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Archived Community Portal discussions. Some less relevant discussions are left out. For entertainment purposes only. | Archived Community Portal discussions. Some less relevant discussions are left out. For entertainment purposes only. | ||
==Archive 1 (Mar-May 2006)== | ==Archive 1 (Mar-May 2006)== | ||
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*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#Back-of-the-box art|Back-of-the-box art]] — Using bits of back-of-the-box art for character profiles. | *[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#Back-of-the-box art|Back-of-the-box art]] — Using bits of back-of-the-box art for character profiles. | ||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#External link nofollow policy|External link nofollow policy]] — Our nofollow policy/partnering with Wookiepedia. | *[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#External link nofollow policy|External link nofollow policy]] — Our nofollow policy/partnering with Wookiepedia. | ||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#Can we hit 8,000 before they hit 7,000?|Can we hit 8,000 before they hit 7,000?]] — Yes, we got to 8000 articles before the Wikia got to 7000. The Wikia has still yet to reach 8000 articles as of early | *[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#Can we hit 8,000 before they hit 7,000?|Can we hit 8,000 before they hit 7,000?]] — Yes, we got to 8000 articles before the Wikia got to 7000. The Wikia has still yet to reach 8000 articles as of early 2015. | ||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#HUGELY GOOD NEWS!|HUGELY GOOD NEWS!]] — The Wikia apparently also has problems in Google Chrome and Opera. | *[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#HUGELY GOOD NEWS!|HUGELY GOOD NEWS!]] — The Wikia apparently also has problems in Google Chrome and Opera. | ||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#Rumor site|Rumor site]] — And the Wikia also has started reporting rumors as fact. | *[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive30#Rumor site|Rumor site]] — And the Wikia also has started reporting rumors as fact. | ||
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*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive55#James Roberts notes|James Roberts notes]] — Are the notes sections for recent IDW comics too long? | *[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive55#James Roberts notes|James Roberts notes]] — Are the notes sections for recent IDW comics too long? | ||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive55#"Things that don't exist" category|"Things that don't exist" category]] — Logged out users couldn't view it. This was resolved by a later version of the Wiki software. | *[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive55#"Things that don't exist" category|"Things that don't exist" category]] — Logged out users couldn't view it. This was resolved by a later version of the Wiki software. | ||
==Archive56 (Jan-Jul 2013)== | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Batchtaster?|Batchtaster?]] — This was out featured article for a brief time | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Captions|Captions]] — Can we upvote captions? (sorry, no!) | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Aligned character page main images|Aligned character page main images]] — Should aligned characters have Prime or WFC main images? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Continuing spam|Continuing spam]] — More spam problems. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#We are moving very very soon.|We are moving very very soon.]] — Our old host was charging too much for not great service, so we moved again. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Still Confused About All This|Still Confused About All This]] — Confusion about whether we used to be at Wikia. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Key things missing from toy sections on character pages|Key things missing from toy sections on character pages]] — Toy sections should link to toyline articles and show what faction the toy was sold as. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#New Theme|New Theme]] — Change the site theme to Beast Hunters? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Trivia/notes sections|Trivia/notes sections]] — insignificant trivia notes. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Proposal to rename an article.|Proposal to rename an article.]] — Rename "Brick Springhorn" as "Brick Springstern" because a reprinting corrected an instance of the first name. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Database dump|Database dump]] — Someone asking about getting a database dump of the Wiki | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Proposing New Continuity Term for Multipath Books|Proposing New Continuity Term for Multipath Books]] — "micro-continuity nexus" | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Holy grails and Want list need to be more visible.|Holy grails and Want list need to be more visible.]] — Verdict was they're visible enough. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Seen this?|Seen this?]] — Link to Ziploc TFTM promotion. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Left-hand menu|Left-hand menu]] — Adding the IDW comics | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Spam filter acting up|Spam filter acting up]] — Spam filter malfunction, later resolved. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#New Category|New Category]] — Fiction-original characters. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Gallery space|Gallery space]] — Having a Gallery: namespace. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Romanizations of purely Japanese names|Romanizations of purely Japanese names]] — Use of macrons in transliterated Japanese names. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#DuckDuckGo|DuckDuckGo]] — We were blocking DuckDuckGo's crawler (not any more, it seems, as we're appearing in searches on there) | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Robot|Robot]] — We don't have an article on robots in general. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Archives|Archives]] — Is there a way of searching community portal archives? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Disambiguation pages and parsing|Disambiguation pages and parsing]] — Where character names can differ (e.g. Knockout vs Knock Out) | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive56#Wiki content used in official materials, again.|Wiki content used in official materials, again.]] — [[Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Transformers Legends]] using our bios. | |||
==Archive57 (Jul-Oct 2013)== | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#Sizes|Sizes]] — Revisiting putting sizes in toy sections | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#Foreign Localization placement - again!!!|Foreign Localization placement - again!!!]] — Still too high in the notes sections on episode pages. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#Some Transformer Knock-off cartoon|Some Transformer Knock-off cartoon]] — No one really cared about the knock-off cartoon. It wasn't relevant for the wiki anyway! | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#Korean, not Indonesian|Korean, not Indonesian]] — Indonesian names inexplicably written in Korean on the wiki. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#Grouping American/Japanese divergent fiction|Grouping American/Japanese divergent fiction]] — More on continuity section headers and notes. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#New templates|New templates]] — Nihongo and a linking template. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#trying to find a template|trying to find a template]] — Subpages setting. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#"Thin gray line" template for splitting sub-sections visually|"Thin gray line" template for splitting sub-sections visually]] — Separating sections with a grey line to avoid header spelunking. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#Disambiguation suffixes|Disambiguation suffixes]] — Reserving franchise parentheticals for characters. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#From the Marvel Comics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family|From the Marvel Comics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family]] — "From the X portion of the Y continuity family" type headers. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive57#The AllSpark and the Allspark|The AllSpark and the Allspark]] — AllSpark/Allspark usage confusion and Prime. | |||
==Archive58 (Nov 2013-Jun 2014)== | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#Wiki update issues|Wiki update issues]] | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#Marvel G1 Cover Artists|Marvel G1 Cover Artists]] — Some of them seem wrong | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#Bing|Bing]] — Wiki not appearing on Bing (fixed) | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#Optimus Prime (Covenant of Primus)|Optimus Prime (Covenant of Primus)]] — Should Optimus be separate from Optimus who is one of the Thirteen? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#What's with the completely different formats?|What's with the completely different formats?]] — Mobile skin causing problems because of caching. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#GoBox glitches?|GoBox glitches?]] — Multiple go boxes appearing (seems to have been fixed) | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#format of links|format of links]] — Optimus Prime vs Optimus Prime (disambiguation) | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#When to / When not to mention nonfiction namesakes?|When to / When not to mention nonfiction namesakes?]] | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#End of 2013 toys|End of 2013 toys]] — which toys have been released. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#tfwiki.info vs tfwiki.net|tfwiki.info vs tfwiki.net]] | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#faction symbols above character articles?|faction symbols above character articles?]] | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#Well that's just (Prime) (WFC) (FOC) (Generations) (RB) (Aligned)|Well that's just (Prime) (WFC) (FOC) (Generations) (RB) (Aligned)]] — what suffix to use | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#New game|New game]] — Rise of the Dark Spark | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#"Kids" article?|"Kids" article?]] — should we have a "Kids" article? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#Using Adobe Reader files|Using Adobe Reader files]] — Can they be uploaded? (yes) | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#Can't seem to move images...|Can't seem to move images...]] — Turned out a png had been uploaded as a jpg. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#Image template|Image template]] — X Files image template. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#IDW Cybertronian -master partners|IDW Cybertronian -master partners]] — Should dudes be split off? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive58#G1 Season One episode titles|G1 Season One episode titles]] — Where did the titles we use come from? | |||
