User talk:Leet-Pete

Hey
Nice to see you active again. Mathmagician is now a bureaucrat, while Dak47922, The Pathogen, and myself are now administrators. HeroGaming, whom is no longer active, demoted you a while back due to inactivity, though you are still eligible for reinstatement via the current nomination process. Other Wiki Policies also underwent some heavy revisions if you want to check those out.

Thanks,


 * Hey and thanks! Yeah, I've read about a lot of the changes made since I was last active. I knew I was going to get demoted when I went inactive, so that's no problem, but I'm now planning on staying active for quite some time again. I see there has been a lot of conflicts going on, and it especially saddens me to see that Gracey is no longer active. He was of massive help to both me and the wiki.


 * I went ahead an archived your talk page for you, per your message. I figured it would be faster that way. I'd prefer not to add an exceptions to the filter for individual users -- however, sysops of course bypass the filters. Speaking of which, would you like to receive your admin rights again?


 * My personal opinion goes like this:


 * Inactive admins should not have their rights removed (unless requested), as they aren't causing any harm by merely being inactive.
 * You've done a lot of good here and are a trusted member of the community, and were demoted merely for being inactive.
 * I think it's perfectly reasonable for you receive admin rights again, bypassing the full nomination process in this special case.


 * Of course, it's not just up to me though. Let me know if you'd like to see your rights restored, I'll chat with some other admins over the next couple days to see what their opinions are. — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 03:49, May 4, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah, nobody was really happy about Gracey's departure. He has been quite helpful to me as well in the past. Despite all the conflict, the wiki is now stable again, so there's not too much to worry about. Either way, we're certainly glad to have you back. :)


 * Oh, and I wasn't aware that you had maintained your rollback rights. I've added the appropriate tag to your profile masthead and restored your username hilite.


 * Per Math's message, I too wouldn't mind bypassing the nomination process in a case like this.

Thanks, I appreciate the support, guys! And yeah, I'd very much like to receive admin rights again. I just got back from inactivity, but I've already noticed that the admins and others with special rights seem to be both communicating and working well together this time around. Keep up the good work, this looks promising!

Admin Rights Restored
Hey Leet-Pete, per consensus between Dzylon, Pathogen, Dak and myself, I have restored your admin rights. We look forward to working with you. Dzylon, Path and myself usually chat on Steam about stuff a few times a week, Terraria or otherwise -- Pathogen's steam is listed on his profile and you can find the rest of us on his friend's list, if you'd like to communicate that way. Of course, Special:EmailUser/Mathmagician and talk pages are available as well. If you have any questions or anything don't be afraid to ask. But, having been an admin before and had a little bit of time to get back into the community, I'm sure you know the gist of things. — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 23:40, May 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, now my assistance on the wiki is less limited again. I look forward to working with you guys too. To be honest, I prefer to keep Wikia seperate from the other things I do on my computer. But don't worry, I check in regularly to see if I have new messages, checking recent wiki activity and stuff like that, even if I may not always be editing, so I'm quite active. If there's something we can't discuss publicly over talk pages, or if it gets too cumbersome using talk pages, there are alternatives:


 * I can come into the wiki chat - just leave me a quick request at my talk page.
 * I can be reached at e-mail: peter_112@hotmail.com (don't worry, it's already spammed down, and I have another address for personal matters and whatnot at gmail.)
 * If none of the above are good enough, I can always start using Steam again and add you. I actually haven't played any video games for a while (haven't even tried v1.1 and later versions yet) as I'm working on getting rid of my gaming addiction, which pretty much had taken over my life, until recently.

Manual of Style
I want to work on fixing up some of the policy pages, starting with the creation of a proper Manual of Style. Here's a rough draft, your feedback is appreciated. — Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 02:39, May 8, 2012 (UTC)

New nomination
I have nominated Dzylon for receiving bureaucrat rights on the Terraria Wiki. If you'd like to, you are encouraged to participate in the voting process here: Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Nominations. Thanks!

