User talk:FastLizard4

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Search engine optimization
Hey FL, I just wanted to give you a heads up on the edit I just made to MediaWiki:Pagetitle. I've been assigned with dropping by the top 50 gaming wikis to edit that file in order to maximize traffic from search engines. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to shoot me a message. JoePlay (talk) 21:14, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Roger that, makes sense. -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 03:39, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

(Section break from above)
How do i become a administrator?Elmopedia89 23:12, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Dude, U just got here! Samusiscool3 01:52, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Precisely. In order to become an administrator, the most essential task is to gain the trust & respect of the other users first, since they will be the ones voting for you. There is a link to the application for an Administrator position on the banner above this page, (you should see it unless you have dismissed it) but since you are such a new member, I can assure you 100% that your efforts to become one would be futile. Demonstrate impressive editing abilities within the articles and civility within the talk pages, forums, etc., and you will be well on your way to gaining the respect of the other users. Besides, what's the rush to be one anyway? Armantula513 [ADMIN] (Talk&bull;Contribs) 23:19, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think I need to answer that. -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:02, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Just Saying
I'm just sayinng(don't take this the wrong way because i love wikitroid)you guys don't let us do anything on here. I love how you can look up info on here and share your ideas, but maybe put up like a talk page or something.I mean i get in trouble on here all the time, but it doesn't mean I'm a bad person.If i may recommend putting something up like a new website(because wikia is a profesional site and intends to stay that way) like a myspac but for metroid.I dont have any money to start something like that so i would praise you if you could get someone to do that.write back. M110 22:55, 6 November 2008 (UTC)m110M110 22:55, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I might set something up like that when I bother to buy a couple of servers, a dependable connection, a static IP address, and a domain name, but for now, you can use our somewhat difficult-to-use forums or you can find another forum out there (which I am sure exists). -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:02, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Large amounts of formatting errors
I've been working to eliminate all undesired page statuses (Orphaned, uncatagorized, ect.) and have found that most of the pages that are uncatgorized are that way because someone forgets to close the gallery template with. Is there some way we could warn users about this so other people don't have to go around cleaning it up? Zeruel21 23:41, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Nothing truly effective. I guess I could add something below the edit form, but that has proved ineffective.  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:02, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Video
Hey FastLizard. I wanted to give you a heads up on a new project that we, the Wikia Gaming Team, are starting. I'm going to the top gaming wikis and adding relevant videos (from YouTube) to the most popular/visited articles. We'll be tracking their usage to find out if it could be an extra enhancement to articles that people will use. If you have any questions, feedback, etc, feel free to drop me a message. JoePlay (talk) 21:18, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright, will do. -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:02, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

RE:Patrolling
I apologize if I haven't been helping out as much as I could, (since I've had a few "mundane" matters to deal with recently, dislocating my fingers from the keyboard) but I'll try to get some more time into this task later on. Remember, I have highly irregular "work hours", so I will usually get to editing throughout the night (so feel free to not finish the patrolling; just don't leave me with a mountain). If I haven't been doing so... then I will! You'll see. You didn't give me credit for the patrolling I did yesterday, you know. But this is in no way the beginning of a debate. Armantula513 [ADMIN] (Talk&bull;Contribs) 11:39, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm doing as much as I can. Hopefully, when my computer gets enough RAM so my IDE doesn't crash every time I use it, I will be able to make a patrolling program in Visual Basic.NET!  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 04:56, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

A "tech question"
Would the formatting type for Wikia articles accept Image Map HTML coding? I'm thinking of making an image map as a directory for the various areas of Zebes, but I'd like to check in with you first. It would be a bit of work for me, so I don't want to slave if it's not going to accept the coding! Armantula513 [ADMIN] (Talk&bull;Contribs) 21:57, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * A quick check of Special:Version shows me the wiki does support &lt;imagemap&gt;:

ImageMap (Version r35980) || Allows client-side clickable image maps using ) so people can identify your posts.  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:25, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for giving me info on how to get pictures from other websites! Wookiee123 7:15 11 December

Thanks
Thank you for telling me about the fourms i didn't realize i was going to get in trouble for this. But umm... what did you think of my edit to the power beam article?Snore 02:20, 12 December 2008 (UTC)read the rules ???Snore 23:39, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

New User
My friend just got an account on this wiki. Can you create his talk page? FYI his name on here is "Sylux Ridley". Wookiee123 04:08, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 *  Unable: Software reports that the user "Sylux Ridley" does not exist. Please check spelling, and remember that usernames are case-sensitive.  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:06, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

SYLUX RIDLEY
I'm sorry for not puting capital letters. It is actually "SYLUX RIDLEY".

