User talk:Randall00

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Attention!

As an avid SmashWikidian, I dislike fragmented discussions. If you leave a comment for me, I will most likely respond to it in here, in this same page, on my talk page, as an effort to keep the entire conversation in one place. By the same token, if I leave a comment on your talk page, please feel free to respond to it there, on your talk page. Remember, we can use our watchlist to keep track of when responses are made. At the same time, feel free to send an alert to me on this page about a comment you have left elsewhere.

Thank you!

Template

I need help creating Template:Crewbeta. can you help? --—Preceding unsigned comment added by Pikazilla (talk • contribs) {{{2}}}

It's on my to-do list, yes. But it would be at Template:Crew, more likely.--RJM ^Talk 20:13, January 5, 2008 (EST)

That was one of my ideas, it is in thr pool room section, at least someone listent to me.--Fandangox 14:26, January 5, 2008 (EST)

I moved it to Template:Crew. Feel free to continue dev there. =) --Sky (t | c | w) 03:00, January 23, 2008 (EST)

Hippochinfat still at it

Still vandalizing and flaming despite your warning. Magiciandude 16:20, January 11, 2008 (EST)

He's also banned at SWF... time for him to go bye-bye. Also, don't forget about Special: Contributions/Hutsetsugen!. – EP (Talk • Edits) 18:55, January 11, 2008 (EST)

User: Billy Kong

He have been replacing the Tier List article with == Tier List Don't exist!== I thing we should warn him, or if he do it again, ban him, Oh and yiu have something in your "to do list" that I can do? Its been quite a while since I really helped this wiki.--Fandangox 18:43, January 11, 2008 (EST)

No use warning him, take a look at his contributions page. He's obviously only interested in vandalizing SmashWiki so away he should go... – EP (Talk • Edits) 18:56, January 11, 2008 (EST)

Wiki issues

I think the site have some connection problems and issues, some users cannot upload images and take to much time to load the site, Two weeks ago my pc didt let me enter to the site. is this happening to everyone?--Fandangox 17:23, February 2, 2008 (EST)

Yes. This is related to the very same lag issues they are suffering at Smash World Forums, as the two websites are hosted on the same server. Due to the anticipation of Brawl's release, there's been extremely high traffic at the boards and it's been putting a lot of stress on the servers. That's actually a big part of the reason why I haven't been doing as much wiki work as usual. The boards are working well today, but I haven't heard as to whether or not they've found a permanent fix quite yet. --RJM ^Talk 11:13, February 3, 2008 (EST)

Thanks, I didnt know that the servers could suffer the same issues.--Fandangox 13:21, February 3, 2008 (EST)

Email change?

I'd like my email address changed, please.

From John_93@dbzmail.com

To wolfdonnell@yahoo.com

(Lavaris 02:55, February 4, 2008 (EST))

Hi there! Actually, your SmashWiki e-mail address and account are all tied to your Smash World Forums account. To change your e-mail, go to your User CP at SmashBoards and choose "Edit Email & Password" from the column on the left. If you're logged in already, just click here! --RJM ^Talk 09:51, February 4, 2008 (EST)

MediaWiki:Newarticletext

It eems to be some problem with the special pages Newarticletext and Namespace Number MediaWiki. Can you fix it? King M (talk•contribs•logs) 17: 41 (GMT +01) 7th February 2008

Was this all fixed before I noticed it? I don't really understand what the problem is. Where did all those templates come from anyway? Is there still an issue? --RJM ^Talk 22:21, February 8, 2008 (EST)

Email

I did what you said to do. However, my email is still the undesired one. Even after I changed it. Could you please edit it here for me? (Lavaris 22:49, February 8, 2008 (EST))

Please

Please change my email Randall..I did at SWF already, and my email is still the unprefered one at SmashWiki.

(Lavaris 03:34, February 13, 2008 (EST))

I'm still looking into that one, sorry man. It's not actually within my power; I'm pretty sure I would need to have access to the raw files on the server which is still well above me. I've left a message with the administration to look into it and haven't heard back yet, but I'll stay on top of it and let you know. :^) --RJM ^Talk 23:02, February 13, 2008 (EST)

Thank you Randall. (Lavaris 00:04, February 24, 2008 (EST))

Layout?

Do you mind if I use the layout on your userpage for my page? (Lavaris 00:05, February 24, 2008 (EST))

User Block

A user named Hippie Nixon vandalized a major page (he put "Your Mom" as a playable character). I feel this user should be warned, or perhaps blocked. --Oxico 23:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Tech VS Ukemi

How come you changed it back? I figured we went by official Dojo names for moves and techniques. (When there are official names, anyway.) FyreNWater - (Talk • Contributions ) 05:53, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

It was a double-redirect. --Randall00 23:10, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, YOU re coming back

OK I also didnt like the merge, but I'm getting used to it, dont tell me you will never comeback.--Fandangox 01:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

oh wait I got confused, you were quoting someone else?--Fandangox 01:31, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes. I agreed. This merge is the most insulting thing Smash World has ever done to me, and that's saying something. --Randall00 12:46, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Maybe you are exagerating??? that cannot be the worst thing. This is just a stupid merge, if you are never comingback that's your (stupid) choice.--Fandangox 13:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

That is my comment <.<' Now I'm kinda embarrased...Sorry I don't know how to spell if embarrased is spelt wrong... --User:Crystal_lucario 11:37, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Your comment is valid, I don't see why you would be embarrassed. I can remove it if you like, but it expresses my sentiments pretty well. --Randall00 21:14, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

No it's fine...~Crystal 15:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

awwww come here let me hug you guys (>'.')>. Hey you guys are acting like if they would have somewhat insulted you, is just a merging of two wikis, that's it, if you ask me, the only downside to the merge is that everyone can edit it now (more vandalism) the wiki is just as always.--Fandangox 19:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

All you're doing by saying these things is proving that you have no concept of what SmashWiki was and what went into it before this merge. It is inarguably insulting to the creators. --Randall00 03:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Hug back (^'.')^ lol. And the merge did insult me. It is so insulting with all the Spam and me hating wikia(Mainly because of Spam) (no offense(DONT BANZ MEZ! ^(0.o^) lol. Wikia is not the gov.)) and all that...~Crystal 19:53, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

There's no point in trying to convince you more, its obvious that you guys wont change your mind. (thanks for hugging back :))--Fandangox 21:19, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Would you please get all this "hug me, hug back" crap off my talk page, please? It's great that you don't take this seriously, but you didn't lose half the crap I did and I don't appreciate people who don't know what they're talking about coming on here and telling me that I'm exaggerating and everything is just as it was but with MOAR. --Randall00 03:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Petition to unmerge! Sign!~Crystal 21:08, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

That's nice and all Randall, but the problem is that you just left a quoted and no explanations, people will get the wrong impressions you should atleast give a reason.

I'm not going to sit and write a multi-page diatribe explaining why this was a bad idea. It is very clear to me that I've already wasted an awful lot of my writing on SmashWiki and my participation from here on out encompasses little more than ensuring that the competitive community's articles are not destroyed and that my own contributions remains relatively intact until I reserve some time to port them off the wiki.

Randall, if I might enter, KingKirby was able to salvage the watchlists from SmashWiki, so if you're still concerned about that, leave him a talk page message or a pm. --Sky (t · c · w) 21:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, Sky, the wiki is yours (if this really is what you call a "dream come true"). Smash World does not deserve my skill set. And before we get some more randoms coming in here telling me "it's just a merge!", please note that this is only one administrative folly in a series of them that have continually pushed me further and further away from Smash World over the last two years, despite my steadily increasing level of support and input. --Randall00 02:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Heh, I wasn't asking for opinions, only telling you that you can get your watchlist back, as I was fairly certain that was one of the items you were mad about. I'll leave you to yourself now. :) --Sky (t · c · w) 04:20, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Wazzup dude!

Just seeing how you doing. Zmario 21:35, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Hehe, interesting time to ask, so in the interest of not giving you more information than you need to know, we'll just say I'm doing better than I was two days ago. --Randall00 02:47, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Random...~Crystal

What's up, Randall? I know we've had some rough times since I first created my account, but I just wanted to let you know that I'm sorry for anything I could've done to offend you or anybody else. I'm usually not that obnoxious, but these last few days have been a little stressful. Anyway, I'm just hoping that you can forgive me for any wrongdoings. Hopefully, we can leave all that tension behind us and move on. What do you say? Truce? - GalaxiaD 01:10, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Don't worry about it, dude, I don't even really remember exactly what you did because nothing that I do on SmashWiki is personal by any means--if there's no war, there's no need for a truce. Moreover, I admire that despite anything wrong that you feel you may have done wrong, you are still willing to contribute and make this the best it can be. Showing the initiative to improve and contribute is very valuable and although you shouldn't feel the need to apologize to me, I recognize that as a respectable trait nonetheless--it sure is better than the hoards of people I've had to work with who refuse to even admit when they are wrong. I apologize if what I've said across the board in the last little while comes off sounding a little bitter and angry, but that's generally how I feel about this merge in the first place. I never would've been making this many unintentional enemies if it didn't happen. Keep at it! --Randall00 07:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Cool. I'm glad we were able to clear all that up. I'm not the type who goes out trying to make enemies out of everybody, and holding grudges can get nasty, so I just wanted to make sure you didn't hate me or anything. Now that I know that you don't, I won't have to watch my back anymore when I'm walking the streets at night (LOL). Anyway, I just wanted to say that you are a very knowledgable person, and despite what the merge may have done to you, you should keep doing a great job here at SmashWiki as well. Keep up the good work, Randall! - GalaxiaD 00:48, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

What's Up?

