User talk:Axem Titanium/Archive 4

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Hello. You're right: Girl with a Pearl Earring (painting) should be moved to Girl with a Pearl Earring. I didn't spot Girl with a Pearl Earring (disambiguation).

I've now amended the seealso links to point to the existing dab page on Girl with a Pearl Earring (painting), Girl with a Pearl Earring (novel) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (film).

Note that some more dab work is needed: Special:Whatlinkshere/Girl with a Pearl Earring, but I'm happy to help with that too. Thanks, Clicketyclack 21:57, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Dab work done. For now. :-) Clicketyclack 23:31, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Ha, thanks. Was browsing the internets and found the article. I saw the line, and thought, what the heck, let's just do this. That editor may have been following our activities in the Wikiproject. Maybe. Bluerです。 ^なにか? 03:35, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Axem Titanium, I have left message for the non-IP addresses involved in the previous IB matter. See Talk:IB_Diploma_Programme#Reopening_the_.22IB_is_UN-American.22_debate. I would prefer they get involved as I'm no policy expert. Thank you. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling 01:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Good job. Teggles begged me to fix his "horrible prose", but I never got around to it. Besides, it's not that bad. — Deckiller 23:22, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, AP is a bitch. AP exams are just as bad as college finals. — Deckiller 23:26, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Spoiler warning :) — Deckiller 21:44, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem; the entire project has been notified on the talkpage. We are going to end this nonsense once and for all. — Deckiller 21:53, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

A spoiler guideline will still be needed, regardless if the templates are deleted or not. In the very least such a guideline would tell people to not use spoiler warnings or other methods of hiding spoilers. -- Ned Scott 03:01, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

By now you probably realize that policy note at the bottom of the page was not merely meant for the closing admin, but also for any number of people you might otherwise get into an edit war with. O:-) --Kim Bruning 04:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't get what the heck your problem with me is. Right off the bat you assumed the worst of me, and you couldn't have been more wrong. If you don't know me, then why would you assume these things of me? You thought I was trying to suppress discussion, but from my point of view the MFD was suppressing the discussion that I and others had in the past. I never thought of this as a way to suppress anyone's opinion, and I felt it was very important to still note everything that was said on the MFD page, but I didn't even have a chance to say that. It was only because I felt like the RFCs and other discussions were being thrown out the window did I act the way I did. Why is that so hard for you to understand? Is it really better to just assume that I was trying to do something as absurd as "crush" the discussion? Any experienced Wikipedian can tell you that such a task would simply not be possible, and it's absurd to think that someone like myself would be so stupid to just try to "hide" opposing views when they are so strong. I'm insulted that you think I would be that stupid, and I'm insulted that you think I would ignore others simply to get "my way". That is not who I am, and that is not how I do things. -- Ned Scott 04:23, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey Alex! — Deckiller 20:38, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Hahahaha! That's great. Axem Titanium 22:49, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

That thread might interest you. — Deckiller 15:16, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi there. I just reverted your edit to Template:Garth Nix novel. I noticed that you noted in your edit summary that "apparently that parameter doesn't do anything". I re-added the documentation text, since this parameter is important - it allows articles to be properly sorted into the category which the templates adds to pages on where it is placed. By this mechanism, The Ragwitch is appropriately sorted under R rather than under T using the form {{Garth Nix novel|Ragwitch}}, since the code uses [[Category:Novels by Garth Nix|{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}}]] to optionally modify the sort parameter. Since this is important for use of the template, I re-added the documentation text which you removed, and have subsequently clarified it to explain the purpose of the parameter passed. I hope this isn't a problem. Cheers, Nihiltres^(t.c.s) 03:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I suppose it isn't quite necessary, but it's definitely convenient, since the template and the category should always be paired. If only we had StringFunctions enabled throughout Wikimedia projects, we wouldn't need the parameter then. Nihiltres^(t.c.s) 03:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC) (cross-posted)

