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I just thought that was for MY watchlist i didn't know, won't happen again.Sawbucks 23:26, 2 November 2008 (PST)
Thanks again, i got it figured out from my prefrences, i can do all the fancy stuff but it's the simple stuff that gets me, but one question since you seem to be the only one on, what's the bot edit, is that just spelling correction and such?Sawbucks 23:34, 2 November 2008 (PST)
Help Edit
Hi. I let a message to Jabrwocky7 but it seems idle. Maybe you can help me : User_talk:Jabrwocky7#Mediawiki_strange_behaviour. Best regards. Wyz 03:37, 5 November 2008 (PST)
- I asked Jabrwocky7 because it seems to have some knowledge in mediawiki programming. I was hoping he could identify it so Admin just have to patch... Thank you for transmitting the information and I hop something can be done, this bot is very usefull and I can't fully use it with that bug. Wyz 12:46, 5 November 2008 (PST)
LP CanonEdit
Hey Santa, could you please copy and paste this page to Lostpedia:Canon? I just made some minor revisions, and added info on Via Domus canon and OGR canon. Thanks! -- CTS Talk Contribs 19:36, 8 November 2008 (PST)
RE: SysOpEdit
Hey Santa, I have a question. How do I get proper access rights at the forum and IRC? -- CTS Talk Contribs 18:41, 10 November 2008 (PST)
Re: Image deletion tags Edit
You're right... I was going through hundreds of images and was just checking where they were linked, and added the tag if I didn't see anything there. Sorry for the inconvenience.-- c blacxthornE t 11:26, 11 November 2008 (PST)
Vandal Edit
Hey. User:James morrey vandalised The Hostiles. Best regards. Wyz 11:33, 18 November 2008 (PST)
Categories Edit
I was wondering, wasn't there at one time a category simplifier, like the Img tags that Mr. Leaf made, where you simply filled the categories into one continuous tag? If not, could one be made? -- Sam McPherson T C E 10:54, 29 November 2008 (PST)
- Ah, true. I was just wondering, because that would save a lot of room. But I agree. I'm not that great with code, so thanks for clearing that up. -- Sam McPherson T C E 10:58, 29 November 2008 (PST)
- And as for the Zack Grobler interview that you're adding questions to, he replied initially but has not emailed me since early October, so I'm not thinking that the questions will be submitted. -- Sam McPherson T C E 11:00, 29 November 2008 (PST)
- Pretty much Zack Grobler and Caden Waidyatilleka are the only ones whom have agreed but not had their questions sent due to them not replying emails after the initial "yes." Sally Strecker has just completed her interview. However, as for other crew members, I've got nothing. Francois Chau said he'd do an interview after season five was over, and I'm fairly sure I could get part twos with Rebecca Mader and Bobby Roth (if he directs Lost again). -- Sam McPherson T C E 11:26, 29 November 2008 (PST)
- Caden will be happy to answer questions - I think he still has them on his email. Perhaps you should go through me (mom) to actually get a reply (he rarely checks email but he did intend to reply). Sorry for the delay.
AchievementsEdit
While I was working on some tips for the achievements i saw you deleted the section I was working on. I don't know if you were just cleaning up of if you don't think that should be there but check it out now and make your decision, HERE-- SawBucks Talk Contribs 01:20, 1 December 2008 (PST)
- What is firefoxor chrome?-- SawBucks Talk Contribs 01:56, 1 December 2008 (PST)
Template:Quote Edit
Hey, ever since you modified Template:Quote it's leaving a large white space underneath in most articles, eg Emilie de Ravin. I can't see where it's coming from, could you work it out? --Blueeagleislander 21:39, 3 December 2008 (PST)
- Ah, thanks. I never thought to look at the includeonlys. --Blueeagleislander 03:33, 4 December 2008 (PST)
Re:Core thingEdit
Load of rubbish, never heard of it before in me life! --Nickb123 (Talk) 14:31, 5 December 2008 (PST)
RE: MagazinesEdit
The "I" in "ix01", etc stands for "issue". I don't think the magazines are in the crossref template, but I can add them now.-- CTS Talk Contribs 11:34, 6 December 2008 (PST)
- Hey Santa, I'm having a little trouble trying to configure the crossref template. If you enter {{crossref|1x01}}, {{crossref|mx01}}, or {{crossref|vdx01}}, you will see ("Pilot, Part 1"), ("The Watch"), and ("Force Majeure"), respectively. Template:Ep/vdx01 and Template:Ep/mx01 are both connected to Template:Ep. Template:Mag/ix01 is connected to Template:Mag, not Template:Ep. I'm trying to make it so {{crossref|ix01}} will read (Cast Away), but I'm having trouble configuring this. Any help would be great. Thanks. -- CTS Talk Contribs 12:01, 6 December 2008 (PST)
Re: Jesses Edit
Hmm...I have no idea. I was just deleting a blank theory page. 