How are you doing, Randall? We haven't spoken in a while, so I decided to catch up on a few things with you. I'm doing fine. Just hanging around and doing my thing, you know? Keep on smashing and keep it real. - GalaxiaD (talk) 05:26, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Ike and Galaxia

I didn't realise that we weren't allowed to disuss sysop nominations on talk pages, or hold long conversations on talk pages. And I'm not gonna nominate myself, I thought i made that pretty clear...Ike6481 (talk) 18:14, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I didn't say anything of the sort. What I said was, you have your conversation fragmented across two talk pages instead of leaving it on one (like this). ALL of your conversations are like that, which makes them very confusing to read. Read the heading that I have at the top of this page. Using your watchlist keeps discussions all in one place instead of having to bounce across a bunch of different talk pages trying to piece together a conversation. --RJM ^Talk 18:20, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Right, I see. So have all our convos on one talk page. I then asume it would be illegal to creat apage just for the prpose of our conversation? Right, I'll bear your comments in mind. Sorry, for making it confusing, for you and whoever else may decide to read it. Ike6481 (talk) 18:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, you don't need to create a page just for the purpose of your conversation--that's what the talk page is for in the first place! Your entire conversation with Galaxia should just be on one talk page under its own heading, just like this one, that's all. --RJM ^Talk 18:29, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Convos

On GalaxiaD's talk page, you noted that the important conversations should not be fragmented. In what way is our conversation important? All the current Sysops post unimportant things on other talk pages. There is no need to become so angry because you are struggling to read our conversation. It is ours, and we should be able to talk how we like. If this were in person, it's be like you eavesdropping and then making fun of our accents. Ike6481 (talk) 23:18, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah you should really calm down.It is not that big of a deal. Zmario (talk) 23:22, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm not attacking anybody, actually. I'm trying to teach you all how to use a wiki so that when (or perhaps "if") you actually do decide to contribute something more useful to the back end community, you won't be left in the dark. In the same respect, standardizing the way a talk page is used sets a proper example for new users who actually do want to contribute.

Don't get me wrong, you can post all the "unimportant" stuff that you want. I think it's good to have trivial conversations in order to establish a community-like environment and encourage people to want to spend more time here. However, it would be best if that same positive energy and encouragement could be expressed in the methodology as well. It will make things easier for everyone. --RJM ^Talk 23:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Now what will make it easier is that if you would speak English instead of using your enhanced vonacular so peopel can understand you. Zmario (talk) 23:30, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

English is the only language I speak. It's not my problem if you only understand half of it. --RJM ^Talk 23:43, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

And when we discuss a character, for instance, we will talk in the character talk page. Since our convos do often drift away from the Smash Bros universe, we have nowhere to put it but on the talk page. And we don't care if it's fragmented, we just post on the other's talk page so that it saves room on our individual talk pages. And if we were to put it all on one talk page, who's would we put it on? And since we don't care, you shouldn't. I mean, it's our convo, and now that i'm talking to you, i'm putting it on your talk page since that's what you like. It's a matter of preference really. Ike6481 (talk) 23:35, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

What are you talking about? If your conversations about characters drift away from the smash universe, then you put it on your talk page, it's very simple--it doesn't matter which one of your talk pages it goes on--just pick one! The only justification I'm hearing for splitting them between TWO talk pages is because it "saves space." Which it doesn't. It's the same amount of text either way, people--what good is saving space on a talk page anyway? You can archive them when they get too long--wikis are built for this sort of thing! Just because you don't care doesn't mean that a fragmented conversation is the right way to do it and it doesn't mean that I shouldn't care because this isn't your website. SmashWiki is not free webspace--it has a purpose and it has conventions built around that purpose; if you choose to ignore those conventions, there's no guarantee that the community will support what you choose to do with this webspace. --RJM ^Talk 23:43, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, and your only argument is that it's what's meant to happen because it makes things 'Easier to read'. What will the community fail to supprt us for? Our runs for Sysop? Like I ever would. So that doesn't bother me. Our talk pages are sort of, well, ours. And we should be able to chat however we find simplest. Why should we do things how Sysops want them to be done, just so that it makes it easier for other people to read. We prefer to talk over the talk pages, so that we get the new message template. Yes, there's a watchlist, but that's VERY DIFFICULT to see! And what if one of us went away for a bit, as we often do. The watchlist wouldn't show our edits. Yes, we could just check the page we were talking on, but why make things more difficult and timewasting? Which is all what your argument is about. Difficulty. How hard is it to just not care about what we're putting. It is of no real importance to the smash community. It's of importance to us. We've been doing it for ages, and I don't see why we should change because one sysop is finding it difficult to read! In what way does it concern you? It's not like it is imperative for our convos to be on one page. It's not like it takes up more room on the wiki. There is no need for concern. Ike6481 (talk) 23:52, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but your argument is just transparent. There is nothing difficult about maintaining a watchlist. You click "my watchlist," it shows you the changes since you last logged in bolded and sorts everything chronologically. You speak as though you want your talk page to behave like a chatroom, flashing at you every time a new message comes in. But that's not what it's for, it's for keeping a record of conversation as it pertains to the article it is associated with in the main namespace. I obviously can't convince you that it's the better way to do things, but what I'm saying is, you can't go making a run for SysOp status and simultaneously support fragmented discussion. The two concepts have to jive with one another if you hope to make a case. --RJM ^Talk 00:04, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Alright, there's nothing difficult about maintaining a watchlist. That's great. We understand OUR conversations. And this is what you seem to be failing to get. They are OUR conversations. Why should we make it easier just so that some SysOp wants to read them? And then complain about every tiny error. And since when did you see me making a run for SysOp? Never, cos i wouldn't be good at it. So don't tell me off for attempting to do something i've not yet done, or planned to do. These fragmented discussions, it seems to be your biggest pet hate, but why? When me, Galaxia, Zmario and Kperfekt are talking, why are you getting annoyed? I don't look down your talk page and note down ever error in order to build up an argument, and then comment upon it in a massive speech. You are not a better person than me. You have no right to comment on how I do things that have no negative impact on anyone or anything. You think that being a SysOp gives you ultimate power. While it may make you more 'important' on this Wiki, it does not make you right. Look at people in power around the world. Brown, Bush, Mugabe, power does not equate to rightness. If you wanted to complain because i'd been swearing all over the place that'd be fine. But you are complaining because you don't understand a conversation that never concerned you. And i'd have to say that swearing is a greater offence that a discussion over several talk pages. After all, this is a Wiki for all ages. In future, please try to refrain from breaking the Wiki conventions. Ike6481 (talk) 00:14, 22 June 2008 (UTC) PS: Looking over more than one page is a bit tricky.

Don't nitpick my words or my intentions. This entire thing has been blown out of proportion by GalaxiaD's insistence that my opposition of his SysOp nomination is the sole reason he won't get selected. That opposition involves an objective analysis of how a talk page should be handled in the wiki community for constructive purposes. Building a constructive community is built up of many smaller working parts, including an efficient framework for back end discussion. It's not as though fragmented discussion is my most passionate hatred and I lose sleep over it at night--no, it's just one of those smaller working parts to build a larger functional machine. I have no interest in reading the fragmented conversation in question, I'm only concerned with suggesting a superior way of laying it on the page (especially when there's a potential SysOp in question). It's not important to you, but it just happens to be important to the SysOp nomination process.

The second half of your post here is very confusing to me. I don't know where you get the notion that I believe that SysOp status gives you ultimate power--it absolutely does not and it probably gives you a whole lot less power than most of the current nominees think it does. But then you start talking about politics and swearing and telling me not to "break the wiki conventions" as though there's a list somewhere. I'm not sure what it's all for, but I've endured enough abuse by trying to help for one day, I think. No more personal attacks on this issue, please. My patience is tried and I will punish as ruthlessly as my petty SysOp status allows. --RJM ^Talk 00:34, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Please stop talking to me about Sysop nominations. I never planned to run. Being helpful? You think that banning someone who has, in actuality, made NO personal insults, and is staating his opinion just as you state yours. If i get banned, it would only be fair that you got banned, as I have done nothing worse than you. And i'm not talking to you abot GalaxiaD's nomination. I'm talking to you about this droning insistence that i've broken some kind of law, by stating my opinion and having fragmented discussions. No other Sysop got mad at us. No other Sysop posted long speeches at us. And why is it a superior way? So that we can what, go back to it? It's not difficult at the time. And quite frankly, if anyone is trying to read our conversations, then why should we make it easier for them? There are Wiki conventions, you know that as well as I do. No personal insults, no swearing, no joke pages. I never said Sysopness gave you ultimate power. It gives you the power to block me. Even though I have done nothing worse than me. So deny that banning me would be an abuse of power. If a non Sysop had done what you did, they'd get moaned at in a second Haha, i've not responded to your points in order.Ike6481 (talk) 00:44, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

That's enough. I am talking about SysOp nominations because that is the ONLY thing that this is about, so please stop insisting that I'm here to abuse power and put words into my mouth trying to make it look like I'm here to control your speech and dictate your lives. I have accused you of NOTHING, said NOTHING to deserve such a convoluted outburst and seen NOTHING from you that indicates that you are coming on to my talk page to do anything but start a fight. You are as uninvolved with the original issue as I was; the difference is that I owe the wiki a certain responsibility in terms of maintaining a quality standard throughout the community and when a SysOp candidate (remember: the ONLY issue at hand) is splitting conversations between two talk pages, I consider it beneficial to him and his potential nomination to understand how that methodology works against the community effort in an administrative role. A very minor issue that he chose to turn into a hissy internet war about ruining his chances at SysOp and playing it up as though I was trying to control the way he thinks. Then all his friends jump on board and I suddenly look like the bad guy because half of them can't understand a word I'm saying and the other half have such a volatile temper on the internet that even the gentlest of sarcastic remarks against them turns them all into a rabid, hundred-man coalition of angry rebels trying to overthrow the system all in the name of human rights and patriotic free speech. Please, concentrate this energy on improving the wiki, or arguing somewhere else, whatever--just stop the warmongering and continued vilification of what I do here. I know how much it would fire you up to get banned for this and it would be fun to watch your army of freedom fighters march demandingly up to SmashWiki administration with a copy of the constitution in hand, but just because you say you're stating your opinion and doing nothing wrong doesn't mean it's not harassment when you continue to push an accusatory issue on me that has nothing to do with you. This kind of attitude is deconstructive to the community at large--no more, please. I'd much rather be convinced that you're a worthwhile user to have around than to act on the opposite. --RJM ^Talk 05:36, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Alright alright, cool it Pyro. I was never getting mad. We understand what you're saying. All talk on one page. We heard, we just chose to respectfully disagree. On the forums, we talk on one page, on character pages, we talk on one page. Why does every user have a talk page if we are supposed to talk on one? As you previously said, each to his own, and on talk pages, we just find it easier to go to and fro. You don't, we get that. So when we talk to you, we talk on your pgae, as you prefer, when we talk to eachother, we go to and fro, as we prefer. When it comes to important issues, we will not talk in such a haphazard fashion. As it does not concern you really, as you said, I see no need for you to comment on how we do stuff. We're not getting fired up, well, i'm not. Do I sound(look) angry? Just accept that everyone has their own preferences, and when it comes to something that does not negatively affect anyone, keep out of it. No other Sysop had an issue. Clarinet Hawk has never had an issue with it, so why do you? Since clearly, neither of us is going to give up, let's just agree, to diasgree. Ike6481 (talk) 19:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC) Ps: I do like your imagery.

