User talk:Christophee/Archive 8

Holiday
Just a quick note to anyone who visits this page that I'm going on holiday tomorrow for a week, so I won't be back until the 31st. I doubt many people will see this, or even notice I'm gone, but I'm mentioning it in case someone wants to leave me a message and wonders why I'm not answering. See you all in a week! Christophee (talk) 14:23, August 23, 2012 (UTC)
 * Hope you have a nice holiday. Where are you going out of interest? I've not long come back from a two week holiday in England (sadly not Bucks) and enjoyed it thoroughly, despite the iffy weather. As I said, have a nice time wherever you're going.  STORM  II   14:32, August 23, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm going to Bristol. I've never taken a holiday outside the UK because my family's never had enough money to do so. Christophee (talk) 15:16, August 23, 2012 (UTC)
 * Have a good time, hope the weather stays nice for you. Sam (BAZINGA) 21:24, August 23, 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I would LOVE if you moved my alternative seedings to a forum! Can you link the forum topic aswell to me? Sorry for being such a nuisance and causing any hassle, not my intention!

2012 Winter Trivia Quiz
I can see that I was probably being a tad greedy, so I thought I'd offer you the chance to be the host for the next Trivia Quiz, to be held some time during this Winter (preferably December). I'm coming to you since you asked a while ago, but I want it known now that I intend to stay as the host from now on. I thought it better to offer it to you now, so you have plenty of time to come up with questions. If you wish to take up the offer, or not, please message me back as soon as possible (on my talk page please, I can barely keep up with the Recent Activity these days). Datovidny (talk) 11:07, November 2, 2012 (UTC)

Email Address
I need to contact someone and can only do so via the "Emailuser" feature on the wiki, but I've changed email addresses since setting up this account. Do you know if I have to just set up another account with the new address to send the message? Datovidny (talk) 17:06, December 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * I know you were asking Christophee, but go to Special:Preferences, click the big tab reading 'Email', and then it'll be obvious what to do from there. Toast  Ultimatum  17:09, December 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks Toast. Datovidny (talk) 17:15, December 1, 2012 (UTC)
 * I probably would have been able to help with this particular question, but Toast seems to be much better at technical stuff than I am, so he's a better bet to ask about these things in future. Christophee (talk) 17:22, December 1, 2012 (UTC)

Hi Christophee

I'm trying to figure out why my update to the Chompalot page reverted back to the previous version, cheers Simon (aka chompalot)--Chompalot 19:53, December 15, 2012 (UTC)

Chompalot wiki
Hi Chris,

Is there a way to contact you directly rather than on a public forum?

regards Simon Chompalot 09:59, December 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * I know this is on Christophee's page, but if you set up your account to send emails, then here. It's not too difficult a job to set emailing up if you haven't done so (just head to preferences, click the email tab and it's pretty straightforward) but if you're stuck/don't want to fiddle with settings, arrange a time that both of you will be online at and head to chat. There is more than one way to have a private chat with him, choose the one that suits you best.  STORM  II   10:23, December 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * I would suggest going with the email feature Storm2 mentioned. Christophee (talk) 15:17, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

2012 Winter Trivia Quiz
I wish to inform you that the 2012 Winter edition of the Trivia Quiz to be held on chat will be on the 29th December at 3pm (British Time). Sorry for not giving you that much notice, but I've been busy with other commitments lately. If you need to refamiliarise yourself with the Quiz, just visit my blog here. Please contact me on my talk page to say if you can make it or not. Thanks and I hope you can make it. Datovidny (talk) 17:15, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

Chompalot
Chris,

Whilst I appreciate you have a view on how you want the Chompalot page to look. I am the owner, designer and builder of Chompalot. and I don't take kindly to being continually censored. Both Debs and I, when we saw this page were very upset at the arbitrary misleading and inaccurate descriptions and I applied myself to correcting the page to a state that we were happy with. If you do not allow us to correct the errors then we will demand that the page be deleted along with the photos which were taken from our website, without our permisson. As the people who took part in the event, and own the trophy we would like the page to reflect what actually took place. I am open to minor changes with discussion, but not arbitrary rewrites, which totally invalidates our contribution. Chompalot 18:01, December 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * In Christophee's latest edit of the page, his edit summaries read "some of the information can be restored, but it needs to be written better" and then "I've restored and cleaned up the changes to the intro - I'm not sure what to do with the battle summaries". It's right there on the edit summary page. What that means is that he was appriciative of the information, but not entirely happy with the way it was written (and, to be fair, the grammar wasn't great). He's still thinking about how best to do the battle summaries, but I'm sure he'll take into consideration what you wrote...the only thing he isn't sure about is how you wrote it.
 * Oh, and I hate to sound rude, but you do not own this Wikia. Chris does. This wikia covers as much as is known about all the robots and competitions in Robot Wars. If you're trying to say Chompalot can't have an article, then that destroys the point of the wikia. CrashBash (talk) 18:08, December 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we took two of your images, that's yours, but the contents of this article were written by us, and are licensed under Creative Commons Copyright, so we have every right to keep it, even if the subject is dissatisfied with it. Regardless, we've made our best efforts to make our article resemble your changes to the article, while also going along the general writing standards of the wiki, so it should meet your requirements. If there are more "errors", we'd like you to tell us what they are here, and then we can work together to incorporate these apparent truths, while meeting our standards of writing. Toast  Ultimatum  20:03, December 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * ToastUltimatum is right, we really need to learn to compromise, guys.--Nononsensecapeesh (talk) 20:27, December 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * It says on the front page of the Robot Wars Wiki - The Robot Wars encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It doesn't say and then we'll delete it all because of a few typos.


