Talk: Sikon/Archive3

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Automatic code-entering thingy

Hi,

I am a beurocrat for several other unrelated wikia, but was wondering, when you attempt to start editting a new page on this wikia, there is an option box above where one enters the code that enters standard coding into the page for you - how did you get this, and do you know how I could apply it to my wikia?

Please reply w:c:stargatewars:User:Hunterd rather than at my Wookiepedia talk page.

Cheers.

---ZPMMaker... Hallowed are the Archangels! 23:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Profanity

This User has some profanity in his bottom infobox/userbox it says. This user thinks Mace Windu has had enough of these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane 216.211.66.52 11:30, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Only in theory

Mission Vao is, sadly, only of age in theory. There are no pictures, no witnesses have testified on the subject. I continue waiting. Perhaps she'll have a cameo in KOTOR3, as new ruler of the Genoharadan maybe. ^_^ Enochf 10:17, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Infoboxes help on DB wiki

  • Hey there. A couple of dedicated users and I are working to totally revamp the Dragonball wiki. I was wondering if you would be willing to make or help make some infoboxes for us. Right now I'd be ecstatic to have just a plain old character infobox. I've noticed the great deal of work you've put into infoboxes over here lately and am hoping you wouldn't mind putting in a small amount of time for us. I'd do it myself but I'm not totally comfortable with it and have already screwed up one for the user space. :) If you wouldn't mind, the way we'd like it to be organized is at dragonball:User:Wildyoda/Infobox. Let me know if you wouldn't mind, and if you're too busy or not interested, that's fine too, just thought I'd ask. Thanks for the time. Wildyoda 16:32, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
    • For the starters, you'll need to copy {{slh}}, {{sli}}, {{slc}}, {{sls}}, {{sld}}, and {{slf}}. After that, copy one of our infoboxes and we'll discuss the rest. And please don't be overly polite. I dislike that. - Sikon 16:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Pretty cool

Yea cool page seems like you put a lot of effort into it.......Nice. —Unsigned comment by Soviet*Union (talk • contribs)

Cressa

I don't have the NEGTD, but I added that article right after reading it in the bookstore, and I could have sworn it said Cressa was in charge when the Republic took back 400100500260026. - Lord Hydronium 22:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Old Sith Wars

Hi Sikon. Thanks for your response at Forum:Old Sith Wars. I've added another question about the Old Sith Wars. The article doesn't appear to be entirely canon, at least in terms of the timeline it offers. Just tryng to straighten it out. Have a good one! ~ Jaywin

Help

Could you help me? i Have a question about the MP, how do you get a colored background? I was going to use one for the wiki I created, Gears of War. Darthraul 02:01, 18 March 2007 (UTC)Darthraul

  • A colored background where? On the main page or the entire site? - Sikon 05:10, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

block

When did I ever harass admins today? All I did was ask a question. How is that harassment. You must have me confused with someone else. The other guy was not even mad. I did not know that asking questions was harassing. I am very confused. Please tell me what happeded. Thanks, Grand Admiral Nick Vos [Holonet] Republic Emblem


I looked up the word harass in the dictionary and it says: Harass- to trouble by repeated attacks.

I did none of those thing I was just confused,so I asked questions. Grand Admiral Nick Vos [Holonet] Republic Emblem

help

I'm an admin on another wikia, and I am trying to change the background of the wikia to a different color (preferably black). Could you tell me how to do this? I'm not very adept at the whole editing thing (all the bells and whistles), so I may need some explaining. Thanks- Kanogul 18:58, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

  • I don't know if it was you, but the page has a black background now, and I'm trying to turn it gray (#C0C0C0).--Kanogul 19:24, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Help needed

Hi Sikon. Since you are good with code and all, could you possibly center the userbox on my userpage? It's been bugging me for a while and I thought you might know how to fix it. Thanks! Adamwankenobi 21:34, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Bah!

Bah! JorrelWiki-shrinkableFraajic 17:50, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Sandpit

I'm just curious as to why you deleted my sandpit? Obviously I had just emptied it and so it doesn't really matter. Was this part of the user page clean up? --Eyrezer 03:04, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

  • No, I just assumed that since you blanked it, you don't need it anymore. I will restore it if you want. - Sikon 03:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
    • No worries. I just wondered if my other subpages (not fanon ones) would have to go. Cheers. --Eyrezer 01:13, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Unable to access the action tabs.

As noted, my action tabs are missing. See the image below.

