User talk:FortMax

Downshift (UT) move

Hey man, I hate to be a pain, but doesn't the style guide say to abbreviate Energon, Armada, and Cybertron as (UT)? He's not a Cybertron character, apparently, but we could mark on the page that he's from the Energon portion of the Unicon Trilogy continuity. - Doogles 21:31, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Doogles - The style guide is undergoing revision, see note on the community portal. It could probably be better marked. We had a long discussion on the Community Portal's talk page about it and eventually decided to use the franchise of origin for characters if and only if they needed disambiguation. So, no more "UT" suffixes. Sometime after Comic Con and the academic conference I'm going to right after that, I will update all the wiki's help pages. --Steve-o 22:29, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

"series Character"

No. I thought it was necessary after seeing how absurdly bloated the Generation 1 category was and thought it would make things much more organized. I'm only doing it for series that have a significant amount of articles that aren't characters; I'm not doing pointless ones like "Operation Combination characters", as only one article in "Operation Combination" isn't a character page. Same goes for stuff like Robot Masters and Victory.

My interpretation of the Generation 1 category differs from yours, evidently. I take "Generation 1" to be the catch-all category of the continuity family, which includes stuff like the Beast Era and Robot Masters. Obviously, this includes Classics. Interrobang 17:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the Generation 1 category was bloated and I think having a "Generation 1 characters" category to address that is a good thing. I also think that this sort of significant reshuffling of how we categorize things could probably have stood to have been thoroughly discussed somewhere, like the Community Portal's talk page, prior to implementation. --KilMichaelMcC 18:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

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David Kaye

I'm not sure about the word "regularly". In this context, it means Kaye has voiced both characters multiple times, and yeah, there are multiple episodes of Animated, but Animated should be taken as a whole. It's the only one series in which Kaye has voiced Optimus. "Regularly", used like this, I would expect to convey the same role across multiple series.

At the same time, G1 Megatron's speaking role in BW was so *small*... --Sntint 18:59, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

By your definition, Frank Welker's Galvatron wasn't a regular role, as he only voiced him for one full season + three episodes, where Kaye voiced Galvatron for three series.

For Animated, Prime is a regular role for Kaye. He was hired to voice the main protaginest for the entire series. This isn't like the VA for Sixshot, who was hired to voice one character in a single episode, Wally Burr who would fill in to voice a recurring character if the main VA was unavailiable, or the various regular VAs who would also voice the one line for "Guard #1" --FortMax 19:17, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I see what you're saying. For the record, I was going along the line of thought that "regular role" and "voiced regularly" were two seperate (though similar) uses of the word "regular". Apparently that line of thought isn't a common one, nor the one by which the word is used.

I still don't think the word needs to be there; the sentence makes perfect sense and is still noteable without it, unless I'm forgetting something. King Starscream, at least, seems to have used the same thought process I did, so the note as-is may again be considered inaccurate by others. --Sntint 20:50, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Lordhighannoyingstarscream 21:05, 16 January 2008 (UTC) I am a new user here and I am also sorry for the caption thing, but i just discovered that someone took away all the humourous captions and sarcasm in Vector Sigma's info page. he is a somwhat important character so I think somebody should look into that. I also had an idea for the Unicron Trilogy so if yoyu wanna fix anything i put a basic theme there as well as some content and images.

Edit conflict

My apologies about that. Believe me, I know what that's like. And it was on my own talk page. -- SFH 00:53, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Comic dates

Why did you add dates to to original miniseries, then make them "unknown"? The month for original publication of The Transformers was right, if nothing - I got it from an old issue of Marvel Age. --Monzo 15:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

crazysteve had made a post on a.t.t where he was trying to figure out the actual release dated for the original miniseries. the dated for issues 3 and 4 come from Marvel Age issues 21 and 24. He then deduced issue two came out on July 31 and issue 1 came out on may 29th. However, there was a review of issue 1 posted on net.comics at midnight on may 21, so I then removed the release dated for issues 1 and 2. --FortMax 15:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

