User talk:Aristeo/2006-10

Edit Count

I am sorry to pester you with another site inconsistency, however, I really must. You see, for some reason, the recent edits I have been making are not registering in my edit count. In fact, my edit count remained at 948 despite the forty or so images I uploaded and the text additions/corrections I made over the last four hours. Might I inquire if the abovenoted number is consistently reported as such on your computer as well (that is, does my edit count in the Active Users page also read 948 for you)? Moreso, do you happen to have any explanation for why this might have occurred? I thought it might be a new script instituted herein that no longer registered image uploads as edits - as they formerly did - however, I discarded that when text-based edits failed to register as well. Your aid would, as always, be much appreciated.

On a separate, though perhaps related, tangent, might this have something to do with the puzzling scenario I ran through with the image uploads (which, now, has somehow resolved itself)? -- Booyah boy 17:52, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

Not that it answers your question, but if you look at your contributions it also does not show any of those uploads. I'm guessing it may have to do with the fact that wiki doesn't count the .jpg file itself in its edit count: only the creation of the related [[Image:]] file is counted as an edit. There are a variety of image-related problems that we're having right now; I'll try to start making sense of the source code to see if I can figure out what's going on. My first priority will be the problems we're having with how images display. Not that I can promise any results... and even if I can make sense of anything, it's still up to Daveh to actually fix the problem. --Nephele 20:34, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

User:Booyah boy != User:Booyah Boy --Aristeo 21:00, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

OK, that was just a typo (which I've fixed), but the page still doesn't show any of those uploads --Nephele 21:13, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

My bad, I thought you were looking for contributions with Booyah Boy. :P --Aristeo 21:16, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

I would have been a bit suspicious if I'd come up with a list with 0 contributions. Surely you give me more credit than that :P --Nephele 21:20, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

Booyah boy, those kind of problems should go to Daveh. He's the only one with that can access the coding for the site. --Aristeo 22:19, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

Fair enough, it's nothing big and I'm certain he has more important things to do (I assure you, I can live without a large edit count)! Thank you for looking into it anyways, guys, I do appreciate that. -- Booyah boy 03:20, 30 September 2006 (EDT)

Name Change

As an administrator you would most likely have access to this information: can the name of a user account on the UESP be changed? I have worked on numerous other websites (in varying capacities), however, this is the first wiki I have ever taken part in, and thus, am still relatively unfamiliar with the underlying structure of such and the inherent limitations said structure presents.

That being said, I took some time to look it over in Wikipedia, but met with mixed results, some members stating that it is possible, whilst others denied it. Moreso, I saw many members who simply began alternate accounts with their newly desired alias; thus, again, I ask if a change of username is possible? -- Booyah boy 02:27, 1 October 2006 (EDT)

A name change would require Daveh to install an extension to the software of the wiki called Renameuser. Wikipedia has this installed, as shown here, and has a team of bureaucrats (one step above administrator, which is what Daveh is) handling the renames. Wikipedia:Changing username is the process they use, if you haven't already seen it. --Aristeo 02:35, 1 October 2006 (EDT)

My thanks, that was precisely the information I was looking for. As I would like to change my username, would you recommend I present a proposal to have said extension integrated into the UESP on the Administrator's Noticeboard or upon Daveh's talk page? -- Booyah boy 03:25, 1 October 2006 (EDT)

I understand

No problem. Great source of information, its not like I am disrespecting the work or anything. Dylnuge 15:17, 4 October 2006 (EDT)

Copyright infringement notification

I rewrote this section Oblivion:Andragil due to copyright infringement (see p 223 of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Official Game Guide, under the heading "Block Training"). The text had some HTML markers in it, so it looks like it was a carryover from the old site. Please review for acceptability. Thanks! --Hoggwild5 15:03, 6 October 2006 (EDT)

Re: News

One of the cool things about the new Main Page is that everyone can edit and create news, and editors without administrative status can even edit news while it's being featured on the front page. Because of this and the "no attribution" policy that we have, I'm going to take the attributions off those news articles. Also, I wanted to let you know that I made some copy editing to the latest item you posted, and I want to make sure it looks good to you. :) --Aristeo 22:51, 10 October 2006 (EDT)

When trying to find how far back the previous story was I decided it would be useful to have dates, and because it looked a little odd to have only the date I put the author names back too. I forgot about news being freely editable now, so, yes, names is a bad idea. I still think some sort of date system could be handy, but I'm not sure how to style it. The revision looks fine. :) Garrett^Talk 01:11, 11 October 2006 (EDT)

Cleanup tag for Things to do when you're bored?

