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Spencerz

One of our users brought up an interesting tidbit on Talk:Human Torch Comics Vol 1 1, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to share any of your thoughts on the matter.

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Requesting your help

JosephHawk

Hey buddy,
I just started a new wikia for the upcoming Marvel tv show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. If would be awesome if you could look at it and maybe edit any mistakes you see... if don't want to, you don't have to...
Thanks!
http://agents-of-shield.wikia.com/wiki/Agents_of_S.H.I.E.L.D._Wiki

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Martial Status discussion

Spencerz

Hey, WarBlade brought up an few interesting points about our use of the Marital Status field in the infobox, and I wanted to grab an admin or three to offer their views on the matter. If you have a moment, perhaps you can stop by the thread and weigh in.

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Bot and characters appearances

Undoniel

Hi! Your bot seems to be adding the "2*{ Characters appearances 2*}" even on pages who already possess it.
That's all. Have a good day !

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- Artful Dodger
  
  Oops! Can you send me a few pages where that is happening?
  
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- Undoniel
  
  Category:Benito Mussolini (Earth-13410)/Appearances, Category:Amahl Farouk (Earth-8096)/Appearances, Category:Alice (Genosha) (Earth-616)/Appearances
  
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- Artful Dodger
  
  I have stopped the bot for now, but when I check on some of the pages, everything looks okay.
  
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  Also, I have another problem on Appearances:
  Civil War: House of M Vol 1 2: The Genoshan mutates have the correct script for them to be listed as appearing, but no, they don't want to. Could you help me on this one ? The error must be technical (fat away from my skills) or that obvious that I can't see it.
  
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- Undoniel
  
  Well this is no big deal, but that just double the text:
  
  This page contains a listing of all known appearances of this character.
  If you find an Issue this Character appears in that is not shown here, please edit that issue adding "Artful Dodger/@comment-Undoniel-20130518121500/@comment-Undoniel-20130518123307" as a Cast member.
  
  Chronological Appearances (by Publication)
  
  Extension:DynamicPageList (DPL), version 1.9.0 : Warning: No results.
  
  Not the end of the world, but better without double it, I think.
  
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- Artful Dodger
  
  Well, not sure what's happening. I am pulling pages from the Category:Appearances_Category_Needed page, so if they are listed there, the bot will hit them. Since the page is only refreshed every 24 hours, I might be picking up some pages that were created, autocategorized, then fixed by a user, but not updated in the Category page.
  As for the Chronological text, that is standard so users can read the chronological order if they want. It does look odd when there is only only chronological entry, but that is unavoidable.
  
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- Artful Dodger
  
  As for the Mutates, the problem was the presence of the # character in their title. That character is used to signify section links, so having it in the appearance field was breaking it. All is good now.
  
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- Undoniel
  
  Cool, thanks.
  
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- Artful Dodger
  
  Not a problem. Thanks for the heads up about the bot.
  Also, I noticed your conversation with Gijimu. You handled that well :)
  
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- Undoniel
  
  Thanks. I hope he will not take it personally.
  
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- Artful Dodger
  
  If he does, it won't be your fault. You were very clear, kind and helpful.
  
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- Undoniel
  Oh I have another questions: I still have kind of problem to use the wikia, does it is a way for:
  
  Making clear searches: ex: When I was looking for Royal or US marines for my recent pages, I had type Marine, but that have given to me all links containing Marine, Marines, Mariner, so all the issue or articles with Namor in it. So does it is way to search specific words, without some specific other words, or to search that word and/or this one, etc.. (on Google, putting " "word" " is enough, or adding + or -. (I think) Same options here ?
  
  For the same use, does it a way to perform a research on the pages categorization by crossing their results (I'm currently editing categories regarding to hybridation, mutancy, eternality, deviancy, etc, and that could help me to have a global vision of it, and faster searches. Thanks
  
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- Artful Dodger
  
  Wikia's search is not very good, in my opinion. It comes up with some very strange results. I'm not sure how they arrive at their search results. You could swing by the Community Central page and see if anyone has more information...
  
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- Undoniel
  
  Hi! Did you know how (or who did) the things in the way that the word "mutant" put in the Origin field give automatically the category Mutants ? (It would be for the word Hybrid to do the same.)
  
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- Artful Dodger
  
  I'm pretty sure that Peteparker created that character template and the automagic behind it.
  
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  Thanks!
  
