User talk:PsiSeveredHead

That sounds a good idea. Feel free to add them to the main page. Angela (talk) 00:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Fanon?
Hello ,

I am RelentlessRecusant, a new user on this Wikia. However, I have thousands of edits on the English Wikipedia and Wookieepedia, so I'm not some noob either...;D

Yeah, I have a ~200 page SC fanon story that I'm continually working on. Can I place articles on them on this Wikia with a very bold tag that notes it as fanon?

You can see it online at this link, and there's a series bar on the top of the page that links it to the other chapters.

Cheers,

 Relentless Recusant  23:17, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Excellent. Thanks very much for the go-ahead. Should I also post my stories on the Wikia itself, on a user subpage, or simply not at all? If I'm asking for too much, just go ahead and put me in my place. Oh, and I'll also try to devote some time writing canon articles as well as fanon. Cheers,  Relentless Recusant  03:23, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

SC Wikia advertisement
Hello !

I think that we need to advertise the SC Wikia on Wikia messages. Whaddya think?

Cheers,

 Relentless Recusant  01:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Backed up? Yeah... Cheers,  Relentless Recusant  17:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Splash Damage
Could you have a look here please: Talk:Splash damage -rayluT 00:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Re: Main Page section permanently bolded
This is due to the section being a    (an exclamation point, in wikitable syntax), which is defined as bold in the stylesheet. You can fix this by changing the "!" to a "|" (a   ). --Splarka (talk) 01:32, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks ^^
I don't think I've properly thanked you for making up for my lack of effort on this site. Looks like you've been quite busy. We should try and get more people to help here. The SC community is huge, but I don't know where specifically we could get people to help from. BTW, did we fix Sparkla's thing? -rayluT

We fixed it yes. PsiSeveredHead 03:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

infobox
Eh? I'm not quite too sure what you're trying to say, bud.

Cheers,

My Name is Helen (Talk) (Contribs) (Helen) 22:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

We should have...
...some means of deletion. It could be WpA style CSD templates, AfDs, or something else. Andalite has, I can confirm, NOTHING to do with StC. It is canon, but not one that has anything to do with this wiki. 68.39.174.238 02:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Alright...
...how is StarCraft Wiki:Deletions? 68.39.174.238 19:24, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

A passing visit...
Hi! I've just added forum pages here, and a help category with a few pages... I thought they might be useful in getting new people involved. I wondered too about adding a site notice to encourage people to log in... what do you think? -- Sannse 21:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC) (Wikia community team)


 * Looks like you are doing fine :) I would say it's a good idea to visit forums and other groups to tell them about the wiki (without spamming) and I think a site notice would be good to encourage people to log in. Otherwise... keep doing what you are doing ;) -- Sannse 13:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

More fanfic
As I added on my talk page, but you appear to be knowledgeable and I thought I'd ask:

I'm part-way through the creation of a fanfic serial known as "Rise of Unity" (it already exists as I have posted the first part of three on starcraft.org). Is it permissible for me to create a category of articles related to it, as other users have done with their own fanfic? Thanks. -- ColonelChaos 14:20, 21 March 2007 (EST)


 * Great. Thanks for the advice, I'll try and keep the articles to a minimum, even though they'll be within their own category. -- ColonelChaos 00:10, 22 March 2007 (EST)

Spoiler Template
For the spoiler template, do you think it'll be better if it's more noticable like here?: I think it would be easier to spot and stuff... =/ -- Xallium (talk • contribs) 02:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Overhaul, standardization, templates
I do agree and think that it would be suitable if we used concept art. However, I think that they should be thumbnails within the article and not placed inside the unitbox template as it won't be consistent. Some units have great concept art that depicts them quite well but for other units, there may be no equivilent art available. With portraits and frames, there would be some consistency. Whether it be concept art being the default image used in the imagebox or frame/potrait, we need a decision for which one should be used for consistency and standardized formatting.

About the 'small' template, instead of using a different template, the same one could be used. It just needs to be edited so the 200px isn't enforced in the template, and that if the image size needs to be reduced, it'll just be inserted in the input line for the image. The problem with that is that it alters every image where the size has not been defined.

For the minerals and vespene gas icons, I was thinking that they could replace the words for them... That might be weird though.

If you need to cite the same source more than once, you have to "name" the reference. For example, the text should look like this: Starcraft is the best game ever. . Xallium is the best player in starcraft. . You just place in every other instance the same source is used.

Unitbox art
I will be totally willing to transpose and alter all the unit boxes for all the units. I just wanted to ask people if it was ok first so its just not me going around raping the site.

I get my portraits from the Blizzard site and screenshot the frames. However, I cant think of a good source for screenshots. Though Blizzard has a nice collection, they're... weird and random colours. If we end up taking screenshots, then I think red should be the unit colour.

If you edit the template, to make the size field optional you would have to go to each page and change it there. I will be happy to do that as I have no life. Anyways, for the template you just remove the |200px part and instead, you add the desired size in the input fields for the individual pages. (E.g., image=tp-go.gif|200px)

I think having too many templates would be like a bit messy and awkard. It would be easier if there was one specific template used. Thats why we need to standardize everything. Like if we're going to do the thing i did with t3h probe page, then there should be two image fields... Or there could be one and we make the other optional... >_< -- Xallium (talk • contribs) 05:16, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

One more thing
Do you also notice that by default, tables have no borders? Is there a way to change this? =/

Reminder for templates, citing
Cite more than once:
 * If you need to cite the same source more than once, you have to "name" the reference. For example, the text should look like this: Starcraft is the best game ever. . Xallium is the best player in starcraft. . You just place in every other instance the same source is used.