File:Action tabs missing for Will Pittenger.png

Will (Talk - contribs) 09:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

  • If you're fine with the tabs being in a dropdown menu as well, you can take the fixed version from furry:User:Sikon/monobook.css. The undesired effects appear to be a result of mixing my code with someone else's. - Sikon 12:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

BTW: It appears that ordinary users can't edit that CSS page. That might be good, but it prevents it from being manually purged. I don't know if there is another way to do it. Will (Talk - contribs) 07:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, if you are keeping that CSS page, you might change the See Also link at the bottom. I guess you liked that layout. Will (Talk - contribs) 07:41, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

  • What CSS page? You don't need to edit it. You need to view the source and copy it to your Wookieepedia monobook.css. - Sikon 07:47, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I was going to purge it so I could navigate with the TOC. Since you appear to have copied my CSS page to get it, I thought that would work. I copied the code over. It is acceptable. At least the actions are available now. However, I think that I would prefer the changes listed below. Two are older.

  1. Tabs for the actions. Makes them handier. I don't lose that much vertical space to them.
  2. Put the contents of the User Menu on the top level on the right.
  3. Make the bar non-scrolling.

Will (Talk - contribs) 07:57, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

How can I implement your Preload system at the Christian Music Wiki?

I like the concept. Will (Talk - contribs) 09:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

That added the special characters. (Which is useful. Thanks.  :) I had been wanting to add that for a while.) But the preload stuff is missing. Do I need to create a file that lists the preloads? Will (Talk - contribs) 08:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

    • The custom preload text box and button should work "out of the box". For the combo box, yes, you need to create Template:Stdpreloads. - Sikon 08:27, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I created the template. See w:c:ChristianMusic:Template:Stdpreloads. However, the controls are still missing. (See w:c:ChristianMusic:File:Special characters, but no preloads.PNG.) Also, how do I define the preloads themselves? Do I create templates whose names match the text in the w:c:ChristianMusic:Template:Stdpreloads? Will (Talk - contribs) 08:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

  • First. Your MediaWiki:Common.js is empty. What did I say about copying the script there? Second, replace addLoadEvent with addOnloadHook in your MediaWiki:Monobook.js. - Sikon 08:49, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Common.js did not exist. So I had to create it. It appears I put an extra m into the name. Sorry about that.

However, there is no change. Will (Talk - contribs) 08:58, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

  • You didn't replace addLoadEvent. - Sikon 09:40, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. My JS skills on not that good. I had web programming. I should stick to desktops in that regard. Now how to I fill the preloads? I assume those are pages somewhere. When I tried it, I got nothing. Not even an error message. I had hoped the error message would tell me what I needed to know. It did not. Will (Talk - contribs) 07:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

    • The preloads work for me now. If they don't work for you, reload your cache (since you apparently have Firefox, pressing Ctrl-R should do the job). To modify the preload list, edit Template:Stdpreloads. To create a preload template, create Template:Templatename/preload, where Templatename is the line in Stdpreloads. For example, Wookieepedia has Template:Character/preload for the "Character infobox" line. As for web programming: you shouldn't stick to desktops! Web programming is actually quite entertaining. To see JavaScript errors, use the Firefox error console, which is available in the Tools menu. (Out of interest, what programming language(s) do you use?) - Sikon 07:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I started in high-school with Applesoft and continue to dabble with it for 10 years. In college (Illinois Central College), I started working with GW-Basic and Pascal (Turbo 1.0). At Western Illinois University, I continued with Pascal, but also started working with C and C++ (my first OO language). I also picked up some ADA (but never understanding it). After college, I worked with KMan (mostly to learn how to translate a product to another langauge that we never picked). I also learned enough about SqlWindows (the name they had then) and PowerBuilder. Neither were capable langauges in my opinion (then as well as now). That was also when I dabbled with HTML for the first time. Since then all my professional work was in C++/MFC -- and all client side. Our apps weren't even Internet-aware. Only the latest one I worked on had any need of it (and only to update itself). A couple years ago, I also picked up some C#.NET -- on my own to enhance my résumé if only slightly. I never reached the part where my book talked about the Internet -- I never even got SQL Server Desktop going.

As of right now, it is working for Artists. Thanks. Will (Talk - contribs) 08:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  • The problem with MFC and .NET is that they're tied to Windows. I advise you to learn a cross-platform language/toolkit, like Java (with Swing or SWT), or Qt (for C++). Or Mozilla extensions, which are a cross between traditional client applications and web (Ajax) applications, due to their extensive use of DOM, JavaScript, and often XMLHttpRequest. - Sikon 09:01, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Cross platform stuff has never been a requirement. Windows was. Besides, as user interface specialist, I found Linux and Unix (along with X-Windows) to be rather repulsive. When I design an interface for users, I insist that the look of a scrollbar look like that what is shown in the manuals or help files. While XP/Vista themes make that near impossible, it is far more likely than with something like X-Windows which make everyone implement their own scrollbars -- and look of those controls.

