User talk:Xwing328

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Inqmoot
Inq Meeting Seventeen has been scheduled. Your attendance is appreciated. Toprawa and Ralltiir 07:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Text
Yeah I don't know how that text got into that list on the Insider article. --  Riffsyphon  1024 06:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
 * lol, no worries. I've done stuff like that all the time :P —Xwing328 (Talk) 17:15, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Template
Hi i would like to know how to create templates. please answer me on my Discussion page User:Ayla Secura 20:13 14 May (UTC)

RE:Signature
Thanks for telling me to fix my signature. - '''Colonel Solo Galactic Alliance Gaurd 20:03, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Bot
In our Special pages we have an Uncategorized files list. It includes a large number of the images used for the random search icon. They all contain. I was wondering if it is possible to get a bot to add to all the pages with a  or some such to remove them from that list. Do you think that is possible? --Eyrezer 04:57, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll check it out. —Xwing328 (Talk) 05:00, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I got 259 of them. Unless I notice some more that are easy to fix, any others will probably have to be done by hand. —Xwing328 (Talk) 05:42, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Fantastic. Much appreciated. --Eyrezer 08:29, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Insider 49
No, you're not missing a joke... My comment was merely stating that, since the CT I was objecting to would spell disaster for my FAN Willrow Hood (specifically, Willrow Hood), I'd need someone with 49 to help me make an article on The Ultimate Empire Strikes Back Insider's Guide, apparently an article in Insider 49. Muchos gracias. 15:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Bot cat change
Could you use your bot to change all the "Category:Personnel of Moff Sarne’s forces" to "Category:Personnel of Moff Sarne's forces"? The ' is the difference... --Eyrezer 03:41, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Well it wasn't as easy as normal because the category script had trouble with the apostrophe, but I got it taken care of. —Xwing328 (Talk) 04:18, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated! --Eyrezer 06:31, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey Xwing. I removed the continuity section from Polyhedron 93 because it appears on the page for the actual article involved (here). That strikes me as the appropriate place for such a list. --Eyrezer 06:32, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I undid my revision of your edit. —Xwing328 (Talk) 16:39, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * We seem to be meeting like this regularly these days :) --Eyrezer 22:32, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you change to  please? Cheers. --Eyrezer 11:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Lol, I've got to be more careful. The first time I moved it to Category:Images of Letters. —Xwing328 (Talk) 18:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Typos
I am somewhat embarrassed about the number of corrections you made to Czulkang Lah. Not only am I English, and have yet to discover all the different American ways of spelling things, but I was also rushing to hammer out the article before I went away. Still, it's not really excusable as I see that a simple run through Microsoft Word or something would have made all the difference, something that I will always do in the future. Thanks for being patient and for your support. Harrar 10:06, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * No problem. Firefox underlines a lot of the words for me when they're misspelled anyways; of course, it also thinks a lot of the Star Wars names are wrong :P —Xwing328 (Talk) 21:47, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

64.253.119.216
Hello, could you please block/warn IP: 64.253.119.216, he/she keeps changing the Exile's gender to male. Thanks - Kingpin13Cantina Battle Ground 16:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. —Xwing328 (Talk) 16:23, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Ascension gun

 * I was planing as merging this page with Grappling hook page I don't see why It shouldn't be any information my be nice thanks. I don't see how it cant be the same since the both say Luke used them to kill the same walker but as I said in the Senate Hall I concede.(Thunderer 06:42, 6 June 2008 (UTC))
 * Battle of Hoth will need to be reworded thanks

Lucien Draay on the Jedi High Council
S'up man, name's Master Shannara and I was wondering if you could help me out with the template about the Jedi Council during the Mando Wars. Keep trying to add Draay to it but I dunno how to right. Mind helping me out? User:Master Shannara 06/06/08
 * Looks like somebody already fixed it for you. —Xwing328 (Talk) 15:48, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Published Works Improvement Project
Jedi Apprentice: The Hidden Past has no redlinks. Can you replace it. Cactuar83  ( Yoda's Hut ) 00:18, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

