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		<title>Talk:Brawl (WFC)</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: Q/C Issues&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== Q/C Issues ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I just got the retail version on Friday, and I noticed today that he has two left feet.  Didn&#039;t know if this was an issue that has come up before with this figure, or if mine is an isolated incident.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 22:16, 2 December 2012 (EST)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>User:Megatron Prime</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Not to be confused with [[Megatron (Prime)]]&lt;br /&gt;
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In my view, Skywarp is Cyclonus and Thundercracker is Scourge.  Skywarp and Thunder are purple and blue respectively, as are Cyclonus and Scourge.&lt;br /&gt;
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My favorite character: [[Prowl (G1)]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Other favorites include, but are not limited to: [[Devastator (G1)]], [[Soundwave (G1)]], and the [[Combaticons]] as they are portrayed in [[Simon Furman]]&#039;s iteration of the [[IDW]]-verse.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>MediaWiki:TFWiki.net 2012 Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions/Entries</title>
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		<updated>2012-02-29T18:56:13Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;This is the page for the &#039;&#039;&#039;TFWiki.net Transformers Hall of Fame Auditions&#039;&#039;&#039; entries. The rules are as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
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#You must pick your top five &#039;&#039;Transformers&#039;&#039; characters, from any era. They must actually &#039;&#039;&#039;be&#039;&#039;&#039; Transformers; sorry, but no humans, non-Transformer aliens, non-Transformer robots, or anything else of the sort are being considered for the Hall of Fame. Any votes for such entities will &#039;&#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039;&#039; be tabulated. It is the sole discretion of the contest organizers to decide what does and does not count.&lt;br /&gt;
#Take your top five list and &#039;&#039;&#039;put it in alphabetical order&#039;&#039;&#039;. Order of preference does not matter. Feel free to denote the character&#039;s franchise of origin, although these distinctions may or may not figure into the final results. &lt;br /&gt;
#You &#039;&#039;&#039;cannot&#039;&#039;&#039; vote for a specific version of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, Dinobot, Ironhide, Ratchet, Soundwave, or Waspinator. They&#039;ve already been inducted!&lt;br /&gt;
##You &#039;&#039;&#039;also&#039;&#039;&#039; can&#039;t vote for &#039;&#039;&#039;Grimlock, Jazz or Shockwave&#039;&#039;&#039;. They&#039;re being automatically inducted this year!&lt;br /&gt;
#&#039;&#039;&#039;However, you CAN vote for &#039;&#039;[[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]]&#039;&#039; [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] or [[Optimus Primal]]! Hasbro considers them separate!&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
#Only one entry per user.&lt;br /&gt;
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Please put your characters of choice and user name below in the following manner:&lt;br /&gt;
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*Bulkhead, Emirate Xaaron, Side Swipe, Terrorsaur (BW), X-Brawn --(four tildes)&lt;br /&gt;
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Poll entry period ends at 3pm on &#039;&#039;&#039;[[March 1]], 2012&#039;&#039;&#039;. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 12:25, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Poll entries==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;!-- Please put new nominations at the bottom! --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Blackarachnia, Blaster, Perceptor, Rumble --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 12:32, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Barricade, Devastator, Laserbeak, Ravage, Sideways --[[User:LV|LV]] 12:34, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bluestreak, Hot Rod, Rattrap, Ravage, Wheeljack --[[User:Bluestreak7|Bluestreak7]] 12:41, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Hot Rod, Ratbat, Ravage, Skywarp--[[User:Riddlerj|Riddlerj]] 12:44, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Barricade, Beast Megatron, Rattrap, Sideways, Sky-Byte [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 12:58, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blaster, Hot Rod, Perceptor, Scorponok, Wheeljack {{unsigned|84.13.39.130}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Demolishor, Megatron (BW), Scorponok, Sideways, Sky-Byte. [[User:Rayqui|Rayqui]] 13:14, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Cyclonus, Hot Rod, Jetfire, Kup, Rhinox - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 13:21, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Kup, Prowl (G1), Scorponok (G1), Sunstreaker, Swindle --[[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 13:32, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
* Blackarachnia, Bulkhead, Hot Rod, Megatron (BW), Swindle --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 13:41, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Megatron (BW), Optimus Primal, Ravage, Unicron --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 13:47, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blackarachnia, Megatron (BW), Optimus Primal, Rampage (BW), Sky-Byte [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 13:54, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Megatron (BW), Minerva (Masterforce), Optimus Primal, Rattrap, Rhinox {{unsigned|50.10.61.121}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Blackarachnia, Laserbeak, Prowl, Sky-Byte --[[User:Boy Blunderous|Boy Blunderous]] 14:07, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blades, Hot Rod, Kup, Megatron (BW), Smokescreen --[[User:Antimatter|Antimatter]] 14:11, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bruticus, Fortress Maximus, Omega Supreme, Skywarp, Ultra Magnus --[[User:Starfield|Starﬁeld]] 14:19, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Blackarachnia, Bulkhead, Rhinox, Sky-Byte --[[User:Abates|abates]] 14:22, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Cliffjumper, Cyclonus, Prowl, Ultra Magnus, Wheeljack --[[User:AutoUIMagnus299|AutoUIMagnus299]] 14:37, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Hot Rod, Jetfire, Omega Supreme, Prowl --[[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 14:57, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Depth Charge, Quickstrike, Rattrap, Rhinox, Wreck-Gar --[[User:Femmes Rule!|Femmes Rule!]] 15:01, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Prowl, Rodimus Prime, Scorponok, Springer, Ultra Magnus --[[User:Magaroja|Magaroja]] 15:19, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Hot Spot, Quickmix, Searchlight, Silverbolt, Steeljaw --[[User:Ironhold|Ironhold]] 15:35, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Astrotrain, Bruticus, Rumble, Skywarp, Thundercracker --[[User:crown of starscream|crown of starscream]] 16:02, 23 Febuary 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Megatron (BW), Prowl, Ravage, Sky-Byte --[[User:Ratbatman|Ratbatman]] 15:36, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blackarachnia, Paddles, Piano Transformer Guy, Scrounge, Silverbolt (BW)--[[Special:Contributions/184.56.30.163|184.56.30.163]] 15:40, 23 February 2012 (EST))&lt;br /&gt;
*Metroplex, Mudflap (movie), Predaking, Sunstorm (G1), Trypticon {{unsigned|94.7.56.6}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Blitzwing (Animated), Ironfist, Straxus, Ultra Magnus, Wreck-Gar --[[User:HunterCham|HunterCham]] 16:02, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Jetstorm (BM), Lugnut (Animated), Megatron (BW/BM), Optimus Primal, Roadbuster.--[[Special:Contributions/96.237.141.219|96.237.141.219]] 16:31, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Cliffjumper, Fortress Maximus, Optimus Primal, Ultra Magnus--[[User:Spydersix|Spydersix]] 16:36, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Cliffjumper, Jetfire, Prowl [[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] 16:37, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Laserbeak (DOTM), Megatron (BW), Ravage, Unicron. [[Special:Contributions/95.151.0.33|95.151.0.33]] 17:04, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Fortress Maximus, Ginrai, Prowl, Ultra Magnus --[[User:Ookalf|Ookalf]] 17:06, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Impactor, Ironfist, Overlord, Straxus, Tarantulas --[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 18:25, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
* Bulkhead, Lugnut, Megatron (BW), Sky-Byte, Sunstorm --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 18:34, 23 February 2012 (EST) &lt;br /&gt;
* Blurr, Rattrap, Tarantulas, Thundercracker, Ultra Magnus --[[User:Russellestate|Russellestate]] 19:02, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blackarachnia, Inferno (BW), Rampage (BW), Sky-Byte, Swindle --[[Special:Contributions/72.187.230.66|72.187.230.66]] 19:08, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Megatron (BW), Nightbeat, Sentinel Prime (Animated), Sky-Byte, Thunderwing--[[Special:Contributions/74.110.211.53|74.110.211.53]] 19:24, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Laserbeak(G1), Optimus Primal, Predaking, Primus, Ultra Magnus (G1).If combiners count.If not then Warpath--[[User:Gamemaster|Gamemaster]] 7:53, 23 February 2012&lt;br /&gt;
*Rampage (BW), Rattrap, Scorponok (BW), Tarantualas (BW), Terrorsaur (BW) [[User:Stevo|Stevo]] 19:57, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Cheetor (Beast Era), Ginrai, Megatron (Beast Era), Optimus Primal, Thunderwing --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 20:03, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bluestreak, Chromia, First Aid, Prowl, Ravage--[[User:al_cielo|al_cielo]] 20:02, 23 February 2012&lt;br /&gt;
*Jetfire, Landmine, Sky lynx, Smokescreen, Swoop--[[User:Wwelord|Wwelord]] 20:08, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Botanica (both BW and Animated), Firestar, Moonracer, Perceptor (Animated), Slipstream (Animated).  If Botanica doesn&#039;t count, put Chromia in her place. --[[User:Firestar_of_Kalis|Firestar_of_Kalis]] 15:22, 23 February 2012 (HST)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Blackarachnia]], [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]], [[Sentinel Prime (DOTM)|Sentinel Prime]] -- [[User:Queso|¡Usa El Queso!]] &amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;[[User talk:Queso|Complain here]]&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; 20:42, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Megatron (BW), Sky-Byte, Wheeljack. ----[[Special:Contributions/71.17.207.182|71.17.207.182]] 20:59, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Megatron (BW), Optimus Primal, Skybyte --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 20:59, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Barricade]], [[Bulkhead]], [[Hot Rod]], [[Megatron (BW)]], [[Rattrap]] -- [[User:Awa64|Awa64]] 02:34, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
* Arcee, Bulkhead, Optimus Primal, Ironhide, Sky-byte --(Dinobotairfeather)&lt;br /&gt;
*Jetfire, Megatron(BW), Rampage(BW), Sari Sumdac(She counts), Sentinel Prime [[User:DinoFreakUSA|DinoFreakUSA]] 21:52, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead (Prime), Prowl (G1), Thundercracker (G1 and Cybertron), Ultra Magnus (RID), Wheeljack (G1) --[[Special:Contributions/68.147.45.66|68.147.45.66]] 22:19, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Cyclonus (G1), Galvatron (G1), Rampage (BW), Silverbolt (BW), Sky-Byte  --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 22:34, 23 February 2012 (EST) &lt;br /&gt;
*[[Arcee]], [[Blackarachnia]], [[Firestar]], [[Moonracer]], [[Sunstreaker]] --[[User:Metroplex|Metroplex]] 22:35, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
* Bombshell (G1), Cyclonus (G1), Demolishor (Armada), Scourge (RID), Swerve (G1) --[[User:Thunderweb|Thunderweb]] 23:17, 23 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Brawn (G1), Megatron (BW), Ravage (SG), Sunstorm (G1), Ultra Magnus (G1) {{unsigned|74.37.238.167}}&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]], [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]], [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] --[[User:G1MarvelBlaster|G1MarvelBlaster]] 00:47, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Barricade, BlackArachnia, Thunderwing, Wheeljack, Wreck-Gar[[Special:Contributions/70.34.147.3|70.34.147.3]] 01:11, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Lugnut, Rotorstorm, Sixshot, Swindle, Wheeljack --[[User:Apoc|Apoc]] 01:36, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Prowl, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Ultra Magnus, Wheeljack {{unsigned|N2977R}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Bludgeon (G1), Megatron (Beast Wars), Scorponok (G1), Thunderwing (G1), Unicron -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 04:19, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Kup, Rattrap, Wreck-Gar --[[User:Cr85747|Cr85747]] 4:47, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Omega Supreme, Overlord, Ratbat, Sideways, Sky-Byte - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 05:25, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blades, Cliffjumper, Hot Shot, Rampage(BW), Thundercracker [[User:Wasp-shot23|Wasp-shot23]] 06:53, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Astrotrain (G1), Blitzwing (G1), Bombshell, Laserbeak (G1), Rumble (G1) --[[User:Flicky1991|Flicky1991]] 09:26, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Cosmos, Ironfist, Repugnus, Swerve, Tailgate -- JediFlaherty 11:50, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Cheetor, Devastator, Ravage, Sky-Byte -- [[User:Rav|Rav]] 14:51, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Laserbeak, Megatron (BW), Sky-Byte, Swindle - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] 16:25, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bonecrusher, Devastator, Leadfoot, Roadbuster, Sky-Byte --[[User:Atomic Horse|Atomic Horse]] 17:47, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Devastator, Megatron (BW), Omega Supreme, Rattrap --[[User:Endgame|Endgame]] 18:05, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee(g1),Blitzwing(g1/animated),Bulkhead(animated/prime),Cyclonus(g1),Predaking(g1)--[[User:Bardock12|Bardock12]] 18:11, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bludgeon, Overlord, Prowl, Ultra Magnus, Wreck-Gar --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 18:47, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Crosswise, Hotshot, Vehicon (Prime), Wheeljack [[Special:Contributions/74.90.6.206|74.90.6.206]] 19:06, 24 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Hot Shot, Sky-Byte, Ultra Magnus, Unicron {{unsigned|64.121.173.16}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Barricade, Ironfist, Prowl, Thundercracker --[[User:TrashTalk|TrashTalk]] 01:33, 25 February 2012 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
*Alpha Trion, Arcee (Prime), Bulkhead, Prowl (Animated), W heeljack -- [[Special:Contributions/134.161.85.66|134.161.85.66]] 00:18, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Cyclonus, Kup, Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus--[[User:Starscream0625|Starscream0625]] 00:24, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bomb-Burst (G1), Cosmos, Warpath, Wheelie (G1), Wreck-Gar (G1 and Animated) {{unsigned|115.135.229.16}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Cliffjumper, Cyclonus, Hot Rod, Kup, Skywarp {{unsigned|98.132.183.140}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Megatron (BW), Nightbeat, Rattrap, Skullgrin, Springer - [[User:Danja|Danja]] 10:56, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Kup, Megatron (BW), Rattrap, Sky-Byte --[[User:G.B. Blackrock|G.B. Blackrock]] 11:19, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Blitzwing, Hot Rod, Rattrap, Sky-Byte --[[User:TrentTroop|TrentTroop]] 12:04, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Cyclonus, Galvatron, Megatron (BW), Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus --[[Special:Contributions/50.138.134.40|50.138.134.40]] 12:29, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Hot Shot, Megatron (BW), Optimus Primal, Rodimus, Ultra Magnus --[[User:Amadeus Windfall|Amadeus Windfall]] 12:52, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Hot Rod, Rattrap, Sky-Byte, Swindle -- GR&lt;br /&gt;
*Blaster, Megatron (BW), Prowl, Ravage, Skids --[[User:Chip|Chip]] 13:50, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee,Blackarachnia,Cliffjumper,Megatron(BW),Straxus---Abdullah &lt;br /&gt;
*Prowl, Roadbuster, Springer, Soundwave, Thundercracker --[[User:Shafau|Shafau]] 14:07, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Drift, Laserbeak, Megatron (BW), Thundercracker (G1), Wheeljack. {{unsigned|98.232.210.235}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Blurr, Bulkhead, Jetfire, Unicron, Wheeljack --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 14:51, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Broadside, Bulkhead, Jetfire, Megatron (BW), Unicron [[User:ShinRa Actual|ShinRa Actual]] 15:49, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Hot Rod, Megatron (BW), Sky-Byte [[User:MrBlud|MrBlud]] 20:19, 25 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Beachcomber (G1), Blurr (G1), Tracks (G1), Ultra Magnus (G1)--nikikt&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Lockdown, Omega Supreme, Scourge(RiD) -- [[User:Assey|Assey]] 23:20, 25 February 2012 (EST) &lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Devastator, Scorponok, Wheeljack, Wreck-Gar -- {{unsigned|24.3.231.149}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Cyclonus, Hot Rod, Optimus Primal, Sky-Byte, Wheeljack -- [[User:Anguirus]]&lt;br /&gt;
*Liokaiser, Metal Hawk, Minerva, Sixshot, Star Saber -- [[user:XenoStryker|XenoStryker]]&lt;br /&gt;
*Darkwing, Dreadwind, Impactor, Swindle, Xaaron - [[Special:Contributions/94.195.192.254|94.195.192.254]] 03:46, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blackarachnia, Hot Rod, Rattrap, Sky-Byte, Unicron -- [[user:Daith]]  &lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Scourge (RiD), Sideways, Sky-Byte, Wheeljack -- [[User:Sky Shadow|Sky Shadow]] 07:46, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Knock Out, Prowl, Skywarp, Sunstreaker, Thundercracker--[[User:TheHappyShark|TheHappyShark]] 09:27, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blackarachnia, Megatron (BW), Optimus Primal, Ravage, Shokaract--[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 10:47, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blackarachnia, Blaster, Guzzle, Megatron (BW), Ravage --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 12:12, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Carnivac, Straxus, Swindle, Under-3, Xaaron [[User:Blueshift|Blueshift]] 12:18, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Rattrap, Ravage, Scorponok, Swoop, Thundercracker {{unsigned|24.21.71.55}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Megatron (BW), Sky-Byte, Swindle [[Special:Contributions/75.89.162.254|75.89.162.254]] 15:23, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Black Zarak, Erector, Fortress Maximus, Minerva, Swindle -- Star Sabre James 14:35 February 26, 2012 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Fortress Maximus, Minerva, Prowl, Skywarp, Swindle -- Lowlight 14:46 February 26, 2012 (CST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blitzwing, Lockdown, Overlord, Prowl, Wheeljack {{unsigned|Astrotrain85}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Bludgeon, Metalhawk, Minerva, Unicron, Thunderclash {{unsigned|Aernaroth}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Cliffjumper, Hot Shot, Ultra Magnus, Wheeljack -- [[User:Thedude|Thedude]] 17:21, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Devastator, Rodimus Prime, Skywarp, Thundercracker, Ultra Magnus -- [[User:PsychoAndy|PsychoAndy]] 18:08, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Jetfire, Optimus Primal, Prowl (G1), Silverbolt (BW), Superion -- [[Pizzle]] 18:20, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Sky-Byte, Star Saber, Swindle, Thundercracker -- [[User:Terrortron|Terrortron]] 19:05, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Megatron (BW), Ravage, Sky-Byte, Swindle [[User:Pencoin|Pencoin]] 19:59, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Brawl, Hot Shot, Megatron (BW), Prowl, Swindle -- [[User:Karhukjnsi|Karhukjnsi]] 22:02, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Blackarachnia]], [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Optimus Primal]], [[Rattrap]], [[Ravage]] -- [[User:AWT88|AWT88]] 23:06, 26 February 2012 (EST) &lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Rattrap, Sky-Byte, Wheeljack (G1) [[User:EShadowP|EShadowP]] 23:16, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee (Prime), Ratchet (Prime), Roadbuster, Starscream (Armada), Wheeljack (G1) --[[Special:Contributions/98.109.187.86|98.109.187.86]] 23:31, 26 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Hot Rod/imus, Nightbeat, Perceptor, Ultra Magnus --[[User:Trixter|Trixter]] 00:08, 27 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Botanica, Bulkhead, Demolishor, Lugnut, Sky-Byte --[[Special:Contributions/62.254.76.247|62.254.76.247]] 04:20, 27 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Lugnut, Sky-Byte, Swindle {{unsigned|87.251.221.57}}&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Blades (RB)|Silverbolt 2]], [[Blitzwing (disambiguation)|THA BLITZ, THA HOLE BLITZ &amp;amp; NUTHIN&#039; BUT THA BLITZ]], [[Prowl (Animated)|The ninja bot who never finnished his training]], Hellscream, [[Thunderwing (G1)| BIG &amp;amp; BAD, Thunderwing]]--[[User:Jazzerprime|Jazzy primey, yo]] 5:43, February 28, 2012&lt;br /&gt;
*Ginrai (Masterforce), Metalhawk (Masterforce),  Minerva (Masterforce), Overlord (Masterforce), Sky-Byte (RID)-- Megabattimus&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Megatron (BW), Minerva, Rattrap, Sky-Byte -- Hursticon&lt;br /&gt;
*Hot Rod, Nightbeat, Kup, Rodimus Prime, Ultra Magnus-- tburch&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Cheetor, Devastator, Minerva, Swindle-- MunkkyNotTrukk&lt;br /&gt;
*Amalgamous Prime, Drift (SG), Heatwave (SG), Jetstorm (SG), Solus Prime {{unsigned|219.79.17.93}} &lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Omega Supreme, Prowl, Ravage, Sky-Byte --[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 08:24, 27 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Beast Wars Megatron, Minerva, Rodimus, Sky-Byte, Swindle -- brickonator&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead(Animated), Megatron(BW), Rattrap, Rhinox, Sixshot -- ([[User:Proper Dave|Proper Dave]] 10:14, 27 February 2012 (EST))&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Megatron (BW), Optimus Primal, Sky-Byte, Wheeljack -- Barricade64&lt;br /&gt;
*Cannonball, Flatline, Megatron (BW), Optimus Primal, Sky-Byte --[[User:Spin-Out|Spin-Out]] 10:53, 27 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Alpha Trion, Megatronus Prime/The Fallen, Prima, Primus, Unicron {{unsigned|70.80.204.216}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee (prime), Knock out (prime), Rattrap (bw), Ravage, Silverbolt (bw) {{unsigned|Foxtrot}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Blurr(SG), Cliffjumper(SG), Dead-end (G1), Dreadwing(Prime), The Fallen {{unsigned|Ghostpirate}} &lt;br /&gt;
*Megatron (BW), Rattrap (BW), Terrorsaur (BW), Unicron, Ultra Magnus {{unsigned|62.252.152.189}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Lockdown, Rattrap, Wheeljack -- [[User:SamuraiMarmoset|SamuraiMarmoset]] 4:36 PM, 02-27-2012&lt;br /&gt;
*Cyclonus(Armada), Knock Out(Prime), Ravage(G1), Scourge(RID), Starscream(Armada) -- ~Tempest Prime9~ 5:06 PM, 02-27-2012&lt;br /&gt;
*Alpha Trion, Arcee, Devastator, Primus, Unicron -- Androiddxx 6:21 PM, 27 February 2012&lt;br /&gt;
*Dezarus, Dinobot2, Megazarak,Megatron(beast wars),Predaking--Android26 3:46 PM February 27&lt;br /&gt;
*Alpha Trion, Devastator, Prowl, Unicron, Wheeljack -- AWESOMEAUTOBOT 8:57 PM February 27 2012&lt;br /&gt;
*Alpha Trion, Hardhead, Jetfire, Kup, Warpath--IDWfan 9:26 PM, 27 February 2012&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Knock Out(Prime), Megatron (BW), Sky-Byte, Swindle -- [[User:Strangefour|Strangefour]] 22:32, 27 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Bulkhead, Prowl, Rattrap, Wheeljack --[[Special:Contributions/75.162.22.53|75.162.22.53]] 00:09, 28 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Powerglide (G1), Red Alert (Armada), Seaspray (G1), Tidal Wave (Armada), Wingsaber (cybertron) -- [[User:Powerspray231|Powerspray231]] 17:45 28th February 2012 (AEST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Fortress Maximus, Metalhawk, Rattrap, Skids, Vector Prime {{unsigned|123.211.2.245 }}&lt;br /&gt;
*Lockdown, Megatron(BW), Rodimus Prime, Sky-Byte, Thunderwing(G1) - [[User:Quickstrike|Quickstrike]] 05:49, 28 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Megatron(BW), Scarem, Sky-Byte, Wheeljack (Armada)- --[[User:Esser-Z|Esser-Z]] 12:50, 28 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee (Prime), Breakdown (Prime), Cyclonus (G1), Knock Out (Prime), Skywarp (G1) {{unsigned|Randanex}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Barricade, Beast Wars Megatron, Jetfire, Star Saber -- [[User:TulioDude|TulioDude]]&lt;br /&gt;
*Bludgeon, Knock Out (Prime), Mirage (Movie), Silverbolt (G1), Wheeljack (Prime) - [[User:bumblebeeradio|bumblebeeradio]]&lt;br /&gt;
*Blackarachnia, Blurr, Fortress Maximus, Rodimus, Wreck-Gar {{unsigned|176.9.53.41}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Megatron (BW), Mirage (Movie), Rattrap, Sideswipe (G1), Soundwave {{unsigned|206.53.78.111}}&lt;br /&gt;
*Blackarachnia, Perceptor, Scorponok, Sideways, Wheeljack -- --[[User:Cydra|Cydra]] 19:54, 28 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee, Devastator, Optimus Primal, Rodimus Prime, Unicron -- Lodril&lt;br /&gt;
*Beta, Nightracer, Omega Supreme, Optimus Primal, Rattrap -- Firestone&lt;br /&gt;
*Minerva, Swindle -- [[Special:Contributions/97.103.161.171|97.103.161.171]]&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead, Minerva, Sky-bite, Swindle, Wheeljack [[User:Fredbob|Fredbob]] 22:01, 28 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Galvatron, Jhiaxus, Kup, Ultra Magnus, Unicron [[User:Manuelle Magnus|Manuelle Magnus]] 07:35, 29 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Blackarachnia, Galvatron, Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime, Override, Wreck-Gar --[[User:Fortress Minimus|Fortress Minimus]] 10:46, 29 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Arcee(prime), DerpyBot(FiM), Hot Rod(G1), Lazerbeak(G1), Skywarp(G1) -- [[User:NightBlitz]] 16:34, 29 February 2012 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
*Bulkhead (Animated), Rattrap, Rhinox, Sky-Byte, Wreck-Gar -- [[User:Sprocket|Sprocket]] 12:36, 29 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
*Ultra Magnus, The Constructicons (G1) (if teams aren&#039;t allowed, go Devastator), Megatron (BW), Prowl, Straxus.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 13:56, 29 February 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category: TFWiki.net]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>User:Megatron Prime</title>
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&lt;div&gt;I hate internet cookies.&lt;br /&gt;
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In my view, Skywarp is Cyclonus and Thundercracker is Scourge.  Skywarp and Thunder are purple and blue respectively, as are Cyclonus and Scourge.&lt;br /&gt;
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My favorite character: [[Prowl (G1)]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Other favorites include, but are not limited to: [[Devastator (G1)]], [[Soundwave (G1)]], and the [[Combaticons]] as they are portrayed in [[Simon Furman]]&#039;s iteration of the [[IDW]]-verse.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<updated>2012-01-16T20:34:16Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;I hate internet cookies.&lt;br /&gt;
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In my view, Skywarp is Cyclonus and Thundercracker is Scourge.  Skywarp and Thunder are purple and blue respectively, as are Cyclonus and Scourge.&lt;br /&gt;
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My favorite character: [[Prowl (G1)]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>MediaWiki talk:Community Portal</title>
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		<updated>2012-01-14T18:51:10Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: /* SOPA and PIPA */ new section&lt;/p&gt;
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This is the place for discussion of topics that affect the entire wiki.  Some topics that would ordinarily be here have merited their own pages:&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Moving From Wikia:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Arriving|Arriving]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving|Leaving]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki:Community Portal/Complaints|Complaints]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;New Ad Policy:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki:Ads|Ads]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Bookworm Database-Crash:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central|Damage Control Central]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Project:Bookworm Crash]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving2|Leaving Take 2]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Server Move:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Arriving2|Arriving Take 2]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Relicensing:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Relicensing|Relicensing]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Dealing With Vandalism:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Vandalism|Vandalism]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;GoBots Sister Wiki:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/GoBots|Discussion on the place of GoBots in this wiki]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Aligned Timeline ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;m going to try and take a stab at creating an Aligned timeline that unites everything we know about the franchise(s) so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 09:48, 17 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Help Wanted ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Hello one and all.  I&#039;m here representing a newly created Role-Playing forum that is based in the Transformers Universe.  We&#039;re in the early stages yet, and are looking for people to help get the ball rolling.  Since this site seems to lack a dedicated forum (where requests like these would usually be made) and I haven&#039;t seen any other way to effectively say my piece in front of a large audience, I thought that posting here was the best way to &amp;quot;advertise&amp;quot; us, as it were.  I sincerely apologize if this was the wrong move on our part, or if I&#039;ve breached protocol at all, but I can assure everyone that our intentions aren&#039;t malign.  Those interested, please contact me using any of the ways that I have listed on my username page here on this site.  I won&#039;t tempt fate by linking our website here directly =P  &lt;br /&gt;
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Once again, you all have my sincere greetings, and I hope to hear from you soon.  Also, as a side note: the difference in quality between this page and the transformers wikia is amazing.  [[User:Rathian Warrior|Rathian Warrior]] 23:50, 3 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I&#039;m not sure if you&#039;ve crossed any lines, and frankly, you were polite enough about it that it&#039;s not a big deal, but you could always buy some ad space if you want to raise awareness of your forum.  It&#039;s cheap!  There&#039;s usually a link on every page around the banners, but if you didn&#039;t catch it, you can follow this link: [https://www.projectwonderful.com/advertisehere.php?id=25311&amp;amp;type=4 Project Wonderful TFWiki Page]--[[User:McFly|McFly]] 16:13, 8 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== &amp;quot;Fictional&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; categories ==&lt;br /&gt;
I think we need to come up with a consistent way to distinguish categories of things that are real and categories of things that have appeared in fiction. So far, we&#039;ve skimmed the issue by using synonyms, such as [[:Category:Companies|companies]] and [[:Category:Businesses|businesses]], but that doesn&#039;t really work for things like [[:Category:Magazines|magazines]], which is already used for real magazines. Currently, we have [[:Category:Fictional books]], [[:Category:Fictional video games]] that consider the fictional entities &amp;quot;different&amp;quot;. On the other hand, we have [[:Category:Real-world events by day]] and [[:Category:Real world films]]. We focus more on the fictional aspect of Transformers, so it makes sense to not point out the fictionality in categories, but &amp;quot;real world&amp;quot; sounds awkward to some. Which one should we use? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 00:26, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I thought I&#039;d cheat and see how some of the other fictional Wikis deal with the problem. Three different approaches I saw:&lt;br /&gt;
:*[http://tardis.wikia.com/ Doctor Who wiki] has a [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Real_world &amp;quot;Real World&amp;quot; category] for real world stuff and in most cases the categories for real world things are at &amp;quot;Real world X&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
:*[http://wookiepedia.org/ Wookiepedia] goes the parenthetical route, with &amp;quot;Books&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Books (real-world)&amp;quot;. Though they also have one or two like &amp;quot;Real world companies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
:*[http://stargate.wikia.com/ Stargate wiki] has &amp;quot;Books&amp;quot; versus &amp;quot;Stargate books&amp;quot; for real world books.&lt;br /&gt;
:I kinda like the parenthetical approach that Wookiepedia have taken. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 03:11, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I&#039;d favor pointing out the status of both categories, just to make absolutely clear what they are for. The words can be &amp;quot;Fictional&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Real-world&amp;quot; (I notice both real-world categories use a different spelling. Whichever it&#039;s gonna be (if), only one spelling should be used). &amp;quot;Nonfictional&amp;quot; kinda works as an alternative, would &amp;quot;Real-world&amp;quot; be disliked. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 04:35, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::If we go that route, I think &amp;quot;real-world&amp;quot; should be used, since &amp;quot;real world&amp;quot; is a lot more easier to fix than the other parsing. I like the Wookiepedia approach, but I&#039;m not sure that&#039;s enough to change how we already do categories. The idea to label both categories sounds nice, but &amp;quot;Fictional X&amp;quot; seems incongruous with unlabeled categories, such as &amp;quot;weapons&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;technology&amp;quot;, etc.; considering that our main focus is the fiction, I&#039;m leaning towards only labeling the real stuff. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 13:02, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::I think it would be advantageous to put a {{tl|disambig2}} at the top, so people could easily go from the fictional to the real world category too. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:30, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::Yeah, I think I put that on [[:Category:Films]] a while ago. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:57, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::Speaking of this, I found we handle [[:Category:Films]] like [[:Category:Real people]], wouldn&#039;t this be some, um, confusing? It&#039;s just, somehow, reverse? (Except for the fictional films like &#039;&#039;Honoji&#039;&#039;) According to the logic of how we handle [[:Category:Real people]], shouldn&#039;t we place films like &#039;&#039;40-Year-Old Virgin&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;Godzilla&#039;&#039; in the [[:Category:Real world films]]? --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 23:04, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::Godzilla doesn&#039;t go in &amp;quot;Real world films&amp;quot; because it&#039;s not a real world &#039;&#039;Transformers&#039;&#039; film. The Transformers is implied in that category name. Presumably we could have a &amp;quot;Real films&amp;quot; category for Godzilla, etc, but I&#039;m not sure it&#039;s worth doing. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:53, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::We shouldn&#039;t use &amp;quot;fictional X&amp;quot; for two reasons. One, there things like [[As the Kitchen Sinks]] that are fictional even within the fictional Transformers universe. Second, the wiki is written in-universe by default and putting [[Big Steve&#039;s Used Cars]] in a &amp;quot;fictional businesses&amp;quot; category would kind of break that. Within Transformers fiction, &amp;quot;Big Steve&#039;s Used Cars&amp;quot; is not a fictional company, but &amp;quot;As the Kitchen Sinks&amp;quot; is a fictional TV show. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 18:47, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::In-universe, As the Kitchen Sinks is not a fictional show. It depicts fictional events and fictional people, yes, but the show itself, as a piece of entertainment, is not fictional. I do get your point, as we actually have things like [[Frankenstein]] that are two layers of fiction removed from us. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 19:18, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::::Yes, of course. I meant, in-universe, &#039;&#039;As the Kitchen Sinks&#039;&#039; is a work of fiction, whereas &amp;quot;Big Steve&#039;s Used Cars&amp;quot; is a real business that sells real used cars to real people. Have I been saying it wrong all this time? Wasn&#039;t &#039;&#039;Buck Rogers&#039;&#039; a fictional TV show? Anyway, it sounds like you got my point. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 21:14, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::::Or, judging by the fact categories like &amp;quot;Magazines&amp;quot; in used for magazines in our real life and &amp;quot;Companies&amp;quot; for companies in real life, why not just use &amp;quot;Film&amp;quot; for films (such as DOTM) in real life, while we move current contents in &amp;quot;Films&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Films in &#039;&#039;Transformers&#039;&#039; fictions&amp;quot;? --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 23:04, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::::::That seems like it would go counter to some of our existing naming schemes. e.g. if we split that out into films by franchise, you&#039;d get &amp;quot;Films in Generation 1&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;Generation 1 films&amp;quot;. Though admittedly the former title might have the advantage that it&#039;s clearer in meaning. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:50, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::::::I think both are equally ambiguous in their meaning. If we still need to clarify the purpose of the categories, we can always spell it out in the category&#039;s introduction. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 00:03, 7 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== &amp;quot;Transformers: &amp;quot; ==&lt;br /&gt;
We talked a bit about adding back &amp;quot;Transformers: &amp;quot; to the titles of articles [[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Archive51#When_to_omit_.22Transformers.22_from_an_article_title|previously]], and the general sentiment was that people were for it or didn&#039;t have an issue with it. Does anybody else have any input in this matter? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 00:34, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I&#039;m okay with this change, but I do have three questions on execution. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;1.) Whether or not &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; is followed by a colon seems random in our current system. How will that be handled? &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;2.) If &amp;quot;Transformers(:)&amp;quot; is going to be added to every relevant page name, then what about all the extra words in the titles of Japanese stuff? &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;3.) What conseuqneces will this have for categories, lists, storylinks, etc? &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;[[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 04:41, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::#I think we&#039;ve had two consistent rules about that: If the title is some kind of phrase, like &amp;quot;Transformers United&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;The Transformers Collection&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;Transformers Animated&amp;quot;, then we don&#039;t use the colon. If the title is some kind of obvious &amp;quot;title: subtitle&amp;quot; setup (&amp;quot;Transformers: Armada&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Transformers: Prime&amp;quot;), then we use the colon. There&#039;s some borderline examples, but I think we can figure them out one by one. Official sources will help with determining colon-status. The other rule seems to apply to only games: If the title has another subtitle, then the first colon is dropped (ex. [[Transformers Prime: Terrorcon Defense]]). I dunno why, but we can add back the colon, I suppose.&lt;br /&gt;
::#I guess we add them? We could argue it for &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039;, since it was released in English contexts as just &amp;quot;Transformers: Victory&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
::#I think we&#039;re just going to continue the same in relation to those. The articles will still be sorted by their subtitles in categories. Storylinks I could go either way on, but I think the trend is to drop the main title. I&#039;ve been doing that for the AAII storylinks to avoid excessively long links. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 12:49, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::I don&#039;t see how &amp;quot;Transformers United&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Transformers Animated&amp;quot; are any different from &amp;quot;Transformers: Prime&amp;quot;. To me, all three could fall into either of your groups (phrase vs subtitle) and would prefer colons in all of those cases. Of your examples, only &amp;quot;The Transformers Collection&amp;quot; seems to really belong in the &amp;quot;phrase&amp;quot; group. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:22, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::&amp;quot;United&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Animated&amp;quot; are adjectives that modify &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; and have official sources that omit the colon. &amp;quot;Transformers Prime&amp;quot; doesn&#039;t make sense in that way. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 14:58, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::I am not certain about those two &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot; for colons either. They&#039;re rather vague and bound to cause arguments and confusion. It needs to be made more obvious whether a colon should be used or not before &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; can be added everywhere (a help page on the matter would also be handy in the future, me thinks).&lt;br /&gt;
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::::I think that if we would put the cartoon at &#039;&#039;Transformers: Victory&#039;&#039;, that would cause confusion with the manga, storypages, toyline and franchises, none of which were ever brought over and should thus not be named such. If moved, the &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039; cartoon should best go to its Japanese name. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 15:28, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;shrug* The first rule is mostly there for Transformers Animated, which people will be resistant to moving to have a colon (plus, obvious cases like The Transformers Collection). The second rule I really don&#039;t care about and can be tossed (it mostly only concerns the movie series of video games and online games). [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:04, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::Are you suggesting there that Victory articles should be moved to &amp;quot;Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory&amp;quot;? I&#039;d disagree with that, if so! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:25, 10 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::Why? We can&#039;t go around writing out the full names of Western franchises and stuff but not do so for the Japanese stuff. We already have &amp;quot;Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers&amp;quot; written out for the 1985 &amp;amp; 1986 Japanese franchises, so why not &#039;&#039;Victory&#039;&#039;? [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 07:30, 10 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::Victory (the cartoon) has been released in the West as &amp;quot;Transformers: Victory&amp;quot;, to me that means that the official English name of the franchise &#039;&#039;is&#039;&#039; Transformers: Victory. Yes, we should give the full Japanese title at the beginning of the franchise page but there is no reason to move anything to that name. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 08:35, 10 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::::That was pretty much my reasoning too (also typing out the full name every time we wanted to link to it would be tedious). --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:59, 10 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::::Tying out &amp;quot;(franchise)&amp;quot; every time for everything is more tedious, but we still have it (for... some reason). Ditto long titles like [[The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers]] and [[Transformers Vault]]&#039;s previous ridiculously long title. &lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::But I guess the general principle of &amp;quot;Transformers: &amp;quot; is acceptable to most. I&#039;ll start moving the noncontroversial pages (Western comics and cartoons with definite subtitles, etc.) if there&#039;s no opposition in the next few hours. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 18:08, 10 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::::::Is there a difference between [[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering]] and [[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Ascending|Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending]]? I must admit, the comma/colon distinction seems kinda arbitrary. Also, these page names seem kind of overlong and stupid, what&#039;s wrong with [[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Ascending|The Ascending]] and [[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]? It&#039;s a Transformers wiki and those are Beast Wars series; prefixing everything we possibly can with &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; is only going to clog up the search box and make editing just that bit more arduous. What were the arguments in favour of this again? --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 16:21, 12 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::::::That&#039;s the formatting used in the indicia. Your complaint about the search box is silly; did you really think typing &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; into it yielded anything useful 99% of the time?&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::::Like it or not, &amp;quot;Transformers: &amp;quot; is the part of the name of many things, and the hoops we have to go through to maintain this silly system of dropping it from article titles has gotten ridiculous and inconsistent. Adding &amp;quot;Transformers: &amp;quot; to article titles, on the other hand, adds &#039;&#039;clarity&#039;&#039; and avoids pointless disambiguation. &amp;quot;The Transformers: Bumblebee&amp;quot; is preferable to &amp;quot;Bumblebee (comic)&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Transformers: Sector 7&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Sector 7 (comic)&amp;quot;, etc. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:44, 12 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::::::::I get that it&#039;s useful in some cases, but it just seems like applying the rule across the board means we&#039;re overcomplicating the issue. Occam&#039;s razor has a lot going for it, and for user-friendliness I&#039;d go for brevity. --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 17:11, 12 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::::::::Also on an Occam&#039;s razor tip, &amp;quot;Bumblebee (comic)&amp;quot; conveys more information in fewer characters than &amp;quot;Transformers: Bumblebee&amp;quot;. I really don&#039;t understand why the latter is preferable. --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 14:06, 13 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::::::::There&#039;s something to say for either argument, but as it is, we have proven to be unable to keep to one consistent &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot;-as-part-of-the-title policy at least since TFA. And if trying to keep &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; out of the deal doesn&#039;t work, we oughta give the alternative a chance. I don&#039;t think it necesarilly makes it harder to find anything, as the search box reacts to words even if they are not the first part of a page title. And I want to have the changes in clear perspective before I might suggest deleting a few redirects, so at least for now, searches won&#039;t be any harder and we have a consistent policy. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 14:49, 13 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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I gotta say, I&#039;m hating how this is working in practice.  Article titles seem long and ugly to me.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 15:46, 13 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I feel the same, but it seems to be an necessary evil because &amp;quot;Transformers: ***&amp;quot; is a full title? duh. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 22:45, 13 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I fear the day someone decides to add full titles to disambiguation suffixes as well, e.g. &amp;quot;Optimus Prime (Transformers Animated)&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Grindor (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)&amp;quot; etc.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 13:43, 15 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::That would be silly, and I&#039;m pretty sure most people would oppose it. Putting &amp;quot;Transformers:&amp;quot; in names is a change we&#039;d already been drifting towards for a while with, for instance, the War for Cybertron articles all doing it. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:32, 15 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::On a related note, it&#039;s a pet peeve of mine when a writeup talks about a specific medium related to a franchise but links to the franchise as a whole instead, such as &amp;quot;Jetfire was released as part of wave 1 of the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] toyline&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;in episode 6 of the [[Energon (franchise)|Energon]] cartoon...&amp;quot;.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 17:29, 15 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Would the best solution there be something like &amp;quot;Jetfire was released as part of wave 1 of the [[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]] [[Cybertron (toyline)|toyline]]&amp;quot;? --[[Special:Contributions/77.99.176.103|77.99.176.103]] 03:32, 29 September 2011 (EDT) (oops, emvee not logged in)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I think linking to the toyline page is sufficent. There&#039;s no need for an additional link to the corresponding umbrella franchise. The thought behind this is: &amp;quot;If Joe McRandom sees something that interests him and clicks a link, does he want the link to take him straight to the specific topic or to a more general overview?&amp;quot; I think link targets should always be as specific as necessary. If someone gets interested in a broader overview, he can always go one level up. After all, a link referring to G1 Optimus Prime leads to [[Optimus Prime (G1)]], not to [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)]], either. In the same fashion, toyline pages should deeplink to the specific toy entries on the respective characters&#039; pages (or even their toy pages, if applicable). Like, if Joe McRandom is on the [[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|Universe (2008 toyline)]] page, sees a &amp;quot;Prowl&amp;quot; toy listed under &amp;quot;Deluxe Class&amp;quot; and wants to read more about that toy, he wants the &amp;quot;Prowl&amp;quot; link to take him straight to [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)]], not to the [[Prowl (G1)|main character page]] where he then has to scroll down to &amp;quot;toys&amp;quot;, see that G1 Prowl toys have their separate page, go &#039;&#039;there&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;then&#039;&#039; scroll down to &amp;quot;Universe (2008)&amp;quot;. (It currently links to [[Prowl (G1)/toys]], which is at least halfway there.) I will fix this wherever I see it, and implement it when doing writeups.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 08:11, 13 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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===Suggestion to creating templates===&lt;br /&gt;
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Do we need some kinds of templates when typing contents for convenience? For my experience in Terminator Wiki, we use templates like &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{T3}} for &#039;&#039;[[Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines]]&#039;&#039; or {{TSCC}} for &#039;&#039;[[Terminator: The Sarah Connnor Chronicles]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;. What I&#039;m suggesting is that after we make all franchise names into full title (and we don&#039;t use redirect links), it is some how trouble some when typing the title. So we can make some templates like:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{tf|Armada}} -&amp;gt; &#039;&#039;[[Transformers: Armada (franchise)|Transformers: Armada]]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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{{tf|Armada|toyline|Pokeformer}} -&amp;gt; &#039;&#039;[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Pokeformer]]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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{{jptf|bwn}} -&amp;gt; &#039;&#039;[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo]]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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If there is any user who can created complex template, we could make&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
{{tf|armada|t}} -&amp;gt; &#039;&#039;[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Transformers: Armada]]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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parameter 1:&lt;br /&gt;
2010 = Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010 (toyline)&lt;br /&gt;
thm = Transformers: The Headmasters (toyline)&lt;br /&gt;
mf = Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (toyline)&lt;br /&gt;
v = Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Victory&lt;br /&gt;
z = Transformers: Zone&lt;br /&gt;
roc = Transformers: Return of Convoy&lt;br /&gt;
oc = Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination&lt;br /&gt;
armada = Transformers Armada&lt;br /&gt;
bwn = Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo&lt;br /&gt;
mov = Movie&lt;br /&gt;
rotf = Revenge of the Fallen&lt;br /&gt;
tfa = Transformers Animated&lt;br /&gt;
...and (blah blah)&lt;br /&gt;
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parameter 2:&lt;br /&gt;
*default* - franchise&lt;br /&gt;
t - toyline&lt;br /&gt;
ct - cartoon&lt;br /&gt;
co - comic&lt;br /&gt;
m - manga&lt;br /&gt;
f - film&lt;br /&gt;
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And, if possible:&lt;br /&gt;
if parameter 3 = s (for example), it will become short title like &#039;&#039;[[Transformers: Armada (toyline)|Armada]]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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--&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 21:42, 24 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:It&#039;s something I&#039;ve thought about as well. Considering there are a lot of exceptions to the regular naming system (parts of franchises that are called something different or franchises that lack the (franchise) identifier on the wiki because it&#039;s not necessary to disambiguate it), I don&#039;t think a template can be coded to put a link together. A full list system like our TFtoon templates have could maybe work though. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 16:08, 25 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I think with the number of franchises we have, it would end up being a hellishly big template and difficult to maintain for only a minor gain. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:03, 25 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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===&amp;quot;Fight! Super Robot Lifeform&amp;quot; Transformers===&lt;br /&gt;
With the insertion of this phrase into the Victory page titles, should it also be inserted into the titles of The Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce, and Zone? now while the immediate answer would be &amp;quot;No&amp;quot;, there are some places that do include this text above the &amp;quot;Toransufōmā&amp;quot; text in each of these series&#039;s logos. An example of this would the [[Transformers Tapestry]] (which even includes it in the Operation combination logo as well) and the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Columbia_Zone_DVD.jpg Columbia DVD of Zone]. Its inclusion in these places seems more than mere coincidence, so would we take this idea into consideration? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 14:33, 23 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Um, that &#039;&#039;Zone&#039;&#039; DVD does not support your assertion. All of the &#039;&#039;actual&#039;&#039; media for those series (except for the Zone manga and story pages) do not include The &amp;quot;Fight!...&amp;quot; portion. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:58, 23 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Technically the whole toyline in Japan from 1985 to 1992 was called &amp;quot;Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers&amp;quot; (as was written on the boxes), so at least the toyline pages for the series of those years would probably need the longer title than just &amp;quot;Transformers: &#039;&#039;X&#039;&#039; (toyline)&amp;quot; --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 16:04, 25 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::So you want to move the toyline pages to some made-up name? Pick one: 1) Merge all of the toyline pages to &amp;quot;Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers (toyline)&amp;quot; 2) Leave the toyline pages as they are instead of stressing over naming things that technically don&#039;t exist. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:23, 25 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::How is it &amp;quot;made up&amp;quot;? &amp;quot;Tatakae! Chō Robot Seimeitai&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;Fight! Super Robot Lifeform&amp;quot; and is written above the &amp;quot;Toransufōmā&amp;quot; text on the packages of the 1985-1992 Japanese toys. I&#039;m not proposing we merge all those toyline pages together, but rather something akin to the [[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)|Japanese Beast Wars toyline]] page, in which the individual toylines are kept separate even though they were all collectively the same-named toyline. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 17:25, 25 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::&amp;quot;Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Headmasters&amp;quot; and its ilk are the imaginary names. Those articles for imaginary toylines are fine where they are. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 17:53, 25 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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===&amp;quot;Movie&amp;quot;===&lt;br /&gt;
There&#039;s still [[Movie (franchise)]], [[Movie (toyline)]] and more. Shouldn&#039;t that be &amp;quot;Transformers (2007 franchise)&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Transformers (2007 toyline)&amp;quot;, with the current [[Transformers (2007)]] becoming &amp;quot;Transformers (2007 movie)&amp;quot;?--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 20:44, 24 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Probably. I didn&#039;t move them, since I wanted to bring it up for discussion first. The film should be moved to just &amp;quot;Transformers (film)&amp;quot;, though. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 21:05, 24 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:&amp;quot;Movie (&#039;&#039;media&#039;&#039;)&amp;quot; should be moved to &amp;quot;Transformers (2007 &#039;&#039;media&#039;&#039;)&amp;quot; while &amp;quot;Transformers (2007)&amp;quot; goes &amp;quot;Transformers (film)&amp;quot;. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 21:27, 24 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::That push for lexical accuracy strikes me as creating more ambiguity than it resolves.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 16:06, 25 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Jungaroo==&lt;br /&gt;
Someone made a lovely [[Jungaroo]] gobox, but there&#039;s no page for him. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 21:23, 6 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I don&#039;t think he&#039;s in any applicable fiction, but his [http://home.comcast.net/~BattleBeastSD/MGCKang.html bio card is online here]. Someone will have to translate it from Japanese first though. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:25, 15 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Making the search suggestion work better ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&#039;t know if anyone else has this problem, but I noticed sometimes when I type something in the search box, the search suggestions below it jump around and end up on a list which doesn&#039;t quite match what I typed. I think it&#039;s something to do with the speed I&#039;m typing and the amount of time the server takes to respond to each request.&lt;br /&gt;
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Anyway, I tweaked the javascript for grabbing the suggestions from the server so it would only trigger when I stopped typing. That seems to fix the problem for me, and as a bonus it&#039;s not nagging the server on every keypress. The downside is no instant feedback when I type, but I can live without that if it fixes the other thing.&lt;br /&gt;
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If anyone else is having that problem and wants to have a go, just copy and paste the following into your [[Special:MyPage/monacobook.js|monacobook.js]] (caveat: only tested on Firefox and Chrome):&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
var ss_memory = null;&lt;br /&gt;
var ss_timeron = 0;&lt;br /&gt;
var ss_timer;&lt;br /&gt;
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function DoActualSearch() {&lt;br /&gt;
    ss_timeron=0;&lt;br /&gt;
