User talk:Silly Dan

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I see, so you're saying....
If I restrict it to 1 subpage, it's alright, right? Trosk 01:47, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Only if it has substantial Star Wars related content. Also, if this is to be your only contribution to the wiki, it's likely that other users will ignore it.  Wookieepedia is not primarily a site for userpages: it's a site for Star Wars articles. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 01:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't care if other people read it, it's mostly for me. Besides, there's SW stuff there. Trosk 01:52, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I stil don't see the problem. Trosk 01:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

sockpuppet
The users of Maccus and Capt. Davy Jones are the same person, when posed before it, they have denied it, but the style of writing is the same, and have even used the same sentences as excuses for they're nonsencical edits, please block them. Therequiembellishere 16:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Neither sockpuppet has been seen in weeks, so I'm not going to do anything about it beyond mark their userpages with sockpuppet notices. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 17:00, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Vandal
I noticed you caght and deleted that talk page, well, I VIP tagged the guy who did it, go to recent changes to see.
 * Warned him. If that anonymous user continues, I'll assume it's the serial vandal blocked earlier and block the IP. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 18:48, 23 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I tagged him with the Vandalism in progress template, so you should be able to get to his page easily. Can i add him to my vandals busted list?
 * Well, we haven't proven that he is a vandal -- and I personally don't like the idea of a vandals busted list: it could serve to encourage them to continue wasting our time. This is why I've been deleting the user pages of indefinitely blocked usernames, and several of the recent vandalism-only accounts haven't even had banned applied to their userpages. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 18:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Good point, I'll take it off. Do you want me to take the VIP tag off then?
 * Sure, remove it. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 18:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay, removed, sorry for the trouble, just being cautious.

Hi
Hello, Silly Dan. I'm sorry for what someone that used my IP has done to Wookiepedia. But it wasn't me. I am a member of Wikipedia and I do not vandalize pages. So, if someone keeps doing this, report this abuse to USA Datanet, my ISP. See ya around! 66.218.19.101 18:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
 * OK then. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 18:59, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

A Fan Speaks
Silly Dan, you rock! I love your edits! Plus you seem really smart.
 * Thanks. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 21:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Hay!
Hay, what's up? Thank's for the welcome page. -- 21:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 21:13, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Maaul, inviting you to a Wookiee party
It's November 25, and if you cam, please come to the Wookiee party.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/User:Brain40/Wookieeparty_%28November_25_2006%29

Thanks. --Nightmare-- ( Request Support ) 00:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

User 24.203.16.151
Can you please warn this anon user about posting hypothetical lengths in ship threads? He has changed the MC80 battleship and MC30c frigate. Can you revert them? Thanks for your help. AdmiralNick22 18:35, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Non-admins can give (polite, friendly) warnings too, you know. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 18:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Preview Button
Had a bit some problems with coding my signature but I'm done now. Sorry for the inconvenience. - N ighthawk L eader  [Holocomm] 23:04, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

How?
Riiight, I don't even know how I page got assigned to the wrong area...Weird! Thanks though...&lt;3 China! 00:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Ad guy
I see you deleted this Recommended Products, only to have it recreated, but the creator say its legit and for Wikia. Where to go with this? -- Riffsyphon1024 02:21, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Asking on #wikia now. We'll see what they say.  FWIW, it hasn't been created on Muppet Wikia, Memory Alpha, or Uncyclopedia (which doesn't have the same sort of ads we have anyway, of course.) &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 02:25, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for telling me
I just saw Wikipedian philosophies in wikimedia and I thought it would be useful to set all of them. I didn't know them and I find them quite interesting. Zeist Antilles

