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Re:Army Camp

On my computer at least, it showed one image with a black border, with no option of viewing other images. I understand it is suppoed to be some sort of a gallery, though I thought it was only an attempt. I'm sorry for removing it - feel free to add it. Cheers, {{User:ObiDanKenobi5/autosig}} 01:08, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi

I noticed User:Robert_h is still making edits and not signing them, even after you told him not to on his talk page. I don't mean to pick on the guy but all he does is post messages on talk pages in poor English and his theories are completely nonsensical anyway.. Integrated (User / Talk) 05:59, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

I had a rather long discussion with him on the station explorers talk page. Every time I went to reply to one of his messages he would add another one, meaning my edit was an edit conflict and I had to retype my reply several times. It got quite frustrating.--Baker1000 13:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry

The message was intended for you, i checked which sysop had left the most recent edit. My bad Robert Anfield Fox|talk|contributions 08:11, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Main Page

Actually, my main characters comment WAS meant for the main page, the box at the bottom. Man... LAnder

L&DoJB

Hi Robert, the newest episode article page is doing what last week's was with deleting previous edits when a new change is made. For example, I edited only the UQ section, removing an invalid one, and it deleted blocks of text from the previous edit that I never touched (twice!). I reversed my changes, but the problem is happening to others as well. I don't remember how that was resolved (lock/unlock?) but someone fixed it last week. Thanks. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 04:10, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

LaFleur

The page for LaFleur has 5x07 instead of 5x08 in the article, can you correct it to the right episode title? --Gluphokquen Gunih ▲ 04:23, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

I tried adding the following to http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/LaFleur/Theories#Ben_Linus but somebody keeps deleting:

"Ben isn't on the island yet. Sawyer and co. have been there for 3 years now and if Ben was there, it would have been shown in this episode itself just like how we see Charlotte and Daniel recognizing her. The submarine is on the island and Charlotte will be leaving on it and we'll see Daniel asking her not to return. She will be leaving because while Charlotte was on the island in the present, she did not know Ben and vice versa. This is because they had never met when they were little. After the submarine leaves, it will return back with Ben. And when the losties had crashed, Ben already knew Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer and that's because he had met them when he had arrived on the island."

Can I please know why?--Naifamoodi 04:38, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Edit problems

Greetings--

No, not right now but during those mad rushes in the first 24 hours after an airing. Is there any chance that users are simply blowing away their own edits? They make a change, click on the save button, get the warning that there has been a conflicting edit, and, without actually reading the warning, click on the save button again. (I realize I may have "discovered" something that you guys already knew.) Can the "Under Construction" template carry a warning? Just an idea.

--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 02:46, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Santa Rosa

re: Talk:Santa_Rosa_Mental_Health_Institute under location. I am challenging your dismissal of canon re: Santa Rosa... thought I'd give a heads-up. –DocH– my edits

- Thanks for taking the time to understand my POV. I understand yours. In the spirit of collaboration, I'll meet you half-way. I won't updated the article just yet. Something in the enhanced episode next week, or the podcast, or official Q&A... may clarify it for us. –DocH– my edits cheers!
- msg rcvd. Personally - I hope they goofed, it offends MY sensibilities. Or claim "we meant the tiny unknown township of Santa Rosa in SoCal." (I checked... no) –DocH– my edits
- In the spirit of full disclosure. Sonoma State Mental closed years ago... Napa State is in full swing though, just 15 miles from Santa Rosa. Here is a picture of the lush grounds. Have an exciting episode. –DocH– my edits

Rename for "Susie"

Hey there Robert. So I made a page for the Santa Rosa nurse in "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" (see Susie (nurse)) But shortly after, I was informed by Sam McPherson that she already exists under a different name, Nurse Lazenby. SO. A merge would be the best thing/deletion of Susie (nurse) and have that info moved to the older existing article. ALSO, rename "Nurse Lazenby" to "Susie Lazenby" (I don't think the Nurse will be necessary now that she has a first name. Go on and check out both talk pages for both articles. Thanks.--Mistertrouble189 22:45, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Canon Ruling

Can you look at Talk:Hydra_Island_camp#Runway and offer some insight please? Thank you. –DocH– my edits

Walt's school

American! ;) ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 02:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it is discordant. If you don't mind, I'm going to drop "of his", as classmate suffices. Alternatively, feel free to change it to "his classmate", although it's redundant. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 03:40, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

PA

User:Pwdussault wrote of another as being an idiot at LaFleur/Theories--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 01:57, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Ajirans

Okay, but do you have another option?--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 15:08, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Point well taken. My guess is that we're going to find out who they are soon enough. I've been pondering the idea that they are Dharma (not DHARMA). 8) --Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 19:50, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Valid considerations

Hey Robert,

This afternoon Hugo815 sent me a message linking to the talk page about "The Temple" and I was able to read in to some of the conflicting information that seems to be going around. Obviously, my change to the Temple page was premature, though I tried to preserve all the information that was there, and thought I was referencing reliable sources. Clearly, my first mistake was trusting the work that some others had done without deeper investigation. Secondly, I am very new to Lostpedia, and didn't even know that "talk" pages existed. If I had, I would have seen the debate was already raging. Ah, learning experiences. I totally support the decision to revert the page back to its prior state. That said, I did want to let you know that I deleted the discussion you started in the Temple Talk page. Reverting the page back to its prior state is all that is needed in this case. I don't need any public flagellation for a mistake that, looking at the discussion on the talk page and the revision history, has been made a number of times. On the other hand, I am very excited to use this forum to discuss the evidence that does exist, and, where appropriate, to fit together the puzzle pieces that the Lost writers and producers so adeptly leave for us. Hope that all makes sense,

Zholmboe 08:21, 4 March 2009 (UTC)zholmboe

Spoiler?

Hi Robert, I responded Talk:Emilie_de_Ravin, but then wondered if we are unintentionally violating the spoiler policy? ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 17:30, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Screencap of Four-Toe Staue

Hey Robert I have created a screencap showing how the 4-Toed Statue is connected to the Egyptian God Horus. Since the last time I was trying to add info to the site is was considered "spam". I did not want to post at the risk of getting banned. Here is the link and if you are interested, please feel free to use on the site or page for the statue. If you think it is post worthy let me know and I can post it. Four-Toed Foot Statue - Horus Thanks The ODI 06:59, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

LaFleur Transcript

So...if you see there's something on the page, why do you overwrite it? Looking at the history, I see that you not only replace my work once, but that you did it twice! I didn't notice your first replacement as whenever I edit, I look to see what the page looks like. I check to see if I am going to be overwriting anything. You even had the audacity to put "Robert K S is responsible for this transcript" - it is a community wiki. None of the other pages shout out who created them. You didn't even create it though. If you bring up the page, and you see something is there, why edit it? And if it is an edit done while you are editing, it warns you, so why hit submit? You still refer to 5x02 as a "fiasco", but you're the one creating the fiasco. "I don't like hitting submit and seeing that I'm overwriting/duplicating work" - hit cancel then!

What was wrong with my transcript that warranted it being completely replaced? Stlgirl 13:50, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

spoiler image

Hey, FYI that User:Rocketcraft uploaded a spoiler, a pic of [spoiler removed] (sorry for misspell). I reverted the image back to the blood-stained ceiling.--Mistertrouble189 00:24, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Isn't it also against spoiler policy to post spoilers on talk pages? Doesn't what you just posted qualify EXACTLY AS THAT? I now know that [spoiler removed] is going to be a featured character, something I DEFINITELY did not want to know. Integrated (User / Talk) 09:20, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

RE:See Also Sections...