    var newdiv = document.getElementById(&amp;quot;searchsuggest&amp;quot;);&lt;br /&gt;
    if (!newdiv) {&lt;br /&gt;
        var newdiv = document.createElement(&amp;quot;div&amp;quot;);&lt;br /&gt;
        newdiv.id = &amp;quot;searchsuggest&amp;quot;;&lt;br /&gt;
        var searchdiv = document.getElementById(&amp;quot;searchBody&amp;quot;);&lt;br /&gt;
        searchdiv.appendChild(newdiv);&lt;br /&gt;
    }&lt;br /&gt;
    var x = document.getElementById(&amp;quot;searchInput&amp;quot;).value;&lt;br /&gt;
    if (x == ss_memory) {&lt;br /&gt;
        return;&lt;br /&gt;
    }&lt;br /&gt;
    ss_memory = x;&lt;br /&gt;
    document.getElementById(&amp;quot;searchsuggest&amp;quot;).style.display = &#039;none&#039;;&lt;br /&gt;
    if (x.length &amp;lt; 30 &amp;amp;&amp;amp; x.length &amp;gt; 1 &amp;amp;&amp;amp; x.value != &amp;quot;&amp;quot;) {&lt;br /&gt;
        sajax_do_call(&amp;quot;wfAjaxSearchSuggest&amp;quot;, [x], newdiv);&lt;br /&gt;
        document.getElementById(&amp;quot;searchsuggest&amp;quot;).style.display = &#039;block&#039;;&lt;br /&gt;
    }&lt;br /&gt;
}&lt;br /&gt;
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function MySearchCall() {&lt;br /&gt;
  if(ss_timeron) {&lt;br /&gt;
    clearTimeout(ss_timer);&lt;br /&gt;
    ss_timer=setTimeout(&amp;quot;DoActualSearch();&amp;quot;,500);&lt;br /&gt;
  } else {&lt;br /&gt;
    ss_timer=setTimeout(&amp;quot;DoActualSearch();&amp;quot;,500);&lt;br /&gt;
    ss_timeron=1;&lt;br /&gt;
  }&lt;br /&gt;
}&lt;br /&gt;
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function myss_ajax_onload(){&lt;br /&gt;
    var x = document.getElementById(&#039;searchInput&#039;);&lt;br /&gt;
    x.onkeyup = function(){&lt;br /&gt;
        MySearchCall();&lt;br /&gt;
    };&lt;br /&gt;
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hookEvent(&amp;quot;load&amp;quot;, myss_ajax_onload);&lt;br /&gt;
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Unfortunately it won&#039;t fix the actual contents of the search suggestions, so you&#039;ll still get a bunch of All Hail Megatron issues when you type &amp;quot;Megatron&amp;quot;, but that requires changes on the server. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:02, 14 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Hmm.  I feel like adding &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;ORDER BY `page_counter` DESC&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; around line 20 of &#039;&#039;suggest.php&#039;&#039; might help w/ our search results, but it&#039;s hard to say for sure given how abstracted mediawiki database calls are, someone would have ot make the change then test it.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:47, 15 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::The thought I had was to do a query on article titles starting with the search term, and then if that gives back less than 8 entries, do a second search to fill the rest of the list with titles with the term anywhere in the title. The search suggest currently supports both options, but not at the same time. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:07, 15 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Stuff==&lt;br /&gt;
: Firstly, our organization of information related to the junior franchises is terrible and I&#039;d love to do something about it, but I need feedback. We currently have most Japanese and American Go-Bots as separate characters, except for the Japanese Go-Bots from the 1-2-3 line. Though there are requests for a separate Chopper page. Should those pages be split or not? And if so, what about the figures that came with some of the toys. Kid-Bot clearly isn&#039;t the &amp;quot;red driver&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;blue driver&amp;quot;, but the dog and &amp;quot;Gas-Bot&amp;quot; both have fiction in only one of the two franchises, so is it worth separating them? Also, does the unpublished coloring book count as apocrypha or not, seeing as it was mostly approved? And the human characters within, do they count as cameos like Kelly in the Dreamwave comics or separate characters? And does anyone know what the Japanese name was by which the First Transformers were released? The Go-Bots fansite has an image of Dumpkun&#039;s box featuring what looks like a G1 logo, the First Transformers logo and &amp;quot;初めて トランスフォーマー&amp;quot; written on it.&lt;br /&gt;
: Secondly, many disambiguation pages still mention if there&#039;s a separate page for the toys of a character. Is this system still necessary now that we use subpages to separate such stuff under? [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 17:07, 23 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I think unpublished stuff is treated as apocrypha, isn&#039;t it? The character page coverage of unreleased Dreamwave issues is in notes, for instance. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:48, 24 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::True, but we don&#039;t know if those were approved or know those weren&#039;t approved. The coloring book was approved, just not released. That makes it better comparable to Wreckers #$, which we do not consider apocrypha (though I wouldn&#039;t know if we&#039;d do that if Wreckers #5 didn&#039;t partially canonize it). [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 11:39, 1 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Just weighing in on the toy page issue: I find it useful to have these called out on the disambig pages. Being able to go directly from the disambig page to the toy page of a character saves me at least one click (if I see the suite box in time) and often some scrolling (if I don&#039;t see it). However, I won&#039;t fight too hard on this if consensus is for the removal of this feature. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 07:47, 26 September 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::Thinking some more about the Go-Bots stuff, as the Japanese version of Gas-Bot has no fiction, it probably doesn&#039;t need its own page - either link to Gas-Bot&#039;s page or just leave it unlinked in the appropriate toy sections. Same with the US version of the dog. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 21:30, 24 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Facebook. ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Is &#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/TFwikinet/191252494230187&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039; us?  Because it&#039;s the #1 link when you search for &amp;quot;TFWiki Facebook,&amp;quot; and our group is nowhere to be seen. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 16:32, 12 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I think our group is not showing up because you have to have a Facebook account to see it? When I go to the group&#039;s URL, I just get a page prompting me to log in to Facebook. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:47, 12 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::The link is this one: [http://www.facebook.com/groups/28226443881/ http://www.facebook.com/groups/28226443881/], which is the #3 on the search by &amp;quot;TFwiki site:facebook.com&amp;quot; on Google. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 19:51, 12 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::So the other one isn&#039;t ours, and we can&#039;t put a link on it pointing it to the group.&lt;br /&gt;
:::Annoying.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 01:01, 13 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::It&#039;s a &amp;quot;Community page&amp;quot;, whatever that is. Clicking on the &amp;quot;Create a page&amp;quot; button on the top right of that page does bring up some sort of form which seems like it will do something. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:12, 13 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Halloween ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Presuming we&#039;re deco&#039;ing our frontpage for Halloween... does anyone have any suggestions?  Monsters, ghosts, gouls? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 02:09, 27 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Animated Blitzwing&#039;s random face looks sorta Jack O&#039;Lanterny and could work as a replacement for the Autobot insignia on the site logo, assuming we can find a head-on image of it. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:35, 27 October 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Moving &amp;quot;(Timelines)&amp;quot; articles ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;m thinking that, as we don&#039;t bother with &amp;quot;(Timelines)&amp;quot; for SG, TransTech, and Animated characters, we should apply the same across the board and only use it if necessary.&lt;br /&gt;
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*[[Astrotrain (Timelines)]] → Astrotrain (Cybertron)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Cannonball (Timelines)]] → Cannonball (G1)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Cop-Tur (Timelines)]] → Cop-Tur (G1)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Halogen (Timelines)]] → Halogen (G1)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Side Burn (Timelines)]] → Side Burn (G1)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Sky-Byte (Timelines)]] → Sky-Byte (G2)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Switchblade (Timelines)]] → Switchblade (BW)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Thunderblast (Timelines)]] → Thunderblast (G1)&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Yoketron (Timelines)]] → Yoketron (G1)&lt;br /&gt;
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The exceptions are the Descent into Evil characters, who don&#039;t really fit in any pre-existing franchise, and the Nexus Prime characters, who don&#039;t originate from a particular universe.&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Buzzclaw (Timelines)]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Dirge (Timelines)]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Flareup (Timelines)]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Landquake (Timelines)]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Ricochet (Timelines)]]&lt;br /&gt;
*[[Heatwave (Timelines)]]&lt;br /&gt;
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Thoughts? Or does nobody really care that much? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 10:19, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Since you asked, I&#039;ll pitch 2¢ into the conversation, since I know a little bit about it. I found out the hard way that wiki &amp;quot;doesn&#039;t bother with &#039;(Timelines)&#039; for Animated.&amp;quot; And by hard way, I mean I was clobbered over the head without a hint of explanation for proposing that a Timelines-original Animated continuity character should be at &amp;quot;(Timelines).&amp;quot; But no hard feelings. I still think &amp;quot;franchise of origin&amp;quot; and not &amp;quot;continuity of origin&amp;quot; is best for disambiguations. For reasons that have been discussed previously on the subject. TransTech and SG are treated as a kind of sub-franchises of Timelines by the wiki, so I think they are an OK exception. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 11:00, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::The prose stories are identified as &amp;quot;Transformers Timelines presents a Transformers: (franchise) story&amp;quot;. I would say that both franchises are equally valid to the stories, and the fact that non-Timelines stories (Around Cybertron, magazine comics, etc.) bleed together with Timelines stories makes the &amp;quot;(Timelines)&amp;quot; designation convoluted. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 11:12, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Well, that&#039;s different. It sounds like you are calling their actual franchise of origin into question, not just their disambiguation. I don&#039;t have an opinion about their actual franchise of origin. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 11:28, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::I&#039;m not denying that they&#039;re Timelines, but saying that they&#039;re better categorized under their other franchise. Like the Animated guys, it seems more instinctive to file [[Side Burn (Timelines)]] under &amp;quot;Side Burn (G1)&amp;quot; instead (not to mention that there&#039;s other Side Burn in Timelines: [[Side Burn (SG)]]).[[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 11:38, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
I&#039;m hesitating, but let me think about the ramifications.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 11:20, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I&#039;d be fine with this. Though, one thing I&#039;d like to propose is giving the Wings Universe characters their own disambiguation suffix. Like maybe &amp;quot;(Wings)&amp;quot; or something. I know it&#039;s a part of G1, but it&#039;s kinda like its own series within the over G1 continuity family like the Japanese G1 series are (which are also given their own suffixes such as &amp;quot;(Victory)&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;(ROC)&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;(BT)&amp;quot; etc.).&lt;br /&gt;
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:Though, as for the Descent into Evil characters, maybe something like &amp;quot;(DIE)&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;(Descent)&amp;quot; or even just &amp;quot;(Descent into Evil)&amp;quot;. Or, if not, keep them at &amp;quot;(Timelines)&amp;quot;. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 11:51, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I think the DIE guys are fine where they are (although you could argue moving [[Ricochet (Timelines)]] because of [[Ricochet (SG)]], but I don&#039;t really care). As for the Wings Universe guys getting their own disambiguation, eh... [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 12:02, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I am &#039;&#039;&#039;definitely absolutely&#039;&#039;&#039; against creating a (Wings) disambiguation when (G1) or (Timelines) work perfectly fine.  We do NOT disambiguate by continuity except by absolute necessity within a franchise.  Making up a (Wings) parenthetical just because incredibly confuses our disambiguation policy for no real reason.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:46, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::And what exactly keeps the Descent into Evil guys from being tagged G1? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 14:29, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Is the intermezzo period between G1 and BW considered G1 or BW?&lt;br /&gt;
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:::It&#039;s all G1 characters... and IIRC the Insecticons were supposed ot be part of Insecticon plans which had been around for ages, so the characters weren&#039;t &amp;quot;BW-era only&amp;quot; characters...&lt;br /&gt;
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:::I could support a G1 disambigif you talked me into it. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 15:01, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::DIE fiction (Descent into Evil itself and [[Intimidation Game]]) has elements of both BW and G1; it doesn&#039;t have a certain franchise placement. Dirge (Timelines) and Ricochet (Timelines) also have namesakes firmly in G1. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 15:14, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::BW is both BW and G1.  And G1 has been back-incorporating BW elements since, like, 1995.  The fact DIE has G1 and BW doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s part of neither.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 15:25, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I think that, by the nature of Timelines, it feels more natural to parse that specific set of characters by their continuity or parent-franchise of origin. Honestly, I think the Nexus components (&#039;&#039;all&#039;&#039; of them) are really the best and only candidates for the Timelines parser.&lt;br /&gt;
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::Also, I made a [http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Template:c quick template] that you guys could use here to simplify the coding for whenever you need to link a continuity-parsed name.[[Special:Contributions/192.249.47.196|192.249.47.196]] 15:37, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Unfortunately I don&#039;t think that template would work as well here, because our articles are not consistently named by franchise. For instance [[Lightspeed (G1 Technobot)]], [[Flattop (Autobot)]] and [[Impactor]] are all (G1) characters but don&#039;t use (G1) in their title, so the template wouldn&#039;t work for linking to them. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:05, 2 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I think that Timelines is a pretty clunky franchise for the purposes of this wiki, in that it covers multiple continuities.  I think the proposal on the table makes sense.--[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 12:31, 3 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Two spaces after a period in a sentence ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;ve noticed this for a while on the Wiki. In practice, it makes no difference as the software displays one space the same way it displays one. However, I&#039;ve been wondering why people do it. Now I &#039;&#039;&#039;know: They&#039;&#039;&#039; were taught so in school. &#039;&#039;&#039;By teachers who were taught on friggin&#039; &#039;&#039;typewriters&#039;&#039;.&#039;&#039;&#039; So the &amp;quot;two spaces after a period&amp;quot; rule is a leftover from the typewriter days, where it was a necessity, but it&#039;s completely obsolete on computers. [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/01/space_invaders.html Source]--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 07:16, 4 November 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:The sentence spacing rules were, in fact, developed by typographers, but were not phased out via the magical introduction of the personal computer.  The em-space rule exists for monospaced fonts, which were still fairly common for a great number of printers through the mid-1980s.  If you would like to begin a tyrannical series of grammar-based wiki edits, I would begin by avoiding the use of prepositions at the start of sentences.  I would also advise some respect for the proper use of colons and semi-colons, as typographical errors should not take priority over proper word selection and punctuation.  Cheers!  --[[User:McFly|McFly]] 14:20, 7 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Are you referring to sentences beginning with prepositional phrases for the sake of emphasis (also known as an introductory modifiers)? That&#039;s totally valid. Or do you mean idiocies such as relative clauses that are separated from the preceding main clause by a period instead of a comma? The most glaring typographic blunders I encounter on the wiki typically go hand in hand with awkwardly worded sentences and clunky terminology, so I&#039;m inclined to assume the same person(s) is/are responsible for all of those.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 20:14, 8 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I have bolded an example.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:14, 8 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Aw, you altered your post.  No fair!  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:16, 8 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::What&#039;d I alter? I just moved it up. Anyway... I&#039;d call that one &amp;quot;deliberate departure from proper grammar for the sake of dramatic emphasis&amp;quot;. It&#039;s about as improper as using a period after &#039;&#039;every. Single. Word.&#039;&#039; If it&#039;s obvious from the context that it&#039;s done for emphasis, I&#039;d call it acceptable as long as it&#039;s not used inflationary. I&#039;m sure we have a few cases of &amp;quot;We know it&#039;s not proper grammar, but we want to stress a point here&amp;quot; on the wiki. (How did the saying go again? &amp;quot;Know the rules first before you break them&amp;quot;?)--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 20:28, 8 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:....or you can just set the bot to convert &amp;quot;  &amp;quot; to &amp;quot; &amp;quot;. Since we don&#039;t output monospace font, or anything.[[Special:Contributions/192.249.47.196|192.249.47.196]] 15:22, 7 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Over the whole wiki, those extra spaces account for maybe 20kb of data, which I don&#039;t think is worth worrying about. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:21, 8 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Typed text is typed text, and the double-space after a period is still correct.  Shall we next be told that we&#039;re &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; for not having the wiki use the metric system, or for writing down dates with the month before the day instead of after it?  --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 23:31, 8 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Oh, and I bolded something too.  --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 23:36, 8 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
Due to habit, I&#039;m gonna double-space until I die.  I really don&#039;t think that needs to be considered a problem.  Is that really a problem?  An extra millimeter between sentences?  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 23:51, 8 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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Nevermore &#039;&#039;is&#039;&#039; right about it being mostly obsolete, but for purely technical reasons: All double (triple, etc.) spaces are collapsed down to one for display in HTML. If you want the extra spaces to actually be viewable as extra blank space, you have to use &amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;&amp;amp;&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;&amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;&amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;nbsp;&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt;. So if you double-space here on the wiki, it only shows up when you edit the page. For whatever that&#039;s worth. (Not really taking sides, just presenting the info.) --[[Special:Contributions/67.252.49.31|67.252.49.31]] 06:08, 9 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== More on the search box/&amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; everything ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Typing &amp;quot;Energon&amp;quot; into the search box does not give me [[Energon (franchise)]], [[Energon (cartoon)]] or [[Energon (toyline)]] as top results. Same for &amp;quot;Cybertron&amp;quot;. I assume this has to do with the recent &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; prefixing for article titles. However, typing &amp;quot;Animated&amp;quot; into the seach box &#039;&#039;does&#039;&#039; give me franchise and toyline as top results, so it should be &#039;&#039;possible&#039;&#039; despite the prefixing.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 07:36, 6 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:It&#039;s purely alphabetical, dude. &#039;&#039;Animated&#039;&#039; shows up before &#039;&#039;Arcee (Animated)&#039;&#039; because &amp;quot;An&amp;quot; precedes &amp;quot;Ar&amp;quot;, whereas &#039;&#039;Arcee (Energon)&#039;&#039; comes up before &#039;&#039;Energon&#039;&#039; because &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; precedes &amp;quot;E&amp;quot;. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 08:13, 6 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::There&#039;s an option in the search suggest tool to limit the results to stuff starting with the search query rather than with stuff with the term anywhere in their titles, however it&#039;s not something that can be configured through MediaWiki. There&#039;s a bit of discussion about it in the &amp;quot;Making the search suggestion work better&amp;quot; section up above. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 14:36, 6 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::If we wanted to do &#039;&#039;that&#039;&#039;, when we shouldn&#039;t have prefixed &amp;quot;Transformers:&amp;quot; before hundreds of articles 3 weeks ago. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:06, 19 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::We still have the titles without &amp;quot;Transformers: &amp;quot; as redirects though, so they&#039;ll still show up. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:23, 19 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Spam-dalism ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Is that the neologism for it? Anyway, somehow the ReCaptcha is failing to stop the automated spam, and I&#039;m guessing the IP&#039;s are all very different.&lt;br /&gt;
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How old are the accounts when they do this? If they&#039;re fairly new, would it be possible to simply block IPs and new accounts from inserting new external links? If not (or if that&#039;s unworkable), would it be possible to flag such edits for review the way that wikipedia does to edits on contested pages?&lt;br /&gt;
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Also, is there any chance these are at least coming from the same proxy? The fact that they&#039;re getting past ReCaptcha makes it seem like these are actual people doing this, unless ReCaptcha only activates on certain namespaces.[[Special:Contributions/192.249.47.196|192.249.47.196]] 14:25, 18 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I was using captcha with images on my phpBB installation on another site (Doctor Who related) until yesterday and getting a half dozen spammers a day signing up in despite of it. Yesterday I switched to a Question Answer challenge which asks the person registering to name the main character&#039;s time machine, and so far it has stopped the spammers dead.&lt;br /&gt;
:MediaWiki has [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuestyCaptcha QuestyCaptcha] which looks like it works in exactly the same way, and works with the ConfirmEdit extension we already have installed. If we can get that installed and set up, it might be more effective than the image-based system we use now. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:39, 18 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::What would the questions be? It can&#039;t be too obvious or too obscure. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 17:31, 18 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Not necessarily. The question I&#039;m using on my Doctor Who site is obvious if you have any knowledge at all of the source material, but it seems to be working. We can always start with something easy and see how we go. Most likely all of the spammers are using bots anyway. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:49, 18 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::&amp;quot;What is the name of the red-and-blue semi Autobot?&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;What&#039;s the name of the blue casette player Decepticon?&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;What is the name of the yellow semi Micromaster Autobot with a hydraulic crane?&amp;quot;[[Special:Contributions/192.249.47.196|192.249.47.196]] 17:50, 18 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::: &amp;quot;What is the fandom&#039;s usual reaction when a new franchise is announced?&amp;quot; :p [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 17:56, 18 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::&amp;lt;tt&amp;gt;If Dick has two apples and Jane has two apples, how many apples do they have?  (3 letters.)&amp;lt;/tt&amp;gt; -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:09, 19 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Ah, but then it would be so easy for users to use only three exclamation marks, and forget the requisite four exclamation marks and a 1.&lt;br /&gt;
::No but yeah, a question helps a lot. Might even be worth doing for all IP edits and new accounts, not just those with external links.[[Special:Contributions/192.249.47.196|192.249.47.196]] 15:57, 19 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::While we&#039;re on the subject, is it somehow possible to flag certain terms or words used by IP editors and auto-block them? *coughcoughobamacoughcough*[[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 16:31, 19 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::...but we have an article on [[Barry Obama]].&lt;br /&gt;
:::Are you trying to whitewash the wiki? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:13, 19 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: It was just an academic question; after all, I&#039;m sure that you&#039;ve noticed our considerable problem with a certain IP editor lately.  [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 17:19, 19 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::: Well yes... but I couldn&#039;t resist. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:43, 19 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::It&#039;s getting to the point where I&#039;m thinking a temp ban on the whole ISP might get better results. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:51, 19 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::sooo...who would you need to talk to about getting this set up, and what exactly do you want to restrict?[[Special:Contributions/192.249.47.196|192.249.47.196]] 19:45, 21 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::The guy whose IP addresses are always located in England who keeps vandalizing articles with Obama-related nonsense. Doesn&#039;t look like even banning IP ranges stops him. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 11:01, 22 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::...so, there&#039;s no way to stop this lunatic? [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 11:09, 22 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:But really, that&#039;s a separate issue with probably a separate solution, since the guy is a some kind of being. To deal with the spamdalism, I think you guys should add a &amp;quot;name that Transformer-mon!&amp;quot; question, which should cut down heavily on automated edits, and if they still get through, look at blocking all uses of external links for anonymous or new editors. The use of the question for all IP edits is fairly standard, so it should be easy to implement, and you can look into harsher measures if the bots still make it through. However, I really think you guys should make an effort to get this setup, because the conversation keeps kind of drifting down and the vandalism keeps happening.[[Special:Contributions/98.223.102.157|98.223.102.157]] 02:29, 23 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:: On another note... isn&#039;t it cute how he keps trying to badly pass himself off as me? I think someone has a bad case of hero-worship. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 10:09, 23 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Please stop egging on vandals. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 11:05, 23 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::: OK, on a more serious note, is anyone averse to just locking the wiki for a few days? Bulbapedia does it regularily and they don&#039;t have much of a vandalism problem. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 12:36, 23 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
Removing the &amp;quot;Undo&amp;quot; option for anons would help, at the very least. We need a regular tech person (or give abates access to the MediaWiki stuff, since he seems to know his way around). [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 14:12, 25 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::: What if we implemented a captcha system for anon edits? I mean, it wouldn&#039;t &#039;&#039;stop&#039;&#039; them, per se, but it would make persistent vandalism wars a hassle. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 14:16, 25 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I would not be opposed to that, or simple stock questions. (&amp;quot;Who is the leader of the Autobots?&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;What is two plus three?&amp;quot;, etc.) [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 14:23, 25 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::: But seriously, how did Mr. Obama Guy get past the rangeblock? Because that&#039;s rather worrysome in and of itself. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 14:26, 25 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::BT Internet has a lot of IP ranges. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:58, 25 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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1) CAPTCHA won&#039;t change crap. It &#039;&#039;might&#039;&#039; stop a small number of bot edits, but we have a large, active mod presence that basically polices this place around the clock, and any of those crappy ad pages can be eliminated in mere minutes, if not within seconds of their creation.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
2) There is basically &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;NOTHING&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; that can be done to &#039;&#039;stop&#039;&#039; someone who has decided that the best use of their time is constant, repeated, easily-reverted vandalism of a wiki. Well, okay there are a few options, but they&#039;re not ones any kind of wiki coding is gonna be part of. They&#039;ll find ways around bans, and all these automated things that are being suggested are basically shooting blind and wasting time. This is not remotely the first time someone has thought to do this. It won&#039;t be the last. But we&#039;ve outlasted all those others. And that&#039;s all it takes. Again... that large active 24-hour admin presence that quickly and coolly reverts the vandalism &#039;&#039;without getting all butthurt&#039;&#039;. That&#039;s what vandals want, to watch you get pissy and panicky and angry... &#039;&#039;and that&#039;s what you&#039;re giving them.&#039;&#039; So &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;shut up&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; and stop feeding that, then they&#039;ll eventually get bored and leave.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
3) I can perhaps get behind removing the &amp;quot;Undo&amp;quot; option for anons. I don&#039;t think though that it will really help much, since making an account takes what, a few seconds?&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
--[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 18:38, 25 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Um. I don&#039;t want to offend anyone, but the Obama-guy thing &#039;&#039;really&#039;&#039; isn&#039;t related to this topic, although some of the solutions to the spamdalism thing might work to hinder him. The bigger issue is the guys spamming the wiki with links to knockoff viagra, sort of thing, and putting up a simple question system for anons and new editors would work to stop that almost completely, at least everywhere I&#039;ve seen it in use.&lt;br /&gt;
:The mod presence, yeah, things eventually get cleaned up by the end of the day, but a simple, standard change like adding the question will prevent that from happening in the first place.[[Special:Contributions/99.39.88.159|99.39.88.159]] 22:44, 26 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Just to alleviate any concerns: In my experience, the question captcha does not prevent human edits except from the most severely uninformed editors, and it completely prevents the bot-spam, which at this point almost totally covers the RC when I happen to check it. Many other independent wikis, such as Halopedian, use the question captcha, so if you guys wanted a first-person POV on it, you could also ask them for their experiences. Basically, the captcha question should totally eliminate the bot-spam, with the only drawback being that it adds maybe a fraction of a second to anonymous human edits. So, given that, does anyone have any objections to adding the captcha question?[[Special:Contributions/192.249.47.196|192.249.47.196]] 13:09, 1 December 2011 (EST)--(same anon as throughout this topic)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Spelling throughout the Wiki ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;ve found that, on multiple spots on the Wiki, there are UK English spellings of words. Now, I know that the Transformers Wiki is a country-spanning project, but I&#039;d like a consensus on whether or not we should change incidences of UK spellings (like &amp;quot;practise&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;polarize&amp;quot;) to their American English counterparts. A streamlined flow using only one dialect would, I believe, make the editing process much easier. However, I do not want a backlash from UK users. &amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
P.S.: Damn you, Webster! You and your new-world dictionary!  [[User:TheMZone|TheMZone]] 18:09, 23 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:[[Help:Style guide#National varieties of English|Here is the wiki&#039;s policy on the subject]] just so you know. I myself don&#039;t think it needs changing. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 18:20, 23 November 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Why are the IDW books in  G1? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Going by our own Continuity Family article the concept is pretty much akin to TvTropes Broad Strokes, a rough outline of somewhat similar events. If the IDW comics are explicitly stated to be a REBOOT of G1, how do they count as part of that continuity family if Animated and the Film Series dont, which ostensibly could also be called G1 Reboots. Classic aspects, such as the Ark/Nemesis Crash Landing and dormancy , Unicron&#039;s attack as seen in the movie (which was more or less is continuity across G1) and hell, even there Beast Wars don&#039;t really sync up with past Family history. Does a reboot of G1 really count as G1? Say what you will about Dreamwave, but at least they TRIED to fir it in to some semblance of G1 Continuity, this seems to be more like a full start over, akin to Aligned or RID ((before the Japanese got to it.) -[[User:Lush City|Lush City]]&lt;br /&gt;
:Uggghhhhhh. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:09, 1 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Yeahhh, you not understanding the concept of Continuity Families particularly well.--[[Special:Contributions/76.28.76.206|76.28.76.206]] 16:30, 1 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::Other continuities within the G1 continuity family also eschew some of those classic aspects. In [[Action Blast 1]], for instance, the Autobots crash on present-day Earth and they don&#039;t hang around in stasis for millions of years. I don&#039;t think there&#039;s really a template of specific events that a G1 continuity has to stick to. That would hamper storytelling too much. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:59, 1 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Also, they share a lot of the same characters, body designs, and personalities. Granted, some of them are common across the multiverse, but things like Megatron becoming a gun and Optimus Prime as a flatnosed tractor-trailer are distinctly G1-ish. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 17:29, 1 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::FYI: [[Talk:IDW Generation 1 continuity#New evidence that IDW is not G1|Previous discussion here]]. Yes, on the one hand, it is G1 because it uses the G1 cast of characters for the most part, and most of those pretty much have the same personality as their G1 bio card as on their G1 counterparts (with the significant exception of their gimmicks). On the other hand, [http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopic.php?p=143991#143991 an artist] has said it is not G1, so it isn&#039;t entirely crazy to say it isn&#039;t G1. The universe itself doesn&#039;t seem particularly G1. It is like a different universe populated with G1 guys. The Micromasters aren&#039;t Cybertronain (I think), so a whole class of G1 Transformers aren&#039;t Transformers which sounds like a different universe. In short, it mostly makes sense for the wiki to organize it under G1 so they don&#039;t have to duplicate character pages with characters with mostly the same intro paragraph. But don&#039;t take it too seriously, it isn&#039;t official or anything. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 22:54, 1 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::: No, that’s not what I’m saying. What I mean is that there seems to be no CANON justification for why IDW is considered G1. Especially because it lacks the links of similar G1 works, it’s never been verified as such by the creators (as far as I know) and it’s “G1-ness” is tentative at best. &lt;br /&gt;
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:::::IDW really doesn’t have as strong a link as or other G1 families. They all either were marketed  as direct extensions to the original 80s ‘Toon and Comic adaptations (Gen 2  and Dreamwave ) established  “next gen” sequels (Beast Era) Inserts into Gen 1 (Alternators and much of Japan’s stuff) Or add ons to particular points of the G1 timeline (Classics, Dreamwave) hell Timelines might count as a little bit of all of these. IDW really has no direct link.&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::That leaves us to the creators, and when it’s referred as such by them they use the term &amp;quot;reboot” or the like. Hell Simon Furman, architect of a large section of G1, straight up called it an ‘Ultimate’ version in his CBR interview. And Don Fig doesn’t consider it G1 at all. &lt;br /&gt;
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:::::Even then we look at why we call it G1 it causes all kinds of fallacies. Relying ion art style to tell families (as said in our very own article) leads to insanity, as characters change appearances across media ostensibly in eths same family all the time (for example WFC and Prime) likewise the “G1&amp;quot; aspects, such as personality, and looks, have been used both in the Transformers Film and Animated families, and yet we don’t consider them G1 despite both being just about the same kind of reboot on it IDW is. They incorporate a version of the Beast Ear into their timeline but assuming a connection with their main IDW addition, it’s just as differing as Aligned or Animated version of the Beast era would be.&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::I’m not trying to rock the boat I se4riously would just like to know if there’s any official, canon, or Hasbro/Creator data that states IDW as  a version of G1, because right now I’m not seeing it. &lt;br /&gt;
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:::::Don&#039;t get me wrong, I don&#039;t want to be seen as the &amp;quot;young turk&amp;quot; coming into old pros territory and rocking the boat against guys who have been studying this since before I was born, but I just picked up a bunch of Simon Furman stuff from [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Marvelcomicscontinuity.jpg The old comics]] as well as the big two volume IDW packs and they just don&#039;t fit at all. They&#039;re as different from G1 as the Films, Animated or RID are. I don&#039;t think we should makes assumptions and leaps of logic just for convenience&#039;s sake, kind belies the purpose of a wiki, ya know? -[[User:Lush City|Lush City]]&lt;br /&gt;
::::::This is a ridiculous amount of navel-gazing to get past the point that IDW continuity is just G1 in new dressing and not a new franchise of its own. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 01:42, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::By that terminology ALL of Transformers media is Just &amp;quot;g1 in a new dressing&amp;quot; by the virtue of G1 starting the franchise. -[[User:Lush City|Lush City]]&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::That is not what I mean by &amp;quot;franchise&amp;quot;. Please don&#039;t be obtuse. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 02:05, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::Considering new Generation 1 toys keep being made in the style of IDW design, that that firmly cements the stuff as being G1 in Hasbro&#039;s eyes. And the fact that they are constantly using Generation 1-style character aesthetics, personalizations and the freaking &#039;&#039;&#039;original font&#039;&#039;&#039; on the titles. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 02:35, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::The wiki&#039;s more confident about calling it G1 than even Hasbro, which calls the toys &amp;quot;Generations.&amp;quot; Wiki organization is one thing, but we act more like it is a fact than it actually is. &amp;quot;Generation 1&amp;quot; doesn&#039;t really exist anymore. Hasbro is a little ashamed of it. Or at least doesn&#039;t want to pigeon-hole their toys and comics as being old-school. The [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] page as a &amp;quot;Generation 1&amp;quot; logo on top. That doesn&#039;t really reflect reality which is more hazy. Maybe &amp;quot;Generations&amp;quot; is the new &amp;quot;Generation 1&amp;quot; or something. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 10:56, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::To use your Simon Furman point against you, saying that IDW is not G1 is kind of like saying that Ultimate Marvel is not part of the Marvel Multiverse. It may be fairly different, but it is undeniably the same basic characters and situations. Also, I never have figured out why anyone really cares what the creative teams think, anything they say can be overruled by Hasbro at any time. Even after it has been published. Only Hasbro&#039;s opinion really matters.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 11:07, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
Discussed ad nauseum years ago. Nothing new has been added to the conversation since. Not changing. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 05:13, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::Aesthetics have already been disavowed as a valid ground for Continuity Pedigree, most notably with the Aligned Family. if Hasbro itself hasn’t recognized it as G1, hasn’t directly tied it to a previous G1 work, and if the writers and artists themselves don’t consider it G1, how is it legitimate to denote it as G1 based  on our interpretation. Especially given such ethereal &amp;quot;evidence&amp;quot; as the looks of toys and &#039;&#039;fonts&#039;&#039; of all things. &lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::::Hasbro has yet to give any word. And also the Marvel analogy wont work, because while Marvel has but ONE Multiverse composed of several individual universes. The TF Multiverse is a collection of Universal Streams, each roughly following the same vents with several different interpretations over key events. It&#039;s like comparing diffirent versions of the Bible as rather than like  comparing the Bible against the Koran. &lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::::M Sipher, would you do an FYI link? I&#039;ve seen the discussion over on IDW Continuity’s Main page and the quibbles on the main Continuity Family but never any hard decree from an authority based on reasoning any more firm than convenience. I&#039;m simply trying to hold IDW to the standards of the other G1 works on the wiki, all of which have &#039;&#039;&#039;in-canon&#039;&#039;&#039; links to versions of G1, or else are stated as such by the Companies. -[[User:Lush City|Lush City]]&lt;br /&gt;
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:99% of all IDW characters are G1 characters, based on their original G1 counterparts. The different origins of some characters (Arcee) are no different than varying origins between the original cartoon and Marvel Comics (Grimlock, Technobots). Compared to the Aurex universes, where only Optimus, Megatron and Starscream consistently fit the G1 character archetypes, whereas most other characters are clearly just name reuses (Red Alert, Cyclonus, Jetfire, etc). Even Malgus and Tyran, both clearly closer to the G1 continuity than Aurex, have clearly distinctive character differences. IDW Bumblebee is clearly a variation on the original G1 Bumblebee, whereas Movie &#039;Bee and Animated Bumblebee are approximate extrapolations, see also Ironhide, Ratchet, Jazz, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;
:IDW is a G1 universe that has expanded beyond the original G1 concepts, but not the characters themselves. Trying something new is not the same as abandoning the underlying foundation. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 11:47, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I&#039;m sure there are other examples, but Prowl, Sunstreaker, and Sideswipe have appeared in their Universe Classics series bodies while Starscream, Thundercracker and Skywarp have appeared in their Masterpiece bodies. All of those are undoubted G1 toys. Either IDW is G1 or those toys are being repurposed. All things considered it seems most parsimonious to classify IDW as a part of G1. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 11:56, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Masterpiece is a franchise. Classics series is G1&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;continuity family&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; but it isn&#039;t G1&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;franchise&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;. Unfortunately, &amp;quot;G1&amp;quot; can mean different things. Just so everyone is on the same page, the wiki treats IDW as being part of the G1 &#039;&#039;[[franchise]]&#039;&#039;. For example, on the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] it has the G1 franchise logo. Is that what this discussion is about, or is the discussion about if IDW is part of the G1 continuity family? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:28, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::The original poster said continuity family. I do consider IDW a different franchise within the G1 continuity family. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 12:39, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Oh, OK. Anyone else? Show of hands? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 14:04, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::But does the use of Character analogous to G1 interpretations define it as a G1 series? This really comes don to whether we define continuity families as being overlays of roughly similar events (as in Tvtropes Broad Strokes) or whether we are tying versions of characters as the archetype from which it is based. If you&#039;re taking side new altmodes and  differences like Goldbug and Galvatron is being &amp;quot;based&amp;quot; on G1 to a degree enough to allot status within the family? At that point we might as well make a spectrum of &amp;quot;G1-ness&amp;quot; and start arbitrarily cutting everything. As it stands now our definitions of Families are based off there uniqueness of story and universe content, and IDW differs significantly from any other G1 work. {{unsigned|158.103.0.1}}&lt;br /&gt;
:::So does &#039;&#039;Hearts of Steel&#039;&#039;. Shall we consider that a separate family as well? - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 13:11, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::As the line of books it was from was cancled de jure that cnat really be elaborated on. (Although it&#039;s G1 staus was controversial to start with, it being the TF equivilant to a What if or Elseworlds)  But HoS was never devolved as an obstensive reboot, rather an Alt-universe portyal that gets put in G1 by the same stroke as the Sg-verse. (if we diidnt have it&#039;s Universal Stream number to go by). IDW on the contrary was billed as a reboot, the same way aligned is being done now. Couple that with the  radical (and debatedly unparalleled ) story alterations and you have apples and oranges. Though really teh entire &amp;quot;G1 by default&amp;quot; mindset is pretty off-putting. Heck it might even work as a really big Mirco-Contunity. Pardoxial as that  sounds. {{unsigned|158.103.0.1}}&lt;br /&gt;
:::I was under the impression that the character archetypes were a major part of what makes a continuity family. These problems really only arise with G1 because it is the only family that has had multiple continuations and reboots and additions for decades after its debut. The RID, Unicron Trilogy and Animated continuity families have been pretty well limited to their original period of release (not &#039;&#039;entirely&#039;&#039; so but with only a few minor exceptions). --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 18:42, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I think this is really down to the fact that Continuity &amp;amp; Franchises is just too darn confusing. Not to mention that there can be disparate continuities within a franchise and different franchises can make up a continuity, all of which fit into the over-arching Continuity Family. Obviously there must be enough in common in order to include any new franchise into an existing Family, or to take the leap and create a new Continuity Family. Does new media have to have enough in common with the progenitor of a Continuity Family to be included? Or merely use aspects of the varying franchises of said Continuity Family? With G1 &#039;&#039;all&#039;&#039; of the supporting media has strayed from the originating cartoon, but kept enough characterizations, and broad timelines within the Family. RID, Animated, Aligned, etc have all maintained aspects of &#039;Transformers&#039; but been significantly different from each other to establish there places as individual Continuity Families. Whereas IDW is disparate from these Families, and other than story lines (which have to change be definition) most closely fits G1. In order to argue IDW being a new Continuity Family you would have to prove that it is different enough from other existing Continuity Families &amp;amp; G1, which doesn&#039;t fit given the IDW timeline, characters and mythology, it is all based off of G1 franchises.[[User:Yuppie|Yuppie]] 19:04, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I just want to point out that the G1 cartoon ISN&#039;T the &amp;quot;originating&amp;quot; source. That would be the TOYS. And the comic work came before the cartoon. So... yeah. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 19:15, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::That&#039;s right. Transformers is different than other fiction on TVTropes because the toys are the originating source and not storylines. Therefore the characters derived from the toys are the important thing. Even in things you would think so, like movies. If they came up with completely different fiction with the movie toylines cast, it would be the live action movie continuity family. So I think IDW is pretty clearly G1&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;continuity family&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;. What else but G1 would include Roller and the Combat Deck? Nothing. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 00:04, 3 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::: So the official definition is based off of the toylines? Okay, fine by me. I guess I&#039;ll edit that line somewhere on the main Family page. Would you also mind linking me to the IDW toyline page? Google brings up zippo. -[[User:Lush City|Lush City]]&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::Yes, yes, you&#039;re very clever and funny, ha ha. I&#039;m so glad you&#039;re here to bring fresh new things to the table. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 05:09, 3 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::: Is sarcasm warranted? I&#039;m not here to pick fun, and I&#039;ve been respectful, so why cant you do the same? -[[User:Lush City|Lush City]]&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::IDW doesn&#039;t have a toyline. IDW is a derivative work based on the original G1 toyline, just like the Sunbow cartoon and the Marvel Comic. IDW is not in the same continuity as the cartoon or Marvel, but it is in the same Continuity Family -- perhaps that&#039;s causing some of the confusion here. When we say IDW is G1, that&#039;s like saying that Ultimate Marvel is part of the Marvel Multiverse, and NOT the DC Multiverse. IDW is part of the Generation 1 Continuity Family because the characters and concepts (NOT the STORIES, mind you, but the underlying CONCEPTS) come from the G1 background and toyline, instead of from the Unicron Trilogy, Movie, or Animated background and toylines. &lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::Nod if you understand now, oh Nameless One. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 18:18, 3 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::Okay then, but then why is something like &amp;quot;Wings&amp;quot; considered G1, when it&#039;s primary characters and concepts (The Elite Guard and Sentinel and Magnum/Magnus) draw from Animated? It&#039;s made as an insert into a form of G1, but I&#039;m actually starting o question which takes precedence story or characters. From what I&#039;ve read and from the list of G1 I&#039;ve seen, they all cover a very similar story with detail changes (Unicron Trilogy covering the Mini-con Hunt, the Energon Wars and Cyber Key Search, The Film&#039;s Allspark history.) I&#039;m saying that if &#039;&#039;those&#039;&#039; works can base themselves off a G1 characters concepts and ideas (again, drawing from the Tyran and Malgus Streams here) than why is IDW different? It can be argued that the Film and Animated storylines are just as different from G1 as IDW&#039;s is, and there charters are all clearly drawn from G1, in the absence of any official la word from Hasbro and knowing we have creators describing it as a reboot (similar terms being used for Animated and RID) why is it that they are considered separate. Is it &#039;&#039;because&#039;&#039; they have a toyline separate from the main G1 lines? Is it because of the fact that versions of them cover a wider dearth of material? Our article defines Continuity Families as &amp;quot;a group of distinct but closely-related individual continuities.&amp;quot; We also set up a three step process for determining new continuities, noting that they should be “a) a fresh continuity, b) within a separate franchise, and c) significantly different in cast, theme, style, etc.&amp;quot; IDW tests positive for a, is inconclusive for b (given its lack of a toyline) and due to the nature of c, is highly debatable. If we look at past examples continuities follow the same general structure and theme, even various permutations son the setting. Taking the origin 1984 Toyline/Cartoon/comic trifecta, we can see Dreamwave and the Beats Era serving as Sequels (leaving the original era to a vague &amp;quot;Camelot&amp;quot; level of detail as shown by the creators) while Kiss Players and Gen 2 expanded versions of the continuity. While there were inconsistences (dinobot origin, differing dates for the reformatting) they all followed roughly the same events, or modifications of those events from a central thesis (Wings, use of the Elite Guard, Heart of Steel’s age change or the Mirrorverse aspect of Shattered Glass. Not only does the IDW timeline differ from the G1 timelines enough to put it in the same breath as other confirmed continuity families. IDW&#039;s position can be seen as being akin to the initial RID reboot, while it obviously used G1 characters the  (there being no others to use at the time) the storyline and aspects were utterly different (before Takara&#039;s retcon) a good way to do so would be to compare Megatron with the RID Megatron and the IDW Galvatron. Both are totally different characters, while the Tfwiki approach seems to be that they are effectively different iterations of the &amp;quot;same character.&amp;quot; The Unicron Trilogy gets a shift because of the absence of Mini-cons, Energon Wars, and the different concepts of the Quintessons and Scorponok. The Animatedverse shows an entirely different Cybetronian social Order (which IDW also accomplishes, withe there casting of the war, the Tyrest accords, Megatron&#039;s origins, the &amp;quot;Protocols&amp;quot; etc.) If we were to create an ostensibly accurate definition of continuity families on a rubric of  &amp;quot;distance&amp;quot; from each other, than it would not be that hard of a stretch to determine that we have an inherent fallacy between hat we let in and out of G1, as Franchises with equal relationship to G1 get casted in differing families. if the rubric lies within a different maxim (having separate toylines, character portrayals) than not only would we need to rewrite our definition of what constitutes a family, but we would also have to undergo a mass reassessment of the family set up as a whole. Currently the strongest (and only) reason for them being in G1 is that they look and act like there other G1 counterparts, which I, and others, find isn&#039;t valid enough grounds in the wake of all the other evidence. Otherwise, WFC would be G1. -[[User:Lush City|Lush City]]&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::&amp;quot;Wings&amp;quot; is G1 &#039;&#039;&#039;because it takes place between episodes of the original cartoon.&#039;&#039;&#039; Oh my god.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 16:18, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::WFC &#039;&#039;is&#039;&#039; G1&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;continuity family&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; for all the reasons stated already (it features the G1 cast of characters in a new setting.) But Hasbro shoehorned it into the modern stuff, so the wiki plays along. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 16:31, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