Don't make an attempt to pass this off as though you're winning this argument by trying to claim that you're not the one getting worked up about it when you've just littered my wall with all kinds of sarcastic commentary about elitist SysOp power and blanketing the entire thing with return accusations that I'm the one "getting mad" when from the very beginning, I have asserted that I am not attacking anyone and intervened only in the interest of educating a potential SysOp (and hopefully other members of the community as well) as to the common practice of using the talk pages in a more communal and constructive manner. However, no matter how many times I have tried to explain this, I am still met with more sarcasm and more coy remarks like "cool it Pyro" from people who have nothing to do with the original issue. And THAT is what pisses me off--don't confuse my rebuttals and the aggression behind them with the original issue. How about instead of agreeing to disagree, you agree to take your own advice and keep out of issues that you have nothing to do with instead of coming on here and telling me how to do my job as though you know what does and does not negatively affect a wiki community. We are done here, understand? Good. --RJM ^Talk 23:05, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Alright alright. I apologise. My cool it Pyro remark was just because I was watching the Xmen. And the only reason I'm on your talk pahe is because you don't like fragments. However, I am sorry, and in future I will not be as sarcastic, and nor will I get confused oer your points. Sorry. Ike6481 (talk) 23:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Threats/Friends-For-Hire/General Incoherence

Rubs temple with fingers* ehhh... I have a short temper. If you would like to know how short ask Ike. I am TRYING to keep it under control, but I don't deal with ahem *people that annoy me* that well. SO WHAT I AM GOING TO DO is tell you to mind your convorsation with galaxiaD & whoever else you have been pissing off, and NOT to get me angry. OH AND BY THE WAY, I DON'T RECALL IKE or GALAXIAD BEING BANNED. This is why I DO NOT LIKE 1/2 THE ADMIN ON THIS SITE. BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY ARE HIGH & MIGHTY, AND BECOME INCREDIBLY STUCK UP, FOR SOME EVEN MORE SO THEN ME. Kperfekt722 (talk) 23:47, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Kperfeck he has been annoying me as well. Zmario (talk) 23:50, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Who are you, what is your bearing on the situation and what do you hope to accomplish by making a general statement about admins being stuck up and threatening me to "NOT" get you angry? Please try to use less capital letters--it doesn't help convince me that there is either passion or logic behind your words. I'll give you a chance to re-phrase all of that and help you if I can, but if you're just coming here to defend your buddies, I don't think this is the place to be. --RJM ^Talk 00:04, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

RJM just leave us along and we will leave you alone. This bickering will not stop otherwise. When the little guy tries to stand up to the bigger guy the little guy always loses. Thi page is way to long to continue the bantering. Thats another good reason we switch talk pages there is to much kilobyte memeory and causes computers to slow down. Zmario (talk) 23:56, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Well I did stay out of this until you left a... Wait for it... STUCK UP (i know how much you love capitals) comment on my page. In anycase, it appears the person that you decided to cause trouble with in the first place (galaxiaD) has decided not to stoop to your level. I on the other hand, am one of those people who does not take kindly to having people put that CRAP on my talk/user pages. oh and the way you have been talking to my "buddies" doesn't bother me as much as the way you talk in that upper class tone. deal with it. your not going to get anywhere by insulting me and/or my "BUDDIES" (capitals again, just for you) Kperfekt722 (talk) 00:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Unwanted commentary is the price of fragmenting conversations across multiple talk pages, I suppose. But as Charitwo pointed out below, you're asking for administrative action by coming out of nowhere and immediately launching an attack against me with respect to a situation that you have no involvement in. Strike two. --RJM ^Talk 00:19, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

I'll say this, if this argument continues, there will be harassment blocks, and they will be long. And that goes for both of you, stop harassing Randall. --Charitwo 00:08, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Just to prove that we're serious about this not continuing, I hit Kperfeck with a 10 min. warning ban, since he thought it was a good idea to post some comments here two min. after Charitwo told them to stop. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 00:22, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Am I in trouble? Or are you just referring to Zmario and Kperfekt, I think i've refrained from anything personal Ike6481 (talk) 00:24, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Furthermore, it is not any way for RfA nominee's to be acting to begin with. --Charitwo 00:25, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Deleting Bomb Barrier

Ok this is probably a question that stems solely from my inexperience but why would the Bomb Barrier article be deleted for using a personal nickname if no official name exists? That was the name used by the person who developed the technique, so isn't that the official name? Sorry if this is a noobish question. Shade487z (talk) 22:17, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, for starters the technique was "developed" by the actual game developers, they just never published a name or perhaps never gave it one in the first place. However, I didn't actually delete the article because it was a personal nickname for the technique (that's just why it was tagged for deletion). The thing is, for a personal nickname of a technique to warrant a SmashWiki article of its own, that terminology has to be widely used throughout the smash community. The term has to be recognized as one of (if not the only) way to describe the technique you're describing.

The best example is the wavedash article. The word "wavedash" caught on back in 2002 when it was originally discovered by a smasher known as Toadbanjoconker. This was right around the time when SmashBoards was slowly turning into the best online community to go to for smash information and the community began to use the boards as a resource to discover more about the game. With players from all over the world working together to unlock the mysteries hidden beneath the physics engine, more and more techniques that they didn't have names for were discovered and so the players named them themselves. Even the word tech was a product of the community and wasn't officially named until Brawl began posting its DOJO updates.

In the intervening years, SmashBoards became easily the largest Smash Bros. community on the internet and became the home of over 60,000 smashers from all over the world. They all came to the same place to learn the same things that those original core members were working to discover and give names to. That's why a wavedash is called a "wavedash" and no matter where you go in the entire world, that's what it's still called. The terminology really has to catch on in the community for it to warrant an article with that title. SmashWiki is supposed to be an easy way to find all that information that is now buried deep within forum posts on SmashBoards and other areas of the internet, so if someone new to smash hear's a term like "double shine" being used at a tournament, they should be able to come here, type it into the search bar and learn what it is everyone was talking about.

The reason that doesn't apply to "bomb barrier" is because it just isn't a frequently-used term. It might be used in a local area and maybe some smashers might have picked up on it, but just because someone posts claiming to discover the technique and gives it a name of its own doesn't make it the official name. Official names are either dictated by Nintendo, or by widespread popular usage. Who knows, maybe "bomb barrier" refers to some sort of Samus technique in Europe--but we don't know for sure because neither definition is popular enough to be recognized amongst the national or international smash community.

Besides, all that bomb-dropping, bomb-laying goodness was covered a long time ago in Melee and is well-documented under various names of its own by NJ'zFinest in Bombs Away! ~ A Guide on Young Link's Bombs.

All that said, I still think that the technique (but not the name) deserves to be mentioned on Toon Link's page under the "Strategies & Tips" section, so I would recommend adding that information to the character page instead of creating an article for it anyway. Besides, if someone wants to look for more information on what you can do with Toon Link, they're going to search for "Toon Link" not "bomb barrier," right? :^) --RJM ^Talk 23:31, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

ooooooooh I got ya. Ok thanks for clearing that up. I was actually considering just putting it under Toon Link's strategies and tips, but I guess now it's the only option. On that note, what about my Double wielding article? Just want to make sure that everything there is ok, as well. Shade487z (talk) 00:57, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

That should be deleted as well. There's nothing notable about trying to use two controllers at the same time. I will say that you do write articles very well, though. Your knowledge of the correct formatting and proper categorization is great and should be spent on more relevant information. --RJM ^Talk 06:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, all the stuff I did while on the yearbook staff at my school helped. Thanks. Shade487z (talk) 15:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Goomba Mafia

Uh, I know it's not really a crew, but I don't really to see them upset if it gets deleted, can it be turned into an online clan or something? (Wolf O'Donnell (talk · contributions) 02:03, 26 June 2008 (UTC))

You turn it into whatever you like, except an article. :^) Online clans don't get articles either--though I'm sure there's still a few kickin' around that haven't jumped out at me enough to purge quite yet. --RJM ^Talk 04:53, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Uh, yeah.. There are acouple, I've come across them. (Wolf O'Donnell (talk · contributions) 06:34, 26 June 2008 (UTC))

Online Moguls and the Goomba Mafia

I understand your desire to keep this site free of unnecessary articles, but was it really necessary to delete the articles about the online crews of the users on this wiki. The ability of online play has made it possible for these users to play regularly and communicate about Smash Bros. While the definition of crews that you gave worked well for Melee, now that users need not live near each other to play regularly, why must they live in close proximity to be a crew. They meet all the other definitions of being a crew. The do play regularly, they are a close group of friends, and they even post videos of their matches. Again, I understand that you want to keep this site free of random pages about nothing, but these are some of the most active users, even if they can get out of hand at times. What harm can truly come from allowing them to publicize their crew? Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 01:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

It's about article notability. This should be a wiki free of spam and full of legitimate smash information. Even the crew article needs revising, because a crew that doesn't compete is nothing more than a bunch of friends that smash together and have given themselves a name but otherwise have no impact on the community at large. If the article doesn't tell you anything about smash or the smash community, there's no reason for it to be publicized. I give an awful lot of time, effort, travel mileage and money into making the competitive community a legitimate sporting following and to have groups of hot-tempered, attention-seeking teenagers creating abstract "crews" and "joining" up to ten of them at a time is a bastardization of the efforts of smashers whose allied tournament play makes a real impact on the history of smash at large. Crew members have never needed to live in close proximity in order to compete as a crew, but they'd better turn up at a tournament and better have some idea of what a crew battle is if they're going to try and lump themselves in the same category as the real crews. I recognize that a good number of people around here have very little concept of the widespread influence of competitive smash since the merge with Wikia, but don't let their angry tirades get the best of you. We are trying to make an encyclopedia here (at least I assume we share that objective) and it's important to bear in mind that there's plenty of garbage on the internet that doesn't cause any harm, but that doesn't mean it isn't garbage. --RJM ^Talk 03:11, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Alright, that's a good point. I hope I didn't make you think that I don't value your opinion. I know we may not see eye to eye on every policy on this wiki, but I do think that you are a great editor and have it's best interests at heart. I look forward to working with you to continue taking it in the right direction. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 17:46, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Is this spam?