Bold
Can you give me an article as example where I have done it the way you think I need to change? thxJustinGann 18:14, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Tiger is one of them. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 18:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, you mean Idon't put the plural ending in bold. Hmmm, well I guess thats because I thought bold = title, but if you thinks it looks better, I will try to bold the whole word from now on.JustinGann 18:26, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks! &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 18:27, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Banned user
Hey Dan. I thought I recognised the name of the user you just banned. User:Bonny Eberndu kept posting nonsense the other week. Since it's probably the same guy, I don't know if you want to block that account too. Green Tentacle (Talk) 13:43, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reminding me. Ordinarily, I'd consider a checkuser necessary before IDing them as the same person, but considering they uploaded identical images, I'll assmue they're either the same person or two people suffering from identical forms of dementia. Either way, not needed here. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 13:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Dankayo
Posted my reply at Talk:Dankayo; also asked jSarek to take over, since you seemed to want out. Sensible man. --McEwok 15:46, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Not so much that I wanted out, but that I noticed it needed locking on Recent Changes just before bedtime. If jSarek doesn't resolve it tonight, I might have time. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 20:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No worries. jSarek seems to have handled it&mdash;thanks anyway! --McEwok 17:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I will look into it sometime this week, though, unless the three of you work out a compromise. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 17:21, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Dan
I have 2 questions:

1. How can I use the Talk specially if I want to talk about some articles of the Star Wars characters?

2. How can I create my User Page so it can looks great?Darth_Venger 11:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Right, sorry for the delay. Answered on your talk page. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 16:27, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that
Sorry. I asked her if I could use her image but she never responded to me. I got kinda impatient and forgot about it.--Herbsewell 22:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * OK. As I said, feel free to put in back if you get permission. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 22:39, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Species
I guess I gave you something to do tonight. Keep up the relentless work. :D -- Riffsyphon1024 03:34, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm just doing the Human and Near-Human category for now: the rest doesn't have the necessary consensus yet...&mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 03:38, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

nearhuman questions
off the top of my head, im pretty sure Ultimate Alien Anthology is what calls Khommites near humans.

Numerous sources call both the Pau'ans and Utai near-humans, including the Ep III novelization and sources as recent as the Forces of Corruption Prima guide. Personally, I agree with you, I can't see the Utai as near-human, but that is a canon statement unless Lelan says otherwise :( JustinGann 04:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply. Although I suspect they were getting "humanoid" and "near-human" mixed up again, I guess I'll put all three back on the list and into the proper subcategory.  If you can find a specific quote for the Utai, it might be good to point it out in the BtS section.  &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 13:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks, Dan! I can't believe I made that error, when I just wrote a tutorial on how to make a signature!

I redirected the example to another subpage. Can you delete the original? I don't know how. It's called "User: Examplon 5/signature". Thanks again,

Astral 82
Hi Silly Dan.I want to talk with you about the picture of the zhell that i added today.Well the picture actualy is my work and i made it based upon the historical data about zhell race in New Essintial Chronology and all information that is stored here in Wookiepedia.The zhell race is pre-human race and the zhells itself are similar with humans but in the age that is similar with Medieval age in our history.We talk about ~200 000 years BBY and the information for this era is poor. And based upon this i've created a hipothetic image of the zhell.So if you agreed with me allow me to add this image. Thank you and MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.
 * The problem is, we need our articles to stick with the published facts as much as we can. Thus, we can't use fan art.  For instance, since there aren't any illustrations of them, any fan art of the Zhell is going to include a lot of speculation.  Maybe red hair was rare among the Zhell.  Maybe they didn't have women warriors.  Maybe their technology during their battles with the Taung was closer to our 20th century, so a Zhell warrior of that era would have looked more like a World War II GI.  Sorry, but we've removed the picture and deleted it from our database: however, if you want to decorate your userpage with it according to our User image policy, it would be OK if you re-uploaded it.  Cheers, &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 01:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Gluupwhore

