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Frame Template

I really love how easy you made editing and upkeep the wiki with various templates you made available and thank you for that. I just found Frame template and wanted to ask is it possible to add a line for description text under the picture weather inside or under the frame? Antoinette (talk) 21:18, 28 March 2015 (CDT)

You're fantastic! Antoinette (talk) 21:45, 28 March 2015 (CDT)

Incorrect Upload

Hello Rich,

Sorry for asking you this but would you mind deleting Image:Gwyndolin Phos-Murchadha.xcf for me? I accidentally uploaded the XCF file instead of my PNG while replacing some images on my bio page (DO'H). Unfortunately, I can't actually find a way to fix it now and its taking up quite a bit of space that could be better used elsewhere. :/

Sorry again,

~James^(Talk) aka Lt. Commander Seff 22:37, 29 March 2015 (CDT)

SB118 Cards

I just noticed that the white numbers for the "Integrity", "Cunning" and "Strength" at the bottom are not aligned properly with their respective coloured boxes. The numbers are too low. -Varaan (talk) 07:26, 1 April 2015 (CDT)

I wasn't using the templates, just viewing others cards. -Varaan (talk) 10:01, 1 April 2015 (CDT)

Browser is Firefox (version 36.0.4) and OS is Windows 7. All the other stuff looks fine, just the white numbers on the bottom...and not on all of them. The first one I looked at was fine. -Varaan (talk) 10:06, 1 April 2015 (CDT)

How about this? http://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php/Firestarter,_Lenette/Card -Varaan (talk) 10:09, 1 April 2015 (CDT)

Refreshed. It's the same. The white numbers are crossing the bottom of the coloured boxes. Sorry. -Varaan (talk) 11:24, 1 April 2015 (CDT)

Now many of them are fine, and some are still not right (Seff, limited edition Firestarter, etc). Not sure what the differences are in the codings, but that has to be it. Not sure how more I can help. -Varaan (talk) 18:13, 1 April 2015 (CDT)

How do I fit my pic into the box on the card??? The card is on my talk page currently. Canreb (talk) 14:17, 25 May 2015 (CDT) Found how to shift the pic down lower, but face is still a little too big for the space. Any fix for that?? Canreb (talk) 14:47, 25 May 2015 (CDT)

Galactic War with Borg Service Medal

It's not working in the ribbons template for the rack. Antoinette (talk) 15:04, 2 April 2015 (CDT)

Responding to the response on my talk page was plain mishap. LOL. I'm ill and doing several things at the same time caused mistake :) Antoinette (talk) 22:31, 6 April 2015 (CDT)

Mission Indices

I used those "TV Guide" type blurbs (I called them "Mission Tags") a decade ago when I was doing the Paladin and Atlantis missions. I just didn't have a separate page listing them all, I only had them on the individual mission pages. I'll see what I can do. -Varaan (talk) 01:39, 3 April 2015 (CDT)

Weird. In the "How to Use" section, I see "with" in the ship name section (which should be "without"), but it says "without" if I view it in the Edit mode. What's up with that? -Varaan (talk) 02:07, 3 April 2015 (CDT)

Can we have data in one template auto-update or auto-fill into another template? This is what I'm thinking, include a "Season #" and "Episode #". Each year would be it's own season, obviously. I'm hoping to use that data in another template I'm going to get you to make very soon. -Varaan (talk) 02:16, 3 April 2015 (CDT)

Thanks for fixing the vertical template

Wasn't at all sure where to place it. Ceciri (talk) 00:13, 5 April 2015 (CDT)

Ships to Scale .png's

Hey, Rich, any chance you have a Niagara class silhouette knocking around somewhere? Tim Davies' size comparison chart has it (misspelled "Niagra") but I noticed we don't have one on our wiki. Can we get one? -Varaan (talk) 14:22, 7 April 2015 (CDT)

Rich, any chance you missed this "post?" -Varaan (talk) 14:27, 22 April 2015 (CDT)

Spartan registry number

I got it from the player behind Liam Frost. He had mentioned it in a sim Ceciri (talk) 07:24, 8 April 2015 (CDT)

