User talk:HaLo2FrEeEk/Archive/2

__NONEWSECTIONLINK__Archived July 3, 2012

Greetings, nublet
Tis I! Cinna! I am currently in Modern History, should be learning about Russian politics and whatnot, but suddenly the internet is like "Cinnnnnnnaaaaa.... come play with me, baby." And now, here I am. On TES wiki. Editing, when I need to study for my exam, damn internet.

That has got to be the most random message I left. Well, you were wondering what user I was, I are Cpt. Carebear. :3 Cpt. Carebear (talk) 02:42, February 28, 2012 (UTC)

Gratz!
Hi Kirk, just stopping by to offer my congratulations on the greening of your moniker! Just in time for St. Patty's day, too! GramsJ (talk) 22:01, February 29, 2012 (UTC)

Just Wondering
Could you Create the page Drugs and have it be a Redirect to Narcotics? Like... #REDIRECT Narcotics .. Think that's how it'd be written, not entirely sure though. 70.170.112.219 08:56, March 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * Having a page labeled "Drugs" hardly seems useful at this junction. First, the page would be an Orphan, meaning no pages on he wiki link to it, proving the topic isn't notable enough to warrant its own article. I would even call into question the necessity of having a page labeled "Narcotics". These topics seem relatively insignificant when compared to other topics we cover. That's for the suggestion! But, if you're interested in helping us out, you me curious to comb through the stubs and see if you can help us expand one of them! Make sure you check out our policies and guidelines as well as our accepted standards for article layout. Thanks! :D -- 09:19, March 8, 2012 (UTC)

Reply To your message.
Thanks, I was completely unaware of the issues. And thanks for adding the templates in:) Thanks, bye.

Evil&#39;s Evolution (talk) 04:24, March 9, 2012 (UTC)Evil's Evilution

Very sorry dude :(
Sorry man, I pasted it there as a reminder/bookmark for when I go to work so I could update it later. Didn't think, apologies...

Jimeee (talk) 11:52, March 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * No problem dude, like I say, so sorry for the obvious blunder. I feel pretty bad. Jimeee (talk) 12:02, March 9, 2012 (UTC)

picture review
Hey,

I have been trying to learn how to upload photo's to the Wiki and i want to make sure im doing it right. Can you take a look at the photo's i put up and make sure i didn't mess up? If i did anything wrong please let me know so i can inprove, i dont want always work on the wikis and not be-able to upload picturesCheatcodechamp (talk) 22:57, March 12, 2012 (UTC)

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/File:Arano_Plantation.jpg

Thanks, im glad to see i know how to do it know. and i wont take any picture replacement badly, im just trying to fix alot of the "image needed" problems.Cheatcodechamp (talk) 23:34, March 12, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the help
-Edit-

Thanks for fixing this. I remember now that I noticed suggest articles didn't show up until after the name change from "Test," when I created a test blog to see how things looked. I didn't realize I removed the User blog when renaming it. I thought it would stay in the same spot, lol.

Vashtari (talk) 21:03, March 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * When you mentioned the part about the User_Blog being important, I realized it anchored our blogs in the proper section, so to speak. Since Wikia pages are very different than a typical website, there are lots of things I don't understand at first glance. But now I know! I've done some website editing before, so I know the importance of some words in URLs, such as every page needing a page called "index" simply because it's required to start a site, period. You're not insulting. If I didn't know otherwise, I'd be grateful for the new info.


 * Vashtari (talk) 21:31, March 13, 2012 (UTC)

Spell tome attributes
Hi Halo, I apologize if removing those attributes offended you. I actually asked Deyvid about that when I first started working on the Skyrim: Spells articles. (see below)


 * Working on Spell Articles Edit
 * Hey Deyvid! I finally caught on to the changes you've been making to my edits, and, hopefully, I'm starting to incorporate them in my edits now. :D I have a question for you about how we want to handle tome information in the spell articles. In the ones I've edited so far, I've removed the specific "book" information (i.e., weight, value, ID) in favor of adding a subsection as in the following example:
 * AttributesEdit
 * See Spell Tome for a complete table of Spell Tomes, their descriptions, and their values.
 * LocationsEdit
 * Purchase from Phinis Gestor (College of Winterhold) [or whomever the appropriate merchants might be]
 * Then as I was continuing with another article today, I almost had second thoughts and was wondering if including the tome attributes might actually be beneficial here. Do we plan on eventually having a separate article for each tome besides the table containing all of them? Whether or not we do, could you let me know how you would like me to proceed? My original intent was to avoid repeating information that existed elsewhere.
 * GramsJ (talk) 00:22, February 23, 2012 (UTC)

His response follows:
 * Keep putting the information about the spell tomes as you have been.

