User talk:Eightyfour-onesevenfive/archive

Good work on Kyla! PvE people, unite!! :) --Karlos 05:18, 3 Aug 2005 (EST)


 * Hey 84-175, when I first saw your name I thought Ollj was creating some new, oddly named pages! :D Nice to have you on board! 06:31, 3 Aug 2005 (EST)

Weapon Images
Hey, Agent No. 84-175, :) Is there any chance we can develop a standard on weapon imagery? I don't like the idea of catupring the picture of a whole person just to show the weapon. Can we just show the weapon, or perhaps screen cap the weapon on the ground? My point being, i'd like the miage of the weapon to be immediately clear to the user. If we capture the image of the character carrying the weapon, we will either have to put a big picture in the article, or thumbnail it. What do you think? --Karlos 08:33, 3 Aug 2005 (EST)


 * Yes, I thought about that, too. I'm not absolutely content with the images myself, but it's the best I could think of. This is why I deceided against shots of items on the ground:
 * They stick in the ground, you can't see the tip.
 * They are surrounded by sparks.
 * They are shown in an unusual perspective. Most people would be interested how a sword looks in the hand of their character, not on the ground.
 * I also experienced severe graphic glitches with some of them (Fiery Dragon Sword and Chaos Axe).
 * Some of those points only apply to when the item is dropped by a player (they drop differently from mobs) and some are disputable. Of course the images could be cropped so that only the weapon is shown and not the whole guy carrying it. But in my eye that would just look weird. Another alternative would be to capture an image of how the item looks in the inventory. That would be very small, though. Of all those alternatives, I'd personally like thumbnails best. --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 09:33, 3 Aug 2005 (EST)


 * I'm actually rather fond of how 84.175's current images, because, as he stated, they show what somebody is going to want to see. &mdash;Tanaric 22:07, 3 Aug 2005 (EST)

Germany
Where in Germany do you live? I'm an American, but I live in Stuttgart when I'm not at college in the States, and I lived in Heidelberg for a while too. &mdash;Tanaric 22:19, 3 Aug 2005 (EST)


 * A small village called Poltersdorf, at the Mosel river. Next major towns you would know are Koblenz (where the Mosel meets the Rhine) or Trier (with it's ancient Roman history). And because I can't resist being a geek: If you want to know exactly where that is, you can look up those coordinates: 7Â°13'35" E - 50Â°06'27" N. :) --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 22:34, 3 Aug 2005 (EST)


 * Hi, another fellow German here! I live in Bad Nauheim, northeast of Frankfurt, but my wife used to live in Koblenz until 1 year ago, so I know the Mosel area fairly well. --Tetris L 01:26, 25 Aug 2005 (EST)

I see someone's been to the underworld with a camera! :) --Karlos 20:15, 8 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * Yes, Europe finally managed to get favor once again last night (and they even kept it for more than, say, twenty minutes or so! :)! Was about time. We didn't have favor for a whole week, I think. --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 20:34, 8 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * Yeah, I was there too! Did the quests from Dwayna's avatar and a quick trip to the Underworld. :) --Tetris L 01:26, 25 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * I think we may be refering to two different occasions (look at the date of my entry) ;). Nonetheless, Europe seems to have Favor a lot more often lately, and also keep it longer. Which is a good thing, of course. :) --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 08:04, 25 Aug 2005 (EST)

Shields
I see you're creating articles for all the shields. Could you please add a link to the Shield page for each one. Thanks! --Tetris L 01:28, 25 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * Yes, that's a good idea. Will do so. --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 01:29, 25 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * Also, I think we don't have to mention on each and every shield page that the max armor bonus is 16, 'cause that's the same for all shields. --Tetris L 01:37, 25 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * Lol, that's right, too, of course. Don't know where that came from originally. It's only on every page because I kept copy/pasting it... --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 08:00, 25 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * I will try to come up with a template for shields and maybe other weapons tomorrow. --Tetris L 08:12, 25 Aug 2005 (EST)

Username
And there was me thinking it was the canadian boiler and pressure vessel act :P http://www.gnb.ca/0062/regs/84-175.htm --83.67.39.175 21:00, 28 Aug 2005 (EST)


 * LOL :D --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 21:08, 28 Aug 2005 (EST)


 * He's German, so if he was into boilers and pressure vessels he'd be using "TRD" or "DGRL". ;) --Tetris L 19:37, 1 Sep 2005 (EST)

Sorry about Balthazar's statue. I did not even see that other entry. I did not mean that they were two separate statues in the same area. :) --Karlos 21:40, 2 Sep 2005 (EST)


 * No harm done. At least this way I noticed that I mixed up east and west again... *rolls eyes* ;) --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 21:44, 2 Sep 2005 (EST)

Category:Bestiary
Somewhere, sometime ago, we decided that Bestiary would be the master category, and that Fire Imps and Ice Imps would first be Imps and then Imps would be Bestiary. I mention this, because I have noticed that you place "category:bestiary" in all the entries you fill in (in whic you do great work by the way), and I would like to ask you to categorize beasts in their own sub-groups (some are hard, i know) instead of bestiary then categorize THAT sub-group as bestiary. Thanks. --Karlos 15:32, 6 Sep 2005 (EST)
 * Oops, didn't know that. Still have trouble with that whole category thing, but I'll work it out... :) --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 17:56, 6 Sep 2005 (EST)

