User talk:Caswin
Go-Bots
"Challenge of the Go-Bots" is not considered to be a Transformers continuity family. The section you edited was referring to the Playskool Go-Bots and their accompanying fiction. This line was intended for children five and under.--RosicrucianTalk 04:13, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- Hence my immediate "oops, that was a mistake" reaction and immediately trying to turn it back. Apparently, M Sipher is faster on the draw. Caswin 04:14, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the episode synopsis. In the future, you may find it easier to use an existing episode for a template when creating a new one. For example, I used Space in my revision of End. JW 15:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- You're certainly welcome, and thanks for the template. I actually worked off of Cybertron (episode) - the "default" one seemed a little complex to start off with, but I'll be using it from now on. Caswin 15:32, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- ...Ah, thanks for calling Cybertron (episode) to my attention . . . JW 15:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- Yah, the default template has a lot of stuff in it, but it's allowed to leave most of it to be done later. You can also stick an {{inprogress}} template at the top of the article, if you plan to be working on it for a while, and don't want other people to mess with it until you're done. JW 15:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
- That Cybertron (episode) really needs to be rewritten or deleted, since it's pretty lazy. Oh, JW, most of our current episode articles place the Stats section (with the credits and character box) before the Quotes section. I don't believe we ever resolved the discussion about this, so it's probably best if you don't reformat articles with that arrangement in the future, since it creates an inconsistentcy with past and very recent articles. --FFN 09:18, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
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My mistake. I shouldn't have been editing that late. Given that I was writing about how a joke rested on a faulty premise and didn't add anything to the article, while at the same time explaining the joke itself because I thought another user was under the impression that I didn't get it, that was a bad time to write while tired.
The end result isn't as easy to read as I'd like it to be, people are still coming away thinking that I was complaining because I didn't get it... and both can probably be traced back to staying up tweaking it into oblivion back in April. I do have a history of being a "serial tweaker", but it won't happen again. - Caswin 22:42, 15 May 2012 (EDT)
"It matters."
A few years ago, I tried to make an edit to Reno Wilson. It didn't end well. I'd let it go, but it made me look ridiculous and it's still there. So before I break out a new account as a contributing member of casual Transformers fandom... I wanted to leave this here for anyone who finds that old discussion. There's a joke in there, but the logic is convoluted and doesn't make any sense at a first pass if you're not familiar with the controversy. Claiming that he was horribly offensive to himself to his own surprise doesn't suggest "there was a controversy" or "there shouldn't have been a controversy" so much as "he found his own portrayal offensive" or something to that effect, which isn't the case. My reading of wiki policy backs me up on the idea that readibility comes before humor. So I deleted it with an explanation (as a red-linked name; that might have something to do with it), got reverted without an explanation multiple times, was told by an editor that they "disagreed" when I had said that it wasn't immediately obvious what it meant, got loudly dismissed as being the only person in the world to initially read "to his own surprise, he was offensive to himself" at face value and generally got repelled from any effort to make it more readable for the sake of a bad joke. Or has anyone reading this actually laughed at that? Anyway, at this stage, the only thing I don't understand is why a minor change to the phrasing of a two-sentence note attracted so much attention... unless it was a knee-jerk reaction to seeing a red-linked name delete something for any reason and everything after that was general principle. I could have understood that. Anyways, "Caswin" is done here. Still glad I got to make the other contributions I did -- with a particular emphasis on snagging the end of a series with "'til all are one." - Caswin (talk) 16:52, 12 January 2015 (EST)
