Talk: Main Page/Archive 200612

Spoiler warning on Main Page has a typo - a double be. --frin 05:06, 7 October 2006 (PDT)

Article of the Week[]

It's about "Henry Gale", but we know now that's his name is Ben. --Jambalaya 13:47, 7 October 2006 (PDT)

Dam it! *goes to cry* -- Dee4leeds talk contribs all 13:31, 8 October 2006 (PDT)

^That's why it doesn't say Ben^ -Chris^[dt7] 13:33, 8 October 2006 (PDT)

Hm, I see :-/ Sorry! (But it already says "Ben (Henry Gale)" on the front page already, so I suppose I shouldn't need to have a bad conscience anyway :-p) --Jambalaya 15:17, 8 October 2006 (PDT)

ABC Medianet[]

Do we have anyone who is a member at abc medianet? This is what it says on the register page:

Membership is given to qualified domestic media professionals only. Our approval qualifications do not guarantee applications will be accepted even if you are with the media. Access is given to qualified domestic media professionals only.

What does that mean? Are we under that category? Do we qualify? I was thinking, if we can, we might need to have a user there.--Captain Insano 14:59, 7 October 2006 (PDT)

We get what we need from Lost-Media.com anyway? :-p --Jambalaya 17:35, 7 October 2006 (PDT)

Locations[]

Utopiaville is now Otherville :) --Scorpiusdiamond 06:01, 8 October 2006 (PDT)

The rewrites on the main character articles[]

Why are they all full of tense changes. You'll read it in the past tense, then all of a sudden they begin to read in present tense, then change back to past tense. Whoever wrote these needs to revisit them and make them all past tense! -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 08:31, 9 October 2006 (PDT)

Yes, that is a problem with some of them, it's partly because some of them were done by different people and over a period of time. I'll help on going back and fixing those but in the mean time do you have the ability to set the AOtW, because we need one, whatever it is. --NSHS07 08:38, 9 October 2006 (PDT)

The Wikipedia debate continues.[]

Well if this evidence of Google Trends [1] doesn't mean something, along with our site of the week claim from SciFi.com, and mentions via The Lost Experience, then I will be personally contacting Jimbo Wales about my serious concerns over cliques of editors controlling the site, and bending the rules to suit their own personal choices. I will also be forwarding the article to as many technology journalists as I can. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 00:48, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

AOTW[]

Are we not wikifying text in the AOTW-block anymore? -- ^Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯^Talk13:43, 18 October 2006 (PDT)
- That was more my laziness than actually a change in policy. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 01:12, 19 October 2006 (PDT)

External references to Lostpedia[]

I was just thinking, if it doesn't exist already, might it be good to have a page that documents external media references to this website? Potentially useful and convenient. Obviously, not on the main page, I just didn't know where would be the appropriate place to ask. Opinions? --Minderbinder 16:17, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

Is this what you mean: Lostpedia:Media Coverage.--Captain Insano 16:24, 18 October 2006 (PDT)

Amazon Sponsor (technical)[]

Hi guys, I was wondering if LP have any sponsor/ad service with Amazon because moments ago my xp opened up like 55 ie pages trying to connect rcm.amazon.com/something (one of amazon's marketing systems if I'm not mistaken) and it was referenced by Image:Discharge.jpg (i was looking at that picture right at the time) .. I know there arent any spyware in my pc (hopefully) so i was just wondering if it at least has some connection w/ lostpedia? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hudd (talk • contribs) .

Yes, we do run Amazon's ad service on certain pages, but at the moment it is disabled. I'll take a look and see if I can recreate the error. Were you looking at Image:Discharge.jpg at the time? -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 01:11, 19 October 2006 (PDT)

It was opened as one of the tabs in the browser (i use netcaptor) but the link started being opened continuously in new ie pages and finally trigered the download client. if i remember correctly; the link was the picture's address plus some data and the rcm address as one of the in-link variables, which kinda says it was just one of the in-page sections.. Don't worry about it though because it might just have been some kind of bug on my side, or caused by heavy traffic yesterday. Thanks for your interest! Sorry for not signing too, I was pretty freaked.. Hudd ^talk_contrib 04:18, 19 October 2006 (PDT)

Sky One[]

Link

The channel 4 infomation needs updating. -- Dee4leeds talk contribs all 07:58, 19 October 2006 (PDT)

Done! I've also emailed The head of Sky 1, 2 and 3 to get some clarification on the news. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 08:36, 19 October 2006 (PDT)

infomation regarding the start of LOST...IN NOVEMBER! -- Dee4leeds talk contribs all 10:26, 19 October 2006 (PDT)

Can we change it to November now?.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by David78 (talk • contribs) .