I don't believe I did change sides - I had been saying that spoilers violated wikipedia's WP:No Disclaimers policy per the WP:CD (if that link doesn't work it should get you to the content disclaimer) and that they were unencyclopedic.danielfolsom 11:42, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Oh wow - sorry i was voting really late - I thought you were talking about the series of polls - where there are like 4 of them ... thanks for the heads up!danielfolsom 14:55, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I've been using this as a model for the ideal plot summary, but I think we should update it a little bit (I just trimmed it to 990 words, which is even better). There's only one major issue I have, and it is that we never really explain the purpose of Adel, except that she is Ultimecia's final host. Didn't she have some significance to Time Compression? Other script references would also be good, and then there's that final paragraph, which does a bit too much extrapolation. Ideally, though, it would wait until we meet our initial goal of getting every article to GA, but if we're going to use it as our example of an ideal plot summary, perhaps we should brush it up now. — Deckiller 15:26, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Nah, it's trimmed perfectly (it includes all the info it needs to), but we need to add more script refs. I'm thinking about including the old plot summary I had on FF4 before it was featured; it was like 3-4 paragraphs and 900 words. — Deckiller 23:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Looks good; I think it's about as tight as it's going to get. — Deckiller 01:48, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I think you could combine all those music articles into one really good GA article, like has been done over at Final Fantasy Wikiproject. Judgesurreal777 07:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

"My philosophy courses are urging me to engage you in a massive debate about our ability to know the truth at all." --Kizor 04:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I know! This one time in philosophy class, we were asked a series of factual questions and also how certain we could be about our answers. There was this one question that no one had any idea about. We had just learned about different methods for determining truth so I suggested that we take a vote on it and whatever we decided would become truth. Suffices to say it was hilarious. Axem Titanium 04:31, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

If that threw you for a loop, you should see my father's religion exams (Question 1: Explain your view on your personal faith. Question 2: Criticize your view on your personal faith.) Thanks for that - these disgressions in the midst of heated debate make it much easier to remember that you're not doing what you are out of malice. --Kizor 19:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Of course not malice. It's nevertheless good to be reminded of that when the debate gets emotional.
It could be that we need to puzzle out in detail how to make arguments effective online, or it could be that this asynchronous indirect medium just lacks the kind of connection that's needed for convincing others. Either way, very few. I was by mentality a holy warrior looking for a holy war to begin with, and I consider the potential effects of spoiler warnings that I'm now aware of insignificant, while the big names on the other side seem to scarcely even acknowledge the effect spoilers' removal has on the readership. Before you sink into despair, what the debate does do is convince the fence-sitters, the incoming people with no strong convictions for either side. --Kizor 20:45, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

I created List of locations in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (but, we're probably going to rename it to something like Mushroom Kingdom (Super Mario RPG) pretty soon, since it's a world article now, instead of a list). I need help expanding the Creatures and races section, but any help would be great! Do you think you could help? Thanks in advance! Taric25 17:18, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

It looks really good. Sorry I can't help too directly; I'm in the middle of a bad week at school. Lots of stuff going on. Off the top of my head, try to condense the actual locations into seven sections (one for each star) and make it prose. That'll go a long way. I like to concept/creation and reception sections. The metaphysics section seems kinda iffy but we can work on that later. Axem Titanium 21:55, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. Pretty much everyone has told me stuff along the lines of changing the list into prose, and I want to do that, however, before I do, I want to finish expanding it. Reason being, I find if I try to clean up and expand and continue discussions on the talk page, I get very little done. That's why if you look at the talk page, you'll see I haven't responded in a few days. User:TTN and I came to temporary agreement, since I have some time off from work, to give me until Thursday, as long as I didn't respond on the talk page. Although, I keep seeing responses on the talk page from that same user…

Anyway, thanks again, and I hope things go well for you at school! Taric25 23:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for helping to tidy up today. I came across Eyes on Me (song) which was a two-item disambiguation, at a point in time when Eyes On Me was an article, and moved the former to ...(disam). At that time it seemed a useful thing to do. I also added the other three disam items from the page history on Eyes On Me. It was a bit strong to leave "vacuosity" in the edit history which I found when returning to delete the page myself tonight under WP:CSD:G7. Anyway, it's gone now. Shame about the bad blood on the talk pages, but I agree that the content is stronger in context.

