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Hi there. Regarding your self-nomination for promotion to staff, could you expand on your reasoning, as I'm not sure what you where implying? You put ''"this Wiki needs people who actually know what they're talking about when it comes to Grand Theft Auto, and if I know anything, it's Grand Theft Auto."''? Any user can contribute to the wiki, fix articles, organise the wiki and help other users. How would this help you be a better staff member, or how would GTW benefit from having someone knowledgeable as staff? [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 01:02, 15 August 2011 (BST) | Hi there. Regarding your self-nomination for promotion to staff, could you expand on your reasoning, as I'm not sure what you where implying? You put ''"this Wiki needs people who actually know what they're talking about when it comes to Grand Theft Auto, and if I know anything, it's Grand Theft Auto."''? Any user can contribute to the wiki, fix articles, organise the wiki and help other users. How would this help you be a better staff member, or how would GTW benefit from having someone knowledgeable as staff? [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 01:02, 15 August 2011 (BST) | ||
:Hey Gboyers, sorry I thought the expanding part would have come after the self-nomination was posted or I would have put a better reasoning. What I meant by what I stated: "this Wiki needs people who actually know what they're talking about when it comes to Grand Theft Auto, and if I know anything, it's Grand Theft Auto" is that everytime I log onto GTA Wiki, I have to change back articles or statements that 12 year old kids come in and tweak, when they actually don't know what they're talking about. I feel that when I try to discuss why something is wrong, no one takes it seriously because they figure I'm just another kid with an account tweaking GTA Wiki as I wish. However thats not the case, I'm in college for gaming, and I litereally plan on pursuing RockstarGames as a future career. And no I'm not a 13 year GTA-Fan Boy who thinks he can just hop on board with RockstarGames, I'm workin to get there. With that said, I'm a real Grand Theft Auto fan, and maybe people would understand what I'm trying to explain to them if they see I have some sort of authority here. And if at any time you feel I was taking advantage of my authority (if so given), then you can just as quickly demote me. Thanks for taking your own time to read this, and I hope you consider. Have a good one! [[User:Grand Theft AJ|Grand Theft AJ]] 16:40, 16 August 2011 (BST) | |||
::Thanks for your reply. I asked you expand early because I'm not sure whether a staff position is right for what you want to achieve. I don't doubt your enthusiasm or knowledge about GTA at all. My concern is this. The role of an administrator is to make sure the wiki keeps running smoothly. They are entrusted with have extra tools, such as being able to protect/delete pages and block users, for them to be able to help the wiki more. Whilst staff clearly have some "authority" in the sense of saying what behaviour is unacceptable and being able to enforce the rules, it does not always make them right. I really don't want it to seem that you have to be staff to be heard, listened to, or understood. | |||
::The thing I hate most about Wikipedia is how new users are treated with such contempt and disrespect - they can expect to have their edits all reverted instantly. That is no way to treat a community. Here, we're happy to accept the edits of ANY user, and we all encourage each other to improve. As a normal user, I want you to be able to fix pages and help other people improve. However, I do not think having the tools to delete pages and ban users would help, or should be necessary to do this. I can't go around making EVERY knowledgeable user an administrator, and encouraging a culture where ONLY staff are ever listened to! | |||
::With edits like [http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/index.php?title=Brucie_Kibbutz&diff=prev&oldid=315713 this], [http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/index.php?title=...I%27ll_Take_Her&diff=prev&oldid=323390 this], [http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/index.php?title=Heroin&diff=prev&oldid=315039 this] and others, you have reverted another users' edits without explanation. I'm not doubting whether they should or shouldn't have been reverted, but if someone reverted your edit with no explanation, I'm sure you would rightly wonder why and might even be upset. Someone put time and effort into making those edits, they thought it was the right thing to do, and for them to be wiped off for seemingly no reason is bound to upset them. Edit summaries are important for edits where people might not understand what you did or why you did it, or where people might disagree. Whilst you seem good at keeping edit summaries for edits, it's the ones that affect other users that are most important. I need to make sure my staff members can justify every decision they make, and if the excuse is "because I'm staff" then they should not hold the role. People need to understand your reasoning, rather than just accept what you do because you're staff. This is my concern about your reasoning for wanting promotion. | |||
