User talk:Brains12/Archive 5

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Contents 1 Thanks for the help Brains! 2 Delete 3 Thanks 4 Sandbox revert 5 Minikitty 6 Mercy again :( 7 sig 8 Spree 9 archiving 10 Today's update 11 Sorry :o( 12 Why? 13 GWW:SIGN 14 It's one of those days 15 Stress-o-meter 16 GW2W How To Help 17 Could You Be A Doll..... 18 Userpage 19 image 20 LAG 21 Is there a reason? 22 Lol :) 23 Happy Vday! 24 Guild:Vampiric Shadow 25 Hello! 26 CVU 27 Thanks 28 so i herd 29 Vandalism 30 Goodness 31 Changed 32 Redirects? 33 [2] 34 User talk:212.142.143.116 - Block Log For User:212.142.143.116 Gibberbot 35 Oddities 36 Editing 37 Check This Out 38 Steelblade machete 39 Help 40 delete 41 Anja's message thingie 42 Unapropiate pagename 43 Guild Wars Wiki talk:Projects/User birthdays

Thanks for the help Brains!

Thanks alot now i partially get the wiki >,,> still need to figure some things out but thanks alot! -- Ninja Dragon • Talk • 23:44, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, you seem to understand a lot of it :). But if you want to use the assassin icon in your signature, you need to reupload it as your own image, with a name like "User Ninja Dragon sig.jpg". Thanks, Calor (t) 23:46, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Lol sorry but can you tell me how to do that I had a hell of a time just finding the image..... When i found it it was in a discussion page and i can't re-find it... or know how to re upload it....... Nevermind I figured it out ^.^-- Ninja Dragon • Talk • Image:User Ninja DragonSig.png 01:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC) I fixed it again-- Ninja Dragon • Talk • 01:59, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Delete

Brains can you please delete this image [1] I accedently uploaded and gave it a title and description...... -- Ninja Dragon • Talk • 01:47, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Deleted. -- Brains12 • Talk • 15:15, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Bold textAAH thank you for your help Brains --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:82.47.74.16 (talk).

No problem -- Brains12 • Talk • 00:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Sandbox revert

I saw that and laughed a little. Nice catch on that revision. --People of Antioch talk 21:59, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Hehe :) --Brains12 talk 22:01, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

why not leave the template 100 times? makes people think about it again ;) - Y0_ich_halt 22:08, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Minikitty

Err, Brains, can I get a little help at user talk:Minikitty? Check the edit history and/or RC also. Calor (t) 23:34, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm viewing the situation atm. I thought it best to leave it until tomorrow/later when Minikitty calms down. --Brains12 talk 23:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Eh, not to be offensive, but the term bipolar comes to mind. Mad, apologetic, frenzied. All in about five minutes. And it probably is best to step back and take a look in twelve, eighteen hours. Calor (t) 23:37, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Okay, last thing I said there, we're back to apologetic. Though Minikitty blanked the page again... X( --People of Antioch talk 23:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for, err, calming the user down (?), at least for the short term. And I noticed. There have been about three blankings, which will no doubt start another ordeal tomorrow on America's day of standstill, SuperBowl Sunday. Glad I'm skipping church. Calor (t) 23:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

PoA, I suggest you just leave his talk page alone for now, he's either looking for more attention, or needs a time out. --Brains12 talk 23:43, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Aye, you've done as much as anyone can with the touchy situation. And going by the perplexing brother sister comments, and the username, I believe he is a she. Calor (t) 23:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I'll stay out for now, though I gave her a sandbox to play with. I thought it might help. --People of Antioch talk 23:47, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Apparently it has. Nobody post a note about the likely imminent RC flooding. Calor (t) 23:47, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Just doing what I can to help. She wanted to experiment, so I gave it to her instead of taking the other route of revoking (or suggesting to) her editing powers. --People of Antioch talk 23:49, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Mercy again :(

Hey Elby rly sry for not being on GW but my PC got a big problem and i probably wont be able to be on until next Tuesday or Wednesday. Sry :(

