User talk:Brian McClure

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Active
Well my exams are (near enough) over now, so I'll have plenty of time to edit here, as I have really been neglecting it. Anything that needs major attention? Gran2 10:59, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I think we need an image copyright tag (even if it's just a copy of the Lostpedia or whatever), I remember that Lostpedia got in trouble for not having one on their images. Also, I've begun reworking the movie's page, using the Lostpedia episode structure. This is how I think all of the episode pages should be designed. Thoughts? Gran2 21:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Image Tag
What image tag would be for images from comics?? would it be fox? Kingcjc 19:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Main Page Transition
Hi Brian!

My name is Nathan and I'm a wikia helper with the entertainment team. We're going around helping wikis transition to the new style of main page that will be necessary to support the upcoming ads. I've created a draft of an idea for your main page in order to show the basic layout. Optimally, we'd like to get all main pages rolled over to the format as soon as possible, so feel free to use mine, or improve upon it. If you have any questions you can reach me via my talk page.

Thanks!

--Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 15:22, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Sup
I'm from Hawkesbury, Ontario in Canada. Small world! User:K-dog the gangsta 19:30 8 July 2008 (UTC)

featured
why change featured back?, it needs an update Kingcjc 19:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Sup!!
I'm from Hawkesbury, Ontario in Canada. Small world! And K-dog the gangsta is my friend.

Young Piece 04:46, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism?
I don't know if it was a Day of the Innocents joke, but HeavyWeaponsGuy vandalized the Homer Simpson article. I reverted what he did.--Gonzalo84 16:52, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Update
Hey Brian McClure, I've been editing here lately and have noticed the small community here. To combat that, I thought it may help stimulate this wiki if I changed up a few things, and to do them I would need administrator privileges. I talked to the active admins here, and they seem on board, so I thought I shall go through with it. You may now not be active here, but you are the last active bureaucrat so I assumed you would be able to get this. You can check my my talk page for what the active admins had to say. Thanks. Joey -  Talk Contribs 06:06, 16 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Joey  -  Talk Contribs 15:22, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Promotion
Hi Brian! I've been working with Wikia's marketing manager on a cool promotional idea, and I'd love to talk to the other admins here to get some feedback. Can you drop me a line so we can talk about it? Thanks! —Scott ( talk ) 20:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Adminship
Hi, I am Dcasawang1. I want to request the adminship. The reasons I have are: - I want to help this wikia to improve it. - I want to fix it too. - I want to participate of the community and get better the wikia. - I have experience on wikis, especially in Avatar Wiki, where I have Rollback Rights. - Of course I know a lot of The Simpsons. Thanks. Dcasawang1 -  Talk  20:59, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Simpsons Timeline
Why did you delete my timeline? I know that it is contreversial on when the episodes are set due to the fact the characters don't age, but it is possible to cram all the episodes over 2 years.

Be warned!
Block this IP: 121.215.170.54 as it is a known vandal. It vandalizes ANYTHING. --TDM : Always here to help 16:54, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I've regged now
yeah, thanks for that msg. i should have added another quote to that page -- the quote being my favourite Simpsons line (Snake: "Yoink-dot-adios-backslash-loser"), but that's just me. -Wack0- 19:32, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Simpsons Fanon
I was wondering if you would advertise the w:c:Simpsons Fanon we are closly related and I want us to be more closely related. -- Anniemoose98, Wanna say Hi?''' 22:54, October 9, 2009 (UTC)

Adminship nomination
Just so you know, as your burecrat, their is someone nominated for admin. Kingcjc 16:44, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * BUMP!. Admin and Bureaucrat request for you to look at.--Sgtcook (My Talk Page) 21:31, January 24, 2010 (UTC)

Hey
Hi. A few things have changed since you were last on. Sgtcook has became a bureaucrat, I am now an admin. We are also trying to get a Spotlight so we need lower protection on pages unless there is a strong history of vandalism on that page. See here for more details. Thanks, ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 06:22, February 4, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok then. After checking the history I see your point. I have also noticed that someone had reverted an edit since the protection was lowered. I will tell them that when we go for the spotlight. ☆ The  Solar  Dragon  ( Talk ) ☆ 16:07, February 4, 2010 (UTC)

Bot
No. We don't have a bot here. I may look into making one after my exams are finished though as one may come in useful though but I am not too sure on how to make one. 05:05, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Anyway, are you becoming active now or is this just a one off? 05:06, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * I am currently trying to make a bot. It is coming across errors though. 14:16, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

Got my bot working and will be doing other tasks with it that you asked for. 14:49, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

Brian Pollack & Mert Rich
They are two different people so should have an article each, no matter how similar they are. 17:35, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * The disambigs are fine. They lead to the two different things, such as Who Shot Mr. Burns?. There are two different episode. Please leave them alone. 17:38, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * sorry to have to block you but it is the only way I could get you to stop. I have asked the community to discuss you as well in a forum thread. 17:52, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * So how about unblocking me so I can at least defend myself? I promise I'll stop trying to improve the site. -- Brian McClure 18:02, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

