Response to information request[]

(Not sure if I am doing this formatting right) “He relaxed as he fell into the Force. Its touch comforted him, warmed him, steadied him.“ p 286 Crosscurrent I understand this as literally heating him up. SaintSirNicholas (talk) 17:56, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Admin[]

Dear Grunny, While I am rather new to the Wookieepedia website, I have participated in a number of other wikis in the past. I am not looking for any "special statous", I am simply seeking to participate in Wookieepeida in a larger way. My credentials include the following:

Father ran all Star Wars movies at theater. Owner of original Star Wars Theatrical Posters & Relese books. Owner of Star Wars library totaling over 300 some books. Star Wars Fan

As I have stated before, I am not looking to be an administrator, as, after reading the various informational sources about it, it requires having worked on Wookieepedia for more than a years time, however, I do wish to participate more actively. I have, today, mainly worked on the cleanup of the website and unfortunetly, found a number of vandalized pages and pages that glorified Star Wars charachters that did not even exsist. As a result, I was wondering if there was any position lower than an administrator that I could use to deal with the vandalists or any position that I could use to better prevent such things. I have filled out you necessary questionarre, below, to better further why I would be apt to take on such a task.

Why do you want to become an administrator?

Well, I do not necessarily want to become an administrator in this case, however, I wish to take a more active role because I feel that the Star Wars Franchise, its subsidiaries and its work is worth sharing with the world, and I feel that I would benefit as well as others, from having a chance at sharing my knowledge with all. I also feel that it is important to uphold policies and would like to do so with such power.

In your opinion, what is the role of an administrator?

To serve, protect, edit and delete vandalized, invalid or potentially unwanted information from Wookieepedia. There purpose is to make Wookieepedia the best that it can be. In your view, do administrators hold a technical or political position?

In my view, a techinical position, if this were to be a political monopoly then where would all the fun go. There purpose is to utalize there knowledge of Star Wars and its franchise and use that to ensure that all information is canon and correct.

How do you feel admins should use their power/stand in comparison with other users?

I think it should be used sparingly. It should be used to protect and control, not delete and waste. It should only be used to make Wookieepedia better.

Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?

I have not had any particular conflicts as I am realitively new. If I am to have a conflict, I would began by

Of your articles or contributions to Wookieepedia, are there any with which you are particularly pleased, and why?

I enjoyed editing the "Sadari Royal Palace" article, which I continue to edit with. I just thought it was a lot of fun. I viewed the same Clone Wars episode 7 times to get the information exact.

What sysop chores do you anticipate helping with?

Cleanup, in particular and regulating vandalisim. The law rules, of course!

How important is it for you to be involved in things such as CT, FA, GA, and other community-centered items that involve discussion and voting? Very important. Public Relations and the vote of the people are what make the people great. Without it, power will overtake the minds of all. And then what will we be, simply working to "Learn to use the dark side of the force"~Sideous

Do you think admins performing actions (I.e. deletions, blocks, etc.) for reasons not covered on policy should be sanctioned/punished? If so, how? Yes, if an administrator wastes or misuese there power, they do so deserve to be punished and in a way such as stripping them of there power for a certain period of time, if it is a serious offense, forever.

What is your policy, if any, of welcoming new users? Should you welcome a new user, do you look at his/her contributions beforehand? What about anonymous IPs?

Being a newer user myself, I feel that we should welcome them. What if George Lucas became a new user, would we welcome him, of course! I feel that if one has the drive and motivation to work hard and contribute well, then new users are great. However, anonymous IPs can be robots, but, if they make good contributions, well, thats ok to.

How would you react if someone undeleted an article you'd mistakenly speedied? Under what circumstances would you consider it appropriate to undelete an article mistakenly speedied by another administrator, if any, and how would you approach this task?

Firstly, I would respond and ask the other for a valid reason why it is deemed appropriate to be undeleted. Then, I would ask the fellow adminstrator why he deleted an article. Always ask before taking action.

How would you react if your user page was vandalized? Under what circumstances would you block the offender? Is there anything else that you would do in this situation?

I would be quite angry, however, it is important to maintain an air of professionalisim when in the workplace and I would simply request that the user in question be blocked, punished or removed.

Under what circumstances would you consider blocking an established user?

Vandalizing articles, misuse of policys, misuse of administrative power, disgracing Kyle Katarn.

If you could change any one thing about Wookieepedia, what would it be?

Make being able to take an active part(administrator, burecrat) more available and easier.

Would you look at a glass to be half-empty or half-full?

Half-Full, always.

Do you feel the current blocking policy is too restrictive, not restrictive enough, or OK as it is?

Not restrictive enough. Users who vandalize are not welcome in my book.

Have you ever considered becoming a regular visitor to the Wookieepedia IRC chat? How do you feel about people who already have some influence on other Star Wars communities (TheForce.Net, StarWars.com) trying to change policies here?

In my opinion, the policy was established by Wookieepedia users. If the so called "stars" of other websites disaggree with it, they should tell us why and if the reasons are poor/falsified, then there should be no policy changes. I have considered becoming a regular visitor and plan to join soon.

How many clones do you think fought in the Clone Wars? (Note: You are wrong no matter what answer you give.)

The answer is insurmontable. So if I am wrong, so be it.

Who is the most awesome Jedi of all time? (Note: The only correct answer is Kyle Katarn.)

Well, Kyle Katran is quite cool, however, I favor Tera Sinube. His lessons of patience are quite true.

What's more important to you: consensus or policy?

Policy, if a policy was created, it is here for a reason.

Have you had any previous leadership experience (in your community, on the web, etc.)?

Yes, I have lead an FPS team, been team captain in a number of community events, run two wikis privately "Newhart Wiki" & The "Harvard Wiki"

What is your attitude towards users who have quit the site or have been banned, but still continue to attempt to influence the site in any way? If there reason for being blocked was valid, they should not be allowed to influence the site. If there reason was invalid, perhaps their case should be examined again.

What is your wiki philosophy? To always uphold policy, prevent vandalisim and preserve the truth.

Again, I ask that you consider this as a questioning as to weather or not I may take a more active role in Wookieepeida. I thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, --Lambgrams22 (talk) 22:18, February 17, 2013 (UTC)Lambegrams22--Lambgrams22 (talk) 22:18, February 17, 2013 (UTC)

Image CT[]

Hey, I wanted to notify you of changes made to the image CT; it has been overhauled following IRC discussion and now only deals with images in scroll boxes. Feel free to review the changed proposal and alter your vote if your opinion on the new issue is different. Thanks! Cade Calrayn 19:47, February 27, 2013 (UTC)

Next AC Meeting[]

Hey Grunny. Not sending this notice out to everyone because some others already signed up, but AC Meeting 56 is scheduled for March 23. Come in your favorite starship! CC7567 ^(talk) 20:16, March 7, 2013 (UTC)

Lightsaber form infobox[]

Hey grunny, I have a question about bot assistance. In the lightsaber form infobox, I've removed the "notable" from the practitioner field to avoid any issues. I've recently removed "famous" from the species infobox because certain people, including myself, had issues dealing with who's famous and who isn't. This came about last year in the Mon Calamari article. The removal of "famous" was clean and didn't disrupt the infoboxes in the various species articles, but "notable" in the lightsaber form infobox does. So as for my question, could a bot go through every article and remove "notable" from the infobox? If you take a look at my edit here, you'll see that if I remove notable, that entire field disappears in the articles that contain the infobox. Thanks man, JangFett ^(Talk) 19:35, March 8, 2013 (UTC)

Hey Jang. Done. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 19:55, March 8, 2013 (UTC)

• Heh, thanks a lot man. :) JangFett ^(Talk) 19:56, March 8, 2013 (UTC)

• Yeah, I see him. :P JangFett ^(Talk) 19:59, March 8, 2013 (UTC)

Comet Squadron[]

"So—are you still worried about being sent to the Agricultural Corps?" Comet Squadron has been approved by the AgriCorps and awarded Good status. Feel free to add the {{User GA}} template to your userpage to acknowledge your hard work. The AgriCorps thanks you for your efforts, and looks forward to future nominations from you! — JangFett (Talk) 15:40, March 24, 2013 (UTC)

Templates[]

Hello Grunny. I'm sure this isn't the best place to contact you, but I was recommended to send my message here. Everyone's saying you know a lot about templates, so I figured I'd ask if you could please help here. I've been trying to put the title of a page into italics, but it hasn't been working, and so I wondered if you had any suggestions. Thanks! -- Hunnie Bunn (talk)

Hi. Contacting me here is fine. :) It's better to use {{DISPLAYTITLE:''{{PAGENAME}}''}} as it doesn't require any JS. We really shouldn't be using {{Title}} anymore as it's far less efficient than {{DIPLAYTITLE:}}, and I'll probably get around to killing the template and JS at some point. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 08:25, April 3, 2013 (UTC)

Hi Grunny. I wondered - there's been another problem on the same wiki with the infoboxes. Over on the Harry Potter Wiki, the text will go down onto another line or such if it outgrows the infobox. On this wiki, the infobox simply grows to accommodate the text; in one edit I tried to make, it almost took up the whole page. I wondered if you knew what the problem was. Thanks :) --Hunnie Bunn (talk) April 13, 2013

Inq reviewing tutorial[]

Hey Grunny. As per discussion at Inq Meeting 56, I've started to write a draft for what will eventually become the Inquisitorius' tutorial guide for new reviewers. It can be accessed here. I haven't had as much time as I would like to work on it recently, so there are still some sections that have yet to be written, but I've started off with trying out some basic organization with the current sections. Please feel free to jump in, either by writing new stuff for the guide or commenting on/adjusting what's already there.

