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Check out my archives The Holding Tank A place where I'll put topics that I've seen but haven't finished answering (see inside for details).	Answers to various questions Hello everyone, To help me keep my thoughts focused into one main status area, I've created a little mini-journal to give me a spot to drop quick status updates about what I'm up to. Even though I've been a bit slower to respond, please feel free to continue to send me questions and comments as usual! As a general update, here's some wiki stuff that may be of interest to you! Image Contributions I'm still working on renders when I have spare time! If there are any that require my attention as soon as possible, please don't hesitate to point them out to me on this talk page. For the rest, I'll keep chugging along. Other Projects I've had to bump a few of my projects onto my main projects page. I haven't forgotten about any of them, but I've had to shift priorities a bit for some of the bigger ones. If there is anything that you guys really need pulled from that list, just let me know. I'll continue chipping at this stuff as I have free time. Bugs and Questions We've managed to net Mike and his team for the wiki, so if you have bugs to report, he's your man! Trivia As always, if you guys have questions about trivia references, don't be scared to ask me to confirm or deny them. We know you guys put a lot of thought into figuring out the obscurities, so we don't mind helping out if you get stuck. It's been a bit tougher to get trivia answers lately because all teams are really heavily focused on GW2 (mine included). I send regular emails to the team containing questions, and I still try to follow-up on the requests that you all have, but sometimes response times are a little slower than they used to be. I just wanted to let you all know that I'm not ignoring any questions, and I will keep asking folks periodically until I get responses. Thanks for understanding :)	Contents 1 Render request 2 Trivia check please 3 GW:EN armor renders - full views 4 Follow Up 5 Non-English Guild Wars 2 Wikis 6 French Wiki 7 Guild hall image request 8 Website 9 Wrong Render 10 I'll take GW Trivia for $1000 Emily 11 Shing Jea Sherman 12 GW2Wiki and moving images 13 Shiro's Daggers lore 14 Ebonhawke/Ebon Hawk 15 hi 16 Nicholas Pre image 17 Broken Link in Guild Wars Game Sign Up Screen 18 FTP 19 Wintersday Redux Finale time screwed up on French site (again)

[edit] Render request

Hi Emily, could I request a render for the most popular NPC page on the site, currently being Nicholas the Traveler with nearly 1.4 million views to date :) he would certainly get a lot of attention! --Lemming 23:51, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Maybe a render of Professor Yakkington and Nicholas Sandford too?. Simzy 14:39, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Hiya guys! I am still having issues with Yak's model, so I'm unable to cap him right now. I will send an email over to the artists and see if we can figure out what's going on with him. I'll make a post it note to follow up on this :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 18:40, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Hiya again Lemming! Sorry for the delay on this one. I capped two shots of Nick (pre and post searing), but Yakk's model is still doing weird stuff. I'm going to archive this request and make a sticky to walk over and talk to them about seeing whether re-exporting his model will fix what I'm seeing. Hopefully that works :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 01:52, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia check please

Shaunur the Divine - Reference to User:Losershawn/Shawn the Divine? He alpha/beta tested DoA, I think. - Mini Me 15:44, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Bump. - Mini Me talk 12:34, 21 November 2009

[edit] GW:EN armor renders - full views

Heya, I'm just wondering, are the armor renders for front/back/sides for GW:EN armors in the pipeline anytime soon? Just that the ones for all the rest of the campaigns have been finished and GW:EN has been around a while now... Jennalee 10:48, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

I came here to ask the same thing. ^_^ Rose Of Kali 15:05, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Oh, I thought I finished all of the armor. Oops...sorry! Yeah, I will try to block out a bit of time to get those done. I've been swamped lately, so I haven't had a chance to look at renders for a while :( Thanks for the heads up! -- Emily Diehl (talk) 18:38, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

By the way, on Elite Imperial male ritualist page, left side image is wrong. It's an image of basic Imperial armor. - J.P.Talk 19:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Yay, good to hear :) Jennalee 04:22, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Follow Up

Hey Emily, I just wanted to ask you if you ever got a chance to talk to the team(s) about the possibility of a page in the feedback space where ANet staff/team(s) could ask specific questions for which they wanted community feedback. I realize things got a little crazy right after I made the suggestion, so no worries if it fell through the cracks, but I just thought I would ask. (Satanael | talk) 21:22, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Heya Satanael! Yep, I brought this up a while back and folks agreed that it could be useful. Let me re-open the discussion to figure out details like how much use it would get and how it could be used. I'll let you know what I learn. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 23:59, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks Emily! In the mean time, I'll see if I can't start a little dicussion about how best to organize it. I don't think it will be very complicated to do, but I suppose it will also depend a little bit about how you guys want to handle it, so let me know how the discussion goes. (Satanael | talk) 04:23, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