There was a State Locator page containing the typical info of a smashboards Locator thread, but more organized. This was marked for Speedy Deletion with the reason given Spam/Advertisement, which a sysop did delete claiming that the Locator page was spam. Is this the correct policy?

I've always thought of spam to be something like a page full of gibberish, or an unwanted email. Not a page with useful information. So was it spam? Here's where the page used to be, and here's my discussion with the deleting sysop. If that is spam then the Speedy Deletion Policy page needs to reflect this.

On a side note, is there a central place that links to all this wiki's policies? It's tedious searching for the right way to do things here. Ryzol (talk) 15:07, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, she's right to delete it from this wiki because something like a "locator" is much better suited to an interactive forum community rather than an encyclopedia which is really just a one-way street for information. More often than not, there should be external links to locator pages, tournament thread discussions, etc. as cited references within an article, but for an article to have place here, it has to have ties to a smash community elsewhere that helps fuel the community at large. We certainly don't disapprove of starting pages like that--rather, we just know that there is better and more effective places to do so than SmashWiki.

You make a valid point about the lack of policies, though. SmashWiki was merged with the Super Smash Bros. Wikia awhile back and it created a very unusual mixture of content and clash in existing policies. It has yet to be resolved but there is now a push to get things going in terms of sorting out the administrative framework. I apologize that no concrete list of policies is available at this point and sympathize with your frustration. --RJM ^Talk 12:41, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Broken

It just may be a regional thing, but "broken" is a pretty common Smash term where I play. I'd say it's even more common than "No Jonhs" or "Sandbagging." If it's just my area, I can understand why you deleted it, so I thought I'd ask about that. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 20:53, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Reconsider

Look man, I know you don't care much for Kperfekt or myself, but we're only "bashing" you because of the stress you've been causing for us. You called us degenerates and basically deleted our crew page for no reason. If someone did this to you, wouldn't you be ticked? Also, calling us hot-headed, attention-seeking teenagers was a little uncalled for. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those personal attacks as well? If Kperfekt and I get banned for personally attacking you, then it's only fair that YOU get banned as well for personally attacking us. I just want you to leave us alone. We, in turn, will leave YOU alone. I just want this to be over. I just want us to move on. Do you want an apology? Fine. Kperfekt and I are sorry for disrespecting you. I respect your intentions for this site, as well as your intentions to lead the wiki in the right direction. I know you mean nothing but good for this site, but some things you do just aren't agreeable to other people. I again apologize, and I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me and my friends. - GalaxiaD (talk) 22:31, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Honestly, you guys should take your club to a personal website, or possibly to Smash Boards PMs, unless you plan to actually contribute to the encyclopedia. Even then, you should reduce the amount of myspacing you're doing.

This, I'm sure, is part of Randall's frustration; you seem to think this place is MySpace. It is not. Either you need to help fix the things wrong with it, or you can/should go. I hate to ban/block non-vandals, but am willing to take the same steps Randall is considering. --Sky (t · c · w) 03:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

IP adress

There is an IP adress user that has vandalized the Mr.G&W twice. I have reverted the edits but I have a feeling this person needs to be blocked or warned.--Oxico (talk) 17:45, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello

I just wanted to archive your talk page. It was getting very cluttered. Zmario (talk) 17:48, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Please don't do that again. --RJM ^Talk 21:51, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

First, Randall's right: Don't mess with users talk pages unless they ask you to.

I have to say, however, Randall that this page is getting pretty long. I've got a broadband connection (and have used T1) and still have longer load times on this page than most others. And there are people with dial-up that could have some major problems loading this page. It's your talk page, so it's completely up to you whatever you do. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 21:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, it wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for the Wikia garbage that has to load with it now. A plain text page on the old server could've gone three times as long without any issues. It's part of my continued quiet rebellion against the executive decision, that's all. It's still considerably smaller than List of SSBM Trophies and just twice the size of The Subspace Emissary, all without images. I will trim it down once the oldest of the conversations die out, but until then, I expect most people will be able to put up with it. --RJM ^Talk 22:24, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Vandalisim

There is a lot of it in in the Mr. Game & Watch SSBB page in the Trivia section. I cleaned some of it, but there is just so much...Amycats2 (talk) 18:50, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah someone has been having a hater streak against Mr.G&W. Can you PLEASE block him/her? They are IP adress 66.30.184.164. --Oxico (talk) 18:55, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I had to revert 2 edits from that page. Zmario (talk) 19:19, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I took care of it. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 19:37, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

The month-long protection is probably a good length. I don't like to have to protect character pages since they attract so much attention and often are worthwhile recipients of anonymous editors, but that should be enough to keep the vandals out of the pot for a bit. Or at least give him enough time to make an account that we can ban properly if he's that passionate about hating on 2-D chaps like my buddy Game & Watch. --RJM ^Talk 21:51, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't like having to protect them either, but things can get out of hand when we just let any random IP put stuff on them. For example, someone kept adding under Sonic's pros that "His back throw can kill the opponent at above 300%." And we get a lot of people that have just removed legit cons from the section because, as they say, s/he's my main, how could s/he have so many cons. It's really unfortunate that we have to protect so many character pages, but I really don't see a way around it. I will keep an eye on Mr. G & W and any account that vandalizes it will be shown no mercy. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 22:04, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Not COol

I have Windows Vista -.-. The least you could of done was thank me for atleast TRYING to help you. Noooooooo........Archiving is for people who has adial up connection. Puh-lease. Zmario (talk) 21:57, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

You've done nothing but make more work for me since the day you came on to this wiki. Take your attitude elsewhere, please. Thank you. --RJM ^Talk 22:16, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Why Thank you. Your comment has been noted and will be ignored. Thank you for purchasing the Bad Comment Sniffer 3.0. Zmario (talk) 22:20, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Er, I'm gonna have to agree with Randall here. Mainly because it is his talk page. Also, you're chasing an issue that needs not be chased. And lastly, I was reading through our argument, was I a dickhead! Yes. Please, don't argue. Ike6481 (talk) 22:25, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Delete Template

I know that we both made some changes to the delete template in the past week. However, articles that are marked for deletion no longer appear in the category:Candidates for Deletion, even though each of their pages' still says that they are in that category. I know, and agree, that we should do the discussion on the talk page, but it is near impossible to even find the pages marked for deletion if they are not added to a list in a category. Do you know what happened to the template to prevent it from adding the pages to the category? Or is is a problem in the category? Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 14:04, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

It was a technical conflict between the <includeonly> tags and the [[Category:]] versus [[:Category:]]-style links. Should be fixed now! *thumbs up* --RJM ^Talk 17:04, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Well, the pages are being added to the category again, but now the whole template page is being added, including the all the code text. I took a look at the source, and all the <includeonly> and <noinclude> codes looked to be right. I'm not great with templates myself, but I'll take another look and see if I can fix it. Could you check it also, however, to make sure I don't screw things up. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 17:57, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

That's very strange, it worked fine when I changed it and now that a few other changes have been made it seems to be working still. I wonder if it's related to how different internet browsers handle the source code. I know that has caused some issues in the past. Let me know if there's any other problems--I'm just not seeing any. --RJM ^Talk 20:01, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm really not sure what caused it, but I talked to Sky and he took care of it. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 21:51, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Crew Namespace

It think it's time that we close that discussion. You, Sky, and I are opposed, and Erik is somewhat opposed. The other sysops haven't weighed in, but I think there's more than enough of a administrators' consensus there already. I'll let Charitwo and Rita know that we're looking into ending it in case they have any huge objections, but it doesn't look like it's going anywhere and we could use the community discussion on much better topics. What do you think? Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 15:29, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

New Brawl

I see the Post-Merge Cleanup page has something on everything that belongs on a character page...somethings have been taken out, like the Special Movements sections I worked so hard to put on the pages. Can those be kept?--Oxico (talk) 00:58, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Link me to specific articles or else I'm not sure what you're referring to. There's thousands. --RJM ^Talk 23:23, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Here are some, just to name a few: Bowser's, Jiggly's, Snake's, etc. The section is on every Brawl character's page.--Oxico (talk) 13:51, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Ahh, like the victory poses and all that, gotcha. Yeah, I could tell that a lot of effort went into those and expected some sort of comment about it. While I think the information that you captured was valuable, I guess I was just looking for a way to "reduce" the amount of trivial information that appeared as a major header so there's no question as to what is and is not useful to the widest audience. The thing is, there's already articles for fanfare and victory pose and on-screen appearances. Those little pieces of information are better compiled into a page about that feature of the game instead of cluttering up the fighter info pages. And since most of it is already captured elsewhere on the wiki, all that was really left from your sections was the "Wii Remote Choice" and credits music. By themselves, those two are even less likely to justify a section of their own on a fighter page. However, I would encourage you to include the quirkiest information in the Trivia section of certain articles. (i.e. "* If you beat Subspace Emissary with Sheik, Young Jeezy's dirty-south hip hop track "Gangsta Music" will play behind the credits.") --RJM ^Talk 02:41, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

OK I can live with that. LOL nice one with the example. Well, so long as there are movesets for me to do intimate and deep research into on the character pages I am happy :P --Oxico (talk) 12:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Wait wait wait where will the credits musicm wii remote choice and Idle Stance be put? They don't really attribute to gameplay but quite frankly even Idle Stance affects gameplay more than "Victory Pose".--Oxico (talk) 12:33, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Proboards

Why did you come onto my Proboards just to start trouble? Seriously, I did nothing to deserve your presence. - GalaxiaD (talk) 02:22, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I do not take kindly to people posting things under my name; it's a mild form of identity theft. Remove that user from your message board and don't come on here pretending I'm the bad guy for defending myself. We are working on this wiki now and I'm tired of the crap continuously being brought up by you and your army of talk page adversaries who have done next to nothing to help the project and nearly everything to slow it down with petty and childish internet drama. I can't make myself any clearer than that. We're done here. --RJM ^Talk 13:20, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