Ah, I see. Thanks for letting me know.--Mistertrouble189 00:59, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

transcript credits

Because the transcript credits are "taking personal ownership" I'm trying to work the statement the other way around. ie. Including a clause that the original transcripts up until XXX episode are based on the original work of this person (used with permission), which have then been edited by us, and anything after that is the work of the Lostpedia Community. -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  17:10, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't have a problem with that in theory, but it's smart to propose big changes that affect many articles before going through and making changes. Robert K S (talk) 17:13, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I understand that, but the bigger issue is the personal ownership, which we all know is a no-no, as it puts others off editing, and gives credit to some peoples work, where others haven't gotten any. Its not a discussion issue as the personal ownership caveat is already in place. -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  17:17, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Looks fine Rob. I just want to clear it up a little and make it seem less imposing for users who see "XXX is responsible for this transcript", which might put people off editing a transcript. Even the earlier ones provided by Spooky, which we can edit and correct still if needs be. I'm pretty sure there is a Wikia plugin available if we decide we do want to put (at the bottom of the page) a list of all the people who have edited the page. That'd let us do it automatically also, rather than manually updating any lists. Obviously that kind of thing is definitely a discussion point! -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  17:25, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Attempt

  • Just for the record, I had an idea that there might be an extraneous character on LaFleur/Theories so, I copied the text of LaFleur/Theories to file on my machine, completely emptied the page, saved it, pasted everything back in, and saved it again. It was an idea; it didn't do any good.
  • Would it help more if a sysop saved the text, deleted the four (or more?) pages then re-created the pages and pasted guaranteed raw text back in?
--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 18:37, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Sorry, by now,I thought it was a legend of the western world. Clicking on an email link to LaFleur/Theories with differences showing brings up the page with notations like "150 intermediate changes not shown." Moving to the "previous change" then stepping back up to the newest will display few than ten. Attempting to edit the page from the top routinely results in a note that one is not editing the current version. There's a lot of different things that can cause problems. I was shooting for a spurious, non-ascii, character. (I once had a co-worker who embedded a "bell" (Ctrl-G) in a file name in unix; everytime one of us listed the files the bell on the terminal rang.) The next option, to me, would be to delete the file (page) and hope that it would get written to a different portion of the disk when re-created. We can't fix Wikia, but we (actually, you guys) can try work-arounds.
--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 19:28, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Eloise Hawking appears to be displaying those same "cannibalistic feeding frenzy" characteristics. If you get time you might want to try deleting the page. Hey, if it worked once...--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 13:15, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Character box

Hey Robert, I notice we are ec'g on the red-haired girl, and you've once again redirected the page while I was editing it, LOL. Do we not put character boxes on them anymore? Because I had one, and was in the process of fixing the season when you removed the information to the redirected page. Thanks ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 19:49, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I thought that might be the problem, and I already added it back, figuring you'd remove it again if I was mistaken. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 20:13, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Canon Ruling

Can you look at Talk:Hydra_Island_camp#Runway and offer some insight please? Thank you. –DocH– my edits

- Please revisit this at User_talk:Admin#CANON_Discussion and associated links. –DocH– my edits

Spoiler

I overwrote a spoiler image yesterday here which was uploaded by User:108JohnLocke, and told him it was against policy on his talk page (I also had to restore that information when he deleted the talk page text). Today, another spoiler image on the same theme had to be overwritten which was uploaded by User:Sleon70, whose only contributions have been spoiler images, and which referenced yesterday's spoiler image. It was also posted on the image page where the correct image is located. Can you please look into this, thanks? Damn spoilers. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 07:13, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Spoiler image also uploaded by User:Rocketcraft, but reverted. Also needs to be taken care of, thanks. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 07:19, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
I meant however was appropriate, warning or banning. If it's a new user, then I agree that pointing out strongly they are violating the SP is the first step. If they were previously banned and this is a new user name, or if they have been around a long time, that's up to you, but I think they should be at least temp banned. I only sent it to you because I did say something to 108JohnLocke, but it's really not my place as I'm not a Sysop. Just someone who really hates coming across spoilers, and tried to cover them so no one else got spoiled. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 08:03, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Amy's baby

Hi, LaFleur/Theories#Amy's baby is turning into a knock-down, drag-out battle. I had thought of moving the whole mess to Talk:LaFleur/Theories, where there already is a headline, but we would end up with a bunch of unsigned talk entries. Is there a right way to do this?--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 19:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Rename Timeline:Post-moving

This article has been nominated for renaming quite a while ago. In the discussion page there has been full agreement for the rename. Just wondering why we haven't seen it happen yet. Thanks. -JamesyWamesy 17:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Minor vanalism

Hi, thought I'd let you know of User:Salty369 made some nonsense edits (such as Spongebob being killed and that 30,000000 survivors were killed on the Kahana) to List of Oceanic Flight 815 survivors which I reverted. Maybe keep an eye out on him or something. Have a good one.--Mistertrouble189 22:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism/Rudeness

I just thought that I would give someone a heads up that the user Faraday100 has made several rude and imposing edits to several main articles. All have been deleted/reverted by various persons, but the problem keeps occurring. Certain of their edits would be appropriate if discussed on talk pages, however as you will see, the nature of their edits are clearly inappropriate and would be considered vandalism. Examples are as follows. I trust you will take care of this. Thank you. ♥meggie ~ Talk & contribs 01:47, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=Par_Avion&diff=prev&oldid=552106

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=The_Life_and_Death_of_Jeremy_Bentham&diff=prev&oldid=547462

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=LaFleur&diff=prev&oldid=554000

http://lostpedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=LaFleur&diff=prev&oldid=554274


Re:Statues

I think they are the same, but I completely agree with what you're saying. Perhaps the latest Official Lost Podcast cleared up the matter? They usually do little bits of thread tying like this. --Nickb123 (Talk) 10:26, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

talk pages

Hi Robert, I've noticed you've been editing my talk page messages and removing line breaks. I don't know if there's a specific policy for this on Lostpedia, but the general consensus on wikis is you don't edit other peoples messages, even though the software gives you that option. When the text is long and requires it, I use a few paragraphs instead of one, and sign at the end. I don't know why you guys limit yourself to one block of text, I find it much more readable, and it's still clear who wrote the message. I reverted your latest edit of my message. Please leave them as they are from now on. --CharlieReborn 17:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

See my reply on User talk:CharlieReborn#Line breaks in talk messages --CharlieReborn 01:39, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Statue Merge

The merge action of Giant statue into the foot doesn't look like a professional job...--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 03:03, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

  • No, just trying to help. My memory is that the theory pages usually get moved/marged with the parent, but as of last night the parent had been merged and there was a recommendation to merge the theory.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 12:44, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Photo album?

