User talk:Dzylon

Video Policy
Hey Dzylon,

I was wondering; do you think it would be a good idea to let anyone add videos, but then use Terraria Wiki:Proposed Videos for videos which have been deemed controversial for whatever reason (edit warring, quality concerns, etc.)?

Something like that just happened on the Vampire Knives page, and I directed the users to post their videos there, so I figured it would be a good idea to ask the other admins before making it official (and thus making the Proposed Videos page more visible somehow).

Thanks, Oscuritaforze (talk) 05:23, October 5, 2013 (UTC)


 * Alright, I updated the Video Policy with the new information for now (also made a note of it in the community message to the right of Special:WikiActivity). Feel free to change it/open a new discussion on it as you see fit; I thought it would be best to update it now rather than move on without a Video Policy for too much longer during the height of the update hype.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 21:47, October 6, 2013 (UTC)

Re: Some changes
(Also, would it be possible to use your bot to remove manually-added categories from pages which were already automatically added by templates? (More detail can be found in this thread.) Thanks, Oscuritaforze (talk) 02:46, November 9, 2013 (UTC))

Navigation buttons on mainpage
Hey,

How do you make those navigation buttons? And how do you make them light up when moused over?

SilverHexxitFights (talk) 18:37, November 10, 2013 (UTC)SilverHexxitFights


 * See Template:MainpageCategories?action=edit. In each table cell (td element), there's an image, an invisible link, and a real link. Now see Mediawiki:Common.css, under "Styling for Template:MainpageCategories". Each invisible link is filled with a hell overlay image. When a td is hovered over, CSS is used to reveal the invisible link, covering up the image with an overlay.
 * Okay, thanks.
 * SilverHexxitFights (talk) 20:31, November 10, 2013 (UTC)

DPSOnly
I just noticed that DPSOnly put "DPSOnly was here" on the Pirate page. I fixed it. I was pretty sure it was vandalism, so I let you know.

SilverHexxitFights (talk) 20:04, November 11, 2013 (UTC)


 * It wasn't vandalism; I asked on chat for someone to edit the Pirate page to make sure that this template was working properly. DPSOnly was the first one to respond. Sorry for the confusion.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 20:10, November 11, 2013 (UTC)

Template:Hardmode Only
I've created a new template to place after, for example, Rusty Armored Bones on the Dungeon page. It states that this item/block/feature/monster is Hardmode only. It can be placed like this:

Here's what it looks like:

And here's the link:

Template:Hardmode Only

What do you think of it? Should we start using it? I hesitate to place it on pages before getting permission.

SilverHexxitFights (talk) 18:59, November 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Looks good to me! You don't have to ask permission to introduce a new template, though (unless you're going to be making a lot of changes at once). If there's a problem, somebody will remove it or start a discussion about it.


 * However, there are some errors in your template. The code you used was this:

 (Hardmode) 
 * Which, when broken down into multiple lines, is this:

 (Hardmode) 
 * See the issue? Instead of closing the font tag, you opened a new one at the end. That last line should just be " ".


 * Also, the "font" and "small" tags are deprecated in HTML5. CSS (invoked by the "style" attribute) should be used instead. The best version of that code would be

(Hardmode)

Your sig
I actually just copied your sig template to my userspace, when I realized you might not want me using it. So Ill ask it here.

I edited it to show my name, a link to my talk page, and something that automatically shows the date and time the signature was placed.

Latias[http://mcplayers.wikia.com/wiki/LTS_Redstone_Co. 12]90 19:41, December 2, 2013 (UTC)

Edit: I wanted to ask this earlier, but forgot: Can you make your bot add all uncategorized images to the Category:Images category? Thx. Latias[http://mcplayers.wikia.com/wiki/LTS_Redstone_Co. 12]90 19:43, December 2, 2013 (UTC)


 * That's fine :). However, please copy my entire code and place this in your Special:Preferences "custom signature" box: Latias1290 (Talk) /
 * Your current setup floods the source of the page, which is nasty for source editors.
 * Also, the image thing is not a huge priority for me right now because there are already plenty of file listing pages available (Special:ListFiles, Special:PrefixIndex, Special:AllPages). If I do do that, I'll also write a script that automatically adds new image files to the category so that it won't require constant maintenance. Sorry.
 * I tried it multiple times doing exactly what you said, but I keep ending up with a string that shows the timestamp, which I dont really want. Do you use ~ for putting your signature or do you write {{User:Dzylon/Sigreal|{{subst:#time: H:i}}|{{subst:#time: F d, Y}} ?  [{{fullurl:User:Latias1290}} Latias1290 ] Talk  15:04 December 04, 2013  15:04, December 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * I forgot to mention that you must use only three tildes when using this technique, not four. {{User:Dzylon/SigReal|21:48|December 04, 2013}}


 * It works as I want now, but it still floods the source of the page. Also, at first I thought I needed to put {{SUBST:#ifexist:User:Latias1290/Sig (...) }} because that would stop the wikia software from putting the source of the template Im adding, and actually put the template reference there. But it doesnt seem to work like that...why do I need to put {{SUBST:#ifexist:User:Latias1290/Sig (...) }} ?
 * PS: This reply is late because I got caught up in a game called Pokemon Y and beat it in 4 days, stopping only to eat, sleep, and other truly neccesary things :P
 * PSS: I actually came up with a funny trick involving having a template contain a reference to another template, and it works ideally. So thanks :) {{User:Latias1290/Sig/src|14:01|December 09, 2013}}