User talk:Riffsyphon1024

Three things:

 * I'm not an administrator here (yet), so I have asked Angela to add that "Create a new article" link if a search comes up empty. I'm an admin now, and actually so are you.
 * In Wikipedia, I've added a template that we can "flag" an article to be moved over here.
 * I am checking on the possibility of getting articles transwikied so we can move history, discussion pages, and all. I'll let you know as more develops on that.

Episode III
I assume you've seen the new trailer by now. Man, this movie looks so good. 'course I've like Eps I and II both (unlike alot of people). Just wanted to see what you thought. Anakin fighting Dooku; Mace fighting Palpatine; Yoda fighting Palpatine. Man, this is gonna rock! Cbarbry 06:09, 16 Mar 2005 (GMT)
 * Yes, indeed I have seen the trailer and I rewatch it on my computer whenever I need a rush. I enjoyed Episodes I and II however it is noted that Jar Jar will always be irritating to everyone. I showed them to my father to get him caught up before III and showed him the plan behind Palpatine, so it all clicks for him now. I have seen all I need to see before the movie itself. No more spoilers I need to see. I heard that we'll see up to 11 planets in this one: Coruscant, Tatooine, Naboo, Alderaan, Mustafar, Kashyyyk, Utapau, and a few others I can't think of right now. The trailer was one of the best trailers put together, if not the best.

"Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?"
 * and

"You were the Chosen One!"
 * are the greatest quotes ever. -- Riffsyphon1024 17:05, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * Yes, I almost got chills when he said, "Are you threatening me, Master Jedi?" Then the way he flicks that lightsaber out and "pounces" down in front of them...pretty dang cool!  Excellent trailer!  And yeah, I'm not much of a spoiler guy, either.  I've got a buddy who reads all the spoiler forums at the TFN and he'll try to tell me some theory he read every once in a while.  I just have to tell him to keep it to himself.  :D  Cbarbry 23:28, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * Checking the Art of Revenge at SW.com, I have found that most everything I have seen there is in Episode III.
 * It is interesting to note that there are scenes of a new planet called Mygeeto with crystalline formations and giant worms, bridges on Cato Neumoidia, and an image of Ithorians protecting their homeworld of Ithor . Will we see these planets too? -- Riffsyphon1024 20:07, 17 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * And let us not forget Dagobah. That makes 11. -- Riffsyphon1024 21:19, 17 Mar 2005 (EST)

Adminship
Congrats on becoming an admin. Couldn't think of a better SW nut if I had to. ^_^

P.S. Once you've read this, you can delete it if you don't want it taking up space. Shadowtrooper 22:07, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * I think this can stay here. Thanks for celebrating. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:35, 16 Mar 2005 (EST)

Name change
Just letting you know that I'm officially changing my name from CBarbry to WhiteBoy. Less personal; more private. It's a name I've used for years online, and I regret using my real name in the first place. (Dunno what I was thinking.) You never what wackos are out there, ya know? :p I'm going to change it over at WP, too. 01:10, 20 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * I didn't even know it was a real name. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:16, 20 Mar 2005 (EST)

How to Use Fonts
If you're using Windows, copy the fonts to C:\Windows\Fonts folder. --LouCypher &#9742; 17:01, 27 Mar 2005 (EST)
 * It warns not to change the contents of the folder as things inside there make my computer work. I will find another way without these fonts. -- Riffsyphon1024 22:38, 27 Mar 2005 (EST)

Thanks
Thank you for fixing my mistake on List of Star Wars races. I hadn't realized that the Compact TOC required any reformatting (*smacks forehead*). -- Aidje 00:42, 13 Apr 2005 (EDT)
 * Yea, that can be a hassle unless you know how the system works. It searches for the letters, not the names. Anyone could make the same mistake, so don't fret. -- Riffsyphon1024 01:12, 13 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Yuuzhan Vong
i, I was wondering if you could help me improve the Yuuzhan Vong Caterory up a bit? Possibly create a Peace Brigade Category, Create a page for Supreme Overlord Shimrra, etc, etc.