As for other stuff (you mentioned Mozilla), I tend to act like a fish out of water when a conventional debugger is not an option. Will (Talk - contribs) 09:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  • There is a conventional debugger for JavaScript, it's called Venkman. Besides, dince uniform look is a requirement, both Swing and Qt have support for themes, making it possible to make your application look and feel the same on any platform - be it Windows, Linux or Mac. Besides, don't worry about X11. These toolkits provide a sufficient level of abstraction. And while I understand that non-Windows platforms are not a requirement, it's better to think of it now than when customers request a Linux or Mac version and all you'll be able to answer is "Sorry, guys, it's not portable". - Sikon 09:22, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Beep boop

Hey, if you could run Artoo to change Category:New Republic pilots to Category:New Republic Starfighter Corps personnel, you would have my undying gratitude. Until you blow by making the background pastel blue or something. Havac 04:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Image

how do you upload a image??????? —Unsigned comment by X-fighter023 (talk • contribs)

admin

I am a beuracrat on another site. how do I make someone else a beucrarat?thanks, Twilekmaster 23:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Why are you all asking me? What am I, Wikia tech support? Use Special:Makesysop. - Sikon 00:56, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Revan gender crybabies

If you want a hilarious series of denials that merit QuentinGeorge's Baghdad Bob, go to Bioware's KOTOR forums and look up posts by a user called vibro9. This guy/girl was probably the inexplicable product of a love affair between David Irving and Sergeant Hans Schultz. Lord Patrick 18:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Help on Jundland Wastes

On the Wookieepedia: Jundland wastes page, there are two sentences that say "This page is for editing experiments only. Where no one will criticize your edits." That's a fragment. I've tried to fix it but it keeps getting reverted when the sandbox is raked, I assume. Could you do something about that? Also, there are two of the same "official policy" templates there. Could you possibly fix that as well? Thanks. Chack Jadson 12:40, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Nothing needs fixing there. The two policy templates are just an editing experiment. - Sikon 12:55, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Pardon my ignorance...

...but what does ASR mean? KEJ 23:28, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Wikipedia:WP:ASR. - Sikon 03:00, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
    • That makes no sense, especially if it's kinda useful like the reference to the documentation of the April Fools' joke (I'm sure you knew that was what I was getting at) where interested people could just click the link and get a complete list of all the changes made... besides we're not wikipedia. KEJ 07:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
      • Not Wikipedia, not Wikipedia. ASR is a basic principle of any wiki. Insert that one into Wookieepedia:About if you want, or reword it: "Wookieepedia documented these changes at their "April Fools' Day 2007" page [external link]". You can use the {{srlink}} template for the external link. - Sikon 07:52, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
        • If you say so; you're the wiki-expert. It's just a silly principle that makes no sense. KEJ 10:02, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Burl

  • Hi Sikon. With regards to Burl Ives, I suggest you visit this forum and vote—and try and find some other votes also. --Eyrezer 09:01, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Search

If it's technically possible, what if we have a plain SEARCH image with no subject, then overlay just the subject on the left side, to keep the search text the same and not have a wookiee that gets changed to something else when the page first loads? —Xwing328(Talk) 01:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Marty! You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally about people who have JavaScript disabled. For them, the Wookiee will be all they'll ever see. - Sikon 03:39, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Actually, I did think about that. But whatever. We still could use a plain icon though, so people can keep a bit more consistent with the SEARCH text.
    • Also, what I originally meant, not what I tried last night, was to have two images, the Wookiee, and the "SEARCH" part side by side. Then the JavaScript would only override the image of the Wookiee, and leave the search part the same, but I don't think that's worth the trouble now. —Xwing328(Talk) 16:01, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

WOTM nom

I would like to thank you for the WOTM nomination, I never dreamed I'd get on that thing, even if I don't win. I just found out about it today, so I'm sorry about the delay. While I'm at it, I might as well say I enjoy your Komedy stylings. -Solus (Bird of Prey) 12:28, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Quote database

Hiya Sikon! As there's been some discussion about a QDB for Wikia (instead of one wiki page), I'd like to know what is needed for running the software (so that we can find out if Wikia is able to host one). Unless I'm mistaken, at least PHP support? And MySQL? Thanks in advance! :) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 19:41, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

  • MySQL and either Perl or PHP. The Wookiee' QDB is custom software I wrote for myself (in PHP), and Chirpy!, which powers the Uncyc QDB, is written in Perl. - Sikon 03:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Then remove the redlinks

I created the redirects to prevent someone from actually creating those nonsensical articles from the redlinks. It had nothing to do with proving points. KEJ 14:41, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Search icons

I noticed that in the newest batch of search icons you added to the template, one of them is vitually identical to another one added earlier. File:XwingSearch.png, from the lastest batch, is almost exactly the same as File:Xwing-search.png that was added a while back. I know there are different images in the rotation of the same character, but they are very different images. So I didn't know of this was intentional or just an oversight, so I thought I'd point it out. - JMAS 16:10, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

  • What's wrong with having two X-wing icons? We have two Gamorrean icons and two Carth icons. - Sikon 16:20, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Ahem

May I suggest incorporating "of DOOM" into some of your links to the user page policy? It just...pops. Y'know? --School of Thrawn 101 10:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

  • The original didn't have "of DOOM". Blame them. - Sikon 10:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Truth, but you must admit, kind sir, that "of DOOM" appended to every one of those lines would add a certain...flair? —Unsigned comment by School of Thrawn 101 (talk • contribs)
      • "I'm not familiar with the type of thing I'm seeing." (c) - Sikon 10:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Hellooo...

