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Help
Hi. bud. thanks for the structure infobox, hope people star using it on the other articles. I've made a new template.Template:Organization infobox. Could you elp me with a problem. I put in leader, where I needed to and it comes out as Height. That goes for all of them. How do I permenetly put the titles on? -- Jabba   10:42, 13 September 2006 (UTC)‎
 * I'll see what I can do :) – 21:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It's stated on it's talk page. But, Thanks bud. Sorry I kept making you do this, but it seems that we were missing a few boxes. Is there a direction page to make them? It's kinda confusing.
 * No problem. There probably should be instructions on how to make them, but it is all rather technical and it would require a lot of time to write. At one point, I intended to add a relevant section to my template tutorial, but I just haven't had the time or modivation required to do so.– 22:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That is fine. we don't need to to worry about it right now. thanks for the help and I'll add it to as much organizations that I know about. -- Jabbathehuttgartogg [[Image:Desilijic Clan (Jabba’s Tattoo) .jpg|20px]] [[Image:Desilijic Clan (Jabba’s Tattoo) .jpg|20px]] 22:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Ship Templates
Whoops. Didn't know there already was one.

Cheers,  Relentless Recusant  02:03, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I think that my new one looks rather stylish, although that's just my opinion. We can discuss if you wanna pull a speedy on it. Cheers,  Relentless Recusant [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] 02:05, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Help! Can you help me not display the tech details section of your infobox on the Ahazi page? And also, what's wrong with displaying tech details that aren't modified, so that readers don't have to click the link to the ship's class to see what weapons a ship carries and stuff? Cheers,  Relentless Recusant [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] 10:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your prompt reply.


 * 1. Alright. Could you state how to hide the things more clearly in your tutorial? That'd make it much easier.


 * 2. For the clarification, it means that on the article Black Asp, putting in that it had 24 starfighters, 20 quad lasers, etc...along with its sole mod.


 * Cheers,  Relentless Recusant [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] 01:44, 21 September 2006 (UTC)!

Campaign box
Hi Sentry. I tried to make a campaign box for the Second Corellian Insurrection here but it is too wide. The width modifier doesn't seem to be working. Can you fix it? --Eyrezer 06:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * K, I fixed it. There was just an extra pipe ("|") symbol in the template call. It was overriding the  |1=  statement. Cheers, 06:57, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks --Eyrezer 03:50, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, no problem :) – 00:37, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Userpage problem
Hi Sentry. I've been told you're the go-to-guy for code, and I was wondering if you would help me out with a problem on my userpage.

As you can see when you look at it, the menus to the left and tabs on top of the page are smaller font that they should be, and at the bottom of the page the text leaks out of the white box and the small text problem continues there as well.

I have found that removing a section fixes the problem, but I don't notice any such problem with userpages twice the size of mine. This makes me think it may be something wierd in the code, but I'm no good with code, so I have no idea what it is.