==Archive59 (Jul 2014-Apr 2015)== | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Minor internet fame|Minor internet fame]] — Us Vs Th3m included the [[human]] article in a list (well, the Wikia copy thereof). | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Transformers: Human Alliance|Transformers: Human Alliance]] — Someone asking about creating an article. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Toys vs. Merchandise|Toys vs. Merchandise]] — When is a toy a toy and when is it merchandise? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Wikia links still in history pages|Wikia links still in history pages]] — No, they haven't been stripped out. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Third Party Unlicensed|Third Party Unlicensed]] — Do we need pages for unlicensed IP infringement? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#"Order of appearance" and another suggestion|"Order of appearance" and another suggestion]] — Reordering appearance lists/including non-characters. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#The Almanacs|The Almanacs]] — Does Derrick Wyatt's opinion on the Almanacs affect our coverage of them? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Help archiving an old game|Help archiving an old game]] — [[Transformers Energon: Battle for Megatron]] no longer works. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#TFWiki.net... pages|TFWiki.net... pages]] — Should they be in the project namespace? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Still purging talk page redirects?|Still purging talk page redirects?]] | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Fight! Superlifeform whatevers...uh I think I have a holy grail or whatever?|Fight! Superlifeform whatevers...uh I think I have a holy grail or whatever?]] — It was just [[Scramble City: Mobilization]]. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Transformers Asia Page|Transformers Asia Page]] — It turned out to be a fan site. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#charstubfictions -> Bibliography?|charstubfictions -> Bibliography?]] — Compressing minor appearances down to a list on character pages. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#RID Chinese|RID Chinese]] — RID'15 was released early in China. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#20,000 Articles!|20,000 Articles!]] — Another [[Transformers Wiki:Milestones|Milestone]] reached! | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Newbie|Newbie]] — A request for an editing guide. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Question|Question]] — The same newbie asking if the Portal is the right place to ask questions. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Seibertron image gallery links|Seibertron image gallery links]] — Had been being added to toy sections. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#what links here|what links here]] — File usage and text links. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Robots in Disguises|Robots in Disguises]] — using RID disambiguation for characters from RID'01 and RID'15. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#I'm pretty sure that's it!|I'm pretty sure that's it!]] — [[User:Ascendron]] made sure all characters had all appearances noted. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Micro Comic Fun Pack|Micro Comic Fun Pack]] — Asking if it was covered on the wiki. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Multipath adventures/game books|Multipath adventures/game books]] — Should they be under games rather than fiction. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Ads|Ads]] — TFSource ads showing third party items. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#mix-n-match: is this possible? and if so, is it noteworthy?|mix-n-match: is this possible? and if so, is it noteworthy?]] — Are Transformers and Marvel Hero Mashers compatible? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#Outdated article names?|Outdated article names?]] — A newbie asking about disambiguation. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive59#IDW G1 First Cybertronian Civil War|IDW G1 First Cybertronian Civil War]] — Asking about creating a [[First Cybertronian Civil War]] page. | |||
==Archive60 (May 2014-Aug 2015)== | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Disambig page visual menus|Disambig page visual menus]] — A proposal to add images to disambiguation pages. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Movie pages|Movie pages]] — Reorganizing fiction sections for movie characters. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Splitting by species|Splitting by species]] — Splitting characters by species and should we keep doing it? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#A different kind of cleanup|A different kind of cleanup]] — Removing some of the more dodgy humour. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#GoBots articles|GoBots articles]] — Hnnnngh | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Adaptations storylinks|Adaptations storylinks]] — making our coverage of adaptations terser. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Proposed solution for Sideways debacle, because this isn't going away any time soon, apparently.|Proposed solution for Sideways debacle, because this isn't going away any time soon, apparently.]] — Reorganizing our Sideways articles again. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Cloud characters' toys|Cloud characters' toys]] — Should the toys note when they're repurposed WFC toys? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Probably an unpopular thought, but...|Probably an unpopular thought, but...]] — Merging G1 and RID'01 pages. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#A new proposal, this time to help along with this whole "Iocus" nonsense|A new proposal, this time to help along with this whole "Iocus" nonsense]] — Keeping Iocus characters separate or not. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Links to other wikis|Links to other wikis]] — Linking to other major wikis for franchises associated with Transformers. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Email marked as spam|Email marked as spam]] — TFWiki emails ending up in the spam box. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Upvoting or whatever else it's called|Upvoting or whatever else it's called]] — A newbie confused about the UI,. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Reorganising Regeneration One|Reorganising Regeneration One]] — Should Regeneration One be moved out of Marvel Continuity? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive60#Fire in the Dark characters|Fire in the Dark characters]] — Do these need separate pages? | |||
==Archive61 (May 2014-Aug 2015)== | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Who's that Pokemon character?|Who's that Pokemon character?]] — Identifying characters from various fiction. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Apocrypha and Vector Prime|Apocrypha and Vector Prime]] — Does Ask Vector Prime make apocrypha canon (no). | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Galvatron II style linking|Galvatron II style linking]] — Linking related characters on separate pages. I don't know, I read this section three times and still don't know what this is. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Notes and images|Notes and images]] — Unanswered formatting question. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Timelines fiction release order links|Timelines fiction release order links]] — Back and forth linking for Timelines. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Harmonic resonance|Harmonic resonance]] — More Ask Vector Prime stuff. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Online Transformers Games help request|Online Transformers Games help request]] — Online games which are no longer available. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#GoBots 2015|GoBots 2015]] — Hey look another GoBots discussion! | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Repurposing vs Multi-family toys|Repurposing vs Multi-family toys]] — Toys that have been used in multiple continuity families. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Multiversal singularities|Multiversal singularities]] — Merging pages because of Ask Vector Sigma. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Formatting of Year pages|Formatting of Year pages]] — Year pages with subpages and merging them back in. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Why is Glyph not credited in the Character Roster list for the G1 episode 'Five Faces of Darkness part 4'?|Why is Glyph not credited in the Character Roster list for the G1 episode 'Five Faces of Darkness part 4'?]] — Because the wiki doesn't update itself! | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Page names for planets|Page names for planets]] — Discussion of standardising planet names. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Italics in headers for toy sections|Italics in headers for toy sections]] — We're currently inconsistent. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Proposal: Temporary Moratorium on AVP|Proposal: Temporary Moratorium on AVP]] — Putting in place a two week gap before Ask Vector Prime material can be documented. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Notes and whitespace issue|Notes and whitespace issue]] — Notes cause whitespace when placed in a long fiction section with images. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Proposal: A "Former multiversal singularities" category|Proposal: A "Former multiversal singularities" category]] — Did we need one? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#Vandalism|Vandalism]] — [[Spiral Vagina]] is actually a legit wanted page. Thanks, Kiss Players! | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#We're all sick of arguing about GoBots|We're all sick of arguing about GoBots]] — Oh boy are we | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive61#User:TAZ|User:TAZ]] — Actual vandal. | |||
==Archive62 (Jan 2016-May 2016)== | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Template proposal|Template proposal]] — Getting rid of a proliferation of fiction section note. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#More Prominence for IDW|More Prominence for IDW]] — Making major fiction stand out more. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#The Goal Of The Wiki|The Goal Of The Wiki]] — Remembering that the wiki is intended to have an audience of casual fans. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Continuity Stream Bullshit|Continuity Stream Bullshit]] — do we need continuity pages and universal stream pages separately? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Alternate names|Alternate names]] — Where in an article should a character's alternate names be listed? | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Parodies|Parodies]] — There are good reasons we don't have a page of Transformers parodies. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Is there a category for images from the Timelines Facebook pages?|Is there a category for images from the Timelines Facebook pages?]] — Unanswered question about if we have a category for images from Facebook pages (no, we don't currently) | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#"Requested URL could not be retrieved"|"Requested URL could not be retrieved"]] — Grum was accidentally spam blocked. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Facebook-exclusive characters|Facebook-exclusive characters]] — Adding a new category. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Furthering the use of list articles|Furthering the use of list articles]] — Having list pages for minor Kre-O/Shattered Glass characters (consensus was not to do that). | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#RID Kre-O|RID Kre-O]] — Merging Kre-O character articles into the articles for the character they're based on. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Informing new users of the recent anti-spam measures|Informing new users of the recent anti-spam measures]] — Anti-spam measures were implemented. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Memobots and Deskcepticons|Memobots and Deskcepticons]] — Hasbro's April Fools were the [[Memobot]]s and [[Deskcepticon]]s. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Possible partnership with the German Transformers Wikia|Possible partnership with the German Transformers Wikia]] — Putting forward a potential partnership. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Beast Wars reorganization|Beast Wars reorganization]] — Reorganizing in a similar way to the Movie character pages. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#GoBots discussions consolidated|GoBots discussions consolidated]] — [[User:Giggidy]] moved everything Go-Bots to [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/GoBots]]. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#"Transformers Trilogy" manga|"Transformers Trilogy" manga]] — [[User:Saix]] provides a copy of this manga. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Alternate Names links|Alternate Names links]] — Linking alternate names to the fiction they're used in. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#characters without pages|characters without pages]] — The is no Insecticon called "Scarytown" in [[Toxicity]]. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#A suggestion to benefit the wiki|A suggestion to benefit the wiki]] — Adding a template to make links to pages (which led to another discussion about disambiguation being by franchise versus continuity family). | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#How to request main page changes?|How to request main page changes?]] — Our main page is locked for vandalism reasons. | |||
*[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive62#Anonymous Primal (BW) has lots of toys! You may be looking for Anonymous Primal (Animated) or Anonymous Primal (RID).|Anonymous Primal (BW) has lots of toys! You may be looking for Anonymous Primal (Animated) or Anonymous Primal (RID).]] — Adding disambiguation links to the suite templates (consensus was no). | |||
Latest revision as of 19:30, 5 October 2017
Archived Community Portal discussions. Some less relevant discussions are left out. For entertainment purposes only.
Archive 1 (Mar-May 2006)
[edit]- Contact in case of problems — sannse offers contact information.
- New Admins — Walky and Suki Brits are made admins.
- Deletion policy — proposal of {{tobedeleted}}
- COPYRIGHT INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT — {{hastak}} and {{fairuse}}
- What is the Community Portal? — Using the CP talk page for general discussion.
