User talk:Oscuritaforze/2

Question
Hey Oscuritaforze, are you interested in becoming an admin on this wiki? I can tell that you put a lot of work into this wiki on a pretty regular basis. And since I know you keep having to ask about the admin stuff, it's pretty apparent that there isn't as much regular admin activity overall in recent months as is desirable.

I was considering nominating you for this role, just wanted to check to see first if it's actually something you wanted to do or not. [There is an open discussion/voting process detailed at Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Nominations]


 * Sure, I wouldn't mind becoming an admin. If it's decided that another one is necessary, that is.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 03:42, July 9, 2013 (UTC)


 * I have added a nomination for you at Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Nominations. I'm not sure how many people will see it or comment on it, but it will remain open for discussion for at least 1 week, possibly a few days longer. You are strongly encouraged (but not obligated) to answer any questions that are asked of you on the nominations page. However, I anticipate there being minimal discussion (if any) as most people seem not to notice or care about these things :(


 * Alright, cool.


 * ...Err, do I need to say anything if there is no discussion? Say, answer some default questions, or something? Or does it just kind of end by default after enough time has passed?


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 03:16, July 11, 2013 (UTC)


 * If no one has any direct questions for you, there's not really much you need to say. Though you're certainly welcome to say anything you'd like to. It will remain open for 1 week (possibly a couple days longer), at which time I (or another admin) will make a closing statement.

Request
This is RainbowPonyGoddess,PLEASE stop removing MY edits to everything I do edit,Jerk.

Like,I saw what you removed from my previous edit!


 * If you are referring to this edit, then I believe I explained my actions adequately in the edit summary.


 * (For the sake of clarity on the last part &#8212; "removed anecdotal information" referred to the removal of the statement "On pre-hardmode (and when theres a Blood Moon) Zombies seem to spawn the most." The page you posted that on really doesn't need such specific information, as it is just describing general spawning rules for players, NPCs, and monsters. Sorry for my poor wording there.)


 * I was not singling out your edits for removal, and I apologize if it appeared that I was. Oscuritaforze (talk) 04:12, July 17, 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations, Admin
Hey Oscuritaforze,

Congratulations on your successful nomination to administrator! I have closed the nomination at Terraria Wiki:Admin and Bureaucrat Nominations as you have the support of everyone commenting.

As an administrator, you will now have full access to the site, including capabilities to delete and undelete pages, block users who spam/vandalize, and edit protected pages &mdash; including system pages in the MediaWiki: namespace (e.g. MediaWiki:Wikia.css – the wiki's main site-wide stylesheet.

It also gives you the ability to use features in the admin dashboard at Special:AdminDashboard (see the "Admin" link in your toolbar at the bottom of the screen).

I would highly recommend reading Help:Administrators for a basic tutorial on some of these features. There are a lot of new capabilities available to you as an admin, and it would be impossible to explain all of them in one sitting. However, many of the tools are not hard to use and I am certain that you will learn everything you need to over time.

If you have any questions about admin capabilities or responsibilities, feel free to leave me a message any time and I will be available to help you.

I've also granted you admin rights on another website – the For Testing Wiki. It's a testing wiki that admins of the Terraria Wiki have used for a long time. Feel free to do any sort of experimenting over there. You can delete pages or test admin features or whatnot freely over there without fear of causing any problems.

Congratulations, and good luck in your new role,


 * Thanks! I'm sure I'll learn how to use this stuff over the next few months. Hopefully, I'm up to it... Oscuritaforze (talk) 05:18, July 19, 2013 (UTC)


 * ...This is probably a good time to update my profile...

Badges
sorry for all things i have done i vill only get badges

Alfonsaffe (talk) 21:08, July 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * Your edits don't look like they were intentionally destructive, so you don't really need to apologize. :)


 * However, be aware that, although there is no specific rule against editing primarily for badges, excessive badge farming (eg. this edit) is considered to not be in good faith, and may warrant a temporary block. Oscuritaforze (talk) 21:28, July 20, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks (im from sweden so i not relly good att english

Hello there.
I've been seeing you around for a while before you became an admin, but I did not know you were here prior to when you first made an account. You are such a great addition to the admin team, I actually wish you could have been here two years ago to help me out around the wiki when trolling and griefing was rampant. See you around. Port5 (talk) 22:54, July 20, 2013 (UTC)Port5


 * Ha, thanks for your kind words. Not sure I'd have been much of a help when I first discovered this wiki, though, as most all I was interested in (I believe the IP I had back then was 64.25.209.189?) was commenting on policy discussion...


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 01:17, July 21, 2013 (UTC)

Crafting
Hi, I just got the tutorial on my xbox and I dont know if cobweb can be used for crafting.


 * Cobwebs can be made into Silk at a Loom (they can also be made into Necro Armor, but that will come later).


 * Also, to answer the question you posed about "Jacob"; that is a random name for the Guide, the first NPC you encounter in every new world. He'll give you some general tips for playing the game, and can also tell you all crafting recipes for any item you show him.