SGCommand
 * Are you referring to Category:Yuuzhan Vong characters? I think we could create a new Yuuzhan Vong category that includes everything related to them. Also see if a Shimrra page has been created already at Wikipedia. -- Riffsyphon1024 20:00, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Would you be willing to do a page for the Peace Brigade as I know very little about the organisation? Also write a page fr its President Thracken Sal-Solo aas I again know little about him? SGCommand
 * Uhhhhhhhhh, I know nothing on either two. Just make a to-do list for someone that does know something on them to create later. Place these articles in there with redlinks giving instantaneous access for editing and creation. Thanks though for thinking of me highly, however I'm not a SW god quite yet. -- Riffsyphon1024 01:21, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Help!
Riffsyphon, you have to help me! You are like totally the creator of this site, and I need help! Two things, actually. Two people called User:Darth Fisto and User:Aidje are saying that I shouldn't transfer Wikipedia articles here! I see that you are a supporter of such transfers, so is it fair that they are complaining? I know its a free country, but I mean, it's OK to transfer Wikipedia articles here, if they're good, right? Also, how do you put pictures on Star Wars Wiki? Do you paste? KFan II First off, KFan II, I am only a co-founder of this site. Talk to WhiteBoy as he is the true founder and would know what to do. As for what I think we are to be doing, we are copying articles from Wikipedia as is, and then wookifying them to suit this wiki better. And pictures are not pasted. They are uploaded. You need to follow the instructions on the image upload page. -- Riffsyphon1024 22:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Clarification of the issue: The complaints were not about transferring articles from Wikipedia because Wookieepedia did not have an article about the subject in question; the problem was that KFan II was completely replacing existing SWW articles with WP articles. I hope this clears it up for you, Riffsyphon. I think there are some good examples on the movie articles. Darth Fisto reverted some of these edits, though (an action which I wholeheartedly approve of). -- Aidje 04:01, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Link to your website
The link provided on your user page to your "crappy website" comes up as a 404 (or GeoCities' equivalent of a 404). Just thought you might want to know. -- Aidje 15:33, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Kosure's Copyright Issues
Hey Riffy, I was wondering if you emailed Ben from About: Star Wars. He e-mailed me, and said that he got a few emails, and I was wondering if one of them was from you. Anyway, we can talk about it in the Community talk page. --Kosure 17:29, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Template:DF-JK and Template:NJO
If you've been on my work-in-progress page you've probably seen the NJO template. I also did something like it for the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight videogame series (basically ripoffs of Template:Films). I was thinking that all of the longer game and book series could use one. It would save on space, help to interconnect articles, and provide some uniformity. These first two are more or less to see what general reation to them would be. Any feedback would be appreciated. Shadowtrooper 20:11, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I have been thinking about this, too, but I had in mind a box that would link to the next book and previous book in a series&mdash;sort of the same idea as the links provided on battle articles for the next and previous battle. The NJO box seems a bit large, but I suppose I could get used to it. By the way, I recently made a box that could be used for trilogys: Template:trilogy-box (since they only have three parts, I see no problem with linking to all of them, as well as to an article about the trilogy as a whole). -- Aidje 14:39, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Repulsor coils?
Hey, I was looking at you're superb repoulor entry. and noticed that there isn't a link to repulsor coil. Granted, that is my entry, and its new, but i thought there should be some connection, and I thought I should let you do it to your own article. --Kosure 16:37, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This is the great thing about Wikis - if you think something should have more information, just add it. No one's article is "their own" - there's nothing proprietary here. If you don't want to interrupt the flow of Riffsyphon's text, just tack it on as a "See Also" at the end. JSarek 18:13, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Manual of Style
If allowed, I'd like to help out with the MoS, but I don't know where to start. Shadowtrooper 01:56, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * You don't need permission. Just add an entry, and toss it into the edit frenzy. It'll come out as group consensus in the end. I think it helps to provied as much supporting evidence as possible, of course.--Eion 02:03, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * But again, where to start? The harder I think about it, the more blank my brain becomes.  I need a jumpstart.  I had lots of ideas before, they just won't come now. Shadowtrooper 02:17, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * you could start with a firm stance on bullet versus indent. Personally, I like bullets in all comment pages, and the indents are driving me nuts...
 * This is the way it should be
 * And this is what annoys me. Indents are not for comments.
 * --Eion 02:22, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Sure funny to watch a whole conversation develop without me even responding on my own talk page to it. Lol. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:58, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * All I ever saw on Wikipedia was indents, so I assumed that this was the accepted method. Riffsyphon was the first person I saw use bullets, and I do like having a dot before each new comment. I say bullets are for new comments, indents are for multiple paragraphs by the same commenter. But maybe that's just me? -- Aidje 03:51, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, of course, indents are quite useful to wrap multipled paragraphs, but using them to start new comments is most annoying, at least to me, b/c it messes up the bulleting, which is the best way to show branching comment trees, IMHO--Eion 03:53, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, you've just gone and ruined that now, haven't you?--Eion 04:00, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Branching? Even with bullets, I don't see how it could be much more than linear. Oh, hello Riffsyphon. What are you doing here? -- Aidje 04:19, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, here I might make some comment about your reply
 * You (or another user) would make a comment about my comment
 * Another user makes a comment about my post as well, perhaps insulting me or critiquing my spelling, or making a joke that doesn’t further the discussion at all
 * Then, someone might make a comment to your original post
 * I might critique that user's reply
 * He might critique me
 * My rebuttal to his critique
 * etc
 * Make any sense?--Eion 04:30, 5 May 2005 (UTC)


