User talk:LobStoR

Welcome
Hi, welcome to Borderlands Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Orb Shields page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Alexandersig (Talk) 07:35, October 25, 2009

Eridian Weapons page move
Hey there. I'm sure you had good intentions while moving this page to Eridian Weapon, but the general wikia policy is to have pages such as this as plural, check any of our Weapons categories/articles if you want to be sure. I reverted it, and feel free to let me know if you have any questions/comments. Thanks! --Aelwrath45 18:43, November 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, gotcha -- I am currently working on cleaning up Category pages containing content more appropriate for the Main namespace. I'll be sure to stick with pluralized titles in the future :)  18:47, November 5, 2009 (UTC)

- Oh wow sorry, thought it was the category page for Eridian Weapons (confused it with Alien guns. Completed zoned out on that one.  --Aelwrath45 00:19, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

apparently plural is this wiki's style
There is little basis for the above statement. When the pages began to surface they were created randomly with no consideration for plural or singular forms. I tried to raise the subject and got no real response from that, so the trend has actually been to place the categories in a plural form and shift most of the article plurals to singular. -- WarBlade 22:54, November 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * Most of the time the article names are in singular and categories in plural. That's how a wiki is built. --Gourra (talk) 23:24, November 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * Indeed, that is the "wiki norm" that I am used to dealing with -- categories are pluralized, articles are singular. 05:09, November 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, I've noticed a lot of copy/paste moves around here -- please use the Move button whenever possible, as that will retain an article's revision history... You can even move over a redirect page, providing it only has one edit in its history and that it points at the article you are moving. Of course the first time someone performs a copy/paste move, they forever ruin any chance of properly moving the article (that is, unless a sysop comes and cleans it up).  05:11, November 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * That sounds more like something that the public should know, just not the people who read your talk page. --Gourra (talk) 07:13, November 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. This and several other policy considerations should be laid down somewhere obvious under a heading like "Borderlands Wiki Editing Policies" and should be easier to find than this. -- WarBlade 07:23, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

Let's make a manual of style? --Aelwrath45 15:34, November 6, 2009 (UTC)

Delete, Not redirect.
There is no need to have so many pages floating around with randomly generated prefixes. I see the point in Madjack redirecting to Maliwan Madjack, because it is still the name. Likewise for Unforgiven redirecting to Jakobs unforgiven, but when you start making all the pages with prefixes, it becomes ridiculous. Nobody is going to search for the weapons with the prefix in them. --Zaybertamer 18:28, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

Thank you
and thank you sir for fixing that for me :) still new to the wiki and all the information it holdsNoBody Dreag 08:09, November 25, 2009 (UTC)

Hi and editing stuff
Hi. I see that you are busy straightening up things. If you want to save yourself some time on the pages that I am adding, feel free to leave me a message with the items you need added. Or a new section to add to the pages I am making and I will gladly add it so you wont have to go back later. Also, I don't mind pointers as I am still relatively new to wiki editing. Thanks. DLanyon 14:07, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't have the Zombie Island DLC, yet, so I don't know what's missing -- but you've been doing great adding new content to the wiki, so far. My thanks to you :)  14:09, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Can you undo the redirect on Brains ...  I am working on the mission chain right now .. just got the second one which is Braaains (3 a's) I am sure its gonna go up from there.DLanyon 14:20, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
 * Oops, I got a little overzealous, there... I'm gonna go take a break, and leave things be for a bit (give time for the dust to settle on NewPages 14:24, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
 * Heh no worries. I appreciate the fact you know how to straighten things up with the proper code (like for the missions lists). Also, good catch on the trivia. about the 'mashed', I heard him say it and it didn't register.DLanyon 14:33, November 25, 2009 (UTC)

