User talk:Hectate

Information Wanted

I couldn't find a "Articles Wanted" page or anything, outside of the help desk section, so I thought I'd just go ahead and ask in my talk page :). I'm wondering if anybody has information about the VOX system in the original HL/TFC. I was curious as to how much of it is implemented in HL2 and mods. I was wondering about the size of its vocabulary (I just typed it as vocabularity :P) and stuff. Mainly curious... no hurry... any info is appreciated. Hectate 11:34, 6 Nov 2007 (PST)

Your best bet is probably to search through the old VERC documentation... But I doubt they bothered porting the VOX system over to HL2. http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?area=entity --Campaignjunkie ^(talk) 12:52, 6 Nov 2007 (PST)

huh???

uhh so Im off the net for a week or so and the mod's declared dead??? why cant i get into the dev forums??? I'm just grounded for a while... you guys are going to have to fill me in on whats going on... --FittyYen 17:48, 11 Nov 2007 (PST)

Nobody is working on it? That's when it a mod usually dies. --Baliame 07:04, 12 Nov 2007 (PST)

FittyYen - I couldn't get in contact with you, and the forums stopped coming up, so I assumed that you had shut them down. Since I couldn't do anything on my own, especially not without a programmer, I considered the mod, at this point was dead. It can be brought back easily, we just need to be able to do something with it. Hectate 07:17, 12 Nov 2007 (PST)

Hey, I'm willing to do some programing for the mod. I need something to force me to really dig into the code anyways.

Spam Patrol

45 out of the my last 50 edits (before this one) have been spam deletions. It's really flying thick out there. Perhaps it's time that we got this upgraded to a more secure system, because while it doesn't take me but a few seconds to revert it, I'm about to go to bed. And while somebody else is sure to take care of it, it's really annoying at times. I could be making cool mods and levels instead of doing this :). Anyway, good luck to whoever comes after me. Suggestion - tabbed browsing is your friend. You can get a bunch all pulled up and once and just breeze through them. Hectate 19:33, 12 Nov 2007 (PST)

You're doing a good job bro. btw, we're practically neighbors ;-) --wisemx 06:35, 13 Nov 2007 (PST)

Thanks man, I've been working hard at it, I hate that crap. You know, I was thinking, we need a custom barnstar for spamfighters on the VDC. We go through so much more of it than any other wiki I've seen. I'm going to think about a design. Hectate 06:46, 13 Nov 2007 (PST)

Links not generating correctly?

Why do my links always turn into redlinks for REAL articles. And THEN, when they're clicked on, it takes you to the page + edit box and everything? I've looked repeatedly under preferences, and I cannot find anywhere where this is affecting it. The links themselves are the same as wikipedia, correct? [[My first mod]] - My first mod. It shouldn't bring up the edit dialog. Is it happening for anybody else?... :P

Try to capitalize the first letter of each word i.e. [[My First Mod]], which will be presented as My First Mod. --Jurgen Knops 10:38, 13 Nov 2007 (PST)

Thanks Jurgen, how silly of me. Hectate 10:43, 13 Nov 2007 (PST)

Editing

Whoa dude why all the edits on my stuff, I dont mind the C17 stuff, but not my user page cit's. It's fine but as i would like to know what exactly did you edit?--Gear 10:50, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

He fixed about 5 spelling/grammar thingies. No biggie. --Baliame 10:52, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

Okay, just wondering, usually last time i had some edited it, they totally spammed the page out and said things like CSS ROCKS! and whatnot. I later found it it was someone i fired....--Gear 10:54, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

I apologize, I didn't mean to alter your user pages and stuff. I've been going over everything on [1] and trying to get it taken off the list. I'm not trying to spam or touch your work, just performing simple clean-ups. Thanks for understanding. Hectate 10:59, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

Sure no problem as it seems you are quite on a roll today so goodluck ;_).--Gear 15:23, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

American vs. English

Why did you feel it necessary to alter all the British English spellings to American English on the Ham and Jam page? Apart from maybe the word "formulae" being mis-spelled, none of the other words were spelt incorrectly, just the British/European way which is neither wrong or against Wiki guidelines. Sorry to go off on one but I get sick to death with our mother-tounge being "corrected" unnecessarily. -- Wunderboy 16:12, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

Reverted it back, Please respect the type of English the author has written the article in. Only correct the spelling if it's incorrect in any popular type of English. --Frostbite 17:24, 14 Nov 2007 (PST)

I apologize, it didn't even occur to me that it was the British English spellings on that page. I was going through all the pages that were listed on the maintenance page, and then running over it using Firefox's built in spell-checker and changing the ones that I agreed were wrong. I wasn't focusing too closely on the actual content of the page. In retrospect, if I had, I can tell I would have noticed this. I'll take more care in the future to avoid making this mistake again. Again, I apologize for my error. Hectate 04:27, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)

Don't fret bro, English is subjective. --wisemx 05:23, 15 Nov 2007 (PST)