 * hmm. It makes sense, but it falls apart whenever anyone doesn't notice the structure (like me). They start posting as if it was all linear, and then there is not structure anymore. I can see how that would be beneficial, though. I was just saying I like the bullets because they provide a nice little "this is a new comment" marker, if nothing else. -- Aidje 13:07, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Planets of Star Wars Count
I lost count. If you correctly guess how many there are, you might get a cookie. Heh-heh. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:53, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I count 4,099--Eion 00:37, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * And now we see the problem with the cookie plan . . . who's going to check to see that he's right? ;-) JSarek 00:38, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Now how did you come up with that answer, Eion? -- Riffsyphon1024 00:55, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * "The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider unnatural." I used a very accurate method often employed by students.--Eion 01:01, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Word count. I deleted the heading letters and edit links, and let MS Word do the footwork.--Eion 02:00, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Ha. Well at least now I don't have to do it the hard way. You be will directly responsible for updating me on the number of planets from now on. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:03, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This is what I get for raising my hand, more responsibility. Oh, brother ;-)--Eion 02:05, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Images
Would you happen to know how to replace an already uploaded image? I've looked for instructions on Wikipedia, but I can't find anything. The situation is this: I uploaded Image:Ivpikkis.png, then, after uploading it, I noticed the gray border. I've removed the border in GIMP, and now I can't figure out how to upload the improved version. Thanks. -- Aidje 17:39, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Um, I think you can overwrite the file using the same name. Try that. -- Riffsyphon1024 18:38, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that worked. I thought I had already tried that and got an error message, but maybe I did something wrong. I tried it again just to be sure, and whaddaya know, it worked. Thanks. -- Aidje 19:18, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Palpatine/Sidious
You might want to check out Talk:Palpatine and Talk:Darth Sidious, Mr. Sysop Sir. – Aidje talk 23:10, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I had in mind that you might want to use your sysop-ness to revert KFan's edits. For instance, Palpatine is now just a redirect to Darth Sidious. Reverting a change that big is difficult without the rollback button. – Aidje talk 15:41, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Amanin and Maridun
Hi Riffsyphon -- I put some of the information you moved from the Amanin article to the Maridun article back in. It seems to me that information on how the Amanin interacted with the rest of the galaxy should be put in both articles (just as information would be repeated across Wikipedia articles on, for example, the Zulu people and the History of South Africa). Silly Dan 01:42, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yea, I was wondering if that was too much to move stuff over rather than just copy it. -- Riffsyphon1024 03:55, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Lak Sivrak
Hi, just wondering where you found out who Lak Sivrak's parents were. --Mantus 18:36, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Source was Essential Guide to Alien Species under Shistavanen. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:32, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Um however, the last name "Sivrak" could be a common name. Hmm... it said a Shistavanen student at the University of Coruscant reported "My parents, Tagg and Nira Sivrak..." and then..."studying cartography has been my dream since my uncle showed his great heroism as a pilot for the Rebel Alliance". Ah I found it out. That student's father's brother was Lak Sivrak. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:40, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Unknown Sivrak |                 |       ---       |                              |       |                              |  Tagg Sivrak                    Lak Sivrak |        Nira |         |             |          Sivrak student

