User talk:James T. Kolk

Commander Jackford Kolk Wiki Ops Team Member Current Primary PC James T. Kolk (aka Evil Jack) Former Primary PCs Jackford Kolk Syrol Valis Orsisius "Kit" Kizito Former Secondary PCs Zita Sesilia Personal NPCs Aliah the Cat Alyre Baranduin Alandra Devereaux Jill Granger Ann'ita H'tok'An'l Puddles Peraino Sunny Peraino Jarod Teka SIMs Jack Kolk Valis "Evil" Jack Kolk Aliah Edit List Personal Projects The USS Ronin Shoreleave Logs Starfleet Timelines Award Charts Rosters Rank Indices Future Imperfect Ranks TOS Ranks Vulcan Ranks Templates NewUserPage Character Summary Box Character Summary Box w/ Ship Ship Summary Box Kolk's Floating Infobar LCARS-BioStats LCARS-Sidebar RoundRoster Sandbox Char Page Edit List View Template User Page

Ranks, Pips, & Rosters

Cheers for updating the roster, been so busy recently that I forgot about that. - Lt.JG Salak ^Talk 04:43, 21 March 2007 (CDT)

BTW, not that I mind that you're replacing the rank insignia that I created, but unless you created the new ones, you need to have the creator's permission to use the new ones, AND you need to credit him/her. (They DO look nicer than mine, but I gave permission for us to use mine, so I knew there wasn't a problem.) -Varaan 14:41, 12 April 2007 (CDT)

Umm... where are those pips from? I'm gonna revert the Ronin roster for now (I personally like Dress uniform pips but still, the ones on the roster were closest to canon that I know) and correct the date at the bottom, but if you can dig up a credit like Varaan said... ;) - Lt.JG Salak ^Talk 11:12, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

Well I'd try and link to the site on the pic description if poss, or on the bottom of any page the pips are used on. - Jay^Talk 14:39, 16 April 2007 (CDT)

Hey Rich, why do you set the Pips templates to float right? They seem to pretty much always be used in tables where they're alone in their own boxes, so it doesn't seem to make much difference there, and when they float right in my Sidebar template it messes it up. Just trying to understand. -Kit Kizito (talk) 09:35, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

Ronny crew hist

Ta for catching the rank mistakes. Is Parkers CMO status official? If so, the Roster needs updating. If not, crew hist should be reverted back to show her only as a Medical officer. It's a technicality I know, but Salak was the only engineer on Wallace for several months before he bacame CEO so it's not a given that the status is correct. Consistancy between the pages would be nice. Ta again - Jay^Talk 22:06, 19 April 2007 (CDT)

Oh, and whilst I'm at it, you thought of using the sandbox (linked from main page) to play with table codes, get them looking how you like before implementing? You seem to be changing them on an almost daily basis... - Jay^Talk 22:09, 19 April 2007 (CDT)

118Wiki:Sand_Box, if you put the table there, play with the coding on there then copy the new table code across to the relevent page when you're happy with it, saves the actual page being the testing ground... As for Parker, just checked again and can't see the discrepancy I referred to the other day. Apologies about that, probably misreading on my part. - Jay^Talk 12:02, 21 April 2007 (CDT)

Pips

Well as long as the site is mentioned somewhere. For those you tweaked, credit as "based on pips from www.whateveritis.com" and for those straight across, just say "Pips originally from ...". Admittedly, i'm no good at crediting the pips I use either, keep forgetting (but I do credit at least on a subpage of my profile where all my uploaded pics are viewable), but RPG's generally pinch pics off other sites without permission or credit and they don't like it so if we at least try to credit on one page or even better, on the pic page, eg Image:Nav-wallace.jpg. Probably not the best example as the credited site sadly no longer exists but still.... - Jay^Talk 12:09, 21 April 2007 (CDT)

Rosters again...

It's 3am here and I'm tired so I'll try and be quick. I'm still hearing complaints about edits to roster pages, which mainly seem to be made by yourself... the pip changes, the colours, etc... As a general rule of thumb, pages related to a vessel are maintained by that vessels crew.