If the team is concerned with having to slog through pages of responses, does the wiki system have a voting function like forums do so that there could be a general vote on topics, then a separate page for the discussion? Terryn Deathward 16:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Not really, but this is being discussed in more detail here. -- FreedomBound 16:35, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Non-English Guild Wars 2 Wikis

Hi Emily. I sent you an e-mail one and a half month ago and would really like to see it answered. The German GuildWiki team needs a clear statement from ArenaNet, because we want one German Guild Wars 2 Wiki soon — neither two nor zero wikis in some months. --numma_cway 21:40, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it would have been really great to get at least something as a response here :) --Tera 23:40, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

No more input needed here - we started our own wiki :) --Tera 23:59, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] French Wiki

Hello, Emily, I'm Boungawa, one of the administrators of the main French Wiki, I would have liked to know if, now that almost all articles exist on our wiki, it could become the French official Wiki with the IG links (F1) which clock on, for the France, this one. Thanks for your answer. - Boungawa 14:14, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Hey, this is not an official answer, but I'll try to answer it to give you an idea about it.

The primary reason why GWW was created from scratch was because the previous wiki, GuildWiki, had an incompatible license that would make it impossible to use the content in-game. To make that possible, ArenaNet had to start with a new license that would allow them to use the content in-game. The french GuildWiki, similar to the original english GuildWiki, uses CC-BY-NC-SA. While that makes both wikis compatible with each other (so that you could use content from GuildWiki and translate it for example), it is incompatible to this wiki's GFDL and as such incompatible with the in-game linking.

Originally, the official Guild Wars Wiki was created with the option to have multiple different languages; those wikis in other languages actually even were accessible, however all were shut down after some months. As such it is unlikely that ArenaNet will open those official wikis in other languages again, especially as everybody would need to begin from scratch again (because of the license); and it would require a very long time to actually get to a level of information similar to GWW now, or to the "unofficial" wikis in other languages that already exist now. And with GW2 coming, people will probably lose interest in maintaining an official but very incomplete wiki when there are unofficial but complete wikis about the same old game already. poke | talk 10:52, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

ArenaNet has also stated that with the reduction of staff in the community relations team, there isn't enough ArenaNet staff to support other language wikis. -- Wyn talk 11:01, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Ok Thanks a lot for your answer ! :D --Boungawa 15:51, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Guild hall image request

Hi Em! Is it possible to get a high res bird's eye view of the guild hall maps? I would like to do NPC placement images to identify where the henchmen and guild hall npc's are located now, but the only images I can find are so low res they just look bad. Thanks in advance! -- Wyn talk 10:00, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

i don't know if Linsey is still doing it but it might want to wait because of her project to make the npc placement in guild halls better. seen here as you i am sure already know.- Zesbeer 10:38, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Pretty sure the current placement is where they're going to stay, otherwise why would they have put them there in the first place? That project was to fix the old static, all in a row placement, and make it more like it is now. -- FreedomBound 12:10, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

my understanding of that project is that she was going to change the locations of the npcs like the merchant because in some of the halls they are really out of the way and not convent.- Zesbeer 20:23, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I was thinking of only the new henchmen, didn't realize Wyn wanted to document the existing NPCs, too. -- FreedomBound 12:51, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

I can do it. It takes me like 5 seconds to find the addresses nowadays. Unfortunately, because of the state of the economy, I must demand payment for this service in the form of more halloween crap. Which hall would you like done first, though? –Jette 07:03, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Website

Hey there, the screenshots link under the "hot links" of the players page is broken. Also, on the fansite page, Crossing Tyria is dead and "Guild Wars @ GameAmp" seems now irrelevant. — PmaN 03:37, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

There's also a link in several locations here that no longer works. Note, this only occurs if you use the secure https, and not http (if you use http you get the "down for extended maintenance" page). -- FreedomBound 18:56, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong Render

Noticed that this render isn't the right one. So it needs updating. --Dominator Matrix 07:20, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

It looks like someone fixed it for me (yay), so I'm going to archive this :) Thanks for the heads up, and sorry I've been so slow with the renders lately. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 01:59, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] I'll take GW Trivia for $1000 Emily

1. Is Maximole and the quest he's involved in inspired by the movie Gladiator?

2. Is the quest The Beak of Darkness inspired by the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad?

3. Does the voice actor who does the voice of Palawa Joko do the voice of Gadd as well?

4. Is the art for the skill icon "On Your Knees!" inspired by the self-immolation of Buddhist monks such as Thích Quảng Đức?