I was wondering if you could take a look and see if you can do anything about it. Feel free to edit and play around with the code in my userpage if that's what you need to do. Thanks for your time. - Angel Blue 451 01:40, 26 September 2006 (UTC) Also, (sorry to bother you again), why is the date and time text in my sig (and all text afterwords) small like this? I didn't set it to be. I'm terrible at coding :( -  Angel Blue 451 (Holonet) 20:43, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Reply.– 05:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very, very much. -  Angel Blue 451 (Holonet)[[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] 20:43, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Glad I could help :-) – 20:48, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Never mind, fixed. Sorry to bother you. -  Angel Blue 451 (Holonet)[[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] 20:43, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I was just about to respond. Looks like you had a missing  tag.– 20:48, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Well, at least I'm learning. -  Angel Blue 451 (Holonet)[[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] 20:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Template help!
Hi Sentry: I have two favours to ask related to templates. The first is at User talk:Vymer: we'd like to change the name of one of the fields in the ship templates. The second is at Kinnin Vo-Shay: I tried everything I could think of, and the infobox still has white text on a white background. If you have time, could you check those out? Thanks, &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 03:28, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The problem with the Kinnin Vo-Shay template is a result of a rather nasty bug in the Character infobox. The glitch has to do with assigning color values to the headingcolor and bgcolor fields. If you include a statement such as "|headingcolor=" or "|bgcolor=", but don't assign a color value to the variable, the box will break. As such, the only way to fix the problem is to remove those statements from the template call (which is what I did).– 17:31, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! &mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 21:24, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yup. I'll have to fix that template one of these days. That will be a big job&hellip; – 21:44, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I fixed the various infobox templates now so that they will not break when the "|BG1=" or "|BG2=" fields are present, but not assigned a value within the templcate call.– 08:35, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Jedipedia.de needs help!
Hi Sentry! I'm Ben Kenobi from Jedipedia.de and we need help with our era-template. I also wrote to Sikon, but you did the last changes to your template, so I thought, maybe you can help either. I've copied the majority of your source but there is a problem we can't cure: The icons are above each other, not beside. We can't find our mistake, so maybe you have an idea? Please, look at our Template. Thanks for the help. Ben Kenobi (217.236.237.31 20:56, 29 September 2006 (UTC)) Cheers, 21:24, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I saw the message you left for Sikon and I was actually just looking into it&hellip; – 20:59, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, I am not sure what the root of the problem is, but if you replace the source code of your Ära Template with the following code, it should work just fine:

KOTOR template
Hi Sentry. I tried to add something to the kotor template, but it doesn't seem to be working. Is this some sort of cache problem or did I do something dumb? Thanks. --Azizlight 09:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Eras
I had an idea and thought I'd run it past you rather than give it a thread. On the various character infobox templates, there is the useful template info that can be cut and pasted onto the article page. To encourage people to put in the era at the same time, how about we put   there as well? It wouldn't need to be integrated into the template of course. I can do it myself but wanted some feedback first. --Eyrezer 05:07, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'm probably being obtuse, but I don't understand what you are suggesting. http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4700/huhgr0.gif Do you want to add instructions for adding the eras template to the character infobox template pages? If so, that would be a pretty good idea. Would you mind clarifying that a bit? Thnx. – 21:27, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * My fault if the explanation isn't clear. Basically I'm assuming people cut and paste the fields for Character infoboxes, and seem to forget to put in the era template. I often find myself putting this afterwards for other people. If the era template field was put onto the pages, it seems to me people wouldn't forget. I edited the Yuuzhan Vong character infobox to demonstrate what I mean. --Eyrezer 04:53, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Ya, that sounds like a good idea, but we may want to seperate the instructions for the eras template from the infobox instructions so that it doesn't confuse people:


 * That could work, although it still involve two cut and pastes. The other way may be simpler. --Eyrezer 23:39, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

MGLT
Recently, I had removed some of the MGLT listings from a few ship articles because I was of the view that since in those cases we already knew their acceleration in Gs, MGLT was unecessary. However, the main reason I removed them was the "maximum speed" part of the description made little sense in space (there being no maximum speed per se) and acceleration Gs was a much better descriptor. I was talking with Silly Dan on my talkpage and he suggested asking you whether it would be possible to change the template so that MGLT contains no reference to "maximum speed"?Vymer 08:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Dammit, I didn;t notice Silly Dan had already asked! Dumb me. Sorry!Vymer 08:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, don't worry about it. Reply.– 17:40, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Creating Official Userbox Templates
Okay, none of the admins are paying attention to the proposal page and it has been more than two weeks for some... So, out of goodwill to the populace of Wookieepedia, how do you create something like this:

Commander Darc (GAR)  02:11, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * The easiest way to create a userbox is to use the userbox template. Otherwise, you would have to copy the source code from another userbox and modify it for your own needs, but that would require some knowledge of HTML and CSS.– 21:09, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, I've I know a little about HTML, so if you could post the instructions on my talk page, I would be most thankful. Commander Darc  (GAR) [[Image:Galactic_Republic.JPG|20px]] 20:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Award

