User talk:Derik/Archive

"CSS changes"

What are you talking about? You asked me if it was possible to do something once, I'm vaguely aware of you working on something code-wise, but that's frankly it. If you're going to passive-aggressively snipe at me to do what random thing you want me to do in article comments, forget it. If you want something from me, ASK. Politely, and without the attitude. --ItsWalky 21:39, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, I assumed you'd seen the original request in recent changes since you were doing edits at the same time, I hoped to avoid cluttering your already-busy user talk page with something I could communicate elsewise.

Guess you never saw it, my bad. :( This will teach me to assume your omniscience. This is what I was referring to. It's a block wikiipedia-standard CSS used for a variety of messagebox formats.

If you want to test if out on your personal css file first, stick the code here. You can see the classes at work Beast Wars.-Derik 23:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and put it all in. It all looks good to me.

(Plus, I can't say no to an adorable Junkion. Ever.) --Suki Brits 00:59, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Man, I totally have to lean to keep rack of who has admin privileges here. Normally I just take my problem to Walky, which has to get old for him too...

Thanks Suki! -Derik 01:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Storylinks

Please please please please PLEASE stop float-righting the storylinks. --ItsWalky 16:34, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

They look better that way. -Derik 16:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey, Derik -- about the audio adventures you asked about last week... maybe? Or, yeah. Looks like yes: Bumblebee to the Rescue, Espionage, Menace at the Dam, and Terror of Mount Sheelah. I just suck at keeping websites updated. You know the feeling, I think. But anyway, I have them already, thanks.  :)

--Steve-o 01:25, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Uh... a spoiler template, aside from Template:Spoiler?

--Steve-o 04:10, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

That's the cutest catboy I've ever seen! --Crockalley 14:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Arbitron's continutiy is: medium-complicated.

Country: US / UK (countries he's appeared in in some capacity, if it jumps the english/japanese border it's just 'international')

Range:

• Generation 1: Marvel: UK (first appearance)
• Generation 1: Blackthorne: #4 (flashack)
• Robots in Disguise (mention)
• Beast Era: Beast Wars: Wreckers
• Generation 1: Dreamwave: MtMtE (mention)

Note: Arbitron's deal with Megatron takes place in many different continuities. Wreckers #4 is his only appearance after these events.

"Continuity is for beginners." -Scott Page Pageter

The problem with that chart is that it tells you so very little that the italicized intro and the table of contents at the beginning of a page don't already. After all, the table of contents tells you specifically which fiction stuff he's been in at a glance. There's absolutely no need to tell that information twice. --ItsWalky 04:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Arbitron's habitat/ambit

Country: US / UK
First Appearance: Marvel UK

Ambit: Arbitron's deal with Megatron is referenced in many continuities. Wreckers #4 is his only other signifigant appearance.

"Continuity is for beginners." -Scott Page Pageter

I've already been arranging the first fictional appearance of a character first in the list of fictions. (With the exception of Unicron, of course, who's a living ongoing retcon.) So I'm not sure how needed the "showed up first" thinger would be. Alpha Trion shows up first in the cartoon, thus "Animated continuity" is his first fiction section. --ItsWalky 05:14, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

*shrug* I happen to think the absolute mass of continutiy listings for characters, often containing the most minor refs, is... frankly bad. I further feel it handles the splintered nature of tf badly.

But then, I think Robotmasters shoudl be a sub-section of Generation 1, because it's set in G1, not its own side-thing. In short- I think the arrangement of the continuities has meanings, and this 'puttign the first appearance first' can, potentially anihilate those meanings.

What i liked about muy first pass at this was that it had a continuity drilldown. Generation 1 :: Marvel :: US That's a clear hierarchy.

We're inconsistent about hierarchy. I see characters listed as 'Dreamwave Comics Continuity,' with no parentign hierarchy. (I construe G1 from the italics at the top.) Dreamwave published in 6 distinct continuities.

Generation 1 => Cartoon => Redemption Center (Starscrem's amnesiac adventure)

Generation 1 => Cartoon => RobotMasters - (Air Hunter)

Generation 1 => Cartoon => Rebirth => Blackthorne #3 - (The Destructons or whatever...)