I trust that you are content with the additions I have made tonight at Music of FF8. Would you agree that it is germane to the article to add there that it increased Faye Wong's exposure in the West? Fayenatic london (talk) 23:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Your category on this page seems inaccurate!

Good, that's sorted out the image properly. How did you know about that parameter, please? It's not documented at Template:Infobox Single. - Fayenatic london (talk) 17:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi, just wondering with the offensive behaviour from Kappa, is there any action that we can do to prevent that? --Cyktsui 00:21, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't want to have him/her banned unless it gets out of control. In a way, he/she is not threatening anyone, just being very aggressive. However, I believe such behaviour is non-acceptable in Wikipedia at the same time, as we all hope to improve articles. Maybe we should just ignore him/her for now and see if that goes away. Warning has been given already, and I don't want to be too harsh like you have suggested. Thanks --Cyktsui 04:58, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

While I agree with what you're doing, be careful about the 3 revert rule. Don't get in trouble over it. If he puts the spoiler tag on again, why don't you try arbing it? If you do. let me know and I'll support.--Lepeu1999 18:45, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I was just wondering if you might like to comment on the FAC of an article I have writte, Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne, considering you have experience in game articles on the Final Fantasy series. thanks if you do find the time to help out. Any critiques are always welcome. --Paaerduag 07:19, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

It's all good. Hopefully, everyone can get back on track and focus on the main articles. — Deckiller 14:02, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I'm trying to get a discussion going on how to improve the Kingdom Hearts (series) article. I know your user page says you're on a wikibreak, but I was hoping that you could participate in the discussion on the talk page when you get back. I have a feeling that the clean up of the series article may take a while. (Guyinblack25 14:34, 20 June 2007 (UTC))

You might be interested in a discussion on Talk:Redemption (song) about the article's de-merging, since you had previously participated in a similar discussion on Eyes On Me's case. Kariteh 14:19, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

It already has been controversial, and will continue to be: User:Deckiller/Notability (fiction), discussed at the bottom of WT:FICT. The main issue is subarticle situations like Pokemon where there is a lot to summarize (400+ Pokemon) but little out-of-universe content available. — Deckiller 19:24, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

As a working model, I decided to trim anything else I could trim in the FF8 plot summary. However, I may have overdone it; care to take a look? — Deckiller 09:40, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back. As I'm sure you're already aware, Kingdom Hearts made it to FA. Just wanted to say thanks for the copy editing you provided for it. Also, I was hoping that you could do copy edits for Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts II. COM was just put up for FAC by someone, it's lacking in some content and I'm not sure how it will fair, but a good copy edit will improve its chances. KHII looks like it's on par with the first article. If you could do a copy edit I was planning on putting it up for FAC sometime soon. Also, in case you didn't know, KH is also up for featured topic. If one more of the game articles passes FA then the nomination should go through with ease. Once again, welcome back and happy editing. (Guyinblack25 00:32, 18 July 2007 (UTC))

Hello. I was wondering if I could ask for your help in settling an editing matter. One editor proposes character name changes since he/she don't seem to agree with the official english version and prefers what he/she deducts as the right translation. For instance: english publication says Rubel, Japanese phonetics say Ruvur. Said Editor prefers to spell it as Louvr. Debate is on going at: Claymore Discussion Thanks.-Mickey

