User:Aleal/Talk Archive 02

Archive of User talk:Aleal

Signature
Andrew, since I noticed you were on, I thought maybe you could help with something. I've been looking all around, trying to figure this out and I can't seem to find this on the help pages or anywhere. How do I change my signature so that it shows like everybody else's? Right now, mine only shows my username and I've decided I'd like it to be just like everybody else's, but for the life of me, I can't find where in the preferences or anywhere else to change it. Agent0042 04:17, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, George! Well, actually, we basically do it manually. Type in the two dashes, --, your first name, and then use two italicizing, individual quotation marks, ' ' . Basically, you'd do it this way --George, ' '~' ' . It's crude, but it works! Make sure you use the single quote mark, repeated twice, and not the double quotation mark, which, well, just puts your signature in quotes. Your signature is fine as is, but it doesn't hurt to be fancy, as well as repeating your real name (I confess, I sometimes have to check your profile to refresh my memory). Hope this helps! --Andrew, Aleal 04:21, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, manually, huh? Okay, thanks! I always thought I was missing some kind of setting or something, but I never bothered to ask until now. I'll keep that in mind for the future. I'll try it now! --George, Agent0042 04:52, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Sprocket's Impersonation
Wow, Sprocket's Impersonations! I just wanted to tell you that the page is awesome. You rock! -- BradFraggle 01:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, but do I Fraggle rock? Glad you like it, though! It was a labor of love, and I wouldn't be surprised if I'm still missing a few (it was The Swedish Chef impression which really inspired me to do it). --Andrew, Aleal 01:27, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, and check out another great Sprocket image on Character Disambiguations. It seemed one of the best ways to illustrate the page (though I'm not sure about the spacing). --Andrew, Aleal 01:34, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Ooh, that's fabulous. Those are both fabulous. -- Danny Toughpigs 01:58, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I also just looked at the state pages you're creating in Real World Locations, and I love them. The three items that are in Michigan make such an odd page. It's like a strange little poem. -- Danny Toughpigs 04:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You know, I really should brush up on the rules of haiku. It works okay as blank verse, but. --Andrew, Aleal 04:44, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Rock it to me
Hey, babe. I'm glad you're keeping your eye on User:2009Crbeverlin. He also signed in yesterday as User:2009crbeverlin, so obviously there's some issues here. If you see him doing anything else that's weird, like posting on the Main Page, then keep posting on his talk page(s). If he builds up any more malfeasances, and he hasn't responded to anything, then I'll deal with "them". I just want you to know that you've got backup... -- Danny Toughpigs 16:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

A lovely evening
Y'know, we had that talk today, which involved some head-banging and frustration. But then we have an evening like this, and isn't the wiki just a wonderful thing? I'm so tickled that I started the Images Wanted page on a whim, and it immediately got such a big response. There's got to be at least a dozen new images so far, just from starting that page, and all kinds of people got involved, even frustrating people. I love the wiki. -- Danny Toughpigs 05:13, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * You had headbanging without me? Shucks.  Anyway, yeah I love the Images Wanted page.   --Pantalones 05:14, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah! I feel happier too (taking a walk, doing Wharton research, and succumbing to the urge to buy a 9.99 Elmo's World DVD helped). The page is a great idea. I didn't even realize some of those were even lacking images. And it was the Don Music variety of headbanging, Peter, so you didn't miss much! --Andrew, Aleal 05:16, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it was mostly me cleaning the keyboard stains off of Andrew's forehead. Not a glamorous moment. -- Danny Toughpigs 05:18, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Main Page redesign
GreenReaper (do you have a real name we can address you by), welcome, and we appreciate your interest in the Wiki. However, it's generally not advisable to start by reworking the main page. Your ideas are interesting, and the Kermit green is a nice touch, but the look of the main page is really something which should be discussed at Current events before making any drastic changes. I'm going to revert it for now, but I would suggest you mention your layout ideas and such on current events. --Andrew, Aleal 21:29, 11 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi there, Andrew! You can call me Laurence if you want, but GreenReaper is how I'm known to everyone online (and in some cases offline - even my boss has trouble remembering at times).


