User talk:FltAdml. Wolf

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ILI

I can't edit the ILI list... Aenar are missing from the list, I've made a basic page for them

Thanks, I'll bear that in mind, although all I personaly have borrowed from Memory Alpha so far is the Aenar picture. - Jay 14:48, 13 Aug 2005 (CDT)

I did notice that and corrected as quickly as humanely possible - Jay 14:50, 13 Aug 2005 (CDT)

User Page

Sorry about that - will be keeping Pietmaximoff then. It didn't strike me until after I made the new UserName that I didn't really need it anyway. --Lt Pietro Maximoff 07:16, 16 Aug 2005 (CDT)

Training Area

Admiral, the tutorials section and the mission section should be separate, don't you think? Could we have a mission section too? (Varaan)

Parker and I had written up two new missions, long ago when we were talking about "spring cleaning" the missions area. We each had one run through and then the entire project got shelved. (Varaan)

Guide to USS Wallace

I had thought about that, but we probably need to get the DS17 guide in a respectable condition first... - Jay 17:14, 21 Aug 2005 (CDT)

Wallace menu

Would you mind if I changed the pic, that's probably my least favourite of all the images on ST:Australia... - Jay 10:20, 9 February 2006 (CST)

How does that look? I actually have the full version of this pic as my background on my PC :) - Jay 04:48, 11 February 2006 (CST)

I had to upload the image myself as it hadn't been done yet. The background is white, not transparent and the image is a jpg as I got a very blocky pic as a gif. - Jay 05:38, 14 February 2006 (CST)

Articles for deletion

I've added the delete template to 3 pages, 2 of them are part of my characters pages as I'm restructuring it and the other is one of the pages which I moved yesterday which you missed when you deleted the rest of the old Challenger NPC pages. Could you delete them please as I haven't got the capability to do it myself. Thanks - Jay 17:29, 18 February 2006 (CST)

Category:Articles to be Deleted; Now contains 2 articles which were wrongly named and 2 articles relating to my character which I've rewritten as subpages to my userpage and wish to move into the place of the old article. I'll move my sub-pages accross but I need the current pages deleted before I can do so. Could you please do this for me. Thanks - Jay 09:18, 13 March 2006 (CST)

:) Like the new link on your user page. Thanks for that. - Jay 02:59, 14 March 2006 (CST)

Saber Class

I was able to find some schematics from Daystrom that fit the mold. What do you think of the Arrow's motto?

Sweet! I didn't think that there was a deck layout for the starbase!

--Malavatar 18:30, 26 June 2006 (CDT)

Intra-page linking

Admiral, I know it's possible to link to an outside web page, and it's possible to link to an internal wiki page, AND it's possible to link to an item/article within a wiki page by using the page name, a "#" and the article name. BUT, is it possible to link to a separate item on the same page (like further down the page, or to eliminate "see above" type stuff)? Varaan 23:06, 1 July 2006 (CDT)

Okay. Say you've got a long page and in a paragraph you're writing you like to reference something that you're going to cover in it's own entry later on in the same page. If it was on another page you could link to it using [[Page Name#Article Name]]. But can you do it if the stuff you'd like to link to is on the SAME page as where you'd like to place the link? -Varaan 23:11, 1 July 2006 (CDT)

Sure, when I tried it the stupid thing didn't work. Then you go and do it and it works fine. Make me feel inferior why dontcha! :) -Varaan 23:14, 1 July 2006 (CDT)

Re:Vulcans on Memory-Alpha

My only concern was that it would be visible enough for people to not get confused as to where to go for canon info. If it's small and off to the side...they might miss it. Though I guess the links in the text could help too. Some of those links (though they all say "Memory Alpha") actually link to different pages on MA depending on the topic my page is covering, though. Let's see what I can do. -Varaan 09:45, 2 July 2006 (CDT)

Re: Species

What? I missed something? Absurd! Ya, I think that they should probably be listed properly...for my sanity if not for any other reason. Of course, I thought they were complete. I must be tired or something. -Varaan 22:55, 2 July 2006 (CDT)

Nope, that's exactly how I want it. I hate having the side menus BESIDE each other. They should be stacked so that the information data that the person is there to read is available. That works out fine, sir. Thanks. -Varaan 15:06, 3 July 2006 (CDT)

Redirects to MA

They aren't working properly. I only get the redirect text and thus have to click the link to go to the site so there may as well be a brief blurb with a link - Lt.JG Salak; Chief Engineer, USS Independence 10:15, 8 July 2006 (CDT)

Thanks :) - Lt.JG Salak; Chief Engineer, USS Independence 06:36, 10 July 2006 (CDT)

Deletion (again)