Quoting from the game:
 * Jim Raynor: What, I haven't said anything yet. Blizzard Entertainment. StarCraft. Vivendi Games. Level/area: The Big Push (in English). 1998.

Sizing images within a template:
 * image=tp-go.gif|200px

Now I just need the "optional image" bit and I'm set. PsiSeveredHead 23:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Previewing
Hey, I'm having problems trying to preview edits before saving them. For some reason, I can't save a change after I've previewed it. Did one of the Mediawiki pages get changed/vandalised? -- ED ( talk )(shockfront) 20:54, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
 * All right. That seems to be working. Thanks. -- ED ( talk )(shockfront) 22:14, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Admin status
Well thanks very much, I'm honored. As to how to do it, I can tell you myself. Admin rights can be gained and revoked on the Special:Makesysop page. -- ED ( talk )(shockfront) 22:22, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

You encountered an error message when going to Special:Makesysop because you aren't a bureaucrat. Only bureaucrats, stewards, and staff can make admins on any wiki, and there are no local bureaucrats, so you'll have to get help from someone at the Central wikia.

Someone having made around 100 edits isn't a good enough reason to make them sysop, by the way. I made 3,000 edits on Novelas before I became sysop, and 9,000 edits before I became bureaucrat. You'll probably want to save giving such rights to others until after they've demonstrated that they can continuously work on this site for months and that they have demonstrated proper wiki etiquette and ability to work as a community. Otherwise, the staff may disagree. I'd rather you encourage aspiring admins to make their candidacy known on a forum page, and voted upon by the community.

Currently, this is a very small community, and probably doesn't need more than one admin (you). Novelas has 2000+ articles and generally has 3x as many edits per day as this site, and only has 2 admins. Your site is also not very likely to gain new members all that quickly, so you really don't have need for more admins. If you want to give adminship out as a reward, you ought to wait till you reach bureaucrat status first, so that you'll still be recognized for your own work. (Of course, that's really not comparable.)

If you need to contact me, I'm available on the Fiction wiki.

--Yunzhong Hou 15:48, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Eh, that's true. It's your call, really. Still, someone will need to make you a Beaurocrat one way or another before you can change any user rights. -- ED ( talk )(shockfront) 19:04, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I've made ED an admin. Angela talk 05:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated. Still, one or all of the active Admins needs beaurocrat rights in order to independantly fulfill all of the duties on Starcraft Wiki. -- ED ( talk )(shockfront) 19:31, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Background
I've uploaded a sample monobook that was partially modified from Memory Alpha, and has a black background with white/gray text. It's at Monobook.css. Simply move it to MediaWiki:Monobook.css for it to be global. Try it out first by moving it to User:PsiSeveredHead/monobook.css. --Yunzhong Hou 15:37, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

PS. Note that you'll have to make your templates dark colored or even transparent, and make their text white, for it to show up properly. There's also problems with the search and edit boxes as well as the ads. --Yunzhong Hou 15:38, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Hey there!
Dear PsiSeveredHead,

It's RR...and I'm back. 'Was goin' on? ;-)

Cheers,

23:45, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Phi
Φ or φ

In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio between the sum of those quantities and the larger one is the same as the ratio between the larger one and the smaller. The golden ratio is approximately 1.6180339887. PsiSeveredHead 13:33, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Template: SCFB

Starcraft 2
Hi PsiSeveredHead,

My name is Angie and I work in marketing at Wikia. I've been reading about the new Starcraft II game Blizzard announced and wanted to check in and see how things are going here. You've developed quite a nice wiki here on Starcraft so congratulations! Not sure if you knew this but www.wowwiki.com has just moved to Wikia. I think between the Starcraft community you've created here and the support of the wowwiki guys we have a shot of really having the best Starcraft 2 wiki. Have you thought about spinning off Starcraft 2 into its own wiki? I know Final Fantasy and EQ communities have started new wikis for each game so wanted to get your thoughts. Also, if you don't already know them I think it would be great to chat with the wowwiki folks, Vlad is great and they have done some really smart things to grow their community and really partner with Blizzard.Let me know if you want an intro angies (talk) 19:16, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the message back. Sounds like there is no reason to create a new wiki. I am going to put a link to this wiki on wowwiki's sidebar this week(see where the Heroes logo is on the bottom left) http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page, so you may want to pay special attention to any new people that show up!

Do you know which fan sites/forums, etc are the best for finding Starcraft fans? Wikia would be willing to buy some ads or do some kind of contest (free 1 yr subscription, etc) to try to encourage more people to check out and join this wiki.. From a timing perspective, do you think that would be a good idea now or better to wait until the game goes into beta and there is stuff to right about? angies (talk) 20:07, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

btw, thought you might like to know that this wiki is currently getting ~ 12,000 Pageviews/day and is in the top 10 visited gaming wikis on Wikia. Congrats! angies (talk) 04:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