How about adding the Sky Two logo, and when the time comes, the Sky Three logo? Also, the date for the next ep - 19th November double bill? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CiaranP (talk • contribs) .

Curvyness[]

Now that it seems Lostpedia has taken to curving every possible corner, should we start changing templates (Stub, Infoboxes, Rewrite, etc.) to be curved also? -Chris^[dt7] 15:11, 19 October 2006 (PDT)

The curvyness has had to go away due to it breaking Internet Explorer 7. The only curves that will remain are on the front page (for now). Good old Microsoft, who needs standards when you can take dominant market advantage because of a monopolistic market? -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 02:12, 20 October 2006 (PDT)

Curves never worked in IE anyway.. shame.. Hudd ^talk_contrib 16:10, 21 October 2006 (PDT)

Aren't there any CSS hacks that could be used? --Jambalaya 18:34, 3 January 2007 (PST)

The Lost Experience section on the template[]

So, do we need this anymore, now TLE is not active? I was thinking of replacing it with some links to our editing guides, what you think? -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 07:29, 20 October 2006 (PDT)

User Ratings?[]

Don't know if this falls under the mission of Lostpedia but we've seen that viewer reaction to LOST is a key part of the crew's creative decisions, so why not put a user rating system for episodes a la This Might Be a Wiki? It would be a good way to judge reactions to episodes, and rank episodes against other episodes.

http://www.tmbw.net/wiki/index.php/Human_Interest [see bottom left corner] -- JoshSpazJosh

Could be a cool idea...-- Dee4leeds talk contribs all 03:20, 24 October 2006 (PDT)

I kind of like the idea of a "point, counterpoint" thing (have one person type a review emphasising the pros and another deals more with the cons), but I don't think that other users who are more stingy with free-form disscussion would care for it much.--Mighty Rearranger 03:26, 24 October 2006 (PDT)

CTV[]

Can someone fix the air time of Lost on CTV on the main page please? The correct time is 8:00pm (et). -- Cheers 22:40, 23 October 2006 (PDT)

Character Headings by Season, or No?[]

I've noticed that at the moment, some of the character articles (i.e. Locke) have their On-Island sections divided up by Season, whereas other articles (i.e. Kate) do not. This has been bugging the crap out of me, so I decided to make a vote to decide the issue once and for all. Now I'm new on this site, so I'm not sure how these votes normally work; if I'm doing something wrong, please tell me and I'll fix it. Well, here goes...

Since no one else seems to be voting lately and the majority is currently in favor of the Season Headings, I'm going to go ahead and add them in.Wstonefi 17:31, 26 October 2006 (PDT)
- Although I agree with the idea. I do not think 2 days is long enough to judge a vote. Give it a week. So 4 more days. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 18:21, 26 October 2006 (PDT)
  - So is this more or less settled then? -- Dee4leeds talk contribs all 10:22, 31 October 2006 (PST)

In favor of said Season Headings[]

Wstonefi 15:57, 24 October 2006 (PDT)
Aero *Zeppelin 16:15, 24 October 2006 (PDT)
Dee4leeds talk contribs all 01:37, 25 October 2006 (PDT)
-- Plkrtn talk contribs email 18:21, 26 October 2006 (PDT)
I do agree but as the season count grows this might have to be undone.--Captain Insano 10:10, 28 October 2006 (PDT)
--The Smiley-Faced Balloon 13:56, 28 October 2006 (PDT)

Against said Season Headings[]

I don't think they make sense since half the article is Before the Crash anyway (where they can't really be used). I'd much rather see those articles use references/links to individual episodes. --Minderbinder 16:22, 24 October 2006 (PDT)

Spoiler news article on Main page?[]

Isn't the news article "Lost goes to medical school" on the main page a partial spoiler? --Snarf 10:07, 26 October 2006 (PDT)

Aussie repeats[]

For the Australian episode showing thingy, Channel 7 is now repeating Season 1 of Lost at about midnight Monday to Friday (or Thursday, i think). I think tonight is Walkabout but could someone with Main Page editing abilities do some research and update it daily or at least say the repeats are on?

