User talk:Cmdr Marty

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CalicoJack
Ahoy! Regarding your edit on Calicojack- we usually don't blank pages on the YPPedia. If you have concerns about the article content, you can discuss them at Talk:Calicojack, but it's preferable to have something to work from on a page. Thanks for your interest, and fair winds! --Demonyaj 07:52, 26 May 2006 (PDT) }}

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Resizes
Just fyi, you can have the wiki change the size of images when you use them. There are various options. would do it. You can see more imagey options at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Images --Guppymomma 15:08, 22 August 2006 (PDT)

Filenames
One other little thingee related to images. For avatar filenames, we try to use Avatar-Artistname-filename.jpg/gif/png in case the artist has done more than one avatar (there are almost 6,000 images that've been uploaded to the wiki so far). There's also a nice tagging template to category the images so folks can see more of the avatars by that artist or for that player. Please see Avatar for details on that & more stuff 'bout our world domination organization scheme. --Guppymomma 09:18, 25 August 2006 (PDT)

When uploading avatars or fanart please user the account name of the artist, not the pirate name. For avatars, please put   in the summary field, so that others will be able to view that avatar in the appropriate categories. Thanks.--Fiddler 11:36, 29 September 2006 (PDT) }}

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Wedding Stories
And along with the image note, a big thanks for adding your lovely couple story to the couples page. I hope that immigration finally works out for you this go at it. --Guppymomma 09:18, 25 August 2006 (PDT)

Yakuza
FYI, Yakuza was permablocked from the wiki by the OMs. --Barrister 03:03, 12 October 2006 (PDT)
 * Ah, ok, didnt notice that, thanks. Didnt think the wiki needed people like that. Wasnt sure if people can get banned from here or suspended. Cheers :) --Minimoses 06:18, 12 October 2006 (PDT)

Kovy's Avatars
If you take a peek at his talk page and the history page of the Kovy, you'll see that he corrected the problem right after we left him a note about it. It's best to leave notes for specific people on their user pages rather on the pirate article's talk page, that way they get the orange notice box :). Beyond that, please do continue to help with fixin' pages.  Your efforts are appreciated. --Guppymomma 09:04, 13 October 2006 (PDT)
 * AH ok, thanks --Minimoses 05:06, 14 October 2006 (PDT)
 * The history tab is your friend :) --Guppymomma 10:34, 14 October 2006 (PDT)
 * The article has a history tab which records all the edits from the page creation to the edits that put it at its current state. The Kovy article's last edit long before you left that message showed the switch to the correct named image.  The upload log shows the user reuploading the images.  And image pages all show who has uploaded the original or successive new versions of the files.  All three of those locations showed the user name which would lead you to see their user talk page where there was already a note requesting the proper tagging.  --Guppymomma 08:56, 15 October 2006 (PDT)

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Portrait images
Ahoy! Just add when you upload a portrait image. No other text is necessary. Thanks! --Barrister 04:32, 19 October 2006 (PDT)

Deletions proposals
Hello. When proposing articles for deletion, please avoid using phrases such as "This pirate has achieved nothing noteworthy of a wiki page, even after cleanup" and instead state that the article lacks content. It may well be that the pirate has achieved many things but the YPPedia article does not illustrate them.

The YPPedia pirate page policy is -


 * "The YPPedia is an encyclopedic work. It is not a directory of pirates across the oceans. That said, any pirate may have a page about him or her. Pirate pages must meet the same basic criteria as all other pages. They must be encyclopedic. They must be written in the third person. They must be factual. They must use proper spelling and grammar. Pages that fail to meet these criteria may still be proposed for deletion and, after a suitable discussion period, may be deleted if the problems persist."

This means that any pirate article containing substantial well-written content is valid, irrespective of that pirate's position in a flag or crew. Thank you in advance. --Featherfin 13:40, 19 October 2006 (PDT)
 * In response to your query, I reverted your edits on the Barbosza pirate page because you deleted written content. By retaining the content the page qualifies for preservation rather than deletion which is always preferable in a resource such as the YPPedia when it comes to content. By all means tag pages with no content for deletion but try to avoid removing written lines to the extent that it reduces the article to a bullet-pointed list. It is within the pirate page policy for articles to contain biographies, please refer to YPPedia:Sample_pirate_page for an example.


