User talk:Clarinet Hawk/Archive 8

Vandals
'''Please list the names/IP's of potential vandals here. Also, if possible, tell me the page(s) they vandalized so that I can verify the claim and assess the damage. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 02:20, 28 June 2008 (UTC)''' I don't know but I have gotten messages of snake's codec messages changed i'll check it out. Darkness studios Help desk (talk) 04:47, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

84.86.247.17 (Talk) Yet another vandal! I pity you, Chawk, having to ban all of these. He's just adding in all completely stupid comments on the "Did you know?" template. ' ~Teh Blue ' Blur~ ~You're too slow!~ 18:23, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

This guy's been messing up a random smasher page for no reason, insulting him and calling him a Jew. ' ~Teh Blue ' Blur~ ~You're too slow!~ 10:58, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

This guy's removing all content from the Tier list for no apparent reason. ' ~Teh Blue ' Blur~ ~You're too slow!~ 15:43, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

This Guy's been vandalizing Snake's Codec Messages page and swapping quotes with ridiculous words that are completely unacceptable. So, please ban him. (I'm working on undoing his damage.) Thanks. :) --' ~Teh Blue ' Blur~ A revolution begins. 19:30, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

User:2good = vandal of smasher pages.  Gutripper Speak 

I do not know if you would call this vandal or not, but some of the articles 98.148.154.211 has made do not seem relevant to the wiki.  Cloned Pickle  04:31, 11 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, 98.148.154.211 made another irrelevant article: Best falco on the west coast.  Cloned Pickle  07:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

If you look at This user's contributions, the only kinds he has made is editing his userpage saying "smashwiki and its mods fail, kthanxbai."  Cloned Pickle  06:06, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

RfR
Shouldn't both of BNK's RfR's be together. I mean, KP's are, and so are ParaGoomba's. It saves article space.  Toon Ganondorf    (t    c) 
 * Then do it and I'll delete the redirect. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 16:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Dedede
King Dedede's forward smash does actually a max of 35%, not 33%(that's on training move if you didn't know, training mode attacks does slightly less damage). The same goes for Bowser (max of 48-49% and not 46%) and Ike (max of 32%). user:Firewario February 3rd 21:24 UTC +1
 * I'm not questioning the facts, but when your grammar and syntax are so bad that no one can make heads or tails of your writing, it usually gets reverted. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 21:19, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Sockpuppets
Almost all of the sockpuppets in the past few days have left a message on my page saying what obvious contribution they added to an article. Here are a few of them: Special:Contributions/64.5.158.130 Special:Contributions/141.152.185.173 Special:Contributions/65.169.203.196 The last one admitted it's the same one as an old IP who brawled me before (don't ask, long story, a month or two ago). Can you semi-protect my talk page so I don't keep getting messages like the ones these IPs (all the same person) gave me?  Mario Galaxy  May Guthix be with you... 23:41, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Protecting pages is not to be done lightly, and especially not something like user talk pages. Especially when the comments are about wiki. So, at best I see this request as unnecessary. --  Shadow  crest  00:09, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sky already blocked some of these IPs, apparently realizing that they were sockpuppets. C. Hawk seems to be tired of this too, as seen on one of the IP's talk pages.  Mario Galaxy  May Guthix be with you... 00:12, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * And what if I disagree with any or all of those bannings? -- Shadow  crest  00:24, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, since you're a sysop, I can't do anything about it. Either way, I got to go. It's sysops' call, not mine.  Mario Galaxy  May Guthix be with you... 00:26, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Uh..
This  Fried beef  1    Love   22:21, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Vandal Attack
I just thought I'd let you know that there was a vandal attck yesterday (to the SSBB fighter info pages). I have reverted all of the vandalism single handedly and I have got the IP adresses that were the cause of it:


 * 82.198.250.69‎
 * 212.85.24.35‎

If you could block those IP addresses that would be great. Just so you know the things that were done was mainly names of characters being changed for example: Ike was changed to Ike th F***ing retard, and zero suit samus was changed to SEXY BOBBIE LADY, and that is only 2 examples of at least 8-10.-- MỸŠŦЄЯỸ ЊӘҒҒ   TALK  02:02, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

THat's fine Heff, but you don't have to tell them what the vandals did, just who they are, CHawk can find out for himself.  Gutripper Speak 

Image difficulties

 * Yeah, sorry to be kind of demanding, or whiny, but would you please delete Image:Bracket Platinum Blade Tournament.gif, (couldn't really place a link to the page without having the whole thing on your talk page)? I tried to upload a new version, but something messed up, and it didn'twork right, then I tried to name it something new, but I was told it was a duplicate, so If you would just get rid of it, and from now on I guess I'll only post final versions of stuff like that to avoid trouble like this from happening.

IrvThaSol a.k.a Ungod (talk to me) 23:05, 6 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Marking it for deletion will be enough. Admins regularly check the candidates for speedy deletion and deletion. Also, placing around an images name will put the link but not the picture.  Gutripper  Speak 


 * Thanks, IrvThaSol a.k.a Ungod  (talk to me) 23:10, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Ahem...
I gotchya. By the way (I've mentioned this many times in summaries whilst adding D tags to spam talk pages), we need to make a similar policy to QDV about stuff like that, but I don't have a good name for it. The point of it is to encourage users not to add discussion to spam/vandal/flame pages so that gives the Admin less to delete. You have to admit, it must be really annoying deleting the article then the talk page with comments from users like "We don't need this page", treating it like it deserves a chance to stay at all. So what do you say?  Blue  Ninjakoopa  03:15, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think a full fledged policy is needed. I think QDV is good enough to include that.  If you want to add it in and/or ask people not to put stuff on the talk pages that would be a good solution.  Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 06:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

"video namespace"
This is a new extension activated by default on Wikia wikis. I personally don't appreciate it, and I've noticed that you've deleted more than a few; i.e. that it only invites the videos we don't want. You should have gotten a message about it through WikiaMessages. Can I contact Wikia and ask them to turn it off? --Sky (t · c · w) 03:16, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll just throw in my opinion: either turn it off or create a very strict policy about uploading them, i.e. only for mainspace, and then more specific requirements. Miles ( talk)   03:18, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know why we need people to be able to upload videos. Nine times out of ten, we don't need any videos and the rest of the time they can just be embedded.  Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 04:43, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Completely agree. You have my blessing to contact Kyle whenever. -- Shadow  crest  19:53, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

irc
Sorry I wasn't there... I am now if you need me. -- Shadow  crest  01:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Regarding Fragbait.JPG
I have never uploaded this picture before and it is being used on my Smasher Page. Pages such as Affinity's and Steeler's are using similar pictures, so why did mine get deleted? A revert would be appreciated, or at least a decent explanation. Doadrin (talk) 00:51, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

What, you are an all powerful admin so you don't have to respond to users? Thats cool man, I'll reup it my damn self. Doadrin (talk) 05:45, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't respond because I haven't been on in the last five hours... I do have a life besides this wiki.  As for the image, it's a personal image of a borderline smasher page.  I'm not sure if it really constitutes being needed, but if you want to upolad it, go ahead.  Just don't be surprised if that whole page gets judged not notable.  Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 05:59, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

SA
Um... not to be a bitch again, but why did you delete the main page for SA? Squallinoa 08 (talk) 21:58, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, it was linked to as the list of past fights page. I didn't realize that it had been changed.  Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 21:59, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * That's alright, no foul no harm done. (whew, no wondered why Miles or Gutripper put it in the front page). Squallinoa 08 (talk) 22:01, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Adminship
Hey Clarinet Hawk. I've got a request. In case you didn't know, Wikia recently allowed it so that b'crats can now remove sysop status (but not b'crat status). So what I was wondering if you could remove my admin status. The main reason is I'm not active here and I haven't played any SSB game since April 08, so I can't really help out the community. I'm still a helper though, so I would still be able to do things that admins can do, though like I said I'm not active here so if someone was to ask me to get involved in something I probably wouldn't be able to because of not knowing what's going on. So if you could remove my sysop status that would be sweet, thanks.--Richardtalk 23:35, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * And could you do the same on Mischievous Makers? Thanks.--Richardtalk 23:42, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Survey link
Hey Clarinet Hawk. I wanted to bring your attention to this forum topic I just made regarding a link to a survery I had to add. I posted it in the forum, instead of here, since SmashWiki has such a large and active community. JoePlay (talk) 23:38, 24 February 2009 (UTC)


 * There's been a change in plans. =) We would like to ask for permission to add a link for a gaming survey on the wiki until March 2nd. Obviously, the more people that see it, the better. We would like a small link on the main page, but if you can suggest another placement, we would love to hear it. Please reply on my talk page at your earliest convenience. Thanks. JoePlay (talk) 20:20, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Quick question
Hey. So, you nailed a machinima article I wrote recently on the premise of advertising. I'm just wondering, what set that article apart from, say, Smashtasm to make it an advertisement? I'm not contesting your decision, it's just that I'm relatively new to wikis, so I'm not entirely sure of all the regulations yet...--Meta-Kirb (talk) 18:02, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem with that article was that it wasn't about a notable machinima, and to be frank, it wasn't even a machinima. It was mostly some scrub trying to tell everyone they're cheap if they play to actually win the games.  We don't have articles on each and every strategy guide, and even if we did, that wouldn't get an article because it was less of a strategy guide and more of someone trying to impose their artificial rules into the game.  Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 18:56, 25 February 2009 (UTC)