User talk:Deyvid Petteys

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Hooray!
I can see my messages again! lol.

Um ... yeah, theres not much that needs to be done. I have the code that the COD wiki's using for their little blackout. As far as I know, they're going on blackout in just under an hour. :) Other than correcting me if that is wrong, theres not much to be done? (Also, as an aside, we might finally have zero wanted pages at daychange tomorrow :P Timeoin•Say G'Day•View my work•Skyrim To-Do List 23:08, January 17, 2012 (UTC)


 * IRC: Kaishiro expanded the page a little while ago to give more information about what it was. The link is in the top line :) Also, when you get online, speak to Kaishiro - theres a link he has to the full x-chat version (that doesnt expire) Timeoin•Say G'Day•View my work•Skyrim To-Do List 02:58, January 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Try that Dont know if it will work or not, but its worth a shot? (The link at the top of the IRC page works for me, thats what I got :) Timeoin•Say G'Day•View my work•Skyrim To-Do List 03:08, January 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * If THAT doesnt work, go to |The Switch website, and where it says "join chatroom", do that. Then, once you're in, type /join #TESWiki and you're in :) (they're both on the Xertion network) Timeoin•Say G'Day•View my work•Skyrim To-Do List 03:10, January 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the problem is at your end (I've tried a number of different combinations, and they all work fine from here - ive got a few others to do the same). Er - clear your cache, maybe? I'm unsure why its not working :( Timeoin•Say G'Day•View my work•Skyrim To-Do List 03:31, January 19, 2012 (UTC)

Residual Blackout
I assume the Sopa blackout is officially over because some pages are viewable again. That said, after clearing my cache, I'm still seeing lots of residual black pages. Examples include this one, this one, and this one. I don't know if this is a sitewide issue, or an issue with my computer, but I though I would let you know. 69.134.29.102 22:37, January 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm very sorry to hear you're still experiencing after-effects of the blackout. Yesterday, I was unable to edit certain pages, as they were still black. Currently, I can view and edit all of the pages you linked to. I would try clearing your cache again, maybe updating your browser, then restarting your computer. This seemed to resolve my issue. Hope this helps. --— Deyvid Petteys  (bother \   stalk)  22:42, January 19, 2012 (UTC)

Ban
I kinda wanted to clear the air a bit on my ban regarding Ancano. I'm very new to these Elder Scrolls wiki sites, any wiki site for that matter, and to be honest there wasn't a whole lot of thinking going on at the time of my post (other than that some might really get a kick out of this because of Ancano's irritating personality). I'm so used to sites like Reddit, where I don't have to worry about things being innapropriate.

It wasn't until i logged on to add a photo of Gissur and saw my ban that I really stopped to think about the different genders and age groups logging onto this site everyday. And I know it could have gone without saying that I have learned my lesson from all this, but I figured coming on here and brown nosing would go a lot further. That's if I'm doing this right (I'm not used to sites wtihout inboxes and what not). So that's my apalogy, take it how you may. If this doesn't suffice then hopefully my full days work of (proper) page editing will.

HellOnWheels357 (talk) 00:49, January 20, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you so much for the blog post. If you want to, please vote. Thanks. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Wiki:Administrators/Commander_Faol

Commander Faol (talk) 10:00, January 21, 2012 (UTC)