Slow down on deleting the singular articles. They are not supposed to go. See Titan and Category:Titans for how that goes. So, Minotaur and Imp should stay and contain a generic description of the species, then point to the category for a list. Keep going though, you're doing something that we have all dreamed about for months! :) --Karlos 22:10, 6 Sep 2005 (EST)


 * I am aware of that. You may notice that I didn't tag "Minotaur" for deletion, only "Category:Minotaur". ;) I did tag "Imp" for deletion because the page didn't contain any information at all. Better have no article then an empty one, this way at least we see at one glance that we still need information here. --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 22:16, 6 Sep 2005 (EST)


 * Cool, just making sure. Thanks :) --Karlos 22:22, 6 Sep 2005 (EST)


 * Great job on the category crusade so far. Keep going! --Tetris L 04:37, 7 Sep 2005 (EST)

Admin
Congrats for promotion to admin, mate! I'm sure you'll do a great job. By the way, I noticed you haven't been on for quite a while. Vacation? :) --Tetris L 17:24, 17 October 2005 (EST)
 * Damn bureaucrats! --Fyren 18:05, 17 October 2005 (EST)


 * Congrats partner! Only trouble is, you ain't been round here for several days now! :( Hope all is well. --Karlos 21:53, 17 October 2005 (EST)


 * Umm, wow, Admin it is... I'm still alive and well, thanks. :) I just haven't felt like playing GW lately, maybe I played it a little too intensely before. But I've still got the game installed and chances are that I'll be back and also a little more active on the Wiki, too. Can't tell when, though. :) --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 01:16, 18 October 2005 (EST)


 * Congrats 84 ^^ Skuld &Dagger; 01:19, 18 October 2005 (EST)


 * Houston, we have a confirmed 84.175 sighting. Do you copy? :) Congrats. --Karlos 19:58, 21 October 2005 (EST)


 * Congratulations! &mdash;Tanaric 09:55, 21 October 2005 (EST)

Welcome back!
Heya 84.175; haven't seen you around in a while. Good to have you back. :) &mdash;Tanaric 10:14, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, welcome back. It was a pity that we "lost" you, right after you became an admin. Did the responsibility scare you away? ;) -- 06:57, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Reply from Makenx
Thanks for your message. I will go back and double check the earlier entries as I was inexperienced in using wiki back then. Now I am getting into a routine and so hope that my contributions are useful. =)

Thanks again for your guidance. Lots of thing to learn in using Wiki. =D

Game Updates
I'm sorry, I am so sorry, I am so stupid, seriously I am never touching the Game Updates page again, please forgive me, I cannot even begin to decribe my own stupidity. --Xasxas256 20:09, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I made a boo boo also :S --FireFox 20:10, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, no problem, no harm done. We all make mistakes. :) --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 20:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Build Template naming
The naming format of the builds kind of bothers me... how does one go about creating a page titled R/W Constant Stance Slasher (for example)? Attempting to do so via the search box (to create a new article) gives an error. - Evil_Greven 07:35, 2 March 2006


 * Only sysops can do that, appearently. --Sagius Truthbarron 07:40, 2 March 2006 (CST)


 * Try New contributions, put your link in there like X/Y Buildname, save and click link, that's how most people do it. --Rainith 10:31, 2 March 2006 (CST)

I usually put http://www.guildwiki.org/wiki/ and then put the page I want to make after the wiki/ 17:32, 2 March 2006 (CST)

You can also go to edit-mode on any random page, enter a link for the page you want to create and just preview the edit, then click on the link (don't save the edit, just close the page or go back). That, of course, is just a more complicated version of Skuld's way to do it. :) --Eightyfour-onesevenfive 19:46, 2 March 2006 (CST)

Fissure Monk Armour
Are you sure this doesn't use shards? I don't know what to make of this http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134143 17:16, 11 March 2006 (CST)


 * Hmm, ok, I wasn't aware they changed that. Looks like they forgot to mention it in the update notes at first, because now it is there, but I definitely didn't read it yesterday. -- 17:29, 11 March 2006 (CST)

Vandal 66.90.118.79
Just in case he removes his ban tag again, this user has been causing quite a bit of trouble lately. Evan The Cursed (Talk) 09:47, 13 March 2006 (CST)
 * Banned. --Rainith 10:26, 13 March 2006 (CST)

User:Stabber
* looks confused* How come you changed Stabber's User Page to redirect to GuildWiki's Main Page? *still looks confused* --Gares Redstorm 04:41, 1 April 2006 (CST)


 * I did not do that. She did that herself before inserting the ban request. All I did was reverting to the last valid edit. :) I find it strange myself, but it's her decision. -- 04:58, 1 April 2006 (CST)


 * True. I am with you, strange, but as you said, "it's her decision". --Gares Redstorm 05:31, 1 April 2006 (CST)

Huh?
What did I do? --Karlos 10:26, 1 April 2006 (CST)


 * You banned a few spammers and vandals without deleting their user pages with the ban requests. No big thing, it just clutters the Category:Candidates for banning. :) -- 13:49, 1 April 2006 (CST)

Monk is Mo, not M!!!
In reference to, eg. Image:Armor M 15k Fissure F Dye HandLeg Front.jpg &mdash; Stabber (talk) 14:04, 10 April 2006 (CDT)


 * Argh, you're right of course. :( --84-175 (talk) 14:05, 10 April 2006 (CDT)

please link
please link to images you are replacing with when marking old ones for deletion, for easy comparison. Thanks. - 06:28, 28 May 2006 (CDT)

Hmm, yes, but that would mean I have to be less lazy. :p --84-175 (talk) 06:59, 28 May 2006 (CDT)