Please look at the section about copyright tags at the bottom. --Suki Brits 04:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I got Ben Yee's permision to use some of his texts via E-mail Ben Yee said... "Please use only certain text (not say, entire episode reviews or anything like that) and credit my site accordingly. Thanks!" X-BoB58
Do we know who has administrative powers on this Wiki? --User:ItsWalky
There's been a vandal who's screwed around with a few pages, and this is probably going to come up fairly often. The wikipedia page on reverting[1] is something that most people should read, so you know how to put things back to how they were, when something like that happens aggain. --Suki Brits 03:04, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Yeah I reverted the Main Page after someone replaced it with a message insulting the intelligence of this Wiki.-Shadow Mask Prime
Contact in case of problems
As you haven't an active admin at the moment, I've left contact information on my user page and will call in regularly to see if you need any help. If anyone knows why someone is blanking pages, that would be useful. Are there copyright issues? Has stuff been copied without full (and GFDL compatible) permission? If so, we may have to remove and rewrite the pages. I'll pop back tomorrow to see if there has been more blanking. -- sannse (talk) 16:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
That awful picture and the name
Although secondary to the vandalism, we have an admin-type who can deal with the problems left by the creator. There's a couple locked things that we can't change:
- The title is misspelled. The computer's name is "Teletraan-1", and we should really have the title reflect a name that 'isn't' the wrong spelling. We fixed it on the main page, but it still shows up in the titles of every page.
- The wiki symbol in the top left is horrendously ugly and kinda embarassing. And not only is it hideous, but it also reflects the same problem as the title: Teletraan-1 is spelled incorrectly. I made a new image for it, but it's not too great either, and I'd like to invite any artist to do something better.
We should get some other people's thoughts on both these matters. If we can get some sort of consensus going, we can probably get both of these matters fixed. --Suki Brits 18:36, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Besides the spelling, I don't see anything wrong with the logo. Heck, I'd be downright surprised to see anything else. Well, with the possible exception of the Decepticon logo.--Octopus Prime- King of the Road! 22:52, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
What about that spinning logo that goes from bot to con to max to pred to blendtron etc. etc. etc. X-BoB58
- For the title issue - I'll contact our one of our technical support staff. It's not something that can be changed on-wiki (he should be on-line soon). For the logo - I've unprotected the logo for a while, so you can chose what should go there and upload. All you need to do is upload to Image:wiki.png. It does have to be a .png image, so the animated logo idea is out I'm afraid. If you want to try changing your favicon (Image:favicon.ico: File:Favicon.ico) then I can unprotect that too for a while.
I definitely fall in the "don't like the logo" camp, so here's one proposal for a change: new logo proposal. Aurax 16:59, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I propose an Art Contest or something similar. -X-boB58
- Well, anyone is welcome to and definitely encouraged to make a new logo to replace the old one; just upload it and post it here if you do. If we get any more people proposing replacements, we can just put it to a vote. Although I do personally like Aurax's a lot. --Suki Brits 00:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
I also like the logo Aurax made, although probably we should pick between "Teletraan-1" and "Teletraan One". The logo spells out the number, whereas it's written elsewhere with the digit.
--Steve-o 03:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Since it's likely easier to change the text in the logo than it is to change the name of the wiki (again), I made a new version of the graphic file. It fixes the spelling and addresses some text readability issues that I had with the original, stuff that I was gonna fix anyway. For your renewed consideration. Aurax 03:59, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- I've replaced the old logo with yours, as there weren't objections; but if anyone opposes it now, please feel free to post to that effect. --Suki Brits 03:06, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
While were on the topic of apearances what about a new skin, Idunno something more "transformery"
To be utterly and stupednously anal, the computer's name is actually spelled "Teletraan I," with a roman numeral and no hyphen. - Chris McFeely, 17th March 2006
New Admins
The other thing to consider is who should be your new admin(s). You all know your wiki better than I, so any suggestions? Who has experience of admin buttons (not vital, they are pretty easy to follow), is active on this wiki, and knows the subject well enough to know what is valid and what is vandalism? The main criteria as far as I'm concerned are some good sense and a lot of enthusiasm :) -- sannse (talk) 13:35, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I fit most of the requirements, but don't know wiki's particular admin setup. If you say they're easy to follow, then I suppose they can't be much different from admin-ing elsewhere. If anything, I just want to keep that one guy from deleting whole pages. I also think User:Suki Brits would make a good Admin, if she would want to be. --User:ItsWalky
I had just typed up that I'd also nominate Walky as an admin when he edited his post-- oops, I guess that seems sorta hollow now. Regardless, he's probably the best choice for an admin here, as he certainly knows what he's doing, and has put lot of time into this already; definitely fits the requirements.
