User talk:The Ultra-Mind

Archive
My talk page material from Wikia is pretty out-of-date, but if you want to see it, you can look at my old Wikia talk page (note the old Wikia s/n).

Welcome back
Hey there, welcome back! Glad you made it to our new home!--Sega381 18:13, 10 November 2010 (PST)
 * Thanks! I missed the Codex, but... it was worth it. The Ultra-Mind 15:01, 11 November 2010 (PST)

No Personal Attacks
Tribun toes the line a lot. But the long personal attack you made on my talk page is not what I meant by "come to me". Please review the no personal attacks policy for how to properly handle the situations like this. -- Fenyx4 15:42, 4 December 2010 (PST)
 * Ok, I've looked at it again, but it's a bit weak on how to handle situations like this, so I still don't know what you meant by "come to me". I had a lot of colourful things to say, and to strictly adhere to this new policy would have emptied it. The Ultra-Mind 15:24, 5 December 2010 (PST)


 * Sorry for not being clear the "come to me" would be referring to "Recurring personal attacks that do not stop after reasoned requests to cease should be reported to any active site admin on their talk page" and/or "If you are too angry to respond without violating this policy, consider taking a short break from the wiki, or contact an admin". Just bringing it to my attention (a link and stating that you consider it to be a personal attack) is sufficient and I'll do my best to deal with it from there. -- Fenyx4 22:54, 5 December 2010 (PST)
 * I see. The problem with that is that I don't feel these issues could have been best described in terms of "personal attacks". In fact, I'd say that in most cases, it would be petty to try to make a case for that. However, what I was addressing was no less egregious or disruptive, both directly and indirectly, requiring leadership, just not on those terms. The Ultra-Mind 13:32, 6 December 2010 (PST)

Spell article's name poll
Hey there, I think you may want to contribute to the Forum:POLL: Spell article's merging policy. Thanks!--Sega381 17:09, 6 March 2011 (PST)

Singularization
Hey, just thought I'd drop you a note about this before you spend time making corrections elsewhere. For awhile now we've more or less adopted the standard that singular they can be used as a gender-neutral pronoun when referring to the Avatar. I realise that not everyone regards it as acceptable English, but its usage is widespread and often makes it a lot easier to get around the he/she issue here. --Terilem 21:00, 2 September 2012 (PDT)
 * Uh, ok... I missed that discussion. I thought this issue was settled a while ago, with broad consensus and much discussion: just don't use pronouns for the player character. The style guide still goes that way and I don't think there's even talk of changing it on the talk page. There was good reason for this, the most compelling of which, I think, is that the documentation usually used this style. I don't think it ever used the plural. The Ultra-Mind 14:14, 3 September 2012 (PDT)
 * Yeah, you're right. I do recall a discussion about using they, but I have no idea where that took place. I guess it just informally slipped into common usage. I mainly spoke up about it here because I see it used frequently (heck I've used it myself), in case you weren't aware of the mammoth task ahead if you were to correct it all. Plus, your edit to the Tobias article presents a tricky example, i.e. cutting short a direct quote just to avoid the pronoun. --Terilem 19:58, 3 September 2012 (PDT)
 * Thanks for the heads up, but I was intending to go on a massive dragon hunt for the theys as surely as I was intending to correct everything else with the Codex overnight :) But I do apply Codex policy when I do edits. Now if you think that the quote issue is a problem, the solution just requires a little of the creativity that we usually apply. Check this out... The Ultra-Mind 20:32, 4 September 2012 (PDT)

Title templates
Howdy Ultra-Mind! Just wanted to let you know the existing title templates can be used in links, formatted as follows:  --Terilem (talk) 12:27, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm scratching my head a bit. Perhaps you can tell me what exactly is this project good for? Right now it seems to only save a few keystrokes.--Tribun (talk) 12:31, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The templates both italicize the game titles and prevent their Roman numerals from appearing on a new line (poor formatting) without using &nbsp during edits. --Terilem (talk) 12:39, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Oh dear, how I hate that code string &nbsp . There was a time when that thing was used inflationary, making editing a chore - especially ripping that code out again. In that case I can understand the project, though I probably won't use it out of sheer habit.--Tribun (talk) 12:43, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Make it a habit! :) It ensures proper formatting. --Terilem (talk) 12:50, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

I realize there are alternatives. Knowing that, I still felt there could be a better set of templates. I take it not everyone agrees? The Ultra-Mind (talk) 12:45, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * By all means, create new templates if you wish. I just wasn't sure if you knew the current ones could be used this way and wanted to save you the extra work in case. --Terilem (talk) 12:50, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Awright, well if no one has any objections (like, not even the naming convention) then I'll go ahead and complete the set. The Ultra-Mind (talk) 13:30, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Need your opinion
Im testing a new location infobox and new location picture with Britain. Please tell me what you think of it and compare that to the old location pictures. I felt that it's about time the location articles get cleaned up. --Tribun (talk) 20:33, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmm... I hope you weren't looking for a short answer, because I kinda feel like talking about it and inspiring others to come up w/opinions.
 * I always liked the old 4-colour style, because it was simple and easy to understand (brings me back to a bachelor-level course in technical writing where I was told that diagrams are better than photographs, because photos have too many details and are confusing). But what you've got is pretty easy to understand, too, w/its contrasting colours. Besides, the wiki does seem a wee bit sterile and could do w/a little beatification. I'm not in favour of just adding beauty for beauty's sake, but a good way to make it look better is to improve upon images that wouldn't even take full advantage of CGA graphics! Something else to consider is that the more detail we give a map, the greater the risk of favouring one game's geography over another's (read: geography changes from game-to-game).
 * So the cons against the new style seem a little weak, so I guess I lean a little bit in favour of the new style.
 * On the other hand... you know how I feel about non-canonical material, and the further we get away from the 4-colour style, the more fanon we get. Where did you get that image? Maybe the choice isn't between the two styles and we might also consider another improved style that is also canonical. The Ultra-Mind (talk) 13:52, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I actually did think about your points and created a new image that's much closer to what I think you feel is better by being simpler. The discussion is moved to my talk page, so please answer there.--Tribun (talk) 19:48, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Serious Codex Overhaul
Just a little explanation for the heavy activity over the past weeks (well, actually months). Somehow, I developed the need to finally fix a lot of issues I saw with the Codex, like non-standardized formatting in categories, picture clutter, lack of pictures and/or content and so on... Thus I worked like mad and thanked all heavens for the galleries that finally allow me to put all the needed pictures in the articles.

I'm by now mostly done with the in-universe categories, with only NPCs, Weapons, Armour and Ammunition remaining. However, I sort of shy back from doing the NPCs due to the sheer mass of them. I'll most likely first clean up the out-of-universe articles like walkthroughs and cheats and well as other stuff.

Now, I probably won't do anything until the weekend, so perhaps a little feedback on the massive effort of the past weeks would be good to see what you guys think of it.--Tribun (talk) 23:48, 22 July 2019 (UTC)