User talk:Gtajesus - Revision history

Gboyers: /* Re: Community Event */ New discussion

2012-09-24T22:27:27Z

Re: Community Event: New discussion

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	This should be fixed now - thanks for letting me know! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 23:16, 2 April 2012 (UTC)		This should be fixed now - thanks for letting me know! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 23:16, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

			== Re: Community Event ==

			Community events are good, although Rockstar host a lot of them, what would make ours different? We'd need some staff or volunteer users to run and promote them, but it'd be cool to see the community getting together for something like this. If you have a solid idea about how it could work, make a [[Community:Projects\|project]] page about it, and I'll put it out on the Facebook/Twitter for people to get involved with. [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 22:27, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Gboyers: /* Re: Permissions */ New discussion

2012-04-02T23:16:57Z

Re: Permissions: New discussion

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	::While I would echo [[User:Gboyers\|Gboyers]] in so far as remaining civil through edits, my lack of edit summary does not exactly help the situation. I've been very busy behind the scenes, editing as a bot, doing very tedious work. The last thirty days has seen me make 2,199 edits prior to this one, so I've not been using the summaries even when it is more helpful to do so. Now to the reason I removed the images, I just see them as not being needed on the site when he could, for example [[:wp:File:Rifle AK-47.jpg\|link to an image]] of the weapon, much as we with Wikipedia articles for what things are based on. I can't imagine having images of every vehicle that people believe is what something is based on, and the same for weapons really. A-Dust 19:15, 1 April 2012 (UTC)		::While I would echo [[User:Gboyers\|Gboyers]] in so far as remaining civil through edits, my lack of edit summary does not exactly help the situation. I've been very busy behind the scenes, editing as a bot, doing very tedious work. The last thirty days has seen me make 2,199 edits prior to this one, so I've not been using the summaries even when it is more helpful to do so. Now to the reason I removed the images, I just see them as not being needed on the site when he could, for example [[:wp:File:Rifle AK-47.jpg\|link to an image]] of the weapon, much as we with Wikipedia articles for what things are based on. I can't imagine having images of every vehicle that people believe is what something is based on, and the same for weapons really. A-Dust 19:15, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

			== Re: Permissions ==

			This should be fixed now - thanks for letting me know! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 23:16, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

A-Dust at 19:15, 1 April 2012

2012-04-01T19:15:58Z

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	:Good question. We don't have any specific statistical requirements (such as X posts or X length of time). However, we require all admins to have a good working knowledge of this wiki. That means understanding things like how content is organised, how content is presented, how wikitext/code works, how complex templates work, and how the wiki is operated (staff etc). Involvement in discussions and community projects will prove this, whereas someone that just edits pages would find it harder to prove their understanding and usefulness. Also, the job of an admin is different to that of an editor - so getting involved in discussions and disputes lets us see how you handle disagreements and difficult situations, which is vital if we wanted to make someone staff. Looking briefly at [[Special:Editcount/Gtajesus\|your edit count]], you don't have many edits outside of the main content and files areas, and not many edits to talk pages, so it would be difficult for you to say you had a good knowledge of the inner workings of the wiki at this stage. If you got involved in more things, proved your expertise, proved your usefulness, and gave us evidence that you'd be a good admin (not just a good editor), then that's when a promotion would be suitable. I hope that helps! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 00:11, 2 February 2012 (UTC)		:Good question. We don't have any specific statistical requirements (such as X posts or X length of time). However, we require all admins to have a good working knowledge of this wiki. That means understanding things like how content is organised, how content is presented, how wikitext/code works, how complex templates work, and how the wiki is operated (staff etc). Involvement in discussions and community projects will prove this, whereas someone that just edits pages would find it harder to prove their understanding and usefulness. Also, the job of an admin is different to that of an editor - so getting involved in discussions and disputes lets us see how you handle disagreements and difficult situations, which is vital if we wanted to make someone staff. Looking briefly at [[Special:Editcount/Gtajesus\|your edit count]], you don't have many edits outside of the main content and files areas, and not many edits to talk pages, so it would be difficult for you to say you had a good knowledge of the inner workings of the wiki at this stage. If you got involved in more things, proved your expertise, proved your usefulness, and gave us evidence that you'd be a good admin (not just a good editor), then that's when a promotion would be suitable. I hope that helps! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 00:11, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