- The Golden Disk/Disc — "disk" versus "disc" debate.
Archive 2 (Mar-Jun 2006)
[edit]- That awful picture and the name — Making a better wiki logo.
- Original toy prices? — M Sipher proposes putting toy prices on the articles.
- Appearances listing — Listing appearances for each character.
- Franchise/line designations — Disambiguating by franchise.
- Featured articles — Working on featuring different articles.
- Franchise designations, part two — Revisiting franchise identifiers.
- Stories category — What's it for?
- "Tech Spec" Inclusion — No, we're not including them.
Archive 3 (Aug-Sep 2006)
[edit]- Control art — Use of control art in articles.
- Franchise Designations, part three — More on franchise identifiers.
- Infoboxes — Wikipedia-style infoboxes.
- First-line continuity statements — Discussion of continuity identifiers.
- "Manga" vs. "Story Pages" — Working out the correct term.
Archive 4 (Aug-Dec 2006)
[edit]- Citing sources — Discussing using the footnotes system.
- Site name change? — Fixing the spelling of the Wiki's name.
- Fandom articles — On fan terms.
- Toy Bio/Citiation — Treating bios as fiction.
- Currency — Clarifying which currency is being used.
- "Characters" categories — Making "franchise characters" categories.
- Article Link Frequency — How often to link names.
- Different guy / same guy — When two characters are different despite shared attributes.
- Storylinks — The new storylinks look bad.
- similar names & series tags — Is the parenthetical needed if the names are slightly different?
- Movie guys — Is Optimus Prime (Movie) actually Optimus Prime (G1)?
- Toy-gender — Why are toy sections gender neutral?
- Image Categories — Making new categories for images.
Archive 5 (Feb-Apr 2007)
[edit]- "Coming Soon" template? — Making {{coming soon}}
- Television series vs Cartoon — Parentheticals for cartoons.
- Disambiguation notes — Where to point the name without the parenthetical.
- Continuity note — More hashing out of the continuity identifiers.
- An observation about names — Lots of characters have "Storm" in their name.
- A Trivia Question — Armada's design aesthetic and Optimus Prime toy trivia.
- Couple things I noticed in the G2 comic that I don't have firm numbers on — Crow T Robot cameo and Adam Patyk letter.
- Series Navigation — We should have a way to navigate through the episodes.
- Questioning general use of certain continuity designations — All Optimus Primes should be treated as the same dude, and IDW's stuff isn't proper G1 so shouldn't be on the G1 pages.
Archive 6 (May-Sep 2007)
[edit]- Improvement drives and new templates? — Setting up some new templates.
- A little more color? — color-coding image borders by factions.
- Sitename — Alternate sitename suggestions (it was decided to keep it as Teletraan I)
- "Sunbow universe" — some pages were using "Sunbow universe" for the G1 cartoon, which had been decided against.
- Botcon 2007 Battle of the Boards — Entering the 2007 Board Wars (we won).
- Titles for characters with multiple names — First name vs more prominent name.
- Template for continuity organization? — Is there a page listing continuity headers? (unanswered)
- Toy-photo policy? — policy on what toy images are appropriate for use.
- Spoiler template — The spoiler template is covering up words.
- Categories in redirects — Should redirects be in categories independently of the article they're pointing at?
- Movie/nonmovie parsing — names and terms parsed differently by the movie and everything else.
- Timelines — Category for timeline articles (i.e. not Timelines).
- Oh the Humanity — someone thinks we should use less terms like "bloodthirsty" for robots.
- No love for Oceania? — Europe only stuff is released in Australia too.
- Character page quotes — Top of article quotes, how do they work?
Archive 7 (Sep-Oct 2007)
[edit]- Spoiler template 'expiration' length — Discussing how to set expiration times on spoiler templates.
- Spotlight image — Making a less-crappy spotlight image for Wikia.
- Messagebox placement — Where to put stub templates.
- How will we cover VHS and DVD releases? — TFTM has an ideal method.
- Animated Continuity Confusion — Is the upcoming Animated show going to cause confusion with the original cartoon in terms of continuity headers?
- Comic Art from unknown issues — Tagging comic images from an unknown source.
- Accessory listing? — Formatting toy entries better
- Lead/Led — People are using lead instead of led for the past-tense of lead (I blame the English language).
- Mini-Series main page format — making the main pages for mini-series consistent.
- Question about mass-produced "fan" toys — Including third party toys on the wiki (consensus says no)
- Does the image server have the hiccups again or is it just me? —
- Process for additional admins — User:Steve-o and User:Chris McFeely are promoted to admins.
Archive 8 (Nov 2007-Feb 2008)
[edit]- Continuity error? — Things listed as continuity errors which aren't.
- Comic Issues Naming Convention — comic name issue X versus actual title.
- Current troll problem — Blocking trolls.
- Teletraan-1:Blocking Policy — Someone asking about establishing a blocking policy (unanswered)
- Indonesian version — Linking to the Indonesian TF Wikia (It still only has 10 articles as of 2014)
- Administrators — Possibly getting more admins
- Spelling of site name — Correcting/renaming the site.
- Elements of ideal comic issue — Standardizing comics pages
- The Recurring Troll Problem — More on dealing with trolls.
- Cartoon Episode Format — The Agenda (Part 1) wasn't a good sample for episode formatting, also quote formatting.
- Ignorant question about Korean Beast Wars — Korean Beast Wars II and Neo toy releases.
- Europe/Japan/etc-"only" character categories — Changing "Japan-only characters" etc to "Japanese-original characters".
- Suggested change for disambig pages — Putting years on entries on disambig pages.
- Name-Dropping — User:JW invents the term Introdump.
- External link box to Joepedia — Putting a link box on G.I. Joe articles.
- Episode lists — Making episode listings on main cartoon pages consistent.
- Stub template listings — A help page for listing stub templates.
- Toy article — User:Repowers makes a start on the Toy page.
Archive 9 (Oct 2007-Mar 2008)
[edit]- Continuity / Timeline — making continuity and timeline articles.
- Image Copyrights — Writing s script to tag images with improper copyright notes.
- Cartoon Episode Format Mark II — More hashing out of the format of cartoon pages.
- Section-title master list — Jackbot compiles a list of continuity headers.
- "First go here! Next go here." — Consolidating where to go to find stuff that needs work done.
- Other Maintenance Templates? — Possibly making more specific stub templates.
- Disambiguation — On parentheticals on articles.
- Pages about fan sites — Query about making articles about fan sites (answer: no)
- Cartoon episode title cards redundancy — Using iconic/representative/funny screencaps instead of title cards as the main image on episode articles.
- Help/policy page namespaces — Help versus Transformers Wiki namespace use.
- Comic character box format Part IV — Changing from "Major characters" to "Featured characters".
- Navigation boxes for shared US/UK stories — Double-linking comic issues.
- How to spell Malay. — It's not spelled "Maylay", and referring to the dub as "crack-head" isn't nice.
- Trivia section image formatting — stacked vs alternating images on trivia sections.
- Foreign name format — Standardizing foreign name formats.
- Wookiepedia has a darn nifty interface — Wookiepedia used to look cool and not like every other Wikia site(?)
- Characters lacking visuals category? — needing the Faceless template.
Archive10-Archive14
[edit]- These are repeats of earlier archive pages, accidentally created as a result of the Bookworm fiasco. We could theoretically delete them and fix the numbering on subsequent pages, but who cares?
Archive15 (Apr-Jun 2008)
[edit]- Monaco skin — HAI GUYZ! WE AT WIKIA ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU A NEW SKIN FREE! (new skin is mandatory)
Archive16 (Apr-Jun 2008)
[edit]- Script-style quotes — On script-style quotes and quotation marks.
- Searchbox improvement drive — Custom search boxes (no longer in use - we have go boxes instead)
- Templates listing — About having a page to list templates.
- new template: Comicinfo — {{Comicinfo}}
- Masthead — Changing the logo to fit in the Monaco masthead better.
- Sidebar — Putting Animated in the side navigation.
- Hate the new skin. — Everyone hates the skin. Also making a new logo to fit the skin.
Archive17 (Apr-May 2008)
[edit]- Anonymous edits — Wikia suggests turning off anonymous editing. Consensus is largely no.
- Image overlap — Templates overlapping with images.
- Monaco top-of-article spam — Signup notice automatically appearing at the top of pages after anons edit.
- Recentchanges colours missing — Some CSS went missing temporarily.
- Templates mangled? — More minor template wording problems
- Spoiler lock-out template — Spoiler template/semi-protecting pages for upcoming stuff.
- Lost molds — Listing toys with lost/destroyed molds.
- Alt modes — Listing alternate modes on articles.
- "References" — Optimus Prime doing a handstand is not a reference to another episode where he did a handstand.
- Message box for people who don't bother to include info and/or copyrights with uploads — tagyourpics template.
- Unreleased toys page? — Making an unreleased toy page
- Character infobox — Creating infoboxes for characters (shot down by consensus)
- Link Magic — User:Derik falls into an alternate universe.