Every current member of the Inq will eventually have to approve the guide in its entirety, so getting involved with its development would be great, sooner rather than later. The talk page can be used to discuss ideas about organization, sectioning, content, you name it. Let me know if you have any questions, and your contributions are appreciated! CC7567 ^(talk) 21:02, April 16, 2013 (UTC)

Correcting my mistake[]

Hey Grunny. A short while ago while doing some CA archiving I accidently archived this nom not realising that it still had an outstanding objection. The user who raised the objection is fine with it, but I've been told that a beauracrat will have to strike the objection. If you could do that it would be great. Thanks. Commander Code-8 ^{G'day, mate} 11:00, April 17, 2013 (UTC)

Duplicate link detector[]

Hello. When you have the time, could you create a gadget that simply imports this script (documentation)? This would be extremely useful for us, particularly on larger articles. Using the script, it took me less than 45 minutes to kill every duplicate link in Wedge Antilles, a task that would be next to impossible to do manually. The script as written only works in Monobook (as it adds a link to the toolbox in the sidebar, which Oasis does not have) and should be restricted to that skin. Thanks. —MJ— _Comlink 02:24, April 24, 2013 (UTC)

Done. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:29, April 25, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. —MJ— _Comlink 17:49, April 25, 2013 (UTC)

Template Preload[]

How did you do that? I cant seem to find the code anywhere. TechFilmer - Please reply on my talkpage 13:08, May 13, 2013 (UTC)

Inq 57 sauce[]

You are hereby invited to Inqmoot 57 and the Inquisitorius Post-Memorial Day cookout, scheduled for 00:00 June 2 UTC, or 20:00 June 1 Eastern time in the only country that matters, AMERICA. Bring your own meat, because I'm not sharing. Sharing is for Communists. -- Darth Culator ^(Talk) 18:10, May 23, 2013 (UTC)

Could you double-check this for me?[]

I attempted a range block on an anon with a vendetta against Cav. I wanted to double-check to make sure I did it properly. Thanks. Trak Nar ^{Ramble on} 10:37, May 31, 2013 (UTC)

You did it properly :) but that range doesn't include the original IP Special:Contributions/1.38.27.80 (which would be part of /22), you can always expand the range if they get IPs outside it. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 11:57, May 31, 2013 (UTC)

recent edit to Wookieepedia:Naming policy[]

Hi, Grunny. Just FYI: for some reason, your change in response to the recent naming policy CT omitted the links and bolding that were part of the proposed text as set forth in the CT. (Perhaps you copy/pasted from the rendered page text rather than the page source?) I went ahead and fixed this on the policy page; I'm writing here to let you know why I made the change. Asithol (talk) 07:20, June 26, 2013 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for fixing it. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 10:51, June 26, 2013 (UTC)

Timeline of media tweaks[]

So I'm trying to make the Timeline of media as user-friendly as possible, and one idea that was suggested a while ago was to replace the individual issues of a comic book storyline with one entry of the storyline itself. I don't really want to do this exactly because sometimes storylines are cut up with other media occuring within the same time period, and I also think that the Timeline of media should be as comprehensive as possible. That said, I thought of a few possible solutions to make reading easier and still keep the timeline comprehensive.

First, the storyline row could have a 'twisty' or button that toggles to display the issues in the storyline in rows below, which are hidden by default. I tried figuring something out with collapsible tables or hidden content, but couldn't figure out how to make it work within the Prettytable.

Or, there could be two classes in the table, say "comic" and "comic-issue", one of which is hidden by default. I tried looking at this, but couldn't figure out how to force a class to start out hidden.

I'd appreciate any help you could give me to figure out a way to do this. Tainb'ocu'chulainn (talk) 18:57, June 28, 2013 (UTC)

AC Meeting 59[]

You have been invited to a last minute pub crawl starting at the Mouthful of Otter on July 6. Grab a pint and a packet of nuts and settle in for a session. If you can't make it, we reserve the right to make fun of you in your absence and laugh at the notes you leave while downing shots and searching for a late night kebab shop. - Sir Cavalier of One^{(Squadron channel)} 21:28, June 26, 2013 (UTC)

CUSWE[]

Hey, Grunny. I started going through the articles that contained the {{Tl|CUSWEID}} and removing them per the Mofference. However, I didn't know that there were so many articles that had it. :P Do you think there is any chance you could get a bot started on them? Thanks.—Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 16:57, June 28, 2013 (UTC)

Got Dr. Ball on the job, but I'll probably do it in batches given how many there are :P. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 18:23, June 28, 2013 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks. :P —Cal Jedi ^{(Personal Comm Channel)} 19:42, June 28, 2013 (UTC)

OK, bot run done. I accounted for as much weird formatting as I could, but there may be some random articles that were formatted badly. Other than that, the left overs are links or other uses that should probably be cleaned up manually. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 06:53, June 29, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing all these! I noticed a few which your bot didn't pick up, for some reason, but now the only ones left are a couple of articles which use the template in a footnote. I don't know what's the best way to deal with those, but I'd suggest leaving the link to the archive.org cached versions. —Silly Dan _(talk) 12:44, June 29, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for getting the missed ones. :) Possibly those missed were due to failed edits by the bot that didn't get caught by the script, there were thousands and my internet connection can be flaky. :P I haven't looked at the articles yet, but unless the footnote is in regards to a Bts comment about CUSWE, I'm not sure why it would be valid to reference since it's not a valid source for our articles, so I'd assume they could be replaced with references to the relevant source material. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:58, June 29, 2013 (UTC)

Usage of title on a different wiki[]

Hello, Grunny. I'm a bureaucrat of Ōkami wiki, which has recently created a copy of the template title here (full copyright information stated—no infringement intended), as well as the required JS. I used the template on an article, but it did not work: the title remained the same. I've viewed the usage of the template's parameter here, and saw no differences. The only technical specialist of the wiki is taking a wikibreak, so I am enlisting help here. Since you are the creator of the template, perhaps you can provide us the help needed, please? I would be sincerely grateful. —"I think it's time for Jack...to let 'er rip!"—Raiden ({{subst:CURRENTIME}}, August 5, 2013)

Hi. I changed it to use DISPLAYTITLE instead. We shouldn't really be using the title template anymore anyway since DISPLAYTITLE is a magic word that works without templates or JavaScript. I hope that helps. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 14:15, August 5, 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for helping us out with your advice. We really appreciate it. —"I think it's time for Jack...to let 'er rip!"—Raiden (14:23, August 5, 2013)

First EduCorps meeting[]

Hello, I am inviting you to the very first EduCorps IRC meeting, which will be held at 7 PM ET on Saturday August 31st. I am inviting all Inquisitors, AgriCorps members, and EduCorps members to a meeting in order to discuss the large amount of old comprehensive articles that are in need of maintenance. I would also like to discuss the possibility of increasing the responsibilities of EduCorps-only users due to the lack of reviewers on the Comprehensive article nominations page and CA review page. Please come join the discussion on this page if you wish to participate in the meeting. I encourage anyone who wants to contribute to add any articles with issues to the appropriate section on the page. Thank you for your time.--Exiled Jedi (Greetings) 03:59, August 18, 2013 (UTC)

Inq Meeting 59[]

Hey Grunny. Meeting 59 of the High Council of Inqusitors is scheduled for next week Saturday, September 21. Please make sure to leave notes if you cannot attend. Otherwise, see you there! CC7567 ^(talk) 01:41, September 9, 2013 (UTC)

• The meeting has been rescheduled for the following Saturday, the 28th, due to a conflict with the next EduCorps meeting. Apologies for any confusion. CC7567 ^(talk) 20:14, September 9, 2013 (UTC)

EduCorps Meeting 2[]

You are invited to participate in EduCorps meeting 2, which is scheduled for 7 PM ET on Saturday, September 21st.--Exiled Jedi (Greetings) 14:13, September 12, 2013 (UTC)

AC Meeting 61[]

You have received a ticket for a front row on the future AC concert starting September 28th. Bring your guitar. If you can't make it to the karaoke session, please leave notes. - Winterz (talk) 00:15, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

A Request for Another Wiki[]

Hi! I'm El Alamein, and I'm not from around this Wiki, but I'd like your expertise nonetheless. My Wiki is the Deadliest Fiction Wiki, which creates fights to the death between characters of fiction - and one I plan to host is General Grievous vs. Lord Voldemort of Harry Potter fame. One of the biggest topics of debate concerning this fight is magic vs. lightsabers. Lightsabers have been proven capable of deflecting lasers from blaster rifles and also other lightsabers, so the question is whether or not Grievous could protect himself with his lightsabers from a spell shot from Voldemort's wand. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could shed some light on the mysterious properties that physically make up lightsabers in the Star Wars universe to better assist us in our analysis. Thank you for your time. El Alamein (talk) 22:53, September 16, 2013 (UTC)

Question about template:App on this Wiki[]

I have a question about template:App. There's a hide and show button used for the template. I want also using one for my Wiki. How can I use one for my Wiki?

Can you explain to me, how I should do that? --Station7 (talk) 21:08, September 19, 2013 (UTC)

RE:Resignation[]

• Thanks for doing that, and for your kind words. I had already sent an email to Wikia; didn't realize that you had the power to remove user rights. Cheers, Atarumaster88 ^{(Talk page)} 18:10, September 26, 2013 (UTC)

Meeting reminder[]

A reminder that Inq Meeting 59 will be in two days (if you go by ET, that's Saturday the 28th at 8 PM ET). If you can't make it, please remember to leave notes. Thanks. CC7567 ^(talk) 02:33, September 27, 2013 (UTC)

Some CSS help[]

Hey Grunny. Recently I've noticed that the top row of action buttons on the Main Page is unclickable at least in some browsers (including Firefox), and several other users have also reported this. I found this fix, but it refuses to work for whatever reason. The strange thing is that the same fix works fine when applied in my personal Monobook.css. Any ideas? 1358 ^(Talk) 13:42, September 30, 2013 (UTC)

I can't reproduce the issue in Firefox or Chrome. But I do see the CSS taking effect. It's possibly it was just cached for you. If you right-click one of the tabs and select "Inspect element", the pane that comes up should show the CSS affecting that element, so you can see if the CSS is there and working. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 14:51, September 30, 2013 (UTC)

Seems like it's working now. I wonder why Ctrl+shift+r wasn't working in Firefox. Thanks! 1358 ^(Talk) 19:59, September 30, 2013 (UTC)

Table of Contents for list of Status Articles pages[]

Hi, I was wondering if you could give your input on the Senate Hall thread "Table of Contents requested for Status Articles pages" and let us know if you like the proposed Table of contents that was created by JangFett. If you want to see what it would look like, you can see it in this Table of Contents prototype page. Let us know what you think so we can implement this into the three pages (CA/GA/FA).--Richterbelmont10 ^{(come in R2!)} 18:29, October 7, 2013 (UTC)

AC Meeting 63[]

Meeting 63 is scheduled for December 9 at 9 PM UTC (4 PM Eastern). Make sure to leave notes if you can't attend. 1358 ^(Talk) 16:40, December 2, 2013 (UTC)

• Actually, December 7. A Saturday like usual. Apologies. 1358 ^(Talk) 16:49, December 2, 2013 (UTC)

Preload Help[]

Hi Grunny,

I'm an admin over at the IndieGameBundle wiki (http://indiegamebundle.wikia.com/) and I'm trying to implement your preload templates stuff as we really only a handful of page formats we use and they have lots of data to fill in. The piece I'm struggling with is how to get the preloads Dropdown to appear in the Editing sidebar. I see the code in MediaWiki:Wikia.js to do this, but when I add that to our site, nothing is showing up (I've also added the code in MediaWiki:Common.js which includes MediaWIki:Functions.js, as well as Template:Stdpreloads and created a couple Template:[MyTemplate]/preload files). If you wouldn't mind taking a peek at the site, any help you could offer would be much appreciated.