OK, no problem, thanks for telling me. I'll go online in a while. --Brains12 talk 12:54, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

sig

how many times are you gonna change around your sig? o.o - Y0_ich_halt 18:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Lol, sorry, couldn't find one I liked. Might stay with this one for a while though -- Brains12 \ Talk \ Contribs 18:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

i think this one is a bit long... visually, not in code. maybe if you leave out your contribs it would look nice. ^^ - Y0_ich_halt 18:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Now? :) -- Brains12 \ Talk 18:44, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Good. Is the image redirecting to contribs? Calor (t) 19:23, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Not currently, but I think I'll leave it redirecting to userpage (not really bothered about showing contribs or not) -- Brains12 \ Talk 20:43, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Eh, do it how you want. Back to extracting, identifying, and RC flooding... Calor (t) 20:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

looks nice now ;) - Y0_ich_halt 22:16, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Looks good, have you tried using a | instead of a \ as it might look better. You could also use <small> tags for the talk link maybe. --Kakarot 23:17, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I like the sort of slant the slash gives, so I might keep that, but trying the | instead: (and, also, it'll be getting a bit too close to Poke's :P) -- Brains12 | Talk 23:19, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

!!!!! poke | talk 12:01, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Haha, don't worry poke, won't be having the |  :P-- Brains12 \ Talk 16:10, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Spree

Holy shit. Got Delete button? I'm done RC watching for a while ;) Calor (t) 21:54, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Lol, sorry, all the speedies are done now :P (blame the render project) -- Brains12 \ Talk 21:55, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem :). I know it's necessary, except I was...amazed, to say the least when I went to RC and saw that. Calor 01:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh, don't worry. There's more to come. The renders have been uploaded, we've just not gotten 'round to implementing them yet. Backsword 22:14, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

archiving

why didn't u archive ur whole page so i could welcome u? :( --Cursed Angel 18:02, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Because some topics are still active or so people can still see responses they haven't already. And I'd rather archive by month instead of archiving everything at once - helps with going back over them in future :)-- Brains12 \ Talk 18:04, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I think it's just to avoid a welcome from Eloc. Or more likely, me ;) Calor 01:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Today's update

Monitor the talk page. Apparently you're a.. ahh, I forget the term Riven on his little proxy used. But you may want to ban that IP and protect the talk page from everyone but Sysops. Calor (t) 21:57, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

protecting that talk page won't do much and should only really be used as a last resort. --Lemming 21:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) I've blocked the proxy, but I don't plan on protecting a talk page. -- Brains12 \ Talk 21:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Eh, I wouldn't ant to have to protect it either, but if it continues... Nothing but bitching at each other is being accomplished there, no game-related talk whatsoever. Calor (t) 22:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I wonder if you're gonna bother blocking all of the err, millions, of public proxy's available. Good luck with that. --Riven 208.113.249.125 22:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

/fail --Riven 209.236.224.202 22:15, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

/fail --Riven 198.77.13.115 22:17, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

/fail --Riven 38.100.42.25 22:19, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

/fail --Riven 67.159.44.96 22:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, probably we are going to do that, as long as you keep using them. - anja 22:23, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Cool. I'll stop trolling your userpage now, just wanted to let you know how retarded it is to block a proxy IP, lol. If I want to post something, I can. Anytime. End of story. --Riven 67.159.46.12 22:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Until they start to realize blocking proxies might be a good idea. It's apparently pretty simple to do. --71.229.204.25 22:27, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Riven, that is a good way to tell us the open proxy IPs! :) So we don't have to go through those huge lists. poke | talk 22:29, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

You know, with this and Raptors case i have to wonder... Why doesn't the sanction increases on these ocasions? Users that bypass their blocks know that they should not, so... Shouldn't some way of "discourage" this kind of activity be raised?--Fighterdoken 22:30, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I wish there was. The only option I could think of would be preventing any form of IP edit by semi-protecting every page, but that obviously wouldn't go over too well with 99% of people, and I'm not keen on it. Calor (t) 22:44, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

@poke: You do realize lots of people use these proxies to post from work, school, et cetera? If anything, by blocking the proxies I was using, you have shut out innocent people trying to post :) --Riven 208.53.157.22 22:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Too bad, so sad. They should have been working or learning instead of posting here. --71.229.204.25 22:51, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh sorry, Riven. I used sarcasm. poke | talk 23:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh sorry, poke. Apparently, you too are a shitcunt. --Riven 67.159.50.90 23:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Riven, what are you gaining from going around on a proxy IP calling names like a ten year old on the playground? Some sort of inner satisfaction that you managed to call someone a shitcunt? I don't know why I would be proud of doing that..but then again, I'm not you. Either way, please stop, as nobody gains anything from your harassing. Calor (t) 23:59, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