	Wikitext or 'wiki markup' is the name of the [[Help:Editing\|code]] we use on pages of this wiki for things like formatting, adding images, categories etc (usually we just say 'code'). [[Help:Templates\|templates]] can be quite simple bits of code (like {{template\|community}}) but others can be more complex (like {{template\|infobox character}} or {{template\|ambox}}). Into both of these there are the more advanced [[mw\|magic words]] and [[pf\|parser functions]]. You'd need a general grasp of how they worked to be able to use all the different pages on this wiki, and to be able to check other users' edits. If all you could do was bold and images, a lot of the wiki's code wouldn't make sense. I don't expect you to be an expert or coding massively complicated things yourself, but it would be very useful! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 22:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)		Wikitext or 'wiki markup' is the name of the [[Help:Editing\|code]] we use on pages of this wiki for things like formatting, adding images, categories etc (usually we just say 'code'). [[Help:Templates\|templates]] can be quite simple bits of code (like {{template\|community}}) but others can be more complex (like {{template\|infobox character}} or {{template\|ambox}}). Into both of these there are the more advanced [[Help:Magic Words\|magic words]] and [[Help:Parser Functions\|parser functions]]. You'd need a general grasp of how they worked to be able to use all the different pages on this wiki, and to be able to check other users' edits. If all you could do was bold and images, a lot of the wiki's code wouldn't make sense. I don't expect you to be an expert or coding massively complicated things yourself, but it would be very useful! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 22:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

	== Edit Wars ==		== Edit Wars ==
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	:Thanks for your apology. An edit war is a back-and-forth of undoing/redoing edits, but here we consider undoing edits angrily to be ''starting'' an edit war. I'm sure the users who removed your images believed they had a good reason, so it's probably a good idea to find out what it is, and then come to an agreement for what is best for this wiki. Thanks - [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 16:26, 1 April 2012 (UTC)		:Thanks for your apology. An edit war is a back-and-forth of undoing/redoing edits, but here we consider undoing edits angrily to be ''starting'' an edit war. I'm sure the users who removed your images believed they had a good reason, so it's probably a good idea to find out what it is, and then come to an agreement for what is best for this wiki. Thanks - [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 16:26, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

			::While I would echo [[User:Gboyers\|Gboyers]] in so far as remaining civil through edits, my lack of edit summary does not exactly help the situation. I've been very busy behind the scenes, editing as a bot, doing very tedious work. The last thirty days has seen me make 2,199 edits prior to this one, so I've not been using the summaries even when it is more helpful to do so. Now to the reason I removed the images, I just see them as not being needed on the site when he could, for example [[:wp:File:Rifle AK-47.jpg\|link to an image]] of the weapon, much as we with Wikipedia articles for what things are based on. I can't imagine having images of every vehicle that people believe is what something is based on, and the same for weapons really. A-Dust 19:15, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Gboyers: /* Edit Wars */

2012-04-01T16:26:59Z

Edit Wars

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	Before you make any further edits to these pages, please discuss them either on the article talk pages or the users' talk pages. Thanks - [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup>		Before you make any further edits to these pages, please discuss them either on the article talk pages or the users' talk pages. Thanks - [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup>

			:Thanks for your apology. An edit war is a back-and-forth of undoing/redoing edits, but here we consider undoing edits angrily to be ''starting'' an edit war. I'm sure the users who removed your images believed they had a good reason, so it's probably a good idea to find out what it is, and then come to an agreement for what is best for this wiki. Thanks - [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 16:26, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Gboyers: /* Edit Wars */ New discussion