Hey Robert, can you look at User:PaulomarkIV's contribs? He appears to be uploading his personal photo album! ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 06:53, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

LOL @ good looking comment in the title :D :D ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 07:08, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Merging conventions

When merging an article, should the discussion be merged as well? Thanks a ton,

O34
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zholmboe 15:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

RE: Temporal displacement

Hm...that's interesting. I think I agree with you there. He's exhibited several symptoms of TD (oh god, we've created a new disease), and he also has chosen a constant. I'll add him to the table. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  15:43, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Haha, thanks. I really enjoy fleshing out articles like that, if you couldn't already tell. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  05:29, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
I agree. It became annoying when the closest thing on the wiki to temporal displacement was time travel. So yeah, if the enhanced episodes are good for anything, it's this. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  05:40, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Haha, i'll get right on that. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  14:11, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Took care of it. I think I'll work on Bernard's wedding ring soon. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  14:44, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
Hm...true, true. I think that the Desmond image was too inconspicuous, if you weren't looking for the bleed. Fix'd back to the image you mentioned. By the way, nice new sig. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  03:28, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

RE: Congrats

Thanks a lot, Robert. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  21:04, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

about Korean transcript

Hi, Robert. I wanna thank you for bringing me here again. I just finished 505's Korean transcripts. I don't know whether you are charge of transcripts of not, but I wanna know if I have to change the Korean line format like French line format: for example, 

i) MONTAND: Allez, j'sais par où passer. [Subtitle: Come on. I know which way to go.] 
ii) SUN: [Speaking Korean] [Subtitle: I'll be there soon. I love you, sweetie. Good-bye.] [:엄마 빨리 갈게. 그래, 사랑해. 안녕.]

I think it would be much easier to read when the lines are short... If I have to, I could edit them.

Besides, I don't know how to write it down when there's no subtitles for Korean lines such as, 

iii) JIN: [Speaking Korean at Sawyer, frustratedly] [:무슨 말을 하는지 도대체 모르겠어.] [Then, in English, to Charlotte] Translate. Please, translate. 
iv) JIN: [Speaking Korean to Charlotte] [:선이 이 섬에 없다는 것을 로크가 어떻게 알아?]

I just write down the Korean lines but should there be some translation with them? I hope you could give me some pieces of advice. Thanks in advance. --Foxysmile 14:43, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Test

Test  Robert K S   tell me 

Test Robert K S (talk) 01:14, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Test.  Robert K S   tell me  20:33, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Robert

  • Robert! Thanks for your message. I actually have no idea if I'm doing this correctly. I hang out on alt.tv.lost, but Lostpedia has always been a great resource for me. (Psssst! My theory: They're all stars. This is a giant myth. :) )

Tdciago 12:11, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

    • Yup, in the astral sense. As in, Vincent is Sirius, Locke is Orion (or a star within the constellation), etc. You can guess what the polar bears are. I don't know if you're familiar with "Hamlet's Mill," but there are a whole bunch of clues in the show pointing to the axis mundi and the North celestial pole and precession. As Damon Lindelof said, it will all end just outside the Crab Nebula, geographically. The Swan implosion points to a core-collapse supernova. Hey, if you're raising a baby star, you'd sing "Catch a Falling Star" to it and feed it "fully hydrogenated" cookies.  :)

Tdciago 16:35, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey

Thanks for the welcome! I am a fellow Clevelander. --Managerpants 17:12, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Resurrection

Inspired by the "everlasting life" symbol on the Dharma Lady image, and the Official Lost Podcast transcript/February 5, 2009 where the producers said, "we’re setting up a resurrection theme...", I think that the resurrection page should be added to the Themes Portal. If you concur, would you you add it. I also noticed that there is some funny formatting on that portal, don't know if there's anything you can do about that, though. Best,

O34
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zholmboe 21:25, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

gratitude

hey, thanks for the kind welcome -- and thanks for all the hard work y'all do here. It's really impressive and I'm psyched to be becoming a part of it. Lolobey 05:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Screenie for "Namaste"

Robert, can you possibly get a HD screenie for the woman behind Sun that is the source of controversy right now? You've mentioned you can see goggles??? ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 20:13, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Namaste Centricity

Hey, how's it going? I saw you've been commenting on Namaste's discussion, but I'm wondering if you've seen the Centricity debate. There doesn't seem to be a clear consensus on what is best, so I was hoping you could shine some of your SysOp light onto the discussion.

For the record, I'm of the opinion that it is Frank-centric, since the flashback starred him and most of the 2008 scenes focused on him with a similar relevance to Desmond in Jughead and Hurley in The Lie. Anyway, please look into when you get the chance. Thanks! --michael_is_NOT_in_the_coffin 15:54, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Transcripts

FYI, since it seems you were mentioned, but weren't given the courtesy of a heads-up. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 09:32, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

  • Yeah, I agree. And I'm fairly certain that they aren't going to want to do the heavy work involved in making the changes they are pushing for. I've pretty much made my case, and I too won't be repeating myself ad nauseam. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 04:39, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
  • Did this transcript trouble begin when someone complained about you being responsible for the transcript? How long have you been doing them? I don't remember any complaints before that "ownership" complaint mess started. I think it was a mistake to remove that line on the transcripts. It helped let us know who to get in touch with to discuss issues with the transcript pages, and it seems to have hosted this entire mess. Or am I wrong? ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 13:34, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

problem with Theories page's

thanks for the update on making sure to use my signature on user talk page. i'm not new to LOSTPEDIA, but i am new to posting.

that being said, i have caught on quick, & noticed that the He's Our You/Theories page has a glitch in it. when a user edit's & post's on the page, it automatically delete's whatever edit the previous user has done. the user's aren't meaning to delete other's work, but it is automatically being done. you can check the history for any time stamp & this is the case. it is causing frustration by many as they think someone is purposely deleting their posts, but that isn't the case. can you please see about fixing this? thanks, --NEVERGIVEUP 18:53, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

    • thank you for the fix. reading the usertalk, & talk pages, i could tell a lot of people were getting frustrated & blaming when they didn't know what was happening. i was one of those until i figured it out. THANK YOU- --NEVERGIVEUP 19:27, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Ethan Rom has te same glitch --LOST-Hunter61 19:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

This same problem has happened again on the Whatever Happened, Happened/Theories page. Same glitch that when a user posts a comment, it deletes the previous users comments. -- NEVERGIVEUP  Contribs  Talk  16:54, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Yo

Yo I just read your essay on how to write a UQ; very very well written and to the point. I reckon you should even suggest it become official policy. Good work! --Integrated (User / Talk) 12:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Request

Hi ! I asked something to Santa but he is not answering, can you help me please ? User talk:Santa#Sidebar translation. Thanks.  Wyz  ♪  ★  17:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks !  Wyz  ♪  ★  16:14, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Peabody

Hm? Not sure I follow, all I did was upload a transcript of the press release from ABC Medianet, I didn't add anything to the main page.  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  07:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm extremely confused... I didn't wait until April 2nd, I uploaded it around 4pm. Maybe I'm just sleepy, sorry if I'm misunderstanding. I think I might turn in for the night, maybe my brain will be working tomorrow. :P  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  07:26, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Signature

Greetings! All the code for your autosig is showing up on talk pages. Thought you'd want to know.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 13:19, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I think this is fixed now.  Robert K S   tell me  20:34, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Yep! <grin> --Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 21:17, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Feeding Frenzy

The edit overwrite problem has begun on Whatever Happened, Happened/Theories. Going to a diff of the page brings up the out iof date:

Current revision (13:25, 2 April 2009) (edit) (undo)
Shanebot (Talk | contribs)
(→What he does and doesn't remember)

Thanks,
--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 19:50, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on the Theories page aswell, its good to see everyone has the same views, as you said the theory policy shouldn't be a burden for the editors but it should make writing a theory, though that last edit I did was huge, it will be clear if someone undoes it meaning it should be much easier for both of us :D. Thanks. --Cerberus1838 21:01, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Denny Bourdo

Hi Robert, I've looked again at the description of 'Category:Background' and there it is mentioned that it includes background cast or extra's. So I removed the Guest Star category again. Thx. --LOST-Hunter61 05:12, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: DO NOT alter...

