User talk:Zerpha The Improver/Archive3

This page is an archive. The contents have been moved from another page for reference purposes only, and should be preserved in their current form. However, if you feel like trolling, you may do so. But don't pin your hopes on them being read ;)

The current version of this page can be found at Zerpha's talk.

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FIRST!

FOR REALZ NAO! :D - Y0_ich_halt 22:55, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

U FAKKUR! accept the reality, you aren't. —Zerpha

The Improver 23:00, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

I AMZ! - Y0_ich_halt

23:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

But why did you feel like removing it then? Suppose i got you there. Admit it, that's just not the same thing. >;) —Zerpha

The Improver 23:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

i removed it because it looked horrible in code :P and i always remove commenting. - Y0_ich_halt

07:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I thought that's forbidden? —Zerpha

The Improver 07:53, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

hist actually. - Y0_ich_halt

08:00, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll try to hold my tongue. —Zerpha

The Improver 08:11, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

no problem. - Y0_ich_halt

08:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

how does "this" make sense in your comment? 0o —Zerpha

The Improver 08:30, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

i decided to move comments instead of removing them :P - Y0_ich_halt

08:32, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

lol ok, now i got it. —Zerpha

The Improver 08:35, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

good. - Y0_ich_halt

08:45, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Damnit, I knew I shouldn't have taken the day off from wiki-ing yesterday! — ク Eloc 貢 17:30, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

What a shame, you missed finest nonsense, lol. —Zerpha

The Improver 18:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Ya... — ク Eloc 貢 18:39, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Unknown Page

Should someone( not me ) make a page that is filled with Unknown Skills/Weapons/NPCs/Monsters. It would be a place where people can research on them to discover what they are/where they are/what they do. Treesbyty 14:41, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

If you want to leaf through these things, i'd advice to take a look at Category:Unimplemented content and Category:Historical content. Or did you mean you'd like to see a project for this? —Zerpha

The Improver 18:46, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Categorical Index

Heya, I know we talked about this, and I brought it up on the talk page, but no one seemed to care, so I added it. Guild Wars Wiki:Categorical index it still needs some stuff added, I was trying to not duplicate things, but some of it is inevitable, and if you want to change the color, go for it, I just wanted something that wasn't already being used. I also created a new color reference page of all the color schemes that have been assigned stuff in GWW - GWW:COLORS -- Wynthyst 23:17, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

The new color used for the images is nice, and of course some categories overlap with each other. But it's already a great list, more than i would have added, so this looks almost comlete for me. Though in case i should notice anything that's missing i'll add it. GWW:COLORS is also a nice idea for an overview. But shouldn't this page be moved to Guild Wars Wiki:Formatting/Colors? Maybe you should leave a note on other pages like GWW:BOXES about it as well? —Zerpha

The Improver 12:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

We talked about the name of it and everyone seemed to agree that just Colors was ok. --

Wynthyst 07:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Ah, ok excuse me then i didn't know about the discussion. —Zerpha

The Improver 11:54, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Phew!

Ok, all of the articles have been created. A few need images, but I'll get those done hopefully by tonight. But there is one problem. I'm looking at the PvP weapon creation screen right now, and the Hallowed Idol has no PvP prefix. I'm hesitant to create one with a PvP prefix, because....well, it doesnt exist XD. should we direct it to the main Hallowed Idol page for now? ~ Wandering Traveler 23:20, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

eh, nevermind on that. I went ahead and created PvP Hallowed Idol, but added as a bug that it had no PvP prefix. Hopefully that'll do it. But aside from that, I think I'm done :) ~

Wandering Traveler 00:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Nice! Creating "PvP Hallowed Idol" was also a good idea i think, that's a minor text bug for sure. Though i'll add a disambig to the Hallowed Idol article, as currently it's still named linke this :P —Zerpha

The Improver 07:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Sweet, sounds good! Should we add in that category discussed on the Formatting page? I'm not certain as to how to create a category, so...bleh, lack of wiki knowledge on my end. >.< ~

Wandering Traveler 13:23, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Creating categories is exactly done as creating any other usual articles, the diffrence is that it's content will be filled with pages tagged with that category, but you know about that. :P

We should maybe wait a bit longer with creation and the tagging spree, as meanwhile only one day passed off, not many saw that discussion yet. Possibly someone comes up with another idea, or we get at least a response what others think. (But i strongly suppose the name is OK) —Zerpha

The Improver 13:27, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. I'll add that page to my watchlist and see if anything comes up. ~