 * Couldn't you just make that page be a redirect to constantly recreated pages? Or am I missing something? Thanks. Chack Jadson 02:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm making several variant spellings using special characters redirect there. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 02:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * So soon this guy will have to give up because all variants of Gluupwhore will be a redirect? Chack Jadson 02:33, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The thing is, it's easier for us to block his new username than it is for him to come up with variant spellings or a new username. Plus, he's outnumbered by the admins, even if you only count the ones who are awake and online. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 02:36, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, that's good, but I think this guy might have exposed a chink in our armor. The fact that he is on AOL means we can't block his IP, so do we just keep blocking him and making redirects? Chack Jadson 02:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, he's using multiple IP adresses.-- Lord Oblivion Sith holocron[[Image:Oldsith.png|30px]] 02:41, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * If he was on AOL, his apostrophes wouldn't come out all messed up. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 02:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * He claimed to be on an open proxy earlier in an edit summary. I'm not entirely sure I understand the concept, although I get the gist. I've also noticed in the block log IPs being blocked for being an open proxy. Is there a way to block the range of IPs he is using temporarily at least, or are they that different? Is he really coming up with a new IP for every single new user account he creates (which has been a lot in the last half hour). Wildyoda 03:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * If he's using a series of open proxies, they may come from a contiguous IP range or come from a series of different random computers spread across the world, depending on how he's accessing them, how technically adept he is, and how much time he wants to waste on the project. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 03:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Sources and Appearances Question
I noticed in Darth Nospher's talk page you said that if something is listed as an appearance it should not be listed as a source. I believe you and everything, but just wondering is that actually listed as a policy somewhere, because it seems to me we generally go for completeness to an obnoxious level on things like that and I was surprised, although it does seem to be the case in most other articles. I mean isn't it a different enough thing if your source of information is, for instance as we were discussing, Galactic Battlegrounds, to list it as a source as well? Probably a ridiculously academic question that I'll smack myself for posting when I've had more sleep, but I'm trying to delve into the policy and figure it all out as I've been immersing myself in the culture here lately. Wildyoda 07:22, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Check Layout Guide: it only needs to be listed once. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 12:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Invitation
Do feel free to comment at Forum:Disabling creation of pages by anons and new users. Zainal 5:04, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, though I suspect you won't like my comments.8) &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 16:03, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Aar'la
Thanks for subcating the Aar'la article. I was doing it at the same time you were so mine didn't go through. I have been going through the articles on the entire list of Sentient races and species to see if they are properly subcategorized. Tell me if you find anymore that need to be fixed and I will for you.--ShadowTrooper 20:25, 15 December 2006 (UTC) The articles that are in subcats should only be on the List of sentient races and species and in   their subcat. Tell me if I'm right or wrong.--ShadowTrooper 01:47, 16 December 2006 (UTC) If we do get it confirmed to be categorized another way so be it. I, myself am also unsatisfied with its current format of categorization. Check the Forum:Races and species categorization revamp. I have posted the sentience article there for constant reference.--ShadowTrooper 02:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You took Aar'la off the main list you know. It needs to be on the main list and the reptillian subcat.--ShadowTrooper 20:29, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, see Forum:Races and species categorization revamp: I was thinking of dividing them into both alphabetical and biological subcategories. In the meantime, they shouldn't really be in a category and its subcategory. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 20:42, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought the category is supposed to be the full list and the subcategory splits them up more. If thats not the way its supposed to be we need to make a full list.--ShadowTrooper 01:31, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * There is List of sentient races and species, if that covers what you're looking for. But we shouldn't put articles in a parent category and in a subcategory: if we did that, we'd need one monster category for "people", which we'd put every character in, making it impossible to find anything. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 01:38, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I think I understand. The List of sentient races and species covers every Sentient Species while the articles that are listed below the subcats in the main cat are articles that are not subcated.
 * You've got it right. We haven't actually done this on all of those articles: I was reluctant to so myself for a while, because I wanted to reorganize the category entirely, but maybe we should get started on that. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 01:54, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I propose that we should do our best to have it completetely organized the way we have it currently.
 * Dan I/we really need you at the forum.--ShadowTrooper 02:23, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Gunray FA
Edit war over. At least, I think it is. ;) .  .  .  .  06:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * So...if you could strike your objection...it would be much appreciated. :) .  .  .  .  22:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Christmas!