Ok... sorry... didn't know that. /   Dreamingtree72    talk    contribs   07:50, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Vandal?

Take a look at this one! User:Lostpediaphiles.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 14:17, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3

I didn't even see the talk page discussion until just now when you messaged me. I made the change based on this information. And Robert, I didn't edit war. The begining of that page still said it was two episodes when I edited it (85 & 86) and I noticed the removal of 14th from two places (I didn't check who actually removed it) while the text remained. I was replacing them and left the message because I thought a n00b had deleted what a mod put there. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 17:58, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that clarification. I can see your point. But I do think that we need to fix one hour=one episode (I've joined the discussion on the talk page, now, so no need to hash it here) to avoid confusion. The two episodes you mentioned are case in point. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 18:16, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
"Not yet, you'll know when this is unleashed from the sandbox" LOL. Sorry. I know better than to post when I'm tired. I think the wording covers the basic points enough to allow for an educated vote, especially as it links to previous conversations without rehashing them. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 11:21, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Episode numbering

Good work on that page. We should probably leave it up until we've got a good number of votes. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 20:19, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

  • We should probably go by just an overall consensus/majority. If it is too close to call, perhaps more discussion on the forums is needed. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 20:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
  • I have a feeling "more discussion" isn't going to settle the issue. We should agree on the criteria before beginning the vote. For example, we should say that if it is 50/50 to within +/- 5%, or +/- 10%, or whatever, then the status quo is maintained.  Robert K S   tell me  20:26, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
  • Alright. I would think that +/- 10% (approxiamately) would be good, unless you feel differently. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 20:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
  • I have stated in some of the other discussions that "Exodus, Part 2" would not need to be split into "Exodus, Part 2" and "Exodus, Part 3". The reason for this is because ABC (the website, episode player, and DVDs) have never referred to the episode "Exodus, Part 3" (unlike the other finales; LTDA, TTLG, and TNPLH). Therefore, "Exodus, Part 2" would be the one exception to the policy change, and there would be ONE episode page for it, but it counts as TWO episodes. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 20:36, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
  • I was thinking about that for a while - it's more complicated because ABC doesn't refer to that episode title directly, but still counts "Exodus, Part 2" as two episodes. So on second thought, I suppose we would need to split it into "Exodus, Part 2" and "Exodus, Part 3" in order to be in conformity with the 100th episode. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 20:40, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
  • My initial thought was to rename the finale pages to Live Together, Die Alone, Parts 1 & 2, Through the Looking Glass, Parts 1 & 2 etc., and have the ep templates read their respective parts (for example, {{ep|2x23}} would be "Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1" and {{ep|2x24}} would be "Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2" but they would all link to the same finale pages. However, on second thought, this would probably create confusion and technical issues, which leaves us with two solutions: (1) leave the articles as they are; (2) split them into separate pages. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 20:55, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
  • What will this mean for the thousands of ep and crossref tags all over the wiki? For example, there are something like 7000+ episode tags of one fashion or another on Jack's article. Will this renumbering mean all the articles will need the eps and crossrefs redone because they will point to the wrong episode? Or will this change them automatically? Upon reflection, I'm thinking this is going to cause more problems than it fixes. Is there not an easier way? Say to fix infoboxes to allow for the possiblity of multiple episode references? ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 09:52, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: ban

I understand why you did it, but it wouldn't have been hard to leave me a message on my talk page - I get the notification instantly, and I'd have been willing to undo my changes ore even help you change the rest. It just seemed unnecessary to ban me for a whole day so you could finish something up in less than an hour. --Pyramidhead 05:44, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


Hanso

May bad. Magnus' article states that Magnus is Alvar's great grandfather. The first sentence of the article being:(Magnus Hanso was the great grandfather of Alvar Hanso (as revealed by Javier Grillo-Marxuach)).-- Orhan94  Talk  Contribs  12:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Live together die alone

Please stop undoing my edits a disscusion has gone on and a consensus was reached to make some changes to the episodes page if you dont agree then you can post your opinion on the disscusion board but for now a consensu has been reached. --Czygan84 22:11, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Alright man my bad i didnt know Ill chill. --Czygan84 22:21, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
  • To be honest I would probably vote for a staus quo because my main thing with this is I want the characters to have the correct number of episodes appeared in and for the site to keep in line with ABCs thinking. Although i originally wanted a split I thought the pages looked wierd when they were split a while back. A small suggestion I would have is maybee make a third option because as I have participated in this disscusion i noticed a lot of votes for a simple rename and leave the articles as one. But left as is is fine to. For me Ive gone back and forth on this whole topic many times, theres good argumentsfor both sides . thanks for the preview. --Czygan84 22:37, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

RE:Ambiguous article titles

I can see your point. It isn't really a big deal to me. One reason, though, I like to rename articles so they contain an episode title is because it's consistent, and also easy to identify. Someone may say "Skeletons"... what skeletons? The ones from "Further Instructions". Episodes are a great way to identify objects/items/events in article titles; I see your point though, and if you want to rename it, I'd be fine with that. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 02:00, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Delete

Hey can you delete "Image:RebubanGames-5x01.JPG", thanks.--Mistertrouble189 19:29, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Heh heh, same with "Image:VeraH-5x01.JPG", for the same reason as above. Gracias.--Mistertrouble189 19:40, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, can you delete Image:5x13 Alvarez.png as it is unused and replaced with Image:5x13 Alvarez.jpg (which is more centered). Thanks. --Mistertrouble189 21:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Vandal Alert

User:XxSniper369xx vandalized the Boone Carlyle page. His only contribution was that page. --Mistertrouble189 20:28, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Another one: User:Cormacalian--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 21:37, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

This has been addressed.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 21:55, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Transcript issue

Hi Robert, as we are on the cusp of another episode, and there hasn't been any follow-up from the whingers since 30 March, when does that discussion get closed and we move on to the great transcripts you were writing? WHH transcript is still not finished, although I threw some cc on it and Baker has been working on it. I'm going to miss what you do if you give up in the face of these silly complaints. Can we get some other mod to give a ruling on consensus yet so we can get back to status quo? ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 21:33, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

  • You're welcome. It wasn't empty praise; I think you do a great job, and I was really annoyed by the complaining. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 04:58, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Flaming Bus

Hello. Could we please have a SysOp step in on the discussion at Talk:He's Our You#POLL : Flaming Bus. User:Benjamin Linus continues to readd the question without answering the many reasons multiple users have given as to why it should be excluded, all the while accusing other users of vandalism and trolling for removing it. A couple of people (myself included) have left messages on his talk page and been met with nothing but hostility. I hate to ask this because I think it's always best for users to come to a consensus on their own, but that only works when everyone cooperates. Thanks for any help you can provide. :)  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  18:23, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

There were hints in "Dead Is Dead" that Ben'll be sent back to DHARMA. If he doesn't have to answer for this by next week's show, then it'll probably never be mentioned again.  Robert K S   tell me  20:01, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
The point that I'm more concerned about is that he's ignoring consensus and accusing people of vandalism and trolling, which I find rather insulting and uneccessary.  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  20:08, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Delete