Aristeo, what exactly are you looking for in a cleanup Oblivion:Things To Do When You're Bored|here? I've already cleaned it up once and I can't find anything that stands out as against the style guide. I'm happy to do it once you let me know what needs doing. :) --Actreal 17:19, 15 October 2006 (EDT)

Just minor things. I'll give you a list of things that I feel should be improved:

• The page needs a more encyclopedic and professional tone.
• The text emphasis has been slightly overused in my opinion. I wrote some guidelines about text formatting and emphasis on the style guide that might be of use.
• Finally, there are a few incomplete sections and sections that might not be important enough for their own heading. You could merge some of these together into a "miscellaneous ideas" section and give a bullet for each idea, while increasing upon the sections that can be increased upon.

--Aristeo 17:44, 15 October 2006 (EDT)

Reverting changes

Before reverting changes, it would be helpful if you would check to see if another editor has already fixed up the changes. Several of your recent reverts have only served to delete useful content that I added to the page. If your edit comment says "deleting first person" check to see whether or not there's actually anything in first person left on the page. --Nephele 21:38, 17 October 2006 (EDT)

While monitoring the recent changes, I thought I was looking at the most recent change to the page. Apparently I wasn't. Thanks for pointing that mistake out to me. :) --Aristeo 21:44, 17 October 2006 (EDT)

Addendum: I made it so that the "You are editing an out-of-date version of this page" message is much more noticeable, and so that the "You are editing a protected page" message doesn't link to a red link. Hopefully this will prevent others from making my same mistake. Thanks again! --Aristeo 22:33, 17 October 2006 (EDT)

Re: Thinking Outside the Box

Just wondering: Why do you want the last sentence on the new news article outside the table? To me, it looks better inside the table, but that may just be personal preference. --Aristeo 17:35, 20 October 2006 (EDT)

Personal preference is the gist of it, yeah. I thought it looked better to not have the text longer than the images were tall. Of course I could have re-floated it to fix that... Garrett^Talk 04:49, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

Chat

Sorry about the chat, apparantly my IRC thing is going crazy. None of the clients are working. When I get back on, I guess we can talk some more. I'll think a bit more about the problem. --Ratwar 00:06, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

You could try our java chat client, or the one on the ChatSpike site, if necessary. --Aristeo 00:09, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

I've tried mIRC, Freddo's client, and your UESP client and none of them work, so I'm fresh out of ideas. It may be related to the outages some people experienced earlier. --Ratwar 00:13, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

talk page

hey i would like to thank you for helping me with my talk page. — Unsigned comment by Elderscrolls1122 (talk • contribs)

No problem! Let me know if you need anything else. :) --Aristeo 17:15, 24 October 2006 (EDT)

Hi again

I hope this is the right place, i just wanted to let you know that i fixed the stuff i thought was wrong in my guide. What do you think, did i miss anything? (i posted in my own talkpage first but i figured this is where i should let you know, lol, abit n00bish on this.. --Magnusri 21:52, 28 October 2006 (EDT)

It looks good! I'll make some adjustments to it later. --Aristeo 10:24, 30 October 2006 (EST)

Thank you! --129.241.107.161 12:24, 30 October 2006 (EST)

Master of Morrowind

well i just started to play Oblivion BUT i played morrowind like no other easly 10000 hours under my belt but i uderstand the games been out for a long time but if you guys need any thing let me know i think i have done ever quest and know were every item is. On another note i know alot about Oblivion i think i have done every quest a few times each. I will write what ever ya need. drop me a line at AVENGER-CDC@hotmail.com thats alost my MSN msg.

Neat! You may want to talk to DrPhoton, since he's the main guy working on the Morrowind section. --Aristeo 10:27, 30 October 2006 (EST)