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= Awards =
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For your tireless work on Otherlang which I'm pretty sure exceeds 500 edits, I award you... '''the Koala award'''!<br>
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<center>'''''Koala Award!'''''</center>
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[[Image:Koala.jpg|center|200px|The Koala! Isn't he cute?]]{{clr}}
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<center>''The Koala! Isn't he cute?''</center><p>
*[https://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Mattshu&oldid=163203 5 Dec 2011]
<center>This newly and arbitrarily created award features a cuddly marsupial, uploaded for no discernable reason by a Valve employee! This makes it almost like an official award, except not at all really! Thanks for your hard work, and remember:</center>
*[https://developer.valvesoftware.com/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Mattshu&oldid=174226 22 Jun 2013]
<center>The animals of Australia are always watching!</center>
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[[User:Thelonesoldier|Thelonesoldier]] 08:36, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
== Uploading Images / validating account question ==
:Hah, Thank you :P&mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]]&nbsp;<sup>([[User talk:Mattshu|Talk]])</sup> 14:46, 10 March 2011 (UTC)


= General Discussion =
I've received the following error when looking at the "How to upload an image" page on the wiki.
A general tip for taking pictures is that a white background works much better than a black one, because it blends in with the rest of the page. (I believe there's a texture simply called "light" or "white" that I used when I took the physical entity pictures you see in the wiki, that's even self-illuminating in-game.) --[[User:MossyBucket|MossyBucket (formerly Andreasen)]] 03:38, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
:<strike>Actually, I was planning on using a white background, however you couldn't really see "ground node" appear on the actual entity. It personally bothered me so I just went with a black background, knowing it wouldn't really blend well with the page :P --[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 03:47, 7 February 2011 (UTC)</strike>
:After taking another picture of it with a white background, I realized it must have just been my old monitor that hindered its looks. I updated the picture with a white background, looks a little better. --[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 19:07, 25 February 2011 (UTC)


== Improvement drive? ==
Permission error
The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Autoconfirmed users, Administrators.
Return to Main Page.


With the release of Portal 2 less than two months away, I suspect we're headed for a surge in wiki use in a few months. I think Msleeper already expressed his desire to launch a Portal 2 mapping article collaboration sometime soon. I was thinking, before we get that surge of new users, it might be good to try and launch an "improvement drive" and attempt to get active users to put a lot of effort into a wiki-wide cleanup.
I thought I had validated my email when I first made my account. I noticed that you cleaned up the CS:GO "creating a mini map page" that I created and started working on with my friend Liam (Loothelion). I'd like to continue  writing that page and add some helpful reference images. Do you have any advice or can you point me to someone who might be able to help me figure this out?


My idea is that a few of us draft up a project page which highlights some major goals for the project, such as taking care of articles in the stub/cleanup/merge categories. Another big problem is the high number of orphan articles which are only categorized and will vary rarely be clicked on. I think we could use some "list" articles (a good example list would be a page listing all the third party tools sorted into groups, with a brief summary of each tool. This would be infinitely more useful than [[:Category:Third Party Tools]]). Maybe we could even get the admins to delete some of the articles in the deletion backlog!
- Nick


One we finished the draft, we could create an official page for it, perhaps get an admin to put it at the top of the main page. Everyone would be free to contribute ideas to the improvement drive and hopefully everyone would be willing to put some hard work in.
:I can't personally help you, I'm just another contributor. Since you say you already validated your email, this is an odd occurrence. But a little bit of research tells me that to be an autoconfirmed user, your account must be at least '''four''' days old with at least '''ten''' previous edits. I could be wrong, however; not all wikis may have the same protocol. I'd try going with that, and if all else fails, try asking an active administrator ([[User talk:JeffLane|JeffLane]]) for help. Best of luck. &mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 20:13, 26 July 2013 (PDT)


Thoughts? Would you be interested in this? [[User:Thelonesoldier|Thelonesoldier]] 08:28, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
::Thanks. I'll look into it. Also I appreciate the quick response time.--[[User:Nicky Da B|Nicky Da B]] 20:21, 26 July 2013 (PDT)


:I like the idea, but something like a mass VDC cleanup would require more than a handful of people, and having an active administrator wouldn't hurt either to really justify the ''speedy'' in ''speedy deletion''. I'll do what I can to help out, but my dedication to the wiki can only go so far when it comes as a job, I have other things going on at the moment. But like I said, I'll do what I can to help out. --[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 17:47, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
:::I check in to the wiki at least once every couple days. This is my second home. :P &mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 20:35, 26 July 2013 (PDT)


== Mod deletion ==
== Flag templates ==


The way the [[Help:Mod Profiles]] reads as we wrote it, it's clear you aren't supposed to add articles with no proof of concept in the first place. I think we were using the "hasn't been updated in over a year" standard for articles that were created ''before'' we wrote the policy. I think there's a term for that in law but I can't recall it at the moment. Anyway for already existing articles I think it was important to give them some leeway since they were made before the policy is in place; however I feel we should be much stricter on ''new'' articles.
Oh thanks. I searched the Help:Editing Page, but found nothing so i tought no templates exist.
 