 * Sentry, since Redemption changed the pic for the Amidala award, and the voting is 11-0, can you go ahead and add it to the award que? Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 03:47, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If I was an admin, I would be happy to do so, but since I am not, I think that you might want to ask one of them to do it. I only added the wookiee cookie award to the awards page because it had sat in limbo on the proposal page for over a month and because users were already beginning to use it.– 04:36, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay. I'll ask one of them. Thanks. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] ( Audience Chamber ) 14:36, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Era icons
Hey Sentry! I made two new era icons to be used with eras. I know you had talked about changing them to something similar before, but nothing ever happened with that. If you like them, I'll go ahead and use them. The images and related discussion is at the bottom of this page. 18:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC) Secondly, about combining the "eras" and "title" templates, I can try and mock something up tonight.– 20:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, should we try to merge eras and title into some sort of header template, so that they can work better together? 18:27, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * In response to your first comment, the discussion over at Forum:Era/Star troubles has rather convinced me that marking "good" and "featured" articles with the star and checkmark era icons may not be a good idea. For a while, I tested out some possible alternatives, but no one really seemed interested so I let it go. Maybe we should start a new forum discussion about it?
 * I tried something early, basically I just stuck the two templates together, and it seems to work pretty well. See here. Of course, it makes you specify the title with "title=WhateverYouWant". This could be a pain to implement with all of them. I'll start a forum tonight to see if people want to change the icons. 22:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I haven't gotten back to you on the title-era combination template. I just haven't had the time to mess with it yet.– 06:43, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:Sith Triumvirate
Hello!

Why isn't it necessary?

If you're concernee about the messed up coding, I'll fix it today when I get a chance.

Cheers,

 Relentless Recusant  16:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC) =UserBoxes= Hey Sentry, I was wondering if you could give me the instructions on how to make userboxes?BobafettH23 12:35, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I tagged the Sith Triumvirate template with deletebecause because I don't see why it is needed. Navigation templates are meant to tie together collections of similar articles in order to improve site navigation, but the template you created does not do that. It just lists a bunch of articles that are only vaguely tied to a certain topic &mdash; the 'so called' Sith Triuvarate. Where exactly are you planning on putting the template once it is finished? Because I cannot think of any fitting place for it except for the actual Sith Triumvirate article. As such, we don't really need a template at all &mdash; the information can just be integrated into the text body of that article.– 01:07, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmmm&hellip; users keep asking me this question and I am never sure how to answer. I guess that I will give you the same answer that I gave Commander Darc above. The easiest way to create a userbox is to use the userbox template. Otherwise, you have to copy the source code from another userbox and modify it for your own needs, but that requires some knowledge of HTML and CSS. – 20:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes
Hey Sentry, need any help with userboxes? 11:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry Brain40, I hadn't noticed this message before. What sort of help were you offering?– 08:14, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry I'm late, but I wanted to offer help by asking you if you wanted any custom userboxes made, or if you knew of anyone else who does. 11:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Signature
Hey Sentry! Thanks for fixing my signature! I did not notice that it did not work... In fact, I'm not used to write on discussions and I did not really know how to create my own signature :P. I'll try to get involved in more discussions :)  Battle Surgeon  talk  Battle Surgeon  talk – 16:33, 17 October 2006 (PDT)
 * No prob. :)  16:29, 17 October 2006 (PDT)
 * By the way, the working code for your sig is:
 * Thank you very much again :D That will be useful :)  Battle Surgeon  talk
 * You're welcome :) – 20:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Userboxes
Hi, I think we have the same ideas regarding userboxes. I went on and worked on a Kenner and Hasbro set of userboxes before I saw you were working on them--had an edit conflict when I tried to save. If you have anything that's better, feel free to replace my feeble attempts. I think we're on the same page.  - breathesgelatin Talk 06:17, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, nice work! It is kinda strange, but they look exactly like the versions I had just started to play with. The only thing that I may tweak is the images. I have found some slightly higher resolution logos on the web that would fit nicely in the userboxes as well as the Hasbro and Kenner articles. Cheers, 06:38, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Jar Jar Binks
Hello, Sentry. I'm just going around to a few Wookiepedians who's opinions I respect, and asking them for their opinion. I'm close to submitting Jar Jar Binks to FA, and I was just wondering if you could give me your opinion. . .  .  .  07:25, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I can look into it. I should warn you, however, that I may be somewhat biased. I am not exactly Jar Jar's greatest fan ;-) – 07:59, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Neither am I. I just know TPM like the back of my hand. .  .  .  .  08:00, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm a Jar Jar fan.--SWME 14:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

