User talk:RRabbit42

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Reply notes If you leave me a message, I will put the reply here. I do not like having to go back and forth between different Talk pages to follow a conversation. That's a bit like if someone leaves you a note in the living room, so you go to the garage to leave them a message, then they go back to the living room to leave you another message, you go back to the garage for the next note, and so on.

You usually don't do that in real life. You and the other person are in the same room when you talk, or you're on the same phone call, or another similar method. Likewise, it's simpler and cleaner to reply to all messages here.

Date removals If you are here because I have been removing the time periods a person lived in, read this blog. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 2:43, April 15, 2011 (UTC)

Joining Hoodwinked Wiki
RRabbit42, would you like to join Hoodwinked Wiki and edit pages there and improve them all? -- TheSitcomLover 11:51pm, May 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * I may stop by occasionally, but I haven't seen the movie in its entirety, so I wouldn't be able to add much to it. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 3:12, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

So you didn't see the FULL movie? Like on DVD or something? Because if you didn't, why don't cha try watchin' it? I mean you don't have to, but I'd like you to. -- TheSitcomLover 7:14pm, May 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't have a lot of time right now to watch movies. I will probably watch this one sometime after the sequel comes out on DVD so I can see both together, but right now my primary responsibility is working on some other wikis. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 14:16, May 18, 2011 (UTC)

Okay, RRabbit42. But when does Hoodwinked 2 release on DVD (and Blu-ray)? -- TheSitcomLover 1:18pm, May 18, 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't know, since it is still in theaters. When I stopped by, I noticed that your wiki doesn't have much on the front page. This is the page that people see that aren't logged in or don't have an account. I can't promise exactly when I could do it, but that's probably the area I would work on. I'll look for the first movie the next time I head to a store like Target. Again, no promises, but I'll see if I can help out with that. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 2:59, May 21, 2011 (UTC)

Okay! Thanks, dude! You're such a friend! -- TheSitcomLover 6:27, May 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * Leaving this up here as a reminder, since I did buy the DVD recently.

Simpsons Family & Simpson Family Tree
There is Currently two Category's on this wiki called Simpsons Family & Simpson Family Tree which are the exact same thing with two different names Matt Phillips 16:41, November 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * It looks like the Family Tree was used to help distinguish the family members that haven't been in an episode and only appeared in the Family Album book. I'll straighten it out later. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 05:57, November 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * Simpson Family Tree is a duplicate of Simpson family, so it's being deleted right now. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 06:10, November 30, 2011 (UTC)

Not getting badges
Hi RRabbit42. Yeah just wondering about the badges. I have looked through other users badges, and it seems they get badges for making edits on Characters, Locations, Episodes etc. However, on my user, I have made lots of edits on them pages, but no badges. I also look on my "availible to earn badges", and they are not there. Do you know what is happening? Layton4 11:26, November 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Most of the badges, like the one for "adding 50 pages to categories", can only be earned once. You have the badges for adding 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 pages to categories. The next levels are the gold badges for adding 250 pages and then 500 pages to categories. —RRabbit42 (leave a message) 14:40, November 19, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. That really helps but it's not what I mean. What I am trying to say, is It will not let me get the Character 1 edit badge. This particular badge is not on my list (even though i have made a lot on characters pages) and it is also not on my availible badges to earn.Can you help me earn it. Thanks

Layton4 16:53, November 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Let me dig into which badges are there and build a list. Then we can look at which ones you don't have and figure out what the requirements are for earning them. That will help everyone else, too. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 06:19, November 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think I know what he is talking about, there ar emany badges thats eem to be no longer available to newer users. Many of the older admins have badges for editing character pages or quote pages. This includes badges for 1, 10, 50 edits etc. Yet I, as of Layton have made many edits of the criteria and havn't got the badges. So I think he is just wondering why certain badges are no longer active.
 * Jhonevans 06:22, November 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you Jhonevans. That is exactly what I meant. If perhaps you could put all the availible badges on the User Page, then perhaps newbies (like me) can also earn the badges. Thank you for your cooperation.