Nobody is going to read that, dude. I don&#039;t know why you&#039;re putting this much effort into something that is not going to change. Just save yourself and us the trouble and give up the conversation. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:23, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Hey! There was a mini-consensus brewing that although IDW belongs in G1&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;continuity family&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt;, it doesn&#039;t belong in the [[Generation 1 (franchise)]]. Anyone want to talk about that? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 16:31, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::If it makes you sleep better at night, I really don&#039;t care. Nothing here is going to change and the idea of having the Wiki treat IDW G1 as its own franchise is imbecilic. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:57, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::: On a related note, though this is probably a question born out of my own stupidity/ignorance, but if Wings is G1, then why do we call it the Wings Universe, which implies that it is a seperate continuity family? (For the longest time, I thought it &#039;&#039;was&#039;&#039; its own little verse). [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 17:02, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: &#039;&#039;We&#039;&#039; don&#039;t call it the &amp;quot;Wings Universe&amp;quot;, Fub Pub do. In the same way one might call the Marvel comics the &amp;quot;Marvel universe&amp;quot; or the cartoon the &amp;quot;Sunbow universe&amp;quot;. That&#039;s all. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 17:06, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::This is bit of a digression, but &amp;quot;Wings Universe&amp;quot; is used in the same fashion as &amp;quot;Cybertron&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Shattered Glass&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;TransTech&amp;quot; in the heading for their prose stories. I think that, in the lack of anything official to contradict it, &amp;quot;Wings Universe&amp;quot; is the name of that particular &amp;quot;franchise&amp;quot; (or whatever term you prefer). There&#039;s more to WU being a franchise, through parallel construction with the other Club/Timelines sub-franchises, than there is for IDW, at least. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 17:33, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: Ah, I see. Thanks. [[User:Tom Servo the Great|Tom Servo the Great]] 17:09, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Also, further to what Interro said - yes, please, Mr. anonymous type person... just let it go. No-one is going to read that giant wall of text. I don&#039;t understand how you can&#039;t simply &#039;&#039;look&#039;&#039; at the IDW comics, and the way the characters are portrayed in them, and not understand &#039;&#039;why&#039;&#039; they are G1. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 17:08, 5 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Pardon, but why is the use of large amounts of text a bad thing? Wouldn&#039;t the use of Basic English essay format (claim, source, analyses, and explanation) to put out your points in an argument be a positive thing in an encyclopedic debate? @ Walky, yes I know Wings is explicitly set in G1, that&#039;s why I used it as an example to highlight a double standard. A reason given for why IDW was G1 was because they used G1 character traits as a base. I noted that under that rubric (characters over stories or what creators say) than Wings would count as a Malgus stream because of all the elements from Animated, regardless of its intended placement within the original cartoon as stated by the story. I&#039;m not particularly attached to the idea of IDW being in or out of G1, I&#039;m just noting that there is a paradox within the way we define Continuity families. Either we’d have to move IDW out of G1 (and perhaps others) to better fit in with the &amp;quot;definition&amp;quot; of a family we have now, or we&#039;d have to reassess and probably redefine how we decide and clarify the families, otherwise we&#039;ll wind up doing classification by convenience; taking things on case by case basis by whatever &amp;quot;works&amp;quot; for the moment rather than having a single unifying maxim. If we&#039;re just going to &amp;quot;eyeball&amp;quot; to find what continuity fits where we are going to have contractions and hypocrisies, as we do now. We should move to standardize the method of continuity selection, because if we continue this method we’ll have a severe inconstancy and consistency is the lifeblood of any encyclopedic source of information. -[[User: Lush City| Lush City]] 23:58, 6 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::I&#039;m no longer sure what you&#039;re suggesting our organization should be. Are you suggesting that IDW comics are not G1 franchise (in which case we should move &amp;quot;Drift (G1)&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Drift (IDW)&amp;quot;) or are you suggesting that IDW comics are not in the G1 continuity family at all (in which case we would make an &amp;quot;Optimus Prime (IDW)&amp;quot; page)? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:28, 7 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::What&#039;s this &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; shit? Have you actually done any work on the wiki before? And regardless of that, would you actually be willing to carry out the hours and hours of tedious work that would be required to carry out whatever it is you&#039;re suggesting? I&#039;m gonna go way out on a limb here and guess the answer is a big ol&#039; fat freakin&#039; &amp;quot;No&amp;quot;. Heck, just MAPPING OUT an IDW split-off would take for-freaking-ever, but you haven&#039;t even done that much. Give us a diagram, a mock up page, a sandbox, SOMETHING.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::We got a system that works, that makes it easy to find info on Prowl and Hardhead and Nightbeat and all their doings in the cartoons and the comics and whateverelse. There&#039;s no BENEFIT to anything you&#039;re suggesting. It would just be separating information that makes more sense, is more cohesive, and builds upon itself when it&#039;s all in one place. &lt;br /&gt;
::::::And dude, this is not Serious Business. It&#039;s MADE-UP GIANT SPACE ROBOTS. There are no &amp;quot;hypocrisies&amp;quot; involved. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 09:08, 7 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::What major elements do you think make Wings an Animated related universe as opposed to a G1? The mere presence of an Elite Guard? That&#039;s pretty ridiculous. Look at all the characters used in those stories, they act like and take the positions of their G1 selves because they are those G1 characters. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 09:13, 7 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::Just as the IDW characters are. I think that if you&#039;re making such ridiculous claims as Wings being an Animated universe because of these elements then you are simply not understanding how continuity families work. I mean, what is so hard to understand about this? Wings is in the G1 continuity family because it features the G1 characters (in a setting explicitly derived from the backstory of the G1 cartoon). IDW is in the G1 continuity family because it features the G1 characters (in a new &amp;quot;Ultimate&amp;quot; style setting). Henkei Henkei is in the G1 continuity family because it features the G1 characters (with a movie-inspired backstory). - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 09:26, 7 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Yeah. At this point, it&#039;s pretty clear that -surprising no-one- the argument against how we have things now falls COMPLETELY apart. Wings of Honor as Animated? Oy. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:53, 7 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::: Regardless of any continuity quibbles I&#039;m almost certain that IDW isn&#039;t a G1 franchise. Those are decided by corporate not us (which, continuity families are, more or less). I&#039;m also finding IDW&#039;s status as a G1 family debatable mostly because while it&#039;s characters and looks are &amp;quot;G1&amp;quot; it&#039;s story is quite different from any other G1, or at least as different from G1 as some other stories we&#039;ve also made different families. It all depends on what exactly our rubric is, if we value Aesthetics , character traits and the like over plotline similarities or what creators say ,than Wings gets confusing, and Aligned is just a Clusterbomb, it might have to be split. (Or made into some bizarre &amp;quot;Dual Family&amp;quot; thing) Just shifting IDW and a few other pages to be more in line with what we already have seems far less drastic and disturbing.&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::: Repo, that tone is uncalled for. I&#039;m from TvTropes, I know what it means to spend hours on a wiki, I&#039;d also note that I would call anything that someone would &#039;&#039;consider&#039;&#039; spending hours on as &amp;quot;serious&amp;quot; business; this site has served as the primary bastion of TF knowledge for years, don&#039;t diminish that. By the same vein We shouldn&#039;t do things just because they&#039;re easier, we should do things because they&#039;re right, as it is, they way we define Continuity Families leads to inconsistencies, the largest one being IDW, I&#039;ll get to work on the mock-up, but I &#039;&#039;do&#039;&#039; find it hilarious that someone would tell me &amp;quot;it&#039;s not that serious&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;put several hours of work into this n00b&amp;quot; in the same breath. --[[User:Lush City|Lush City]] 4:38, 8 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::: No it does not. It will never, ever be confusing. Wings is G1. It is set in a variant of the G1 cartoon continuity. You will never, &#039;&#039;ever&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;ever&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; make a case for what you are saying by trying to hold up the Wings universe as an example of a similar (non-existent) conundrum, because it is unquestionably, unequivocally, unfalteringly, unhaltingly, utterly inarguably G1. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 04:54, 8 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::: That&#039;s my point. In the same way the Wings story  is so totally G1 making it such is insane (despite the Animated influences, The IDW story  is so totally &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; G1 that having it as such is insane (despite the G1 influences) We can either give characters our story priority, not either or.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::: Simple question: How can you look at a comic full of G1 characters and say &amp;quot;this is not G1&amp;quot;? Please answer that. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 06:46, 8 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::Your logic is idiotic. All you&#039;re doing is arguing for the sake of arguing because we will never consider IDW as not G1 in contradiction with common sense. If you don&#039;t like it, make your own wiki. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 06:50, 8 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::: Wings had one character (Sentinel) and one concept (Elite Guard) that were arguably derived from Animated and not G1. The four Guard teams focused on (Thunder Clash&#039;s, Metalhawk&#039;s, Onslaught&#039;s, and Powerflash&#039;s) are all G1 characters, as are all the villains of the stories, the background characters, the setting, and the &#039;&#039;implicit and explicit authorial intent&#039;&#039;. Yes, the unique nature of Transformers continuity allows for &amp;quot;reverse homages&amp;quot;, as G1 influenced the creation of Animated and pieces of Animated have now influenced subsequent G1 stories, but that doesn&#039;t change the underlying nature of the entire universe. IDW is not an Animated timeline either, just because Lockdown was adopted into the universe in &#039;&#039;[[Transformers: Drift]]&#039;&#039;. &lt;br /&gt;
::::::: G1 is the oldest and largest continuity family in Transformers and, as a result, it occasionally borrows characters and ideas from the other continuities that come and go in its wake. But across the 12 club comic issues, the 2 BotCon specials, and the 2 online prose stories, well over 150 characters have appeared. Of those, exactly THREE originated from non-G1 toylines. The remaining 99% are all G1 characters or brand-new to any universe.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::: Wings and IDW are both obviously G1 to anyone whose paying attention. Trying to craft an argument where it could, potentially, be re-phrased in some way that, if you squint, might make it look like they aren&#039;t G1...is ignoring common sense and the vast abundance of evidence put before you. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 08:27, 8 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:If I may interject?  The wiki&#039;s notion of continuity families runs parallel to the canon in-multiverse concept of [[universal stream]]s.  There is a 99.999% chance that any reference to IDW continuity from a canon perspective would classify it as a positive-polarity Primax stream.  That makes it part of the G1 continuity family.  The movies and Animated are in the Tyran and Malgus clusters respectively.  That makes them not part of the G1 continuity family.  --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 08:43, 8 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Beast Wars Neo Sausage is gone!==&lt;br /&gt;
The page was deleted for some reason. It was marked as vandalism, but as I&#039;m sure some of you know it actually existed. -- [[User:Terrortron|Terrortron]] 22:47, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:As far as I know it didn&#039;t. Are you sure you&#039;re not thinking of [[Beast Wars II Sausage]]? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:13, 2 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Do you mean the page or the product? I&#039;m not sure the page existed, but the product itself most certainly did: [http://movies.tfarchive.com/movies/Commercials/Japanese/bwneo3.mpg TV commercial for Beast Wars Neo Sausages] --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 00:55, 3 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::We&#039;ve never had a BWN Sausage page, no. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:16, 3 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::We had it briefly in January but it was just a vandal making [[Beast Wars Neo Sausage|a crappy page]]. Feel free to create it again if you have the info. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 01:26, 3 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Man, that advert makes it look like the most awesome thing ever. If I knew Japanese I would already be making a page for it. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:33, 3 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Actor/Voice Actor&#039;s other roles==&lt;br /&gt;
It seems as of late that the intro sections for actors and voice actors have become mini-IMDB pages. [[Clancy Brown]] isn&#039;t really best known for being on &#039;&#039;Earth&#039;s Mightiest Heroes&#039;&#039;, even if we do have a page for the [[Avengers]] to link to. [[John DiMaggio]]&#039;s is getting to be more résumé than intro. It seems kinda silly to suggest &#039;&#039;removing&#039;&#039; content, but it&#039;s just been something bugging me.--[[User:Carrion|Carrion]] 19:03, 6 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:No, you&#039;re quite right, and I agree. One user seems to be a bit of a voice-whore and is going around adding a lot of frivolous additional info. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 19:34, 6 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Character articles and redirects with titles/ranks ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;m of the opinion that where a character has a title or rank, there should be a redirect from their full name with their title in front of it to their article. I don&#039;t think we have any explicitly spelled out rules on how this would work though, and at the moment there are some redirects to the [[Sidney Biggles-Jones]] article marked for deletion. There&#039;s been some previous discussion about it [[Talk:Doctor Biggles-Jones|here]]. How should we treat ranks and titles? If her name was specifically parsed as &amp;quot;Dr. Biggles-Jones&amp;quot; in a comic, for instance, do we have a redirect using that name or do we just stick with writing it out as &amp;quot;Doctor&amp;quot;? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:58, 13 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:My gut instinct is to have redirects for every way their name and rank is spelled out in fiction. I don&#039;t have a strong opinion on this, however. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 17:00, 13 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::It&#039;s gramarically incorrect to use title-abbreviations in speech bubbles or inside quotes in writing.  One doesn&#039;t say &amp;quot;Mrr Dlinn,&amp;quot; one says &amp;quot;Mister Dlinn.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
::I don&#039;t think we&#039;re beholden to the way such titles were parsed in the original source material; it&#039;s a distinction without meaning.  But I don&#039;t mind having two redirects either.   -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:04, 13 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Fall of Cybertron ==&lt;br /&gt;
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We desperately need to fix up the [[Fall of Cybertron]] related pages. The page that should remain as the definitive should be what is currently called [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (360/PS3)]], which I recommend should be renamed simply &amp;quot;Fall of Cybertron&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Transformers: Fall of Cybertron&amp;quot;. We do not require the franchise page and the video games page, along with the PS3/X360 page, as the PS3/X360 is the only confirmed version of the game, with PC confirmed to NOT be happening, and Nintendo systems left up in the air. I wholly support streamlining the navigation for the FOC pages, and perhaps placing FOC as &amp;quot;sequel&amp;quot; in the WFC franchise navigation bar. --[[User:Kaymac192|Kaymac192]] 05:32, 20 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:That sounds sensible to me. We can always move it back to (360/PS3) when the DS and/or Wii and/or whatever version is announced. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:20, 20 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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(Since this seems the best place to ask.)&lt;br /&gt;
Hi,&lt;br /&gt;
I&#039;ve been reliant on a cookie for so long that I&#039;ve forgotten my password. (Blushes) However when I try to get the site to email me a new one it says one has been sent but nothing has arrived in my email; nor will it allow me to make the request again for 24 hours.&lt;br /&gt;
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Is anyone able to check the login database to see if something&#039;s gone wrong at that end? [[Special:Contributions/109.154.29.163|109.154.29.163]] 15:58, 22 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Account renaming == &lt;br /&gt;
Is it possible to get an account renamed in this wiki? Thanks. --[[User:AutoUIMagnus299|Autu299]] 16:43, 24 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:It&#039;s not technically possible, because we don&#039;t have the MediaWiki Renameuser extension installed. The best you could do is create a new username, stop using the old one, and put links between the two accounts on your user pages. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:56, 24 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Ok, thanks for the tip. --[[User:AutoUIMagnus299|Autu299]] 16:49, 25 December 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Mozilla Firefox 9/10 and TFWiki ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Just an FYI, Mozilla Firefox 9 introduced a rendering error with our site, causing the sidebar to render &#039;&#039;below&#039;&#039; the content area. Mozilla Firefox&#039;s beta of version 10 carried over this error initially, but the most current beta of 10 corrects this. I was scratching my head at this one, as we don&#039;t really use anything exotic in the way of code, but it turns out this was Mozilla&#039;s problem. I am kind of not liking the rapid release schedule, if this is what results.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 15:19, 3 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:...or it could start working properly on my Firefox 9 PC too. I&#039;d cleared cache a few times on both PCs, so either Derik fixed this sneaky-like or I&#039;ve managed to hallucinate the whole thing. I&#039;m &#039;&#039;pretty sure&#039;&#039; it&#039;s not the latter, as I still had the sidebar issue before refreshing today.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 02:35, 4 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::It&#039;s still happening on my copy of Firefox 9.0.1, and when I check for updates, it&#039;s not reporting any. Tilt? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:54, 4 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::No, wait, I tell a lie. I just cleared my Firefox cache and the problem&#039;s gone. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:57, 4 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Yeah, and on both machines I experienced it, it only started doing it on Firefox 9, not 8. Worked fine in IE, and wouldn&#039;t budge through multiple cache clearings. I&#039;d _thought_ that the very recent update to 10&#039;s beta is what cured it, but I returned home to my laptop that I never went beta on, and there it was after a refresh. Perhaps Derik could offer insight beyond digital poltergeist activity?--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 03:07, 4 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I informed Suki Brits of the Firefox rendering error as soon as I became aware of it and she took care of it accordingly. Victory for Brits! --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 12:33, 4 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Aha. See, I usually assume Derik when there&#039;s CSS muckery, but this is excellent news. Thanks, Suki! I vaguely suspect we did use a couple Mozilla flagged tags when we initially coded it, that are now fully supported in CSS proper.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 14:19, 4 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::I think the fix may have worked for Google&#039;s preview thumbnails as well, as a couple I&#039;ve found show the menu where it should be. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:32, 5 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::I&#039;m still having this issue. My Firefox updated itself recently, so I don&#039;t know what version it is. And clearing my cache that a) I don&#039;t know how to do and b) scares me for some reason. [[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] 00:37, 10 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::You may be able to get it fixed by holding down Ctrl and pressing F5 while on a TFWiki page. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache#Mozilla_Firefox_and_other_related_browsers Wikipedia has a page on clearing the cache]. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:56, 10 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::: Huzzah, the sidebar is no longer all brokey! Thanks Abates! [[User:Bobpiecheese|Bobpiecheese]] 01:16, 10 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Project Heat Scramble==&lt;br /&gt;
I just noticed that the wiki has NO data on the [http://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/tcg/ Heat Scramble TCG ]. So how should we go about this? {{unsigned|Lush City}}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Robot Masters parsing ==&lt;br /&gt;
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This is something that&#039;s been bugging me. As far as I can tell, in all images of the official logo, the series is parsed &amp;quot;RobotMasters&amp;quot;, yet all spellings on this wiki refer to it as &amp;quot;Robot Masters&amp;quot;. Is there a reason we opted for two words instead of one? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 12:19, 10 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:The packaging parses it as one word, while correctly spacing names like &amp;quot;Beast Megatron&amp;quot;, so... I guess. Although it&#039;s debatable whether it&#039;s &amp;quot;Robotmasters&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;RobotMasters&amp;quot;; the brand&#039;s name isn&#039;t &amp;quot;[[:Image:Universelogo.jpg|TransFormers]]&amp;quot;. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 18:56, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I&#039;d like to avoid the CamelCase precisely because we can&#039;t usually tell from a logo whether it should &amp;quot;really&amp;quot; be written like that (as per &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot;), and also because I generally don&#039;t like the look of it. I do think the franchise should be one word, though. -[[User:LV|LV]] 19:44, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::The difference here is that there doesn&#039;t seem to have been any other spelling for it aside from the CamelCase spelling, whereas the &amp;quot;Transformers/TransFormers/Trans Formers&amp;quot; logo gets re-parsed all the time. &amp;quot;RobotMasters&amp;quot; is the consistently-seen version. --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 19:48, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Technically, it&#039;s presented as &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-variant:small-caps;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;RobotMasters&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; and ROBOTMASTERS. I think we can be flexible. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 19:57, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::They still make a point to enlarge the R and M. Though, is there any other series logo that uses this kind of &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-variant:small-caps;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;CamelCase&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; just as consistently? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 20:33, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Uh, I just pointed out one. The &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-variant:small-caps;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TransFormers&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; logo was the standard design from 2001–2006, across six franchises and much longer than the existence of Robotmasters. I think you&#039;re putting too much stock on what is probably a stylistic choice by people who barely use lowercase to begin with. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 21:42, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::What I mean is, there&#039;s multiple versions of the &amp;quot;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-variant:small-caps;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Transformers&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;quot; logo, which gets restyled as &amp;quot;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-variant:small-caps;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TransFormers&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-variant:small-caps;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Transformers&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;quot; and &amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-variant:small-caps;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Trans Formers&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;quot; as the years go by. But the one for RobotMasters is always consistently styled as &amp;quot;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-variant:small-caps;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;RobotMasters&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;quot;. Unless I&#039;m missing something, there hasn&#039;t been any other logo for it that wrote it in any other form than &amp;quot;&amp;lt;span style=&amp;quot;font-variant:small-caps;&amp;quot;&amp;gt;RobotMasters&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;quot; with the enlarged M. Unlike &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot;, which is one word, &amp;quot;RobotMasters&amp;quot; is two words with a space missing. The uppercase M shows the distinction that the two are separate words, but the lack of space makes the end result thus resemble a rather sci-fi sounding compound word, which works for this sci-fi themed line of children&#039;s toys. Why change what the logo says? --[[User:Sabrblade|Sabrblade]] 22:10, 12 January 2012 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== SOPA and PIPA ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Has anyone read about the SOPA and PIPA bills and how they will affect the wiki?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 13:51, 14 January 2012 (EST)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Moving From Wikia:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Arriving|Arriving]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving|Leaving]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki:Community Portal/Complaints|Complaints]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;New Ad Policy:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki:Ads|Ads]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Bookworm Database-Crash:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central|Damage Control Central]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Project:Bookworm Crash]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving2|Leaving Take 2]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Server Move:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Arriving2|Arriving Take 2]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Relicensing:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Relicensing|Relicensing]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Dealing With Vandalism:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Vandalism|Vandalism]]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;div class=&amp;quot;list-header&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;GoBots Sister Wiki:&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/GoBots|Discussion on the place of GoBots in this wiki]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Didn&#039;t we have a Transformers Appearances/References in Other Media page?==&lt;br /&gt;
I could have sworn we did, mentioning stuff like Family guy etc.  If we don&#039;t have such a page, would it be allowed to be created? [[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 11:53, 18 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Unless it&#039;s officially sanctioned by Hasbro, no, we do not mention Transformer appearances in other media. --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 11:54, 18 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:: If it ever existed, it would have been destroyed with fire in about 30 seconds.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 12:46, 18 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::: Of course, if we did have such a page, we could use it as a lighting rod, keep anons from adding something to Soundwave&#039;s page every time Seth Green says the word &amp;quot;transformers.&amp;quot; -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 16:28, 18 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Of course, NO. Discussion over. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 16:45, 18 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Discussion not quite over. If the unofficial nature of the topic is the reason why it is not allowed, then there are several articles that already exist that are pushing boundaries on the wiki. I would have thought that the biggest problem would be it&#039;s size.[[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 09:26, 20 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Yeah, that&#039;d be the other big reason. There&#039;s so many such references it would be impossible to keep track of them all. It would also involve making sure what&#039;s added there is actually a TF reference. And given all the Toms, Dicks and Harrys that&#039;ll come out of the woodwork to add such stuff,  that&#039;s going to be more trouble than not having a page. Best not to get a larger headache for the sake of reducing a smaller one. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 12:44, 20 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==&amp;quot;Knockoff warning&amp;quot; for toy sections?==&lt;br /&gt;
Just something that occurred to me... as I skimmed this page http://www.highendtfs.com/?q=node/17 and looked at alllllll the &amp;quot;could be mistaken for real and paid stupid money for&amp;quot; knockoffs... is there any objection to some form of link to this in the relevant toy sections? Sadly, the page lacks a &amp;quot;jump to&amp;quot; feature of any kind, but alerting people to the potential danger of dropping several hundred on what they think is a genuine Defensor box set... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 02:50, 19 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I think it skirts the line with our &amp;quot;we don&#039;t really discuss knockoffs&amp;quot; policy, but on the other hand, yeah, it&#039;s a useful bit of information, almost to the point where we could stand to have a special page about &#039;&#039;these specific knockoffs&#039;&#039;.  I am not opposed to adding a link to that site, no, as long as it&#039;s got a massive and specific caveat attached to it (maybe even with a special template box thing (&amp;quot;A Prime Problem&amp;quot;-themed perhaps?)).  Hell, maybe the highendtfs people would be willing to throw up navigation in exchange for the inevitable deluge of hits - anyone got contact info for the owner?  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 09:11, 19 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::It&#039;s worth noting that there are some very well-done Henkei seekers knockoffs now, too.  The really expensive ones even, like Thundercracker.  Their sections could use warnings as well. -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 17:56, 19 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Are they in knockoff PACKAGING that is meant to look like the real thing? That&#039;s the really tricky part. G1 MIB shit is much, much more expensive. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 20:27, 19 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Yes, they are: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/buyer-beware-update-on-ko-henkei-seekers/20380/ -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 23:03, 19 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I am not sure I want to attach more template boxes to pages as is. Especially over something like knockoffs. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 20:55, 19 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::I&#039;d &#039;&#039;thought&#039;&#039; about a template, but... ehn. I think a simple link under the TFU.info (or whatever), perhaps with a bolded &amp;quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;Knockoff alert&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;quot; text. Like...&lt;br /&gt;
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::::*&#039;&#039;[http://www.highendtfs.com/?q=node/17 &#039;&#039;&#039;Knockoff alert&#039;&#039;&#039;: More information on packaged imitations of this toy at HighendTFs.com]&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Thoughts? This would ONLY cover stuff that is in packaging meant to deceive you by looking as real as they can get it. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 21:05, 19 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::I could agree with that. This is a step beyond your standard knock off crap, some notice might be appropriate.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 21:44, 19 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::I think it is a good idea to have it, since it is useful. This is different from putting info of some KO or unlicensed products on the page. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 21:49, 19 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Extension:Oversight ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Quite a few times I&#039;ve seen admins delete and undelete pages to clean out bad revisions. Why they do this I have no idea, since we have [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight the Oversight extension] installed.&lt;br /&gt;
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Perhaps we should look into granting some people &amp;quot;oversighter&amp;quot; access? --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 05:09, 25 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I&#039;ve just noticed that deleting and then restoring pages in the manner mentioned above has the side effect of resetting a page&#039;s page views stats, so that&#039;s another point in favour of the Oversight extension. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:40, 11 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Wikipedia, revisited ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#The_.22Campaign_of_Deletion.22_against_the_Transformers_Wiki_Project_by_NotARealWord_and_TFWiki.net]&lt;br /&gt;
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Just in case anyone&#039;s interested. --[[Special:Contributions/84.193.193.10|84.193.193.10]] 10:54, 5 January 2011 (EST) (-Blackout-, can&#039;t be bothered to log back in)&lt;br /&gt;
:NEWSFLASH: Nobody cares. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 16:21, 5 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Captcha to prevent spambots? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Is there any way we could implement captcha to account creation to prevent the spambot problem we&#039;re having now? I&#039;ve seen other wikis use that measure. Maybe also disable new page creation by anons? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 12:56, 6 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:We already have CAPTCHA implemented on the account creation service. --[[Special:Contributions/84.193.193.10|84.193.193.10]] 13:09, 6 January 2011 (EST) (-Blackout-, can&#039;t be bothered to log in)&lt;br /&gt;
::Never mind, then! [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 13:30, 6 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Real world events by day Category ==&lt;br /&gt;
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These of course comprise every date of the year.  However, I notice recently people have been adding fictional events to these dates.  That basically invalidates the Category, since it&#039;s no longer comprised of only real-world events.  The fictional events should be moved out into another section, or the category name should be changed to &amp;quot;Events by day&amp;quot;.  Thoughts? --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 22:01, 9 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I agree with changing to &amp;quot;Events by day&amp;quot;. I would also support having separate fictional and real world sections on the pages. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 22:38, 9 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Project Wonderful ads ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Um, guys, I found there [http://www.projectwonderful.com/img/uploads/pics/53018-1293943633.gif Non-official products] in the ads of CapturedPrey. I know the small ads are showing up randomly (and may not be controllable since we can&#039;t regulate them), but I think it is still need to be reported here. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 01:04, 16 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
: I don&#039;t mind them in the non-permanent ads.  TFSource used them all the time in their ads before we made them permanent sponsors.  It was only when we made them a permanent sponsor did we ask to make them free of third-party product.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 01:57, 16 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Games &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;fiction&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt; ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Okay, now that [[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] has flooded the character pages with stubs for 30 years worth of crappy Transformers games, can we reconsider how the Games sections are treated? I really don&#039;t think in-universe fiction descriptions are the way to handle it. [[War for Cybertron]] may&#039;ve had a plot, but the majority of TF games are more in the vein of &amp;quot;hit things until they stop coming&amp;quot;. A fiction section makes even less sense for games where the character selection is variable. &#039;&#039;&amp;quot;[[Hardhead (G1)#Transformers:_The_Headmasters|Hardhead]] may (or may not) have been present at this battle. Or this one. Or this...&amp;quot;&#039;&#039; Ditto for generic drone soldiers. Isn&#039;t there a way to address the games without trying to craft a sensical fiction for them? --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 08:46, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I agree. The games should appear as merchandise on all relevant characters pages, but there is no need for a fiction write up for most games on those same pages. A generic write up on the game page should suffice. Something like &amp;quot;An Autobot warrior participated in a battle...&amp;quot;, with a character box listing all potential &amp;quot;Autobot warriors&amp;quot; (aka playable characters). --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 09:21, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Moving games to merchandise sounds awful.  It would result in amazing amounts of lost information.  I have no idea what doing that would solve.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 09:44, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I think it depends on the game - for example in the ROTF console game, while you CAN play as multiple characters, the game provides a suggested one for you.  IMO, that&#039;s who &amp;quot;actually&amp;quot; did the stuff depicted in the game (and the opposing side&#039;s campaign generally suggests it as well).  When you can just pick from a half-dozen dudes and it doesn&#039;t matter, then maybe a brief summary of the game&#039;s plot and a note.  &amp;quot;Jerkwagon was one of many Autobots involved in blah blah plot synopsis bluh.  NOTE: Such-and-such game allowed players to choose multiple protagonists, including Jerkwagon.&amp;quot;  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 13:19, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
I agree that Games should be their own section -- there&#039;s certainly enough of them, and they should be treated differently than keychains and what-not. But I think an out-of-universe description of the games would be better in most cases. Instead of having to write vague text like &#039;&#039;&amp;quot;As Ultra Magnus searched for the truth behind Optimus Prime&#039;s death, he battled Trypticon in a game of death and suffering.&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;, which is about all the plot I could wrangle out of [[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Convoy no Nazo]] and tells you virtually nothing, we could write something more informative, like &#039;&#039;&amp;quot;Trypticon is the boss of Stage 10.&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;, and describe what actually happens in the game instead of trying to make it sound like believable fiction. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 11:29, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::My personal view on the matter is, from a character&#039;s page, I should be able to find EVERY place that character has appeared. And when we do list guys having an appearance when they&#039;re most likely an animation error in the far-background of an episode, I don&#039;t think there&#039;s any excuse to NOT list an appearance of a character wherever he might appear, including board and video games. Is that a lot of work? Yeah. But beneath all the jokes that make this place so great, this is still an encyclopedia, and purposely leaving out information out of an encyclopedia is wrong. Though I think Hooper X has the right idea... I doesn&#039;t have to be the most super-extensive write up. Heck, I was even going to suggest just having a link saying &amp;quot;See Return of Convoy article&amp;quot; or something like that. Also: I apologize if I had started getting very sloppy last night, but looking back, it was like 5 in the morning by the time I finished up. Yikes. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 14:10, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I totally agree that the games should be dealt with on the character pages. I&#039;m just looking for an option other than a completely in-fiction description. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 15:14, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::: The first idea that comes to mind is having a subsection called &amp;quot;Gameplay&amp;quot; or something like that for each game write-up, something that would be similar to a note? Though really, my main solution for stuff like that has been, up to this point, to just stick a couple of notes in the game write-up, like on [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]&#039;s page. I&#039;ll keep on trying to think up other solutions though... --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 15:26, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Storylinks already serve as that, so what&#039;s the point of another link? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 15:47, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Fiction order guide? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;ve been over the Style guides a few times trying to find if a page like this already exists, but it doesn&#039;t look like it. I&#039;ll be the first to admit that when adding in new fiction/game subsections to a character&#039;s article, I sometimes confuse and probably put them out of order. So I&#039;ve been wondering if a page that lists every fictional work and game in the proper order of each other would be a good idea? On one hand, it seems like an ABSURD amount of work for a style guide, one that would have to be CONSTANTLY updated as new things come out. On the other hand, it would be very handy to have a list to reference for character pages. Especially because it can get VERY frustrating trying to hunt down which book/cartoon/whatever came first in the same year. For those who don&#039;t understand what I&#039;m talking about, here&#039;s an example I quickly put together, using the [[Cheetor (BW)]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)]] pages as reference.&lt;br /&gt;
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**Generation 1 S.T.A.R.S. pack-in flyers&lt;br /&gt;
**Generation 1 cartoon continuity&lt;br /&gt;
**Generation 1 Kid Stuff Talking Story Books&lt;br /&gt;
**Generation 1 Big Looker Story Books&lt;br /&gt;
**Generation 1 Ladybird Books continuity&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Transformers in 3-D&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Transformers PD Type&#039;&#039; comic&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Comic Bom Bom G-2&#039;&#039; comic&lt;br /&gt;
**Beast Wars First wave toy bios&lt;br /&gt;
**Beast Wars Cartoon continuity&lt;br /&gt;
***Dawn of Future&#039;s Past&lt;br /&gt;
***&#039;&#039;Beast Wars&#039;&#039; cartoon&lt;br /&gt;
***Fast Action Battlers toyline&lt;br /&gt;
***3H &#039;&#039;Tales from the Beast Wars&#039;&#039; comics&lt;br /&gt;
***IDW &#039;&#039;Beast Wars&#039;&#039; comics&lt;br /&gt;
***&#039;&#039;Transformers Legends&#039;&#039; anthology&lt;br /&gt;
***&#039;&#039;Beast Machines&#039;&#039; cartoon&lt;br /&gt;
***&#039;&#039;Beast Machines&#039;&#039; toy bio&lt;br /&gt;
***&#039;&#039;Universe&#039;&#039; comic&lt;br /&gt;
***&#039;&#039;Beast Wars Metals&#039;&#039; comic&lt;br /&gt;
***Beast Wars &#039;&#039;Henkei! Henkei!&#039;&#039; pack-in comic&lt;br /&gt;
**Generation 1 Dreamwave comics continuity&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Transformers/G.I. Joe&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**Generation 1 IDW comics continuity&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Hearts of Steel&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Music Label&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Henkei! Henkei!&#039;&#039; (pack-in comic)&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Henkei! Henkei!&#039;&#039; Bun Bun manga&lt;br /&gt;
**Alternity&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Robot Heroes&#039;&#039; comic&lt;br /&gt;
**&#039;&#039;Universe&#039;&#039; cartoon&lt;br /&gt;
**Wings of Honor&lt;br /&gt;
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Is this a good idea? Would anyone actually like to see this kind of thing, or would I just be putting a whole bunch of work into something we don&#039;t need? --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 16:28, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:We do need standardization of section names. The section order, however, depends on order in which the character appeared in those continuities in the real world. Then the subsections are ordered by the fictional chronology. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:35, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::No wonder I get confused by this fiction order thing. @_@ I guess I might just be one of those people that will never get the hang of some of these things. And yeah, the section names was definitely something else I wanted to tackle, since I&#039;ve seen at times no less than four different ways to refer to a certain media. I sometimes have to check the storylinks at the end to be sure it&#039;s all part of the same story! --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 16:45, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Note that, within a continuity, flashbacks and time travel can mean that experiential fictional chronology for one character requires a different order of headings than for another.  [[User:JW|JW]] 20:16, 25 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::In regards to standardization, I have an idea. What if we create a list of headers (kept on this page perhaps) used on Optimus Prime (G1)&#039;s page (probably has the greatest number of different headers), use that as our initial standards list, then update it as we find other headers or decide to change the existing standards? Once we think we&#039;ve covered the majority of possibilities, we could move it to a help page and make it official policy. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 17:49, 6 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I put together [[User:Jackpot/Sandbox/Sections|a sandbox along these lines]] a couple of years ago. It hasn&#039;t been updated in quite a while, and I&#039;m not sure it was ever actually complete, and it was the subject of [[User_talk:Jackpot/Sandbox/Sections|a bit of debate]]... but there it is, for what it&#039;s worth. (Also, I support standardization of headers, but I&#039;ve run into [[Talk:Ricochet_(Headmasters)#Header|some]] [[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Archive22#Section_naming_conventions|opposition]] over the nitty-gritty before, so best of luck.) - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 06:11, 8 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Foreign name reorganization ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Is there any chance we could consider moving the foreign names somewhere else in the article other than at the top? We&#039;ve already established a new standard for episodes, but characters could stand to have their names moved to their own dedicated section, likely under &amp;quot;Notes&amp;quot;. There, we could add things like kana and Cyrillic forms of names not different from the English version. Opinions? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 15:56, 4 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I&#039;m in favor of it. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 16:33, 4 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::All things considered, since this is (mostly) an english-centric wiki when it comes to stuff, the foreign names do come off as being interesting trivia more than anything else. I&#039;m in favour of this too. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 16:37, 4 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I&#039;m fine with where they are now, personally. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 16:39, 4 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I can see the logic in them being moved down to notes. You&#039;ve got an in-universe profile, then a bunch of out-of-universe names, then the in-universe fiction section. The only argument I have against it is that I&#039;m used to seeing the foreign names at the top. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:05, 4 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::If it can be moved downward (to the first entry of the notes section or a new section after the notes section) instead of being on the top, MOVE it. Originally, I&#039;m fine withe where they are {{m-}} but that would be a character with fewer foreign names. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 19:55, 4 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
Any further opinions on this? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 00:36, 21 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:What about cases where some of the extra names at the top are English, e.g. Omni Productions names, or preliminary or nicknames? Would they remain at the top or become notes too? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:29, 21 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::The Malay dub still technically counts as foreign in my mind. Nicknames should be integrated in the introduction (or notes section), and preliminary names should have been in notes in the first place, since they aren&#039;t the characters&#039; &amp;quot;real names&amp;quot; in any sense. Further elaboration of the preliminary names better suits the notes section, anyway. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 01:43, 21 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
Japanese names are often for a character in a slightly different continuity. Like &amp;quot;Fire Convoy&amp;quot; is a Car Robots character and &amp;quot;Optimus Prime&amp;quot; is an RID character, but they share the same page. Or &amp;quot;Flame Convoy&amp;quot; is a Galaxy Force character but &amp;quot;Scourge&amp;quot; is a Cybertron character. In that case they should have the Japanese name up top. The names that are just different language versions of the English character can go on bottom. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 13:18, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:... no. &#039;&#039;Cybertron&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;Galaxy Force&#039;&#039; are NOT different stories (Takara officially put GF back in the same timeline as the prior two series), and the &#039;&#039;RID/CR&#039;&#039; split is a unique case. In neither case should the names go up top. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 13:44, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::They are slightly different continuities. Galaxy Force doesn&#039;t have the [[Omega Frequency]] for example. And the Grand Black Hole is different. And the [[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] is different. [[Blaster (G1)|Broadcast]] never became Twincast in English. I think Japanese names are a special case and deserve to be on top since Japanese toyline &amp;amp; fiction continuity is always slightly separate. But I can hit the &amp;quot;end&amp;quot; key on the keyboard easy enough. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 16:56, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Every single foreign language version of something is technically a slightly different continuity, strictly due to the nature of translation.  This is not a arena in which Galaxy Force is unique.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 17:01, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Commercial Appearances section ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Alright, so I plan later on to start going through characters&#039; pages and add in a &amp;quot;Commercial Appearances&amp;quot; section where it applies (sorry, I can&#039;t this weekend... homework to do!). Several characters already have this section and a lot of these commercials have nice short animations or other interesting characterizations and tidbits that I think they bear to be included in the characters&#039; pages. Although, much like the Games sections, I&#039;ll only be able to marginally help by adding in the section itself to let people know that there&#039;s work to be done on a character&#039;s page... MY computer is so incredibly shitty that I can&#039;t even play videos off youtube. D:&lt;br /&gt;
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But anyways, the reason I&#039;m bringing this up here is because before I get started, I&#039;d like to discuss what kind of format we want for this section, so it can be done right the first time around. Obviously, where it applies, stuff like indicating who the voice actor for the character makes sense, but should the write-up be in-universe or not? Since commercials fluctuate between using a short animation telling a mini-story and just being a straight-up commercial saying &amp;quot;buy this toy!&amp;quot; should a combination of both in-universe and out-of-universe description be used? And should we count the parts where the kids brandish their action figures and talk for the character as dialog spoken by the character? That&#039;s all the questions on the subject I can really think of for now... --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 15:12, 6 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I would write up the animation segments in-universe so long as they&#039;re unique to the commercial (i.e. not just recycled footage from one of the cartoons). Anything else that&#039;s notable enough could qualify for an out of universe note. But I wouldn&#039;t bother with recycled animation or the kids talking for the figures. That doesn&#039;t qualify as fiction to me.  &lt;br /&gt;
:In regards to your inability to view the commercials, would it help if you could download them in some fashion and then watch them offline? Maybe burn the videos to a DVD disc? --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 17:43, 6 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Yeah, any clips taken from pre-existing mediums would be redundant from those scenes being already covered in other sections on that character&#039;s page. Personally though, I&#039;m still on the fence about the kids talking for the figures... I find it comparable to botcon script readings in a way... People just talking out loud for a character without any accompanying animation... I&#039;m prone to be swayed either way. As for me viewing the commercials themselves, my spring break is a week from now. I might have access to a better computer then, but otherwise I&#039;ll just be putting in information already available on the wiki to the appropriate pages throughout the week, I guess. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 17:53, 6 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==How to resolve monster debates?==&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:-Blackout-]]&#039;s recent meltdown over being prevented from editing [[Goldbug (IDW)]] has made me think again about how policy/content discussions tend to go on this wiki. It&#039;s a big part of why I haven&#039;t been around since last summer: I found myself perpetuating these miles-long debates that few cared to read, everyone was irritated by, and most importantly &#039;&#039;were impossible to resolve.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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That Goldbug article is a sterling example. Right now, people are talking about it as if the [[Talk:Goldbug (IDW)/Archive1|giant]] [[Talk:Goldbug (IDW)/Archive2|debate]] had resolved in favor of the current setup, so changing the article at this point is taboo because it &amp;quot;was dealt with already.&amp;quot; But that&#039;s not how it went at all. Blackout&#039;s dickishly unilateral edit-war was definitely the Wrong Way to reopen this, but it&#039;s also wrong to pretend that we had achieved consensus or closure on the issue.&lt;br /&gt;
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At [[Talk:Goldbug (IDW)/Archive2#Breaking down the problem|the end of the debate]], I had restated the case for [[User:Jackpot/Sandbox/Goldbug (G1)|my &amp;quot;Goldbug (G1)&amp;quot; sandbox]], which is definitely different from the current setup, and 6 other people declared support for it while 2 objected at length. But the objectors were also against the current setup: Jeysie wanted the toy gone, and Derik wanted... something inscrutable and Deriky. Combining those numbers with the [[Talk:Goldbug (IDW)/Archive1#Vote Tally|premature vote]] that had been taken earlier (and adjusting for the voters who changed their minds by the end), I count:&lt;br /&gt;
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Sandbox: 8&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Sandbox with modifications: 3&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Current page: 7&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Current page without the toy: 2&lt;br /&gt;
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That&#039;s not consensus. That&#039;s deadlock. In fact, there were fewer votes to keep the page as-is than there were to change it in some fashion. The current setup didn&#039;t win out in terms of votes, logic, precedent, or any other measure: It won out because it was what happened to be there when the debate died of exhaustion.&lt;br /&gt;
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So we&#039;re stuck with an awkward page that most people want to be different, encased in concrete forevermore. I don&#039;t see any way out of this situation, and I&#039;ve watched the same principle play out with other debates too many times. At the very least, I wonder if it would be helpful to have a Template:Deadlock that we could slap on inconclusive debates (with a picture of [[Drift (G1)|Deadlock]], natch) so people know the true state of things.&lt;br /&gt;
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Taking that idea further, maybe it could come with a period of enforced moratorium – say, two weeks – followed by a revote and/or a formalized &amp;quot;final statements&amp;quot; opportunity? The most extreme option I can think of is to create a &amp;quot;council of elders&amp;quot; that has the community-bestowed power to resolve intractable debates and declare relevant policy principles. Basically, a Supreme Court. I do worry that creating an authoritative heirarchy might produce even more problems, but I figured I&#039;d throw it out there.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thoughts? Other ideas?&lt;br /&gt;
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- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 18:20, 9 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
: This whole argument goes to the heart of what we mean when we say two characters are &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot;. The Bumblebee toy was produced and fiction was made to promote that toy, thus all of those fictions (which differ from each other) are about &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot; character. The Goldbug toy was produced with a tech spec that stated that it was &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot; character as Bumblebee. Fiction was produced to promote that toy, thus all those varying depictions of Goldbug are &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot; character as Bumblebee. The same argument applies to the differing backstories of Optimus Prime; Orion Pax and Optronix are &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot; character because they both are earlier forms of the character that was used to promote the sale of the Optimus Prime toy. The problem comes in with later stories that are not produced to promote those original toys. How do we decide what is the same? When is a character &amp;quot;the same character under different circumstances/in a different universe&amp;quot; and when is it simply an homage character? I really can&#039;t see how others see the IDW Goldbug as &amp;quot;the same&amp;quot; character as the original toy and not (as I see him) as a simple homage character. Under their viewpoint the toy belongs, under mine it doesn&#039;t. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:15, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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: I NOMINATE MYSELF AS FINAL ARBITER AND SUPREME OVERLORD.  all decisions will be made based on what amuses me the most.  (seriously, we probably ought to have some kind of &amp;quot;no consensus&amp;quot; tag for articles like that.)  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 12:58, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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Mmm...probably best not to restart the Goldbug debate itself here, Khajidha -- that would quickly distract from what Jackpot&#039;s actually asking here, which is how debates should be resolved &#039;&#039;in general&#039;&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Some of the basic rules we already follow should remain. No &amp;quot;edit-warring&amp;quot;...leave it up to the Talk Pages to hash out the problem. I don&#039;t think a mere two weeks is enough to give people time to change their minds, though, especially in this crowd. One thing I notice is that despite dozens of regular contributors and hundreds overall, most Talk Page or Community Portal votes I&#039;ve seen have less than 20 votes at the end. Many of these debates fly right under the radar. I&#039;m relatively active here, but the Goldbug (IDW) chaos completely passed me by. &lt;br /&gt;