My passwords
Got em in wordpad.Also changed em. Samus is cool 06:31, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

RE:Note
Hey sorry. didnt know that was against the rules. I was just speaking the truth. wont happen again. sorry :/ M110 17:02, 23 December 2008 (UTC)m110

Hey sorry for the fanart too. I just need a little help hot linking it. I am currently reading all the "directions" for wikitroid if that makes youy happy(though I need to also ;])I have been really rude to you in the past couple of weeks and I just wanted to call it a truce. I'm sorry for everything and hope that maybe we can strike up a friendship, but you got to understand where I am coming from.Is that cool? Write back §Ä¥ M110 16:06, 24 December 2008 (UTC)M110
 * Not a problem. I have seen much, much worse on Wikipedia.  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 06:48, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Pikachu
Well, umm he did interact with samus Samus is cool  talk. 04:06, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Main Page rename
Since you seem to be the most active admin, I wanted to let you that I just renamed the Main Page to Metroid Wiki. I've been assigned with stopping by all the top gaming wikis and making sure their main page is named (Game Name) Wiki instead of Main Page, for search engine optimization purposes. If you admins decide you don't want the keep the new main page name, you obviously have the right to revert, but I would strongly suggest keeping it so that even more people will find this wiki. Cheers. =) JoePlay (talk) 20:07, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Alright, makes sense. -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 01:30, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: Samus' & Samus's
Is there any technical, technological reason not to make the minor changes of standardizing that singular nouns always carry an "s"? If not, and if either are right, then I believe for clarity and for consistency with the source materials (or at least the more recent materials), these changes only help perusal of the Wiki[a]. TJF588 14:01, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, to be honest, we were consistent until you decided to take matters into your own hands. To be fair, if you were really concerned about consistency, the best thing to do would have been to check several articles.  But, to answer your question, there is no technological reason (aside from the fact that none of my bots seem to work anymore) that we couldn't change, it's a human barrier.  Well, there is in a way a technological barrier in that it can't be done automatically (without an extremely complex algorithm), but it could be done by hand.  But, like I said, most of the users use American English, in which Samus' is correct regardless of whether or not the noun is plural.  If we were to adopt a unified method, there would be a very large argument.  I say this from experience, having endured one such argument on Wikipedia.  Even today, no one can agree on what form to use on Wikipedia, and that's why we allow either.  I should have rephrased my warning, too.  I should have said that the text you submit should be consistent with the rest of the article.  Anyway, if you really feel strongly about this, go write up an RfC and have this put up to a community vote.  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:35, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Have-done. We'll see where this goes, and if things are kept as they are, the only nitpicking on this matter you'd see from me are direct quotes. TJF588 21:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism and Spam?
Do we know who is causing the spam? Maybe I can help? Bob.bob@bobbydude.com
 * I'm afraid I don't know what you are referring too. -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:38, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

It was a few days ago. Your admin status said vandalism and spam are unusually high. That was a few days ago. -Orka
 * Oh, that. Well, vandalism (like spam) doesn't come from one person, usually from groups of people.  What you can do is check the RC feed for vandalism every once in a while and revert it.  Oh, and do sign your talk page messages with four tildes.

sitenotice
I've noticed that not many people vote on the boss battle royal. I was wondering if you could use the sitenotice to call more attention to it so more people will vote on it. Thanks.  Metroidhunter32  02:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, generally, the sitenotice is only used for major announcements regarding site operation. I am not going to put a notice up for the voting right now, but perhaps this weekend when I can take time to review the time structure (how long voting lasts, etc.), I can put it up.  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:37, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

RE:Email
I recieved the email. The MarioGalaxy2433g5  { talk /contribs/Logs} 20:27, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Login Problems
Hey, it's Piratehunter. I am intending on getting back into the admining of Wikitroid (sorry about the absence by the way). But I seem to have a problem, when I login to Wikitroid, sure it logs me in. But I can't stay logged in, every time I go to a new page I have to login again and I just can't edit things with this problem. It may have a simple solution, thing is I don't know it. So could you help me solve this? P i r a t e h u n t e r {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs) 05:34, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * What browser and operating system are you using? Oh, and by the way, did you receive the email sent to your Wikitroid email address on or about the 19th of December, 2008?  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:57, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Browser is Firefox 3, am using Windows PC, and yeah I got it. P i r a t e h u n t e r {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs) 12:07, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know
I really don't know what happened and you had a good point about why would they hack me...i have no rights on here;). It's all very weird, and i was just to lazy to get an antispy program, but know that i got hacked or something, i went to the store and bought it. Could you please put together a list of possiblilities that could have happened? thanks so much M110 18:04, 25 January 2009 (UTC)M110