GA
I've found another article for you to GA: Moss :p --Eyrezer 04:10, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Haha thanks ;) Maybe if I find some time I'll see what I can dig up. —Xwing328 (Talk) 04:11, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you change all the Category:Images from Ewoks (Marvel) to Category:Images from Star Wars: Ewoks (Marvel)? Thanks --Eyrezer 13:48, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. —Xwing328 (Talk) 16:35, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm going to put this message here where it will be hard to find. Could you use your bot to change all the Category:Images from Polyhedron to Category:Images from Polyhedron magazines? Thanks --Eyrezer 12:13, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Inq18

 * Is coming up within two days and your attendance would be appreciated. Please see the meeting page for more details. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 17:19, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Bot request

 * Xwing, would it be possible to have Whistler move all the "X (language)" pages to "X language" per our recently closed thread on the matter? I think this is something that would be far easier to have a bot do. ;-) Thanks. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 15:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It might be possible. I've never tried doing page moves like that, but if I have more free time this week I'll check into it. —Xwing328 (Talk) 04:39, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think there's a way I can easily automate it (at least not at my current skill level :P). There weren't too many, maybe ten that I saw, so I just did it most by hand. —Xwing328 (Talk) 00:26, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Inq Meeting Nineteen
Inq Meeting Nineteen has been scheduled for the 25th/26th of July. Your attendance is requested; if you are unable to attend, it would be appreciated if you could leave your thoughts on the agenda items with another Inquisitor or on the meeting page. :-) -- AdmirableAckbar (Talk) 01:09, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Corran objections
Since I'm stuck as an anon, I can't edit the FAN page. I'll be addressing your objections here.
 * That can happen when you're adding in facts as you read them from all kinds of different books and only synthesizing later. Their main link is chronological; the two events have to be next to each other. I've transitioned a little more, but if you still don't like it, I'll try splitting it into two paragraphs.
 * It's not just a P&T thing; it's about events going on in his life, and his time in CorSec. Basically, it's about Horn settling into his job, so it has to go after he gets the job in the preceding paragraph, and as it's already a fact of his life before the Thyne bust, it gets put in before that rather than in the second "General CorSec" section after the bust. If you still want it changed up, I'll try splitting the preceding paragraph and putting his mother's death after it and tying it into his getting the job. Havac 20:40, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You say you edited it? I didn't see any changes in the history. I think I like your suggestion on the second bullet point. —Xwing328 (Talk) 02:28, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Odd. It seems it didn't take. Let's try that again, now with the split implemented.
 * Yes, Ooryl was Rogue Ten. However, his callsign didn't seem that relevant for inclusion.
 * Your right, it's not necessary. Just seemed like a random bit of trivia that might be nice. —Xwing328 (Talk) 22:54, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I clarified that a little. Havac 16:58, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I think that flows a bit better now. —Xwing328 (Talk) 22:54, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that seems to be the case. I handled it. Also, note that your Ooryl objection is still unstruck -- I'm not sure if you mean to have it that way, or if it's an oversight. Havac 00:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

FA Noms
Hey man! You were always helpful with my other FA noms, and was wondering if you would consider looking over my current noms for Andoorni Hui, Groznik and most notably, Gara Petothel. The latter one is long, but I think a good one. Let me know. Thanks! --Colinmcev 23:22, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I've been super busy recently, and I'm also slowly working through Corran Horn for Havac, but if I get time, I will try to help. —Xwing328 (Talk) 01:31, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Re:User talk:Graestan
Well, I didn't want to give anyone the impression they can't do what they want with it, since there will be no MOS restrictions. And I believe there are existing droid FAs with that arrangement, and no major issue with it as-is. I just didn't want to rule the one out, since no "winner" was declared. Graestan ( Talk ) 03:21, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Battle of Coruscant
Could you have a look at Inq/Battle of Coruscant (Clone Wars) before August 17, please. Thank you. Green Tentacle (Talk) 20:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Well I'm just getting moved in after a week of vacation, so I haven't had any free time yet. Just catching up on my tons of emails... —Xwing328 (Talk) 14:26, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Inqmoot
There will be an Inq meeting at midnight UTC, Saturday 6th/Sunday 7th September. Your attendance/input is welcomed. Cheers, -- AdmirableAckbar (Talk) 23:30, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Bot
Could you get your bot to change all links to Template:Galaxy to Template:GalaxyCite? I plan to use the former template for something else and moving it will standardise it with all the others. Cheers, --Eyrezer 07:37, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. —Xwing328 (Talk) 20:00, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, --Eyrezer 23:15, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Galaxy
Whistler is doing one of the same things that caused me to stop trying to use a bot for the great Galaxy decapitation. , where it leaves "the" capitalized. I couldn't get it to only decapitalize "the" when it's not starting a sentence. -- Darth Culator  (Talk) 21:27, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That's what happens when people are stupid enough to capitalize the "The" to begin with. You could write a regex thing to help figure out if it's in the middle of a sentence or not, but I really don't think it's worth the trouble. —Xwing328 (Talk) 21:57, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

