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Contents 1 Guild Wars Wiki:List of administrators 2 Speed 3 *peng* 4 thanx 5 Userpage 6 Eh... 7 bot 8 Jade Reapers 9 Vandalism 10 Move error, I think 11 Vandalism today 12 Re: Wantedpages / Bad Links / Bazaah 13 Ah, have noticed? 14 backgrounds 15 Question 16 btw 17 Moving pages... 18 Help with a new icon 19 Broken redirects 20 Thanks 21 Request 22 (Deletion log); 14:23 . . Brains12 (Talk | contribs) (deleted "User:Lord of all tyria": U1: User request. Also: "redlinkredlinkredlink") 23 Quote of the Win: 24 Ahem 25 Archiving Talk Pages 26 ty 27 Delete, please 28 Question: 29 <3 30 Koolaide 31 what guild advertizement 32 A little less 33 advise 34 Dispute

Guild Wars Wiki:List of administrators

*shoots Brains* :P --Kakarot 15:27, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Speed

"Seems to think Glacial Gauntlets really needs unnecessary info. --Chaiyo Kaldor talk contribs 17:00, 3 June 2008 (UTC) Blocked. -- Brains12 \ talk 17:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

And the block was at 17:00, 3 June 2008 UTC as well. No chance for other sysops =P --Xeeron 17:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

One minute between blocking and reporting? Man, I'm losing my touch... -- Brains12 \ talk 17:16, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

*peng*

poke | talk 18:01, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Ping --Kakarot 18:04, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Ehh? -- Brains12 \ talk 18:05, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I just shot you. poke | talk 18:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh. Normally, the sound of being shot makes a "blam" sound or something... -- Brains12 \ talk 18:08, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Does this have anything to do with the edit to Guild Wars Wiki:List of administrators? --Kakarot 18:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

(edit conflict) A german pistol makes "peng"; "blam" is more the sound of an exploding head :P poke | talk 18:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

or wait, that would be *splädder!* poke | talk 18:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Yeah, Poke is just blind. He also ignores anything added during an edit conflict. -- Brains12 \ talk 18:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

He also forgets to sign properly =D --Kakarot 18:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

I just didn't want to comment on Kakarot's edit, Pling :P And Kakarot, I wanted you to guess who it wrote *lies*

Whatever, I'm going now :P cya later ^^ poke | talk 18:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Yay for bad indenting? Bye :P -- Brains12 \ talk 18:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

thanx

very much, im going to avoid the wiki for a while (Raph)--167.142.168.14 02:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the page tweak :) Zilken 17:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Userpage

Hey, just curious if you remember where in GW you took the screenshot for your monk.. I only know of a couple places in game that have a waterfall, but none that I got that great of a picture from. I wanna find some nice background Images for my characters ^_^. |Foul Bane| 02:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

It's in the Tarnished Haven behind/near Kerrsh, if I remember correctly. I stumbled upon it by coincidence -- I was doing a few quests there, got bored and so I ran around the outpost (as you do) and I stood near the waterfall. Took a screenshot (again, because of boredom, and also because it looked nice :P). -- Brains12 \ talk 02:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

The paragon image was just outside House zu Heltzer - not as nice, though.. -- Brains12 \ talk 02:55, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok tyvm.. Side note: that sux it's in EOTN... I hate trying to progress through it ;-(. |Foul Bane| 02:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree. However, once you're through the major points, you get access to what are, in my opinion, some of the best looking areas in Guild Wars. Before EotN, Vabbi or Presearing were probably my favourite areas in terms of appearance, but anything in the Charr Homelands or the Tarnished Coast trumps it by far. -- Brains12 \ talk 03:02, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Eh...