There is a photo of Utopia Planetia marked for deletion and also Cody, David as the characters bio page was started again at Cody, David S. which in turn has been moved to Cody, David Scott. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 12:37, 20 September 2006 (CDT)

re:sysop

I'll try not to... Thanks :) - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 19:56, 1 November 2006 (CST)

Server Time

Is it just me or is it running 12 hours fast? - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 23:04, 3 November 2006 (CST)

Yeah, but I've had to tell it to set at -12 hours to be showing GMT, which is UTC. The default time seems to be GMT+12 - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 10:12, 4 November 2006 (CST)

Ok, it seems fine now... Thanks - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 13:00, 4 November 2006 (CST)

THI & the Director

Would it be safe to say, then, that THI is an organization? I thought it was an actual Institute, which is why I classed them as a university. And I thought that SCEPTRE and the THI was associated. My bad. -Varaan 07:19, 28 November 2006 (CST)

Any decision re:Connie template yet? Just curious if you'd got a reply and come to an agreement or decision? - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 11:45, 11 December 2006 (CST)

Characters

Okay, I think that I've finally categorized all the "beings" on the wiki. Now's the time to do everything else. :) -Varaan 13:00, 11 December 2006 (CST)

Uniformity

I'd left it for a while but I've just put the Connie nav template back in line with the rest of the fleet. I hadn't heard anything for a while and thus don't know if Rocar and yourself have agreed anything on this. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 21:41, 4 January 2007 (CST)

in all seriousness...

Geez, I wish that some people could be more serious with their time here. Two examples - K'Bob. And the second one I'm not sure if we should delete or what - Loner.
-Varaan 09:59, 26 February 2007 (CST)

A First?

Is that the first time an Admins character page has been vandalised? Just reverted a partial blanking of Salak and blocked the user who did it, that was his only edit. Part of me wants to protect the page but that would be against the general ideals of a wiki, surely? - Jay^Talk 06:02, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Yeah, that's what I thought. - Jay^Talk 04:47, 7 July 2007 (CDT)

New Races

Hello. I changed those races to reflect the following categories like you asked me to. While I did add a couple of them to the FTU listing, most of them were already their but with no information. I just tried to flesh them out into useable races with a description and a few details.

• Category:Non-Reviewed Species
• Category:Non-Canon Species
• What about races listed in any of the Star Trek novels. How should they be added to the Wikki list for races.
• I just read the description of the Non-Canon Species - As I understand that includes all races listed in novels.
• Also I have been doing some work at adding a few things to a few locations on the Wikki. These being the USS Triumphant Master Crew List, DS17 station layout, FTU member races. I have been doing these additions with the hopes that they will add to the playability of the site and be useful to others. Was I in error to do this??

Canreb, Tuesday, 7 August, 2007.

Zhal

Ok, I did skim it, but as I am having PC problems, I just did the page as quick as I could. :P Sorry aboyt that, FAdm Wolf.

Mission Archives for Prior / Older Ships

I remember you told me you held onto the early sims. If you want to, we could reconstitute groups for archival only. DCody 18:51, 22 September 2007 (CDT)

Vandal

I've been checking periodically all day expecting them to come back... No ways beyond that currently being done to stop them are there? Does seem to be a bot given the 4 similar accounts doing the same thing in less than 48 hours. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 19:32, 1 October 2007 (CDT)

Not really worried, just a bit annoyed by the vandalism. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 08:46, 2 October 2007 (CDT)

Re:Trek Crash Course

Absolutely. Should I break the "third wall", as in should I start OOC and introduce them to the IC world of Trek? Or try to stay IC and have it be more like a really simple history lesson? -Varaan 07:54, 9 October 2007 (CDT)

Good Wiki Bio

I didn't receive the message that you wanted to use the Lily bio as an example (with the one caveat) until today, though I've been informed about all other discussions on any page I've created.... Anyway, if you'd still like to use the page as an example, I've updated it with the information you requested, so feel free. -Onewhoisseveral 18:19, 16 December 2007 (CST)

Archiving?

Sorry it took me so long to get back to this-

Some of the very old AOL chat sims I did manage to save are on 3.5 or 5.25 discs (those that have survived through the many moves) that I don't have a drive for anymore :oP, but it was in reference to Egroups, since we were there before Yahoo took it over. *chuckles* I have some of our first stuff... not all of it (that computer bit it when we went to Egroups).

Any case, I don't know if you saved the posts from the mid 90s in our transition from chat to Egroups (prior to it becoming YGroups), but if you did, while it may be somewhat of a slow process, we could repost the older sim posts into a archival only YGroups. It would just take a bit of time DCody 03:03, 28 December 2007 (CST)

I'd love to read some of those old sims if you can rescue them and put them somewhere. Good luck with this mini-project.