 * —Layton4 13:01, November 20, 2011 (UTC)

Help
How do I make a category page? Struggling at the moment in creating one. Jhonevans 04:59, November 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * You create a category page like any other and add "Category:" in front of the title (without a space after the colon). For example, one of the categories I will be creating shortly as part of cleaning them up will be Category:Season 20 references.


 * On that page, you would add a short description of the pages that will be in the category. You can also add in parent categories. Using that same example, I might have the following:


 * Pages that list references and trivia for Season 20 episodes.
 *  

Thanks for your help. I have something important to ask. I've noticed in the most detailed episode pages that the appearances have photos of each character. I myself have been attempting to clean-up the "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" appearances, but is overly complex. For example: If I were to add a higher quality image to a stub, the low level quality image will remain, so it would also have to be replaced. This is not only annoying to edit, but it will cause many problems in the future for any future pictures. I was thinking that this use of images in appearances should be down with. Beyond actual difficulty, it often looks very unorganised. I would like to ask permission to delete all images on appearance pages, so I can continue to make extremely thorough appearance pages.

So with your final permission, I will begin the deletion, and a much easier project to expand the wiki, get back to me as soon as possible, as I am anxious to complete all the appearances of season 1,

Best regards ,

 Jhonevans 09:52, November 20, 2011 (UTC)


 * That second line will make it a sub-category that falls under the Season 20 category. Ideally if everything is organized, you can start off with one category like the "Simpsons Wiki" category on the main page, and navigate through all the sub-categories to get where you want to go. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 06:30, November 20, 2011 (UTC)

" &middot ; " or "●"?
Why is Ferbot changing the " &middot ; " to "●". They were fine as they were, weren't they? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomno (talk) 17:01, November 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * I did that because middot was showing up as a 1-pixel dot on my screen. It might be more visible at a lower screen resolution, but at higher resolutions, it's almost invisible. The ● bullet happened to be a convenient one to pick without having to resort to HTML character codes like &middot . If there's a bullet in between those two sizes that would work better, I can switch it.


 * The other reason for doing this was to get a head start on updating the wiki's look to help distinguish ourselves. This was something small that was easy to change. Bigger changes, such as updating the main page, will go through the sandbox process and get community approval.


 * If I'm going too far or too fast, let me know. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 05:59, November 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * While searching for a good symbol on Word, I found a middle dot: • . It's looks in between the two. Also, I don't know why the admins don't come back now, because you can still choose to use the MonoBook skin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomno (talk) 18:46, November 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * That one looks good. I will change the templates with that new dot later because I see a way to make them work better than what we have right now.


 * As to the former admins, they made their decision and they have made it very clear that they are not going to change their minds. They have their wiki and we have ours. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 19:16, November 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks. I almost randomly mentioned the thing about admins. Also, do you mind doing something about this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomno (talk) 19:41, November 26, 2011 (UTC)

Carbon rod & Inanimate Carbon Rod
There are two pages on this wiki called Carbon rod & Inanimate Carbon Rod they should probably be merged one should be deleted.

Matt Phillips 10:37, November 22, 2011 (UTC)


 * Everything from "Carbon rod" has been moved to "Inanimate Carbon Rod". —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 19:45, November 25, 2011 (UTC)

You're on the Phineas and Ferb wiki!
Phineas and Ferb wiki I know youn from there! Loveboy01 Look behind you! 19:18, November 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * Yep. I stopped by here a while back to help fix vandalism and decided to stick around. I am now helping rebuild this wiki. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 19:45, November 25, 2011 (UTC)

Building category
Why did you deleat Catagory:Building?! It was not to broad of a catagory!! Coolmdude 12:12, November 27, 2011 (UTC)


 * As I said in my blog, the categories are a mess, and this was a judgement call to help straighten them out. This category had a couple of problems.