PersonalHistoryListing template

Ah, I was wondering if a switch would clear that up. Yeah, I did it when I was half asleep and not catching that extra variable. Thanks for fixing it! Ceciri (talk) 21:52, 8 April 2015 (CDT)

Species' Plurals

Great! where do I put that, since it's supposed to be hard coded into the template? -Varaan (talk) 22:24, 12 April 2015 (CDT)

Mission renaming

Oops. Thought that was an automatic thing. Don't know why it wouldn't always be. Never thought to check. Sorry. Will do in the future. -Varaan (talk) 07:25, 17 April 2015 (CDT)

Academy Courses

I was just on the forums, saw a thread named "Help on my Academy Transcript" in which someone was commenting, in essence, that there aren't enough courses to really flesh out a character. I remembered that I have an Academy box-set from the Last Unicorn Games pen-and-paper RPG that has a huge listing of courses, and professors, etc. I know they're not cannon, but I wonder if we'd able to use those courses here to give people more choices? What do you think? Who should we talk to/ask? -Varaan (talk) 07:30, 17 April 2015 (CDT)

Ship Class "Patches"

Rich, where do you get the ship class patches done? Is it from the Image Collective? Who do I talk to if I'd like to get one (or a couple) done? -Varaan (talk) 14:47, 26 April 2015 (CDT)

Cool. Any chance you could do one for the Cutlass class carrier for me? Do you do ones for individual ships, as well? I wouldn't mind one for the Paladin (my old ship). -Varaan (talk) 18:56, 26 April 2015 (CDT)

Wiki Admin

Howdy Rich, it would be an interesting thought to become an admin again, but I would need to think about it. Wiki ops really wouldn't be in my purview though since my (somewhat deranged) focus is cleanup rather than improvement on practices. Thanks for the suggestion! Ashley Roy (talk) 13:30, 29 April 2015 (CDT)

Namespaces

Howdy, I was wondering if you know if it would be possible to create a SIM namespace for the purpose of categorizing all of the sim pages that have been both orphaned or scattered randomly throughout the wiki. I am attempting to clean out the special pages, and its been difficult to decide on what to do with these. Let me know your thoughts! Thanks, Ashley Roy (talk) 19:34, 30 April 2015 (CDT)

I mean another space like how there is User:, 118Wiki:, so on so forth. I don't think they fall within the purview of the main userspace, and if we have a special userspace for them, it allows for searching within that particular category, as well as exclusion of the main space. Does that make sense? Apologies if I am having difficulty elucidating myself. :) Ashley Roy (talk) 13:23, 7 May 2015 (CDT)

Not quite. The problem is that sim titles don't have specific requirements, and as such may show up on searches that aren't really related to them. Furthermore, since there isn't a current standard for sims, I have seen a number of variations that lands them on the orphaned pages listing. If placed within another namespace, it forces sims to be in a SIM: namespace, and won't conflict with a title (let alone search, unless you are trying to search for them :) ). I could move pages to similarly named locations to avoid conflicts, but wanted to see if this was a possibility first. Cheers, Ashley Roy (talk) 13:56, 9 May 2015 (CDT)

Ceciri pretty much named all my concerns on my talk page. One of the roadblocks I am hitting with the special pages are where to put the numerous sims that aren't categorized correctly anyway. As far as having to recategorize whats already been done... I am of the strange sort that finds such mindless tasks fun :P. Cheers, Ashley Roy (talk) 11:25, 10 May 2015 (CDT)

Will do. Thank you for your input! Cheers, Ashley Roy (talk) 11:32, 10 May 2015 (CDT)

About the old starship class pages

I was starting a clean up project (since Roy has gotten me interested in it again) of the lonelypages section, and ran across this:

http://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php/Aegean_Class

and thus this:

http://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php/Template:Ship_Types

I assume ASDB is meant to sorta clean these out? Should I start submitting these to the ASDB so we can remove them? Curious as to your thoughts. Ceciri (talk) 00:27, 2 May 2015 (CDT)

Ribbons Display

I was considering to add a ribbon display like you designed to my bio, but the wooden frame does not fit into the design of my biography at all. Is there a way to have that rack with a neutral colour instead of the wooden texture? Or with a colour of choice to fit the rest of the bio design? :)

Sidebar table width thing....