Kindly leave my page alone, it's perfectly legit. Besides, you messed up quite a lot that was entirely unrelated to the Guestbook. Evir Daal 10:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Read again. That's the place for Guestbook subpages. I haven't broken any rules, just had my page messed up for no good reason. Evir Daal 10:48, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
    • We should probably amend that section of the policy, since getting rid of guestbooks on the main page is what was meant by that addition (according to the cleanup project and "useless edits" CT thread.) —Silly Dan (talk) 12:11, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Is this kosher?

Hey Sikon, just noticed Culator removed a userbox from my page due apparently to his disagreement with me about the Breast Vfd. http://starwars.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Gonk&curid=133177&diff=1287160&oldid=1283882 I realize that such actions would of course be appropriate if I were (say) impersonating an admin, but I fail to see how this (or, for that matter, his calling me an idiot in IRC) is appropriate. If I'm mistaken and this is indeed within an admin's rights, just let me know; you know I am able to have a sense of humor about this sort of thing, but here I detect no jokiness from Culator. Gonk (Gonk!) 16:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

  • I reverted him. He's out of line. --Imp ATATatarismall.png 17:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Well, he's reverted it twice now. Apparently he wants to get banned or something, perhaps "to create a strong sympathy vote" as it were ;) Gonk (Gonk!) 18:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
      • I've blocked him, though I am well aware he can unblock himself. —Silly Dan (talk) 18:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

UnMeta-wiki

There's some spam to be deleted at UnMeta. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 17:17, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Search icons...

I have a little question about the search icons. I want to know how you got then to cycle randomly. Also, on April 01, I saw all these different changes to stuff, like the action buttons. I have recently adopted the M*A*S*H wiki and have begun totally remodeling it. The cycling search icons are one of the things that I want. I would also like to know how to change what the wiki is called, how to change what all the things in the "navigation" and "interaction" sections say. Thanks!!!----Ultric Sandov--File:UltricSandov.jpg--[Ultimate Spy] 23:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Curious question

Hey, I've just got a question for you. I have about 2650 edits on Wookieepedia (and 3600 total) but on a stats page, I am not listed under the contributors with the most edits, though I should be. Here's the link: stats. You're smart, so maybe you can help. Do you have an explanation? I'm just curious about this, it's nothing major. Thanks. Chack Jadson 20:11, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Sorry to bug you abou this, but can you think of any explanation? This is just bugging me, I have no idea why it's like this. If you don't know, it's fine. Thanks again. Chack Jadson 01:04, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Wikia maintains the list. I have no idea what software they use, let alone giving any support. - Sikon 04:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

What

What in god's name does cannon go boom mean? Anzati02 21:12, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

  • It means someone misspelled "canon" as "cannon". - Sikon 04:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)


Delete

Sikon, can you delete floating mountain because it may be fanon?--Windu223 16:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

  • I see no reason to delete it right now. Let the author provide sources. - Sikon 16:42, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Dynamic recent changes

I followed the instructions on the forum, but I think I made a mistake some where, because it's not working. Can you please help me? --Jedimca0 (Do or Do Not, There is No Try) 18:03, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

  • What do you mean by "not working"? And under what browser? Sorry, but the telepaths are on vacation. - Sikon 18:11, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
    • I’m sorry, I'm using Internet Explorer and I followed the instruction on the forum, copied it, reloaded my cache, and opened User:Sikon/rc, after that nothing happened, I got a blank page. Is it supposed to do that? --Jedimca0 (Do or Do Not, There is No Try) 18:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
      • This feature is for standards-compliant browsers, not IE. - Sikon 18:39, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Template:Eraicon

I noticed you had done some work on the eraicon template here and I've been trying to mimic it here on TMNTPedia if you could look mine over and see where I went wrong it would be appreciated also my version of Template:Top is here under Template:Apps

thank you in advance for any help you can offer
N.Y.N.E.ComlinkFile:Sithempire2.png|30px 22:52, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Width in image names

Not that I think many people actually read everything written there, but could you put a note in the Upload page about not putting the image width or height in the file's name. Maybe, just maybe, it will help a bit. - JMAS 22:52, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Resurrecting the Player's Committee article

(Cc: SparqMan)

