User talk:Abates

2009-12-23T21:44:37Z

66.45.240.66: /* Exuse me about Grandma */ new section

==To-Do List==
===Operation: Screen Captures===
Screen cap (re)tagging:
*<s>[[:Category:Generation 1 screen captures|G1]]</s>
*[[:Category:Headmasters screen captures|Headmasters]]/Masterforce/<s>[[:Category:Victory screen captures|Victory]]</s>/<s>[[:Category:Zone screen captures|Zone]]</s>
*<s>[[:Category:Beast Wars screen captures|Beast Wars]]</s>/<s>[[:Category:Beast Machines screen captures|Beast Machines]]</s>
*<s>[[:Category:Robots in Disguise screen captures|Robots in Disguise]]</s>
*<s>[[:Category:Armada screen captures|Armada]]</s>/[[:Category:Energon screen captures|Energon]]/<s>[[:Category:Cybertron screen captures|Cybertron]]</s>
*<s>[[:Category:Animated screen captures|Animated]]</s>
*Cap templates for Masterforce/Beast Wars II/Beast Wars Neo
====Pictures of unidentified origin====
I don't know which episodes these are from - feel free to tag them with {{tl|Energoncap}} if you know!
=====Energon=====
<gallery>
Image:EnergonGeneric.jpg
Image:EnergonSixShot3.jpg
Image:Rodimus tv.jpg
</gallery>

=====Masterforce=====
<gallery>
Image:Masterforce Buster talk1.gif
</gallery>

==Screencaps==
Your tastes in screencaps is impeccable. :D -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 01:21, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
: Heh, thanks! :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:37, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
::You don't need to use the actual title cards for the main picture of episode articles. Awhile back we decided that those are redundant for the most part, so we've taken to using screencaps of scenes that are pivotal, sum up the episode and are just plain funny. For example [[The Ultimate Weapon|The Ultimate Weapon]]. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:50, 5 October 2008 (EDT)
:::Aha! Noted. Thanks :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:46, 5 October 2008 (EDT)

And again! The BW pages are looking great. Keep 'em coming! -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 00:37, 30 November 2008 (EST)
:Thanks! Almost halfway though :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:31, 30 November 2008 (EST)

==This Pic==
[[Image:Lessons of the Past Optimusmonitor.jpg|right|180px|thumb|]]Could you please retake this shot? It's full of little jaggies - check out the lines on Prime's shoulder and elbow. Thanks. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 12:08, 12 October 2008 (EDT)
:That's how it looks in the episode - the image they used is from the end of a zooming-out shot in "An Explosive Situation", so it looks like they did a video freeze on the last frame and overlayed the clips on the top monitors. Unfortunately it was the only "someone watching footage on a monitor" shot I could find (there's another identical shot of Prime later on, but it has the same problem). --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:20, 12 October 2008 (EDT)

==Kudos==
Your RID pages are excellent. Thanks for taking on a task that not many of us are willing to face. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 23:31, 21 October 2008 (EDT)

:Thanks! I love the show, so I'm enjoying rewatching it. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:08, 22 October 2008 (EDT)
::Your Quote sections in particular are reminding me of what a fun show it was... particularly in light of [[Energon (cartoon)|what came after.]] -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 10:09, 22 October 2008 (EDT)

:So devoutly seconded. -- [[User:Greenygal|Greenygal]] 15:48, 22 October 2008 (EDT)
:Thanks very much for doing the work on these! --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 10:08, 24 October 2008 (EDT)

:Dude - awesome idea: Can you change the title card of [[The Ultimate Robot Warrior|The Ultimate Robot Warrior]] to an image where Buddha is firing missiles out of his mouth? Because it's ''so'' wrong it amuses me. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 05:33, 29 October 2008 (EDT)
::Done! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 05:45, 29 October 2008 (EDT)
:::Thanks mate. Bwahahahaha! --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 05:56, 29 October 2008 (EDT)

Must chime in with thanks. This is simply great work.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 02:57, 22 November 2008 (EST)

:Thanks! :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 03:46, 22 November 2008 (EST)

== Armada eps ==
Jeebus, now you're doing Armada episode recaps! As Repowers said last time with the RID recaps, thanks for doing what many of us are reluctant to do (and I like Armada). --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 02:56, 16 November 2008 (EST)

:Just the two for the moment. I want to focus on finishing the RID character pages, but I happened to have the first three episodes of Armada handy. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 03:07, 16 November 2008 (EST)

== More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1 ==
Wondering why you removed the navigation box I put on this article? Admittedly it didn't come out perfectly, but it seemed to work and fulfilled a good function so why not just modify it?[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 15:42, 16 November 2008 (EST)

