User talk:Fiddler/Nov-May

E2 Event Pages
Thanks for protecting the template, that should help. Somebody seems to have fixed an error in it, as well, so go, go wiki people! Jacquilynne / Jasandrea

Are you saying that there were pictures there that I copied? Because if I did I feel really bad about that, as I was laboring under the assumption that I was adding new pictures, and the ones I couldn't see were blank placeholders or some such. If that is in fact the case, allow me to apologize profusely, and I will be more careful next time. --Lovelypen 13:01, 09 Nov 2005 (EST)

Aquamarie's forum account
Think I found it. This post was later quoted here, attributed to Aquamarie. --Thunderbird 00:17, 4 December 2005 (PST)

Grimes' Avatars
Thanks for letting me know about the Mediawiki issue.

Well anyway, I've gotten most of Grimes' avatars converted and/or hosted on the Wiki. However, I couldn't upload the avatars for Kissa, Horns, Joshuar, Zak, or Nivkski, since I don't know their forum names.--Zyborg22 15:06, 15 December 2005 (PST)

Ack
Wow, I didnt mean to hit that button. I didnt know what it did. Sorry! --Zava 14:12, 21 December 2005 (PST)

Familiar boxes
Perhaps you should create a template for the familiar box instead of having to custom-editing each one. --Barrister 15:15, 8 February 2006 (PST)

Preview and spam
I hope this is the right way to reply to you.

Yes, I discovered today that it floods recent changes. I even posted in the forums that it makes any tutorial that you put up for the tutorial event very obvious.

What is the proper way to work then? I come from the "Save early, save often" school, and I've had more than my share of browser deaths. I'm (mostly) past the point of needing to save just for saving -- I've got the basic structure outline filled, for example -- and I'm (trying to remember to) previewing before saving.

But I'm still saving after every section update. Is that a problem? --Behindcurtai 19:35, 1 March 2006 (PST)


 * Usually you keep the conversation on a given page... unless they're likely to miss it. Just add a semicolon before you start writing (add one for every level... so if you're replying to a reply, add two semicolons, and so on.) and remember to sign your stuff.


 * I hope you mean Colon, not Semi-colon --Behindcurtai 20:26, 1 March 2006 (PST)


 * And the "proper way to work", if that's your school, might be working in notepad, saving often in notepad, and copy-pasting into the editor then previewing to make sure it works. :) --Teeg 19:47, 1 March 2006 (PST)

Re: Protected Page
I was going to protect it myself if the problem poster edited it again. The real problem is his constant arguing on the talk page, my user page, his user page, and Sagacious' user page. --Fannon 09:56, 8 March 2006 (PST)

Pirate pages thingy
I'm guessing that was in response to the pages I left portraits on? I left them there as I was editing solely to turn the blurb into an actual sentence. As for the one I deleted the bullet point crew list from, if you take a look at the examples Atte gives, none of those pirates have former Senior officer positions listed in their contributions section. Had the pirate been captain, I would have kept them just as I kept the prince/lord points. So, I was kinda following that example. I think. Midterms are jumbling my brain bad. --Fannon 10:31, 8 March 2006 (PST)

Re: Formatting
I know that the links shouldn't be bold, but I really was unhappy with how the links looked. I wanted to try a way of making them look separated. I'll refrain from bolding links from now on, it just looked better to me :-) --Sagacious 09:13, 12 March 2006 (PST)
 * Thanks - Looks clearer now! --Sagacious 09:20, 12 March 2006 (PST)

Cloth
Found it. --Ruddigore 15:32, 6 April 2006 (PDT)

Pirate pages
I see you're doing some editing on various pirate pages. I'll take a break from bumping them while you do that. --Barrister 14:31, 11 April 2006 (PDT)

Familiar frameage
Where width 22% doesn't work, how does one set the width of the familiar frame? One would think percentages maintained ratio on various resolutions. I dislike the long portrait code, so working out how to get the familiar frame to size correctly would neaten things up. --Sagacious 18:25, 26 April 2006 (PDT)

Portrait infoboxes
Do you not like my simplified template-on-template infobox for pirate portraits? I just think it makes the code at the top look cleaner and easier to add to. I'm about to create an additional template for up to 8 oceans (Portraits2) as suggested here. Feedback welcome :-) --Sagacious (talk) 05:17, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * No, I don't. I think it's a poor substitute until we upgrade mediawiki and can create Infobox pirate with proper default values.--Fiddler 06:17, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * May I ask - what is poor about it? It does the job of adding the portrait image and the relevant gallery links - using less code. Just enquiring. --Sagacious (talk) 07:18, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Again, I'm a big fan of flexibility and modularity, neither of which can be used to describe your template.--Fiddler 07:22, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * To elaborate on what Fiddler said, smaller is rarely better in HTML/PHP/CSS/wiki. It's much, much easier to shrink code than it is to grow it later on. Elegant code is efficient, modular and short, but there's a lot of room between Elegant and Anorexic. --Ponytailguy 07:24, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * For pirate pages that will probably only ever contain the portrait image and gallery links - I think the template I created suits those pages. Others, like familiar owners, are currently better off using the previous code since I haven't found a workable code to slot the familiar box in whithout using 'width 22%'. --Sagacious (talk) 07:28, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * What about shoppe ownership? Governorships?  Big Freaking huge event runners?  Or winners?  Are you sure that none of the pirates you've used your template on will fit into those categories in the future?  Because while we only infobox islands designed, familiars won, and portrait galleries right now, there's nothing saying that we won't infobox these other categories in the future.  Or even come up with new categories that present themselves well semi-graphically.
 * Also, like I've told you before, "width=22%" only works on monitors set at whatever screen resolution you're using. And only if you're running the window maximized.  It is not a valid solution.  Keeping all the componenets of the infobox inside of one table is the only real way to ensure a consistent width.--Fiddler 07:47, 12 May 2006 (PDT)

Re:How does Rmarzarr....
Sadly I re-read the article just after I wrote that and noticed that. Shame you can't edit the change descriptions... --Sagacious (talk) 08:22, 14 May 2006 (PDT)

Re:Island name redirects
Thanks for clarifying for me; The redirect for Isle of Kent, though, I created because it showed a red link as an example in Yppedia:Redirect. Should the example be changed? Gail 16:01, 17 May 2006 (PDT)

Infobox or user gallery code for portrays?
Emufarmer changes it left (1), you change it right. As I'm new I don't know what's right. Though I prefer the infobox style. Karlimero 06:33, 18 May 2006 (PDT)