User talk:M Sipher

User talk:M Sipher/Archive Pre-2015

New to Transformers Wiki

Hi. New to this wiki and trying to contact an admin. Unlike the other wikis that I have made contributions to, I get a message stating that I don't have permission to create a new page. Unable to load an image, as keep getting that message. Who do I need to talk to in regards to the aforementioned?

Esparza3368 (talk) 18:25, 22 June 2019 (EDT)

Hero Mashers

I think you have to clarify more than "Fuck this noise" when you're merging all the Hero Mashers back despite them having their own universal stream cluster. Canon's not really on your side. --ItsWalky (talk) 13:08, 10 May 2015 (EDT)

I left the (HM) pages intact so "canon" can be appeased. There's canon, and then there's stupidly obfuscating information by not having blatantly-based-on-specific-iterations-of-characters merch on the relevant pages because of some micro-reference in something the overwhelming majority of readership will basically never see. We do readers a disservice with the latter. I don't like just assuming someone's going to dig through a disambig link chain to maybe find stuff like this, and since we repeat full toy sections for repurposings, I don't see why repeating Hero Mashers or the like would be a problem. --M Sipher (talk) 13:15, 10 May 2015 (EDT)

That's fair enough. --ItsWalky (talk) 13:16, 10 May 2015 (EDT)

Intruders

Are the Intruders who built Medusa the same as the Intruders from G.I. Joe? --Giggidy (talk) 09:09, 18 July 2015 (EDT)

Spambots

There's another one: User:Sdsfs -Foffy the Sheep (talk) 19:24, 3 February 2016 (EST)

Misdirection

I tried, i changed the file type, and i did a multiple image upload, so i couldnt give them all a correct discription. Will they be readded, or shall i do them individually? - Junkheap117 Also, you need to calm your shit. It's just a fucking unofficial website, and you go on like it means the world to you. GET A FUCKING LIFE.

Guess who's getting a time-out? --M Sipher (talk) 19:34, 2 April 2016 (EDT)

Angry Birds Transformers Characters and Accessories

Thanks for taking the time to fill in information for the Angry Birds Transformers characters. So far we're still missing comphrehensive profiles for Chuck, Hal, and the Minion Pig seekers. Could you also 'spice up' Red's Ultimate, Nemesis, and Epic Optimus Prime's profiles? (I wrote those profiles, but they're just information basic.)

The current Challenge event is for getting both Bumblebees' accessories, so for this and future events, could you make sure to get the gem costs of the accessories before getting them with tokens? Or else would take extra replaying from scratch to figure out the what the original gem costs were.

Also, some of the accessories were token-only exclusives, so you may have to change the cost columns for the accessories tables a bit. --Woo224 (talk) 23:14, 8 September 2016 (EDT)

Uploads

Hi, im a new user and when i upload an image it says i dont have permission to creat a new page. I have multiple screenshots from the new RID episode but i cant uplaod them, Any ideas? Thanks --Hardshell101

Apology

Sorry about disrupting your work on the Combiner Wars toyline page. I didn't think you had progressed down that far yet. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 (talk) 20:25, 2 October 2016 (EDT)

Hiding pages from Recent Changes?

I had no idea my personal page edits were cluttering up the Recent Changes page; my bad. Is it possible for me to just hide everything under my username page from Recent Changes? I just find it much easier to work on individual subsections... but given how many there are it's going to keep cluttering RC until I'm done (and I keep wanting to make tweaks here and there). Thanks. Magaroja (talk) 13:52, 27 February 2017 (EST)

Just noticed the "Minor edit" checkbox; I'll use that from now on for my stuff. Sorry again for my posts. Magaroja (talk) 13:54, 27 February 2017 (EST)

Model Numbers? / Formatting - table vs list

Hey, I noticed that you've deleted model numbers off of most of the toyline pages, which is very useful information. I registered to place them back in, but after a couple edits I notice that somebody undid them already. Apologies if I went about this wrong, but how can we get the model #'s reinstated onto the collection pages? =)

Also, when you deleted the model numbers for many pages, you converted the formatting from simple straight-down lists to table formats. As a result, everything looks more cluttered and less organized now. With model numbers in place, even though the page may be slightly longer, at least everything looks much more organized in numerical order. Would it be possible to consider putting everything back into straight-down list views? (but keep the improvements, such as the cool new mini-icons, etc.)

No. --M Sipher (talk) 14:48, 3 March 2017 (EST)

Ok, I suppose that's just cosmetic - but what about model #'s? That's actually functional information, which for some reason was stripped from many of the toyline pages? The only way to view that information now is to go back and look at older page revisions...