Thank you in advance for your answers! Sardaukar 06:27, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Shing Jea Sherman

Is "Shing Jea Sherman" (NPC inside and outside of Tarnished Haven a reference to "The Scribe" on the GuildWars.com website? "The Scribe is a weekly periodical that will share a few stories from within the game. Written by a traveling monastery scribe..." & "You'll probably see a few kudos to individual players, as well." He's both a traveling scribe from Shing Jea in Cantha and within the town he boasts about players achievements. Both support this theory. Magic Talk 20:40, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Hiya Magic! No, Shing Jea Sherman is actually a reference to the animated series The Critic. From the conversation I had with one of our writers, he was initially intended to be a sarcastic character, but we decided to give him a more positive spin instead :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 02:09, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] GW2Wiki and moving images

Hi Emily, just a small reminder, as this is a small thing that is likely going to be forgotten on the huge sea of things you have to do: when you have time, could you ask someone to unlock the "move images" feature of GW2 to everyone (as it is in this wiki), as opposed to it being available only to sysops (as it's in the GW2W right now)? With all the cool pieces of GW2 art we have been given recently, being able to rename images there is important now. Thanks! Erasculio 23:02, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh shucks...I totally missed this request with a flood of other things. I will put in the request tonight. I'm so sorry for the oversight! I'll let ya know when it's set to go (although you guys will probably see it in place right away anyways because you're ninjas like that ;)) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 02:52, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Heya Erasculio! This should be complete. If you guys run into any issues, please let me know! -- Emily Diehl (talk) 00:43, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Actually, it seems like this isn't the case. Ack, sorry about that premature posting. Please hold *elevator music* -- Emily Diehl (talk) 00:45, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Shiro's Daggers lore

Hi, Emily! A question popped up on Linsey's Journal talk that's not likely to be answered there, so I figured I'd ask you instead. Can anyone confirm why Shiro's Daggers have a requirement of 13, making it possible only for primary assassins to wield them in full effect? (Candy Corn/etc. aside ^_^) Thanks. Rose Of Kali 17:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Isn't that rather obvious (short of the lore)? They wanted only primary sins to use them....I think that's it. Karate Jesus 17:14, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

We already realize THAT. The question is why they wanted only primary sins using them... Rose Of Kali 18:22, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Because they're so POWERFUL. elix Omni 18:29, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Because Shiro is 'da man', and they're the largest daggers in the game. I really don't think it's very complicated. -- FreedomBound 18:34, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

That's the conclusion that I came to. Power is not an issue, this set can easily be replicated at a requirement of 9 instead. I quite like the idea of "legendary" lore weapons, maybe other classes should get some... In fact I'm off to go make my first ever suggestion page. Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ аІiсә ѕνәи Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 22:37, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Ebonhawke/Ebon Hawk

Hey, Em.

Can I add a link to Ebonhawke on here, which has the other Ebonhawke link. |Killer demon 10:15, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi,

wtf? -- Armond Warblade{{Bacon}} 17:09, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

On Ebon Hawk78.141.27.254 16:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

I think it was more he doesn't get the request (neither do I >.>) ~ PheNaxKian 16:38, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Hiya Killer! I'm a little confused about your question. Are you asking whether you can add a link to the GW2 Ebonhawke page from the Ebon Hawk page? If so, I'm not sure that would be an applicable link, since the one is a location and the other is a skill. If there's confusion between the two, maybe you guys should set up a disambiguation page (for Ebonhawke) that asks whether you mean Ebon Hawk or Ebonhawke? If that's not what you meant, I'm sorry for misunderstanding. I hope this helps :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 02:04, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] hi

can us pro peeps have there own pro district, u know so we dont have to see those unpros. Kurz Hates Challenge 01:57, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

I dunno, Kurz. Even noobs think they're pro sometimes ;) Thanks for the laugh, though...I saw at least two heads turn around when I started giggling, lol. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 02:14, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

i want a district for teh party people! O: 127.0.0.1 03:19, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Piken Square, AED1. xD Magic Talk 04:56, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Nicholas Pre image

Hi, Emily. :) You had just uploaded a nice image of Nick - File:Nicholas Sandford (pre-Searing).jpg - but he's missing his favorite staff. Rose Of Kali 14:54, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and the image name probably doesn't need the pre-searing tag, does it? Rose Of Kali 14:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

She also uploaded a new version of File:Nicholas Sandford.jpg that does have his staff, I am the one that changed it on the page since I think the one without the staff is a better image of him. -- Wyn talk 15:13, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Better or not (I think they're about the same), it's not accurate, as you will never see him like that in-game. And shouldn't the tag be (pre-Searing), or better none at all? Rose Of Kali 15:48, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Nor will you ever see him floating on a white background without a yakk nearby. As for the staff, The problem with the model is that his hand is attached to high on the staff. If it was lower it would look better. -- Salome 15:51, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Very few if any of the renders are "in game" accurate since they provide no context what so ever, and I don't see it as being necessary, I prefer the better image, you of course can change it if you feel so strongly about it, and yes, it should be (pre-Searing) or some other designator, since File:Nicholas Sandford.jpg is already taken. -- Wyn talk 15:52, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