 * First, it should have been plural (buildings). "Building" is either a single building or it's a verb (as in, you're building something), depending on the context. Second, the wiki doesn't allow categories to be renamed, so to change the name, you have to delete it and create a new category.


 * But more importantly, we have a lot of other categories that serve the same function. Here is a partial list: Accommodations, Airports, Arcades and fun centers, Businesses, Bars and Taverns, Car dealers, Fast food restaurants, Fine dining restaurants, Nightclubs, Restaurants, Retail Stores, Superstores, Public Facilities, Stadiums.


 * If you are concerned about losing any badges you got for adding that category, once you earn a badge, it can't be taken away from you. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 15:14, November 27, 2011 (UTC)



Testify
I've been doing research and noticed the other wiki effectively transfered all our information to their wiki. Right now they are far ahead of us and we're still just picking up the pieces. I was just wondering if we could do something similar? At the moment I think we would be able to sustain it and clean-up the extra articles we get from them. It's just unfair for them to take all the active users and our hard work for their own. We should do something of a similar means. Yah?

In addition, they are owning as far as articles go (and soemtimes quality). We need to attempt something more drastic and get some more active users. I now I'm just saying conclusions, but we should really get talking about this wikia's future.

Actually, is there somewhere else we can talk? This is really slow and ineffecient. Jhonevans 11:16, November 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * First, I will try to be in Special:Chat more often in the evenings. That's the built-in IRC/chat function for the wiki. If I'm not already there, go ahead and join the channel and I can see that to come in also.


 * Second, we already talked about part of this earlier this month. Yes, they made a copy of this wiki when they left. Because they copied the entire edit history of each page, they were allowed to do that. (I found out that recently and is different than what I told you about two weeks ago.) Yes, we're still picking up the pieces because we had to wait two months after the last admin stopped editing before we could adopt this wiki and since then, I have wanted to make sure we do things carefully and properly.


 * As to copying new pages from the other wiki, I don't recommend it. The couple times it's already happened, one of their admins came over here and told us we either needed to get rid of the information or else put a licensing notice on the page saying that it came from them. If we copy anything further from them, we would have the same situation: delete it or add the licensing notification. That notification would still be required even if we were going to later change the information. It's less of a hassle if we come up with our own material.


 * For the rest, we do need new users to help build the wiki. One way we can attract new users is by updating our main page. We couldn't do anything with it until we got new administrators. Other things I can think of right now to encourage editing is to reboot the voting for featured articles, quotes, etc., and those would go on the main page.


 * I have more ideas, but we can talk about those later. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 15:52, November 30, 2011 (UTC)

Couch gag talk
Hi. While you're around (you just edited the administrators page), can you read this please. I get a bit bored waiting for a reply because I just want to hurry up and do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomno (talk) 08:19, December 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * That kind of matches with an idea I had about the gags, which was to have a new tab in the Episodes that will cover all the different gags. Since the opening sequence has become so much more complex and varied, we need more than just what the Infobox can provide. There's also a way to have the main list auto-update from the individual episode pages. I just need to study how that was done so we can use it here.


 * I have a couple specific projects I have to do this weekend, but I will try to get at least a rough draft of my idea together so people can look at it and figure out how to improve it. I will have to do that tomorrow or Sunday because I need to head to bed now. —RRabbit42 (leave a message ) 08:28, December 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * I just posted a message but not sure if it even worked, I don't think it did. Anyway, I basically said I am all for it and if you want any assistance than I will be happy to help. I can olny help with seasons 1,2,3 and 5 at the moment, but I may get more seasons soon. Jhonevans 08:32, December 3, 2011 (UTC)


 * You can go to wtso.net and watch all the Simpsons episode, including all the couch gags. Now I'm going put on I'm Shipping Up to Boston for some reason. Happy adding quotes! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomno (talk) 09:10, December 3, 2011 (UTC)