User:TomH/Talk Archive 01

Archive of User talk:TomH

Movie box
Hey Tom: I've been working on templates for info boxes. I made one for books and one for TV shows sometime last week -- you can see 'em on Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree and The Muppet Show.

Anyway, I just created one for movies, and I'm trying it out on the Muppet Movie page. We've talked about how to present that info, so could you take a look at the box and let me know what you think? Thanks! -- Danny Toughpigs 18:00, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, I love it. That's a system that will keep both the statistics people happy and everyone else happy too. I say keep it! (I'm really in favor of boxes for things like that, anyway. Anywhere I find a Muppet character that doesn't have a Performer box, I add one. The whole thing just looks cleaner and more professional that way.) - TomH 01:43, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)


 * Awesome, I'm glad you like it. Making everybody happy, that's so Muppet Movie... -- Danny Toughpigs 01:49, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Eisner
I was wondering what made you do that. Sheer Puckishness. But, I mean, really; He is so not a Muppet.Wiesnerc 05:33, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Boring stuff

 * Hey babe: You're putting the boring stuff at the top of the movie pages. I think the top should be the readable stuff, sentences and paragraphs and things. Dull facts go at the bottom. -- Toughpigs 04:45, 5 Jan 2006 (UTC)


 * I just continued the discussion on my talk page, but I wanted to also come back here and say that I'm sorry for being so rude. You went and added to pages, and I just went through and changed stuff back without talking to you about it, and then I went and said it was boring. That was really thoughtless and disrespectful. I'm sorry about that. -- Toughpigs 05:22, 5 Jan 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey babe: What are you trying to do on the Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (LP) page? Maybe I can help you figure it out. -- Toughpigs 02:51, 4 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Welcome wagon

 * Hey babe: I was just about to post on Cam's talk page, and you beat me to it! That's awesome. -- Toughpigs 04:24, 29 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Sizing images

 * Hey Tom: Nice images on the video game pages! That "Piggy's Wedding" game looks pretty raw. In the last few days, we've changed the image format a little bit -- we're keeping images down to 300px wide. This is how you do it: [[Image:Fozzie-with-ukelele.jpg|thumb|300px|Fozzie Bear]] . Just so you know. -- Toughpigs 05:12, 27 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * Awesome, I like the Chaos at the Carnival stuff too. I saw your talk page question, so I merged the two pages. The way you do that is to make a "redirect page," which automatically redirects to another page. So I put the text on the Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival page, and on the Muppet Adventure page, I put: #REDIRECT Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival -- so any link that says "MA" will go to the "MA:CC" page. You can also use redirects for common misspellings, nicknames, all kinds of stuff. It's pretty cool. Hey, did you put in the application for the Narnia wiki yet? -- Toughpigs 03:16, 28 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh, it's not a "quick on the uptake" thing at all -- we're all still learning how to do this stuff. I just happen to be a couple weeks ahead of you, is all. :) I'm still trying to figure out how to do boxes and tables, myself. I can't make heads or tails of it. Some kinda html thing. -- Toughpigs 03:26, 28 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Digital, not analog

 * Hey babe, I just saw your post on the Baby Janice page, and it looks like you're doing your signature manually. That's far too much work. Just write four tildes, like this: -- ~, and that creates your signature and the date stamp automatically. True cyber power. -- Toughpigs 02:20, 17 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Muppet Central images

 * Hey babe: It looks like some of the pictures you've been posting come from Muppet Central -- they have that shaded border that Phil always uses. I don't think we should be using those, at least right now... We don't have Phil's permission to use them. Even if we did, I don't know if we want to use images with such an obvious source. Really, the safest images are screenshots that you took yourself, or that you got from the forum or from Tough Pigs. -- Toughpigs 19:24, 11 Dec 2005 (UTC)


 * It's no problem, it was easy to fix. You can tell which ones are from MC, cause they always have that black shaded border around 'em. I'm happy you're adding photos! -- Toughpigs 00:13, 12 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Image frames

 * Hey Tom -- It's great to see you adding images to the pages -- that'll spruce things up nice. Here's the code that puts the images in little frames, with captions: [[Image:Fozzie-with-ukelele.jpg|frame|Fozzie Bear]] . Put the code at the very top of the page, and it'll appear on the top right, all nice and pretty. -- Toughpigs 05:03, 11 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Deleting images

 * I'm not sure that you can delete stuff. I think only admins can do that. I know, you uploaded it, but I think the idea is that once you upload something, it becomes public wiki property. So the only people who can permanently delete things are admins. Luckily, you don't have to delete it -- just take the link off the page that you added it to, and it won't appear anywhere. -- Toughpigs 06:09, 10 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Quote format

 * Hey Tom: Awesome! Those are great Gonzo quotes. (Or great Great Gonzo quotes.) "Plummeting" and "Antonio Banderas" are my favorites of the ones you posted. As you can see, I've been playing with the formatting somewhat, and I wanted to show you the format I've been using for the multiple-line quotes. You can see it here: Quotes:_Statler. Talk to you laters! -- Toughpigs 06:00, 10 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Talk pages

 * Hi Tom!

I got your e-mail, but I'm responding here, so I can show you how to use talk pages.

If you want to leave a message for me, go to my user page (User:Toughpigs) and click on the Discussion tab. Then you can edit that page, and leave your message for me. (To find other users, click on "Community portal" on the left navigation bar.)

Post your message at the top of the page, so the most recent is always at the top.

You put a heading on the message using two = signs on the sides, like this:

==Message heading==

And you sign the messages using four tildes, like this: ~

That creates a signature and time stamp. And that's one to grow on! Toughpigs 03:05, 7 Dec 2005 (UTC)

PS. Yeah, we'll post about it on the forum pretty soon... I was just waiting to get the basic structure together before we start inviting everybody in. Probably tomorrow or the day after. By the way, don't forget to sign your posts with the four tildes, so it'll do the signature and time stamp. Toughpigs 03:28, 7 Dec 2005 (UTC)

This is all rather confusing
Wiesnerc 05:00, 7 Dec 2005 (UTC)
 * But I was told I did something already without ruining anything important or calling anyone a Nazi, so maybe I'll do other things as well.

Quote pages

 * Hey Tom: I thought it was cool that you listed some of your favorite quotes on the character pages. I created a separate Quotes section, so that everybody can add their favorites. Yours are the first ones there! Check it out: Category:Muppet Quotes Toughpigs 00:03, 7 Dec 2005 (UTC)