:Because it's completely redundant? The infobox on the top right does exactly the same thing. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 15:45, 16 November 2008 (EST)
::Just coming back to admit that I missed that. It does seem a little odd that the navigation box for the first episode doesn't match those for later episodes, but if everyone else wants it that way...[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 15:48, 16 November 2008 (EST)
:::Oh, that's just a case of the other pages not having been updated with the newer template yet. We haven't been using the new one for that long. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 15:50, 16 November 2008 (EST)
::::Okay. Didn't mean to cause any trouble.[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 16:02, 16 November 2008 (EST)

:The episode template doesn't support seasons yet which I think is why it's not in wider use. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:09, 16 November 2008 (EST)

==BW request==
Hey, if you've got you Season 2 disks handy, could you grab a shot of Quickstrike as he introduces himself? Specifically I think there's a moment when the camera's at ground level with him, and you see both his cobra and scorpion heads clearly at the same time. It'd make a great main pic for the [[Fuzor|Fuzor]] article. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 20:15, 6 December 2008 (EST)

:[[:Image:Coming of the Fuzors 1 Quickstrike intro.jpg|This one]]? :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:26, 6 December 2008 (EST)
::That one. Awesome! -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 20:27, 6 December 2008 (EST)

== Appearances ==
The way we've been doing it is that appearances doesn't necessarily mean "as they appear on screen" but it can also mean whomever is heard first. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 23:56, 31 December 2008 (EST)

:Oh, I see. I didn't realise that. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:34, 1 January 2009 (EST)

== Automated Cache Processor ==

Did you ever get to put this online? I wouldn't mind being able to use it on the articles where the processed cache files didn't get uploaded properly due to title problems. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 22:42, 19 March 2009 (EDT)
:Not yet, but it's a trivial thing to do, so I'll do it tonight and announce it on [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central|Damage Control Central]]. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:14, 19 March 2009 (EDT)
::Cool, thanks. :) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 23:28, 19 March 2009 (EDT)

== References ==

You can attribute a news/link reference several times throughout an article by creating a reference name. Eg. Say you want to link an article that confirmed Hugo Weaving was returning to voice Megatron in both confirmed news and the cast list. You do this:

Hugo Weaving returns to voice Megatron news.<nowiki><ref name="Hugo Weaving">[News Link news description]</ref>
</nowiki>

===Cast===
Megatron (Hugo Weaving)<nowiki><ref name="Hugo Weaving"/>
</nowiki>

This means you don't end up linking the exact same news several times in the References section. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 01:53, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:Aha! Now I know (and knowing is half the battle). --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:54, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

==Google Flaw==
Don't have time to really deal with this myself, but the version of the Nine Great Demon General page on the wiki wasn't the most current; I couldn't even find a version to look up the cached form on Google, and had to use your MSN.com search tip to recover it. How many other pages like this? Don't know. But something to look up EITHER the Google Cache or MSN Cache version of a given page, that might be worth looking into... --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 00:09, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:Was actually comparing caches last night. MSN seems to be older on most pages I check, and Google is apparently spidering faster and has some of the (heinously bad) backups Bookworm put up in place, Wikia spam and all. For the moment the sweet spot appears to maybe be Yahoo's cache.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 00:18, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::Yeah, there's no cache for the Nine Great Demon Generals article in the big zip of cache files. There are one or two pages here and there which got missed out. I'm not sure why whoever was downloading that range didn't note it as a missing file on the Damage Control page. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:48, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Re-checked caches. Yahoo has now spidered us and cached the Wikia spammed crapola, but MSN has a cache of November/December 2008. Not the ''best'', but it had Nine Great Demon Generals whereas Yahoo or Google would only give me that page from Wikia. Potentially our best bet as advanced as the others have gotten in spidering, if we have pages that we still have no backup of.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 02:39, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::::FFN [[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Damage_Control_Central/Archive2#Front_page_notice_and_browser_caches|mentioned]] that fans of the wiki had offered to help out with their browser caches. It's a long shot, but assuming they've saved the files, they might have missing articles. No one answered his question regarding where they should be uploaded though. I don't know the question to that myself. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 03:06, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

==HTML to Comic Template converter==
Your converter seems to be having some issues with code that results from your HTML to Wiki converter. When I ran the cache page for [[Out to Lunch!]] through the Wiki converter, and then copied the resulting HTML for the template over to the template converter, the 'prev', 'next', and 'title' parameters are omitted. The template I converted didn't have a secondary series (It was a UK only Marvel comic) so I don't know if 'prev2' and 'next2' would also be omitted. It's still a fantastic tool though, and much appreciated. Have you thought about automating it? Seems like it wouldn't be hard to find the beginning and end of the template HTML, particularly if the script is only fed lists of comic pages (which is easily enough done). --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 03:06, 29 March 2009 (EDT)
:Thanks! Working on it now. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 03:22, 29 March 2009 (EDT)
:Sorted. As for automating it, I haven't done anything with directly updating the site - that's more Derik's area. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 03:36, 29 March 2009 (EDT)
Title still doesn't seem to be working...--[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 08:40, 29 March 2009 (EDT)
:Have you got an example page where it doesn't? It was working all right for me last night. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:29, 29 March 2009 (EDT)

