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== Transformers: Animated == | |||
== | it says It is possible to be a living Transformer without a Spark. Two of the Starscream clones lacked Sparks, as did Afterburn in spin-off material. When they die, however, their being Spark-less means nobody cares. Nobody even commented on the demise of the clones and both Megatron and Optimus outright stated that Afterburn wasn't a real '''person''' because he'd lacked a Spark. shouldn't it be changed to bot {{unsigned|24.62.15.49}} | ||
:This is considered to be an archive. [[Death]] is the current article. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:38, 7 September 2009 (EDT) | |||
== Why does this exist? == | |||
Seriously, why is Death/Archive a separate page rather than just part of the history of the [[Death]] page? - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] ([[User talk:SanityOrMadness|talk]]) 20:30, 5 January 2015 (EST) | |||
:Repowers (and other people) did a new Death page as a sandbox and then moved it to mainspace when it was ready, and since that would mean overwriting the history of the original Death page, the original page got moved. --[[User:Abates|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates|talk]]) 23:11, 5 January 2015 (EST) | |||
::Well, that was never exactly true - deleting a page, moving over it and then restoring the deleted revisions was ''always'' a way to merge page histories. | |||
::Still doesn't explain why it's still around, separately, since I know for a fact page histories like [[Ratbat (G1)]] have been unified since. (Albeit the post-archiving revisions - for link-fixes and so on - would probably have to be permanently deleted to avoid royally messing up the page history). - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] ([[User talk:SanityOrMadness|talk]]) 00:23, 6 January 2015 (EST) | |||
:::The original idea was, since the page was going to be totally re-written, I wanted to have the original version saved and easily accessible in case anyone felt that something important had been lost from the old version. (Why I didn't just copy-paste over the original text is beyond me, now; that would have kept the original page in the page history - but as-is, the page history starts from my 2009 rewrite.) At this point, it could probably go away, if it's adding unnecessary link-updating work. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] ([[User talk:Repowers|talk]]) 00:40, 6 January 2015 (EST) | |||
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Transformers: Animated
[edit]it says It is possible to be a living Transformer without a Spark. Two of the Starscream clones lacked Sparks, as did Afterburn in spin-off material. When they die, however, their being Spark-less means nobody cares. Nobody even commented on the demise of the clones and both Megatron and Optimus outright stated that Afterburn wasn't a real person because he'd lacked a Spark. shouldn't it be changed to bot —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.62.15.49 (talk • contribs).
- This is considered to be an archive. Death is the current article. --abates 16:38, 7 September 2009 (EDT)
Why does this exist?
[edit]Seriously, why is Death/Archive a separate page rather than just part of the history of the Death page? - SanityOrMadness (talk) 20:30, 5 January 2015 (EST)
- Repowers (and other people) did a new Death page as a sandbox and then moved it to mainspace when it was ready, and since that would mean overwriting the history of the original Death page, the original page got moved. --abates (talk) 23:11, 5 January 2015 (EST)
- Well, that was never exactly true - deleting a page, moving over it and then restoring the deleted revisions was always a way to merge page histories.
- Still doesn't explain why it's still around, separately, since I know for a fact page histories like Ratbat (G1) have been unified since. (Albeit the post-archiving revisions - for link-fixes and so on - would probably have to be permanently deleted to avoid royally messing up the page history). - SanityOrMadness (talk) 00:23, 6 January 2015 (EST)
- The original idea was, since the page was going to be totally re-written, I wanted to have the original version saved and easily accessible in case anyone felt that something important had been lost from the old version. (Why I didn't just copy-paste over the original text is beyond me, now; that would have kept the original page in the page history - but as-is, the page history starts from my 2009 rewrite.) At this point, it could probably go away, if it's adding unnecessary link-updating work. -- Repowers (talk) 00:40, 6 January 2015 (EST)