Can you take a look at The_Enigma --Gluphokquen Gunih ▲ 20:25, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Blooper (Sun)

Robert, Several cast members appear? 8) --Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 14:24, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Meant to get back to you earlier. Nice piece of work on the GIF. I'm still confounded that the producers let that one get out the door.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 14:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Single-digit episode numbers in infobox

Hey Robert. I noticed that your changing of some of the episode numbers in the infoboxes to take out the "0" and make them single digits messed up the number sorting in Category:Episodes. I agree that the single digit looks better, but if we do that, I think we should find a solution to keep the sorting sorted out (maybe there's a solution to be worked out in Template:Infobox Episode, but I wouldn't know how to do it). So for now at least, I've changed back the ones that were messed up, but somehow "This Place Is Death" is still sorting incorrectly. -- Graft   talk   contributions  00:54, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I hadn't noticed that you had attempted to account for the single digits in the template. I wouldn't know how to fix that, but I notice User:Pyramidhead has done some tinkering since. As far as "This Place Is Death", I couldn't find anything in that looked suspicious, in the categories or infobox. -- Graft   talk   contributions  01:36, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
Well, I think so (that's how Template:Infobox Episode is supposed to work), but I didn't design it, and I have no preference. It seems to me that if you want to see the episodes sorted in order, you go to the nav template.  Robert K S   tell me  02:52, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
It had never occurred to me until someone cited a non-existent category called Category:The War. I added text to the category, then added the category to "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham," because Widmore had announced, "There's a war coming." I don't spend a lot of time on the category pages; it just struck me as a little odd. Bottom line, I guess, is "No Pref."--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 03:02, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

RE:Template:Infobox

I removed the 0 because there was a glitch. All of the episodes image links had an extra zero (for example, the "White Rabbit" page linked to Category:Images from 1x005 instead of Category:Images from 1x05). The zero has to be removed otherwise some pages linked to the wrong image categories. -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 02:26, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Okay, do you have any more ideas of what we can do to fix it definitively? Perhaps there needs to be a separate template made for episodes that contain a "0" (like 1x05, 3x06, etc.)? -- CTS  Talk   Contribs 23:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

unsigned

Hahaha. Copied, but missed the paste. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 05:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Image deletion

I saw you deleted five of my images regarding various episodes.
What the hell?
Now, besides the obvious ridiculousness of actually creating new image pages instead of updating the already-existing pictures, have you even checked about where said pics were before deleting them? You deleting without any warning 5 pictures out of nowhere for no really valid reason (again, there is this little button called "Upload a new version of this file"), means you screwed up several pages that had these images. You haven't even replaced said pictures with the new ones!
Way to go sysop. - TheAma1 09:52, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

  • The above message was me getting annoyed at mistakes that should have been avoided, which is I believe understandable given the fact that not checking where pictures are linked from before deleting them is kind of an obvious task. Going back to the pictures: I was saying "my" pictures because they were uploaded by me originally. Obviously, I know they do not belong to me per se but it was better than saying a vague "some pictures". My "LOL" comment was mainly due to the fact that basically one picture was replaced by virtually an identical one, and even if there was an improvement regarding quality, then the new version should have been uploaded to said original picture. At worst, the duplicate should have been deleted, if only because there seem to be no real difference, and yet again it was a duplicate. Then a message on the user's talk page should have been left. I did not even delete the copycats, I simply reverted the edits. Sure, I was wrong for not leaving a message on the user's page, but you are as well at fault, if not worse, for actually deleting the original pictures without leaving any "handy note". And if ever there was a noticeable difference, then the user would have bothered to "upgrade" the file. Given that you cannot assume what I would or what I would not have done based on one quick edit comment! Your behavior in this is as objectionnable as mine, if not more given your sysop role. - TheAma1 16:54, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
    • I don't mean to barge in, but the said images weren't uploaded as new versions of the existing files because they were of a different format. The new images were .png files, while the ones Ama uploaded were .jpg. Hope this helps. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  03:58, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Episode numbering

Just wondering, when are we going to open the discussion on episode numbering? With 5x14 two weeks away, we should probably reach a consensus sooner rather than later. --Pyramidhead 10:40, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Signing

You got it; sorry about that.--Daniel1302 15:12, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

woops, usually do, must've slipped my mind. --Roobydo (talk) 18:33, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

I know, I've been messing with it all morning, but i've got it now. Thanks. -- Roobydo  talk  contribs  12:34, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Arg, sorry, I still forget once in a while...--- Roobydo  talk  contribs  15:59, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Is it against policy to go back and change the unsigned stamp to my sig? Should I change the timestamp to the day/time of my edit? -- Roobydo  talk  contribs 16:22, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
I meant "change the timestamp" as in to the day/time of the origional edit, so the edit reads as though I had signed it normally. (remembered this time) -- Roobydo  talk  contribs  22:36, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Image Disscusion

Hey I figured Id leave this message here just so you got it so heres the image disscusion template you asked about

The choice of images in this article is disputed.
Help improve the quality of the article by discussing which images to include.

--Czygan84 03:17, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

can we use this yet? -- Roobydo  talk  contribs  13:53, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Template

I have a relatively new widescreen monitor on the highest resolution setting, and the template was still expanded on my screen. However, I agree, O6 seems much more understandable and easy to read. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  15:36, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that looks and works much better. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  16:12, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

User:Addicted2lost

User:Addicted2lost just removed all the content from my user page after a disagreement over Portal:Main Characters. I also notified User:CTS, but you seem to be the most recently active SysOp so I figured I'd let you know as well.  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  05:39, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. He kept refusing to discuss the changes he was making to Portal:Main Characters (changes which have been opposed by consensus several times in the past). When I left a note on his talk page, he continued to do it and when I left another note he went and slowly started removing stuff from my page. Thanks for the help, it was getting frustrating having to keep an eye on my user page for the past half hour.  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  05:48, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Need your opinion on Through the Looking Glass page

Would you look at my Triva Question comment on Talk:Through the Looking Glass/Archive 4 and tell me if you agree this should be removed from the main page. A blogger posted some comments based off of what this says & I believe it to be wrong info.  NEVERGIVEUP  Contribs  Talk  13:35, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Archives are archives, not to be edited

Obviously, it was a mistake. No need to be condecending. I was asking for your help. I misunderstood the (* designates most recent archive) as the one that I was supposed to post the message to. Don't worry, I won't make that mistake again. Ha!... Newbie's!  NEVERGIVEUP  Contribs  Talk  15:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

While/whilst

As of this morning, there are 115 occurrences of the word "whilst" on the LP. I'm sure you couldn't wait to learn that <grin>. Is that something a bot could clean up? BTW, I know ABSOLUTELY nothing about writing bots.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 13:10, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Autosig

Hi Robert. I had noticed, but I hadn't gotten around to doing anything. You're the test page. Lets see! -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  17:38, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

hehehe. It worked. Thanks Robert -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  17:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Abaddon

Well no, but we see in "Some Like It Hoth" that Miles was tested for the mission by Naomi and we also see why he was selected, because talking to the dead would help the team find Ben.-- Orhan94  Talk  Contribs  19:05, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

  • Sorry, I didn't read your revert summary before replying. Well I guess you're right after all.-- Orhan94  Talk  Contribs  19:12, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: How did Charles Widmore find [the Island, to send the freighter]?