I had no idea at the time who was responsible for adding the information, and I'm not sure that would have made a lot of difference at that time. Again I apologize. If we need to revisit this decision, perhaps you, Deyvid and I can talk about it GramsJ (talk) 04:16, March 14, 2012 (UTC)

i had an idea for the no stone unturned... i don't know if it can be done but what about boxes to check so we can mark off what stone we got instead of guessing or going to each spot? was just a thought. me and my game addictions lol. Psychopanther83 (talk) 09:37, March 21, 2012 (UTC)Psychopanther83Psychopanther83 (talk) 09:37, March 21, 2012 (UTC)

i am calling the company tomarrow and talking to them about this game. I will tell them that these glitches need fixed and if they want to know what ones i will be refering them to this site. I refer all my friends to this site for skyrim because it is way better (and more detailed thanks to people like us) then gamefaqs. at least here we can edit most stuff ourselves. oh on the no stone unturned there is no way back into thamor embassy (just a fyi) i wasn't sure if it was just me so i did not put that in the section for it. Psychopanther83 (talk) 02:44, March 26, 2012 (UTC)Psychopanther83Psychopanther83 (talk) 02:44, March 26, 2012 (UTC)

oh and how do you become an admin of this wikiaPsychopanther83 (talk) 02:46, March 26, 2012 (UTC)Psychopanther83Psychopanther83 (talk) 02:46, March 26, 2012 (UTC)

Uploads
Thanks, Kirk. Just making sure I'm "playing by the rules." GramsJ (talk) 17:57, March 26, 2012 (UTC)

Re:Images
Is there an other way i can upload pics besides UESP and screenshot's? i understand the issue with using there pics, and that is why i have been trying to do it by the rules so we wouldn't have any trouble. But i play all my games on the 360 so if i took any pics from there they would look like crap.

I will try to do everything i can to find pictures and images of what i need before going to UESP, i dont want to cause unneeded troubles and stress.

Cheatcodechamp (talk) 02:10, March 30, 2012 (UTC)

Me again, i had an idea that would let me put a few Pictures up and i want to run it by you to make sure its ok. I have a friend who will can let me use a picture of the map of Cyrodiil to help with the pages for the roads. if i can get his permission to upload it, can i use it, or is this still pushing it? Cheatcodechamp (talk) 00:36, April 5, 2012 (UTC)

Double article
I just found out i made a page for an article for a page that already existed, the reason this happened is that i spelt it on the page i was working on without the capital L in letter so i was told the page didn't exist. Is there a way to remove the extra article? Cheatcodechamp (talk) 23:03, March 31, 2012 (UTC)

Love Letter from Relfina: the one the already existed.

Love letter from Relfina: the one i made my mistake

Can I utilize your table?
Can I utilize your style of table on your user page also for my Projects section? :)

Cruxizer (talk) 06:20, April 11, 2012 (UTC)

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Why can't i leave a messege on JIGSAW 4's talk page? 67.81.12.222 09:08, April 16, 2012 (UTC)

72.198.103.229 06:29, May 12, 2012 (UTC)hello i was just curious if wikia brings in money. Does the site support the staff and where do you get the information on the site ?


 * Wikia brings in money through advertisements, but this wiki, TESWiki (just a single wiki on the wikia network), doesn't get any cut of that. Administrators don't get paid to do what we do, we just do it because we like being helpful.  HaLo2FrEeEk  Here I am! 11:10, May 15, 2012 (UTC)

Requesting permission to add videos on wikis
Hi HaLo2FrEeEk,

I would like to know if I could have permission to add links to my YouTube videos to wiki pages. I find that video walkthroughs are very useful, easy to understand and offer great visual support. If used correctly (in a non-spammy manner, obviously), having videos around can greatly enrich this site's content. Sometimes, reading a a walkthrough isn't enough, and the user could prefer to watch a quick video instead!

I constantly upload Skyrim videos to my channel, at http://youtube.com/smikesmike05, these videos range from walkthroughs to lore, among other things.

