User talk:Thon Ghul/Archive

January

Images

Welcome to the Wiki! I moved you image to File:User Thon Ghul Gw021.jpg per our image policy. Also, the guild image you uploaded isn't one of a guild's cape, and that's what that image is supposed to be for. Please upload one of your cape in it's place and you can move or re-upload the current image in your userspace. ~FarloTalk 03:49, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

You uploaded the most recent image to the wrong place again, make sure the guild's name is your guild's, not the example. I moved your image to File:Guild A Spirits Breeze Of Fear GW030.jpg. ~FarloTalk 20:01, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

Idk how farlo missed this, but DO use {{screenshot}} in addition to user images when they're screen captures of the game. File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 00:39, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok, and again, ty for the help with the userpage (:. ~~Thon Ghul 00:48, 31 January 2012 {UTC)

Userpage

Tell me what you'd like at the top of your navigation bar, in terms of icons you like, character names etc? File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 22:46, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

i'd like 4 tabs, 1st tab is general, 2nd is talk pages, 3rd is characters, 4th is Miscelaneous. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thon Ghul (talk) at 23:53, 13 January 2012 (UTC).

Derp. if you want that userpage, I'll stop what I'm doing right now File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 23:01, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

didnt know u were making me the page yet... was experimenting, ill stop experimenting now

Ok without knowing anything - thats all i can do at the moment. :P To replace all those blank bits, just press the edit button + puzzle it out. File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 23:05, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

k ty so much

Put any userboxes on this page: User:Thon Ghul/Userboxes, and good luck.

I forgot to mention, anything between the arrows will be invisible, they're just my notes. put the text you want to show to the left. File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 23:12, 13 January 2012 (UTC)

okay ty --The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thon Ghul (talk) at 15:12, January 13, 2012 (UTC).

(Reset indent) I saw you asked how to put an image on your userpage on Farlo's talk, here is how to do that. Also don't forget to sign comments (even on your own page) with four tildes, and indent with colons when responding. File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 01:54, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Don't remove content from talk pages, it's against the rules :P. Anyways, if I were you I'd suggest you put a lot of the formatting from this page into another template, it'll clear up a lot of the page's syntax and make it easier for people to add comments. It's probably not a good idea to have stuff below the actually talking either, it screws up the "Add topic" button and again, makes it harder for people to add stuff here. You can take a gander at my talk page, the tabs are hidden in {{User:Farlo/Topnav}} and then there's just one non-ending table to handle the borders/background of the page.

I'll just answer your question on my talk page here: The easiest way I've found to upload images or create pages is to create a link to it in the article where you want the image/link. Then you can easily click it, upload the image, and you're done. For instance, I can create this link → File:User Thon Ghul Example.jpg, and that gives you a direct link to upload your image, and you don't have to worry about it's naming once you make the link here. ~FarloTalk 02:02, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Well, I cant think of much more i should do, mainly i just need to learn how to edit more, like colors and userboxes, still having some trouble with those, but it seems like im about done for now.btw srry for deleting the info, i forgot/didnt know, ill remmember in the future. (: ~Thon Ghul 15:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Fixed the navbar btw. File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 01:21, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, much better (: ~~Thon Ghul 15:54, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Need More Help

i want to make my yellow tabs background yellow.. the page itself.. and my HoM page teal(the same color as background). And something i cant seem to do, change my tabs on Talk page, i want to change the Miscelaneous Tab, to Hall of Monuments, but it won't let me edit it. Can ya help me?~Thon Ghul 17:37, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Templates

Whatever you are doing, stop. --JonTheMon 20:33, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

k, didnt notice i was changing anything... srry. ~Thon Ghul 20:40 16 January 2012 (UTC)

So, I told you to stop editing templates because you cleared out two common templates: Template:Skill bar and Template:P. Both of those templates affect a lot of pages, so changes to them (especially blanking them) is Not Good™. To be honest, I'm not even sure why/how you got to those pages to clear them. Just be careful in the future. --JonTheMon 21:19, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

, srry i was causing problems. i will be more careful in the future. ty for letting me know. ~Thon Ghul 20:40 16 January 2012 (UTC)

What i was trying to do, was to get rid of the box at the bottom of my Character pages, the build, it isnt related to my guys so i was trying to get rid of it, if you can help. ~Thon Ghul 20:40 16 January 2012 (UTC)