PS I HATE REPEATS, especially when you've got the DVD of it. --Blueeagle islander 01:03, 1 November 2006 (PST)

New Infoboxes[]

In short, I thought the old infoboxes looked a bit stale. So, I've made a new one for episodes. Take a look, tell me your opinions :) -Chris^[dt7] 13:32, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Really good, I am not a big fan of the color purple to be honest.--Captain Insano 13:34, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Looks good as a stand-alone page, but it would need to be adjusted to take variables like the current ones. I'm not sure how you can accomplish that easily with a long list like the guest actors. -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 13:41, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Yeah, I've got that sorted. I'd just have to go through and change a few things on every episode's page. I was leaving it as Pilot so people could see what it'd look like on a page. -Chris^[dt7] 13:44, 1 November 2006 (PST)

I like it, Chris. More streamlined than the others. I thought you could just switch the template code and it would automatically change on the pages? Same fields... --Pandora X 13:46, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Yes as long as you're not removing, renaming, or adding variables. Also, You should probably put hidden elements in there like in the current template. -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 13:48, 1 November 2006 (PST)

That'd work for all of them except guest actors. Well, it'd work, it just wouldn't look right for the majority of them. -Chris^[dt7] 13:47, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Here's a templatified version. I think it should work. -Chris^[dt7] 13:55, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Appears to work. See the test page. -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 14:01, 1 November 2006 (PST)

On second note, better check the code...something is making the background white on everything below it, overriding CSS for the site. -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 14:06, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Sigh... I'll look into that. In the mean time, User:Dt7/Infobox Oceanic Passenger. -Chris^[dt7] 14:08, 1 November 2006 (PST)

I'll take a look. Appears to only affect IE7. -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 14:12, 1 November 2006 (PST)

I'm seeing it on Firefox 2.0... no background colour and the Synopsis bar is going straight through it. -Chris^[dt7] 14:14, 1 November 2006 (PST)

Credits??[]

How tacky! Get those credits off the bottom of the Index! For shame, Plkrtn! —X S G 20:07, 1 November 2006 (PST)

I'm afraid the credits won't be going anywhere. Its an acknowledgement of who did the work, as part of Creative Commons Licensing, because its an adaption, it needs to be credited as such. I'm afraid your attitude around here recently, quick frankly, stinks the place up. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 04:01, 2 November 2006 (PST)

My attitude has nothing to do with this, and despite the fact that you're further contributing to my state of burnout, I actually have a sincere reason for my criticism of your actions.

If credit needs to be given to someone as a part of Creative Commons licensing, so be it. Credit for the work that you've contributed to LostPedia, however, does not require attribution for the sake of licensing. Rather, you take attribution because, and I quote you: "Considering the amount of work I am doing around here that you do not see me credited for, I think translating the original work of Z0n3 from Portuguese to English without having much Portuguese knowledge, I think I deserve the credit." You are obviously proud of the quantity of work you've done around here. Such sentiments are understandable; I also take an element of pride when I see how nicely I've organized otherwise dis-organized information, how much of certain site policies were the result of my hard work, or when I create a template that other people use. On the other hand, as a SysOp, taking attribution on the front page sends a message to everyone that it's okay to follow in your footsteps and take credit for their work as a matter of personal pride. It's a slippery slope which I don't want to see this site fall prey to. People have the right to take so much pride in this site that, followed to its likely conclusion, you could find attribution on every navigation menu and template that took more than a few hours to create. I think it's irresponsible as a SysOp for you to start this trend, and I would sincerely like you to reconsider taking credit for your own work. I ask this not because of any shred of jealousy in me but because I believe that it does a disservice to this site, of which I am a proud, contributing member. —X S G 20:29, 2 November 2006 (PST)

FYI - I asked plkrtn to add those credits. --Admin 15:06, 7 November 2006 (PST)

While we're complaining about the index, pushing the button isn't really a mystery as now know nearly everything about it --Blueeagle islander 22:42, 1 November 2006 (PST)

I'll take a look at it. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 04:01, 2 November 2006 (PST)

Theory Policy[]

Could we have a banner on the front page saying something about reading the theory policy page before making pointless edits and calling them "Theory"

- Mikey - "so emo, it hurts"©

I'm kind of for linking a policy, as it's rather out of control lately, though I think the people who need to read it the most are ones who don't tend to read that sort of stuff... --Pandora X 11:13, 4 November 2006 (PST)

Items added to tab?[]

We have a good listing of items now in Category: Items. To me, it seems more of an interesting category than TLE websites, and I was wondering how people felt about replacing that as a "tab". Mostly because TLE is now over, so the websites themselves don't really have meaning, and we already have TLE characters as another. --Pandora X 11:13, 4 November 2006 (PST)

Coming Soon To Lostpedia[]

A community portal? That is really cool... Just a note, maybe we could have a podcast? That would be really cool too. I have no idea what would be in it or who would make it, but yeah, that would be cool. I doubt this idea will go over well though... Oh well. Ok, now I'm rambling.--LOST ON CRAPHOLE ISLAND!!!!!

