User talk:Alfwyn/Archive/2

Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors was disbanded and is completely different than Running With Scissors. --Guppymomma 13:38, 10 February 2008 (PST)

Article modified by you
You modified my article without reading the information under the greeter 'logo', you also removed the text which said that I'm a greeter - that is sabotage, not helpful editing.


 * I'm afraid I agree with user:Alfwyn. The image selected on mikael is of a trophy designated for original greeters before the Release 2006-10-17.  Using it to represent greetership other than its original purpose dilutes and takes away from something that was "earned" by original greeters. -- Haywoodx(t/c) 04:18, 13 February 2008 (PST)

Black Star
I see the deletion proposals for the two Black Star pages, but I can't follow your reasoning. Could you explain to me again what the issue with them is, and what you are proposing be done? Thanks. --Fannon 11:25, 15 February 2008 (PST)
 * I think my main source of confusion was that I could not see why the two pages were proposed for deletion in the first place. I didn't realize you weren't the one to add the proposal, so I'll poke that person instead. :) --Fannon 13:58, 15 February 2008 (PST)

PNG
It's not something you can do. Once a jpg is created and saved, the image quality is already reduced due to the compression. Resaving it as a PNG will not fix it. We just have to hope he will take another screenshot and save it as PNG. --Guppymomma 16:22, 15 February 2008 (PST)

Synergy (Hunter pirate)
Ahoy. Was there a special reason not to name the page 'Synergy (pirate)' ? I'm not sure if I should bother to rename it, but want to decide before I upload a portrait. --Alfwyn 12:02, 17 February 2008 (PST)


 * Probably because there are pirates of the same name on other oceans, like http://viridian.puzzlepirates.com/yoweb/pirate.wm?target=Synergy -- Vorky 13:23, 17 February 2008 (PST)


 * Aye. But then we would probably be better off to fully disambiguate every article. So far I tried to keep the disambiguation suffix minimal and ignored pirates/crew/flags that don't have a YYPedia page and didn't look important enough to me to create a page myself. Well, not that important anyway, I guess the current title will do too. --Alfwyn 13:31, 17 February 2008 (PST)

player vs. pirate
i have seen several other pirate pages include information about the player them self. i think this is a good idea, as it gives you more insight into who the pirate actually is as a person. now, if i really need to move it, i will, but only if every other pirate page with player information is forced to do the same. Obit1 10:07, 20 February 2008 (PST)

Uses for a chest
Possible uses are giving several pirates access to the chest (room mates, stall managers ...) or keeping oneself from losing all the money on poker. Please use the Tips & Tricks forum for non-wiki related questions in the future. Fair winds --Alfwyn 10:51, 21 February 2008 (PST)  Thanks, for the answer. I was also asking if the uses of the chest should be put on the page, but I guess that wouldn't be appropriate. --Barrge 13:23, 23 February 2008 (PST)

Skellie Footer template
The skellie footer template doesn't hold the category. Template:Activity list does, and is not protected. The skellie templates were originally protected due to scribbling and the fact that they rarely require modification of any sort. IMO, the activity list should remain in the skellie footer template, categories may need to be redone a bit though. --Thunderbird 20:47, 23 February 2008 (PST)

Needed Trinket Images
Hoy there! I just wanted to extend my personal thanks for doing so much work in finishing off my needed trinket images page. I started that last year after Valentine's Day trying to get all our missing trinkets and it has just fallen on the wayside as my free time has gone down. I greatly appreciate your finishing off all the images for me. Thanks! 16:06, 28 February 2008 (PST)

Tertiary Trinkets
I had done some thinking and planning for the three color trinkets but got pulled into work overtime and so I sat on it. What I really was missing was the .png color charts which have now been at least partially set up. My thought was to do a similar thing to my trinkets that was done to my pets to add tertiary for the elephant. I think I have it but I hit an internet lag and only got it partially implemented befor guppy caught me in the act. >.< It has stabalized and I was thinking or trying again. I think I found the missing piece. What needs to happen is that tertiary needs to be the 5th parm to make sure that none of the current usages of the templates involved are broken. It should require a change to my_trinkets and colorized_trinket to account for the extra field. So it must come after the description or "text" variable. --Kgarrett1969 11:14, 5 March 2008 (PST)


 * Well, if we use the 4th parameter for the tertiary color (it's the text in the 2 color case), we can check if a 5th paramater is set and use that as text, if that is not set it is a 2 color case and we use the 4th paramater as text. This sounds very complicated now, but has actually a very nice and short implementation: {{{text|{{{5|{{{4|}}}}}}}} (i.e. Try the variable 'text' first, if not set try 5th variable, if not set try 4th variable, if not set use blank text). You can see at my sandbox that it actually works too. --Alfwyn 11:20, 5 March 2008 (PST)


 * I'll check when I get home. I made another attempt and failed but it is because I had braces in the wrong place. >.<  I think I have the code that would update the templates but use it as the 5th parm.  That way it is consitent usage without haveing to try and figure our what fields are being relabled as they go through the templates.  I really think it is best to leave the text field as the 4th parm just because so many pages already have it set up that way. I'll be back at this in about 3 hours or so if your on then.


 * Well, the way I have done it the 4th paramater would still be the text when no 5th parameter is given - that is pages using the existing 2 color trinket code wouldn't need to be changed at all. --Alfwyn 11:33, 5 March 2008 (PST)
 * What about single color trinkets? We don't want to have to adjust any pages.  The other thing to keep in mind is maintainability.  The Wiki is a volunteer supported site.  Clever coding is great but we don't know who will be around to support it and make changes when necessary.  You and I may very well know how it works but we can't garauntee that we will be around in a year and we don't want to make the next editor have to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how and why the 4th parameter is not the 4th parameter it is better to be consistent and not redefine parameter so when someone sees that the 4th position is text that doesn't change anywhere. --Kgarrett1969 04:36, 6 March 2008 (PST)
 * Single color trinkets don't need to be changed too. I even tested that case in my sandbox (OM doll). As for maintainability, I think it is more important that the use of the template is easy, than the implementation of changes to the template. --Alfwyn 04:53, 6 March 2008 (PST)
 * My change worked and is not implemented we can post a discussion on the My Trinkets talk page and get feedback from other editors and administrators for the pros and cons of using a field redefinition as you propose and not messing with the existing order of the fields that I propose. In the end the change that I made was minimal and only required the addition of the tertiary field on the end of the template field list. --Kgarrett1969 05:00, 6 March 2008 (PST)