User talk:Vapor

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The Big Prick/Mall Tour

Thanks for fixing that up... Asheets 20:16, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

IRC

Be on it. 23:01, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

For the warm welcome. I hope to be a reliable contributor to the success and accuracy of the wiki and its associated database. I have no current questions, I am quite familiar with the wiki format. However if any do arise you will be the first person I turn to. Thanks again, and don't be afraid just to say hello every now and again, friends, even those on a wiki are an invaluable asset. ;D

Lady Kikyou 06:34, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for helping me out with my group page. It really shows you are a good contributing community member, huh? --Sixclaw 05:06, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for the greeting, why dont you visit the IRC channel #UD.USTC, and try to get ahold of EdmundPost Roo Rocket 1/7/11 21:35 PST

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Thanks for fixing that stuff, didn't know how to use it, sorry. -- †  talk ? f.u. 05:39, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

on that note, I shall get a garden gnome and name it vapor! -- †  talk ? f.u. 05:40, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

My two gnomes - Nanfoodle and Gnome Chomsky - say they approve of the name. ~ 05:44, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

VGA-BS

http://zombies.dementiastudios.org/boards/index.php?topic=14.285

Trying to gripe and moan at above link. Page 20 I belive. You prolly have dumbwit right? If you have time could you help with what I started there. Thanks --  ▧  ^{: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :} 08:35, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Where are you?

I need to kill you tonight so that I can increase my advantage in the Duck hunt.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 10:20, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Like you, I got tired of trying to hunt ducks in zed form. Been waiting 5 or 6 days for a revive. Btw your talk page doesn't work on NOOKColor browser.~ 18:06, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Nook is a lying sack of shit. 18GB total my ass! I swapped mine in for an iPad 'cause the 18GB total was a lie! --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 19:13, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Go to the Dinovan Monument. Fast revives. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 19:22, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Ooh, you like the iPad? Despite being an Apple fanboy, I haven't actually picked one up yet. Every time I see one of my friends using one, I see all these cool things that I could easily see myself doing, but at the same time, I just don't quite see it fitting in and filling a need that I have. It just seems like it does some things differently and better, rather than doing anything new, so I probably couldn't use it to replace my laptop, my desktop, or my phone, which keeps me from pulling the trigger on a purchase. That said, I'd love to be convinced to get one. ;) —Aichon— 19:48, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah 18GB was a total lie. 40GB is more accurate. MicroSd is dirt cheap and nColor takes up to 32GB. But if open source OS and root capabilities aren't your thing, the double-the-cost iPad is probably the way to go although I would probably pick up a galaxy tab or one of the other 30 Android tabs revealed this summer at E3. Ross I did finally nab a revive and will be hunting Yon now. ~ 19:58, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Rosslessness/Hmm

See? --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 18:55, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Yip. Useful for comparisons of writing styles, uniforms, log in times, activity throughout a year, etc, etc. Both the talk page, and the resultant Arbies case are pure gold. I'd recommend you read both. Plus as a counterpoint Chev's sussesful removal from the Zerg list. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 19:28, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Promotion

Ross and I have cycled your bid as successful. Good work, and be sure to check out the new buttons and their uses/responsibilities here if you need. -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 05:20, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

ah, another of Ross' stream of conciseness articles. Very nice. I have read and digested it as much as I can right at the moment. I'll probably have lots of questions and I'd like to get with as many of the team as I can and get your input on where I can help most. ~ 06:01, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations

COngratulations on your bid. I was about to post the secret diary here, but I see DDR has already. If you have any more questions about being a sysop, feel free to ask me (or any member of the team for that matter). :) --Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 07:52, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I retract all the negative things I said on your bid, and think you've been a fantastic member of the team. Here, have a cookie:

	A FREE COOKIE
	Yonnua has given Vapor a cookie for being a good sysop

--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 08:00, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

As I said, he's a bro! -- ϑ^anceϑ^anceℜ^evolution 08:13, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, it was no big deal, really. What would a A/PM bid be without some drama. I actually had thought you threw those comments out there intentionally to see how I would deal with drama. Oh and you'll be happy to know I haven't WN'd a single damn person since my bid. ~ 16:22, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

I do to a degree get angry on PM to see reactions, but moreso I was just having a bad week.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 21:08, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Help:The NOT so secret diary of a sysop, may help. Also read the stuff Aichon wrote up. V. Illuminating. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 10:39, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Congrats! Also, ignore the red exclamation marks that you're likely noticing now. No one around here actually uses them, so they're basically worthless. And Ross was talking about my So you want to be a sysop? article. It may have some places to point you that you can help out with, but probably nothing you're unaware of. —Aichon— 10:47, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Odd. My garden gnome (also named vapor) seems to have been promoted to sysop same time as you. What a coincidence! (lulz. Seriously, congrats!)--†hana†ologis† (talk) 13:05, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Welcome aboard, man. You'll be ship-shape in no time I'd imagine. 18:11, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Bravo. You've made it to the ranks of "Psycho". xD --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 18:40, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Your First Job

Congrats Vapor! Now can you work your sysopsy super-happy-fun magic stuff to fix my FA error? It looks fine in the FA page, but it looks broken in the main page. In my mind, having to manually cycle these makes little sense when the wiki can do it for us.-MHSstaff 19:11, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

The easiest way to do it would be to just set up each FA blurb on its own page (e.g. FA1, FA2, FA2, etc., like you did with FA1) and then use the CURRENTWEEK magic word to change the last digit (e.g. {{path/to/article/FA{{CURRENTWEEK}}}}.

