User talk:Gaminomicon



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 * --Flightmare (talk) 14:35, January 27, 2015 (UTC)

Team Morrowind
Hey, I am glad to see you have said you would help with the Morrowind articles.

As of now, User:Tehpwner7067 and User:Emperor Maximus are also committed to this. Others may join, but until then the three of you should talk and figure out the best way to handle this project.

Besides expanding this area of the wiki, another think you should look out for are articles that could become featured article. If you come across an article or two that could be brought to FA standards, do what you can so we can show it off on the main page.

Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns that would like to share. Thanks and happy editing-Cheatcodechamp (talk) 21:16, January 31, 2015 (UTC)

RE:Question
Hey, sorry if I took to long to respond. I hope the wait was not a problem.

Anyway, the rule for bugs was put in place to prevent glitch's being added and us ending up with dozens of bugs nobody had to deal with. The way we thin then out is to confirm they are bugs by getting several people to confirm it.

What I would recommend, is to go to the quests talk page, and report the possible bug and the fix if you have one. If others support the claim, it will be added to bugs for the systems reported on. I would look for reports on this wiki or others that back it up, one or two should be enough.

If this is a problem, it should be noted on the wiki. And don't worry about being smacked upside the head, we where all new once and mistreatment of other editors for any reason is not acceptable

Thanks and happy editing.-Cheatcodechamp (talk) 07:28, February 1, 2015 (UTC)

re: syntax
First off, please sign your posts when posting to talkpages. You can do this by typing ~ or by clicking this button on the toolbar above.

In regards to syntax: the VisualEditor adds links to pages inappropriately. When linking to an article on this wiki, the syntax is, but VisualEditor adds the links like this:. This leads to messy source and unnecessary bytes to be loaded, not to mention that it messes up with link usage on Special:WhatLinksHere, which only registers a link when the former method is used: the latter is considered an "external link" so won't be registered in the system, which can lead to broken links on pages.

You can sort this problem by making sure to change your preferences so that the Preferred editor is set to the Source Editor. Serious editors on a wiki never use the visualeditor, not to mention that it has the side habit of messing up pages in a way that is akin to vandalism.

I hope this helps you to understand my comment on link syntax. --Sajuuk talk 10:35, February 3, 2015 (UTC)

Image size
Hey Gaminomicon. I noticed your upload on Adding, and I just wanted to let you know that our image policies state that all character images should be 600x1000 pixels. Of course, we will not remove your image (it fits the other requirements), but in the future remember to crop your character images down to 600x1000 pixels to maintain perfect quality and size. Thank you. Have fun editing! ―Atvelonis (talk) 19:28, February 3, 2015 (UTC)


 * I'd also like to know that in some of your photos the NPC names show up. To stop this, open the console (~ key) and type in the command  and the UI shouldn't get in the way. It should be noted that there's this issue where you can't turn the NPC names and stuff back on, so I suggest saving each time before typing the command, thank you. ☞ Rim < Chat with Me 06:36, February 4, 2015 (UTC)


 * Yeah, no problem. To replace other contributors images, you'd need to reupload them. To do this, go to the image, look at it's file history, and click upload a new version of this file. From then on it's pretty self-explanatory, but the image has to be the same file type. It the older image is a .png, make sure your file is a .png or else you can't reupload it. If the older image is a .jpg don't bother replacing it. Upload your new image as a .png since the PNG format is a lot better for wikis. Thank you. ☞ Rim < Chat with Me 07:05, February 4, 2015 (UTC)


 * P.S. You would also need to find all links to the ".jpg" image and manually change them to a ".png" image.-Garry Damrau( talk ) 11:03, February 4, 2015 (UTC)


 * The help is always appreciated gang. Hopefully this next batch will finally be exactly what we're all looking for. ^_^ *leaves tray of cookies*Gaminomicon (talk) 05:17, February 8, 2015 (UTC)

Re: Instant Markups
That's how I roll. - Erik the Mad (talk) 02:21, February 4, 2015 (UTC)


 * Uh.... I'm going to assume that last message wasn't meant for me.... - Erik the Mad (talk) 03:01, February 4, 2015 (UTC)
 * I never said anything about image size, dude. That was Atvelonis. - Erik the Mad (talk) 07:27, February 4, 2015 (UTC)

RE:Morrowind Image Mission and Thanks
I am glad we could help, and I am glad to see somebody helping with Morrowind, If you need any help or advice feel free to ask.