I would appreciate it if this topic closed. -- Brains12 \ Talk 00:00, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll tell you, Calor. It's really simple: I hate people that continuously show their retardedness. Like how today's incident started. Personally, I have absolutely no problem with calling stupid people that don't wanna seem to learn names. So I will. :-)

Oh and Brains12, I'm assuming this is a permanent ban? It doesn't really tell me the lenght of the block. --Riven 67.159.54.26 00:19, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Block lengths are listed in the block log. (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 00:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I hate to butt in as I try to avoid confrontation, but Brains did ask for the discussion to be closed. It seems to me that Brains thinks that this has gotten out of hand as do I. Please respect Brains wishes and end the discussion (i.e. Riven). --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg

Come again? --Riven 208.53.157.11 00:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, in less professional terms, shut-up about it because Brains doesnt want anyone to talk about it anymore. --Shadowphoenix 00:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, 'cos I didn't understand you the first time. Retard. --Riven 208.53.138.228 00:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Well luckly I put it in lamens terms for u because ur to dumb to understand it --Shadowphoenix 00:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, luckily I put it in layman's terms for you because you're too dumb to understand it.

Jesus Christ, at least make it hard for him. --71.229.204.25 00:50, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Shadowphoenix, stop. Riven's been told to stop, Brains has asked for it, I want it, and no you're being told to stop. Just let the conversation end instead of continuing it by insulting each other. Calor (t) 00:52, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Omg...see u try to be nice and help someone out then it comes back and bites u in the butt (see im professional) . I get just a tad defensive when I get mad, brains should know lol --Shadowphoenix 00:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

And still, people haven't learned to just shrug off his comments. Way to make a mountain out of a molehill. -Auron 10:18, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Now who is adding flame to the fire? I'm confused..... --Shadowphoenix 22:09, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

You! --Riven 66.90.103.37 22:35, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry :o(

I am so sorry about out confrontation last month. Now that I have gotten to understand the wiki better I see where I was doing wrong. I just wanted to tell u to feel free to leave me messages on my talk page or anything u like. After having to deal with RC spam myself I kinda started to realize what the big deal was. Once agian I am truely sorry --Shadowphoenix 06:27, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

What matters most is not whether someone made a mistake, but whether they learned from it. Obviously, you have. :) (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 10:12, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Shadowphoenix, I hope we are on better terms now. -- Brains12 \ Talk 15:58, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

We are don't worry :o) --Shadowphoenix 17:04, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Why?

Why does the messege about my page that was moved to a subpage of my guild keep coming up as a new messege?--Sum Mesmer Guy 15:13, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmm I don't know the answer to that, sorry. I haven't heard of this problem before. Are you sure the New Message is coming for your subpage, or whether it's for your talk page? You might get more answers at HELP:WIKI. -- Brains12 \ Talk 22:04, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

GWW:SIGN

Always give a reason while reverting please. Speaking of which, what was the reason? — ク Eloc 貢 22:53, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

You don't change the context of a policy without proposing it first (sorry, I thought that was clear). It was left out of the draft for a reason (I'm guessing so it doesn't force anyone with a shortened/easily recognisable verion of a signature to register an account), which you can probably find on the talk page of the draft version. As for the change, it's probably not needed as a policy doesn't have to include something for it to be allowed. -- Brains12 \ Talk 22:56, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

(double edit conflict) Guild Wars Wiki:Policy#Changing existing policies - It was a draft, and it was accepted. If there is something left out, you cannot simply readd it again. poke | talk 23:00, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Guild_Wars_Wiki_talk:Sign_your_comments/Archive1#Signature, Guild_Wars_Wiki_talk:Sign_your_comments#Proposal, Guild_Wars_Wiki_talk:Sign_your_comments/Archive2#Sig._Short — As you can see, it has been discussed several times before and has passed everytime. Looking through all of the conversations, I have no found one topic which ended in the conclusion of the removal of it. — ク Eloc 貢 23:04, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