--Blueeagleislander 02:24, 15 December 2008 (PST)
20KEdit
Congrats on 20K!!! 
That's awesome! -- CTS Talk Contribs 14:25, 15 December 2008 (PST)
Wikia Edit
Hey Santa,
thanks for asking. German Lostpedia is fine so far. All our Admins have their sysop rights. The only real problem is the ep-template-thing, but I guess that you already got that from my talk with Calick.
Btw: here is a list with all Sysops.
Best, --DerAndre(talk) 17:58, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
- I'm not sure. It is possible that Avatar found this right here. Btw: The list isn't complete, some Sysops from PT - Lostpedia are missing, but they're also listed in the FAQ. --DerAndre (talk) 00:14, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Wikia Migration Edit
I translated Angela's Migration FAQ and put the link in a news article about the Wikia thing.
I hope that'll do ;) --Calick 01:40, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Whitelist Edit
Sorry I missed you on IRC. The whitelist is at MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist. Angela (talk) 01:39, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
Voice actors Edit
Their names and pics were already on the voice actors portal, I only translated some material about the voice actors from the Portuguese Lostpedia.Orhan94 14:04, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
- First - thanks, it's nice to hear that somebody thinks of me as an editor that contributes to LP in a clear and encyclopedic way.
Second - the reason why I used the portal is because that way i don't need to search a picture of the voica actor, myself, because many users from the Portuguese LP leave a name and a pic of the voice actor, and I go along to make the articles. I'll start referencing the articles now, the ones I've already created and the ones I'm going to create. Though, I'm currently trying to translate Portuguese and French voice actors, I don't mind helping with Cyrillic articles (on the Russian LP), because I live in country in which people read/write in Cyrillic. If there is any other way I could help with the voice actors' project, let me know.Orhan94 22:40, 27 December 2008 (UTC) - I checked few of the voice actors' articles on the Portuguese LP, and I didn't find any sources nor talk pages for those voice actors. I'll also check if they have an article for the voice actors in general, but if I don't find a link to any other websites to confirm these voice actors, I think that we should contact users on the Portuguese LP and ask for links to their sources. If they don't have any reliable sources then we should delete all of these articles on the English LP and the Portuguese LP.Orhan94 17:57, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
Search Edit
Thanks.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 23:04, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
User Page Over Use Edit
Hey Santa! I understand about the wikia helpers being so busy and all, they are just the ones that I get refered to after talking to a Sys Op about a problem. I also look for one that doesn't receive many questions at a time or one's that look like they were working on, in the exeption of Angela, I posted that because I was willing to wait up to 5 months to get it fixed, i could care less. On the other hand, I do make a lot of edits to my user page but that is in the soul purpose of practicing wiki code, it's the one thing I hope to excel in more than anything, and most of my edits are to my user page because I only got on here a couple months ago. My page is that of any other user page that someone who hopes to be a major editor on the site has created on LP. I went out of my way to make sure my page wasn't the biggest and only had other content that other user pages only. A lot of my edits we adding new stuff taking old stuff out, changing colors over and over again to experiment with different styles and so forth. I have had some very minor problems in the past with screw ups but I was curious as to we you said "so-highly-coded-it-needs-intensive-bug-fixing" what's on my page that you can't find in your basic article other than the background color?-- SawBucks Talk Contribs 06:40, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
