User talk:Nahallac Silverwinds/Archive 01

Gaming/MMORPG Discussions
Doesn't the Quest entry already in place deal with RPG quests? Why not just expand that article to explain it more fully? --Habap 23:11, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

REPLY: I don't know the proper way to reply to "User Talk" Comment yet, so I'll just do it here. I believe the gaming term "Quest" is a big enough concept with enough information out there to warrent its own article. I will continue working on it. I would like to break down the different types of quests, how they work, which games have what type of quests etc, and then talk about quest rewards (types) ..and I could go on. I know there is enough out there for it to have its own page. --Nahallac Silverwinds 21:55, 22 Jun 2005 (CST)

This is a good place to reply, since I made my comment here. Sounds good to me if you're able to expand it. --Habap 04:49, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

REPLY: Thanks :)--Nahallac Silverwinds

I see you've also got plans for an article on Gaming Factions. I'm thinking that you either mean guilds/clans or Online Gaming Organizations (multi-game guilds/clans). Perhaps it might make more sense to improve those articles (both need lots of work)? --Habap 15:35, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

REPLY: No, those are not what I'm talking about. Not player factions or guilds that don't like each other. I'm talking about NPC factions that are built into some MMORPGs. For Example, in EverQuest, Coldain (Dwarves) vs. Kromrif/Kromzek (Giants)in Velious, or Claws of Veeshawn vs Velious Dragons. The whole reason I plan to do the article is due to the explantion of some types of quests which use in-game faction that I plan to add to the Quest (Gaming) article. These types of quests often have you kill a lot of mobs from an opposing faction or run a lot of errands for them, in order to build up trust. You can change some factions from KoS to Allied if you perform enough quests for a particular one. Once you do these faction quests, the NPCs of the now friendly faction will often give you better quests which will yield in-game currency, armor or weapons. I don't know, maybe it just needs to be an extension of the EQ article, but the fact that things like this exist in other games makes me think not. --Nahallac Silverwinds
 * Ah, ok. Make sure to refer to Faction (Planescape). I know they had these in Morrowind also, though the Wikipedia entry doesn't mention it. --Habap 17:20, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

REPLY: Thanks for those links! While I've played several MMOs and read about/studied dozens more, the game I'm most familar with (which I'm sure everyone knows by now b/c its the one I keep referencing), is EQ. So I'm hoping that after I get the Faction (Gaming) article started and fill in everything I know and have learned about my games, that others will add info on games I am less familiar with --Nahallac Silverwinds

Everquest Wikibook

the work on the EQ wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/EverQuest) is progressing slowly but steadily. Nahallac, please have a look and see if you can contribute - WMP ;). /em mutters You will not evade me Nahallac - --Kajolus 11:14, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Ferret picture.
Please read up at Image tutorial and provide copyright information for the image you just uploaded. Also, images that aren't used in articles are likely to be deleted. Please add it to a relevant page. - Mgm|(talk) 19:12, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

REPLY: I *just* now uplodated it, might want to give me a minute or two to place it in the article I'm working on before sending this type of message :P --Nahallac Silverwinds REPLY 2: Ok, I've now taken care of that stuff, thanks for your patience! :) --Nahallac Silverwinds

Deletions
Usually VFD discussions take 5 days after which an administrator may delete the article if there's a consensus. "May" is the key word here. The old VFD discussions are terribly backlogged, a thing administrators are quite aware off, but this is a voluntary project and closing those things is quite a tedious job - especially when the decision is to merge. Eventually someone will get around to it, but don't expect them to take immediate action. If you think the article in question was overlooked (when it's no longer listed on VFD old) let me know the article name and I'll do some hunting. - Mgm|(talk) June 28, 2005 07:18 (UTC)

REPLY: Thanks MacGyver! Thats just what I wanted to know :) I appreciate your time, Nahallac Silverwinds June 28, 2005 12:04 (UTC)

Re: Graphics
No problem! Glad i could help =) Debroglie 4 July 2005 10:05 (UTC)

VfD on Innate bisexuality
Actually, I think that one's fairly safe at this point. The original VfD was based on the original text (check the article history), which was a dump of what looked like someone's essay, probably a school project or thesis. It was rather hopeless as an encyclopedic entry, so I tried to preseve its spirit, but totally re-wrote it after reading (far too much) Freud and commentary on the topic from various net sources. The article as it stands has recieved a number of keep votes, and I think it will survive. Right now, my concerns are more around The Poppykettle Papers and Schmidlin.

