User:Derik

"If you want to criticize him, please go through the normal customer service channels." - Fanboy, after leapfrogging those channels to personally shower praise on Aaron Archer

Derik talks a good game, but he's really a big softy that goes all squooshy inside at the sight of kittens or Emo Boys kissing.

They're not just doing it for attention!

Derik can't spell woth a danm. Did you know Mozilla 2.0 has MS Word-style spell check on textarea boxes?

Feel free to yell at him on AIM: ReGenesis0

Things not to message Derik about: (culled from actual conversation)

• "I just sent an e-mail to the executive producer telling him what he needs to do better."
• "Did you delete my post?"
• "I had drunken sex with another dude at a furry convention in Canada, what do I do?"

He's also apparently a Mut-Org, whatever the hell that is.

Episode article style

Do we have a definative established style for the episode entries? Lately I've been editing the Armada ones to reflect the look of the new G1 episode articles. Also, I think the RID episodenav looks abit cluttered and would rather if it was just 'Preceeded by [episode number and name/link] Suceeded by [episode number and name/link]. --FFN 02:49, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Cluttered in what manner? 'prev episode' and 'next episode' being too close together? I agree they could use some air. -Derik 06:44, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, they were abit too close together. Needed to be more clearly seperated.

Re: Pics from other sites

If you admittedly borrow pics from other sites, particularly if its their own photography, please leave a link to the site on the image's page, just for some consistency when we wiki users borrow pics. --FFN 06:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Don't just credit, link, gotcha.

I appreciate the tangley ethical implications, and I try to avoid gloming others' pictures unless there's a compelling reason for it- especially TFU since their pictures are their content to a greater degree. In this case they had just the angle on Blastcharge I needed.  ;-) -Derik 06:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Derik's Resources

• Kabay - TF Gum pack-ins from 1990, Blacball,pre-robotmasters et-al.
• NTFA - TFU online (plus the odd-ends.)
• toyarchive.com - Double pretender pic, other goodness.
• Rapido's G2 Archive - For your G2 needs
• UK comic scans - No longer comprehensive dut to Titan Deference.
• Fred's workshop - For the odd bit of toy-refernece.
• TFarchive - Where tsarchive went.
• Transfans.net UK comcis guide - Scanned letters pages
• Baron Zemo's TF Museum - Revival pending

Wikimedia Resources

• MediaWiki:Monobook.css [1]
• User:Derik/monobook.css
• monobook/main.css To execute changes ask Suki Brits, since Walky is baffled by CSS.
• Wiki Parser Functions
• Wiki Table Markup

Backing up the Wiki

Database backups are very large, so always right-click save-as these links.

• Current Revision - Current version of all pages (~20mb of text as of 7-7-07)
• Full History All pages, all versions past & present. (~300mb as of 7-7-07)
• Images - All images (and other media like oggs I think...) in TAR format. (Surprisingly only ~630mb as of 7-7-07)
  
  
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