User talk:Fw190a8

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 * Archive created on 2007-03-19

About WikiProject Forgotten Realms
Hi,

I will put the link. I personally don't have time to handle this project anymore, although I thank you for agreement for mutual inspiration. The reverse holds true: take whatever you want from the Wikipedia entries (I know we are bound by legalese for this, but courtesy is good too :-))

The most important for me is that we do not have duplicate information. Do you know of a way to compare content between Wikipedia and Wikia? I guess some sort of Perl script would do it (piped to a diff.txt), but doing this is far beyond my proficiency.

Have a nice day

David Latapie 18:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Update: take a look at the new page. I hope you'll like it.

There is some answer since then, that you might not like David Latapie (✒ | @) 23:16, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Cell4's Questions
Thanks for making the userboxes, and I am leaving this comment at the bottom of your talk page, just like you asked, oh, please don't make me spell out your nickname, but it's Fw190a8, right? And the Hunter's Blades Trilogy, it is pretty good. The Lone Drow... I am on page 100 something and that is a lot for me. Thank you again for making the userboxes. And when you finish the Cleric Quintet (if you try it), which is on hold for me at the public library, because I hope to read it as well, tell me what you think about it. One guy said it was great (5 stars) but said the last book in their opinion would get negative stars "ruined the series" and averaged out their individual ratings to give the book a total of 1/5. Hope that does not discourage you from reading it because most people liked it and the main character who appears in Paths of Darkness is fairly funny and merciful... for a cleric... Cell4 00:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

How can I get in touch with an administrator outside of this wiki? I am just sort of curious because when I am here I mostly get too busy reading about the realms to be able to ask all of my questions. Oh, and ah, one other thing, what are the endless wastes? They were on the map that you gave me a link to and i said to myself, "Whoa! the Realms are big... but what are these places?" And why don't they visit any of those places in the novels? Thank you very much an you're a good admin like i said yesterday and I don't think I could edit as well as I do without your help... and Zerak's. And feel free to use my userpage or my talk page to respond, but remember that I don't know if you reply when you answer on my userpage so I'd prefer my talk page. Thank you again. Cell4 01:41, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

You Breeder of Lonelieness! :O
Special:Lonelypages o_O Zerak talk 03:42, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I Need Help
Hello, Fw190a8! Two things. 1. I can't find the Baldur's Gate games anywhere. Someone is going to loan the first one to me, but what about Shadows of Amn? And 2. My computer keeps almost stopping me from being able to log on, say it will not load the page. Also I need to apologize for not editing as much anymore. do you have any links to websites besides eBay that'll tell me where i can find Baldur's Gate. Thanks. Cell4 02:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

About New Users
Since I am a very nice guy (Or am I? Just joking) I like to greet new users. If I had the username of the newest registered editors I'd be happy to welcome them for you. If you are going to respond, please do it on my talk page. That way I will know and my userpage will not get to cluttered for my liking! Cell4 01:53, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Happy Valentines Day! As a treat to myself for the occasion, I am going to buy myself a practically random Forgotten Realms novel. You could try it out if you liked as well. As a matter of fact, I'd recommend any new user, or just any user to buy one tomorrow and read it and not rush at all. Yes. I think I like that idea but there are too many other books to read. Happy Valentines Day. Thanks. Cell4 01:57, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

ISBN Numbers
Thanks for catching my mistake on the book templates. I appreciate it.--Ebakunin 23:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Admin. Question
Just kind of unclear about a few of the sources we are or are not allowed to reference. For example if someone has already used material from the monster manual and referenced it does that mean its suitable for future use as long as its referenced? Also how can one know which other "GNU Free Documentation" or similar sources we are allowed to refernce without intrusion on copyrights? Just a bit fuzzy on the details. Cheers! Johnnyriot999 08:17, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Your Name
Ah... you knwo, I sort of forgot to ask you this but what in the world is with your name? It seems like a lot of people want me to spell their nicknames wrong. OK, no, but really? How did you come up with it? It's longer and more impressive (in a way) than my real username. (Cell4.) But I'm DrizztTheSlayer for the next little bit of time. DrizztTheSlayer 02:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ze germans, zhey are coming!, nah he's named for the Focke Wolf 190A-8 :) Zerak talk 07:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, thank you for that. He speaks the truth! Fw190a8 01:00, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Neverwinter Nights
Hi. It's Cell4 (just in case the nickname for a nickname confused you. I got the game Neverwinter Nights (let's say NwN, for $12.50 in US currency at a used books/games/everything store. And I installed it properly and everything, but when it told me to enter my "Original CD Key" I was stumped. Where do you find the CD Key? And by the way, my computer is a macintosh so I am aware thst there may be some difference. And if any of you have Macs and want NwN, it's a better deal for Mac than PC. New for a PC it is $50 and for a Mac it's $30. (I know you may not know what these are in comparison to your money since it says on your userpage that you come from England. You're lucky.) DrizztTheSlayer 01:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: Admin question & Changes to capitalization
Thanks for clearing up the bit about what we can use. I thought we had to ask permission from WotC for permission to use source material. I dont presently have any of those but will hpefully be able to pick them up and compile from them rather then just doing wikipedia conversions.