Great thanks for that interesting bit of information --Mantus 14:11, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of Bakura task force ships
In what cases do we want to leave articles as locked redirects to avoid their recreation? --SparqMan 18:09, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I deleted the double redirects that had "The" in their titles, which is unnecessary. Also I checked to make sure nothing linked to them, and nothing did. When we make an article in the future, it will be without the "The", and those still exist. -- Riffsyphon1024 18:14, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh I understand that, I was just asking in a general sort of way. I guess we can cross the bridge when we get to it. --SparqMan 20:35, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Community Portal archive
The current Community Portal talk page is starting to get a bit big. A few of the topics are quiet now, and can probably be archived. --SparqMan 20:36, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Episode III
Have you seen ROTS yet. It really is great, and the acting is far better than Episodes 1 + 2, Ian McDiarmid is brilliantly creepy. It was a bit of a shame not to hear the Lord Vader, Riiiiiiiiissssssssseee and some of the other lines from the trailer which were not edited together in the actual film.

It was a shame to see Ki Adi Mundi (probably my favourite council member) get killed. Also i was wondering: I heard a rumour that Lucas appeared himself in the film but i couldn't spot him. Do you know where he is supposed to appear? --Mantus 12:04, 21 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Oops sorry, i didn't read the new note on the user page. Hope you enjoy the film when you see it --Mantus 12:41, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Haha. It's ok, I just got in after seeing it and I agree with you that its an awesome movie, with some audio kinks that can be fixed before DVD release. Lucas supposedly appears in the Opera House. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:49, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks for that I'll see if i can spot him when i see it again --Mantus 12:26, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Look for the blue-faced Baron Papanoida. -- Riffsyphon1024 17:21, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Star Wars:List of common misspellings
I would appreciate it if you would repond to my comment on Star Wars talk:List of common misspellings. I'm guessing that it has merely escaped your attention. – Aidje talk 21:50, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I responded. -- Riffsyphon1024 22:39, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I responded to your response. :-) – Aidje talk 23:15, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm fixing all the misspellings. -- Riffsyphon1024 23:19, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Uh, no offense, but are you just avoiding the issue at hand? I don't see any reason for the correct spellings to not be listed in parentheses. Why do you think they were messing things up? – Aidje talk 23:54, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It may not have been locating all the misspellings for us if we added all these correct spellings in there, or might have been confused. Also when I said "fixing all the misspellings" I meant on the articles with those misspelt words. -- Riffsyphon1024 18:37, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I understand that you think it might have been confused, but I ask again: What evidence did you have of this? Did you encounter some error, or are you merely assuming it incapable of using the syntax which it itself suggests? I have not encountered any errors, that is why I fail to see your reasoning. Please enlighten me. I don't mean to be rude, but I can't see any logic in your actions, and you don't seem to understand that I'm asking for your reason. Either that, or you just don't want to explain. All I'm asking is: Did you encounter some error? Because I didn't. – Aidje talk 18:50, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * *Shrugs* -- Riffsyphon1024 18:55, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Uh, so you... did not encounter an error? As I said, I don't mean to be rude, but would you consider reinstating the parenthesized words until a known problem surfaces? *pleading smile* I looked up Wikicities:Wikicities:List of common misspellings and it uses the parentheses format. I know I can be quite stubborn; I hope I'm not upsetting you. – Aidje talk 19:16, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry about that. Sometimes I don't know what I'm doing. If you say that the Wikipedia format is the same, then you are more correct than I am. -- Riffsyphon1024 19:18, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * It's actually the Wikicities format. The Wikipedia format is some strange modification to account for the fact that it's too big to use the maintenance page. I should have looked this up long ago, I'm sure it would have helped us figure this out a lot quicker. Sorry about all of the confusion. – Aidje talk 19:21, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Damn, I must not really be reading right today... -- Riffsyphon1024 19:23, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