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What about, when a Talk Page debate has clearly reached an impasse between &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;obstinant&amp;lt;/strike&amp;gt; strong-willed parties, a Vote is taken on the &#039;&#039;Main Page&#039;&#039;? Some sort of easy-to-see box temporarily added to the Main Page, &amp;quot;above the fold&amp;quot; so that its visible to all visitors when they enter? It would be more noticeable than if the vote is hidden away on a single Talk Page people may or may not see. Something like &#039;&#039;&amp;quot;A [[Deadlock]] has arisen! Choose from the following choices: Should [[Goldbug (IDW)]] have the G1 toy on his page? Yes or No? (See the Goldbug (IDW) Talk Page for the full debate.)&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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I realize many debates won&#039;t be as simple as Yes or No, but if the debating parties agree in advance how to phrase the Voting Box, it could be a useful tool. --[[User:Xaaron|Xaaron]] 13:07, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Yeah, wasn&#039;t really trying to restart that debate. Was bringing up questions about general character debates, as they seem to occur quite often. But other debates also bog down, so I recognize that my questions don&#039;t apply to those debates.--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:35, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I like the idea of keeping a debate in the regulars&#039; faces until a decision has been reached by enough people (at least 20? 25?). Many debates I keep away from because I think they&#039;ll disappear anyway and my vote doesn&#039;t really matter &amp;lt;s&amp;gt;and I also can&#039;t deal all that well with the aggressive nature of most debates, making it actively a lose-only situation if I&#039;d enter&amp;lt;/s&amp;gt;. I&#039;m not sure if others feel that way, but I imagine this would be a boost for all to participate. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 13:23, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I absolutely disagree with the premise that people who don&#039;t care enough to read the argument should have it shoved in their face until they vote. AT MOST, we should mention it somewhere prominent, like the community portal. --[[User:Jimsorenson|Jimsorenson]] 18:53, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I agree that essentially putting a ballot on the front page is asking for trouble. You might get the dozens of votes you&#039;re looking for, but they&#039;ll all be uninformed gut reactions. One of the reasons these debates happen is that issues can be much more complicated and subtle than they seem at first glance. Plus one would hope that the reasoning behind the winning option would help develop our policies, but if the decisions are made by the majority of an explicitly uninformed mob, it&#039;s hard to glean any substantial precedent out of that.&lt;br /&gt;
:::But I think an approach like that &#039;&#039;could&#039;&#039; be combined with my &amp;quot;final statements&amp;quot; suggestion. Thinking out loud here: After a cooling-off period has been declared and a set amount of time has passed, anyone who wants to present a case can write up a defense of his or her preferred option. Those are all submitted to a neutral volunteer, who then posts them simultaneously on the relevant Talk page, and those become the voting choices. No replies are allowed, only votes. We put a notice up at least on the Community Portal, possibly on the Main Page, for another set time period, then close voting and go with the majority.&lt;br /&gt;
:::How does that sound? Like I said, thinking out loud, so suggestions are more than welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
:::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 19:18, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Sounds pretty good to me. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:19, 11 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==How featured articles are chosen==&lt;br /&gt;
On a side note, would a box like that also be useful to start a voting system for featured pages? Because I&#039;m fine with Drift and Wreck-Gar and all others before, but I am absolutely clueless as to who chose them to become featured for what reasons. I&#039;d like to see a better system for that. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 13:23, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
: If there was a recently-completed article that&#039;s of respectable length, I choose it.  The pool for featured articles is pretty damn small.  Not many articles are finished, and the ones that are finished have usually already been Featured Articles already.  Finished articles don&#039;t happen very frequently, so sometimes we find one that&#039;s close to completion near the end of a month and then push to finish it before the month is over.  Sometimes we think a subject or a character is timely (like around BotCon, or before an episode or movie premiere) and push for that.  If you want a heads up, Chris McFeely&#039;s [[Matrix of Leadership]] article is so totally March&#039;s.  (I think Chris has the record for number of articles he&#039;s completed which have become featured.)  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:31, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
: Long story short, if you want an article to be featured, finish it.  That means photos for every toy and known merchandise, and storylinks (with summaries) to every piece of fiction they&#039;ve appeared in.  Behind the scenes information helps.  The longer and more involved the article, the more appealing it is.  Meaning, finishing an article for a Mini-Con who showed up in the background somewhere, or finishing an article for someone who doesn&#039;t have any illutrated appearances... these are probably not going to be featured.  But people like Perceptor (G1) or Side Burn (RID) or High Wire (Armada) have enough about them to say to make an interesting featured article.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:36, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
: &amp;quot;Long story short,&amp;quot; my ass. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:37, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Have we done any episodes as Featured yet?  I know the over-arching &amp;quot;Target 2006&amp;quot; article was chosen once.  You&#039;d think we could get, say [[Code of Hero]] up to that standard pretty quickly.  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 07:42, 11 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I really think we need to get [[BotCon]] up to that standard. We&#039;re pretty close! --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 15:22, 11 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::[[B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.]] is a Featured article about an episode.  [[User:Excise|Excise]] 00:00, 16 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Letterers ==&lt;br /&gt;
On images of comic pages, do we credit the &#039;&#039;letterers&#039;&#039; by placing the image in an &amp;quot;Image by Letterer Name&amp;quot; category?  We&#039;ve got a few contradictory examples around.  [[User:JW|JW]] 15:32, 12 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Okay, three options: For images currently in categories like &amp;quot;Images by Mike Scott&amp;quot; (where Mike Scott is a letterer), we can:&lt;br /&gt;
:# Create the category and treat letterers just like artists, inkers, and colorists.&lt;br /&gt;
:# Instead place them in a &amp;quot;Images &#039;&#039;lettered&#039;&#039; by Mike Scott&amp;quot; category.&lt;br /&gt;
:# Remove the category, and not attempt to categorize images by letterer.&lt;br /&gt;
:I&#039;m probably going to go with option 3 barring dissent.  [[User:JW|JW]] 17:25, 16 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I added galleries to a few of the pages for letterers (eg [[Bill Oakley]], [[Peri Godbold]]) on the basis that lettering can make or [[:Image:Cryotekmrrghmraghmrugghagh.jpg|break]] a comic. As well as adding the text, the letterer has to pick where the balloons will go and place, them, so they do have a large degree of control over how the comic turns out. That said, I don&#039;t know that we need to categorise images by letterer. The original intention was [[:Category talk:Images by artist|not to]], but it looks like we ended up doing it anyway, and at least one template is set up to put images into category by letterer. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:44, 16 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I&#039;d vote for option 3 as well.--[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 22:02, 16 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I&#039;m leaning towards option 3 myself. My reasoning is that even though letterers can have a large effect on a comic, I don&#039;t see too many people wanting to find every image lettered by a given letterer. The galleries, on the other hand, are useful for demonstrating the quality of an individual&#039;s work. So those should be used. While the obsessive in me thinks we should categorize images by every applicable characteristic, it&#039;s not realistic. I don&#039;t think it benefits us enough to go through all that work for categories that only a few people might find useful. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 01:09, 17 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;Kay, I&#039;m going to go with option 3.  This may involve editing a template or two.  [[User:JW|JW]] 10:35, 17 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Categories by toy size class? ==&lt;br /&gt;
Do we &#039;&#039;want&#039;&#039; the following categories?&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Leader class toy images&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Deluxe class toy images&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Voyager class toy images&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Scout class toy images&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;They currently have a very few things in them (and could obviously have many more), but the cat&#039; pages themselves have not been created.  [[User:JW|JW]] 15:43, 12 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:No. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 16:13, 12 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::No. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:06, 15 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::As long as it&#039;s only the images and not the articles, I couldn&#039;t care less. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 21:09, 15 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:There&#039;s also a &amp;quot;Legends class toy images&amp;quot; category which has 90 images in it. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 21:21, 15 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::Legends are kind of an exception because they&#039;re a different scale/play pattern, as evidenced by the upcoming Cyberverse stuff. Scouts-on-up are &#039;&#039;generally&#039;&#039; meant to intermingle, Legends aren&#039;t. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 07:41, 16 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I could go either way on this one. It&#039;s a lot of work to fill these categories out, but the ability to find all the Deluxe figures easily intrigues me. If we did institute this I would also think that this would be the proper place to put the &amp;quot;exclusive figure&amp;quot; categories and such. Basically, any category that pertains to a particular toy and not to the character could be tagged to the image of that toy. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 23:08, 15 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I&#039;ve been doing them because I saw other people do them. I don&#039;t mind either way. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 05:51, 16 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
So, counting me as &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;, that&#039;s three &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;s, an &amp;quot;I don&#039;t care&amp;quot;, an &amp;quot;I don&#039;t mind either way&amp;quot;, and an &amp;quot;either way/intrigues me&amp;quot;.  I think we&#039;re leaning toward &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;.  Final comments?  [[User:JW|JW]] 07:08, 16 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I guess it&#039;s &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; or at least &amp;quot;not the time&amp;quot;? (Though I&#039;m &amp;quot;I&#039;m not sure&amp;quot;.) --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 11:21, 16 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I&#039;ve gone with &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;, and added a note to that effect to [[Transformers_Wiki:Images]].  [[User:JW|JW]] 14:27, 16 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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Ha ha, none of the no&#039;s have actually said why they&#039;ve said no.  Such super debating skills that. [[Special:Contributions/213.105.226.130|213.105.226.130]] 17:44, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Undo Redone? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I just undid an edit, but instead of getting the automatic &amp;quot;Reverting edit ##### by User1 to last version by User2&amp;quot; summary, that box was blank.  In addition, above the edit window were the captions &amp;quot;Current revision&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Your text&amp;quot;, side by side, as if there&#039;s meant to be one editable text window under each.  Instead, there was only one such text window beneath them, stretching across under both captions.  The page is protected so only registered users can edit it, so that MIGHT have something to do with the problem, though I doubt it.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 20:28, 19 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:It doesn&#039;t automatically create an edit summary if you&#039;re doing an undo on multiple revisions, so that might be it. Not sure about the other part - it&#039;s always shown me a diff at the top of the screen when I&#039;ve done an undo. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:54, 19 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Okay, blank edit summary&#039;s explained, because it was indeed a group of 3-4 edits being undone all at once.  Still inexplicable is the fact that I just checked the page history; it didn&#039;t even accept my Undo!  LoneGamer78 ended up doing it instead.  I&#039;ve noticed some sluggish response from the site over the past fifteen minutes or so, perhaps whatever caused that was a factor?  It may never be known...--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 21:02, 19 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Is it possible she just beat you to it by a few moments and thus there was an edit conflict? I&#039;ve had that happen sometimes, and so there&#039;s no diff shown because now the page already matches what you were going to change it to. (Uh, does that make sense?) --[[Special:Contributions/67.252.49.31|67.252.49.31]] 22:17, 19 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Can&#039;t rule it out entirely, but edit conflicts usually announce themselves as such, and they DO have two distinct editable text windows: one showing the text as it stands after someone edited while you were typing, the other as it would have been if you&#039;d edited without interference.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 22:24, 19 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::A few times I&#039;ve &amp;quot;undone&amp;quot; an edit, but someone else beat me to it. It doesn&#039;t seem to show an edit conflict if that happens, probably because the change is identical to the previous one. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:06, 19 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Banner ad question. ==&lt;br /&gt;
The small side box ad (the one that&#039;s still a free-floater) currently has an ad for some webcomic.  Which is fine, but one of the panels has GIANT ERECT LADY NIPPLES ALL OVER THE PLACE.  I&#039;m not offended by it, but it&#039;s, uh, something.  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 06:39, 21 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Ah, yeah.  That&#039;d be because it&#039;s an NSFW comic called DarkBrain which is read aloud by &amp;quot;adult film star Tabitha Stevens.&amp;quot; -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 16:50, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:: If people don&#039;t like it, I can yank it.  I didn&#039;t think its THO was that objectionable, apparently, when I okayed it.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 17:27, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== help ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I cant find the latest talk please help([[User:Manmcmanman|Manmcmanman]] 15:44, 21 February 2011 (EST))&lt;br /&gt;
:What do you mean by the latest talk? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 15:54, 21 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Revenge of the Fallen Online Games ==&lt;br /&gt;
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So, I figured I might as well finish up the online game write-ups for Revenge of the Fallen online games, in case they go offline once Dark of the Moon comes out. But, hot damn, do I ever suck. Which means I&#039;m not very likely to get pics of later levels in some of these games. I&#039;ll be trying to add in whatever I can to these sections, but some help would be much appreciated! --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 14:57, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I can have a go at getting some screencaps tonight if no one else does. Which games in particular? I noticed some of them are already gone a couple of weeks ago, as Hasbro has redirected most of the monkeybar site they were on to the Hub site, which doesn&#039;t have them. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:58, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Well, personally I&#039;m having difficulty getting pics of every character&#039;s sprite from Battle for the Matrix. I&#039;m currently working on The RPMs Devastator game. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 18:41, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I got caps of everyone except the Fallen, haven&#039;t uploaded them yet though. I couldn&#039;t get the [[flying drone]]s to transform either. They just seem to fly around wildly in robot mode. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:56, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Dang! The Fallen is the only one I can&#039;t get to either! And yeah, the flying drones are near-impossible to get a screencap of. I got a couple mid-transformation, but that&#039;s it. If any of your pics are better than mine, feel free to replace them. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 13:55, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I went and got pics from Flight of the Bumblebee and Allspark Highway. Unfortunately I can&#039;t get pics of Ratchet from the later since robovision isn&#039;t up anymore! Darn! I&#039;ll upload them later. --[[User:Ascendron|Ascendron]] 14:45, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I grabbed a screenshot of The Fallen finally. Man, that game is a memory hog. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 03:38, 25 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Countdown? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Sorry if this isn&#039;t the right place to put this, but a while back ago, there was a countdown to ROTF on the Main Page. Perhaps a countdown to DOTM would now be appropriate as it&#039;s so close?&lt;br /&gt;
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Also, I&#039;d appreciate it if someone could tell me how to program/insert/design/&amp;lt;insert verb here&amp;gt; a countdown on a wiki page (it&#039;s for another wiki). What template or whatever does that use? I&#039;d be very grateful if someone could tell me.&lt;br /&gt;
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Again, terribly sorry if this is the wrong place to say this...&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;- [[User:Queso|¡Usa El Queso!]] 4:02 PM, 22 February 2011 A.D.&lt;br /&gt;
:Dark of the Moon countdown based on Derik&#039;s ROTF code: {{#expr: ({{ #time: U |July 1, 2011}} - {{ #time: U }})/86400 round 0}} days until [[Dark of the Moon (film)|TF: Dark of the Moon]]! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:05, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==When to omit &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; from an article title==&lt;br /&gt;
So I got a hankering to remove the &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; from [[Transformers: War for Cybertron]] and [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)]] and all of their related pages, since unlike [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]], there&#039;s just no good reason to break policy for them. There are [[Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|other video games that we drop the &amp;quot;TF&amp;quot; from]], and if &amp;quot;Prime&amp;quot; is too common a term, then what about &amp;quot;[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
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But then I decided to check out [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Special:Search?ns0=1&amp;amp;search=Transformers&amp;amp;searchx=Search&amp;amp;limit=500 which pages use &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; in their titles,] and holyyyyyyyy crap. I copy-pasted here all the ones I found that I thought could lose the &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; without negating their meaning, destroying a phrase, or otherwise severely damaging the title. (I added an &amp;quot;(etc.)&amp;quot; to each one that represents a series of identically-worded pages):&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Animated (franchise)]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[1-2-3 Transformers]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Hasbro Transformers Collectors&#039; Club (magazine)]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Legends]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: The Headmasters (video game)]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Armada: The Energon Within]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers Collection]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Quest]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Key Recovery: The Game]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Power Up: The Game]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Cybertron: Primus Unleashed]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers PD Type]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: The Animated Movie]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Generations]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Annual 1990]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers Sticker Book (1986)]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Look and Find Transformers]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Learn to Count Activity Tablet]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers The Reusable Sticker Book]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: The Movie Guide]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Prime Time]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Mix &amp;amp; Match]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Comic issue 1]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers The Game (console)]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Autobots/Decepticons]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers History of Music 1984-1990]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Mosaic]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Name Generator]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Battle Universe]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers: Binaltech &amp;amp; TF Collection Complete Guide]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers Comic Magazine]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Pop-Up Book]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Visualworks]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Tooth Tunes]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Tapestry]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Song Universe]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers G1: Awakening]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Armada Annual 2004]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Beginnings]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers the Movie water]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: The Score]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: The Thirteen]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: War Within Omnibus]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: The Ride]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Beast Wars Transformers Jigsaw Puzzle]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Kōtetsu no Yūki]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers Continuum: The Definitive Chronology]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers: Bumblebee]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Adventures]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Top Trumps: Transformers]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Armada: Race for the Mini-Con Robots]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Armada: The Battle Begins]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Armada: Secret of the Star Saber]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Armada: The Autobots Strike Back]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Galaxy Force: Sound Pack 1]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Galaxy Force: Sound Pack 2]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Theme Song Collection]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers: Drift]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Annual 2010]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers CyberToy]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Hall of Fame]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers: Ironhide]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Evo.]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers Legends of the Microns: Sound of Evolution Vol. 1]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Music Matrix]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Ultimate Guide]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Ultimate Guide: Revenge]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Battle for the Matrix]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Sector 7]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Cybertron Adventures]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Cards]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers RPMs: Devastator&#039;s Demise]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Cadbury&#039;s Transformers Card Game]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Ridiculous Legend Transformers]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Famicom How-to Manga: Transformers: Mystery of Convoy]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Caramel]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Comic-Magazin]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Extra Comic-Sonderheft]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers Super-Auswahlband]] (etc.)&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[Transformers: Energon Valentine&#039;s cards]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers: Infestation issue 1]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[[The Transformers: Infestation issue 2]]&lt;br /&gt;
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For many of them, the choice to keep or drop the &amp;quot;TF&amp;quot; seems intuitive, and many others are in a grey area... but I&#039;ll be damned if I can put into words any kind of coherent rationale. I&#039;m seriously thinking that we&#039;ve outgrown the &amp;quot;drop extraneous &#039;TF&#039;s&amp;quot; rule. Back when we only had a few hundred pages, it made a certain kind of sense: Why bother writing out stuff like &amp;quot;Transformers: Generation 2&amp;quot; when just &amp;quot;Generation 2&amp;quot; is equally meaningful to everyone here? Besides, isn&#039;t every page about Transformers by default? But in the past five years, both the wiki and the subject matter have exploded, and with both so many fine-grain, obscure topics being covered and so much not-strictly-TF content we&#039;ve added, I don&#039;t think the policy serves us anymore. It doesn&#039;t make things simple; it makes things arbitrary and unpredictable.&lt;br /&gt;
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So unless someone can sum up our policy in a way that makes a lick of sense, I propose: &#039;&#039;&#039;If a topic has an official title, then that should be used in full as the title of the relevant articles.&#039;&#039;&#039; Period. So [[Transformers: War for Cybertron]] and [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)]] would stay right where they are, and yes, [[Generation 2 (franchise)]] would become &amp;quot;Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)&amp;quot;, [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)]] would become &amp;quot;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)&amp;quot;, etc. I don&#039;t think we&#039;d need to make that change happen instantly, but we could slowly propagate it as people feel inclined to. I also think we can keep the parenthetical abbreviations and in-sentence references as short as they currently are; this is only about the titles.&lt;br /&gt;
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Thoughts?&lt;br /&gt;
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- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 18:43, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:What are these &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot;? -[[Special:Contributions/75.185.113.106|75.185.113.106]] 18:58, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I&#039;ve always been for having the full name as article titles. (Maybe also drop the &amp;quot;(franchise)&amp;quot; disambigs, because durr, but that&#039;s other topic.) Not only do we keep the full name of the subject, it aids us in disambiguation (it&#039;s easier to have smaller sets of &amp;quot;Transformers: Cybertron&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Cybertron&amp;quot; than a large set of just &amp;quot;Cybertron&amp;quot;). [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 19:22, 22 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::I don&#039;t have an opinion on adding or removing &amp;quot;Transformers:&amp;quot; from articles (other than that adding it would perhaps make articles and reading unnecessarily longer - right now, I hate having to type out &amp;quot;Transformers Animated&amp;quot; before &amp;quot;The AllSpark Almanac&amp;quot;), but I do oppose removing (franchise). If there&#039;s one thing I hate, it&#039;s when there&#039;s one &#039;most important&#039; page that goes undisamb&#039;ed (like Spark) and you&#039;ll have to go through a lot of trouble to ensure it all is meant to link there. When I cleaned up the Lithone links for planet and species, nearly every single one link directed the wrong way. Same for D-HQ, AllSpark vs Allspark, Junkion, Black Friday, etc. So, keep (franchise). [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 01:49, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::I too think &amp;quot;Transformers: &amp;quot; should be kept as well as &amp;quot; (franchise)&amp;quot;. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 21:46, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::I don&#039;t mind losing Transformers when it the prefix in a title that&#039;s the form of Transformers: &amp;lt;subtitle&amp;gt;, as in that case the subtitle itself is more the actual official name and &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; is just tacked on as an extra identifier.&lt;br /&gt;
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::::But in some of those things, Transformers is, well, a vital part of the thing&#039;s actual name. I mean, for instance, the Club&#039;s full official name &#039;&#039;is&#039;&#039; &amp;quot;Hasbro Transformers Collectors&#039; Club&amp;quot;, so removing &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; from it would be incorrect. --[[Special:Contributions/67.252.49.31|67.252.49.31]] 03:00, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::I don&#039;t think that distinction is clear enough to be workable anymore. Looking at that list, tons of them I have no idea which side of the divide they&#039;d fall on. For instance, &amp;quot;[[Transformers Legends]]&amp;quot; is the proper title of the book; that&#039;s how it would be listed in any store or library, but for &#039;&#039;our&#039;&#039; purposes the &amp;quot;TF&amp;quot; is as extraneous as the one that we omit from [[Energon (comic)]] or [[Dinobots Strike Back]]. The &amp;quot;for our purposes&amp;quot; thing is so often so questionable... like, what would that dictate for [[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]? It&#039;s definitely a subtitle situation like you described, but there are lots of non-TF &amp;quot;Ultimate Guide&amp;quot;s published by the same company... but we would never cover them, so for our purposes is the &amp;quot;TF&amp;quot; still redundant?&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I agree with Geewunling that it would be annoying to have to type out longer titles (though readability should be unchanged, since I think we could still truncate in-sentence references). But right NOW it&#039;s annoying that our lack of a coherent policy is making everything increasingly unpredictable. We&#039;re seeing a lot of creep in the form of stuff like [[Transformers: Prime (franchise)]] and for some reason video games. So I don&#039;t even know what should be &amp;quot;corrected&amp;quot; anymore or how to decide the matter when creating a new article.&lt;br /&gt;
:::::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 13:58, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::The annoyance of editors doesn&#039;t really enter into my consideration; the wiki is ultimately for the readers, not our convenience. If we have to do some more work for the best presentation, so be it. —Interrobang, not logged in&lt;br /&gt;
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:I&#039;m OK with moving articles to put Transformers into the title so long as we don&#039;t delete the redirects. If we move &amp;quot;Revenge of the Fallen (film)&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)&amp;quot;, there are going to be a whole bunch of sites linking to the old URL, and I don&#039;t wanna have a repeat of the &amp;quot;(Shattered Glass)&amp;quot; thing where all the redirects get deleted and a whole lot of other sites are pointing to useless error pages. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:25, 23 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==&amp;quot;(WFC)&amp;quot; vs. &amp;quot;(Prime)&amp;quot;==&lt;br /&gt;
There are currently [[Talk:Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)#&amp;quot;(WFC)&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;(Prime)&amp;quot; for characters that originated in this franchise?|two]] [[Talk:Optimus Prime (Prime)#Move|discussions]] going about whether articles on subjects that originated in &#039;&#039;War for Cybertron&#039;&#039;-branded fiction (the [[War for Cybertron games|games]], [[Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron|novel]], and [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (comic)|comic]]) should be titled &amp;quot;(WFC)&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;(Prime)&amp;quot;. It was suggested that this should be brought up in the Community Portal, so here it is.&lt;br /&gt;
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For the record, looking at [[War for Cybertron games#Featured Characters|this list]], right now we&#039;re using &amp;quot;(Prime)&amp;quot; for all named characters, even those currently exclusive to WfC, and &amp;quot;(WFC)&amp;quot; for all character &#039;&#039;types&#039;&#039; from the games. I&#039;m not sure why that is, but that&#039;s the state of things.&lt;br /&gt;
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- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 17:46, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I completely agree with Jackpot. It is stupid we have an article called [[Ultra Magnus (Prime)]] stating &amp;quot;Ultra Magnus is an Autobot Wrecker from the WFC portion of the Aligned family continuity&amp;quot;. I blame myself for not doing this a lot earlier, treating the WFC navbox as like a subsection of Prime when the novel was so clearly a tie-in to those games. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 18:48, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::WFC is a tie-in game. As I pointed out, how many Mini-Cons from the PS2 Transformers game use the disambiguator &amp;quot;(Transformers)&amp;quot;? And even then, what of novel-original characters? Do they get &amp;quot;(Exodus)&amp;quot;? And heck, didn&#039;t Exodus come out &#039;&#039;before&#039;&#039; WFC? Shouldn&#039;t the characters thusly use &amp;quot;(Exodus)&amp;quot; over &amp;quot;(WFC)&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;(Prime)&amp;quot;? --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 18:57, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::: The book and game came out on the same day, as I recall. So... yeah. I&#039;m completely against this. We used &amp;quot;Prime&amp;quot; because that was the name we WERE using for the continuity family; frankly, I find this wishy-washy &amp;quot;aligned continuity family&amp;quot; thing pretty lame. The core of the damn family is the Prime cartoon. It is THE central feature, and will be THE major fictional outlet and -almost assuredly- what future non-show fictions will adhere more closely to. I don&#039;t see the point in all this subdividing and adding more parantheticals. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 19:19, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I find it &#039;&#039;extremely&#039;&#039; hard to believe that if Hasbro&#039;s &amp;quot;decade&amp;quot; plan goes through, &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; is the last franchise we&#039;re going to see spring from it. Even Aaron Archer thinks &amp;quot;Prime&amp;quot; is a bad name for the overall deal. Given what a fractured start it&#039;s already off to, I think separating out the &amp;quot;family&amp;quot; foundation is the only sensible thing to do. So that&#039;s why [[Aligned continuity family]] exists.&lt;br /&gt;
::::As for the &amp;quot;(WFC)&amp;quot; notion, I&#039;m not as personally attached to that, even though I do think it&#039;s the correct thing to do. Mostly I think that WfC needs to be acknowledged as an entity unto itself, not just a subset of &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039;. Strictly from a branding point of view, it ISN&#039;T a subset; nothing has been both WfC- and Prime-branded. It&#039;s not just the title of a video game; it&#039;s in the titles of [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (comic)|a comic]] and [[Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron|a novel]], plus they&#039;ve made [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)#Toys|toys from it]] that definitely don&#039;t fit the &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; brand. (True, the toys aren&#039;t labeled &amp;quot;WfC&amp;quot;, but that&#039;s par for the course with &#039;&#039;Generations&#039;&#039; anyway. At the very least, it&#039;s a grey area.) Beyond branding, it just has a unique aesthetic and sensibility that&#039;s very different from &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
::::Based on all that, the best place WfC fits in our schema is as a &amp;quot;franchise&amp;quot;, to my judgement. &amp;quot;&#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; tie-in&amp;quot; doesn&#039;t cut it.&lt;br /&gt;
::::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 19:55, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::WFC is not &#039;&#039;just&#039;&#039; a tie-in game. It has [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=7fcfb1b5-19b9-f369-10be-e91a2108d9ab online bios] and [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=7fd5ecd9-19b9-f369-1041-a7635be83172 online timeline]. Hasbro made it its own thing. Franchise-like. Before any Prime show started we learned from the timeline that [[Megatron (Prime)|D-16]] was an Energon mine laborer and rose to prominence in secret gladiatorial combat and took the name &amp;quot;Megatron&amp;quot;. So [[Megatron (Prime)]] had a whole history before the show even existed. The non-show characters with the (Prime) disambiguation also shows it doesn&#039;t quite fit. I&#039;d go for WFC. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 19:35, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::AGAIN, Exodus came out the SAME DAY. So why does WFC get prominence? --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 19:56, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Because that&#039;s the phrase that&#039;s used in the names of [[War for Cybertron games|all]] [[Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron|the]] [[Transformers: War for Cybertron (comic)|media]]. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 20:02, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I don&#039;t see how the subline &amp;quot;The official history of the war for Cybertron&amp;quot; is the exact same as &amp;quot;War For Cybertron: The Vidya Game&amp;quot;. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 20:24, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::I agree. Aside from three (ambiguous) words on the book&#039;s front, there&#039;s not much that says it&#039;s part of the WFC &amp;quot;franchise&amp;quot;. Same for Generations. If they wanted to, they could have made figures of every War for Cybertron character and released it in a toyline explicitly called &amp;quot;Transformers: War for Cybertron&amp;quot;. But they didn&#039;t; they just released five toys based on WFC designs and released them under Generations, so Generations is a WFC toy line as much as it is a G1 one (actually, probably more of G1 considering how very few WFC toys there were). The video games are only different because of hardware limitations, so having multiple games with the same title does not a franchise make. Having a website with bios and everything is a moot point, because almost every video game has that. The comic, I&#039;ll give you that one, but I don&#039;t think it&#039;s a franchise if it&#039;s a game and a tie-in comic with a limited release. --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 20:30, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::For what it&#039;s worth, when you [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/Transformers-War-for-Cybertron.cfm click on &amp;quot;War For Cybertron&amp;quot;] it brings up all the Generations toys. I also think the WFC timeline ties in Exodus to WFC since the events in the comic and timeline are basically from the book. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 20:48, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::It also brings up PCC Icepick (item 12 of 12, on page 2). --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 20:52, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::::The WfC-branded timeline and comic both cover events in &#039;&#039;Exodus&#039;&#039;. Hell, the comic was written by the same dude. I don&#039;t understand the logic that says that the &amp;quot;War for Cybertron&amp;quot; in the novel&#039;s title doesn&#039;t mean the same thing. If there were a novel called &amp;quot;Deuteronomy: The Official History of the Beast Wars&amp;quot; set during the events of the cartoon, I wouldn&#039;t be trying to say it was part of the &#039;&#039;Beast Machines&#039;&#039; franchise.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::Let me put in a slightly different light: Because franchises are branding-based, not continuity-based, I&#039;m not comfortable with the &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; franchise being stretched to include all this stuff that doesn&#039;t have the &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; label on it. Yes, it&#039;s clearly all RELATED, story-wise, but that&#039;s what [[Aligned continuity family|continuity pages]] are for. This feels like taking &#039;&#039;Machine Wars&#039;&#039; (which is the opposite kind of sparse: a toyline with virtually no fiction) and rolling it into G2. Sure, they&#039;re in the same family, and there are connections between the two, but they&#039;re not marketed with the same label, so we don&#039;t do it. Before &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; existed, there were these other forms of media sharing a unique title (that even got the TF-logo lockup treatment!) and covering common ground. Then &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; showed up, and so far the two labels have not been seen on the same product. To me, that means two franchises.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 21:20, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::::But... there is no overarching label on the products we have poked into the WFC &amp;quot;Franchise&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Transformers: War for Cybertron&amp;quot; has its own logo which is also on the tie-in comic, and Exodus has its own logo. They&#039;re still prequels to TF:Prime. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 21:33, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::I guess I just see the &amp;quot;War for Cybertron&amp;quot; in the title of &#039;&#039;Exodus&#039;&#039; as having more meaning than you do. Yeah, Hasbro could&#039;ve been more blatant if they&#039;d wanted to, but it&#039;s still clearly telling the reader it&#039;s part of the same deal as the WfC games and comic, without making any reference to &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; (or vice-versa). I can imagine a situation where the &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; branding might retroactively subsume WfC, like how the &amp;quot;Wreckers&amp;quot; comic was given the &#039;&#039;Universe&#039;&#039; brand (they say there&#039;s another game coming out, after all). But that hasn&#039;t happened yet, so in the meantime I say WfC doesn&#039;t belong under the &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; franchise.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::Anyway, at this point if we don&#039;t see eye-to-eye, we probably won&#039;t, so I&#039;m going to shut up now.&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 22:39, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:What about the next thing after &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; that is in the Modern/Aligned continuity? We would have a new disambiguation, like, &amp;quot;Spike (Next Franchise).&amp;quot; and characters that have never been in Prime, like &amp;quot;Ultra Magnus (Prime).&amp;quot; Kind of confusing. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 21:57, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::No it isn&#039;t. The idea that WFC/Exodus are part of a big wad of continuity colloquially known as &amp;quot;Prime&amp;quot;, and referred to as &amp;quot;Prime&amp;quot; because the &amp;quot;Prime&amp;quot; cartoon is THE core of the whole shebang, and will liekly BE said core for the near future, is not a hard one. It only gets confusing when you start letting obfuscating pedantry in, at which point you&#039;re only making more work for no payoff and making things harder for our readers. A trend which seems to keep coming up over and over again, I&#039;ve noticed... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 22:09, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I&#039;m pretty sure I&#039;ve had my share of &amp;quot;obfuscating pedantry&amp;quot; moments, but I completely agree with Siph on this one. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 22:18, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::For the record, if people really think that using &amp;quot;(WFC)&amp;quot; would be confounding to readers, that&#039;s not a decision I&#039;m very invested in. This discussion has ballooned into bigger issues that I &#039;&#039;do&#039;&#039; feel more strongly about, but the parenthetical itself is very take-it-or-leave-it for me. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 22:39, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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I would at the least support migrating characters who have thus far &#039;&#039;only&#039;&#039; appeared in WFC to the appropriate parenthetical.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 02:55, 1 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:And move them back if they appear in Prime? [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 11:03, 1 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Yes. I think that would make the most sense to people looking for the characters.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 11:24, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I am willing to make this compromise for the time being. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 14:27, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==War For Cybertron== &lt;br /&gt;
War for cybertron is a relativley new game, but it is a great one. I am kind of new on this website, but to me, it looks like the War For Cybertron title has gotten mixed up with Transformers: Prime, a completley diffrent universe. also, WFC is G1 Canon. All the WFC pages and articles should be labled on G1, MAJOR cleanup is needed. {{unsigned|Holymoses|06:30, March 3, 2011 (EST)}}&lt;br /&gt;
:You clearly &#039;&#039;are&#039;&#039; quite new, because we would advise you to read [[Aligned continuity family|this article]] before you start in on this notion. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 06:33, 3 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:In Hasbro&#039;s own words: &amp;quot;The TRANSFORMERS brand team would like to confirm that Transformers War for Cybertron video game, Transformers Exodus novel, and the Transformers Prime television show are in the same aligned continuity. Hasbro is creating a single continuity to tell the bulk of our TRANSFORMERS stories going forward.&amp;quot; Here&#039;s the [http://www.allspark.com/content/view/8189/20/ link] to the announcement --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 06:45, 3 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::You aren&#039;t completely wrong. The game developers were heavily inspired by G1, and were pretty much making a G1 game as far as they knew. It&#039;s just that, like Khajidha said, Hasbro says War for Cybertron is part of the same continuity as Prime, so that&#039;s what the wiki goes with. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 00:00, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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Well that still seems weird, since &amp;quot;Prime&amp;quot; has a completley diffrent story, and &amp;quot;Exodus&amp;quot; doesnt connect the two sagas very well. even if its what Hasbro said, i think we should put all this into consideration, Aaron Archer himself said that War for Cybertron was a game set in the G1 Universe. I think its wrong of Hasbro to try and connect the two diffrent Continuities. {{unsigned|Holymoses|09:12, March 4, 2011 (EST)}}&lt;br /&gt;
:First of all, when did Aaron Archer say that? Second, Hasbro gets to define what is in each continuity for the simple reason that it is their intellectual property. It may not be to your liking, but it cannot be wrong as they are the ones who determine what is right. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 09:35, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Yeah, gonna need a source on that Archer statement. Especially since he&#039;s been amongst the ones saying WFC/Exodus is part of the new continuity. Also, weren&#039;t a lot of elements in WFC, like Dark Energon, Hasbro mandates from a story bible they supplied the creators (hereby proving that Hasbro&#039;s intent was always for it to be part of the new continuity), or am I imagining things again? --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 10:08, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::From what I read about that production bible, it is a result of guys at Hasbro sitting down and &amp;quot;[http://collider.com/roberto-orci-jeff-kline-interview-transformers-prime/75039/ coalescing all the mythologies] that they had institutionally for years. Actually putting it down to paper.&amp;quot; It sounds like they were just collecting and not adding new stuff in. I wouldn&#039;t be surprised if Dark Energon were added &#039;&#039;after&#039;&#039; it was in the game. And what about timing? Orci said Hasbro put together the bible after the movies came out (in mid 2009). The video game came out in mid 2010 with a video game lead time of ??? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 11:27, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Unless Dark Energon is actually just the new name for Angolmois energy. The name may have been taken from the video game, but the concept could well have been in the production bible before WFC. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 11:37, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::What a load of supposition and crap. I hereby dub it &amp;quot;crapposition&amp;quot;. I can pretty much say that you are completely wrong. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 12:38, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::[http://www.joystiq.com/2010/05/05/interview-matt-tieger-of-high-moon-studios-on-transformers/ Matt Tieger said] that High Moon started working on WfC when they shipped their &amp;quot;Bourne&amp;quot; game, which according to the accompanying notes was mid-2008, between the first movie and RotF. [http://www.cheatcc.com/extra/interviewtransformerswarforcybertron2.html This interview] talks up the G1 inspiration and then says the WfC storyline is &amp;quot;a completely original story that we made up at High Moon. We worked closely with Hasbro...&amp;quot; The consistent impression I&#039;ve gotten from several different interviews is that High Moon started from G1 and then made pitches to Hasbro, which Hasbro would provide feedback on, and eventually there was a game. The only people who I&#039;ve seen actually talk about the 400-page story-bible are the &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; creators. And if Orci was being literal when he said the bible was put together &amp;quot;after the movie’s came out&amp;quot;, then game development would&#039;ve indeed started earlier. At the very least, it sounds pretty likely that there was some simultaneous creation.&lt;br /&gt;
:::::In the end, the chicken-and-egg question is basically moot because either way, WfC is part of the new deal. It doesn&#039;t matter who said the words &amp;quot;Dark Energon&amp;quot; first; it&#039;s part of the structure that binds all of the pieces, so that&#039;s that. But for nitpicking&#039;s sake, Starfield&#039;s suppositions aren&#039;t off-base from the evidence we have. Siph, if you have additional info that clarifies or contradicts any of that, please share.&lt;br /&gt;
:::::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 19:44, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I, similarly, have found it quite plausible when thinking on the subject to believe that High Moon could have created the idea of Dark Energon, and that Hasbro then said to themselves &amp;quot;We can use THAT!&amp;quot; and put it in the bible. It&#039;s certainly outside the realm of possibility, unless you know something we don&#039;t, Siph. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 05:24, 5 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Because nothing whatsoever can change in the millions of years between the WFC era and the Prime cartoon era. And yeah, good luck sourcing that Aaron claim. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 11:24, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
I think that if they were in the game or in Exodus:The Offical History of the War for Cybertron, they  should be labled (WFC),but if they poped into the Prime teley-show or comics, they should be labled (Prime).-[ [User:DinoDigger97|DinoDigger97]] 2:11 3 Apil 2011&lt;br /&gt;
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== Captured-Prey ads ==&lt;br /&gt;
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One of the things advertised there appears to be a fan-made Megatron min-figure. Seeing as how everybody was upset that the TFSource ad [[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Archive47#TFsource_ad_buy|featured fansproject stuff]], surely, this isn&#039;t right either? [[User:Item42|Item42]] 05:33, 8 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Check the section back up this page titled [[#Project_Wonderful_ads|Project Wonderful ads]]. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 05:59, 8 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Revenge of the Fallen video game character articles - [X] Scout 1, [X] Scout 2 pages for the same design ==&lt;br /&gt;
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With the upcoming DOTM games, I thought I should look at the ROTF game articles that were abandoned in 2009 and see if I could do anything for them. I believe it was Derik who made this decision, but I am now wondering if it is necessary to have say [[Aerialbot Scout 1]] and [[Aerialbot Scout 2]], [[Omnibot Scout 1]] and [[Omnibot Scout 2]] (and so on) considering &amp;quot;Scout 1&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Scout 2&amp;quot; are just the two different colour schemes for these mass produced generic, nameless characters who only differ in terms of textures. Any completed articles on these will have different images, but exactly the same information. Isn&#039;t that redundant? Should we perhaps just stick both of each under Aeriabot Scout, Omnibot Scout, Stunticon Scout? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 07:14, 11 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:According to the articles the two Aerialbot Scouts have different health, primary weapon and secondary weapon ratings. Is that enough for separation? I don&#039;t know, but it should be considered before making a decision. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 09:55, 11 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I don&#039;t even know where those stats came from - I don&#039;t believe the person who filled them in originally ever explained. Were they from a website, article or guide book? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 11:42, 11 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Found some much needed images, but... ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I found them on [http://transformersiv.mforos.com/1519135/8979801-transformers-g1-aventuras-y-nostalgias-que-nunca-moriran/ this site], and I don&#039;t speak the language (I think it&#039;s Spanish) to ask for their permission to use them. The images are covers of the [[Marvel Books]] titles [[Battle at Oil Valley]], [[Summertime Coloring Book]], and [[Super Activity Book]]. That&#039;s right we don&#039;t even have an article for that last one. They also have page scans of these and other Marvel Books titles. I don&#039;t feel right just taking them for our use here and was wondering if someone who spoke the lingo would contact them for us. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 09:21, 12 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Nevermind, Google Chrome finally remembered that it had translational abilities. The poster is offering them for download to all and sundry, so he/she can hardly care if we borrow them. I&#039;ll probably still insert a link to the main site out of courtesy. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 11:22, 12 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::After looking at them, I realized that they were Steve Stonebreaker&#039;s scans. I have contacted him and received permission to use them here. I&#039;ll be adding more soon. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 09:55, 16 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Hey, I&#039;ve got a new user talk page template request... ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Rebirth1 Hardhead and Blurr.jpg|right|thumb|300px|TOO MANY QUOTES]]&lt;br /&gt;
Can we have one that reminds folks that every new thing in Transformers that even vaguely reminds you of an old thing in Transformers IS NOT A REFERENCE AND THAT IS NOT HOW REFERENCES WORK AND STOP PUTTING THEM IN THE &amp;quot;TRANSFORMERS REFERENCES&amp;quot; SECTION.  Ahem.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 23:18, 13 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:You mean like [[Template:notareference|this]]? --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 23:22, 13 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Hooray! --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 23:30, 13 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Brilliant. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 02:39, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::That&#039;s an oldie, but a goodie. Personally, I&#039;m wondering if there&#039;s any template that can be set up for the people that just drown episode articles in quotes... --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 02:42, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I think we&#039;d first need a consensus on how many quotes are appropriate. [[User:JW|JW]] 07:41, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::It&#039;s a conversation that needs to be had, I think.  You have to take length of the story into account - there are more quotes in a two hour movie than in a twenty five minute episode.  I&#039;d put the early cutoff at around five for episodes, though. [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 08:00, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::I like the idera of a mximum of 5 per 30 minutes (or part thereof) for Episodes &amp;amp; movies, but what would be a good size for comics? I&#039;d say around 3 per issue, but it breaks down with short issues and back up stories (i.e.e most of the Marvel UK exclusive stuff...) [[User:G1MarvelBlaster|G1MarvelBlaster]] 10:19, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::I&#039;d set a &amp;quot;soft&amp;quot; limit higher for 30-minute episodes {{m-}} around 10 quotes {{m-}} and I&#039;d allow more than that if the episode was particularly well-written or quotable.  I don&#039;t think there&#039;s any need for a low, hard limit, as I don&#039;t think lots of quotes hurt the wiki until we get into &amp;quot;quoting the whole darn episode&amp;quot; territory.  Heck, in fact, I might favor a policy of &#039;&#039;judging each quote for itself.&#039;&#039;  I.e., if a quote is good/noteworthy/illustrative/funny/wadeva, it can be kept, even if there are two dozen other quotes already.  Each must stand on its merits, but there would be no hard cap.  [[User:JW|JW]] 11:31, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::Yeah, some episodes happen to have a lot of funny/significant/memorable lines, others don&#039;t. If we set a hard cap, we might be damning ourselves to a lot of pointless fights over which quotes deserve to be included under the arbitrary limit. I&#039;m more in favor of making a list of criteria that we can point to when we weed lame quotes out.&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::Oh, and I support making a template. &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; Soundwave is the best character I can think of to use, but Movie Bumblebee or G1 Wreck-Gar would also be appropriate. Or a shot of G1 Soundwave with a tape inside of him? Can&#039;t think of a good header, though...&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 11:49, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::::I mainly suggested it as a starting point because if it comes down to putting each quote in place based on &amp;quot;which one we like more&amp;quot; the talk pages are going to be absolutely horrible.  HOW CAN YOU LEAVE OUT MY FAVORITE QUOTE IT IS SO FUNNY AND RELEVANT.  The &amp;quot;5 per 30 minutes&amp;quot; is just a suggestion - obviously an episode that&#039;s really funny or poignant can get more.  Comics issues we could maybe use pagecount as a starting point.  But basically, combine the two ideas.  A list of criteria is a good idea, but we also need to avoid having like, thirty quotes for a given story, twelve of which are totally shitty.  If we get over five-six quotes, it&#039;s time to think about trimming, just because seriously, 90% of TF fiction isn&#039;t that goddamned quotable - or there are better places for the quotes.  &amp;quot;I don&#039;t rock and roll - I burn!&amp;quot; belongs on Inferno&#039;s page, not on the episode it appeared in.  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 11:51, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::::Fair enough. Just so long as the number is sufficiently &amp;quot;soft&amp;quot; that we don&#039;t forget that our goal is high quality, not an arbitrarily low quantity. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 12:17, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::::::Exactly.  Like I said, I think we can also judiciously use key &#039;&#039;character&#039;&#039; quotes on the &#039;&#039;characters&#039;&#039;&#039; pages.  Some quotes are very episode/story specific, while others provide insight into a character&#039;s personality or mindset.  I think that&#039;s a good way to winnow the chaff, you know?  -hx at work not logged in gotta run&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::::::The 5-6 quotes before we start trimming sounds good, especially if some more individual character based quotes can be moved to the character pages. The big problem I keep seeing with quotes is that too many people want to quote an entire scene. If it goes beyond 3 lines it&#039;s probably not what we mean by quote here. And even 3 lines is pushing it. These should really be a single line quip or a two line set up and pay off. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 14:22, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::::::5 to 6 sounds like a good starting point to me as well. Khajidha makes a good point about the definition of quote. That, along with Hooks&#039; point about using key character quotes on that character&#039;s article, should be pointed out on [[Help:Example episode article]], once it exists.  --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 17:32, 14 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