By the way, I know you wouldn't normally capitalize in the middle of a sentence, but as far as I know, the titles of articles are capitalized. Cheers. Johnnyriot999 04:44, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Incentive for reducing the data fragmentation
Hello,


 * I finally created my home page.
 * My contribution for your work: Template:Forgotten-Realms-Wikia
 * You might consider lettng a message here
 * this concern

Have a nice day. David Latapie (✒ | @) 03:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

On Wikipedia and banner
Hello,

Just to make it clear, I am not the one who talked about “spam”. I've been out for a long time and when I came back, I created the new banner I pointed you at on a previous message.

We share the same goal: to build a solid reference about the Realms. I think I started it first, but I was only interested in geography (a lot of people at Wikipedia are interested in the rest of it too. I would add that, sadly, they are just interested in Savage Frontier/NWN. No one cares about Kara-Tur, Anchorome, Halruaa or Parsanic and that is a pity.

After, where is this encyclopedia located, I don't care. Be it at Wikipedia or Wikia, what matters to me is that all the information is at one and only place. For now, there is some good informations at wikia that I can't find at Wikipedia and the reverse holds true too—like Murghôm that I recently added but there is a lot more). I agree that a specialized encyclopedia such as wikia is more prone to become such a reference—that is why I created this (second) banner for you.

But I also see there is a lot of old article from Wikipedia (that I created) which are still not on Wikia, so I have a mixed feeling about how close you come to copying the content. Remember, the most important for me is consolidated knowledge, not where it lies. I understand that some knowledge of coding would help a lot; this is sadly something I cannot give you.

To conclude: I like your project, but won't have time to contribute. I will help you from time to time. This is my position and not the one of the Wikiproject. And, most of all: try to keep a consolidated source.

Have a nice day. David Latapie (✒ | @) 23:43, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

New Portal
I've created a new portal titled " Portal:Prestige Classes ". I was thinking we can use it on the corresponding links on the front page: the portal subsection at top and to replace the current prestige classes category link in the main page (the magic portal doesnt cover the category link as well). Hope you like it. cheers! Johnnyriot999 07:05, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Please Watch 70.152.225.251
Please watch User:70.152.225.251 and Shar, if the nonsense about some Lich chosen is re-added, block the user, thanks Zerak talk 17:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

The Weird Snake With 6 Arms
Hi! I was looking at the new covers of the forthcoming Drizzt reissues. There is a picture of some kind of snake that has six arms plus a head! It's on the Passage to Dawn book cover, and I was wondering, just for D&D reference exactly what it is. DrizztTheSlayer 23:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Reissue Book Covers
The Drizzt books are all being reissued, and you have the covers for all of them up to The Silent Blade, I believe. I was wondering if you knew what the new cover was for The Spine of the World (novel) and DrizztTheSlayer 23:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Adding more options to templates
I would like to add a "hiddenstructure" option to the person template. For the entry on Adalon, the class option is not necessary, and this would also be true for many other peripheral characters. However, when I added the "hiddenstructure" option, it would not work with the class table template. In other words, when the class option was made conditionally hidden, it would always hide a class table. I'm not experienced enough with wikicode parsing to make the changes myself. Would you please make the change?

On a related note, I also want the option of adding a 2nd edition rules reference to the class level. If you take a look at the Shradin Mulophor infobox you can see where my 2nd edition reference doesn't look right. I'm not sure how to fix the extra vertical space. Do you have any ideas? Thanks so much for the help. --Ebakunin 03:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Nice Touch
I just wanted to say I really like the pipes/coins/mugs icons you made, they're terribly clever. A very nice touch! Johnnyriot999 06:34, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Citation template question
Hi. I once saw you comment you'd corrected a citation template, so I'm asking you this for want of any better clue as to whom I should ask.

I assume that technically, games used as sources should be citeable as well. I'd like to create the templates for doing that too. But I'm not sure how the syntax of the citation goes - for example, who's the author of a game? Do they even have anything corresponding to ISBN numbers? So if you'd have an idea of what information such citations should include, I'd appreciate if you could tell me.

Another thing is that I wonder if it should be somehow mentioned if the game data has been accessed with another application. Some things (like character attributes) are not visible within the game itself, at least without the creative use of cheat codes, but I can access the data with Infinity Explorer. Ville V. Kokko 12:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Diety articles
Didn't know that wasn't allowed. Will attempt to rewrite tomorrow, maybe if I find some time tonight still. -- Sneltrekker 21:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I just rewrote what I did on Haela, will you let me know whether this is enough or not? If it's fine like this I'll rewrite the rest of the deity articles I duplicated in the same way. Otherwise I'll make a second attempt if you give me more pointers as to how exactly to make sure it isn't too close to the copyrights anymore. -- Sneltrekker 22:06, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. Will get the other deities I did fixed ASAP, and then continue writing more, immediately in my own words this time. ;) -- Sneltrekker 22:16, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Quick update before going to bed. Rewrote Ubtao Ghaunadaur and Kiaransalee. Three more to go. Deeply sorry if I caused any trouble for the Wiki -- Sneltrekker 04:07, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Thank You
I just want to say thanks for supporting and sticking to all the recent categorization and formatting changes I've tried to help put foward. I really think it will help with the accessibility of the wiki and I really appreciate the effort. Thanks and cheers! Johnnyriot999