Admin
After watching your RfA thread and giving people time to reply, it seems like most of the comments are supportive of having you as an admin, so I just changed your status to bureaucrat. The only other currently active admin right now is User:Alexandersig, so if he or you become inactive, or if the community feels that 2 active admins aren't enough, feel free to promote other good editors to admin as well. Thanks for the effort you've made and will continue to make to improve the wiki, and congrats on the promotion. If you need any help or have any questions, don't hesitate to drop me a message. JoePlay ( talk ) 20:51, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * congrats. now fire up the navbar CSS! :P --Raisins 21:17, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
 * Congrats! DLanyon 22:46, November 27, 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Monaco-sidebar
As you can edit that thing now, we should probably replace *Weapons with *Weapons --Raisins 13:39, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
 * category-Alien_guns#
 * category-Combat_Rifles#
 * category-Melee#
 * category-Pistols#
 * category-Revolvers#
 * category-Rocket_Launchers#
 * category-Shotguns#
 * category-Sniper_Rifles#
 * category-Sub-Machine_guns#
 * Eridian_weapons|Alien guns
 * Combat Rifle|Combat Rifles
 * Pistol|Pistols
 * Revolver|Revolvers
 * Rocket Launcher|Rocket Launchers
 * Shotgun|Shotguns
 * Sniper Rifle|Sniper Rifles
 * Submachine Gun|Sub-Machine guns
 * Agreed, I think I once mentioned on a talk page that we want to funnel users to Articles, not Categories. Also Template:Contents on the main page, too.  16:40, November 29, 2009 (UTC)

hey how can I change the rule in the arena?

vandal
We've got a vandal blanking pages... Unregistered contributor 209.80.253.1 Billdoom 15:59, December 4, 2009 (UTC)

think i got it figured out...
like i said, its been a while since ive done wiki editing but i think i found a workaround that works--posted a thumbnail with what ive got worked up so far to let you see what my thoughts are as far as adding to the character pages or possibly the main build screen for each character to give people a better idea of the possibilities (im going to be making one for each character for my own benefit regardless if they will be used on the wiki) http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Lil_help_needed dfareaper 1933 december 4, 2009 (PST)

Video code
So the 1PTmV9y1VoY code, I would put the video ID right before the tag? ( HERE )

That code would probably make it alot easier than what I've been doing. p.s. Would videos be better after the "walkthrough" section, or way at the end of the page?

Never added anything to a wikia before, so advice == good.

Transclusion and Ref tag
I was trying to cobble together a row template for the weapon example tables, so people would break them less often with weird formatting, and I ran into a snag. When i give parameter 9 (the image filename) to my template and then use it inside an image link inside a tag, it breaks. Please check it out and offer any advice: Template:Weapon table row --Raisins 16:52, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

This is apparently a known issue with a workaround, so I'm good now. --Raisins 06:06, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

shall i undo my revisions based on raisins rows? Dr. Clayton Forrestor 11:38, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * Oops! Sorry, Dr. Clayton Forrestor -- you must've caught an error from some editing that I should've sandboxed first. Please do use the new weapon table templates, as they will help standardize the format.  Also, note the new usage example listed at Template:Weapon table row -- with named parameters.   11:47, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * thank you. i have in fact been running rampant through sniper rifles with code i borrowed from the equalizer page.  seems to be functioning now though.  Dr. Clayton Forrestor 11:55, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * please try to use the new "named parameters" format listed in the usage example, though. this also now includes templates to start/end the table.  Thanks Dr.CF!  12:13, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * may i ask, in your example there is the text "weapon table" in your footnote. is this aftifact or is it intentional? i found a format which is compact and starts and ends the table without the extra text - example on my talk page - is this acceptable?  sincerely, Dr. F  Dr. Clayton Forrestor 13:08, December 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * (back from afk) Arbitrary naming choice, but intentional design decision. I used a feature of the references tag that allows you to group similar items -- I just happened to call the group "weapon table" as an arbitrary choice.  I do want to continue to use a references group, but I do not care what it is called -- "weapon table" was just the default text I placed while adding this feature.  I'm going to go rename it to "Weapon" instead, for a shorter display format.
 * The reason I would prefer to use grouped references is so that if these someday should move back into the article space, they wouldn't disrupt any "normal" references in the article (I think). 13:16, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

i think i _finally_ see the light. the redundancy of the column title facilitates ease of use, n'est-ce pas? thank you for your time and kind attention. Dr. Clayton Forrestor 13:50, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