 * (Regarding the Jacob page &#8212; in the future, please use the Forum or your blog to ask questions of that nature. Additionally, please search the wiki before making a page, to make sure that it won't be a duplicate.)


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 03:59, July 25, 2013 (UTC)

New Users?
hey Oscuritaforze, I notice two users edited a page and somehow misspelled "disappear". im just saying, but do you think this user is under 13 years old? because if he wasn't, he wouldn't misspelled "disappear". XMxCxNinja777x (talk) 21:10, July 29, 2013 (UTC)

-thank you for helping


 * It's certainly possible, but it's best to not report someone for being underage based on their grammar alone (this is the internet, after all...). Unless they let it slip that they are under 13 in chat or something, there's nothing we can really do.


 * Edit: Is this the edit you were referring to? If so, Eliteblackninja was using the word "dissipating" correctly &#8212; that is not a misspelling of "disappear" at all. Oscuritaforze (talk) 22:46, July 29, 2013 (UTC)


 * @Oscuritaforze: P.S., about the users under 13 thing: that's part of Wikia's legal Terms of Use, so they can comply with the U.S. COPPA law, but we don't have a local policy in Category:Policy on this wiki about it. It's not a local admin's job to police Wikia's Terms of Use – only to uphold any local wiki policy. Since our local wiki policy is not specific in this case, it's up to your personal discretion how you want to handle such cases, if at all.


 * I would recommend following Wikia's procedure, which is to only act on the under 13 issue when the user makes an edit (that you can link to an edit diff through the page history) saying they are under 13. You should then report such accounts to Wikia staff via the Special:Contact form, giving a link to the specific edit, so that they can globally disable the account. (Note that other methods such as chat screenshots or he-said-she-said scenarios are not reliable proof of a user's age – only edits that they make that are recorded by the software.)


 * Alright. I recall reading in the comments of the COPPA policy update blog post that it isn't necessarily Wikia's job to actively go looking for underage users, but I also noticed that there seems to be precedent on this wiki for infinitely blocking such users (eg. this user and this one), so I assumed that was part of the policy and was expected of us. Thanks for clearing that up.


 * In the meantime, I think I'll bookmark Category:Policy...


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 02:32, July 30, 2013 (UTC)

Useful?
Hi Oscuritaforze! I just wanted to know, am i actually being useful? and if im not, is there anything that i could do to become more useful? People are stupid, persons are inteligent (talk) 07:08, August 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Upon going through your contributions, it looks like most of your edits are of reasonable quality and were made in good faith, so that probably qualifies as "useful". Only thing I would advise is for you to leave summaries when you edit in the future (top-right corner of the editor screen). Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:30, August 12, 2013 (UTC)

Agreed, i only realised that you could do that recently! :D Thanks! People are stupid, persons are inteligent (talk) 00:29, August 13, 2013 (UTC)

Titan Armor
Hey there. I was wondering why would Titan Armor in conjunction with megashark only make the chance not to consume ammo? If you add the percentages up it adds to 98%. Is there some reason to ths? F-E-L-I-N-E (talk) 03:31, August 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello.


 * According to most sources I have checked (eg. the other Terraria wiki, the overall consensus in this thread, etc.), the way ammo consumption chance reduction bonuses stack is multiplicative (ie. multiplied together) instead of additive.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 04:05, August 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * (...Though now that I'm actually doing the calculations out, the value on that article should be 66% (assuming the parts of the set are multiplied separate from the set bonus, which makes the most sense):


 * $$[.5 + (.5 * .28) + (.5 * .28 * .1) + (.5 * .28 * .1 * .05) + (.5 * .28 * .1 * .05^2)] * 100%$$ ≈ $$66%$$


 * It looks like the value currently on the page is assuming that the bonuses from the pieces of the set are added to the set bonus, and then multiplied by the bonus from the Megashark, which is kinda inconsistent.)


 * Edit, now that I've thought about it more: Seeing as how we don't know how Engine Software coded it, we really don't know enough about how the numbers here interact to give an exact percentage. In light of this, I'm just going to generalize the Note in question for now.

Modified Update Info
'by any chance can you fix the space gun bug for IOS, i cannot find the craft recipe so please help :'(. Please release this bug fix in a new update soon please :(. Thx! '


 * Hello Lleyton125.


 * I am not actually involved in the development of any version of Terraria &mdash; I am just an administrator on this wiki. If you would like to report an iOS bug, the best place to do so would be in the appropriate thread on Terraria Online: http://www.terrariaonline.com/threads/ios-official-bug-glitch-report-thread.104869/


 * Regards, Oscuritaforze (talk) 17:44, September 4, 2013 (UTC)

Sorry
It seems that I have made an undo to the Mechanic page without providing a reason why. I would like to clarify that this is because the saying "is your device plugged in?" is only prevalent in the show "The IT Crowd".