Or you can click the link to the toy where all the toy-specific info goes. --M Sipher (talk) 16:47, 3 March 2017 (EST)

Hey, thanks for your reply - I understand that you can click on each individual link, but it's more convenient for all the information to be collected in one place (particularly with Japanese toylines, for foreign collectors). Anyway, I wrote down some thoughts on the "Transformers Unite Warriors" discussion page, and won't push this any further - was just giving some suggestions from an outside user, which I thought might be helpful. I'll stick to simple edits & corrections from now on, and just appreciate the wiki for what it has to offer - thanks... =)

"All the information collected in one place" is called page bloat and over-redundancy, which in the past led to unreadable, ugly, overlong pages that challenged readers to slog through it all. A toyline page is meant to be a broad-strokes overview with links to more detailed pages. --M Sipher (talk) 00:59, 4 March 2017 (EST)

I understand what you're saying about excessive information being "bloat", but model numbers are typically only 2-5 characters long and serve greatly to organize information, and provide a look of uniformity to lists; they are such integral pieces of information for many toys (and in many cases, synonymous with their names), particularly for Takara figures from Japan, and especially for collectors working on their collections. For example, Henkei Optimus is C-01 Convoy, United Megatron (the best version from the Classics Voyager mold) is UN-09 Megatron, Transformers Legends Arcee is LG10 Arcee, RobotMasters Optimus w/ DVD is RM-10 Convoy+DVD, Masterpiece Optimus is either MP-1/MP-4 or MP-10, Masterpiece Rodimus is either MP-9 or MP-28, etc. - these figures are referred to as such all over the web, on ebay, in forums, articles, buy/sale/trade lists, etc. For any collector, this information is invaluable and would never be considered as bloat if collected on a wiki toyline information page.

With all due respect (I know you and others have worked very hard on this site!), but if you look at all the pages pre- and post- overhaul where you reformatted into 4-column tables and stripped out model numbers (Transformers Unite Warriors, Transformers Legends (franchise), Transformers United, Henkei! Henkei! Transformers (toyline), Robotmasters (franchise), etc.) - every single one of these pages looked cleaner and better laid out, and with MORE information (ie - model numbers), before the redesign than after. I think I know what you were trying to achieve (I used to work in web dev in a past life), but the current table implementation only looks good when wave distributions are fairly even (the "Transformers: Generations" page looks pretty decent in most places, except for the Japan section); however, in most other instances where waves are unevenly distributed, and information is presented in left-to-right then down fashion, it ends up being a convoluted mess that is more difficult to follow than necessary (due to uneven whitespacing, and having to scan waves left-to-right but then downwards per wave).

In fact, one easy improvement would be if you were to just simply flip the axis and list the waves top-down then right, then everything would read much better and be easier to follow, and would look better with uneven wave distributions (and then if model numbers were reinstated, they would look good as well because they would appear uniform and increase numerically as you're scanning down the lists)*. Another thing to consider - I know that it probably took a bit of effort to standardize on the current 4-column table view, and that uniformity across pages is desirable, but sometimes the one-size-fits-all approach is not necessarily the best. The Unite Warriors page is a pretty good example of this - the new version looks quite scattered, and is actually MORE bloated (in both page size, and vertical scroll area) even though information has been omitted (model #'s). There's no reason why those 12 entries shouldn't just be a simple downwards list like it was before, with just the new insignia mini-icons added (and model #'s intact!).

Anyway, as I said before, I didn't mean to push this any further - I like tfwiki too much, and don't want to risk offending any of you who control the site. I sought only to help and to give some constructive feedback for consideration, from the viewpoint of an outside user who has found the information collected here invaluable, but happened to notice some of the pages being changed for the worse and becoming more difficult to use. Anyway, thanks again for your time & long live tfwiki... =)

(*if there was a way for me to mock up a sample update of one of the pages, and place it somewhere that's not in production, I could should you what I mean, but I don't know how to do that here...)

Divebomb/Grimlock

I'm not sure on the specifics, but I believe it's a real thing that Adventure Grimlock's new tooling has a bunch of really specific slots designed to fit Divebomb's armour pieces, for some weird reason. Jalaguy (talk) 06:11, 24 October 2017 (EDT)

Universe 2008 exclusives

[1] Seriously... Please explain to me why listing the exact same items in the same list (thereby implying they were separate items, when they were identical down to the packaging) is preferable over a shorter list with a brief note. Whether the formatting for the note could be improved is one thing, but why would we list multiple toys twice for each individual availability when we don't do that for any other toyline list? We don't list Titans Return Arcee three times under "San Diego Comic-Con", "Hasbro Toy Shop" and "Toys"R"Us" either. Shouldn't the priority be "which toys were released under this line and how were they available", not "which venues got which toys"?--Nevermore (talk) 05:47, 6 January 2018 (EST)

"Who does this and why"

I wasn't responsible, but I believe that the international standard date format (yyyy-mm-dd) has been being used to avoid confusion that might stem from using either British or American date format. What's the problem with it? --Riptide (talk) 07:31, 11 March 2018 (EDT)

I have literally NEVER seen that used in my life by anyone until someone started changing it on this wiki. Not once. What fucking confusion could there be? Is someone going to think "oh, that toy came out in 2006, on the 1987th of double-December"? --M Sipher (talk)

Well, uh, it is [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}ISO 8601|{{#if:the standard format for international communication|the standard format for international communication|ISO 8601}}]]. And obviously it's not confusing in that particular case, but if someone wrote 09-05-2005, are they talking about the 9th of May or September the 5th? On a wiki with significant quantities of both British and American-originated subject matter, I feel like it makes sense...? --Riptide (talk) 10:56, 12 March 2018 (EDT)

Expired spoiler tag

Could you please remove the spoiler tag from the Transformers 5 set visit page? It's the only expired tag left, and I don't have the permissions to do it myself. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 02:28, 16 April 2018 (EDT)

Thank you! -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 08:16, 16 April 2018 (EDT)

Why did you undo my revision?