Wandering Traveler 13:33, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

fyi

might just be me but your user boxes dont make nice rows :) you mudbrick one is sticking out of its nice little row — Renuro Seru Talk 23:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

and i don't like being rickrolled xD — Renuro Seru

Talk 23:31, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

do you refer to the horizontal or the vertical row? i reordered the boxes a bit and changed the design of some slightly, do you like it better now? (the missing userbox will be added l8r) :P

btw, great to hear the rickroll works again. xD i should add the old warning to this userbox^^ —Zerpha

The Improver 14:09, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Vertical rows are out of whack. — Renuro Seru

Talk 14:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

some horizontal aren't in a row, but the vertical ones all look straight for me. Maybe you are only confused by the border of the mudkip box, as the mudbrick box uses the same color for the border and the picture background, which possibly makes it appears longer than it actually is? —Zerpha

The Improver 17:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

File:User Seru boxes.jpg

nope def out of line — Renuro Seru Talk 17:28, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

File:User Zerpha The Improver userboxes screenshot.jpg

weird, not for me. Maybe i've got another firefox version? But well, i'll have to change my if it looks like this for others :/ —Zerpha The Improver 17:45, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Is it different for the regions? or it might just be because I have a widescreen display 1680x1050. — Renuro Seru

Talk 18:48, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah it looks normal untill you make the page large enough to where there could be 4 rows and then the box moves over. It only looks bad to us weird people :) — Renuro Seru

Talk 23:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Yays it looks nice now — Renuro Seru

Talk 15:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

(Reset indent) Yay, i actually had second thoughts, but i'm glad it works now :P —Zerpha The Improver 15:55, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Urgh

I'm a photoshop nub and I can't figure out how to get any icons exported with texmod transparent *pulls out some hair* - help? <_< Jennalee 06:36, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh, sry. I forgot to mention one part on the project's main page. You need to download an auxiliary module for Photoshop in order to be able to read the .tga files. The file i downloaded was named "Targa.8BI". You have to put it in the "File Formats" folder in order to work. The entire adress is most likely something like C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Plug-Ins\File Formats —Zerpha

The Improver 12:32, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Nope, those were from the dat. I have no idea why they're yellow when the real base color is red, so I guess that's a bug (like some of the icons being miniaturised or having really jagged edges - they seem to have been very rushed). I managed to stumble upon Adriunna's talkpage archives in the meantime and ended up using Paint.NET to save Sskai's sword to a transparent png but I have two versions of the icon as I seem to have both the old and new versions of the sword and I'm not entirely sure which one is the currently dropped... Jennalee 13:08, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, trying to get both icons will be very hard. Atm we don't have any duplicates saved with old appearance, or at least we don't know that one of the icon is an old one. —Zerpha

The Improver 15:09, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Icons

Can we upload icons of dyed armor and weapons as well as the grey ones? — Renuro Seru Talk 01:12, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

and i got the backround off the one pic of the glasses but i can't tell if it great enough quality to keep.

(mine) compared to

(old) — Renuro Seru

Talk 01:23, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

The old one is fine, to keep consistency. Calor

02:42, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, the grey background is a bit annoying, but i also tried to get rid of it, with even worse results ;) Yours doesn't have a shade unlike the original one, so unless we get someone that is able to remove the grey background without decreasing the quality, i think we should keep the normal ones. However, if you prefer your version, you can upload them in your user namespace ofc.

I also thought about colored icons once. But this would give a very huge uncompleted list, even if we are not going to upload dye mixes would this more then decouple the icons list. On the armor gallery pages are one dyed example and the grey appearance listed, so we could possibly try to get grey icons. Actually i don't really think we urgently need them, but you could nevertheless propose your idea on the project's talk (or possibly the image formatting talk instead). But don't forget about the minorcase rule: except for propoer nouns, words shouldn't be written with capital letters, so the naming should be something like File:Elementalist Asuran Shoes m black.png instead. (The colored armor images also have the color word behind the gender, so if we'd upload them, their naming should be adapted to those images) —Zerpha

The Improver 12:48, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Regarding the grey background, it's easy to remove in GIMP by messing with the alpha level. instructions -Smurf 14:48, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Emote Box

I think we need a favorite emote userbox — Renuro Seru Talk 12:21, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, nice idea, but how should this look like? Emotes are dependent from gender, and in some cases from class as well. But there isn't any specific icon one could use for those boxes. You could use the emotes' letters, but some of them are too long for a userbox. Maybe something like

/dance

This user's favorite emote is the male ranger dance.

.

