User talk:Silver Infernus

Welcome

Hi, welcome to Grand Theft Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Phil Cassidy page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Hardrock182 (Talk) 16:47, 25 September 2009

RE:

Yeah he's been renaming the images for consistency reasons. And yeah images should all share the same pattern like Image:Vc the driver.jpg renamed to TheDriver-GTAVC.jpg--Gta-mysteries 02:09, April 4, 2010 (UTC)

Multiplayer

Man, I like your idea, it's pretty slick man, I like the sounds of 2 people going around together, forming a bond, or even if GTA IVs choices were anything to go by, going down opposite roads, betraying each other, and fighting throughout, obviously with certain points where they'd HAVE to work together, I like your idea man, but it'd have to be it's own game, to follow WITH another GTA Zachariah Zuan 23:38, August 26, 2010 (UTC)

Reply:Mission Images

I was the person who uploaded the images and, as they are direct copies from the Polish GTA Wikia, I did not edit their version. I also believe that the large screen images, including those with the letter box, are better than smaller images if only to maintain the same image size. The subtitles are also useful to establish the part of the mission the image is from, which is not always clear. Also when uploading images please stick to the established format (File:MissionNameHere-GTAInitials). Thank you. A-Dust 17:33, 4 June 2011 (BST)

As I stated above it is better to maintain the same type of image throughout our mission pages and in particular on the same article. The subtitles, regardless of the language, are also useful for establishing what the image is depicting. A-Dust 19:14, 30 June 2011 (BST)

That sounds great! We still need to get our own images but the ones from the Polish GTA Wikia are good to have for the moment. We'd obviously much prefer to not have the letter box and have subtitles on the screen. Will you be taking a few images from missions or many, more like for use in a walkthrough? A-Dust 21:26, 30 June 2011 (BST)

I don't think letterboxes look good, but subtitles can be useful to highlight a part of a mission, especially if it's one that doesn't look very exciting. Gboyers 21:11, 3 July 2011 (BST)

We need to have images either with or without subtitles, not a mixture. And images should really have subtitles, regardless of whether they appear interesting or not. The letterboxes are not important though. A-Dust 21:50, 3 July 2011 (BST)

I meant to post here when I first made the edit, but then I got a phonecall and I had to run. Missions in GTA San Andreas isn't locked. I do notice that the section [Edit] links are missing, but you can use the edit button at the top of the page. Is that your problem, or is there some other problem? JFletcher^Talk (formerly User:Biggest gta fan ever) 07:44, 4 July 2011 (BST)

Usually if there are no section edit links, I would expect to find __NOEDITSECTION__ somewhere in the source code, which specifically removes them. However, as this is not the case, I have no idea why they are missing. And a long page like that is where they are useful, too... JFletcher^Talk (formerly User:Biggest gta fan ever) 02:00, 5 July 2011 (BST)

Mission ordering

The reason I place the first image first is to avoid spoilers for those who are unaware of the storyline of the game, especially considering that the GTA III Era games were recently released again for Mac OS X. The images do get to look a bit repetitive, which doesn't always look brilliant, but it avoids spoilers. I'd also like to thank you for the images again. A-Dust 11:59, 8 July 2011 (BST)

Wiki Activity

Hey Silver Infernus - are you still active here? Just wanted to check everything's okay!--MrLanceVanceDance (talk) 12:40, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Trusted Users & Patrolling

Hi Silver Infernus. We've made a few changes to Grand Theft Wiki, our staff structure and the way we monitor edits. You may have noticed A-Dust marked you as a 'Trusted User' the other day (which I support)! 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 (I used your edits as an example), and give it a go! Let me know if you have any questions - gboyers ^talk 00:40, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Re:Patrol

In reply to Patrol

Yes I did make you a trusted user as I've never had to do anything with your edits, other than mark them as patrolled. Part of the reason you wouldn't have known is because I'm currently listed as a bot so my activities remain hidden from view to avoid clogging up the Recent Edits, although you can see them using the Show Bots link at the Recent Edits page, as I'm currently undertaking a large re-organising task on here. The other reason is that I was going to bring it up with Gboyers as we've made some changes to the inspector role, something I think you can do, but got distracted with the re-organising and watching films. And yes I've noticed you re-appearance and the images are, as always, much appreciated! That's strange about the images though. Could you give any examples of images this is a problem with? As for the image ordering, once I've finished the re-organising I'll get round to it. I'd rather have images on the site and under the correct name. Thank you again for taking the time to help this site! A-Dust 02:25, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out and well spotted. Unfortunately I'm none the wiser when it comes to this kind of thing but I have told Gboyers, who'll find a way of fixing it as he always does. A-Dust 02:40, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for Promotion

Hi. I've started a discussion to decide whether you will be promoted to Administrator. Please edit your promotion discussion page with whether you're up for it, why you want to do it, and your answers to the questions. I'm not making any promises at this stage, but I think you're worth considering, and this discussion will help the staff make that decision. Good luck! gboyers ^talk 18:21, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

I added a couple of extra questions which you haven't answered yet - could you check those out? Thanks - gboyers ^talk 02:51, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Congratulations - you have been promoted to Administrator. Just to clarify the new rights, responsibilities and limitations of your new role: admins are responsible for keeping the wiki running smoothly, which is why we give you the extra tools. It's not that admins are 'in charge' of other users, but they have the responsibility to make sure everything runs smoothly. Think of it how a Police Officer is not in charge of the citizens, but in an emergency they can put their foot down and make sure everything runs smoothly.

This is one thing I wanted to make sure was completely clear, in light of your promotion discussion. The purpose of staff is not to make decisions, tell people what to do, or 'handle authority'. Decisions and disagreements we have to 'sort out' are actually pretty rare. The main role of the staff team (as a whole) is to keep the wiki running smoothly (giving it a gentle nudge in the right direction every now and then), and to be the public face of the wiki for its users (to answer questions, help them out, and encourage them). This is what the vast majority of the staff time is spent on. Staff are trusted with extra tools to help them do that job, and also to step in should something bad happen. Please don't be thinking that now you have the badge and the rights that you have to use them or that you should be blocking people or deleting pages frequently.

The rights you have are listed on Special:ListGroupRights (just ask me if you need any of them explaining). The ones you'll use most are move, delete and block. Have a browse through Special:SpecialPages as you might find some interesting things in there. I really don't mean to scare you though - it's great fun being staff here, and I'm really proud to have started this site and helped it grow. I look forward to you being able to stamp your mark on the site and help make it even better than you could as a normal user. Over time, every staff member figures out what they like most and forges a niche for themselves (such as organising images or fixing-up crappy pages) - I hope you spend the time to figure out what you enjoy most and become really useful to us!

The administrator position is subject to a 4-week probation period. This simply means in 4 weeks I'll speak to the rest of the staff and decide whether to make your promotion permanent, or whether we need to think again. It shouldn't be a problem but it gives us an opportunity to see you at work (because good users don't always make good admins). Also, please could you sign up for an account at The GTA Place Forums and then let me know your username (on here), so that you can access our private GTA staff forum? Also, could you verify your email address in Special:Preferences just so we can verify your identify if your account is ever compromised?

And don't forget - if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me or another staff member. It's my personal responsibility to make sure you get up to speed and become an awesome member of staff and help make this wiki even better! Good luck - gboyers ^talk 23:25, 29 January 2012 (UTC)