Forgive my curiosity, but I'm just simply confused here. I just saw Raphs block listed here labled as "User Request". I remembered back to a time when another person (topic #4 on the contents list) asked for the same thing, and was denied. This is definitely not my place, and I probably shouldnt be asking.....but why the differences? Why was one accepted while the other declined? I'm sorry, I'm just really confused on this wiki these days... ~ Wandering Traveler 02:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

The personal opinions and preferences of admins differ -- I would personally not have a problem with user request blocking (but generally after taking yourself away has failed). I also don't like to counteract other sysops' actions unless absolutely necessary (I don't believe I've reverted one yet). In addition to this, Raph's actions recently have not been very favourable so this swayed my decision a little -- I wouldn't have blocked for those unfavourable reasons alone, but I guess it's win-win if he requests to be blocked as well. -- Brains12 \ talk 03:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I see your point. Sorry, things here have been really confusing lately.... ~ Wandering Traveler 03:10, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem. -- Brains12 \ talk 03:11, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

well, im unblocked now. Thanks for the temp ban. Im still going to avoid the wiki, and i wont contribute other than to minor things. Also, i read my block on my ip, saying "malicious use of alternate account", i did not fully understand mgrinshpons Arbcomm, ("i didnt read the fine print"), for disturbing the noticeboard, i apologize.--Raph Talky 13:32, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem, it's not expected that everyone knows everything. Also, the ban on your IP was because you used it for personal attacks, and seeing as you asked to be banned anyway... -- Brains12 \ talk 13:37, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

good point, though, that night i was "jacked up on mountain dew (literaly)", to quote taladega nights, think i might've needen to take a break--Raph Talky 13:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

bot

you're labeled a bot? - Y0_ich_halt 14:31, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

well, obviously we all know he's an evil robot admin...--Sum Mesmer Guy contribs 15:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Explained on Meta -- Brains12 \ talk 15:24, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

metawiki sucks! - Y0_ich_halt 16:12, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Pfft, if I take a vacation from the wiki and come back to 500 orphans, 200 categorized images, and 700 inactive guild tags I'm gonna need that flag. --People of Antioch 00:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Well I suppose that just means more edits for you ;) — ク Eloc 貢 01:24, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

MOAR EDITZ! MOAR BLOCKINGZ! - Y0_ich_halt 12:20, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah Brains is most certainly an evil bot =P, btw who's going to make the Banhammer? King Bazaah 13:02, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Jade Reapers

thanks for fixing this, i didn't exactly know what to do with this. :P —ZerphaThe Improver 13:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Hehe, no problem. The page just seemed to include guild information and how the members are going to have a huge party... it wasn't really for an event like the LaZy one a while ago or other Guild Wars community events. -- Brains12 \ talk 13:56, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism

Trying to do this quickly while working. Thanks for keeping an eye out. — Gares 14:54, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Thx for the vandalism fix — Renuro Seru Talk 15:10, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem, things seem to have been sorted. -- Brains12 \ talk 15:35, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Yep, yep. Looks like about 4 admins came out of the woodwork when that happened. :P And Brains12, you are always around when I come on. GO OUTSIDE! lol — Gares 15:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Move error, I think

During this massive moving spree, I got told that User:ThorJH's talk page talk page couldnt be moved with the user page. It also told me the user page have to be merged manually. ....I'm confused by what it wants. ~ Wandering Traveler 15:09, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Got the same thing, may have something to do with the recent updats :S --Shadowphoenix 15:10, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

They were reverted, so it's a moot point. It was probably because someone else moved it before you. -- Brains12 \ talk 15:11, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Makes sense. ~ Wandering Traveler 15:11, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism today

I looked through recent changes, holy crap... Devi Talk 15:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Hehe I'm your culprit :p King Bazaah 15:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Wantedpages / Bad Links / Bazaah

Hey, I was just reading where you said "Random redirects shouldn't be set up to appease the Wantedpages, the pages with those bad links on should be changed :)" over on talk:King Bazaah#Redirects, and I'm curious. I checked the links-to on "English" and "GMT" and they're linked from random guild infoboxes. Should anyone be going in there and unlinking these things or is that something that only the people relevant to those guilds should do? (I think there's a policy or general assumption against editing other people's user: pages too, right?)

