User talk:LyingBrian

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re: userpage vs username page

Mainly, it's because I cut my teeth on MediaWiki/Wikipedia, where userpages are strictly separated from "articles". But I also think it makes sense

And, you may have noticed, but you get a screaming orange bar when someone leaves you a message at [[user_talk:LyingBrian]]. Not so much for LyingBrian. I like your italic hack for this, but ideally I'd like to see people move their userpages to the user namespace. I don't expect this to happen anytime before JEEP implements a unified login, though... :/ -- Mr. Flay 10:05, 13 August 2007 (MDT)

Heh, no problem. Yeah, what I mean is that userpages should ideally be at User:Whatever, with a redirect/link from Whatever. For the old wiki, there were no namespaces to worry about, so everybody got into the habit of making their page at their name, and that's how they got moved over. The terminology I'm using is far from precise, it's not your fault. (I'm trying to use "userpage" for User:Whatever and "username page" for Whatever). -- Mr. Flay 15:22, 13 August 2007 (MDT)

So, what you're saying is that UserPages should actually be in the User namespace, rather than in the Main namespace where the majority of them are? This is going to take a while to fix! Somestrangeflea 15:45, 13 August 2007 (MDT)

It's okay, once you're logged in it's fairly straightforward with the Move command, and even the page history gets saved, and the old name (somestrangeflea in your case) becomes an automatic redirect. It's not as bad as it sounds... Mr. Flay 16:11, 14 August 2007 (MDT)

Oh I know, I meant it'll be hard on the large scale. (ie. everyone on MS to move!)Somestrangeflea 17:24, 14 August 2007 (MDT)

They don't really have to do it themselves. Any account with Move privs could do it in a matter of hours, and then JEEP just has to add "User:" to the tag in profiles/signatures... -- Mr. Flay 17:26, 14 August 2007 (MDT)

Conversation about {{gamebox}} and categories

Check it out when you get a chance: Category talk:Games. -- Mr. Flay 21:26, 14 August 2007 (MDT)

sysop?

Hey, since you do so much on the wiki and have obviously proven yourself trustworthy, is there any reason not to grant you the sysop tools? It'd help with spam, you could delete pages if you have to move over them, etc... if you're not comfortable with it yet, I can give you the crash course tutorial, but it's hard to permanently eff anything up, even with the extra tools. Let me know.. -- Mr. Flay 07:08, 16 August 2007 (MDT)

signature

In preferences (at the top of the page), click 'Raw Signature' and enter something like this:

— [[User:LyingBrian|Lying]][[User_talk:LyingBrian|Brian]]

That's it! (it'll of course only affect signatures you make from here on out, unlike the forums) -- Mr. Flay 07:04, 17 August 2007 (MDT)

Not to butt in or anything, but I noticed your follow-up question on Flay's page ;). The preferences aren't the most intuitive thing, but you want to put your desired signature in the 'Nickname' field. Checking the raw signature box just changes how it interprets it, when you add your signature (no check, you get a wikilink pointing to your userpage, with the text as a piped label; check, it just outputs whatever you happen to put in there). --YYCguy 08:20, 17 August 2007 (MDT)

deleting pages

Don't worry about deleting redirects from misspelled/miscapitalized names - they still can help sometimes with searches, and redirects are *extremely* cheap, CPU-wise. Deletion probably actually costs 10-100x more. :) Also, remember that redirects aren't just for links within the wiki, but anybody misspelling something in the [wiki] tags in the forums... -- Mr. Flay 07:34, 17 August 2007 (MDT)

changing page names

To preserve the edit history where you might expect it, try using the Move function instead of redirecting the old title - the copy-n-paste thing obscures where some of the old syntax/edits were if you ever need to go back and revert something. -- Mr. Flay 01:44, 18 August 2007 (MDT)

New template

I've created new {{Player}} template to be used on the game pages. I tested it out on Newbie 438. I'm still a little unsure what to do about "roles" as the role link on may pages seem to like right back to that same section. IMO, this should be used to describe the role directly rather than link to a spot on the same page (or often on the same screen). I'm not familiar enough with the game to know if/how roles change, so could you offer advice on how to deal with this? SigmaEpsilon 12:41, 18 August 2007 (MDT)