Archive18 (May-Jun 2008)
[edit]- Custom toys? — Another third party toys question.
- Humor message template — Do we need a "humour is allowed on this wiki" template?
- UK G1 covers and cover varaints and stuff — Cataloging UK Marvel covers.
- Disambiguation images? — Having thumbnail images on disambiguation pages.
- WOWWiki? — Wikia has a glitch.
- Ads — Wikia are now putting adverts in the article text. This goes down about as well as you'd expect.
Archive19 (Jun-Jul 2008)
[edit]- Character Main Images, MTMTE, TF: Universe, boxart and stuff — Selecting character main images.
- Userpage limits — Limiting how much crap people put on their user pages.
- Unicron Triolgy Transformer designs — Someone using the wiki as a message board.
- Section re-linking — Linking storylinks to specific sections.
Archive20 (Jul 2008)
[edit]- Cartoon sections — Should Japanese cartoon continuity be a subheader to US cartoon continuity?
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Deformers — Should Yu-Gi-Oh! cards for transforming robots be included on the wiki?
- Wave info? — Adding information on waves to toy sections.
- Teletraan logo — Wikia's skin looks messed up in IE.
- "Cite Your Sources" Template? — Possibly making a user page template for sourcing.
- Tech spec numbers, again — More talk of adding tech spec numbers to toy sections.
- Main Page — Wikia "fixes" the main page for us. This is unsurprisingly unpopular.
Archive21 (Jul-Aug 2008)
[edit]- Firefox blues — Wikia continues to break things.
- Wholesale issue renaming — Some article renaming was done.
- So, we made the news. — Seth Finklestein's Wikia article
- Another Change for the New Place — Better organizing the help files.
- Link template(s) — Templates to construct links. Consensus was against it.
- Main page — Wikia makes noises about changing the main page again.
- Adspace0 qestion — Derik complains about adblock causing white space.
Archive22 (Aug 2008)
[edit]- Login Problems — People having problems logging in to Wikia.
- Opera problems — And more Wikia bugs.
- wikia seems to have screwed up redirects — Wikia change how redirects work. This proves unpopular and Wikia turns it off.
- Internet Explorer posting problems — More Wikia problems.
- Section naming conventions — Derik wants to put icons on some section headers, but they're inconsistent between articles. Discussion ensues.
Archive23 (Aug-Sep 2008)
[edit]- Section Naming II! — More discussion on section header naming.
- Article structure: comic vs. cartoon — Making comic articles more like cartoon articles.
- Comic issue template — {{comicstory}} template.
- New comic/cartoon infobox needs serious reworking — Complaint about the link sizes on the comic/episode template.
- Foreign name format (2) — Brief note about formatting.
- Combiner article format (Opinions wanted!) — About tweaking the combiner articles to make them easier to read.
- Username Blacklist — An extension suggestion.
- RTFM? — Questions on where help for mod functions can be found.
- Random Article Navbar Images — The new goicons are awesome!
- Double storylinks — Multiple fiction covering the same events.
- Move ability — Prevent new users from moving pages.
Archive24 (Sep-Oct 2008)
[edit]- Proposed mini-project — The Dark Heart of Sandokan
- Recent Changes/Image box thing — Needing a link to "New files" on the Recent Changes page.
- Symbol flippy-thiny? — Starting the scene transition page.
- Multi-collumn list — IE isn't compatible with anything.
- "Toy reviews" — Toy write-ups shouldn't be reviews.
- Fonts — Allowing TTF uploads.
- Javascript fun! — Derik's kired tools.
- DVD and VHS (and future media) releases — Home video pages (not implemented at the time, but have been since).
- Character page main images — Using alternate sources for character main images.
- Facebook — Someone wants to use our page text in their Facebook group.
- Top of first page of a comic is called...? — "Indicia."
- Episode/comic "availability" — How trades/home video are listed.
Archive25 (Oct-Nov 2008)
[edit]- Firefox Search Plugin — Turned out to be not needed, as you can add TFWiki to FireFox's search already.
- Search box tweaks — Filtering redirects out of the search box suggestions.
- Making finding images for articles easier. — More specific picsneeded templates.
- Potentially Useful Extensions — Extensions that might be useful - none of these were implemented in the end.
- Transformers Primer — Making a "dummy's guide to Transformers" page/date pages.
- CAPTCHA — We need some sort of captcha.
- State of the Wiki — -Rosicrucian asks how the new server is going.
- Comic/cartoon infobox and the tiny ass back/forwards arrows — The size of the navigation arrows (Derik fixed this)
- Our friendly neighborhood spambot — More spamming problems.
- Increasing performance? — Performance problems on the new server
Archive26 (Nov-Dec 2008)
[edit]- "Transformers references" — People are terrible at picking what is an actual reference. Some things never change.
- Category tree — Having a full category tree listed at the bottom of articles.
- Thy fuckhead spammer — Spammers are annoying.
- Messagebox 3.0 concept -- yet again — A new messagebox concept (consensus went against)
- _gat is not defined — Javascript error related to Google Analytics.
- Probably a dumb newbie question — Some articles are missing alt-mode pictures.
- Placeholder ad image — It was from Shortpacked.
- Japanese toylines — Not being toylines.
Archive27 (Dec 2008-Jan 2009)
[edit]- Movie project? — Complete more movie character articles.
- Japanese Movie/BW crossover? — Telemocha crossover bios.
- On toy image sizes — Make toy image thumbnails bigger.
- For those looking for large, clean Hasbro stock photos... — Hasbro has a directory of stock images.
- Continuity Families... — Linking to franchise vs continuity family pages.
- Word-linking — Stop linking the word "God" to Primus, etc.
- Functions? — Adding bio functions to character pages (shot down by consensus)
- Comic parenthetical — Bad parentheticals to use.
- Who drew this? (in b4 shitstorm) — The Night the Transformers Saved Christmas
- Generics — Adding "generics" section to comic issue pages. See A Small War!
Archive28 (Jan 2009)
[edit]- Incorporating contradictory portrayals into a single intro — Using multiversal designations for different portrayals.
Archive29 (Jan 2009)
[edit]- We need a new franchise nav template — Derik makes a new franchise navigation template (still in use)
- Extension Suggestion — Jeysie suggests MultiBoilerplate.
- Resolving policy questions — Debating policy.
- TFU.info links and Tech Spec graphs — External site links on toy writeups.
Archive30 (Jan-Feb 2009)
[edit]- Extraneous redirects — Purging old redundant parenthetical redirects.
- Chinese knock-off — tf2go.com at one point had a wiki mirror of the site for translation into Chinese.
- Back-of-the-box art — Using bits of back-of-the-box art for character profiles.
- External link nofollow policy — Our nofollow policy/partnering with Wookiepedia.
- Can we hit 8,000 before they hit 7,000? — Yes, we got to 8000 articles before the Wikia got to 7000. The Wikia has still yet to reach 8000 articles as of early 2015.
- HUGELY GOOD NEWS! — The Wikia apparently also has problems in Google Chrome and Opera.
- Rumor site — And the Wikia also has started reporting rumors as fact.
- Name addendum — Someone from Wookiepedia drops by to suggest "Witwiki" as a potential name for the site.
- Nameless characters — More specific noname templates.
- IDW live action movie/Revenge of the Fallen prequel comics section naming. — IDW movie comics and their naming on character pages.
Archive31 (Jan-Mar 2009)
[edit]- Toy sizes — Adding robot mode heights to toy sections.
- Admin Symbols in Recent Changes — Derik adds a little something to Recent Changes.
- New image naming whatever — Naming convention for toy images.
- Image Categories — Making image categories similar to character categories.
- Orphaned pages to be deleted? — Orphaned pages which are in the To Be Deleted category.
- Granted, to be fair, then again, still, however. — Phrases to be avoided.
Archive32 (Feb-Mar 2009)
[edit]- Downtime — Derik suggests we should be worrying about the downtime we experience on Bookworm's server.
- Card-Carrying Fans? — Transformers themed credit cards
- Canonical URL specification — Canonical url tags.
- Category proposal — Characters with names derived from Greek/Latin words. Shot down by consensus.
- Upgrading the Wiki software — A potential issue that turned out to have already been resolved.
- Watermakring original photos — File:TFWiki-watermark.psd for watermarking our toy images.
- Costumes — Licensed Transformers costumes.
- New User Welcome message template — Still need a welcome template.
- Partner section on character pages? — Having a special section for mini-con/nebulon partners.
Archive33 (Mar-Apr 2009)
[edit]- Image aspect ratios — Screencaptures being the wrong ratio.
- News from Wookieepedia — Nomination process to partner with TFWiki is ongoing at Wikipedia.
- Purging redirects — Getting rid of older redirects.
- Wikia credits in redirects — Getting rid of lingering Wikia links on redirects.
- Icons on external links — Specific icons on some external links.
- Blue boxes — The right-hand side of the stub box was missing in some browsers.