Book Categories
Hey Deyvid, I've been uploading a lot of books, letters, and notes lately. While categorising them, I've noticed that we have some book categories that have few or no pages on them except for the template messages page (such as Book Covers). If nobody has any objections, I'm going to mark these categories for deletion. There is also an unofficial category for Book Characters (characters who are only present in story form within a book). Two of the four pages listed have a decent amount of information on them. Do we want to maintain this category? If not, would you suggest that the category for these pages be changed to Characters? Finally, as you know, the primary categories for books are: Books, Book Images, Skyrim: Books, and Category:Skyrim: Books Images. There is also an unofficial Skyrim: Book Images category. To be consistent, I would like to see the unofficial category become the official one if you have no objection. I can make all the page changes. Let me know if that's ok, and I will go about making the changes to all the pages that refer to Skyrim: Books Images. Thanks, GramsJ (talk) 19:32, January 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Can I talk you into letting me officially create, format, and categorize the Skyrim: Book Images category page? I would be more than willing to do that and transfer the 79 images from the Category:Skyrim: Books Images category. ( :D Just think how it would help add to my edit count.) Then the category wouldn't be a double plural and would then be consistent with the Book Images category. The only thing that would be left for you to do (I think) is delete Category:Skyrim: Books Images. Pleeez? GramsJ (talk) 21:21, January 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Deyvid. I apologize for being such a pest. I didn't mean for you to do it. GramsJ (talk) 21:42, January 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * I can do that. Oh...and I'll stop putting images in that category, too. (tehee) GramsJ (talk) 21:52, January 21, 2012 (UTC)
 * P.S. Could you give me a quick tutorial on categories/subcategories? If an image is categorized as Character Images, for example, would Images also be included in the category list? I was wondering, because if it is, then doesn't the image show up on both category pages? If not, then does that mean I should remove the category Images from all of the images that I categorize? Thanks GramsJ (talk) 01:19, January 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * All images are automatically added to Category:Images based on their copyright license templates. Not sure about that right now. I'll have to ask some of the other "powers that be" on the wiki first to confirm. It's an excellent question, though. (I'm removing the links to old Books category, so they don't show up in Special:WantedPages). --— Deyvid Petteys  (bother \   stalk)  01:32, January 22, 2012 (UTC)

Double Question
First, what is the differance between Template:Delete and Delete besides one being long to type. They both look ugly on my screen and if a reason was given, unreadable. I was in Visual edit, clicked the add other templates, entered delete, selected the offered Template:Delete, I do notice adding a template in visual usually puts the Template: part in automatically when switching to source mode. But my understanding is the are the same thing, just doing Delete is a shortcut in source mode. Just curious, and would applaud the person fixes the delete template to a differant background color.

Second, Is there a specific reason you moved the Potion/Poison Recipe to a sub of potions and listed as poisons, when its a book page listing all the recipes (books) from the in game inventory, not a list of all possible combinations at the Alchemy Lab. Been fighting to keep it a book page and not a potion page, which is why I got Timeoin to protect the page today and spent 3 hours fixing it. Neguy71inok (talk) 23:27, January 21, 2012 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what i did wrong here...
Hi, I'm somewhat new to wiki (as far as editting goes), and i just attempted to add information to a page ((Nocturnal)) and all my info was original and unplagurized...yet it told me i commited vandalism...

I want to see why...

And if possible (and if all is clean), I'd like to have my info reposted...cuz i worked a while on that. Plus, im banded from editting now because of this...so, please, let me know when you get a free second or two.

Thanks!

- NocturnalsPrince

Sorry :(
EDIT: It's lifted, thank you! :D

Hey Deyvid, recently I've been banned for distruptive badge-gaming activity. My user name is Smike05. I wasn't aware that badge-gaming was against the forum rules. If I would have received a warning, I would have stopped immediately. Is it possible to revert the ban, please? I love posting on this Wikia and I'm sincerely sorry. Thanks.

-Smike

"Behind the scenes" vs. "Notes"
Hello there, I just wanted to state my reasoning, after reading the Manual of Syle, on why the "Behind the scenes" section in the Lydia page should in fact be titled "Notes." Link. AmbigramMan (talk) 07:52, January 22, 2012 (UTC)

Colours and patrollers
Hey Deyvid - Got colours working again! :)

Also promoted some patrollers, and need to talk to you about some stuff; Come to IRC if you have the time. Elchzard (Talk to me.) 22:04, January 22, 2012 (UTC)

Patroller
Yeah sure, I can do that. I usually check the recent changes pages anyway and try to clean up stuff, so that's fine with me. Thanks!

Jimeee (talk) 09:25, January 23, 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll add you to the list and grant you rollback powers, along with a sexy name. :) Elchzard  (Talk to me.) 09:57, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

Patroller #2
I'd love to be a patroller! I'm always looking out for potential vandalism and this sound like a great job for me. Kennyannydenny (talk) 09:47, January 23, 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll add you to the list and grant you rollback powers, along with a sexy name. :) Elchzard  (Talk to me.) 09:57, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

Timestamps and Tables
Commander Faol suggested I speak to you regarding the very interesting situation with my signature. I can't find any loose tags and yet... Observe - 23:21, January 23, 2012 (UTC)]
 * Interesting. May I fiddle around? :P Elchzard  (Talk to me.) 23:29, January 23, 2012 (UTC)