But if we include the gender icon, it should possibly also get a diffrent background, in this case we'd couldn't use {{userbox}} and would have to examine its coding. :P —Zerpha The Improver 13:41, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

-> User:Y0 ich halt/Templates/User Emote coming soon! XD - Y0_ich_halt

13:44, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

xD alright. —Zerpha

The Improver 13:46, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

New Box

I got a new userbox for you ;)

This user is a member of the Seru fan cub.

— Renuro Seru Talk 19:11, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

you are your own fan? cool :D I hope you don't mind that i don't show it on my page, as normally i don't list "fan of user x"-boxes :x —Zerpha

The Improver 13:16, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

fyi

hiOni 11:12, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

hi2u —Zerpha

The Improver 13:17, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Dat request

Hey Zerpha, I know that you're a dat genius, so could I point you to User talk:Brains12#Request? I think Calor is working on it as well, so the more the merrier. -- Brains12 \ talk 01:45, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Like looking for a needle in one huge-ass haystack. I'm guessing it'll be somewhere in ATEXDXT1. Calor

01:55, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

USE A MAGNET! -- NUKLEAR

IIV 02:01, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

... a plastic needle. Calor

02:04, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

...plastic magnet? -- NUKLEAR

IIV 02:07, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Ingenious. --

Brains12 \ talk 02:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

I know. -- NUKLEAR

IIV 02:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, that's one of the guild cape emblems, right? Ok, Calor seemingly didn't find it yet, so i'll try to help. :) I also suppose it's either of type ATEXDXT1 or ATEXDXT5. —Zerpha

The Improver 12:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Wynthyst is also on it, so we should get it found in no time. :)--

Brains12 \ talk 13:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

WooT

yay i got my icon on the archive — Renuro Seru Talk 15:11, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Hehe, you appeared to be a bit grieved that i didn't use your userbox, and most sections from this talk came from you, so i decided to use your sig-icon for this archive :P —Zerpha

The Improver 15:33, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

also, you wasted a perfect first! - Y0_ich_halt

15:59, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Same procedure as every year, James! —Zerpha

The Improver 16:40, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Zerpha :)

I would really appreciate it if you and all visitors of this page took a look at this: User:Ninjas In The Sky/Coolest Title Ninjas In The Sky 19:20, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

What the....?

Hey Zerpha, by some reason or another, your user talk has been placed into the PvP Starter weapons category, and I can't figure out for the life of me how you are in there....Last I knew, you werent a PvP weapon, but maybe things have changed? o.o ~ Wandering Traveler 19:22, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh right lol, it has to be somewhere here on this page, i'll try to find it and add the missing colon^^ —Zerpha

The Improver 19:23, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Ok, Brains found it :P —Zerpha

The Improver 19:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Yo momma

war das nicht "...heißt harald und ist die stärkste im knast"? - Y0_ich_halt 19:31, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Ich hatte den Spruch als Name einer Gruppe im Schüler-VZ gesehen, da war von einem gewissen Peter die Rede. —Zerpha

The Improver 23:05, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

stalkerVZ! - Y0_ich_halt

09:12, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

To momma...speaks German when she's drunk? Calor

20:47, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Huh? I don't exactly get what you mean :P "Yo momma"-jokes are known as "Dei mudda"-jokes in german, and i tried to translate one of them for halogod, y0 saw that and wondered whether the description of the joke was diffrent. —Zerpha

The Improver 11:17, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

PvP reward weapon skin icons

As User:WarIock was kind enough to upload screenshots of some of the exotic pvp reward weapons which have been missing for a very long time, you could probably reupload the icons you got from the dat from seeing the greens under their official, non-unique item skin names. I'm thinking of ones like the Elliptical Staff, Prismatic Staff, Prismatic Scepter, Bedlam Staff etc Jennalee 11:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure, thanks for pointing that out to me. —Zerpha

The Improver 11:18, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

PvE classes

Where does the asterik apply to? The Ranger or the Monk? — ク Eloc 貢 19:42, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

The ranger. Lvl 12 since a long time, but i recently noticed that this char even got his first birthday present now^^ I'll maybe create some character subpages in the future, that'd be better than the current note on the buttom... —Zerpha

The Improver 11:21, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations! You win silver. :P

Zerpha The Improver scored silver on one of Halogod's Contests.

and if I had to comment on Y0's burn.. I'd say... "Touché" →[ »Halogod (talk)« ]← 01:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

xD tyvm! —Zerpha

The Improver 20:14, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

shield icons

I added several shield icons, I didn't want to move them top the top of the page until you confirmed them, hard to tell the difference on some. Fall 12:17, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, i noticed that. In some cases the dyed icon appearace is slightly diffrent, but almost the same. Did you reupload the icons of the undyed versions of the items skin? I also did that with several items of which i noticed that they have the same appearance. —Zerpha