I would like to work on the FFVII page sometime when I have a bit more time on my hands...The "Square's Preview Extra" disc was a very interesting find to come across on eBay last month. It includes the 1995 "Siggraph" works, or in other-words the "Final Fantasy VI: CGI Game." It's pretty cool to actually have a copy of that to mess around with on my PlayStation/PC. Aside from that, the disc contains what is supposedly the earliest playable version of FF7 (from very early 1996). You can play the game for about a couple hours or so, and while I don't understand a lot of Japanese, there are a few differences. The most striking is the fact that Aeris is a playable character in the beginning of the game...There were some debates about the reasoning behind this on some forums, but it was concluded that Aeris was originally supposed to be Cloud's "childhood friend" from Nebelheim who also happened to be an Ancient. However, later in the game's development (after this disc was published), the story was altered and Aeris was split into two characters- Aeris and Tifa. Aeris remained the Ancient while Tifa was the childhood friend from Nebelheim...Hopefully that makes sense...Anyway, I'll get around to putting some of this information up on the Wiki sometime in the near future! --Brahman 15:40, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps you could do the citation for me? I rarely do citations in that format (the format they are using on the FF7 page), so I've been having a little difficulty with it, but if you can do it without any difficulty, perhaps you could just go ahead and do them? I want to say that the approximate release date for the Square's Preview Extra disc was early-1996 (let's say around January 15 or so, although that's just an estimate). I also saw that they removed our talk about Aeris' presence in the demo, but that was mainly due to the fact that we don't know exactly why she was there- it could be because she was part of the main story at that time or it could also be because they stuck her in as a third party member (as they do in other demo's and beta's); thus, I guess we shouldn't worry about that. Anyway, as long as we can cite the main stuff, it should be fine and add a nice tidbit of information to the page! --Brahman 15:52, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

No, my Japanese-reading is very, very basic, so as far as to what I can "understand" from the demo- not much! I do have other screen-shots of the game, but none that show the in-game dialogue. I can run the game on my PC (via emulation) and take some more snaps of it when the characters are talking and see if we can get something out of it. Not sure when I'll do it (won't be today or anything), but when I do, I can upload them to someplace like "Photobucket" and you can take a look and let whoever can translate them have a shot at it. How does that sound? --Brahman 15:16, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that. Ashnard _Talk ^Contribs 08:38, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah it's nice. In about a week's time, I'll start work to try and get Path of radiance to GA. If that goes well, I'll then probably try and get The Sacred Stones to GA. Cheers. Ashnard _Talk ^Contribs 14:15, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		This Barnstar is for your countless efforts in maintaining the various articles related to the Kingdom Hearts series. You've helped with copy editing and have reverted numerous edits of vandalism and fan-related original research. Thanks to your contributions, a Kingdom Hearts featured topic is well underway. Guyinblack25 talk 14:52, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words, but you and Apostrophe have been keeping those pages tidy much longer than I have and y'all have done a great job copy editing the new content. I've learned a lot from working on those pages, KH was the first push for FA I've participated in. It was a great team effort on everyone's part, and I hope to continue the great work on other articles. Happy editing. (Guyinblack25 ^talk 18:02, 27 July 2007 (UTC))

Is there anywhere that this move has been discussed or consensus reached, like on the talk page? Carlossuarez46 03:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

OK, someone has already made the move. I just wanted to make sure, but it's moot now. Cheers, Carlossuarez46 03:59, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I give experienced editors slack, they know what they're doing (usually) and just coming into a scene cold and making life tougher on them is not a good use of anyone's time. Anyway, I'll take what you say to heart and your article is where you want it. Thanks for the advice. Carlossuarez46 04:12, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree it's an unlikely search term, but a couple of dozen articles depend on it to link to Fire Emblem, until those pointers are moved, it would be unwise to delete this redirect. In making the move, I re-did all the double redirects, but not all pointers. Carlossuarez46 19:57, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

There was another one, something like hack u.g. that may also have the same problem. I notifed the admin who deleted it and s/he may undelete it. Carlossuarez46 20:00, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

• has now been done: .hack//G.U. (video game series). Also the top of your talk page says you're on a long wikibreak, you may wish to update that. :-) Carlossuarez46 20:02, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

• I was just wondering, is there any harm in keeping these around? Just musing... Carlossuarez46 20:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)