And the draft was still without that section and accepted. poke | talk 23:07, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

The draft. — Galil 23:08, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Something passing previously doesn't indicate it being necessary to be passed now. As I said, it was probably omitted on purpose for a reason, which I'm sure is written on the talk page of the draft version. If you want that clause to be there, just post something on GWWT:SIGN asking it to be put back. -- Brains12 \ Talk 23:10, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Added proposal, part 3 — ク Eloc 貢 23:13, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

It's one of those days

Not uncommon, but man, was this a long one. I think a total of 82 changes, according to Microsoft Word. --People of Antioch talk 05:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Heh, good job :P -- Brains12 \ Talk 11:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I can almost see you, looking at the delete tags, cracking your knuckles, and saying some catchy one-liner like "Okay, let's get to work." (flurry of re uploads and deletions go!) --People of Antioch talk 15:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Lol, just like the movies :) -- Brains12 \ Talk 16:30, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

By the way, have you checked the Admin Notice boards? I've left a message about a returning vandal. --People of Antioch talk 16:33, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Stress-o-meter

Just to let you know, your stress-o-meter on your main page as well as this talk page seems to be centering itself putting the bar and text outside the box. At the moment the only solution I have found is to add <div style="text-align:left"> and </div> on either side of the Status inclusion. While this does fix the problem it might not be the most effective solution since you'd have to do it to each page you want it on. However another solution I just thought of would be to add the above code onto the actual Status page but I can't be sure it would work since I'd have to save it to check. --Kakarot 15:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah I saw there were a few problems with it when I put it up yesterday, but it was getting late and I was tired so I left it thinking I would fix it today. To be honest, I'd rather remove it, it's nothing critical. Thanks for letting me know btw -- Brains12 \ Talk 15:19, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

GW2W How To Help

Hey Brains I was wondering if I would go in violation of the Copyright policy if I copied the How To Help Section into GW2W. I wasn't sure, and on that note would it be relvent because the game isn't out yet? I am just trying to put in some links for my new welcome thing for GW2W but we don have any :P lol. I was just wondering. --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg

As GWW and GW2W follow the same copyright license, you could theoretically copy things between the two wikis. Just make sure you put a link to the original article in the edit summary. Btw, there is a how to help already on GW2W - gw2:Guild Wars 2 Wiki:How to help. -- Brains12 \ Talk 17:58, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

That is odd I tried to get that page today for GW2W but it didn't show up. So I thought that it didn't exist. Well, Thanks anyway --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg 23:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Could You Be A Doll.....

and delete This, This, and last but not least This. Thanks --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Heart1.jpg 14:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Already done :) -- Brains12 \ Talk 14:58, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Heart1.jpg 14:59, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Could you also delete This --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Heart1.jpg 15:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Userpage

While I had seen your userpage when you left a note on my page saying that you credited me, I just took another look and after considerable thinking, opinion polls, paper-signing, glancing and consideration; I have to say it looks awesome. Thumbs up! :D — Galil 22:58, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Haha thanks, Galil, although I think your's still looks better (and seeing as it's an original, thumbs up to you :P). Most, if not all, was inspired heavily by your page and gw2:User:Elenya, so kudos to you guys. -- Brains12 \ Talk 23:00, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

What design isn't inspired by something else? Every artist/designer/pillowfighter needs inspiration. ;) — Galil 23:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

(Okay, maybe not a pillowfighter, but you get the point...) — Galil 23:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Random ftw :) -- Brains12 \ Talk 23:41, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

On another note, if you want to get rid of that horizontal scrolling, set the width of the div covering the image to 520px (for the white border and safe-keeping in case of odd browsers) instead of 900px. :P — Galil 23:43, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Lol I was wondering why there was that scrolling... *kills self* as Anja would say -- Brains12 \ Talk 23:45, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