So I try to help this site and instead I get blocked. Lovely. I'm sorry for upsetting people, but all I'm trying to do is help this place. When I first started here two years ago, it was a completely awful website, and I put in a lot of hard work to try to improve it, but it was simply too much for one person. I came back every now and then, and it slowly improved. However, this site has a LONG way to go before it could be considered a good wiki along the lines of Lostpedia or Memory Alpha. Users here seem FAR more concerned with quantity rather than quality. A lot of the articles are poorly written, but are users concerned with that? Nope, all they want to do is beef the site's page count. I've noticed that there are quite a few pointless disambiguations here (pages that haven't been touched in years), the only purpose of which is to bolster the site's page count. So I try to do something about it, and Solar Dragon, rather than engaging in a discussion with me (which is what he's encouraged to do) decides to block me, because I had the audacity to challenge his authority. And, rather than improve pages, he would rather engage in this silly activity. I admit, I have a bit of an abrupt way of doing things, but all I've tried to do is help this site, and for me to be blocked because of it would be ludicrous. Of course, why should I bother with a place that doesn't appreciate my help? -- Brian McClure 17:58, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, I tried to talk to you about it. You just ignored me and went about it anyway. You have upset users since your return as I had an email from one of them and I don't know if you got the email I sent to you as you never replied. So, you can either leave or wait until the community decides. 18:02, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, you did engage in an edit war with me. Like my user page says, I never check my e-mail, so you need to notify me first. -- Brian McClure 18:04, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * You are an admin. Feel free to unblock yourself. I won't mind, as long as you don't edit any more. I tried to tell you about it but you carried on anyway. 18:06, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * I tried to do what I thought was best for the site, what a monster I am. -- Brian McClure 18:08, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not my fault you decided to ignore me though. I left a message on my talk page as I usually respond on my talk page and it is not my fault you ignored it and carried on is it. I will ask Smiley to decide on what's best as he is independent and is impartial. What he decides will go. 18:11, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

"Oh we have to let the community decide"
So after all this nonsense about community consensus and such, Solar the Dictator took it upon himself to remove my bureaucratic powers anyway.

I have no problem with the editors here, or even Solar Dragon the editor. My problem is with the way he's doing this. Rather than let users make up their own mind, he's threatening to leave, thus meaning a user is either with him or against him. And, since he's been here longer than I, it's going to work, and he knows it. That's what's pathetic. Rather than just editing, he's putting the site through this nonsense.

Quite frankly, I think he should resign after going through this. He made a mountain out of a molehill and showed his true colours. He's a petty authority-whore who couldn't stand having another crat here who had a mind of their own. You should resign as crat, and appoint someone who actually has a clue, like Smiley.

I've put a lot of work into this site and done a lot to promote it, and it's sad that it ends this way. But, this ordeal has been funny. Very very funny.

Thanks for the laugh, Brian McClure 18:50, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * I didn't remove you crat powers. Just your admin powers. You can reinstate them if you so wish but i think it will be better if we can not delete things or block people. 18:52, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

Actually, you blocked me, then removed my priviledges, so I'm powerless. Please delete my user page, I'm out of here. Hopefully, now that you've shown your true colours, the community will see you for the power hungry child you are.

I'll end my wikisimpsons career with a Simpsons quote (yes, despite this recent nonsense, this is still a Simpsons site): "I'm Troy McClure, and I now leave you with what we all came to see - hardcore nudity!" -- Brian McClure 18:59, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry
I doubt you will read this but I am sorry. It was a heat of the moment thing and I regret what I have said. When I get mad, I do things I regret. Sorry for my mistakes, 19:41, June 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't quit due to idiocy Kingcjc 19:50, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

Well, that was certainly an interesting few hours. Solar was big enough to admit his mistake, so I will follow suit. I wish apologize to him for my comments (though I hope he can appreciate my point of view). I will also extend an apology to the site as a whole. As I've said before, it's far from perfect, but it's nice to see that there is a group of editors dedicated to it, and I sincerely hope that my actions have not driven any of them away.

However, I will still be going on a break. I am quite busy these days, which is why I've had the long absenses, but I decided to contribute here because I felt the site was on the right track, but could use some guidance. But I guess others weren't really looking for guidance, and that was the problem. Still, after this unpleasantness (which has really made me wonder why I should bother), I think I, and the other users, need a break from eachother.

I would like to impart some advice though.

Yes, this is a Simpsons-focused wikia, but there are a lot of pages that are kind of useless. Does each member of the Simpson family mentioned in the Uncensored Family Album need their own page? Couldn't they all be merged into one efficient page?

I also hope that users will start to focus more on content rather than page number and edit count. Sure, having a lot of pages means a lot of depth, but having interesting, well-written pages is what gets readers to stick around.

This is the proper way for me to leave, so good luck and until next time, Brian McClure 20:27, June 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * well, we should have an article on everything related to The Simpsons, including all characters so the Uncensored Family members should stay. I have also remade your user page with the standard layout thing to remove the red link, hope you don't mind. 20:33, June 20, 2010 (UTC)