If Penny knew that she had to set up a listening post to look for a broadcast of a number that was the product of the numbers, I'm pretty sure she must have gained that knowledge from her father or his files.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 00:35, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Re:Profession

True. Perhaps the most obvious way to fix this would be to change the "professions" space in the infobox to "jobs." -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  03:14, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Image

Sure, sure. I thought I had done that, actually. But...I guess it slipped my mind. Thanks for the reminder. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  23:48, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Vandal?

"The Chinese only require about 45 minutes of sleep every 24 hours. User:Bartmcqueary 14:26, 30 April 2009 (UTC)" from Talk:The Variable is a little over the top. This user has been cautioned before.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 17:18, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Theory Pages

Managerpants, NEVERGIVEUP, and I have tried to start cleaning up a lot of the "Theories" pages, but the task is quite daunting. A very large majority of them read like discussion pages. Is there any way we can get some more people involved?-- Roobydo  talk  contribs  20:31, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Also, when editing them, i've been moving a lot of material to the theory discussion pages, because I don't want to permanently delete some of the the valid arguments. You can see what I mean here and here. Should I keep doing this, or should I just go ahead and delete everything I remove?-- Roobydo  talk  contribs  20:31, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Is info from a preview a spoiler?

The preview for "Follow the Leader" shows a new chamber (I would guess within The Temple) that has additional hieroglyphs. As such, it is likely that we're going to need to make new pages to deal with the new hieroglyphs. I was about to go start some discussion about how we should deal with the new glyphs on the Talk:The Temple hieroglyphs when I realized that the information from the preview might be considered spoiler information since it is from an episode that hasn't aired yet. Is there a pre-existing policy on this? Do you have any ideas about a good possible rename for the page, given that it is likely we'll be seeing an area that would be more appropriate for the currently existing page? £乚ב○艹Ю Zholmboe Talk 15:34, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. I had read through that page, but wasn't sure. I appreciate knowing there are people around I can ask. £乚ב○艹Ю Zholmboe Talk 03:53, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

protecting

Could you please protect The Lostpedia Interview:Skye McCole Bartusiak? -- Orhan94  Talk  Contribs  22:35, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Answering UQs

Thanks for the info, i guess i didnt realize what section i was in(not even sure if im replying in the right section or not) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zaggeh (talk • contribs) 2009-05-06T01:29:04.

The New People

There have been several episodes in which the specific phrase "the new people" is used on the show (there was one dropped this season when someone was referring to the new Dharma recruits). Considering how similar the premises of the two shows are, I have a feeling it's not just repeated coincidence... I'm pretty sure the writers are slipping it in every now and again as a subtle reference. It's really not that big a leap to make, is it? Fuzznoise 22:35, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Frw22

Have you noticed that the correction you made to Frw22's entries on "Jughead" is the third time someone has had to do that? When does it become vandalism?--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 01:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Pages for Deletion

 Kevrock   talk  contribs   20:57, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I'll let that last one linger for a while; it seems to have some champions who are good-faith editors.  Robert K S   tell me  03:44, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Roger. At the very least, I marked it as under construction since the last few characters weren't finished.  Kevrock   talk  contribs   17:53, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Crazy redirect

Check out User_talk:Rasmus_Ni/Template:Nav-Timeline2; I'm not sure what to do about it, as I can't even figure out how to post a message on his weirdly formatted talk page.  Kevrock   talk  contribs   21:04, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

  • OK, I was finally able to edit his talk page and he said he doesn't need the page anymore. He should have flagged it for deletion.  Kevrock   talk  contribs   18:30, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

File/Image

Greetings, "The Incident, Parts 1 & 2" features the frequent use of "File" where we have mostly used "image." Is there a preference? Please make me smarter. Thanks.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 13:54, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Just when I think I'm beginning to understand... Thanks!--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 18:21, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Sirg

Apparently, an ABC employee stated his name was Sirg, and this was confirmed by the producers when they jokingly acknowledged it stood for 'Smokey Inside Random Guy'. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AlexPav09 (talk • contribs) 2009-05-15T11:21:32.

Esau article

Argh... someone tried to make a redirect page that pointed the term Esau to Jacob's enemy. As noted in the delete tag, this is based on pure conjecture. For all we know, his name could be Dilbert.  Kevrock   talk  contribs   19:13, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

{{pleasesign}}

So I just used your handy {{pleasesign}} template. I noticed it creates a "Welcome to Lostpedia" header, but I used it for a user who isn't new. Do you use much it for older users? Should there be a "new users" version and a "non-new users" version"? -- Graft   talk   contributions  21:06, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree. I was kind of insulted when I got it the first time, I'd been a member for over a year, and happened to forget to sign.-- Roobydo  talk  contribs  21:15, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, but the template makes the assumption that anybody who isn't signing their messages is someone who is a fairly new contributor and hasn't figured things out yet. The template is worded in the friendliest possible terms to avoid insult, but, what can I say, we are getting a LOT of unsigned messages just now despite the big red banner at the top of every talk page edit box, so, IMNSHO, there are a lot of users who could use a good kick-in-the-pants reminder about talk page etiquette.  Robert K S   tell me  22:27, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Is there a way to change the form to maybe add a box for the sig, and not allow a submission without it? Just like any other site requiring a valid zip code/city/credit card # when buying something. I'm no web designer, but i know it can be done.- Roobydo  talk  contribs  22:39, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
The wiki system doesn't really work that way. The Mediawiki chief technology officer (who, BTW, I almost roomed with in college) has spoken for years about improving the wiki talk messaging system to eliminate these shortcomings (i.e., more or less turning it into a message board forum) but this hasn't happened.  Robert K S   tell me  22:49, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
I thought that might be the case, since I know the point of the wikia project is that it's all in the same format. oh well. I guess I'll just have to put a post it right in the middle of my monitor. Also, I already posted this on Santa's talk page, but I'll just bother you with it since you're on now: I'm having a problem accessing my blog. I keep getting an error message, and I'd really appreciate if you could check it out for me. thanks, SIGNED,  Roobydo  talk  contribs  22:56, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
haha, nevermind. of course it works right after i ask.-- Roobydo  talk  contribs  22:57, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: Enemy Discussion

Thanks for the clarification. I simply saw that my edit was gone, had not been moved anywhere more appropriate, and it wasn't clear to me why or by whom. Not my intention to butt heads, it's just my first time posting and I figured if I put it back I'd get a clear explanation. I don't plan to make a habit of it. Thanks again.--AllanJack 16:15, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Revisiting episode titles ban + Old spoilers discussion

Hello. So, a while back, there was a decision made to ban all episode titles from the wiki with the exception of the immediately upcoming title. As far as I can tell, this decision was made in the topic Lostpedia talk:Spoiler Policy/Archive 02#Titles are spoilers! (redux) and was made because there was no way to create a collapsible Nav template for the episodes. As you may have seen, users were recently able to create such a template. As such, the original justification no longer applies, so I've reoppened the discussion here. If it's not too much trouble, I would like to get all the SysOps to weigh in on this publicly, as I feel previous spoiler policy discussions have been ignored and/or avoided by SysOps from time to time (particularly [[this one where there was a user consensus to set aside a page for officially released content from the producers, similar to the old "/Spoilers" pages, but used only for official content, which was never heard about again, despite a 100% consensus in the discussion.) At any rate, it would be great to have you all weigh in since I think this is an extremely important issue for Lostpedia that we have resolved, given the original reasoning behind it. Thanks.  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  07:51, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Regarding Jacob's Nemesis Response