Hello! I was about to write the Player's Committee article to clear up a lot of the redlinks on Star Wars Customizable Card Game when I saw many of the discussions about a former article already being deleted. I want to echo CBenoit's concern from the SWCCG talk page that a recreation of the Player's Committee article will just be deleted again. I understand the arguments that the article doesn't need to be a "staff list", but it should a least explain the organization's history and purpose. Do you think it's safe for us to create this article again? Thank you. - Esjs(Talk) 02:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

  • I think it would be better to ask the community, not a single member of it. - Sikon 03:24, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
    • To be fair, he asked two members. --School of Thrawn 101 04:36, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
    • OK, will do. I just wanted to run it by you two first because I had read that SparqMan actually deleted the article and you cleared out the VFD. - Esjs(Talk) 01:35, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

My Talk Page

I read through those rules, and it says Guestbooks are not allowed on Main Pages, not Talk Pages. TheNewDarthMalevlent(The Sith shall rise to power!) 17:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Read the spirit of the policies, not the letter. - Sikon 17:35, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Sikonish

  • Your ban message is confusing some people. Is that the intent? :-P Atarumaster88 17:34, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

User Box Arrangement

Hi, I've been having trouble arranging my user boxes in a scroll box and Atarumaster88 said to come to you, any way I am trying to put my user boxes in a scroll box and only half of them show up, then I tried to get them in seperate scroll boxes and a whole scroll box won't show up, can you help? Thanks. Fett 1138 (HoloNet Transceiver) 15px 17:49, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Link replacement

  • I was looking at Wanted Pages and two of the top occurrences appear to be derived from Culator using incorrect links in his sig. Making redirects would take them off the wanted page, but it wouldn't really be helping anything - is it possible for your Artoo bot to go through everything and replace [[Starwars:User:Darth Culator]] and [[Starwars:User talk:Darth Culator]] links with the proper ones? Coop 07:15, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Bots

  • Sikon, it's been brought up that all the Inquisitorius pages need to be moved to a different namespace- the Wookieepedia one at the very least. Would it be possible to have Artoo do it, or does someone with sysop POWAH! need to do it manually? Atarumaster88 13:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
    • It is certainly possible, but I'd rather discuss it with others first — no need to hurry. - Sikon 13:58, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
      • Fair enough, though that particular issue has been sitting on Inq:Complaints Department for some time now. Even though I'm not part of the Inq, it's still something I was trying to see through to fruition. Atarumaster88 20:14, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Banned

Um... Why does it say you were banned for stupidness? Is this a joke or were you seriously banned? TheNewDarthMalevlent(The Sith shall rise to power!) 01:01, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

  • It was added by a vandal. I thought it was funny and decided to keep it. - Sikon 12:04, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Complaint against an administrator

Hi. This is Jaywin. I wanted to make a brief complaint against an administrator, Darth Culator. I was doing a little bot work (which apparently Culator has a problem with, judging by his comment on my talk page), and he banned me without warning.

More specifically, I was going down the list in the Wanted Pages (which I occasionally do) to try and get rid of some redlinks. Today, I was getting rid of some redlinks that mostly involved IP user pages with a template called "user" (which now Culator has gotten rid of as well). I was also putting welcome templates on the talk pages where they were needed. (Apparently I was using the wrong template on the discussion page. Green Tentacle left a message on my talk page, pointing out my error...which was more of a courtesy than Culator provided. I immediately thanked GT for pointing this out to me.) I began getting rid of some redlinks on Special:Userlist, and (without paying attention, I confess), put the user template on a banned user's page. Apparently this is when I got banned.

I went on the IRC channel to try and straighten this out. Darth Culator was there and basically accused me of being irrational and a vandal. When I suggested that he could have assumed good faith and left a message on my talk page, he responded that he hated it when people mentioned "good faith" (or something to that effect) and then proceeded to kick me off of the IRC.

He then "graciously" unblocked me since he "got my attention" [1]...of course, he could have got my attention by leaving a message on my talk page, but I guess that would be too much to ask from an administrator who doesn't seem to have much use for the good faith policy.

Personally, I think that Darth Culator's behavior was quite rude and belligerent, and I would expect more from an administrator. Also, judging from his talk page, I'm not the only one who has a problem with the way he conducts business on Wookieepedia.