Return of Revenge of MediaWiki:Common.css
Thanks for your help with my various tinkerings. In the meantime I've made more work for you. We have tables and navbox styles, now we need messagebox cause I imported Notice and made Datafilesonly. --Raisins 18:28, December 9, 2009 (UTC)

Why did you delete?
My article about the Rider bb(the gearbox gun)??? Just wondering.
 * I moved Rider bb(the gearbox gun) to Forum:Rider bb(the gearbox gun), then deleted the redirect. 14:47, December 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah I see sorry to bother you.Rawwar13 15:39, December 10, 2009 (UTC) Rawwar13 15:39, December 10, 2009 (UTC) Rawwar13 15:39, December 10, 2009 (UTC)

Re-move New Game+
New Game+is a term from different RPGs. New Game+ needs to be moved over the preexisting but blanked Playthrough 2. I understand this is a little messy and requires admin hax. --Raisins 22:03, December 10, 2009 (UTC)
 * Gotcha, 'tis done :) I'll work on those new CSS classes this weekend, forgot to get around to it.  23:09, December 10, 2009 (UTC)

Userboxes
I dont know why but i cant get any user boxes to work?? How do you get the onto your user page
 * Click your username in the upper-right corner of any page to access your user page. To add userboxes, copy/paste the sample code from Userbox gallery to get your userbox section started.  I added this to your page, so let me know if you need any further assistance.  08:04, December 12, 2009 (UTC)

Protection from Categorization
Haha. My OCD requires you add Category:Borderlands wiki images to. --Raisins 02:35, December 14, 2009 (UTC)

User:Gebraheel Usertalk
Thanks for the advice, I'm sure I would have eventually gotten off my rumpus to figure that out, but you went and brought it to me. Thanks again.Gebraheel 18:25, December 14, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome. Im not used to the whole wiki and editing thiu\ng but i do know alot about borderlands so ill do my best to help with whatever i can. thanks again ;]

~Sexy-Siren

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hi whats up thanks for the welcome

-DF Wraith

User Sig
Hey, I was wondering, how do you set up a sig like the one you have, LobStoR? Pdboddy 14:29, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

just general response
well on here i probly wont be as helpful as i was on fallout wiki, if you can call it that, lol but I've been playing fallout for over a year altogether and well, obviously much less time spent on borderlands, ill do my best though.Toolazytomakeaaccount 17:40, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

LIl Help
I am level 50 already I have beaten the second run through I have how much for the planet My money is at 9,999,999 And I have over 18 mill in my inventory alone I got the merchant of death I stil cannot seem to get the pandora millionaire achievement what am I missing Any help will be much appreciated FateWorn 19:48, December 16, 2009 (UTC)FateWornFateWorn 19:48, December 16, 2009 (UTC)


 * I have seem to earn it(Pandora Millionaire) only after I entered -Jackobs Cove- after I downloaded -Dr ZED- LOL

I d would say that achievement is slighlty bugged.FateWorn 16:09, December 20, 2009 (UTC)
 * added see also link 18:23, December 20, 2009 (UTC)

Quick Bit of Wiki help regarding Tables
On my userpage I really want to keep an up-to-date table of my current gold gear on my account, i just cant figure out how to do tables using wiki-code. Any help regarding this is apreciated. whoops forgot to sign Kenny199 03:41, December 17, 2009 (UTC)

Help
hi i need help .... how am i really suppose to reply to others forums like when i click on the topic --Chavous24


 * click "Edit the page" at the top, and type your message below theirs. start your paragraph with a : to indent. Use two colons if you're the second reply in one section, etc. Sign your post with ~ which the wiki turns into your name and the date. --Raisins 20:45, December 17, 2009 (UTC)

Poke
I don't mean to bug you, but Heavy is the head... --Raisins 05:13, December 18, 2009 (UTC)
 * Messagebox css styles
 * File:Favicon.ico needs a category
 * Hey Raisins. Finally .  Only took a month from when you initally asked about it :-P (oops)... I basically imported WP's and the only style change I made was to change the background color from WP's grey to solid black (000000). edit: please allow 86,400 seconds (aka 24 hours) for the server-side cache to purge itself -- there is no way to manually override it to force this change, just have to wait.  09:57, December 26, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
thanks again for the help on my user page Kenny199 19:53, December 18, 2009 (UTC)