I think you are psychic... Its been under discussion to do a podcast for a while now. But, we'll see. Nothing is confirmed. Yet! -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 09:54, 5 November 2006 (PST)

England LOST date.[]

I recieved a newsletter from sky one confirming that the start date for LOST is November 19th at 10pm.

Can somebody with admin please update the page. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by lewisg (talk • contribs) .

We've had the date set up for a few weeks now as 19th November 2006 at 10pm. We've known for quite a while when it would air, but shhhhh don't tell anyone we knew! :-) -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 13:15, 8 November 2006 (PST)

The US and Canadian stations show Lost in HD also but don't have the 'Also in HD' line on the Main Page, is it really necessary? Kdivad 15:10, 14 November 2006 (PST)

It has now been removed, but yes, for the first episode at least it was necessary. It was the first time Lost has ever been available in HD format in the UK, so I felt the need to let people in the UK be aware that the HD version was available to them for the first time ever. Whilst the UK are far ahead of the US in terms of digital broadcasting, interactive television and mobile phones, high definition TV is only now starting to take off, thanks to the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the rush to buy LCD and Plasma TV's for the tournament so it was worthwhile to have it. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 02:12, 24 November 2006 (PST)

Text size[]

Has anyone else noticed the text size is much larger than yesterday? It seems to be sitewide for me, but I can't figure out why. Has anyone else noticed this, or does has my browser developed a bizarre allergy to Lostpedia? OMG, that would be horrible! -BearDog 12:18, 15 November 2006 (PST)

It's not just you. It affects me too. I was a bit shocked when I came on.. it was a kinda "Woah!" moment. :) -- Lost_Soul 12:19, 15 November 2006 (PST)
I haven't noticed it. Make sure your browser text size is set to normal (view - text size). Or try Mozilla / Firefox / Safari: hold down Shift while clicking Reload, or press Ctrl-Shift-R (Cmd-Shift-R on Apple Mac); IE: hold Ctrl while clicking Refresh, or press Ctrl-F5; Konqueror:: simply click the Reload button, or press F5; Opera users may need to completely clear their cache in Tools→Preferences. -- Paladine<c.t> 12:25, 15 November 2006 (PST)
It must be something glitchy with the site. I doubt all of us simultaneously had browser changes! --Amberjet11 12:33, 15 November 2006 (PST)
My text size is set to normal, and it's still really huge. Shadow Ultra 13:33, 15 November 2006 (PST)
Are you using the monobook skin? -- Paladine<c.t> 13:38, 15 November 2006 (PST)
- Yes. --Noseman 2006 22:41, 15 November 2006 (CET)
- Me too, on both counts. It's not a big deal, just really big text- and a bit more scrolling. Thank god we moved all the theories out of the articles yesterday! -BearDog 13:43, 15 November 2006 (PST)

Yeah, the size thing is bugging me. I can't see entire pages and that bothers me a lot. I can be a little obsessive-compulsive sometimes.--LOCI!
I started playing around with different skins and only some of them are being affected. So, Chick, Classic, Nostalgia, MySkin, and Cologne Blue are fine. Only Default, Lostbook, and Simple have the enlarged text.--LOCI!

Jab or Plk must have been playing around with the monobook.--Captain Insano 14:23, 15 November 2006 (PST)

Nope, no changes to monobook. Our skin changes are in a separate skin called lostbook. Even that hasn't changed this week. -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 09:19, 16 November 2006 (PST)

Looks like its an IE issue, so ditch that awful browser and everything looks fine. -- Paladine<c.t> 14:30, 15 November 2006 (PST)
- Some people actually like using IE, especially IE 7. So, why not FIX the on site problem instead of having people adjust the way they surf the internet JUST for the sake of one site with broken/misajusted code.--Frankie Viturello 07:42, 16 November 2006 (PST)
Yes I would urge whoever is responsible to fix it asap..it makes the site & pages look very amateurish, and is doing weird things to way infoboxes look etc--Kivipat
Is this going to be fixed? Monobook is the only skin I like... --Invertebrat 06:47, 16 November 2006 (PST)
I think this font problem may be related to an update that Microsoft pushed out this week through Windows update. I'm NOT seeing the problem on my Dev wiki, but it's on the latest version of Mediawiki. Hopefully an update to the latest version of MW will fix the problem, but Admin will have to do it. In the meantime, as a workaround, Firefox displays the site just fine. -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 08:16, 16 November 2006 (PST)