The Improver 12:20, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know all the ones I uploaded are the unique "green" skin Fall 12:22, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Question for ya do all green weapons/shield have their own icon in the gwdat or are some the same as the normal but show up with a different color/tint in game? Fall 12:31, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Most unique weapons use the undyed icon of their skin used, but with a special coloring. Due to this, most unique items have to be extracted by using texmod, as it can directly draw the icons with their right coloring as seen ingame. That makes getting greens a bit harder than regular weapons imo, as you have to directly extract them ingame. —Zerpha

The Improver 13:05, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Unused Icons

Unused icons from the .dat files are in the Orphaned images. I skipped all of them I believe in my most recent tagging run. It's a good idea to go grab them when you can. --People of Antioch 17:20, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

~~Oh, excuse me. I must have forgotten to add some to the list of unshown items. —Zerpha The Improver 12:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)~~

Oh right these icons. They got actually replaced for icons with gender disambiguation, but I didn't want to add the deletition tag to them yet in case someone prefers a common file...on the other side, when regarding the necromancer icons, that was about one week ago, additionally, the discussions more often came up that common names for icons are not that reasonable, so i suppose i can add the deletition tag to them. —Zerpha

The Improver 12:17, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

hay

Is fox's drawing a copyvio, people stalkez me D: --Super Igor User:Super Igor 18:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, sounds weird, but afaik you can also claim a copyright for drawings that look similar to the original...I can remember Tab's piplup drawing that was also removed for this reason. —Zerpha

The Improver 11:29, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Whammo legs

Lookie <_< Jennalee 08:50, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

when I saw this in RC, i thought "Wammo legs" was some new expression. Disappointed. Backsword 08:54, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Why? Since when did any other boots icon actually include some real legs in it? <_< Jennalee 08:55, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

...I'm joking here. Cut off legs are good too. Backsword 08:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Weird icon o.o - anja

08:57, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Reminds me of

. —Zerpha

The Improver 10:52, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

chop chop xD Jennalee 11:20, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Icons and Misc

Items I have on me but aren't in gw.dat,

Arrahhsh's Aegis, Jacqui's Aegis, Onwan's Aegis, Eye of Argon (r)

Ryver's Shortbow, Razorjaw's Hornbow, Benwah's Recurve Bow (r)

Jeahr's Daggers (r), Everthorn's Chakrams

Luluh's Spear (r)

Spiriteater (r), Tarlok's Flagon, Foulfist's Focus, Chan's Greed

Spiritgarden's Repose (r)

Mina's Gaze (listed under focus but its a wand)

Checked icons (have them all on me also),

Galigord's Stone Scroll, The Soulstone, Wandalz's Refuge, Gorrel's Cane, Maul of the Kinslayer

The Stonehart (yes the icon is blue not pink), Korvald's Chakram, Wroth's Holy Rod, Ivor's Smiting Rod

Galigord's Rod, Villnar's Glove, Arbor's Earth Staff, Illyana's Staff, Grognar's Blade, Fleshweaver

Zoldark's Focus, Gordac's Needle, Brohn's Holy Rod, Gordac's Holy Rod, Korvald's Cane, Wingstorm, Rago's Flame Wand

Garbok's Cane, Miella's Focus, Rot's Putrescence, Gloomy Artifact, Handsmasher, Quivering Blade, Grabthar's Hammer

Missing From List(s),

The Stonereaper

If you want to meet me ingame sometime I can show you the items I have that won't show up in the dat. Fall 14:04, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. (I also have a stonehart and noticed that its color changed with an update, i think that was when the new dye system was introduced; what also caused many greens to change their colored appearance slightly). What does (r) mean? —Zerpha

The Improver 15:31, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Lol forgot I left those on there, did a copy paste from my green list I had, r means they are on my real account not storage accounts :P Fall 15:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, ok^^ I could take a look at the icons now until 16:30, in case you've got the time as well. —Zerpha

The Improver 15:36, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm online now :) Fall 15:40, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I've got all 16 icons saved as png files on my computer now, i'll upload them l8r when i'm back :) —Zerpha

The Improver

Boxes

Feel free to add any of your favorites on my new userbox page. and i got a new box for ya

The Lich is Zerpha's favorite miniature.

— Renuro Seru Talk 06:29, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

yay, nice guess, that's in fact one of my favourite minis :) —Zerpha

The Improver 13:14, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

This user hates dealing with the GFDL and other copyrights.