 * Thanks! &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 13:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Cat & SubCat
Most of the species articles are in the cat and their apropriate subcat. I thought you said it shouldn't be in the Cat & SubCat.--ShadowTrooper 23:32, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It shouldn't. We haven't finished fixing it yet. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 13:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok--ShadowTrooper 21:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

The picture on featured article
well for awile there was a very nast picture on it... some guy mooning the camera naked spreading his checks apart, but it was gone almost emediately

--Vapebait 00:36, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Guess it was taken care of by Darth Culator. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 23:36, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Crumb Morons
These vandals like the crumb loser seem to have found a weakness. Is he like this Gluupwhore idiot, whose IP cannot be blocked? Are you guys (mainly I need a name) just creating user talk pages and redirecting them before he can create them (in addition to the blocking)? Thanks. I know you're busy, so don't feel rushed to respond. Chack Jadson 22:53, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The thing is, blocked users have to be able to request an unblock so that mistaken blocks can be corrected. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 23:36, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but I was wondering were you guys just creating pages (like User Talk:Crumb337) and redirecting them before he could? Chack Jadson 19:54, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * A few of us were. I'm not sure that it was really particularly helpful, though.  Best to protect only the ones which are already created. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 20:02, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * So guys who use proxies basically have unlimited access to vandalism because we can't ban them as they use different IP's? Sorry if I'm bothering you with all these questions. Chack Jadson 20:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * More or less. The only thing most users can do if the initial series of warnings and blocks don't work is make vandalizing as dull a pastime as possible, by reverting their edits, blocking individual usernames quickly, and otherwise ignoring them as much as we can. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 20:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'm done asking you questions now. Again, thanks a ton for explaining this to me. Chack Jadson 20:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 20:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Tri-droid discussion.
Silly Dan, could you do me a favor and head over to Talk:Tri-droid, last section? Grand Admiral J. Nebulax (Imperial Holovision) 20:11, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, but then I'm going on vacation again. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 20:17, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Species categorization
Let me make sure I get this straight. You want all of the species starting with the letter 'a' to go in Category:Sentient species (A), such as Aalagar, Aar'aa, Aaris, etc. And then do the same thing with b, c, d, etc. If that's correct so far, would I be replacing the current category - Category:Races and species - with these new ones, or would it just be in addition to it. Also, would it include species under the subcats like Category:Aquatic sentient species or not?
 * I went ahead and moved the articles starting with A to Category:Sentient species (A), but this does not include subcategories. Let me know if this is correct before I do anymore. Also, I'll be out of town over the next few days, so I'll probably be in and out getting this done. —Xwing328 (Talk) 05:12, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You have it right, I think. I changed the alphabetization of the categories like Category:Sentient species (A), though: you could revert those changes if you didn't like them.  I also wanted to replace the "Races and species" category with a "Sentient species" category, since the current category doesn't emphasize the "sentient" part. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 11:12, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Once we get close to being done with the alphabetization, I'll change Races and species. That's one of the easiest parts, but it'll be redundant if we don't move the others out first. I was thinking we could categorize them as, so they would all be together without any letters, if that makes sense.  —Xwing328 (Talk) 17:06, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. Thanks! &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 23:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

User Ban Template Idea

 * I have an idea for a user ban warning template. Click here! I thought it was a cool idea.--Ultric  Sandov -- [Ultimate Spy]--[[Image:UltricSandov.jpg]]-- [Bothawui] [Send Transmision] 03:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think the current one needs changing. &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 23:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Minor Senate Hall Problem
I recently created the topic Forum:Spoken Articles and...dare I say it...Podcasts? in the Senate Hall, but for some reason, it's not showing up. What could be the problem? . .  .  .  22:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)