xD - anja 17:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

(Reset indent) To keep the suggestions and opinions going, I just have to say that (IMHO) that blue is too... dunno, too blue? Also, looking at the code on top of this talk page it seems that it was intentional of you to have your "box" on the right side of the TOC, but I would suggest moving it above the TOC instead (still centered though). If you don't have a big enough browser window it doesn't look too good as it is (not that I don't have high enough resolution, I just don't see the point of full screen browser windows in 1600x1200). :P — Galil 18:42, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I think I'll change that colour, I'm not really liking it either. And how about limiting the width of the TOC, would that look ok? I didn't really want it below the box because the page gets too lengthy. -- Brains12 \ Talk 18:45, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) It might, though have a look at Guild Wars Wiki:User page/1024x768 and keep in mind 1024x768 is the most common resolution today. I myself have a larger window (about 100 pixels less width than Guild Wars Wiki:User page/1280x1024), though. But yeah, limiting the width would work. :) — Galil 18:54, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Apparently I'm not mormal :( 1440 x 900 here. Calor 18:56, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Anything below 1280x960 looks pixly on my monitor. 21" ftw! :P (Why the hell do I always get edit conflicts on Brain's talk page? >.>) — Galil 18:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

image

is this just a temp bug or is that image on your userpage really no image here on gww? it doesn't link anywhere for me, i.e. i don't even get the typical link cursor. how'd you do it? - Y0_ich_halt 17:00, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

It's part of the coding - I don't really understand how it works, but the div style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 520px; height:375px;" is what makes that happen. Took the code from Galil, so you're better off asking him. Btw, that doesn't work for IE (pfft) -- Brains12 \ Talk 17:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

lol@ie. and now that you mention it, i know what you mean :) - Y0_ich_halt 17:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Basically, it works by creating a div with non-specified background (thus transparent), with the size of the image (520x375 is slightly bigger, but includes positioning and stuff) and at the location of the image, but since it's created and positioned after the image is, it covers the image itself and thus it also covers the link. The reason you need a div surrounding both the image and this one with style="position: relative;" is cause elements with absolute positioning (such as the transparent div) gets their position relative to the closest parent whose position isn't static (default go-with-the-flow positioning), and setting a div's position to relative doesn't screw up it's position one bit unless you add coordinates with left, top, bottom or right. ;) — Galil 02:29, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Ahora en ingles, por favor. Now in English please. For those of us that get out and see sunlight every now and then ;) You're great with coding though, Galil. Calor 02:40, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. ;) I'll try to describe in (even more newbish terms). When you create a <div> without any style-attribute specified, it automatically gets some styles set anyway (since if it didn't have a style, it wouldn't have a position, or width, or height, or .. you get the point). One of these CSS-properties (CSS = Cascading Style Sheets, that's what you use in the style-attribute) is position, which tells the browser how to position the element in question, in this case our div. The position-property takes 4 different values.

• static: The default. The automatic positioning the browsers do.
• absolute: Let's the writer of the CSS give the element absolute coordinates using the left-, top-, bottom- or right-properties.
• relative: Uses the same properties as absolute, but tells the browser they contain relative coordinates instead. For example, a top of 2px would move the element 2 pixels down, and a top of -2px would move it 2 pixels up.
• fixed: Those coordinate-properties are relative to the window's left/top/right/bottom instead of the document's and the element remains in that position even if you scroll.

Now, no elements that have a position of static can be considered containing blocks, as in: No element will ever have their coordinates relative to them. Any element with another position however becomes a containing block, and any element defined inside such a block with position set to absolute will have those coordinates relative to this element's coordinates instead of the document's. So what does it mean in practise? I'll take an example line by line, with the background image of my userpage.

<div style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100px; height: 100px;"></div>
<div style="position: relative;">
[[Image:User Galil page-background.jpg]]
<div style="position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 900px; height: 515px;"></div>
</div>

The first line of this creates a div with it's position set to absolute, meaning absolute positions. This element's containing block is the document, since it isn't defined inside another element with a non-static position. As such, this row would create a div at the top left corner of the document, with a width and height set to 100 pixels, even if you put it at the very end of your document.

After that, we create another div which has it's position set to relative. Seeing as elements with relative positioning always have their coordinates relative from their own position, and we haven't given the element any coordinates, it will always remain in the exact same spot it would've ended up in if it was a static element. The difference from a static element though, is that this is now a containing block and any absolutely positioned elements inside this one will have their coordinates relative to this element instead of the document.