What about block quotes? The page for Transformers (2007) is full of them.  I think there should be a limit on how long the quote can be.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 16:48, 19 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
== Maybe a silly question, can we? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Ok, exposing my ignorance here, but isthere a way to search the wiki by alt-mode? If I wanted to know every TF that turns into a Helicopter say? There&#039;s not a &amp;quot;helicopter&amp;quot; catagory, so howwould I find them all? Thanks for any help.--[[Special:Contributions/76.28.76.206|76.28.76.206]] 19:59, 19 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:[[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes]] covers some characters.  There&#039;s been a few vague proposals to create a new hierarchy of categories for altmodes, but it would be a lot of work, and it&#039;s generally shouted down.  [[User:JW|JW]] 20:08, 19 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I think the current best option if you want to do something like this is TFU.info&#039;s Identify section.  --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 11:00, 30 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Grimlock letter==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Grimlock letter.jpg|thumb|right]]&lt;br /&gt;
I recently acquired this and thought it&#039;s exactly the sort of thing we should be covering. I had no idea it even existed until a friend sent it to me and on that thought, should we add letters from Soundwave, Ratchet(?), Dreadwind and Blaster to the Holy Grails? Was there a similar response from the US comic, and do Titan still send these letters out today from Starscream? Enquiring minds want to know. Incidentally, he said he got Tailgate as his free mini-toy. --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 15:31, 29 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Good find. A letter from Grimlock is pretty awesome. That should go somewhere. The Letters Page page? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 16:58, 29 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I&#039;ve added a link from there; I&#039;ll type it up verbatim if we think it&#039;s justified? --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 18:09, 29 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Voice actors by series ==&lt;br /&gt;
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We have a bunch of categories for voice actors by language, but I was wondering if we should have categories for voice actors by series? Would categories like &amp;quot;Beast Wars voice actors&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Victory voice actors&amp;quot; be useful? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:27, 14 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:That could be useful.  It&#039;d be better than looking up cast lists and opening up every character page, at least. -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 06:30, 14 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::Sound like a nice idea to me. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 10:01, 14 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== &amp;quot;Just Stop&amp;quot; Notice? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Do we think there&#039;s a role for the following proposed user notice template, for users like Eagc7?&lt;br /&gt;
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{{messagebox|image_name=War_War_Stop_It.jpg|image_width=225px|width=90%|header=Just Stop|message_text=Please stop editing this wiki.  While you haven&#039;t done anything ban-worthy (yet), you are not a productive contributor.  (The reasons &#039;&#039;why&#039;&#039; are above this notice on your talk page.)  So, please, &#039;&#039;&#039;just stop.&#039;&#039;&#039;}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Opinions? [[User:JW|JW]] 14:39, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:If one is created, I love this image for it! --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 15:35, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::It seems a bit rude, but the image would be &#039;&#039;perfect&#039;&#039; if this is made. --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 15:45, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::If this gets phrased differently, I&#039;d support it. Right now, the text&#039;s too rude. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 15:52, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::I think it is meant to be rude and probably should be rude. This tag is designed to be placed on the talk pages of people who have seemingly ignored the multiple instances of other tags. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 15:57, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;m a little iffy on this proposal. I admit that Eagc7 has a very poor grasp of the English language, but I&#039;m a little uncomfortable with telling a person to leave a site just because of that. If you look over his fiction edits (the ones you can read) the posts he has made are accurate, just...occasionally unreadable. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 16:02, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I&#039;m with SFH. Eagc7&#039;s English seems to be all over the place, but there are times when he gets it more or less correctly and only needs minor typo fixes. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 16:21, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
Whether a person&#039;s edits are bad enough (and bad enough all the time enough) to ask them to never post again seems like something that shouldn&#039;t be in the hands of, well, everybody.  Putting a template up that says you&#039;re a bad speller or that you&#039;re not using Preview enough... that&#039;s pretty straight forward.  But I dunno if I&#039;m comfortable with giving us all a tool to shame each other off the wiki entirely.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 16:49, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:In addition, if someone&#039;s edits are so bad (and so consistently bad) that they&#039;re more of a nuisance than they are helpful, then that person should probably just be gotten rid of, instead of getting the Middle Finger Personified In A Template.  As Detour said, yeah, Eagc7&#039;s English could use some work, but he does enough good here that I don&#039;t think he&#039;s completely poison or anything.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 16:51, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
I could maybe get behind the idea of a &amp;quot;Stop editing until you&#039;ve read the complaints on your user page&amp;quot; template for the blissfully unaware people constantly making edits that are being undone as soon as they make them whilst ignoring comments on their user page telling them what they&#039;re doing wrong.  But a template like THIS, and this sort of behavior in general, is how we end up with trolls that come by and vandalize the wiki on a daily basis for years and years.  We could avoid that sort of future headache by just not being all-out douchebags to people even if they&#039;re stupid and/or their contributions are annoying. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 17:15, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I suppose the only problem with making a &amp;quot;read your talk page&amp;quot; template is that they&#039;ll never read it. -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 18:24, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::: I like this idea, too. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 21:01, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::Got me there. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 18:36, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:This will not go well.  If someone&#039;s a real pest here, ban them.  If they&#039;re being a pest but not quite that bad yet, notify them on their talkpage with whichever templates are already needed, and then if they don&#039;t clean up, ban them.  We shouldn&#039;t be creating--publicly--an underclass of users.  If you&#039;re allowed to have an account here, you&#039;re allowed to post--otherwise we look scummy.  --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 19:17, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::This is basically every stereotype of this wiki and its userbase given textbox form.  I love it.  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 20:33, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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The consensus seems to be against it, and the arguments are all good ones.  (Kind of a pity, since the image was so perfect, but...)  I withdraw the suggestion.  Thanks all for weighing in!  [[User:JW|JW]] 20:25, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:It is a good template despite the rudeness, but it is potentially necessary for extreme conditions as a last resort. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 21:01, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Is it possible that we could reuse that image for another template?  Perhaps a Final Warning template, letting users know that if they don&#039;t cut their shit out, they&#039;re gonna get banned. -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 21:42, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: Clearly it should be used for a &amp;quot;stop edit/revert warring&amp;quot; template.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 22:32, 26 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Our Blogger blog? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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To me it appears that our blog doesn&#039;t have much use. Our twitter sends out links to occasional pages and our facebook is an easy place to congregate and talk about TFs and not take up our talk pages, but the blog hasn&#039;t been used in over half a year.&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;m thinking using it to keep track of current trends and such. We could highlight pages that are being worked on, point out users who have been creating/adding a lot to pages (i.e. Geewunling creating minor GI Joe pages, Chris McFeely going crazy with the Japanese food tie-ins). This way an editor or lurker who happens to miss a few days can easily catch up rather than having to sift through the new pages and new files (and even then if a page has just had an entirely new writeup from a stub, it wouldn&#039;t show up there).&lt;br /&gt;
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Any thoughts on this? --[[User:Bluestreak7|Bluestreak7]] 14:21, 28 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I think it would be a good way to draw attention to obscure and/or new stuff on the Wiki. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:46, 2 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I think so, too, but there are questions left unanswered if we want to go ahead with this. Who would be given control over the posts? Should it be extra mod duties or instead given to some other veteran editors? If so, how many? Would we want weekly updates or something with less frequency? Overall, who is in the current position to grant other users the power to add posts. I can see this as a useful too, but like many things on this wiki, we need to come up with some sort of procedure before it comes to fruition. --[[User:Bluestreak7|Bluestreak7]] 11:33, 3 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==TFwiki in the past week==&lt;br /&gt;
Could someone tell me why the TFwiki has been down/inaccessible for most of the time in the past week? [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 02:04, 10 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I would wager &amp;quot;massive spikes in traffic, as DotM stuff hits,&amp;quot; which has happened before.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 02:20, 10 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I thought traffic wouldn&#039;t be a likely cause since the third movie is still over a month away. Guess I was wrong. Thanks! [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 02:27, 10 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::There&#039;s at least some clamor now that the toys are out there.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 02:46, 10 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::Technical explanation or non-technical?  Traffic HAS picked up a bit, the wiki hardware (such as it is) is slightly overtaxed, and we need to start doing some math on what we can separate into other servers, and how much it&#039;ll cost to do so.--[[User:McFly|McFly]] 16:15, 13 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::Cowboy time.  We&#039;ve moved the application server and cache to another box, and synced over the contents.  If anything&#039;s missing, we can try to sync it over from the old webserver, but it wouldn&#039;t be off by more than a few minutes, so here&#039;s hoping that we&#039;re back in business!--[[User:McFly|McFly]] 15:43, 17 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::No wonder the connection becomes smooth again recently. Nice Works!! --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 22:45, 17 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::Yeah, I&#039;d noticed that the site was back to normal. Thanks for the hard work. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 22:52, 17 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::Thanks for fixing our wiki! [[User:JW|JW]] 07:15, 18 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Eagc7&#039;s movie comic section edits ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Lately Eagc7 has been editing the somewhat neglected movie prequel comic sections in character articles, which is good. However, Eagc7 has been editing the somewhat neglected movie prequel comic sections in character articles, which is bad. I know he tries, but whenever he does this sort of thing, he just ends up creating work for somebody else to clean up, and frankly, it&#039;s easier to write stuff from scratch than it is to fix somebody&#039;s spelling &amp;amp; grammar, as well as trying to make the text fit the tone and style of the paragraphs surrounding it (which is important considering the Foundation comics take place during the other Movie prequel comics). I haven&#039;t read Foundation and Rising Storm, [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Special:Contributions/Eagc7 so I can&#039;t fix all of this myself], but that seems like a fair bit of work to fix at a time when the wiki was experiencing random downtime and BotCon is rapidly approaching (meaning a good chunk of our regular editors will not be able to edit much, and in any case would be updating stuff about/from BotCon). Like I said, I know he&#039;s trying, and he&#039;s getting much better than he used to be, but... maybe he should leave fiction edits to the professionals. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:27, 18 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Take it up with him via his Talk Page or the E-mail a User link.  If there&#039;s really a stylistic problem, then we need a Style Guide for new users to reference.--[[User:McFly|McFly]] 11:04, 19 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Tommy Kennedy</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: New page: Can somebody please tell me who this boy is?  I am really confused.--~~~~&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Can somebody please tell me who this boy is?  I am really confused.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 00:25, 7 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Demolishor (ROTF)</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: /* Wheals */ new section&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;I have to question the usefullness of having a GIF as the main image. While awesome, it does distract from the main page (granted, it&#039;s not much of a page, but I digress). Could we get an image of the scene to serve as the main image until we get stock photos? -- 20:27, 30 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:It was a whole 3 megabytes large. So, I nuked it. Because it was the dimensions of a postage stamp and the filesize of a video file. Not good.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 20:40, 30 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&#039;t understand that image caption, but I laughed at it.  --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]], who is too lazy to log in and thus looks like [[Special:Contributions/71.75.187.174|71.75.187.174]] 10:51, 21 May 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Concept Art ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Should we put Concept art of the ROTF characters as the main images of them? and the current main image could go somewher else on a page. Cos I have noticed that almost all the main images of the First movie characters are concpt art, so why is ROTF character concept art so different? Lets put them up! but why have we not yet? almost every character has them! --[[Special:Contributions/92.238.187.82|92.238.187.82]] 15:06, 11 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: I don&#039;t think we have concept art for any of the first movie&#039;s characters.  Lots of &#039;&#039;&#039;promotional art&#039;&#039;&#039;, sure.  Certainly nothing that exists only as leaked/stolen concept art.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 16:03, 11 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Oh Sorry I meant Promotional Art, i always get them confused--[[Special:Contributions/92.238.187.82|92.238.187.82]] 10:31, 12 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::We do not have promotional art for Demolishor.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:55, 12 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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http://polopirate.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/53_71646_07bec234ba5feea.jpg is that good enough? furthermore we HAVE uploaded concept art, like for Hightower, does anyone complain? NO! So it would be MUCH better if we got an official art image tha just a useless video game still with all due respect --[[Special:Contributions/92.238.160.72|92.238.160.72]] 09:04, 19 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:No, as it&#039;s leaked. We do not upload leaked art or information it&#039;s against our policy. And that is not a game still, it is a game concept image. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 09:08, 19 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Once one of us gets the blue ray, we should try to get a good screen cap of him to use as the main pic, because almost all other images of him show him in Scavenger&#039;s colours. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 09:23, 19 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== In-fiction name &amp;quot;Demolisher&amp;quot;? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&#039;t think &amp;quot;Demolish&#039;&#039;&#039;o&#039;&#039;&#039;r&amp;quot; was ever used for this guy in-fiction. It wasn&#039;t in the movie or comic adaptation. He was &amp;quot;Demolish&#039;&#039;&#039;e&#039;&#039;&#039;r&amp;quot; in the novel adaptation. So if in-fiction names trump toy names for article titles (like [[Leo Prime]]), technically shouldn&#039;t this page be at &amp;quot;Demolisher&amp;quot;? The novels were pretty casual in spelling names so I could see why this might be an exception to the rule. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:54, 17 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I think &amp;quot;Demolisher&amp;quot; is a typo. Does anyone know what he&#039;s called in the games? --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 12:56, 17 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I believe he is called &amp;quot;the Demolishor&amp;quot;. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 13:52, 17 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I doubt it is a typo. Maybe it was the same over-eager novel editor who turned &amp;quot;Knock Out&amp;quot; into &amp;quot;Knockout&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Dead End&amp;quot; into &amp;quot;Deadend&amp;quot; in the prequel novel. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 14:01, 17 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Construction?==&lt;br /&gt;
Is there any proof that Demolishor is a Constructicon from any toy, bio or fiction, or are we just assigning him that group because he shares his form with Scavenger, who is a Constructicon? [[Special:Contributions/198.51.174.5|198.51.174.5]] 09:01, 3 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Wheals ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&#039;t know about anyone else, but I am confused as to how he has two wheels in robot mode.  I think that they are formed by his treads (which boggles me), but I don&#039;t see how he would get Two wheels from two tracks, when in my mind it would seem that he would need four tracks.  Anyway, should that fact get a mention in the notes?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 00:18, 7 May 2011 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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*[[Talk:Main_Page/Archive3|Archive3]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Slight reorganization?==&lt;br /&gt;
Should we move &amp;quot;Editing Tips&amp;quot; to the left column? The &amp;quot;This Day in History&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Schedule&amp;quot; boxes are gonna pretty much be longer and longer as time goes on. This is just going to push &amp;quot;Editing&amp;quot; even further down, leaving lots of whitespace. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 18:45, 8 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I&#039;d been thinking of that myself. Although I was thinking more of breaking up the list into two sections and just having it sit the full width of the page.&lt;br /&gt;
:We could instead or also trim the Featured Series box back down, and/or combine the Categories and Continuities boxes, which I&#039;d also been considering. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:04, 8 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::How about making the &amp;quot;This Day&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Schedule&amp;quot; boxes like the &amp;quot;Series&amp;quot; - show a few highlights, click for full listing. On the other hand, &amp;quot;Editing Tips&amp;quot; seems like something that should go in or near the &amp;quot;Toolbox&amp;quot;. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 20:06, 8 November 2009 (EST) (forgot to log in at first)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I don&#039;t like the idea of condensing either list. Who dictates what&#039;s more important? Hell, half the point is to provide more and more jumping-off points to things people might not have thought about normally from the main page. I think simply moving &amp;quot;editing&amp;quot; will suffice. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 20:12, 8 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I can see the point about who decides what&#039;s important, but surely it is not necessary to have something in the &amp;quot;Schedule&amp;quot; two and a half years beforehand (premiere of TF3). Showing ~ one month&#039;s worth on the main page would probably be enough. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 20:23, 8 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::It&#039;s not like anything that far in advance is going to be announced often. Hell, TF3 is about it, and oh joy, you&#039;re saving one line. And no, I don&#039;t think one month is enough, because honestly, the Schedule tends to get forgotten, and events end up still on there weeks after they were done. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 21:04, 8 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Little slow ==&lt;br /&gt;
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So, what exactly are the differences between tfwiki and transformerswikia? And why the split and stuff?[[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 04:07, 17 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:See the [[Transformers Wiki:Community Portal/Complaints|complaints]] page as to why we moved.  TFWiki is run on an independent server and has almost all of the people who used to edit on th wikia. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:34, 17 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Just wondering ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Why is it important to list the advertisements in comic books? I really can&#039;t see why?--[[User:LesterX|LesterX]] 20:27, 22 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Why not? --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 20:46, 22 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Sometimes they have little blurbs, &amp;quot;This guy is cool because...&amp;quot; They are official info, no? Which characters get the marketing monies and whatsuch. Plus they are usually so condensed, they can represent the character in a waaaay left field manner, kinda like eating condensed soup w/o the cans of water. You get the familiar taste, but in a &amp;quot;-choke-, come again?&amp;quot; manner.[[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 20:57, 14 February 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Sidebar==&lt;br /&gt;
Sidebar is FUBAR in Internet Explorer. See [http://obscuretf.com/TFWikiIESideBar.jpg here], ignoring the swath of stuff cut out from the middle because I didn&#039;t feel like printscreening it. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 15:33, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Looking at it... it seems to be some kind of problem with the float on the sidebar. Whether it&#039;s due to IE not properly squishing and/or scrollbar-ing the main content section to ensure it fits (the way FF and Opera do), or something wrong with the float declaration itself, I&#039;m not sure, though. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 15:47, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::In my case, the sidebar&#039;s font seemed to have shrunk on the main page but it looks normal when I&#039;m elsewhere. [http://img63.imageshack.us/i/tfwikimainpage.jpg/ Main page] and [http://img685.imageshack.us/i/tfwikisamplebluestreak.jpg/ random page] (okay, Bluestreak&#039;s) for comparison. And I&#039;m using Firefox 3.5.7. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 16:16, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I get the same result as Lonegamer with Firefox 3.5.5 and IE 8.0.6001.18865. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 16:22, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Using IE and yeah, sidebar&#039;s hiding way the hell down there somewhere. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 16:30, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Unfortunately, I suspect this likely is something that can only be fixed by someone with access to the site&#039;s CSS/HTML, rather than by wikicode. What&#039;s the standard method for summoning Suki or Derik? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 16:41, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::That should be fixed now... --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:35, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I can be summoned by a virgin sacrifice or AIM... like it says on my userpage.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:43, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Ah, that explains it. I don&#039;t have AIM or any virgins I&#039;m willing to sacrifice... --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:50, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Yay, it&#039;s normal! --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 20:58, 13 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== New WFC TFWiki logo image? ==&lt;br /&gt;
IMHO, we totally need to add [http://www.gamestop.com/gs/images/bonus/Transformers_Cybertron_bonusLG.jpg a logo of this pic] to our rotation. (I&#039;d do it myself, except I don&#039;t have our logo bit to add to it...) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 11:37, 9 February 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:And I am now content. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 10:22, 10 February 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kudos ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;d like to take a nanoclick to say that out of all the various wikis save Wikipedia Prime, and often including Wikipedia Prime, funny or no funny, THIS WIKI HAS IT&#039;S $#!+ TOGETHER. Other Wiki&#039;s have about as many users in all as we have SERIOUS/DEDICATED users. ... Does TFWIKI have a fanfare/praise page?[[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 21:08, 14 February 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Extremely weird... ==&lt;br /&gt;
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When I try to set the size of Image:DiacloneSkids.jpg to 300px, it comes out as Image:G1SkyLynx toy.jpg[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 23:05, 28 February 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:DiacloneSkids.jpg|thumb|right|300px|See?]]&lt;br /&gt;
: Can&#039;t say I&#039;m seeing that.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 23:21, 28 February 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Okay, just my computer then. Still weird. It ONLY does it at 300px, not 299, not 301, JUST 300. Guess it&#039;s telling me to log off. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 23:25, 28 February 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Okay, now it&#039;s back to normal. [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:05, 1 March 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::Sounds like an image cacheing issue.  Those usually fix themselves in a few hours.&lt;br /&gt;
::::(OTOH, I&#039;ve seen a few instances when a certain resolution&#039;s thumbnail is permanently screwed up.)  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 21:40, 9 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Possible Tweaks... ==&lt;br /&gt;
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So, I decided I wanted to try and make our Main Page a little less &amp;quot;unbroken sea of text&amp;quot; if I could. I basically consolidated Continuities/Categories into one, as well as merging Editing Tips/Holy Grails into one along with a resurrected &amp;quot;Improvement Drive&amp;quot; idea. I also added in some headers and logos to break things up, and trimmed down the Series list to show just the major fiction. Check it out here: [[User:Jeysie/Main Page]] and give thoughts? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 20:11, 9 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I like the consolidated &amp;quot;Improvement Drive&amp;quot; box and really like the separation of months in the Schedule. On the other hand, I like using logos in theory, but I&#039;m not so sure about how it works in execution. Particularly I&#039;m wary about the logos of the Japan-exclusive series. Having something on our front page that most of our readers can&#039;t read seems, well, unideal. Putting the titles under the logos in plain text would fix that, but that&#039;d seem kind of gratuitous under the English logos. I also &#039;&#039;really&#039;&#039; don&#039;t like the use of the logo of the first series in a continuity to represent the entire thing in the Continuities box. It makes it look like the one series is the entire continuity, which also makes it look like an unnecessary overlap with the Series box. I think it&#039;d be better to just leave the continuities as text, since it&#039;s clearer that way. -- [[User:HotAndCold|HotAndCold]] 22:56, 9 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Yeah, using the Armada logo for the whole Unicron Trilogy is the most glaring part to me. If only there was an official UT logo! It&#039;s a shame, cause I think it looks a lot better with the logos there. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:29, 10 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::If anyone has any ideas on what logos to use in the continuities box, I&#039;m all up for it. Maybe if someone wants to mock up custom graphics?&lt;br /&gt;
:::If we want things to be more generic, I could use [[:Image:TheTransformers Logo.jpg|this logo for Generation 1]], and we could create a logo with the &amp;quot;Beast Wars&amp;quot; edited out. UT is still tricky, though... even if we edit out the series name, it looks close to RID then. Meh.&lt;br /&gt;
:::We could always switch back to text, of course... just saying, if anyone has alternative ideas.&lt;br /&gt;
:::As for the Japanese series, that occurred to me as well, but I&#039;d really like to switch to the logos in that section, and anyone who hovers over the logos does get the English series name in the link.&lt;br /&gt;
:::But if there happens to be any English logos for those series available, we could upload them and go with those. Alternatively, my first inclination was to remove those series altogether and just stick with the major major TF fiction, but I didn&#039;t want cries of being biased or anything. :P --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 07:19, 10 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I&#039;m not sure what the continuities listing brings to the table that the series listing isn&#039;t already doing. I&#039;d just give a link to the continuity family page and keep the full series list link. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 11:01, 10 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Well, the continuity families have been part of our main page since pretty much forever, so if you want to remove them, that&#039;s a wider discussion than with just me, I&#039;m afraid.&lt;br /&gt;
:::::(Though if I had to cast a vote, personally I prefer to keep them, as continuity families are important to our wiki&#039;s structure and yet not necessarily an intuitive concept to the new reader. Especially since the dedicated continuity family pages we link to are &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; directly analogous to the individual series.)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::But in any case, I tweaked them to be plain text links. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 18:56, 13 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::It still seems to me that Continuity Family and Franchise are terms that should be covered in the series box. And throwing the names of the continuity families at the reader before the term is defined for them seems counter intuitive. But, as you said, some of my concerns go beyond what you are doing here. I generally like what you&#039;ve done. If it goes through perhaps a discussion of my points could follow. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 19:27, 13 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I like it conceptually, but I&#039;d say the subheader bars inside each box will need to be a bit smaller.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 00:49, 10 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Smaller in what sense? The font is the same size as the regular text, just bolded. I could shrink the font, though it&#039;ll be a little weird having the header smaller than the actual text... or did you mean less padding and/or deeper margins? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 07:19, 10 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::In the sense that each bar is graphically more or less as prominent as the box they&#039;re a part of. They&#039;re the same height, the background is just as dark, etc. It ends up being visually pretty busy.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 11:08, 10 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Ah, OK. I tried doing some tweaks to make them a bit smaller and lighter; is that more what you had in mind? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 18:56, 13 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Definitely a step in the right direction. Looks good.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 03:09, 16 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== We need to fix the links for the WFC front page title images.  ==&lt;br /&gt;
They&#039;re currently all directing to G1 characters. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 13:17, 2 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I had noticed that, but was leery of possibly having the front page linking to red links, so I didn&#039;t fix it yet. Do we have all of the pages in question created? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 13:27, 2 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::We only have one of them as yet! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:48, 2 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Easy - disable them. Better than misinforming people, no? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 02:55, 3 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::So, how about it? I&#039;ve forgotten where the template for that title image box is, or else I&#039;d do it myself. We can reinstate them after we fix up the articles. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 01:25, 4 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::[[Main Page/logo]] is what feeds that. Go nuts!--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 01:29, 4 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::I redirect the un-created &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; pages to &#039;&#039;[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]&#039;&#039; for now. --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 03:58, 4 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::Thanks guys. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 04:30, 4 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::::::Pftt, I should have thought of that. Thanks, TX55!&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::But yeah, get busy creating those pages so we can change the links back to the characters again. ;) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 08:49, 4 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::::::You&#039;re welcome. I&#039;m glad to help with it. :D --&#039;&#039;&#039;[[User:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#00FA9A&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TX55&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;&amp;lt;SUP&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;[[User talk:TX55|&amp;lt;span style= &amp;quot;color:#0000CD&amp;quot;&amp;gt;TALK&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;]]&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/SUP&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt; 10:16, 4 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Main Page Image Rotation ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Since it&#039;s been a month and a half since BotCon 2010 took place, may I suggest that we remove the BotCon exclusive toy characters? - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 10:23, 16 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: It&#039;s been a month and a half since WFC was released!  We should take down all of them!  And then don&#039;t put any more up, because everything else is older than that.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 12:24, 16 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Well, the fact the WFC guys are substantially more recognizable to &#039;casual&#039; fans than the Botcon exclusives factors into it. I believe that was the reasoning for not including guys from G1, Beast Wars, etc. in the rotation. I really wouldn&#039;t mind seeing the odd character from various continuities get sorted in from time to time. Dinobot comes to mind, or Hot Shot who seems to have a psychotically devoted fanbase. - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 14:33, 16 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I would argue that most of the WFC models are NOT more recognizable to &amp;quot;casual&amp;quot; fans, being kinda generic in many regards. Mind you, I think it wouldn&#039;t be a bad idea to cycle in the &amp;quot;big names&amp;quot; from various past franchises. Or instead of a single character, do &amp;quot;mini-collages&amp;quot; of maybe three quasi-important characters from a side from some past series. Cheetor, Rattrap and Dinobot. Hot Rod, Kup and Blurr. Sky-Byte and his stooges. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 15:11, 16 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I&#039;m sort of afraid of the logo becoming another Go-Box.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 18:56, 16 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I&#039;d be in favour of having, say, a standard set of logo images which would cover the main franchises and would be used most of the time, and then for special events, like movies/BotCons/etc, temporarily swapping in appropriate characters. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:20, 16 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I meant that WFC was the current thing that would be making people seek out a Transformers Wiki, like how before WFC, they were primarily from the movies. I&#039;d like more variety, but logic dictates a focus on the current &#039;big thing&#039; in the media. - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 21:20, 16 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I agree with both Abates and Cattleprod. As for the concern of the logo becoming another Go-Box, it already is, though I think it&#039;s only fair to have an article link with the image. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 10:24, 17 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I second Zadok&#039;s point. I see the logo being for the &amp;quot;big draws&amp;quot; and the Go-box for the nifty obscure corners of the brand. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:58, 17 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::I say go ahead and leave the G2 guys up until we see how relevant they are in the upcoming FunPub story arc. --[[User:Terrortron|Terrortron]] 15:37, 29 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Help... ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;ve noticed a few times that when I put my sig w/timestamp down, it signs my IP instead of my username.  I&#039;ve tried re-logging in, but it kicks me off as soon as I leave the log-in page. Anyone got any pointers?--[[Special:Contributions/67.142.174.26|67.142.174.26]] 00:06, 5 November 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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I even tried creating a new username, and it still kicks me off whenever I leave the &amp;quot;log-in successful&amp;quot; page. What&#039;s going on?--[[Special:Contributions/67.142.174.24|67.142.174.24]] 12:57, 14 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Which browser are you using? Check to make sure you don&#039;t have cookies disabled for this site, and that the cookies are being created when you log in. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 13:45, 14 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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I appreciate the reply. Now, bear with, me I&#039;m somewhat technologicaly impaired. What are cookies and how do I turn them on?-Megatron Prime&lt;br /&gt;
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:That depends on which browser you&#039;re using. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:37, 15 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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uh...the big blue E. Internet Explorer. I think. Does that count or is it not a browser?-Megatron Prime&lt;br /&gt;
:OK, go into your PC&#039;s control panel, open up the &amp;quot;Internet Options&amp;quot; icon, and look on the &amp;quot;Privacy&amp;quot; tab. There should be a slider at the top, that should be set to &amp;quot;Medium&amp;quot;. Next click on the &amp;quot;Advanced&amp;quot; button immediately below it, and make sure that the &amp;quot;override cookie handling&amp;quot; tickbox isn&#039;t ticked. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:58, 15 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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No, that didn&#039;t work.-Megatron Prime&lt;br /&gt;
:Sounds like those are set right anyway. In your internet options, in the &amp;quot;General&amp;quot; tab, there&#039;s a &amp;quot;Browsing history&amp;quot; section. If you click &amp;quot;Settings&amp;quot; in that bit, you&#039;ll get another window titled &amp;quot;Temporary Internet Files and History Settings&amp;quot;. There should be a &amp;quot;View Files&amp;quot; button there, which will give you a list of files. Look for one called &amp;quot;cookie:something@tfwiki.net&amp;quot;, and look to the right and see what it has in the &amp;quot;Expires&amp;quot; column. You may need to doublecheck that the date and time on your computer are set correctly, because the login cookies are set to expire after a month. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:36, 17 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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No &amp;quot;cookies&amp;quot; anywhere in that list. Is there a way to fix that here?&lt;br /&gt;
P.S. I really appreciate the help. Sorry it&#039;s a hastle-Megatron Prime--[[Special:Contributions/67.142.174.22|67.142.174.22]] 00:02, 18 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:No cookies at all? Hmm, are you running a firewall? The only other thing I can think of is that your firewall is stripping the cookies out, which would be a silly thing to do. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:33, 18 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== WFC in sidebar ==&lt;br /&gt;
How much longer is that going to stay there?  The game came out nearly 5 months ago and there is no more news about it.  --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 21:51, 17 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:It may continue to get DLC. Some games get DLC well over a year after their release. --[[User:Terrortron|Terrortron]] 06:00, 29 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Plus, there&#039;s the fairly recent announcement of the game getting a sequel. -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 06:57, 29 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Schedule==&lt;br /&gt;
Can somebody please remove the 11-20 entry? It has been 2 whole days since it should have been taken off.--oap(I don&#039;t actually have an account,it&#039;s just that I need something to signify who I am.)&lt;br /&gt;
:Geez, dude, it&#039;s not that big of a deal. Particularly with weekends it is sometimes nice to see what you may have missed in the last few days. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 09:31, 22 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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Hello former wikia members. Editors at the Anti-wikia skin alliance wanted to begin a newsletter to help build a bridge to the former wikias about what is currently happening on Wikia and what is going on at the Anti-wikia skin alliance.&lt;br /&gt;
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;45 wikias have left wikia&lt;br /&gt;
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As of December 17, 2010, an incredible Forty-five wikias with 7114 editors have signed the [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Moved_wikis moved page] stating they have left wikia. Other wikias are currently in the process of deciding whether to leave. In response, [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Retaliation wikia has desysopped at least 38 administrators and banned 10], usually indefinitely. [http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:My_meeting_with_Sannse&amp;amp;t=20101218004720 In a meeting with Wikia staff member Sannse]  reportedly said &amp;quot;Wikia underestimated the negative response to Oasis...&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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;Monobook available&lt;br /&gt;
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Please let your friends who remained on wikia know that:&lt;br /&gt;
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#  Wikifarm Shoutwiki has [http://blog.shoutwiki.com/2010/11/monaco-coming-soon-to-a-shoutwiki-near-you/ stated that Monobook would be available by the end of the year] on Shoutwiki.&lt;br /&gt;
# Editor Dantman has created the [https://github.com/dantman/monaco-port Monaco skin] which can be installed on your wikia in [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Monaco_skin#Monaco_skin_installation 10 minutes]. Dantman states this is not a complete skin. It is missing a few features. But it is Monaco. &lt;br /&gt;
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;Help other wikis&lt;br /&gt;
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If you have technical skills many wikis could use your help. For example, the new Monaco skin&#039;s  &amp;quot;more&amp;quot; button does not work because none of the javascript has been ported. Other wikis who bravely left wikia are sorely in need of technical assistance. If you can volunteer your time, [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Help#Mentors please sign up here]. &lt;br /&gt;
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If you need technical assistance, please [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Talk:Anti-Wikia_Alliance explain your problem here].&lt;br /&gt;
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;Assistance with the next newsletter&lt;br /&gt;
We would like some help with the next newsletter. We would like to have an interview next time and we are looking for editors who would like to write a regular column. If you are interested, [http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Talk:Newsletter#volunteer_to_assist please see here].&lt;br /&gt;
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[[User:Anno1404|Anno1404]] 02:05, 18 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Since when are we part of AWA? I&#039;m pretty sure Walky pretty much said &amp;quot;HELL NO&amp;quot; to joining. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 04:56, 18 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Slow down, Blackout. As I recall the objection was to having &amp;quot;part of _____&amp;quot; links and etc all over the place more than anything else...&lt;br /&gt;
::HOWEVER, this AWA guy might have considered ASKING if we wanted this gigantic clump of &amp;quot;newsletter&amp;quot; before posting it. Since this is more or less the kind of gigantic link-crap that is unwanted. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 11:23, 18 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Correct.  No linkcrap.  That&#039;s part of why we left Wikia.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 14:58, 18 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Alternation suggestion ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Should we get rid of &amp;quot;Alternation&amp;quot; &#039;cuz it&#039;s been there for two years. --[[User:Kaon Prisoner|Kaon Prisoner]] 19:36, 8 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Well, [[Alternation]] has only been there for two months, but I think once we get some translations for this &#039;&#039;United&#039;&#039; story that&#039;s coming out through eHobby, we could replace it with those. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 19:56, 8 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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So why haven&#039;t we done it yet? --[[User:Kaon Prisoner|Kaon Prisoner]] 16:34, 9 March 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Logo Characters ==&lt;br /&gt;
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    I&#039;ve been thinking that the characters who sit behind our logo on the main page are a little boring in my opinion.  Now, I know this site is not aboutopinions, but why not put some dofferent characters up there? Secifically, high pofile figures such as G1 O.P. and megatron rather than The Fallen and the colorful guy from that BotCon.  Maybe change ROTF Starscream into G1 Starscream but the former is pretty well known I guess. So what I&#039;m trying to say is: why not replace some of the lesser known characters with better known ones? --[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 18:07, 14 April 2011 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Megatron Prime</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Terradive_(G2)&amp;diff=567004</id>
		<title>Talk:Terradive (G2)</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Terradive_(G2)&amp;diff=567004"/>
		<updated>2011-03-16T16:38:40Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: New page: Why is there a link to this guys G2 page, and when you click on it, it brings you to this G1 page.  Shouldn&amp;#039;t it be a G2 page since that&amp;#039;s where he appeared first?--~~~~&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Why is there a link to this guys G2 page, and when you click on it, it brings you to this G1 page.  Shouldn&#039;t it be a G2 page since that&#039;s where he appeared first?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:38, 16 March 2011 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Megatron Prime</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Thundercracker_(G1)&amp;diff=563281</id>
		<title>Talk:Thundercracker (G1)</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Thundercracker_(G1)&amp;diff=563281"/>
		<updated>2011-03-09T15:56:28Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: /* Foreign Names */ new section&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;I&#039;d like to include some mention of the function and bio on Machine Wars Thundercracker here, since he gets a rather unique bio for the character, that is just about as close to character development as he ever got, but I&#039;m unsure where to place it. Should it be added at the end of the characterization blurb? Or in the fiction section? or where. [[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 11:10, 16 May 2006 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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When characterization in a certian part of fiction is signifigantly different than the rest, I find it useful to open that section with a &#039;mini-bio&#039; describing the character before getting into the actual events.&lt;br /&gt;
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What&#039;s the deal with Thundy&#039;s G1 techspec numbers being involved? They, like, weren&#039;t.&lt;br /&gt;
[http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p70800479vp.jpg]&lt;br /&gt;
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==Action Master Thundercracker==&lt;br /&gt;
Any chance someone knows or if we can somehow find out WHY he was decorated like &#039;&#039;that&#039;&#039;? Also, if we can find the guy responsible, and where his is so I can punch him for making that thing.[[User:Monty Prime|Monty Prime]] 16:30, 5 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
: If you don&#039;t like AM Thundercracker, I don&#039;t think you&#039;re allowed on here.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 16:32, 5 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:: It made my dog throw up on my shoes.[[User:Monty Prime|Monty Prime]] 01:10, 15 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Turncoat? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Is fighting alongside Autobots, against Decepticons, enough to get you into the Turncoats category, or do you actually have to swap faction symbols?  [[User:JW|JW]] 12:24, 16 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Foreign Names ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Why are the foreign names at the bottom instead of at the top like they are with everyone else?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 10:56, 9 March 2011 (EST)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Megatron Prime</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=User:Megatron_Prime&amp;diff=560611</id>
		<title>User:Megatron Prime</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=User:Megatron_Prime&amp;diff=560611"/>
		<updated>2011-03-05T02:59:15Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;    I hate those blasted cookies.&lt;br /&gt;
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    In my own little happy world, Skywarp is Cyclonus and Thundercracker is Scourge.  Skywarp and Thunder are purple and blue, &lt;br /&gt;
respectively, as are Cyclonus and Scourge.&lt;br /&gt;
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I can&#039;t figure out what&#039;s wrong with this page.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Megatron Prime</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=User:Megatron_Prime&amp;diff=560609</id>
		<title>User:Megatron Prime</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=User:Megatron_Prime&amp;diff=560609"/>
		<updated>2011-03-05T02:58:05Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;    I hate those blasted cookies.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
    In my own little happy world, Skywarp is Cyclonus and Thundercracker is Scourge.  Skywarp and Thunder are purple and blue, &lt;br /&gt;
respectively, as are Cyclonus and Scourge.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Megatron Prime</name></author>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Lugnut_(TF_2010)&amp;diff=560608</id>
		<title>Talk:Lugnut (TF 2010)</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Lugnut_(TF_2010)&amp;diff=560608"/>
		<updated>2011-03-05T02:56:25Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: /* Fists */ new section&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;==Movieverse?==&lt;br /&gt;
Is this figure part of the movieverse of the 2010 toyline? The article says nothing about it being a representation of an older character, but sites like Seibertron and YouTuber Peaugh both referred to it as a Generations figure. [[User:Bioniclepluslotr|Bioniclepluslotr]] 18:22, 2 November 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:This figure is being released in the 2010 toyline. Many people call any homage figure a &amp;quot;Generations figure&amp;quot;, doesn&#039;t make it true. Look at the Special Ops Jazz and Turbo Tracks figures. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 18:35, 2 November 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::This might be determined if &amp;quot;United&amp;quot; has comics included like Henkei! did.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 18:38, 2 November 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Wait, so are the Jazz and Turbo Tracks figures Generations or not? They&#039;re part of the 2010 line, but look just like the old characters, and the toy is listed on the old characters&#039; articles. [[User:Bioniclepluslotr|Bioniclepluslotr]] 17:14, 3 November 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::They are not part of Generations, they are part of the 2010 line. They represent the original characters, so they are on those pages. Many people thought they were Generations figures and you still run into that misunderstanding, thus my mentioning them. The 2010 line is very fluid in what characters it represents. And, to go back to your original post, the similarity of this figure to Animated Lugnut is mentioned in the notes section. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 18:37, 3 November 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::He&#039;s featured in the United comic within [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Generations 2010]] book alongside [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]].  So I&#039;d say G1.  [[User:Poweredconvoy|Poweredconvoy]] 12:10, 11 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Yep, G1. --[[User:Terrortron|Terrortron]] 11:27, 15 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::So he&#039;s also in the Battle In Space comic as well, so in both Hasbro and Takara&#039;s fiction he&#039;s G1.  [[User:Poweredconvoy|Poweredconvoy]] 12:22, 15 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::Wait, seriously? Crap, now I have to hunt down that set. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 12:27, 15 December 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::If the United comic is considered G1, would that make the War for Cybertron figures G1 too, since they are featured in it?[[User:Riddlerj|Riddlerj]] 01:22, 22 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::::It would make their toys G1, but not ours.  It&#039;s [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|happened before]].  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 01:26, 22 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::::::Yeah, sorta like Hasbro&#039;s &amp;quot;Universe&amp;quot; Hot Shot is Armada Hot Shot, but Takara&#039;s &amp;quot;Henkei&amp;quot; Hot Rod is a new G1 character named Hot Rod. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 01:40, 22 January 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Move? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Should we move this page to &amp;quot;Lugnut (G1)&amp;quot;? For example, Drift&#039;s page isn&#039;t &amp;quot;Drift (AHM)&amp;quot;. --[[User:Kaymac192|Kaymac192]] 21:18, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:No, we shouldn&#039;t. Disambiguation goes by franchise, not continuity family. Lugnut first appeared in the 2010 line, not the Generation 1 franchise. &amp;quot;All Hail Megatron&amp;quot; is a story, not a franchise. Drift debuted in the G1 franchise. --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 21:30, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I&#039;d say yes based on Poweredconvoy&#039;s last post.  He&#039;s in the [[Rodimus vs. Cyclonus]] comic which is a &amp;quot;behind the scenes&amp;quot; of the 86 movie. The 2010 toyline itself has no real fictional precedent --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 21:33, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:: No.  [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] is only in the Wreckers comic book, but his toy is Robots in Disguise.  He&#039;s at RID because, as NCZ pointed out, we disambiguate by franchise, not fictional appearance.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:36, 10 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I agree that this article should stay &amp;quot;(TF 2010)&amp;quot;, and I&#039;d like to add that all TF fiction is published under the franchises too. The &amp;quot;Rodimus vs. Cyclonus&amp;quot; comic is just as TF-2010-branded as the Lugnut toy, so either way you go, that&#039;s the proper parenthetical.&lt;br /&gt;
:::The only way I could see justifying &amp;quot;Lugnut (G1)&amp;quot; would be if he had appeared in actual G1-branded fiction that preceded the toy. For example, if IDW had put Lugnut in [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|their G1 comic]], then later the TF 2010 toy came out, and the toy was clearly meant to represent IDW-Lugnut... THEN I think the parenthetical would need to be &amp;quot;(G1)&amp;quot;. But the real situation is very far from that, so the page is solid where it is.&lt;br /&gt;
:::&#039;&#039;&#039;Edit&#039;&#039;&#039;: Just found an example: [[Drift (G1)]]. He appeared in IDW&#039;s G1-branded comic long before the toy was on the shelves, so G1 is his franchise of origin. If he hadn&#039;t existed in the IDW comics, or the toy had come first, he would&#039;ve been &amp;quot;Drift (Generations)&amp;quot; for the same reason that this page is &amp;quot;Lugnut (TF 2010)&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