... oh. Apparently I am a liar, as I not only did not add the month for issue #1, but - having dug out my copy of Marvel Age #17 - the original publication date for issue #1 was sometime in April. --Monzo 16:09, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Spoilers in profiles

For fuck's sake, stop putting spoilers in the character profiles! Those go in the Fiction sections, and always with the {{spoiler}} template. --FortMax 01:09, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Er, was there more than just the one? Because I was only aware of the one in Nanosec that got edited, and am not exactly sure how I merit a "for fuck's sake stop doing ____" notice.--Rosicrucian^Talk 01:14, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Note

Do not revert me, I have been instructed by staff to remove all edits by this user. --Charitwo 23:38, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

"Evidence" is present in the article history, btw, but you need not worry, this is being handled. --Charitwo 23:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

If you have problems, please talk to Catherine, I am following her instructions. --Charitwo 23:43, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Charitwo

Yeah, I just spotted who he was and apologized on his Talk page while you were messaging me.--Apcog 23:48, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Western Governors University

Hi -- I just responded to your post on Central about the audio ads. Thanks for spotting that ad -- you're right, it's not cool, and we killed it. It wasn't something that somebody at Wikia saw and approved... We get our ads from ad servers, and once in a while, they try to slip something through that crosses the line.

Unfortunately, that means that we only know about a bad ad when we see it, and sometimes, the users will see it before we do. I'm usually the person who notices them -- I'm on the wikis a lot, and I have a very low tolerance for distracting ads.

So if you see an ad like that again, please let me know -- you can leave me a message on my talk page here, and I'll make sure it's taken care of. It's important to me that we don't have ads on the site that drive users away.

Also, let me know if there's anything else I can help with. My thing is the Entertainment sites, and Teletraan I is one of the biggest and best. So I'm always available, if there's something you need. Talk to you later! -- Danny (talk) 22:58, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, I just came back to check and I saw the WGU ad again. I'll see if I can figure out why it's still running, and get it turned off for good. If you see it again, please let me know... -- Danny (talk) 00:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I was just making some edits, and I don't see the WGU ad coming up again. I'll come back later and check again. Let me know if you see it again. The code that you copied was perfect; if you spot it again, give me that code. Thanks! -- Danny (talk) 18:27, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I just saw it again... I'm sorry it's taking so long to get these shut off; I know how annoying they are. I'm trying to pin down the guy who works on the ads, and make sure he shuts it off. I'll let you know when it's done. -- Danny (talk) 20:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

All right, this time for real -- it's turned off. I'm sorry that it took so long! -- Danny (talk) 01:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

SciFi Wiki

Hey, I was wondering if you could come help out on the SciFi Wiki because we have no articles on Transformers (or if you could ask some other users on here to help, or suggest a way to ask more). Thanks!!!--UESPA 03:02, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Wouldn't that effort be redundant with what's going on here? --GrantB 03:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Elita One

So, I'm a little confused as to what you want to do with that article? -- SFH 01:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

I was seing if using the undo function to a version before there was anything becides a redirect would allow the Elita One article to be moved back.--FortMax 02:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Image sizes

Regarding the Road Caesar image you uploaded - take care with image sizes/quality. The wiki software should have warned you if you went over 150KB or something like. In an effort to keep image loading times reasonable and to save on the wiki's server space, when we have big images, we should use photoshop to adjust the image size and quality down to a reasonable file size. Thanks. Thanks for finding the new image too - I was bothered by the fact it had text and the component guys covering him. --FFN 02:49, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Odd, it gave me a warning, but that was for replacing an existing image. Also, I don't have Photoshop, and Paintbrush is horrible for, well, everything.

Blocking IP ranges

Sadly, I don't even have access to what his IP address is. Given that accounts are universal across Wikia and all that, I assume it's only the Wikia staff who can see it. I don't know if it'd do much good anyway; it's SUPPOSED to ban his IP address each time, so unless he just has a dynamic IP (which isn't really that likely nowadays), he's probably using proxies.

It sort of sucks. --Suki Brits 07:25, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

You are no fun at all.

Seriously. -hx 21:08, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

SOR-EEE!!!

my bro has hacked in2 my user. i will change my password now. he made arcee 4 me and i have been usin that same password ever since. American Girl 13:49, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

What do you mean?

