User talk:Nicmavr/Archive

Halo Wars, Boards, Blogs, etc.
Hey Nicmavr! I actually favor Talk Pages over boards; though the potential privacy of private board messages is gone, on Talk Pages you can correct spelling and formatting if you make a mistake (in fact it's harder to make a mistake)! You can press the preview button to see if the message is to your liking, and most of all, it seems formal and convenient. Have you gotten the Mythic Map Pack (Sandbox) or Halo Wars yet? I love them both! I hope the next user group term elections start soon... You know what I figured out? This: search Kougermasters in the search bar. Please reply via Talk Page. NOTE that this message has nothing to do with blogs. Kougermasters 01:27, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I know. If you search on that, it's your userwiki page. Not many users have bothered to create one, although CT has. Check it out! Ascy  'Vamal  CoH| Ultra Elite ]]  contribs  12:40, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Stub templates
I've noticed that you prefer that stub templates be applied to the top of an article. I disagree with that, because by wiki convention, it should be the other way around. The article is probably too short if the stub template can be seen at the bottom! If you want to make the stub template more noticeable, I can make adjustments to it. The 888th Avatar (Talk) 13:04, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't just prefer it. It's just because the stub template is at the top in just about every stub article in Halopedia. As for making chages to it, that is something you need to ask the administration about, since I have no authority in the mainly used templates. Councillor ]]  Nicmavr  -  Ascy   'Vamal  Light your way with honour! 13:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah...sorry for the misunderstanding. However, the administration should know that it is standard wiki practice to put stub templates at the end of a page. The 888th Avatar  (Talk) 11:41, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not necessarily a rule. I just have them at the top because everyone else does the same, and because most of us here think that it's design, shape, etc makes it better at the top. But that's just a preference. Councillor ]]  Nicmavr  -  Ascy   'Vamal  Light your way with honour! 11:44, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Salutations!
Rawr Nicmavr,

It's Blemo from the IRC, and I'm just checking in to say that I have finally stalked you to your userpage and I also wanted to add in a "hi"! BTW, nice Clippy banner. Nice. :)

Warm Regards,

--


 * Why thank you Blemo. It was nice talking with you. :) - Ascy   'Vamal  Light your way with honour! 20:28, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Punctuation
Nicmavr im a farely new halopedian I was wondering does correcting punctuation count as a edit
 * Yes, it does, since you are correcting it. However, make sure you mark it as a Minor Edit when making small corrections like that. - File:Commander Silver Leaf.PNG|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk ) 04:38, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

PLEASE HELP ME!
I don't know how to join the CoH? Can you help me?
 * You add your name to the recruit list section. However, the usergroups are now disbanded, so we are not taking in any more members. Sorry. - File:Commander Silver Leaf.PNG|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk ) 19:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

IRC
Umm, are you coming to the IRC? - JEA13  [ iTalk  ] 18:22, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm already on. :) File:Commander Silver Leaf.PNG|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk ) 18:33, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your help.
Thank you for helping with my signature,Nicmavr!-- Strider 6583 69398 File:1207534821 Marathon symbol.gif|15  23:08, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

T&R undo
On my recent addition to the truth on reconciliation:

Acctually if u ever played all three trilogy games, you'd know that the T&R is a CCS cruiser whilst the Shadow is an assault Carrier. Also note that the screenshot in question is evidently from Halo 3 in which T&R does not appear. Do not undo My doings without good reason. --Ringworlder 18:40, November 16, 2009 (UTC)

Rawr from Blemo-Land!
Hey there, ol' friend. It's been a long time since I checked by Halopedia (the last time was when I was voting for your RfA), and I noticed that I haven't officially congratulated you on your successful RfA. ;) So... HOORAY! By the way, I haven't heard anything new about your ChanBot. :P --

Star Wars and Halo.
Look,everyone undo my editings,but that's true about the visor of CQB.Why don't you remove the things on the EOD armor page instead of just mine?
 * Firstly, we are not the Star Wars wiki. Secondly, Because there's a clear resemblance with the EOD. Killzone was considered a rival to Halo back in the old days. - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 20:51, December 8, 2009 (UTC)

Who is Killzone?
 * Killzone. Notice the close resemblance? Also, please sign your posts with ~ . Thank you. - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 20:55, December 8, 2009 (UTC)

Sorry.
Remember the Halo 2 message, "Regret, Regret, Regret"?