:::- [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 04:43, 11 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Wait, this guy&#039;s been released?  ==&lt;br /&gt;
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This is news to me, as far as I&#039;m aware there hasn&#039;t been a legitimate sighting in the states in a B&amp;amp;M store. [[User:Karhukjnsi|Karhukjnsi]] 22:54, 11 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Walky reviewed the one he got on his blog a couple of weeks ago, so it must be out. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:10, 11 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Because he couldn&#039;t have gotten it from eBay or shipped from Asia? [[User:Karhukjnsi|Karhukjnsi]] 23:18, 11 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::No, he [http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/blog/the-motherload/ bought it from Big Bad Toy Store]. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:48, 11 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Fists ==&lt;br /&gt;
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In the United section of the article, it says that Lugs fists are prone to jamming.  Is that to say that the American version suffers the same misfortune?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 21:56, 4 March 2011 (EST)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Optimus Prime (WFC)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;This disambig tag fills me with glee.  --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 13:12, 29 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Though why people find this funny confuses me. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 13:22, 29 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I just imagine [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] saying it, it. Or would that be Optimus Prime (Prime), (Prime)? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:34, 29 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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I guess the archivist thing is from Exodus? &#039;cause in the WfC game he instead mentions having been a dock worker.[[User:Bobbington|Bobbington]] 14:44, 29 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::When did he mention that?  I honestly don&#039;t remember him saying that, but my memory is not exactly something to go on. -- [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 16:06, 29 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::It&#039;s during the in-game banter, I&#039;d say during the second autobot chapter but could be the third. If memory serves, a teammate voices his approval of Optimus&#039; taking matters in his own hands and acting like a leader and Optimus retorts as soon as the war&#039;s over he&#039;ll go back to working at the docks. [[User:Bobbington|Bobbington]] 03:47, 30 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:  Yay, more inconsistencies! --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 14:46, 29 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::And I thought nothing could be more inconsistent with established continuity than AHM. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 15:49, 29 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::And is it 100 percent certain the Optimus in WFC and the one in Prime will be the same guy, cause I&#039;ve been tracking the news, and beyond a lot of speculation and vague suggestion, nothing seems confirmed [[Special:Contributions/148.197.8.240|148.197.8.240]] 00.01 30 Jube 2010&lt;br /&gt;
::::Everyone at Hasbro sure seems to think so.  &#039;&#039;Exodus&#039;&#039;, which is written apparently from the &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; show backstory, includes the events of WFC loosely within its second half.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:11, 29 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Even if they&#039;re not in the exact same universe, they&#039;re certainly in the same continuity family, so they&#039;d get the same page. Just as Sunbow Prime and IDW Prime are both on the G1 page.[[User:Kaje|Kaje]] 19:31, 29 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::And there are others. Well, I haven&#039;t read Exodus but based on the summary on this wiki it&#039;s more like two different stories that reach the same end point. For one, in WfC Optimus doesn&#039;t become a Prime at the beginning of the war, but after Zeta&#039;s death, mere days before the evacuation. And the Matrix is introduced in a completely different way, possibly doesnt even &#039;&#039;exist&#039;&#039; until the end of chapter 8. [[User:Bobbington|Bobbington]] 08:29, 30 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Exodus tries to have it both ways.  Once you get to the end of the book and Sentinel dies, Optimus gets the Matrix then, and Alpha Trion notes that Prime wasn&#039;t truly a Prime until this moment, regardless of what the council said.  So he was dubbed a Prime by the council at the beginning, but it wasn&#039;t really true until just before they left Earth.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 08:34, 30 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Yeah, I guess it&#039;s an honorable fix, yet still doesn&#039;t mesh, mind you. In the game it&#039;s mentioned Optimus first refused to be a Prime, which is why he doesn&#039;t have the title (whether or not this landed Zeta the job is unclear since the way they word it at times I may almost think they could have several Primes at once) and the Matrix is unrelated to the Council and the Prime title they bestow.[[User:Bobbington|Bobbington]] 08:42, 30 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Why don&#039;t we just change the opening to &amp;quot;The young bot who would become Optimus Prime&amp;quot; rather than have it at Optimus or Orion Pax, and wait until Prime premiers and see if it ever goes with one or the other?&lt;br /&gt;
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In the game, it&#039;s Optimus, not Orion Pax. Does the book override the game, or vice versa?&lt;br /&gt;
-ThiAthEhn&lt;br /&gt;
: The events of the game happen within the last half of the novel, after Optimus has stopped being Orion Pax. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 09:52, 30 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::The tricky bit is still that the game starts before he decides to become Optimus Prime, ie in the novel he goes from Orion Pax to Optimus Prime, while in the game he goes from Optimus to Optimus Prime.[[User:Bobbington|Bobbington]] 12:52, 30 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Yeah, the article&#039;s current bio doesn&#039;t take into account the WFC game at all. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 13:59, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Hmm. The game does have a scene where Megatron and Optimus talk about something that happened between them before the game started. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:19, 2 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== So, do we have to move WFC stuff I&#039;ve written to new character articles? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Argh. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 13:48, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Just like I predicted, yes. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 14:00, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I&#039;m too tired to clean this giant mess right now. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 14:01, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Profile Should Be Rewritten ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The Character profile here right now is all Exodus stuff. But almost all of it is stuff that is totally different in WfC. The Character profiles are supposed to be generic and fit all version of the character. I think this one needs to be moved to the Exodus sub-section and a new more general Prime (Prime) (that&#039;s fun) profile written, Yes?--[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 08:57, 3 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I agree, it&#039;s a bit too specific about the Exodus stuff considering what a big deal WFC is as a form of Prime media. I believe the reason it totally lacks WFC stuff is because Walky wrote it and apparently hasn&#039;t played WFC yet. Well, I presume on the last, anyway. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 10:55, 3 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I guess nobody cares then. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 20:57, 4 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I care, and I think it does need to be rewritten but I think that&#039;ll be a LOT easier to do once Prime is on TV and we have more to work with. --[[Special:Contributions/76.28.76.206|76.28.76.206]] 07:23, 11 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Exodus appears to be the official backstory of the Prime continuity, judging by the [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=7fd5ecd9-19b9-f369-1041-a7635be83172 official timeline]. For all the marketing hype about how WFC was totally in-continuity and everything, it appears the video game is, as video games usually are, a [[micro-continuity]]. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 11:44, 11 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== G1==&lt;br /&gt;
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So Exodus is based off the prime cartoon but war for cybertron is a prequel to g1.And if you disagree hasbro themselves sayed that. {{unsigned|98.204.17.1|14:54, July 5, 2010 (EDT)}}&lt;br /&gt;
:Yes, it is, no it isn&#039;t, no they haven&#039;t, sign your posts, Do The Research. Thank you for your time. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 15:41, 5 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I wouldn&#039;t jump to conclusions right now. Videogames based on franchises tend to get retconned, like what happened to the Ultimate Spider-Man video game. Also, the show has been described as a mix of Animated and Live-Action films, which the game doesn&#039;t really reflect. If we are going to reclassify characters we should use something like &amp;quot;Optimus Prime (WFC)&amp;quot; until everything gets really confirmed.[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 22:19, 5 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
THANK YOU someone gets it. &amp;quot;unregistered&amp;quot; 11:35, 6 July 2010 (EDT){{unsigned|98.204.17.1}}&lt;br /&gt;
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For Primus&#039; sake, it was confirmed at Comic-Con that Prime follows on from WFC. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 16:33, 30 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Toy ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The fig looks awesome with [[Octane#Universe_.282008.29|Tankor]]&#039;s guns on his forearms! [[User:Hida Atarasi|Hida Atarasi]] 14:33, 21 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:And this is relevant how? --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 15:26, 21 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Move ==&lt;br /&gt;
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So yeah, I&#039;ve been suggesting this for a while, and this goes for all WFC (including &#039;&#039;Exodus&#039;&#039;) articles, which we&#039;re really treating as a separate franchise now we&#039;ve gone with Aligned as the continuity family&#039;s name for now. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 05:02, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I disagree with moving this article, because WFC isn&#039;t really a separate franchise. It&#039;s some tie-in games that Hasbro licensed to launch their new continuity with. The related toys didn&#039;t even have their own logo, they were released as &amp;quot;Generations&amp;quot;. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:17, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:Moving it just sort of feels &amp;quot;wrong&amp;quot; to me in a way I can&#039;t properly articulate. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 07:58, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I disagree with moving any of these articles, for the reasons articulated by abates. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 08:01, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:No. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 08:09, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I don&#039;t even consider War for Cybertron to be a franchise, so no. --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 08:44, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:No chance in Hades. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 08:49, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::Right now I can see two distinct reasons beyond &amp;quot;no&amp;quot; (this isn&#039;t a poll actually). One, WFC is no less a franchise than Power Core Combiners, and it was a game accompanied by a novel, a comic and toys. At one point &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; toys were going to be released as Generations, but it&#039;s still a Transformers franchise. Afterall, [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] was released as part of the unsubtitled range last year, but he&#039;s still a G1 character.&lt;br /&gt;
::Chris, I know how you feel about moving it to (WFC) as &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; is where we&#039;re really getting to know these characters, that&#039;s why we have the &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039; designs as the main images. If you are for uniformity, perhaps it is time to move [[Optimus Prime (Movie)]] to &amp;quot;Optimus Prime (LVF)&amp;quot;, and this to &amp;quot;Optimus Prime (Aligned)&amp;quot;? &lt;br /&gt;
::Regardless, I will be adding WFC Autobots and Decepticons cats to these pages. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 09:45, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Remember &amp;quot;a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds&amp;quot;, or in more wiki-related terms &amp;quot;[[Help:Ignore all standards|in situations where the standards intended to prevent confusion would instead contribute to it, common sense should rule.]]&amp;quot; That&#039;s why all the Shattered Glass characters are at (SG) even though some of them are technically (Timelines).--[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 12:12, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::&amp;quot;[[Optimus Prime (Prime)]]&amp;quot; debuted before &amp;quot;&#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039;&amp;quot; even existed. He predates &#039;&#039;Prime&#039;&#039;. So I don&#039;t like &amp;quot;Optimus Prime (Prime).&amp;quot; Categorizing Aligned things by franchise might be obsolete. The toyline is no longer organized by franchise. I think &amp;quot;Optimus Prime (Aligned)&amp;quot; is the way to go. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:36, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::I lean towards Optimus Prime (Aligned) myself because it&#039;s Right, though I also think there&#039;s a good argument for keeping it Prime (Prime) because its Simpler for Users. So...?--[[Special:Contributions/76.28.76.206|76.28.76.206]] 12:45, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::No one outside the wiki will know what &amp;quot;aligned&amp;quot; means, and we don&#039;t disambiguate by continuity family anyway. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 13:48, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::I didn&#039;t realize this conversation existed, so I started [[Talk:Transformers: War for Cybertron (franchise)#&amp;quot;(WFC)&amp;quot; instead of &amp;quot;(Prime)&amp;quot; for characters that originated in this franchise?|another one on the same topic over here]] and covered basically everything people have brought up. For the record, I agree entirely with what Alientraveller has said. &amp;quot;(WFC)&amp;quot; for most of these guys, &amp;quot;(Prime)&amp;quot; for the ones that originated in the cartoon, and &amp;quot;(Aligned)&amp;quot; for none of them because we disambig by franchise, not family. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 14:06, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I feel if we&#039;re going to talk about moving a bunch of high-profile characters, it should probably be discussed somewhere more central like the community portal. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:43, 28 February 2011 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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I believe we should keep O.P. (Prime) seperate from his WFC page.  In my opinion, they are different enough to warrent seperation.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 10:34, 2 March 2011 (EST)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;    I hate those blasted cookies.&lt;br /&gt;
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    In my own little happy world, Skywarp is Cyclonus and Thundercracker is Scourge.  Skywarp and THunder are purple and blue, respectively, as are Cyclonus and Scourge.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;    Megatron Prime is a Decepticon leader who took the Matrix from Rodimus, and still can&#039;t figure out how to open it!&lt;br /&gt;
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    Megatron Prime hates those infernal cookies!&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Transformers: Generations (toyline)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Can we get a source on Blurr coming in a future wave? I thought that was an April Fool&#039;s joke. --Anon, 10:42, 26 April 2010&lt;br /&gt;
:[http://www.parrygamepreserve.com/newsDetail.php?jID=1325 Parry Game Preserve&#039;s March Q&amp;amp;A answers]. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 11:23, 26 April 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== War for Cybertron ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&#039;t know how much this means, but if you click on &amp;quot;War for Cybertron toys&amp;quot; on Hasbro&#039;s [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/Transformers-War-for-Cybertron.cfm War for Cybertron] page it brings up the whole first wave of Generations. I doubt that this in itself pulls Drift and Thrust into the &#039;&#039;[[Transformers: Prime]]&#039;&#039; [[continuity family]], but I suppose there is a small chance that this is the direction Hasbro is going. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 21:05, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: It means nothing.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:09, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Launch Date ==&lt;br /&gt;
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-Have the toys hit retail yet? I havn&#039;t seen them anywhere, but the page doesn&#039;t say Wave 1 is &amp;quot;scheduled for release&amp;quot; anymore.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:25, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:One can order them on Walmart.com, thus why there isn&#039;t the &#039;scheduled for release&#039; template for Wave 1. Looking forward to them being sold at actual stores. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 13:08, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::They ARE being sold at actual stores. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 13:32, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Depends on where you are. Around here (NC) stores tend to be about 2 months behind NY/CA in getting things. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:51, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::My local Walmart seems to have many Wave 4 ROTF Deluxe toys left. Back on topic; thank you, Blackout, for sharing. Looking forward to seeing them at stores in my neck of the woods. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 14:26, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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-When is wave 2 coming out?&lt;br /&gt;
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Speaking of Wave 2, it seems to me that Drift and Thrust are not part of Wave 1.  WFC Optimus and Bumblebee have been at stores for about a month, but I havn&#039;t seen the former two.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:12, 27 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: This is because Toys R Us got an advance WFC-only case to promote WFC when WFC came out.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:26, 27 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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-I think Dirge and Blurr will be released by this christmas, as they weren&#039;t included in Cybertroncon&#039;s &amp;quot;Spring 2011&amp;quot; transformers,but they didn&#039;t mention Reflector or Cliffjumper did they?&lt;br /&gt;
::Dirge and Blurr are being shipped by BigBadToyStore right now.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:05, 24 September 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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-When is wave 5 coming out?&lt;br /&gt;
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DESPERATELY SEEKING BLURR!! I&#039;ve seen reportrs of people buying him in stores, but I havn&#039;t seen him anywhere.  Are these reports true? I don&#039;t want to miss out on this guy.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 18:57, 27 November 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
== Other &amp;quot;Generations-like&amp;quot; packaged toys ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There&#039;s a bunch of toys that are in Generations-like packaging that don&#039;t say Generations on it: the new Seacons set, the dollar-store Classics Mini-Con redecos, the ROTF Activators (and probably other stuff I&#039;ve forgotten). Should we place them under Generations here and in their individual articles? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 18:40, 8 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Thanks for the total lack of comments, guys. Good hustle. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:57, 14 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Just put them under the subtitle-less toyline. If they were meant to be in Generations, they would have it on their boxes. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 09:03, 14 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Here&#039;s one - Masterpiece Grimlock is in a subtitle-less Generations style red packaging, but Hasbro&#039;s presentation slides (from Toy Fair, I believe) place him in Universe. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 09:25, 14 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== War for Cybertron toys ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;* Clicking &amp;quot;War For Cybertron Toys&amp;quot; on Hasbro&#039;s [http://www2.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/Transformers-War-for-Cybertron.cfm War For Cybertron] webpage brings up the whole &amp;quot;Generations&amp;quot; toyline. Looking for War For Cybertron toys? Here you go.&amp;quot; It also brings up some PCC toys. Hasbro just loves messing with us. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 10:41, 26 September 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Kup ==&lt;br /&gt;
Is Kup confirmed enough for inclusion on the page? With the picture on the battle in space 2 pack, it seems compleatly comfirmed.--[[User:Fredbob|Fredbob]] 19:38, 3 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Not until it&#039;s officially announced. --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 19:39, 3 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Pretty sure he was officially announced at BotCon.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:56, 3 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Not really. They were vague in that Hasbro way at best. And it&#039;s not like G1 guys don&#039;t get fictional redesigns with frequency. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 20:32, 3 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::I don&#039;t think going &amp;quot;cough cough KUP cough cough&amp;quot; in answer to &amp;quot;which guys coming out can you not talk about&amp;quot; in front of hundreds of people is vague at all.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:47, 3 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Well, I didn&#039;t know that. I suppose I&#039;d wait until slightly more solid confirmation, but I guess I admit defeat for now. --[[User:NCZ|NCZ]] 20:49, 3 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::I would suggest holding off on adding Kup until we&#039;re sure which toyline he&#039;ll be part of: Generations, Transformers (2010 toyline), or possibly something else (which most likely would be improbable since the main part of 2011 would focus on the third movie). Just want to spare everyone the trouble of cutting and pasting from one article to another like what was done for Special Ops Jazz and Turbo Tracks. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 21:09, 3 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::I agree with this. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:11, 3 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Gen 2 Optimus Prime ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I know that Gen 2 Optimus has been announced, but he wasn&#039;t declared a &#039;Generations&#039; toy, was he? I know I listed him as such on the G1 Optimus Prime toy article, but there&#039;s a possibility that I might have jumped the gun (like what was done with Special Ops Jazz). That&#039;s why I removed him from the list on this article (after adding him the day before). Meanwhile, I&#039;ll leave the Prime toy page as is until there&#039;s verification. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 11:24, 16 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I hate how Hasbro is handling this! They have separate toylines and separate fictions, but the toylines don&#039;t match up to the fictions! ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why couldn&#039;t &amp;quot;Transformers&amp;quot; just be movie line figures and &amp;quot;Generations&amp;quot; non-movie line figures? (Sidebar- Why do retailers seem to think that movie toys are a better sales bet than non-movie toys? OTHER than TFs and Star Wars EVERY movie line seems to clog shelves for years! The two Hulk toy lines were taking up tons of space on shelves right next to each other!) Okay, end of ranting. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 11:32, 16 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:: I would imagine that retailers think to seem Transformers movie toys are a better sales bet than non-movie Transformers toys because they very very obviously are.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 11:51, 16 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Especially after the huge demands for Transformers toys that lead to empty shelves in 2007. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 11:58, 16 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Huh. Haven&#039;t noticed such a huge disparity around here. TFs have pretty much had the same shelf space since RID and have sold pretty steadily (except maybe Energon). The only real jump in shelf space was when Movie, Universe and Animated were running concurrently. Even then all sold well, with Movie having the largest proportion of shelfwarmers. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 16:55, 17 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Shouldn&#039;t Tracks, Jazz et al at least get a mention in the article ==&lt;br /&gt;
I know Hasbro ain&#039;t exactly making this easy for us with their confusing brand nomenclature, but shoudn&#039;t we making it easy for ourselves?  I know this is simlar to the Kup and G2 Prime points above, but we currently do know how Jazz and Tracks are coming. They are obviously CHUG in design, though not in brand.  They deserve a mention in the article.  I would do it myself right now, but the more anankastic among us would automatically click the undo button and I couldn&#039;t be arsed wasting the effort in that particular style of edit war. [[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 07:34, 17 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:No, not if they aren&#039;t &#039;&#039;Generations&#039;&#039;. They are listed on the &#039;&#039;[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]&#039;&#039; page. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:47, 17 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Crockalley had added a note that was then edited by me to say &amp;quot;The [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers 2010 toyline]] contains several toys with a design aesthetic similar to the Generations line. This led to confusion when fan expectations were contradicted by official Hasbro announcements.&amp;quot; Is there consensus to leave this note, remove it entirely or edit it? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:05, 17 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I say leave the note as is. Having two toylines, both of which has G1-based characters in them, does cause confusion. Hopefully Hasbro will do be better job of seperating characters if they have future branching main toylines. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 14:50, 17 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::And another batch of expected Generations figures is revealed as 2010 line instead. Any bets on how much longer this remains an ongoing line? --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:14, 27 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::: For as long as Hasbro wants to maximize shelf space.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 00:24, 29 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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I know this doesn&#039;t belong on this page&#039;s talk page, but we haven&#039;t really got a grasp on HFTD or Reveal the Shiled sublines of the other line.  And right now giving each of those lines their own category is as a good as a suggestion as any (i.e not much). The retailiers are doing better job than us on this point.  [[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 16:12, 1 November 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Actually after reading the discussion on Lugnut&#039;s talk page, and the more the I think of it, is Generations any more of a separate line than HFTD or RTS?  Wouldn&#039;t it make as much sense as to incorpoarte Generations under Transformers 2010?  A bit like how Universe 2008 had G1 series, War Within series, G2 series etc etc 15:59, 4 November 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::No, because Generations has a different style of packaging. Universe &#039;08 had the same packaging while denoting which era the toys came from. HFTD and RTS is only a promo. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 16:22, 4 November 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== United ==&lt;br /&gt;
-I want to know more about the relationship between Generations and the united toyline...Is Generations releasing Wheeljack and Kup like United, or is United releasing additional transformers. Besides, when is United being released?&lt;br /&gt;
: We don&#039;t have official solicitations from Hasbro about Wheeljack or Kup, but there is no doubt that we&#039;ll see them over here.  Takara wouldn&#039;t make those toys on their own; it just doesn&#039;t happen.  As for release dates, the preorder pages on BigBadToyStore and the like will tell you that. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 22:19, 22 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Difficulty bar note ==&lt;br /&gt;
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What is that note about the difficulty bar trying to say? What is the difficulty bar for in lines that aren&#039;t all deluxes? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 00:14, 29 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Normally, the difficulty bar denotes the size of the toy rather than how difficult it is to convert the toy (or so has been my observation). If you take a look on the packaging of past toys (and on the packaging of the Transformers (2010) toyline), you&#039;ll notice that &#039;&#039;all&#039;&#039; the Deluxe-sized toys has a difficulty rating of 3, &#039;&#039;all&#039;&#039; the Voyager-class toys has a rating of 4, etc. However, Universe &#039;08 Onslaught (an Ultra-size toy with a difficulty rating of 4) was a cinch to transform while TF (2010) Ironhide (a Deluxe-sized toy with a difficulty rating of 3) was a pain in the....neck to convert (especially with that chest piece you had to get just right and then you move him a little and it pops out! &#039;&#039;&#039;Argh!!!&#039;&#039;&#039;). But with the &#039;Generations&#039; line, Hasbro was kind enough to have individual ratings for the toys (as noted in the article). Therefore, if it says Cybertronian Bumblebee is a 4th-level difficulty toy, I&#039;m not as aggrevated and less compelled to break the toy in half out of frustration (&amp;quot;You knew the danger when you took it&amp;quot;, as one feathered superhero used to say). - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 08:45, 29 October 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Transformers:_Generations_(toyline)&amp;diff=494117</id>
		<title>Talk:Transformers: Generations (toyline)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Can we get a source on Blurr coming in a future wave? I thought that was an April Fool&#039;s joke. --Anon, 10:42, 26 April 2010&lt;br /&gt;
:[http://www.parrygamepreserve.com/newsDetail.php?jID=1325 Parry Game Preserve&#039;s March Q&amp;amp;A answers]. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 11:23, 26 April 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== War for Cybertron ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&#039;t know how much this means, but if you click on &amp;quot;War for Cybertron toys&amp;quot; on Hasbro&#039;s [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/Transformers-War-for-Cybertron.cfm War for Cybertron] page it brings up the whole first wave of Generations. I doubt that this in itself pulls Drift and Thrust into the &#039;&#039;[[Transformers: Prime]]&#039;&#039; [[continuity family]], but I suppose there is a small chance that this is the direction Hasbro is going. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 21:05, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: It means nothing.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:09, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Launch Date ==&lt;br /&gt;
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-Have the toys hit retail yet? I havn&#039;t seen them anywhere, but the page doesn&#039;t say Wave 1 is &amp;quot;scheduled for release&amp;quot; anymore.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:25, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:One can order them on Walmart.com, thus why there isn&#039;t the &#039;scheduled for release&#039; template for Wave 1. Looking forward to them being sold at actual stores. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 13:08, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::They ARE being sold at actual stores. --[[User:-Blackout-|-Blackout-]] 13:32, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Depends on where you are. Around here (NC) stores tend to be about 2 months behind NY/CA in getting things. --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:51, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::My local Walmart seems to have many Wave 4 ROTF Deluxe toys left. Back on topic; thank you, Blackout, for sharing. Looking forward to seeing them at stores in my neck of the woods. - [[User:Zadok Rox|Zadok Rox]] 14:26, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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-When is wave 2 coming out?&lt;br /&gt;
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Speaking of Wave 2, it seems to me that Drift and Thrust are not part of Wave 1.  WFC Optimus and Bumblebee have been at stores for about a month, but I havn&#039;t seen the former two.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:12, 27 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
== Other &amp;quot;Generations-like&amp;quot; packaged toys ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
There&#039;s a bunch of toys that are in Generations-like packaging that don&#039;t say Generations on it: the new Seacons set, the dollar-store Classics Mini-Con redecos, the ROTF Activators (and probably other stuff I&#039;ve forgotten). Should we place them under Generations here and in their individual articles? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 18:40, 8 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Thanks for the total lack of comments, guys. Good hustle. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:57, 14 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Just put them under the subtitle-less toyline. If they were meant to be in Generations, they would have it on their boxes. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 09:03, 14 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Here&#039;s one - Masterpiece Grimlock is in a subtitle-less Generations style red packaging, but Hasbro&#039;s presentation slides (from Toy Fair, I believe) place him in Universe. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 09:25, 14 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Ultra_Magnus_(disambiguation)&amp;diff=494113</id>
		<title>Talk:Ultra Magnus (disambiguation)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;What is the joke about: &amp;quot;Ultra Magnus should not be confused with... Ultra Magnus&amp;quot;? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 14:50, 13 April 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Movie? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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What about the Live-Action Magnus? If there is no page for it, why even have that?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 13:05, 29 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I think that is a link to an article which should exist, but doesn&#039;t. That is, the character exists but he hasn&#039;t been written up yet. I&#039;m not sure where he appeared, though (Possibly the card game? Or a video game?). --[[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 13:27, 29 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Apparently, he was mentioned in [[Transformers Comic issue 12|a letters page of the Titan movie comic]]. Which is about the minimum amount of existing any character can do. -[[User:Mazenoise|Mazenoise]] 14:08, 29 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Shouldn&#039;t we put that he was mentioned once, rather than linking him to a non-existant page? --[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:05, 27 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Spotlight: Mirage</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Errr...I&#039;m a little confuzled. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 03:47, 6 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Me too. Is this the first IDW G1 comic that has almost nothing to do with the main story whatsoever? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:56, 6 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Second. Spotlight: Ramjet was a standalone story as well. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 13:54, 9 October 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::But Spotlight: Ramjet actually takes place within continuity, between stories, even if it&#039;s not mentioned elsewhere.  (Just like, say, Spotlight Metroplex or Wheelie.)  But Spotlight Mirage still shows no connection to IDW continuity whatsoever in any known fashion.  It seems to take place largely in two alternate universes distinct from the one we know.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 14:02, 9 October 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::It doesn&#039;t help that the events of this are apparently a dream about an alternate universe... or something. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 15:09, 9 October 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::If only we could write off AHM the same way  :) --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 00:20, 10 October 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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It seems to me that we should take this as it is: a dream.  The best example I can think of is the episode of the Disney cartoon Gargoyles titled &amp;quot;Future Tense&amp;quot;.  Mirage is distraught about the fact that many autobots don&#039;t trust him, and he has a dream about what would happen if he really is the traitor they think he might be.  Of course, that&#039;s just my speculated interpretation.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 23:29, 26 August 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Terrorcon_(G1)&amp;diff=483863</id>
		<title>Talk:Terrorcon (G1)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;[[Terrorcon]] currently directs here.  I argue that the Energon Terrorcons are more prominent (being an essential series element) and it should go there.  Are there any dissenting opinions?  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 00:01, 8 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:True, the Energon Terrorcons are more prominent, but these guys aren&#039;t exactly throw aways either. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 00:04, 8 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::And if we had 3- it would go to the disambig page.  We have 2.  It goes to one or the other.  Mind if I move it? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 00:08, 8 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== IDW tag ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I know they havn&#039;t appeared much in the IDW-verse, but shouldn&#039;t it still have the &amp;quot;ongoing fiction&amp;quot; tag?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 13:27, 29 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Ultra Magnus (disambiguation)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;What is the joke about: &amp;quot;Ultra Magnus should not be confused with... Ultra Magnus&amp;quot;? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 14:50, 13 April 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Movie? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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What about the Live-Action Mugnus? If there is no page for it, why even have that?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 13:05, 29 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Jazz_(G1)&amp;diff=483849</id>
		<title>Talk:Jazz (G1)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Jazz&#039;s crackhead Star TV name, I could&#039;ve sworn it was &amp;quot;Maestro&amp;quot;, not &amp;quot;Marshall&amp;quot;.  Any agreement on this or am I going to have to summon the energy to pop in my DVD?  &#039;&#039;Please&#039;&#039; don&#039;t make me do that.  &#039;&#039;Please&#039;&#039;. --[[User:DrSpengler|DrSpengler]] 02:56, 24 December 2006 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: I still haven&#039;t seen the Star TV dubs yet, making me feel special, yet missing out on the jokes :( --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;&#039;&#039;In fact, there is not one Autobot who doesn&#039;t like or admire Jazz.&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
What about Grimlock?&lt;br /&gt;
--[[User:UndeadScottsman|UndeadScottsman]] 14:09, 28 January 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Well, Jazz is good at what he does. Maybe Grimlock &#039;admires&#039; him for that? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::They seemed pretty antagonistic towards one another the end of the G1 Marvel run.  Plus I think a &amp;quot;Except for Grimlock.&amp;quot; statement would be humerous enough to warrent it&#039;s existance. --[[User:UndeadScottsman|UndeadScottsman]] 14:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::: I think you can hate somebody (or at least dislike them) yet at the same time admire them for whatever they&#039;re good at. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 14:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: Whoops, I was getting Prowl confused with Jazz..  Carry on.  --[[User:UndeadScottsman|UndeadScottsman]] 16:31, 28 January 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Movie move?==&lt;br /&gt;
Just as [[Bumblebee]] was moved to [[Bumblebee (G1)]], so too should this article be moved to [[Jazz (G1)]]? - [[User:RolonBolon|RolonBolon]] 00:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Speaking of moving things, we need to link Jazz&#039;s toy page to the disambig page.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:59, 29 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
==Deputy Commander?==&lt;br /&gt;
Was he one? [[User:85.195.123.29|85.195.123.29]] 04:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: According to &amp;quot;The Autobot Who&#039;s Who&amp;quot; in the 1986 annual he is joint 2nd in command with Prowl.&lt;br /&gt;
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==&amp;quot;ginormous&amp;quot;==&lt;br /&gt;
Jazz says a lot of things. Are we going to link to Meriam-Webster for all of them? He didn&#039;t make up the term as far as I know. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 09:14, 23 September 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Which reminds me, I once used the word &#039;ginormous&#039; at school as a kid after hearing it in the movie and the teacher called me out on it as he didn&#039;t recognise the word. [[Special:Contributions/84.65.58.231|84.65.58.231]] 06:02, 11 October 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Pink variant==&lt;br /&gt;
Shouldn&#039;t this article have some info on that infamous limited-edition pink variant of Binaltech Meister that Takara did as a cross-promotion with some J-pop singer?--[[User:TVsGrady|TVsGrady]] 19:00, 28 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Face ruined forever?==&lt;br /&gt;
Would a comparison photo of the G1 toy&#039;s face degrading from the original to the Encore reissue be a worthy addition to this article? [[User:Takeshi357|Takeshi357]] 18:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== New Mold? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Doesn`t the legends jazz vaugely resemble legends barricade? Just asking--[[User:Autobotx1010|Autobotx1010]] 05:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:P.S., Hasbro said no animated character would get the universe treatment, yet jazz, prime, and megs are. Then again, prime and megs were obious exceptions, but jazz?&lt;br /&gt;
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== Missile Launcher ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Has Jazz ever been depicted using his shoulder-mounted missile launcher much in fiction?  I always thought it was a pretty iconic look for him which helped make his appearance what it is but no images depict him with it.  [[Special:Contributions/84.65.58.231|84.65.58.231]] 06:13, 11 October 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Good question. Not many that I can think of. Maybe in some early UK stories. There is [[:Image:Tfcolcom03.jpg|this cover]] which is pretty neat. And these [[Battle in the Desert Valley|two]] [[The Power Struggle|posters]] which are not pretty neat. Let me know if you find more. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 13:53, 11 October 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:He uses it in [[To a Power Unknown!]] to fire a heat seekting missle at Starscream. If I can dig out the book and get my scanner working I&#039;ll upload a pic --[[Special:Contributions/80.176.139.71|80.176.139.71]] 05:21, 11 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Mainpic==&lt;br /&gt;
I uploaded Image:G1JazzIDWPrint.jpg with the intention of making it Jazz&#039;s new mainpic, but now I&#039;m not sure if it&#039;s categorically better than the existing one. Thoughts? --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 18:24, 28 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
: Well, I passed on that image FOR the current image, back in the day.  Why?  Well, you see just as much of Jazz here as you do there, and plus it give us more artist variation.  We have an awful lot of art from this Guido series as character page images.  And though Guido is awesome 99% of the time, this is a pretty chunky, clunky overly-DWesque portrait of his.  So it&#039;s nice to have some Mark Brooks instead.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:54, 28 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I just can&#039;t stop staring at his hand. And then his wrist. And then...oh God, make it stop. --[[User:Emvee|Emvee]] 13:30, 3 March 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I know I&#039;m a pain for this sort of main image criticism, but that image is really poor. [[User:Drmick|Drmick]] 10:35, 3 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>User talk:Megatron Prime</title>
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&lt;div&gt;{{notachatroom}}&lt;br /&gt;
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Please stop replying to year-old conversations. [[Special:Contributions/129.89.158.180|129.89.158.180]] 14:00, 27 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Sorry, won&#039;t happen again.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:28, 29 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Soundwave (ROTF)</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Megatron Prime: /* Alt Mode */ new section&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;==Toy in stores==&lt;br /&gt;
* I just got Soundwave in a shop in Belgium, is that even posible when this page says it&#039;s not on shelves now?--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 15:51, 28 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Whaa? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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What happened to my edit? I added a mainpic then it just disappeared {{unsigned|Ikkwave}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:The picture was crappy so it was removed. -[[User:Mazenoise|Mazenoise]] 06:01, 17 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Oh ok XD [[User:Ikkwave|Ikkwave]] 01:02, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Head in ROTF ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Anybody else agree on Soundwave&#039;s head in the movie actually being that armoured decoy head the toy has on the back? Looking at the toy that matches far more with what I saw on screen, but I&#039;ll know for sure near end of this week when I go and see it again.[[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 06:51, 29 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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-The head in ROTF looks like a cross between the two.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 10:59, 23 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
==Toy shoulders==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;The configuration for the satellite mode depicted in the toy&#039;s instructions is not the way Soundwave appears in the film, featuring a different angling for the panels on his shoulders. It&#039;s not a big change, but transforming the toy in accordance with his movie appearance &#039;&#039;does&#039;&#039; help to distinguish the jet from the satellite a little, since otherwise, virtually the only difference is in the positioning of the large panel &amp;quot;wings&amp;quot;.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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What, exactly, is that referring to? Although many fans (and the official press photos) skip it, the toy&#039;s instructions &#039;&#039;&#039;do&#039;&#039;&#039; show a change in the shoulder panels&#039; position between the jet and the satellite: that&#039;s the only way the satellite&#039;s panels plug into them. I tried to look at the shoulders the last time I saw the movie, but they looked like the properly transformed version. Before I just delete that section, can someone show me what I&#039;m missing? --[[User:Buttbutt|Buttbutt]] 19:32, 2 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Essentially, the toy shows the panels folded down against the shoulders - not bent in the middle and actually plugged into the circular grooves as they are for jet and robot modes, but straight, flat and downwardly-pointing. In the film, they&#039;re rotated 90 degrees, fanned out, with the large, flat side (with the orange circle) facing outward. Well, inasmuch as what you see in the movie looks anything &#039;&#039;like&#039;&#039; the toy. He&#039;s got two panels fanned out on either side of his head. I suppose, though, after a moment of reflection, that his panels shift and move about so much in the film that it might be a bit negligible. It&#039;s just that without it, the only difference between the two modes is bending the shoulder panels down a bit and clicking the large wing-panels into them. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 19:42, 2 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==New main picture==&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;Rise of the Decepticons&#039; has a good double-page picture of Soundwave hacking into the American satellite, which I feel would be a better choice for main picture as it really embodies his role in the film. Would it be okay to change it, or does TFWiki have an unofficial policy that main pictures have to be of TF&#039;s in their robot mode? [[User:Tarrn|Tarrn]] 05:44, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Given that Soundwave doesn&#039;t use his robot mode in his most prominent fiction appearance, I think it would be fine if the article&#039;s main imagine was of his satellite mode. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 12:25, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Okay, seeing the actual picture in question... I don&#039;t think that makes a very good main pic at all. It is dominated by the actual satellite and not Soundwave himself. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 13:25, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I could crop it to focus entirely on Soundwave, although it looks a little odd as his main body is entirely on the left-hand side of the picture unless you crop the right wing too. I&#039;m going to try a version where it&#039;s centered on his head and see what people think.[[User:Tarrn|Tarrn]] 18:09, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Repeat? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Did anyone else notice how two of Soundwave&#039;s scenes were the same? Specifically, his first appearance, and his last. Anyone? [[Special:Contributions/24.89.74.34|24.89.74.34]] 02:23, 10 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Soundwave&#039;s Packaging ==&lt;br /&gt;
On the back of his packaging it says, &amp;quot;Cannon converts to blade!&amp;quot; Is it me or is there a lack of cannon?&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:Boxotron|Boxotron]] 12:32, 23 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I believe that comes from ROTF Megatron&#039;s packaging? [[Special:Contributions/114.108.194.66|114.108.194.66]] 00:45, 8 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== New pictures ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I found the ROTF screenshots from an [http://www.fxguide.com/article551.html FX Guide] interview with [[Digital Domain]]. If anyone could resize the screencaps for me or trim the black bars, since Photoshop doesn&#039;t work on my PC, that&#039;d be much appreciated. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 07:22, 28 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumble and Laserbeak ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Should we make seperate pages for Rumble and Laserbeak? The two appeared as pods in the DLC for the game so thy deserve a page! and I don&#039;t care if they weren&#039;t officially named, half the animated characters are unnamed! like &amp;quot;freeway&amp;quot; &amp;quot;carerra&amp;quot; so lets make a Rumble page and a Laserbeak Page! there is no reason we shouldn&#039;t!{{unsigned|92.238.187.82|13:10, September 2, 2009 (EDT)}}&lt;br /&gt;
:If pages for them are created with enough effort put into them to make them presentable, they won&#039;t be deleted. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 13:45, 2 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Then lets do it!{{unsigned|92.238.187.82|15:07, September 11, 2009 (EDT)}}&lt;br /&gt;
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They are in Nefarious 1, pictures requested.&lt;br /&gt;
-ThiAthEhn&lt;br /&gt;
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== Is it really necessary? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Can we lose the tentacle rape line? What if kids are reading this?&lt;br /&gt;
: [[Kiss Players issue 1]] --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 12:07, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::What if &#039;&#039;non-Japanese&#039;&#039; kids are reading this? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:13, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Well, then we&#039;ll have to delete all the Kiss Players articles, won&#039;t we? I mean, if the word &amp;quot;rape&amp;quot; is unacceptable, then the visuals they include are right out, aren&#039;t they? ;-P - &#039;&#039;&#039;McFeely, not signed in&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
::::Sweet! Oh... You are being sarcastic. I suggested that a while back but Scout shot the idea down. Personally, I think KP should not be called attention to by linking from completely unrelated articles for the sake of a... joke?. Seriously, I don&#039;t think we&#039;re doing Hasbro any favors. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:38, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Oh, I take no issue with idea of removing the word-linking. Joke works on its own without needing the link. I take issue with the whole &amp;quot;Think of the children!&amp;quot; argument. &amp;quot;What if kids are reading this?&amp;quot; is not a workable argument for removing something from the wiki when official things like &#039;&#039;Kiss Players&#039;&#039; exist. - &#039;&#039;&#039;McFeely&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
::::::If Hasbro were that concerned about children stumbling onto &amp;quot;inappropriate&amp;quot; Transformers content, maybe they shouldn&#039;t have had that blockbuster movie with the swearing and the humping and the testicles.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:08, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::We totally need a screen shot of the satellite with a caption along the lines of &amp;quot;Why what&#039;s such a fine little satellite like you doing all alone out here in space?&amp;quot;, also I think my image caption is awesome and it should stay the way it is. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 14:30, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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-I think we should at least remove the line from the main-pic.  I think a more appropriate line would be some sort of Space Invaders reference.  Thoughts?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 13:23, 27 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
== Soundwave RPM ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Why isn&#039;t it listed among his toys and merchandise? could someone please give me a coherent answer?.------[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 23:00, 16 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;No one has gotten around to it yet&amp;quot;. It&#039;s been officially revealed, both at Toy Fair 2010 and on [http://bwtf.com/node/1304 BWTF], so that&#039;s not an issue in this case. It might simply be a matter of waiting for the Hasbro stock photography to be released. (I forget who does most of the RPM updates... abates or apoc, I think?)&lt;br /&gt;
:Anyway, you might try adding &amp;quot;please&amp;quot; next time. Your statement came off as a bit impolite. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 23:20, 16 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Sorry, was in a rush, tried to add the toy to the page but remembered to ask first before making any important edit&lt;br /&gt;
------[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 01:18, 17 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I have already seen the toy in MercadoLibre (the mexican equivalent of eBay) and there&#039;s still no photo of RPM Soundwave? BTW, I believe his Legends toy needs a description, I&#039;ll take of it later.[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 22:27, 25 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Alt Mode ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I have also created an alternate Alt-Mode for the delux class toy. Instead of the space cruiser &amp;quot;top section&amp;quot; being the satellite mode, SW is flipped so the robot mode is on top. The abdominal satellite arm is also flipped and rotated so it is on top as well.  The shoulders are secured halfway, and his arms, instead of folding all the way at the elbow, are left longer so they touch his abs. If you flip his head up, this will result in the cruiser looking as if SW is driving some sort of &#039;&#039;Little People&#039;&#039; go-cart.  next, his pectoral &amp;quot;wings&amp;quot; are positioned so that they resemble TIE Interceptor wings from Star Wars.  The wings on his shoulders are positioned so they elongate the wings towards the back, then folded halfway to make &amp;quot;engines&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;boosters&amp;quot;.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 13:41, 27 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Soundwave (ROTF)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;==Toy in stores==&lt;br /&gt;
* I just got Soundwave in a shop in Belgium, is that even posible when this page says it&#039;s not on shelves now?--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 15:51, 28 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Whaa? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
What happened to my edit? I added a mainpic then it just disappeared {{unsigned|Ikkwave}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:The picture was crappy so it was removed. -[[User:Mazenoise|Mazenoise]] 06:01, 17 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Oh ok XD [[User:Ikkwave|Ikkwave]] 01:02, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Head in ROTF ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Anybody else agree on Soundwave&#039;s head in the movie actually being that armoured decoy head the toy has on the back? Looking at the toy that matches far more with what I saw on screen, but I&#039;ll know for sure near end of this week when I go and see it again.[[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 06:51, 29 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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-The head in ROTF looks like a cross between the two.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 10:59, 23 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
==Toy shoulders==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:&#039;&#039;The configuration for the satellite mode depicted in the toy&#039;s instructions is not the way Soundwave appears in the film, featuring a different angling for the panels on his shoulders. It&#039;s not a big change, but transforming the toy in accordance with his movie appearance &#039;&#039;does&#039;&#039; help to distinguish the jet from the satellite a little, since otherwise, virtually the only difference is in the positioning of the large panel &amp;quot;wings&amp;quot;.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
What, exactly, is that referring to? Although many fans (and the official press photos) skip it, the toy&#039;s instructions &#039;&#039;&#039;do&#039;&#039;&#039; show a change in the shoulder panels&#039; position between the jet and the satellite: that&#039;s the only way the satellite&#039;s panels plug into them. I tried to look at the shoulders the last time I saw the movie, but they looked like the properly transformed version. Before I just delete that section, can someone show me what I&#039;m missing? --[[User:Buttbutt|Buttbutt]] 19:32, 2 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
