User talk:Alton

[edit] Pics

When do you think you will be able to post the other pictures in the gallery. --Croc 02:41, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

What other pictures did you have in mind? I think I covered what people asked for in the talk page. z ε n  04:47, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Editors that don't provide an edit summary tend to look like vandals

I have noticed you commonly don't enter an edit summary as you didn't when you edited The Sims Stories (see this edit). This causes me problems. When I patrol for vandalism, I use the summary to make a preliminary decision on whether or not the post is a vandal edit or not. If the summary is present (or at least a section header, the part inside the /* */), I commonly decide the edit is legit and move on.

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Incidentally, it is not just me that appreciate having edit summaries. When you omit your summary, you may be telling various bots that you are vandalizing pages. For this reason, please consider providing that summary. It is very important. You can enter that summary via the edit summary box on edit pages (as shown below).

• By "Name", do you mean "Brent"? I use my name as my user name. So, in and of itself, I don't see a problem there. However, if you want to keep your real name private, that might be a violation of WP:HAR. In that case, it might be fair to remove your personal information, but it is still in page history -- not really gone. You might consider asking at the village pump, specifically in the policy section. Also, a list of user warning template is evolving at WP:UWT. We could use your input. The list I have doesn't yet show a replacement for {{pinfo4}}, which was used to warn against posting private information. You could suggest what the warning would read, when we should use it, etc.
• I do think you should add some summary to even minor edits. At least specify the type of edit. This could be "sp" (for spelling), "rm dated information" (rm for removed), or "grammar". Unfortunately, many vandals have found that clicking the Minor checkbox is really easy and fast. Hence, my recommendation. As it happens, your browser is trying to help you out. As long as you have a recent version of IE or Firefox, the subject/summary box should have a history section that appears as you type. Simply put, your browser tries to remember what you entered in that field before. If that is not enough, you should install Cacycle's wikEd wiki editing tool. It provides better toolbars than what are built-in to the normal edit page and Syntax highlighting. As a bonus, it also provides another way to quickly recall a standardized list of entries. I use wikEd, but not for the history part. That I rely on Firefox for.

Will (Talk - contribs) 05:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, great. I'll check that out AND remember to summarize from now on. z ε n 05:50, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Why are you attacking me!!!

Was it neccessary for you to write on the history page that I made numerous errors, you know that your work isn't perfect either, and stop trying to pick fight.

This is a place of work and research. Using my name is are violating Harassment Policy. Modifying my talk page as well as modifying yours, modifying THS's, and modifying Twigs is unacceptable behavior. Removing your signature and not signing is also unacceptable. All this is according to Wikipedia's policy, so this cannot be construed as an attack. z ε n  03:07, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] THS

Thanks for the compliments, but I have a question regarding the edit summary box. What is it and who do I fill it in. Thanks once again. --Croc 03:48, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

On the edit page, there's a long input box above the "This is a minor edit" and "Watch this page" checkboxes. It reads "Edit summary (Briefly describe the changes you have made)" and that's what you do. Usually you put in "+history" or "sp", etc. See this guy Will who left Editors that don't provide an edit summary tend to look like vandals, that long warning for me on this page? z ε n  05:04, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Confirmation

I am also Alton at Wikimedia Commons. z ε n  07:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Étude Op. 25, No. 12

Please add more text to this article otherwise it will be deleted. --[|.K.Z|][|.Z.K|] 07:42, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok. z ε n  07:43, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User page

You're addicted to Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu too? You are my new favouritest person evar. -Pandacomics 15:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeh, it's hilarious! Thanks for all the (correct) info on the articles. z ε n  00:28, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Étude Op. 25, No. 10

Great series of Chopin articles. It looks like you got distracted from this, though. I think you need to at least add some stub-like text. The article shouldn't really be left like this. DavidRF 20:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot about that one! Thanks for amending the categories and cleaning up. z ε n  23:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyediting

I believe I've been on this talk page before, but I also noticed that you are a copyeditor. Just wondering, would you mind doing a full onslaught on the crappy prose in the Musical Career section of S.H.E? -Pandacomics 21:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I can work through it, in time. There's quite a lot! z ε n ♪ 01:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TS2

Some of the cruft does need to be cleared out of the Sims articles. They seem to be an incredible magnet for it, and things like the Bella goth mystery really aren't that notable for someone interested in learning about the game. In the grand scheme of things Maxis has done very little to further it and its mostly been fan creation. I wouldn't object to any kind of clean-up and shortening of material which doesn't directly relate to The Sims 2 the game. So if the expansion/stuff/add-on section can be shortened, that would be good. As far as the Sex controversy it arose from custom content, so it I can see it being in there. But perhaps at the end (swap places with The body shop)--Crossmr 21:42, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Could use your clean up skills over at the TS2 Seasons article as well. I need to find the link to the game guide wiki where people can write about this stuff.--Crossmr 16:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm actually just about done, but it might not hurt for another set of eyes to go through. OFB still needs some heavy work as large sections of the article were giant lists. Pets actually isn't too bad. I think I'll create a page just for consistency but the game guide like trivia has been avoided in that article.--Crossmr 23:44, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