The Admiral
Admiral Gaskavier (name nearly confirmed). PsiSeveredHead 03:12, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

blizzcon
Wikia is thinking about sponsoring 1-2 people from the Wowwiki and Starcraft communities to go to Blizzcon August 3th-4th in Anaheim, Ca. Is this something your community would be interested in? I am hoping your response is a Hell YA in which case my next question is what do you think is the best way to decide who goes? Should we do a lottery? a contribution drive? Limit it to admins or open it to all contributors? Another option is that instead of paying for 1 person's full expenses we could spread the funds across 2-3 people and pay for 1/3 of each..Maybe this would be more fun? In addition to showing our appreciation for all your hard work, we would also expect the person we sponsor to dedicate some of their time to promoting their wiki and Wikia (meet with gamer press, blizzard reps, etc). Let me know what you think! angies (talk) 18:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Do you have skype? I am angeliqueshelton there, might be easier to talk through this b/c I now have a bunch of questions. 68.123.46.118 22:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

ok, So just wanted an easier medium to communicate :)

yes, this was me- forgot to log-in. We can just chat here, no need to go back to my userpage to reply angies (talk) 23:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

so, we probably need to get this organized quickly so people can work around their schedules and we can book flights/etc. We can afford to send 2 people. I understand you want to open this up to the entire community (not just admins). How do you guys want to decide? Do you want to nominate people and take a vote or do a random drawing? I would request the people selected meet the following requirements:

1. 18 years or older 2. Live in U.S (flights are too expensive for international- maybe next year if we can plan ahead) 3. Be an active contributor to Starcraft wiki (how do we measure this, > 100 edits in the last month? Tenure? Community Vote? ) 4. Submit a paragraph about why they want to go (to show commitment) 3. Person must agree to do the following while there: Wikia would pay for RT flight, and 2 nights at hotel, Ticket to event. Attendees will be responsible for transportation to/from airport, meals, etc.
 * Meet with Marketing Folks at Blizzard - I will set this up
 * Talk to Press (our PR firm will prob set up a few interviews with blogs, websites covering the event
 * Wear a Starcraft Wiki T-shirt (you guys can design one quickly at cafepress.com)
 * Talk non-stop about how awesome the wiki is :)

Let me know what you think?angies (talk) 23:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Nominations and so forth
We couldn't randomly select people as there's lot of "bare" IPs here. I think people should "self-nominate"; anyone who does should be 18+, live in the U.S., and so forth. We could then select from this group, either randomly or based on what they write in.

I'm actually thinking making them write something is a better idea than random selection, now that you've brought that up.

When it comes to "minimum contributions", I think number/quality of edits is the better idea (compared to tenure). Some people may only have been here a short time but made lots of edits. I figure only big contributors are likely to "self-nominate" anyway. PsiSeveredHead 23:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

ok, I think self-selection is good. Do you want to announce this on a community page or do you want me to? Can you create a page called blizzcon2007 that we can link to with instructions to "add your name and a short paragraph about why you want to go to this if you meet requirements". angies (talk) 02:23, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I think you should do the community page. I'll take care fo the BlizzCon page for this wiki. I'll have that up tomorrow (it's 10:30 PM where I am now). PsiSeveredHead 02:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

This is what I have so far: 2007 BlizzCon Invitation PsiSeveredHead 21:41, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Nice, I made a few edits, and I think its good to go. One question: If 10 people nominate themselves and write a paragraph, how do you want to decide? I think the fairest way is to pull from a hat (aka Excel Randomizer). Sound good. Also I put Tuesday in as the deadline- Is that enough time? angies (talk) 23:02, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

As long as they all made useful contributions, then yes, the Randomizer sounds like a good idea. The deadline is doable - what time on Tuesday? (We might be on different time zones.) PsiSeveredHead 23:17, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I added 12AM UTC as the deadline. Since the community doesn't know me, I think it would be best if you announced this on the community portal (perhaps even a link to it on the home page too?) angies (talk) 00:27, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

I've linked it to the main page. For community portal, do you mean this page? PsiSeveredHead 00:37, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Cool! I just meant wherever your community hangs out.. doesn't look like Community_Portal is very active. btw, WowWiki just launched theirs too http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page angies (talk) 00:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

hmm... I can try to post about it on Wow Wiki to see if we can smoke out any Starcraft fans there. I just talked to the community manager at Blizzard and he was psyched to have someone from this wiki at Blizz Con. He is planning to have a special session for "influencers" to introduce them to the Starcraft dev team, show them some sneak peaks of the game in development, etc. For sure these people will be on the short list for the private beta. Have you asked any of the contributers why they are not interested? Are you sure you can't go? Its Friday and Saturday so if you fly in after work Friday you will prob still get to go to most of it. angies (talk) 00:59, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I think I could now. I've started up saving a bit, just in case. However, I live in Canada (Toronto), so I don't know how flights would be dealt with. I can ask about the interest or lack thereof. PsiSeveredHead 02:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Yay! that would be great if you could come. See if you can find a flight < $500. angies (talk) 02:15, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Here's the best I found http://www.expedia.ca/pub/agent.dll?qscr=chlg&ovrd=3&fram=&lang=4105&lnkcid=ENC&rurl=%2Fpub%2Fagent%2Edll%3Fqscr%3Dfexp%26flag%3Dq%26city1%3DYYZ%26citd1%3DLAX%26date1%3D02%2F08%2F07%26time1%3D362%26date2%3D04%2F08%2F07%26time2%3D362%26cAdu%3D1%26cSen%3D%26cChi%3D%26cInf%3D%26infs%3D2%26tktt%3D%26trpt%3D%26ecrc%3D%26eccn%3D%26qryt%3D8%26eapid%3D31170%2D4%26%26zz%3D1181615049484%26%26 - I've never booked a flight before, so I don't know how long that page will last. Well, I bookmarked it anyway. PsiSeveredHead 02:24, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I just got an email back from StarCraft Legacy's lead news reporter. He said he was afraid of flooding us with spam. That's an odd response. He was one of the people I asked to advertise the Invitation. PsiSeveredHead 11:29, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

