User talk:William Blackstaff

Introduction
This is my talk page.

Feel free to leave messages/questions/comments/threats/praise/etc on it (goddess knows everyone else does). However you should note that this page will never be cleared. It will instead be filled with nonsensical rambling about everyday topics (interspaced with your messages and wiki related content) in a brazen attempt to eventally crash the wiki and then achieve world domination. Hopefully before PanSola gets around to it. Every contribution you make helps me achieve this goal. I thank you for helping me in this task and look forward to your eventual submission when I conquer the world. Muhaha!

Incidently, in case you haven't noticed, it seems I've gone quite insane, please take this with a liberal amount of salt. (besides I'm not sure if I want to take over the world...seems like a lot of work frankly and there are some places that need some serious renovation...see what happens when you take Sunday off...tsk tsk)

--William Blackstaff 00:22, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

RiversideProvince.jpg
Hey, did you look at the talk page before you deleted it? --Rainith 15:40, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, that's what I get for checking Guildwiki before I have coffee. I've restore the image (reuploaded it from Image Cache), removed the delete tag, from Image:RiversideProvince.jpg. However, I haven't swapped the images over as Riverside Province (Mission) will have to be re-written to make sense with Image:RiversideProvince.jpg.

Admin
Congrats on the Admin. Now you can delete the images yourself (after they have been marked for deletion for an acceptable amount of time of course). =) --Rainith 14:17, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * He was admin'd before, I think the data we lost included it, heh. --Fyren 16:30, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I thought we lost the data because he was made an admin. :P  Yeah, I saw that before, but I don't know that I ever got around to posting my congrats, as the site started acting wonky shortly thereafter.  --Rainith 16:48, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, who're you calling wonky?! I'm perfectly (error hidden -- daiiiisy, daaaiiiisyyyyNunix// --Nunix 16:53, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yahh I have the power...cough COUGH HACK!!! sorry, :) On a side note Rainith; I don't think I'm supposed to delete articles I've flagged for deletion...(something about that at the wikipedia.) In any case I might as well ask, how long is an acceptable amount of time? And yes the corruption was my fault, (read the intro), a slight miscalculation on my part. =D --William Blackstaff 03:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This isn't Wikipedia. Delete stuff that very obviously needs to be deleted.  Otherwise, flag it and wait.  --Fyren 06:59, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

The One About Empty Articles (a.k.a Beware the Wrath of Fyren)
Don't create empty articles. Making the link blue and removing it from the wanted pages will make it less likely that someone will work on it. --Fyren 18:40, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair enough.--William Blackstaff 00:22, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

The One about the Clearing of Pages
Why?? That could be taken as quite offensive :/ 11:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Because the only things on this page were suggestions/comments/requests by contributors in regards to tasks I was currently working on. Since all of those tasks are now complete, there was IMHO no real reason to keep them. It certainly wasn't meant to offend anyone and frankly I don't see how it could have considering none of the conversations were active. --William Blackstaff 16:37, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * But you could've archived them instead d-: While the people making the posts would know it's no longer relavent, new ppl checking your talk page will get a bad impression of "Oh, he just wipes out what other ppl's comments to him" d-: -PanSola 21:18, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't know how to archive. --William Blackstaff 00:22, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Reverted the page information before the clearing. Everything is back now. Hurrah!--William Blackstaff 10:01, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Here's how to create an archive (watch closely, nothing up my sleeves):
 * 1) Click the edit tab at the top of this page.
 * 2) Enter this on the first line: For old conversations check the archive 
 * 3) Go down to your Old Stuff section, highlight everything there and press ctrl+x to cut it out (note: this will work on all web browsers I've tried, but I haven't tried them all...)
 * 4) Click on the Save page button.
 * 5) Now click on the red archive link.
 * 6) When the blank page comes up do a paste (ctrl+p) and then save your archive page.

Assuming I am awake enough to make sense, that should work to create an archive for you. If not, leave a note here about what doesn't work or what doesn't make sense and I'll try to elaborate. :) --Rainith 14:17, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No not that complicated, thanks--William Blackstaff 03:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Old Stuff
Can someone explain to me how to get rid of the 'You have New Messages' bar that comes up everytime I come to the site even though I have no new messages (unless I totally don't understand the new messages thing. Currently it's my belief that the New Message (uhh) message refers to additions to my user Talk page). Is it becuase I don't actually log out of the Guildwiki site?