 * Fair enough, though this should probably be directed at Spider Thor instead of me (it's probably not necessary unless he asks, though). :)


 * For future reference, it's not usually a big deal if you forget to leave an edit summary; people will generally assume good faith and leave any questions on your talk page rather than starting an edit war or asking that you be banned or something. Just so long as you are prepared to give your reasoning if pressed, there will probably be no problems.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:53, September 13, 2013 (UTC)

Gradients
Hello, So u know how to use gradients.Im not that good and do u know any site that makes gradients,THX

BADASS366 23:01, September 17, 2013 (UTC)BADASS366


 * I'm afraid my knowledge of color gradients (which I assume is what you are talking about?) is rather limited. Sorry I can't be of more use.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 00:11, September 18, 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism?
Hello, the user Pikamon101 has recently published unneeded edits to the Empty Bucket page. There is more information on what actions he performed on his talk page. Upon further inspection, it seems that he has been temporarily blocked before. I decided to report this to you as I myself do not know what to do.

User:F-E-L-I-N-E {talk} 15:35, September 21, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi F-E-L-I-N-E, thanks for letting me know.


 * Pikamon101's edits are indeed not of particularly high quality, but I believe that all of them were made in good faith. Regarding the edit to the Empty Bucket page: it looks like what he was doing was adding a poorly-named image to the start of the article – not particularly useful, but probably not vandalism.


 * (His previous block was for a blatantly bad-faith edit which came just shy of page blanking.)


 * For now, I'll just leave him a warning and a link to this wiki's editing and image policies.


 * Thanks, Oscuritaforze (talk) 18:56, September 21, 2013 (UTC)

New image for ru wiki in affiliates section
Hi, change please the old picture on this new on the main page, thanks. ~the vm 21:10, September 23, 2013 (UTC)


 * Done. Oscuritaforze (talk) 21:20, September 23, 2013 (UTC)

Will be updating a bunch of articles
but won't be doing much formating. Sorry I am just adding the new content as I publish it. Red is letting me cover prehardmode stuff for the beta right now so I am just gonna cover what I am allowed to and edit as I go. If I need to format more let me know. Sorry in advance.HeroGaming (talk) 03:46, September 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. You probably don't need to worry, though – most of the formatting we can do during pre-release is just placeholder stuff, anyway.


 * Thanks (and welcome back!), Oscuritaforze (talk) 04:26, September 24, 2013 (UTC)

Console Bugs
Hello just wondering where i can post a bug/glitch I found on xbox terraria Thisdude21178 (talk) 22:06, September 26, 2013 (UTC)thisdude21178


 * Any bugs with the console version can be posted on the Known Bugs (Console) page. Please just make sure that it isn't already there.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 22:10, September 26, 2013 (UTC)

bug
I looked at the known bugs and i didnt find the bug that Ifound.I also cant edit it myself because it messes up on me.Anyway when I summoned the devourer on a skybridge 5-6 blocks above sea level I was fighting him for about a minute when he went straight down into the ground and never came back up.The message that appeares when you kill him didnt come up and the musis changed back to normal music i waited 5 minutes going wtf? hope this gets tested.Thisdude21178 (talk) 01:28, September 27, 2013 (UTC)


 * Are you talking about the Eater of Worlds? If so, then do you know if you exited the Corruption during the fight? If so, then that isn't a bug; that boss will flee when the player leaves the Corruption during the battle. Oscuritaforze (talk) 02:59, September 27, 2013 (UTC)

ooh derp sry :3

iOS bugs
Hey, I found a bug on the iOS version of Terraria; on the ground floor of my house where my Guide Joost lives, sometimes the door and the wood block and dirt block will spontaneously break and drop for apparantly no reason. I'd have a screenshot, but another bug is when I tap Play, it freezes but doesn't crash. Wierd. D'you think you could check it out?


 * I can't investigate those bugs directly, as I do not own mobile Terraria. Are you just asking me to post those bugs on the wiki? Oscuritaforze (talk) 23:59, September 27, 2013 (UTC)

Video Formatting
Hi there Oscuritaforze, just leaving a note for you in regards to video formatting. Something we've encountered in past is a video's formatting messing with other CSS elements in an article if the  tag is omitted (or if   are used). If it's a case where it's located there after testing that it doesn't change anything, I've found no problem with it. I just find it more pleasing in an aesthetic fashion to see the videos aligned in a consistent manner throughout the wiki. Any questions/queries into this note are welcome. :)


 * Huh, I never noticed that, even after moving videos around all over Wikia. o.O


 * Thanks for the heads up, though! I'll be sure to tag videos appropriately from now on.


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 01:20, September 29, 2013 (UTC)


 * No problem! Just another quirk with MediaWiki, it seems. :P

Username?
Hey, is there a way to change your username without making a new profile? I made this profile on the Angry Birds wiki (that explains the "PlaysAngryBirds" part) and I've decided it doesn't really go with the Terraria Wiki. If not, I'd have my username as "FragBombGaming". FragBombPlaysAngryBirds (talk) 21:32, September 29, 2013 (UTC)


 * You can use Special:Contact/rename-account to request a new name, but be aware that Wikia staff will only do one rename per account. Be sure to read this first. Oscuritaforze (talk) 22:07, September 29, 2013 (UTC)