That's a bummer. Would be great promotion for this wiki. Perhaps tell him that You are not worried about the spam :) those flights seem reasonable. Do you a have passport? Also let's extend this until next Friday as well 68.123.46.118 16:55, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I asked the reporters again - I'll let you know when I have a response. I have a passport; I hope I can find it in time though! And of course I modified the 2007 BlizzCon Invitation page to include the new deadline. PsiSeveredHead 22:23, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I found my passport ;) PsiSeveredHead 22:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi There, I am back from holiday. Can you email me at angie at wikia.com when you get a chance so we can discuss booking your flight for BlizzCon. angies (talk) 15:20, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi and thanks
Hi, I created this wiki about 1.5 or 2 years ago, left it, and some months ago I realized it became alive after I left it. I see also that you are the sole maintainer and main contributor of the wiki. Good job. I noted however that you somehow keep an 'exclusionist-mergist' policy, unlink red links and merge small articles. I participate mainly in Wookieepedia and I am an inclusionist. I would like to discuss over if StarCraft wiki should adopt one of these policies. The number of articles in this wiki is quite small so we don't need to save 'space'. MoffRebus 19:31, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

strategy question
Hi again, how are you? Just something outside the wiki: have you played enslavers? I am stuck in the 3rd mission (Protoss choice) where I have to rescue Mojo and his comrades. The level is inhumanly difficult and I haven't been able to rescue either of the three heroes. Do you know any strategies? Sorry but you are the only person I know likely to have played Enslavers. MoffRebus 15:59, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

It's been a really long time since I've played Enslavers, alas. You might find the second StarCraft Hidden Mission to be good practice. I know I couldn't beat Enslavers II without cheating (so I never posted strategies on them). PsiSeveredHead 22:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Article Querries
Yo.

One of the things I've noticed is that there's many unexpanded articles on this site, ranging from characters in the novels to obscure units/veichles (eg roverlisks, the other classes of battlecruiser, etc.). I was wondering, is this intentional control to prevent articles that would be deemed as "pointless?" Or are we free to make them?

Also, I was thinking of creating entirely new articles, eg a list of terran weaponry, from both the books and games (eg the impaler rifle, P1000, etc.). Of course, it probably wouldn't be just me or any other one user doing this, but I thought it best to have some form of permission before I considered doing something like this.

Thanks for your time. --Hawki 05:04, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I noticed you re-adding Protoss cat to Starcraft II Protoss units...
Since Category:StarCraft II Protoss Units is itself in Category:Protoss already, doesn't that make it redundant?

And thanks for cleaning up my articles. --Chibiabos 02:08, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Your revert is totally wrong..
I was checking out StarCraft 2 and was looking at the history at the your revert. What Skywalker done was totally correct and your revert was completely wrong. It is not Succubus it is called has Succubi. The only source which says this unit exist is infoceptor which say has succubi.

Bureaucrat status...
Angela has granted you Bureaucrat status for this wiki, meaning you have the power to give rights to other users, such as Administrator, Bureaucrat, and Rollback rights without having to bother wiki staff about that. So I was wondering how you wanted to handle Bureaucrat rights. They are different from Administrator rights becase sysop rights pretain to articles, not users. Some wikis elect Administrators and Bureaucrats seperately, some just make all Admins Bureaucrats. What approach do we plan to take here? -- ED ( talk )(gaming) 04:19, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

This is a total surprise to me, actually! Hmmm... well, right now we need to talk on a forum. Do you have MSN Messenger? I'll gather the other administrators at some time and we can talk likve about it - well, that's what I want to do anyway. PsiSeveredHead 11:31, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Wiki has an IRC network, you can request that we be given a dedicated IRC channel for the wiki, and we can all discuss things there. -- ED ( talk )(gaming) 20:34, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Also...
I couldn't help but notice your comment to Hawki's talk about canon, and I figured i'd churp in about my suggestions. I come from background primarily at inclusionist wikis where anything mentioned in the wiki's universe gets an article. I know we're a smaller wiki at the moment, but I strongly feel that we should strive to have more comprehensive site which will, in turn, attract more users to the site. I propose that you allow me to write some new policies for us to review and discuss, as well as hammering out a clear policy for citing references. I know Blizzard doesn't even bother with accepting things as canon or not, but I believe we should present all sides of the story given, and let the reader decide for themselves what "really" should have happened. -- ED ( talk )(gaming) 04:11, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

The problem with "all sides" is that, quite frankly, some of the sources are very badly written. I don't just mean "I didn't like them*" but that the author literally didn't play the game and directly contradicted it in many areas.

Well-developed universes, like Star Wars, have policies to keep things smooth.


 * I don't like Shadow of the Xel'Naga but refer to it when appropriate. SotXN didn't directly contradict anything in the game, as it took place in an area the game didn't cover. PsiSeveredHead 13:33, 24 June 2007 (UTC)


 * While on the subject of inclusionist vs. exclusionist, I was thinking about how the minor characters of StarCraft could be acknowledged yet without the need to resort to stubs. I was thinking, perhaps we could list characters in minor articles, eg: known members of Raynor's Raiders, ranging from Raynor himself to the minor ones such as Horner and Abernathy. Similar techniques could be used for the Confederate Squadrons. The protoss too perhaps, although their characters tend to be more fleshed out.