2012-04-01T16:15:47Z

Edit Wars: New discussion

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	Wikitext or 'wiki markup' is the name of the [[Help:Editing\|code]] we use on pages of this wiki for things like formatting, adding images, categories etc (usually we just say 'code'). [[Help:Templates\|templates]] can be quite simple bits of code (like {{template\|community}}) but others can be more complex (like {{template\|infobox character}} or {{template\|ambox}}). Into both of these there are the more advanced [[mw\|magic words]] and [[pf\|parser functions]]. You'd need a general grasp of how they worked to be able to use all the different pages on this wiki, and to be able to check other users' edits. If all you could do was bold and images, a lot of the wiki's code wouldn't make sense. I don't expect you to be an expert or coding massively complicated things yourself, but it would be very useful! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 22:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)		Wikitext or 'wiki markup' is the name of the [[Help:Editing\|code]] we use on pages of this wiki for things like formatting, adding images, categories etc (usually we just say 'code'). [[Help:Templates\|templates]] can be quite simple bits of code (like {{template\|community}}) but others can be more complex (like {{template\|infobox character}} or {{template\|ambox}}). Into both of these there are the more advanced [[mw\|magic words]] and [[pf\|parser functions]]. You'd need a general grasp of how they worked to be able to use all the different pages on this wiki, and to be able to check other users' edits. If all you could do was bold and images, a lot of the wiki's code wouldn't make sense. I don't expect you to be an expert or coding massively complicated things yourself, but it would be very useful! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 22:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

			== Edit Wars ==

			Hi. There is nothing in the rules that says "real-life photos are not allowed" - however there ARE rules against edit wars. Our [[Grand_Theft_Wiki:Behaviour#Disagreements_with_Staff\|Behaviour Policy]] clearly states ''"If a staff member reverts one of your edits, and you disagree, discuss it with them first. Do not start an edit war. If you can't agree, escalate to a Manager."'' Do not go around reverting edits and having arguments in the edit summary.

			This wiki is built on the idea of community discussion, consensus and openness. If anyone disagrees with something, they have the right to discuss it. That might result in people explaining why they did something, or staff pointing out what our rules/expectations are, or it may result in other people changing their mind because you brought up a good point.

			In this situation, you should leave a talk page message on the articles, or if there's a specific user (or staff member) who disagrees you can speak to them directly, explaining your point of view. They'll respond, and hopefully you'll come to an agreement, or at least a compromise. For example, a compromise in this situation might be one specific article covering what GTW weapons look like in real life.

			Please do NOT undo other users edits without discussing them first, unless they are vandalism or a mistake such as a syntax problem. If you do revert it, tell them why, and be prepared to explain your actions (at least to help them understand why, so they won't make the same mistake again).

			Before you make any further edits to these pages, please discuss them either on the article talk pages or the users' talk pages. Thanks - [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup>

Gboyers: /* Things To Do */

2012-02-02T22:06:49Z

Things To Do

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	:Good question. We don't have any specific statistical requirements (such as X posts or X length of time). However, we require all admins to have a good working knowledge of this wiki. That means understanding things like how content is organised, how content is presented, how wikitext/code works, how complex templates work, and how the wiki is operated (staff etc). Involvement in discussions and community projects will prove this, whereas someone that just edits pages would find it harder to prove their understanding and usefulness. Also, the job of an admin is different to that of an editor - so getting involved in discussions and disputes lets us see how you handle disagreements and difficult situations, which is vital if we wanted to make someone staff. Looking briefly at [[Special:Editcount/Gtajesus\|your edit count]], you don't have many edits outside of the main content and files areas, and not many edits to talk pages, so it would be difficult for you to say you had a good knowledge of the inner workings of the wiki at this stage. If you got involved in more things, proved your expertise, proved your usefulness, and gave us evidence that you'd be a good admin (not just a good editor), then that's when a promotion would be suitable. I hope that helps! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 00:11, 2 February 2012 (UTC)		:Good question. We don't have any specific statistical requirements (such as X posts or X length of time). However, we require all admins to have a good working knowledge of this wiki. That means understanding things like how content is organised, how content is presented, how wikitext/code works, how complex templates work, and how the wiki is operated (staff etc). Involvement in discussions and community projects will prove this, whereas someone that just edits pages would find it harder to prove their understanding and usefulness. Also, the job of an admin is different to that of an editor - so getting involved in discussions and disputes lets us see how you handle disagreements and difficult situations, which is vital if we wanted to make someone staff. Looking briefly at [[Special:Editcount/Gtajesus\|your edit count]], you don't have many edits outside of the main content and files areas, and not many edits to talk pages, so it would be difficult for you to say you had a good knowledge of the inner workings of the wiki at this stage. If you got involved in more things, proved your expertise, proved your usefulness, and gave us evidence that you'd be a good admin (not just a good editor), then that's when a promotion would be suitable. I hope that helps! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 00:11, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