Why did you undo my revision to the Aligned continuity family page? The information I added was correct, as Rescue Bots Academy will be taking place in the Aligned continuity. Vozhan (talk) 19:57, 3 October 2018 (EDT)

Block notice: "Abusing multiple accounts: Previously banned user." Banned users are not allowed to contribute even correct information. And here you are sockpuppeting again. Goodbye. - TBR (talk) 20:33, 3 October 2018 (EDT)

To be fair, though, they're absolutely right that RBA is looking to be Aligned continuity. Escargon (talk) 21:16, 3 October 2018 (EDT)

Kinda immaterial. --M Sipher (talk) 21:24, 3 October 2018 (EDT)

Just curious...

Hey, uh, how come you upload pictures under a new file instead of uploading a new version of previous file? Isn't it easier if you upload a new version, which also retains history? I don't personally have a problem with it, but I am curious... --notirishman (talk) 18:35, 24 October 2018 (EDT)

In the case of images, this can actually be a reasonable thing to do. When replacing stock images with user-taken images, it's better to delete the originals entirely because they're subject to copyright. --abates (talk) 22:46, 29 October 2018 (EDT)

Ahh, makes sense. --notirishman (talk) 22:47, 29 October 2018 (EDT)

User talk pages

"(Undo revision 1274491 by Cannonfodder4000 (talk) User talkpages are not to be blanked.)"

What's it to you if I blank my page? --Cannonfodder4000 (talk) 18 March 2019

See Transformers Wiki:User page. But, basically, blanking your talk page is seen as trying to hide your past and possibly avoid disciplinary action. --Khajidha (talk) 12:11, 18 March 2019 (EDT)

So almost ten years ago I get a warning cause I edited a caption before adding content, and I'm not allowed to remove it? I don't even do captions anymore but I do add content --Cannonfodder4000 (talk) 25 june 2019

Correct, you're not allowed to remove it. --M Sipher (talk) 16:49, 25 June 2019 (EDT)

Returning BotBot vandal?

I noticed ‎Evelynkwapong541 just showed up and started making similar if not identical edits to Kof4495. Since I know you were the one who banned the latter, can you please check the former out, see if we've got a block evasion on our hands? -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 14:47, 28 March 2019 (EDT)

Apology

Look Sipher, I know i’m not that good at making compromises with you or any of your associates, but you have to understand that I make these edits because I want to keep the BotBots section up to date, and I don’t edit just for fun. Hope you get the message

- Coughing Mickey.

That's not an apology. Breaking the rules to "fix" something is still breaking the rules. The BotBots articles will be fine (better in fact) without you. -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 21:42, 12 July 2019 (EDT)

The sheer lack of self-awareness here is brain-melting. Get THIS message.

You were warned, repeatedly, by many editors and admin, to stop what you were doing. You didn't get the message, so you were given a temp ban.

You didn't get that message, because you continued doing the exact same thing you were repeatedly told not to by many editors and admin, so the ban was made permanent.

You didn't get that message because you made a new account to circumvent the ban, which is also against the rules, to do the exact same thing you were repeatedly told not to by many editors and admin that got you permabanned.

You didn't get THAT message because you've come back a half-dozen times at least now, doing the same shit every time, every time it is reverted and you are re-banned within minutes.

At this point, I am forced to ask "Just how stupid ARE you?". You are not, and never will be welcome to edit this wiki, because you have shown repeatedly over the course of several months, and once again by posting what you did above, that you will not abide by this community's rules or standards. Go away. --M Sipher (talk) 02:42, 13 July 2019 (EDT)

Page deleted on the grounds of being "a severe reach"

Hi. I saw the Maximum overdrive page and thought I'd make a similar one for BW Optimus Primal's "Maximum Burn" command. It appears as often on Beast Wars as "Maximum Overdrive" does on Prime. Cyberlink420 told me the page got deleted by you. Would you explain how the page's creation or content were a severe reach? -- Nhaz (talk) 10:59, 16 July 2019 (EDT)

See, now I just see ANOTHER page that's a real reach and probably shouldn't exist. Other pages like this have been pointed out as well. Not every phrase said more than twice needs a page. It's like making a page for "look over there". --M Sipher (talk) 17:06, 16 July 2019 (EDT)

Fair enough. -- Nhaz (talk) 17:59, 16 July 2019 (EDT)

TF Prime The game

It's not a similiarity, just a comparison. RoboWarriorPrime (talk), 14 August 2019

You and Grum are completely ignoring my discussions, I'm trying to reason civilly with you two and ignoring me is the proof of intollerance, rudeness and backwardness. RoboWarriorPrime (talk), 14 August 2019