CT
I was wondering, since you initiated Forum:CT:New continuity section, if you wanted to be the one to close and implement it, or whether you'd not mind if I carried all that out, since the time's up and the outcome is more than clear. Graestan ( Talk ) 02:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't mind if you close it. I'm super busy in RL, so I appreciate the help. If you don't want to though, I'll try to get around to it within the week. —Xwing328 (Talk) 02:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Inq meeting 21
October's Inq meeting has been scheduled. Please do your best to show up. Toprawa and Ralltiir 16:43, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Bot
Would it be possible to change all instances of the template to  ? --Eyrezer 21:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah. —Xwing328 (Talk) 21:38, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated. --Eyrezer 22:32, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you alter occurrences of Star By Star to Star by Star? Thanks --Eyrezer 02:12, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The only ones are user and talk pages, and only about 10 at that. Most people don't take too kindly to a bot messing with their page. —Xwing328 (Talk) 21:02, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Bot request
Hey, Xwing. I was wondering if it would be possible to bot away all instances of the field "canon=" from all articles containing a media infobox? --Imperialles 19:01, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Most likely, but why did you remove the canon field to begin with? —Xwing328 (Talk) 23:07, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
 * We reached a consensus in the IRC channel to remove them. I can provide the full log if you want more details. --Imperialles 05:36, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I actually talked to some guys about it in IRC last night, too, so that's ok. —Xwing328 (Talk) 00:11, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks alot! --Imperialles 18:08, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Lobar Aybock
Hey Xwing328 -

Glad you enjoyed the story and thanks for putting so much work into Lobar's page!

Only a couple things I noticed (I probably could've changed these myself, but I didn't wanna step on your toes) -

In the first, preamble paragraph, it's stated that the Calians were deemed unfit to be stormtroopers due to being red skinned and near human. In Fists Of Ion it's not specifically stated what the Empire's reasons were for not using Calians. It's probable that this was a factor, but the overlarge T'Syriél were used by S'kar as stormtroopers without a problem and they were far less human looking than Calians (see Marvel Star Wars #53 and the wookiepedia entry on T'Syriél Stormtroopers). I don't say this expressly, but my thought was that the Calians were deemed unmanageable because of their independent nature, which did not take easily to stormtrooper indoctrination. Specifically, their ryastraad battle madness couldn't be harnessed and made them too unpredictable.

Under 'Life As A Shockboxer,' there is a sentence near the beginning which reads...

'Aybock would stay at a hotel relatively close to his shockboxing matches, so that he could run to the arena to get pumped up before the race.' - The word 'race' should be changed to 'fight.'

Some behind the scenes stuff I didn't put in my blog...

The name of Lobar's Chevin manager/cornerman Eedund Cus comes from a combination of Muhammad Ali's real-life boxing cornerman Angelo Dundee and the great Cus D'amato, who trained Mike Tyson.

Lobar's Gungan fight doctor Stitchy is named after the UFC cutman Jacob 'Stitch' Duran.

I began Fists Of Ion wanting to expand on Wayne Humfleet's concept of shockboxing, which was loosely described in the WEG supplement Heroes and Rogues but never fleshed out (due to the fate of WEG). The best and most resonating representation of a boxing hero to me has always been Stallone's Rocky Balboa, so I set out to do a Rocky story in the Star Wars universe. The scene of Lobar running through the streets with all the Rust Rats behind him was the first scene I started with in my head and is a direct translation of the Gonna Fly Now scene in Rocky II. As a further homage to that, 'Lobar Aybock' is a tuckerization of 'Rocky Balboa.'