Thanks again for you interest, and good luck with your EverQuest edits! -Harmil 7 July 2005 03:27 (UTC)

Augustan drama links
Thanks for the attention to Augustan drama. It's an article that I continue to hammer on every day, so it's a bit like the Heraklitian river. At any rate, the general practice on links is to link a term upon its first occurrence, but not any subsequent occurrence. I mess that up all the time, as most folks will. Most of the links you added to the article were absolutely spot-on, needed, and very helpful, but a few were terms that I believe had been linked earlier. I didn't know if that was oversight or just a mistake, so, as you're still somewhat new to the project, I thought I'd first thank you for the help and then just make sure you knew why some things had previously been unlinked.

In general, the links in the article were messed up by its having been clipped from a much, much longer article (Augustan literature). When I wrote Augustan literature, I had had a full length discussion of poetry, prose, and drama. The result was an article over 90 Kb long. We then cut out each of the sections to a new article (Augustan poetry, Augustan prose, and Augustan drama) and made their parts of Augustan literature a summary. Therefore, many terms had originally been very late in the article and therefore had been previously linked (when it was part of Augustan literature), and I have missed linking them in my edits. Thus, please feel free to link any other terms you see that need it, as I'm very likely to have missed them. Thanks again. Geogre 03:06, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Castlevania box art images
Thanks! I've edited the Castlevania: Symphony of the Night article in a similar fashion, and will probably end up doing the same for the original Castlevania, although I suspect it'll be harder to find some of the images there, given the obscurity of the some of the ports. Thanks for all your work on the Castlevania articles, BTW: there (somewhat surprisingly) doesn't seem to be a great deal of interest, and a lot of the pages need a fair amount of work. – Seancdaug 04:40, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Come help!
I know you posted in the thread where this template was discussed, but i'm posting it in everyone that voted. cheers, Jacoplane 08:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Hot Shots Golf (series)
Just posted a reply to your request for peer review. Since you just posted a message today saying u're checking in, maybe you didn't add it to your watchlist, so I thought i'd give you a heads up :) Jacoplane 18:07, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh its on my watch list. Heh, I just posted today because it had been over a week since I made the requst and no one else had done any editing to the article, nor had they made any comments :P Thanks for your comments on the discussion page, I'm going to try to incorporate all your suggestions :) --Naha|(talk) 20:44, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * So anyway, what's with all the patriotic sentiments on your userpage? I mean, I'd rather be shot than be seen promoting my (dutch) flag on my page. what gives? Jacoplane 00:04, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I modeled my user page after User:MacGyverMagic's page, because I thought it kicked some serious butt. Apparently he feels differently about displaying the Dutch flag than you.... While I don't always agree with some of the things my country's government does, I love the Unitied States and consider myself very fortunate to live here. I've done some extensive traveling (at least for someone my age, I think) and while I love visiting other places, I'm always happy to be back home. And my state, Texas, kicks some serious butt too, hence its flag displayment. I'm sorry you dissaprove. --Naha|(talk) 00:16, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't dissaprove at all. It's just that I find it difficult to have nationalistic sentiments. So I find it interesting when someone does, and I want to understand those sentiments. Then again, I have lived in a lot of different places, so I guess it's understandable. Anyway, I think the US is the greatest place on earth, and I think it's easy for the world to criticize, but you're clearly the most benign superpower the world has ever seen. Even though your govt policies do seem a bit shortsighted sometimes. Anyway, I didn't mean to offend you, I hope that;s clear. Jacoplane 20:15, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Ahh I see where you are coming from, I appolgize for the misunderstanding! :P Thanks for your continued help on Hot Shots Golf too :) --Naha|(talk) 20:37, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * So I split off the Hot Shots Golf Fore!.... what do you think? Jacoplane 20:49, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me :) --Naha|(talk) 14:45, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight
As a member of WikiProject Comics, I thought you might be interested in the Comics Collaboration of the Fortnight we have set up. Please feel free to vote on the articles listed, although bear in mind that a vote for a particular article means you are pledging to help improve the article. The goal of the collaboration is to improve articles to Featured Article status, as we feel Comics is under-represented in that area. Thanks for your help. Steve block talk 15:50, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Your user page needs less Image:Cowbell2.gif
You have the image Image:Cowbell2.gif on your user page; this image is copyrighted and used in the Will Ferrell article under Fair use. The use on your user page of that image is unlikely to be covered by use however, and as such is probably a Copyright violation. Could you remove the image from your user page? Thanks. --fvw *  23:34, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Not too sure about this, but I removed it anyway, for the time being. --Naha|(talk) 05:12, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * What aren't you too sure about? If you can give a fair use rationale you're free to keep it, but I certainly don't see one. --fvw *  05:14, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not too sure about this either. I cannot see any reason's why this cannot be used under fair use. I agree that we should make an effort to keep wikipedia as legal as possible, but we shouldn't become obsessed with copyright compliance. I think a consensus in wikipedia feels current copyright laws are somewhat extreme, and some pressure should be exerted on the government to enable more innovation in this space. It's not like wikipedia would ever get sued because someone's history had an animated gif.. I think Naha should keep the picture, I'll add a fair use rationale tomorrow if it's really necessary. Jacoplane 22:29, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe the image was not being misused, plain and simple. Unfortunatly I don't have the luxary of time right now (hence my recent absence from Wikipedia) to build a defense for my use of the image in question (especially because I don't think one is warranted in this case).  Thanks Jacoplane :)  --Naha|(talk) 01:56, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Foolkiller
Thanks for your contribution to the article on the Foolkiller, probably one of the coolest comic book characters ever. If you go to the discussion page for that article, you'll notice that it's currently a featured article candidate. Please feel free to help the Foolkiller make it. Mr. ATOZ 01:40, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

