User talk:Metardis/Archive 7

Archive
Please do not remove ArchCat from your talk page. Other users most have an easy link to your archives. 17:26: Wed 09 Nov 2011

Not a spelling mistake
Thanks for trying to help out, but it's not engine. It's Engin, a character in The Deadly Assassin.

On a completely unrelated note, could you please read our signature policy and abide by it on all occasions? Your signature must contain a clickable link to your user page and your user talk page. You may find help:signatures of assistance if you don't know how to make that happen. Thanks. 15:05: Mon 14 Nov 2011 .

Stop!
Please stop over linking everything. You only need to link once per heading. For example, on the River Song page in her biography section the Eleventh Doctor should be linked too once. Amy Pond should be linked too once.

Also do not link to The Doctor when the link should go to a specific Doctor. Thanks. MM/ Want to talk? 15:05, December 8, 2011 (UTC) 19:58: Tue 20 Dec 2011

Adminship
Your best bet is to ask User:Tangerineduel and/or raise your voice here, at Tardis:User rights nominations.

As an admin you must know out policies, have a good edit count and knowledge of Doctor Who. I am glad you are interested but I personally would say no. I'm sorry, but your edit count is low and you have made several mistake as regards to policies.

However, if you still interested, please raise your voice at the pages above. MM/ Want to talk? 14:10, December 26, 2011 (UTC)

reply
No - you should only archive your talk page after it reaches a certain length (around 20 topics) - there should be no reason for you to archive after every conversation. So just go and ask him.

Also, yes you do - under the correct heading (I can't remember which on but it should be obvious - I have not been on the page in a while). MM/ Want to talk? 14:31, December 26, 2011 (UTC)

Admin request
Hi, I would firstly reiterate and agree with everything that MM has said in his response to your request and also in the previous talk messages left regarding over linking.

After quickly looking through your most recent edits I don't think you're ready to become an admin at this time, as I've had a quick look through your edit history and there are several things, as MM has noted that do not conform to our policies and that are general mistakes.

I thought I'd just note a few things I found on my brief look through your edit history:
 * you may be looking for K9 Mark ll.
 * I'm just puzzled by your addition of this (which if it were placed would just need to be You may be looking for K9 Mark II ), but it shouldn't need to be there at all, people are most likely to find their way to K9, K9 Mark II rightly has a disambig note at the top to K9 Mark 2 but this article doesn't need a disambig note.


 * The Hush, your edit was The Hush was a weapon built to destroy anything that made sound. (NSA: Dead Air)
 * Unless the text states it was a weapon that destroyed anything that made a "sonic", it should be linked to sound not sonic.


 * Your edits to Hypnosound and Eastern Zone is in against our Tardis:Manual of Style regarding the Doctor, specifically T:DOCTORS.


 * Incendiary bomb, fire shouldn't be capitalised.


 * DWMSE 10, your edition of "Doctor" to the infobox? Template:Infobox Magazine has 9 fields, none of them specify which Doctor is on the cover, as frequently DWM and other magazines don't feature a Doctor on the cover.
 * DWM 78. You added wikilinks to DWM DWM links to our prefix, while in this context it's actually talking about the DWM Archives and therefore doesn't need to be wikified. To a lesser extent this also applies to TARDIS Log, they're both names within the magazine rather than referring to in-universe or otherwise stuff.

Thanks, any questions please feel free to ask. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:16, December 26, 2011 (UTC)

Brackets / Sourcing in real world articles
Hi, I just undid your edit on Colin Prockter, adding the brackets/sourcing to a real world article is not needed because you're not citing a source, you're stating information, so how the article was (and how it is now) is correct because it's presenting information. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:00, December 26, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, could you re-phrase that (or point me to the article you've edited) as I'm not sure what you're talking about. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:11, December 26, 2011 (UTC)

Rollback nomination
I've removed your nomination, and indeed the whole section. The removal isn't directed at your nomination, it is something I've been addressing over the last couple of days and missed the nomination page. See also Tardis talk:User rights. You can utilise a similar action to the rollback function by using the "Undo" function. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:11, December 29, 2011 (UTC)

Reply/Visual editor
Given your statements on the Forum:Can we disable visual editor please? I'm a little perplexed why you're using the visual editor. --Tangerineduel / talk 16:07, December 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * I didn't really ask a question...You didn't bother not using the visual editor? Or didn't bother about something else? --Tangerineduel / talk 16:20, December 29, 2011 (UTC)

Signatures
Please see help:signatures. 21:11: Thu 29 Dec 2011
 * I don't understand your question. Help:signatures contains a complete guide of how to create a "template call" signature.  Follow the instructions there and you'll be able to create such a sig.  It doesn't, however, tell you what kind of signature to make -- that is, what content should make up your signature -- but it does tell you completely how to create the basic "shell" into which you can dump your content.
 * If you want advice on how to create the content of your signature, my advice would be to go to the forums at w:c:community and look at some other people's signatures, to see how basic wiki formatting works. Then create an original riff on that.  21:51: Thu 29 Dec 2011
 * Are you sure you've examined the code? It's not hard to figure out, really.  Just search for the word "background".  The command is , where xxxxxx is a hexidecimal color code.  I urge you to consult basic CSS tutorial pages  for instruction on how to create tables, which is all that a signature really is.  Google is your friend. 19:33: Fri 30 Dec 2011