::I'm not at all trying to suggest that you crave power or that you're unsuitable to be staff or anything, I'm more concerned that you're saying that you are ignored by other users! I want to help resolve that situation. Do you have any suggestions? One upcoming feature on GTW is the introduction of 'projects' - where users take on responsibilities for maintaining certain areas of the wiki, adding a certain thing or fixing a certain problem. For example, there could be a project to add video walkthroughs to all missions, and a project to rewrite all the Help: pages. The people involved in those projects would also take the lead on deciding how to do things. At the moment, it tends to be staff who decide policy and style rules, but I'd like more users to be involved with this. Just remember: staff are just normal users with a couple of extra tools. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 23:50, 16 August 2011 (BST) | |||
==Re:Pictures== | |||
{{reply|A-Dust|Pictures}} | |||
The images that you uploaded, apart from being incorrectly named and having no screenshot template, were of no use to the articles they were in and some to the website in general. For example there is no need to have a close-up of Victor Vance from GTA Vice City opposite an image of him in GTA Vice City, or an image of Victor with Umberto Robina. Images should be used to illustrate something to the reader/visitor, which that does not. Images on character articles in particular should feature events that impact that characters life. | |||
As for edit summaries they are not mandatory and are something I do not use. I would rather use that time to improve the site. I'm also well aware that I am the least popular member of staff on the site due to my no-nonsense attitude to anything that is either not needed or not necessary. Someone, however, has to enforce some sort of order on the website in regards to content and images. This is something that is needed and I make no apologies for attempting to maintaining a high standard on the wiki. I'm also currently working on organising the site better, requiring mass edits, making edit summaries more of a hassle than ever. A-Dust 02:28, 23 September 2011 (BST) | |||
:If I did write an edit summary, which takes longer than three seconds, then I'd be spending far too much time doing so, especially at the moment. Across the five years I've been here I would have spend 25 hours 37 and a half minutes of my life making edit summaries using the calculation that each edit summary takes three seconds. And if you want to see the number of edits I've made in just over a week [http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20111001000000&limit=500&contribs=user&target=A-Dust click here]. | |||
:As for the pictures I am more than willing to discuss a new profile picture for Victor Vance. The current one is blurry yes but it is a close-up of him and him alone, as opposed to the image you uploaded, half of which as I recall had nothing in. A higher quality image would be welcome but not at the expense of showing the subject matter alone. And I'm well aware that I am not the only fan of the series editing here. Over the five years I've been contributing here I've seen so many and without them and the visitors the wiki would have died out long ago. A-Dust 20:30, 24 September 2011 (BST) | |||
::I have no problem with you or any other user of the website, except for one particular vandal. Nor do I have any intention for creating enemies. As for the time, I've no problem with the amount I spend on here editing, I'd just rather spend that time actually editing. As for the image that one is very good. Feel free to edit that into the Victor Vance article. If you do add that as the main infobox image please re-add the other into a gallery section at the bottom of the page. I'd also please ask you, when uploading images, to use the image naming policy (subject-gameinitials.jpg/jpeg/png). Just creates less work especially as I'm attempting to better organise the images. Thanks. A-Dust 21:27, 24 September 2011 (BST) | |||