LOL, I should've expected a response like that. Typical you. THAT is why my friend is going by your name. You're far too predictable. Not to mention that you have a very short fuse. Whatever, keep complaining about our convos all you want. And please, have fun with your boring little project. Meanwhile, me and my friends will be getting outside to see the world in all its beauty. Have a nice day! - GalaxiaD (talk) 17:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Galaxia, now is a good time to shut up and drop this thing. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 18:14, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Honestly, I would consider "identity theft" of any sort as a blockable offense, even if it occurs off-wiki. --Sky (t · c · w) 21:49, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Don't have to tell me twice. --RJM ^Talk 00:03, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Er, I really don't see the harm just calling one of them Randall is doing. If, they were doing this on-wiki, then sure, block. But off-wiki, how far did they go to make it blockable there? Ike6481 (talk) 14:43, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Weights

First of all, thanks for adding the weights back in. Second, do you know how the numbers are calculated for the melee weights? I've been looking into finding some way to calculate the weights for SSB and Brawl and then get them all standardized. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 02:17, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

The original Melee list comes from a horizontal knockback test on Mushroom Kingdom II, side-smashing with Mario (I believe) at every damage percent starting from 1% until the character is KO'd. Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure the stage was used because you can hit with a f-smash on any character directly after landing off the stage entry platforms, which validates the data as you do not have to account for errors caused by accidental horizontal movement on the analog.

I haven't done a lot of digging for this kind of data myself either and a lot of what I've learned has just been accepted as truth for so many years that it's hard to justify it so long after the research was made public knowledge. Mew2King's famous frame data page has an incredible amount of information gathered by collecting these kinds of back-end stats for a lot of games, so that might give you some insight into the methods used. Beyond that, The Official Everything Thread is a wicked resource with a lot of great links and some knowledgeable people who probably have a foothold on collecting the new Brawl data as well. Hope that helps! If you dig up anything juicy, lemme know. :^) --RJM ^Talk 02:32, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

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ASSHOLE!!!

YOU FUCKING HEARTLESS, DEMONIC BASTARD. I hope you are incenerated in the place you came from.

Fuck you,

--Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 03:04, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

We need to talk

OK, there's a lot of stuff going on with the petty internet drama. I know that you have much better things to do with your time than worry about it, as do I, but I think that we have a certain responsibility as sysops to settle it. However, I don't want these discussions being flooded with the ideas of other users. If you could e-mail me at aaron-kirschner@uiowa.edu with any ideas you have about this, I will e-mail you my thoughts. I won't be able to get back to you until tonight on account of me driving from Boston to Pittsburgh, but I will respond as soon as I can. Thank you. 03:33, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Apology

Regarding the striking out his little lines of text. I assumed you didn't want them to be completely visible. You have my apology. (Wolf O'Donnell (talk · contributions) 07:09, 14 August 2008 (UTC))

Haha, no need to apologize. :^) --RJM ^Talk 07:10, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Why did you block Kperfekt and Galxia and BlueNinjaKoopa. Who are you gongi to ban next, ME? You better hope not. Zmario (talk) 09:57, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Zmario, you are not helping.

Randall, I'm afraid I have no idea what just happened with these recent perma-bans. I know one person was posing as another (always a perma-ban, no exceptions), and three others told you to "f*ck off" and flooded you with hate mail. I don't know all the details, but it seems your punishment was pretty harsh. (Not that I'm saying they didn't deserve bans for what they did, I just think it was to much.) They're just kids with keyboards, of course they're going to do dumb things, bitch at people, and throw foul language around. If it was full-blown hate messages, I would understand a ban of a few months. What did they do to earn themselves perma-bans? FyreNWater - (Talk • Contributions ) 01:44, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it changes anything, but the impersonation seems to have happened on a different site (where, exactly, I'm not sure).–Entrea Sumatae 02:12, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

The question people need to stop asking is "why can't these kids come on to SmashWiki and do whatever they want?" And the question we need to start asking is "what was their membership actually worth"? The fact is, they contributed nothing to the project and did nothing but get in the way of a constructive environment. Sure, I could've banned them for a few months or maybe a couple weeks, but what's the difference? They learn nothing by getting temporarily blocked AND they learn nothing by getting permanently blocked. At least with the latter, we don't have to deal with it anymore.

Honestly, what did we gain by having these members around? I can't think of anything. Or at least nothing that even remotely comes close to a fair deal when you consider the amount of time they wasted in the process. It's not surprising to me that it seems a little harsh to the softened-up internet that's emerged over the last few years and it's cool if other administrators disagree, but I'm telling you, it's in the best interest of the project. Somebody has to stand up against this kind of trash and I'm not afraid to make "enemies" in the process, because I know that true enmity doesn't exist on the internet and that I'm actually a pretty okay guy. This website is still a community-written encyclopedia--a project with many workers. So don't think about this in terms of firing one of the workers forever; it's more like turning down his job application in the first place based on low qualifications...yet he keeps coming back to hang around the job site for days after the interview. --RJM ^Talk 16:23, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

While I strongly agree about them not contributing and, much of the time, pushing things backwards and wasting people's time... you know, I forgot my argument. I think it was something like "they have the right to come and help" or something, but it just disappeared when I just realized that a person I'm trying to help basically called me a "f*g" and told me to "GTFO". Whatever the higher-ups think, I guess. Frankly, I'm sick of trying to help them and getting cussed at in the process. FyreNWater - (Talk • Contributions ) 01:30, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

User:Shadowcrest/policy

As a sysop, I expect you to be interested in benefitting the community- and I wholeheartedly believe that the implementation of all of the proposed policies/other administration-related things listed on that page would benefit the wiki. It would be greatly appreciated if you would point out any issues you have with any of the things listed on that page, and whether or not you think any or all of them should be implemented, and if not, why not.

Of course, I realize you have a life and other things to attend to- I don't expect this to be completed overnight ;)

Whenever you get the chance, it would be great if you would comment on them.

Thanks, --Shadowcrest 01:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

PS: Your talk page is 110KB long. Need moar archives :P --Shadowcrest 01:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Looks good, dude! We can definitely use the bulk of that. The "you are valuable" policy is a little too fluffy and lovey-dovey for my taste as I think it miscommunicates the idea that you're valuable no matter what--which just isn't the case, especially in light of recent events. If banned users were valuable, they wouldn't have gotten banned. So yeah, personally I'd cut that policy right out of the package, but I expect to be voted out on that one and I'll settle for some severe editing. :^) And you know, it might not hurt to turn this whole implementation phase into a project page. --RJM ^Talk 17:09, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Everyone on this wiki needs moar archives. I think they just don't happen here.–Entrea Sumatae 02:00, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes I'm aware of the length of my talk page; I just haven't had the time to go through it because I've been babysitting users since the turn of the century it seems. Might get around to that archiving today. --RJM ^Talk 17:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Umm

Will I get banned because I undid and edit from a sysop? ive been told not to erase any comments from a talk page so im sticking by that! Zmario (talk) 00:19, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

I am also sorry for any misunderstandings we may have caused in the past and I want to start over with you. you can still hate my guts, but Im goign to be nice to you from now on. Lets become friends...... Zmario (talk) 00:23, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Too late. Goodbye. E-mail me with your case and I may reconsider: randall00@proimpact.ca --RJM ^Talk 00:25, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Edit warring on SmashWiki:Requests for adminship and general incivility

Please stop repeatedly reverting the RFA page. Use the talk page to discuss changes to the page. As far as "How many discussions we need to have", we haven't really had any. Restricting the RFA process is abuse of your power as a sysop and continuing to do it may result in your adminship being removed and you being given a temporary block. In addition, your attitude towards other editors such as your overuse of CAPS LOCK and general rudeness is disruptive towards this wiki and will be treated accordingly if it is not reversed. Dtm142 (talk) 00:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Whoa! Buddy, are you threatening me?? There's like four pages of discussion on that very issue! And forgive my "incivility" but have you seen what's been going on around here? It would be hilariously appropriate to the degeneration of this wiki over time to have me banned for banning users for abusing other users, but go hard if you want, I guess?? --RJM ^Talk 00:32, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Dtm, I think you are much more guilty of "abusing your power as an admin" than Randall is. How about all the moves of Tournament, tier list, etc. to the Smasher namespace simply because you can't get your head around the fact that there is a strong competitive scene that you're not a part of? Or showing up after months of inactivity and overruling a decision reached by five active sysops? Randall has been doing his damnedest to improve this wiki, so if he gets a little testy about people that he feels undermines the wiki I think he's earned the right to do so. If you had actually read any of the discussions about this (or any of the other pages I mentioned) you would realize that their is reason for the nominations to be closed. Don't accuse other people of abusing their power when you're the one who disappears for months at a time, then resurfaces to try and remove any mention of the competitive scene of Smash Bros. and just decides to overturn the decision of the sysops who had been working during your vacation. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 01:18, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

That is not a fair assessment. The competitive side of Smash Bros is the reason for the Smasher namespace in the first place. I'm not saying the moves went in the right place, but the mainspace wasn't completely appropriate either. Perhaps a second wiki, which I believe was proposed before and dedicated entirely to the competitive side of this game (but not content game content like playable characters, moves, etc) may be more appropriate. --Charitwo^Talk 01:50, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

There was no general agreement (AKA consensus) to close all RFAs. Yes a few editors agreed, but five people (even if they are administrators) do not speak for the entire community. As for the blocks, I am unsure about the whole issue. You have blocked one of them for abusive sockpuppetry, and I am tempted to agree with you. It seems far too convenient that they are all there at the same time. A checkuser by a staff member was a good idea, but it seems that they are completely different people. However, two wrongs don't make a right.