If you don't know what the third line does, GTFO. >:(

The fourth line is where the magic happens. As you may see, this absolutely positioned element is defined inside the relatively positioned div. As such, the relatively positioned div is its containing block. Since we've set both its top and left coordinates to 0px (nothing, niet, nada, null, etc) this element's top left corner will end up in the top left corner of the relatively positioned div (which is also where the image happens to be), with a width and height of 900x515 pixels (the exact same size as my background-image!). Since this element is rendered after the image however (since it appears after the image in the document), it is placed on top of the image, essentially covering it and its link.

The fifth line just ends the definition of the relatively positioned div.

Does that explain it in more english and less spanish? ;) — Galil 03:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

What's the third line do? You didn't explain that one, something about Image: blah blah — Rappy 03:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Galil Mr. Genius. Entiendo. The third line is the actual image, Rappy. Calor 03:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I think Rappy made a joke :P -- Brains12 \ Talk 14:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

LAG

We used to be in it, but left after finding out it was communist =[. --Warwick (Talk) (Contr.) 00:39, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Lol in what way was it Communist? (don't really pay attention to alliance chat) -- Brains12 \ Talk 14:51, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Is there a reason?

For some raeson unbeknown to me everytime there is a messege on my talk page it is from you. Are you stalking me, or are you some kind of guardian angel?--Sum Mesmer Guy 16:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I prefer the guardian angel thing :). It's just a coincidence that it happens to be me - by the looks of it, we are both online at relatively the same times, and as I patrol Special:Recentchanges most of the time, I just happen to see some of your edits. As to my last comment, I watch the bureaucrat pages so any edits come up for me. -- Brains12 \ Talk 16:46, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Lol :)

1. (Block log); 15:15 . . Brains12 (Talk | contribs | block) (unblocked User:Brains12: rofl wrong person :/)
2. (Block log); 15:14 . . Brains12 (Talk | contribs | block) (blocked "User:Brains12" with an expiry time of 1 day: vandalism)

arf :) --Lemming 15:17, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I feel so stupid :P -- Brains12 \ Talk 15:17, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

lol :D --Cursed Angel 15:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Brilliant. Just beautiful, Brains. --Calor from school illegaly, 209.80.184.4 18:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

NICE! XD brains vandalized! mwahaha, worth a post. - Y0_ich_halt 18:57, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Pwned. — ク Eloc 貢 23:03, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh my.....did u really vandalize lol --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Heart1.jpg 23:31, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

No, I was about to block someone else for vandalism but click on my name instead :/ -- Brains12 \ Talk 11:18, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Right...that's what they all say Brains... — ク Eloc 貢 18:57, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

ok we all believe u Brains >.> <.< --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg 06:27, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

(Reset indent) So... Banned sysops can actually unban themselves? o.O — Galil 02:21, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh yeah. Loads of fun. -- Armond Warblade 04:05, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

So what if Brains actually did start vandalizing things that's theoretically of course. -- Ninja Dragon 04:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm guessing a bureaucrat would demote me and a reconfirmation be held. -- Brains12 \ Talk 20:42, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh. Screw that, I don't wanna be an admin anymore if that's how things work. JK, I'm not a vandal. Calor 20:51, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

lol -- Brains12 \ Talk 20:52, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Happy Vday!

Happy Valentines Day Brains XD --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Heart1.jpg 23:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Guild:Vampiric Shadow

HELP!!!! I marked this page for guild cleanup because the text ran off the page, then i tried to fix it myself (i dont want someones guild page to get deleted :o)) and it wont work can u help me? --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Heart1.jpg 02:38, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

I fixed it up a bit. Hope that's what you wanted. Cheers, and happy V-Day, Calor 03:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah that is what I wanted thanks, i dont know why it wouldn't let me do that. --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Heart1.jpg 05:03, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Because text can't be indented with a blank space, or it has the same effect as <pre> tags, ecept the text won't go onto a next line unless forced.