Also as a side question, what is the purpose of the custom preload pagename functionality? i.e. who would use this and how would they use it?

Redlenses (talk) 23:23, December 8, 2013 (UTC)

AC Meeting 64[]

Meeting 64 is scheduled for January 18 at 9 PM UTC (4 PM Eastern). Make sure to leave notes if you can't attend. Winterz (talk) 17:34, December 27, 2013 (UTC)

Problem with Javascript[]

Hi, I'm the admin of the italian star wars wiki. As I asked CC7567 and Xd1358, I've some problems with my wiki. One of these, is that Template:Appearances isn't hideable. The second, that it isn't possible to add images into the Appearances. Could you help me? Thanks ADMIRAL MIKE501 Yes, Sir! 06:02, January 24, 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Can you link me to your wiki's version of {{App}} and an example article where you unable to add images in the Appearances section? Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 14:29, January 24, 2014 (UTC)

199 IP vandals[]

Hey Grunny, those two IPs you just blocked, 199.195.109.132 and 199.195.109.133, are actually proxies. Trip391 (talk) 16:58, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Not quite, they appear to be IPs from a school range, specifically the Paradise Valley Unified School District. Blocking a school range for a long time should only really be needed if it proves consistently problematic, otherwise you block a lot of potential contributors. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 17:03, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

This new vandal may be from a school range 199.195.109.131, but the other two are not. Check here and here. Trip391 (talk) 17:06, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

Those two links both show "ISP: Paradise Valley Unified School District; Organization: Paradise Valley Unified School District". That is a school range. The IPs are potentially shared, but they are not proxies. They are all in the same range owned by that school district. This is why Wikipedia has a "schoolIP" template: i.e. User_talk:199.195.109.132 and User_talk:199.195.109.138. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 17:10, January 27, 2014 (UTC)

AC meeting[]

Hey man, don't forget you're responsible for scheduling the next AC meeting. MasterFred^(Whatever) 17:58, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

• Hey, Grunny. Also reminding you that meeting schedule duty also includes updating the GA Random and History pages and clearing out the queue (bottom of this page), which still needs to be done. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 18:31, February 23, 2014 (UTC)
  • Yep, I was waiting for the meeting minutes/log and was going to do all the paperwork in one go, that included. I'll do that part tomorrow either way. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 14:07, February 24, 2014 (UTC)
    • Hi, Grunny. Just reminding you that the AC meeting paperwork still needs to be done. I realize the log went up late, but it's been two weeks now since the meeting, and the log has been up since Sunday, so this really needs to get done no later than this weekend. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 19:15, March 8, 2014 (UTC)

AC Meeting 66[]

All members of the AgriCorps are invited for tea and biscuits at Meeting 66 on March 29, 2014. Civilized talk and well manner debates are expected. Please leave apologies and notes if unable to drop in for a cuppa. - Sir Cavalier of One^{(Squadron channel)} 23:21, March 16, 2014 (UTC)

About templates[]

Good day, (or evening or whatever), I was referred to you by Master Jonathan. I require the coding for certain templates on Wookieepedia for my test wiki, I asked this at the Senate Hall forum but the thread was deleted. Anyway, I already tried to copy some templates over, but whenever I tried to use them, instead of the template, it said "Template loop detected". Master Jonathan said it could be the CSS or JavaScript coding that I need and said you kept track of all that. If don't mind giving an old chap a hand, do you?-- MadMarek ^{(Force Box) - "Doeth thee mother know you wearest her drapes?"} 09:50, March 22, 2014 (UTC)

Sure, can you link me to the templates that are broken? Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 07:41, March 23, 2014 (UTC)

Just head over to Think Tank and search "Template:Gun infobox". There are a few other templates on Wookieepedia that I'd like to copy over, but I have not done it yet, so just fix that one for now and I'll let you know if I need help with any others. Thanks a mil!-- MadMarek ^{(Force Box) - "Doeth thee mother know you wearest her drapes?"} 13:05, March 23, 2014 (UTC)

IRC[]

Hey Grunny, could you come on IRC if you have time? I have something I need you for. :P 1358 ^(Talk) 11:14, March 29, 2014 (UTC)

Sure, I'll join in a few minutes. grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 11:26, March 29, 2014 (UTC)

Admin question[]

Hello, I'm an admin at a very popular wiki w:c:vampirediaries and we are dealing with a bunch of inactive and blocked users, and I remembered that Wookiepedia had a system to replace the profile and sub-userpages (my old user back here was user:DarthJenny and had a subpage user:DarthJenny/Obidala), now, I understand (if I'm not mistaken) that it was done through a bot, and we'd love to implement a system like that in our wiki so we can dispose of old files (used on profiles, subpages and blogs) that are taking up space in our wiki. I tried looking for how to install said bot in w:c:Community but no luck so far. Is there any chance you (or any of the other admins) could point me out where to get that bot and how to set it? You can either answer to me here or at w:c:vampirediaries:Message_Wall:Scarlett_Spike Thank you very much. Scarlett Spike (talk) 02:13, March 31, 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Scarlett Spike. Most of the time, this is done manually by users. You can use something like the UserTags script with the inactive option to make it easier, but as far as I'm aware, no one has written a script to automate this with a bot yet. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 10:55, April 12, 2014 (UTC)

Template coding, ITS STILL NOT THERE!!![]

Hey there Grunny, remember a while back I asked you to please go to this place and see what you could do about some CSS or Javascript coding for the templates I copied from Wookieepedia. The templates were, Knife infobox, Forumtable, Rt, and soon to be Title-shortcut. All are in the Template namespace. I'm just wondering if you're going to do anything about the coding, I've been waiting for over a month now!^MadMarek_{YouCanCallMeJames} 10:32, April 12, 2014 (UTC)

Hi, sorry this slipped my mind. In the case of Knife infobox, it's not missing JS or CSS, it's simply missing the actual wikitext needed to build the templates. If you edit your template here, you'll see it's just calling itself which is why it produces the loop warning. Compare it to the source of the Jedi character infobox here for example. That is the type of thing you should be copying and modifying. For things like Forumtable and RT, you'll need to copy CSS from MediaWiki:Common.css to your wiki's Common.css page. For example with Forumtable, it has class="forumlist" and class="forum_title" and other classes, so you'll be looking for CSS with those class names, i.e. parts such as:

.forumlist {
	width: 100%;
	background: #F2F5FD;
}

I hope that helps you get started. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 10:48, April 12, 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much, could you please just leave these links you gave me here on your talk page, I'll let you know when I'm done with them. Thanks again!^MadMarek_{YouCanCallMeJames} 09:52, April 14, 2014 (UTC)

Staff-->bureaucrat power ?[]

Haoy ! I was windering, do you staff have the power lf a bureaucrat?Emperor Jarjarkine Senate Hall

Help, please[]

Hello Grunny, I need help and if You can't help, can You point me to someone who can. I am editing Wookieepedia in Serbian and I did almost 900 pages but they all look pathetic. There are no templates (appearances, opening crawls...), infoboxes...and many other stuff that are on English version, German, Polish... It looks like someone who created page did not completed it or there is something else wrong. Can someone check it out because Wiki manuals and tutorials just won't work. Please note, I am not trying to replicate no one, I am just trying to make pages look nice and decent. Thanks for Your time. --Edenbeast666 (talk) 15:34, April 15, 2014 (UTC)

Still a problem[]

Hi there, sorry to bother you again, I did what you said, I copied the whole CSS coding page over, but all the templates have the same problem, I'm now not sure whats wrong with it all. Is there something I might have missed?^MadMarek_{YouCanCallMeJames} 10:51, April 16, 2014 (UTC)

Preferences[]

Hey Grunny !I've seen that in the preferences of wookieepdia, there is a gadget thing section. I've seen it too on Runescape Wiki. What is this special section ? Is it mediaWiki extension ?--Emperor Jarjarkine Senate Hall 15:59, April 22, 2014 (UTC)

• Yep, it's a MediaWiki extension. You can read about it here. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:00, April 24, 2014 (UTC)

Hi again. ! I was wondering, did you already created a code?Emperor Jarjarkine Senate Hall

RoboCade[]

It seems that we have a new bot on Wookieepedia. It's about time that Cade copied his intelligence into a bot. :P Could you give that account the bot flag so that it doesn't flood recent changes like it's doing right now? I've spot-checked a few edits and they seem to be fine.

