainly from misinterpreting comments about citizens of the USA as personal attacks. If I had been adding offensive or spurious information to well-written articles, as I see constantly, I would take my punishment but these 'policemen' have me very concerned about WP as an open, and not overly serious-minided medium engaged in a very important task. Can you help? Roger Arguile 12:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not quite the one to ask about this. My suggestion would be to ask for help at WP:MEDCAB. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:34, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

lol

the way your summarized your edit of putting the italics makes it sound like I vandalized the article :P (which I wasn't intending to do, I just would prefer all italics) Sonic3KMaster^(talk) 04:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, it wasn't vandalism. It's just that the reason we italicize game names is because they're proper names of longform works. Anything that isn't the proper name of a longform work shouldn't be italicized. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, that makes sense. I'll keep that in mind when I edit templates, thanks. Sonic3KMaster^(talk) 05:55, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Forgive me

Please unblock me!!

To tell you the truth, I was a wonderful contributor to articles in Wikipedia "Yu-Gi-OH and Pokemon". The story began when a user named Mitsumasa began creating and upload Pokemon images and articles.

After about 5 months after the start of the articles the PCP began merging the articles (A Man in Black, Ryulong, Interrobamf) i tried talking to them, and the PCP but they did'nt listen. I even tried to leave a committ on their usertalk pages but A Man in Black is the only one that responds to my committ. I gave up until recently students at my school "The Learning Community School" began bullying me, they knew that I was a contributor at the site "Wikipedia", so they told my teacher that they logged in some accounts and began vandalizing the articles that I personattly was currently having problems with you. My teacher Mrs. Lisa Mercato talked to the students Jene', Jessica, Aaron and restricted them from using the school computer.

I'm very sorry. May you please unblock me and my IP address 72.177.68.38. May you please just make it that I can create a new account. It is a total misunderstanding. If you want to talk to my teacher, please email her at lmercato@yahoo.com. The block is casuing the school not to edit Wikipedia.

I used my house IP. Thank you, and God Bless

Hi, AMIB. This editor left the same note on my talk page, and I took a brief look at the situation (which I wasn't familiar with). It looked like a justified block to me, and I left a note on the user's page letting him know that. It looks like you know more about this case than I do, and I trust your judgment; I'd appreciate it if you could let me know if my interpretation of events was correct. Thanks. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 18:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You made the right call. This is a sock of Bobabobabo (talk · contribs), with similar IP and similar Yahoo address. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 04:11, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of worst videogames

It has been agreed upon that all changes to this article, due to the POV-nature of the article, are discussed first. Please stop deleting things that, in your eyes, are wrong, and discuss it first. Thank you JackSparrow Ninja 05:08, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a matter of my opinion. It's a matter of nobody ever publishing the opinions being expressed in this article. We need a reference that describes the game as worst ever. Not bad, not very bad, but "worst ever". "One of the worst games ever" suffices, but it "This is a terrible game" isn't enough. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:10, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please put it in the talk page first still. There is more to it then just those words, and acting like this only makes your behaviour, to others as well, seem like mayor POV. JackSparrow Ninja 05:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've done so. Bear in mind, no talk page discussion is going to get me to stop removing unreferenced or poorly-referenced info from a list that could easily be construed as defamatory. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In that case I shall request an admin to block you for refusing to comply with agreements made on an article. Up to you what you like. JackSparrow Ninja 05:20, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't forsee you having much luck trying to intimidate me, especially over issues of verifiability and defamation. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We'll let an admin decide then. JackSparrow Ninja 05:24, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does it at all matter to you that I'm an admin, and that admins have no particular vested power to decide disputes other than the fact that they're trusted users? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:30, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It does indeed not matter to me that you are admin, since I know more admins that abuse their status. JackSparrow Ninja 05:31, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm not sure what you want an admin for, to be honest. If you want a second opinion, I'd try WP:CVG, where Hahnchen solicited a third opinion (and got it, that's how I got involved). - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:34, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

edit war

You are having an edit war on Template:Zelda games. Stop it, and discuss things on the talk page. It doesn't need to be settled this second. Scepia 07:47, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at the history, I see JosephK reverting three different users with comments like "GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. STOP EDETING IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!". There's not a lot to work with or discuss, there. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 07:50, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

look plz stop, plz? JosephK19 08:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Frankly, no. These redesigns are the result of lengthy discussion about standardizing the appearance of these templates, while narrowing them to link to a tightly-linked series of articles. You haven't given any reason why this effort is misguided, or indeed even addressed it at all. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 08:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sic of your standeds Nintendo don't have a standed sowert of game most games are different all with themes! so stop sandadizing them this way people are absl to be creative.

These standards are for a standard appearance. It's possible to discuss dissimilar subjects in a standard way. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 08:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About Iori4448.jpg

Well then tell me what should I put on it, it's a promotional image or art for free distribution, with known creator (SNKPlaymore). I don't know where that fits, because the closest tag is covers, and this isn't a cover. The new options for the copyright labeling took away the right option for these kind of images.

The copyright is the same as the first image in Iori's article, promo art freely released for free distribution. What tag should I use for these kind of images in the future? PabloG 12:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]