Hey can you take a look at this? I know you fixed the code on the main page but when I went to create a new subpage I can't see where I went wrong...--Verana (talk) 19:07, 6 May 2015 (CDT)

http://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php/Sonbef,_Anen/Excalibur

Community History Team

I saw that. I wasn't sure why at first, and when I asked Firestarter about it before creating the page, he didn't see the problem. Guess it wasn't made clear to me that 118Wiki had its own separate namespace on purpose. Thanks for fixing it for me. Dr. Skyfire (talk) 03:30, 12 May 2015 (CDT)

It isn't, as far as I know. That's the disadvantage when basing one's page off another group. Oops. Have another question about the crew history template, but we can make that a different discussion. Dr. Skyfire (talk) 03:36, 12 May 2015 (CDT)

About Wiki Admins

I should apply, since I'm working with Roy on his projects. Ceciri (talk) 16:25, 13 May 2015 (CDT)

Thanks! Ceciri (talk) 16:30, 13 May 2015 (CDT)

Bajoran Name Templates

Ya, I realized that once I tried to update a Bajoran name in a ShipRoster template (have to do it together like it was one name). Sorry. You want me to delete them? -Varaan (talk) 15:28, 14 May 2015 (CDT)

Wiki Ops Team

I'd be very interested. I used to be a wiki Sysop when it first started. I missed it when I was gone for all those years. -Varaan (talk) 15:34, 14 May 2015 (CDT)

Thanks!

For some reason that compact form didn't occur to me. Thanks for fixing it! Ceciri (talk) 02:34, 20 May 2015 (CDT)

New Orleans-scale

Thanks for the upload. I was going to ask you...got busy...then forgot. Good to know that "big brother" is watching us! :) -Varaan (talk) 07:52, 20 May 2015 (CDT)

Advice on Character page

Hey, what else do you think I could do to improve Varaan's character page? -Varaan (talk) 08:16, 26 May 2015 (CDT)

Independence-A & Such

Looks like you've been doing some terrific stuff here! :) A couple of brief notes (only because the information might not been available...), the Independence-A actually didn't completely self-destruct. It was last spotted floating between mirror universes (these were actually IC posts from Starbase 118 several years ago). :p Lost, yes. Destroyed, not quite. The other minor note is on Flt. Capt. Sidney Riley's wiki bio page- she took command after Cody was kidnapped (I wasn't actually retired- lol). DCody (talk) 19:25, 28 May 2015 (CDT)

Hey Rich- :) Shoot me an email at hoodsdavid@gmail.com sometime. If you’d prefer me to add the relevant information to the Indy-A, I’m happy to do it- I just want to make sure no one minds if I add the information. ;) DCody (talk) 01:36, 31 May 2015 (CDT)

Template Troubles

So, why is it that a template looks fine on the template page, but look like garbage on the page it's to be used on. Could you have a look? See if you can figure it out. Thanks. The template is Template:AlexBlake, and the page is Blake, Alexander. -Varaan (talk) 01:34, 8 June 2015 (CDT)

Oops, I had the parameters on the template page...AND FORGOT TO PUT THEM ON THE CHARACTER PAGE! Silly me. Thanks buddy...boy, do I feel dumb. -Varaan (talk) 07:34, 9 June 2015 (CDT)

Re:Template:EqualColumn

Ah, ha! This is what I get for not spending that extra 10 mins searching :p Thanks! ~James^(Talk) aka Lieutenant JG Aigle Phos 17:11, 12 June 2015 (CDT)

The Currency Page

Thank you for the touch ups on the currency page! Appreciate it! Nugra (talk) Commanding Officer of the USS Victory 21:00, 12 June 2015 (CDT)

Frontpage 3.0

I like the main page the way it currently is. I think the LCARS stuff is distracting. But if you're going to go ahead with it, I think you should increase the size of the ship names and un-ital the section headers in the blue box at the bottom. --Wolf /^{talk page} 00:46, 13 June 2015 (CDT)