Master Jonathan		Council Chambers
15:45 UTC Thu		April 24, 2014

• Hey, MJ, I discussed this with Tope, and I'm going through the Wookieepedia:Bots process to get the bot flag, even though it's only a proposed policy. This first few runs are just test runs; I'm shutting him down after the Battle of Corellia edits. Cade Calrayn 15:47, April 24, 2014 (UTC)
  • Hey, yeah, I can grant it after the test runs and a little longer on the vote. Just a note that replacements like "-Recruitment Center +recruitment center" could run into false positives, you're usually better to be far more specific to ensure your change is to the right text (if you're fixing links, make sure the text includes the [[ and account for both | and ]] so you know you're only fixing the link. This might be fine in most cases, but you can run into issues on occasion by running replacements that aren't specific enough, especially if you're doing it completely automated. This has happened to various people running bots, so just something to keep in mind. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 15:59, April 24, 2014 (UTC)
    • Yeah, to be sure I don't make errors, I'm primarily using the -ref: functionality, so the bot's only editing those articles that link to the redirect. Thanks for the help. Cade Calrayn 16:02, April 24, 2014 (UTC)
      • Cool, still good to use a stronger match or regex though, take the example of fixing links to "Death Star I" to point to "DS-1 Orbital Battle Station", if your replacement was "-Death Star I +DS-1 Orbital Battle Station" and the page also mentioned or linked to "Death Star II", that would also match and be converted to "DS-1 Orbital Battle StationI". Using a better replacement of "[[Death Star I|" -> "[[DS-1 Orbital Battle Station|" would avoid this. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:17, April 24, 2014 (UTC)
  • OK, that's fine. However, until you have the bot flag, I (and probably anyone else watching recent changes) would prefer a longer delay between edits. 30 to 60 seconds between edits would be better for unflagged editing. If you're running a script that's part of the standard pywikibot library, you can use the command line argument -putthrottle:30 (for example) to throttle it to 2 edits per minute. :)

    Master Jonathan		Council Chambers
    16:11 UTC Thu		April 24, 2014

Hover-item images[]

Hey, Grunny. I'm not sure if anything's been done to image coding lately, but something has been done so that our hover-item functionality that we use for the Facebook & Twitter accounts is effectively broken. They were working a few weeks ago, but now in Oasis, when the icons are selected, instead of showing the blue Facebook image it gives a blank image. Looking at the HTML, for some reason the <image> tag isn't using the correct image as its src attribute—instead, there's a string of gibberish and the url's been moved to the data-src attribute. As this seems to be a Wikia-side issue, I was wondering if you could take a look; as it stands, the broken functionality affects most of our readers. Thanks. Cade Calrayn 01:09, June 9, 2014 (UTC)

• Hey, Grunny, just pinging you again to see if you've seen my message. Cade Calrayn 20:05, June 19, 2014 (UTC)
  • Hey, Cade. I saw it and Brandon pinged me about it, but I've been travelling recently and it slipped my mind. There is a bug open about this to fix this in Wikia's code, however, we can find a work around with CSS for now. Most likely by switching the image link to an empty element and setting a background image on it with CSS (and then the other one as the backgroun image on hover) or something along those lines. I'll take a look at doing so over the weekend. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:30, June 20, 2014 (UTC)

Thank you[]

I would like to thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship.--Exiled Jedi (Greetings) 01:38, June 10, 2014 (UTC)

Preload feature[]

I'm attempting to add the "Standard preloads" feature to the http://cityville.wikia.com/wiki/ site, but after some time trying to get it to work it only seems to appear when viewing the site with the MonoBook layout (the "Standard summaries" feature, however, will show up when using the Wikia layout). Is there something that I'm overlooking that I forgot to copy over to the site? - ^Talk DarkNITE ^Contrib

Hi. It seems to work now in both skins, so I'm guessing you resolved the issue already. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 05:48, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I found the issue (was missing the MediaWiki:Wikia.js part) - ^Talk DarkNITE ^Contrib 00:05, July 2, 2014 (UTC)

69[]

Just a reminder that AC Meeting 69 is tomorrow at 4 ET. Hope you can make it. IFYLOFD ^{(Enter the Floydome)} 00:07, July 12, 2014 (UTC)

AC Meeting 70[]

AC Meeting 70 is scheduled for August 23. Please leave notes if you cannot attend. See you there. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 05:22, August 15, 2014 (UTC)

Hi Grunny, I made a template for 21B. This will be used for wikis that need content for that page, specifically disney.wikia.com. We give you credit on every Star Wars thing. I hope you understand. Feel free to take it down if it's useless. AwesomeOrange89 (talk)

BG codes[]

Hey there Grunny, I'm wondering if you can help me by telling me what is the BG hex codes for the buttons here on Wookieepedia, if you know? Thanks.^MadMarek_{YouCanCallMeJames} 12:26, October 7, 2014 (UTC)

Hi, which buttons are you referring to? The edit buttons and so forth in the Wikia skin? If so, the color is #006cb0 with a gradient (it's set to that color in ThemeDesigner). Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 13:09, October 7, 2014 (UTC)

Well assumed, the edit buttons are the ones I'm referring to. Thank you.MadMarek - Talk - Contribs

Image License requirement[]

So I have the script that'll require a License to be set before an image can be uploaded when using the Special:Upload page, however, when someone uses the "Add a Photo" button that can be found on other pages (eg: Special:NewFiles) the License doesn't have to be set. Is there a way to fix this? - DarkNITE

AC Meeting 73[]

AC Meeting 73 is scheduled to November 22, I bid you to be thither or leave some humble notes! Mayhap I will fetch the ale. Grammarcy in advance, you are most kind. Winterz (talk) 18:29, November 6, 2014 (UTC)

Zhaboka/Canon[]

Please send me my message regarding Zhaboka-- I want to be formally told that I no longer need to worry about being sent to the AgriCorps. :) ProfessorTofty (talk) 11:43, November 8, 2014 (UTC)

• Oops, sorry, never mind. I see that's only for good and featured. ProfessorTofty (talk) 11:51, November 8, 2014 (UTC)
  • Negative. AgriCorps deal with good articles only, Inquisitors deal with featured articles only and finally EduCorps, who deal with the comprehensive articles, which is what you're looking for. The more active EC members would be dogma and exiledjedi, talk with them. Winterz (talk) 16:09, November 8, 2014 (UTC)
    • Yeah, I got it. Said so above. Thanks, though. ProfessorTofty (talk) 16:12, November 8, 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Grunny! Could you tell me why there are so big troubles with redirecting to http://www.ossus.pl , http://fr.wikipedia.org and http://www.jedipedia.net ? Sightsaber (talk) 08:52, December 5, 2014 (UTC)

AC Meeting 76[]

AC Meeting 76 has been scheduled for February 21st at 4:00 PM ET. Please leave notes if you are unable to attend.--Exiled Jedi (Greetings) 23:34, February 13, 2015 (UTC)

Hi[]

Can i be a staff? --WikiaID (talk) 04:15, April 15, 2015 (UTC)

AC Meeting 78[]

AC Meeting 78 is scheduled for April 25. Please leave notes if you cannot attend. c ya Winterz (talk) 02:37, April 19, 2015 (UTC)

Standard Edit Summary[]

Hi, I have noticed that in the Wikia skin d'es not work "Standard summaries",you couldn't fix it it. Link to working code (Wikia, Monobook). FANSG (talk) 07:13, April 21, 2015 (UTC)

Undo revision[]

Hello. Why did you revert my edit? 128.127.99.108 11:18, May 3, 2015 (UTC)

AC Meeting 79[]

Meeting 79 of the Agricorps has been scheduled for 6th of June at the normal time. Please leave notes if unable to attend. - Sir Cavalier of One^{(Squadron channel)} 11:33, May 27, 2015 (UTC)

Hi Grunny,

As the Owner of the Star Wars Galactic defense Wikia, as a separate wikia to you, are we allowed to use information from infoboxes for different characters from the Star Wars Universe (so long as we reference you for the information).

Thanks,

Yoda04, SWGD wikia http://star-wars-galactic-defense.wikia.com/wiki/SWGD_Wikia

Never Die[]

"So—are you still worried about being sent to the Agricultural Corps?" Never Die has been approved by the AgriCorps and awarded Good status. Feel free to add the {{User GA}} template to your userpage to acknowledge your hard work. The AgriCorps thanks you for your efforts, and looks forward to future nominations from you! — Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 03:30, July 17, 2015 (UTC)

Hi[]

Why on Wookieepedia there is no chat and there is no forum?? Mustafar29 (talk) 08:00, July 24, 2015 (UTC)

I am sorry for deletion discussion. There was accident.

21:15, August 19, 2015 (UTC)

EV-9D9/Canon[]

Hey Grunny, awhile ago you reviewed my nomination for EV-9D9 and listed an objection, which you struck when I had taken care of it. I was wondering, could you review the article again due to our dwindling reviewer base and if you would, vote in support of the article getting to GA status? Thanks! - AV-6R7^{Crew Pit} 14:55, October 30, 2015 (UTC)

Updating information[]

First, this is a spoiler for The Force Awakens, but Kylo Ren's real name is Ben Solo. Which name should be the title of his page be? Thanks Macewindudoggy (talk) 15:32, December 18, 2015 (UTC)

User page edit override request[]

• Dear Grunny. As you are likely now aware, I no longer possess administrative access to Wookieepedia and I am editing the wiki as an user for the first time since creating the wiki. As such I appear to be locked out from my own user page, which I need to update given these circumstances. I request your action to unlock my page from edits so that I may be able to work on it normally as I make a return to the wiki post-TFA release. Thank you for your time and assistance. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:30, December 20, 2015 (UTC)
  • Hey Riffs, I see SE got to it first. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 15:11, December 20, 2015 (UTC)

i have a quit ion who would win in a fight cade skywalker or rey

7.1 New message[]

Hi Grunny,

I'm a reporter for a site called Atlas Obscura, and I'm researching a story about what it's like to be a Wookieepedia admin. I'd love to talk to you about your contributions to the site, and the challenges of keeping it both accurate and civil. Could we set up a quick interview either via phone or email so that I could talk to you for the story? Please email me at the address below and let me know if we can set something up.

Thanks again for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.

Eric Grundhauser Staff Writer | Atlas Obscura | eric@atlasobscura.com

Re: Unknown Alien Encounters Orders deletion[]

Good catch! Undeleted; thanks. 1358 ^(Talk) 18:46, January 28, 2016 (UTC)

Star Wars: Obsession[]

Hello. Could we move Star Wars: Obsession in Timeline of Legends media from the end of the clone wars to between Star Wars: Republic: Dreadnaughts of Rendili and The Brink story from Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures Volume 4. Because Padme ses Anakin's scar for the first time. I now Count Dooku betrayder Asajj Ventress, but we could say, Dooku not betrayed her.