:::You didn't come across as hostile to me so don't worry about it. As for the images I'm currently going through every image on the site so the ones currently around aren't so important, just the future ones. A-Dust 18:26, 25 September 2011 (BST) | |||
== Mount Chiliad == | |||
Hi. About [[:File:MountChiliad-GTAV.JPG]], where did you get the mountain's name from? If you are just basing on the assumption that all locale from the old SA is in new SA, then it should not be stated that the mountain is Mount Chiliad. It is better to state that mountains will be a featured landscape.--'''[[User:Spaceeinstein|spaceeinstein]]''' 21:15, 2 November 2011 (GMT) | |||
== [[Skateboard]] == | |||
[http://www.grandtheftwiki.com/index.php?title=Skateboard&action=historysubmit&diff=325936&oldid=163378 This addition] implies "Rockstar Games" directly developed both Bully and GTA. | |||
But [[Rockstar Games]] is only an umbrella company with different developers that tend to work independently and have different ways of games development. Bully is a [[Rockstar Vancouver]] game, while [[Rockstar North]] developed much of the GTA series; neither two have been know to work together. This makes it harder to be sure if any game mechanics in Bully is closely related to those of GTA series. I'm afraid I have to remove the addition at the Skateboard article for this reason. - [[User:ZS|ZS]] ([[User talk:ZS|talk]]) 16:54, 4 November 2011 (GMT) | |||
:Well first of all, all of the different Rockstar companies under RockstarGames take from each other and help each other out with specific areas other companies specialize in more then another. Second of all, I made that edit a while ago and I already know that. Didn't have to write it on my talk page. [[User:Grand Theft AJ|Grand Theft AJ]] ([[User talk:Grand Theft AJ|talk]]) 02:31, 6 November 2011 (GMT) | |||
== Trusted Users & Patrolling == | |||
Hi AJ. 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 [[Grand Theft Wiki:Patrolling|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 [[Special:Patrol|give it a go]]! Let me know if you have any questions - [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 00:37, 8 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
:Alright thanks a lot, I'll be sure to do quite a bit of patrolling now and then, and I'll definitely be heavily active during the release of [[Grand Theft Auto V]]! Extremely excited for that I'm pre-ordering the second I can haha. [[User:Grand Theft AJ|Grand Theft AJ]] ([[User talk:Grand Theft AJ|talk]]) 01:14, 8 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
==Quotes== | |||
I've removed the various character quotes because, to be quite honest, they make the page look rather ugly in my opinion and always have done. They also serve little purpose. As for introducing the character better, the article will already do that and the character should be best explained, in brief, in the opening paragraph. A-Dust 22:42, 23 November 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Re: Era Vs 3D/HD == | |||
There is an ongoing discussion at [[Community:Discussions/Eras and Universes]] about which system to adopt. The consensus appears to be to use the "Lowest Common Denominator" (LCD) system. This means if we just refer to 1 game, we name the page or link about that game. If it's about multiple games, we name the era. If it spans multiple eras, we use the corresponding universe. So with the example you provided, it should say III and IV eras. There's no reason to 'upgrade' to using Universes there, as using the 2 eras is equally accurate. | |||
Another relevant point in the discussion is consistency - where we might currently say "III, IV and V eras" we probably shouldn't say "In the GTA III Era and HD Universe" - we should stick to using universes for everything in that sentence (3D and HD Universes). A further point is that "[[Eras]]" refers to groups of games whilst "[[Universes]]" refers to a canon/storyline/universe instead - there was a suggestion that games/features/vehicles should be named under Era, but characters/missions/businesses should be named under a universe. I think this is what A-Dust is trying to do. However, I don't think that it's reasonable to have a big list of which types of page fall under which grouping - that's what we tried to do with [[:Category:Locations|Locations]] but it just didn't work properly, we can't expect every editor to be able to do that on every edit on every page. So I'm in favour of sticking with LCD, but being consistent across a sentence. | |||