Any changes should really be run through that ships CO or whoever on that vessel is (usually informally) responsible for their wiki page (For example, Cody on Indy-A, Toni on Challenger, me on the retired Wallace). I personnally tend to leave the busiest ships to their crews anyway out of courtesy and allow them to do as they wish with one or two exceptions (e.g. Nav menu colours). Sticking to inactive vessels (no crew to edit the wiki) or the less wiki-active vessels (see Discovery-B's unbuilt wiki section) means fewer complaints from CO's and XO's if any at all ;)

Ronin is fair game as that's your ship (and technically mine), as are the encyclopedia articles, your character articles, your NPC articles, etc... Just please refrain from editing the other ships rosters. - Jay^Talk 21:09, 30 April 2007 (CDT)

That's okay, now you know. By the way, I still treat the Wallace section as my own given I built it from scratch (noticing it still had no website after nearly a year out of dock) when I was it's Chief Engineer a few years back. If you want to use any of the inactive vessels, I'd recommend it NOT be the Wallace ;) - Jay^Talk 16:43, 1 May 2007 (CDT)

Hi Jackford - I don't mind you modifying crew rosters, but I would really apprecite a note so I can update my back-up files (in that off-chance something happens, like a crash... so it doesn't take me 1-2 hours to recode). ;-) Thanks. DCody 19:43, 3 May 2007 (CDT)

Crew History

Don't mind filing people under various sections but it doesn't fit with past practice and the blurb at the top which covers what I've done with such pages in the past. If you want to change how people are filed then fine but you'll need to change the blurb at the top too and the Ronin has a lot of history to go over to list everyone in every department they've been in. - Jay^Talk 13:10, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

Enlisted rankings

Just so you're aware, in regards to the change you made in the enlisted rankings, "Yeoman" is not a rank but a position. So only people doing the Yeoman job would be referred to as Yeoman, not anyone of that rank. -Varaan 07:52, 16 May 2007 (CDT)

Talk:Ronin Staff Roster - Jay^Talk 11:27, 18 May 2007 (CDT)

Hi again... Crew Roster again...

Did Idril ask for the photos there? Just if they're anywhere, it should really be the characters pages. If they're on the crew roster page, there's got to be a better way of laying it out then that? Putting them into the table would probably make it far longer. I'll try resizing so they're all the same height though, not too hard. - Jay^Talk 08:31, 30 May 2007 (CDT)

Edit summaries

Jack, please make sure you include an edit summary with EVERY edit you make. It makes it easier to skim the changes. Thanks :) --Wolf /^{talk page} 00:55, 2 June 2007 (CDT)

Gallery feature

Take a look at this. Feel free to use it on the Ronin crew page if you want. It's an easier way to maintain a gallery. More info at Wikipedia:Gallery tag, and Wikipedia:Extended image syntax. --Wolf /^{talk page} 01:17, 2 June 2007 (CDT)

Talk:Ronin Crew Roster

I've just reverted your blanking of it, thought I should explain why. Although it may not seem relevant, it's a reminder to others who may change it, they can learn from the point previously raised. It's relevant discussion to the page, so no reason to lose it. Nothing against yourself Jack - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 12:35, 20 September 2007 (CDT)

Okay. -Jackford B. Kolk 12:52, 20 September 2007 (CDT)

Jack, the master roster on the Ronin is looking a bit dodgy and is overlapping the links on the righthand side. Not sure what the problem is. Hutch 19:37, 2 October 2007 (CDT)

The nav menu always goes on top and it's obscuring the position column of the table. You need to make the roster narrower, maybe change "Lieutenant Junior Grade" to "Lieutenant JG" (you've not spelt "Lieutenant Commander" out after all) and abbreviate HCO a tad for starters. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 09:44, 3 October 2007 (CDT)

You've broken it again, Jack! the Lt jg rank is too long, dropping down to the next line. I'm inept and don't know how to fix it. Hutch 14:41, 15 November 2007 (CST)

Salak Professional History

They should indeed, good spot! Thanks :) - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 12:36, 25 September 2007 (CDT)