Beast Era: => Beast Wars Cartoon => Expanded Continuity :: Wreckers - (Fractly)

Beast Era: => Beast Wars Cartoon => Expanded Continuity :: IDW - (LioConvoy)

Beast Era: => Beast Wars Cartoon => Expanded Continuity :: RobotMasters - (Psycho Orb's continuity of origin)

Beast Era: => Pre-Beast Wars => Dreamwave - (Megatron's rename)

Beast Era: => Pre-Beast Wars => Timelines - (MasterColelctor's theft of the disk)

Beast Era: => Pre-Beast Wars => Wreckers - (Cryotek is the crimelord who organized the theft)

Generation 1 => Toyline => Action Master Boxback - (Where Axer started from)

Robots in Disguise => Expanded Universe - (Where he ended up)

Generation 1 => Toyline => Action Master Boxback - (Nucleon Quest Super Convoy)

Generation 1 => Joe Crossovers => TF/Joe Comic - (Nathaniel appears)

Generation 1 => Dreamwave - (Nathaniel mentioned)

This is a really stupid system. But it has a real advantage vs listing '3H Continuity' followed by 'MasterCollector Continuity.' Here you csn see- "They're both expanded continuities that consider the cartoon cannon for how they operate- but they diverge from that point and do not overlap."

What I'm gettign to is- hierarchy is important. Hierarchy conveys information.

And TF's continuity hierarchy is really, really wierd. NQSC.

/Generation 1/JG1/Post-Battlestars/../../Toyline/ Action Master Boxback

...guh!

Dont' tell me I'm overthinking it. I KNOW I'm overthinking it for this- but since TF is clearly hierachical in nature, I'm still gonna fight single-suffixing, because it fails to convey hierarchy. ^_^ -Derik 06:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Wouldn't all this be better served via information within the articles expressly ABOUT the fictions and continuities THEMSELVES, perhaps with a flowchart of the variety presented in the Fun Pulications magazine, than creating some horrible crushing mess in every single character article where such matters frankly are not RELEVANT and creating a massive hidous arbitrary disorganiztion system? --M Sipher 06:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I SAID this was a bad system!

I still don't think appending series to the end of article title sis a good one either. -Derik 12:52, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I see characters listed as 'Dreamwave Comics Continuity,' with no parentign hierarchy. (I construe G1 from the italics at the top.)

....yeah. I know. That construing is the point. There's absolutely no reason to specify that it's Generation 1 animated continuity if the top of the page specifically says he's in the G1 continuity. That's why it's done that way. --ItsWalky 15:40, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Communicating with other users

For the love of God, use the user talk pages the next time you want to tell another user something. I've already said Spengler on his talk page about image copyrights. This is a better method than expecting other users to look at Recent changes and see you screaming your lungs out over something they didn't know. Singularity 06:37, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Guess you used it already. Never mind, then. Singularity 06:38, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I would consider that 'patiently explaining point by point.' The flat rock bit is a running gag.

And yes, I could just put it on his user talk page- but I had to adjust all those images anyway- so why not amuse myself with the memo field? Otherwise they'd all jsut read 'copyright'.

Er- consider me duly chastised. I'll be nicer. -Derik 06:40, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

You seemed pretty agitated, and I felt sorry for Spengler. If you were just having fun, sorry for the misunderstanding. Singularity 06:48, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Giving absolutely no tells by which someone listening to me could discern if I was joking is an annoying habit I picked up from one of my ex-supervisors.

I eventually realised that he thought people's deer-in-the-headlight responses to his dead-serious black-humored treatment of them was hilarious. I got tired or guessing and just never took him seriously.

He fired me. Nice guy. (I mean that last bit seriously, he's a great guy. GREAT sense of humor. Not so much fun to be on the recieving end.) -Derik 07:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Image copyrights

Ah'm gittin' to it, boy! Just getting the article up first! :) - Chris McFeely 21:49, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Matrix of Conquest

Kudos on the very nice coloring of the Matrix of Conquest. And I really shouldn't have clicked the link in your profile. --Richardstone 08:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Things that don't exist

No, but seriously, that Decepticon Matrix article probably needs to be a redirect of some sort. --Suki Brits 04:40, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

G2 Annual

Yeah, I own the G2 annual. I scanned the profile pages from it a while back, which I think have been floating around the internet. I need to do more with it, but as it's mostly text stories with unrelated images (mainly box art), I lose interest quickly - though I do specifically remember Deftwing showing up and doing stuff.

