User talk:Tharna15124

Abandoned builds
Hey there. I appreciate the work you are doing flagging all the builds, put please take care to look at both the article and talk page history when flagging. W/Mo Icy Dragon Sword Farmer has had meaningful edits in the last week on the talk page (additionally, it should be favored, since enough people votes that way). Would be a shame if such builds got deleted accidentally. --Xeeron 04:31, 4 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Hullo! I apreciate you looking at the untested builds section. However I fear you me be being a little overzelous. IMHO only builds that are lacking in some way should be flaged as abandoned. We run the risk of losing valuable material deleting builds that are complete but unrated just because they have not needed editing in the last 2 weeks.


 * Let us take, for example, "my" E/Me Degen Nuker. There has been little negative feedback on it so it is now awaiting testing. I would like to think of it as "independant", the build has been developed as far as the feedback allows. If people start rating it as "unfavored" and the reasons can be remidied I will do so. Even better would be if people test it and find a shortfall in it's abilities they will change the build themselves. --JP 05:24, 4 October 2006 (CDT)


 * What he said - after a certain point there aren't many more "meaningful" changes that can be made as the build is complete, but that doesn't mean it's abandoned or useless. --NieA7 05:30, 4 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Well atm the untested category is totally flooded with builds some of which haven't been touched or voted on for over a months, if you see a build that shouldn't be deleted and had no changes you can remove the abandoned tag, but in that case please go ahead and test the build or improve it Tharna 05:40, 4 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Sure, NP. Like I said I appreciate you doing it as there is some duff half finished builds there ;o). As for testing, I started just over a week ago :o). Problem I've got is skill unlocks, still I'm getting there. --JP 05:44, 4 October 2006 (CDT)


 * yeah I admit I was a bit overzealous with adding the tags but 370 builds untested is overkill, we don't have enough regular testers to do even half of those, I will go through them again and see if there is anything that can be merged or something, and thanks to everyone for telling me that I overdid it ;) Tharna 05:50, 4 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Sticking the abandoned tag on so many builds was scary and unnecessary, but it's good you've highlighted the problem. --Ufelder 08:50, 4 October 2006 (CDT)


 * I think it was fine. After all, authors are allowed to remove the tags if they continue to make changes. Only those which no one cares about would be lost, and the chances of those being valueble are negligible. In fact, that there is a chance it is ignored is probably because there are too many untested builds to start with. Once the number of untested builds have gone down, these unfound jewels if you will, would be noticed. --Silk Weaker 03:28, 5 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Doesn't follow - a couple of the builds I submitted got this slapped on them. They're complete as far as I'm concerned so I won't be making any major changes, however I do not consider them abandoned in any way - I'm just waiting for enough votes either way. The amount of time a build is available to test shouldn't depend on the author staying at GuildWiki in order to check for inappropriate tags. --NieA7 03:42, 5 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Hmmm but maybe you can consider builds that no one wants to test abandoned too, either way we lack people to test almost 400 builds with like 4 or 5 new builds popping up every day. And I disagree with you NieA7, if the author of an untested build doesn't stay with the wiki to check and evolve his build until the community decided wether it is a viable build or not he has abandoned it. You don't have to check like every day but if you are around like once a month to answer peoples questions on it then it won't be considered abandoned. As soon as Nightfalls comes out we will probably have a flood of new builds popping up here. Lets at least clean the untested category up before that happens. Tharna 03:58, 5 October 2006 (CDT)


 * I look at it like this - the wiki is meant to be an information resource rather than a forum, thus the person who edits/creates pages is irrelevant as compared to the information those pages contain. On those terms it wouldn't matter if the build author made his build and then left never to return, the information is there should therefore be treated exactly the same as any other information. I agree that there are currently too many builds in untested but simply deleting them all is not the answer, as it'll just clag up again soon enough. This requires a procedural change - if that change is to delete things after x weeks then so be it, but to date that has not been agreed by "the community" so I don't think it should be introduced by the back door. --NieA7 04:05, 5 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Hmmm ok maybe you are right and we don't need the author to stay with the build. But someone has to care for the build and anyone can remove the abandoned notice and continue working on a build or test it and maintain it. But if no one cares for a build I don't really see any point why it should be kept. And yes procedural changes are needed but I don't see what could be changed atm, maybe introducing a restriction that you have to test and review like 5 builds before you can submit your own or something. Tharna 04:13, 5 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Maybe this discussion should be moved to the builds talk page as it is a symptom of the current crisis in the untested builds area. --JP 04:17, 5 October 2006 (CDT)

Just a note to everyone concerned that "their" build got an abandoned notice:

The abandoned notice is to filter out builds that noone cares about anymore the fact that you came here and noticed the tag shows that the build is clearly NOT abandoned. So feel free to go ahead and remove the tag if you still plan to do something with the build. As another option, you can always move the build to your userspace, where it will not be deleted. --Xeeron 07:15, 5 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Well my point was that by the terms of the current Abandoned template those builds are abandoned as they've not had "meaningful" changes for the last couple of weeks, despite the fact that concerned parents are still watching over them. That's why I don't like this whole abandoned thing, it's not the right kind of nomenclature to be using on a site where we're supposed to be about info rather than authors. --NieA7 10:11, 5 October 2006 (CDT)


 * Well, I made the template so I've been working on fixing things. I wasn't the first to use the template, though... it was an idea to go along with a reform of testing builds, but it doesn't work as well alone as it would with the rest of the proposal.  Meaningful edits, by the way, are pretty simple to determine... if it changes the content in some way, it's a meaningful edit.


 * Spelling/grammar/punctuation changes are NOT a meaningful edit.
 * Vandalism and vandalism reverts are NOT a meaningful edit.
 * Rewording a sentance/paragraph while not changing the actual content is NOT a meaningful edit.
 * Wiki-specific things, such as adding the brackets to make a link or removing an improper category is NOT a meaningful edit.
 * Everything else IS a meaningful edit.
 * - Greven 15:57, 8 October 2006 (CDT)