ANNOUNCEMENT - The font issues are happening not just necessarily on Lostpedia, it seems to be a Windows Update that is messing things up. Hopefully the issue will be soon resolved, but until then try using Firefox or Mozilla, as Internet Explorer seems to be the only browser affected --Nickb123 (Talk) 08:15, 16 November 2006 (PST)

Woah that is crazy! Serves you al right for using IE! lol ;-) - Mikey - "so emo, it hurts"©

Wow! What did we ever do to Microsoft that they'd single us out like this, and leave the Wikipedia & Wikimedia sites alone?! Maybe Bill Gates is HIM? ;) -BearDog 08:51, 16 November 2006 (PST)

So if Windows is the culprit, why is this the only website I visit that's affected by it? --Amberjet11 10:43, 16 November 2006 (PST)

Well, it could have messed up MediaWiki, we're not on the most current version --Nickb123 (Talk) 10:52, 16 November 2006 (PST)

Not really sure what a browser is, but if AOL is one, it's being affected too.--LOCI!

Hi Nick and everyone,

After testing the problem, I wanted to make the following comments to what is posted so far:

1. Regarding the relation to the browser type:

I have just installed Mozilla Firefox 2.0, and found that the fonts of Lostpedia are fine when viewed over it, as many mention here. I haven't tried Safari, but regarding browsers over Windows I think it is safe to confirm that this problem affects the Internet Explorer only.

2. Regarding being Lostpedia-specific:

By my extensive testing over the IE to date, and as indicated by many others, we can confirm now that this problem exists only with Lostpedia.

3. Regarding the relation to a windows update:

I can confirm that I haven't installed any windows updates lately, nor any updates specific to the IE, yet when using the Internet Explorer the fonts problem exists for me like everyone else, so based on similar confirmations above, we can assume that this problem is not related to windows updates.

4. Regarding being Fonts-specific:

While comparing Firefox to the IE, I've also noticed that unlike its appearance over Firefox, all Lostpedia articles' thumbnail images appear to be missing their right border over the IE (you can actually see it right on the Main Page). Also over the IE, you notice that the character details appearing in their infoboxes, for instance, are in normal font, however they appear mispositioned within the infobox. So this might not be just a fonts problem. It actually may be as Nick noted earlier an Enhancement introduced lately by any of us, that went terribly wrong..

I hope it will be all fixed soon, meanwhile should we consider adding a note at the Main Page, recommending the use of Mozilla Firefox for all new users, until the problem is fixed for IE ?-- 06:54, 17 November 2006 (PST)

If life was always as easy just to put Firefox on and not actually cure the problem. It is Lostpedia, nowhere else, which is wrong. It's a System Failure. --The Smiley-Faced Balloon 05:44, 18 November 2006 (PST)

Absolutely, if the use of Firefox should be recommended, we must note that this would only be a temporal solution until we fix this bug. However, fixing this bug is essential. We all know the majority of regular users use IE, and thus to many new visitors, our portal will definitely look Amateur, and the more the problem hangs unsolved, the more sever the effect will be (we have this problem unchanged for more than 3 days now)..According to bug classifications, this is not a system failure. However, it is not by any means of a less priority to failures, since it is highly noticeable and of a widespread effect. This is no less than misspelling Lostpedia to "Lastpedia", for example, on the Main Page, which would be outrageous. -- 06:07, 18 November 2006 (PST)

Stylesheets - I'm not really setup to completely debug this issue, but I noticed if I change

 #globalWrapper { font-size: 127%; }

to:

 #globalWrapper { font-size: 100%; }

Then the site looks a little more sane in my IE browser. Of course, this breaks my Firefox browser, but maybe this fix can be made to the IE-only style sheet pages.--Dagg 08:15, 18 November 2006 (PST)

This seems to be Lostpedia specific. Everywhere else all is good. Looks like 1990 all over. If you click on recent changes the font size is fine. Some pages are good and some, well... Good luck tracking down the issue. --Found 07:29, 20 November 2006 (PST)

XXX DOCTYPE[]

At the top of all the non-Special pages is this text:

 <!-- XXX 
 -->

The DOCTYPE is after that, and that screws up some versions of IE. The DOCTYPE needs to be the first line before everything else. I'm not sure if it is the commented XXX, or if it is the extra blank line at the very top that is messing it up.