Thanks and happy editing-Cheatcodechamp (talk) 07:50, February 8, 2015 (UTC)

re: talkpage
You can archive your talkpage, but you don't have enough topics to do this. Policy is currently stating you must have 25 topics on your talkpage at a minimum to archive. Help:Archiving states more about it. --Sajuuk talk 11:49, February 11, 2015 (UTC)
 * I also agree the "you must have 25 topics on a talkpage" rule is stupid and pointless. That was actually a policy Ebony added without even discussing it with anyone, so I don't even see the validity of such a policy. --Sajuuk talk 11:59, February 11, 2015 (UTC)
 * No such thing as a favourites list on wiki's. :D --Sajuuk talk 12:40, February 11, 2015 (UTC)
 * Sajuuk, the point of needing 25 messages on your talk page is so that people don't make tons of tiny archives. Archives are supposed to be used only if your talk page has gotten too long. The policy is something that should stay. ―Atvelonis (talk) 13:44, February 11, 2015 (UTC)
 * It's up to end users to decide what constitutes "a long talkpage", not a wiki policy. I'm not going to get into an argument about this on someone else's talkpage. --Sajuuk talk 13:51, February 11, 2015 (UTC)

Re: JPG Replacing Help
I'm not sure you can re-upload a .jpg as a .png, actually. I've tried it a couple of times before and an error message (File extension ".JPG" does not match the detected MIME type of the file (image/png).) always came up for me. So I suppose the only way around that would be just have to upload a completely new file as a .png and manually put that on the page. ―Atvelonis (talk) 13:53, February 11, 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, upload the new .pngs just like you would any other images you're uploading for the first time, and after they're uploaded find the pages on which you want to re-upload the image and then replace the .jpg image with the .png image. ―Atvelonis (talk) 14:44, February 11, 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay. So, found a workaround that will likely get me yelled at. I created a new page, selected the Morrowind Character template, then hit Preview and right-clicked on the Upload image link in the preview itself and opened that in a new tab, then did the usual upload procedure treating it all like a real character page that needed an image. After the image upload was finished, I backed out of the new page creation and went back to the original character page with the bad image file, the evil .jpg (why do we hate this?) and then edited THAT page and pointed the character image at the new .png image I'd just uploaded for the fake page that now doesn't exist.  End result, Thavere Vedrano ish happy.Gaminomicon (talk) 16:29, February 11, 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I see what you are doing and while it is not wrong, you are making it somewhat harder for yourself than you have to. You can just go to Special:Upload and do the process quicker instead of doing the whole preview thing to get to the link. Have fun editing! ―Atvelonis (talk) 18:13, February 11, 2015 (UTC)
 * PNG's preserve the quality when you save them, whereas JPG's are low quality and lose a lot of it, so when it's uploaded, you aren't uploading anything close to the original screenshots. That's why PNG's can be quite large in size and JPG's smaller.
 * @Atvelonis: I can understand why he's doing it, the upload form has some code running that prevents the Destination Filename field from being filled out, which is really quite pointless imo... --Sajuuk talk 18:29, February 11, 2015 (UTC)

Yesh and now I've simplified it down to just keeping a single fake page open the whole time so the easy upload link is constantly at the ready. :) I couldn't find the Special Upload link lol. I'll be in my cave if anyone needs me. Gaminomicon (talk) 19:06, February 11, 2015 (UTC)