True, such characters are sometimes listed to the novels they appear in, but putting them in with their relative factions seems more comprehensive. Anyway, just an idea. --Hawki 12:30, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

That's easy enough to do, actually. Just make a List of Raynor's Raiders characters and then we could link the character "stubs" in the novel articles to the appropriate page. (For instance, Matt Horner's entry in the Queen of Blades novel page would become List of Raynor's Raiders characters). PsiSeveredHead 21:38, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough, but wouldn't it be better to attatch the list to the Raiders' article itself rather than a seperate one altogether? Same goes for the squadrons (eg: there's a total of around 4 named Gamma Squadron individuals over the entire universe. This would probably be better attatched to the squadron's own article).

While on the subject of Horner, I was thinking that a single article might be better, as, from what I can tell, there's a certain ammount of rank discrepency that a listing wouldn't be able to cover, yet doesn't really fit the canon contradictions list of Queen of Blades. Golding from 'Shadow of the Xel'Naga' is in a similar position, although perhaps still far too minor for such an article. --Hawki 23:01, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

You could just attach them to Raynor's Raiders as well. Now you have me completely confused about the "rank contradiction"... StarCraft doesn't do ranks properly. The Lieutenant rank is used improperly all the time anyway.

As for Golding, I can't remember the novel enough to remember his rank. The 2-i-C was said to be Lt. Scott (if he's a naval lieutenant, that makes him the equivalent of an Army/Marine Corps captain). PsiSeveredHead 21:23, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Admittedly I'm no military buff, but from what I can tell, Horner, who's informally depicted as having the rank of Captain, is stated as Raynor's second in command. Raynor has the rank of Captain (seemingly applying to both space and terrestial operations), which would traditionly give Horner the rank of Commander. Still, Commander's rarely command anything larger than a frigate so it can still be reconciled.

As for Golding, it's not an issue of rank, but meerly the fact that he's able to retain his name, which stands in contrast to the depiction of both Ghost Programs in 'Nova' and to a lesser extent 'Uprising.' Still, he could be one of those 'bad ghosts.' He's also depicted as having a resiliance to the effects of stim packs. --Hawki 22:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Raynor can change his rank at any time, since he's no longer part of the organization that gave him the rank of Captain (namely, the Sons of Korhal). I'll have to check again to see if they call him Captain in QoB, though. (He held the rank of General in StarCraft Adventures.)

Captain is an O-3 rank for most militaries, 0-6 for Navy (equivalent to Colonel). That's a huge difference.

Golding keeping his name isn't surprising, actually. According to Uprising and Hybrid, bad Ghosts don't get to keep their memories. Most Ghosts are bad, meaning disloyal. Golding could have been a good Ghost (and by good meaning amoral). PsiSeveredHead 22:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to help
I'm new to StarCraft Wiki, but I've been on Wikipedia for a while. While editing Damage types, I noticed that this wiki has very little in terms of CSS. For example, the wikitable class is not defined. Furthermore, the categories are rather disorganized and some may need to be merged/deleted. I'd love to become an admin on this wiki to help out with these things, and to improve StarCraft wiki in general. Thank you for your consideration. SigmaEpsilon 00:49, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Scans
I've found scans of weapons and veichles from SC: Ghost at SC Legacy. However, they've been pasted and copying them may be plagerism. To avoid copyright infrignements, I haven't acted on them. Still, it's your call.

--Hawki 01:09, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Starcraft wiki logo
Hi there, Do you have a high-res version of the starcraft wiki logo? you can email it to me if the file is to big to upload We are making t-shirts for you guys for BlizzCon. Also I noticed there are two logos on the wiki.png file. The green one might be better for a t-shirt.. what do you think? angies (talk) 21:45, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

The link for the green one is here: link and for the current one is link - I don't think the current one comes any larger/higher res than that :(

I'm currently using the "white skin" so the current one looks better for me, but the green/black logo might look better with the "default" black skin. I can switch them if that's the case (and that seems to work better with the shirt). PsiSeveredHead 22:44, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

DO you know who created the logo? Maybe they have high-res file somewhere? if not, is there someone here that can create a larger one? If not I can ask someone else to just wanted to ask you first. angies (talk) 21:11, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Xallium put them up. PsiSeveredHead 22:37, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Images
Hi, I am new here so just got a question: Are we allowed to upload any screen shot? What are the rules for uploading images here? Thanks Addictgamer 14:47, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Yooo, I wanna edit the starcraft II page. What do you suggest. Addictgamer 02:11, 22 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I noticed you have a 4 day waiting period to edit some articles. why is this? I think make keep you from gaining new editors? Are you worried about vandalism? seems un-wiki like to punish all the potential good editors for the few bad apples..

I don't know exactly how long the waiting period is. I heard four days. The policy only applies to a few pages, and I don't have any control over the waiting time. If it weren't for the waiting time, I don't think it would be bad at all. Signing up is easy and free, after all. PsiSeveredHead 22:26, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

On another note, the Starcraft wiki is now on www.curse.com too. We just announced a partnership with the where we are going to power their wikis..http://mashable.com/2007/07/24/curse-2/. The URL is http://sc2.curse.com/wikia/Main_Page. Everything (edits/user accounts, etc) is staying on Wikia's servers, so nothing should change for you (except hopefully you will get some new contributors!) angies (talk) 17:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Ooohhh... shiny. It looks like its another place to store our pages. PsiSeveredHead 22:26, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Loading
Why does this wikia load slowly? It's quite annoying (and I got fast speed internet - I can't imagine how it would be for those that have a slower internet!) Addictgamer 21:12, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

It loads slowly for me too, and I don't know why that is. Is it just this wiki, or other wikias as well? PsiSeveredHead 22:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I donno, I suggest you ask angie or angela for more info on this. Addictgamer 12:46, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

I spoke with the wiki people. It's not just this wiki. Part of the problem is the Wowwiki, which is so big that it takes up two servers, and the problem is only getting bigger because it's joining wikia (it was separate until very recently) and will need three servers - or more with the new expansion. It's growing pains for wikia. PsiSeveredHead 20:33, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello!
Dear PsiSeveredHead,

Long time no see! =]

Well, I'm sorta back here...with the flood of StarCraft II information, I hope to organize all our new articles and appropriately reference them with the correct syntax.