This wasn't quite as brief as I hoped. But thank you for taking the time to read this, and please feel free to leave a response on my talk page if you'd like. Have a good one. Jaywin 02:03, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Main Page

  • Could you either change the Main Page to reflect the new Polish sister site (Ossus.pl) or point me in the right direction? The location for that particular box is eluding me. Atarumaster88 20px (Talk page) 17:10, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

no borders in the table of contents

How did you get rid of the borders on the Table of Contents??? Can I have the CSS for it please?--Pineysmell 03:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

History Entwined

Haha, banned for stupidness.. okay to the real reason I'm posting here. I was going through archive pages on Wikipedia and I found the post [2] I sent you to join Wookieepedia, then the SWW. I did not realize that I was the primary force behind getting you to join the site, and now look where we are. :) -- Riffsyphon1024 04:20, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Heh, indeed. I was stupid back then. "Why another wiki if we have Wikipedia?" I no longer think like that, of course. - Sikon 08:10, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Auto-hide code

Hi there Sikon. I'm hoping you can give me a hand since you certainly seem to surpass my rather weak web-coding skills. Do you know how to enable auto-hiding of fields in templates like infoboxes? You know, so that if one doesn't have the information they just omit the field and we don't have to see something like {{{name}}}? I'm trying to fix up some templates on a non-wikia wiki. Thanks! Shadowtrooper talk 17:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

  • If you don't know JavaScript, better don't touch that code. - Sikon 02:22, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Hey Sikon, I set up(tried to anyways) a bot for use with another wiki. I followed all the steps here, but I don't understand, once everythings set up, how do you get it to actually run? I should have python already installed since I have Mac OS X, but I don't understand exactly how to get the bot too run. Its probably something really easy that I'm just missing, can you help? PinkyTalk 22:21, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
    • nvm that. I figured that out. However, when I try to run a code, I get several error messages. Are there code errors in it? Thanks, PinkyTalk 05:29, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
      • What error messages? Telepaths are on vacation. - Sikon 05:57, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
        • Like if I run starwars-family.py I get:
Error: File starwars_family.py; Line 1: 
 Traceback (most recent call last): import family

I've run other files, as well, but I always get at least one error message. PinkyTalk 14:33, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

  • I suggest you either give up, or learn the programming language (Python). - Sikon 15:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Ok. Well, thanks I guess. The version you have here, when you download the prepackaged thing, does it start working? Or are there bugs in it? PinkyTalk 15:32, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
      • It works on my Linux system. I offer no guarantees that it will work for you. - Sikon 17:03, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Just so you know I figured out the above questions. Thanks for helping me with getting a bot running. PinkyTalk 17:45, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Era icons

Hello, sorry to bother you. I'm the founder of Wiki 24, unfortunately my skills with the meta-mark-up are quite limited. I was wondering if you explain what's required for me to go about adding upper-right-hand-corner icons similar to Wookieepedia's Era Icons. --Proudhug 22:23, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

  • No, I won't. Learn JavaScript, then you will understand. - Sikon 02:57, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
You just did. Wasn't so hard, was it? --Proudhug 08:11, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Pywikibot

I noticed that you programmed your R2 droid to clean the sandbox. Could you explain which command you used for that? Or did you use your own command? JM76 talk

Nebulax

It's come to my attention that a "compromise" has been made. Frankly, this is unacceptable. That was Nebulax's eigth edit war ban. WP:BLOCK proscribes an infinite ban after the fourth offense. Note that Nebulax has forged these compromises in the past, over and over and over again, and nothing has ever come of them but more of the same behavior. He's excellent at playing the pity card, at playing the persecution card, at playing the repentence card. But they're only cards. If he truly meant a word of them, he'd have changed his behavior. But he hasn't. He's been given chance after chance after chance after chance, and he's blown each and every one of them. Why will one more chance make a difference? I told him not to continue edit warring. Instead of being reasonable and working to talk out a compromise version, he continued edit warring, attempted to order around the admin in his edit summary, and responded to the admin with an incredibly rude message. His entire attitude is that he is better than anyone else and will do whatever he wants. He only comes crying to you after he's called on it, putting on the "poor me" act to get an excuse to continue on exactly the same way he's been. If any anon or new user had acted the way he had in that one incident, to say nothing of Jack's long history of identical violations, he would have been out, gone. Why does Jack get special treatment? Because he's been around? I ask you to please step back, put aside the fact that he's a fixture here and we've become acclimated to his juvenile, egocentric behavior, and analyze his situation as you would a non-established user. That's what I did. And once you put aside emotion, which is meaningless, there is no rational, logical, factual reason not to carry out an infinite ban. It's what policy demands and Jack doesn't deserve special treatment, especially not considering that he's gotten that treatment time and time again and has not changed one bit. Please reconsider this "compromise" (which is simply allowing Nebulax to continue his pattern of behavior after a short hiatus). I put my foot down, with more than enough factual backing, and you and WhiteBoy went behind my back to lift that foot back up in a way which I feel undermines my authority, which is necessary for me to perform as an administrator, and the unity and credibility of the administration as a whole by showing that all it takes is one emotional appeal to reverse a decision made by a different administrator. To be honest, I find it rather disrespectful to, on an issue where I had made my determination very clear and had ample factual backing, circumvent me and reverse my decision without even consulting me. I'm aware that this probably occurred on IRC when I was not on; nevertheless, I feel that this would have been much better served to bring me into the process, even if it meant a short wait to post on my userpage and wait for a response the next day. As is, I feel as if my side of the argument did not get a fair hearing and that this compromise is misinformed and in need of another discussion. Havac 66.82.9.65 00:25, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

  • If you are Havac, why are you 1) posting as an IP and 2) posting on multiple BC talk pages instead of the forum? - Sikon 02:40, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
    • 1) Read my userpage. 2) Because I'm dealing with those personally responsible before I make a public circus out of it. But you probably know that by now. 67.142.130.30 00:22, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Apology for editing your page

Sorry I edited your userpage badly the other day rather than just reverting.