Is there any way to make it clearer that's the base in the background? I think someone who doesn't know what it looks like won't see the picture for what it is... --Wolf /^{talk page} 01:47, 16 June 2015 (CDT)

Doesn't help much. Why don't you just try a different background? --Wolf /^{talk page} 18:36, 16 June 2015 (CDT)

Constituion Summary

(Constitution_Summary) This appears to be a recursive redirect loop. Where is this supposed to link to? Ceciri (talk) 03:44, 14 June 2015 (CDT)

I've done something similar. I really should use the Test template more often to prevent those kinds of things. Thanks for looking into it! Ceciri (talk) 07:03, 14 June 2015 (CDT)

Orphaned Pages

Howdy Rich, I noticed that you are one of the biggest proponents of the ship classes and I wanted to know what you thought about this page. I am trying to clear out the orphans, so any insight would be appreciated. Cheers, Ashley Roy (talk) 10:12, 18 June 2015 (CDT)

Template:Ribbons Display

Hey Rich!

I tried adding html tags to the Ribbons Display on my character page (specifically, ) and it blanked the entire contents of the cell I used it in. I've used it successfully in tables on the wiki before, are you aware of any constraints of the template that would preclude the use of any such tags?

Thanks for any insight you can provide! Maxwell Traenor (talk) 12:56, 18 June 2015 (CDT)

I've recreated what I was trying to do here at Traenor,_Maxwell/Sandbox. I've tried to make the link in the Astrofori One contest description a plainlink, but it displays as the entire cell being blank. Maxwell Traenor (talk) 01:59, 20 June 2015 (CDT)

I kinda figured it had something to do with the intricacies of Templates, of which I am still horribly ignorant about! :) Thanks so much Rich for creating a workaround for it, I really appreciate your efforts and dedication! Maxwell Traenor (talk) 11:32, 20 June 2015 (CDT)

Orphaned page

This page appears to be orphaned: CON:_Captain's_Council_Rewrite since there's a second page that IS linked. Should I approach Wolf about deleting it? Ceciri (talk) 05:43, 23 June 2015 (CDT)

No problem. Thanks for answering! Ceciri (talk) 06:48, 23 June 2015 (CDT)

About the linked images from the JPJ pages

They appear to be schematics for the Steamrunner class. Should I link them to the steamrunner ASDB entry, or just leave them alone for now? Ceciri (talk) 01:24, 11 July 2015 (CDT)

Got it. Thanks! Ceciri (talk) 06:21, 11 July 2015 (CDT)

John Paul Jones

Thanks! I tried to keep most of them turned off, but it kept on creating more orphans, haha. Cheers, Ashley Roy (talk) 12:32, 11 July 2015 (CDT)

Orphaned FNS Pages

Howdy Rich, I found page orphaned. Okay to delete or will they be included elsewhere? Cheers, Ashley Roy (talk) 11:09, 12 July 2015 (CDT)

Thanks! Ashley Roy (talk) 11:31, 12 July 2015 (CDT)\

FNS

Thanks! That was my first time writing one, so I hope I got the proper format/Robert's Rules of Order. :p DCody (talk) 22:49, 13 July 2015 (CDT)

starbase image

New image looks great.

What do you think about top-aligning the text, in that case, and then moving the "starting points" up into the white-space between the text introduction and the fleet "row"? We don't have to use all the starting points as they stand right now -- could be more of a step-by-step or something? --Wolf /^{talk page} 16:59, 14 July 2015 (CDT)

Yes! Although, we'd want to edit the "starting points" box at the bottom to remove those items and perhaps make it more about advanced editing policy or something.