I see. In that case, you'll have to ask Farlo about that, since it is his template. --JonTheMon 21:56, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Easy one. Basically his template was for his use so he didn't implement any code to change the skillbar. I've changed your userpage to point at User:Thon Ghul/Templates/Character. I'll implement some code for you to have some skillbar in a second. --File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 22:07, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Oops, I didn't see this conversation until after I read and dealt with the comment on my page, so I removed the build section. Sorry if I EC'd you Alex. ~FarloTalk 22:15, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

No problem, allowed me to skype parents. didn't approve of my default to frenzy mending build eh. --File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 22:40, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks guys, (:. ~Thon Ghul 23:05 16 January 2012 (UTC)

(Reset indent) it must have crossed your mind that the tabs at the top are very clunky - you only have to change User:Thon Ghul/Topnav + transclude it at the top of the page :p --File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 01:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

I think it looks pretty good. the main thing i can think of adding is probably userboxes, but I seem to have some problems with it. but ill figure it out somehow. (:, thanks again for all the help. -- Thon Ghl 21:32, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Can you fix my 6th tab so it is set up right?, it won't come out like the other tabs. -- Thon Ghl 22:20, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Done & done. I had the template customized for my HoM page. ~FarloTalk 22:42, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Farlo, look much better (:-- Thon Ghul 19:46, 28 January (UTC)

Signature

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I've just noticed how large your signature image is. To keep the images in line with the text, the signature policy requires all images to be 19px tall or less. If my math holds up, that'd mean you need to set the width of the image to 34px ().

Also, you might want to cut the actual image down to that size not only because Photoshop (or whatever) generally does a better job at compressing images than the browser, but it uses a lot more bandwidth to display that large screenshot, even if it is squished by the HTML. The main problem is that the Wiki (server-side) isn't shrinking the images, the individual's browser (client-side) is, but only after the full image has already been transferred across the interwebs to your local cache. This doesn't have that much of an effect on modern internet connections, but over time 476kb (almost a MB every other page with your signature) can add up, and especially in mobile browsers holding that many large images in memory can cause lag. If you follow this link, you can upload the compressed image and it should automatically update all your other signatures, then you just have to take the "|50px" bit out of your signature in the Preferences menu.

Sorry for the long post for a small problem, but I figured I might as well address it completely. ~FarloTalk 19:15, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

K, im working on it/ im downloading phtotoshop. Thon Ghul 20:33, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

o.0 you could have done it in MS Paint or just asked me, you don't need to go pirate a $900 piece of software for your signature, lol. ~FarloTalk 20:38, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

probly good idea to get the free trial anyways...., but if you could do it now that'd be great, otherwise i got to wait 44 min.Thon Ghul 20:41, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Sure, done did and uploaded. ~FarloTalk 21:32, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Ty~~Thon Ghul 21:58, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Copyrighted Images

Sorry for the double post, just saw these in the logs. File:User Thon Ghul White Wolf.jpg and File:User Thon GhulVortex.jpg are both images that I've seen before around the internet and as far as I know, they aren't released under GNU. As such, I have to mark them for deletion unless your can provide a seemingly valid link to the images that states they're free to use. If you can't find one, then they'll be deleted in a few days. Sorry, but it's out of my hands :( ~FarloTalk 19:24, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, well thats a bummer ):,well, ty for telling me about both of these problems. ill try to clear up my probs. ~~Thon Ghul 19:58, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

February-March

Thanks! For commenting on my page.

If you have time, this is the basic format I plan to use for each one of my characters; Example Here. This seems to be a common template created by user Lensor for all of us to just fill in the blanks. Thank you for pointing out who might be willing to help, but as I told Alex, I have a husband who is a Tech Guru Monkey. He took the time to brush up things I tend to overlook. He has shown me some of the more complexed coding that goes into a simple navbar. Yuck! I am going to show him the example I made using Lensor's template and see if he can improve it at all.--Wendy Black 17:40, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Nice, if you hapen to come along any wikicoding things that are very interesting let me know --Thon Ghul Talk 21:07, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Comments on Leechers and Scammers

I like the idea that you keep a log of people who don't play nice. What might help is a short comment after the name as to their behavior. For example; John Doe Sells Dyes - Attempting to buy Black dyes from new players at only 1K. (note: I don't know if that player exists or not just used as example.) Also you might want to start is a TROLL category. There was a user named Siva Fish, in presearing talking in all caps, calling people sheep for buying costumes, flaming Anet for "bait and switch" on some purchase they made, and spamming their rant. This went on for hours as my character passed through Ascalon. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wendy Black (talk) at 17:01, 4 February 2012 (UTC).