KFan II
Have you seen what KFan put on Gend's (and others) user page? I think that he should be warned about putting comments on people's user pages to try and convert them to his views! --Darth Mantus 18:26, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Gen.d quoted KFan on his user page. KFan didn't actually post that there, it's from Talk:Darth Sidious. – Aidje talk 18:54, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, and I have warned him to stop badgering our users and forcing them to his view. Damn KFan thinks he's the Emperor. -- Riffsyphon1024 18:42, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you re-added this. That fool is beginning to annoy me. For some reason he regards my (and others) opinion as 'wrong', despite the fact it is supported by more evidence than his own, which he has yet to display any evidence for. Further, he keeps insisting that "democracy is an illusion", whilst failing to realise that democracy fails because of people like him, forcing their views on to others as being 'correct'. Add that with the fact that he decided to spam everyone's talk boards, either congratulating them or condescending them (of course according to whether they agreed with his opinion), and I for one wouldn't be sorry if he was banned. --Fade 18:49, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Thought you might like to know
Apparently, Lucasfilm has a database the call "The Holocron". It's a continuity database. Here's a quick list of its stats:
 * Characters: 7,633
 * Planets: 3,311
 * Aliens: 713
 * Creatures: 1,190
 * Vehicles: 2,202
 * Weapons: 1,031
 * Groups: 1,433

Please note that not all of these entries have been released (some may be in development). According to the guy in charge of it: "There are no current plans to make the Holocron available to the public either in an online or published version. In addition to being an archive for information that has already been published, the Holocron is a tool to track everything that is currently in development. Information is entered at the earliest stages, so there is information about products that won't be released until years later. It is also used to store unpublished reference information." That's a whole lot of stuff in the SWU, it would appear we have our work cut out for us.

More info: and Shadowtrooper 02:14, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes we do, but that is the intent of this site. With an unlimited amount of memory, we have easily eclipsed Wikipedia's amount of Star Wars content, and are charging hard towards even larger numbers of articles. I hope that this site becomes a premier venue for information that can be constantly updated by hundreds at a time thus getting the job done faster than a few or even one individual on another site. May the Force Be With Us. -- Riffsyphon1024 02:17, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

LOTR advertisement
With my advertisement for the LOTR wikicity I was only trying to spark some interest. Over at LOTR we have only just got going and we need lots of help to make the site a success, so I thought that perhaps some of the people over here might be interested in giving a little of their time to helping over at LOTR. I'm sorry if I am syphoning off people from this site, but I manage to spend a little time on both sites (although I do spend most time on Star Wars wikicity). Once again I am sorry if I have caused any problems. --Darth Mantus 09:56, 26 May 2005 (UTC) --Darth Mantus 10:44, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem here. I'm always recruiting so there will be no shortage of help. -- Riffsyphon1024 09:58, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks for that.