On a related note, do you remember the trick for suppressing categories on a page which are brought in when you add a template? Or did I imagine that? —Silly Dan (talk) 03:04, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Ossus.pl

As a senior admin, could you comment on Forum:Ossus.pl - New Polish sister site? Thanks, —Silly Dan (talk) 12:50, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

My username

Hi there! How can I change my username? Lieutenant Grenn 13:30, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

  • You can't. The only way would be to create a new account. --Imperialles 13:34, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Droid Help

I need help with a new droid creation of mine. I want him to source some articles. Maybe you could help me get him running. His name is TC-14, already a user, just don't know how to start him up. Jediknight19bby 20:02, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Article Request

Hey, Sikon. Atarumaster tells me you are knowledgeable about Old Republic info. So, could you create an article about the visions in Ludo Kressh's tomb to the Jedi Exile?--Jedi Kasra 19:15, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Nuku-Nuku

It's my feeling, and I think it's a good one, that a bot, to justify its existence, should provide some useful service which is not otherwise provided, or provide a service with much greater ease than otherwise possible. I have, as of yet, seen nothing from Nuku-Nuku in this regard. Now, I concede that, so long as a bot is there, it might as well be amusing. But it should be amusing in a way that is not disruptive and should not lend itself to abuse. Again, Nuku-Nuku is exactly the opposite. If you wish to tone down Nuku-Nuku's over-the-top "humor" -- which is not and has never been funny or cute, but merely obnoxious and disruptive and constantly abused -- in favor of keeping a more efficient bot, please, go ahead and do so. But as far as I can see, Nuku-Nuku was introduced to the channel simply as your own personal toy, and we now have a purposeless bot, incapable of being removed from the channel, which kicks people randomly and clutters up the channel with incredibly obnoxious shit. I see absolutely no reason to tolerate this. Again, tone down Nuku-Nuku and bring it into line such that it is useful and non-disruptive and I will have no problem with it. But don't do so, and I will find a way to permanently remove it from the channel. Havac 07:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Template:USERNAME

I need this on EQ2i. I see that it is using a class but cannot find where the class is! I don't see it in common.css, and it is not in monobook.css, so where is it? I assume it also uses something in common.js. PLEASE reply here or on w:c:eq2:User_talk:FlorenceSopher my talk page. --Florence Sopher of Lucan D'Lere (talk/contribs/Category:Florence's Templates|templates) 06:10, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I apologise if I am dragging you into something, but..

This DOES relate to Wookiee, as it involves another site inviting attempts to contribute to the Revan article which would very, very, very, very likely be POV Warrior invasions; http://www.kotorfanmedia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=108934#108934 Do you think I did good in replying? Lord Patrick 11:02, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

You were at the Mofference, right?

If so, could you let me know of anything major that happened? I'd go through the transcript for it, but I don't have the time now. —Grand Admiral J. Nebulax (Imperial Holovision) 20px 12:43, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


Banning of IthinkIwannaLeia

This is IthinkIwannaLeia. Sikon banned me for "username." I can only assume that you thought that my name fell under the "obscenity" section of the username banning policy??! While my name is meant to infer that "I think I desire leia," I fully recognize that it can be interpreted as "I think I want to lay you." This is an obvious pun on the phonetics of the character Leia's name. It is meant to illicit humor and, though it might peripherally have something to do with the subject of sexuality, it is by no means obscene. The most apt definition of obsecenity in webster's dictionary is, "containing or being language regarded as taboo in polite usage." Since my name contains no curse words, it clearly does not fit into the catagory of obscenity. Neither the terms "Leia" or "Lay ya" are taboo. Furthermore, my username does not describe sexual or violent acts in detail, which of course could be considered obscene. Sex itself is not obscene, and a harmless, humerous pun on Leia's name that has the barest hint of obscenity can hardly be considered to be obscene.

I have been using this name on theforce.net forums and others for over 6 years. I have never gotten one complaint (but a few compliments from those who found it humerous). 

I think it is unjust that you make the determination on what is obscene alone. 
Calling something obcene is usually observed for cursewords, graphic details, or kink (I personally would respect anyones rights to discuss any of those topics, no matter how weird or distasteful I found them, as long as they were in the proper place and context.

However, I understand the need to put limitations on things here. But, I don't understand how an average user would find IthinkIwannaLeia offensive.