Hmm, ill try to incorporate that into my list, its a good idea. If you happen to come across any leechers/scamemrs feel free to add them to my list. Im going to try to make a good list, so if you notice any feel free --Thon Ghul Talk 17:20, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Okay, Finished, you can start adding leechers*Scammers*noobs*Trolls*and Bots, into the list now. Fill it up as much as possible (: --Thon Ghul Talk 17:46, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Your repeated attempts to delete that guild page.

Stop. If you leave a guild, the page should still remain. Just don't edit at all if you're not involved with it. File:User Chieftain Alex Chieftain Signature.jpg Chieftain Alex 20:19, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Ok, sorry, when i was reading the article on making a guild page, it said you have to be in the guild to have it... left that one.--Thon Ghul Talk 22:23, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Guild Image

I moved it to File:Guild OMG My Pants Are On logo.jpg per GWW:IMAGE and updated the links on your guild page. Remember to check the naming before you upload anymore images, thanks. ~FarloTalk 02:46, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

oops, sorry bout that --Thon Ghul Talk 18:20, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

This Guild is now (as far as i am concerned) Disbanded

Easy color codes

Hi I updated my User:Wendy_Black/MenuTest area to explain how color codes (#FF00FF) work and included a handy webpage to get the color you want without cooking massive brain cells. So that may help when trying to make up new colors and such.--Wendy Black 15:14, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

K, ill check it out, (: --Thon Ghul Talk 16:48, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Nice, i saved that link under my main page(:, i might start using those colors :P --Thon Ghul Talk 18:03, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Further info for those of you who want to use it, follow my link on main page, then click the 'Webpage App", link on the page you go to. It will take you right there. GL.

Thon Ghul Talk 21:17, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I Now have a nice NEW signature

Thanks to This Guy

He has helped me<through GW2W>

User:Thon Ghul/Sandbox Link where i have Tests laid out(along with the wikicode). Thon Ghul Talk 15:39, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Thon Ghul, I added a section on my test page about this stuff.--Wendy Black 11:21, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

NP (:

Thon Ghul Talk 15:38, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Happy Saint Patricks Day!

Happy Saint Patricks Day! Those of you who are Irish Sign your names below!

• Thon Ghul Talk 23:13, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Saint Patricks Day is over ):, hope you had a good one.Thon GhulTalk

Rescue suggestion

I moved your suggestion for Rescue at Minister Cho's Estate (Hard mode) to the HM quest's talk page. I also copied elements of the ideas into the walkthrough on the normal quest page.

1. We don't want to be too prescriptive in walkthroughs. The idea is to tell people what to expect so that they can prepare, rather than suggest that only a single type of team and/or single strategy can succeed.
2. The community decided a while back to try to use only one article for notes/walkthough etc. First, that means the material is almost always in the first place people look. Second, 90% of the walkthroughs are the same, differing (typically) in minor details. It is helpful for people to see the combined context. (This works for missions and dungeons, even though the difficulty can be markedly different.)

That said, I have used something like your team/tactics in Rescue/HM and I agree that it works reliably (if a bit slow). – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 20:44, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

OK, ill try to keep that in mind in the future. I decided i would write something about the HM version, since I've spent 3 days trying to do the quest. There had been no helpful(or atleast successful) intel of that quest in HM on the wiki. Thank you for telling me about the one article/notes thing, that will definitely help me with future editing. Boy do i hate that quest....

Sincerly

--Thon Ghul Talk 20:49, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

It is a nasty one. (I hate it because it's, well, boring. Once you can rescue one of the peasants, it's just more and still more of the same.)

I agree that our WoC walkthroughs aren't up to snuff, compared to our mission ones. So, yeah, do keep adding/updating the articles (and, like the rest of us, be prepared to see your nice shiny walkthrough mercilessly edited ;-) – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 20:55, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Allright, :P, Ive just finished all the NM ones, so i am working on the HM ones. Cheers, (: --Thon Ghul Talk 20:58, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

BTW, while your here.... Do you have an elite nec tome i could buy on GW?Nvm, Finnally someone sold me one..

--Thon Ghul Talk 20:59, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Help

:Those of you who can, please help me with a Winds of Change Quest, Trading Blows, i can't seem to do it in Hardmode. I will pay you to help. --Thon Ghul Talk 19:37, 21 March 2012 (UTC)