 * I wouldn't have though alienating the roboteers of the sport about which you claim to be writing was a sensible way to go about documenting it.


 * I will reserve judgement on the chompalot page until I see what chris does with the "battle summaries" however I don't see what the problem was with what I wrote.


 * On another topic, did I see a technogames listing somewhere. I'm sure I saw a link earlier but cannot find it now. Chompalot 22:14, December 16, 2012 (UTC)


 * If you would like to post anything, please do so on Chompalot's talk page (every article has one). We will quite happily read through your explanations and we'll see how we can add it, whilst keeping to the format. But Chompalot's article is staying where it is. CrashBash (talk) 23:11, December 16, 2012 (UTC)
 * In fairness, that post was topical to this conversation, so did need to stay here. Toast  Ultimatum  23:13, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

The information has now been restored (and looks like it has been cleaned up too) so I think that should put an end to this discussion. I understand the reason why CrashBash originally reverted the edit, and I also understand why Chompalot felt aggrieved about it being reverted. In hindsight, we could have cleaned up and corrected the edit sooner rather than simply reverting it, but I don't think anyone is really in the wrong here, so let's just move on. Christophee (talk) 16:59, December 17, 2012 (UTC)

Blocked
I was trying to edit a page and it came up with a message saying I had been blocked from Wikia for spamming. I tried a couple of other pages and the same thing happened. Apparently this is the only page I can edit. Is anyone else having this problem or is it just me? If I have truly been blocked then I cannot imagine why. Christophee (talk) 16:07, December 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, I can edit now. Must have been some weird glitch in the system that fixed itself as I was editing this page. Christophee (talk) 16:10, December 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Possible that because you've been editing the same few pages very often, you hit a spam filter? Matt Robot Wars.jpg Talk to me  16:42, December 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe. Hopefully it won't happen again. Christophee (talk) 19:32, December 19, 2012 (UTC)

Vandal
86.5.177.64 has created two pages, Melting Pot and Acid Bath, that are of no use to the wiki. As well as deleting them, I suggest you give the IP a long ban, because IPs are considered expendable and also to show him it's not acceptable. Regards,  STORM  II   21:26, December 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * I would oppose blocking the user. I think this is a case of a passerby visiting the wiki, noticing that we lacked an article, and putting some jargon in there to turn the link blue, and perhaps also encouraging the article being made properly. Toast  Ultimatum  21:47, December 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Good point, although the content of Acid Bath makes me think otherwise. Let's play it by ear, see what happens next and take action from there.  STORM  II   22:11, December 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I only took notice of the content of Melting Pot. Yes, it is a vandal, and will require blocking, which I shall now do. Toast  Ultimatum  22:17, December 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Ta for that, I went here because I forgot you were an admin. Let's be honest, Melting Pot was rather mild compared to Acid Bath, which was undoubtedly vandalism. Had I not logged onto the wiki as it happened, who knows how long it could have stayed there...  STORM  II   22:48, December 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sure one of us would have noticed it eventually, but it certainly helps to have users alert us to this sort of thing, so thanks for that. Christophee (talk) 00:19, December 27, 2012 (UTC)

Robots from Yorkshire
I understand that you deleted this category a while back for being "unneeded and not an official county", I would argue that it should be recreated, if nothing else, just to remove it in the Wanted Articles list. Datovidny (talk) 17:12, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * I think Christophee deemed it unneeded because we already have Robots from West, East Yorkshire etc. categories. Still, they can easily be treated as subcategories, I'm fine with having a general category for Yorkshire. Though my opinions may be invalid, being a Yorkshireman myself :P Toast  Ultimatum  17:15, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * If we can find out where "The Iron Mask" came from we might be able to eliminate it altogether. The show only gives the location "Yorkshire" and nothing more specific.  Stalwart UK  17:21, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * Exactly. I think I may have found Tait Sievers on a job seeking website | see here. My logic is this: Tait Sievers is not the most common of names, he lists his location as Yorkshire, and he works as a prop maker, which would make sense as Jonathan Pearce describes him as "very talented" at designing. His picture and educational information seem to roughly correspond to it being the same person. Perhaps we can get in touch? Matt Robot Wars.jpg Talk to me  17:33, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * Hmm, it appears my link doesn't work, so just look him up on that site. Matt Robot Wars.jpg Talk to me  17:34, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * If you can contact him then great, as long as we aren't too intrusive. Remember he may have moved around a bit since Robot Wars, being over a decade ago and all.  Stalwart UK  17:45, January 26, 2013 (UTC)

