User talk:TombRaiser/Archive 5

RE:Bye, bye items
Good idea. Been pretty spaced out lately, what with work and all. I see you already made the necessary templates changes without me. Not sure if Jimeee talked to you about it already, but we decided to only use Item categories as overarching categories, with things like Miscellaneous Items and Quest Items being sub-categories. Weapons, apparel, artifacts etc. will be subcategories of Items as well -- at least that's my mission.

P.S. Talk page archived. Thanks for the heads up. :) Also, cool image on the User-Necromancer userbox. Love it. -- 03:05, July 28, 2012 (UTC)

Hello TombRaiser
Hello TombRaiser,

I just wanted to leave you a message saying hello, and to express my appreciation for the admin of Elder Scrolls wiki. I am a tremendous fan of the Elder Scrolls series and an avid gamer; over the past year or so I have consulted the site's pages hundreds of times, but only recently decided to join and share some of my knowledge. I hope to become an increasingly active member of the site and with any luck I will be of some help.

RagnarTheRed (talk) 05:06, July 28, 2012 (UTC)RagnarTheRed

Mistake On Locked Page
This page has an error I can't fix, due to it being locked down. As an administrator, would you fix this?

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 23:40, July 28, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! If I may, there's another page I noticed that may need attention. The Classes (Skyrim) page contains a somwhat biased "Controversy" section, which I think needs to be extensively edited or removed entirely. I would do this myself, but it is locked. Again, sorry for the inconvenience.

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 23:49, July 28, 2012 (UTC)

I am done editing the page. You can go ahead and lock it down when you're not busy. Thank you.

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 00:12, July 29, 2012 (UTC)

Skyrim Map
The skyrim map http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Map_(Skyrim) that you locked to protect is broken, I've tried it from multiple computers and browsers, and other users have also commented on it - can you fix or rollback to a working version? Thanks. 74.114.36.65 19:54, July 30, 2012 (UTC)

Broken file links
Hey there! I removed the wretched-looking "add file" box from MediaWiki:Newpagelayout. This should prevent all new pages and talk pages from having that pesky maintenance category added to them. Now, hopefully Jan's bot can remove all the one's currently in place. -- 21:22, August 1, 2012 (UTC)

Image placeholders
I'll give this a shot in the morning. GramsJ (talk) 04:31, August 2, 2012 (UTC)


 * VeetorBot has processed well over half of the ~25,000 User talk pages and hasn't found any to edit yet. I just thought I'd let you know. GramsJ (talk) 23:17, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
 * Ahhh, ok. VeetorBot checked 24,999 pages and found zilch. If it was supposed to be the article talk pages, then I'll run it again in the morning and see how we do. GramsJ (talk) 06:13, August 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * I reran DwemerBot this morning, and it edited 216 pages. Hopefully, this takes care of your problem. GramsJ (talk) 19:02, August 3, 2012 (UTC)

Bugs and voting
Hello there, fellow TESWikian! A few things to discuss with you. First, I have recently made a proposition for the formatting of Bugs on articles. I would greatly appreciate your opinion and suggestions here: F:CT:Flagging bugs. Additionally, two new TESWikians are applying for staff positions. If you have not yet voted, please do at the rollbacker page and the News Team talk page. And give your opinions on Balgog and Senjai. Talos guide you, friend. :D -- 06:50, August 7, 2012 (UTC)

zealot
yea your right looks a bit messy yes Wesleyeye (talk) 04:24, August 8, 2012 (UTC)

News blog
I thought that only staff members were allowed to write news blogs, but someone wrote this User blog:Halomasterjk/The 1.7 Patch for Skyrim is Coming to Playstation 3? Should it be removed from the news category? 00:18, August 9, 2012 (UTC)

Pages Needing Attention
What is the one for Battlespire?

— Gleek obsessed 05:17, August 9, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for adding it, you're the best! :)

— Gleek obsessed 05:30, August 9, 2012 (UTC)

Okay I am (most likely) done for the night, and there are less than 118 to sort through now. All the letters that have two or less pages are already checked through. I'll finish tomorrow.

— Gleek obsessed 06:14, August 9, 2012 (UTC)

Okay I am finally done, what else do you need?

— Gleek obsessed 21:33, August 9, 2012 (UTC)

Locked Page Needs Editing.
The Companions page has an error in it, under the "First Interactions" heading. It says "Whether the player assist them or not". The subject and verb don't agree here of course. Just wanted to bring this to your attention so you could change it.

EDIT: I've noticed some more mistakes down under the "Bounty" section.