Hope to hear from you soon :)

Best Regards!

Smike05 (talk) 03:53, May 30, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Videos
Thank you for replying to my post, I read the Wiki Policies and I understand why you do not allow links.

However, I think lore videos would be a great addition to the wiki. They do not violate Bethesda Softworks'copyright claims on this media. No gameplay is used, only my voice as well as fan-made images.

Here's a couple of lore videos I made:

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Regards!

Smike05 (talk) 00:06, June 1, 2012 (UTC)

Hey, you were reccomending me to create an account on this Wiki? :)

Dawnguard
Hell YES!

Jimeee (talk) 13:56, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

IRC
Hey, I left my computer and when i came back it said you where trying to talk to me. Whats up?

Cheatcodechamp (talk) 22:00, June 16, 2012 (UTC)

PS. im on IRC now right now

Small Articles
Hello. For the little time I've been here, I've noticed a couple of really small articles, like Impish, Aquatic Adaptation, Blunt (Morrowind), Strike, Direnni Clan, etc. I've even noticed a couple of articles that are nothing but the stub template, like Jade Amulet and Morgiah's Letter. Before I start marking all of them for deletion, as I did with the last two I listed, I wanted to ask you if these articles should actually be kept or not. In my opinion, it would probably be better to delete them, considering they really don't give much information, and they will get more attention if they don't have an article rather than if they're marked with the stub template. Reversinator (talk) 20:51, June 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * Like I said, the articles are very lacking in information. Deleting them is not going to deprive readers of any information. If you're concerned about broken links (red, broken, same thing), I don't see why. On a wiki I'm at, the Super Mario Wiki, broken links are recommended to be kept instead of making filler articles. The general idea is that the broken links are going to attract more attention that a stub template, thus enticing more people into creating and expanding it. Really, what's worse: Having some red text in articles, or having ugly, short articles? Reversinator (talk) 21:03, June 19, 2012 (UTC)

Also, on an unrelated note, is there an image quality template? You know, a template placed on images that labels them as having low quality? Reversinator (talk) 21:44, June 19, 2012 (UTC)

Image needed with explanation
Dear Halo2FrEeEk,

I have a question i wanted to ask. I found a problem to which you may have the answer (or not :P). If a page is without a image, it is automaticly added to the Category:Skyrim: Image Needed cat. We also have the template. I'll explain by problem with an example:

I saw that for the page Endrast's Journal, we don't have an image of the outside, only of the inside. No one, if not explicitly searched for, will see this one page between all other pages that misses one out of three images. If i put this page in the category i named above, the next person will just remove it from the category because it already has images. So then i thought, why not use a template. People will notice that and it won't get removed from the category because i can explain why i added the template. But the above template doesn't allow the user to give an explanation. And if i only put that template on the page, people will also delete that with the same thought that the page already has two images. So now i'm at a stalemate, what to do? Could you please help me? Kennyannydenny (talk) 21:18, June 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * Exactly. I want to give a reason so that people don't quickly delete the template because they don't know why it's there. I didn't want to change the template without the permission of an administrator. If you could change it for me, like you explained on my talk page, you would make me very happy :) Thanks in forward. Kennyannydenny (talk) 21:34, June 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Kennyannydenny (talk) 16:02, June 21, 2012 (UTC)

Dawnguard Article
Hey,

Sorry i missed you on the IRC, i went downstairs because nobody was on and i come back to see i had just missed you.

Congrats on getting the editing done, you sure no how to get stuff done on a large scale.

Ill be on later, lets hope i dont miss you again

Cheatcodechamp (talk) 01:03, June 25, 2012 (UTC)

Dragon Stone Article
Thanks for deleting my edit without giving an explanation. You could have at least left the specification of the boss name intact as the article doesn't give any clue for further research... 77.183.217.3 11:51, June 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * Your edit belonged in a bugs section, not in the main article, and I couldn't give an explanation because th rollback function doesn't offer that ability. Also, it's pretty clear that Draugr Overlord is the guardian, it doesn't really need to be specified. HaLo2FrEeEk Here I am! 11:55, June 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * My edit was not a bug description. A hard to see corpse with an important quest item isn't a bug, but rather a game design oversight. I came to this page with that very problem expecting it to be a bug which it ultimately wasn't. Besides, calling the boss "the guardian" is hardly information. I came to the article hoping for information about the boss and it didn't even give its name. I got it through google from another page along with other information which actually helped me out. Without the boss' name you can't search for him. Besides, it makes sense to place a link to his wiki-page... so unless you're a die-hard fan with no life, you won't know the boss' name, especially since it will be the first time you encounter the species in the game. and if you are such a die-hard fan you wouldn't visit the page in the first place which only leaves those looking for information how and where to get the Dragonstone... logic...it's not for everyone.