And I wouldn't mind myself, either. --Suki Brits 18:13, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Having seen Walky's posts and conversations thus far, I'd trust him to be a fair and enthusiastic admin --User:G.B. Blackrock (talk)
I think that Suki seems to know the system better --X-BoB58
"NO The Constructicons Form DEVESTATOR! The Most Powerful Robot! They Should Rule!"
I honestly can't believe I'm the first one to use that quote here. I mean, come on, really. Get your heads in the game.
That Said: In all honesty, I agree with the mutual respect goin to'ard Walky or Suki being Admin. Since Walky's added more to the Wiki then everyone else put together, and Suki seems to have done much of the admin-lite duties round here.
Heck, I vote for Suki.--Octopus Prime- King of the Road! 22:54, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- I would gladly put my support behind Walky and/or Suki Brits as admins. --Steve-o 06:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
- Walky and "Suki Brits" would be fine mods. FOR ME TO OVERTHROW. Hooper X 20:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
A nice bit of agreement here :) Walky and Suki Brits are now your admins. Let me know if you need any help at all -- sannse (talk) 12:46, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Well, thanks, everyone. Hopefully I won't actually need to do many admin type functions, but I'll be glad to whenever I can. --Suki Brits 17:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Deletion policy
One thing that I'd really rather not happen to this is we get bogged down by too many policies and rules, since that's distracting from the real purpose of the whole thing. We're all big kids, if someone's not doing things right, we don't need to redirect them to endless piles of policy pages. But with that said, there are a couple things we do need to deal with: like deleting crap. There's a lot of garbage that needs to go, but I don't want to delete something accidentally that others think should be kept.
My proposal: we make a page for listing pages that should be deleted, with dates appended beside each nominee for deletion, and a {{tobedeleted}} tag put at the top of the page to be deleted itself. If nobody objects after three days, the page'll be deleted. Obviously, anyone can nominate a page to be deleted.
Does this sound like a good idea? --Suki Brits 17:36, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Sounds fair to me.--G.B. Blackrock 18:11, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Whats the advantage of a catagory over a list?
I liked the lists
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT
As some might have noticed, we've had an image removed due to copyright issues; if at all possible, I'd like to avoid that sort of thing happening again. I've drafted up two additional copyright templates, Template:Comiccover and Template:Comicinterior, the uses of which should be fairly obvious. I'd like for people to overview these to make sure they're acceptable, and after that, please start putting them on any applicable pages.
As Wikipedia demonstrates, fair use is a pretty neat blanket that we can fit under, but we need to actually start labeling these images appropriately, or we're going to get more issues coming up. --Suki Brits 04:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- The Image Copyright template is... incomplete. Not all images are the sole domain of Hasbro. This is sufficient for, say, stills from most cartoons- but IIRC part of the reason The Ultimate guide couldn't cover riD properly was the visual was co-owned by Disney because they bought out Saban. Do we have a general 'copyrighted image, fair use' template that DOESN'T say Hasbro? (That'd be sufficient so long as the image source is attributed correctly in the text. the problem, legally speaking, arises if you cite a template saying hasbro owns somethign they do not- like a picture of Pepsiman. Plus yhere's some stuff hasbro DOESN'T own that Takara does that we'll have/do have snaps of.) -D-rok
- I agree, which is why I didn't mention Template:Image Copyright in that post; it's not particularly good. I have, however, drafted up two additional tags which should be used for everything else, providing they're acceptable: Template:Hastak and Template:Fairuse, which should cover virtually all images. The "this image belongs to Hasbro" template should definitely be depreciated. Any comments? --Suki Brits 20:13, 7 April 2006 (UTC)