MMORPG list resources
Thanks for adding the extra resources. Good to see you're contributing again, welcome back! Jacoplane 07:40, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, good to be back! Glad to see you are still here :) --Naha|(talk) 13:29, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem, its a very well done article. I can't think of anything off the top of my head right now but I will be sure to let you know if I do think of something :) --Naha|(talk) 17:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Merit badge types (BSA)
Thank you very much for helping fix my FAC. It was very kind. Do you have other suggestions? Rlevse 17:39, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem, its a very well done article. I can't think of anything off the top of my head right now but I will be sure to let you know if I do think of something :)--Naha|(talk) 17:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * PS: Glad you like the article. Were you a Boy/Girl Scout?  Could you vote to support it or would that violate some Wiki policy since you helped fix it? Rlevse 17:45, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes I was a girl scout briefly when I was younger, but I also have many friends and family members who are/have been BSA members. A former boyfriend and an Uncle of mine are both Eagle Scouts too so its kind of interesting to me.  I just voted as well :) --Naha|(talk) 17:47, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * THANKS! BTW, I had a double major in Psych and German. My son and I are both Eagle Scouts.Rlevse 17:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I put in a ref for the Hunting MB, but it doesn't talk about it much. If you find a better one, go ahead and change it. Thanks again. Rlevse 21:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Naha|(talk) 21:26, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Check out the MB collecting section now and let me know what you think. I added a "care" para.Rlevse 22:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Much much better! I'm wondering if (1) the title of that section should simply be "Collecting" and (2) If the "badge care" info needs to be sourced to avoid the citation police from tagging it, lol. --Naha|(talk) 22:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * if they want cites for the badge care, I'll tell them my own School of Hard Knocks!Rlevse 22:16, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * hahaha --Naha|(talk) 22:18, 29 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Take a look at Merit badge types (BSA)/temp and let me know what you think. The guy who suggested it talks about it on the article talk page in the Writing Style thread. Rlevse 22:32, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thats pretty good looking too, I could go either way really. If you think its better, go for it!--Naha|(talk) 22:37, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, all the comments are confusing at times and one of my main gripes with the FAC process is you can't please everyone. Maybe there should be a board of Subject Mattter Experts (SME) for each topic that do this. I'm not sure of the best route right now either. Rebelguys2, whom I really like, says he'll do the major copy edit soon for me (he's better at it than I). He, you, and JohnDBuell have been the biggest helps on the FAC process. Rlevse 00:06, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * We'll get there :) --Naha|(talk) 00:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. Rebelguys2 says he'll soon do the rename and copyedit. The only objections left are the name and focus, which his copyedit should take care of. Notice we got another vote today too. I'll let you know about goings on in the Scouting area that I find out about. I may try to get Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America) to FA after this one's over; and Rebelguys2 wants to do a Scouting WikiCollaboration. Rlevse 19:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Playground and userboxes
Hey, looks good. I'm also glad you like the userbox layout I (eventually) came up with: I spent a good day or two fiddling around with it, and it felt like it took me forever before I finally came up with something I was happy with. – Seancdaug 04:59, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Xbox
Images policy states "some fair use of copyrighted material is however allowed in limited circumstances." These galleries of fair use screenshots are abusive in my opinion and are copyright infringement as they are not used in an article about the specific game. Anyway, I'm bowing out of this and leaving it to the WikiProject Computer and video games to sort out. -Regards Nv8200p talk 19:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the information and help! We'll see what we can do about it. --Naha|(talk) 20:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Re Image:Hrw-equal.png
Hi, that particular image was deleted because it was copyrighted and uploaded under a fair use claim, but not used in any articles. That is one of the critereas for speedy deletion as we only allow copyrighted material as a "last resort" to ilustrate articles, that is why it was not on IFD. Things matching scertain criterea can be deleted "on sight" without any "red tape". All deletions, as well as undeletions, uploads, page protections, blocks and so forth are recorded on Special:Log so go there and paste in the name of the page in question (in the title box) to find out who deleted it, and what reason was given and so on. You can also punch in a username to see all logged actions by that user as well as filter by type of action. Hope that answer your questions. --Sherool (talk) 00:28, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
Hey, thanks for the barnstar. It was written with a bit of humour, based on the insanity of over-sourced artilces I've worked on. Ronabop 10:55, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Well still
My mistake. But I still don't see people should be allowed to run with that few of edits. And he's been with us since October. Not like he just joined. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 18:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I completely agree with you! I just wanted to make sure you knew what the real "rule" was :) --Naha|(talk) 18:54, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