In American Law, obscenity (usually in regards to pornography) is determined by the local community. Usually it takes a jury of 12 people at least. I would invite you, in the pursuit of fairness, to ask 6 to 12 of your fellow administers if "IthinkIwannaleia" is obscene and should be banned as a username.

I would happily abide by their judgement. I see that you, yourself, have been banned for a year because of "stupidness." I think that your banning of my name falls into this catagory. Please seek the opinions of others and rectify this situation.

Respectfully, I remain: IthinkIwannaLeia PS- I invite anyone else reading this to put their two cents in too!

  • jsarek has suggested that I tell you that my username is acceptable in his opinion. He has stated that he will not interfere with your opinion. So I once again ask you to reconsider your opinion, or at least seek out some sort of consensus from other users for justification of your opinion. He has also informed me that you are not banned. Is this true? ~~IthinkIwannaLeia(Dr. Justin Hand)

Standard summaries

I was wondering if you could tell me how you placed the standard summaries into Wookieepedia? I'd like to have this feature on the RuneScape Wiki though can't figure it out. I already put in all the stuff from MediaWiki:Functions.js and most of the stuff from MediaWiki:Common.js. Wookieepedia:Technical notes I think says how to add the summaries, though I did what it said and it still did not work.--Richard 03:31, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Sikon/Palpatine

Can we delete this? If you want to do more work on it, fine, but otherwise it's just sitting in categories it doesn't belong in. Havac 04:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Era Icons

I was wondering if you could sort of tell me the mechanics behind the Era Icons used here on Wookieepedia. I was thinking about doing something similar with some images on another Wiki, and I only have a mediocre understanding of the Wiki-editing format. If you could give me some help or direct me to someone who can, I would be very grateful. Thanks- Kanogul (talk) 21:54, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

P.S.- Please leave your reply on my talk page.

Talk page archives

Merge question

Hey, Sikon. Shuold we merge the Jedi Crusaders article with the Revanchist (faction) article?--Jedi Kasra 19:35, 23 December 2007 (UTC)


Plot Twist

Hey, where exactly is the plot twist on Raana Tey's page.

Resigned?

You've resigned too? Damn, this place has really fallen apart in the last six months. I am no longer connected to Wookieepedia in any way (and I honestly loathe what this wiki has become), but I watched you put an insane amount of work into this place and you deserve the community's sincerest thanks. Anyway, I wish you well. Without technical people like you and I, this place will only continue its steady decline.–SentryTalk 12:24, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

  • I'm curious, what exactly has this wiki become? --Imperialles 15:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
    • A bureaucratic nightmare.
    • A community that has become so mired in groupthink that it drives new users away.
    • A fansite that (like many volunteer organizations) has come to be dominated by a hardened core of obsessive fanboys who have poor social skills and too much free time.
    • A wiki that is increasingly ruled by admins who are too young/arrogant/partisan to do their job effectively.

Take your pick.–SentryTalk 22:46, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Would you by any chance, belong to the Society of Vandalism, because what you're saying sounds a lot like what their president said. Darth Oompa Loompa 20:07, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Then why the fuck are you still lurking around here and talking about how much we suck when the opportunity presents itself? If you really hate it, just go away.--Darth Oblivion 20:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Yeah, that comment doesn't prove his point at all or anything. jSarek 20:23, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
      • Somehow, I doubt this is Sentry. Chack Jadson (Talk) 20:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
        • It isn't. Some anon was impersonating him. Unless it actually is him and he just didn't log in. Hobbes(Tiger's Lair) 18:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

I think people are forgetting they they don't HAVE to go on the talk pages. Darth Oompa Loompa 18:24, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

  • RE: Darth Oblivion. I thought that I had been a little harsh with bullet point #3, but I guess not. As for your accusation that I was 'lurking', I actually hadn't visited this site in a month or two. I just happened to follow a link from Penny Arcade that led me to make an edit to the Haden Blackman page. Once here, I took a look around and found the place in a pretty bad state. I made a comment here to wish Sikon well - because I respected him and because it looked as though he had been ill treated in many respects. I only annotated my original comment because Imp asked for clarification. Although I must admit that I do find it vaguely amusing to stir the nest around here every once in a while. Your reactions to any sort of criticism are so endearingly predictable.
    Lastly, if you guys want this place to start growing and thriving again, start choosing excellent admins in the vein of Silly Dan, jSarek, and Greyman, instead of those who band together and attack VIPs like a pack of rabid Chihuahuas.–SentryTalk 01:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Sentry. I would just like to note that there are still good people here that are trying their best to make Wookieepedia a worthwhile place to edit. -- Riffsyphon1024 04:35, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Riffsyphon. Editing is to make the actual articles better. Also, 'rabid Chihuahuas'? Darth Oompa Loompa 04:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)