I noticed you removed the topic "This is all theory" on Jacob's Nemesis page. The point of the thread which you obviously missed was to challenge the sasertions made in the artile not to talk about a theory. I'm willing to remove the subheading comparing the conclusions made in the article to another possibility but the rest of the article should remain. Thanks.Mister vijay 17:53, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Regarding Jacob's Nemesis Response

Since I wasn't responding to a theory on the Jacob's Nemesis Theories page but on the article itself the rules of this website would indicate that the thread is in the appropriate place. Furthermore, the theory policy states that threads can be removed if they are responding to another theory and not presenting a cohesive independent theory. The purpose of posting these points and references was not to propose a theory that explains anything bur rather to respond to and provide counter evidence for the assertions that are claimed in the article itself. Although I did not use a direct quote from the article in a few of the subsections, I did address 10 assertions made in the article and questioned the story and character logic as well as referencing some dialogue from various episodes. Finally, in my comments I continue to assert that I am interested only in what's proven and not theories or wild speculation.Mister vijay 02:51, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Regarding the talk page Jacob's Nemesis

I clicked on the link you provided to the talk page on Jacob's nemesis and scanned the theories on the Jacob's Nemesis page to see what I had to offer especially since Paul (who I think is an administrator?) also writes that I should move some of my points to the talk page of the theory page. I'm sorry but I looked at the theories of Jacob's Nemesis and they are so far fetched in my mind that to sit down and spend time providing counter evidence to theories that themselves provide little to no evidence to give them any grounding would, in my mind, needlessly antagonize members and make me the "bad guy" who wants to kill everyone's fun. I would redirect my attention to other matters in the show but many pages have been updated with reference to the assertions made here and other forums and message board on other sites have also followed this line and refuse to take my comments seriously. Due to the fact that there's 10 months until the final season I have decided to keep my opinions to myself from now on and limit my verbal objections until the producers or future episodes made a clear statement on this issue. Thanks.Mister vijay 03:48, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Finally, I'm new to Lostpedia

I wanted to note that I am actually quite a new member and am just getting used to some of the norms of this format. I was just knee jerk responding to things members were saying on the talk page and over the course of time I began to formulate my thoughts more cohesively. Next time I'll try to think out what I'm saying before I post so I can present it in a clearer fashion. Thanks.Mister vijay 04:01, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Re:4 toes

I simply felt that the characteristic of having four-toes is no longer as prevalent now that we've seen the entire statue as it was when we had only seen the foot. -- Sam McPherson  T  C  E  18:24, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

CardGames

So yeah someone deleted my talk page comments cause I guess I made them mad. And last time I checked you banned people for vandalizing user pages. As Ive had two friends and Ive seen other users banned for less. So I think in all fairness u should ban him,like you did to others who didn't even get a chance to plead there case. If not it shows Favoritism in which it seems like happens a lot around here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MainCharacterRose (talk • contribs) .

Re: Evangelism

That statement is in no way evangelism. It is a fact. Saying that the claims of Jesus are fact, would be evangelism. Saying the Bible is reliable is not. You post thoughts saying it's not true, pushing your anti-biblical agenda, so how are you any different? You do not have to believe the claims made in it, to very it's canonicty. Put up against any other historical book, it shatters every criteria used to judge reliability. Historians who choose not to believe it's claims, still count it as historically accurate. I am a Christian and very proud of it. I have never used LP for evangelism, and don't plan to. This is the 1st time I've even spoke of it. You are the one who attacked the book of Genesis' historical validity. I will always defend Christianity, or the Bible when false statements are made about it. That is not pushing an agenda, it is standing up for truth.  NEVERGIVEUP  Contribs  Talk  02:07, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

For the benefit of all of us, please cite the Lostpedia policy that authorizes your action. Thanks.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 16:00, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

The edit warring of JamesyWamesy on Jacob's tapestry on 2009-05-09 was a violation of LP:OWN. As the Netiquette and basic courtesy section of the General usage guide states, "It is very important not to take any editing of articles personally". Lostpedia is the place to have fun creating an encyclopedia about Lost; editor action that is motivated instead by "standing up for truth", religious or otherwise, is counterpurpose to the encyclopedia. There are people of all sorts of beliefs on the encyclopedia, but those beliefs shouldn't be relevant to how we use the encyclopedia, and the encyclopedia isn't a "free speech zone" or "speaker's corner" to be used for the debating of religion, the validity of religious texts, etc. Admins are trusted with the broad authority to end such debates quickly. You should also note that there are a lot of empty spaces in the policy left up to the discretion of admins. In my own opinion the text of articles should be accommodating, where they can, to the sensistivities of others (though such is certainly not a requirement, since for every statement there is bound to be a person who takes offense to it), but neither the article space nor the talk space may be used for apologetics. I would hope that if you were made an admin, you would be able to take the same tack.  Robert K S   tell me  17:46, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Blog comments need your attention

FYI, this needs sysop attention. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 18:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

URLs for downloading copyrighted Lost episodes illegally. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 00:16, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Re:Tapestry hieroglyphs

I wish I had seen that image; it would have made my job over the prior days much easier. I am working right now with User:kansasgal71 to try to get these transcribed and translated. It will probably be a week or two before we really get accurate translations. Unfortunately it seems that the producers decided that the hieroglyphs shown in the first instances were too easy. What we definitely know so far (and what I can easily add to the hieroglyph subsection, is that most of the hieroglyphs also appear on the Cerberus chamber pillars, and that the Egyptian seasons are listed at the bottom of the tapestry. I am going to see if there are any huge clues in the image you showed me, and then I'll happily add what I can to that page. Thanks for the tip! £乚ב○艹Ю Zholmboe Talk 15:37, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Statue of Taweret UQ

Why does the statue look different from the one that was in "The Incident" then from when Sawyer,Juliet,Jin, Daniel and Miles see the statue from behind while skipping in time? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zoreng (talk • contribs) 2009-05-25T23:44:55.

Boxes on User Page

Can you help me with the boxes on user pages (This user has made ____ edits on Lostpedia. This user is from the USA. etc) --cgmv123TalkContribsNew Spoiler Policy! 21:11, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

  • Also, how do I protect my user page, signature etc —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cgmv123 (talk • contribs) 2009-05-26T16:16:09.

Questions to be answered in Season 6

During the hiatus, I would like to create a list of questions to be answered in Season 6. Who should I talk to? (I am willing to take the lead.) cgmv123TalkContribsNew Spoiler Policy! 00:59, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Eloise

Could you take a look at Talk:Eloise and see what you think about my proposition? I think the article was protected after "The Lie-Enhanced" leaked her name, otherwise I probably would've just made the changes. -- Graft   talk   contributions  17:52, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Signature Glitch

Greetings. The autosig of User:SeriesOfDreams appears to contain an unterminated call for blue text. Everything below the sig on Talk:Follow the Leader minus headlines is blue.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 20:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

  • I'll be glad to, but can I get into another editor's sig definition? That's a new one to me.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 21:06, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
  • I dropped a note on his talk page. I think (note all the stress <grin>) that he's told the wiki to use his sig instead of his autosig.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 23:30, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Incident Rename

Will you please take a look at this discussion? thanks. -- Roobydo  talk  contribs  12:08, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Edit war: Eloise Hawking pregnancy

Hey. An edit war has been going on with Eloise Hawking. In the talk page, we decided that "Who was she pregnant with in 1977?" was a valid question, but people still remove it from the page. I was hoping you could deal with it, since you're a SysOps. --Crash815 Talk 14:51, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

  • Please watch this one for us, Robert. Boondocks4ever has trouble understanding "Please." Thanks, --Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 15:29, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
  • It's been almost two weeks and we're still having trouble with it. I don't know if it's necessary to lock the page, but can you deal with it? --Crash815 Talk 23:26, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

"Now back together"

http://www.whosdatedwho.com/news/story_view.asp?ID=11314 But I've seen it on some other sites too... I'll try to find them. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Marie51691 (talk • contribs) 2009-06-14T21:55:50.