user against scientology has been speedily deleted
I have requested undeletion at WP:DRV. Regardless of whether or not this template has any merit it should be undeleted until the tfd has run it's course. Your vote at the tfd counts for nothing if the speedy deletion stands.--God of War 06:11, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Moby games links
I notice that you've been removing a lot of Moby games external links - those are sort of a de facto standard of WP:CVG, which is why we have a specialized template. If you don't like them, you need to bring it up with the Wikiproject and reach consensus first. --Pagrashtak 23:43, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I see you're already involved in the discussion. --Pagrashtak 23:53, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Anon vandalism
I would except that he reverted part of his own vandalism like and user page he edited. Also, the anon userpage shows it's a shared IP and unless someone is actually editing it serves no purpose to block it. I can't block shared IPs for too long. Feel free to ask again if I can block during a vandalism spree itself.- Mgm|(talk) 09:25, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Follow me boys
That was fast,I just made the article within the last two hours. You must have a watch set on my user page or something. Thanks for keeping in touch. Rlevse 16:34, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I like your help. Rlevse 16:40, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Yesteray I made the article Undisputed (film) and somehow edited it one minute after my initial saves! (I save often when creating articles). I think they found it so fast through one of the actor's article that had a pre-made link. Rlevse 16:45, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * lol --Naha|(talk) 16:46, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the image tip. I found one for Undisputed (film) where you suggested. Rlevse 16:57, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Scouting article improvement
User:Gadget850 has started User talk:Gadget850/BSA article improvements as a step toward improving the BSA section of Wikipedia. Please visit this page and participate if you are interested or cross yourself out of the "Interested Wikipedians" if you are not interested. Thank you. Rlevse 18:21, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll be happy to help out in any way I can! --Naha|(talk) 19:11, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Pls look at User_talk:Gadget850/BSA_article_improvements. I made a vote section as I was inspired by your portal proposal. Before you did that, I didn't even know Wiki had portals. Rlevse 16:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Naha, you mentioned at Randy's talk page "there are A LOT of World Scouting articles that seem, incorrectly, BSA-centric that we will have to work on. And there are A LOT of Scouting articles that need a lot of restructuring, formatting and basically an all-around over-haul because their quality is so poor." As I'm one of the more active (virulent?) contributors to those articles, let me address these concerns and ask for your help.