With respect to my moves of Tournament and Tier list, I was just trying to improve the wiki by acting according to the forum thread. The Smasher namespace was created for that reason (competitive game articles). I only moved each one once, and adminship has nothing to do with being able to move pages. Clarinet Hawk, why are you insulting me for my opinions? I have every right to participate in community discussions about what is acceptable content on this wiki. This discussion isn't about whether those articles should be allowed in the main namespace, it is about the edit wars. Regarding my inactivity, I am sorry that I have a life. If all editors are expected to be free of other commitments including work, school, and other wikis then I probably deserve to be banned. I apologize for the inconvenience I have caused. Dtm142 (talk) 01:57, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

This is why the merge was resisted by Randall in the first place. Anyway, how can you claim that the competitive side is unimportant. Most people that enjoy baseball aren't pros and probably aren't bothered by the infield fly or balk rules in their casual games. Would that mean that those rules shouldn't be included in a baseball wiki? Of course not. In any game, the top competitive players are the ones who make the game. I'm not saying that a casual following is not critical, but the top players and techniques are inherently critical. As another example, look at the guitar hero wiki. Most average players don't elbow strum or tap, but there are pages on the techniques because that's what the top players use.

Also, I understand that you have things to do besides this wiki. However, I think that it is a fair for me to feel slightly put off by the fact that you have been absent and the first thing you do after coming back is to overrule everybody. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 02:01, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

He never said it wasn't important, just that it might be more appropriate elsewhere. --Charitwo^Talk 02:04, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Exactly. Take the RuneScape wiki projects for example. Now RuneScape is an MMORPG, played together by thousands of people at any given time. However, the main RuneScape wiki does not allow articles about individual players and clans. Does this mean that the game's players aren't important? Of course it doesn't. As you said on the forums once, the most important part of a game is its players. However, they clearly do not belong in an encyclopedia that is about the game's content. Instead, we have sister projects such as Fan fiction and Clans that are dedicated to fan material and player made clans, respectively. However, as I mentioned earlier this talk page is not a forum for discussing this type of content. It is about the recent edit wars. Dtm142 (talk) 02:28, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

If you want to start-up a new wiki, be my guest. But you said yourself that we all have other lives. I really can't trouble myself to be involved with another wiki. And there's a big difference between fan-fiction and professional tournaments, tactics, and mindsets. You're trying to contend that we should focus only on what Sakuri intended Smash Bros. to do. However, this defeats the entire point of a game. Each person and the community as a whole should strive to advance the metagame to the highest level possible. Would you suggest that wavedash should be moved to the Smasher namespace and/or removed from the wiki? Under your criteria, it should as it is not an intended consequence or technique of the game that is used primarily by competitors in tournaments that are not sanctioned by Nintendo. How about recovery? It's something that must be mastered for competitive play, but also exists in casual play. To say that competitive game articles should be removed from the main namespace is extremely close to removing everything from the main namespace. By nature, a game is competitive; otherwise it wouldn't be a game. The Smasher namespace is for people who play Smash, not anything relating to competition. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 04:58, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

That is why we have a separate wiki for clans that is independent to the fan fiction wiki - they are not endorsed or supported by Jagex (the creators of RuneScape), but they are important to the community as a whole. However, they do not exist alongside game content articles in the main wiki. Articles about advanced moves are a grey area, but I think that they could be placed on this wiki in the main namespace because they benefit players of all levels and not just an internet community. We should try to keep the main namespace NPOV and remember that the community exists for the encyclopedia, not the other way around. Dtm142 (talk) 18:40, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppet enquiry

Due to an inquiry by Charitwo, this is a quick note to mention that Zmario and Cafinator have nothing to do with each other, and neither have sockpuppeteered in any records we have. Kirkburn (talk) 01:00, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

It's not Zmario, but it doesn't really matter which one of them it is. Neither have done anything to warrant a welcoming hand here. --RJM ^Talk 01:04, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

I don't want to get involved in the wiki disputes, but I just wanted to clarify neither can be accused of abusing multiple accounts. They are innocent of that charge. Kirkburn (talk) 02:19, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Unrelated to that^^^But as you may have realised...I have been away and was never on Proboards, I am sorry to ask, cos we don't get on.....the best, but what exactly happened with Galaxia, Kperfekt and the other guy....BlueNinjaKoopa? And as for helping them out....I am sorry for all the incoherence I have caused you when all you were doing is trying to improve this Wiki. And I do see your frustration with us, as I have argued with GalaxiaD and Kperfekt, they are annoying arguers who doom you to hell and swear rather than say anything related. Just like I do my annoying analogies and you get everything technically right. Anyway, as for why they should be unblocked...I'm almost certain they'll be too proud to send you an email. They are both (I don't realy care bout the other guy) highly active users who do their best to contribute to and improve upon this Wiki. While, the vast majority of the time, they fail, their 'hearts' or cyberhearts are in the right place. As for the impersonating.....which is the exent of my knowledge on the subject....I think it was just a joke that got out of hand....And, it was between them on their own little board, so really, they all knew it was whoever it was impersonating you, if I said that right. Obviously, I can see why you are upset...But it seems a little like to me that you might be making a mountain out of a molehill. And come on, look at their overly long, hugely pathetic goodbyes, they clearlyare a little OBSESSED with this Wiki, and well, they are (Especially Galaxia) probably crying at home. That is all I can say at this moment in time with my limited knowledge of the matter. Ike6481 (talk) 12:31, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Wow nice going. Siding with the enemy. RANDALL! I DEMAND the ban lift of BlueNinjaKoopa, GalaxiaD, and Kperfekt. They should have been let off with a warnign before you have maliciosuly banned them for an infinite time. They did nothign wrong. GalaxiaD and Kperfekt did ABSOLUETLY nothing wrong. Galaxia has not said one bad word on this wikia and all of the events has happened on a different site which should have NO reprucussions on this site. BlueNinjaKopa was just speaking his mind out which should have only led to a warning but yet you decid to just go off and permently ban people. As for me and Cafinator WE DID NOT DO ANYTHING WORNG and we are NOT the same people so I demand an apology. When you are willing to come out of concave hole feel free to let me know. Zmario (talk) 00:22, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Read what I put properly Zmario then calm down and think about what you are doing. Your rude and unintelligent behaviour is of use to no-one. I do agree that Galaxia should not have got banned, but as for BNK, I think he full well deserved it. Think clearly before you insult the person you are trying to appeal to. You don't hear in Lawyers in court going "F***ing jurors, he's bloody innocent you scumwillies" Just calm down. Ike6481 (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Zmario

I think Zmario needs a temprorary ban. He uploaded Image:Retard.jpg and put that on your smasher pageY462 (talk) 00:56, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Explain more

It is clear to me from a cursory glance at this site that there is a failure to communicate. I'm using Randall's quotes because they were easy to find, but the conclusions will apply to all admins.

"All I gotta do is point out that permanent bans don't happen for no reason, therefore they can't possibly be the "start" of anything" sounds like a logical fallacy or a proposition for unconditional determinism until you realize that it means "I didn't set this chain of events in motion, therefore I refuse to take any blame for the outcome." Rephrased like that, the sentiment suddenly becomes understandable and canbe reasonably argued.

Spin it however you like, but I don't read it as an absolvement of blame and, being the one who wrote it, I feel I have a pretty good idea of its original intent. This "re-phrasing" is a shift of emphasis from the blocked user to me and it changes the meaning substantially by making the statement about me, when it was originally about the blocked user. It's pretty clear that you haven't been around for the bulk of this overtly dramatic and needlessly wasteful chain of events, though--that wasn't exactly a choice quote upon which to assert my qualifications as an administrator. It was the end of a coy and sarcastic exchange which only came about after I had been pushed frustratingly far on issues that I had addressed time and time again elsewhere on the wiki. There was a time where I made a concerted effort to provide supporting arguments, links and policy-related quotations in order to justly and fairly block inappropriate users, but this has been going on for months and it costs me more time than I'm willing to invest to have to do this on a continuous basis--especially in a situation where the users in question have been blocked repeatedly had repeated warnings and have proven to have little or no value to the actual wiki's purpose. Other sysops tend to soften up on these issues and revert or shorten my bans thinking that somehow the users will magically return in two weeks to become helpful, rehabilitated editors. Then, the ban expires, they return, they come on to my talk page cursing me to the foulest depths of hell, calling other sysops fucking whores and dropping hate messages into their user pages and on the talk pages of community members. My point stands: Permanent bans do not happen for no reason; I did not set this chain of events into motion--the blocked users did, by undermining the purpose of this wiki to the point that their contributions went from harmless chat/spam to deliberate abuse and hate messages directed at other members of the community. Please try to understand this when assessing the reasoning behind individual blocks on this matter; there's usually a history. --RJM ^Talk 18:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

"If banned users were valuable, they wouldn't have gotten banned" sounds like circular reasoning, especially when "being rather unhelpful" is toeing the line to getting banned. What you mean is that you ban people for a reason, the reason being that they make doing good editing work on the wiki more difficult, taking your valuable time; and that continuing to listen to them after the ban actually negates that aim (because, again, that takes time and keeps you from editing).

Now I don't doubt you are a fantastic editor. But being a fantastic admin means you do take the time to explain to people why your admin decisions are going the way they are. You attribute the wiki going downhill to the time after the merge, stating that since then you've been picking up the pieces. Secretly the members of both communities think that the other community is to blame for this.