Oh, one more thing, I was just looking at the mediawiki docs to see if there was any way to make a [[link]] that dosn't trace backlinks for example purposes? Though I suppose you can also use . . . Special:WhatLinksHere/GMT. Thanks! --Star Weaver 17:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Guild pages can be edited for general maintenance, as they are supposed to be for documentation and don't have the same "rules" as user pages do -- if one were to take out the English and GMT links, that would be fine.

I'm not quite sure what you mean for your second section though, so maybe someone else can answer that for you. Plenty of Recentchanges vultures around. -- Brains12 \ talk 18:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I think they're asking if there's a way to link to a nonexistent page for example purposes, but not have it show up on Special:Wantedpages (since you don't actually want the page, it's just an example). (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 18:14, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Aye, that was it. I looked at the mediawiki docs briefly but didn't see anything useful for that. --Star Weaver 18:19, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

self:User:Poke <-- poke | talk 18:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

That's not really a red/non-existent link though... -- Brains12 \ talk 18:22, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Ah, have noticed?

I think that this entire site has been vandalized. Could check this? try this page or this one. King Bazaah 23:19, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't see any problems with them... they don't seem to have been affected by the page move vandalism either. Can you elaborate on what's wrong with them? -- Brains12 \ talk 23:21, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Huh? Both pages look fine, and there's no vandalism shown in RC. Calor 23:21, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

They have pornography on them!! thats whats wrong!!! King Bazaah 23:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

That's on your end, then. Did you download anything from foreign porn sites recently? If so, start searching for new computers (and a good McAfee or Norton antivirus/antispyware program). Calor 23:30, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

backgrounds

dude really i just was about to move them and that i was just working on my page --The-Big-Cheese 23:37, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, sorry. Although I guess it doesn't really matter who did it, as long as it was moved. I'll wait a little longer if it happens another time, but if you follow the naming when creating the page, that would be better. -- Brains12 \ talk 23:43, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Question

I've recently been told that you blocked Oni for some stunt he pulled on Izzy's page.

Since it is 00:07 here, and I can't find any other trace of evidence of this said block, compounded with the fact that I am bored, leads to the conclusion that I should pester you about it.

So... did you really block oni? (not asking for some sort of Explanation here, a simple long answer - short answer section with pictures, power points and a cake would be fine) -- NUKLEAR IIV 21:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Wait, nevermind. Problem solved. -- NUKLEAR IIV 21:19, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Special:Logs/block is your friend. ;) (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 21:45, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

btw

thnx for reverting that guy, couldnt figure it out--Raph Talky 22:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Moving pages...

Would you say moved pages are vandalism outright? I've been fixing to put up the Y0's template up. :-) --People of Antioch 03:25, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, sure, why not. -- Brains12 \ talk 22:02, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Nice block. Use of your template spammed? At least they're creative. --People of Antioch 20:56, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Help with a new icon

Hey Plingggggg! I totally suck at icons, and the one I did Image:Award icon.png doesn't seem to meet with quality standards :P Any chance you could maybe do something better? (I asked poke as well, and he suggested you might want to)-- Wynthyst 12:22, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to give it a try.. but I'm so totally inadequate with icons. Unless you need a square or something? Cos I'm great at that! Anyway... I'll try something, but I'm sure Poke would be able to get it done much better and quicker. -- Brains12 \ talk 15:29, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

What do you think about ? -- Brains12 \ talk 15:53, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Personally I prefer your first one, the medal on that one looks a bit too big. --Kakarot 15:55, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Reuploaded that one under medal3. I'll need to redo a little of the medal2 because I messed up some of the nodes, but choose which one you prefer and I'll tune it up as necessary. -- Brains12 \ talk 16:03, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Meh, classic noob mistake.. I forgot to save the inkscape file, so it's either one of those two as they are now, or I'll have to remake it. :/ Or you could get Poke to do something else. -- Brains12 \ talk 18:13, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Image:Tango-award-icon.png? Simple but nice :P poke | talk 18:50, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