However, a quick question - Why are all the Terran weps/equipment in a large list? IMHO, they should be seperated into their own articles, especially since some are notable, esp. the Gauss Rifle and the Canister Rifle, but it's your call, sir. ^^

Best Regards,

RelentlessRecusant 'o the Halopedia Team http://images.wikia.com/rainbowsix/images/7/73/GDI2.jpg TALK • MESSAGE 20:29, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Predator
Dear sir,

It's the first unit that can be produced by the Starport...unless our images are different or something. =]

It was also confirmed by Gamespot.

Best Regards,

RelentlessRecusant 'o the Halopedia Team http://images.wikia.com/rainbowsix/images/7/73/GDI2.jpg TALK • MESSAGE 01:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

SilentDragoon
Alright, I added the link. Thanks! SilentDragoon 22:33, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Right on the front page, I should think. There is some free space in the lower right so it would easily fit. Otherwise, could it appear as a link whenever a page is edited? For example, it could be placed where it currently says "you can switch to old editor in preferences here, for editing with CategoryCloud, use this link". I don't know how much control you have over this, but it would be convenient. SilentDragoon 22:44, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Phoenix & Warp Ray cleaned up
Dear sir,

I've cleaned up the two aforementioned articles...do they look OK? Shall I proceed with the rest? =]

Cheers,

RelentlessRecusant 'o the Halopedia Team http://images.wikia.com/rainbowsix/images/7/73/GDI2.jpg TALK • MESSAGE 06:39, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Characters and Capitalisation
Two things I'd like to ask you about. Firstly, I was wondering if you could tell me which units the heroes in StarCraft: Insurrection are, namely the ones that I haven't made articles for yet (eg Demioch, Charlie Vane, etc.)

Secondly, I've begun to wonder about capitalisation, how Terran, Zerg and Protoss are always capitalised. Truth be told, such capitalisation has always made me uneasy; protoss and zerg are species like humans, "human" being a common noun. Why should xenomorphs such privilages?

Granted, a case can be made for such capitalisation, as they're capitalised in the original manual and early novels. However, such capitalisation is lacking on the SC2 website and recent novels have ceased capitalisation also. Heck, even the dark templar lack capitalisation on the website.

Perhaps not the most pressing issue, but it would be good to have an official policy (eg wowwiki has official policies on race capitalisation also). Thanks.--Hawki 01:08, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

"A policy sounds like a good idea. Do you have a link for Wowwiki's policy?"

Admittedly it's not a policy so much but it was put to a vote...or something (it happened before I joined). You can find a core page here and an example of it in practice here.

"When putting up images, they should be referenced. Referencing many images are difficult, and obviously many of the images here aren't referenced, but if possible, please include a link. (Even if the page isn't working now; internetarchive.org exists for that purpose.)"

I'll try and remember in the future. If it helps, the images came from sclegacy.

"Second, are you British or Canadian? I was going over the Shadow of the Xel'Naga edit and wikia likes the American spelling. Probably 3/4 of the "spelling errors" were just using the King's English."

I'm actually Australian but it's the same as being a pom or k'nook for spelling purposes. Anyway, I'll try and keep it in mind; I usually manage (I think), but the edit was mainly a copy and paste effort from the timeline I did, hence why I forgot about the errors. I wanted to put the page up and get away from it as fast as possible ;) --Hawki 02:04, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Level 4 Headlines
While fooling around with the suburbs of the Gutter I used level 4 headlines, something which, as far as I can tell, doesn't feature on this wiki. It admittedly got me wondering-level 4 headlines in some cases would make easier reference for things like the suburbs, the minor members of Raynor's Raiders, etc. Still, trying them out, it looked 'messy' on the reference box and it would admittedly seem odd to have headlines for characters in organisations such as the Terran Dominion Marine Corps.

Basically, I'd rather get your say before doing what could be a bad move and thus incur a lot of re-editing. Do you think such categorisation would make better reference? Or should we stick to asterisks? --Hawki 10:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Ideas
May I suggest on putting Quotes on all pages and sections? I'm not willing to do it.(Assaulthead 21:07, 14 October 2007 (UTC))

I got a better idea called putting images everywhere. Like on this article of Cloaking lets put up a picture of a Wrath, Banshee or even Mothership on pages like that.(Assaulthead 19:12, 16 October 2007 (UTC))

Sysop?
It's close to midnight actually. Anyway, thanks for the promotion, although I'm curious as to what duties/abilities it entails. I've noticed abilities such as "protect" and "rollback" which seem to be self explanatory to a degree, but I'd rather have clarification before actually using them.