What you mean how cute? Are you insulting me?

Oh ok

Yah I was just showing my brother the floro Dery article and I felt like makin a little joke aboot how he always says he isnt him. I mean yah noones gonna actually think Im Floro dery ,Its just a little......joke ,kinda like ,IDK Im not Floro.Imnotflorodery 00:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Destro oy

Do you remember a user called destro oy? If so that was me. I forgot my password so I made a new acount.Imnotflorodery 00:35, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

The Doctor

Any particular reason for the revert? You didn't cite one.

He put a caption bastard tag on your talk page, that should tell you what you did wrong.--AWT88 02:34, 26 April 2009 (EDT)

Yea, it would be, except for the fact that nothing in Wiki: caption seemed to argue against it. I've edited here before, under varying ISP's, and to assume otherwise is bad faith. If nothing else, it hardly behooved me to know you guys had taken such thigns to mean "signed up members only." 198.146.55.145

Just made an official account. I'll try to remember to get my work credited to me from now on. Whole thing still reeks of bad faith at best. Still, its vaguely similar to policy, so I can't entirely blame FortMax.Turkishproverb

It's not that you weren't signed in, it's just that all you contributed was a caption, and just doing those without doing anything else first is kinda frowned upon. It took me a couple of weeks being signed on before I realized what was going on.--AWT88 10:50, 26 April 2009 (EDT)

The Sandboxes

Actually, those are supposed to get deleted. See Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal#Sandbox clearout. Interrobang didn't get trigger-happy on that. --Jeysie 07:32, 17 March 2010 (EDT)

The problem is that most of the ones he tagged are wiki related, be it in-progress templates, Energon cartoon generics, or toy data. --FortMax 11:58, 17 March 2010 (EDT)

No problem there. People who are planning to actually finish and use their sandboxes at some point can just remove the tag (like I did). --Jeysie 12:32, 17 March 2010 (EDT)

There's such a thing as disagreeing with someone's views...

And then there's "shouting and condescendingly attacking the other person instantly". I'm sticking to the first option here, and kindly ask you to read this, which I wrote six minutes before you complained on my talk page. (You may have read it in the meantime, hence I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt.)--Nevermore 09:21, 2 September 2010 (EDT)

G-2 logo

I've been looking for a copy of the G-2 logo to upload and your instruction archive has the nicest copy I can find. Any objection to having it used on the Wiki? --Tigerpaw28 12:58, 23 September 2010 (EDT)

Depends. I don't know if the one for the US page is official. But feel free to use the others. (Also, I can probably get a better version of the Japanese logo, the one on my site is a downsized scan from my Laser Prime box.) --FortMax 13:41, 23 September 2010 (EDT)

The Japanese one is the one I'm looking for actually (hence my spelling of G-2). If you could get a better version that would be great. I want to set up our G2 nav template so that the different logos (American/European & Japanese) show up for their relevant pages. --Tigerpaw28 13:54, 23 September 2010 (EDT)

Feel free to use it as a placeholder for now. --FortMax 13:55, 23 September 2010 (EDT)

Thank you!

Thank you for cleaning up my mess from auto updating the templates. I tried to look them over last night but completely missed that the pipe characters were gone. I've fixed the bug that caused that. I will have to be more thorough when checking my work in the future. --Tigerpaw28 (talk) 20:35, 8 June 2022 (EDT)

Shockwave batteries

Am I understanding this correctly: the Takara version of Shockwave came with a battery-shaped gap in the styrofoam and into that gap they put a picture of the battery? Did they do this for other toys? --Thylacine 2000 (talk) 13:11, 25 February 2025 (EST)

This is unique to the Takara release of Shockwave. They reused the styrofoam from ToyCo's Astro Magnum (which did include a battery). The picture has the text 電池(別売)か入らます, which means "Can hold battery (sold seperately) here", probably so people wouldn't think they were missing a battery that was supposed to be included. A close up is at 2:12 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaS2943Od84 --FortMax (talk) 16:14, 2 March 2025 (EST)