And another one — Renuro Seru Talk 20:21, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

hehe :P But GFDL is a good thing, files with it can be used without any concern. —Zerpha

The Improver 23:31, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Please provide your input

Here--Primeval Sentinel Talk 05:26, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, i see you found a better place than me to start this discussion. Ok, i'll have a look at it :) —Zerpha

The Improver 06:43, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Favorite miniature

Hey Zerpha thanks for taking care of the change to this template, oddly enough I never even thought of using a switch function to take care of the three exceptions even though I've used it before :) --Kakarot 03:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Thx for Improving my template =P — Renuro Seru

Talk 04:40, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

hehe, no problem. That's one of the few coding things i'm aware of.^^ —Zerpha

The Improver 08:22, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Only problem with that is this one — Renuro Seru

Talk 17:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

The Celestial Rat is 's favorite miniature.

Noticed you have been making userboxes. Possible for you to come up with one for users who love minitures but don't have any particular favorite? –

Barinthus 17:15, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, what about {{User Miniature collector}}? Or would you prefer a userbox that only states that you like them in general, though don't especially collect them? —Zerpha The Improver 17:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

just noticed you alredy have such a userbox, so i suppose you'd prefer something like {{User miniature fan}}? —Zerpha

The Improver 17:55, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh and Seru, thanks for advising me to that, The celestial miniatures should possibly get a special background. :P —Zerpha

The Improver 17:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Does Kunna look odd on the green backround? — Renuro Seru

Talk 18:05, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

The Kuunavang is nicely visible on the box imo in case it should be used by someone as it's his/her's favorite miniature.

—Zerpha The Improver 18:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Well then =P — Renuro Seru

Talk 18:11, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I started working on Barinthus's box, but on this page it doesn't want to stay in line — Renuro Seru

Talk 18:53, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Fixed :P You accidentally included {{clear}}. —Zerpha

The Improver 18:57, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Yays lol — Renuro Seru

Talk 18:59, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Just noticed you changed the description similar to my version of the {{User any profession}}. Though i suppose in general the description from the original would be better. You could also add a second parameter for this, either to completely exclude it from the box, to add the "tries to..." version, or the "does not..." version. —Zerpha

The Improver 19:03, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Thats something you can do =P — Renuro Seru

Talk 19:07, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I might do it but i would have to learn how to. — Renuro Seru

Talk 19:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

(and {{User not miniature fan}} this one is for Yo — Renuro Seru

Talk 19:19, 6 July 2008 (UTC))

Maybe you want to have a look at meta:Help:ParserFunctions. That's the page i used to learn them, along with trial and error, and while looking at other templates using such functions, for example the {{Item infobox}}. There are many descriptions that would suit to {{User not miniature fan}}, you could later add some by trying to create a switch for a further parameter to the template. :P —Zerpha

The Improver 19:34, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Think i figured it out thx — Renuro Seru

Talk 19:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Cheers. —Zerpha

The Improver 19:54, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Redirects

Tag 'em, please. Backsword

but ok, i'll tag them. ~~You want a shorter RC description right?~~ —Zerpha

The Improver 20:26, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Just look at my edit for the one you did. (Assuming you're planing to do all of them?) Backsword 20:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) D'oh yeah, that tag :P Yes, i'll start a spree with that one now. —Zerpha

The Improver 20:30, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

ok, i created the pages now. Title statues redirect to "Honor"#Title_statues and non-title statues to "Honor"#Non-title_statues, and both are tagged with {{general term}}. —Zerpha

The Improver 20:44, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Monster Skill Icons

Since you seem to be the crazy image guy, I figured this was the best place to ask. Why exactly is it that we have a bunch of redundant monster skill icon images for every monster skill? (Example being Image:Afflicted Soul Explosion.jpg and Image:Parasitic Bite.jpg being the same thing). I'm curious as to why we have that instead of one base icon that we use for all the monster skills.....seems really odd to me. o.O -- Wandering Traveler 00:42, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

So we can autoproduce an icon from just the name.

So that we can redirect the skills icon to the skill itself.

So that if Anet ever gives them an icon of their own, we can just upload it without worry that it will break something somewhere.