Sup Grunny,

I'm a student in need of your help, I'm from New Zealand and I'm quite the fan of Star Wars as well. But I'm desperate to know what planets were destroyed by the Starkiller Base in 'The Force Awakens', for my Media Studies assessment.

I hope you can reply soon if you are not busy, thanks for your time.

Troy "Buttsoup" Barnes 22:44, May 4, 2016 (UTC)

Complete SW Encyclopedia on Force Powers[]

Hello Grunny! I was looking into the article Force barrier as there remains some confusion between Force barrier, Force shield/armor/protection, and protection bubble. I wanted to ask if you have a copy of The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, as I noticed that you referred to it years ago in your comment on the talk page.

If you do, can you check for the capitalization of the Force power names there? There is a consistent inconsistency (lol) throughout various sources on the proper capitalization of Force powers, and it seriously bothers me as there is simply no grammatical consistency on this wiki on the matter. Force lightning vs. Force Lightning, Force barrier vs. Force Barrier, etc. I wanted to check which the The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia uses for its Force powers since I'm assuming it's one of the more authoritative sources. Thank you! Sol Pacificus^Firestorm 06:56, October 12, 2016 (UTC)

Greetings. I have a little predicament. I do not know how to save an uploaded image. It is an image I took, in the star Wars Republic Commando Unreal Editor, of the Geonosis Pinnacle Ship. I also don't know how I should copyright it. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. P.S., you can see the pic here for now. Thank you. --Cc1046 (talk) 19:27, November 12, 2016 (UTC)

New Stub Banner[]

Grunny,

I have made a design for the Stub banner that resembles the other article headers, (has a Star Wars quote with a picture). This one says, "More is happening, I feel, than has been revealed." and has a picture of Yoda. Here is the Source Code for the banner:

More is happening, I feel, than has been revealed. This article is a stub. You can help Wookieepedia by expanding it.

{{iumb |id = Stub |bg = #B5A67D |image = [[File:YodaMoreIsHappening.jpg|90px]] |caption = More is happening, I feel, than has been revealed. |message = This article is a [[Wookieepedia:Stub|stub]]. You can help Wookieepedia by [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it]. }}

Would this be acceptable to replace the current one? Thank you, Superalpha1

Helmet Collection[]

Hello Grunny! :-) I see that you've started to create articles about the Star Wars Helmet Collection, whose first issue was apparently released this month. I'm a little curious, actually. I know this parlor game is annoying but, are we sure this collection is canon? :$ If memory serves me right, this is the second version of a magazine that was first published in 2015(?), so I have my doubts that it's being vetted by the Story Group. What do you think? --Lelal Mekha ^{(Audience Room)} 15:43, March 14, 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Lelal! :) I'm not aware of a previous Helmet Collection magazine (The Fact Files have been reissued a few times, but those are a different magazine), do you have a link to the original? The reason I believe this is canon is because it has a lot of content from canon-only material, i.e. it has dedicated sections for Aggadeen and Kidi Aleri in the databank section for example. You should be able to read the first issue here if you want to check it out. It is also officially licensed, so I'd have to assume it is canon unless we're explicitly told otherwise. What do you think? Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:07, March 14, 2017 (UTC)

I'm afraid we don't have articles for the 2015 edition, but it definitely exists. For example, here's a link to a Jedi News article that describes said collection. --Lelal Mekha ^{(Audience Room)} 16:20, March 14, 2017 (UTC)

Ah, I think that is this edition. That news article says that it will be released in January 2016 (rather than 2015) and points to the main web site for the collection. I think it might have just taken until this month to be published in Australia (where I am), and it looks like you can subscribe starting at later issues in the UK than you can here. So, since it was 2016 (so well after the reset in 2014) and it isn't a reissue, I still think given it only contains already existing canon information as far as I can see (from issue 1), I don't see a reason to consider it non-canon (it's certainly not Legends anyway). I'll see if I can track down the UK publication dates to correct the main article. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:27, March 14, 2017 (UTC)

That being said, I'm pretty sure I remember seeing the first issue of this collection back in June 2015, and it definitely didn't feature Aggadeen. I'll have to dig up some proof, but I'm fairly certain. --Lelal Mekha ^{(Audience Room)} 16:38, March 14, 2017 (UTC)

OK, let me know what you find. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:48, March 14, 2017 (UTC)

UPDATE: There we are! Here's a scan of the "contents" page from the edition I was talking about. As you can see, almost the same content expect for the first few pages, and a different ISBN. --Lelal Mekha ^{(Audience Room)} 16:49, March 14, 2017 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks for finding that! So, looks like the Databank section is new at least. It's a shame no one created articles at the time, it's going to be hard to track down information about the first version now. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:57, March 14, 2017 (UTC)

Cad Bane[]

Dear Grunny, the second image, the Bane holds the stolen holocron image, on the Cad Bane page clashes with infobox and I can not edit it please help.--Robertg27 (talk) 00:51, May 9, 2017 (UTC)

Adopting the Firefly and Serenity Database[]

Hello I have requested to adopt http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page here is the request I made http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Adoption:The_Firefly_and_Serenity_Database?t=20170527054744 and the forum post I made about it http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:CT:Adopting_the_Wiki?t=20170520202455. It was recommended that I ask you for the admin rights directly. I also left this message on your Firefly talk page but I wan not sure if would get a response there, so I left it here too. Chalet (talk) 16:11, May 27, 2017 (UTC)

Having an issue making new pages[]

Hello! Sorry to bother you but I'm a new user having some difficulties and figured I could come here to seek help. I recently completed the Thrawn novel and figured I could use that newly acquired knowledge to help with the redlinks on Thrawn's page, characters and places and events and the like. But it's not working for some reason? I tried to create pages for H'sishi and Scarn (spice) but both times I had the article all written out and when I tried to submit it I got an error message that read "The modification you tried to make was aborted by an extension hook". I've compared my articles with published pages and I can't quite find the issue. I was wondering if you could advise me on what triggers this error message. Thanks in advance! --UmbraWitchAlraune (talk) 04:13, May 30, 2017 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for starting to contribute! :) It looks like your edits were blocked by a filter because you manually adding the "Canon articles" category. These categories should not be added manually, and will be added automatically by including the {{Top}} template at the top of the page. So, if you remove them and instead just use {{Top}}, you should be able to save the pages. Hope that helps. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 13:23, May 30, 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the response! Unfortunately I tried doing what you said and it didn't seem to work. I even tried to experiment by trying again with just the text and no templates or anything and I still got the same error. I was definitely doing the canon articles tag wrong but I seem to be doing something else wrong too. And I can't figure out what--UmbraWitchAlraune (talk) 03:00, May 31, 2017 (UTC)

It looks like the issue is now that a filter is blocking the poorly formatted infobox, which is the result of how the VisualEditor adds the infobox to the page. I'd suggest trying to save the page without the infobox first, and then use the source editor to insert the infobox. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:28, June 1, 2017 (UTC)

I have been trying to put back up a page that the site took down about me, James McBryde. I was an unnamed extra in Episode II and played Ulfor Bombaasa in Episode III. Previously, the Ulfor Bombaasa page linked to me but again that has been taken down. If you check out my business website a www.mmdc.org you can compare my photos on the About Us section to confirm that I am the same person in the Ulfor Bombaasa photos. I have tried to follow your rules to the best of my ability while trying to update the previous page and am still getting the DEATH TO MICROSOFT PUNCTUATION response. Is there any chance you can help me with this? I am trying to include the following information: {{Top|real}} James McBryde "Rick McCallum had invited me to be an extra in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. I appeared as an unnamed extra in the diner scene in Episode II which was shot at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia in 2000. Rick then invited me back to be an extra in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. I appeared in the opera stairway scene which was shot as part of the pickups at Shepperton Studios in London in 2004. In Episode II, I am visible in the booth all dressed in black while Dexter Jettster is walking toward Obi-Wan Kenobi. In Episode III, you can clearly see me walking up the stairway of the Galaxy Opera House while Anakin Skywalker runs up the stairs to his meeting with Chancellor Palpatine."―James McBryde James McBryde (born 1950) is an American economic development professional and former Michigan legislator who appeared as an unnamed extra in Attack of the Clones and played Ulfor Bombaasa in Revenge of the Sith. Biography As President and CEO of the Middle Michigan Development Corporation (MMDC), James McBryde is responsible for the strategic vision, organization and economic development outcomes for Clare and Isabella counties. McBryde was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in 1990 and served eight years before retiring due to term limits. He served on the House Appropriations Committee as Chair of the State Police and Military Affairs Subcommittee and Vice Chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee. Prior to joining the MMDC, McBryde served as Vice President and Senior Advisor for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) where he worked on key state and federal initiatives and the passage of the annual budget. Before joining the MEDC, McBryde also served as the Interim Chair for the Michigan Liquor Control Commission and as Special Assistant for the Michigan Department of Community Health. McBryde received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Central Michigan University. Jim and his wife Kim have been married since 1987. They live in Mount Pleasant and have four wonderful daughters. James McBryde has received the following honors: "Central Michigan University Centennial Award", as one of their most distinguished alumni of their first 100 years in 1992. "Legislator of the Year" by the Michigan Sheriffs Association in 1994. "Merit Service Award" by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe in 1995. "Legislative Star Award" by the Michigan Deputy Sheriffs Association in 1994 and 1996. "Distinguished Service Award" by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in 2008. Filmography Year Title Role 2005 Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith Ulfor Bombaasa 2002 Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones Unnamed Extra Bibliography Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars (First identified as Ulfor Bombaasa) Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia External links www.mmdc.org Business Website www.facebook.com/james.mcbryde1 James McBryde on Facebook Biographical information Born 1950 Santa Monica, California Nationality American Career Occupation Economic Development Professional and Former Michigan Legislator Star Wars work Episode II Episode III Official site www.mmdc.org --James99th (talk) 21:11, June 1, 2017 (UTC)

Eras[]

Hi Grunny, it appears {{Top}} is no longer showing up in the Wikia skin as a result of an apparently recent Wikia update. Could you have a look? 1358 ^(Talk) 22:10, June 4, 2017 (UTC)

Hey Xd, I've put in a quick hack for the eras icons with the new header. How does it look? We can tweak the position as we go, but I didn't want it to push the content down to far. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 07:13, June 5, 2017 (UTC)

Era icons[]

Hi there,

Over on Casualty Wiki, we used the eraicon template to generate our own icons in the top-right corner which worked a treat - until the new header came in. I see that you've been able to get them to appear at the top of each page now alongside the new header. On Casualty Wiki, they just now generate at the bottom right hand corner of each article, sometimes obscuring content space.