- Orphaned pages — Macron issue with orphaned pages (since resolved)
- Comics copyright — Amending templates to better reflect copyright.
- Alt Mode Header Pictures? — Alt mode images at the top of articles (decided against)
- Cover artists — The problem of Marvel cover artists not being credited in the comics.
- Advertising Idea — Semysane's propaganda-style poster to promote the Wiki.
- {{mainpic}} — Derik changes mainpic to reflect how long the article's been without a main picture.
- Marvel G2 issues — Naming of Marvel G2 issue articles.
Archive34 (Apr-Jun 2009)
[edit]- Quotes — quote and bigquote formattings.
- Redirects while editing — Highlighting redirects when using preview.
- Franchise identifier consistency — Making parentheticals more consistent.
- Technical question: Firefox and history pages — History pages locking up in FireFox.
- Bad images — Are bad images better than no images?
- New User Template — Template for new users again.
- Screencap templates — Adding selectable templates to the image upload page.
- Upload Preview — Implementing image upload previews.
- (comic issue) vs. (issue) — shortening parentheticals.
- ROTF spoilers from novelizations and other adaptations — adding information from the ROTF novelization to the wiki, and spoiler tag use.
- Main page — Derik's stats on which links on the main page are clicked the most.
- Useful Extensions — Extension suggestions again.
- Rise of the Chevy Autobots — Monzo has all the goods.
Archive35 (Jun 2009)
[edit]- Asking for permission to post links — Linking to the Ghostbusters wiki.
- Quick Links? — Adding links to the side bar.
- We need a new adspace — Adding an ad banner to the top of the site.
Archive36 (Jun 2009)
[edit]- Consolidate front page? — Changing the logo because the old one was too big.
- Jokes? — One of the many "You should get rid of the humor" comments we've gotten over the years.
- Tech Upgrades — An alternate server for testing purposes.
- "Wikia wiki" boilerplate — Removal of Wikia links complete.
- Special:Imagelist — Has deleted images on it, limiting its usefulness. (appears to no longer be the case)
Archive37 (Jun 2009)
[edit]- Anonymous users — Blocking anon users for the period prior to Revenge of the Fallen.
- "Transformers Comic" — Titan movie comics article names.
- Non-movie (Movie) characters vs. movie (ROTF) characters with the same name — Disambiguating movie character pages.
- "Wanted Pages" clean-up — Useless links cluttering the Wanted Pages list.
- Doctor Braxis/Doctor B — Naming characters from external fiction whose full name isn't given in Transformers fiction.
Archive38 (Jun 2009)
[edit]- Proposal: Reorganizing movie character pages? — Separating the movie coverage to the top of movie character articles.
- Representing the tfwiki at an IMAX premiere? — FFN representing TFWiki at a ROTF premiere.
- Meanwhile, in other promotional exploits... — Walky was interviewed for the Fayettesville Observer.
- Ridiculous Transformers — StreetLevel blog's list of the 10 most ridiculous Transformers.
- Four hour downtime of June 24 — Some server problems because there was some movie coming out that was causing a lot of traffic.
- 9000 articles — TFWiki hits 9000 articles.
Archive39 (Jun-Aug 2009)
[edit]- Affiliate sites — External link icons again, and nofollowing trusted sites.
- Firefox 3.5 — New FireFox version with potential site problems.
- Size-scale references — Adding scale figures to movie toys.
- Changes to comic issue format — Reprint listing format.
- New templates for toy releaess? — A release template (don't think this ever came to anything)
- Upload image templates — Insertable templates added to upload page.
- Category Proliferation — We have a lot of categories which haven't been filled in properly.
- Pointing out redirects while editing — A possible alternative to the blinking redirects on edit previews.
- Image templates for video game images and screen captures? — Making a template for video game screencaptures.
- Shattered Glass Character Categories — Redundant categories being added to articles.
- Robot Heroes Organization — Merchandise section ordering.
- Relicensing vote — Moved to Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Relicensing
- Concept arts of questionable nature — Use of leaked concept art on character pages.
- State of Traffic August 2009 (Nattering) — Derik with traffic stats.
- Images by Artist Categories — People adding "Images by" categories to images were cluttering Recent Changes.
Archive40 (Aug 2009)
[edit]- Need Disambig Help — Disambiguation on Victory original characters.
- Copyright notice for logos — {{Logo}} templates.
- A solution for all this Goldbug/Galvatron/etc. madness — Possibly sticking a intro paragraphs mid-article.
- New Featured Characters Template — Updating the featured characters template.
- "Murder" Category — We didn't really need that.
- Article "suites" — Creating the article suites.
- nofollow for dead links — Nofollowing dead links so the site doesn't leak (pagerank no longer works that way anyway)
- Water gun article — An article for water-based weapons.
Archive41 (Aug-Sep 2009)
[edit]- Mold reusage list — Dead Metal's reused mold list
- Software upgrade (and known issues) — On upgrading the wiki software.
- Googlejuice - Bad News Everyone — Our Google rankings at the time.
- So Someone at IDW Reads the Wiki it Seems... — Some of our wiki text on a cover for All Hail Megatron issue 15.
- Blinking redirects gone from Show Preview? — A css bug caused the blinking redirects to temporarily disappear.
- "(Marvel Comics)" or "(Marvel comic)" — Parenthetical discussion.
- Talk page "dead link" removal — talk page redlinks being removed.
- Wikicode problems — = signs causing problems in template calls (this was functioning as expected)
- Sourcing statements — Making sure statements are precisely sourced.
Archive42 (Aug-Sep 2009)
[edit]- Marvel UK issue pages — Making hub pages for Marvel UK issues. This didn't really go anywhere.
- Can the nav-template images be variables? — Variable images for franchise navigation templates.
- Images for deletion — A lot of unused images were tagged for deletion.
- This Day in Transformers History — Make "This Day in Transformers History" an exportable module.
- Guess what..... — TFWiki has 9,588 articles, the Wikia has 7,209.
- Reading Order — We need an IDW recommended reading order page. (there is this one, though out of date now).
- OK.....weird. — Someone's confused by the truncated block log (this was caused by the Bookworm crash)
- Something I just came up with..... — A possible new caption bastard template.
- Keep an Eagle Eye (ROTF) — ROTF has been pirated already.
- TF Wiki link forum signatures = spam = loss of google ranking? — Will links to TFWiki in forum signatures hurt our ranking? (No).
Archive43 (Sep-Dec 2009)
[edit]- Boxes gone from disambig templates? — Some style sheet issues which were browser caching.
- Obscure BW comic, anyone? — Ascendron asks about an obscure comic.
- Categories for modes? — Categories for alternate modes (the user was pointed to tfu.info)
- "Notes" — Changing "Trivia" headers to "Notes"
- Preventing direct image linking — Do we want to block people linking to our images from other sites?
- GoBots on this wiki —> Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/GoBots
- Audio file problems - they don't seem to work — Having ogg files play on-wiki.
- When was the last Database backup? — Just checking that backups are still working.
- Self-sufficiency — Making sure the site is funded.
- (Universe) identifier — More parenthetical discussion.
- GoBots faction symbols? — Was never established if they were used in Transformers fiction.
- Privacy policy — Writing a privacy policy for the site.
- 10000th page — Approaching the 10000th page and determining previous milestones.
- Wanted pages? — The WantedPages list shrank because some links were fixed.
- Skin problem in Chrome — Skin problem in a beta version of Chrome.
- An Idea — A search box for the community portal archives (we actually had one for a while).
- Unreleased toy sections — They should be listed in with the other toys.
- CSS not working? — Interrobang was having CSS problems.
- Question — Finding all pages created by a particular user.
- We're Number One! — TFWiki showing up as #1 in Google for "transformers wiki" (it does it pretty consistently these days)
- Suggestion for a new project: The Quote Hunt — Adding quotes to pages that don't have them.
- Advice requested — Someone asking what the best Transformers forum is.
- Wal-Mart Black Friday exclusives — These might be Transformers: Cybertron characters.
- Proposal — Tagging images with no descriptions as a result of Bookworm.
- Reprolabels — Are now advertising with us (It must work for them because they still do!)
- Bot activity — Deceptitran tagging images as per "Proposal"
- Some thoughts on Infoboxes — Derik's redesigned infobox.
- Transformers (2007) BD-live content? — Exclusive content that came with the Transformers Blu-Ray.
- Video game plot box? — How to handle games with multiple story paths.
- Blocking Spam Accounts — Mega Man Universe wiki requesting help fighting spam.
- 10,000 pages and numbering — Reaching 10,000 pages and tweaking the display on the main page.
- Foreign name format (3) — Revisiting the foreign name format again,
- Redeco names for the same character. — This was decided against.
- Images with no descriptions or copyright (mainly Marvel stuff) since the Crash — Bringing attention to images with missing descriptions.
- Server Slowdown — Server lag problems.
- Password Failure — Apcog having logging in problems.
- 2010 for 2010? — Nominating Transformers 2010 as featured article.
Archive44 (Jan-Feb 2010)
[edit]- Casepack assortments? — Early Toy Fair catalogs and info about Transformers.
