Sorry, I clicked the wrong pair of edits for comparison when I was checking who wrote what. Should've guessed GWolfv2 was behind all the unsigned edits; he established a pattern.--Apcog 15:16, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Maintenance edits
When doing a large number of maintenance edits on a long list of articles, please mark the edits as minor. It's not crucial, but it does help cut through some of the recent changes clutter. Thanks.--RosicrucianTalk 19:47, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Monaco 2 on Wikia test box.
Change your default Monaco skin to "Beach" and you should be good.--RosicrucianTalk 15:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
What are you doing?
We're going to automate copying pages from the downloaded cache files. You don't need to do redundant work, it's just going to get overwritten. --Suki Brits 14:42, 18 March 2009 (EDT)
"Again"
Actually, we are ALL cleaning up after Bookworm. For my part, I was just cleaning up after the import script broke all the Wiki formatting, and you don't see me singling out the import-scriptwriter by name. I have already admitted that I can't tell one line of code from another, which is why I ask questions when things seem to go wrong as I attempt to follow the basic instructions on Damage Control. --Thylacine 2000 15:36, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
I meant it light-heartedly - that's why I did the :p. I wasn't trying to slam you (after umpteen hours of this, I'm probably a bit skewish, that said...) - SanityOrMadness 15:40, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
Discussion page recovery
Derik's tool has been updated to deal with indenting of comments. However- it still doesn't deal with LONG pages well, so you'll have to break it up. :(
This version (3.0i) does only the indenting and headers. Run a big page through this first to clean out most of the junk, then paste chunks into 2.5 to clean them up. (It's not a good solution, but it beats nothing.) -Derik 03:10, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
"Marvel Properties"
Primus, really? Well, I feel like a moron...but then how is G.B. Blackrock used with no problems in the recent reprints? Thanos6 02:26, 3 May 2009 (EDT)
Not entirely sure - up until #73, only Circuit Breaker is claimed by Marvel; but from #74 to the end of the series, they all are. I half-suspect they were sold by Hasbro TO Marvel around that point, and possibly they were allowed to reprint the earlier issues with them as part of the deal (I'm actually not sure why IDW are having such trouble in the first place - Titan reprinted all the issues involving Marvel stuff with no trouble, even the one with Spider-Man). - SanityOrMadness 04:44, 3 May 2009 (EDT)
What amazes me is that for years and years I'd seen it said that Hasbro owns all those characters and not Marvel, but apparently somehow no one noticed the indica saying otherwise until now? --KilMichaelMcC 05:12, 3 May 2009 (EDT)
Click for legible versionI don't understand it myself - especially the fact that from their début (Blackrock in the early issues, the other NKs in #68) until #73, they AREN'T claimed in the indicia for Marvel (except for Circuit Breaker), but, well, click the image for the bigger version. I've submitted this as a question for the Q&A, so try & lean on Walky... - SanityOrMadness 10:01, 3 May 2009 (EDT)
"Patronizing Dick"
I had always heard that as "Specialist skills", but whatever. You were right on that.
As for "judgement" - Judgment is the primary and correct spelling, judgement is an incorrect "variant" that is accepted because people still know what you're talking about, even if it's technically a misspelling (you can even see this if you open up the edit screen). As you're the one who reverted the correct spellings for four instances in that edit, I don't see how I was the one being the dick.KrytenKoro 20:37, 17 May 2009 (EDT)
Oi! "Judgement" is the Queen's bleedin' English, my old cocksparrow! Incorrect variant indeed! Bloody foreigners! :-P - Chris McFeely 20:52, 17 May 2009 (EDT)
It is? Never mind then. "Judgment" still wasn't incorrect in the first place, though.
Never mind. I'm going to go ahead now and say you win on this SM, because I honestly couldn't give a crap about a spelling argument.
Is there a particular reason you edited the unsigned comments on discussion page on the female Starscream Clone the way you did, rather than just using the {{unsigned}} template? If you weren't sure how its formatting works, just check that page now so you can see how I reworked it.--Apcog 12:22, 18 May 2009 (EDT)
I did use the unsigned template - I just subst:ed it to save the fairly pointless transclusion. If the server's falling over on a regular basis, you don't template silly things. SanityOrMadness 12:59, 18 May 2009 (EDT)
Sorry, rather than a familiar template, I saw what appeared to be manually typed code, including a span command for reducing the font size (which I've never seen show up when using the template). And as I'm not familiar with the term "subst:ed", I'm afraid you're talking over my head there. I'm not sure how it saves having a transclusion, pointless or otherwise. Wait...was this meant to be something to maintain the "unsigned" format if the template doesn't come along with the eventual server transfer?--Apcog 20:06, 18 May 2009 (EDT)
If you type {{subst:TEMPLATE}} instead of {{TEMPLATE}}, than instead of grabbing the template at each and every page load, it grabs it once and saves the output of the template code to the page instead. Calling the template incurs a processing overhead on the server, and on stuff like {{unsigned}}, where long-term formatting changes are unlikely and not particularly important, and is used on talk pages rather than article pages, I generally throw the subst: in unless there's a good reason not to. - SanityOrMadness 20:14, 18 May 2009 (EDT)
Hmm...learn something new every day. For instance, I just now discovered from your response there's such a thing as a "tl" template that calls a link to the template cited after the pipe. Aside from that, I wasn't aware of any processing overhead incurred by template calls; I thought that once it was done, it was "remembered" on that page.--Apcog 16:22, 19 May 2009 (EDT)
Grimlock Main Pic
I admire your enthusiasm. But there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that folks will allow that main pic to be changed. Have a look at the Talk:Springer (G1) page for my attempt at changing a main pic :) Drmick 09:56, 20 June 2009 (EDT)