I was looking back through revisions of pages which affect the era icon templates and saw that you made an edit to MediaWiki:Wikia.js and summarised the edit as correcting the icons to work with the new header. I've made those changes over on Casualty Wiki and the js is live, but the icons are still displaying at the bottom.

If you could help that would be absolutely great!

A link to Casualty Wiki's js.

- Titan95 07:21, June 14, 2017 (UTC)

Right[]

Grunny, the layout guide is outdated as you do not need the word right to make the image be on the right side of the page and DarthRuiz30 will not let up, please change layout guide to reflect that.--Rgilbert27 (talk) 18:57, August 6, 2017 (UTC)

Eras[]

Hey Grunny, I don't suppose you know Lua? {{Top}} needs to be modified and nobody else seems to be familiar with Lua. 1358 ^(Talk) 22:25, August 14, 2017 (UTC)

Hey Xd, yep, I do know Lua. What change needs to be made? Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 09:28, August 15, 2017 (UTC)

Ah, our savior. Basically, Forum:CT:Creation of a LEGO Icon and Tab for The Freemaker Adventures (which flew under the radar for many, I reckon) authorizes the creation of a third tab for LEGO stuff. Now, the CT probably needs another one to hash out some details but the baseline is that {{Top}} needs to be changed to support more than two tabs. According to EJ, it's set up to support two tabs so adding a third one isn't trivial. I realize we don't even have an icon for that yet, but it can be created later. Cheers, 1358 ^(Talk) 09:36, August 15, 2017 (UTC)

OK, I'll look at implementing it over the next few days. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 14:20, August 16, 2017 (UTC)

Hey, any news on this? 1358 ^(Talk) 22:31, August 25, 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, I've partially done it, just need to redo the part around adding the header tab, since I rethought how to decide which to show when also dealing with Lego. Sorry for the delay, hopefully will get a chance to get back to it soon. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 08:20, August 28, 2017 (UTC)

OK, I have a quick and dirty version ready that works fine. Do we have the icons and images yet so we can make the change? Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:25, August 28, 2017 (UTC)

Eras Lego heading[]

Hi Grunny,

Thank you very much for creating the Eras LEGO heading (type=lego) for the LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures. It was long overdue. Just a suggestion, I noticed that the current redirects to Category:The Freemaker Adventures articles which has not yet been created. I was wondering if you redirect the heading to a Category:LEGO Star Wars articles instead? The Freemaker Adventures are not the only LEGO Star Wars products. There would be Jek-14 and Jek-14's stealth starfighter from LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles for example. Should we apply the LEGO heading on other LEGO Star was products like the Yoda Chronicles, Droid Tales, and LEGO Star Wars: The Resistance Rises? Since you created the Eras LEGO heading, I thought you would be the best person to sort this out. Kind regards. Andykatib 01:37, September 15, 2017 (UTC)

• Hi Grunny, don't worry. I have managed to modify the Module:Eras page to reflect the whole LEGO Star Wars continuity. Kind regards. Andykatib 01:55, September 15, 2017 (UTC)
  • Hi Grunny, I can't seem to redirect the Eras LEGO heading template from Category:The Freemaker Adventures articles to Category:LEGO Star Wars articles. Can you please advice? I have no expertise with coding.Andykatib 02:02, September 15, 2017 (UTC)
    • Hi Grunny. Disregard my earlier message, I have managed to move all the articles in The Freemaker Adventure category to the LEGO Star Wars articles category. Wish you all the best and thanks for creating the Eras LEGO heading. May the Force be with you. Andykatib 03:49, September 15, 2017 (UTC)

JS question[]

Hey Grunny, another request... I recently (as in months ago) stole adapted your diffWook.js script for my personal use. My version is located on w:c:ecks:MediaWiki:DiffWook.js. Any idea why it might not be working? I can't recall it working at all since I switched it, but I never got around to figuring out why. Cheers, 1358 ^(Talk) 18:25, September 19, 2017 (UTC)

Hey Xd, it was just a syntax error. It should work now. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 09:36, September 20, 2017 (UTC)

Ah, thank you. 1358 ^(Talk) 10:42, September 20, 2017 (UTC)

Wilhuff Tarkin Behind the scenes section[]

Hi Darth Culator. I can't add this into Wilhuff Tarkin's Behind the scenes section: During the early development of ''Revenge of the Sith'', [[George Lucas]] wanted to use stock footage with CGI to 'resurrect' Cushing for one of the final scenes of the film. Concept artist [[Iain McCaig]] suggested using unused footage from ''A New Hope'' and digitally animating Cushing's lips to match his new planned dialogue,<ref>''[[The Making of Star Wars Revenge of the Sith]]''</ref> and also created the only concept art image for the character, which Lucas himself approved.<ref>''[[The Art of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]]''</ref> Animation director [[Rob Coleman]] even spoke with [[Christopher Lee]], [[Dooku]]'s portrayer and a close friend of Cushing, about the possibility of using a digital model of Cushing. However, Lucas later decided that the stock footage wasn't good enough to be used, in addition to the fact that the scene in question required a full-body appearance of Tarkin, but as Cushing recorded his scenes in ''A New Hope'' with slippers instead of boots there were none available. Ultimately, [[Wayne Pygram]] was cast as Tarkin in a nonspeaking role, because he shared an uncanny resemblance with Cushing.<ref name="10 things">{{Cite web|url=http://www.warpedfactor.com/2014/06/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-star_20.html|title=10 Things You May Not Know About STAR WARS: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith|work=Warped Factor|date=2015-12-13|accessdate=2015-13-12}}</ref> For ''[[Rogue One: A Star Wars Story]]'', groundbreaking CGI and digitally altered archive footage was used to digitally insert Peter Cushing's likeness from the original movie over the body of actor [[Guy Henry]]. Cushing's family were heavily involved with the creation and had input right down to "small, subtle adjustments."<ref name="Guardian">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/24/star-wars-rogue-one-to-resurrect-peter-cushing-via-cgi-despite-slipper-issues|title=Star Wars: Rogue One 'to resurrect Peter Cushing via CGI', despite slipper issues|work=The Guardian|date=2015-08-24|accessdate=2015-08-24}}</ref><ref name="EW">{{Cite web|url=http://ew.com/article/2015/08/24/star-wars-rogue-one-peter-cushing-tarkin/|title=Star Wars: Rogue One: Peter Cushing back as Tarkin?|work=Entertainment Weekly|date=2015-08-24|accessdate=2015-08-24}}</ref> However, even although both [[Industrial Light & Magic]] and [[Lucasfilm Ltd.]] knew that they would 'ressurect' Cushing via CGI, there were made back-up plans in case that the stock footage didn't serve. Had Cushing would have not appeared in the film, Tarkin's lines would have been relegated to other characters or potentially having Tarkin appearing in a [[Hologram]].<ref>[http://www.slashfilm.com/grand-moff-tarkin-in-rogue-one/ Lucasfilm Had Back-Up Plans If The CGI Grand Moff Tarkin Didn’t Work in ‘Rogue One’] at [http://www.slashfilm.com /Film]</ref>

Did you know why I can put it? The Wookieepedia says that I am saying "DEATH TO MICROSOFT PUNCTUATION!".

Cross wiki consult[]

Hello, I am an admin on another wiki in Fandom and was hoping to get your input on an issue regarding our wiki's media. We are sporadically having official artwork and game sprites from the Megaten franchise deleted, in short for depicting female breasts in the images. This confuses me, as per the main image of the Breast, as it is my understanding that the image is allowed by Wikia, and can stay on that page. Would you be able to point me to any discussion with Wikia staff that has taken place regarding that image, so that I can cite it should the issue come up again in discussion on our wiki? Great Mara (talk) 12:22, October 28, 2017 (UTC)

Lewisr for administrator[]

Hi, I'd like to nominate Lewisr for administrator. I don't know how to do it. Cheetawolfnitrotyper (talk) 17:47, February 16, 2018 (UTC)

Images[]

Hello Grunny, I'm Raymond I just wanted to inform that this image is still marked with the Imr template, I saw that you deleted multiple revisions of another image the other another day. Could you help? Raymond. --RaymondAM45 (talk) 07:00, February 23, 2018 (UTC)

Former status icons[]

Hello Grunny, recently I have been implementing your new status icons into templates. I was wondering if you would be able to upload a larger version of the former status icons (File:Premium-FormerCAIcon.png) so I could put them on templates like FormerCA. Thanks!—Tommy-Macaroni ^{(TAKE A SEAT)} 19:46, March 1, 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Tommy. Sure, I'll ask the designer who made them to see if he can give us the source SVG files for those icons. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 23:36, March 1, 2018 (UTC)

Brilliant, thank you!—Tommy-Macaroni ^{(TAKE A SEAT)} 08:42, March 2, 2018 (UTC)

Hey Grunny, not to rush you but has there been any update on this? Don't worry if there hasn't been. Cheers.—Tommy-Macaroni ^{(TAKE A SEAT)} 20:08, March 23, 2018 (UTC)

Hey Tommy, sorry for the delay. The designer was overseas when I first asked, but I managed to get them earlier this week and hadn't uploaded them yet. Here they are. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 15:44, March 24, 2018 (UTC)

Fantastic, thanks you!—Tommy-Macaroni ^{(TAKE A SEAT)} 15:58, March 24, 2018 (UTC)

NOTOC[]