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Brian Braddocks of the Captain Britain Corps

KalKent

Would like your opinion on this admin thread.

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New Site Features

Spencerz

Let's have a chat...

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- Spencerz
  
  Hey. Do you have anything to add to this one? Most of the staff has weighed in already.
  
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- Artful Dodger
  
  Finally...
  
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Testing some tech-y stuff

Spencerz

Since you're on, can you check out this thread and test the feature inside? It'd be greatly appreciated.

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hi

Sai333

what up, you sure do know your marvel.

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- Artful Dodger
  
  Thanks. I have been reading and collecting since 1991.
  
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- Spencerz
  
  I don't want to age you Kevin, but you've been reading and collecting since before I was born.
  
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  Worse than that, that was when I graduated high school.
  You young whippersnappers!
  
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US/UK

Spencerz

So we have a few instances where Marvel and Marvel UK have bothed published series under the same name, but with completely different material (Marvel Super-Heroes Vol 1 and Marvel Super-Heroes (UK) Vol 1 are a prime example).
While I think that the "(UK)" piece is good for distinguishing between series, I do wonder if we should be placing "(US)" on the US version.

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- Artful Dodger
  
  Any idea how many of them there are? Is this a continuing trend or are they only older comics?
  
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  Definitely an older trend, since Marvel UK went defunct, and all regions now receive the same books.
  It's a bit bigger of a trend than you'd think, from what I can tell:
  
  Marvel Super-Heroes, per above.
  Marvel Team-Up Vol 1 and Marvel Team-Up (UK) Vol 1 (which also has a Winter Special)
  Savage Sword of Conan Vol 1 and Savage Sword of Conan (UK) Vol 1
  Dracula Lives Vol 1 and Dracula Lives (UK) Vol 1
  Planet of the Apes Vol 1 and Planet of the Apes (UK) Vol 1
  Captain America Vol 1 and Captain America (UK) Vol 1
  Fantastic Four Vol 1 and Fantastic Four (UK) Vol 1
  Incredible Hulk Vol 2 and The Incredible Hulk (UK) Vol 2
  Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Vol 1 and Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars (UK) Vol 1
  Secret Wars II Vol 1 and Secret Wars II (UK) Vol 1
  Spider-Man Vol 1 and Spider-Man (UK) Vol 1
  Thor Vol 1 and Thor (UK) Vol 1 (We don't have it on the site, but it is made mention of on Thor and the X-Men (UK) Vol 1)
  Biker Mice from Mars Vol 1 and two different volumes from Marvel UK (neither of which are on the site yet)
  
  In addition, there are a number of volumes that have the "(UK)" designation with no US counterpart on the site:
  
  Some pocket books (Star Heroes Pocket Book (UK) Vol 1, X-Men Pocket Book (UK) Vol 1)
  Some Collectors Editions (Captain America Collectors Edition (UK) and X-Men Collectors Edition (UK) Vol 1 1)
  Hulk Comic (UK) Vol 1 (which needs to be renamed anyway since the title changed names mid-run)
  The Spider-Man Comic (UK) Vol 1
  Star Heroes Winter Special (UK) Vol 1
  Star Wars Annual (UK) Vol 1
  The Super-Heroes (UK) Vol 1
  Thor and the X-Men (UK) Vol 1
  
  Keep in mind that this only information that I can find from our own data, which the pages above can show is far from complete; there could be dozens more that aren't listed on the site yet (I feel a trip to comicbookdb.com would reveal more). And since Tony Ingram and Robert Alvarez, who added pretty much all of these, aren't really around much anymore, we don't really have someone that knowledgeable in the UK market.
  
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- Spencerz
  
  Hey. We never went anywhere on this. Is it something we should bring up for discussion, or do you feel this is a bit overboard?
  
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Spencerz

I could use some advice. I don't know what to do about this guy. His edits are just...hard to look at. I feel as though there's a possible language barrier there, but "Your edits suck" is likely a low blow in any language. But I'm unsure how to go about informing him that his edits are either not formatted right or are just plan unneeded (in some cases).

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- Artful Dodger
  
  Yeah, I see what you are saying. It will be hard to fault him, though, because he is actually providing references...something most users don't do.
  You could let him know that he doesn't need double brackets for a a reference; one set will suffice. Maybe that will open some dialogue.
  
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  He does make references, but a number of those references are also links to our pages, or the Appendix. But he has the right idea. I'll try it next time I see him in the activity feed.
  
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