Thanks again.--Hawki 13:48, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification.--Hawki 13:57, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

I've outlined some 'principles' in 69's user talk that should hopefully keep him in line. BTW, I also think the flagship article should be deleted. A category is one thing, but if done, it would probably be too similar to the List of Terran Starships.--Hawki 21:38, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Terran article's background story
Well, yes, I might have overshot, making it too long. But mind you, I was not directly "copying" the manual, as I I had to tralsnate those parts of the manual that I used. Regards, --Argus Wryn

"It (translating) amounts to the same thing :)" Well, I can't really agree with this. If this would be Finnish site and I would have directly have copied the text word by word then I would agree. And when it comes to my translating skill, I'm pretty good at English although I make grammatical errors and misspell from time to time and I don't say that I am native speaking level. In any case, translating is not straightforward. I get your meaning though, "raises memories of what I read back then from my version of the manual".

In any case, what was this issue you raised exactly about? I do not belive that I am breaking any policies. Regards, --Argus Wryn

"Simply that you "went overboard" in putting the material there, as you've admitted." I admitted that I might have overshot in making the article too long. If that it the problem it still is not an excuse to revert my edits like you did. I actually felt a bit offended by that,as it took me some effort (it wasn't exactly minute or straightforward thing to do). Elements of my version should still be used and not just reverted, as parts of the article are flawed Lorewise. Regards, --Argus Wryn

"Could you please reduce some of the extraneous material in the article?" What do you mean by this? Regards, --Argus Wryn

Well, I did what you suggested, and you were right, it's better that way. Perhaps you would like to consult me with the rest of the article (I have done quite alot of edits to the entire article now) now?

Another thing, could you help me with this problem I have while playing StarCraft? The game's CGI-movies do not seem to like my computer. During CGI-movies the pixels are not "smooth" as they should be, leaving visible "marks" (more or less coloured the same way as that particular area of the CGI-movie should be, but they clearly stand out) on parts of the screen during the movie (I hope you understand what I am saying. Technical terms like this are not exactly my speciality :P). Do you know what is causing this and what I can do to about it? Cheers. Regards, --Argus Wryn

I'm sorry for messing up on quotes over and over again.(Assaulthead 19:16, 9 October 2007 (UTC))

Terran article reply
I would discuss it with him, but he appears to be one of the stubborn fanboys who are unable to accept that they may be wrong and are too quick to infer facts from anything, no matter how unreliable. My main objective for coming here was to attempt to make this place a good add-on to the Wikipedia information to which I am currently renovating, sort of as the same symbiotic relationship that Memory Alpha has with Star Trek articles, but when faced with uncompromising moronity (I'm sorry, there's no other word for it) from someone who is synthesising facts based entirely on circumstantial grounds I wonder if it is worth the effort. I may return at a later stage, when I've finished my work redoing the StarCraft articles over at Wikipedia.

In the meantime, might I recommend cleaning up the presentation of this place? In addition to a more suitable skin preferably based on the monobook skin (see if you can't make it like a Terran computer interface), you'd do well to get some policy and style guides up: define how the articles are meant to be read: as "us", or maybe as Memory Alpha does: as someone inside the universe looking at an in-universe database. Likewise, referencing stuff would be good, especially to get that symbiotic relation with Wikipedia. When people start attempting to put the burden of (dis)proof on other contributors who try to get rid of unfounded assumptions, it doesn't say much for the factual accuracy of the place. 90.202.37.174 22:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)


 * It's nice to know that someone has sympathy and that you too feel that policy is needed. It's a shame you can't work a new skin up, but I'll keep my eyes open for any information that could be of help to you in that regard. You are right, registering certainly gives better authority, I'm not entirely sure why I didn't use my account, especially as I had created one before that edit war. I've reverted those changes to my userpage as well: they were by me, I was just stressed out and annoyed that day anyway - not really like me, but it can happen. I'll stick around, do some minor clearups and so forth: I want to get Wikipedia in order first before doing major stuff, and although its going well (Characters of StarCraft is now classified a good article) there's masses of work still to do: namely the species and locations.


 * As an aside, why is the Terran Confederacy article protected? Other than I've got an entirely in-universe article that was from my early Wikipedia days that with some edits and better referencing would be at home here, I had to wait several days until I wasn't classified as a new user before I could add the accurate insignia to the article. -- Sabre 10:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Story
Hey. I'm a complete StarCraft nerd now that I have been involved in the wiki for a while. I read two of the books and one WoW book and I am hooked. Jesus, those books are good. I can't remember the name of the latest one, like Firstborn or something, but I read it and its really great. my point. If you havent read it yet, you should. starcraft is one of the only games with good storylines. cheers ChaoticNeutral 04:47, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I've not only read it, I've read all the StarCraft novels and short stories and wrote articles on them. PsiSeveredHead 17:51, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Templates and Terrans
The upload log will tell you this but I've come across a stack of SC: Ghost screenshots, all of them (hopefully) sourced correctly (although I used some pom date systems at times). Given the confirmation of all these units, I think that it may be a good idea for a SC: Ghost unit template to be created, if only for units. Maybe some structures too, and screenshots exist also, but perhaps not.

While on the subject of querries, I was also wondering about the Minor Terran Characters article, how none of them have the same unit box as major characters. Is this an intentional omission? Granted, characters such as the scavengers at the beginning wouldn't really need it but given the definite alliegances of characters such as Tom Kazansky and Ulli Trey, they could probably benefit from this.--Hawki 05:57, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

"Such a unit template would have to have very limited information. What would you put in them?"