I downloaded a broken page, and removed the blank line and XXX line, and then the font sizes worked exactly as expected. I tested this on IE6.0.

The Special pages do not have the XXX, and do not have this problem. --Dagg 20:01, 20 November 2006 (PST)

Good find! I don't see this XXX in the main page on my dev wiki, so it's possible that something got added in to a php file on this server. Admin will have to take a look and fix it. -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 20:12, 20 November 2006 (PST)

Question...how can we speed up this fixing process ? Is anyone able to contact Admin directly ?-- 21:37, 20 November 2006 (PST)

I have removed the XXX. It was left over after debugging the new theorytab. Sorry for the inconvenience guys! I broke it. The fastest way to contact me is by either posting a note on my Talk page or emailing me: admin!~+~!lostpedia.com. --Admin 09:49, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Get the pitchforks and flaming torches, we're having an admin hunt ;-) -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 10:21, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Off with his head! :-) Do you still have plans to upgrade to MW 1.82? -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 10:38, 21 November 2006 (PST)

IGN's Top 50 LOST Loose Ends.[]

http://tv.ign.com/articles/745/745595p1.html

So, does anyone think this interesting article has a place here on lostpedia? dposse 12:24, 19 November 2006 (PST)

See Lostpedia:Recommend a News Item. -- Jabberwock talk contribs email - 12:51, 19 November 2006 (PST)

Two grand[]

Although I think it was our theory splits that did it, at any rate, congratulations to all who helped LP pass the 2K article mark! And I look forward to many more great contributions from all users during the s3 hiatus! -- ^Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯^Talk03:30, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Woohoo! With a loophole, we suddenly bumped up our number by double. :D Whose house do we party at? OK, I'm off to make pages on Jack's socks and Locke's zit. That should help push us towards 3K. --Pandora X 04:54, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Text Size Fixed?[]

Can someone who was having the text size problem please confirm that it is now corrected? Thanks. --Admin 09:50, 21 November 2006 (PST)

It is! Hoorah! --Nickb123 (Talk) 09:54, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Fixed, as well as all other inconsistency issues. Thank you sir for your prompt response :)-- 10:31, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Huzzah! Thanks so much!! -BearDog 10:47, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Thank you so much to all of those who contributed of their time to fixing the text size problem on Lostpedia. I had just switched my server to Netscape from Internet Explorer because of the bug, so it was becoming rather cumbersome to get on the internet! :-D -- Liz

Fixed - woo! The XXX's were a manifestation of the Monster. :)--Dagg 11:56, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Lostpedia was about to get "Ekoed", but we came on time and saved it! :))-- 12:11, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Melodramatic much people, its just a glitch... we get them a lot --Nickb123 (Talk) 12:15, 21 November 2006 (PST)

Actually, a massively huge glitch for IE users..some partying is due here. Rock on! :) -- 12:28, 21 November 2006 (PST)

I'm on IE, and I got over it lol. Worse things have happened, like the time I couldn't see ANY thumbed images, now THAT was a glitch... --Nickb123 (Talk) 12:34, 21 November 2006 (PST)

WOOHOO its fixed!!!!--LOCI!

New Logos![]

Wow! I don't know who was in charge of that, but the new logos (LinkFA-star.png, Nuvola_warning.png, ..etc) look awesome!-- 06:00, 23 November 2006 (PST)

That was me. I did it on a whim, realising how rough some of our logos looked on the page, and needed sprucing up. Glad you like them. I can't take credit for them though, they are from Icon-king.com and designed by the awesome David Vignoni. You'll see the icons in several other places too. Wikipedia, some distributions of Linux also use the icon set (called Nuvola). I will be looking to replace other icons we use also, and adding ones where they currently don't exist, just to make the site look a little more gorgeous. So keep your eye out! -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 02:18, 24 November 2006 (PST)

I sure will, and though they are indeed David Vignoni's brilliant designs, it's still a great idea to adopt them in enhancing the look and feel of Lostpedia. Great work! -- 04:03, 24 November 2006 (PST)

New to lostpedia[]

It says there are more features coming this November. What exactly are they? I'm curious, and I think it would be a good idea to put this on the front page like it was for a while.--LOCI!