Backsword 00:44, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

.......Interesting. Thanks Backsword. Thats been bothering me for a while. --

Wandering Traveler 00:46, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

me once too :D Backsword helped out there as well. Btw, i don't do that much with skill icons, but Risky for example, which uploads lots of new icons with better quality. Though that needn't say he knows more than Backsword about the "rulings". :P —Zerpha

The Improver 04:44, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Pages to be split

Accursed Icon, Air Staff, Ancient Scythe, Communing Staff, Fire Staff, Idol, Jeweled Chalice, Jeweled Staff, Onyx Staff, War Hammer, and Water Staff need to be split, do you want to split these since you know alot about the weapons? Fall 12:55, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, there's not that much to know about :P Naming the disambiguations is either done by taking a look at Tolkano's reward item page, items that use the same skin and have a better name. Sometimes you also have to think something up (in regards of the Grim Cesta for example)

Yet i'm not certainly sure whether splitting the weapon pages that differ in appearance dependent on rarity is very senseful (Ancient Daggers became split already), as they are rather the same item and have the same drop locations/campaigns. —Zerpha

The Improver 13:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't really see a problem with leaving them like they are and removing the split tags, I was just going through the pages to be split as some have been there for months. Fall 19:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Stickman

i am sooo stealing this! - Y0_ich_halt 10:01, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Don't tell me, tell smurf ;) —Zerpha

The Improver 10:02, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, i see, you refered to the description behind the pipe —Zerpha

The Improver 10:03, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

not really. - Y0_ich_halt

10:11, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Someones box

I think you could fix this box up nicely :) — Renuro Seru Talk boxes 17:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

And i know i may be box happy o.O I was bored so i made some {{User Boxing}}, {{User Dragon Arena}}, {{User Rollerbeetle}} — Renuro Seru

Talk or boxes 18:27, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

umm what did you do to it?

File:User seru bday phail.png

— Renuro Seru

Talk or boxes 02:24, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

I accidentally included the <br>s in the template at first. It also looks that ugly to me currently, but that seems to be a wiki bug, the template works. (D'oh i have to rework those text colors) —Zerpha

The Improver 02:28, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Once again we thank you for writing the insanely long amount of code for one small box — Renuro Seru

Talk or boxes 03:16, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

No problem^^ Some colors still look horrible, though (sry for that late reply, i just accidentally fucked up my youtube channel colors and had to fix that) —Zerpha

The Improver 03:55, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

The page still looks messed up to me :\ — Renuro Seru

Talk or boxes 04:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Nvm i fixed it. You left {{clear}} after the boxes and that messed up the page big — Renuro Seru

Talk or boxes 05:36, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Ah, ok thank you :) —Zerpha

The Improver 06:28, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

I think I needed this since its like all i do here :) {{User Userbox Helper}} — Renuro Seru

Talk or boxes 19:49, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Haha, nice idea^^ —Zerpha

The Improver 20:00, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

and random thought but do we have a standard on them? like 45px for the images? — Renuro Seru

Talk or boxes 20:21, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

most of the userboxes use 43px, as a larger image size broadens the boxes afaik —Zerpha

The Improver 20:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) 45-48px is an inofficial standard set by w:Template:Babel i think. as you can see, i changed the box layout for my main page, as did poke and many others. - Y0_ich_halt

20:27, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

45? Well ok forget what i said then Seru, i'll also create future user box templates with 45px images^^ —Zerpha

The Improver 20:32, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

I think we should make the 45px the standard o.O maybe as a policy? idk i dont like the bureaucratic stuff. (just look at this) — Renuro Seru

Talk 20:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

wikipedia standard is 45px. i use 48px on my userbox page and a completely different version on my main page XD - Y0_ich_halt

20:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

More images for you

The various Monk Labyrinthine icons are orphaned, so pick them up when you can. --People of Antioch 20:30, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

oh, excuse me, i forgot to tag those when replacing them - tagged for deletition now. —Zerpha

The Improver 00:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Broken redirect

I have no idea where this page has moved, can this redirect be tagged for deletion? or do you want to direct it to the appropriate page? Fall 00:38, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, no. Thanks for reminding me of that, it's another page i forgot to tag for deletition. :P The project subpage was first named "Pre-order items", then soon got moved to "Bonus items" and then finally got moved (including talk page) to "Promotional weapons"). The "Bonus items" redirection pages got removed already as i tagged them, because of that it's a broken redirect. I tagged it for deletition now :) —Zerpha

The Improver 00:47, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/Inventory icons/Promotional weapons. I tagged the redirect for speedy R4. Calor

00:48, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

I already wondered about the second R4 deletition box. (Opened the GWWT's speedy deletition box, supposed it was my mistake. Thanks Calor^^ —Zerpha

The Improver 00:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

HoM render page

You might wanna check over this page to see if there's anything else that should be added, I didn't add armor statues yet, I'm not sure if we should either due to the mass amount of work. Fall 13:28, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Creating a second subpage for the hom renders was a good idea, and i think your addition with the fellowship and valor monument completed this project's subsection. The armor and miniature statues are both unneeded, as they show up with regular coloring. The miniatures move (no special pose) and use the model of an existing NPC, the armor statues are copies of the character's hom with a complete armor set that is shown without special pose like the renders emily all already uploaded with the profession's default colors. —Zerpha

The Improver 13:39, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

64x64 quest icons too?