Confused
Hi, I read the image policy so that i wouldn't go causing more trouble, and i am still a little unsure. Do screen-shots not released by Nintendo go in the Fairuse licensinfg? i.e. if i were to take a screenshot of say Metroid Prime and post it here, would it go in fairuse? Sorry for bothering you with this. Hellkaiserryo12 10:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I would say that it is alright. Hypothetically, if you were to take a screenshot of Metroid Prime, it would only be not considered Fairuse (or rather, considered illegal) if you were to claim that the image was your property, and not the property of Nintendo. If were you make significant alterations to the image, then it would need to be filed under one of the various artistic licenses, labeled as fanart, and it wouldn't be able to appear in any articles. But this doesn't apply to simple image enhancements and such. But just remember that it is very important to properly license any image that you upload, whether copyrighted by Nintendo or otherwise. As a rule of thumb, just classify it as fairuse if it is something that appears in a Metroid game, or anything (such as artwork) that appears in official Nintendo-licensed material, such as official strategy guides, instruction manuals, etc. If you're not sure of an image's authenticity, try asking around the users here for a second opinion by providing a link to the image. ''And it's okay to ask questions! Admins get bored when everything is too harmonious, or at least I do. Armantula''513 [ADMIN] (Talk&bull;Contribs) 11:37, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Off Topic?
Hey could any of these images be uploaded without being deleated for being off-topic? Cause I think that they are really funny and would like to add them to my userpage.  Metroidhunter32  02:51, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, the definition of off-topic is anything that doesn't directly pertain to Metroid, and those qualify. So, you'll have to hot-link them (instructions are on the image policy page).  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 00:13, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Listen, I Don't Want To Start An Edit War
We have to figure this out. The Metroid games template obviously shouldn't have Metroid 64 on it. I was just using that as an example. But I really don't think Dread should be on there either. I say we leave it to a vote. Let the users decide whether or not to keep it on there. If the game gets "Officially" announced then it can go back on there but until then I say we take it off. What do you think?Zabbeth 15:56, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, Zabbeth. Let's just say that FastLizard4 was using a bit of hyperbole when writing that edit summary for the Metroid games template. I have a proposal: Why not just create a section on the template which lists non-released/canceled Metroid games? That would solve the problem, and it would even put Metroid 64 back on the list. Of course, we could still have a vote on it. But I don't think that this is a large enough issue to open a new RfC about; let's discuss this in a forum. Armantula513 [ADMIN] (Talk&bull;Contribs) 16:46, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Um, well, actually I posted it in the forum in January under the title "Games Gategory Thingy" but with a title like that it was no surprise that nobody ever saw it. But yeh, we could probably make a new one with a better title. Or something.Zabbeth 19:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Alright, I started a vote for it in the Watercooler. Come and vote.Zabbeth 22:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

I opened a new thingy at RfC
Just to let you know, I opened a new thingy st the RfC, I thought i'd tell you seeing as you are the admin who usually handles stuff like that. Hellkaiserryo12 20:06, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Newly-introduced welcoming tool
Wikia has introduced a new welcoming tool onto this site. It's possible that you already know of it, (because I ponder the day when I might have the 1-up on what's to know about Wikia,) but I would like your opinion on it. It welcomes IP addresses automatically, (using my signature, something that I'm not quite fond of,) which is something that we don't approve of, yes? It has a command to disable its functions, but I'm at a disadvantage here! Would you like the honors? If you'd like to discuss it a bit first, of course, that's fine too. Armantula513 [ADMIN] (Talk&bull;Contribs) 21:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, I noticed this. An anon user who created a page about a beam from Ratchet and Clank was thanked for his edit. Sorry to interupt by the way, I just thought you should know. Hellkaiserryo12 22:11, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * There are new MediaWiki pages to change how it functions. (For example, it could use my signature instead of yours) The MarioGalaxy2433g5  { talk /contribs/Logs} 23:06, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Heh, actually, I've been meaning to program a bot in PHP (perhaps using a core similar to that of PHP-LizardBot 5) to utilize the MediaWiki API and automagically leave welcome messages. As for the automagical signatures, I'll make a modification and set it to use the welcoming templates we already use, as well as a "boilerplate" signature.  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:42, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Scratch that, I'm going to leave it disabled because it creates userpages for people. I don't believe in the "force them to create a userpage" concept.  -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 05:51, 20 March 2009 (UTC)