Also, where else can we use that starbase image? :) --Wolf /^{talk page} 17:33, 14 July 2015 (CDT)

Shading issues

You may have to go a couple shades lighter. Gold font on dark background doesn't work all that great and is hilariously difficult to read. ♣ Deliera ▪ talk 17:55, 19 July 2015 (CDT)

I don't know what you did or if you did anything at all, but it looks better now than it did before. Good compromise. ♣ Deliera ▪ talk 18:31, 19 July 2015 (CDT)

NAV

What on Earth do you think you're doing!? It's a mess! XD ♣ Deliera ▪ talk 18:41, 19 July 2015 (CDT)

Has anyone ever told you you break things and then fix 'em way too quickly? That was like a blink-and-you-miss-it event. ♣ Deliera ▪ talk 18:43, 19 July 2015 (CDT)

Strangely enough, Saveron's link is working. ♣ Deliera ▪ talk 18:45, 19 July 2015 (CDT)

You wanna try and change an 11 year old naming function? You'd need a lot of luck getting absolutely all the characters pages corrected. Besides, it looks better than what it was if it was just free hand. I've always seen it as being handy for simming - you might not know a character's first name, but type in the last and hey-presto. ♣ Deliera ▪ talk 18:50, 19 July 2015 (CDT)

ID Card Template + History Support?

Future possible addition -- could this could be used with Template:CrewHistory as well? Dr. Skyfire (talk) 16:18, 20 July 2015 (CDT)

Thanks, Rich! Dr. Skyfire (talk) 18:45, 20 July 2015 (CDT)

Next question, is there currently a plan in place to implement different pip style support with ID subpages?Dr. Skyfire (talk) 03:54, 7 August 2015 (CDT)

I guess I'm wondering what the code looks like to add a pipstyle to a line of existing line of history made with an ID subpage. Guessing it'd be something similar to this:

{{Officer|Captain|Vetri, Della|Red|Commanding Officer|STYLE=Slanted}}

and for history entries would just append the style to the end like this:

{{New Officer|Lt. Commander|Townson, Tracey|Red|239208.07 - Present|STYLE=Slanted}}

or am I wrong? Dr. Skyfire (talk) 11:37, 7 August 2015 (CDT)

Same subject, different question. I was updating the Ops roster with ID subpages, and noticed that Cadfael Peters, my secondary, now has the ID subpages category at the bottom of his page. Is this intentional for all main pages with ID subpages now to have this new category? Dr. Skyfire (talk) 06:01, 31 August 2015 (CDT)

Medical Record Template

Hey, Rich. I was upgrading Chythar's medical history and tried adding a link to the psychological profile which isn't showing up for some reason. I tried using * and | but it didn't show up. Is this a glitch? Dr. Skyfire (talk) 21:13, 22 July 2015 (CDT)

Thanks. Just out of idle curiosity, I don't suppose there's a psychological profile template lying around? Dr. Skyfire (talk) 21:25, 22 July 2015 (CDT)

Tried. Twice, apparently. And made it explode -- the first time I'm not sure what I did. The second time I caused a template loop. This is why I don't make templates.Dr. Skyfire (talk) 22:34, 22 July 2015 (CDT)

Hoping you can help me out, here are the links. Attempt 1 & Attempt 2. The idea was similar to your medical record template that includes ship, counselor, present rank (of counselor), addendum, and an optional link for the counselor's logs. If you can lend a hand, that'd be fantastic. Otherwise, I guess RFD. Thanks in advance. Dr. Skyfire (talk) 00:21, 25 July 2015 (CDT)

Orphans

Howdy Rich! Due to new template codes, there are now some orphans. What should I do with these?

Cheers, Ashley Roy (talk) 02:28, 25 July 2015 (CDT)

Howdy! Sounds good, but my fear is when the writer goes on LOA or leaves the fleet, we will be adding numerous pages to the orphaned pages list since we don't have a location like this to unorphan them. What are your thoughts? Cheers, Ashley Roy (talk) 20:29, 25 July 2015 (CDT)

Hmm... okay I get where you are coming from. :) My main problem is that it may obfuscate actual orphans when I am scanning down the orphans listing, but I'll keep looking into it. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Ashley Roy (talk) 20:46, 25 July 2015 (CDT)

Re: Tholian Ranks

Hey there,

I think that is an excellent idea. I agree that it is sometimes weird when a alien race has ranks that are just to close to the Federation. In the case of the Romulan Republic, I made them get close as a way of them trying to be easier to understand by the Federation. A more "Let's add these ranks so we're not so alien". That's why I added a Republic, Imperial and Starfleet Equivalent. :)

Short story: Let's simplify. You want to do it or shall I for the Tholian Assembly page?