:Essentially, the toy shows the panels folded down against the shoulders - not bent in the middle and actually plugged into the circular grooves as they are for jet and robot modes, but straight, flat and downwardly-pointing. In the film, they&#039;re rotated 90 degrees, fanned out, with the large, flat side (with the orange circle) facing outward. Well, inasmuch as what you see in the movie looks anything &#039;&#039;like&#039;&#039; the toy. He&#039;s got two panels fanned out on either side of his head. I suppose, though, after a moment of reflection, that his panels shift and move about so much in the film that it might be a bit negligible. It&#039;s just that without it, the only difference between the two modes is bending the shoulder panels down a bit and clicking the large wing-panels into them. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 19:42, 2 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==New main picture==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;Rise of the Decepticons&#039; has a good double-page picture of Soundwave hacking into the American satellite, which I feel would be a better choice for main picture as it really embodies his role in the film. Would it be okay to change it, or does TFWiki have an unofficial policy that main pictures have to be of TF&#039;s in their robot mode? [[User:Tarrn|Tarrn]] 05:44, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Given that Soundwave doesn&#039;t use his robot mode in his most prominent fiction appearance, I think it would be fine if the article&#039;s main imagine was of his satellite mode. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 12:25, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Okay, seeing the actual picture in question... I don&#039;t think that makes a very good main pic at all. It is dominated by the actual satellite and not Soundwave himself. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 13:25, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I could crop it to focus entirely on Soundwave, although it looks a little odd as his main body is entirely on the left-hand side of the picture unless you crop the right wing too. I&#039;m going to try a version where it&#039;s centered on his head and see what people think.[[User:Tarrn|Tarrn]] 18:09, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Repeat? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Did anyone else notice how two of Soundwave&#039;s scenes were the same? Specifically, his first appearance, and his last. Anyone? [[Special:Contributions/24.89.74.34|24.89.74.34]] 02:23, 10 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Soundwave&#039;s Packaging ==&lt;br /&gt;
On the back of his packaging it says, &amp;quot;Cannon converts to blade!&amp;quot; Is it me or is there a lack of cannon?&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:Boxotron|Boxotron]] 12:32, 23 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I believe that comes from ROTF Megatron&#039;s packaging? [[Special:Contributions/114.108.194.66|114.108.194.66]] 00:45, 8 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== New pictures ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I found the ROTF screenshots from an [http://www.fxguide.com/article551.html FX Guide] interview with [[Digital Domain]]. If anyone could resize the screencaps for me or trim the black bars, since Photoshop doesn&#039;t work on my PC, that&#039;d be much appreciated. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 07:22, 28 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Rumble and Laserbeak ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Should we make seperate pages for Rumble and Laserbeak? The two appeared as pods in the DLC for the game so thy deserve a page! and I don&#039;t care if they weren&#039;t officially named, half the animated characters are unnamed! like &amp;quot;freeway&amp;quot; &amp;quot;carerra&amp;quot; so lets make a Rumble page and a Laserbeak Page! there is no reason we shouldn&#039;t!{{unsigned|92.238.187.82|13:10, September 2, 2009 (EDT)}}&lt;br /&gt;
:If pages for them are created with enough effort put into them to make them presentable, they won&#039;t be deleted. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 13:45, 2 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Then lets do it!{{unsigned|92.238.187.82|15:07, September 11, 2009 (EDT)}}&lt;br /&gt;
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They are in Nefarious 1, pictures requested.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Is it really necessary? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Can we lose the tentacle rape line? What if kids are reading this?&lt;br /&gt;
: [[Kiss Players issue 1]] --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 12:07, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::What if &#039;&#039;non-Japanese&#039;&#039; kids are reading this? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:13, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Well, then we&#039;ll have to delete all the Kiss Players articles, won&#039;t we? I mean, if the word &amp;quot;rape&amp;quot; is unacceptable, then the visuals they include are right out, aren&#039;t they? ;-P - &#039;&#039;&#039;McFeely, not signed in&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
::::Sweet! Oh... You are being sarcastic. I suggested that a while back but Scout shot the idea down. Personally, I think KP should not be called attention to by linking from completely unrelated articles for the sake of a... joke?. Seriously, I don&#039;t think we&#039;re doing Hasbro any favors. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:38, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Oh, I take no issue with idea of removing the word-linking. Joke works on its own without needing the link. I take issue with the whole &amp;quot;Think of the children!&amp;quot; argument. &amp;quot;What if kids are reading this?&amp;quot; is not a workable argument for removing something from the wiki when official things like &#039;&#039;Kiss Players&#039;&#039; exist. - &#039;&#039;&#039;McFeely&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
::::::If Hasbro were that concerned about children stumbling onto &amp;quot;inappropriate&amp;quot; Transformers content, maybe they shouldn&#039;t have had that blockbuster movie with the swearing and the humping and the testicles.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:08, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::We totally need a screen shot of the satellite with a caption along the lines of &amp;quot;Why what&#039;s such a fine little satellite like you doing all alone out here in space?&amp;quot;, also I think my image caption is awesome and it should stay the way it is. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 14:30, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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-I think we should at least remove the line from the main-pic.  I think a more appropriate line would be some sort of Space Invaders reference.  Thoughts?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 13:23, 27 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
== Soundwave RPM ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Why isn&#039;t it listed among his toys and merchandise? could someone please give me a coherent answer?.------[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 23:00, 16 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;No one has gotten around to it yet&amp;quot;. It&#039;s been officially revealed, both at Toy Fair 2010 and on [http://bwtf.com/node/1304 BWTF], so that&#039;s not an issue in this case. It might simply be a matter of waiting for the Hasbro stock photography to be released. (I forget who does most of the RPM updates... abates or apoc, I think?)&lt;br /&gt;
:Anyway, you might try adding &amp;quot;please&amp;quot; next time. Your statement came off as a bit impolite. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 23:20, 16 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Sorry, was in a rush, tried to add the toy to the page but remembered to ask first before making any important edit&lt;br /&gt;
------[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 01:18, 17 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I have already seen the toy in MercadoLibre (the mexican equivalent of eBay) and there&#039;s still no photo of RPM Soundwave? BTW, I believe his Legends toy needs a description, I&#039;ll take of it later.[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 22:27, 25 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Tidal_Wave_(Armada)&amp;diff=483128</id>
		<title>Talk:Tidal Wave (Armada)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Is the (UT) tag here really necessary, or does that go on &#039;every&#039; ArmadagonTron-exclusive character? &amp;gt;.&amp;gt; [[User:Onslaught Six|Onslaught Six]] 07:42, 18 June 2006 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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These tags go on EVERY Transformer. In preparation for future name re-use. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 07:47, 18 June 2006 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;The Takara and Hasbro versions are considerably different, even through they only have a single difference. The Takara version uses purple plastic in the place of Hasbro&#039;s green. While this makes the Takara version somewhat more like the show portrayal, the color layouts are still off.&amp;quot; Uh this is really wrong, Shockwave has darker greys, and different paint Apps(mainly on the &amp;quot;elevator&amp;quot; and legs.)&lt;br /&gt;
: Agreed, that text was pretty off.  Fixed.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:58, 1 December 2006 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Tidal Wave ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Tidal Wave is an awsome Transformer, if his brain wasn&#039;t all messed up he&#039;d make the perfect Decepticon leader. If they ever make a second Transformer movie, the should put Tidal Wave in it.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Classics==&lt;br /&gt;
Don&#039;t we need a Disambiguation now that the name has been reused on Bugbites waverunner? [[User:85.195.123.25|85.195.123.25]] 06:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Megatron combination ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Umm, I didn&#039;t watch all of Armada, but I seem to remember Tidal Wave being capable of combining with Megatron (to form a really, really bulky, unweildy version of Megatron). TFU definitely has pictures of the toys doing it... but there&#039;s no mention made of it in the article. [[User:88.111.160.234|88.111.160.234]] 15:57, 8 August 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Fixed it, among other things. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:31, 8 August 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== The Toy of &amp;quot;Shockwave&amp;quot; ==&lt;br /&gt;
It seems that Takara replaced the green color with purple, which is [[Shockwave (G1)|HIS]] main color. -- [[User:TX55|TX55]] 10:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:According to Aaron Archer back during the Orson&#039;s World days, the reason why their colours were so different was that the &#039;Shockwave&#039; colour scheme was needed by the Takara and the animators, so Hasbro made a really quick colour scheme for them to use. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 15:26, 6 September 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::That being said...despite how different it is, the Takara toy really doesn&#039;t look very much like the show model either. -[[User:LV|LV]] 16:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Yeah, the cartoon appearance is much darker. Wonder who at Hasbro did this cartoon colour scheme. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:40, 6 September 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Starships ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I assume the cat ref&#039;s Tidal Wave flying in space in Energon, and in his original appearance, and the fact he has a crew (at least that&#039;s the backstory of the 3 oceangoing mini-cons.)  I&#039;m not sure if that qualifies him for the category though. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 05:36, 10 January 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Gamewise, TW is only ever a seafaring ship. Cartoon-wise, he does fly through space, but so do others, and TW having a &amp;quot;crew&amp;quot; is pretty questionable. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 07:31, 10 January 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Gay For Galvy==&lt;br /&gt;
Do we have anything else we can put in place of &amp;quot;If gets a little puppet called Mister Hat we quit.&amp;quot;?--[[User:Skyglide|Skyglide]] 23:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:How about &amp;quot;Pretty Soldier Sailor Tidalwave&amp;quot; - [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 00:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::thats brilliant.--[[User:Skyglide|Skyglide]] 03:30, 14 June 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Energon Tidal Wave ==&lt;br /&gt;
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In the stock photo the wings on his legs are reversed from those on the Armada version. TFU info&#039;s pictures show them in the same orientation as the Armada toy. I don&#039;t have the Energon toy to look at, so I can&#039;t confirm one either version. Does anyone know which way the actual toy was assembled? [[User:Khajidha|Khajidha]] 00:54, 20 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Can Mirage get his own page? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Can Mirage get a separate page like [[Roadblock (Energon)|Roadblock]]? It seems that in the toy bio micro continuity Mirage is a different character as Tidal Wave, since his bio mentions Tidal Wave as a separate character. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 23:38, 20 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Electronics ==&lt;br /&gt;
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-I recall that in the catalog that came with the mini-comic, &#039;&#039;Energon&#039;&#039; TW was advertized as having &amp;quot;electronic lights and sounds&amp;quot;. Whatever happened to those?--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 13:10, 27 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Transformers:_Generations_(toyline)&amp;diff=481611</id>
		<title>Talk:Transformers: Generations (toyline)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Can we get a source on Blurr coming in a future wave? I thought that was an April Fool&#039;s joke. --Anon, 10:42, 26 April 2010&lt;br /&gt;
:[http://www.parrygamepreserve.com/newsDetail.php?jID=1325 Parry Game Preserve&#039;s March Q&amp;amp;A answers]. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 11:23, 26 April 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== War for Cybertron ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&#039;t know how much this means, but if you click on &amp;quot;War for Cybertron toys&amp;quot; on Hasbro&#039;s [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/movie-news/Transformers-War-for-Cybertron.cfm War for Cybertron] page it brings up the whole first wave of Generations. I doubt that this in itself pulls Drift and Thrust into the &#039;&#039;[[Transformers: Prime]]&#039;&#039; [[continuity family]], but I suppose there is a small chance that this is the direction Hasbro is going. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 21:05, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: It means nothing.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 21:09, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Launch Date ==&lt;br /&gt;
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-Have the toys hit retail yet? I havn&#039;t seen them anywhere, but the page doesn&#039;t say Wave 1 is &amp;quot;scheduled for release&amp;quot; anymore.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:25, 22 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Bumblebee_(G1)/toys&amp;diff=477359</id>
		<title>Talk:Bumblebee (G1)/toys</title>
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&lt;div&gt;.......Why is this not part of [[Bumblebee (G1)]]? - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 14:52, 25 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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When the articles reach a certain length, and the toy and character parts are both quite long the Powers That Be decide to spin them off into seperate pages. G1 Megatron and Prime are the same way. Walky must have decided BB had reached the threshhold as well.&lt;br /&gt;
--[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 15:05, 25 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: As Derik says below, it gives you a warning once the page gets too big.  Bumblebee&#039;s page said it was too big.  So, as per wiki custom, part of it was split off.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 15:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Which makes sense for editing, but why isn&#039;t it one article for viewing? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:22, 25 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
I feel I should point out- Wikimedia gives uou a WARNIGN when the article does over a certain length, that it may impede editing because some browsers don&#039;t liek text boxes with more than 35km of text in them.&lt;br /&gt;
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To repeat- &#039;&#039;editing&#039;&#039;.  There&#039;s really no reason for &#039;&#039;viewing&#039;&#039; we couldn&#039;t just make the toy section an include.  &amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;{{:Bumblebee (G1) toys}}&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt; so all of bumblebee&#039;s article displays on one page.  When you click the edit-subsection button it takes you tot he right page to edit anyway. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 15:31, 25 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Splitting releases==&lt;br /&gt;
Something that this page needs, which we&#039;ve done with other pages, is to split up some of the &amp;quot;this toy was later released in this multi-pack&amp;quot;, like the keychain Bumblebees, the TF Collection release, etc. Other pages, multi-packs are their own entries, and with the anchor templates, can be easily linked to within the article. I don&#039;t have all the info I&#039;d need on me right now to do this (like the Japanese Legends pack info) and I really shouldn&#039;t be doing this much work &#039;&#039;at&#039;&#039; work, but if anyone else has the stuff on-hand, beauty.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
And just to reiterate, when a pic is on the right side of the page, we can nudge it up above the bullet-points to save some vertical space should the text be a bit short. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 15:04, 19 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Classics/Henkei car type==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Wikipedia:Peugeot 206|Peugeot 206]] seems close enough? *shrugs* Just a suggestion. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 20:09, 24 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Periods of activity? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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What&#039;s with that &amp;quot;Periods of activity&amp;quot; part of Bumblebee&#039;s Generation 1 toys section? First I&#039;m seeing it, and to be frank it doesn&#039;t look especially good or purposeful. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 17:21, 28 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I proposed it quite a while back and, hearing no objection, added them in for G1 Bumblebee, Jazz, Grimlock, Prime, and Starscream. Basically the G1 guys who went through multiple bodies through fiction. I think it is useful to acknowledge somewhere that those characters have different toy-based bodies through the run of fiction. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 17:33, 28 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Just Pointing Out... ==&lt;br /&gt;
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-Just pointing out that RID sideways makes a great Bumblebee fig.  He&#039;s got the right color, the right size, and if you give G1 Swindle&#039;s weapon you&#039;ve got the whole shibang. --[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 00:20, 12 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=Talk:Brawl_(Movie)&amp;diff=471493</id>
		<title>Talk:Brawl (Movie)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;==Not Megatron comment==&lt;br /&gt;
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what inspired that? [[USER:GWolf]]&lt;br /&gt;
:Many people on various boards who can&#039;t get over the fact that movie Megs is neither a gun nor a tank. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::More specifically, the ones who are &#039;&#039;so&#039;&#039; incapable of getting over it that they form elaborate conspiracy theories about how Megatron will get a tank altmode during the movie and Hasbro decided to call the corresponding toy &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; to keep it a surprise.  --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 03:29, 21 April 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::those were the days, man. Almost makes me think a &amp;quot;pre-release theories&amp;quot; section on the movie page wouldn&#039;t be all that out out of place. Fits right in there with the theory that the human cast list was actually a secret robot voice actor list, with clever codenames like &amp;quot;Epps&amp;quot; to put people off the trail that he&#039;s obviously Jazz.--[[User:Carrion|Carrion]] 02:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Brawl could have easily been named Overkill, if you ask me.  His toy has an amount of weapons that border on goofy: His spring loaded cannon on his right arm, the fact that it can swivel 180 to reveal a more accurate to his design Gatling Gun molding, his behind the back secondary guns, his shoulder mounted missile launchers, his twin claw, AND the anti-personal cannon molded onto the twin claw&#039;s base.   Sheeeeeesh.  --[[User:Terrocon Blot|Terrocon Blot]] 19:30, 10 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Devastator==&lt;br /&gt;
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apparently, when they screened the movie in australia, little thing became apparent. His name&#039;s Devestator?&lt;br /&gt;
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Opened, or screened?  Because if it was a pre-screening, it may have been a rough cut of the movie-- several decepticons&#039; names were changes later in production, and Devastator was an early name for Brawl.&lt;br /&gt;
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You can count on this being corrected for the actual film release. Roberto Orci has  [http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=368555&amp;amp;postcount=4479 commented on it.] --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 04:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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They called it both a special screening event and a premiere. We rock. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Hey I just saw the movie on June 29th in a sneak preview in columbus ohio and they called him Devastator. And it seemed like scenes were missing from the movie&lt;br /&gt;
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:I&#039;m a little confused as to why &amp;quot;Devastator&amp;quot; isn&#039;t noted as a mistaken when the only place it appears is a single subtitle line in the actual movie whilst &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; appears on...  everything else ever.  I mean, a Michael Bay forced mistake is still a mistake.--[[User:MCRG|MCRG]] 03:52, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::&amp;quot;Forced mistake&amp;quot;? If he intended to call the tank Devastator and he called it Devastator, I&#039;m not seeing the mistake. It&#039;s clearly different from every other appearance, but unless we&#039;re going to make a big deal about how purple cartoon Rumble is a mistake, there&#039;s no reason to make it sound like someone didn&#039;t know what his name was. &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; is clearly the most parsimonious name for the page, but that doesn&#039;t change the fact that his name is Devastator in the movie. -[[User:67.149.204.113|67.149.204.113]] 04:44, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Heh, until the DVD release.  I don&#039;t see Hasbro sitting by on that one when they&#039;ve got Brawl stamped on all the merchandise.--[[User:MCRG|MCRG]] 04:46, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::: Brawl is the better name, they should save devastator for the sequel.&lt;br /&gt;
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The cinema in Minnesota I just saw the movie at had the &#039;Devastator&#039; cut. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 01:31, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Wait, what do you mean? Do you mean &amp;quot;cut&amp;quot; as in &amp;quot;the name Devastator was removed&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;cut&amp;quot; as in &amp;quot;the cut of the film that has Devastator,&amp;quot; which would be the same as what everyone else has already seen? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 01:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::The version where he&#039;s called Devastator.  ...is there &#039;&#039;no&#039;&#039; version where he&#039;s called Brawl like the said or something?  Now you&#039;ve confused me. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 01:43, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Nope. It&#039;s Devastator in every version.&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Of course, it&#039;s still wrong. But there is no cut that says Brawl. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 01:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::It says &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; in the credits, though. And  as MCRG said, with &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; on all the packaging I&#039;m sure it&#039;ll be changed in time for the DVD release.  - [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 02:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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So, uh, twice now people have removed the &amp;quot;Brawl (here called &amp;quot;Devastator&amp;quot;)&amp;quot; bit from the movie summary with no explanation at all.  I think that phrasing is important for the sake of clarification.  Otherwise there&#039;s no real clear reason for him to be referred to as Devastator in the article as it&#039;s never actually stated before there that the name Devastator appears in the movie.  Can somebody please justify this?  --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 21:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:It was apparently LV that removed it.  After it was put back today, he asked if he was alone in thinking it should be removed.  I said it was a little weird to suddenly call the character Devastator with no explanation, and he seemed to give up immediately.  I don&#039;t recall him actually justifying it, but I think it&#039;d be easiest for you to ask. /:) --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 03:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&#039;t think we should specifically denounce one name over the other, especially in the movie fiction section. Would the &amp;quot;Brawl (here called &amp;quot;Devastator&amp;quot;)&amp;quot; thing work for the first mention, then just use pronouns for the rest of this specific section? [[User:Atomic spaceman|Atomic spaceman]] 21:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I don&#039;t think it&#039;s really denouncing- he was originally named Devastator, but his name was &#039;&#039;later changed&#039;&#039; to Brawl, it just didn&#039;t get fixed int he movie.&lt;br /&gt;
:Somehow I feel like that sounds &#039;&#039;less&#039;&#039; than, say, Jetfire begin called Skyfire int he Sunbow Cartoon.  (I may change my tune if it&#039;s not fixed on the DVD) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 22:08, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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For the film&#039;s fiction subsection I have changed his name to Devastator.  It&#039;s the only name he is given in that story, and the director of the film has apparently said he prefers that name.  To me, that makes it his name.  He simply has a different name in the film than in all his other appearances.  Further: there is still a mention in the trivia that he is credited as Brawl.  However, the last time I saw the movie with LV and Walky, they both scanned the voice credits (I was looking elsewhere) and didn&#039;t see him credited &#039;&#039;at all&#039;&#039;, under either name.  Can any editors personally attest to have seen the credit with their own eyes, or are we just repeating Some Guy&#039;s claim that it&#039;s there?  --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 22:35, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Old edit of mine from early June for the Sydney June 12th premiere, where the voice actors were finally revealed. IIRC it was posted by one of the people attending and I forgot to edit it out, and I didn&#039;t bother hanging around to watch the voice credits myself. Btw, do the Decepticons EVER refer to Sam as anything other than Ladiesman217? That&#039;s why I refer to him as such in all the Decepticon writeups I&#039;ve done. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 23:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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===DVD===&lt;br /&gt;
Well, the DVD has been released in some places already, clips are flooding YouTube. So, I just wanna take the time to ask this question. Does he still call himself Devastator in the DVD release? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 05:57, 12 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:According to a thread on the official TF movie forum, yes. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:19, 12 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Does anyone have an actual image of Brawl in robot mode? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 16:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:No, he never appeared in any promotional materials to my knowledge, and is BARELY seen in only some of the tv spots. The first time we saw his movie design (and not just his toy) was that leaked concept design sheet at TFW2005. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::He shows up in various heavily illustrated material, but in group shots.  Let me think...He&#039;s in the movie comic adaptation, and various storybooks.  Meet The Decepticons (group shot), Movie Storybook (likely same), and so forth.  If you want a render, it seems unlikely.&lt;br /&gt;
:::Doublechecked various books.  Seems like the best image of Brawl we&#039;ll get is his first appearance in bot mode from the Movie adapation comic.  Beyond that, he&#039;s either lost in crowds, or not drawn well.  Or cropped badly.  --[[User:Terrocon Blot|Terrocon Blot]] 21:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::The game guide has a pretty large promo render of Brawl. There are a couple screen shots clipping him, but I&#039;ll see what I can do. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 21:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::So now that Brawl&#039;s gotten a released to the public concept art, we gonna ditch the CG one from the game, or keep using him?  --[[User:Terrocon Blot|Terrocon Blot]] 01:14, 19 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::There is? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Actually, there are better picture of this guy.  They can be found on Ben Procter&#039;s website. (The one with  all the movie designs.) [[User:Crosshairs-1|Crosshairs-1]] 11:55, 2 February 2008 (UTC)Crosshairs-1&lt;br /&gt;
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== Devastator and Michael Bay ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;When queried, director Michael Bay said he had always preferred Devastator and that it is not a mistake.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;d like to see a source for this. &#039;Cuz for everyone who brings this up, there&#039;s someone who will claim that Bay confirmed it as an error that will get fixed for the DVD. So unless someone can cite a source, I&#039;m inclined to call this (as well as the &amp;quot;fixed for the DVD&amp;quot; version) a &amp;quot;fan rumor&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh, and &amp;quot;I seem to recall&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I think I read somewhere&amp;quot; is not a source.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 22:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Then fix it yourself. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Well, I can find it I think. Also, anyone remember his &amp;quot;If I wanna paint my house green&amp;quot; thing over flmaes and Prime s&lt;br /&gt;
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If someone can SOURCE that &amp;quot;stupid simple&amp;quot; quote, I&#039;d rather use that. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 03:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Better image? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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His main image is a stupid &amp;quot;Cyber Slammer&amp;quot; because....? [[User:LordHigher,MoreAnnoyingStarscream|LordHigher,MoreAnnoyingStarscream]] 16:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Because it&#039;s so out of character for a monster like Brawl to look this cute. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 16:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Besides, they never released a single publicity image of him. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:38, 22 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I swapped the Cyber Slammer image with the concept art pic at the bottom of the article. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 09:44, 22 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Well, I guess you suck, then. -[[User:LV|LV]] 13:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::What the hell? It&#039;s concept art. Cyber Slammer art is the only official art of him on this page. I&#039;m changing it back. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 15:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::More importantly, the Cyber Slammer picture is hilarious. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 01:39, 25 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
I think it&#039;s much better now!Maybe.--[[User:Telex|Telex]] 02:01, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:It wasn&#039;t. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 02:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Now?--[[User:Telex|Telex]] 02:15, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:NO --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 02:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
How Bow Now?-[[User:Telex|Telex]] 02:39, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
I changed the image to a video game one.  I would have used the concept one, but I can&#039;t find anywhere. &#039;&#039;&#039;DO NOT CHANGE IT BACK. I WILL BAN YOU WHO CHANGES IT BACK.&#039;&#039;&#039; Read my argument against the Cyber Slammers image on my user page. [[User:G1MA|G1MA]] 00:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)G1MA&lt;br /&gt;
:That&#039;s...a bad way to get people on your side. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 00:56, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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===Better Image II: The Serious Discussion===&lt;br /&gt;
May I ask why we don&#039;t use the video game image as his main image? It&#039;s a good, full body image, we use a game image as [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]]&#039;s main image, and we have the Cyber Slammer image on the [[Package art#Transformers (2007)|package art]] page making the same joke. So seriously, why not? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 02:08, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: 1) Because the image is awesome.&lt;br /&gt;
: 2) I don&#039;t see the same joke, sir.  &lt;br /&gt;
: 3) It should be obvious after all this that you&#039;re outnumbered on the issue.  Why belabor it?  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 02:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I&#039;m not gonna make a fuss over it, but -- considering the huge stink we make for [[Megatron (Movie)|some characters]] over how [[:Image:Movie_Wreckage_Traitor.jpg|such-and-such picture]] doesn&#039;t have &amp;quot;the right body&amp;quot;, often haggling over some minor differences that nobody&#039;s gonna even notice, it&#039;s a little baffling to me how this pic has stayed up as the main image.  FUNNY &amp;gt; information? -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 16:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Because I believe only four things, Walky:&lt;br /&gt;
#The Autobots will rule Cybertron.&lt;br /&gt;
#Female Transformers work better if you don&#039;t over exert yourself trying to explain them.&lt;br /&gt;
#Megatron is better as a tank. It&#039;s more mobile than the gun, having him as a flier makes Starscream that much more useless, and it gives the fusion cannon a role in alt-mode.&lt;br /&gt;
#And Brawl will finally have a real main image! -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 15:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Regarding that one guy who made those three arguments:&lt;br /&gt;
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: 1)It is &#039;&#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039;&#039; awesome.&lt;br /&gt;
: 2)The joke is there, sir.&lt;br /&gt;
: 3)Like I care. &lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;d change the image, but I can&#039;t find the concept art. [[User:G1MA|G1MA]] 19:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)G1MA&lt;br /&gt;
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:Dude, ItsWalky is one of the &#039;&#039;administrators&#039;&#039; of this Wiki. As for the concept art, I believe I asked for it to be deleted, because troublemakers kept moving it up as the main pic in defiance of this wiki&#039;s regular members and administrative staff. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 20:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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OK, then we&#039;re in trouble. If an immature moron who thinks putting those dumb images up there are funny is an &#039;&#039;administrator&#039;&#039;, then this wiki is doomed [[User:G1MA|G1MA]] 23:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)G1MA&lt;br /&gt;
:So essentially, you&#039;re saying that this Wiki is [[Ruined FOREVER]]? --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 00:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I would just like to point out the hillarity of someone pointing out that someone is being immature on a wiki devoted to cartoons and children&#039;s toys.  Just throwing that out there. - [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 00:18, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Okay, now that the guy has been banned, can we please get back to the real discussion? Will someone give me a legitimate reason as to why we cannont use Brawl&#039;s game image as his main image? As Repowers said, information is supposed to be more important than humor. If someone can just give me a decent answer (one that does not include use of inappropriate language, doubts about my masculinity, threats of administrative retaliation, insinuations about my intelligence, or insults directed at members of my family), I&#039;ll drop it.  -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 00:24, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::How is Brawl&#039;s packaging art not informative?  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 00:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::It&#039;s the package art from his Cyber Slammer toy, which looks nothing like any of the other toys OR his appearance in the movie and comics.  People coming to the page not already   knowing about the character could be confused or even put off by it. - [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 00:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::As I recall, the reasoning behind using this image was basically &amp;quot;Brawl is supposed to be such a hulking destructive monster, therefore it&#039;s ironically funny to use his cutest possible toy.&amp;quot;  I think a major problem with that is that what this character is &amp;quot;supposed to be&amp;quot; really doesn&#039;t exist, since he&#039;s a nobody who did very little and about whom very little is popularly known.  He appeared in the movie for all of 4 minutes--under a different name.  I can see the humor potential in showing Grimlock&#039;s art being a childish unintelligent scribble, precisely because it feeds off those character traits everyone knows he has.  But when there&#039;s already so little to go on about Brawlastator, I think it&#039;s harder to justify.  --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 00:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Brawlastator&amp;quot;-funny.  Anyway, I was wondering, Why all the fuss? If all &#039;&#039;the administators&#039;&#039; want this image to be the Cyber Slammers one, why don&#039;t these people just accept they will not be able to get that image changed for good without using NSA to control the Web? Why make a fuss over the main image. It&#039;s a once in a while funny joke, and if you&#039;re so lazy that you&#039;re just going to look at a picture at the top of the page, and not read anything, you deserve to be confused. [[User:JimCappuccino|JimCappuccino]] 20:15, 12 May 2008 (UTC)JimCappuccino&lt;br /&gt;
:Why not just hold a vote or something? That should settle it once and for all. (And yes, I saw [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|Inferno&#039;sQueen]] has previously suggested it, so please don&#039;t acuse me of being his sock. [[User:Wreck-Gar Rocks!|Wreck-Gar Rocks!]] 16:56, 13 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
I have come to a conclusion-if this issue doen&#039;t resolve itself, this wiki will tear itself apart! No but seriously, a vote would be a good idea. [[User:JimCappuccino|JimCappuccino]] 23:31, 27 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Weapons ==&lt;br /&gt;
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What weapons he used and how many weapons he have other han his claw that it stab Jazz with?([[User:MARV 2000|MARV 2000]] 23:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC))&lt;br /&gt;
:Well, he has the missle pods, main cannon, those two smaller cannons... I think maybe a machine gun or two.  Basically he&#039;s a walking weapons platform. [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 03:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Seperate Devastator page? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Issue three of Titan&#039;s Movie comic has the editor refer to Devastator as being a seperate character who just &#039;&#039;looks&#039;&#039; like Brawl. Does this mean we should create a seperate page for the fiction&#039;s where he&#039;s Devastator, or should we stick with both on the same page on the principle that it&#039;s funner that way? [[USER:Charles RB]] 10:50, 30th March 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Trivia note.  We acknowledge it, then point out what a massive fucking headache it would entail if Brawl AND Devastator are running around.  [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 20:09, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Where does the editor say this?  On a letters page?  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:17, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Yeah, third issue. Sourced on the page. (And a later guy is Brawl and not Devastator cos, well, the cover says so) -[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] 03:02, 20 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
:As Hoop says; virtually everything Devastator does outside the movie is under the name &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot;, which would result in this guy called Brawl in some cases immediately following up or working up to the handful of things Devastator does in the movie. Also, Devastator would have no toys or merchandise, despite appearing in the movie. -[[User:LV|LV]] 20:21, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Also, &amp;quot;Reign of Starscream&amp;quot; retcons the movie to have him identify himself as &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; in its flashback to the Mission City battle, so that right right there is canon information saying they&#039;re the same character. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 20:23, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Gotcha. Same page it is. -- [[USER:Charles RB|Charles RB]] 03:02, 20 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Name confusion doesn&#039;t change the fact that there are two characters in Titan. Let me see... &#039;&#039;In the Titan continuity&#039;&#039;, the tank featured in the film was named &amp;quot;Devastator&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; was a different guy &#039;&#039;in the Titan continuity&#039;&#039;. If we were to make another page I would suggest that Titan &amp;quot;Devastator&#039;s&amp;quot; appearances remain here and make a new page, called &amp;quot;Brawl (Titan)&amp;quot; or something. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 22:14, 7 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Front Image ==&lt;br /&gt;
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How about scanning  the concept CGI work on the internet and crop it so the robot mode is only there?&lt;br /&gt;
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:The sole reason for using the Cyber Slammer image is because ItsWalky finds it funny. I&#039;m not entirely sure of the joke, but the other admins back him up. And it&#039;s not like there&#039;s much to go on for him, there&#039;s only two other full-body (second Titan and the video game) and officially the Titan one is of a different guy. -- [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]], 01:02, 19 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Look, can we stop with this &amp;quot;it&#039;s only up because Walky finds it funny&amp;quot; thing?  I am far from the only one.  Considering someone who is not me just yanked the super-retarded snark-template off, I think we can put that to fucking rest.  Find some other pretend reason to take it down.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:09, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Honestly, I&#039;m gonna go on record here for the first time as saying I&#039;ve &#039;&#039;never&#039;&#039; liked the use of the Cyber Slammers image, and if we can find something else, I wanna swap it out. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 20:05, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I think it&#039;s awesome and it should stay.  [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 20:08, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I would like to go on the record as saying that there is no other official art that captures the essence of his character nearly as clearly, and I am strongly opposed to changing it to something else. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 20:10, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
I scanned it. I reversed it. I cleaned it up. I put it there. It went up back when the Wiki wasn&#039;t the Big Deal it is now. I don&#039;t see the problem. There are other pictures of Devastator on the page and on the Internet. There has never been a good clean clear render of his CG model released to the public. In conclusion, I cannot believe that two years later there are still people with a bug up their butt about this. Lighten up, for god&#039;s sake. -[[User:LV|LV]] 20:11, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I would liek to &#039;&#039;further&#039;&#039; refuse the &amp;quot;because Walky thinks its funny&amp;quot; argument with [[Image talk:Brawl-cyber-slammer-boxart.jpg|this]] timestamped evidence to the contrary.&lt;br /&gt;
:I was the &#039;&#039;first voice&#039;&#039; to demand that the CC art remain Brawl&#039;s main userpic.  Not Walky, &#039;&#039;&#039;me&#039;&#039;&#039;.  &amp;lt;u&amp;gt;YOU WON&#039;T DEPRIVE ME OF MY LEGACY CHARLES.&amp;lt;/u&amp;gt; -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:15, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::You have no idea how tempted I am to sneakily edit my original post to say &amp;quot;Derik finds it funny&amp;quot;... -[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] 03:10, 20 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
::How about the image from the movie game that we have on the article already? It&#039;s a full body shot, it&#039;s intact. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 21:30, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I would prefer that to the Cyber Slammers image. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 21:38, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Nah. It&#039;s a bad pixelated pic. I choose Cyber Slammers. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 21:51, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Cyber Slammers seems to be the majority, so what the heck. --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] 03:11, 20 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
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And the Fast Action Battlers art?--[[Special:Contributions/201.24.227.119|201.24.227.119]] 19:18, 22 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Protection ==&lt;br /&gt;
Anons changing the main image seems like a daily occurrence, it might be a good idea to just protect the page and be done with it. - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 16:57, 4 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I agree. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 17:10, 4 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Game render image ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Movie_Brawl_gamerender.jpg|thumb|200px|]]&lt;br /&gt;
This image appears to be a rare promo image from the 2007 Transformers game. I think it looks pretty cool, more or less fits the style of the other promotional renders we use on most of the other movie character articles, and it&#039;s not concept art, unlike that picture from [[Ben Procter]]&#039;s site that anon users and wikipedia keep pushing. Comments? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:52, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:As someone who&#039;s never loved the Cyber Slammers image, I&#039;m all for using it. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 17:03, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I&#039;m for it. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 17:05, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:As an ardent supporter of Grimlock&#039;s main pic... I&#039;d vote for the movie render for Brawl. I mean, with Grimlock, we more than know what he looks like. There&#039;s shit-tons of art of him. Brawl? Not so much. (Actually, it&#039;d be a funny April Fools gag to for one day replace all the main images with Cyber Slammers or Robot Heroes art.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:37, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I was thinking the exact same thing.  Anyways, Brawl is just &#039;&#039;interesting&#039;&#039; to look at.  He&#039;s complicated.  And that promo render is &#039;&#039;sweet&#039;&#039;. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 18:12, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I&#039;m down with that.  IIRC &#039;&#039;part&#039;&#039; of the reason we ended up with the cyber-slammer pic was the lack of an obvious alternative everyone could agree on. -[[Special:Contributions/207.224.68.64|207.224.68.64]] 18:43, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I like the Cyber Slammers pic but hot damn that render is awesome. I say let&#039;s use it. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 18:47, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;:(&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;--[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 18:45, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::There was a watermark over his left foot, from some chinese site, so I spent the better of an hour trying to fix it. Seems to have come out alright. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 23:50, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: Why ya&#039; gotta break balls? [[User:Drayco90|Drayco90]] 23:32, 14 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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-I&#039;m a new user, so I don&#039;t want to insult anybody...but what if we use both the &#039;&#039;Cyber Slammer&#039;&#039; toy and the pic at right.  I get the &#039;&#039;Cyber Slammer&#039;&#039; joke, but I also think we need to show what he looks like. =) --[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 11:51, 26 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Have you visited Brawl&#039;s page recently? That pic has been Brawl&#039;s new main image since January. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 13:16, 26 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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-Oops, my bad...--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 12:56, 1 July 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;==Not Megatron comment==&lt;br /&gt;
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what inspired that? [[USER:GWolf]]&lt;br /&gt;
:Many people on various boards who can&#039;t get over the fact that movie Megs is neither a gun nor a tank. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::More specifically, the ones who are &#039;&#039;so&#039;&#039; incapable of getting over it that they form elaborate conspiracy theories about how Megatron will get a tank altmode during the movie and Hasbro decided to call the corresponding toy &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; to keep it a surprise.  --[[User:Andrusi|Andrusi]] 03:29, 21 April 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::those were the days, man. Almost makes me think a &amp;quot;pre-release theories&amp;quot; section on the movie page wouldn&#039;t be all that out out of place. Fits right in there with the theory that the human cast list was actually a secret robot voice actor list, with clever codenames like &amp;quot;Epps&amp;quot; to put people off the trail that he&#039;s obviously Jazz.--[[User:Carrion|Carrion]] 02:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Brawl could have easily been named Overkill, if you ask me.  His toy has an amount of weapons that border on goofy: His spring loaded cannon on his right arm, the fact that it can swivel 180 to reveal a more accurate to his design Gatling Gun molding, his behind the back secondary guns, his shoulder mounted missile launchers, his twin claw, AND the anti-personal cannon molded onto the twin claw&#039;s base.   Sheeeeeesh.  --[[User:Terrocon Blot|Terrocon Blot]] 19:30, 10 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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apparently, when they screened the movie in australia, little thing became apparent. His name&#039;s Devestator?&lt;br /&gt;
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Opened, or screened?  Because if it was a pre-screening, it may have been a rough cut of the movie-- several decepticons&#039; names were changes later in production, and Devastator was an early name for Brawl.&lt;br /&gt;
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You can count on this being corrected for the actual film release. Roberto Orci has  [http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=368555&amp;amp;postcount=4479 commented on it.] --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 04:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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They called it both a special screening event and a premiere. We rock. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Hey I just saw the movie on June 29th in a sneak preview in columbus ohio and they called him Devastator. And it seemed like scenes were missing from the movie&lt;br /&gt;
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:I&#039;m a little confused as to why &amp;quot;Devastator&amp;quot; isn&#039;t noted as a mistaken when the only place it appears is a single subtitle line in the actual movie whilst &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; appears on...  everything else ever.  I mean, a Michael Bay forced mistake is still a mistake.--[[User:MCRG|MCRG]] 03:52, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::&amp;quot;Forced mistake&amp;quot;? If he intended to call the tank Devastator and he called it Devastator, I&#039;m not seeing the mistake. It&#039;s clearly different from every other appearance, but unless we&#039;re going to make a big deal about how purple cartoon Rumble is a mistake, there&#039;s no reason to make it sound like someone didn&#039;t know what his name was. &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; is clearly the most parsimonious name for the page, but that doesn&#039;t change the fact that his name is Devastator in the movie. -[[User:67.149.204.113|67.149.204.113]] 04:44, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Heh, until the DVD release.  I don&#039;t see Hasbro sitting by on that one when they&#039;ve got Brawl stamped on all the merchandise.--[[User:MCRG|MCRG]] 04:46, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::: Brawl is the better name, they should save devastator for the sequel.&lt;br /&gt;
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The cinema in Minnesota I just saw the movie at had the &#039;Devastator&#039; cut. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 01:31, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Wait, what do you mean? Do you mean &amp;quot;cut&amp;quot; as in &amp;quot;the name Devastator was removed&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;cut&amp;quot; as in &amp;quot;the cut of the film that has Devastator,&amp;quot; which would be the same as what everyone else has already seen? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 01:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::The version where he&#039;s called Devastator.  ...is there &#039;&#039;no&#039;&#039; version where he&#039;s called Brawl like the said or something?  Now you&#039;ve confused me. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 01:43, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Nope. It&#039;s Devastator in every version.&lt;br /&gt;
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:::Of course, it&#039;s still wrong. But there is no cut that says Brawl. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 01:49, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::::It says &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; in the credits, though. And  as MCRG said, with &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; on all the packaging I&#039;m sure it&#039;ll be changed in time for the DVD release.  - [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 02:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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So, uh, twice now people have removed the &amp;quot;Brawl (here called &amp;quot;Devastator&amp;quot;)&amp;quot; bit from the movie summary with no explanation at all.  I think that phrasing is important for the sake of clarification.  Otherwise there&#039;s no real clear reason for him to be referred to as Devastator in the article as it&#039;s never actually stated before there that the name Devastator appears in the movie.  Can somebody please justify this?  --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 21:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:It was apparently LV that removed it.  After it was put back today, he asked if he was alone in thinking it should be removed.  I said it was a little weird to suddenly call the character Devastator with no explanation, and he seemed to give up immediately.  I don&#039;t recall him actually justifying it, but I think it&#039;d be easiest for you to ask. /:) --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 03:41, 11 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I don&#039;t think we should specifically denounce one name over the other, especially in the movie fiction section. Would the &amp;quot;Brawl (here called &amp;quot;Devastator&amp;quot;)&amp;quot; thing work for the first mention, then just use pronouns for the rest of this specific section? [[User:Atomic spaceman|Atomic spaceman]] 21:15, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I don&#039;t think it&#039;s really denouncing- he was originally named Devastator, but his name was &#039;&#039;later changed&#039;&#039; to Brawl, it just didn&#039;t get fixed int he movie.&lt;br /&gt;
:Somehow I feel like that sounds &#039;&#039;less&#039;&#039; than, say, Jetfire begin called Skyfire int he Sunbow Cartoon.  (I may change my tune if it&#039;s not fixed on the DVD) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 22:08, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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For the film&#039;s fiction subsection I have changed his name to Devastator.  It&#039;s the only name he is given in that story, and the director of the film has apparently said he prefers that name.  To me, that makes it his name.  He simply has a different name in the film than in all his other appearances.  Further: there is still a mention in the trivia that he is credited as Brawl.  However, the last time I saw the movie with LV and Walky, they both scanned the voice credits (I was looking elsewhere) and didn&#039;t see him credited &#039;&#039;at all&#039;&#039;, under either name.  Can any editors personally attest to have seen the credit with their own eyes, or are we just repeating Some Guy&#039;s claim that it&#039;s there?  --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 22:35, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Old edit of mine from early June for the Sydney June 12th premiere, where the voice actors were finally revealed. IIRC it was posted by one of the people attending and I forgot to edit it out, and I didn&#039;t bother hanging around to watch the voice credits myself. Btw, do the Decepticons EVER refer to Sam as anything other than Ladiesman217? That&#039;s why I refer to him as such in all the Decepticon writeups I&#039;ve done. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 23:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Well, the DVD has been released in some places already, clips are flooding YouTube. So, I just wanna take the time to ask this question. Does he still call himself Devastator in the DVD release? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 05:57, 12 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:According to a thread on the official TF movie forum, yes. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:19, 12 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Does anyone have an actual image of Brawl in robot mode? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 16:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:No, he never appeared in any promotional materials to my knowledge, and is BARELY seen in only some of the tv spots. The first time we saw his movie design (and not just his toy) was that leaked concept design sheet at TFW2005. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:44, 10 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::He shows up in various heavily illustrated material, but in group shots.  Let me think...He&#039;s in the movie comic adaptation, and various storybooks.  Meet The Decepticons (group shot), Movie Storybook (likely same), and so forth.  If you want a render, it seems unlikely.&lt;br /&gt;
:::Doublechecked various books.  Seems like the best image of Brawl we&#039;ll get is his first appearance in bot mode from the Movie adapation comic.  Beyond that, he&#039;s either lost in crowds, or not drawn well.  Or cropped badly.  --[[User:Terrocon Blot|Terrocon Blot]] 21:25, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::The game guide has a pretty large promo render of Brawl. There are a couple screen shots clipping him, but I&#039;ll see what I can do. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 21:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::So now that Brawl&#039;s gotten a released to the public concept art, we gonna ditch the CG one from the game, or keep using him?  --[[User:Terrocon Blot|Terrocon Blot]] 01:14, 19 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::There is? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:54, 19 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Actually, there are better picture of this guy.  They can be found on Ben Procter&#039;s website. (The one with  all the movie designs.) [[User:Crosshairs-1|Crosshairs-1]] 11:55, 2 February 2008 (UTC)Crosshairs-1&lt;br /&gt;