Hi Grunny, Forum:SH:NOTOC usage indicates that there's consensus on placing a |notoc=1 switch into {{Top}} and I'm wondering if you could see if it's technically possible to do this before I start proposing an LG amendment. Cheers, 1358 ^(Talk) 19:25, March 14, 2018 (UTC)

Hey Xd, it should work now for testing as a proof of concept. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 06:54, March 15, 2018 (UTC)

Very nice. Thank you. 1358 ^(Talk) 18:35, March 15, 2018 (UTC)

Surik's band of arms[]

Hey, I got carried away and did this which might be more than you asked so all input welcome. – Tm_T@Wookieepedia:~$ 08:49, March 22, 2018 (UTC)

hello I just wanted to know if you could add this video to the Imperial tie fighter page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APED4rd8B7o

Categorization of articles via Eras[]

Hi! Since you seem to display at least some knowledge of Lua, which is not something I can claim to have, I hoped you might be able to help me out a bit with Module:Eras. I was somewhat bothered by the situation on this article, which, despite only being categorized as a Legends article and not having any in-universe categorization, didn't show up in either Special:UncategorizedPages or Category:Categoryless. Do you think it would be possible to update Eras with that functionality? Imperators II^(Talk) 19:57, April 19, 2018 (UTC)

Hey, I'll have a think about this, as it may be a little tricky. Lua modules don't have access to the categories to which a page belongs in a useful way. A hacky solution would be to get the text of the article in the Eras Lua module and just search for [[Category: and add Category:Categoryless if no matches were found. But that may not be the best for performance on larger articles, and it also wouldn't account for any pages that are only in Legends/Canon articles and a stub category for example. It's tricky, I'll see what I can do. I can also look for alternatives, like writing a script that could be run on demand to check for such articles. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:36, April 20, 2018 (UTC)

Encryption Package 1a.44.87[]

"So—are you still worried about being sent to the Agricultural Corps?" Encryption Package 1a.44.87 has been approved by the AgriCorps and awarded Good status. Feel free to add the {{User GA}} template to your userpage to acknowledge your hard work. The AgriCorps thanks you for your efforts, and looks forward to future nominations from you! — Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 21:49, April 19, 2018 (UTC)

Tiplee[]

Hi, Grunny. Do you reckon this FA needs an update? Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 16:52, May 1, 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Tope. Sorry, I should have left an edit summary saying "no new info." It's just their name listed with their picture under non-Council Jedi Masters. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 16:55, May 1, 2018 (UTC)

Got it, thanks. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 17:00, May 1, 2018 (UTC)

Backup links[]

Hi Grunny! Could I bother you to please add backup links to your status articles? Thanks! Imperators II^(Talk) 05:45, May 5, 2018 (UTC)

Hey Imperators. Should be done. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 12:38, May 5, 2018 (UTC)

Hello i would like to talk abaut my "Wiki" It was like Copy and Paste i know but i edition that because its hard for me make a selection like in there.. so i have for example tuturial. If there is option for make it without any problems ?

Emperor's palace office location[]

I had planned on creating a page for the office the Emperor has in Darth Vader 1 and Darth Vader 16 but apparently this office is located in the Jedi Council Chamber according to Tarkin. I do not think this is so and that the office shown in the comics is located elsewhere in the Imperial Palace.

In Darth Vader 1, access to the office is by turbolift which opens onto an observation gallery which is similar to the one located in the throne room on the second Death Star and does not match the lift access that was seen, abit briefly in Attack of the Clones then later in Revenge of the Sith. The council chamber is a relative small chamber and the office shown in the comics could not possibly fit in there with the way it layouts. These is, I believe, supported by the cross section of the tower shown in Star Wars: Complete Locations. Also, the tile design on the floor are not the same as seen in the council chamber.

As they are no detailed accounts of how Palpatine redesigned the council chamber into his private office so based on what is shown in the comics and film, I really don't see how the two offices are the same. Would it be alright to change the list of Appearances to reflect this then?--Professor Ambrius (talk) 21:33, July 16, 2018 (UTC)

WotM 2.0[]

Congratulations on winning the Wookieepedian of the Month award for the second time! Imperators II^(Talk) 12:54, August 1, 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! :) grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 17:23, August 1, 2018 (UTC)

Lua help[]

Hey Grunny, belated congratulations on being WotM once again. I was wondering if you'd be able to take a look at Forum:SH:Bug in Quote template on mobile -- I don't know if anyone on the site knows Lua aside from you. 1358 ^(Talk) 15:07, August 6, 2018 (UTC)

Hey Xd, thanks! I took a look and it looks like it isn't related to Lua. I checked with Kirkburn and he pointed me to a known bug, and said it would be useful for a Wookieepedia admin (other than me ;)) to email in this example to help with prioritisation. Would you be able to shoot them a quick email about it? We can also shorten the attribution field on that particular quote as a temporary fix for now. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 15:43, August 6, 2018 (UTC)

WP:TOR[]

Hey there! You were listed as one of the participants of Wookieepedia:WookieeProject The Old Republic before it went down, and are currently among the non-inactive users who I have not removed from the list. I have recently become the project's new leader, in an attempt to revitalize it with a focus on KOTFE and KOTET content in preparation for the supposed update, and am informing all members.

Cheers!

Fan26 (Talk) 13:01, September 23, 2018 (UTC)

Official Friend Request[]

Hello, I'm an admin of the Villains Wiki, and I'd like it to become an official friend/affiliate of this one. I did make a Nomination on the proper page, but I don't think anyone here sees that page? Anyway, sorry if I'm being pushy or anything, and have a good day! Welcome to your doom! 18:08, September 28, 2018 (UTC)

Help With Tabs[]

Hello, My name is Schroeswald and I am an admin of the w:c:wicked:Wicked Wiki and we have decided to institute a tabbed system similar to yours. We have began the seperation with a placeholder system but it is not perfect. I have been guided from Toprawa and Ralltiir to the Senate Hall to you where I was told that you could help us with the Lua that creates the tabs so I would like to ask you to help us with creating the tabs.Schroeswald (talk) 00:45, October 11, 2018 (UTC)

Hi! This is 123Dip from The Ninjago Fanon Wiki. I am creating an imaginary story on the wiki which will be a crossover of the Star Wars Universe and the Ninjago Universe. I am actually a huge fan of Star Wars and I really want to write this story. I just wanted to take permision that whether I could use some content of the Wookieepedia. Please respond! --123Dip (talk) 08:42, October 23, 2018 (UTC) 123Dip of Ninjago Fanon Wiki.

Kruskan holocron 2.0[]

"So—are you still worried about being sent to the Agricultural Corps?" Sith holocron (Kruskan) has been approved by the AgriCorps and awarded Good status. Feel free to add the {{User GA}} template to your userpage to acknowledge your hard work. The AgriCorps thanks you for your efforts, and looks forward to future nominations from you! — Imperators II(Talk) 21:20, December 17, 2018 (UTC)

IRC[]

Hi Grunny, do you mind joining IRC for a bit? 1358 ^(Talk) 00:48, January 12, 2019 (UTC)

Hey Xd. I was in IRC but I think you were already asleep, so I pinged Tope and gave him the information you were asking for. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 03:37, January 12, 2019 (UTC)

Hi again. Actually my issue was that I managed to lock myself out from my @wookieepedia.com email (it's a long story - I overwrote my password manager file with an old version right after changing it) and due to some reason, I am unable to recover it using my recovery email; rather, it asks me to contact the administrator. Tope was unable to issue a password reset/recovery mail to my backup account as well. 1358 ^(Talk) 18:37, January 21, 2019 (UTC)

MP[]

We seem to have broken the Main Page trying to remove the Official Friends template. If you're around, can you pop in and see if you can fix it? Thanks. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 05:19, January 12, 2019 (UTC)

Hey Tope, it should be back. One too many div tags were removed on the /Mobile page, so this fixed it. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 05:51, January 12, 2019 (UTC)

Great, thanks a bunch. Toprawa and Ralltiir (talk) 06:25, January 12, 2019 (UTC)

AjaxRC[]

Hi Grunny,
I noticed a while back that redlinks were no longer clickable links in the RC. I filed a support ticket about this and was pointed to the fact that we're running an old version of AjaxRC. It was further recommended that we remove the old code from Common.js and use ImportJS for the dev version. I figured I'd delegate this task to you since I'm no JS wizard and I'm not sure if our AjaxRC has some sort of custom settings that would need to be transferred to the new version. Cheers, 1358 ^(Talk) 21:15, April 4, 2019 (UTC)

Hey Xd, should be done. Let me know if there are any issues. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 04:25, April 5, 2019 (UTC)

Seems to work fine. Thanks! 1358 ^(Talk) 06:36, April 5, 2019 (UTC)

Thank You[]

I wasn't sure how long I had before it was time to leave, the user you blocked committed vandalism several times on our articles. Just wanted to say thank you, I did my best to keep the articles the same in this edit-war conflict. Thanks again, and May The Force Be With You! --Supreme Commander Raxus (talk) 15:31, April 9, 2019 (UTC)User:SupremeCommanderRaxus

Wiki Manager[]

Hello! My name is Playsonic2, and I’m the Fandom Wiki Manager for Wookieepedia - just wanted to introduce myself. I am here to help the community and be a liaison to full-time Fandom staff - a group you may have a certain level of familiarity with! If there are any issues I can be helpful with, I'm available in my talk page. ~Playsonic2 09:22, May 20, 2019 (UTC)

Canon comics proposal change[]

Hey, Grunny! Just a quick heads up that I've made a small change to Forum:CT:Naming policy: Canon comic books. The change specifies that parenthetical descriptors will refer to the issue's publication year rather than the series', and the corresponding links were also changed. If you could review the changes to make sure you're still in support, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! - Cwedin^(talk) 21:24, October 19, 2019 (UTC)

• A second vote has been added to the CT, and it will determine how to disambiguate competing titles. Please take a look when you have a chance! - Cwedin^(talk) 02:45, October 21, 2019 (UTC)

Activity requirements[]

Hey Grunny, I just wanted to let you know that your edits are nearly below the threshold for removal of your Bureaucrat rights. WP:A states "Bureaucrats must make at least 500 total edits combined in the mainspace, Wookieepedia:, File:, MediaWiki:, Template:, and Category: namespaces in any six-month span, excepting prior explanation of inactivity." Currently, your last 500 edits span from Jan 27, 2020 to August 21, 2019. I just wanted to let you know of this, so you have a chance to up your edits and retain your rights. Tommy Macaroni 21:03, February 18, 2020 (UTC)

Twin ion engines, a few comments[]

Hi Grunny. Yesterday I tried to create an account on Wookieepedia and failed (I don't know why, the final button simply doens't react). Then I tried to drop a message here, on your talk page, but my text was rejected because of one or more URLs I've introduced on it.