Nugra (talk) Commanding Officer of the USS Victory 21:56, 7 August 2015 (CDT)

Recent Changes Clutter

Hey! You can freeze or edit the recent changes page right? I'm going to be moving about all of those images into the specified categories and it's tedious and just results in an absurd amount of edits saying the same thing. --Verana (talk) 16:28, 19 September 2015 (CDT)

Relationship Template

LOVE IT!!!(x10) .... that is all... --Verana (talk) 18:53, 22 September 2015 (CDT)

Header template

Template:Header -- Check out Halloween Avatar Contest, especially the header right below the TOC, as well as the last section. Seems like it might make sense to put a margin on both the top and bottom of this template? --Wolf /^{talk page} 17:19, 25 September 2015 (CDT)

Question about broken file link in one of your sims

SIM:LtCmdr Roshanara Rahman: Making The Call has a broken file link. I can edit it, but I thought you might want to try and find a replacement file. Ceciri (talk) 06:02, 15 October 2015 (CDT)

Registry

Regarding the silhouette pages, my original plan was just to use the categories in place of these types of manually created pages. Won't this just add to our work each time there's a fleet change (since we have to update three pages?). Also, wondering about whether there's a way to create on the "ships by class" page a count in each section? Like, "active/inactive/decommed" etc., so it's easier to see at a glance. Like with the Ambassador class, there are three ships but none are available to play, which might not be clearly obvious at first. --Wolf /^{talk page} 11:30, 15 October 2015 (CDT)

The formatting changes are really helpful. What about keeping the ships by class page and have the other two pages as categories? I do like the ships by class page, and I think of the three it's the easiest to read, and probably makes the most sense to have the silhouettes on it. --Wolf /^{talk page} 12:46, 15 October 2015 (CDT)

Sorry, I guess I don't really understand the pushback on this point. Keeping those two pages is going to not only require work to be updated but we also have to recategorize them. So it's adding even more work in addition. We already have a model for how this should work on the ILI. For example: Category:Forbidden -- that page is a category only with a page header. We're keeping the ships by class page, which has the silhouettes, and the other two just look really messy to me. Why add more work we need to do when adding / changing ship status is already a whack-a-mole process? :-\ --Wolf /^{talk page} 14:50, 15 October 2015 (CDT)

I understand you already created them -- I'm making the point that whenever we update a ship's status, we already have a checklist a mile long of things to do (change the page template, change the categories, and then update the "ships by class" page) and we're going to then have two more pages to update as well. Seems unnecessary. While I understand your point about visual interest, we already have that with the "ships by class" page. I just don't see the need to keep those other two when they should be categories which are automatically updated. It's fine to keep them for now, but I think we should just plan to "decommission" them (hah!) over the course of the next few months as we recategorize all the ships appropriately and those categories fill up. --Wolf /^{talk page} 15:08, 15 October 2015 (CDT)

About the Ship Template

I set the NPC ships to 50% to make them stand out a bit more. Does this help any.. or? Ceciri (talk) 13:23, 15 October 2015 (CDT)

How are we handling bases?

StarBase 118 Ops and Embassy of Duronis II -- are we including these in the Category:Active PC vessels category? --Wolf /^{talk page} 15:02, 15 October 2015 (CDT)

No, I don't think there's a reason to set up new categories for them. The less work the better. --Wolf /^{talk page} 15:10, 15 October 2015 (CDT)

SB118 fleet category vs. Fleet/Task Force category

So I'm struggling with this and I'm not sure if we can necessarily answer this or need the CC to review. The assumption has always been that all of our Active PC ships are part of the "StarBase 118 Fleet" and -- as the page says -- return home there. But in the past years, the rise of the campaign region has led to new task forces, and the question is whether ships in the Menthar Corridor are "Menthar Corridor fleet" or they still belong to the SB118 fleet. Thoughts? --Wolf /^{talk page} 15:17, 15 October 2015 (CDT)

Starfleet Vessel Register

Should the USS Triumphant not be on the Active list as it currently a support ship attached to the Darwin-A. Like the Albion and Ops, Thunder-A and Embassy?

Will do, You have done a great job with the ship register.