User:Abates/Community Portal archive index

Archived Community Portal discussions. Some less relevant discussions are left out. For entertainment purposes only.

Archive 1 (Mar-May 2006)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• "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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• Monaco skin — HAI GUYZ! WE AT WIKIA ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU A NEW SKIN FREE! (new skin is mandatory)

Archive16 (Apr-Jun 2008)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• "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)

• 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)

• Incorporating contradictory portrayals into a single intro — Using multiversal designations for different portrayals.

Archive29 (Jan 2009)

• 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)

• 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 2014.
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• "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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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?