The other big inspiration for the story was the real life 1938 Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight which at the time had huge societal signifigance - a black American went up against an athlete who represented Hitler's German Aryan ideal...and won. In Star Wars, shockboxing was dominated by Barabels as a Barabel invention (Lobar alludes to the fact that nobody thinks a Barabel can be beat), and nearhumans were certainly considered second class citizens during the reign of the Empire - as it says in the story "not near [human] enough." Lobar was a stand-in for Louis with Tull Raine being a greatly exaagerated Max Schmeling.

Anyway, that's it. Great job on the article! It's a real thrill to be able to look up your own creations on wookiepedia. Being a fan who has browsed and revised these pages myself I know it's all due to a lot of dilligent work.

Thanks, Xwing!

Interwiki links
I am very sorry, I knew that but I didn´t remember it, I apologize for any inconvenience.--Zeist Antilles holomensajes 19:03, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Bot request
I have been talking with Greyman, and he suggested you might be able to help me out. Do to the recent CT decision that "creature" should be used instead of "animal", there are several categories that need to be changed from "animal" titles to "creature" titles, and all of the articles in the old categories have to be recategorized to the new ones. That's more than 800 articles that need their categories changed. I have already created the new categories, so now the articles in the old cats just need to be recategorized. I was hoping you can program a bot to go through all of the articles and subcategories in each of the old categories: And change the categories in those articles to the new ones: Do you think you can help me out? Gray Jedi 05:29, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Category:Aquatic animals
 * Category:Domesticated animals
 * Category:Extinct animals
 * Category:Flying animals
 * Category:Food animals
 * Category:Hunting animals
 * Category:Named animals
 * Category:Aquatic creatures
 * Category:Domesticated creatures
 * Category:Extinct creatures
 * Category:Flying creatures
 * Category:Food creatures
 * Category:Hunting creatures
 * Category:Named creatures
 * No problem. I'll get on it soon. —Xwing328 (Talk) 20:01, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Having a bot go through those hundreds of articles is a better prospect than going through them all manually. Gray Jedi 21:02, 15 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I just wanted to let you know that I've gone ahead and changed the cats for articles in the hunting animals category. It only had 25 articles, so it didn't take too long to do it myself. I'll leave the last two categories for Whistler to take care of. Gray Jedi 01:16, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, done. For future reference, the bot can move the category page for you. It's actually much easier on my end if it hasn't been moved yet, because I can even have the bot delete the old category page. I couldn't do them all last night just because I had other things going on. Let me know if you have any other requests. —Xwing328 (Talk) 05:35, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Bot change
Could you change the category Category:Jedi Purge Survivors to "Category:Jedi Purge survivors"? (Lowercase S). Thanks, --Eyrezer 00:00, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Done. And it looks like I'll be back a bit this coming week after being away for awhile. —Xwing328 (Talk) 01:45, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --Eyrezer 21:12, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

sw.com blog
I don't know if this is the right address, but as you manageing the "wookieepedia" blog on sw.com I want to ask if you may could feature my blog as I'am the only german user of the Jedipedia with his own blog it makes it to some kind of "semi-official" sw.com blog of the jedipedia project. This could may further increase our partnership.--Modgamers 21:03, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I added you to the blog roll, so hopefully more people will see it. Is that what you were looking for? —Xwing328 (Talk) 22:36, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yup. Something like that. --Modgamers 10:16, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Aybock

 * Hey, Xwing, the FAN seems to be languishing a bit. Out of curiosity, are you still planning on working on it? If you've been busy, that's fine&mdash;just wondering if you were still interested. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 01:10, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey, sorry, I just got back in town Friday. Yes, I should be finding time to work on it in the coming week or two. I hardly had any time over the last month being gone, with finals, and other priorities. I'm sure you know how that goes. Anyways, hopefully I can fix it up soon. —Xwing328 (Talk) 21:07, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, sounds good. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 20:22, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

End of 2008 status report: Wormie
I realize that the original goal I set&mdash;which was to nominate Luke for GA by the end of 2008&mdash;was not accomplished. For one, I didn't know exactly how much stuff there is out there on Luke. Turns out, about half of all continuity. Two, I've been distracted with other, smaller projects, particularly over the past few months. However, I've not given up on this idea, and I'm hoping to get a lot more of it done in 2009! Cheers. Atarumaster88  ( Talk page ) 20:22, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Just in case you're curious as to where this little project stands, here are the statistics:
 * 1) Total length: 309 kilobytes, which is 90 KB longer than the actual Luke Skywalker article. Does not include material on the second page.
 * 2) 110 sources crossed off the expansion list.
 * 3) Unique references: 143
 * 4) Net growth over 2008: 180 KB.