			Wikitext or 'wiki markup' is the name of the [[Help:Editing\|code]] we use on pages of this wiki for things like formatting, adding images, categories etc (usually we just say 'code'). [[Help:Templates\|templates]] can be quite simple bits of code (like {{template\|community}}) but others can be more complex (like {{template\|infobox character}} or {{template\|ambox}}). Into both of these there are the more advanced [[mw\|magic words]] and [[pf\|parser functions]]. You'd need a general grasp of how they worked to be able to use all the different pages on this wiki, and to be able to check other users' edits. If all you could do was bold and images, a lot of the wiki's code wouldn't make sense. I don't expect you to be an expert or coding massively complicated things yourself, but it would be very useful! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 22:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Gboyers: /* Things To Do */

2012-02-02T00:11:32Z

Things To Do

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	Hey - I saw your edit summary saying: ''"is it just me or is there nothing to edit anymore???"'' Although we aren't missing any huge chunks of content, there are still a lot of [[Tasks]] to do on this wiki. In particular, going through [[:Category:Cleanup]] and fixing all the crappy/broken pages around the site. Are you up for helping with that? [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 07:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)		Hey - I saw your edit summary saying: ''"is it just me or is there nothing to edit anymore???"'' Although we aren't missing any huge chunks of content, there are still a lot of [[Tasks]] to do on this wiki. In particular, going through [[:Category:Cleanup]] and fixing all the crappy/broken pages around the site. Are you up for helping with that? [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 07:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

			:Good question. We don't have any specific statistical requirements (such as X posts or X length of time). However, we require all admins to have a good working knowledge of this wiki. That means understanding things like how content is organised, how content is presented, how wikitext/code works, how complex templates work, and how the wiki is operated (staff etc). Involvement in discussions and community projects will prove this, whereas someone that just edits pages would find it harder to prove their understanding and usefulness. Also, the job of an admin is different to that of an editor - so getting involved in discussions and disputes lets us see how you handle disagreements and difficult situations, which is vital if we wanted to make someone staff. Looking briefly at [[Special:Editcount/Gtajesus\|your edit count]], you don't have many edits outside of the main content and files areas, and not many edits to talk pages, so it would be difficult for you to say you had a good knowledge of the inner workings of the wiki at this stage. If you got involved in more things, proved your expertise, proved your usefulness, and gave us evidence that you'd be a good admin (not just a good editor), then that's when a promotion would be suitable. I hope that helps! [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 00:11, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Gboyers: /* Things To Do */ New discussion

2012-02-01T07:22:24Z

Things To Do: New discussion

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	I perfectly understand that you need time to work on that matter. I can see from the recent edits page that you are already starting to give licences to those images. I will track your movements, so that as soon as you add an image licence, I will remove the prod tag, therefore taking it off death row. Also, please do not take this matter personally. This death-row matter is nothing personal. I am just trying to keep this wiki out of trouble.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance\|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance\|talk]]) 02:07, 29 December 2011 (UTC)		I perfectly understand that you need time to work on that matter. I can see from the recent edits page that you are already starting to give licences to those images. I will track your movements, so that as soon as you add an image licence, I will remove the prod tag, therefore taking it off death row. Also, please do not take this matter personally. This death-row matter is nothing personal. I am just trying to keep this wiki out of trouble.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance\|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance\|talk]]) 02:07, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

			== Things To Do ==

			Hey - I saw your edit summary saying: ''"is it just me or is there nothing to edit anymore???"'' Although we aren't missing any huge chunks of content, there are still a lot of [[Tasks]] to do on this wiki. In particular, going through [[:Category:Cleanup]] and fixing all the crappy/broken pages around the site. Are you up for helping with that? [[User:Gboyers\|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers\|talk]]</sup> 07:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