He went to Cleveland to study, Toast, would you distinguish that as west or East? Datovidny (talk) 17:48, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * That would actually be North Yorkshire, the ceremonial county that much of Cleveland is now part of.  Stalwart UK  17:55, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * I think it would just be right to just recreate the category, with The Iron Mask in it, as well as the other two subcategories, what does everyone think to that? Datovidny (talk) 17:57, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd say that would be a good idea. I have tried to find out The Iron Mask's county in the past with no success. Christophee (talk) 18:02, January 26, 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I found Tait Sievers on Facebook, where I saw he was from Cleveland, and it turns out he was from North Yorkshire, and since we had South Yorkshire as a category too, I thought I'd create a category for North Yorkshire. Datovidny (talk) 18:14, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * Good work. It looks like we're having the general category anyway though, even though I'm not sure it's at all necessary now. I guess it doesn't do any harm though, so I don't mind if it stays. Christophee (talk) 18:19, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * Out of curiosity, why did you change the wording in the descriptions for a couple of those categories? Now they're inconsistent with the rest of the county categories. Christophee (talk) 18:26, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, it just didn't look right that places being distinguished as counties were being put into another category before England, but I can change them back if you want. Datovidny (talk) 20:47, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
 * But the four different parts of Yorkshire are separate counties, so it's completely accurate. I'll see if I can find a good way of wording it. Christophee (talk) 13:18, January 27, 2013 (UTC)

Hello, This is the Tait Sievers from North Yorkshire, yes Ive been to cleveland college of art and design and I specialised in props and animatronics. Just to prove I do exist and to put your minds at rest. The iron mask has long been out of action as has its sequel robot Ksam Nori (sometimes spelled Qsam Nori) which never made it through the qualifiers.86.153.87.20 18:40, May 18, 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Tait, just moving this up here with the rest of the discussion. Thanks for letting us know my suspicions were correct. If you having anything you want to contribute to your robots page, please go ahead. Matt Robot Wars.jpg Talk to me  21:02, May 18, 2013 (UTC)

Community Corner
Seeing as we don't have a News template, I reckon we should mention the recent Robot Wars news in Community Corner. As the Community Corner is signed by you, I'll leave the job to you, if you agree with adding it. Toast Ultimatum  12:45, February 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I'll link to the news story as well. If the new Robot Wars goes ahead, I think it may be a good idea to introduce a news template. Christophee (talk) 13:49, February 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * A shame then that I requested the old FRA News forum page to be deleted. Datovidny (talk) 15:40, February 19, 2013 (UTC)

Edit Count
Hello, I was wondering something about the Edit Count. On my old account, I made 268 main space edits, and on my current one, I have made 204 combined main space and file edits up to this point. After 28 more edits I will have made 500 overall so would I be eligible to participate in the Arena forum (I heard that at least one user has made it this way), or is it counted from scratch? Thanks for the help. MassiveDestruction49 (talk) 12:05, March 8 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much, I have now passed the 500 edit count. MassiveDestruction49 (talk) 01:50, March 11 2013 (UTC)

Job List
Do you think it would be a god idea to have a link to the Job List on the Main Page? Datovidny (talk) 10:07, May 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * Now that you mention it, it seems like the sort of thing that should be in the 'Helping Out' section on the main page. It's quite far down the page though. I'm not sure how many new users see it. Christophee (talk) 10:39, May 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, isn't that section meant to be very visible? If so, wouldn't a slight redesign to the Main Page layout be a good idea? Not that I could offer anything in terms of guidance. Datovidny (talk) 19:25, May 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * While I'm thinking of it, and I can't edit on it, I think the "Outside Robot Wars" project should be added to the Job List. Datovidny (talk) 19:58, May 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not great at redesigning the main page. When I try, I normally end up messing the whole thing up. Good idea about the Outside Robot Wars thing. I'll add that now. Christophee (talk) 20:06, May 5, 2013 (UTC)

RE: Sabre Tooth
My email's been playing up so I can't reply to you there. Essentially, my sister knew a family of the same name who lived in our Hazelmere, so without knowing a county, I put 2 and 2 together and made 5. The announcer was right.  Helloher    I'm back, and hopefully for good  12:19, May 11, 2013 (UTC)
 * Wow, that's quite a coincidence. Thanks for replying. Christophee (talk) 12:57, May 11, 2013 (UTC)