LOL
I forgot to log in. xD

Hey
So did you put most of the information of this game on here?
 * No, I just help out where I can -- many of our articles were built by several separate contributors working together, over time -- check out the History button on an article that interests you, and you'll see how it was built over time. 09:38, December 26, 2009 (UTC)

cheers
thanks for the welcome man, glad i could help out with the pages, still learning how to edit properly but i think ive got it now haha

delete
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_Stone:_Weapon_Crate_Locations, look at this page and ull understand why it should be deleted.Toolazytomakeaaccount 17:12, December 26, 2009 (UTC)

Image copyrights
tell me please, what is the copyright status of screenshots from borderlands. see page for discussion. &lt;+&gt; Dr. F 21:03, December 29, 2009 (UTC)

Maps
Maybe it'd be reasonable to drop a quick link to the maps in the "resources" box in the content section on the main page, since the maps are there, but there arn't any quick links laying around anywhere. --DestinysHand 12:11, December 31, 2009 (UTC)

Playthrough 2
I've just started Playthrough and would like to know where to post more specs on Playthrough 2 weapons (ex. TK's Wave). Where should I be putting in the huge boost in specs? I edited TK's Wave, and wanted to know if this is cool to do for more weapons, etc, I discover...

Thanks, Darkley --DarkDarkley 05:44, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Modded weapons
if i may ask, how stringent are we about modding weapons? i had a conversation with another editor about image categories and i wonder are we going to go with as is weapons or will as could bes be allowed? Rx Dr. F 08:12, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Editing for wiki noobs like me...
Hi LobStoR I'm new to all this wiki editing jazz and was wondering if you could give me a few tips? Namely, how do I make a clickable link that doesn't say the actual address. For Example on my user page a link that says my volcano model but takes someone to the volcano page when clicked. Also how do I insert images and add those "user-boxes" like "this user owns a PS3" at the moment all that info is just on my user page in boring plain old text. Thanks for your help. DaleGK 15:13, January 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * When you have the editor up, one way to do it is to click "Source" then place your link into double square brackets, ie:  Volcano , which will produce a link like this: Volcano. For further tips about editing in Source mode, check out the Wikipedia Editing FAQ, and for help editing with the Rich Text Editor, see the Wikia rich text editor help page.  16:05, January 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Edit: To get started on your user page, you can copy/paste the code sample from Userbox gallery. As for images, etc, I highly recommend finding something that you like, and copy/pasting it (in Source mode).  16:15, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks boss I'll give it a go later.DaleGK 16:49, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

View count
I'm new to wikia editing, so I was wondering if individual articles had a view count feature? Thanks very much --Kremlinjoe 07:34, January 4, 2010 (UTC)

liquid snipers
k im new to editing wiki's but i did find something that needed adding, i just dunno how to do it. on the sniper rifles page there needs to be another category of semi auto sniper called "liquid" they are snipers with higher rates of fire. i have pics for examples, i just dunno how to create the page. i had linked it to another page that had a picture of a liquid sniper but it was used for another category of snipers, i think wrath.


 * "Sniper" is the type of rifle while "Liquid" is sort of like a magical prefix from Diablo 2; giving the Sniper some new properties. DaleGK 14:10, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Updating images
Yo i looked into the chest map and found it laking a bunch of chest's... now i've fixed that but how do i place my updated chest map there (replacing the old one).


 * If the map was intended to display treasure chest locations, then all you need to do is:
 * Navigate to the File: page
 * Scroll down just past the revision history
 * Click the link that says "Upload a new version of this file"
 * Then don't forget to provide a very brief summary of what was updated (ie "updated with additional chest locations" etc). Let me know if I can help any further. 15:11, January 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Like i'm doing what you've said but it's so freak'n slow it seems that he's not uploading at all!