I'm not exactly sure where that quote came from, but I think it was a response and once again, it's been pulled out of context when paraphrased here. You are right in saying that I have no interest in continuing the paper chase after the block has occurred, but again, I think you're assessing specific blocks that have a much meatier history to them than would be immediately obvious to an outside observer. I will not and have never blocked someone without giving them ample warning, opportunities to redeem themselves and a clear explanation of the ramifications of their actions and how to remedy them in the future. But yes, I'm not going to piss around copying and pasting a bunch of abusive commentary and links to other discussions every time that I have to re-block someone who just comes around every couple of weeks to stir the pot. I didn't come here to ban users and I don't enjoy having to do it just so I can focus on the actual purpose of this wiki. I care about it as a legitimate researchable project and information source--sure, I could let the users who don't contribute anything run wild and free, and I usually do until their interference begins leaking into our actual operations. If you were to trace this back to the very original incident that caused this community-wide waste of time, you'll find that the first backlash came from my suggesting proper talk page conventions to User:GalaxiaD in the interest of fluid discussions across the community that would be easier for everyone to follow. His response was defiant and rude, as though I were attacking him or something. On several occasions, I tried to stress that the issue was not personal and, in fact, it was in his best interest if he were actually interested in being a contributor. However, his defiance (and his history of contributions) made it clear that he didn't spend virtually any time editing actual articles and my diplomatic rebuttal only seemed to fuel the fire and ever since, he has been under the impression that I'm somehow out to get him. This turned into a wide variety of hate-o-grams all over the wiki, as well as GalaxiaD's famous request for adminship (and subsequent suggestions to other users that they apply) that snowballed into a whole pile of unqualified users posting their applications based on GalaxiaD's recommendation! But wait, there's more! Because now some time has passed and we've got strangers popping in left and right with policy suggestions who really only catch one side of the situation (the angry users are always the loudest, but that doesn't make them right), the entire adminship process is in a state of disarray and everyone's talking about a complete overhaul as though there's something wrong with it and the focus of the entire wiki community has shifted from the CONTENT to the POLICY and a bunch of angsty teen internet drama! Well, what good is a policy without the content it produces? If we want to neglect the content and sit around on talk pages for a year and a half trying to come up with bulletproof policy, we don't even know what content the policy is trying to protect! Pardon my digression, but ultimately, my criticism of this entire process has been how unnecessary the associated workload has been in light of the purpose of the wiki. I recognize the need to have policies and parameters in place, but far too much administrative overhead has already been spent on this subject--and I felt that months ago. The more crap that comes up about it, the more the blocked users are winning this fight by causing as much trouble as they possibly can. This is the degeneration of the wiki that I'm talking about: when more effort is spent protecting everyone's right to play around on talk pages than it is on protecting and expanding the content. --RJM ^Talk 18:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

In fact, merging two wikis is rather difficult. This is not only a technical feat - which you've accomplished, congrats! -; merging two communities that have historically different customs and views about how a wiki should be run is a diplomatic task not to be taken lightly. I suspect it was.

Regarding the merge: you're probably right to assume that both communities secretly blame each other for the problems that arose from the merge, but no active member of SmashWiki or the Super Smash Bros. Wikia is at fault here. It was an executive decision that was handed down without warning and without consultation from Gideon--nobody here had any part in it and it was actually a huge surprise to log in one day and find such a huge mess. I resisted the merge as soon as it happened and still disagree with it today. I have a long history with Smash World and they have a long history of making bad decisions, so I don't know what else to say about it. If I had the authority to revert the merge, I'd do it in a second. For that reason, I just don't accept blame or responsibility for issues that can be directly attributed to the merge; it wasn't my decision and had I not contributed so much content to the wiki already, I would've left outright. --RJM ^Talk 18:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Who here has the ability to actually explain decisions? To argue them? To get community buy-in? This is what all admins should have been spending a big part of their time on - or at least some of them should have. Instead, you're not even warning users, showing them how to act, you just ban them. The only people I've seen actually using warning templates on anons after a cursory examination of the block log are Wolf O'Donnell and GalaxiaD, and they can't ban.

I recommend getting more admins - that frees up some of your time. Wolf O'Donnell might be a good choice, but I haven't looked far - there might be more. I also recommend actually arguing a few controversial decisions until an understanding has been reached. May I also suggest that you not react with bans when people get angry at you; it is usually a sign that they haven't understood you, and it's likely that others haven't, either, so a course of action that solves the problem somewhat long-term must be light on the banning and heavy on the explaining.

Once again, the notion that I don't explain my bans and jump to conclusions based on people simply disagreeing with me is false. However, if a user has been blocked multiple times by multiple admins for multiple reasons, the need to explain the reasoning becomes less significant and the evidence that a longer block will solve more problems than a 2-week ban and an essay explaining why is hard to ignore. --RJM ^Talk 18:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

If you do not manage that: to explain the operating standards of the admins and adapting them to the expectations of the community in a compromise process, then your wiki will keep bleeding users and remain to not be a fun place to be. You are in charge. It is your task to facilitate this process. That your editors have come breaking your doors means you've not been doing it. Get going!

Hehe, I would argue that only the "users" have been breaking down my doors, not editors--turns out there's a difference! --RJM ^Talk 18:35, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Disclaimer: I have no stake in this at all - I don't even own the game. But I have stumbled upon this wiki and couldn't help but notice things have gone awry, and I hope that my limited insight into the dynamics of this can be of help to you. Good luck. --84.128.253.16 02:44, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Open Letter: An Outsider Looking In

In the course of writing an open letter in regard to the current state of administrative affairs on this wiki, I referenced you or your actions a number of times, directly or indirectly. As such, I thought I would invite you to respond. Thanks in advance. Defiant Elements 05:12, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

ccsc

I know it's not a smasher, but it is an organization/circuit/whatever made up of them, correct? The association is there, there just isn't a better category. I personally think it's the best choice of categories given the current. I only categorized it, as it was on Special:uncategorizedpages, and I don't like that, as it prevents useful navigation. I'd like to readd the category, of course. --Sky (t · c · w) 16:34, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

It should really be under Category:Communities along with the South German Smash Circuit and Australian Smash Circuit. There's a few others out of the midwest and quite a few that don't have articles yet. I just hadn't created the category due to a lack of articles. One of my many pre-merge plans that got pushed under the rug. But Category:Smashers and the sub-categories beneath them are specifically for players and the category tree is organized regionally for that reason. --RJM ^Talk 16:43, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I sent it

I sent you your apology. Please note that I am not giving into you, I simply feel sorry for you because you have to deal with people hating you all the time. If you are wondering how I am able to write to you, my IP address has changed (I'm in Alabama now).

--Blue Ninjakoopa 04:40, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Mmm...well, not the smartest thing Cafinator would type...Cafinator (talk) 05:09, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Why did you...

Ban Blue Ninjakoopa? I know he was flaming, but banning him forever is a little harsh. Banning him for infinite isn't gonna make it better. He'll just be angrier. If you banned him until further notice, he would eventually learn as you wouldn't unban him until he started being nicer. And why did you ban all my friends forever? See BN on what to ban him for. Also, you keep saying that I, Kperfekt, Blue, Galaxia, Ike, Zmario, and Amycats have contributed nothing. Believe it or not, we contribute a lot. But what really got me mad is that you deleted the "Goomba Mafia" article. You accused it of "not being a crew" while KP and I really formed that crew. Please note that it is still a crew, just one without its own page. So...yeah. P.S. Sorry if my sig's a little off (It's my sig on Kirby Wiki) ParaGoomba348 (C'mon, just talk to me) 01:51, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

I've yet to see any evidence that an infinite ban is not going to make it any better. In fact, I've been enjoying the peace and quiet. I'm sure I've never made any mention of you not contributing much--I regularly see and approve of your contributions, but you shouldn't lump yourselves into a group of users whose contributions are considerably less. As to the crew issue, it's just clear that you don't really understand what a crew is. Crews compete; to compete as a crew at a tournament earns you notability within the smash community as a crew and therein entitles you to an article. Nothin' personal, just cleaning up the wiki! :^) --RJM ^Talk 01:13, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Uhhh, could you unprotect my page. I need to make an archive... wait how do you make one? --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 02:36, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Just a hint: next time you want to belittle someone by using their number of contributions as a measure of their worth, this page is a much better way to do so.–Entrea Sumatae 03:40, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I think the reason he didn't do that was precisely because he wasn't measuring the user's worth by the number of contributions ("less" quantitatively) but rather by the value of those contributions ("less" qualitatively). Whether or not that's a fair assessment is up to the reader to determine, but since you can't do so through Special:Editcount, I would posit that you've misunderstood his point. --Kirby King 21:28, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Well yes, click on any of the penultimate differences from those edit pages and I'm sure you won't be blown away by the quality of the contributions. Besides, Special:Editcount is a Wikia special page and I'm still living in denial! :^) --RJM ^Talk 22:07, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't go out of my way finding edit counts to belittle people and in fact, consider it a pretty petty way to measure someone's worth. I'm using the history of banned users to illustrate an example--this isn't personal and howmanytimesdoIhavetoexplainthat!!?!? I. Am. Not. Attacking. ANYONE. Good grief... --RJM ^Talk 22:05, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Okey dokey. --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 22:26, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to point something out in one of Randall's previous statements. You said a crew gains notability by competing in tournaments. Although I've brought up the Cult, I mean, Aftermath Dynasty several times, I'd like to prove Randall's point wrong (Randall, if you would like to contradict this statement, feel free to do so). If you read the article for this crew, you'll notice that most of its members (and possibly former members) have never been in a tournament. Even so, they have gained some notoriety, including on this Wiki (that is, until your bans). MarioGalaxy {talk} 22:45, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

To be in a tourney, do you have to meet with others in RL? Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 23:21, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, yes you do. Listen everybody, there is an entire active community of players that host tournaments on a regular basis and post the results, including those of crew battles and, as crews, they gain a place in the development of competitive smash history within their community. If a crew competes long enough, they will occasionally attend regional crew battles and travel across the country as a team to hold up their title. Please, once again, see my examples of real crews here: Talk:Online_Moguls#Examples_of_real_crews.

And I can already hear people crying about online tournaments and "online crews." I have yet to see ONE online crew battle at an online tournament, but if you can prove me wrong, please do, you'd just better be prepared to back up that information. I know how expansive the smash community is and I know how to back-check the info. --RJM ^Talk 02:04, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

?

Were you talking to Cafinator, or me? If you were talking to Caf, he was ony trying to humor me (and it was funny). I'm sure he doesn't mean to insult you. If you're talking to me, I didn't do anything.

While I'm here, do you perhaps know who Kirkburn is? I heard that he's an adminstrator on every gaming wiki.--Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 19:20, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

You're going to have to be more specific. And no, I don't know of any Kirkburn; I don't spend any time in other wiki communities for gaming. --RJM ^Talk 19:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

User:Kirkburn is a Wikia staff member, who also administrates WoWWiki. As a staff member, he does have administrative rights on every wiki, but he doesn't use them unless it's a wiki that has no administrators, basically. --Sky (t · c · w) 01:43, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry. I just don't want Caf to get in trouble, that's all. --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 20:08, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, that's up to him, not me or you. :^) --RJM ^Talk 21:38, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

I see.