That's a little bit small for this... :P -- Brains12 \ talk 18:54, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I noticed after I uploaded.. have a bigger one now :P poke | talk 19:01, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Broken redirects

Do we have any specific policy or guideline when dealing with broken redirects. There are a few here. --People of Antioch 03:33, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Just keep Game link redirects and signature image redirects :) poke | talk 06:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Ok thanks for that and the links... :) Arty 02:10, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Yea sorry about that last one, I was wondering why the link wasn't working... :P Arty 02:11, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem, glad to be of help. -- Brains12 \ talk 02:12, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Request

Could someone get me an image of the phoenix on Image:Guild-Logo.png? Preferably large, scalable would be even better. to anyone who can :D -- Brains12 \ talk 02:39, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Are you just looking for the phoenix in a white backround? I gave a shot at doing that a few weeks ago. Its about the same size as what the normal one is, but...meh, I can upload it if you want. o.o ~ Wandering Traveler 04:47, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Pling is stealing my idea o.O It would probably best to ask Bex about that. poke | talk 13:02, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Mwahaha. WT, I'm looking for one without a background at all -- just the phoenix itself. -- Brains12 \ talk 13:12, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm....I might have screwed up somewhere, but does Image:User Wandering Traveler Phoenix.png work? My editing skills are terrible, but meh, heres hoping >.< ~ Wandering Traveler 13:49, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

It's a little rough around the edges and there are still the grey/black bits inside; I would need a clean image :/. -- Brains12 \ talk 13:51, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Thought so >.<. I may be able to fix it, but....yeah, this is why I avoid artistic work. o.O ~ Wandering Traveler 13:53, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks though, it was much better than anything I attempted :P. I might go to Bex as she created that logo, but it's nothing urgent at the moment. I have a feeling that whatever idea Poke has for it will be better than mine, so I might leave it to him. -- Brains12 \ talk 13:55, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Meh, it was worth a shot. ^.^ ~ Wandering Traveler 13:57, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

No no, Pling, just ask Bex :P (/lazymode on) poke | talk 23:56, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

(Reset indent)  :o I don't think I have that file anymore, but I just cut it out and where ever it was messy I cheated and cleaned up the pixels with dodge. I remember that it wasn't perfectly cut out, but because I shrunk it, it didn't matter so much. BTW I got it out of one of the fansite kits I think. :) I wonder if you could find it with the dat browser? - Bex 00:37, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I'll give that a go. Any idea where it would be? Calor 01:05, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I checked most ATEXDXT1 files now, they list a lot of mainly transperent white/greyblue whateverthingies, map pieces, the outpost images, cursor images and skill animations, but seemingly no guild cape emblems, so those can possibly be found in the ATEXDXT5 list... —ZerphaThe Improver 15:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Wyn found it -- Image:Eagle cape icon.png (don't ask me why I said phoenix..). Thanks for all your help guys -- Brains12 \ talk 15:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

(Deletion log); 14:23 . . Brains12 (Talk | contribs) (deleted "User:Lord of all tyria": U1: User request. Also: "redlinkredlinkredlink")

You have struck a blow in the campaign to make the redlink equally acceptable in society to the bluelink. History shall look kindly upon you. Lord of all tyria 14:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

mmkay. And thanks for ruining my TOC D: -- Brains12 \ talk 14:28, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Lord of all tyria 14:37, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Quote of the Win:

"Hi, I'm taking all your e-peens and throwing them into the blender." izzyland —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Star Weaver (talk • contribs) at 15:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC).