 * Sometimes graphics can turn into some very large filesizes, so for example a 1 megabyte file with 128kbit/sec upload speed will take a little over 60 seconds to upload. If it's not giving you any specific errors (or even just sending you to a blank page), then it probably is uploading.  15:35, January 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok but i'll upload it on a later occasion cuz work is almost over and i'll be leaving the office and this PC soon so i'll see when i'll upload it.

re: beer - shocked i was. shocked and dismayed at the very depravity of those woman hating, suds swilling ba. . . . . well, i suppose it was a bit funny, yes. i was trying to link the word beer in "beer hat" on Helena Pierce's page but i didnt know to put the colon before file. ill do that now. Rx  Dr. F

fallout wiki
I've posted something similar to this on a couple admins pages on fallout wiki, I'm trying to figure out how to adapt the thing on here where if someone doesn't sign there posts either you or the system goes in and leaves a comment like the preceding comment was unsigned by (insert user here) id like info on a couple things including is it a coding thing and therefore automatic? or is it a thing that as a admin you can do where you type in etc and it pops up? i don't care about quick response's so take your time on that part.Toolazytomakeaaccount 18:54, January 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * Anyone can do it, by manually using Template:Unsigned as username to mark a comment as unsigned... you can find the exact date and time of the edit in the Revision history. Out on Wikipedia, there is a bot that runs around and signs unsigned comments, but this is a small wiki, so we probably won't have anything like that in the immediately foreseeable future. 20:08, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

A question and introduction
Hi. I'm looking for the contributor "heylookitsamoose" (I think that's it). In his gunslinger ninja build he invites people to contact him but gives no contact information. I left a message in the talk page of his build but I'd like to have an email or something. This talking via wiki articles is for the rakks.

In fact the majority of you I'd like to meet. Your articles have all been informative. Send me an email, it's aspirationrealized AT gmail DOT com. With the appropriate symbols of course. 166.205.11.115 19:15, January 5, 2010 (UTC)RevOliver

Hi, hummm i think i missplaced my question and comment on the grenade pages do i have to remove it? i' am not used to the whole wikia thing.

If you could try to help answer my question

psn id
whats ur psn so we can play online :D

psn id
whats ur psn so we can play online :D —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheMadHatter101 (talk • contribs)

it can be considered harassment to be asked over and over whats ur psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number whats your psn number, c the annoying-ness of that?Toolazytomakeaaccount 20:07, January 6, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!
I'm happy that I am able to contribute to the wiki in a useful way, and I will get pictures of them up soon if time lets me. I appreciate the offered help, I may need it sometime as I'm not familiar with editing online. You can delete this if you'd like, I just wanted to return the kindness. :) --P.I.V.M. 00:38, January 7, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the greet
I've used the wiki to great effect on my getting started with the game. I was completely bewildered on builds initially (and arguably maybe still am) and there were a couple points where I was lost in the game in spite of the relative simplicity and straightforwardness of the design. Weapons, especially, are still a great topic of confusion for me. So, uh, thanks for existing!

However, there is one major topic I'm wondering about the lack of on the wiki -- math and theorycraft, (or whatever you want to call it.) Formulas. Explanations. Details on what goes on inside the game about stuff. I realize there's math stuff, and then there's math stuff. I'm only looking for the basics, like how elemental multipliers affect damage. (I've got that one down, I think.) I realize there's a ton of different things going on internally, and I'm not asking for a complete explanation of recoil across every weapon type (and body type) and to what degree +X% recoil reduction improves upon that. Surely the basics are something that has been worked on by somebody. But there's no pages?

If not, I don't know what kind of time I have to volunteer, but I am a math major and have some experience working on wikis. (Albeit, the wiki I was on was almost exclusively edited by me, so I'm not familiar with working with others. I hope posting this way is proper etiquette.) I guess I could volunteer to collect info on the matter....I just seem like a poor choice considering I bought the game after Christmas and I'm not playing on the PC version.

Azuarc 01:04, January 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * That would be terrific! I have contributed a couple of formulas on a few articles (see the bottom row of Weapon proficiency as an example), but I would love to see one central article titled Formula (or similar) as a compilation of different formulas from the whole range of gameplay.  Feel free to use the Forums and talk pages to try to scoop for some information, as I am pretty sure there are others who would be interested in this, too.
 * Also, we do have LaTeX here, if you're familiar with using   tags on wikis.  Cheers,  11:26, January 7, 2010 (UTC)