 * Btw, replying to my remark on a totally different page is quite an achievement, especially if it's a static user page for a dynamic ip. Last but not least, even if you can't give a reason at the edit page, there's still a talk page for the article, but what's common courtesy on Wikipedia is apparently a waste of time here...77.183.217.3 13:56, June 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * Right, well, like I said, rollbacks don't allow for a reason to be given, and the talk page isn't for giving a reason for an edit/rollback, it's for...talking. Draugr OVerlord isn't the guardian's name, it's his class, he's not the only one in the game, but if it'll make you happy, I'll change it back. Excuse me for being in a million places right now, you know, what with spending the last week recording, editing, rendering, and uploading a playthrough of the entire Dawnguard campaign, I think you can excuse me if I'm a little busy and hasty with some things.  HaLo2FrEeEk  Here I am! 14:07, June 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * Wait, hold up, you didn't even pay attention to the article before you edited it. A link to Draugr Overlord is already provided, in the first sentence of the paragraph you edited. If you're from wikipedia, where apparently everyone is just SO friendly, then you'll know that it's stupid to have duplicate links on a page. The fact remains that the other information you added can be considered a bug, and it belonged in a bug section.  HaLo2FrEeEk  Here I am! 14:12, June 26, 2012 (UTC)

A question on the subject of image uploading.
I'm not sure if I'm even posting this in the right spot or not, but I feel like I am.

Okay, so, on the subject of image uploading, I don't understand too much. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to upload an image I took of the Dwarven Crossbow to its rightful place on the Dwarven Crossbow wiki page. If that is allowed, I would also be able to upload many other missing pictures of things in Dawnguard. Get back to me asap please.

Dnyx (talk) 00:03, June 27, 2012 (UTC) Dnyx

Knjakr
Hi Halo2Freek I would just like to ask if page Knjakr should have Drops section? ThunderGamer Need Help? 11:55, June 27, 2012 (UTC)

Hey there buddy, im currently playing Skyrim doing the "side quest" in Dawnguard where you've to return the ancient falmer tomes to Urag-gro Shub in Skyrim/College of Winterhold, so far i've been able to find and translate 3 of them and i've noticed that there inst any page about it yet on the wiki, i would like to create a page about the quest and the book locations but since im new on the site (i just signed up) i dont really know how to do that, since its multiple items linked to a single quest. Also i've created a page about how to find the Auriel's Shield in Dawnguard, but i believe it will need some pro touch in it since i just really started. Any help or tips would be appreciated. Cheers

Deletion of images
Hey Halo,

What do you want me to do with images which are made with a camera from a tv screen? I know you want those deleted, just like you said in your blog, but i, until know, placed them in Category:Images of poor quality. Do you rather want me to put a on it, or keep putting them in the cat? Thanks in forward, 09:02, June 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem. I will mark any bad image (related to Dawnguard) with delete i find. 09:10, June 29, 2012 (UTC)

hey dude why was aurials shiell deleted does it not exist because i was gona go to forgotten vail the look for it and i was gona use it for help i forget was paragon you were suppost to use

heeeeeeeeeeeeeey man i was wondering have you ever been to sweden and if so in what city? thankssssss for the dawnguard videos ass well YOU ARE AWESOME 85.228.103.135 22:41, July 1, 2012 (UTC)Skill392


 * No, I've never been to Sweden. And thank you for the compliment.  HaLo2FrEeEk  Here I am! 03:38, July 2, 2012 (UTC)

hey umm some guy that goes by kirk banned me from chat rooms for no reason at all can you put me back onDarkDragon9638 (talk) 04:24, July 2, 2012 (UTC)

im sorry but i dont remember the user name but i do remember the picture it wasa girl pic and the user name was very shortDarkDragon9638 (talk) 22:20, July 2, 2012 (UTC)

i found out his name his username is Kirk-591DarkDragon9638 (talk) 23:26, July 2, 2012 (UTC)