We aren't telling you everything until its released! Thats the point in saying "Coming soon". We can't guarantee what ones will be now, and what ones will be in December etc. Anyway, the latest new feature is embedding YouTube videos directly into the site. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 07:10, 26 November 2006 (PST)

Link to Timeline[]

Would it be possible to have a direct link to the Timeline page from the main page. I think there should be one because this is the only place where you can read the Lost story chronologically. --Grafix 06:17, 1 December 2006 (PST)

Bob Attacks[]

We are currently suffering repetitive tireless Bob attacks. I believe we need to take higher measures, than what we are currently doing, to ensure that such incidents will not repeat! -- 06:52, 5 December 2006 (PST)

I'm in discussion with Admin at the moment. Waiting for email replies. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 08:12, 5 December 2006 (PST)

Good job, everyone! Bellemichelle 08:15, 5 December 2006 (PST)

I was about to say, I think we've performed admirably with the situation so far, but there are things we can do to stop this happening, and I'm sure we'll be discussing some of these strategies soon. I would ask our vandal, if he is reading this, to use the email button on my signature to email me, so I can see what his terms of negotiation are. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 08:18, 5 December 2006 (PST)

One your email function doesn't work, and two our vandal needs to check the logs cause GodEmperorOfHell, whom he has a personal vendetta against, hasn't been around in months and most likely won't be in the forseeable future --Nickb123 (Talk) 08:20, 5 December 2006 (PST)

Nice job everybody, I was amazed at the fact that within minutes all the attacks were reverted. Suggestion: Is there a tool you guys could use that reverts every edit made within a time span (for example, if an attack occurs, you revert every edit made during that time). Just sounds like it would speed up the process a little. DeGroot 14:27, 7 December 2006 (PST)

Dec, 6 podcast ?[]

I think I heard the guys talking about "Not in Portland" in the podcast, did anyone hear that? --mo-- (^Talk | ) 07:23, 7 December 2006 (PST)

i just heard it again,, "do you want to prehash about (not in portland), what does that title mean" Minute 10, second 52 --mo-- (^Talk |

) 07:32, 7 December 2006 (PST)

Yeah, shouldn't the US upcoming episode thing be changed to "Not in Portland" now? Shadow Ultra 14:31, 7 December 2006 (PST)

No, they do not say when it will be broadcasting, they just say its a title of an episode. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 15:40, 9 December 2006 (PST)

Well Paul, actually you can hear Carlton opening the talk about the S3's 2nd patch, saying to Damon: "Do we wanna prehatch about Not in Portland ?" at that last Pod, and we all kinda know that the podcast couple only prehatch the next coming episode..I think that the fact that they have only publicly announced the name of this episode, with all the general prehatching the did on that pod about the 2nd patch, should give us a confirmation and a permission to refer to it as the first coming episode. However, I understand your concern about releasing such info, but u know for sure that demands will keep on comin to post it, so...what do you think ?-- 16:01, 9 December 2006 (PST)

The rules have always been, we wait for ABC Medianet. I don't see any reason to change that. They don't mention its the next episode, we can infer it, but then we're speculating which is something we've always tried to avoid. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 16:03, 9 December 2006 (PST)

For crying out loud just unlock it.. If it turns out its the wrong episode change the name, or anything. And also add a warning at the top saying its contents are speculative. --lewisg 16:07, 9 December 2006 (PST)

And what do we achieve by unlocking it? The content we need is already there. Its a future episode of Season 3! We never unlock next episode articles until they actually air!-- Plkrtn talk contribs email 16:09, 9 December 2006 (PST)

Fair enough, but i just dont get why it is actually locked, but rules are rules --lewisg 16:10, 9 December 2006 (PST)

We lock new episode articles simply to avoid mass spoiler posts. Especially if anyone gets to see the episode before US airing dates (like in Canada) -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 16:13, 9 December 2006 (PST)

Ah ok that makes sense :) ta --lewisg 16:15, 9 December 2006 (PST)

Yep, you've got a good point there Paul which I personally agree with and believe it's a very appropriate motivation in being concerned about what we let out or open the way for...Also, good that you mentioned that, since I wanted to ask you, out of experience with Lost.. when should we be on the lookout for news on the 2nd epsd patch to be announced at the ABC Medianet ? for example, for the last seasons, did they start announcing important stuff weeks before its start or only couple of days, or.... ? Regards-- 16:22, 9 December 2006 (PST)

They normally announce next episode details on ABC MediaNet about 2 weeks before the episode airs, so expect to see it in the last two weeks of January. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 16:31, 9 December 2006 (PST)

Great, thanks-- 16:39, 9 December 2006 (PST)

Seasonal Edit Block[]

