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I'm a writer, and if you think I would write anything of mine with combination region spellings solely to be PC or something, you're mistaken. I haven't seen anyone complain about my changing of british spellings for over a year now. Sorry, but I think it's been decided that we use american spellings. Using both makes it look tacky and literally amateurish; that's what I want to change. I want to make this site better than the stupid wikia and to look like a professional wikipedia. It needs a lot of work still, but every page I see of that, I work on it. --[[User:Tommy-Vercetti|Tommy-Vercetti]] ([[User talk:Tommy-Vercetti|talk]]) 21:43, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I'm a writer, and if you think I would write anything of mine with combination region spellings solely to be PC or something, you're mistaken. I haven't seen anyone complain about my changing of british spellings for over a year now. Sorry, but I think it's been decided that we use american spellings. Using both makes it look tacky and literally amateurish; that's what I want to change. I want to make this site better than the stupid wikia and to look like a professional wikipedia. It needs a lot of work still, but every page I see of that, I work on it. --[[User:Tommy-Vercetti|Tommy-Vercetti]] ([[User talk:Tommy-Vercetti|talk]]) 21:43, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
== Images Problem ==
Sometimes when you upload a new version of an image, it doesn't register right away. Put your mouse on the ▼ button next to "View history", and click "purge". <span style="font-family:calibri; text-shadow: black 0 4px 4px; color:080808;">[[User:Silver Infernus|Silver Infernus]] <sup>[[User talk:Silver Infernus|talk]]</sup></span> 00:52, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

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Re: Hello

Glad to see you here too. Try this to fix your user page. If you go to Special:Toggleuserpage, that will change your user page into a wiki page that you can edit, instead of a (broken) automatic profile page. When we get it fixed, you can simply go to that link again to change it back if you want. Hope that helps - Gboyers 19:33, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Red County

The edits on the Red County page was largely about Flint County, such as The Truth's farm at Leafy Hollow. Some things, however, I will be re-adding into the article (such as K Rose being the default radio station and the Events in GTA San Andreas section), they were only removed in order to quickly remove any references to locations in Flint County. A-Dust 18:26, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Brackets

We try not to use brackets unless absolutely necessary. They are not natural for people to use, and it makes articles hard to find and hard to link to. Instead, you can say Market, San Fierro and Market, Vice City etc - which is a much more natural way of doing it. If they are in the same city but in different games, you can say Market in GTA San Andreas. Does that make sense? See Grand Theft Wiki: Style Guide for more information. gboyers talk 19:27, 2 August 2011 (BST)

Quick comment

Hey, I just have a quick comment. Occasionally you've added sentences that don't really make sense, perhaps just trying to make it sound official or posh or something. Some examples being "if you are of any concern" or "contributions are determined through bytes" or "one particularly being", all of which are a little bit wrong. I'd rather use plain, simple English that makes sense, than try to be posh or official-sounding! Don't forget that not everyone here speaks English natively, so it helps them if we use simple English too. I hope that makes sense! gboyers talk 20:09, 14 August 2011 (BST)

Cool, not a problem. Some people hate being told things like that, but most people here want to help and want to improve, so I hope it helps! gboyers talk 20:25, 14 August 2011 (BST)

Oh it was nothing in particular. I just re-explained it in a simpler fashion - it's still basically the same stuff you said, just in a different order. If you want me to be specific (as constructive advice) - your opening sentence didn't explain what a signature was (for people that didn't know), you just said it was "a good habit". Just like a normal wiki content article, we always have to say WHAT something is before we start going into detail about it (like saying "XYZ is a mission in GTA IV" not just "In XYZ you have to..."). So whenever I explain something, I always go back to basics and work from there, slowly explaining more and more as the page goes along. Also, for the table (which was good), the actual code a signature produces wasn't needed, as it might confuse people into thinking that's what they have to type, which is why I removed that. Even if I reword your phrasing, what you add is still good and a very useful starting point for some great articles. I find it easier to reword something as opposed to writing it from scratch, which is why I tend to do that a lot. Don't be offended (: gboyers talk 21:38, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

WIki Activity

Hey Montario - are you still active here? Just wanted to check everything's okay!--MrLanceVanceDance (talk) 00:53, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Trusted Users & Patrolling

Hi Montario. We've made a few changes to Grand Theft Wiki, our staff structure and the way we monitor edits. As you're a Trusted User, we've given you the right to patrol other users' edits. This means you can check out the edits that haven't been checked yet, and either endorse them, fix them or revert them. As you're trusted, your edits are automatically marked as patrolled too! It would be a great help if you could patrol a few edits from Special:Patrol each time you visit GTW, and it would look good if you were nominated for promotion too! See Grand Theft Wiki:Patrolling for help and more info, and give it a go! Let me know if you have any questions - gboyers talk 00:39, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

This should all be explained at Grand Theft Wiki:Patrolling. RecentChanges will show all unpatrolled edits (by clicking 'Hide patrolled edits') with the red exclamation mark, and click 'diff' to see that change and have the [marked as patrolled] and the undo option. The 'full menu' at Special:Patrol is just a direct way of doing those ('endorse' is marking it as patrolled, 'revert' is the same as an undo, and skip just shows another diff). Let me know if you have any questions. gboyers talk 18:30, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Just a really quick point - when you're editing multiple sections of the same page, please could you try to edit the whole page in one go? As opposed to editing and saving every section individually and ending up editing the same page 11 times in one day, because this spams up both the history and recent edits. I'm not sure whether it's just you prefer to use the [edit] buttons next to each ==H2 Header==, and not using the main Edit tab at the top of the page, or whether you forget to Preview. It's no biggie, but it might seem like you were trying to artificially increase your edit count, so we do ask users to change their habits a bit. Thanks - gboyers talk 22:13, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm probably not the right person to ask that question, but I'll try. The main point of those new templates are to automatically add the new image subcategories. Where the images already have the new categories, I wouldn't say it's particularly important to necessarily change the template, but I expect most need to be recategorised, so just add the template to do that. gboyers talk 19:49, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

No

You are the first person yet to ever revert any british retard spellings. Having both and both. Forget that. It needs to be consistent, and nice job, you reverted all my other mistakes. Go make a british wikia if it bothers you so bad, idiot. --Tommy-Vercetti (talk) 21:30, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

I'm a writer, and if you think I would write anything of mine with combination region spellings solely to be PC or something, you're mistaken. I haven't seen anyone complain about my changing of british spellings for over a year now. Sorry, but I think it's been decided that we use american spellings. Using both makes it look tacky and literally amateurish; that's what I want to change. I want to make this site better than the stupid wikia and to look like a professional wikipedia. It needs a lot of work still, but every page I see of that, I work on it. --Tommy-Vercetti (talk) 21:43, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Images Problem

Sometimes when you upload a new version of an image, it doesn't register right away. Put your mouse on the ▼ button next to "View history", and click "purge". Silver Infernus talk 00:52, 5 February 2012 (UTC)