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I don't know which episodes these are from - feel free to tag them with {{MFcap}} or {{Energoncap}} if you know!

Diver from Masterforce
Some dude from Energon

Moderators

Hi! Just wanted to ask if all moderators were chosen during the early days of TFwiki. Thanks. Optimus Prime (Convoy) (talk) 03:41, 1 January 2015 (EST)

By the way, apparently iOS doesn't like to allow users to view recent edits, histories or even edit at all.Optimus Prime (Convoy) (talk) 03:44, 1 January 2015 (EST)

The admins were gradually picked over the years the wiki has been in operation (almost ten years now!) --abates (talk) 04:32, 1 January 2015 (EST)

Small favor

While extracting Macro's backstory from the game files, two letters didn't come out right. I don't know much about Transformers Lore and just wondering if you got any suggestions on what each of the letters might be? (Considering the rest of Macro's backstory does seem mention references to existing locations in TF lore.) Here's the words that contain missing letters:

"Speed*a"
"Tower of *ion"

Plasmapause (talk) 16:17, 5 January 2015 (EST)

For the first, there's the Speedia 500 - Speedia is also the Japanese name for Velocitron.

For the second, probably the Tower of Pion. --abates (talk) 16:28, 5 January 2015 (EST)

That certainly fits in perfectly, many thanks for your help! -- Plasmapause (talk) 16:48, 5 January 2015 (EST)

Double-redirects

Sorry, forgot t'check the really obvious bits! - SanityOrMadness (talk) 05:34, 21 January 2015 (EST)

No worries! --abates (talk) 05:50, 21 January 2015 (EST)

Image Import Error

I stuck a bunch of files with no description whatsoever in C:IIE a while back in the hope it might prompt someone to identify where they came from. - SanityOrMadness (talk) 06:19, 8 February 2015 (EST)

That's really a situation where applying a template would be better, I think. They're more visible on the image description than a category is. :) --abates (talk) 14:32, 8 February 2015 (EST)

Fair point. I think I didn't want to create the template at the time. - SanityOrMadness (talk) 19:24, 8 February 2015 (EST)

Paper Magic Group

Dunno what's going on with them, but we usually have 2 - 3 sets a year from them with the same name despite covering different continuities. I find that sticking a franchise tag on each page is likely the best way to keep them apart. Ironhold (talk) 16:46, 25 February 2015 (EST)

WWOD image

Any chance you could replace File:RID2015-BumblebeecontactsOptimus.jpg with a better-quality 16:9 image? Its mismatch with the other images on the page is really bugging me. Saix (talk) 04:42, 6 May 2015 (EDT)

Sorted! --abates (talk) 04:53, 6 May 2015 (EDT)

Thank you! Saix (talk) 04:57, 6 May 2015 (EDT)

Can you do the same for File:RID-bumblebeeholdsdebris.jpg? Saix (talk) 02:05, 2 June 2015 (EDT)

I've been meaning to start a discussion about replacing that as a main image, actually. Typically our main images are either something notable about the episode, or a particularly funny moment, and that image seems like neither to me. I need to find a better suggestion first though! Just haven't gotten around to looking. --abates (talk) 02:47, 2 June 2015 (EDT)

TFU Weapons

Hello Abates. Sorry to bother you, but I saw that you fixed the Badlands Saws page when I noted it was missing some info. After I found that, I double-checked the rest of the TFU weapons and found that the Badlands Saws were also missing the "tip quote" most of the other pages had. On top of that, the pages for the Assail Laser Rifle, Atomic Axe, Galactic Axe, Lambda Pulse Blaster, Maxima Missile Launcher, Positron Shotgun, Solo SMGs, and Vice Heavy Grenade Launcher are all missing their tip quotes AND their info underneath their images. I had made a note of it on the Badlands Saws talk page, but it's been a few days since I posted it and it hasn't changed and I unfortunately cannot make the changes myself. "SoundJack426 (talk) 10:14, 28 December 2015 (EST)"

Hey, it's not too difficult to find the info. If you go to the page of the owner of the weapon, it'll have a link to their profile page in the references section. Though the Transformers Universe site no longer exists, you can go to the Internet Archive and put the URL in to see what it looked like when it was operational. E.G. this is Doubletake's profile page: [1]. --abates (talk) 15:01, 28 December 2015 (EST)

Ok! Thank you very much for showing me that! I'll take care of those other pages now. "SoundJack426 (talk) 17:30, 28 December 2015 (EST)"

"Fleshy" versus "Fleshie"

I saw that you spelled the word "F-L-E-S-H-I-E" here. Is this an acceptable spelling of the word in your reigon? I haven't been able to find anything suggesting that this is the case in my Google searches, but I thought I'd double check before dismissing your spelling as "incorrect". -Foffy the Sheep (talk) 16:16, 19 January 2016 (EST)

Ordinarily it should be "fleshy," but "fleshie" may be how the game spells it. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 16:45, 19 January 2016 (EST)

Fleshie as in a zombie made from a fleshie, not a zombie which is fleshy. It's not a term that is used in the game, as far as I recall. --abates (talk) 16:50, 19 January 2016 (EST)

Ooooooohhhhhh. In that case, it should stay the way it is. Glad I checked. Cheers! -Foffy the Sheep (talk) 17:04, 19 January 2016 (EST)

Redirect to delete

"Conspicuously-unnamed senator", since it's protected and I can't tag it to be deleted. Saix (talk) 16:50, 22 January 2016 (EST)

Sorted! --abates (talk) 19:32, 22 January 2016 (EST)

Tarantulas

Sorry about that. In my excitement I thought his minimal involvement in the two released issues was sufficient for that to go in the intro section. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 (talk) 16:58, 25 January 2016 (EST)

