User:Toughpigs/Talk Archive 15

Archive of Danny's talk page.

Odd user
I don't want to cause any trouble, but could one of the moderators please cast an eye over user 66.31.158.194 's contributions. Some of the pages seem to need fleshing out, but they are not scenes I've heard of. Emma 21:49, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It's probably the vandal(s), see my response at your talk page. If it's not, then sorry for my mistake. George B. ''(talk ) 04:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

there is no forum!!!
Hi, I was wanting to inform your members of the recently founded Puppet Wikia but I could'nt find a forum and it appears the Community portal is'nt for that either... so I was wondering if you could help me? -- User:CchristianTehWazzit


 * Well, you've already posted about it on your user page, and now you've posted about it here. I think people have seen it now. -- Danny (talk ) 21:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Just as a general heads up, by the way. I checked out the site, and while Puppet Wiki is a great concept, it's founded by one Phillip Friedrich aka Baba aka Super Muppet, banned multiple times here, and from a brief browse, full of either pages taken directly from Muppet Wiki or illiterate babbling (plus some good contributions from Patrick and Sean Johnson). So there's always the slight possibility one of his identities may try to sneak in again to plug it, and in the unlikely event someone tries to add something *from* it, I'd say it's definitely a problematic source in general right now. -- Andrew Leal (talk ) 22:13, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd love to add me some Between the Lions and The Book of Pooh info, but I hesitate at the idea of contributing to a Wiki that is potentially problematic... George B. ''(talk ) 22:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)


 * George, I think you should go ahead. A wiki is as good as the people who contribute to it, so if you and some other good folks build it up, then maybe you can overcome the challenges of the person who created it. If you want to add Lions and Pooh stuff, then that's the place to do it. And obviously, Puppet Wikia is welcome to take as much as they like from Muppet Wiki -- it's an open license, so anybody can use our text any way they want. -- Danny  (talk ) 01:31, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, I certainly didn't mean to discourage anyone from contributing. Just a heads up. I'm tempted myself (there's plenty of stuff on early TV puppetry to add), just keep in mind the possibility of being at logger heads with this guy. And even that probably only applies if you try to mess with what he's doing, which has a bizarre logic to it, or lack thereof (creating a category for "Actors," and placing within it an article on the movie Elf, which has no live puppetry at all). I did a little clean up on one article myself. Andrew Leal (talk ) 01:46, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Excellent! I think I'll go for it then, when I have some time... George B. ''(talk ) 06:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Heh, amusingly, because of this thread, seems Phillip blocked both Danny and myself, and reverted, and then unblocked once he'd seen what we'd actually done. Well, who knows. One can learn a lot from running a Wiki. -- Andrew Leal (talk ) 07:22, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Well, I sent him an e-mail and he told me that all the banning and reverting was actully a test. He had now unblocked me, Toughpig and Aleal and revert the edits made by Toughpig and Aleal. He also deleted my message to him in the Talk:main page section, seeing it unessassary. Well we can still edit there -- (Joekido 09:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC))


 * I looked at the message that you posted on Talk:Main page, and I'm glad that you wrote that. I think you're absolutely right that he should feel free to create his wiki in peace, without anger or bitterness. It's a good idea for a wiki, and I hope it's successful. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 12:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I actually helped him set up in the first place... I don't really know what you are talking about, but he seems like a nice and civil enough person.  as for test blocks and reverts, those are common for new admins.  thanks for the edits though!  ^_. .^

Creature Shop Actors
Hey, I saw the deletion of Jackie Chan. Which I would have done anyway, since it's this same recurring anonymous person who creates strangely written, often POV hit and run entries on people, even when they do deserve their own pages. In this case, though, he seems to have been prompted by the red-link on Around the World in 80 Days. So this brings up an old question, re "Creature Shop Actors" if the only connection isn't even Creatures, just digital effects. Should we go ahead and un-redlink those, or what? -- <font color="Blue">Andrew Leal (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:13, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, no -- I forgot about 80 Days. I took that out because it was just some loser anon who created it. No, a Jackie C page would be cool. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, they actually mentioned it, but of course with no formatting, weird syntax, and no category tags. Though if that's the case, then I'd just as soon wait to recreate it until we have a picture, unless some other *reliable* contributor takes a stab at it of course. -- <font color="Blue">Andrew Leal (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:20, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Just out of curiosity --- when something is deleted, is there an undelete feature available to admins if something like this happens? <font color="Blue">George B. ''(<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, we can undelete; the entire page history is still there. -- <font color="Blue">Danny (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 04:24, 1 January 2007 (UTC)