The name change is a simple click of a move tag, no need to bring it to Emily. -- Wyn talk 15:54, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

As you can see from the first post, my question was about the missing staff, the file name was just a side note. But since it appears that in-game accuracy is not important, then scratch the topic. Rose Of Kali 16:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

(Reset indent) If you guys would prefer the pre-searing Nick with his staff, I can cap that for you. Just let me know! I can't do anything about how he holds his staff, though :( -- Emily Diehl (talk) 02:06, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Well, you uploaded one yesterday of him with his staff Em :P -- Wyn talk 02:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Ya, I did pre-searing Nick sans staff and post-searing Nick with. I figured you guys wanted two renders for him since he ages and his model changed. If you prefer to use the pre-searing version and want him with a staff, just let me know. I think that's what I was trying to say in a weird, round-about way :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 01:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Broken Link in Guild Wars Game Sign Up Screen

Just a heads up that this link here in the game sign up screen: http://i49.tinypic.com/2i2ahbp.jpg goes to this: http://www.plaync.com/store/ Which pops up as forbidden. Inde 14:39, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the report, Inde! I'll look into this issue. -- Emily Diehl (talk) 19:40, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Also, the login screen announcement about the account security message has an error in it. It says "We urge you to visit the NCsoft web site to read an important message about account from our Game Surveillance Unit", instead of (what I think it's supposed to be like) "We urge you to visit the NCsoft web site to read an important message about account security from our Game Surveillance Unit". — Mini Me 20:48, 26 January 2010

Thanks, Mini! I passed this along, and it should be fixed now. Nice catch :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 00:59, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] FTP

→ moved from Feedback talk:Regina Buenaobra

There are many dead links on the official page since ftp.guildwars.com isn't anymore for some months. --numma_cway 14:05, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Tell Emily, she's in charge of the website stuff. I think. –Jette 09:19, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

I posted it here because Regina has an archive for website-related questions. Emily only says that she is responsible for the wiki and special website projects. I also think she's busy. --numma_cway 19:58, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

No, Emily is the person you should be talking to about anything related to gw.com. -- Wyn talk 06:41, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

OK. --numma_cway 11:44, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Hi guys! Our FTP is still active, and I'm able to access files hosted on it from here. Can you provide me with some examples of broken links so I can check out individual cases? It's possible it may be a different issue. Thanks :) -- Emily Diehl (talk) 00:07, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

First couldn't access the ftp server, got the "server not found" page when I used Dutch as language setting in Firefox, changed the language setting to English and now it works. Weird thing is when I changed it back to Dutch it still worked and i'm 100% sure that that was the only thing I changed.

I still couldn't access the ftp with IE8. Saved the settings by changing my homepage in IE8 to and it worked.

Numma cway try saving the settings and connect to the ftp when you have done that, you might have to disable and enable something to be able to save the settings. It worked for me, I have no idea why, it just did.

I always try things like this incase an update for IE8 and/or Firefox "messed" things up, saving the settings just replaces the old settings with the new ones. Sometimes it's just a conflict with the old settings not beeing "compatible" with the newer version of the explorer.

I hope this helped. -- Qaletaqa Hania 02:45, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

There seems to be a nameserver problem, since sometimes you don't get anything but the CNAME resouece record (which you usually don't need). I made two screenshots: File:User numma cway ftp-ok.png File:User numma cway ftp-fail.png

[edit] Wintersday Redux Finale time screwed up on French site (again)

Looks like once again one finale's starting time is wrong on the French web site. It says 21h00 (9PM) where the German, Italian ans Spanish sites says 09h00 (9AM) instead, while the UK site gets redirected to the US site (poor UK people).

• FR: Elle commence à 21H01 le dimanche 7 février et se répète toutes les trois heures jusqu'au lundi 8 février à 09H01.
• DE: Das große Wintertagsfinale findet in Löwenstein und Kamadan statt, und beginnt am Sonntag, dem 7. Februar, um 9:01 Uhr MEZ. Das Event wird bis Montag, 9. Februar, 9:01 Uhr MEZ alle drei Stunden wiederholt.
• IT: Il gran finale dell'Invernodì si terrà presso l'Arco del Leone e Kamadan a partire dalle 09:01 (orario italiano) di domenica 7 febbraio e si ripeterà ogni tre ore fino alle 09:01 (orario italiano) di lunedì 8 febbraio.
• ES: La gran final tendrá lugar en el Arco del León y Kamadan, comenzará a las 09:01 (hora española) el domingo 7 de febrero y se repetirá cada tres horas hasta las 09:01 del lunes 8 de febrero.

This is really annoying as it keeps happening over again and again for the last 3 years, you should really do some QA on the French translations! Jaxom 12:26, 6 February 2010 (UTC)