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== Devastator and Michael Bay ==&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;quot;When queried, director Michael Bay said he had always preferred Devastator and that it is not a mistake.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;d like to see a source for this. &#039;Cuz for everyone who brings this up, there&#039;s someone who will claim that Bay confirmed it as an error that will get fixed for the DVD. So unless someone can cite a source, I&#039;m inclined to call this (as well as the &amp;quot;fixed for the DVD&amp;quot; version) a &amp;quot;fan rumor&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Oh, and &amp;quot;I seem to recall&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I think I read somewhere&amp;quot; is not a source.--[[User:Nevermore|Nevermore]] 22:47, 29 August 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Then fix it yourself. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Well, I can find it I think. Also, anyone remember his &amp;quot;If I wanna paint my house green&amp;quot; thing over flmaes and Prime s&lt;br /&gt;
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If someone can SOURCE that &amp;quot;stupid simple&amp;quot; quote, I&#039;d rather use that. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 03:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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His main image is a stupid &amp;quot;Cyber Slammer&amp;quot; because....? [[User:LordHigher,MoreAnnoyingStarscream|LordHigher,MoreAnnoyingStarscream]] 16:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Because it&#039;s so out of character for a monster like Brawl to look this cute. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 16:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Besides, they never released a single publicity image of him. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 08:38, 22 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I swapped the Cyber Slammer image with the concept art pic at the bottom of the article. -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 09:44, 22 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Well, I guess you suck, then. -[[User:LV|LV]] 13:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::What the hell? It&#039;s concept art. Cyber Slammer art is the only official art of him on this page. I&#039;m changing it back. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 15:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::More importantly, the Cyber Slammer picture is hilarious. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 01:39, 25 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
I think it&#039;s much better now!Maybe.--[[User:Telex|Telex]] 02:01, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:It wasn&#039;t. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 02:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Now?--[[User:Telex|Telex]] 02:15, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:NO --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 02:25, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
How Bow Now?-[[User:Telex|Telex]] 02:39, 3 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
I changed the image to a video game one.  I would have used the concept one, but I can&#039;t find anywhere. &#039;&#039;&#039;DO NOT CHANGE IT BACK. I WILL BAN YOU WHO CHANGES IT BACK.&#039;&#039;&#039; Read my argument against the Cyber Slammers image on my user page. [[User:G1MA|G1MA]] 00:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)G1MA&lt;br /&gt;
:That&#039;s...a bad way to get people on your side. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 00:56, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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===Better Image II: The Serious Discussion===&lt;br /&gt;
May I ask why we don&#039;t use the video game image as his main image? It&#039;s a good, full body image, we use a game image as [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]]&#039;s main image, and we have the Cyber Slammer image on the [[Package art#Transformers (2007)|package art]] page making the same joke. So seriously, why not? -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 02:08, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: 1) Because the image is awesome.&lt;br /&gt;
: 2) I don&#039;t see the same joke, sir.  &lt;br /&gt;
: 3) It should be obvious after all this that you&#039;re outnumbered on the issue.  Why belabor it?  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 02:27, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::I&#039;m not gonna make a fuss over it, but -- considering the huge stink we make for [[Megatron (Movie)|some characters]] over how [[:Image:Movie_Wreckage_Traitor.jpg|such-and-such picture]] doesn&#039;t have &amp;quot;the right body&amp;quot;, often haggling over some minor differences that nobody&#039;s gonna even notice, it&#039;s a little baffling to me how this pic has stayed up as the main image.  FUNNY &amp;gt; information? -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 16:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Because I believe only four things, Walky:&lt;br /&gt;
#The Autobots will rule Cybertron.&lt;br /&gt;
#Female Transformers work better if you don&#039;t over exert yourself trying to explain them.&lt;br /&gt;
#Megatron is better as a tank. It&#039;s more mobile than the gun, having him as a flier makes Starscream that much more useless, and it gives the fusion cannon a role in alt-mode.&lt;br /&gt;
#And Brawl will finally have a real main image! -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 15:49, 18 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#039;d change the image, but I can&#039;t find the concept art. [[User:G1MA|G1MA]] 19:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)G1MA&lt;br /&gt;
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:Dude, ItsWalky is one of the &#039;&#039;administrators&#039;&#039; of this Wiki. As for the concept art, I believe I asked for it to be deleted, because troublemakers kept moving it up as the main pic in defiance of this wiki&#039;s regular members and administrative staff. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 20:15, 6 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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OK, then we&#039;re in trouble. If an immature moron who thinks putting those dumb images up there are funny is an &#039;&#039;administrator&#039;&#039;, then this wiki is doomed [[User:G1MA|G1MA]] 23:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)G1MA&lt;br /&gt;
:So essentially, you&#039;re saying that this Wiki is [[Ruined FOREVER]]? --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 00:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I would just like to point out the hillarity of someone pointing out that someone is being immature on a wiki devoted to cartoons and children&#039;s toys.  Just throwing that out there. - [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 00:18, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Okay, now that the guy has been banned, can we please get back to the real discussion? Will someone give me a legitimate reason as to why we cannont use Brawl&#039;s game image as his main image? As Repowers said, information is supposed to be more important than humor. If someone can just give me a decent answer (one that does not include use of inappropriate language, doubts about my masculinity, threats of administrative retaliation, insinuations about my intelligence, or insults directed at members of my family), I&#039;ll drop it.  -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 00:24, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::How is Brawl&#039;s packaging art not informative?  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 00:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::It&#039;s the package art from his Cyber Slammer toy, which looks nothing like any of the other toys OR his appearance in the movie and comics.  People coming to the page not already   knowing about the character could be confused or even put off by it. - [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 00:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::As I recall, the reasoning behind using this image was basically &amp;quot;Brawl is supposed to be such a hulking destructive monster, therefore it&#039;s ironically funny to use his cutest possible toy.&amp;quot;  I think a major problem with that is that what this character is &amp;quot;supposed to be&amp;quot; really doesn&#039;t exist, since he&#039;s a nobody who did very little and about whom very little is popularly known.  He appeared in the movie for all of 4 minutes--under a different name.  I can see the humor potential in showing Grimlock&#039;s art being a childish unintelligent scribble, precisely because it feeds off those character traits everyone knows he has.  But when there&#039;s already so little to go on about Brawlastator, I think it&#039;s harder to justify.  --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 00:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Brawlastator&amp;quot;-funny.  Anyway, I was wondering, Why all the fuss? If all &#039;&#039;the administators&#039;&#039; want this image to be the Cyber Slammers one, why don&#039;t these people just accept they will not be able to get that image changed for good without using NSA to control the Web? Why make a fuss over the main image. It&#039;s a once in a while funny joke, and if you&#039;re so lazy that you&#039;re just going to look at a picture at the top of the page, and not read anything, you deserve to be confused. [[User:JimCappuccino|JimCappuccino]] 20:15, 12 May 2008 (UTC)JimCappuccino&lt;br /&gt;
:Why not just hold a vote or something? That should settle it once and for all. (And yes, I saw [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|Inferno&#039;sQueen]] has previously suggested it, so please don&#039;t acuse me of being his sock. [[User:Wreck-Gar Rocks!|Wreck-Gar Rocks!]] 16:56, 13 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
I have come to a conclusion-if this issue doen&#039;t resolve itself, this wiki will tear itself apart! No but seriously, a vote would be a good idea. [[User:JimCappuccino|JimCappuccino]] 23:31, 27 May 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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What weapons he used and how many weapons he have other han his claw that it stab Jazz with?([[User:MARV 2000|MARV 2000]] 23:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC))&lt;br /&gt;
:Well, he has the missle pods, main cannon, those two smaller cannons... I think maybe a machine gun or two.  Basically he&#039;s a walking weapons platform. [[User:Semysane|Semysane]] 03:30, 11 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Issue three of Titan&#039;s Movie comic has the editor refer to Devastator as being a seperate character who just &#039;&#039;looks&#039;&#039; like Brawl. Does this mean we should create a seperate page for the fiction&#039;s where he&#039;s Devastator, or should we stick with both on the same page on the principle that it&#039;s funner that way? [[USER:Charles RB]] 10:50, 30th March 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Trivia note.  We acknowledge it, then point out what a massive fucking headache it would entail if Brawl AND Devastator are running around.  [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 20:09, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Where does the editor say this?  On a letters page?  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:17, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Yeah, third issue. Sourced on the page. (And a later guy is Brawl and not Devastator cos, well, the cover says so) -[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] 03:02, 20 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
:As Hoop says; virtually everything Devastator does outside the movie is under the name &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot;, which would result in this guy called Brawl in some cases immediately following up or working up to the handful of things Devastator does in the movie. Also, Devastator would have no toys or merchandise, despite appearing in the movie. -[[User:LV|LV]] 20:21, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Also, &amp;quot;Reign of Starscream&amp;quot; retcons the movie to have him identify himself as &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; in its flashback to the Mission City battle, so that right right there is canon information saying they&#039;re the same character. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 20:23, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Gotcha. Same page it is. -- [[USER:Charles RB|Charles RB]] 03:02, 20 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Name confusion doesn&#039;t change the fact that there are two characters in Titan. Let me see... &#039;&#039;In the Titan continuity&#039;&#039;, the tank featured in the film was named &amp;quot;Devastator&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Brawl&amp;quot; was a different guy &#039;&#039;in the Titan continuity&#039;&#039;. If we were to make another page I would suggest that Titan &amp;quot;Devastator&#039;s&amp;quot; appearances remain here and make a new page, called &amp;quot;Brawl (Titan)&amp;quot; or something. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 22:14, 7 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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How about scanning  the concept CGI work on the internet and crop it so the robot mode is only there?&lt;br /&gt;
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:The sole reason for using the Cyber Slammer image is because ItsWalky finds it funny. I&#039;m not entirely sure of the joke, but the other admins back him up. And it&#039;s not like there&#039;s much to go on for him, there&#039;s only two other full-body (second Titan and the video game) and officially the Titan one is of a different guy. -- [[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]], 01:02, 19 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
:: Look, can we stop with this &amp;quot;it&#039;s only up because Walky finds it funny&amp;quot; thing?  I am far from the only one.  Considering someone who is not me just yanked the super-retarded snark-template off, I think we can put that to fucking rest.  Find some other pretend reason to take it down.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:09, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Honestly, I&#039;m gonna go on record here for the first time as saying I&#039;ve &#039;&#039;never&#039;&#039; liked the use of the Cyber Slammers image, and if we can find something else, I wanna swap it out. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 20:05, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I think it&#039;s awesome and it should stay.  [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 20:08, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I would like to go on the record as saying that there is no other official art that captures the essence of his character nearly as clearly, and I am strongly opposed to changing it to something else. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 20:10, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
I scanned it. I reversed it. I cleaned it up. I put it there. It went up back when the Wiki wasn&#039;t the Big Deal it is now. I don&#039;t see the problem. There are other pictures of Devastator on the page and on the Internet. There has never been a good clean clear render of his CG model released to the public. In conclusion, I cannot believe that two years later there are still people with a bug up their butt about this. Lighten up, for god&#039;s sake. -[[User:LV|LV]] 20:11, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I would liek to &#039;&#039;further&#039;&#039; refuse the &amp;quot;because Walky thinks its funny&amp;quot; argument with [[Image talk:Brawl-cyber-slammer-boxart.jpg|this]] timestamped evidence to the contrary.&lt;br /&gt;
:I was the &#039;&#039;first voice&#039;&#039; to demand that the CC art remain Brawl&#039;s main userpic.  Not Walky, &#039;&#039;&#039;me&#039;&#039;&#039;.  &amp;lt;u&amp;gt;YOU WON&#039;T DEPRIVE ME OF MY LEGACY CHARLES.&amp;lt;/u&amp;gt; -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:15, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::You have no idea how tempted I am to sneakily edit my original post to say &amp;quot;Derik finds it funny&amp;quot;... -[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] 03:10, 20 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
::How about the image from the movie game that we have on the article already? It&#039;s a full body shot, it&#039;s intact. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 21:30, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I would prefer that to the Cyber Slammers image. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 21:38, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Nah. It&#039;s a bad pixelated pic. I choose Cyber Slammers. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 21:51, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Cyber Slammers seems to be the majority, so what the heck. --[[User:Charles RB|Charles RB]] 03:11, 20 June 2009 (GMT)&lt;br /&gt;
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And the Fast Action Battlers art?--[[Special:Contributions/201.24.227.119|201.24.227.119]] 19:18, 22 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Protection ==&lt;br /&gt;
Anons changing the main image seems like a daily occurrence, it might be a good idea to just protect the page and be done with it. - [[User:Cattleprod|Cattleprod]] 16:57, 4 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:I agree. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 17:10, 4 November 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Game render image ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Movie_Brawl_gamerender.jpg|thumb|200px|]]&lt;br /&gt;
This image appears to be a rare promo image from the 2007 Transformers game. I think it looks pretty cool, more or less fits the style of the other promotional renders we use on most of the other movie character articles, and it&#039;s not concept art, unlike that picture from [[Ben Procter]]&#039;s site that anon users and wikipedia keep pushing. Comments? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 16:52, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:As someone who&#039;s never loved the Cyber Slammers image, I&#039;m all for using it. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 17:03, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I&#039;m for it. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 17:05, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:As an ardent supporter of Grimlock&#039;s main pic... I&#039;d vote for the movie render for Brawl. I mean, with Grimlock, we more than know what he looks like. There&#039;s shit-tons of art of him. Brawl? Not so much. (Actually, it&#039;d be a funny April Fools gag to for one day replace all the main images with Cyber Slammers or Robot Heroes art.) --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 17:37, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::I was thinking the exact same thing.  Anyways, Brawl is just &#039;&#039;interesting&#039;&#039; to look at.  He&#039;s complicated.  And that promo render is &#039;&#039;sweet&#039;&#039;. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 18:12, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I&#039;m down with that.  IIRC &#039;&#039;part&#039;&#039; of the reason we ended up with the cyber-slammer pic was the lack of an obvious alternative everyone could agree on. -[[Special:Contributions/207.224.68.64|207.224.68.64]] 18:43, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I like the Cyber Slammers pic but hot damn that render is awesome. I say let&#039;s use it. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 18:47, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;nowiki&amp;gt;:(&amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;gt;--[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 18:45, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::::There was a watermark over his left foot, from some chinese site, so I spent the better of an hour trying to fix it. Seems to have come out alright. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 23:50, 3 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: Why ya&#039; gotta break balls? [[User:Drayco90|Drayco90]] 23:32, 14 January 2010 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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-I&#039;m a new user, so I don&#039;t want to insult anybody...but what if we use both the &#039;&#039;Cyber Slammer&#039;&#039; toy and the pic at right.  I get the &#039;&#039;Cyber Slammer&#039;&#039; joke, but I also think we need to show what he looks like. =) --[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 11:51, 26 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Soundwave (ROTF)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;==Toy in stores==&lt;br /&gt;
* I just got Soundwave in a shop in Belgium, is that even posible when this page says it&#039;s not on shelves now?--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 15:51, 28 March 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Whaa? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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What happened to my edit? I added a mainpic then it just disappeared {{unsigned|Ikkwave}}&lt;br /&gt;
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:The picture was crappy so it was removed. -[[User:Mazenoise|Mazenoise]] 06:01, 17 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Oh ok XD [[User:Ikkwave|Ikkwave]] 01:02, 19 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Head in ROTF ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Anybody else agree on Soundwave&#039;s head in the movie actually being that armoured decoy head the toy has on the back? Looking at the toy that matches far more with what I saw on screen, but I&#039;ll know for sure near end of this week when I go and see it again.[[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 06:51, 29 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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-The head in ROTF looks like a cross between the two.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 10:59, 23 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
==Toy shoulders==&lt;br /&gt;
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:&#039;&#039;The configuration for the satellite mode depicted in the toy&#039;s instructions is not the way Soundwave appears in the film, featuring a different angling for the panels on his shoulders. It&#039;s not a big change, but transforming the toy in accordance with his movie appearance &#039;&#039;does&#039;&#039; help to distinguish the jet from the satellite a little, since otherwise, virtually the only difference is in the positioning of the large panel &amp;quot;wings&amp;quot;.&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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What, exactly, is that referring to? Although many fans (and the official press photos) skip it, the toy&#039;s instructions &#039;&#039;&#039;do&#039;&#039;&#039; show a change in the shoulder panels&#039; position between the jet and the satellite: that&#039;s the only way the satellite&#039;s panels plug into them. I tried to look at the shoulders the last time I saw the movie, but they looked like the properly transformed version. Before I just delete that section, can someone show me what I&#039;m missing? --[[User:Buttbutt|Buttbutt]] 19:32, 2 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Essentially, the toy shows the panels folded down against the shoulders - not bent in the middle and actually plugged into the circular grooves as they are for jet and robot modes, but straight, flat and downwardly-pointing. In the film, they&#039;re rotated 90 degrees, fanned out, with the large, flat side (with the orange circle) facing outward. Well, inasmuch as what you see in the movie looks anything &#039;&#039;like&#039;&#039; the toy. He&#039;s got two panels fanned out on either side of his head. I suppose, though, after a moment of reflection, that his panels shift and move about so much in the film that it might be a bit negligible. It&#039;s just that without it, the only difference between the two modes is bending the shoulder panels down a bit and clicking the large wing-panels into them. - [[User:Chris McFeely|Chris McFeely]] 19:42, 2 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==New main picture==&lt;br /&gt;
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&#039;Rise of the Decepticons&#039; has a good double-page picture of Soundwave hacking into the American satellite, which I feel would be a better choice for main picture as it really embodies his role in the film. Would it be okay to change it, or does TFWiki have an unofficial policy that main pictures have to be of TF&#039;s in their robot mode? [[User:Tarrn|Tarrn]] 05:44, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Given that Soundwave doesn&#039;t use his robot mode in his most prominent fiction appearance, I think it would be fine if the article&#039;s main imagine was of his satellite mode. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 12:25, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Okay, seeing the actual picture in question... I don&#039;t think that makes a very good main pic at all. It is dominated by the actual satellite and not Soundwave himself. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 13:25, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I could crop it to focus entirely on Soundwave, although it looks a little odd as his main body is entirely on the left-hand side of the picture unless you crop the right wing too. I&#039;m going to try a version where it&#039;s centered on his head and see what people think.[[User:Tarrn|Tarrn]] 18:09, 9 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Repeat? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Did anyone else notice how two of Soundwave&#039;s scenes were the same? Specifically, his first appearance, and his last. Anyone? [[Special:Contributions/24.89.74.34|24.89.74.34]] 02:23, 10 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Soundwave&#039;s Packaging ==&lt;br /&gt;
On the back of his packaging it says, &amp;quot;Cannon converts to blade!&amp;quot; Is it me or is there a lack of cannon?&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:Boxotron|Boxotron]] 12:32, 23 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:I believe that comes from ROTF Megatron&#039;s packaging? [[Special:Contributions/114.108.194.66|114.108.194.66]] 00:45, 8 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== New pictures ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I found the ROTF screenshots from an [http://www.fxguide.com/article551.html FX Guide] interview with [[Digital Domain]]. If anyone could resize the screencaps for me or trim the black bars, since Photoshop doesn&#039;t work on my PC, that&#039;d be much appreciated. [[User:Alientraveller|Alientraveller]] 07:22, 28 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Rumble and Laserbeak ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Should we make seperate pages for Rumble and Laserbeak? The two appeared as pods in the DLC for the game so thy deserve a page! and I don&#039;t care if they weren&#039;t officially named, half the animated characters are unnamed! like &amp;quot;freeway&amp;quot; &amp;quot;carerra&amp;quot; so lets make a Rumble page and a Laserbeak Page! there is no reason we shouldn&#039;t!{{unsigned|92.238.187.82|13:10, September 2, 2009 (EDT)}}&lt;br /&gt;
:If pages for them are created with enough effort put into them to make them presentable, they won&#039;t be deleted. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 13:45, 2 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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Then lets do it!{{unsigned|92.238.187.82|15:07, September 11, 2009 (EDT)}}&lt;br /&gt;
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They are in Nefarious 1, pictures requested.&lt;br /&gt;
-ThiAthEhn&lt;br /&gt;
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== Is it really necessary? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Can we lose the tentacle rape line? What if kids are reading this?&lt;br /&gt;
: [[Kiss Players issue 1]] --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 12:07, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
::What if &#039;&#039;non-Japanese&#039;&#039; kids are reading this? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:13, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Well, then we&#039;ll have to delete all the Kiss Players articles, won&#039;t we? I mean, if the word &amp;quot;rape&amp;quot; is unacceptable, then the visuals they include are right out, aren&#039;t they? ;-P - &#039;&#039;&#039;McFeely, not signed in&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
::::Sweet! Oh... You are being sarcastic. I suggested that a while back but Scout shot the idea down. Personally, I think KP should not be called attention to by linking from completely unrelated articles for the sake of a... joke?. Seriously, I don&#039;t think we&#039;re doing Hasbro any favors. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:38, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Oh, I take no issue with idea of removing the word-linking. Joke works on its own without needing the link. I take issue with the whole &amp;quot;Think of the children!&amp;quot; argument. &amp;quot;What if kids are reading this?&amp;quot; is not a workable argument for removing something from the wiki when official things like &#039;&#039;Kiss Players&#039;&#039; exist. - &#039;&#039;&#039;McFeely&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
::::::If Hasbro were that concerned about children stumbling onto &amp;quot;inappropriate&amp;quot; Transformers content, maybe they shouldn&#039;t have had that blockbuster movie with the swearing and the humping and the testicles.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 13:08, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::We totally need a screen shot of the satellite with a caption along the lines of &amp;quot;Why what&#039;s such a fine little satellite like you doing all alone out here in space?&amp;quot;, also I think my image caption is awesome and it should stay the way it is. [[User:Dead Metal|Dead Metal]] 14:30, 14 December 2009 (EST)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Soundwave RPM ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Why isn&#039;t it listed among his toys and merchandise? could someone please give me a coherent answer?.------[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 23:00, 16 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;No one has gotten around to it yet&amp;quot;. It&#039;s been officially revealed, both at Toy Fair 2010 and on [http://bwtf.com/node/1304 BWTF], so that&#039;s not an issue in this case. It might simply be a matter of waiting for the Hasbro stock photography to be released. (I forget who does most of the RPM updates... abates or apoc, I think?)&lt;br /&gt;
:Anyway, you might try adding &amp;quot;please&amp;quot; next time. Your statement came off as a bit impolite. --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 23:20, 16 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Sorry, was in a rush, tried to add the toy to the page but remembered to ask first before making any important edit&lt;br /&gt;
------[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 01:18, 17 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I have already seen the toy in MercadoLibre (the mexican equivalent of eBay) and there&#039;s still no photo of RPM Soundwave? BTW, I believe his Legends toy needs a description, I&#039;ll take of it later.[[User:ACIDSTORM92|ACIDSTORM92]] 22:27, 25 May 2010 (EDT)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Talk:Megatron (Movie)</title>
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&lt;div&gt;== Human Name jokes ==&lt;br /&gt;
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We might as well make the article play on his human-given names.&lt;br /&gt;
:: I was considering a &#039;Super Fighting Robot Mega-Man&#039; joke, but I don&#039;t know how many people would think that&#039;s funny. [[User:VeePickle|VeePickle]] 12:23, 27 March 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Megatron&#039;s Cybertronian form ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Has anyone else noticed that Megatron&#039;s vehicle form bares more than a passing resemblance to the &#039;&#039;Swordfish&#039;&#039;, the personal ship flown by Spike Spiegel in &#039;&#039;Cowboy BeBop&#039;&#039;?  [[User:King Starscream|King Starscream]] 02:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::Not really, no. --[[User:EricMarrs|EricMarrs]] 12:07, 9 May 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::The only difference is it&#039;s A. silver, and B. has three guns instead of one.&lt;br /&gt;
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:I agree, it looks very similar. The wings in particular. I mean, it doesn&#039;t exactly look like THE Swordfish, but it looks like a &#039;mono-racer&#039; from Bebop at least.&lt;br /&gt;
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::::It looks more like the Zone of the Enders version of the Vic Viper than the Swordfish, at least to me it does.--[[User:Carrion|Carrion]] 03:58, 25 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:I actually found it looked like [[Megatron (RID)|the other megatrons`]] jet mode.--[[User:Autobotx1010|Autobotx1010]] 01:12, 8 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
I think I see it. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 01:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Earth Mode ==&lt;br /&gt;
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According to Wikipedia and IGN, Megatron turns into a stealth bomber.  [[User:Hunter-113|Hunter-113]] 22:36, 11 May 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Until either one is verified by anything official, we&#039;re not including that &amp;quot;info&amp;quot;. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 22:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Reading the IGN article, they said they got this from playing an early version of the Movie&#039;s game. [[User:Hunter-113|Hunter-113]] 01:52, 12 May 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Still makes it somewhere between unconfirmed second-hand report and leaked info. With this sort of thing patience is best. IF it is true we&#039;ll all no for sure soon enough and it can go up then.n--[[User:ZacWilliam|ZacWilliam]] 02:51, 14 May 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Seibertron reported recently that some of the production staff hinted at Megatron not getting an Earth form after all, at least in this movie.  I&#039;d say wait until the movie comes out, because even if they make a toy it&#039;s still not confirmed.  [[User:King Starscream]] 13:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::From the book media I&#039;ve perused, Megatron stays silvery and alieny the entire course of it all.  There&#039;s other things I saw, but I shan&#039;t go into them since all these books come out tomorrow and you can spoil yourself then.  [[User:Terrocon Blot]]&lt;br /&gt;
::::::Which book?  Sounds interesting.  [[User:King Starscream|King Starscream]] 03:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::::All the kids books that come out tomorrow.  The I can read, storybook, junior novels, etc.  Heck, a few of the books have Megatron and Brawl standing side by side.  He ain&#039;t Brawl.  All these books come out tomorrow, and will be on display in your local book stores.  (Seriously, this is screwed up. I can&#039;t seem to edit pages when I&#039;m logged in.)  [[User:Terrocon Blot]]&lt;br /&gt;
::::::::Looking at game footage, either the Stealth-Bomber Megs was an early idea that was discarded, or he gets an Earth mode later in the game. -- [[User:Hunter-113|Hunter-113]] 19:57, 13 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Sibling status==&lt;br /&gt;
I strongly question the inclusion of he and Optimus being brothers in the main bio, unless that is backed up by the movie itself, or some future toy bio, or other source stronger than books based on earlier drafts of the script. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 02:23, 23 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: If the movie does not contradict it, surely it is still true.  :)&lt;br /&gt;
: FOr what it&#039;s worth- the prequel comics had this vibe goigng too, the ADF novelization mentions brushes by it,t he junior novelization says it explicitly... and I think there&#039;s at least 1 more source. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 02:30, 23 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: The DS game says so.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 02:34, 23 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::As does the console version. --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 02:47, 23 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Okay, yeah. The game counts a stonger source. Although if it&#039;s not mentioned in the movie itself, I think it&#039;s going to require a footnote notation citing the places it is. --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 02:55, 23 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::The Decepticon DS version also says it flat out.--[[User:MCRG|MCRG]] 07:45, 23 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::What we have now is correct, and there is no need to change anything. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 09:48, 23 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::::For the record to future peoples, Optimus does call Megatron his bro in the movie.--[[User:MCRG|MCRG]] 03:52, 7 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:ROTF seems to ditch the sibling idea; the plot &#039;&#039;&#039;hinges&#039;&#039;&#039; on &#039;the Fallen lied to you, you need to be descended from a Prime to be a Prime!&#039;, which... er... they &#039;&#039;can&#039;t&#039;&#039; be related.&lt;br /&gt;
:I don&#039;t dispute that these two &#039;&#039;are&#039;&#039; siblings in some continuities... but can we &#039;&#039;not&#039;&#039; make it the &#039;&#039;&#039;first sentence&#039;&#039;&#039; of his bio? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 15:07, 14 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: Could it be that, in some strange crazy way, Megatron/Optimus was adopted? This would still make them brothers in a sense.--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 15:13, 14 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
: -Perhaps we should consider that O.P. calls him &#039;brother&#039; in more of a &#039;comrade&#039; way, as in how Obi-Wan says to Anakin at the end of &#039;&#039;Reveng of the Sith&#039;&#039;.--[[User:Megatron Prime|Megatron Prime]] 00:30, 23 June 2010 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
==*More* Misassemblies==&lt;br /&gt;
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Yeah. I just got Super Megs and, uh, his hands are flipped. Or rather, I guess it&#039;s his thumbs and pinkies. Look at the box and compare. This should probably be noted... [[User:71.61.152.122|71.61.152.122]] 07:53, 24 June 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Geeeeez, you&#039;re right.  Is there anything assembled &#039;&#039;right&#039;&#039; on this guy?--[[User:MCRG|MCRG]] 04:20, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::I&#039;m comparing photos at Seibertron.com, and um...I&#039;m not seeing it.&lt;br /&gt;
:::It&#039;s most noticable in the picture of his macehand, but you can see it in the big one too. Don&#039;t look at &#039;pics&#039; of the box, look at it with your own two eyes. &amp;gt;.&amp;gt; [[User:71.60.159.181|71.60.159.181]] 09:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Galvatron ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I strongly belive that the allspark will resurect megatron in a future sequel and possibly reformat him into galvatron. It&#039;ll probebly bring him back to life at least&lt;br /&gt;
:I don&#039;t deny that I think the AllSpark will play a part in Megs&#039;s revival, but I highly doubt (and strongly hope) that he won&#039;t become Galvatron.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Marinas Trench ==&lt;br /&gt;
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I realize Keller said the Decepticons were dropped into the deepest section of ocean in the world, but he calls it specifically something other than the Marinas Trench.  To that end, using &amp;quot;Marinas Trench&amp;quot; doesn&#039;t seem exactly right to me.  Unfortunately, I wasn&#039;t able to quite decipher what he DID call it.  Was anybody else?  And what does other media say about the location? --[[User:Sntint|Sntint]] 15:19, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I concur that the trench name from the film should be used here instead of the Marianas. --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 15:48, 4 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Keller says &amp;quot;Laurentian Trench,&amp;quot; which is a real ocean feature but by no means its deepest.  He also says it&#039;s the deepest spot on the ocean at over 7 miles deep, which is correct for the Marianas.  So, a fact-finding flub.  --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 18:23, 6 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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::How dare the Secretary of Defense not be completely up to speed on the name of the deepest part of the ocean.  (seriously, it&#039;s entirely possible that Keller had no idea what hte fuck he was talking about.)  [[User:Hooper X|-hx]] 18:27, 6 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Either that, or Michael bay didn&#039;t do his homework.--[[User:Dynamus Prime|Dynamus Prime]] 16:13, 12 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::Or Maybe in their Dimension, it IS the deepest? [[User:Shadow Mask Prime|Shadow Mask Prime]] 11:59, 24 May 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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the one present right now is a little blurry, wouldn&#039;t that one be better? [http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/tfbay5.jpg]--[[User:GUIGUI|GUIGUI]] 18:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: No, because that one doesn&#039;t have the right head.  We replaced the one you suggested with the current version.  (Blurry?  It&#039;s a sized-down version of a gigantic-ass render straight from Dreamworks.)  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:59, 22 July 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Um, yes it does. The Current one has the wrong head. Screencap comparison coming momentarily. Please stand by. [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|Inferno&amp;amp;#39;sQueen]] 19:57, 29 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::There is no more-current render to move to.  There is a much older, outdated one that &#039;&#039;somebody&#039;&#039; keeps reverting to, but the one we currently use is practically the one used in the movie, if not the very same.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:13, 29 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Not the same. The top of the head in the final version is different. [[:Image:MegHeads.jpg|Here. &#039;&#039;Now&#039;&#039; tell me I&#039;m wrong.]][[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|Inferno&amp;amp;#39;sQueen]] 20:15, 29 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:The head we currently have is way way way way way way closer than the alternative.  Find us a full-body render that&#039;s a better alternative, and we&#039;ll switch them out, but there is none.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:25, 29 February 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::[http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/tfbay5.jpg GUIGUI&#039;s] &#039;&#039;is&#039;&#039; the accurate head. It&#039;s just got blue eyes. But considering the eyes of some movie images on the wiki aren&#039;t even glowing &#039;&#039;at all&#039;&#039; I don&#039;t think that should be an issue.&lt;br /&gt;
:::Don&#039;t answer me with another block. &#039;&#039;Please.&#039;&#039; I&#039;m just trying to help the wiki. [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|Mr. Q]] 16:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::That is so totally not the final Megatron.  This render showed up months before the one we&#039;re currently using, and they hadn&#039;t even finished texturing the model.  Please drop the issue.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 17:11, 10 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
Okay, now I&#039;m confused. Is the body wrong on [http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/tfbay5.jpg that one] or something? [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|Mr. Q]] 17:22, 10 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:I think it&#039;s just shaded wrong(no shadows), and his torso is not completely &amp;quot;filled&amp;quot; with metal.&amp;lt;small&amp;gt;-the preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:Grand-majin|Grand-majin]]&amp;lt;/small&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
::That doesn&#039;t seem like a good excuse. And please sign your posts. [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|Mr. Q]] 15:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::I looked at the image again, and it does look a bit odd. But not very much. I suggest a poll/survey of the admins to decide who thinks it should be Meg&#039;s main pic, as the torso bit is the only problem. It won&#039;t be visible in thumbnail format anyhow. [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|The Big Q]] 19:20, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::The Megatron model has two heads, a standard head and the battle head.  The final promotional render with all the completed surface detail, which we are using, uses the standard head.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 19:27, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Admins, please put &amp;quot;Yes&amp;quot; after your name if you think the current image should be changed to [http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/tfbay5.jpg this one], or &amp;quot;No&amp;quot; if you think it should stay as-is.[[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|The Big Q]] 19:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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[[User:Suki Brits]]:I think she says &#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;quot;No,&amp;quot;&#039;&#039;&#039; too.&lt;br /&gt;
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:If I missed an admin, please notify them and add them here. [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|The Big Q]] 19:34, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::you know, the admins aren&#039;t the only ones who have a say in this. And given that the model in the current image is almost if not completely identical to the one used in the movie it should be left as is. IMO, your argument is kinda like saying we need a new main image for [[Optimus Primal]] because it has a mouth doesn&#039;t have a full faceplate like the final model, even though the final model had both &amp;quot;mouth&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;faceplate&amp;quot; versions. --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 19:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Well, we can&#039;t poll &#039;&#039;everyone&#039;&#039;. I&#039;m relatively new, lucky enough to have found the admins listed somewhere. I wouldn&#039;t know who else to ask. And That Primal thing does not make sense. I &#039;&#039;know&#039;&#039; he had a mouth &#039;&#039;and&#039;&#039; a [[mouthplate]]. I&#039;m saying the current image has the &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;wrong head&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;, and it should be fixed. [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|The Big Q]] 20:00, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::::This is bordering on farce.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 20:07, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::Agreed.  If Inferno&#039;s Queen does not immediately drop the matter, I will get rid of her for refusing to stop wasting all of our time and polluting the Recent changes page with this retarded personal gripe.  --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 20:10, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:::::&amp;lt;big&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;GUY!&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/big&amp;gt; [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|The Big Q]] 20:25, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Inferno&#039;s Queen, it&#039;s like I said on the image&#039;s talk page: we don&#039;t have a full body shot of Megatron&#039;s final design, so we&#039;re going with the most accurate one. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 20:20, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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After the poll is completed, this will end. Deal?[[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|The Big Q]] 20:25, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:...you don&#039;t get to dictate policy to admins.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 20:53, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::That&#039;s not quite true. If she keeps this up, she&#039;ll likely dictate a permaban on herself :p --[[User:FortMax|FortMax]] 00:21, 14 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Fine already! I&#039;ll leave the issue alone if you stop calling me a girl! &lt;br /&gt;
:::&amp;lt;big&amp;gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;I AM A GUY!!!&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&amp;lt;/big&amp;gt; [[User:Inferno&#039;sQueen|The Big Q]] 12:10, 14 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Seriously, dude, is this all you&#039;ve got to offer?! This is such an incredibly minor issue that it&#039;s nowhere worth the amount of discussion that has already gone on about it. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 23:57, 13 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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This is mind-blowingly petty. I don&#039;t feel the need to express any opinion on the matter, it&#039;s pretty damn clear what the consensus is. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 04:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== video game info ==&lt;br /&gt;
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should we edit it to have more info on megatron in the game?&lt;br /&gt;
:...Deathy? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 16:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Weapon names==&lt;br /&gt;
The article currently contains the current text in its movie summary: &amp;quot;Megatron declared that if Prime wished to defend them, he should die with them, forming his fusion cannon. Before he could fire, the Autobot leader drew his ion blaster and fired, hitting Megatron.&amp;quot;  Do we have any reason/justification for referring to those weapons so specifically as a fusion cannon and ion blaster?  --[[User:Steve-o|Steve-o]] 00:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:In the trivia section of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Prime]]&#039;s article, it&#039;s called an ion blaster. As for the fusion cannon...-- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 01:15, 15 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Doesn&#039;t Leader Megatron&#039;s toy packaging say &amp;quot;Arms combine to form fusion cannon!&amp;quot; or something along those lines? --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 01:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Answering my own question by looking up DVD&#039;s review, yes it does. And the product listing at Hasbro.com says: &amp;quot;Robot mode also features a launching rocket claw that becomes a chain whip, and arms that combine to create a fusion cannon!&amp;quot; --[[User:KilMichaelMcC|KilMichaelMcC]] 01:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Language==&lt;br /&gt;
According to the Circuit City voice featurette, the producers made up an alien language (or Hugo Weaving did, the wording is vague), and Weaving is shown speaking in it as Megatron. Did this make it into the final film? --[[User:Monzo|Monzo]] 14:10, 19 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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:There *is* a Cybertronian language spoken by several characters (Frenzy most notably, I guess, plus Starscream, and actually &#039;every&#039; Decepticon during the call-up scene) but nobody really knows if it&#039;s just jibberish with a flanger on or something. That, and Megs &#039;never&#039; speaks Cybertronian in the movie, so this makes it even stranger. The idea behind the Cybertronians speaking a different language isn&#039;t Weaving&#039;s, however, because that was in the leaked script that came out long before Weaving was cast. [[User:71.60.159.181|71.60.159.181]] 23:45, 24 October 2007 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::Actually Megatron did speak Cybertronian in the movie (it was during when he first landed in Mission City).&lt;br /&gt;
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==Encased in ice at the bottom of the ocean?==&lt;br /&gt;
Uh, correct me if I&#039;m wrong, but there&#039;s no ice at the bottom of the ocean. Ice is less dense than water so any particles cold enough to freeze float above those who aren&#039;t cold enough. (Contrary to normal laws of convection; ice is weird like that) so Megatron and the Decepticons wouldn&#039;t be icy at all.  Just really cold and crushed under immense water pressure.&lt;br /&gt;
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: Indeed, because water increases in volume when it freezes,t the freezing point of water &#039;&#039;decreases&#039;&#039; with pressure, i.e. it becomes harder to freeze water which is under pressure. This is the reason why liquid oceans are believed to exist under Europa&#039;s icy coating, for example. [[Special:Contributions/137.195.68.169|137.195.68.169]] 07:21, 29 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Megu said &#039;&#039;what&#039;&#039;?==&lt;br /&gt;
When Megu arrives in Mission City, he says two sentences. Just when he lands, he says something that I heard as &amp;quot;Let me play!&amp;quot; But what did he say after that? Because, the article says that Megu again declared his name when arriving in M City, but he didn&#039;t sound like that. Will someone clarify what exactly he said? StarShade 09:39, 20 January 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:He was speaking Cybertronian, no-one knows exactly what he says. Although he does appear to pronounce his name one more time.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Premium==&lt;br /&gt;
Does anyone know if the premium series leader Megatron has corrected the assembly errors?--[[User:Skyglide|Skyglide]] 19:53, 19 April 2008 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Screen Grabs==&lt;br /&gt;
Well since the trailer has been offically released, and Megatron has a few good clear shots in it, can we post a pic or two under ROTF?  Mainly the one where he apparently comes out of the water, which appears to be the best looking shot.  Just a sugestion.--[[User:AWT88|AWT88]] 17:47, 2 May 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Triple Changer in ROTF?==&lt;br /&gt;
Now, I&#039;m terribly sorry I don&#039;t have more info than this, but I was at the mall w/ my GF and picked up a guide to ROTF. Most of the info seemed pretty modern and accurate (things like Jetfire being a seeker and such) and they said that upon his revival, Megatron had become a triple-changer, able to take both modes. I don&#039;t know the name of it although... nope, can&#039;t find it on Amazon. Can someone else comment on this matter? Has anything been shown to support this or has anyone else seen this guide? The store owner said it was just put out that day, so this may be new. IDK. --[[User:Rideonshootingstarxx|Rideonshootingstarxx]] 20:57, 7 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:This is correct. In the adaptation he assumes both alt-forms.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 21:18, 14 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::In the adaptations he never really &amp;quot;becomes&amp;quot; a triple-changer. At least they don&#039;t mention that he ever gains the ability. He just shown to be able to transform into three modes. I&#039;m not sure if we are supposed to believe he always had the ability but didn&#039;t have an occasion to turn into a tank before or what. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 21:36, 14 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Having bought the book now, I can confirm that it says Megatron&#039;s status as a triple-changer is the result of his revival, and that it is fairly rare amongst Cybertronians.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 21:19, 20 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::Slight problem. In the novels and what not, he is distinctly described as retaining his jet mode. In the actual film, all scenes where he uses the jet, well, lack it [[User:Eire]]&lt;br /&gt;
::::Not really a problem. Adaptations have been mismatched before, and as long as &#039;&#039;one&#039;&#039; source calls him a a triple-changer, in those exact words, it&#039;s valid. We don&#039;t really need to reconcile the adaptations. That&#039;s not our job.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 21:39, 20 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::::From what I remember in the movie you never get a clear look at his flight mode, just the blue glow of his afterburners in the distance. He definitely has a tank mode, but I couldn&#039;t tell whether his flight mode is just the tank with the jet engines turned on or a separate vehicle mode, or the tank with wings... Heck it could be a giant flying lunchbox for all I could see. [[User:(Undecided)|(Undecided)]] 17:03, 28 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::His flight mode is a flat square-ish thing - basically, the Voyager toy, but steel instead of green.[[User:KrytenKoro|KrytenKoro]] 18:04, 28 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== G1 homage, anyone? ==&lt;br /&gt;
His head has a helmet-like portion very similar to the helmet-like section of G1 Megatron&#039;s head. [[User:ZeldaTheSwordsman|ZeldaTheSwordsman]] 21:15, 14 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Not really.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;Talk&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] 21:17, 14 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::Well, yeah. He does really.&lt;br /&gt;
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Is that a new ability? I don&#039;t seem to recall him being able to just fly around in the first movie, but it has been a while since I&#039;ve seen it. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 09:28, 27 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Do you mean when he lands on the skyscraper, or was there another instance? I figured that he was just continuing on the momentum when he popped out of flying tank mode. How do his jet engines configure in robot mode, maybe they helped? [[Special:Contributions/82.41.72.10|82.41.72.10]] 17:23, 27 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::I was going by memory of the movie. Of course Megatron and the other Decepticons swam up from the abyss. That is multi-ton metal robots swimming to the surface. That is almost flying. Then when they got to open air, I seem to remember them just flying away in robot-mode, but I can&#039;t say for certain without seeing it again. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 10:47, 28 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:::That&#039;s right, I&#039;d forgotten about that. We should check whether his boosters were in some sort of &amp;quot;jetpack configuration&amp;quot; for that shot (like Starscream&#039;s thrusters), that would square it up. [[Special:Contributions/82.41.72.10|82.41.72.10]] 19:49, 28 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
::He uses his jet-tank mode to fly in both instances (seemingly transforming just as he breaks the surface when underwater). I checked.[[User:KrytenKoro|KrytenKoro]] 19:58, 28 June 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Toy split==&lt;br /&gt;
I think it&#039;s well past time we split the toys into their own subpage... --[[User:M Sipher|M Sipher]] 03:28, 17 July 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
* Seconded. [[User:ZeldaTheSwordsman|ZeldaTheSwordsman]] 15:12, 12 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
**I agree. --[[Special:Contributions/99.232.46.76|99.232.46.76]] 15:59, 23 September 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==Reviewing the toys on the wiki==&lt;br /&gt;
As long as users such as Walky are (rightly) removing the reviewish comments from the toy descriptions, is there any way one of us can rewrite Movie 1 Legends Megatron&#039;s description? The whole thing is taking shots at the toy. If it&#039;s inappropriate for the larger Megatrons in the line, then it&#039;s inappropriate for this one as well. [[User:Fiction Alchemist|C. V. Reynolds]] 17:56, 5 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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==ROTF Megatron prototype on the back of the box==&lt;br /&gt;
:&amp;quot;In a rather bizarre twist, the back of megatron&#039;s box depicts him with no feet, the foot part of the threads simply did not exist in the test shot prototype. It also appears the threads were originally longer. The button to hold the blade back did not exist either. The prototype even had a production error: the small wheels molded on the back threads are molded on the wrong side, thus they end up on the top of the threads instead of the bottom.&amp;quot; I&#039;ve originaly posted this with they toy after looking at the box for some time. The toy realy did not have feet like the final toy, the threads were also alot shorter then the final toy. I know that the discription i gave it is not done all that well, but i still stand that it&#039;s worth to note.--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 13:00, 8 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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:Anyone? Am i realy the only one who thinks the legs almost have totaly difrently molded legs?--[[User:Sunjumper|Sunjumper]] 15:01, 14 August 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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== Triple change: misinformation or abandoned concept? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The article states that [[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe|The Movie Universe]] and [[Revenge of the Fallen Movie Adaptation|comic adaptation]] created the idea of Megatron being a triple changer. However, the [[Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]] mentions that he&#039;s a fighter jet several times, and that he takes his tank mode during the battle in Egypt. Additionally, the previsual shots shown on the special two-disc pack show Megatron chasing down Optimus Prime while in jet mode. Is it possible that Megatron really was meant to be a triple changer, and it was simply dropped from the final cut? We an cite plenty of stuff like that happening in the adaptations. -- [[User:SFH|SFH]] 20:57, 23 October 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
:Didn&#039;t someone (Orci?) claim that they wanted to save triple changers for movie 3, and there was thus never going to be triple-changing within the movie itself? - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 21:37, 23 October 2009 (EDT)&lt;br /&gt;
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The rotf voyager toy, kinda looks like beast wars megatron. (Big two finger &amp;quot;claw on the right side, wings and dinosaurish legs)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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