My points are the following:

1 - On your articles (Canon and Legends) about Darth Vader's TIE fighter, there's no mention of the fact that Vader's TIE is equipped with four engines. It is called a twin ion engine fighter but, factually, possesses four engines, not two. And this is clearly visible in episode IV which is the film where the fighter makes its appearance. I produced a screenshot of the direct rear view of Vader's TIE, but I don't know how to share it with you if the URL is refused here in Wookieepedia.

2 - "TIEx1_egvv.jpg" = This drawing (most likely extracted from the early 1990s "Technical Journals") wrongly spots the engines location on the fighter.

3 - "Twin-Ion-Engine-TFOWM.png" = This is a 3D technical drawing of a classic TIE (two engines then, which is correct on this specific drawing). Items 3 and 4 on the drawing designate an exhaust grid, but in the films, inner views of TIE cockpits show that this is a transparent porthole.

All of this should be fixed on Wookieepedia or, at least, debated.

Kind regards,

Kintaro, Star Wars fan. 31.39.153.194 19:16, April 3, 2020 (UTC)

Any thoughts? Please contact me at kintaro_343kkt [at] yahoo.fr 31.39.153.194 19:16, April 3, 2020 (UTC)

Jedi archaeologist/Canon[]

Good day! Should you make canonical article for Jedi archaeologist? I made it, but have no proofs. Was Eno Cordova one of them or not? Russian article about him in "Archaeologists" & "Jedi Masters" categories for now. Zawatsky (talk) 16:59, April 5, 2020 (UTC)

7.1 New message (Urgent)[]

URGENT ALERT: USERS ARE RAMPAGING THROUGHOUT FANDOM

They are Griffenstar, Hero, Otha and JamFox, among other users, starting from The Original Characters Wiki, continuing on Community Central, PAW Patrol Wiki, Winds of Fire, Disney etc. Take heed and neutralize. Elder Pleasure (talk) 00:38, May 19, 2020 (UTC)

Email[]

Hi Grunny, I sent an email on the admin mailing list on July 5. Have you had a chance to read it? Almost all other admins have tended to the issue. Cheers, 1358 ^(Talk) 21:03, July 9, 2020 (UTC)

Hi Ecks. Done. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 15:00, July 10, 2020 (UTC)

Request to restore deleted file[]

Hey there Grunny. I'd like to request that you restore File:OWK SWFB.png. I wasn't aware it was no longer in use. I'd like to use it for the Obi-Wan Kenobi/Legends infobox. There is no reason we have to use the same image in both the Canon and Legends page for him. I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, I have to scroll back to try and find the Star Wars facebook post from 2012 to get the source to re-upload it, and I really would like to not have to do that. LOL Thanks. - JMAS ^{Hey, it's me!} 03:35, August 22, 2020 (UTC)

• Nevermind. Tope was able to find me the info from the deleted page. I'll just reupload it. - JMAS ^{Hey, it's me!} 03:36, August 22, 2020 (UTC)

Someone called me annoying

Imperial Agent[]

Hi Grunny! I was looking at a few source materials, and I am attempting to (hopefully) create an Imperial Agent article, but FOR the Galactic Empire. But, I noticed we already have an Imperial Agent article. Could I just add my research to it? Or created a new page? Have a great day! --Supreme Commander Raxus (talk) 19:28, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Editing other wikis in other languages[]

Hi, I would like to edit Brickipedia in Serbian language so I need some guidance. Also, I would like help continuing editing wookiepedia, to make it more prettier, so I need help creating info boxes to new and existing pages. Is it possible to do this? Can you please help me? Thank you for every help and answer.

Broken refs[]

Just as an FYI, you have a broken ref on your sandbox page that are showing up in an error category. If you do a search for "Cite error" on the page, you should find it. -- Sulfur (talk) 13:33, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Highlight duplicate links[]

Hey Grunny, I appreciate you're probably busy with UCP right now, but I was wondering if you'd mind taking a look at MediaWiki:Gadget-duplinks.js when you have a chance. It's been broken post-UCP, with it no longer excluding links in the intro. As you originally made that page I thought you might have an idea on how to fix it, as it's probably beyond the abilities of the rest of us. Thanks in advance, Tommy-Macaroni 11:24, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

• Never mind, GT has managed to fix it. Tommy-Macaroni 22:20, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello[]

Sorry to bother you, but is there a page that shows all of the pages that have NOT been created on Wookieepedia? Does this make sense if so please reply. thanks, Imperators III (talk) 10:15, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

• Hi. Probably the closest thing to what you're looking for is the wanted page list which lists pages that do not yet exist that are linked to heavily from other pages on Wookieepedia. Another useful place to find articles that are missing that you may be able to help create (though make sure you're following the Attribution and Sourcing guidelines when doing so) is to look at pages with a lot of redlinks. I hope that helps. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 18:21, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Admin stats[]

Hello Grunny—I hope you're well. This obviously isn't something important, but if you get a chance, do you think you could please update your admin stats page? I'm curious to see how it's evolved over the years. Cheers, JediMasterMacaroni(Talk) 19:01, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

I had to track down my script on a hard drive, but there we go. :) Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 10:30, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks! :) JediMasterMacaroni(Talk) 15:04, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

K220 heavy-duty peripheral processor[]

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?" K220 heavy-duty peripheral processor has been approved by the EduCorps and awarded Comprehensive status. Feel free to add the {{User CA}} template to your userpage to acknowledge your hard work. The EduCorps thanks you for your efforts and looks forward to future nominations from you! — OOM 224 ༼༽talk༼༽ 17:20, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Tapas[]

Hey Grunny. Just a heads up that Tapas, a GA of yours, is currently being probed by the AgriCorps, in case you're interested in saving it. JediMasterMacaroni^(Talk) 04:01, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, JediMasterMacaroni! I had missed that in my watchlist. I've responded to the items in the probation. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 09:16, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

The top template[]

Hi Grunny,

I'm an admin & bureaucrat over at Stranger Things Wiki, we're currently looking at ways to enhance the site's design. While browsing various other fan wikis for inspiration, I was really impressed by the 'Top' template/module that Wookiepedia uses. It's such a subtle and non-assuming way to visually denote the article type, I really like it.

Would it be possible if you, or anyone else willing to help, could give ST Wiki a hand in creating a similar template? My aim is to create something much more modest than what you guys have; all I want to implement is a version of the 'real world' icon, for real world articles. There's no need for anything beyond that.

I feel that this is probably a pretty modest and achievable goal, but still, when I opened up the Module:Top page, I had no idea how to make sense of it, so I thought it would be a good idea to reach out to people who might actually know what they're doing, haha.

Cheers, ~TGG

update:

I've got some of the way, but I can't quite figure out how to change the icon's placement, so it sits to the left of the edit button, like it does on Wookiepedia:

https://strangerthings.fandom.com/wiki/Template:RealWorld

TheGreatGabester (talk) 15:38, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Sockpuppet[]

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dmk53 is a sockpuppet account of https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dmk1967 and https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/User:Kmax12649

AjaxUndo[]

Hi Grunny, hope you are well. Is it possible for you to look into AjaxUndo? It has stopped functioning after the implementation of the new thanking system. It works for anon edits, but not when the thank button is next to it for registered editors.

Deleted file[]

Hey there, Grunny. Just wanted to give you the heads up that File:Wookiees-Transparent.png has replaced the now-deleted File:ThreeWookieeAmigos-ROTSVD.jpg which is still showing as being in use on your user page. - JMAS ^{Hey, it's me!} 13:34, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Discord[]

Hi, It'd be great if you could stop by Discord at your convenience. We need your help with Wook email related stuff. Thanks, —spookywilloww^talk 16:50, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

• Hi, just reaching out again. Seems like one of the resets sent out will need to be reset because it expired. Would be much appreciative if you would be able to do that.—spookywilloww^talk 04:07, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
• And I'm supposing some sort of spamfilter problem with the social media email as well that would be great if we'd be able to try to sort, just to leave that here too <3 —spookywilloww^talk 16:56, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

A cursory follow-up[]

Hi, Following a SH, I've taken some of the things regarding the Social Media Team to CT. As such, it'd be amazing if you were able to pop by Discord or otherwise help us solve the issues in the above talk page section regarding getting the accounts swapped over, as we're currently unable to without assistance. Thanks, —spookywilloww^talk 23:10, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Email deactivation needed[]

Hello. Per this; the associated @wookieepedia.com email for that account and its inclusion in any forwarding lists (such as contact@wookieepedia.com) should be deactivated. Thanks.—spookywilloww^talk 18:00, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

The account has been deleted and removed from email lists. Cheers, grunny@wookieepedia:~$ 21:29, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

The Trials of Supernatural Encounters[]

Hi there!

I hope this message finds you well. I'm just seeking guidance regarding an issue with the recent locking of Supernatural Encounters: The Trial and Transformation of Arhul Hextrophon.

I had proposed significant edits to the article, which garnered support from multiple editors while only two opposed. Anfil raised concerns about specific sentences, which I addressed by suggesting those remain unchanged. Outside of Spooky, no further objections were made, and it appears a consensus was achieved. I urge you to read through the talk page.

However, despite this, the changes were reverted, and the article was locked without additional explanation nor suggestion nor contribution for improvement. I kindly request your intervention to review the situation and consider unlocking the article, allowing the supported contributions to be reinstated and collaborated on.

Thanks and may the force be with you. Artemaeus-Creed (talk) 03:53, 20 July 2024 (UTC)