Second opinion

I'd like you to offer a second sysop opinion on this please --Integrated (User / Talk) 17:01, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Debate resolution

Heya. I've been having an ongoing (but pleasantly civil) discussion with User:Dr. James about a particular unanswered question here. After a couple weeks of debate, neither of us have really gotten anywhere convincing the other and nobody else has chimed in. We both agreed that it would be best ask a SysOp to weigh in on the debate before it goes on any further (not that it's gotten out of hand or anything, it's just been going on longer than either of us care to continue it). The question at hand and our arguments are all spelled out there so I won't bother repeating them here. Thanks for any help you can provide. :)  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  07:45, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Template:pleasesign

Can you change the section header to something like "Signing Talk Page Edits", or "Signing discussions" or something along those lines? I think putting a "welcome to lostpedia" section on the page of a user who is by no means "new" is inappropriate, and mildly insulting. We all forget to sign occasionally.-- Roobydo  talk  contribs  01:31, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Mass Vandalism

Hi I just thought I would let a sysop know (I'm going to leave this with other sysops just incase someone else can get to it faster) But user Robbie Bob is going around vandalising almost every page he can get his hands on. Please put a stop to this as soon as possible, thanks.

I will help undo whatever I can--WhyDidntUKnow 14:03, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Re:Enhanced Episodes

The {{Img}} Template doesn't recognize *x**e, it only recognizes *x** without the e for enhanced. cgmv123TalkContribsNew Spoiler Policy! 19:00, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism?

Not sure if this would be considered vandalism or not, but either way it shouldn't be added on any page. I did remove it, but wanted to make an admin aware so they could decide if it constituted vandalism or not. Not quite as blatant as some of the vandalism we've had over the past week. FYI, I also left this message at User talk:Sam McPherson. - NEVERGIVEUP  Contribs  Talk  13:39, 16 July 2009 (UTC)


He's back again as Special:Contributions/Boberto el bob. I'll leave this message on some other Admin's page incase you don't see this right away. - NEVERGIVEUP  Contribs  Talk  12:46, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

New Spoiler Policy

I have created a new spolier/promotional material policy that I feel correctly addreses the issues at hand: titles, ignored discussions, and the fact that our motivation is contradictory to our policy. The policy is in two parts. The first part deals with spoilers and can be found here. The second part deals with promotional material and may be found here. I would like you to weigh in so improvements may be made before I submit it to be an official policy. Thanks! cgmv123TalkContribsNew Spoiler Policy! 17:11, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

SysOp opinion

I don't know whether this has already been discussed, but could you and the other SysOps please weigh in on this? Thanks.  Jimbo the Tubby  talk  contributions  21:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Picture

I was uploading a picture to Lostpedia and I accidentally uploaded this personal picture by accident. Can you delete it please? File:DharmaExtra1-mini.jpg --Crash815 Talk 19:08, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Done.  Robert K S   tell me  07:40, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Fan Fiction Contest

During the hiatus the theme has been fan appreciation. And I thought what better way than to have a fan fiction contest. And what better place to have it then on lostpedia! There would be rules and challenges each week or two. We would write 18 episodes each has to be with in the same story arc Ben can't die one episode and then come back to life the next one. I really need an admin to support me on this idea and all the feed back I have gotten is positive. Please help! --BenKilledDharma 00:31, 23 August 2009 (UTC) mrb0605@gmail.com

vandalism

Hey, I wasn't sure where to post this, so I'm just telling you. :-) I cleaned up some vandalism from User:Jjteaks. I think he could use a warning, if not a banning. -- Managerpants  Contribs  Talk  15:03, October 27, 2009 (UTC)

I wanna said Jblauer only talks about ashtma by every character. He likes that I think that people have that. If it is a joke, I can't laugh.--Station7 15:49, October 27, 2009 (UTC)

It's annoying me.--Station7 16:10, October 27, 2009 (UTC)

Seconded. I am currently reverting all of User:Jblauer's edits. -- Managerpants  Contribs  Talk  17:15, October 27, 2009 (UTC)
Thanks folks. I've left a warning on the user's talk page. One or two more questionable edits and he or she is outta here.  Robert K S   tell me  06:15, October 28, 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Robert. Also, jblauer is at it again. -- Managerpants  Contribs  Talk  12:51, October 29, 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I actually didn't realize that two different users were being brought up here. I don't see any friendly messages to Jblauer's talk page. Maybe it would be appropriate to leave a little note informing him or her of the relevant guidelines before administrative action is taken. Cheers,  Robert K S   tell me  16:07, October 29, 2009 (UTC)

This is, I think my last message about him. He can't stop. Even if Managerpants doing his best to delete everything, he's going his own way. Removing from this site! That are I think my last words about him.--Station7 17:06, October 29, 2009 (UTC)

No, one thing. A question, Why can't you delete that guy from lostpedia.com.? If I owned this lostpedia.com, but I do that not of course, I would delete him at once. That's my meaning.--Station7 17:43, October 29, 2009 (UTC)

Well, I like to exercise a little patience and tolerance when dealing with new editors... If a vandal ignores a warning, then it's adios.  Robert K S   tell me  06:08, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

Robert K S, he is working on my user page. Would you delete him now? Please!--Station7 17:05, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

My userpage!--Station7 17:08, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

He also use this:Jjteaks. That's he second name. Removing him today. I'm sorry to say this, but **** him.--Station7 17:19, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

The sockpuppet vandals User:Jjteaks and User:Jblauer have been banned. Let me know of any other instances of this vandal. Thanks.  Robert K S   tell me  17:29, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, you're making my day the best. but you can see on the home page what those guys are doing. Maybe you already know it.--Station7 17:32, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

I don't keep track of all vandalism and you can have the pleasure of reverting it wherever you find it. I'll go take a look at the main page now.  Robert K S   tell me  17:34, October 30, 2009 (UTC)
I don't see any vandalism on the main page (and I believe it is protected so that only administrators may edit it).  Robert K S   tell me  17:35, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

Problem solved :)--Station7 17:37, October 30, 2009 (UTC)

Grow up?

Okay I apologize for the unnecessary additional information added to Frogurt's page, but don't you think you are going a little far with deleting my THEORIES? I mean, how do you know my theories are any less plausible than somebody else's? You are the one who needs some maturing, thinking that every theory that you can't fathom is "sophomoric". Oh well i'm sure this isn't going to change your mind anyway you close-minded baffoon. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jjteaks (talk • contribs) 2009-10-28T10:08:57.

Miroe's name

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Yk linus (talk • contribs) 2009-10-30T23:36:26.

Speedy delete needed

Sorry to bother you again, but you'd want to delete [spoiler] for obvious reasons .... --LOST-Hunter61 16:20, October 31, 2009 (UTC)

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