Erring on the safe side is usually best where spoilers are concerned, and it's best to wait until the whole issue comes out before adding info from it anyway. I mean it's unlikely, but on the pages we haven't seen, he might go "HAHAHA! Only kidding, I'm actually Sideways." --abates (talk) 19:36, 25 January 2016 (EST)

Page histories to be merged

I think Noble (BM) has missing history under "Noble/Savage"? Saix (talk) 15:44, 11 February 2016 (EST)

Yep, done! --abates (talk) 16:53, 11 February 2016 (EST)

Pages to delete for moves

Since, obviously, it's hard to pick those out from all of my automated edits, the following pages need to be deleted so that articles can be moved: BuggyMan, Big Convoy, Legion. I'll let you know if there's any other ones. Saix (talk) 07:46, 12 March 2016 (EST)

Red Wing still needs to be deleted so Red Wing (MW) can be moved. Saix (talk) 12:52, 1 April 2016 (EDT)

Oh! My apologies. I was flying through them and didn't notice that one had a different deletion reason. I'll try to take better care to check the deletion reason in future. --abates (talk) 15:23, 1 April 2016 (EDT)

It's alright! Thanks for getting to that. Saix (talk) 15:27, 1 April 2016 (EDT)

If you get the time, could you delete the following: Airachnid, Dalton, Kicker, Headlock? All of the Hot Rod (G1) redirects probably need to be deleted too, since we have TLK Hot Rod now. Saix (talk) 06:26, 3 January 2017 (EST)

Thanks for the above. Could you also take care of Blitz? Saix (talk) 10:26, 5 January 2017 (EST)

And Thunder, now I've noticed it. Saix (talk) 10:15, 6 January 2017 (EST)

No problem! --abates (talk) 21:18, 6 January 2017 (EST)

Can you move "Sparky (Robotix)" to "Sparky"? S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 (talk) 15:49, 8 January 2017 (EST)

As well as "Beamer (Autobot)", "Ace (G.I. Joe)", "Bolt (G1)", "Twister (Armada)", "Boomer (G1)", "Loco (RID)", "Pincher (G1)", and "Gong (Go-Bots)"? S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 (talk) 16:17, 8 January 2017 (EST)

Some of those didn't actually need an admin to move them (it's only if the target redirect has been edited that you need to have admin privileges) but they're all done now anyway. --abates (talk) 16:40, 8 January 2017 (EST)

Thanks, abates! S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 (talk) 16:49, 8 January 2017 (EST)

Can you move "Obsidian (Kre-O combiner)" to "Obsidian (Kre-O)"? And "Hot Rod" to "Hot Rod (G1)"? S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 (talk) 17:39, 21 January 2017 (EST)

Upload Images

How do i become able to upload images? I tried to add some but it says insobt have permission to creat a new page. Thanks. Wellofallsparks (talk)

Episode Template

I'm interested in replicating the code used for the "prev" and "next" buttons on other wikis, if that's okay. It looks like the button is handled as a "tti_buttonlink" class, which means I don't know where the code for it is held. Could you help me figure that out?KrytenKoro (talk) 14:02, 2 May 2016 (EDT)

Hey! It's about halfway down this page. --abates (talk) 16:23, 2 May 2016 (EDT)

Image upload preview

Hey abates, are you aware of how the summary box Preview button when uploading an image works? Looking to get it on the IDW Hasbro Wiki, but I can't find anything relating to it in either of the TFWiki CSS files, and have no idea how else it could be triggered. Thanks. Jalaguy (talk) 07:10, 3 January 2017 (EST)

It's in MediaWiki:Common.js, should be easy to spot! --abates (talk) 15:07, 3 January 2017 (EST)

Ah, excellent, forgot that was a thing! Thanks! Jalaguy (talk) 18:05, 3 January 2017 (EST)

I keep meaning to get around to changing it to filter out the error message that comes back with the preview, but if you want to have a try, feel free! --abates (talk) 21:37, 3 January 2017 (EST)

Oh, pfft, I'm not sure my meager JS knowledge would stretch to that... On a related note, though, I've yet to actually get this working on the IDW wiki. Don't think it's cache related since it's been a couple of days now. D'you know if there are any other chunks of code the preview function needs to work, or is it more likely to be some random incompatibility with ShoutWiki's MediaWiki installation? Jalaguy (talk) 11:57, 5 January 2017 (EST)

ShoutWiki is using Mediawiki 1.28 versus our 1.19, so I think it's likely to be something's changed between versions that broke the Javascript. I tried Googling to see if there was an update to the preview code (not sure where Derik got it from), but it looks like preview is now built in possibly. --abates (talk) 14:34, 5 January 2017 (EST)

And another thing...

Sorry for more queries, but d'you know if there's a potential tweak to Template:Nav on GBWiki that would put the logo above the text box, on the right, instead over in the middle? I've figured the right alignment but don't know enough markup to get it up above the box... Thanks. Jalaguy (talk) 14:37, 9 January 2017 (EST)

The whole thing's already in a table, so you should be able to just change style="width: 100%;" at the top to style="float: right" and add a |- to start a new row right after the imagemap. --abates (talk) 15:22, 9 January 2017 (EST)

Fistfight (SG)

Thanks for letting me know why you reverted my Fistfight (SG) edit. Transhuman explicitly states his colors, and since This character has no official visual representation whatsoever... yet, at least... i thought the article should mention his deco. And, since so many SG characters take their color schemes from their G1 namesakes' rivals, Tyrannitron (partnered with one of the Dinobots, known for squaring off against Shockwave) seemed like a good guess at authorial intent--but it is just a guess. (Catgut is orange and black, too.) Hopefully this is cleared up in a more concise, humorous fashion in my new edit. --Rhymus (talk) 21:02, 22 January 2017 (EST)