- Various questions/remarks — Disambiguating Universe, hosting episode scripts, continuity identifiers, featured articles
- Tech Specs — Listing tech spec info on toys again. (consensus: no)
- Sandbox clearout — Bad ideas for sandbox articles are likely to be deleted.
- Didn't the caption text used to be larger? — Doesn't look like it.
- Hasbro's Recent Mindscrew campaign — Confusing info from leaks, which we don't cover anyway.
- Toy Fair — Walky and Sipher going to Toy Fair.
- Site backups — Are they still being done?
- Live action — Someone doing a movie-based project.
- So I don't forget — Sexy Transformers costumes.
- A new project to keep us busy — Rewriting character intros so they're not the same as Wikia's.
- When to push the Minor Edit button — The minor button is being misused.
- collist function in Google Chrome doesn't seem to work — This turned out to be a template bug.
- Tabs — Putting edit tabs at the bottom of pages.
- Transformers 3 disambiguation — What parenthetical to use for TF3 - in the end we waited for the title to be revealed.
- Better "Newbie" Treatment? — We really need to treat newcomers better.
- The Cybertron Chronicle — External site was reorganized, requiring us to fix our links.
- Donations? — An appearance of the menu bug.
- Who's dat talking 'bout the Wiki in this video? — It was Sipher and Walky
- gb.tfwiki.info — Was redirecting to the Wikia - since fixed.
- March / April featured article — Nominating Jazz (G1)
Archive45 (Mar-May 2010)
[edit]- Home Video sections are lacking — The difficulty of finding home video info on the wiki.
- Toyline list formatting — Should alternate modes be listed by the name of a toy on toy lists?
- Caption location — Centering caption text (consensus went against)
- Disambig3 of ordinary name — Disambiguating Dave.
- IP Range Blocking — On anons editing from AOL.
- Formatting Pet Peeves — line spacing in lists, double-spaces and random other things.
- Categories — Headmasters categories and Universe.
- Analog/Homage vs Distinct Character — How Sentinel Prime (animated) is related to G1 Sentinel Prime.
- Third Party products such as Fansproject etc — No, we're still not listing them.
- 1993 European G1 character disambuigation. — Parentheticals for characters sold in different franchises in Europe/US.
- A Visual Representation of Transformer Anatomy — Making a page featuring Transformer anatomy images.
- Planet Cybertron — Cybertron locations and mutliple continuities.
- Google-rank milestone — TFWiki first on Google for "transformers wiki".
- Pyro's Packaging Art Found (Hopefully) — Higher-res copy of Pyro's packaging art
- What the hell is emopanda? :D — It was Derik's site (no longer works though)
- Userpage caps — Limiting abuse of user pages.
- Good idea from the other place, no really! — Something we already had: The enhanced recent changes page.
- Wikia's New Initiative — No, it's not "to suck less". They were offering to remove ads from smaller wikias for $20 a month. Of course, it was limited to very small wikia, so no one took them up on the offer.
Archive46 (Jun-Jul 2010)
[edit]- Image leeching — More on remote linking to images - conclusion: we're not that worried about it, within limits.
- Slicehost RSS Rerouting — Some weird thing was happening with the RSS.
- Transform into other bots — A question about whether there was a toy that transformed from one character to another.
- Anon Criticism — That was weird.
- "Games" vs. "Fiction" — Splitting video games from other fiction.
- Hall of Fame "faction" markers? — faction markers for characters in the Hall of Fame.
- The 11000th article — We hit 11 thousand articles. Still waiting for Wikia to reach 8,000.
- BigBadToyStore — BigBadToyStore has a page now.
- What's Canon For Each Continuity — A ginormous discussion on the effects of continuity and cross-pollination thereof.
Archive47 (Jul-Sep 2010)
[edit]- TFsource ad buy — TF Source now advertising on our sidebar.
- Simon Furman's IDW pitch — What it says on the tin.
- Usernames — Offsensive username - why do people have them?
- Official sources policy — People using cellphone footage of a movie as a source.
- Disgusting ad — Gross adverts are gross.
- Disamb template on calendar pages? — Using spaces between the disamb templates.
- TF Wiki Firefox Search Engine Add-On — Another query about adding TFWiki to the FireFox list of search engines.
- In regards to expo 86. — Information about Hasbro's appearance at Expo 1986
- Titan Magazines — Why don't they have featured characters boxes?
- No Hasbro Q and A? — Are we still participating in the Q&As? (yes)
- An article on racing — Is an article on racing needed? (there's a Cybertronian sport article)
- Fan translated manga images. — Are they OK for use on the Wiki? (yes)
- Movie 1 characters vs drones — Splitting character pages.
- Reissues and rereleases — Toy rereleases.
- Wikia — They're rolling out a new skin over there. It's horrible and everyone hates it.
- Explicitly Saying Characters Are Similar To Earlier Characters Of Same Name — Explicitly pointing out who characters are based on.
- Continuity note — Some characters don't have continuity notes at the top.
- Malware warning — Emopanda was experiencing a malware warning from Google.
- Some Wikipedia user — Wikipedia drama
- Dimension-hopping — should there be an article on dimension hopping?
- User admonition templates — Is there a list of user notice templates? (Category:User notice templates)
- Categories — Why not put toy categories on toy images?
- Links that overexplain jokes — Linking to explain caption jokes.
- Next Hasbro Q&A Questions due Mon! — What he said.
- RFC Wiki Spotlight — User:Chris McFeely doing a weekly Wiki spot on Radio Free Cybertron.
- Toy patents — links to Transformers related toy patents.
- Photos of toys — Toy images and copyright law.
Archive48 (Sep-Oct 2010)
[edit]- Galvatron — A separate character from Megatron, according to Hasbro.
- Excessive Trivia Sections — Cleaning them up.
- Editing Drift's related materials — Can we tone down the Drift hate?
- Who hosts your wiki now — Another Wiki wants advice on leaving Wikia.
- McAfee SiteAdvisor review rating this site incorrectly — Someone tagged TFWiki as a bad shopping experience.
- Fan-configurations of toys — fan mode article.
- Frank Miller — A disagreement over a caption.
- Talk:/Talk: pages — Spamming problems.
- Artist Go Box — Using pictures of Metatron for artist goboxes.
- Ideal Struture of Toy/Merchandise Description — What makes a good toy writeup? (unanswered)
- Prime vs. WFC — Are Prime and WFC in the same continuity?
- Holy grails — Hot Rod go-cart.
- Universe 2003 vs Universe 2008 disambiguations — Universe designations and collisions.
- Difficulty level? — Do we need an article on difficulty levels? (unanswered, but we now have Challenge level of robot conversion)
Archive49 (Sep-Dec 2010)
[edit]- External Links — Moving tfu.info links to toy sections.
- I keep getting logged out — A user keeps getting logged out.
- Ted Nolan interview? — Interviewing the first guy to write about Transformers on Usenet. (I don't think anyone ever did this)
- Universe '08 Minicons + 'Energon fizzy jellies' — Being sold in places.
- Gobots on the wiki... again — Should we include ALL the go-bots? (no!)
- Junkions — What makes a Junkion a Junkion (unanswered)
- Ron Friedman auctions — coordinating buying some of the scripts to benefit fandom.
- Interview for Examiner journalist about Wikia history — Gregory Kohs stops by to ask for an interview for an article he's writing for the Examiner (If he wrote this, I can't find it on examiner.com)
- Redirects with parentheses — Using parantheticals on redirects.
- Hey guys! — Nearing 12,000 pages.
- "Generation 1 Autobots", etc. categories — Splitting franchise character categories into human/Autobot/Decepticon
- Figures prone to breakage that aren't GPS could do with their own page (like the GPS list) — No agreement found
- Comics Featured Characters — Why do they have "regular" and "guest" headers?
- 12,000th article — Reachout (TF 2010)
- Doctor Who connection? — Noting the crossovers with Doctor Who. (e already do this sufficiently)
- Image plagiarism — Some dude on Wikia got huffy because the picture he got from TFWiki got deleted.
Archive50 (Dec 2010-Feb 2011)
[edit]- Didn't we have a Transformers Appearances/References in Other Media page? — No, never have. (the Wikia has added one since, so knock yourself out!)
- "Knockoff warning" for toy sections? — Linking to sites warning about highly-accurate knockoffs.
- Extension:Oversight — Installing the oversight extension (less necessary these days)
- Captcha to prevent spambots? — We already had it.
- Real world events by day Category — Fictional events on the date pages.
- Project Wonderful ads — Third party stuff is OK in the non-permanent ads.
- Games fiction — Separate game section on character pages.
- Fiction order guide? — It's real-world chronological by first appearance.
- Foreign name reorganization — Moving foreign names to the bottom of articles.
- Commercial Appearances section — Adding commercial sections to articles.
- How to resolve monster debates? — Debate about debating.
- How featured articles are chosen — Someone completes them and then there is much joy!
- Letterers — Should we have "images by" for letterers? Consensus said no.