- Never mind, just forget about it I don't you to explain it to me. I'll take care of my page, I didn't know that their bots working to fix my page and all that, and I really didn't know that my page affected anyone else, in return I'll make my page a "normal" page when I wake up. All problems fixed and everything goes back to normal, one way to look at it is I didn't think I even made in impact on here but I guess I did! Well had fun and thanks for the chance to learn new wiki styles and code. Thanks.-- SawBucks Talk Contribs 08:01, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, last night wasn't a good night and when the chance came I got PO'd. I took care of my page the best I can right now, but just as a heads up, most of my minor edits will be to my personal pages, not to show boat, but because I like my theories to be posted on my theories page, however I will only focus into updating that page and not "overdoing" my User Page. Talk pages will still continue to be posted on, there's nothing I can do about that, a lot of the time it's not worth going and finding these people or asking these questions in the forums. But I understand about the change and apoligize for being a D***.-- SawBucks Talk Contribs 20:27, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Signature... Edit
Erm...I see no difference. I followed your exact instructions, and, no difference... Skeletal SLJCOAAATR Soul 16:02, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
- Let's try this:
- Hi. I'm SLJ, and I feel like an idiot. Skeletal SLJCOAAATR Soul 22:50, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
Thanks + Question Edit
- Thanks for moving my user page. Also, I had a question for you. I was just going through a few pages and fixing spelling/grammar errors. I noticed there are a few additions that contain British-English words like "coloured" and "blonde." I didn't change them, because they aren't misspelled. I know it's not a big deal, but I was wondering if they should be in US English. I don't have a personal stake in changing them, I just want to help out where I can. Cheers. Ketamonkey 12:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
vandalism Edit
Could you please ban User:64.90.140.2 because he vandalized the Stephen King article.Orhan94 17:13, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Trivia Page Edit
Santa,
The statement that the trivia page was never discussed is in error. It was discussed in detail in Lostpedia:Ideas#Trivia Page. I can't understand why protopyping work supported by discussion should be undone without offering the community an opportunity to comment on the results.
Make me smarter?
Thanks,
--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 22:49, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you, sir. :)(Fourteen Days!)--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 01:42, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
As near as I can tell, there's about zero interest in continuing the discussion about placement of trivia. I've said everything I can think of on the Ideas page. Unless you have a compelling reason to keep the page in the sandbox, I'd say blow it away. Regards, --Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 20:21, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
Speculations Page Edit
You noted, among other things: "...IMO it seems like your questions were somewhat rhetorical and light-hearted in nature...". You were absolutely correct. You may have noticed that there were no spoilers but I did have a link to the ABC LOST site. Although I wasn't looking for a response, I appreciate your comments, which mostly agreed with the conclusions I had already drawn. Good point on trailers etc. being from marketing.
