User talk:Steve-o

My fellow bad guys - I, David Willis, your leader, will speak now about my, David Willis', plan. My villainous, villainous plan. Question the plan at your peril!......Uh, any questions? --ItsWalky 05:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Steve-o. The disapearing history certainly is a strange one.  It's one for the technical types, so I've passed it on to JasonR.  He's going to have a look and see if he can fix it.  He can see the problem, so hopefully he'll be able to cure it. -- sannse (talk) 19:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Did I ever send you a set of 4 TF Audio adventures that lacked book-equivilants?

I know it's been asked before- but I'm not clear on the answer. Do we have a spoiler template? -Derik 03:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, such as a template that would HIDE the following spoilers. Other wikis have 'em. Are you telling me we're nto as good as the Thundercats Wiki, which doesn't want people to know Wileycub grew up to work for Mum-Ra?  -Derik 04:27, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
 * We don't, but if you know how to make one, go ahead. --ItsWalky 04:58, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Bah. I was thinking about a highlight-spoiler-- which is eminently possible. But I looked it up on Wikipedia first. It notes that such a function is 'undesitrable,' because soem web-browsers highlight different, meanign the text is nto visible even if highlightd.

Bastard Browser Wars. -Derik 05:50, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

This is the person who was "editing out all the little jokes that happen to have mild curses in them". I thought this wiki was intended to be "kid-friendly", being a Transformers wiki. Apparently, I was wrong. I will stop doing that now. Again, I am sorry.

Quickswitch
I'm guessing that Techspec info & mottos are not OK or is it? That's why I didn't put them in there. As to copy-pastes, I did the entries for both Wikipedia & this one on Super-God Masterforce. Evan1975 00:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Downshift move
Ah, alrighty then. Guess I should've taken a look at the Portal first. Thanks! - Doogles 22:41, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Episode Template comments
Thank you for your comments, Steve-o. At your suggestion, I have eliminated the word "tagline" as well as the date links. Sorry about that by the way; I also started using Memory Alpha (the Star Trek wiki) and they used the calendar template for airdates of shows and birthdays of performers and crew and other miscellaneous things. But if the consensus has already been reached that it's not necessary here, I'm fine with that and will not use any date links. Thanks for your feedback. Telet093 00:23, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Spotlight titles
See Talk:Spotlight (comics) --ItsWalky 06:45, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Various and sundry
On your to-do list...
 * Template:Shenanigans - Vanilla display-only messagebox that does just what it looks like, functional equivalent to a disputed-content notice template on wikia
 * Template:Fact - [citationneeded] template, direct off wikipedia. (Actually, a bit simpler, wikipedia had an option for cats or something I stripped out.)
 * Category:Cleanup by month - Cleanup tags by month. The first sub-section of this page (giving an at-a-glance summary) can be auto updated by a script - the same one used for this purpose on en.wikipedia.org with a few tweaks on the pattern-recognition to accommodate wikia's different grammar.  The script logs in as me, so I put in some safeties to keep it from running more than once a day, and a kill-switch in case of malfunction. (I should probably give the code for that to Walky...) It's overkill for this wiki- but a nice extra.

(I'm contemplating whether the cleanup cat might more useful as a needs-improvement cat, since that's likely to receive use on this wiki...)

The one wrinkle likely to confuse you is the the use of: in the templates, a boolean parser function that lets the template do things only if certain variables are set. (And thus allows for a neater layout.)

Hope this is useful. -Derik 22:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

re: Quotes
Actually I just put them in there to color up the pages, but some were pretty boring. Maybe I'll try and find some more apposite ones. --Autobus Prime 23:12, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Interlanguage links
Hi Steve. The edit by HardStuff you reverted on the Main Page was actually a useful edit. He was adding an Interlanguage link which is a link that points to the same article on another language version of the same wiki. In this case, the link was pointing to the new Hungarian Transformers Wikia. The link appears in the left sidebar in the "other languages" section and is the easiest way for people to find this content in their own language. If you look at Wikipedia, you'll see this is used on many articles to link to the same topic in a different language. Angela talk 18:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Central Discussion Area
Thanks for that. We've got a small trickle of discussion on my topic happening over there now. I invite you to join in. Thanks, PacifistPrime.

Blackarachnia and Tarantulas
It's simple: Blackarachnia and Tarantulas shared a forced mental link for four episodes, one which went both ways according to Tangled Web and Other Visits. BA forced Tarantulas to break the link through suicide threat via energon; if you'll watch closely, their mental connection remained for a good half-minute or so after Tarantulas said the link was terminated (circumstantial, I know, but possible evidence that the energon interfered with the link temrination? I mean, they did note that BA's suicide plan would take out Tarantulas through the link, and he was feeling BA's pain of the energon radiation through it...). Also, BA retained many of Tarantulas' memories after the link was severed. The link was specifically stated to be psychic by Tarantulas, not technological (as evidenced by Megatron not detecting any transmissions between the spiders when the link was used). All that indicates that some traces of the link remained in BA's mind, and were upgraded by her reformatting into Transmetal 2. No offense, but I can't believe you watched BA's show of telekinesis in Master Blaster and didn't think "Hmm, mind link with Tarantulas?".66.233.183.59 18:27, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * But what does telekinesis have to do with a mind-to-mind link? (Also, shouldn't this discussion all be on one page, specifically Talk:Blackarachnia, instead of being spread across several user talk page?) --KilMichaelMcC 18:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I think his point is they're both psychic powers, and maybe one caused the other.
 * Valid a point as that is- it doesn't seem consistent with the overall 'rules' governing how Transformers acquire psychic powers. Mutation due to a bad, unusual or too-frequent reformatting seems to be the usual cause.  So I'd blame the TM2 Driver or her reformatting moments after death for her telekinesis instead. -Derik 19:06, 30 April 2007 (UTC)