Re: Succession boxes
Hi, Xwing. Yes, I would like to have the parenthesis installed into the boxes for the 'predecessor' and 'successor' years. The reason they were left out was because I am not privy to the exact code that needs to be written so they do not appear should those fields be left blank. Any help you could provide would be tremendous. Thank you, sir. &mdash; Fiolli  {Alpheridies University ComNet} 13:41, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing that for me, Xwing. Originally, I had also planned on a color option, but I can discuss that in greater detail with you the next time we are both in IRC. It is nothing imperative or even needed at the moment. It was more for the purpose of greater customization further down the road. Have a great one; and, thanks again! &mdash; Fiolli  {Alpheridies University ComNet} 01:22, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

nameless categories
Hey Xwing328, I've just seen some "nameless"-categories, and wanted to ask if your bot could recategorize the content of these categories into new categories. The old categories are: And the new ones: I'd appreciate if you could do this.  Pranay Sobusk  ~  Talk  11:51, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Category:Images of nameless Sith
 * Category:Images of nameless Jedi
 * Category:Images of nameless individuals
 * Category:Images of unidentified Sith
 * Category:Images of unidentified Jedi
 * Category:Images of unidentified individuals
 * Done! —Xwing328 (Talk) 17:36, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Great. Thank you for doing this.  Pranay Sobusk  ~  Talk  20:48, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Inqmoot 23
The twenty-third Inq meeting has been scheduled for Saturday, February 21st at 7pm Eastern time. Your presence or input on the meeting page would be appreciated. Graestan ( Talk ) 15:58, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry
Sorry about the FOTJ Villain question on Senate Hall, I didn't read the rules, thanks for telling me. -User:Jedi Master Craighead

FYI

 * There's been some issues with Battle, just so you know. GT's been working on it, but apparently the auto-sizing is off. Or something. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 00:21, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * See Battle of Bothawui (Galactic Civil War). The div sticks to the width property, but the table inside it apparently stretches to fit the text in it, ignoring the width and causing some overlapping with the article text. Green Tentacle (Talk) 00:26, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the same thing happens with anything like Character infobox if you put a long enough word in it. I'll try to think of something. —Xwing328 (Talk) 00:55, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It looks like the width on .infobox in MediaWiki:Common.css is causing the problem. I'm pretty sure this can be safely removed and everything would work, but it would affect all infobox templates, so there might be some unforeseen side effect. —Xwing328 (Talk) 01:16, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I've managed to get it working in both Firefox and IE7. It's still not perfect (the round top had to go along the way and it shrinks horizontally as well as vertically when you click hide) but it seems to render properly so I think this is as good as it'll get unless you can find a better fix. Green Tentacle (Talk) 23:35, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Whistler request
Me again. Sorry to bother you but Hyperspace needs some changes that I'm hoping Whistler can help me with. You modified the template a while ago to allow for pages at 'starwars.com/fans/hyperspace/' as well as 'starwars.com/hyperspace/member/' but not all Hyperspace content fits into either of these now. Fists of Ion, for example, is at 'starwars.com/hyperspace/fiction/'. The only constant is the 'starwars.com' bit, so I want to change the pre-filled part of the URL in the template to that and then force people to supply the rest. This will make it a lot more flexible, but leaves us needing to change all the pages that already use it. Would it be possible for Whistler to change the URL parameters appropriately based on whether or not the new parameter is set? Thanks. Green Tentacle (Talk) 01:31, 21 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Should be possible. I'm not feeling to good right now, but I should get to it this weekend. —Xwing328 (Talk) 03:11, 21 February 2009 (UTC)