Dear Nicmavr. I regret being that idiot. I regret talking that way.

And i most definitely regret that we almost destroyed Subtank's talk page!

SC

189.124.209.133 19:43, April 18, 2010 (UTC)

Spec Ops Elite
Hey, you made a thing wrong.

I saw the tactics against the Spec Ops Elites and it said Fuel Rod Cannon, but the Fuel Rod Cannon is the AA Wraith weapon, and I tried to correct. Why did you delete it?

189.124.209.133 15:55, April 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * The Fuel Rod Cannon isn't necessarily the Wraith weapon. Its mounted on Banshees and other vehicles, and its also the the Halo 2 and 3 era Fuel Rod Gun. The two are often confused with one another. The Fuel Rod Cannon is used as a weapon in Halo 2 and 3, the one used by Grunts in Halo CE is the Fuel Rod Gun. They're similar, but they're not the exact same thing, its a common misconception. - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 16:00, April 22, 2010 (UTC)

I thought that the gold magazine gun in Halo 2 and 3 was a Fuel Rod Gun.

189.124.209.133 17:05, April 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * The official name for both is the Type-33 Light Anti-Armor Weapon. However, its referred to as the Fuel Rod Gun in CE and Fuel Rod Cannon in Halo 2 and 3 if I'm not mistaken. - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 17:25, April 22, 2010 (UTC)

Halo: Reach Category
Sorry Subtank told me here to remove the category from the weapons pages. -->File:Lieutenant Grade One.png|25  My Page   Talk Page   Contributions Page   All Edits Page   Email Page   Followed Pages  (UserWiki:Cally99117| Wiki Page ]]) ( Favourite Page ) ( Opinion Page ) 07:56, May 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for informing me. - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 07:59, May 16, 2010 (UTC)

ex bungie chris hughes account "invalid username"
Polymallet is my username.... i got sent a new password.. and it won't log me in .. says my username not valid

if it isn't valid then why was i able to send a new password to myself?

anyways i can't log in... not really important

all i wanted to do is leave verification on "sentinel" article that  thte quote about me creatinga crablike creature..... came directly from "art of halo" book..... and i can personally verify i made sentinel

chris hughes www.polymallet.com
 * Try creating a new one. - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 17:11, May 20, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!
--Jack Phoenix (Contact) 15:23, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

Uncivil User
Hey Nic. I just stopped by to talk to you about EchostreamFanJosh. He has been showing a very nasty attitude lately to an admin, me, and at an article.

Force&conv=EchostreamFanJosh





Have a nice day. --File:Invincibilityhud.svg|20  Ultra Force  05:18, July 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * As per the message I sent to both of you. I'm either going to block both of you for edit warring, or protect the article. I've done the latter to allow both of you a second chance to solve your dispute on the talk page. - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 06:47, July 26, 2010 (UTC)

Useless templates
Yeah..check the deletion category and delete all the useless templates.- Sketch ist 06:48, July 26, 2010 (UTC)


 * Moar useless templates by Plasmic Physics.- Sketch ist 08:12, July 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Done and blocked. - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 08:42, July 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * I only actively received one warning, and I responded by changing the template titles to reflect that they're private use. How else am I to create personal templates?
 * I only actively received one warning, and I responded by changing the template titles to reflect that they're private use. How else am I to create personal templates?