Sya-Negan

Oh and I might as well add this here - you fancy writing the fluff for these fellas? I've created the page & links form the Ithassa Region, just need the details on it. If you don't fancy it I'll see what I can do, I've still got the original descriptive email from Cara so I can fiddle away. cheers Hutch 19:41, 2 October 2007 (CDT)

Jared

Where's your brother? Not making an npc entry for him? Hutch 12:36, 17 October 2007 (CDT)

Pips & Other Random Stuff

Curious why we need some of them... Gold Captain for example, as chances of a Captain being only CEO are quite low I'd've thought? Loved the comment on Dannys talk page, you might want to go other the rest of thwe crew too, dunno. I've been pondering how to update Adairs cos hers is the same issue, still has her on the first Indy. Bens might too, can't recall. Oh, and the comment at the top of the Ronin Shoreleave logs page had me in hysterics :D - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 06:39, 5 December 2007 (CST)

I like it. Not sure myself bout civies, put comment on talk page asking if you might want me to remove my ones actually. Not sure if Intel should be with security but not sure where else to put it. Also, there're two cases of rank being listed in the name section still, in addition to in the main rank column. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 09:10, 5 December 2007 (CST)

Ronin Master Crew Roster

Just wondering why the sub-headers are deemed needed given each table just repeats them immediately afterwards. I won't remove at the sec given that it'll dramatically change the ToC but thought I should ask. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 18:31, 16 December 2007 (CST)

Help with Spamming?

Jack - I've noticed you're on the wiki a lot, and seem to know your way around. Would you be interested in Admin status to help clean-up spam? --Wolf /^{talk page} 13:38, 22 June 2009 (EDT)

Image Resizing

Always considerate! But if you need a somewhat larger image, you do have room to play with. ;) DCody 03:51, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Minor edits

Hey mate, hope your days going okay! I'm just wondering why (and a bit concerned that) you've marked just about every edit you've made over the last week or so as "minor"? ♣ Deliera ▪ talk 21:59, 24 July 2014 (CDT)

Minor edits should be;

• Correcting a spelling/grammar mistake
• Resizing an image
• Correcting a name/file destination/category

If it's not one of the above, it's not normally a minor edit. :) ♣ Deliera ▪ talk 23:00, 25 July 2014 (CDT)

Be sure also to check your user preferences, specifically under editing preferences. You may have it set to mark all your edits as minor by default. This unfortunately though makes it difficult for admins and the wiki ops team to monitor changes on the wiki accurately. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 04:19, 26 July 2014 (CDT)

Wiki Ops

Great! PM me your email through the forums or if you still have my email. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 18:50, 27 July 2014 (CDT)

double major

Nothing special for now. For Karynn, I just put in a line break

|Major= Science - Chemistry<br>Counseling

N/A for minor if none. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 18:41, 29 July 2014 (CDT)

existing course numbers

Hi Jack! I love the courses and departments you're adding! However, please be aware if you change the course numbers of existing courses, you are causing other simmers' transcripts to now have their course numbers no longer match up with the course catalog. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 16:35, 31 July 2014 (CDT)

Also, HIST120: Vulcan History appears to cover the same ground as the three Xenology courses:

• XEN120: Introduction to Vulcans
• XEN220: Early Vulcan history through the atomic age
• XEN320: Vulcan History from the Atomic Age through the Modern Era

Perhaps if it were tailored to a more specific part of Vulcan history, such as just during the Reawakening? ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 01:58, 1 August 2014 (CDT)

Your PNPC

Hi!

Thanks for your message. I am really surprise by this and I went through the edits to find out what I did because I honestly don't remember messing with a PNPC. My guess is that it is because I was still relatively new to the fleet by the time of the first edit and somebody probably listed your PNPC on the Thunder's NPC roster and so I converted it over to that. The only changes I see is that I changed it from Endevour to the Thunder-A and then added the new wiki trimmings to the character.

First of all, I apologize. I honestly do not see how I made such a mistake, but it's there in the logs. She's all yours and glad you found her. I know she was never simmed on the Embassy as the name is not familiar to me.