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 05:16, August 10, 2012 (UTC)

vandalism
just wanna let you know that user 92.232.44.232 has vandalised multiple pages multiple times Wesleyeye (talk) 13:26, August 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Already taken care of. ~ Flightmare (talk) 13:28, August 19, 2012 (UTC)

Dawnguard not activating
dawnguard. not activating on other accounts

i downloaded dawnguard on xbox but only the account i used to download the dlc is able to use the add on, why cant my other profiles get the add on need a reply asap! thank you

IRC
I can't seem to log into the IRC? Says its dow for maintenance Could you maybe post the links to the downloads to my talkpage?

Jimeee (talk) 00:08, August 24, 2012 (UTC)

Morrowind: Bandits
Hey Tomb,

Since you are one of the few others with morrowind, i just wanted to let you know we have a new category for the bandits, since they are all named i thought it would be good to organize them. Category:Morrowind: Bandits.

taking on morrowind is a tad bigger then i thought. anyway, have fun and happy editing

Cheatcodechamp (talk) 05:33, August 24, 2012 (UTC)

I believe all bandits are named, so whenever you enter a cave it would be best if you had a pen to write the names down or something. I have also come across trainers that are hostile, so if you want training you need to calm them first.

Makes you glad the other games just called them "Bandits" doesn't it?

Hope that helps, if not ill get to you when i can. Cheatcodechamp (talk) 02:54, August 25, 2012 (UTC)

IRC
I can't login to IRC!? Not sure why :( Great pics though.

Jimeee (talk) 00:15, August 25, 2012 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with the IRC, so I have no idea why you aren't able to connect.

Kaishiro Message 23:20, August 25, 2012 (UTC)

Re:Blog
Thanks for responding and that does help. If I do decide to make the blogs, I will try and write it in such a way that it is not so much fanon, as a retelling of my stories. Thanks!

~ Jack Pistol

Ban
I was Just adding Stuff To categorys Whats Wrong with that i mean we have Categorys for Orcish Weapons why not Ancient Nord Weapons


 * There is no Category:Orcish Weapons. Do you see that category leading anywhere? No. There is a page called Orcish Weapons (Skyrim), not a category a page. You can't just make up new categories whenever you feel like it. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  01:06, August 28, 2012 (UTC)

Re: Image deletion
Dear TombRaiser, might I ask why you removed and deleted my uploaded image? ASMD (talk) 08:10, August 28, 2012 (UTC)ASMD


 * Alftand, you mean. Blackreach is below it. True, she doesn't appear outside, the shot was only taken there for better lighting. Still, I see you managed to get adequate lighting conditions inside the ruin, something i was unable to, so for this I salute you. However, I must state that I dislike the attitude of the current image, if you know what I mean. It is far too aggressive. If you insist the picture must show this NPC where she appears, could you perhaps take another shot of her, but in a calmed state this time? Something in the spirit of the previous image. Would make the page more pleasant to view as well, I think. I imagine you are a busy woman, so I hope I'm not asking for too much. Cheerio. ASMD (talk) 18:24, August 28, 2012 (UTC)ASMD


 * Hey, thanks for uploading the new image. Didn't expect it so soon, to be honest, and it looks much better now. On a small side note, it would probably be even better if she was looking at the camera and not into space, but that's trivial detail really. Anyway, much appreciative. ASMD (talk) 22:00, August 29, 2012 (UTC)ASMD

Shivering Isles town
Hey, i need advice on how i should handle Split and its residents.

Inside the town are doubles of each resident, one half have Mania personalty while the others have demented. from what i can see, each persons attitude is opposite of his "twin" and have there own diologs.

Should i create articles for each person like Horkvir Bear-Arm (Mainia) and Horkvir Bear-Arm (Demented) or combine there articles into one and just find a creative way to make it work? i can do it either way, but im looking for an opinion what what might be better.

Cheatcodechamp (talk) 20:46, August 29, 2012 (UTC)

Barnacle Boat
Im trying to Remove the Catergory Images needed from the page barnacle boat but i wont let me since youre an admin would you mind helping Me BrooklynGuido42BrooklynGuido42 (talk) 15:51, September 2, 2012 (UTC)

Magic category
yeah, sry about that, i didn't realize that was wrong until i did it a few times. I should have went back and fixed it. I've been off my game lately and have been doing stupid stuff like that for a week or so now.

sry for the trouble,

Cheatcodechamp (talk) 18:47, September 3, 2012 (UTC)

News Team Nomination
Hey, it's me again, The Milkman. I was just curious as to how long the nomination remains open, or if I have to do anything to make it official. Again, I may not be the fastest on the draw when it comes to news, but if you have anything other than just news reports in mind, I'm up for anything. Cheers!

