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?

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.