 * 1) BSAcentrism? Can you give some examples (aside from where I have tagged individual countries where BSA and GSUSA units overseas are, note Jergen has added where other countries also have similar deployments)? My hope is as these stubs mature, they will be taken over by local Scouts and given their own particular "flavor".


 * 2) poor quality-I know a lot of the newer articles are stubs to seed articles that will be added to later, but please point out where they are poor. Most of these I wrote from memory and need a fresh eye on. I hate to think they come off written by a retarded orangutan, as so many on the 'pedia do, but rather by someone who loves the subject and has a transplant to worry about and a wedding to plan and is suffering from winter.


 * 3) restructuring and formatting-this I know is a failing, on some of the postSoviet articles-again, I wrote from what I knew, and trusted that others would help out and add. Please do when you see such, and let me know how I can improve.

I hope that on each of these issues, I am not the sole perpetrator, none of these have been my intent. Chris 23:46, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * ps-there are several of my Eurasian articles that have been marked for cleanup. I myself am too close to the subject to see what they're wanting, but I want to make them better articles. Can you help me on that? Chris 18:56, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * sure, no problem. By the way, about the stuff mentioned above, I came across 2 or 3 articles a few days ago that I think might have been what I was talking about, and I checked the history on them, and you hadn't edited any of them, so don't worry about that part of it.  We just need to make every article we come across as professional as possible ..which will take a lot of time heh :)--Naha|(talk) 21:33, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Scout templates
The only scout stub I know of is "scout-stub". If you find others, let me know where they are and I'll see what I can do. How did you get the handle Nahallac Silverwinds anyway? Rlevse 11:08, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks, I'll see if I can find the ones I'm talking about and collect them so we can have them in one place. Nahallac Silverwinds is my EverQuest persona. I played the EQ MMORPG for about 4 years and Nahallac, often shorted to "Naha" by my friends who played the game, was my main character, a "Wood Elf, Druid." When I first came to Wikipedia it was to work on EverQuest/Gaming related articles so I thought the name was appropriate here =) Since then my wiki-interests have greatly spread hehe.  --Naha|(talk) 15:37, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Please adopt your state
Naha, my sister does Everquest! (and my Wife has many things in common with you) I have now completed the transition from state list to articles on Scouting in each state, as per Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scouting/RulesStandards, for merger and improvement of articles. Please help fill in some blanks at Scouting in Texas! Thanks, YiS, Chris 09:32, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Cool! I'll look at the Texas Scouting stuff as soon as I get a chance :) --Naha|(talk) 17:55, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Category war
Naha:Please see Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_January_27 and comment on the two listing on Scouting categories. Rlevse 13:07, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know, I commented/voted on each. --Naha|(talk) 17:55, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. You should move your "minor help" on merit badges and rename it to the current History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) and note it made FA. Rlevse 22:22, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, will do! --Naha|(talk) 22:24, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

User:Nahallac Silverwinds/images
Hi, please turn this gallery (or at least all the fair use images on it) into a list of links instead or something like that as soon as possible. Wikipedia policy doesn't allow fair use images to be displayed in userspace (see Fair use), and acording to this report you have 41 of them on that page. I'm working pretty much at random off that list, so don't feel singled out if others on the list with more images have not yet been notified. Eventualy I'll get around to them all (though hopefully I'm not the only one working on it). Thanks in advance. --Sherool (talk) 01:56, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for the heads up. --Naha|(talk) 03:05, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Controversies page
Take a look at my 15:02 post at Talk:Controversies about the Boy Scouts of America. I thought you'd get a kick out of it. I usually only loosely watch that page as there are too many people complaining about BSA on it and the article will forever be in a shambles, but I couldn't resist this one-;) Rlevse 15:03, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hahahahaha! Yeah, I was wondering about that. I can't stand when people don't sign their comments, I don't know who the heck I'm talking to! --Naha|(talk) 15:06, 4 February 2006 (UTC)