 * I have opened a discussion at Talk:Main Page as instructed by the note at Current events, as it is only relevant to that page and not the whole site. I will create a link from there as well. I had actually intended to talk about my edits, but I got called away for breakfast. Sorry for the delay on that. :-) -- 22:50, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Songs template
Hey, nice new template! There are cases where two names are given for a song, but it doesn't say who wrote lyrics and who wrote music. What do you think of adding a dynamic "Written by" field which can be used in those cases? -- Scott Scarecroe 19:34, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. Also, I'm trying it out on Sweetums (Song), but can't seem to keep the "source" field from appearing (I could list the special, and might in fact, but I included "source" mainly as an easy way of listing when a song was taken from another musical, album, or film, and not created for the Muppets). Help, o master of hidden structures? --Andrew, Aleal 19:37, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll have to take a look at it later. I'm about to leave work for the day, so maybe tonight. Drop a note on my talk page if I haven't done anything with it later. I forget to do things. -- Scott Scarecroe 19:56, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey Andrew, the Sweetums (Song) page works properly now. Fields are dynamic only when you remember to include them with nothing after the equal sign. So just always use the text shown for example on the Songs Template page. -- Scott Scarecroe 22:59, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Tin things
Just FYI: I just edited Episode 506: Brooke Shields -- it's Tin Woodman, not Woodsman. Baum wrote a book called The Tin Woodman of Oz. -- Danny Toughpigs 00:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, yeah, go by the book when possible when dealing with literary texts. And with that, I think I'm officially off the Wiki for at least a few days to a week or more. I have other matters to stress over, I've been spending too much time dealing with the un-fun aspects, and in general it's become an obsession rather than a diversion. See you when I see you. --Andrew, Aleal 00:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Accounting
I saw your note to Jog... I don't know about the Lynch/Lunch question, but the last two are Hungerdunger and McCormack. It's a reference to a Marx Brothers scene in the film Animal Crackers, where Groucho dictates a letter to the law firm of Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger and McCormack. He gets upset because Zeppo leaves out a Hungerdunger. He leaves out the most important one, too! -- Danny Toughpigs 03:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Aha! It rung a faint bell, and now I recall. I'm not a truly devout Marxist, though, so I haven't seen Animal Crackers in years, and mostly just remember Margaret Dumont being shoved around and "Hooray for Captain Spaulding." Well, I guess once the Lunch/Lynch issue is handled (that part is clearly a spoof of Merrill-Lynch, but I could imagine them using either Lunch or Lynch as part of the joke), another page move (and fixing the article text) is in order. --Andrew, Aleal 04:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

No mas
Hey babe: I just blocked User:D.B.M. He's a pest. He's been sending me e-mails twice a day about that Brian Henson Transcripts page. I just sent him a message telling him to stop, and then I came here, and I found that you've been undoing his edits all day. We don't need that kind of nonsense, so I bounced him. -- Danny Toughpigs 02:17, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I was tempted to do so myself, but didn't know if there was sufficient justification. So there is. On the plus side, Brad has now supplied us with a page on Big-Fat-Ugly-Bug-Face-Baby-Eating O'Brien. That gaping absence in our world of Muppet information has been filled! --Andrew, Aleal 02:37, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Grrrr
"I'm not a joiner." That's got to be the most obnoxious thing I've heard so far on the wiki. The nerve. -- Danny Toughpigs 23:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Even if they're an insider, and obviously we've had a few doing that anonymously, that was an obnoxious response. At least Rollie, while not registering, was both polite and let us know who she was. I removed Julianne Buescher too since that came from Dean and was probably a guess (especially since Ms. Buescher herself was anonymously and somewhat exaggeratedly editing her page like mad, but left it out). All these weird squabbles over really tiny parts are getting to me. Soon, heated debates over who played Talking Loaf of Bread #1 in "Healthy Food". --Andrew, Aleal 23:57, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, my hard-won lesson from running the Tough Pigs forum was that a forum is an online party, and therefore, party rules apply. You introduce yourself to the group when you come in for the first time. You say hello to the host. You make polite conversation for a few minutes before you start changing the music on the stereo and making sarcastic remarks.
 * And, most important: If somebody asks you what your name is, you tell them what your fucking name is.
 * That's the number one cardinal rule of all social interaction, for everybody except serial killers. If I ask you what your name is, and you tell me some random collection of letters and numbers instead of your actual name, then you're creepy, and you have something to hide. It's even worse if I ask you what your name is, and you have some weird philosophy about it, like "I'm not a joiner" or "The internet is all about fluid identities." Which is great, I guess, if you're trying to hook up with a sexual predator, but the rest of us like knowing who we're talking to.
 * So the good news is that once you set that up as a rule, everything else goes much more smoothly. We don't need anonymous faux-insiders hanging around here. We're assembling a really solid crew of contributors, and we're working really well together. Everybody's welcome to participate, but they need to play by the group's rules, not the other way around. We've got a good system so far. -- Danny Toughpigs 05:20, 5 March 2006 (UTC)