- I have tagged the sub-page for deletion. Thanks. WCFrancis 08:12, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
- I really don't need the page, so it can go. Thanks. WCFrancis 08:21, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Names Edit
Hey Santa, thanks for the heads up. I'm going to try and see if I can not be such a stranger around here. First step is a very basic one: acquire a computer and Internet connection. ;) iPhones work fine for reading the wiki; not so much for editing. -- Graft talk contributions 04:26, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Vandal note Edit
A wanted to report a vandal: User:Oliver Mitchell, he/she vandalised Alex User talk:Nickb123 and my user page User:Orhan94. I reverted the edits on Alex and on my user page, but left his/her vandal edits on User talk:Nickb123, because I don't want to edit other user's articles. He also broke LP:NPA, when I left a message to another Admin. he wrote that I'm a snitch and he deleted all the content from my user page. Please check the page history for Alex, and you'll see that he/she changed all the pics on that article. Orhan94 11:28, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- Admin blocked him, but his back and he's using User:Oliver Mitchell's a compulsive liar as his account name now, vandalized Steve and Kristen, Priest, User talk:Orhan94, User talk:Nickb123 and Larry. Check each page's history about the vandalizing, and please, block him, the sooner the better. And it turns out Oliver Mitchell is just one of Bob's sockpuppets. Orhan94 14:30, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
Apophenia Edit
Greetings: It looks from the page history as if Apophenia is one of your interests. So, question: Is the fact the character X from story Y had a weapon called the an orchid (see The Orchid/Theories#Name Theories) an aspect of apophenia? I want to scream "YES," but, then, I never cared much for Delany's work <grin>.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 21:50, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
re:redirectsEdit
So all of them have to be deleted? -- CTS Talk Contribs 18:18, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- I have finished deleting all of the categories. I have a question though: how come (this image for example) is tagged with
{{img|video games|bdm}} and is automatically put under the [[Category:Blast door map images]]? It's tagged with bdm, so why does that put it under the Blast door map images category? -- CTS Talk Contribs 01:44, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, no problem. Thanks for answering the img tag question. -- CTS Talk Contribs 03:09, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, I have one more question with this. Where exactly do you put <includeonly>[[Category:something]]</includeonly> in order to make img cat tags? -- CTS Talk Contribs 03:33, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
category redirects Edit
The only reason I'm redirecting categories is because I want to narrow down the Special:WantedPages. After LP moved to Wikia, Special:WantedPages was and still is overflooded with red links to categories (which should be placed under Special:WantedCategories) and red links to templates (templates like Template:Mag/Character secrets and Template:Ep/Find 815 clues/January 22). I really didn't know what to do so I started manualy changing the cats on file articles, but got nowhere because just changing ever pic that links to Category:Charlie images instead of Category:Images of Charlie Pace took me changing links on over 30 pictures, so I decided to start redirecting categories to clear out Special:WantedPages. I'll stop redirecting them but it still leaves a big problem in Special:WantedPages.Orhan94 18:27, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
- Look at this: [1]
Background cast/Others Edit
Hi, me and CTS were talking about the Background cast/Others page and how we should add another column or two since Season 5 is like 2 days away and there's bound to be new pics. Plus he had another pic of an Other and was trying to figure out how to put it in. I tried unsucessfully adding another column so I didn't do that. He added a 2nd row under that Other's section (its Michael deYcaza) and put in the photo (it's still like that atm). So I dunno what we wana do, thought I'd ask you since you're experience with this stuff right? haha.--Mistertrouble189 18:40, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Welcome back?Edit
I didn't think I left... But cheers, though... :-) Robert K S (talk) 07:34, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
Voice actors Edit
I can't edit the Voice actors page, and also it seems I can't report a problem either (though that have something to do with the fact that I have a really slow PC). Anyway, this week I started tracking down non-LP sources for voice actors, and, thus far, I've been succesful, only find tracking down the source for the Italian voice talents. It's www.antoniogenna.net, and also it sources the pics and names of every main and a lot of reccuring character on the show. I strated updating some of the Italian voice actor pages on LP, such as Niseem Onorato with info found on this site. Though I'm pretty busy these days, I'll try to find the source for the Portuguese voice actors (as they are source-finding priority since the Portuguese LP hasn't got sources for them) by the end of the month. I know that the voice actors are not a priority now that Season 5 begun, but if you have time please check what the problem is on voice actors.Orhan94 20:49, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, can you add Seluaggia Quattrini and Christian Iansante because I have problems editing voice actors, somekind of spam filter stops me from doing it. Also Daniel Faraday, Bea Klugh, Zuckerman, Lynn Karnoff, Tom, Frank, Emily Locke and Nadia, don't have an Italian voice actor listed though LP's source for italian voice actors lists a vocie actor for each one of them. I don't have a problem doing it myself but until the spam filter is there I can't edit voice actors. Orhan94 22:31, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you! Orhan94 22:53, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Stuff on page Edit