— Mathmagician talk ♥ blog 03:41, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

Tiles Images
Hey there Leet. Just a note as to the "Tiles" images that I thought I'd mention: they are intended to be left full-size, to show how big they are in-game. This can be illustrated here, here and on the bookcase page too. Just thought I'd tell you. :)
 * OK, but has this been discussed earlier? And why don't we just add in the info about how many blocks high and wide they are?


 * It has been here, though the last post was a while ago now, heh. As always, I'm not at all willing to engage in an edit war, especially not with another admin; so I thought I'd clear this up as soon as physically possible. Also, Math did put his PoV in on this matter, just not in that post.


 * The only thing mentioned about resizing/not resizing tiles images in that forum thread is the following from Dzy: Very tall images like that of the Breaker Blade, which is 80 pixels in height, can be effectively halved without losing quality. Which is pretty much my POV too. I'll see if I find more of these discussions.


 * The idea was that original sprites could be halved for use on pages, while tiles images would not. We added tiles images to infoboxes long before the discussion about sprites began. The tallest tiles image is that of the Grandfather Clock, which is only 22 pixels taller than the infobox image, so it doesn't really increase infobox size much. The reason for this is that most sprite and tiles images differ quite a bit (see Bookcase for an extreme example). We intended to show users the appearance of furniture items both in the inventory (sprites) and in placed form (tiles).


 * Yeah, I see what you mean, but I still think tiles images could be resized as long as the height and width of the respective item meisured in blocks is specified in the article. That's more useful than judging size from an image anyway. Now that I "undid" my edit, the Lamp Post is the tallest tiles image - it's kinda aestethically displeasing imo. :P

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Oh, I hadn't thought of the Lamp Post. In my opinion downsizing the tiles image of that item should be fine, as long as the actual size is specified (like you said). Now that I think about it, I would rather all furniture pages list the actual width and height in blocks (infobox parameter?).

For the Lamp Post, I think the tiles image would look best at 14px wide, though that's open to discussion. I don't think I see any other pages that might benefit from smaller images. Also, I'd like to point at that this discussion was directed towards the use of sprites themselves, not tiles images. I don't think a discussion regarding tiles images was ever held on the wiki, but we could have one if you don't like the current system.


 * Yep, an infobox parameter for size sounds good. That's fine, it's not such a big deal after all.

Talkback
Hellexarus 16:16, May 17, 2012 (UTC)

Souls Redirects
Hey there Leet. Just informing you, all of these redirects were made so as to lessen page size and link complexity for editors. They've been up for a while, so I thought I'd list the six of them for you, is all;
 * Souls of Flight
 * Souls of Fright
 * Souls of Light
 * Souls of Might
 * Souls of Night
 * Souls of Sight

Hope it's no trouble.


 * I know about the redirects, and I'd appreciate it if you wait for my reply before undoing my edits, in cases like this when I haven't done an obvious mistake. You freed up 15 bytes from using the redirect instead of the direct link. That's not even 0.015 kilobyte. And regarding link complexity, this is one of the most basic forms of wiki markup. Plus, noone needs to do anything about the code, as it's just as it should be. When you click a redirect, you get the "Redirected from..." note on top of the page, plus the address says the name of the redirect instead of the article. This can be confusing to some, and is more better aesthetically without.


 * I'm siding with Leet here. Every time I come across an unnecessarily used redirect, such as Souls of Flight, I pipe it so as to prevent users from seeing the redirect notice. In my opinion, that's not how redirects are supposed to be used.

Note
I've edited your comment here. If you find a user's comment to be offensive, you may delete it. But please try to reply in a polite (and not condescending) tone when correcting others, thanks =)
 * Sorry, I just got a little bit fed up with people posting rude comments. Especially when they are completely wrong about the topic of discussion - it's ridiculous. I'll correct them in a calm and polite manner the next time. ;)