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Jetfire (Movie)

2009-06-26T20:33:38Z

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:''Jetfire is a [[Decepticon]] and [[Autobot]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ROFT Jetfire Bay clip.jpg|thumb|350px|That's thinkin with your dipstick!!]]

An ancient Decepticon [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]], Jetfire was around long before the war broke out, and unlike many, came to see his "comrades" for what they were. This caused him to defect to the Autobots, something virtually unheard of. He's a fine asset, powerful and possessing the ability to teleport across great distances. This is slightly offset by the fact he's so old, his processor gave up the ghost millennia ago. These days he has a hard enough time remembering his name. It makes him a bit crotchety and also leaves him with the nagging feeling he's forgotten something important.

{{quote|My father was the wheel! The ''first'' wheel! And do you know what he transformed into? ''Nothing!'' But he did so ''with honor! Dignity!''|Jetfire suffers the seven signs of aging|[[Revenge of the Fallen]]}}

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Transformers'' movie comics===
[[Image:Defiance4_Jetfire.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Hopefully I won't end up on some [[earth|godforsaken planet]] and be infested with [[Maximal|disgusting little critters.]]]]
In the distant past, the [[All Spark (Movie)|All Spark]] Cube created [[Thirteen original Transformers|a race]] of powerful, trans-dimensional beings as the first inhabitants of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The Cube gave these beings mighty powers, as well as terraforming their world, but it was not limitless, and gradually became depleted. The first beings learned that the All Spark's power could be replenished by harvesting the energy of stars, but they were unable to locate new stars to suit their purposes, despite their amazing ability to travel between dimensions. Once again, the Cube came to the rescue, creating a race of workers, who had the ability to change their shape.

Jetfire was among the very first of these new beings, a "[[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]]" with the ability to travel across the vastness of space in search of new suns. Once located, he would lead others and his masters back to it so a [[Solar harvester|harvester]] could be constructed to drain the energy of these stars, thus replenishing the All Spark. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4}} It is assumed that at some point during the civil war on Cybertron, he sided with [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], the new protege of Jetfire's only surviving ancient master, [[The Fallen]].
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===''Revenge of the Fallen'' movie===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Mark Ryan]]

{{comingsoon}}
{{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen (film)}}

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==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Legends Class toys====
[[Image:ROTF Jetfire 2009 Legends.JPG|right|250px|thumb|It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Legends class, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''EZ-05'''

:Legends class ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Jetfire transforms from a into a tiny [[Wikipedia: SR-71 Blackbird|SR-71 Blackbird]] spy plane to a sort of hunchback robot. In a bit of character design accuracy, his left arm has a cane.

:The upper fuselage of the plane mode has a thin rectangular peg to slot into the back of Optimus prime for the super mode.
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====Leader Class toys====
[[Image:Jetfire ROTF leader toy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions, and I was shot down in every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life."]]
*'''Jetfire''' (Leader class, 2009)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''RA-13'''
**''Accessories:'' Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile

:Jetfire features electronic lights and sounds. And by sounds, we mean he talks like a Yorkshireman. Seriously.
{{comingsoontoy}}

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====Fast Action Battlers====
[[Image:Jetfire ROTF FAB toy.jpg|right|thumb|300px|NOBODY MOVE...I dropped me cane...]]
*'''Photon Missile Jetfire''' (Fast Action Battler, 2009)
**''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile" projectile

: [[Fast Action Battler]] Jetfire is a simplified, roughly Deluxe-sized toy of Jetfire. In vehicle mode, he transforms into a sort of cute, super-deformed SR-71 Blackbird jet. As with most ''Transformers'' toy jets, he has a fair bit of undercarriage junk from his robot mode, though not to the extent of the Leader class toy. In robot mode he has a reasonably accurate depiction of Jetfire's design, though his right arm ends in a spring-loaded projectile launcher shaped like a rotary cannon.
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==Notes==
* Jetfire's ancient cybertronian vehicle mode as seen in [[IDW Publishing]]'s "[[Defiance issue 4]]" bears more than a passing similarity with the starship ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' from ''[[Beast Wars]]''.
* Jetfire is one of the few movie Transformers to mention having [[Relatives|a family]]; in fact, he claims his father was [[Scrounge|''the'' wheel]].
* In the film, Jetfire seemed to say that the reason he was extremely "elderly" was that he has gone for too long without an adequate supply of energon.

