User:Abates/Community Portal archive index

Archived Community Portal discussions. Some less relevant discussions are left out.

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?