A once new user his entered background on Talk:Portal:Supporting Characters some time ago. He has since repeated the substance on his user page. I think the page would look better if the stuff at the top were removed, but I'm hesitant to remove content from talk. I thought a sysop could probably "bend" the rule. Thanks.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 03:30, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
Help Edit
Hi! You offered to help me a few monthes ago and I now need it :) Don't worry it won't cost you a lot. Somebody pointed out that "Agostini and Norton" is an anagram for "attaining donor son" but I can't find out the real meaning of it. I googled out "donor son" but I can't figure in what case it is used. I found out what is a sperm's donor but you don't donate a son... Thanks. Wyz ♪ ★ 11:03, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for your answer. Yes I was trying to understand the English words, I'm not a native English speaker :) "Agostini and Norton" is the lawyer firm which come see Kate and ask a blood sample to determine Aaron paternity. I now understand "donor son" in the example you provided (Locke giving his kidney to his father) but is it relevant in Kate's case ? BTW that trivia has been removed from the 5x01 article... Wyz ♪ ★ 13:57, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Todd BryantEdit
Please stop deleting the trivia about Bryant in "The Lie". check the end credits - he isn't credit in the episode. --Pierre 21:51, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm Gonna Sound Like A Noob Here Edit
Alright. I haven't exactly been here in a while, but, I've got a few questions. I was hoping you could answer them for me!:
- 1) What's up with the userbar thing, with the blog, and icon, and everything? Anyway I could throw that onto userpages on SNN (Sonic Wiki)
- 2) For the articles, (Example:Desmond Hume/Theories) how do I get the "Theories" slide to show up next to "Article", and "Discussion"? Do I just type in, say, Silver the Hedgehog/Theories, and it'll show up, or is there something more to it?
- 3)Any way I can get rid of the ads that show up on articles?
- 4) How do I do that blog thing you guys have on your mainpage?
That's all that comes to mind at the moment! I appreciate any help that you can give me! LORD SLJCOAAATR Sonic Wikia Admin 15:49, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
- Not to be rude, but..... LORD SLJCOAAATR Sonic Wikia Admin 01:25, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Commentary Transcripts Edit
Hey santa, my idea for adding transcripts for the commentaries on the DVD's has been accepted, do you have any idea's how I can get this info onto Lp for everyone to see? I got the first one done already and have started another.-- SawBucks Talk Contribs 10:49, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
- I'm typing up transcripts for the different commentaries that are featured in the bonus features on the season DVD's. I put the idea in the ideas page and it got accepted, but nobody came out with idea's on how to include onto Lp (Where to put it, links in templates and all that stuff). I do not know how to do any of the previously listed tasks and was just wondering if you had an idea or two. The page I keep them at is User:JamesTFord1987/Commentarytranscripts but this does no one else any good.-- SawBucks Talk Contribs 05:51, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
source needed tags Edit
I removed "source needed" tags that followed most of the paragraphs at science expedition, only to realize you had put them there. I was surprised. Crossreffing is a good idea, but I didn't think we were insistent upon it like Wikipedia was. I don't think it's worth graffiti-ing an article with nag tags except in the case of questionable (i.e. disputed) information. Robert K S (talk) 11:25, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Episode crossreferences screwed up? Edit
Some of the crossref links in this section display as specific links to "4x12" etc. instead of the actual episode titles. They look all right when editing the section and previewing it, but they're screwed up when viewing the ewhole article.--Nevermore 21:52, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
Can you email me Santa? Edit
I need to talk to you about something (RE: A User request) thanks. Paul. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 23:59, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
Video pages Edit
What should be done about the video pages created by this user? Special:Contributions/Lostie48 Robert K S (talk) 03:13, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Vandalism? Edit
Is User:Bustem's recent work vandalism?--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 02:42, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
Clip show stubs Edit
Greetings- I -- and probably everyone else -- often get nice little notes after completing an edit asking if I can edit something else. The "something elses" are often the pages describing the clip shows, which are stubs and basically never going to improve. Would it make any sense to combine all the clip show write-ups onto a single page? I know that's "not the way we've always done it," but so what? It will take those pages off the system stub list. --Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 04:03, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