 * P.S. I can't communicate while logged in.
 * The templates I deleted, while you may have changed them, were still causing problems because they were still in the Template: namespace. I actually sent you two messages, the second asking you what you were using them for. If you can specify that here, I'd appreciate it. - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 09:01, July 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * I received no alerts of your messages, so I was not aware of them untill recently, I only received a message from Sketch. Some templates that I require are not available in Halopedia, so I have to create them, some of the templates that I create exists to support the others.
 * On a different matter, can you have a look at Talk:Sanghelios, Merge?
 * My messages are on your board. But you still haven't answered my question exactly: What is the exact purpose of those templates? - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 09:26, July 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * They're for a Halopedia project that I'm working on.
 * I've unblocked you. You may re-create them, but keep them out of the template: mainspace until you can present them. For now, make them as such: User:Plasmic Physics/YourTemplate and generate it with  User:Plasmic Physics/YourTemplate}}  - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 10:46, July 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * They're for a Halopedia project that I'm working on.
 * I've unblocked you. You may re-create them, but keep them out of the template: mainspace until you can present them. For now, make them as such: User:Plasmic Physics/YourTemplate and generate it with  User:Plasmic Physics/YourTemplate}}  - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 10:46, July 26, 2010 (UTC)

Pilot Deletion
Thanks for dealing with the pilot armor page so quickly--Soul reaper 15:47, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

Group

 * MediaWiki:Group-ninja
 * MediaWiki:Group-ninja-member

the group is actually ninja (hover over the checkbox on S:UserRights to see the real name).

It exists because it was "fun" and is hardcoded into the code that does the social profiles. It means nothing more then you want it to mean. --Uberfuzzy 15:57, September 3, 2010 (UTC)

RfA page
Hey, don't you think it'd be better to let all users with an account edit the RfA page, instead of barring it off from all non-admins?--Shade  17:06, September 5, 2010 (UTC)

Bot
I saw you operated a bot on this wiki, and I wondered if I could ask a couple of questions. I was looking at creating a bot to update Challenges based on http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/globalchallenges.aspx, which itself is updated by Bungie every morning at 9UTC. I've been organizing a record of all previous challenges on Challenges/2010-September manually so far.

I haven't created a bot before, though I'm a software engineer so I'm up for the challenge. My question is how do I go about getting started? I see AutoWikiBrowser and Pywikipediabot, but how do I got about setting it up, getting permission to run it? Would I have to run it from my own computer each day? Or is this a bad idea in the first place :)

I really appreciate your time, thanks. --31stCenturyMatt 16:53, September 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you. --31stCenturyMatt 09:32, September 20, 2010 (UTC)

reversal
I suppose you could explain to me why my edit was reversed? Seeing as spartansniper hasn't responded to me yet.

Ph1LzA 14:13, September 28, 2010 (UTC)

re: reversal
I've had another go at it, but i don't see how "assuming" and "speculation" are any different when it comes to this source material as the previous edit includes Assumptions which can't be classed as fact.

my new edit considers the hint dropping from bungie regarding "lone wolf" and "there'll be another time." as assumption also so it should remain valid.

Ph1LzA 16:24, September 28, 2010 (UTC)

Userpage Help
Hello Nic.

Anyway. You know on your userpage you have Noble Team a a background image and then you have these non-transparent black boxes with writing in them? Well, thats the problem. I looked at the source of your page and it had this (The major part was copy and pasted):  {|style="width:100%; color:#FFF;"  {|align="center" Subpages: Guest Book | Userboxes | Gallery ...
 * valign="top" style="padding:10px;" class="noble"|

The word "noble" is the problem (The " ' ' ' " was a fail for making the word bold, until I realised it was source wording). I also checked the source of Subtank's page and instead the word "rookie" was in the place of your "noble". For my page, the lower area has a Doomed.png image then a grey box with my information in it. That entire section was a failed experiment. What I really wanted was a non-transparent black box over the Doomed image like earlier in the page. Thats what I need help with. Thanks! File:Noblelogo.png|25 // SPARTAN-A110    talk    gallery    guestbook   14:31, October 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Quite simple to solve this. Nicmavr: add the following on Common and Wikia.