Books categories
Thanks Deyvid. I'm actually having fun. What I'm working on now is getting as many images cleaned up as I can. I'm limited to Skyrim images since I haven't played Oblivion yet. I'm also adding missing images as I can. I also found another double category issue. We have both Skyrim: Weapon Images and Category:Skyrim: Weapons Images. I can work on those, too, if you like. GramsJ (talk) 02:20, January 24, 2012 (UTC)


 * PS. I just looked at the Skyrim categories again and saw that the Weapons Images category doesn't exist any more, so I guess you (or someone) already took care of it. So I'm back to working on image cleanup and stuff. GramsJ (talk) 06:29, January 24, 2012 (UTC)

Image compression & Character List
Looking at your profile I think you may be able to help with this one. I have checked the policies and its a bit vague about best image formats. I happen to know everything about image formats (literally) and wondered what you felt the best format would be? I have had a bot alter one of my posted images even though it was a PNG as suggested in the policy section.

For what it is worth a 'high' quality JPG would be the best format. Keeps the file size to a minimum but maintains quality. A PNG would be barely better quality but a MUCH bigger file format. Only snag when saving a JPG is that programs like Paint use a low quality JPG compression as standard and its not something most people will realise, so I guess a PNG would be 'safer'.

Maybe policies can be made clearer? And from now on I will go with high quality JPG as standard (to my knowledge its the best all-round format), to save the Bots fiddling with me!

Also, and I imagine it has been raised somewhere. When searching for characters I am really only interested in Skyrim Characters (I imagine the rest of the world is too). So I use the Skyrim drop down and select characters only to be confronted with a massive list of all Elder scrolls characters. Not the end of the world I suppose, as I should know who I am looking for, but not quite right either.

Venerable (talk) 12:52, January 24, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for notes on images. I will use compressed PNG then. And the primary Skyrim nav as shown still Skyrim_Characters.png to the Elder Scrolls characters page. I would imagine most people would not click the top bit you adjusted, although they may. I did not even know this Skyrim Character subcategory existed.


 * Venerable (talk) 14:18, January 24, 2012 (UTC)

hey Deyvid! just wanted to ask you: is there anything specific that needs to be done? remember im new, so i dont quite know how to do this.... so, leave me a message in my talk page if you remember something :)

Daedric Archer (talk) 19:44, January 24, 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation for Lighthouses
Hi Deyvid, I was just about to add an image of Frostflow Lighthouse to the Lighthouses page to fulfill its need for an image, but then I got to thinking about whether the page should be its own topic at all. Right now it's a stub, and unless there is more to say about lighthouses ingame, I was thinking about making it a disambiguation page and have it point to the two lighthouses that it currently lists. What are your thoughts? Thanks. GramsJ (talk) 20:51, January 24, 2012 (UTC)

Talk Page
Hey deyvid, what was the message someone sent me on my talk page? I saw you deleted it but what was the message exactly?

-Blood Reaper

I understand about the blood dragon picture, sorry, next time if im gunna put a picture ill make it more on the creature.

-Joey1808

Potions Recipes
Hey, I've taken it upon myself to sort the alchemical ingredients BY EFFECT rather than by name.

What I mean to say is that when you want to make a certain kind of potion, my list shows you by effect so you don't have to search through the list alphabeticly by ingredient name (AKA the long way).

Anyway, long story short, I'll email it to you or something but I haven't a clue how to submit it directly to the wiki.

It's three small files for a total of four pages.

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." Thomas Jefferson. Helena 08:44, January 27, 2012 (UTC)HelenaHanbazkt

Potions Recipes
Hey, I've taken it upon myself to sort the alchemical ingredients BY EFFECT rather than by name.

What I mean to say is that when you want to make a certain kind of potion, my list shows you by effect so you don't have to search through the list alphabeticly by ingredient name (AKA the long way).

Anyway, long story short, I'll email it to you or something but I haven't a clue how to submit it directly to the wiki.

It's three small files for a total of four pages.

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." Thomas Jefferson. Helena 08:45, January 27, 2012 (UTC)HelenaHanbazkt

Template question
Is there any template for Skyrim quests? For example you used a template for this page. Is there any template for one like that or should I just create my own custom one.