SPAM? Edit
I deleted an entry that I thought was SPAM User:Saukkomies reversed my deletion arguing that it was not SPAM. The reversal is here: http://lostpedia.wikia.com/index.php?title=316&diff=0&oldid=540860. Did I screw up? If I did, please let me know.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 19:17, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
User:Saukkomies has provided me with a copy of a letter he said he was sending to Kevin. In the letter, he complains about you having "severely disciplined" him over the SPAM incident which I guess I kicked off. He does not complain about me at all. If you have not seen the letter and you'd like to, drop me a line (talk or email).--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 16:30, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
Canon RulingEdit
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
Carla's image Edit
Well I wasn't capable of locating a source for that image so I uploaded another version of it, and sourced it. Thanks for pointing it out, I usually get the pics i upload from Wikipedia or the actor's personal website, but since I couldn't find anything for Buscaglia I uploaded an unsourced image. I'll try and be more careful about these kind of things next time I upload. --Orhan94 20:07, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
Vandal? Edit
Consider the following, please:
"****** Vincent will be transformed by Jacob into Bessie the Cow. That's why the cow recognizes Sayid when he finds her in the jungle."
I think the "editor" is User:Ibadibam
--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 02:19, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Theory pages clean up Edit
Nice job cleaning up those theory pages. :) ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 10:41, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Santa, I just noticed something after posting this attaboy. You short-banned M310172431 for edit warring, I presume due to this edit, but I don't think he did edit war. Looking at the history, this diff does not show up, and notice that Daniel's edit was hours and hours before your last edit there. I think this is a stuck post, much like the problems we've had suddenly happen on new episode pages when they are first started. I think that page is suffering from a wiki bug where Feek9's edit reverted your previous edit, without the knowledge of the editor. If this is the page for which you banned him, please note it appears to not be the user, but a wiki bug. If not, forgive my intrusion. Thanks. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 10:52, 7 March 2009 (UTC) (sorry, corrected the user you actually banned; also, notice how going to edit brings up that same "WARNING: You are editing an out-of-date revision of this page. If you save it, any changes made since this revision will be lost." message even if you are on the top level of the edit page. It's a bug.)
- Sorry, yes, I'll try to be concise. You blocked M310172431 (and others?) for edit warring LaFleur's theory page. They should be unbanned because it's a bug. The bug retains an old edit as the most recent, causing each edit after the bug rears its head to effectively erase the edit just before it. Check out "LaFleur" and "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" talk pages for the same complaint. ---- LOSTonthisdarnisland 11:14, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
AttaboysEdit
- You hereby issued one attaboy for each theory page you cleaned up. Thank you.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 14:10, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Is something up with my sig? Edit
I no longer see my signature wikilinking to my user page or talk page. Is something messed up? Robert K S 00:44, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
- Not sure how it got messed up, but it finally compelled me to start working on a better custom sig. I'm open to suggestions. Robert K S (talk) 01:15, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Voice actors Edit
I wanted to ask your opinion on the way I'm trying to reorganize the Voice actors article, see here. I think that it will make editing that article as well as searching names on it. Another thing, I'm also trying to fill out the empty places on the list as some of the sources listed on the Voice actors article are being updated (such as the French, Italian and Spanish sources). After I'm done with it, I'll try and finish the empty places on the Portal:Voice actors as well as adding images to it. --Orhan94 22:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Sidebar translation Edit
Hi ! Can you replace MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar/fr by User:Wyz/Monaco-sidebar/fr please (I translated the English one) ? Can you also give your opinion on Lostpedia:Ideas#Change the theories system please ? Best regards. Wyz ♪ ★ 14:32, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
For the language User:Robert K S did it. Thanks. Wyz ♪ ★ 16:15, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
User name Edit
Is this one legal? User:Omggivemaafningusername--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 03:03, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
"The Project" trivia questions Edit
I have some. Where do you want them? --Blueeagleislander 04:03, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Follow the Leader transcript Edit
DR. CHANG: So you fought in the Korean War? HURLEY: [Pauses] There's... no such thing.