== Blinking ==

That'd be me. Eye-catching, isn't it? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 22:55, 12 April 2009 (EDT)
:That looks like it'll be extremely useful! Kudos! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:56, 12 April 2009 (EDT)
::Final style is negociable. We're (theoretically) discussing it [[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal#Redirects_while_editing|here]]. (Or at least we will be once other users start clawing their eyes out.)
::...I should really get around to setting up a "request changes from Deceptitran" form. Most of the ones I found so far are very straightforward... with 100% of the old links able to be changed to a single correct location. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 23:00, 12 April 2009 (EDT)

== Double pages ==

Earlier last month in the Community portal you mentioned you had ideas on how to fix the "double pages" problem that is currently listing each page with a special character as orphaned. (i.e. Jo%CC%88rmungandr & J%C3%B6rmungandr). Is this still a project you're working on at all? No pressure here. I'm just curious. For some reason I consider cleaning out the Orphaned Pages list to be a pet project of mine. -- [[User:Bluestreak7|Bluestreak7]] 22:39, 1 May 2009 (EDT)
:Well, I installed a copy of MediaWiki on my own server and tried to play around with various techniques for correcting the problem. The two possible solutions I found were:
:*Use an SQL script to change the incorrect names and remove the mucked up accents, then just delete them through the interface.
:*Use an SQL script to delete the incorrect article records outright.

:The second solution has some uncertain effects re database integrity, and the first ISTR I encountered some residual problems with, but I don't remember what they were.
:I've been meaning to go try talking to someone at MediaWiki about it, and/or getting a copy of the current database from Scout in order to make sure I'm not duplicating the problem incorrectly. But I haven't looked at the issue for a while, so I might revisit it this weekend and see what I can come up with. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:53, 1 May 2009 (EDT)
::OK, having tested some more, I've gotten the first technique to work with no apparent side effects. I am testing on a nearly-empty database through, so I'd like to get a copy of the TFWiki DB and test it on that just to make doubly sure it won't cause problems. I've just emailed [[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] to ask about getting a copy. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:28, 1 May 2009 (EDT)

== Is it bad that... ==

...when you added [[Professor Greene]] and [[T.W. Peacocke]], I started wondering who did a Transformers/Clue crossover?--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 01:28, 24 July 2009 (EDT)
:...dammit, Rosicrucian, you're making me want to see that now. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 01:31, 24 July 2009 (EDT)
::It's a Hasbro property! If there were any justice, we'd get an actual board game out of it. With Nightbeat.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 01:37, 24 July 2009 (EDT)
:::"Grindor has been found with his face ripped off. You gather the suspects into a room..." --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:01, 24 July 2009 (EDT)

== Well, that's odd. ==

...when I started deleting them, I'd assumed ?! had already removed the links to them. Usually he's more thorough than this.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|Talk]] 01:52, 7 September 2009 (EDT)
:Uncharacteristic, indeed. I hope I didn't come across too harshly! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:09, 7 September 2009 (EDT)

== Block Fixing ==

Poor [[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] got accidentally blocked and unblocked, but he's still stuck under the autoblock. Could you do that thing you did to fix when [[User talk:Magnus Maximus|Magnus Maximus had the same problem]]? (Assuming it doesn't clear up before you get this.) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 12:27, 31 October 2009 (EDT)
:Should now be done! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:22, 31 October 2009 (EDT)
::Thanks! :D --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:19, 31 October 2009 (EDT)
:::Thanks for killing the autoblock! I headbutted that thing so many times my skull has become partially flat. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 07:04, 1 November 2009 (EST)
::::No problem! :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 13:58, 1 November 2009 (EST)

== Reunification Anon Reverting ==

THANK YOU. :> Sigh. Sorry about all that mess... --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:58, 5 November 2009 (EST)
:No problem. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:16, 5 November 2009 (EST)

==Day of the Machines==
Since you were working on Day of the Machines, Dr. Gates' fellow scientist is named Dr. Andrews in the dialogue script. (This was noted on the talk page at one point, but it got lost in the crash.) --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 03:37, 28 November 2009 (EST)
:Cool! Should be a quick article to make. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:26, 28 November 2009 (EST)

== Ultraplane ==
''Hey, while you're looking at scripts, can you please check "Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1" and see how Ultraplane is parsed? We've got it spelled four or five different ways in various articles. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:08, 4 December 2009 (EST)''
:The line is written out as:

:SOUNDWAVE Ultra plane completed, Megatron.

:Whether it's meant to be a proper noun or not, I dunno. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 00:17, 4 December 2009 (EST)
::Awesome, thanks! From context, it probably should be capitalised "Ultra Plane". --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:31, 4 December 2009 (EST)

== Exuse me about Grandma ==

But I just wanted you to lock all of those so my mission is complete.[[Special:Contributions/66.45.240.66|66.45.240.66]] 16:44, 23 December 2009 (EST)

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