Uh thanks? -- Brains12 \ talk 16:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Just a good line. Sorry about the lack of sig. ^_^ --Star Weaver 17:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Ahem

I see all :P --Kakarot 21:58, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

ohnoes :/. I liked the background bit, but not really the shape of the boxes :P -- Brains12 \ talk 22:00, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, I need to learn how to play with that code sometime. It's quite useful. --People of Antioch 22:02, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

CSS isn't too hard to learn, at least I didn't find it that difficult. As to my theme/skin/whatever Plingggggg you could always try using it without the rounded corners; assuming that's what you mean by "shape of the boxes". Also you'd have to change the icon for the personal toolbar to your own sig image although you might want to upload a lighter version of it because it looked a bit too dark using the present one. --Kakarot 22:26, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

CSS, HTML, and wiki can all be learned in <hour. Calor 22:52, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Should there be any order I go into? And if it's not too much, Calor, could you teach me a bit? I'm still new at the first two, and I need a bit more time with Wiki code. --People of Antioch 23:57, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

"I see all :P" - You didn't see me trying your style out 8-) poke | talk 00:04, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd love too, but sadly, I'm going to a sort of family get-together this weekend, and won't be on the wiki until Monday. w3schools CSS tutorial and their HTML tutorial may help you a bit. As for wiki - screw it - just use HTML's div and span tags. Makes life a lot easier. Calor 00:29, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

"As for wiki - screw it - just use HTML's div and span tags." qft. If the wiki would now ignore line indents instead of making a pre out of it, it would be great.. poke | talk 00:53, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

If only Poke worked for MediaWiki... maybe we'd actually get something done here! -- Brains12 \ talk 00:54, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

If only Poke worked... maybe we'd get something done here. And I totally agree about the screwy indenting. Calor 01:45, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

LOL! poke | talk 11:37, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Archiving Talk Pages

I'm sure if you check recent changes you'll see my compleate misfortune at an attempt to archive my talk page. I archived everything to User:Primarch Horus/Archive1. Is that the right place to be putting it? Horus ~talk

The location you have it in there isn't wrong but normally talk page archives are kept in the user talk namespace, I can sort it out for you if you want :) --Kakarot 02:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd be very grateful. I'm getting very lost with all this! Horus ~talk

ty

for adding the colon. —ZerphaThe Improver 19:27, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

No problem; I was actually going to reply to WT's message too, but I got an edit conflict with you :P. -- Brains12 \ talk 19:29, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Delete, please

As I've all but left the wiki, you can delete the pages left over in my user namespace if you think it would save space. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Ebany Salmonderiel (talk).

You're leaving? :o If you want them deleted, I'll go ahead; it's not really a matter of saving space, but I guess if you're going, the pages may as well. Bye -- Brains12 \ talk 14:55, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Question:

Where does it show the number of contributions a user has made? Or do I have to go through the list and count them up? |Foul Bane| 01:08, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

you have to count unfortunately. -- Salome 02:19, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, Thanks. |Foul Bane| 02:27, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Poke made a javascript thingummy that counts the number of contributions sorted by namespace, but it only works for Firefox. See User:Poke/GWWT and scroll to the bottom. -- Brains12 \ talk 09:23, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Aww Brains you had to tell :( now people won't think I manually counted Ab.er's contribs. --Kakarot 12:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

<3

- anja 15:56, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

-- Brains12 \ talk 15:58, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

(Aiiane - talk - contribs) 16:51, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Calor 16:57, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

"The max should be 38"!!! -- Brains12 \ talk 16:58, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Backsword 16:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

(Aiiane - talk - contribs) 17:01, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Wow... those shadows really suck. WTB inkscape replacement, 50k -- Brains12 \ talk 17:06, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Since you wanted me to "go on forever".....

[[Image:Tango-heart-icon.png|<3|5000px]]

The editor who added this comment gives permission to modify it at a later date to make it a less annoying size. >.> (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 17:09, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Ihatechoo -- Brains12 \ talk 17:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

 :( (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 17:31, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Free love if you tell me what I'm doing wrong here >_> Halogod35 02:16, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Want me to fix it? --Kakarot 02:17, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure. Halogod35 02:19, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

That should do it, tell me if you have any problems with it :) --Kakarot 02:20, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.