 * Please do not use words like "scupper" when leaving messages on talk pages, as they could cause offense. --Featherfin 06:15, 20 October 2006 (PDT)

Note to Users
They go on the User talk pages, not the user pages as they don't get the little orange box for things on the user page. So you may want to move your message on User:Mariclare to her talk page. --Guppymomma 08:07, 20 October 2006 (PDT)
 * Oops, i booched that one. Thought i had. Sorry Momma :P --Minimoses 09:36, 20 October 2006 (PDT)

Redirecting Pages

 * Hi, I have taken a new pirate on Viridian, under the name Phantom. Is it possible to have a page redirection from Phantom (which doesnt exist) to Drake to keep everything together, or should a new pirate page be created ? - Thanks Cmdr Marty 04:23, 7 May 2007 (PDT)
 * The policy is that alts don't get pages to themselves, which would apply to redirects as well as normal pages. If the only thing you have to say about a pirate is "This is an alt of this other guy", then just mention him on your main pirate's page. :) --Ponytailguy 05:48, 7 May 2007 (PDT)
 * Thanks for getting back to me, no this person wont be an alt. I quit Hunter Ocean and created this new pirate and will be very much my new Main. I Originally had Evian before moving to Hunter when it opened, developed Drake, but now I have re-moved to Viridian as Phantom. I am conscious that I have 2 wiki pages for 2 full time mains (at the time of playing) and dont know whether a 3rd is acceptable, i just cant see a way of implementing it into Drake because its not the same pirate. Any Advice? Cmdr Marty 05:53, 7 May 2007 (PDT)
 * I don't see anything wrong with creating a new article for him, as long as there is enough content on it for it to be worth it. That is where it gets tricky.  For this specific case, I'd say to keep Phantom as a section on Drake for at least a few months, until a significant history can build up.  Unless, of course, you want to move all the global contributions, avatars, etc., to the new main pirate's page (since they seem to be user-based, I'd see putting them on the active pirate's article as reasonable).  In that case, there definitely would be enough for both of them to be their own articles.  -- Thefirstdude (t/c) 07:42, 7 May 2007 (PDT)
 * Thanks mate, what i might do is move all the stuff thats pretty much user based onto my actual user page, and clean up the Drake page to be more Pirate related. Then yea, after a while develop a new page for Phantom. I appreciate the quick feedback Cmdr marty 07:47, 7 May 2007 (PDT)
 * Sounds like a plan - good luck! -- Thefirstdude (t/c) 12:32, 7 May 2007 (PDT)

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Frequency
Five edits is not excessive. Please don't warn users with such a small number of contiguous edits because it's offputting. --Guppymomma 05:45, 10 May 2007 (PDT)
 * It's not cumulative edits. If it were, all regular editors would get the warning.  S/he made 5 edits each to two pages.  That is not unreasonable.  The guideline is to use some common sense and not scare away new editors.  Using it for the user who made 19 edits to a single article is okay.  --Guppymomma 05:51, 10 May 2007 (PDT)

Editing
Nope, there are no official teams. Folks just work on their own projects and sometimes collaborate with others as they choose. It's really not anyone's place to make assumptions about how much free time any individual unpaid volunteer editor has to make edits. Sometimes a tag is as much as they can have a moment to do. Sometimes, a tag can be considered as a chance to tutor new editors in whether or not their creations need improvement so they can practice better editing themselves. I don't know what you are talking about with "Is it only the bad stuff that gets noticed?" If you're editing the wiki in search of praise, you'd be better off putting your time into something else as accolades here can be pretty rare due to people being busy. Just a minor note, watch the over-capitalization and unnecessarily repeated links when you edit articles such as Desmagicus. --Guppymomma 09:31, 11 May 2007 (PDT)