Archive51 (Feb-Aug 2011)
[edit]- Categories by toy size class? — Consensus was no
- Undo Redone? — Undo behaving oddly.
- Banner ad question. — The side ad has cartoon nipples in it.
- Revenge of the Fallen Online Games — Getting screen caps from ROTF online games.
- Countdown? — A main page countdown for Dark of the Moon.
- When to omit "Transformers" from an article title — Making consistent when articles start with "Transformers:"
- "(WFC)" vs. "(Prime)" — Use on Aligned characters
- War For Cybertron — Someone complaining that the wiki is using Hasbro's official view that WFC and Prime are the same continuity (family).
- Captured-Prey ads — Third-party stuff is still OK in ads.
- Revenge of the Fallen video game character articles - Scout 1, Scout 2 pages for the same design — No consensus reached on that one.
- Found some much needed images, but... — they were on a Spanish site, so hard to ask permission, but it turned out not to matter.
- Hey, I've got a new user talk page template request... — We have {{Notareference}}
- Maybe a silly question, can we? — Searching by alternate mode (tfu.info has a search engine for that)
- Grimlock letter — Grimlock used to "write" to kids who got letters published in the Marvel letters page.
- Voice actors by series — Should we have categories for this (tentative yes)
- "Just Stop" Notice? — Consensus was against making a template for this.
- Our Blogger blog? — Should the blog be used more?
- TFwiki in the past week — Heavy traffic, some back-end work was needed.
- Page views — Turned off because they don't work accurately with squid caching.
- Why is Melissa from Kiss Players on the same Page as Marissa Faireborn from G1? — We know, it makes us sad too.
- I don't know if this was what you are looking for when you asked for Kiss Players radio play translations ,but i hope this helps . — Someone posted a partial translation of a radio play to YouTube (though 3 years on, it doesn't look like they've any posted more).
- The multiverse — Aaron Archer declared Aligned as separate from the multiverse (later contradicted by Club fiction!)
- Moving from Wikia — Another Wiki departing Wikia asks for technical advice.
- Fiction Header Sprawl — Simplifying Movie fiction sections.
- Uploading of pngs — Putting a warning when people upload pngs.
- MonacoBook Skin — Someone asking if the skin is available for download (unanswered, but I don't think it is)
- Interviews on External links — When are interviews appropriate to add as external links?
- Gif uploads blocked? — Minor technical issue.
- Shout Factory Subs — Do we need to realign articles with the Shout Factory subs (unanswered, but probably not)
- Manga vs. Comic — Should we refer to Japanese comics as manga (I'm not sure what the consensus was on this, but we're using manga in a bunch of places)
Archive52 (Sep-Nov 2011)
[edit]- "Fictional" and "real" categories — Distinguishing categories for fictional books versus real-world Transformers books.
- "Transformers: " — Revisiting making consistant article titles with "Transformers: " at the start. Also making a linking templates and Japanese titles.
- Jungaroo — We didn't have a Jungaroo page at the time, but we had a gobox.
- Making the search suggestion work better — adding a pause to fetching the results.
- Stuff — Organization of the Playskool Go-Bots articles.
- Help Wanted — Someone trying to promote their Transformers RPG forum.
- Facebook. — Facebook has a TFWiki.net "Interest" page which seems pretty bare.
- Aligned Timeline — Tom Servo creating a Aligned timeline article.
- Halloween — Redecoing the main page for Halloween (I don't think we did this in the end)
- Moving "(Timelines)" articles — renaming articles with the (Timelines) parenthetical where they have an obvious franchise to go under.
- Two spaces after a period in a sentence — It doesn't make any different to how stuff is displayed on the wiki, but probably not enough to worry about.
- More on the search box/"Transformers" everything — The search hints aren't very good for some terms.
- Spam-dalism — More spam problems.
- Spelling throughout the Wiki — UK vs US spellings (we have a policy for that)
Archive53 (Dec 2011-Jan 2012)
[edit]- Why are the IDW books in G1? — Are the IDW comics too divergent from G1 to count as G1?
- Beast Wars Neo Sausage is gone! — We never had a Beast Wars Neo sausage article and still don't :(
- Actor/Voice Actor's other roles — Bloat in voice actor articles.
- Character articles and redirects with titles/ranks — Adding redirects with titles to articles for characters.
- Fall of Cybertron — Organising the FOC pages.
- Problems retrieving password — Someone was having password problems (unresolved)
- Account renaming — We can't rename accounts on here.
- Mozilla Firefox 9/10 and TFWiki — Rendering issue with a version of FireFox, was resolved.
- Project Heat Scramble — We don't have an article on the Heat Scramble CCG (and still don't!)
- Robot Masters parsing — It should be one word.
- SOPA and PIPA — Nope!
- Tech Specs — Adding tech specs to toy sections again (unnecessary)
- Categories for different alt modes — Categorising characters by alternate mode (This never really got off the ground)
Archive54 (Jan-Aug 2012)
[edit]- TF:Prime jump-fight factoid — adding trivia notes about the slow-down Matrix moments in Prime fight scenes.
- Expandible voice actor lists — Template to make voice actor listings less huge.
- Facebook chat — TFPrime had a facebook chat.
- Moving (Prime)/(WFC)/(RB)/(FOC) to (Aligned) — Used "aligned" as a parenthetical for Aligned articles (consensus is no)
- Universal, properly-translated names of the Japanese Beast Wars/Beast Machines episodes — Differences in the translation across the wiki.
- Category:Deceased — We're not going to catalog dead characters (too many resurrections, inconclusive fates, etc).
- Scheduled downtime. — Moving servers
- Category: Cats — Should Transformers with animal alt modes be in animal categories?
- Google + — ??
- Alt-mode listings — Putting alt mode images at the top of the pages again.
- Redundant foreign names — Listing foreign names where they're the same as the English name
- Toy Fair/Pre-Toy Fair Catalogues — Other catalgoues we might be interested in
- Google Chrome — Site issues in Chrome (eventually fixed)
- Transformers 4 — Should we start one yet?
- Prime game — Adding Transformers: Prime - The Game to the sidebar.
- Rare/Unkown vintage G1 Walkie Talkie toys? — Walkie Talkies on eBay.
- Technical Contact (and passwords) — Lost password issue.
- Captions need to go — Someone else telling us how to run our site.
- Spoiler titles — Putting up spoilery details for IDW comics.
- Autobot Communications officer in Headmasters — Intelligence officer
- Connection issues — Site slowness issues.
- Adding to the Armada cartoon article — Bulgarian home video releases
- I ♥ you guys — Derik's ♥ labels for admins.
Archive55 (Sep-Dec 2012)
[edit]- G.I. Joe wiki - a little help? — A request for contributors to Joepedia.
- New stub templates — Videogame/novel stub templates.
- Megatron Barcode Battler Card — Turned out to be a non-Hasbro product
- Recent spamming — More spamming results in us turning off anonymous editing.
- Universe/UT Micromaster combiners — Should they be considered as Unicron Trilogy?
- Election Day — Featured article for the day.
- Aligned — Disambiguating aligned characters by franchise of origin (until then we'd been having Optimus Prime (Prime) because it was most prominent).
- Fun fact — We have 10,000 articles more than when we left Wikia.
- Split Pages — Splitting some of the longer character pages.
- Aligned section breakup is warping canon — Globbing the Aligned characters' fiction under one header.
- James Roberts notes — Are the notes sections for recent IDW comics too long?
- "Things that don't exist" category — Logged out users couldn't view it. This was resolved by a later version of the Wiki software.
Archive56 (Jan-Jul 2013)
[edit]- Batchtaster? — This was out featured article for a brief time
- Captions — Can we upvote captions? (sorry, no!)
- Aligned character page main images — Should aligned characters have Prime or WFC main images?
- Continuing spam — More spam problems.
- We are moving very very soon. — Our old host was charging too much for not great service, so we moved again.
- Still Confused About All This — Confusion about whether we used to be at Wikia.
- Key things missing from toy sections on character pages — Toy sections should link to toyline articles and show what faction the toy was sold as.
- New Theme — Change the site theme to Beast Hunters?
- Trivia/notes sections — insignificant trivia notes.
- Proposal to rename an article. — Rename "Brick Springhorn" as "Brick Springstern" because a reprinting corrected an instance of the first name.
- Database dump — Someone asking about getting a database dump of the Wiki
- Proposing New Continuity Term for Multipath Books — "micro-continuity nexus"
- Holy grails and Want list need to be more visible. — Verdict was they're visible enough.
- Seen this? — Link to Ziploc TFTM promotion.
- Left-hand menu — Adding the IDW comics
- Spam filter acting up — Spam filter malfunction, later resolved.
- New Category — Fiction-original characters.
- Gallery space — Having a Gallery: namespace.
- Romanizations of purely Japanese names — Use of macrons in transliterated Japanese names.
- DuckDuckGo — We were blocking DuckDuckGo's crawler (not any more, it seems, as we're appearing in searches on there)
- Robot — We don't have an article on robots in general.
- Archives — Is there a way of searching community portal archives?