 * You have the right idea, and you shouldn't have to log out. I don't know why you still get it, but someone else had the same problem and I think it was solved when he removed the talk page from his watchlist. --Rezyk 12:59, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Keys
I wanted to get your attention before you did a bunch of work on this. First I would suggest you wait a bit to see what other people think (at least a day).

Then if you do decide to do this, please structure the key page similar to the Vial of Dye page. Obviously you can leave out the mixing part, but give a list w/pictures and a usage section. Also I would suggest you make the individual key pages into redirects instead of just killing them altogether. --Rainith 13:39, 17 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I was planning out the changes I was going to sumbit but on closer inspection of the Key article there really isn't anything else to add. Keys simply aren't that complex. All the changes I was going to make short of the redirects (and perhaps the images) are already on that article. Since I have no idea how to do redirects (heh me so noobish) there arn't going to be any more changes until I figure out how. In any case I'll listen to your advice and wait for a day or so--William Blackstaff 13:47, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Chests
I see you have started on chests.. Try and do the table like the one I did for Keys. simply replace the image names and item names and remove the prices. Thanks. --Karlos 11:03, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Will do.--William Blackstaff 11:08, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Categories with names of Places
These categories are aimed to enumerate all characters in a location. We don't really do it for towns and outposts because it's pointless, the town has a list of all NPCs in it. But please do not removed categorizations such as "Ettin's Back" and "Fissure of Woe" from monster pages. :) --Karlos 06:35, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't worry Karlos, I wasn't going to removed any categories for areas (such as Deldrimor Bowl) just outposts and towns as it seems pointless as we have entries for those (as you pointed out)--William Blackstaff 07:00, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

collector armor "completion"
Thanks for the good (and tedious and boring... which is why I didn't do it myself for all 6 professions d-:) work. BTW, I think you left out Pre-Searing and Ascalon for the Elementalist's Armor (I know headgears aren't offered in general prior to Shiverpeaks) q-: -PanSola 16:43, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops sorry was doing it rather late at night (my time), I'll get onto it.--William Blackstaff 16:46, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Stingray_Strand_Crafter
click click -PanSola 16:08, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * ARRGH!!! I have to update all the tables again! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! oh well i suppose it'll give me a chance to double check everything...(grumble grumble)

Petition to remove collector from the collector armor articles' tables
I find the view at Stylish Armor much more pleasant/compact/concise than Elementalist's Armor.

When people see the name of a collector, MOST of the time they won't know where that collector is, and will have to click on a link to figure out. The article of the Collectables already INCLUDE the relavent collector information, so you aren't saving users number of clicks to get to their information, not to mention when multiple collectors deal with the collectable, the armor charts always appear first.

So all I see with the addition of collector info is unnecessary clutter )-: -PanSola 08:41, 26 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Hmm well I see your point that's it's clearer and if you want you can revert the changes, I only though that some poeple might find it easier. Revert the changes if you feel it's too much I don't mind. --William Blackstaff 09:03, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Unused Images
You're not going to make ALL unused images a "Candidate for Deletion", are you? -- 10:03, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm bored, am suffering from insomnia, and why not, they aren't being used and are just taking up space that I'm assuming someone has to pay for. Besides I'm only marking stuff that has definatly no use like duplicates or icons for skills that no longer exist. I'm not going to go around and deleted someone's pic of their old char =D --William Blackstaff 10:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * You can mark the image directly, you don't need to do the talk page. --Rainith 10:48, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh okay, thanks.--William Blackstaff 10:51, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't see the point. If Gravewit or any other admins wants to free some space he can simply go to unused images and check through the list. No need to make them all CfD. I see you have good itentions, but if you're bored and got spare energy, you better spend it on something else. ;) -- 10:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't mind doing this. Beside if gravewit or the other admins don't want to go through the CfD list, then they can make me an admin and i'll do it ;P --William Blackstaff 11:02, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't get it. Basically you're creating a list that is already there. *shrug* But ... please ... at least mark the CfD edits as "minor", so that one can hide them on the recent changes page. -- 11:33, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Alrighty next time I got on a delete rampage crusade I'll mark 'em as minor. --William Blackstaff 11:35, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Once upon a time, I went through all the unused skill icons and found the ones that were still used, but with different names and re-uploaded them with current names (the names they were originally uploaded with were taken directly from the fansite kit, which is beta-aged). Did you check the old-name-but-current-image ones against the articles? --Fyren 15:44, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah I was careful to check the relevant pages to see if the images being used were okay.--William Blackstaff 15:48, 29 November 2005 (UTC)