Rocar 07:25, 30 December 2007 (CST)

I know the feeling. I hope all my old floppies haven't corrupted. I'd say it's your call if you want to set somthing up and transpo the Ranger stuff into an archival YGroups. Brian might love seeing some of that- DCody 16:11, 1 January 2008 (CST)

Links

• nods* I'll remember not to stick spaces between. DCody 15:30, 6 January 2008 (CST)

Intrepid class schematics

I'm not sure what I'm thinking, but I understand what Canreb is after. There's approximately 15 articles on different ship areas on the Intrepid Class, which is why I'm leaning toward something in the neighborhood of an Intrepid-Class schematics nav panel so the Eagle's ship nav template doesn't have to carry all that. We usually put in a link on a given ship nav, not 15 of 'em! -lol DCody 00:25, 11 January 2008 (CST)

StarFleet vs Starfleet

Not that this is a big deal, but what's with your obsession with capitalizing the "f" in Starfleet, when in canon it is spelled with a lowercase "f". Don't believe me? Check out any and all canon material including Memory Alpha and Wikipedia.  :) -Varaan 17:45, 12 January 2008 (CST)

To be honest, I prefer a small F myself as in my opinion, the capital F in the middle is ugly... Just my 2p - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 10:51, 13 January 2008 (CST)

Heehee, fair enough. :) - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 12:29, 13 January 2008 (CST)

Boiler plates

On Wikipedia, there's a way of making templates which hide sections, e.g. wp:Template:Template group, wp:Wikipedia:NavFrame. Would it be possible to do such with this wiki with a view to combining all the fleet boilers (Template:118Fleet, Template:118FleetTrain, Template:118LoD, Template:118Inactive & any reworking of Template:118Attached) into one, such that you could open whichever bit you like and not have to go to the ship histories page to get to a ship which isn't in the same category? My knowledge of coding is poor at best and I know nothing really about Javascript, I struggle enough with html tbh. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 14:19, 13 January 2008 (CST)

Um, okay. I tried briefly on Sunday but the edit, view, discuss, show/hide buttons didn't even show up, let alone work, so there is some coding missing. I'll look into it more when I've time but could take a while to work out what I need to copy across. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 05:38, 15 January 2008 (CST)

Reading all this code is giving me a headache, lol. Are we using Version 1.6? I'm guessing cos I've used <noinclude> on templates on here before, but can't find a version number on the main page, etc... - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 09:20, 15 January 2008 (CST)

Found it under the Special pages. 1.10.0. Just stray thought but the math function has never worked on here has it? Can't think of how we'd use it hough, just it pops up in the sandbox. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 09:26, 15 January 2008 (CST)

Just stumbled upon http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Collapsing. The pages I've just added are titled exactly as on wikipedia, so not sure why it still isn't working. Not given up yet, might leave it for today though. - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 10:30, 15 January 2008 (CST)

118Attached

Only cos I started adding Runabouts for completeness and they have runabouts attached to them. Can't say I'm happy with it myself either... - Lt.JG Salak^Talk 05:35, 15 January 2008 (CST)

Embassy Duronis II

Admiral, I've been working on some of the Embassy pages adding pictures, and filling in some of the stubs from the information I have in the old sims I have from my Embassy days. Hope that is alright. Toni 15:47, 6 February 2008 (CST)Toni

Main Page image #9

Looking stylish :D - Lt. Salak^Talk 21:15, 23 February 2008 (CST)

Betazed Noble House Category

I plan to at least add one more (the 2nd House) to this category. I know a few other players have characters that belong to houses as well and I figured if they express an interest, I can definitely help or they can create on their own. :) Exciting! Alana 07:00, 16 March 2008 (CDT)

Template:NC & Template:Featured Article

See User:Salak/Wallace History. I've made tweaks to both Template:Featured Article (moving the star right) and Template:NC (moving the box very slightly left) so you'll want to look at them too. Do they look alright? - Lt. Salak^Talk 10:43, 16 March 2008 (CDT)

OOC Note template.

I'd suggest using a system similar to the reference system on wikipedia but the code can be messy for those not familiar with it. Um... any reason indented italic won't suffice for now? We could make the note a sub page linked to by the text but that would require a seperate window open to view the main text at the same time. I've had no luck with my attempts to hide text before, I tried with Template:118Attached. It's part of why that got overly messy. If I could work out how to hide things, all the ship nav footers would prob have been merged into one by now and we might have fixed the ToC/Nav Menu template glitch. - Lt. Salak^Talk 02:32, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

The details I corrected the other day, regarding the Quadrants, Sagitarrius A*, prob belong more on the Navigation pages than there. I'll agree it can at least be trimmed quite heavily. I've been more worried trying to get the star systems to be scientifically realistic though, to the point Eagle are prob sick of me by now, lol - Lt. Salak^Talk 02:39, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