(There IS a strip story, too, but it's a weird retelling of how the Autobots met the Dinobots...) --Monzo 10:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I have scans of the first third, I loce it. It's so insane. (Rakash is the only other person I knwo that owns a copy, abnd her computer bloo'd int he middle of scannign it for me, and now it's in storage someplace...)

...there's a request to scan the rest of it buried in there somewhere. (Well, a request to scan all of it- I had the implicit assumption that I'm going to be able to recover mys cans of the first 3rd off my dead hard drive.) -Derik 10:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Note to self: File:JointronFiesta1.gif

Digimon Savers

I shall reply here!

Personally, I think it's got a lot better, yes. The first episode did not exactly grab me - it seemed, to me, to be using in a serious way all those silly anime cliches that Medabots (if you ever watched that) went out of its way to make fun of. In comparison with past Digimon series, which I always felt had a strong "Western" tinge to them, this one is very "Anime," if you know what I mean. Particularly, there's the really quite ridiculous "wise old fisherman who's there whenever you need him to give you an obscure metaphor that coincidentally applies to your current predicament." Ironically enough, turns out the show's being... what is, directed, or... has the head writer of... whatever... of Medabots itself. So I guess it knows what it's doing in that regard. But they've taken that character and made him make a bit more sense recently. And there are a lot of things I DO like about the show. The characters, particularly defied the expectations I had of them when I saw the character designs. I like that they allowed Masaru's family to find out about Agumon right away - their relationship is VERY Ikki-and-Metabee. I like the show's portrayal of the Digital World and human interaction with it, and I REALLY like that they've taken a Gotsumon - a Digimon who has, historically, always been a goofly, harmless, fun little character - and made him into a nasty, scheming bastard. - Chris McFeely 22:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Power Rangers query

Are you actually the guy mentioned here? Interrobang 06:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Yup!  :-) -Derik 09:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Derik natters

I'm just doing this on my page because Walky's talk page is dedicated to more important subjects.

So, Del...

Read "The Magnificent Six" recently, did you? :) - Chris McFeely 15:42, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Someoen has to go through it. Seeing Walky's perfunctory bio of steamhammer go up that didnt' even mention he was a triplechanger spurred me into action. And I figured- might as well do it THROUGHLY. -Derik 15:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Junpei from the G2 Manga

You expressed interest in Junpei from the G2 manga. I just finished translating the entire thing. I warn you, though. This thing is *awful*. --DrSpengler 00:08, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Autotrooper divisions

Can we get a list of the Autotrooper devisions? I think they're based on the zodiac animals...? (I have no idea what those divisions would be though.) -Derik 13:08, 17 October 2006 (PDT)

I uploaded an image from Autorooper's box that shows the different zodiac signs and what districts they're assigned to. Mostly in Japanese, though. Evan1975 06:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Danke, I noticed when it went up.  :) -Derik 08:46, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

urhere

I like the urhere template, but I think the template could be made better by replacing the "previous/next episode" link text with the name of the episode or comic issue. That way, the same template can be used with all fiction. --FortMax 17:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Possibly. Discussing with Steve-O, I think we concluded there were enough 'issues' with presenting the information in comics that it made more sense to create one template for cartoon episodes (Of which there are about 600) and another one for comics (Of which there are... also about 600.)

I'll be moving the 'urhere' template to something like 'Episodetop' tonight, and writing some proper documentation.

IMO, the real advantage of making them seperate templates is you can say Template:Episodetop and it's obvious you mean the G1 cartoon- not one of the two-dozen other forms 'G1' can take. If the same template was used for somics, you'd need to look up every time- 'okay, what're we calling the franchise'? Makign this one cartoon-only signifigantly simplifies its use.

I do intend to make a similar topper template for comic issues... but I want to get this workign first and shake out any bugs. (Like- I'd liek ot have a link to the overall 'continuity family' somewhere... but I'm not sure where/how.)-Derik19:07, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

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