MrLanceVanceDance: added response

2011-12-29T02:07:54Z

added response

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	This is how to licence new images, the next time you choose to do so: just above the "upload options" section of the image upload page, there is a drop-menu that says "licensing". when you click on the drop menu's arrow (on the right hand side), you will be given a large supply of licensing options to choose from. some cover screenshots, some cover logos etc. If however, you do not know what the license for your image is, just click on the "I don't know what the licence for this image is" option provided on the drop menu, and just include the website where you got the image from on the image's summary, which is basically the description of what ths image is about. If you choose to do that option, the Grand Theft Wiki staff will help to find the licence for the image. Never leave the licence field blank, and never say "i don;t know the license for this image" but not provide the website you got it from. If you do, then the GTW staff will think the image has breached a copyright and they will delete it. I hope this makes sense to you.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance\|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance\|talk]]) 02:03, 29 December 2011 (UTC)		This is how to licence new images, the next time you choose to do so: just above the "upload options" section of the image upload page, there is a drop-menu that says "licensing". when you click on the drop menu's arrow (on the right hand side), you will be given a large supply of licensing options to choose from. some cover screenshots, some cover logos etc. If however, you do not know what the license for your image is, just click on the "I don't know what the licence for this image is" option provided on the drop menu, and just include the website where you got the image from on the image's summary, which is basically the description of what ths image is about. If you choose to do that option, the Grand Theft Wiki staff will help to find the licence for the image. Never leave the licence field blank, and never say "i don;t know the license for this image" but not provide the website you got it from. If you do, then the GTW staff will think the image has breached a copyright and they will delete it. I hope this makes sense to you.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance\|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance\|talk]]) 02:03, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

			I perfectly understand that you need time to work on that matter. I can see from the recent edits page that you are already starting to give licences to those images. I will track your movements, so that as soon as you add an image licence, I will remove the prod tag, therefore taking it off death row. Also, please do not take this matter personally. This death-row matter is nothing personal. I am just trying to keep this wiki out of trouble.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance\|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance\|talk]]) 02:07, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

MrLanceVanceDance: answered question

2011-12-29T02:03:01Z

answered question

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	Hey Gtajesus, I would like you to please remember to give your images a licence, source and a description. The vast majority of your uploaded gun photographs have no licence, source and/or description provided, which makes it hard for us to determine where they come from and if they are legal to use. As you images have potentially breached copyrights and would most likely land this wiki in trouble, I have put your images on death row. If those images are to be saved, you have to quickly give them licences, sources and descriptions before they get the chop. Thank you for your consideration and co-operation.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance\|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance\|talk]]) 01:42, 29 December 2011 (UTC)		Hey Gtajesus, I would like you to please remember to give your images a licence, source and a description. The vast majority of your uploaded gun photographs have no licence, source and/or description provided, which makes it hard for us to determine where they come from and if they are legal to use. As you images have potentially breached copyrights and would most likely land this wiki in trouble, I have put your images on death row. If those images are to be saved, you have to quickly give them licences, sources and descriptions before they get the chop. Thank you for your consideration and co-operation.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance\|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance\|talk]]) 01:42, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

			This is how to licence new images, the next time you choose to do so: just above the "upload options" section of the image upload page, there is a drop-menu that says "licensing". when you click on the drop menu's arrow (on the right hand side), you will be given a large supply of licensing options to choose from. some cover screenshots, some cover logos etc. If however, you do not know what the license for your image is, just click on the "I don't know what the licence for this image is" option provided on the drop menu, and just include the website where you got the image from on the image's summary, which is basically the description of what ths image is about. If you choose to do that option, the Grand Theft Wiki staff will help to find the licence for the image. Never leave the licence field blank, and never say "i don;t know the license for this image" but not provide the website you got it from. If you do, then the GTW staff will think the image has breached a copyright and they will delete it. I hope this makes sense to you.--[[User:MrLanceVanceDance\|MrLanceVanceDance]] ([[User talk:MrLanceVanceDance\|talk]]) 02:03, 29 December 2011 (UTC)