I've seen Talk:Trinity Sector and will reply when I get a few seconds to find something on MA. - Lt. Salak^Talk 02:44, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

Found what I was after and posted to that talk page. Got your e-mail btw. - Lt. Salak^Talk 03:03, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

Oh yes, and the co-ords on Trinity Sector lack a Z axis, I've pointed that out already :) - Lt. Salak^Talk 04:24, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

User:Salak/Main Page

I've put the same gap in that there is on the current main page between the top box and the 3 below it. I tried to tinker with the coding for the FA box and the 2 below it but can't see how to ensure they'll line up. They seem to do so anyway to me, the one width discrepancy I can see is that the left of the top box is a pixel closer to the left of the page than the left of the other boxes. - Lt. Salak^Talk 04:40, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

Makes sense, I'm on IE. Might be a way around it, might be worth trying to play with the coding of the FA box to be as close to that of the bottom 2 as poss. I'm heading out of town in an hour or two until mid/late next week btw. - Lt. Salak^Talk 04:45, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

...and I had spotted that error too, the title one def isn't a firefox thing! - Lt. Salak^Talk 04:46, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

Just tried to fix the title bars on the main page mock up. Not having much luck. I wound up almost completely rewriting the code for the bottom templates and made a mess of the page in the process. The wikipedia main page main boxes are two columns rather than two rows, so implimenting them could muck up the alignment of the bottom of the boxes. - Lt. Salak^Talk 05:11, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

ILI Species

All the species I added are canon (see the discussion page). So if they're canon, do we still need our committee to approve them? They already been approved by Paramount and the Trek big-wigs? -Varaan 14:29, 25 March 2008 (EDT)

Well, since they have all appeared or been mentioned in Trek episodes or movies, they're canon, right? ;) As for the "playability ratings", I suppose you'd like a list for everyone to peruse to figure it out. I'll see what I can do. It might take a while, though. -Varaan 12:39, 26 March 2008 (EDT)

png files

I've been pm'd on the forums regarding issues uploading png's and I had issues myself last week. Thought it might be the file itself but given it's not isolated, was wondering if it might be an issue with the wiki itself? Have we lost the ability to upload png files? If so, any idea why? - Lt. Salak^Talk 14:24, 27 March 2008 (EDT)

Featured Articles

I've had no reaction about Featured Articles since my call for a nomination a few weeks back on the Y!group. Basically, I want to run a candidate through before it can go open, want a nomination from someone else. Think it's in a usable state but no uptake so it's gone onto the backburner. - Lt. Salak^Talk 12:04, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

Well I'd rather not put an article I've been heavily involved with forwards myself. Plus if someone else can understand how to nominate, that also shows the system's understandable to people other than myself. - Lt. Salak^Talk 19:49, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

By the way, I've just fixed one glaring ommission I spotted... there was no way of getting to the Featured Articles page from the dummy main page :) - Lt. Salak^Talk 19:57, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

And I nominated Salak rather than USS Independence-A as I think Indy needs another para at least tbh, but not sure what to add to it. - Lt. Salak^Talk 20:18, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

Three supports unopposed, I've promoted Karawati, made it AotM and put it on the main page. Doesn't seem to be any glitch so far so might be time to publicise it :) - Lt. Salak^Talk 06:42, 8 April 2008 (EDT)

Tables

Just found partly by accident that sortable tables actually work on here (see sandbox) but still having issues with collapsible tables (see also here). Tried to add the coding at both MediaWiki:Common.js & other places in the past but whatever I try, can't seem to get it working. Any ideas (other than giving up on it)? - Lt. Salak^Talk 13:07, 8 April 2008 (EDT)

new species?

Hey Wolf,

I was wondering how would I go about submitting a created race into the ILI, I mean by having it processed through the CC, or EC, or whatever, so Its okay to use in future?

and where abouts do I submit it? Grauro 02:16, 9 April 2008 (EDT)

• Nope, not quite since I can't have a secondary character... I just want to make it official now, and then maybe when Im lieutenant get an Ensign for this particular race, personaslly overlooking what I have written about it, I don't see any harm in the being, the history has similiarities with some, and the government, is very different to others, so society would be different too, and the phsiology doesn't make it a powersimming tool, but has its own balances IMO. but I was informed it has to be voted by the EC or CC Grauro 02:25, 9 April 2008 (EDT)

• Fair Enough so If I fill it in as an NPC for now, then you can always overview it later on as a secondary or p[rimary later on? Grauro 02:31, 9 April 2008 (EDT)

• So then Virtually I just fill in an Entry, and then you'll look it up among the CC, and Then its all good, so I can get to that as soon as possible :) Grauro 02:49, 9 April 2008 (EDT)