Best Hurley line of the series! Robert K S tell me 19:40, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Niv Revino Edit
I left a message on the discussion, but it seems nobody pays attention.... His name is Niv Rabino, and he is friend of a good friend so it's for sure. I wanted to edit the article and move it, but i think only admins can do it. Let me know when you move it, so I will change the "not-so-presentable" picture, and I'm also checking his accurate birthday (he is in Hawaii and i'm in israel' so it will take couple of days).
Namaste-- Sharon1234 Talk Flashback 00:11, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
RE:DH Edit
No problem. I got a question answered on the official podcast, this one, between The Variable and Follow the Leader, to be exact. --Blueeagleislander 09:26, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Blog problems Edit
I keep getting a weird internal error message when I try to access my blog. Can you check it out for me?-- Roobydo talk contribs 21:13, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Template Problems Edit
For some reason, when this template is used on a talk page, the "edit" link for that section goes back to the template page, not the talk page, so people (mainly me), thinking they are replying, often accidentally edit the template itself. Is this something we can fix?-- Roobydo talk contribs 22:08, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
RE: Automobiles Edit
I made an idea for a new Automobiles page, and made subarticles because otherwise it wouldn't work (see the idea here)... Then someone added {{main|Automobiles/name}} to the original article, and that was not a part of the plan... I don't care if the {{main}} template is removed from the article, but my idea doesn't work without the subpages, so please don't delete the subpages... Thanks - Rasmus Ni Talk Contributions 09:51, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
- The "major change" that I made after four days discussion (and the reason that I wrote "Done"), was categorizing the subpages... And the only edits I made on the page was adding
{{discussion}}<small>*Subsection "[[Talk:Automobiles#New page|New page]]"</small>and adding[[Category:Automobiles|*Automobiles]]... It was not me who added the{{main}}templates (see the history page), but it was me that made the subpages... The reason I categorized the page and the subpages was that LOST-Hunter61 requested it... The major change that I want to make is to make the page like my idea (see here), and the idea doesn't work without the subpages... The reason that I want to edit the page is that I think that it looks better and it loads faster... - Rasmus Ni Talk Contributions 23:56, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Revisiting episode titles ban + Old spoilers discussion Edit
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)
Hi Santa. I think you missed the topic I was actually pointing you to on Lostpedia talk:Spoiler policy. My post in the topic "Alternate spoiler policy" was not what I was referring you to, but rather the topic above it. At any rate, the collapsible nav talk was specifically: (quoting from here)
- As a compromise, what about making the season 4 episode list template collapsible, defaulted to closed? It would hide potential spoilers, plus it would take up less space on articles that are usually pretty long. --Minderbinder 14:32, 20 February 2008 (PST)
- I like that idea as well. - TheAma1 14:37, 20 February 2008 (PST)
- I like this idea - I think that this could please both camps. It is also easily reversible at the end of the season. -- WanderingMathematician talk contribs email 17:42, 20 February 2008 (PST)
- Agreed. It's a fair trade. -- Nusentinsaino talk contribs email 17:45, 20 February 2008 (PST)
- Very good suggestion. While I don't think that most episode titles themselves are too spoilery it should be possible for anyone to view the season 4 episode pages without being forced to see them. --MacCutcheon – Talk? 07:10, 21 February 2008 (PST)
- As a compromise, what about making the season 4 episode list template collapsible, defaulted to closed? It would hide potential spoilers, plus it would take up less space on articles that are usually pretty long. --Minderbinder 14:32, 20 February 2008 (PST)
It seems like there's some support for this idea, but unfortunately it looks like the code for collapsable content isn't included in the mediawiki software. Looks like it can be added to the site, but someone with some technical chops would have to do it, and there would have to undergo some serious scrutiny and approval before adding it. I'm not exactly sure where the discussion would best take place, but the wikipedia/wikimedia info on this feature is here [2] and here [3] if people want to start investigating the possibility. --Minderbinder 11:40, 21 February 2008 (PST)