Text indented with a blank space

It can only be indented with a colon (:). Hope that's what you were doing wrong, and you understand now. Calor 21:18, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

check out everyone's talk pages (topic headings "Hello!" on eloc's, anja's,...)... notice you're the only one who didn't get affected by the recent spam wave? you're an outsider now :P - Y0_ich_halt 21:25, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Either that or too intimidating. My page got wtfhellospmkthxbaiized too, Y0.Calor 21:26, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

but in this case today, you're really the only one who didn't xD lol, don't ask me why i thought you were brains... - Y0_ich_halt 21:30, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

CVU

I thought of this more as a quark or joke, but then gave it some real thought. I was thinking, much like the GWW:HELPERS userbox, perhaps a Counter Vandalism Unit with this as the icon? Just a thought. --People of Antioch talk 02:49, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Sure. *opens up cellphone* Bauer. Just kidding. The entire wiki is CVU. Calor 02:51, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, like those who are designated as helpers or rc'ers, I thought why not a category of those who look for vandals? Even if this doesn't become a page or offical, I think I'll make a userbox for it anyway. --People of Antioch talk 02:54, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

RC watchers = counter-vandals. Almost all the sysops, me, brains, y0, eloc, and a few others do all three. That's more than enough, as together we cover all day and all questions efficiently. Calor 02:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, okay. The image mentioned above is covered by the GNU, so would that make it okay for uploading here and making a userbox? --People of Antioch talk 02:58, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Mhm. Calor 03:09, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

If you want to make a userbox/category for something like that, go ahead. Although I think it should kept generally like Category:Users who patrol recent changes, in that it's kept as a userbox and category, not as a project page like HELPERS. -- Brains12 \ Talk 13:33, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks brain for the message now i understand wiki more. Thanks for the help --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Master Drunken (talk).

No problem -- Brains12 \ Talk 17:25, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

so i herd

u are changing ur username on the guildwars 2 wiki, will u do so here too? --Cursed Angel 20:06, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

I would like to keep my contributions (and obviously my user status) so it looks like I'll have to keep Brains12. If someone is willing to port those over to Plingggggg, that's another matter :P -- Brains12 \ Talk 20:08, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Wishful thinking :) Calor 20:21, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Erm, would he a pain finding your page though, with all those g's. One would never remember how many they were... "Hmm, let's see.... Nope, not Pling... Not Plingg.. Not Plinggg either... Wth, not Plingggg either? BAH, not Plinggggg either! I give up!" — Galil 11:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I was thinking that could be a problem.. I'll try and make it easier for people to know there are 6. -- Brains12 \ Talk 14:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Your new signature: Plin(gx6). :P — Galil 14:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

I actually just made a new sig, check it out on my GW2W talk :P -- Brains12 \ Talk 14:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

So I see. xD — Galil 14:26, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hey Brains is it just me or is user 68.193.113.198 vandalizing multiple pages because I've seen him change things that you are reverting and it also seems he's editing some important pages w/o asking permission to change them -- Ninja Dragon 23:56, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

He did a little vandalism on a couple of pages, but I reverted them back to their original status. Also, everyone has permission to edit any page (bar the very few that are protected). -- Brains12 \ Talk 23:58, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

M K - Ninja Dragon 23:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Speaking of, I saw your block log, Brains. Priceless. --People of Antioch talk 04:22, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Brains is a world class enemy of the wiki, ranking up there with Raptors, Readem, and anons on Izzy's page. Calor 04:43, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I knew it all along --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg 07:24, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Ssssh! -- Brains12 \ Talk 17:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

i thought brains was our private absolutist? o.o - Y0_ich_halt 18:00, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Goodness

Huge on the edits I see. Reminds me of the kinds of things I do with images, or perhaps the actions I would take here if I were someone with your skill and of course Sysop-ness... --People of Antioch talk 02:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Yep. Pulling a Fall with deletions. See here for more on deletion runs. Calor 02:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I love how "pulling a Fall" has become a phrase now :P -- Brains12 \ Talk 02:42, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Just for that, I'm putting Fall on my f/l on the wiki. --People of Antioch talk 03:00, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Lol, I like the image you just uploaded :P -- Brains12 \ Talk 03:08, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Damn! I was gonna make a quip about it! You're too fast Brains. Seriously, you're FTL. Here have at the image if you haven't seen it yet. --People of Antioch talk 03:10, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Brains, I don't understand the edit summary that you gave for those guild pages. Mind explaining it more for me please? — ク Eloc 貢 04:10, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Lol seriously brains EPIC PHAIL lmao don't take your anger out on the wiki!!!!! XD -- Ninja Dragon 08:24, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

All the guild pages were made by one person as a placeholder to get them off Special:Wantedpages. -- Brains12 \ Talk 17:52, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Changed

uploaded an icon of my own, made a signature change too =P-Insane Maestro 15:19, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Cool, what's the picture of? (and btw you need to change the image size to a maxiumum of 19px, or it'll change the line height) -- Brains12 \ Talk 17:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

its an inverted picture of Defender's Zeal, i shrunk it =P-Insane Maestro 18:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Redirects?