Should I be uploading the quest icons and replacing the non 64x64 images? Fall 13:55, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

It's not urgent, but i planned to do so, yes. Great work on the miniature icons btw, i already wooried that the Naga Raincaller will be hard to get. :) Talking about the quest icons and trophies, i wanted to upload seperate icons for each article, even if they share their image. The reason for this is that we can then add a redirect to the according article. (In case {{item icon}} gets used sometimes; i planned an equivalent of {{NPC location}} as "{{NPC loot}}"/"{{Item drop}}", as i'm unsatisfied with the Items dropped-section on the monster articles or the Acquisition-section on the weapons article since a long time. —Zerpha

The Improver 14:06, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Ive had the same gw.dat file since I started playing so theirs not much I don't have, one of the problems I face is not recognizing the icons in my dat, if you keep adding the icons needed to the list that you don't have I can probably find them if i see them in a non 64x64 format so its easier for me to recognize. Fall 14:12, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Good news. Regarding "collectable drop-trophies" and quest items, i should also have all of them in my gw.dat. (I saved non-weapon, non-armor icons once all in a folder, so you don't need to bother yourself finding them at first in your gw.dat if you haven't saved them yet, if you don't want). Well, anyways: Category:Trophy icons and Category:Quest item icons are nice lists for an overview, yet they are currently still quite mixed up, as they include both shared and seperate icons. The actual reason for not having started to get these icons straight up is that i actually [[(see wanted a nice name for a sub-category for the "collectable-drop-trophies" at first. (Otherwise this would require another tagging-spree someday again, hence it would be easier when including it immediately while uploading them) But when thinking about it, Category:Quest item icons does n contrast not need any subcategories i could think of, this could actually get fixed up by now. —Zerpha

The Improver 14:27, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Both of those cats sorted, when i added page needs to be sorted, I'm referring to the icons need to be unlinked and uploaded for each page, if thats what you want to do. Fall 15:43, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Jeah, i already presumed that. I'll do so after having uploaded the single icons, those are done faster. (Btw, looks like the "collactable-drop-trophies" will stay in Category:Trophy icons for a while^^') —Zerpha

The Improver 15:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

so i herd u liek teh kitteh

User:Y0 ich halt/Epicwin - Y0_ich_halt 16:10, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

rofl! where did you find that? —Zerpha

The Improver 16:20, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

it's a secret :] - Y0_ich_halt

16:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Fav mini box

uh is there a way to take out the "the" in the box when you use "The Frog" as your fav mini otherwises it shows up as The The Frog. — Seru Talk 16:09, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

whoops, didn't notice that. i'll fix it. —Zerpha

The Improver 18:27, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

thx i didn't see it untill today lol — Seru

Talk 19:01, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

me as well, for some reason —Zerpha

The Improver 19:02, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

o yeah random question but does my font show up to you? or is it just normal font turned red? — Seru

Talk 19:14, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

It's a different one for me than the regular wiki font. —Zerpha

The Improver 19:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

weapon render project

you may want to check this out :) Fall 18:10, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Nice. I'll try to provide an overview of the shared models. —Zerpha

The Improver 18:38, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Moving

When moving, remember to "move" talk pages so they drag the history around. There is this whole "attribution" discussion somewhere else, so it's better doing it now than leaving it for others to do it anyways.--Fighterdoken 22:16, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Trophy images

Heya, I was noticing there are several trophies listed in the Image Needed category. I have most all of them in inventory, but I don't know how to extract them using textmod, and not sure I can identify them all in the DAT. If you'd like me to show them to you, and get them cleaned out of Image Needed, I'd be happy to help.-- Wyn 11:11, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Sure. Tell me on the wiki or ingame when you get the time for doing it. Btw, which trophies actually? —Zerpha

The Improver 15:39, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Hand Axe

Could you explain what is required for Hand Axe and Hand Axe (Canthan)? Tagging with G4 isn't exactly helpful on what's being attempted. Which is needed to be moved where? And if the the redirect is to be retained, the move isn't really necessary. -- ab.er.rant 16:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

d'oh, i actually alrady wrote an answer and thought i saved it, but seemingly i didn't. Well, the last comment was a bit mixed up anyways, so i'll try to answer in catchwords tis time:

Hand Axe (canthan) got moved to Hand Axe (Canthan) (see reason for capitalization here)
- G4 tag on Hand Axe (Canthan) was an error and got removed now
Hand Axe (tyrian) got moved to Hand Axe (Tyrian) for the same reason
Hand Axe (Tyrian) was then planned to get moved to Hand Axe, but couldn't get moved as "Hand Axe" already exists. (reason: i realized that Hand Axe redirect to Hand Axe (Tyrian). As there are only two weapons named "Hand Axe", the article "Hand Axe" does not need to be a disambiguation page and can act for the more common of those two weapons (in this case the Tyrian version).) —Zerpha The Improver 16:56, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Rhino's Sloth

do you have any info on this hammer? Fall 16:05, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Not more than you :) I only once noticed that name on the Hammer article. I didn't even know the taiwanese promotional items until i searched the wiki for "Rhino's Sloth" now :P —Zerpha

The Improver 17:02, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Category:Spear Mastery unique items and Category:Unique spears

Theres been a problem lately with the double unique tags on certian weapon articles. (an example of this can be found here.) I'm wondering about spears in particular, because they both are listed in the above categories. But doesnt it seem a bit redundant to have unique spears and spear mastery unique items as different categories? I'm thinking we need to choose whether to keep one or the other. Any thoughts? -- Wandering Traveler 04:23, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Well, this double "unique"-tag issue, and the "doubled" category for unique spears are two different things, aren't they?

Regarding the doubled tag-issue, i already noticed it and changed a bunch of them, though i'm not certainly sure whether that was a good idea (similar to Vorith)

But i agree with you, one of these two spear categories are redundant and could be tagged for deletition. I noticed that the same applies to every other weapon type. I suppose they were made as there's a difference in those categories where one weapon can have multiple attributes: Shields, Foci, Wands and Staves. —Zerpha

The Improver 14:35, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't think they're two different things. I remember trying to fix the unique spears category by readding the redundant Unique tag. It wasnt the greatest thing I could have done, but it fixed that category for the time being. After checking over some of the other Unique categories, it seems that one unique led to one category, while the other lead to another unique category. (example being Category:Unique bows and Category:Unique recurve bows. Removing one unique tag removed it from the former, but it was still in the latter category. I hope that made sense, my mind is not at its prime atm >.< --

Wandering Traveler 14:46, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Oh right, they both have to do with the {{Weapon infobox}}. :P It's likely coded in a way that only certain descriptions of the parameters will cause an auto-categorization. The main problem is likely that this template is a bit mixed up atm... —Zerpha

The Improver 15:03, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Great, so the only fix is to change around the entire template? o.O --

Wandering Traveler 15:14, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Either that, or everything else that uses this template. —Zerpha

The Improver 17:59, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Methinks Wikichu will like that kind of project.... --

Wandering Traveler 18:18, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

vandal

umm? — Seru Talk 18:14, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Wow. That's err... new. Calor

21:30, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

lol! :D (oh btw, i'm back :P) —Zerpha

The Improver 10:08, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

~~==Crate of Fireworks.png== This need to get reuploaded with no background. — Seru Talk 02:48, 5 August 2008 (UTC)~~

Need help

I need help working on my new userbox. the code is all here and examples are here. I cant figure out how to let the userboxes be {{any-color}} by just putting a 2 or no. They just stay in there specialty colored forms. and i need to fix the witches hat dilemma since it has 2 forms xD.— Seru Talk 19:51, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

wb

Welcome back! — Seru Talk 15:03, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

thanks^^ hmmm i could still try to fix this favourite festival hat template if you want. i have no idea whethers it's fixed now or not, but i saw it on a userpage already. —Zerpha

The Improver 15:04, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I had Yo fix it. Think it was missing a {{{1|}}}. I got it on my nav bar already =P — Seru

Talk 15:07, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

oic :P —Zerpha

The Improver 15:12, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Along with the new drama meter userbox — Seru

Talk 15:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

yeah, i noticed that one^^ —Zerpha

The Improver 15:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Since there is a warzone. warning clicking that link will take you to the warzone. — Seru

Talk 15:17, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

wow, that's a huge zone. —Zerpha

The Improver 15:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Thats why i stay safely two pages away :) — Seru

Talk 15:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

WRP

Would you mind doing the Focus, Wand, and Staff pages, I think you wanted to sort them by attribute or something can't remember. Fall 17:38, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Ah, at first didn't know what you refer to, suppose you're talking about the Guild Wars Wiki:Projects/Weapon models? —Zerpha

The Improver 18:01, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

yea, if you could find time to do those ill try to complete all the other pages as time allows. Fall 18:11, 13 August 2008 (UTC)