- There is a lot of support for this, understandably, and I would support a collapsible table for the current season. However I've tried to include this, but have found it very difficult to implement, if not impossible on this site. I'll have a word with a few people though, and see if its possible. However, don't have any hopes. If others want to have a go, they are welcome to. I also don't believe titles are spoilers by the way, and I don't think we are spoiling anyone more than ABC, TV Guide or even an electronic programming guide on my TV. -- Plkrtn talk contribs email 13:11, 22 February 2008 (PST)
- One related point, although not covering the entire scope of the "title" issue. The title of the next upcoming episode will always be revealed, because we have a "Next Time On Lost" section on our Main Page. Therefore this debate is necessarily constrained to future episodes not including the immediately upcoming one. -- Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯ Talk 11:48, 23 February 2008 (PST)
- Moving from this idea, if the collapsable tables don't work, one alternative is to create rules for these future episode names beyond the immediately upcoming one:
- leave these episode names out of ALL articles except their own. Most significantly this eliminates these from the season 4 navigation (which is locked and securely policed)-- and also from Airdates, Portal:Episodes, and Season 4.
- OR: simply prohibit these episode names everywhere, including creation of their own articles. (We'll still have to create, salt, and lock these empty articles w/out edit summaries). -- Contrib¯ _Santa_ ¯ Talk 12:03, 23 February 2008 (PST)
- To reiterate, the immediately upcoming episode is fair game for the nav, airdates, portal, and season 4, as well as article creation that includes only the title and airdate. The immediately upcoming episode will still be subject to the same prohibitions currently listed in the draft policy: no creation of new character/cast/event/etc. articles, and no listing of the episode name/number in existing articles.
- Moving from this idea, if the collapsable tables don't work, one alternative is to create rules for these future episode names beyond the immediately upcoming one:
Note your own post "if the collapsable tables don't work, one alternative is to create rules for these future episode names beyond the immediately upcoming one:". Which is why I reopened the discussion (again, it's not the discussion at the bottom of the page: that's something else altogether).
Also, since you asked, the hypocrisy I've taken issue with on the spoiler policy for over a year now is the motivation: saying that we ban spoilers because the show creators don't want us to have them, but then going and banning information that they, themselves, give us. Either the policy or the motivation needs to change. Jimbo the Tubby talk contributions 10:19, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Incident RenameEdit
Will you please take a look at this discussion? thanks. -- Roobydo talk contribs 12:07, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Podcast issue Edit
In the podcast page for the podcast before this years finale, there is the beginnings of a transcript. It's already been flagged for rename, but an admin hasn't done it yet. Once it gets moved the summary will be here. Thanks, cgmv123TalkContribsE-mail 19:59, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
LP:Idea Edit
Can you check out my idea? it's been there a while... Roobydo talk contribs 06:43, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
New Spoiler Policy Edit
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! cgmv123TalkContribsE-mail 17:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
MIAEdit
Hey where've you been on Chat?!?! We all miss you dearly. There's Gamesurge but a lot of the old renegades are using Rizon, usual channel. Would love to speak to you sometime soon. Take care, --Nickb123 (Talk) 23:13, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
- Hey we don't care about you editing, we just wanna chat with ya! Yeah am looking forward to post-S6 a little, but I imagine things will kinda die so I'm happy with how things are now. My schedule is ok right now cause Uni finished in June for the summer, but I'm starting a research project next week annoyingly so the work will begin again!! I know what you mean though when a lot is going down, it's tough to then go online and make time. Hopefully see you in Chat soon though (remember, a lot of peeps are in Rizon LP now). Best wishes, --Nickb123 (Talk) 20:09, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
SysOp opinion Edit
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)
Fan Fiction Contest Edit
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 00:29, 23 August 2009 (UTC) mrb0605@gmail.com