Locking main page
Wikia do not recommend locking the front page. If you have a specific concern about the main page, please describe it in detail. I thank you for trying to monitor problems with the wiki, but it's hard to know what's going wrong if you phrase your alerts in the form of yes/no questions. Details, please. 20:19: Sat 31 Dec 2011

User talk vandalism
Please don't offer false signatures a person's talk page or in any discussion area on the wiki. This is vandalism, as implied by T:UVAN. I'm not sure why it would have interested you to identify an unsigned post on my personal talk page in the first place. But you could have at least identified the correct correspondent. That message was not left by a numerical IP address, but user:Angel Bill. Please note, too, that if you are going to use unsigned for IP addresses, you should take the time to identify the specific IP address involved. It's not at all helpful to just say it came from a "numerical IP address". In short, the point of unsigned is to correctly identify the poster — not to just technically satisfy the requirement to have a signature on each post.

So that's the wiki policy.

Beyond that, I have a personal request of you. Please do not alter 'my talk page in this way ever again. I do not want users signing for other users on my talk page. Either the sig is there, in which case I will respond, or the sig is not there, in which case I won't. 13:10: Wed 04 Jan 2012

Please be specific
As the wiki's technical administrator, I have a special responsibility to make sure that things are working. There are a ton of things I'm doing on a daily basis to coax the site into working and looking better. Therefore, I need problems reported to me in a specific and economical way. I can't act on anything you're saying — "the main page needs locking", "this thing in the bottom right is blanked" — unless I know: I'm very happy to help diagnose and fix problems, but I need more than what you've been giving me. Please try to describe problems with more detail in the future. Thanks :) 15:12: Thu 05 Jan 2012
 * 1) What part of a page is specifically worrying you
 * 2) What behavior it's exhibiting
 * 3) Whether it's happening on multiple reloads of a page
 * 4) Whether you've cleared your cache between reloads

Coloring on my talk page
No idea what you're talking about. Perhaps if you took a screenshot of my page I'd be able to diagnose. To me, my page looks no different than any other page. Not sure what your sig particularly has to do with it. Are you saying the color of your signature renders differently on my page. If so, please say so. As I've mentioned before, it's important for you to speak as precisely as possible when submitting a bug report. I don't even know where to begin with yours. Contrary to what you said, you are very far from stating the obvious. 21:37: Mon 09 Jan 2012
 * Just taking a cursory look at your signature, however, I must ask you to please follow the standard procedure at Help:Signatures. You are dumping way too much code onto pages.  Not only does this cause your signature to take up a great deal of vertical space, but it also makes it easy to "screw up" your template.  All that needs to happen to mess it up, along with any page on which it appears, is to clip one of the span tags on your signature.  It's far better to make a personal, user-namespace-based template our of your signature, and then to place only a template call on a page.  Again, instructions are at help:signatures.
 * That's a matter of compliance with standard procedure.
 * As a matter of personal opinion, however, can I just say that I find it incredibly difficult to read your signature. I'm not saying that you have to change it.  Maybe you mean for it to be difficult to read.  But you might want to consider balancing the "cool" green-and-yellow scarfy design against the need to actually read the damn thing.
 * To sum up, you do have comply with the instructions at help:signatures. You can't be dumping that much code everywhere.  You don't have to change how it looks on the page — but it would be nice to be able to easily read it.  21:50: Mon 09 Jan 2012 (Note how little code this sig leaves behind)
 * Thanks for the screenshot. At no point has my page ever looked like that to me.  But I think I see a part of your problem.  Your screenshot appears to have been taken from Internet Explorer.  This site is in no way guaranteed to work for IE.  We don't support that browser.  It does massively unpredictable things.  I strongly suggest you switch to Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or really anything but IE.  In this case, IE is reacting very badly to unclosed span tags.
 * See, the reason it's doing that on my page, and no other, is because you've posted several different signatures to my page, and one of them had an improperly closed span tag, which is affecting things beneath it. In Safari and Firefox, I don't get the full on green lines that you screenshot from IE, but I do get different shades of green/and blue.  The only reason this is happening is because you've got an unclosed gold segment, followed by an unclosed green segment, further up the page.  These unclosed colors are desperately looking for closure, but they can't find it.  So they're mixing with the colors beneath it to result in colors that aren't standard red, green, gold and blue.  The error, if you're interested, is at user talk:CzechOut.  There, you've interrupted your own signature to type the words "Oh.  It isn't", which means that the time portion of the first comment never gets closed.
 * This is an absolutely textbook case of why it's better to use what are called "template signatures" at Help:Signatures.
 * I strongly suggest that you switch to the "template sig" approach. You're still dumping rather a lot of raw code every time your signature appears.  I mean, it's better now cause you've reduced it, but it's still a bit "span-happy" for raw inclusion into a talk page.  Edit this page in source and look at what my code leaves behind.  There's a tiny bit of code to style the time stamp, but basically it's just user:CzechOut/Sig. As the instructions say, you need to put all your code onto a page called User:Metardis/autosig. Then, you create another page called user:Metardis/sig on which the only content is user:Metardis/autosig.  Then, in your Special:Preferences, at the custom signature line, put user:Metardis/sig. This will insulate your signature from damage — like the self-inflicted damage you caused at user talk:CzechOut.  (The other cool thing about the approach is that it allows you to have different signatures on each wiki. My sig at w:c:community differs from the one here, for instance.)
 * Now that you've reduced some of the bulk of the earlier green/yellow version, I suppose I can say that the "template sig" is optional. But you really should consider it.  It does give you much more freedom of design, with much less chance of bad interaction problems on a page. 15:16: Tue 10 Jan 2012