Again, apologies for that. She was taken good care of though. :) Nugra (talk) 08:02, 5 August 2014 (CDT)

Hey! Glad everything worked out. I have been racking my brain and I can't remember why she would have been demoted except maybe I was matching it to what somebody else put when she was inadvertently transferred. So, all good! Nugra (talk) 20:38, 8 August 2014 (CDT)

file vs Image

Hi Jack,please do not change file to image. The correct usage is file as that is the actual name of the file pages. Image is a legacy option included for convenience but is again not the actual name of those pages. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 15:15, 6 August 2014 (CDT)

pip templates

Hello again! I have reverted some of the edits you made to the previous pip templates that removed the float right markup. That is not a div redundancy; without that, the DS9 pips do not display properly in template:sidebar as a collar. You can see what I mean here: Template:Pips2Collar. Note how Default pips no longer close properly as DS9 does after the revert. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 09:36, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

Wiki system templates

No worries! I think your new template is pretty cool, and I am a full proponent of people being bold in trying new things on the wiki. I also despise the unhealthy attitude of taking ownership of parts of the wiki. With that said, could I ask that if you do change any of the Wiki system templates that you leave a message letting me know. I would not have caught the pip changes unless I had been on the recent changes page at that moment for instance and the error may have been left undiscovered for longer. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 09:46, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

One possible solution you could try is creating another template that will place the pip in its own table. Then have your sidebar incorporate that template. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 09:56, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

Sure. And, thanks I'll try that, since trying to place the table directly in my code doesn't seem to be working... -Kit Kizito (talk) 09:57, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

I created it for you: Template:Pip120 ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 10:01, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

Just use Pip120 where you previously used Pips

Awesome, thanks... just has a background color issue (can we make that opaque?) and the Future Imperfect pips need to be centered, but I'll just add centering to Pip120.

The bg was set to black because ds9 pips are shorter than default so making them black makes them look equal. since you don't want black for FI, you could enhance Pip120 to recognize when the pip style has been set to FI using the if command and having it not have a background when FI is specified by the user. ditto for centering. Also, you need to leave replies on the other users page or else they will not see them unfortunately because the wiki message system is dumb. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 10:10, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

Never mind, looks like you found a more elegant solution. :) ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 10:14, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

Ignore my rollback, My fingers were clumsy on the iPad...◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 10:16, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

I just realized I was dumb though and told you to use if. you should use switch instead and then define what to do if variable 3 is FI vs DS9 by having FI = whatever and DS9 equal whatever. See the ribbon names template for an example of how to use switch. ◄ Rich^{(talk page)} aka Lt.Cmdr. Rahman ♫ 10:33, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

Template:KolkFI & Template:LCARS-Sidebar

Just had a question regarding the Template:KolkFI and Template:LCARS-Sidebar: I noticed how the Template:Sidebar Rich created has the following variables:

|SPECIES = Human
|GENDER = Male
|BIRTHMONTH = 01
|BIRTHDATE = 17
|BIRTHYEAR = 2360
|BIRTHPLACE = Colony 1, Martian Colonies

Guess I'm curious if these were intentionally left out because they don't go with the design or if they could be incorporated into the template. Chythar Daniel Skyfire (talk) 16:41, 7 August 2014 (CDT)

Not sure you broke it on the LCARS template, but there's a thingie that says #switch-DS9 if it is viewed in preview mode. Not sure that's intentional, but I thought I'd try to help. Chythar Daniel Skyfire (talk) 00:13, 10 August 2014 (CDT)

Template:SIMNav

What if your sims aren't in chronological order? Does it just start at the top? And does the template apply to all sims in the archive without needing to be put on the bottom of each page? Chythar Daniel Skyfire (talk) 01:25, 8 August 2014 (CDT)

Question, can the Rank line be changed on the individual sim pages to reflect changes in rank throughout the career? Chythar Daniel Skyfire (talk) 21:10, 9 August 2014 (CDT)

Next question: If you have a link to a sim that is on an external site like sims.starbase118.net or google groups, is it possible to link that as well, or would the sim have to be put in the wiki? Chythar Daniel Skyfire (talk) 01:03, 10 August 2014 (CDT)