I just thought I'd post to ask what people think of the closure of editing between 24 - 26 December and December 31 - January 1st inclusive. We've taken this decision based on the fact that although we have visitors all over the world and of different beliefs, the majority of the SysOps celebrate Christmas, Hannukah and/or other holidays over this period and aren't likely to be around to police the site because of family commitments. If vandalism were to occur then, it could ruin the site. Most people seem to be OK with it, but if you do have issue please let us know why, so in the future we may be able to take a different tact. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 13:46, 12 December 2006 (PST)

Ive got no problem with it (seeing as I will be off the computer during this time :D like most people hehe), although i was just wondering if there was anyway to allow "trusted" lostpedia users to still have access? If not no worries :D --lewisg 13:50, 12 December 2006 (PST)

Isn't there a semi-pretected level? Not allowing new users. (There is on wikipedia, not sure on here.)-- Dee4leeds talk contribs all 13:52, 12 December 2006 (PST)

Yes you're quite right, there is an S-protect level, but to my knowledge Lostpedia doesn't have it installed. We could get this perhaps, but I think it'd be safer and just easier to fully protect it for those 5 days --Nickb123 (Talk) 14:08, 12 December 2006 (PST)

Yeah its more easier i guess--lewisg 14:09, 12 December 2006 (PST)

Sorry, not to be a Dilbert-principle proving lazy SysOp or anything...hehe --Nickb123 (Talk) 14:16, 12 December 2006 (PST)

I would be here!!! I think if you got that thing installed that lets trusted users edit... that would be great. If vandalism occured, I'm sure there are a lot of users that would be trustworthy enough ( *cough cough* me *cough cough* ) to revert it. And if we had that thing that was mentioned, it wouldn't be problem anyway, because vandals like Bob couldn't create new accounts. This is all my personal opinion, but I guess SySops have the final word. *sigh* I guess I'll have to return to real life over the holidays. *sigh* :P Just kidding.--LOCI!

Please investigate: Oceanic Category Bug[]

Not to clutter this talk page with problems irrelevant to the main page, I'll just add that there seems to be a serious problem with:

[[Category:Oceanic Flight 815 Crew and Passengers]]

which requires investigation. I have posted the details of the problem at the category's talk page, adding to other incidents reported. Though it may be due to a simple code error, none the less, this is affecting one of the main categories used, and thus requires prompt attending.-- 20:45, 12 December 2006 (PST)

Fixed? -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 01:08, 13 December 2006 (PST)

Yes! Desmond's article is fixed now. Thank you for your prompt response. For Talk:Main Page/Archive 200607, however, the link still exists. Can you please check that as well. Thanks -- 14:06, 13 December 2006 (PST)

That is because Template:Nav-SurvivorsMinor also has the Category name hardcoded into it. To simplify the fixing of this issue, I have changed the archive page to no-longer include the template.--Dagg 14:17, 13 December 2006 (PST)

I just checked it and it works, thank you :)-- 13:33, 14 December 2006 (PST)

User Subpages[]

This is really starting to piss me off. People don't need these many subpages. Like ones for each template on the userpage and then ones for contributions, etc. To me users should be allowed 6 (Userpage, Playground, Signature, AutoSignature, and 2 Monobooks [1 js and 1 css]). I mean where will it end? I believe we need a set number of user subpages allowed (Talk pages not included).--Captain Insano 13:13, 19 December 2006 (PST)

Agreed, Ive seen way too many, ive seen some that are basically just whats on normal article pages :s very pointless --lewisg 13:15, 19 December 2006 (PST)

Does it really matter? Who cares, we've got enough data space for people to have a few subpages... --Nickb123 (Talk) 13:17, 19 December 2006 (PST)

Gotta agree with Nick. We asked people to put personal content on subpages, and now we moan about people having too many sub pages? It makes no sense, and is kinda against what we've already said. Theres no harm in them, subpages aren't search indexed like normal content. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 04:32, 22 December 2006 (PST)

Link to Adam (Other)[]

Just thought I'd let whoever manages the main page know that in the Index at the bottom, under the category "Others" there is Adam, which links to the disambiguation page , Adam, where as it should link to Adam (Other)--Mr.Leaf 10:49, 27 December 2006 (PST)

underbelly of shark[]

in the second episode of the second season there is a shark that trys to eat Sawyer while he and Michle are stranded in the ocean. they show an underbelly shot of the shark and there is a Dharam sign near its tail. however the dharma sign on the shark does not match any dharma sign on this site........care to explain any one....

This has been noticed a long time ago. Check this page for more information. Oh, and please sign your comments with either four tildes (~~~~) or the signature button. Have a good day.--LOCI!