Blood Reaper (talk) 15:00, January 27, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for help.109.228.66.98 17:29, January 28, 2012 (UTC)

Several questions about book pages...
Hi Deyvid...So many changes are being made to the way books are being posted I thought I would check on what current style is preferred. Specifically, I noticed that the image of one that was posted recently had the name and statistics block cropped off. I suppose I can see doing that since the statistics are included in the infobox below the image. One concern, though, is then there is nothing to say that the book pictured is really the book being reviewed in the article. Second, since the statistics and effect, if any, are included in the infobox, is it really necessary to include a separate section in the article itself? My tendency has been to remove that information. Finally, what is everyone's opinion regarding including screenshots of the book contents in a Gallery at the bottom of the article or in a slide show? I was routinely including the pages until another admin made a comment that he was surprised to see it.

To summarize, Thanks a bunch. GramsJ (talk) 23:09, January 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Crop the statistics from the image, or not?
 * 2) Include the statistics section in the text of the article when they are present in the infobox, or not?
 * 3) Add screenshots of book contents to article, or not?


 * Thanks for the clear response, Deyvid. Now another question. Is somebody giving lessons on doing the 3D renders? I'd love to learn. :) GramsJ (talk) 02:52, January 30, 2012 (UTC)

Damn you're fast.
Glad you banned Crispalky for that.

Jimeee (talk) 11:44, January 30, 2012 (UTC)

Badge Booster?
Not sure about this so i'll let you decide. User Smike05 has a suspicions high number of edits for the same page several times. http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Smike05

Jimeee (talk) 16:02, January 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * Oops, sorry, I completely missed the part where you already dealt with it! Ignore this!


 * Jimeee (talk) 16:05, January 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * heh Timeoin•Say G'Day•View my work•Skyrim To-Do List 16:09, January 30, 2012 (UTC)

Oblivion Category Question
Hi Deyvid. I was looking at category trees this morning and happened to notice that Oblivion has two Mages Guild members categories — one with the "m" capitalized and one with a lower case "m." I was going to go ahead and merge the two, but I thought I should ask which one you wanted to keep (I'll redirect the other). Thanks, GramsJ (talk) 18:04, January 30, 2012 (UTC)

This is a very crazy bug
This is a very crazy bug : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZTRpvOxNRE

About Apparel categories
Hey Deyvid, I left a message on Timeion's talk page, but could you maybe have a read and let me know your thoughts too?

Jimeee (talk) 11:42, January 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * Replying to your points - If we are in agreement that Armor and Apparel are classed as Items then (as you have been doing in images) then surely having these as a sub category to Skyrim: Items would make sense - no? After all they do fit the definition of Items.


 * I'm not saying we should go back and start adding "Skyrim: Items" to all the individual Armor and Apparel - that would be insane - but rather have their respective categories ("Skyrim: Armor" and "Skyrim: Apparel") as sub categories to "Skyrim: Items". You can see this here - http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/index.php?title=Category:Skyrim:_Items&from=S


 * I don't think it would be messy if the categorisation is solid, but we need a community concensus first.


 * If we go with Armor and Apparel not classed as Items, then we definitely need to go back and look at what our definition of an Item actually is as it's too vague. Are "items" only potions, scrolls, ores etc?


 * As for the Jewelery category - Although some Jewelery might not really need its own page - like a basic gold ring - I would argue that there are still enough pieces of unique/quest item jewelery and divine amulets that warrent it's own category. It could always become a sub-category of Skyrim: Apparel as it would fit the description of what is apparel.


 * Thoughts? or we can talk on IRC later if I see you there?


 * Jimeee (talk) 12:50, January 31, 2012 (UTC)

Ban
Hi Deyvid. First, it was my fault. I take full responsibility and I'm sincerely sorry. I will strive to make sure it never happens again. I'm very new to this Wiki stuff, but I find it interesting and I've come in an effort to learn and contribute. Now I'm happy to get back into action. So thanks for your time and keep up the good work. EmmaLIAR (talk) 20:53, February 1, 2012 (UTC)

Daggerfall Creatures
Hi, just wondering if you have a Daggerfall creatures project coming up, because that section is in shambles. I can't even find a Giant Rat. If you want, I'd be happy to help build it up. SpinalWhisper21 (talk) 13:32, February 4, 2012 (UTC)

Moving Leveled armor
Hi Deyvid, just thought I'd let you know I'm in the process of moving links from Leveled armor to Leveled Armor. I only mention it because I noticed you just added a merge template to the first one. :) GramsJ (talk) 16:46, February 4, 2012 (UTC)


 * No problem. GramsJ (talk) 17:11, February 4, 2012 (UTC)

IRC
hey when you log on the IRC can you let me know? and if you don't go there first and didn't initially intend to, can you please get on IRC when you get on the wiki?Rosenrot87 (talk) 20:57, February 4, 2012 (UTC)

Re: Categories
Thanks for the info :) I just thought it was relevant. KillingForPeace (talk) 18:31, February 5, 2012 (UTC)

Miscellaneous categories
Hey Deyvid, lately I've run across several articles that listed a category called "Junk." So I checked the category list to make sure my thinking was right that the category didn't exist, and I was correct. That got me looking at the Misc. categories. We currently have Misc, Misc Items, Miscellaneous, and Miscellaneous Items, none of which are an official category. I'm thinking we should have a miscellaneous category, but how would you prefer it be named? Then we have Skyrim: Misc and Skyrim: Miscellaneous. I was going to move the items from the second to the first but thought I would check with you first. Could you let me know what your wishes are? ...Oh, and I tried to archive my talk page. I hope I did it right. Thanks GramsJ (talk) 00:46, February 6, 2012 (UTC)

Swords
Hi Deyvid. Concerning the category: http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Swords.

If this cat deals with swords in Skyrim, I assume for Oblivion it's equivelant cat wouold be "Blade" - does this mean swords - as an item - wont be catergorised at all for Oblivion?

Jimeee (talk) 10:12, February 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Ok, if the cat deal with all games then I assume it will become massive very soon, so before that happens should have Skyrim: Swords and Oblivion: Swords (and Morrowind).


 * As for the Blade skill - we already have Category:Blunt Weapons that Rose has added so now for the sake of consistency we will ned Category:Blade Weapons - no?


 * When is it best to catch you guys on IRC, I have been meaning to discuss a few things with the admins.


 * Jimeee (talk) 10:22, February 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Oh god, im at work and cant get IRC! This always happens! If you can - please bring up the topic of Armor/Apperal we had the other day as we still don't have a community agreement.
 * Jimeee (talk) 10:26, February 6, 2012 (UTC)

I have just added a page for Cowflop farm. But have made an error adding the categories and cant edit them. Sorry

Albert.browne (talk) 20:38, February 6, 2012 (UTC)

Proposal for Enemies Infobox
Hi Deyvid. I noticed yesterday that the Creatures category has a number of human creatures included. I discovered this as I started moving some articles from Bestiary (which doesn't exist as a formal category) to the Creatures category. I'm wondering if we need an Enemies infobox (not necessarily a category, since I think they qualify as NPCs) for hostile humans so we can include fields such as Race, Level, Health, Magicka, Stamina, Spells, Soul rather than include them in the creatures category by default. The other option would be to add these fields as collapsible fields to the NPCs Infobox. What are your thoughts about this? Thanks.

P.S, Any decision regarding the miscellaneous category? GramsJ (talk) 18:15, February 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi again Deyvid. I've given the infobox a stab. I haven't quite figured out the /doc part of it yet, but if you could give the infobox a look and let me know what you think, I'd appreciate it. You can find it here: User:GramsJ/Sandbox/Templates/Template:SkyrimEnemyNPCs Thanks. GramsJ (talk) 01:43, February 10, 2012 (UTC)

Factions
Sorry, my brain is going to mush right now. Looking at the Factions category is making me go mad. I left minor rant on Timoins page if you're interested.

Jimeee (talk) 14:39, February 8, 2012 (UTC)

Hey, just noticed you deleted the talk page over on Bear Traps, where I put a link to a youtube video where a guy killed some bandits using bear traps, with the reason of "spam".

Sorry in advance if I'm wrong, but I thought that that contribution was on topic and in the correct place. Could you please explain to me how that was spam?Sneak+stab (talk) 19:55, February 9, 2012 (UTC)Sneak+Stab

Heeeey Deyvid
I'm really only here to say hey, I think you're the tits. Also, I've had three beers. Regardless, I think you're a good friend. Please send me any screen shot work you need done for personal projects; otherwise I'm on to new things with the label you drafted up for me the other day! Winnersusedrugs (talk) 02:10, February 10, 2012 (UTC)