[[Category:Autobots]]
[[Category:Decepticons]]
[[Category:Elderly Transformers]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen characters]]
[[Category:Seekers]]
[[Category:Turncoats]]

MediaWiki:Community Portal/Complaints

2009-06-26T20:30:20Z

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{{disambig2|an archive of Wikia-related complaints|complaints about the BLC server guy's incompetence leading to the wiki being rolled back nine months|Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central}}
This page consists of valid criticism and complaints about Wikia's handling of issues pertaining to {{SITENAME}}. Because of these, we are seriously considering packing up and moving {{SITENAME}} to another server.

The move is currently under discussion [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving|on this page]].

==Misleading the Wiki==
*On [[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal#Monaco_skin|April 7th]] Wikipedia staff began to talk to us about switching to the Monaco skin, claiming improved load times, more hits, and more involvement. Another change was the replacement of the skyscraper ads with banner ads, mostly because Wikia could get more revenue from banner ads. We eventually switched partially because we were informed we could switch back, and made a new logo to fit the new skin.
*On June 11th, we were notified that Monaco was changing. This included replacing the banner ads with poptart ads that are located in the actual article. These did with most of our pages by pushing the main article image down below the fold. This also changed the masthead layout effectively forcing us to throw out the work we did for the old Monaco. Oh, and we can't switch back to Monobook anymore.

==Misleading others about the Wiki==

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: As part of the announcement on the mandatory switch to Monaco, Teletraan-I's site statistics were used to show the effect of switching to Monaco. The problem: This was effectively saying that the decline of pirates is the cause of global warming.

:The switch took place around April 24th. This was the weekend BotCon was held. A ton of new information was revealed, which meant a bunch of updates and related traffic.

::That really big, 300k spike? That's when the ''Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen'' subtitle was announced.
::The smaller spike, around the end of May? The day "SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy" aired in Canada & "A Fistful of Energon" aired in the US
::The plateau from June 3 onward? That's when English-language ''Transformers Animated'' episodes world-premiered for three days in a row on Nicktoons UK, with corresponding worldwide downloading and non-downloaders wanting to spoil themselves.
::The rise in early May? Post-BotCon combined with the Dubai airings and the corresponding firestorm, which died down as all the BotCon stuff got played out and ''Animated'' pages started getting protected against anons.
::Weekdays in the middle of May? That's when nothing much was being announced or shown, and the skin wasn't pushing anyone to check much out.
::As for checking out the customisation options on Monaco, when you're apparently stuck with something, you try to make the best of it. And the worse it gets, the more [[Wikipedia:percussive maintenance|percussive maintenance]] is required. If it worked out of the box, it wouldn't need customising. - SanityOrMadness 01:51, 13 June 2008 (UTC)''

==Wikia Staff forging ahead on changes to our pages in spite of vocal dissent==
*Wikia rep announces that he's here to help us change the layout of the [[Main Page]] to accommodate the new Wikia ads, which are how we must pay for our sins now that logged in users no longer see ads in the article space.[http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal&diff=prev&oldid=213271]
*Wikia rep puts up an [[User:Scarecroe/sandbox|example]] of how this will work.
*The example conveniently omits [[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Leaving|the announcement link]] to our ongoing discussion regarding leaving Wikia, links to adblock plus, and replaced the site's TFWiki.net title in favor of the default Wikia title.
*Teletraan-I users say, in no uncertain terms, "[[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Leaving#Main Page (or, how Wikia is going to fuck it up yet again)|Thanks, but no thanks.]]"
*Wikia rep takes his proposed revision live.[http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=214174&oldid=212123]
*Teletraan-I users again point that the resulting page is [[:Image:Wikiasideaofagoodmainpage.jpg|broken in Safari and Firefox 2]], and that he has no consensus for this, and revert it.[http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=next&oldid=214174]
*Wikia rep puts his version back again as an "update," changing the broken code, but claiming that everyone else's broken layouts were just caching problems. [http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=214193&oldid=214185]
*Teletraan-I users point out that Wikia rep is ignoring vocal dissent towards this change.[http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Transformers_Wiki_talk%3ACommunity_Portal&diff=214209&oldid=214207]
*Wikia rep claims he noticed no major dissent and decided to forge ahead with changes because he thought we didn't object, in spite of him posting to the same discussion where dissent was voiced.[http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal&diff=next&oldid=214209]

==More issues==

Further issues involve
* More ads for people who are not logged in
* Talking ads
* Ads that expanded and cover article images and text
* Removing ads for Logged-in users, which means the people who make the most contributions don't see the same thing 95% of the users see.
* [http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Transformers_Wiki_talk%3ACommunity_Portal%2FLeaving&diff=213287&oldid=213278 ''Wow. Now we've got a Wikia person censoring an established editor's anti-Wikia statement as "vandalism."'']
* lacks any form of order, pages are heavil vandalized, and have horrible grammar, seems as if an elementary school kid edited the articles.