For at least Terrans and Zerg, it might be wise to seperate them primarily along the lines of player units, vehicles and NPCs, eg;

Terrans


 * Player Units: Marine/Firebat/Light Infantry/Ghost
 * Player Vehicles: Vulture/Grizzly/Stinger/Siege Tank
 * NPCs: SCV/Dropship/Goliath/Seeker Droid/Battlecruiser

Zerg


 * Player Units: Zergling/Hydralisk/Mutalisk/Infested Marine
 * Player Vehicles: N/A
 * NPCs: Overlord/Ultralisk/Lurker

Protoss


 * Player Units: N/A
 * Player Vehicles: N/A
 * NPCs: Zealot/Dragoon/High Templar/Vindicator

Obviously this is problamatic considering the discrepencies of development between Terrans and Protoss. Still, it may have potential.--Hawki 12:52, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Avatars and Avians
I've been wondering about Taldarin and Morris, about their avatars. Are they of a Dragoon and Firebat respectively and hence able to be added to their profiles? Or are they special to the N64 game? BTW, you were right about the yellow bird. Maybe an entry in Alpha Squadron would be good.--Hawki 21:26, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Guns and Gauss Rifles
You can probably tell that the Gauss Rifle article probably isn't the most well formatted in the world. Anyway, I was thinking about the scaled down Gauss Rifle, how it might actually be a sub-machine gun that Light Infantry weild. It may be good to remove it from the article and put it in a list article, not to mention the added bonus of clutterring up the article less.. Seemed best to get some feedback on the issue beforehand though.--Hawki 01:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Space reserved for MikaelGrizzly
MikaelGrizzly, I noticed you had a huge problem with spam on the C&C wiki caused by a single "contributor". There's no need to put up with all the stress of continually reverting bad edits. I'll say more if you respond. PsiSeveredHead 02:48, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Why, hello there. Damn, I should lurk more and edit more here too, being the geek I am. Anyways, it'll be good to hear advice from you, since I'm sometimes so... annoyed, I'm seriously considering using the block option. Shaur M. S. Grizlin 10:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Ghost Articles
Quite a few of the 'letters' may have come from the referances, as the full referances would have to be used quite a few times. I also added some extra info at the start of the article.--Hawki 05:45, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Main page overhaul
The current main page, at least in my opinion, is a little big and unwieldy. If you agreed, could I prepare a concept for a new main page? Shaur M. S. Grizlin 15:19, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Character Articles
Going by the 'self sufficency policy', albeit not official, it seems to work best to give characters their own articles if enough info can be scrounged up. Concerning the minor Protoss characters, there's basically two scenarios; they're either left as articles and require no maintanance or are attatched to unit articles and make them look unexpanded. Should Blizzard revive them by some chance, if they exist as character articles they're easy to update. Simply attatched to main articles, it's not as easy to make the shift, especially when it comes to referancing and sub-referancing.

Granted, there are some REALLY minor Terran characters that probably don't deserve this treatment yet. Best to leave the small fish until last. Still, it's much easier to create a character article and be done with it than simply create referances and expand them later IMO. Still, if you want me to stop and/or modify this approach, say so.--Hawki 00:00, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Boo
Dear PsiSeveredHead,

Hiya there! =] Back-ish. Anything you want me to be workin' on? ^^

Cheers,

RelentlessRecusant 'o the Halopedia Team http://images.wikia.com/rainbowsix/images/7/73/GDI2.jpg TALK • MESSAGE 05:33, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Xel'Naga Relics
Hello this is 4thepi


 * Thanks for editing my fan fiction page Xel'Naga Relics. It is still under constuction, but I hope you and other people like it. I also tried to make an article "List of Xel'Naga Relic Units", but I could not link it. Could you or anyone else in charge of site editing delete it. Thanks.

Zergling
"Have you noticed the picture in the upper left corner going missing? It's above the navigation panel. I asked elsewhere, and was told that other people could see it (so maybe my computer is just messed up)."

Hate to say it, but the Zergling is still there.--Hawki 08:57, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Episodes
Can't quite remember, but I think that there may have been a cleanup of the episode pages at some point. Regardless, I think it may be good to do some expansion on them, along with the issue of sections. For easier clarification, I think it would be good if mission titles were interwoven more fully into the narrative. Not that current titles are lost (as that would be hell for redirects) but by breaking it down furthur/alternating between Level 2 and 3 headlines, it could become more distinct. An example of this is in Episode III, where mission 3 is simply mentioned as part of the Second Battle of Antioch. If anything, Scion should have the spotlight, given its place in the campaign.

Also, especially considering that the Episodes may have been based after Star Wars, their titles should perhaps reflect this (eg. StarCraft Episode I: Rebel Yell). The names feel like part of an overall title rather than simply addons.

Anyway, just a few ideas.--Hawki 01:10, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Cleaning up the Episode entries are on my to-do list... right after Daggoth, Zasz and (probably by the time I'm done with them) Shadow Hunters. And then the secret project I'll have to email you about. *Sigh* Well, at least I could clean up the titles. I'll see if I can hack at the sections tomorrow, but the real clean-up will have to wait a bit. PsiSeveredHead 03:13, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Assaulthead...
...is at it again: http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/64.58.144.10

His grammar is too unique ;)

Shaur M. S. Grizlin 08:33, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

What? No it is not true. He is blocked by Angela how is that possible? He can't undo blocks from Angela. She took care of him for good. I am not Assaulthead my IP Address is different. Mikael I asked you to leave the users alone nicely.(64.58.144.10 08:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC))