Talk:Main Page

This front page needs to be redesigned to be more useful.

One problem is that it claims to have a list of categories, but it's actually a list of pages that list other pages. "Categories" have a special meaning in MediaWiki related to adding category tags at the bottom of an article. The main page's link to a "complete category list" is the real category list, as understood by the wiki's database. The lists... need to be called something else.

I do think it's useful to have links on the front page linking to lists of toylines, TV shows, comic series/publishers, etc.. It just needs to be presented differently. I don't at the moment have a good idea for how to do it, though.

--Steve-o 07:55, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Reverted, because our Wiki is not >Beeping< stupid.

I propose a site name change to 'The Witwicky Transformers Wikipedia'.

"Just check the Witwicky!" And we could laugh at our pun, EVERY TIME. -Derik 11:43, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I hate the image above the Search field. I especially hate that clicking on it does nto direct me to, say, the advanced search page, but instead the front page. But mostly I think it fits horribly witht he page, and my eye 'trips' over it and has to re-orient itself every time i go over to click int he search field. "Uh, okay, right, gotta be sure not to click on that."

I just find it... unfriendly. Other opinions? -Derik 12:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Basically like the main page revision. But, aren't "Universe" and "Timelines" intended to be the same continuity?--G.B. Blackrock 23:53, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I have no idea. If they are, feel free to remove one of them, but I've never followed either of the comics, so I wouldn't know. --Suki Brits 00:16, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Sort of? Timelines is basically a spin of of Universe in... another Universe. It'll probably be easier to keep it its own continuity for clarity's sake. - Vanguard


 * If Timelines is the continuity of the club comic (not actually a given), don't the events of that series, which now have been linked to the events of the Universe comic, put them together? The fact that Prime and Magnus have been explicitly pulled from one group to another shouldn't make too much difference here, since both are explicitly continuity-hopping continuities.  (uhh, yeah.)--G.B. Blackrock 18:26, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I've always disagreed with Steve's take on the Continuities page that the fan club comic is a Timelines story. As has been said, Timelines is just a sequence of unrelated story branch-offs, and the fan club comic takes place in the Cybertron cartoon universe.  (It's LABELLED a Cybertron story, not Timelines, so that much should be obvious.)  Timelines is definitely its own thing.  --ItsWalky 02:18, 23 April 2006 (UTC)


 * In any event, if we're talking "for clarity's sake," I find it clearer to have fewer titles to follow, rather than more. Perhaps you see it differently.--G.B. Blackrock 18:27, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * There also IS a legal issue involved as well, but I'm not sure on the details involved. I suppose it doesn't matter too much, and maybe we should treat Timelines as a sequel to Universe? - Vanguard

Timelines and Universe are unrelated. Universe refers to a very specific cross-multiverse battle between agents of Primus and Unicron in direct confrontation. Timelines is just off-continuity one-shot stories with vague connections (if any) to whatever jumping-off point they feel like. 2006's "Timelines" entry may very well have no relation to 2005's whatsoever, or 2007... as such, they should remain separate. --M Sipher 21:08, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

A possible cause for confusion may be that the fan club comic appears to share continuity with the Universe story. However, the fan club comic is, strangely, not "Transformers Timelines" but is simply called "Transformers Cybertron". So far the only Timelines story is what we got at BotCon 2005. --Steve-o 21:28, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I expect that we'll see that "Timelines" is the line they release the next "freebie" under when it finally arrives. Time will tell on that.  For the moment, you're quite right.  I'm still not sure I agree with M Sipher above, but it seems clear that I'm outvoted.  So be it.--G.B. Blackrock 00:26, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

The info that Timelines is intended to be a series of unconnected, standalone tales comes from conversations with Ben Yee and Karl Hartman. They, like Legends, are all basically "what if" stories. --M Sipher 02:03, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

If Timelines is just going to be a bunch of random stories without regard to continuity, then it sounds like it probably wouldn't be too appropriate to have it listed under Continuities on the main page. Since, uh, there isn't any continuity. --Suki Brits 03:12, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Anyone else think it'd be cool to have a different page for each figure? Doogles 19:07, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It's called tfu.info. :) --ItsWalky 19:08, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Sho'nuff is. Shows what I know :( Doogles 00:51, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Plain dumb
I like this site but the comments bellow the pictures (such as megatron) are foolish comments that do not meke any sence i am just about ready to go on a masive cleaning spree whiping out your comments and placing text there that is USEFULL duh!!!!!!!!!! god if a new commer saw you comment on one of megatron's they wouldent know what you where talking about CHANGE IT pleese

Sory for the spelling


 * This wiki isn't meant to be 100% serious and neutral like the Wikipedia and almost every other wiki there is. We allow for humour in the biographies, captions and sometimes the body of the article itself. We also sometimes write from the perspective of the character, for humour.
 * Because if there's one thing Transformers fans do, its that they take their Transformers too seriously. So please don't go around editing the articles unless you are contributing, thanks. --FFN 09:05, 17 February 2007 (UTC)


 * If by "usefull" (sic) you mean "boring and horrendously, pointlessly redundant text of zero value to anyone", sure. And if a "new commer" (sic) is somehow confused by a caption under a picture of a Megatron to the point of not being able to look at the rest of all the information on the screen and the title of the page to determine which one this was, then frankly, how the hell did they even turn on the computer without inadvertently killing themselves? (And besides... Lucas' website-gurus luvvy-luv our wiki and its humor.) --M Sipher 19:48, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

you are all fools!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a wiki is a place for finding info not for finding stupid hummor
 * Quick, find this guy a spelling wiki!
 * Well, for one, you can find tons of information here. I don't see where having humor removes the information. Show me an actual example of failure to find information because of the existence of a piece of humor in place of "THIS IS A PICTURE OF GENERATION 1 MEGATRON", which, when seen on a Generation 1 Megatron page with accompanying text talking about Generation 1 Megatron, evokes the response "well no shit" from anyone with two neurons to run a spark between.
 * And for two, I wasn't aware that there was some Officially Mandated Standard on what can and can't be done on a wiki. Where, exactly, is it said that all wiki everywhere cannot have jokes?
 * And for three, maybe before you start accusing people of being "fools", you might want to look into proper spelling, capitalization, punctuation and sentence structure. --M Sipher 01:04, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A wiki is a place for literacy, friend. Chip 01:06, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * If one honestly thinks a hobby about toys should be taken seriously, one might consider rethinking their priorities. Plus, the humor at least keeps me (and likely most others) entertained while sifting through loads of info when checking for pages that need additions.--MCRG 01:41, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A wiki is a place for articles that are more than two lines long, have punctuation and capitalization, and were written by someone who can spell "penalty." In other words, not yours.  --Andrusi 03:21, 18 February 2007 (UTC)