Thank you
We sort of started a discussion on this at [[Help talk:Mod Profiles]] but it didn't go very far. Maybe we should get it started up again. If you want to throw your opinion in please do. [[User:Thelonesoldier|Thelonesoldier]] 10:36, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
--[[User:Dmx6|Dmx6]] 09:11, 7 November 2013 (PST)
 
:I was more aiming towards reverting only because the deletemod template was added four hours after the page was created. Seemed a bit hasty to me, but you have a point. I never really read the standards in detail, I just followed the "not updated in over a year/no proof of concept" condition :P I'll take a looksy at the discussion after I get my 8 hours of slumber &mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]]&nbsp;<sup>([[User talk:Mattshu|Talk]])</sup> 12:37, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 
== Machine translation ==
 
Please don't do it again XD. Just add Cleanup template if you see something wrong. --[[User:Mehiller|Mehiller]] 13:57, 30 August 2011 (PDT)
:Machine? What page did ya mean? &mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 14:10, 30 August 2011 (PDT)
:Oh, the [[Template:First room menu:ru]] edit? Sorry, sometimes I forget there's an active Russian contributor :P &mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 14:13, 30 August 2011 (PDT)
 
== [[User:Alvin|Alvin]] ==
He just deleted our comments... I'm not sure what's your opinion about it, and what to do about it.
<br>I also looked at [[Special:Contributions/Alvin|this]] and noticed that he didn't contribute anything, he didn't write any ''new'' tutorial on his talk page...
 
<span style="color:#736F6E">Can we do anything about it?</span>
--[[User:Mr.p.kiwi|<span style="color:#307D7E">'''Mr. P. Kiwi'''</span>]] <sup>([[User talk:Mr.p.kiwi|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Mr.p.kiwi|Contributions]])</sup>  07:51, 1 September 2011 (PDT)
:Unless {{user|JeffLane}} see's it as malicious, I'm not sure we can do anything else besides ask him to stop. The user page, unless containing illegal/pornographic/etc material, is the user's personal space and it's frowned upon to change their space. Either {{user|Alvin}} is doing [[Special:Contributions/Alvin|this]] on purpose, or he's just using his talk page as his personal webspace? &mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 08:44, 1 September 2011 (PDT)
 
== Deletion of [[Special:BrokenRedirects|Broken redirect]] pages? ==
 
Shall I mark any pages that are broken redirects as candidates for speedy deletion, using <code><nowiki>{{delete|Broken redirect}}</nowiki></code>? [[User:LL2Ste4m|[Pro-X]LikeLakers2]] ([[User talk:LL2Ste4m|talk]] &#124; [[WP:en:User:LikeLakers2|My Wikipedia userpage]] ([[WP:en:User talk:LikeLakers2|talk]])) 12:58, 5 November 2011 (PDT)
:Sure, if you'd like. It seems most of the pages that were once being redirected to were all removed anyway. &mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 22:48, 5 November 2011 (PDT)
:Welcome to the VDC, by the way. You seem to be an avid Wiki editor yourself &mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 22:55, 5 November 2011 (PDT)
:::Thanks! I just happen to know a lot about WikiSyntax is all. If you want to learn more about MediaWiki, which is the software that this wiki runs on, visit mediawiki.org (or if you are too lazy to click the extlink (or type it in), click [[mw:|here]]). Again, thanks. :) [[User:LL2Ste4m|[Pro-X]LikeLakers2]] ([[User talk:LL2Ste4m|talk]] &#124; [[WP:en:User:LikeLakers2|My Wikipedia userpage]] ([[WP:en:User talk:LikeLakers2|talk]])) 05:34, 6 November 2011 (PST)
 
== <nowiki>{{wrongtitle}}</nowiki> ==
 
Should I (or we, if you want) perhaps go through the transclusion list for <code><nowiki>wrongtitle</nowiki></code> and [[mw:Manual:Substitution|subst:]] it? The way my recent edit does it, it allows for optional substitution no matter if the title param is specified or not. So again, shall I/we go through and subst: it on each page that it is used on? [[User:LL2Ste4m|[Pro-X]LikeLakers2]] ([[User talk:LL2Ste4m|talk]] &#124; [[WP:en:User:LikeLakers2|My Wikipedia userpage]] ([[WP:en:User talk:LikeLakers2|talk]])) 14:51, 21 November 2011 (PST)
:My intention is to remove the template from the VDC all together. I plan on replacing each <code><nowiki>{{wrongtitle|title=title}}</nowiki></code> instance with the MediaWiki's <code><nowiki>{{DISPLAYTITLE:title}}</nowiki></code> snippet. &mdash;[[User:Mattshu|Mattshu]] 22:35, 21 November 2011 (PST)

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Uploading Images / validating account question

I've received the following error when looking at the "How to upload an image" page on the wiki.

Permission error The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Autoconfirmed users, Administrators. Return to Main Page.

I thought I had validated my email when I first made my account. I noticed that you cleaned up the CS:GO "creating a mini map page" that I created and started working on with my friend Liam (Loothelion). I'd like to continue writing that page and add some helpful reference images. Do you have any advice or can you point me to someone who might be able to help me figure this out?

- Nick

I can't personally help you, I'm just another contributor. Since you say you already validated your email, this is an odd occurrence. But a little bit of research tells me that to be an autoconfirmed user, your account must be at least four days old with at least ten previous edits. I could be wrong, however; not all wikis may have the same protocol. I'd try going with that, and if all else fails, try asking an active administrator (JeffLane) for help. Best of luck. —Mattshu 20:13, 26 July 2013 (PDT)
Thanks. I'll look into it. Also I appreciate the quick response time.--Nicky Da B 20:21, 26 July 2013 (PDT)
I check in to the wiki at least once every couple days. This is my second home. :P —Mattshu 20:35, 26 July 2013 (PDT)

Flag templates

Oh thanks. I searched the Help:Editing Page, but found nothing so i tought no templates exist. Thank you --Dmx6 09:11, 7 November 2013 (PST)

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