The better solution would be to have it actually call a template inside a template, like so {{{{templatename|current|{{CURRENTWEEK}}}}}}. The inner template's code should consist of a set of switch statements that will give you back a path to the current/past featured article based on the current week and whether you say "current" or "past" for the first variable. That link will then get filled in for the outer template, which will result in the page at that link being inserted.

The problem with both of these solutions is that they only support 54 FAs at the most (i.e. max number of weeks in the year), are difficult to edit (though not particularly difficult as code goes), and still don't properly archive the older entries in any sort of meaningful way, though we could simply change the archiving procedure to fix that last issue. —Aichon— 22:50, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Vapor, if you swing by Aichon's talk page, I sorta outlined my current thoughts for doing this. Hopefully it makes some sense. -MHSstaff 19:32, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

congrats

now update the news box saying you have been promoted.. and hurry.----sexualharrison ¯\()/¯ 05:47, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank, man and thanks for the vouch. I thought about changing the Wiki News section but it somehow fealt like it was something another op should do. Just something about announcing your own promotion seems...narcissistic. ~ 06:19, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Such humility. Congrats!-- Adward  21:21, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

nah you're okay, if thad wins for love of god he will change it seconds afterward, and make a template. check that, i bet he already has one ready in his sandbox.----sexualharrison ¯\()/¯ 15:27, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

code quest

how do i put a uh, frame inside a frame? ie - like here - if i want a small green frame around that paragraph, instead of the green lines? --  ▧  ^{: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :} 15:47, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

To be honest, the Mester Arms page is currently breaking Location Style Guide rules. But to answer your question, it would need to be a nested table. It looks like you copied the div table from the top of the CORAM page, which basically is just setting up the basic style of the page. In order to nest a table, you would use the same code but without the div tags. ~ 15:58, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I've long wondered when someone would notice that. May make it a bit more subtle and hope it goes un-noticed. Thanks for the div wisdom x --  ▧  ^{: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :} 16:09, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

NP. I looked at the code again and it would take a bit more than just removing the div tags to make it work. A whoel table would need to be coded. I can take a look at it after you've made your changes if you want. ~ 16:13, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I just tried playing around with div stuff. Didn't work. Have removed main frame and background colour now. Just wanna try and replace the green lines with a green frame now. --  ▧  ^{: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :} 16:15, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Ok check it out. ~ 16:22, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

perfect! สุดยอดจริงๆเลย ขอบใจนะคุณเวเพอร์ --  ▧  ^{: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :} 16:30, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

ไม่มีปัญหา ~ 16:40, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Check up

Hows the sysop-ing going? --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 20:01, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Danger Report Questions

Hey vapor, I'm not exactly new around here but I do come and go a lot. I was looking at a few building types that have a weird danger report policy. For example all the Cathedrals are 4 block buildings and can be turned into a pinata according to the danger report, wile malls are also 4 block buildings and according to the danger report can not be pinata'd. Stadiums, power stations, mansions and large churches also can be pinata'd according to the wiki. I think we should give all 4 block buildings the same number of attacking zombies to danger level, with the addition of adding a Pinata danger level to all malls. Although it might be very rare that a mall ever does get pinata'd, that does not mean it can't happen. This would help a lot of the newer wiki users when updating building statuses. I would like your input. RaddoX 06:23, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Piñata was added as a status to the template that gets displayed on every type of building except for malls sometime last year. Since malls use a different template for the statuses that can affect them, it appears to have been missed. Anyway, since folks have liked the piñata status on the wiki, I did go ahead and fix the discrepancy. No sense in having them be different, as you pointed out. —Aichon— 08:42, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, Aichon. And to Raddox for pointing it out. ~ 14:18, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Move Requests

As a sysop, you don't need to request moves for simple things like namespacing anymore. :P For example, you could have just done the group recruitment ad you put up yourself. When it's absolutely clear cut, you can feel free to move it without actually putting up the request. --Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 07:41, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Awesome. Thanks for the tip. ~ 07:52, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Suburb Groups

I think we just start a project page, with two weeks for nominations for categories following by a two week vote with maintain status quo listed as an option. Otherwise the talk page might get unwieldy. If you agree, I'll throw it up. Otherwise, I'll throw it up under different sections on the talk page, unwieldiness be damned. -MHSstaff 18:34, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Meh, I agree with others that Open Discussion is where ideas go to die. I honestly don't have a whole lot of invested interest in it so I don't care if the discussion dies or not but if you want this to go somewhere, then template discussion might be the best place to have it, unwieldy or not. We could of course keep the policy discussion going and hope that people keep their heated opinions to the policy page. Your call. ~ 18:49, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah

The guide, like spawning before it is an open document, so as time progresses I'll add more. It's like the difference experiments in my user area. For now I wanted the guide to be short and punchy, knowing full well that long guides never get read. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 10:06, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Did you catch who pk'd the MERCY member? --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 16:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Nope, I didn't grab it. I think I was on the Nook when it showed up on my What Happened so i couldn't dumbwit it. ~ 16:41, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough, MERCY are generally good peoples. Swing by glassy in vinetown and say hi to sister rita and the rest of the gang. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 16:43, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah from what I see of MERCY so far they seem like good folk. I'm going to start making some connections in the area in case this experiment turns into something more tangible and Jimmy finds a home in Pegton. ~ 16:57, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Mercy's forum contains members of MDK and The spanish I... amongst others. Tell them you know Mike Carson as well. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 17:02, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

According to Anna, her killer was MartinCrane. Apparently there was another murder recently, too. See here. ~ 04:17, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Dear god, Axe hack? He's a horrible pker. --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 10:10, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Get your motor running! [makes Harley noises] Head out on the highway! You're either driving a Dodge Viper or riding a Harley! --Bus driver Jim 15:17, 21 February 2011 (UTC)