.doomed { background: url('http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/halo/images/0/09/Doomed.jpg') no-repeat center top !important; } .doomed a { color: #1AAAE7; }
 * @Phoenix Marathon, once Nicmavr has done so, replace whatever is in your  with  .-  5 əb'7 aŋk (7alk ) 14:48, October 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Done and done. Let me know if there's any more issues :) - File:Major.png|20  Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 14:53, October 8, 2010 (UTC)

Fix this
The Wiki-navigation only allows up to seven rows per menu. Better decide which one's the most important and remove the rest.. also one of many failures of Oasis. :P -  5 əb'7 aŋk (7alk ) 16:10, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

Wiki-navigation
Hi Nicmavr. Since you've been editing MediaWiki:Wiki-navigation, I wanted to bring to your attention (which you probably already know) that the current version of the navigation doesn't have any links to the wiki's content. With Reach still being a fairly new release, most (if not all) people coming to the wiki will be looking for information about it, so I wanted to ask why you made the decision to only link to policies, help pages, and foreign langauge Halo wikis, and to encourage you to add links to actual content, especially Reach. JoePlay ( talk ) 18:13, October 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * I understand the difficulty of trying to fit all the important links into a 4x7 structure, especially for a wiki such as Halopedia. I agree that plenty of incoming traffic will be directly to the Halo: Reach article (or related articles) from search engines, but once a person gets here via Google, it would be very convenient for the person to be able to navigate between the major categories of Reach by using the nav bar that appears on every page, as opposed to having to go back to the Reach article or type something into the search bar. Obviously it's up to you admins to decide how to use the nav bar, but I would suggest that using one of the drop down menus to link to Reach categories is more valuable to the wiki's visitors than linking to alternative language versions of the wiki. Cheers. JoePlay ( talk ) 20:16, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

What's going on?
So what just happened? Am I the only one who's view of the wiki has been shot to hell? pestilence  Phil,  pestilence!  19:01, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikia removed the social tools.- <font face="Century Gothic"> <font color="#FF4F00">5 əb<font color="#FF4F00">'7 aŋk (<font color="#FF4F00">7alk ) 19:17, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh crap! Everything just got screwed over. When does the voting end, what happened to the header, infinite questions, but now its almost friggin' impossible to get ahold of anyone. Jesus H. Christ! pestilence   Phil,  pestilence!  19:21, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

IRC
Hi, sorry I missed you on IRC. I'll be around there again later today, and on again tomorrow. Hope to talk to you then -- Sannse (help forum | blog) 23:29, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

Wikia.css
Hey Nicmavr,

I noticed that on the new theme for Halopedia the image does not fill the entire page and doesn't look too spiffy. I think it would be pretty awesome if we could make the page transparent and the background image fixed. I've done this for the Halo Stunting Wiki, and I think it would be fairly easy for you guys to do it here. I'm willing to help if it's needed. (I sent you this because you were the last person to edit the page).

Matortheeternal 20:05, October 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * Here is the code I used for transparency and for the fixed background File:

.toccolours border: 1px solid #0033CC; background:#FFFFFF; filter:alpha(opacity=50); -moz-opacity:0.5; opacity:0.5; -khtml-opacity:0.5; padding: 2px; }

.WikiaPage { background:transparent url( http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/halostunting/images/c/ce/70opacitywhite.png ); filter:alpha(opacity=94); -moz-opacity:0.94; opacity:0.94; -khtml-opacity:0.94; }

body { background-attachment: fixed; }

Matortheeternal 20:14, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Aircraft intrest?
Just curious, What type of aircraft do you like? For me, I like both fighter jets and civilian aircraft. Hopefully I can work for Boeing or Sikorsky to be an aircraft designer. If you are pursuing a career in aviation like me. There's a chance we might even be working for the same company. :D My Wunderwaffle iz missin 00:53, October 21, 2010 (UTC)