- Disambiguation pages and parsing — Where character names can differ (e.g. Knockout vs Knock Out)
- Wiki content used in official materials, again. — Transformers Legends using our bios.
Archive57 (Jul-Oct 2013)
[edit]- Sizes — Revisiting putting sizes in toy sections
- Foreign Localization placement - again!!! — Still too high in the notes sections on episode pages.
- Some Transformer Knock-off cartoon — No one really cared about the knock-off cartoon. It wasn't relevant for the wiki anyway!
- Korean, not Indonesian — Indonesian names inexplicably written in Korean on the wiki.
- Grouping American/Japanese divergent fiction — More on continuity section headers and notes.
- New templates — Nihongo and a linking template.
- trying to find a template — Subpages setting.
- "Thin gray line" template for splitting sub-sections visually — Separating sections with a grey line to avoid header spelunking.
- Disambiguation suffixes — Reserving franchise parentheticals for characters.
- From the Marvel Comics portion of the Generation 1 continuity family — "From the X portion of the Y continuity family" type headers.
- The AllSpark and the Allspark — AllSpark/Allspark usage confusion and Prime.
Archive58 (Nov 2013-Jun 2014)
[edit]- Wiki update issues
- Marvel G1 Cover Artists — Some of them seem wrong
- Bing — Wiki not appearing on Bing (fixed)
- Optimus Prime (Covenant of Primus) — Should Optimus be separate from Optimus who is one of the Thirteen?
- What's with the completely different formats? — Mobile skin causing problems because of caching.
- GoBox glitches? — Multiple go boxes appearing (seems to have been fixed)
- format of links — Optimus Prime vs Optimus Prime (disambiguation)
- When to / When not to mention nonfiction namesakes?
- End of 2013 toys — which toys have been released.
- tfwiki.info vs tfwiki.net
- faction symbols above character articles?
- Well that's just (Prime) (WFC) (FOC) (Generations) (RB) (Aligned) — what suffix to use
- New game — Rise of the Dark Spark
- "Kids" article? — should we have a "Kids" article?
- Using Adobe Reader files — Can they be uploaded? (yes)
- Can't seem to move images... — Turned out a png had been uploaded as a jpg.
- Image template — X Files image template.
- IDW Cybertronian -master partners — Should dudes be split off?
- G1 Season One episode titles — Where did the titles we use come from?
Archive59 (Jul 2014-Apr 2015)
[edit]- Minor internet fame — Us Vs Th3m included the human article in a list (well, the Wikia copy thereof).
- Transformers: Human Alliance — Someone asking about creating an article.
- Toys vs. Merchandise — When is a toy a toy and when is it merchandise?
- Wikia links still in history pages — No, they haven't been stripped out.
- Third Party Unlicensed — Do we need pages for unlicensed IP infringement?
- "Order of appearance" and another suggestion — Reordering appearance lists/including non-characters.
- The Almanacs — Does Derrick Wyatt's opinion on the Almanacs affect our coverage of them?
- Help archiving an old game — Transformers Energon: Battle for Megatron no longer works.
- TFWiki.net... pages — Should they be in the project namespace?
- Still purging talk page redirects?
- Fight! Superlifeform whatevers...uh I think I have a holy grail or whatever? — It was just Scramble City: Mobilization.
- Transformers Asia Page — It turned out to be a fan site.
- charstubfictions -> Bibliography? — Compressing minor appearances down to a list on character pages.
- RID Chinese — RID'15 was released early in China.
- 20,000 Articles! — Another Milestone reached!
- Newbie — A request for an editing guide.
- Question — The same newbie asking if the Portal is the right place to ask questions.
- Seibertron image gallery links — Had been being added to toy sections.
- what links here — File usage and text links.
- Robots in Disguises — using RID disambiguation for characters from RID'01 and RID'15.
- I'm pretty sure that's it! — User:Ascendron made sure all characters had all appearances noted.
- Micro Comic Fun Pack — Asking if it was covered on the wiki.
- Multipath adventures/game books — Should they be under games rather than fiction.
- Ads — TFSource ads showing third party items.
- mix-n-match: is this possible? and if so, is it noteworthy? — Are Transformers and Marvel Hero Mashers compatible?
- Outdated article names? — A newbie asking about disambiguation.
- IDW G1 First Cybertronian Civil War — Asking about creating a First Cybertronian Civil War page.
Archive60 (May 2014-Aug 2015)
[edit]- Disambig page visual menus — A proposal to add images to disambiguation pages.
- Movie pages — Reorganizing fiction sections for movie characters.
- Splitting by species — Splitting characters by species and should we keep doing it?
- A different kind of cleanup — Removing some of the more dodgy humour.
- GoBots articles — Hnnnngh
- Adaptations storylinks — making our coverage of adaptations terser.
- Proposed solution for Sideways debacle, because this isn't going away any time soon, apparently. — Reorganizing our Sideways articles again.
- Cloud characters' toys — Should the toys note when they're repurposed WFC toys?
- Probably an unpopular thought, but... — Merging G1 and RID'01 pages.
- A new proposal, this time to help along with this whole "Iocus" nonsense — Keeping Iocus characters separate or not.
- Links to other wikis — Linking to other major wikis for franchises associated with Transformers.
- Email marked as spam — TFWiki emails ending up in the spam box.
- Upvoting or whatever else it's called — A newbie confused about the UI,.
- Reorganising Regeneration One — Should Regeneration One be moved out of Marvel Continuity?
- Fire in the Dark characters — Do these need separate pages?
Archive61 (May 2014-Aug 2015)
[edit]- Who's that Pokemon character? — Identifying characters from various fiction.
- Apocrypha and Vector Prime — Does Ask Vector Prime make apocrypha canon (no).
- Galvatron II style linking — Linking related characters on separate pages. I don't know, I read this section three times and still don't know what this is.
- Notes and images — Unanswered formatting question.
- Timelines fiction release order links — Back and forth linking for Timelines.
- Harmonic resonance — More Ask Vector Prime stuff.
- Online Transformers Games help request — Online games which are no longer available.
- GoBots 2015 — Hey look another GoBots discussion!
- Repurposing vs Multi-family toys — Toys that have been used in multiple continuity families.
- Multiversal singularities — Merging pages because of Ask Vector Sigma.
- Formatting of Year pages — Year pages with subpages and merging them back in.
- Why is Glyph not credited in the Character Roster list for the G1 episode 'Five Faces of Darkness part 4'? — Because the wiki doesn't update itself!
- Page names for planets — Discussion of standardising planet names.
- Italics in headers for toy sections — We're currently inconsistent.
- Proposal: Temporary Moratorium on AVP — Putting in place a two week gap before Ask Vector Prime material can be documented.
- Notes and whitespace issue — Notes cause whitespace when placed in a long fiction section with images.
- Proposal: A "Former multiversal singularities" category — Did we need one?
- Vandalism — Spiral Vagina is actually a legit wanted page. Thanks, Kiss Players!
- We're all sick of arguing about GoBots — Oh boy are we
- User:TAZ — Actual vandal.
Archive62 (Jan 2016-May 2016)
[edit]- Template proposal — Getting rid of a proliferation of fiction section note.
- More Prominence for IDW — Making major fiction stand out more.
- The Goal Of The Wiki — Remembering that the wiki is intended to have an audience of casual fans.
- Continuity Stream Bullshit — do we need continuity pages and universal stream pages separately?
- Alternate names — Where in an article should a character's alternate names be listed?
- Parodies — There are good reasons we don't have a page of Transformers parodies.
- Is there a category for images from the Timelines Facebook pages? — Unanswered question about if we have a category for images from Facebook pages (no, we don't currently)
- "Requested URL could not be retrieved" — Grum was accidentally spam blocked.
- Facebook-exclusive characters — Adding a new category.
- Furthering the use of list articles — Having list pages for minor Kre-O/Shattered Glass characters (consensus was not to do that).
- RID Kre-O — Merging Kre-O character articles into the articles for the character they're based on.
- Informing new users of the recent anti-spam measures — Anti-spam measures were implemented.
- Memobots and Deskcepticons — Hasbro's April Fools were the Memobots and Deskcepticons.
- Possible partnership with the German Transformers Wikia — Putting forward a potential partnership.
- Beast Wars reorganization — Reorganizing in a similar way to the Movie character pages.
- GoBots discussions consolidated — User:Giggidy moved everything Go-Bots to Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/GoBots.
- "Transformers Trilogy" manga — User:Saix provides a copy of this manga.
- Alternate Names links — Linking alternate names to the fiction they're used in.
- characters without pages — The is no Insecticon called "Scarytown" in Toxicity.
- A suggestion to benefit the wiki — Adding a template to make links to pages (which led to another discussion about disambiguation being by franchise versus continuity family).
- How to request main page changes? — Our main page is locked for vandalism reasons.
- Anonymous Primal (BW) has lots of toys! You may be looking for Anonymous Primal (Animated) or Anonymous Primal (RID). — Adding disambiguation links to the suite templates (consensus was no).