See my [[Community:Discussions/Eras and Universes/Examples|Discussions/Eras and Universes/Examples]] for the right phrasing to use. I urge you to read through and respond to the discussion, to ensure the right decision is made! [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 10:29, 2 December 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Re: [[User talk:IanPhoenix#Welcome to the Wiki!|Welcome to the Wiki!]] == | |||
Thanks. I'm just trying to help where I can to make this wiki more complete. I'm very stoked for [[Grand Theft Auto V|GTA V]], and have already pre-ordered it. I've been playing [[Grand Theft Auto IV|GTA IV]] a bit more lately just to get back into playing the series before the new one hits. I don't really have any questions on the series. I'll let you know if I can think of anything. -[[User:IanPhoenix|IanPhoenix]] ([[User talk:IanPhoenix|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/IanPhoenix|edits]]) 03:05, 21 December 2012 (UTC) | |||
== New trailers == | |||
Looks like Michael's wife is gonna be too busy with her boyfriend to be available for friendship activities, you think? LOL. What'd you think of the new trailers? [[User:Ghost Leader|Ghost Leader]] ([[User talk:Ghost Leader|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Ghost Leader|edits]]) 07:05, 1 May 2013 (BST) | |||
== I am a GTA fanatic also. == | |||
Hi Grand Theft AJ. Thanks for sending me a message earlier. I am also a huge GTA fan. I have one question I would like you to try and answer. What do you think happened to CJ, and the Grove Street Families after the events of San Andreas in the early 1990's? Please get back to me. Thanks. | |||
== Promotion to Administrator == | |||
Hi Grand Theft AJ - given your long history of good service on Grand Theft Wiki, I thought it would be the right time to give you a shot at the role of Administrator. | |||
The roll of Administrators here are to keep the wiki running smoothly - talking to people where they need some guidance, stepping in only where necessary, and being trusted to use extra tools to help maintain the wiki. | |||
Check out [[Grand Theft Wiki:Staff]] to see more information the role of staff and [[Special:ListGroupRights]] to see the full list of additional rights and tools here. You'll see [[Special:SpecialPages]] has a bunch of new tools you can use too. | |||
i just ask that you think before doing, and ask me or another staff member if you have any questions. Good luck! [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 19:22, 13 February 2014 (GMT) | |||
:Wow! Thank you so much I appreciate it! Don't worry I will not take advantage of this, and my interest in Grand Theft Auto is only increasing, which means as long as there's new information, I will try to post it! Especially with Grand Theft Auto V, I am in love with this game! [[User:Grand Theft AJ|Grand Theft AJ]] ([[User talk:Grand Theft AJ|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Grand Theft AJ|edits]]) 01:19, 14 February 2014 (GMT) | |||
== Re:Grand Theft Auto V == | |||
{{reply|IanPhoenix|Grand Theft Auto V}} | |||
I agree 100% on GTA V and GTA Online. Everything is spot-on in my opinion. I think GTA V is definitely the best GTA game all-around, as it is the first to intertwine three somewhat separate stories, so it's definitely my favorite. It's actually the quickest i've ever finished a GTA game, but that's because it had me so intrigued that I kept wanting to play it. GTA Online is great as well, but I just wish they would at least make [[Ludendorff]] accessible without exploiting glitches. Rockstar had said that they would be releasing new areas from time to time, and GTA Online has been available almost 6 months now. '''[[User:IanPhoenix|Ian Phoenix]]<sup>''[[User talk:IanPhoenix|talk]]''</sup>''' 04:37, 22 February 2014 (GMT) | |||
:I believe the reality of San Fierro and Las Venturas becoming available in GTA Online is definite. Rockstar have said a few times that they have ambitions of releasing many cities for GTA Online, and I think they have mentioned Liberty City and London at one point. Others have speculated that would also include Vice City. But Ludendorff is the obvious choice for the first one since it's already written on the GTA V disc. I have yet to access Ludendorff in GTA Online myself but I've gotten images online, as you could probably see when I updated the Ludendorff and North Yankton pages. Usually when I'm online, there's no other members from [http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/grand_theft_wiki this wiki's crew], and no one's joined the crew I created yet. I'm on Xbox 360 but even if you're on PS3, feel free to join [http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/double_ds_crew my crew] and help me recruit should you so choose. '''[[User:IanPhoenix|Ian Phoenix]]<sup>''[[User talk:IanPhoenix|talk]]''</sup>''' 17:37, 26 February 2014 (GMT) | |||