OFB is more an issue of refactoring a couple paragraphs. I did a lot of clean-up today so I was hoping someone else could take a stab at that. If you don't get a chance, I'll do it up.--Crossmr 04:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

I transwikid the around the house stuff over to the wikibook. Some of the info is useful, just the level of detail isn't appropriate. You should go through that and have a look. You might have some game guide tips to go there too b:The Sims adding an interwiki link to wikibooks just takes adding a b: to the front if you need to do one btw, pretty handy.--Crossmr 05:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes wikibooks was basically made for that kind of detail. They have an entire Game guide section there. Wikipedia is for encyclopedic entries. You can do things like write instruction manuals or strategy guides on wikibooks. I left you a link there where you can view what I've sent over so far. It might be nice if we start a sister project to the sims 2 to create some play guides and what not over on wikibooks--Crossmr 05:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Of course. I think i'll post about it on the main TS2 article. I've mentioned that I was transwikiing some of the game guide like material there, but I should mention that perhaps we could get contributors to start adding that kind of stuff to the wikibook articles and even creating gameplay guides over there. It would tie in rather nicely.--Crossmr 05:48, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

They should put up a notice somewhere, like on the main game guide page there. Though really I'm not sure I see the issue with it. Even if its rejected content from here I don't see how thats an issue. I also see a discussion on the game guide talk page, but its very old. Almost a year at this point. I wouldn't get worried unless the talk flares up again there. Either way, there is mention of another wiki being designed specifically for it, and we've got a strict policy against having the material here on wikipedia (its covered under WP:NOT). We could have just removed it in accordance with policy, but we at least took the time to find it a proper home.--Crossmr 14:56, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chicken (food)

Just wanted to say thanks for putting in the proper citing format for the chicken (food) article. I'm a fairly new user of wikipedia, so I don't know how to do all the formatting yet. I appreciate the help.--Grendlefuzz 14:28, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, no problem. z ε n .ıl 00:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!!

I award this Barnstar to Zen for being such a kind and generous person. You have a good heart!

Your recent comments on my talk page made me cry just a bit. Thank you for being so nice. It was most unexpected, especially in this world of trolls and vandals that we inhabit. You're awesome! :) - Alison^☺ 18:11, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Haha, it was merely a gesture of gratitude. Thanks again. z ε n .ıl 00:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Sims 2 Template

Thanks. I was thinking about doing something like that, ill get right on it. ♦^TH1RT3EN™ _{talk ♦ contribs} 00:37, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed up, though I'm not sure if it looks better that way, or on a new line. ♦^TH1RT3EN™ _{talk ♦ contribs} 00:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

The current style is for it to be centered, and it's really easy enough to read each section, so I'm going to revert. There's a lengthy discussion going on about consensus of the current "guidelines" for video game navboxes here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games#Navboxes_III:_Son_of_Navboxes. This includes sections, size, color, games included, etc. Voice an opinion if you prefer this type of style for the navbox. Thanks! ♦^TH1RT3EN™ _{talk ♦ contribs} 02:13, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean by amorphous? Actually, lets discuss this at Template talk:The Sims series. ♦^TH1RT3EN™ _{talk ♦ contribs} 02:16, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the cookie! glad i could help ♦^TH1RT3EN™ _{talk ♦ contribs} 06:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chopin Étude Op. 10, No. 7

Looks like you got distracted again. I love the Chopin series. Just a heads-up to fill in at least stub-level text before someone complains. DavidRF 21:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry, I don't mind, but I know some people are sticklers and might delete the articles and I don't know enough about Chopin to contribute myself. DavidRF 22:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: I have a question

Hi Alton,

Sorrt if I have not replying my messages lately, I am knid of busy updating information on Wikipedia articles. Well, I am so keen on adminship for several reasons. The biggest reason of all is that through RfAs, I can understand how other users is valuing me, and how they think of me. The other reason is that I really want to have the responsibility of an administrator. I will be willing to do chores, and maintain Wikipedia, especially protecting vandalism, and blocking vandals.

 Smcafirst | Chit-Chat  posted at 20:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Strategy games

Hello Alton.

WikiProject Strategy games has finished it's first collaboration: Risk (game) (). We are now asking for nominations and input for a new one. Please voice your ideas at the talk page.

Clyde (talk) and WikiProject Strategy games.