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 20:59, September 5, 2012 (UTC)

Awesome! Hopefully I'll be able to get the hang of it. If I'm lucky, I'll be able to write up a news post if anything happens before anyone else ;) If I make any mistakes, be sure to let me know.

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 03:17, September 6, 2012 (UTC)

Again, not to bother you, I was just wondering if you wanted to let me write up the next news post or not. I don't know how it all works exacltly, but if you wanted to give me a link and let me write up the next news blog for a dry run, I wouldn't mind.

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 04:16, September 7, 2012 (UTC)

Re: overwriting
Hi, I feel in general I do comply with the Media Policy as I do try to simply upload a new version whenever possible. Occasionally it is impossible to do so because of a difference in formats. I use PNG, as that is the perferred software image format, and a lot of images seem to be JPGs.

Sometimes I can get a little overzealous or images are linked to some pages and not others and I miss them. I do make an effort to keep it simple for me. I understand sometimes people don't like to see their work be covered up or replaced. The wiki is a free area however, if I make a mistake and someone else spots it they can revert the image if they so choose.

Personally, I'm not trying to put up images I think are "better". Some images I upload may be "worse" than the original images such as lower resolution. Simply I am supplying images of decent quality in an encyclopedic format. In my opinion this means showing the character, the item or the location and not the background they may be set against or how great the lighting might be. Images I upload I do think are better representations than what are present.

Zimakaru (talk) 23:00, September 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well I don't mean to be intrusive or unnecessarily replace images. Obviously I am spending my own free time and effort on this. As I understand it you do a lot of imaging around the wiki. Personally I made it a little project to work on the ingredients as most of those images were low quality and resolution.


 * Unfortunately it is difficult to find other articles that need images/better images with any reliability. A lot of articles I come across "needing images" are impossible to supply images for. I.e. articles about characters who do not have an npc associated with them; such as already dead characters.


 * If you have somewhere to point me to that I could work on I would be happy to do that.


 * Zimakaru (talk) 00:44, September 7, 2012 (UTC)

Re: News Team Nomination
Alrighty. I'll keep an eye out and try to write about whatever I can. I don't want to be part of the news team, only to end up doing nothing with the title. ;)

--99.43.240.82 05:46, September 7, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I wasn't logged in. The above was me.

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 05:59, September 7, 2012 (UTC)

List of pages needing attention
Hello TombRaiser, since I got my hello message from you, I'll bother you with my question. Is there a list of pages that need grammatical/spelling errors fixed? I'd be happy to clean up some of those.

I've run across some that were noted as needing help, but usually while I'm playing and not in an editing mood. I didn't think about writing them down at the time.

Thank you.

Looks funny
Hi, I'm writing to you as you seems to be one of the last ones editing the page Mannimarco, King of Worms. I just did the Waking NightmarequestandasI found the book, I looked at the above bookpage to see if there was a picture of it. But there seems to be some trouble in the code at the top, I'm not an expert in Wiki code but I didn't want to fiddle with it. Can you have a look at it? -- EbonySkyrim (talk) 22:35, September 11, 2012 (UTC)


 * Fixed it. Jimeee (talk) 22:40, September 11, 2012 (UTC)

New News Blog
Hey, no one was around, so I decided to write a news blog on an anouncment I read about on the BethBlog. I'd appreciate it if you or someone else could look over it and inform me of any mistakes. I apologise if the news post was pointless. You can read it here.

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 05:27, September 14, 2012 (UTC)

I agree. They just aren't as useful as they used to be, and they're often riddled with errors, especially with big games like Skyrim. I think they've been all but replaced by wikis, although I can still see someone wanting to have an actual physical book.

--The Milkman | I always deliver. 21:26, September 14, 2012 (UTC)

Character Images
OK, I thought it would be useful, as it is also like that on other wikis, and Zimakaru also uploaded similar images for the members of the college of Winterhold. But if you think it is negative for the wiki, I will stop with it. BoazMoerman (talk) 19:58, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

Hello, i just wanted to know if on on pages for the "bound weapons" i could put the damage of the weapon like on a page for normal weapons. but i would do it like for bound bow damage 18-24. thanks for listing.

Bound Weapons.
Hello i understand your an admin and i want to know if its ok if i edit the pages for bound weapons. all i want to do really is put a place for damage like a normal weapon but have it like, if it were to be a bound bow i would put damage 18-25. and possile deleted the part where it says the damage its self. thanks bye.


 * The base damage is already present on bound weapons pages. As for adding the base values to the infobox, it's not possible, because the infobox for bound items lists it as a spell and not a physical weapon, so there is no option in the template to add base values in the infobox. — TombRaiser  SPEAK!  01:44, September 18, 2012 (UTC)