User talk:JW

I'd just like to say thinks for filling in some holes in the Micromasters. Yeah, there's a lot of work still to be done to a lot of the pages, but having them THERE makes it easier to go "well, I'll just add the foreign names, fill in some more toy details"... --M Sipher 17:12, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

You're quite welcome, and thanks for noticing. JW 17:57, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

None known?

Just because no one wrote the fictional appearances for some of the Micromasters doesn't mean they have no fictional appearances. The Decepticon Sports Car Patrol was featured in a few issues of the Marvel comic, and also appeared in Spotlight: Nightbeat, for example. --Detour 15:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I welcome correction. "None known," on most of the Micromaster pages, means, "None known to the creator of this page (JW) at the time he created the page." As opposed to "Forthcoming," which means, "I gather he appeared in such-n-such a comic, but I know nothing about it, and encourage those who do to supply details." JW 18:07, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

More Than Meets The Eye vs "the Eye"

Hi, I realize the book uses "More Than Meets The Eye" with a capped "The". But I know that on Wikipedia at least, words like "the", "a", "an", "for", etc. are lower-cased in titles whether the source uses them correctly or not. I know the Transformers wiki has some differences but isn't that a pretty standard rule? I can dig up the wiki page if necessary. Thoughts? --MistaTee 19:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I can see the argument for "fixing" the canonical capitalization, but one of the guidelines of this wiki is that we show the TF brand "warts and all". Instead of trying to resolve inconsistencies, hide odd choices, or sweep the weirder bits under the rug, we say, "This is how it appeared in canon, whether or not it makes sense." This rule also makes it a lot easier to resolve disputes, like the best way of capitalizing titles. (Wikipedia lists 9 different styles, of which at least 4 are in common usage.) If we go with "canon is canon", we know what the answer is. JW 19:28, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Double Redirects

Hmm, I've been checking for these after I move pages. Do these sometimes take awhile to show up?--MistaTee 05:52, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

The DoubleRedirects page appears to be based on cached data, so I'd say yes. What you might try is, after moving the page, look at the "What links here" for the new page, and look for redirects to the old page. JW 12:59, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

RIBFIR

Check out the talk page again. Tell your friends to discuss it there, too. Please. The RIBFIR Dude 16:31, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Hearts of Steel issue 4

Yes the big guy is Astrotrain, but I wasn't sure if they were talking about Megatron in cannon mode in one of the boxcars. He doesn't appear at all in the story, while Astrotrain does, if only in train mode. --MistaTee 16:10, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

My intent when I wrote the caption was that it referred to Astrotrain-in-robot-mode. Maybe the pic needs a less confusing caption. JW 16:22, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Protohuman Caption

For Thy's reasoning behind his caption changes, see his most recent input on the wiki policy page.--Apcog 20:09, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

changing "issue" to "part" in comic issue titles

It was pretty much decided awhile back that we were using "Comic Title issue X" in lieu of Part, Pt, or whatever. Why are you changing them again? --MistaTee 20:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not. I just fixed some double redirects. I haven't moved any pages in weeks. However, I think the answer to your question, is that in some of these cases the actual printed title of the individual issues is "Black Horizon Part 1" or similar. In that case, we go with the printed title. JW 20:14, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Italics

Hey, JW -- You removed italics from an instance of the word "Transformers" referring to the brand as a whole on Sari's page. I... am not really sure why. We generally italicize titles of individual franchises, so I would think the brand should also be italicized. Hasbro certainly tends to put it in all caps in their press releases and such, which is sort of the same thing. --Steve-o 16:41, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

My theory on this: The names of brands are proper nouns, but not titles, and thus are capitalized, but don't take italics. Many of the sub-franchises within Transformers are also the titles of cartoons -- Beast Wars, Energon, Transformers Animated, etc. So, I italicize them. However, "Transformers" as the the name of the whole brand is not a title, so I don't italicize it. Hasbro all-caps it because it's a trademark, not because it's a title.

If we have a policy on this, please direct me to it. JW 12:53, 16 February 2008 (EST)

I am not aware of an official policy page on it, but it's the way we've been consistently doing it for well over a year. It's a way to clearly differentiate between "Transformers" as the general name for the transforming robot alien life forms, and "Transformers" as the toy franchise. --FFN 09:24, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Caption-less images

Is there a list of articles containing images without captions? If so, PLEASE direct me to it as I love those funnies and would like to contribute more. MISTER Q (Mr. means I'm a GUY) 18:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

There's no such list that I know of. However, please note that we prefer people to contribute in other ways before they start adding captions. Getting to add funny captions is regarded as the reward for being a productive editor. (See Template:Caption bastard.) JW 18:13, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorting

JW, It may just be personal preference, but I've always thought that "The" should not be used to sort a title, but "A"/"An" should? --MistaTee 15:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I was taught to ignore all three when sorting. Hmm, let me see if I can find a reference . . . okay, the first Google hit under "how to alphabetize" agrees with me. I think I'll continue to do it that way. JW 15:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Episode format

(Copy pasting from Caswin's talk page) Most of our current episode articles place the Stats section (with the credits and character box) before the Quotes section. I don't believe we ever resolved the discussion about this, so it's probably best if you don't reformat articles with the quotes-before-stats arrangement in the future, since it creates an inconsistentcy with past and very recent articles. --FFN 09:24, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Wisdom received. JW 10:23, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Animated Sixshot

Animated Sixshot was a fairly well executed April Fool's joke, along with "leaked" model sheets for Animated Blurr and Hotshot. All three were decent art, but by no means official.--Rosicrucian^Talk 19:57, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. JW 19:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Images are here if you want to take a gander.--Rosicrucian^Talk 20:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Dude, if you want to put out fake Animated character models, you'd think you'd want to find someone who can, you know, draw in the style. Who the hell was fooled by this? It looks like crappy fanart. --ItsWalky 20:04, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Ban

I know we had a few differences in opinion, but i find it disappointing that you did not try to reason with me on my talk page first, and immediately requested a ban instead. I hope next time you will be able to make a more mature decision than last time. Sorry for snapping though, i just get a little offended when i feel non-american countries are treated as inferior. -- Decepticon Rhinox 18:22, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Mudflap

Thank you for noting that Mudflap's name is cursed, I appreciate that somebody took the time to read my comment and then add it to the actual character page, thanks a lot. ;)-ACIDSTORM92 22:43, 6 October 2010 (EDT)

Ravage

I sympathize with your sadness and don't mind you keeping the link, but do realize that the link turns up on the Wanted Page list and that I (and I assume others) use that list to see what articles still need to be written. It's not the only false wanted page in the list by far, but each one down is one down. Geewunling 13:46, 18 January 2011 (EST)

Given that it's not in the top 500 Wanted Pages, I'm inclined not to worry about it. But, let me think about it. JW 13:54, 18 January 2011 (EST)

Capish

For future reference, if you gotta revert it again, "capish" is how you properly spell it. No "sic" required --ItsWalky 12:12, 10 May 2011 (EDT)

Ah, merci. JW 13:42, 10 May 2011 (EDT)