Stop creating categories
Please stop creating categories. See Category:Stub templates for a list of the templates that already have categories as part of their structure. To use them simply put so for instance for Template:Drink stub you'd type. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:23, January 13, 2012 (UTC)

Harper
As always, I must ask you to please explain precisely what you mean. I see nothing weird about the current revision of Graeme Harper. 15:25: Fri 13 Jan 2012

Archive note
An intervening note has been archived at User talk:Metardis/Archive 4. 21:55: Sat 14 Jan 2012
 * Please note that you are in violation of tardis:archiving policy for having created /Archive 4 in the manner you did. To quote, "Archiving as a means of "sweeping under the rug" a contentious discussion is strictly forbidden."  This is clearly what you did, and user:Mini-mitch warned you against such a practice a few threads back on this very page at .  Please don't do it again.  22:02: Sat 14 Jan 2012

Capitalisation
After reviewing your recent addition, vortex code, I was a little concerned that you may need a brush-up on the standard rules of English language capitalisation. I urge you to read this short overview. Clearly, words like planet and universe would not be capitalised in ordinary usage. One of the things that's difficult on this site is assessing when something is a proper noun (which would be capitalised) and when it's a common noun (which wouldn't). All I can advise is that you assume nouns are common, unless the text proves differently. With comics, you almost never have definitive proof that something is a proper noun, because they tend to be lettered in all caps. Thus, you should generally assume what you're seeing is a common noun, unless it's obviously a name of a place, person or extra-terrestrial, sentient species. Also, please remember that all sentences should begin with a capital letter. (If you're wondering why I'm saying all this, please compare your last revision at vortex code with my last one.) 21:55: Sat 14 Jan 2012

Monobook cover?
Whatcha mean by "Monobook cover"? 13:22: Mon 16 Jan 2012
 * If you have never used Monobook, it's probably not advisable for you to be using it now. It's undergoing extensive modification at present, and it may bother you to see it change its look/functionality without warning.  Put another way, it's available on an "as is" basis only, which means that I will not field any tech help questions about it.  It does technically "work", however, and some of our older members still use it on a daily basis. 14:00: Mon 16 Jan 2012

Unsigned anon
Hi, I'll refer above to CzechOut's comment about unsigned posts. Also, unless you're actually going to fill in the unsigned anon with the correct info, it's not all that useful. See the Template:Unsigned-anon page for information on how it's used. Or Template:Unsigned as would be the case with user:HumanRejection's talk page as you can see looking at the history for that user's user page there were only 2 contributors to the page prior to your addition of the unisgned anon template. I'm a little unsure why you decided at all. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:02, January 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * Why??
 * HumanRejection is the one who didn't sign their a message on their own talk page, it's a very minor issue...I'm just very confused as to why you would bother messing around with their talk page.
 * I've fixed it for you anyway.
 * When using templates be sure of how they function, as on HumanRejection's talk page there were about 5 individual edits made by you. In future mess around on the Tardis:Sandbox so you're sure about how these things function. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:22, January 17, 2012 (UTC)

Images
Please be aware of the T:IUP & T:ICC, for photos/screenshots use JPG, not PNG. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:04, January 19, 2012 (UTC)

Could you tell me...etc
While CzechOut is otherwise indisposed try checking out w:Admin Central:Main Page, which may be able to assist you. --Tangerineduel / talk 13:27, January 20, 2012 (UTC)

Main images
When posting an image in the main info boxes, please remove the "|thumb|" section from the image layout. OS25 (talk to me, baby.) 19:07, January 20, 2012 (UTC)

Stubs
Please do not add the category Category:Stubs to pages, use the template appropriate to the article. The templates already have the category within them. When you add the stub template it adds the category automatically, so you don't need to. Thanks. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:41, January 26, 2012 (UTC)

Archiving
Stop archiving one or two conversations. You cannot just archive one or two conversations. You should archive all of your talk page if you want to archive it. The minimum amount of different conversations you should have before archiving is 20. You should never just archive conversations that you do not like - as you have do with the image conversation from me and the stubs/Game of Rassilon conversation. I am sick to death of having to tell you this. Please do not do this again. MM/ Want to talk? 15:04, February 5, 2012 (UTC)

Redlinks
I'm confused. Are you saying you've never seen redlinks until today? 17:46: Wed 08 Feb 2012