Is it within the bounds and rule of the wiki to make a short-hand of my user name (ie: User:PoA) and make those various pages redirect to my own? I think I saw Eloc do it, but I wasn't sure if I would step on anyone's toes if I did so. Thanks! --People of Antioch talk 23:08, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

The reason User:Eloc is a redirect is because the older version of GWW:SIGN said if signatures that included a shorter version of a user name (i.e. Eloc signs as Eloc, not Eloc Jcg), that name needed to be registered and redirected. I don't really think you should do it for the sole reason of an abbreviation though, so I would say it's best not to. -- Brains12 \ Talk 23:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

That said, there's nothing against the rules to register and redirect User:PoA. -- Brains12 \ Talk 23:14, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, eh, you're right. It's kinda selfish. I'll stray away from it. Thanks for the input. --People of Antioch talk 23:19, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

I was gonna ask you the other day to do this, but going on Brains's advice, I guess it's best not to. Calor 23:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[2]

Agh, I was going down the list alphabetically! But thanks, maybe in future the templates will be used properly. (I'm going through checking that everything's being done right.) -- Armond Warblade 19:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I just prefer the professions being in "order" :P. I've been seeing you cleaning those pages up, so good job with that -- Brains12 \ Talk 19:02, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

*massages fingers* I just took a break to clean out my watchlist. That wasn't smart.

And thanks for replacing "Yournames Issue" for me... -- Armond Warblade 19:07, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

User talk:212.142.143.116 - Block Log For User:212.142.143.116 Gibberbot

I was wondering if we could ban this IP since it is a Gibberbot --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg 20:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Anja blocked it for a month, so it'll be alright until then. If there are any other admin issues you need to bring up, try on the admin noticeboard (there's a link on the left navbar too). -- Brains12 \ Talk 20:56, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh sorry I wasnt aware there was a noticeboard lol, should i bring up the issue on the noticeboard? --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg 04:28, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Brains mentioned that Anja already blocked it, so there's no need. -- ab.er.rant 06:14, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

well i know that but I was wondering if we could ban this IP --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg 21:48, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. It's a gibber. Any gibber can be blocked because it's a vandal, and any vandal can be blocked. Calor 21:55, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Uh.....ban not block --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg 21:57, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Ban and block are synonymous. Calor 21:58, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

wow I really hate linking these pages but here i go [3] [4] XD --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg 22:01, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

You're taking it too literally. For wikis, ban = block. For reality, that's another story. Calor 22:02, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I luv the dictionary XD lol --Shadowphoenix Image:User-Shadowphoenix Shadow Phoenix Signet.jpg 22:03, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Oddities

Are you editing something with pre and headers? Use pre and nowiki, else the sections there mess up section editing for MediaWiki. - anja 21:18, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

When you use pre, you don't need to use nowiki. poke | talk 21:19, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

That's what I thought. I added it just incase, but it seems to have worked now. -- Brains12 \ Talk 21:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Nowiki forces MediaWiki to ignore =='s, in my experience. It doesn't otherwise and keep messing with the pre section. - anja 21:21, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

What are you trying btw? (What is this about? ^^) Maybe I can help :P poke | talk 21:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

User:Isaiah Cartwright/User feedback -- Brains12 \ Talk 21:22, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

And what should it look like? poke | talk 21:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, the nowiki fixed it, so it looks like how it should be. -- Brains12 \ Talk 21:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Editing

I've noticed when people put comments on other peoples or their talk pages they put like a arrow in the summary then what they posted under what's the code to get the arrow in the summary to appear?-- Ninja Dragon 06:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

If you click the "Edit" link for a section, the summary automatically says /* Some section name */. That's the one that creates the arrow thingy. Don't remove that one and just type your summary behind it. -- ab.er.rant