FA/GA images
Do you agree to release them to GFDL, or even public domain? --Imp 07:55, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Huh? What are you referring to?– 07:59, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The new Featured Article star and Good Article check mark. Do you agree to release them under GNU Free Documentation License, so that the wiki may use it freely? --Imp 08:01, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, they can be released as public domain. I have no special attachment to them.– 08:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! =) --Imp 08:06, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem :) – 08:10, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

RFA
You've been nominated for adminship at the RFA page. Please state whether or not you accept the nomination. =) --Imp 21:45, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, I didn't expect that. Hmmm&hellip; I am going to need to think about it a bit. I will give you an answer tonight.– 22:06, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I really hadn't even considered becoming an admin before and I am quite humbled by the nomination. It has been a rather tough decision for me to choose whether or not to accept it because I am a perfectionist and I tend to take this sort of thing quite seriously. It is a rather large commitment and wanted to be sure that I was prepared for the extra responsibility. After some though, I have decided to accept the nomination :) – 06:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Proposal
Sentry, I have a question, how exactly does someone make a proposed userbox or proposed award official? 10:43, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * All that you have to do is create the award or userbox proposal and then post them on Award Proposals or Userbox proposal. The community will then be allowed to vote for two weeks in order to decide whether or not to accept the proposal. At the end of that deadline, the proposal will either be removed from the page or it will become an official award/userbox. I hope that answers you question :) – 22:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I pretty much knew that, but who exactly makes them official, is it automatic, or does someone do it themself? 19:00, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No it isn't automatic. Usually an admin makes the proposal official, but other users can do it as well. In the case of userbox proposals and some awards, a template has to be created, but the majority of award proposals are simply moved from the proposal page to the Awards page once they are made official.– 01:00, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * How exactly does one make them official, (technically speaking)? 21:37, 3 ovember 2006 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? As I said above, approved userbox proposals and some award proposals, require the creation of a template, but the majority of award proposals are made official simply by moving them from the proposal page to the Awards page once they are approved by the community.– 07:10, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * What I meant was, how does someone make a template out of a userbox or award proposal? 12:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Alright, you can create a template in the same way that you would create another page. The only difference is that a template page is created with the "Template:" prefix in front of the name. So if you wanted to create a template named "newTemplate", you would create a page named Template:NewTemplate. Then, you would just add the code from the userbox or award proposal to the template page and save it.– 23:27, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

501st sizing
In case you were wondering, I'd initially made the 501st userbox a larger size to provide a better view of the 501st logo. I was unaware of any sizing restrictions for userboxes. Since the voting, so far, has been unanimously in favour of the box I thought you'd like to know that I feel that your slightly smaller box is better than the one by Xwing, and if you want to use that size when you recommend the 501st box to the admins (since you seem to be the one doing most of that lately), go ahead.Tocneppil 04:52, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for the help with the latin language logo. I got busy while I was doing it and probably forgot to finish it. I did have a question though, how can I get the logos to line up in two rows? It looks like it's almost there on my user page, but the last button is wrong.

PS, I cleaned up some of the Darth Malak article. I mainly redid the grammar, fixed some small spelling mistakes, and reworded a few things to make it flow better. Where should I post that though, other than here?

ChinaMonroe 02:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC) PS: Great job on the Malak article. It has needed a decent copyedit for some time&hellip; – 06:10, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * You welcome =) As for your question about userboxes, you can arrange them in a single column using userboxtop and userboxbottom. If you want them to line up in two rows, you will need to use a table:


 * Thanks, that code helped. See ya around! 70.183.227.36 21:22, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Awards
Sentry, I proposed an award on the award proposals page, and it has eleven votes for it, and no objections, and it has been on the proposals page for about over a week, can it become official now? 20:00, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I am not really the person to ask&hellip; Usually it takes two weeks for a proposal to become official.– 04:57, 8 November 2006 (UTC)