Um, Randall? I don't think Blue Ninjakoopa's online right now. It's been an hour since that edit. MarioGalaxy {talk} 21:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Randall, why would the AD article be deleted? MarioGalaxy {talk} 21:51, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please explain. --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 21:55, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Randall, you don't even know us. I've brawled at least five people of the AD, and every time it was a Stock match, no items, including Smash Balls. Oxico and I even prefer the same match! 3 stock, no items. MarioGalaxy {talk} 01:17, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Good for you. --RJM ^Talk 01:20, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Seriously, man. Do you really prefer wasting your time making a pathetic excuse for an argument or (more or less) comeback? If you do, I pity you. MarioGalaxy {talk} 01:22, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

And we don't use items. We play serious, like you do. Do you have brawl yet, btw? --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 01:54, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Hey BNK, I wouldn't brawl him. He acts like he's better, so don't waste your time with him. MarioGalaxy {talk} 02:10, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Mario, cool it. I would imagine he isn't too thrilled with your performance off or on-wiki atm, and pushing it now would, I'm sure, have consequences. --Sky (t · c · w) 02:15, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

And I doubt you need a reminder of how that worked last time. Wise Sky is wise. --Shadowcrest 02:17, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Woah...I'm getting an extreme sense of Deja Vu coming from this little conversation here...CAFINATOR ^Gentlemen... 04:42, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm glad you managed to tune into that. --Sky (t · c · w) 05:06, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes I have. But Cafinator is too lazy. CAFINATOR ^Gentlemen... 05:23, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Hiya!

its JtM, i know you dont want to talk to me ever but Kperfekt forced me to put this link on your talk page JtM =^] (talk) 23:14, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

listen to him

visit the link please. Kperfekt722 (talk) 20:47, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

fine. dont visit the link. it further proves the point inside it. Kperfekt722 (talk) 03:15, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

My Smasher Pic

Randall, why did you delete my smasher pic? I wanted to use it on my smasher page. And I was. And don't say "no personal banners", because I know you and Clarinet Hawk have non-wiki related images for your own personal use. Why can't I have the o2 pic?--Oxico (talk) 01:51, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

No personal banners. There's a difference between a photo and an amateur photoshop. One belongs in a wiki striving to be an information source and the other does not. --RJM ^Talk 18:06, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Yo Oxico, I told you that he did it yesterday. Were you offline or something? Anyway, I agree with you. CH and I were talking about Randall's personal image (something that Xtrme did to it, but I'll tell you that later).

CH said that it can be a pick of something in the real world (something that belongs to you or just a pic of yourself). Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 01:58, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, technically it is something he owns: The name O², an anagram of his name, Oxico. MarioGalaxy {talk} 01:59, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

You have a good point. --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 02:00, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Well...

I thought you meant, "Do not upload photos to this site for your own person use." So I just linked it from another site. Therefor, no wasted space on this Wiki. Besides, what's wrong with linking from another site, really? If it's something about copyright, well, the other Wiki is using it, and we're all part of Wikia, so if there's some infringement problem, that's the other Wiki's problem.CAFINATOR ^Gentlemen... 18:28, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh, wait, I see. You just don't want us using just photos on our pages, right? Unless they're like...uhh...y'know, why don't you just explain this whole thingy to me? CAFINATOR ^Gentlemen... 18:35, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

...OK, you're thinking. Take your time. CAFINATOR ^Gentlemen... 19:07, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh. So it is OK. Nevermind then. Yeah, that's right, I'm not going to make fun of you for that...So, uh...See 'ya. CAFINATOR ^Gentlemen... 08:15, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

The attitude is not appreciated. --RJM ^Talk 00:22, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

No, 87

Um, Randall? I'd like to give you a piece of advice. You might want to archive this page. There are at least 80 sections on this talk page at the moment. Just a suggestion. MarioGalaxy {talk} 18:32, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, that sure helped the situation. --RJM ^Talk 05:06, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Um....

I don't quite know how to word this without coming off as offensive, but... it seems like you're abusing your power. From what I can tell, Cafinator did little to deserve a ban, let alone such a long one. Am I completely missing something, or are you letting your anger/pride/etc. take control of situations? FyreNWater - (Talk • Contributions ) 05:21, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm with Randall on this one, Rita. Cafinator has done absolutely nothing for the wiki besides make completely pointless comments on every talk page he can find. He would randomly butt into conversations to say nothing more than "wall of pain, fence of pain, plumbing system of PAIN, BOX OF PAIN, FRONT LAWN OF PAIN." That was the extent of his "contributions" to this wiki. Then he comes in and starts bragging about him breaking the rules. Trust me, this wiki is better off without him. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 14:46, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, Cafinator is a bad example on this. I mean with... you know... that whole incident. That and other things, too. My reaction to most of Rnadall's actions are, "Dude, seriously? That's just harsh." And this is coming from the person that temp-bans vandals instead of warning them. FyreNWater - (Talk • Contributions ) 19:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

I try not to think of sysop actions as "power" in the first place, but rather additional tools to keep the wiki running as smoothly as it can. An abuse of that power would be a sysop action that does not contribute to the wiki's overall quality and/or benefits only me. I don't think any of my actions qualify under that definition, but if you have a specific concern...well, you'll have to be more specific. :^) It might be worth bearing in mind that the "incident" has now been blown severely out of proportion due to users taking my initial action personally, making an awful lot of loud and angry comments about it and then my subsequent reactions which have painted me as the bad guy ever since.

I understand that you don't mean to be offensive, but I do take offense to an accusation that I am abusing my power. I don't gain anything from doing so and the wiki doesn't gain anything from it either. There's no reason for me to start blocking people for no reason and I don't believe I ever have. I had sysop privileges well before this crap started and you'll find my history of blocks pretty sparse before the "incident"--which would never have been a block at all if they had just taken my suggestion on standard talk page conventions instead of more or less telling me to fuck off. SmashWiki itself is, and always has been, my primary concern both as a user and a sysop. If I was still a user, I would've done the same thing recommending proper talk page guidelines to GalaxiaD--the only difference is, I wouldn't have been able to block him for abusing myself and the other users in the community without that extra button. So please try to understand the nature of some of my actions here--it's kinda too bad that all of this happened at once, because if Cafinator is a bad example and if the "incident" (which includes many blocks) could've been resolved by simple user cooperation from the git-go, that leaves me with a grand total of ONE user block on User:Flameace5 for 1 week back in May and 6 IPs I've blocked for vandalism since the day I was handed the keys. With the 3000-odd contributions I have to this wiki otherwise, I think your assertion that it's an abuse of power is a little short-sighted.

In any case, with a seemingly endless army of spam-happy users who have chosen to hate me for no reason instead of trying to comprehend what I'm writing, plus sysops questioning the validity of my position based on a bunch of idiots on the internet (instead of this), I've already begun porting my contributions off of this wiki and will be stepping down if the dust doesn't settle on this issue--or I'll be forcibly removed, whichever comes first. --RJM ^Talk 00:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

tl;dr. I just feel like you've been really harsh, not just from the incident. Before that, too. The only feedback I've gotten about you is entirely negative. That's never a good thing. FyreNWater - (Talk • Contributions ) 02:39, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

This is the first time anyone's ever said "tl;dr" to me and the first time I've had to look it up. Read it, or don't reply. --RJM ^Talk 00:18, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

What about the polls? Cafinator has helped the wiki. Plus, he's funny, he doesn't mean any harm to anybody. Plus, do you know how down he is right now? He's actually talking like a regular person. He cares about the wiki, he's active on it. Cheezperson (talk) 00:27, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't know what polls you're talking about, but the rest of that sounds a lot like a lesson learned to me. Maybe the first ever in SmashWiki history. --RJM ^Talk 00:32, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

This is the forum. What about learning? Cheezperson (talk) 00:40, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Creating a forum topic and making polls on the main page does very little to improve the content of this wiki. This is not a message board, a primary forum space, or a polling site. Cafinator contributed practically nothing to the content of the wiki. Add in the fact that he was annoying, flaunted that he was breaking the rules, and simply was a block to getting things done due to his persistent (failed) attempts at humor during content discussions. Clarinet Hawk (talk · contributions) 01:05, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Most of this wiki isn't even half as active as he was (and still is). What bugs me is that he didn't even get a polite warning. Cheezperson (talk) 02:11, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

He only contributed to talk pages that didnt concern him, and added random stuff. i personally think his ban should've been shorter, but was deserved. He was funny, but this isnt Comedy Wiki. this is SmashWiki. JtM =^] (talk) 02:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

OK, granted his comedic efforts weren't always appreciated, but if you have seen what he has written after his ban, you can tell he's changed. I agree with a short (1 week tops) block as a warning, but a three month (permanent now) ban is just insane. Cheezperson (talk) 02:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

yes, but rawk (sorry but i love calling you that), being annoying and saying a stupid catchphrase does not constitute a ban. KP317 (talk) 23:37, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

"I wouldn't have been able to block him for abusing myself and the other users in the community."

Abusing? What do you mean? I'm like a celebrity here! Everyone loves GXD! (Hey, maybe I should turn that into a sitcom.)

"Sysops questioning the validity of my position based on a bunch of idiots on the internet."

GPA: 3.6 IQ: 122

Idiot? I think not. - GalaxiaD (talk) 01:34, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Hey Galaxia!! You're a celebrity for the wrong reasons! Gratz! Now kindly mind your own business and stop running around trying to prove that you're not an idiot by trying to quantify intelligence with a couple of meaningless numbers--especially in conversations that don't involve you. It's nice that you've taken the time to quote me and assume that every reference to administrative action is all about you you you--but news flash: you're not the only idiot on this wiki. --RJM ^Talk 01:48, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Could you at least stop calling me an idiot? Please? It offends me. That's all I ask. - GalaxiaD (talk) 01:57, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

You came into this conversation, quoted a sentence that I wrote where I used the word "idiots", then posted YOUR numbers in order to assert that YOU are not one. That's labeling yourself, I'm afraid--I never called you an idiot because this conversation has nothing to do with you.And please don't bullshit me with a sob story about being "offended" by my words--I'm sure you'd love to pull the "sysops offend me" card down the road, but bear in mind that I still have a rather substantial record of far worse things you've said to me that still constitute a permanent ban and you're lucky to be here at all. May I suggest taking Kperfekt's approach to find a more peaceable solution instead of continuing to push my buttons for no reason: The Playground. --RJM ^Talk 02:20, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

What did I ever call you? Honestly? I've hardly ever personally attacked you. I maybe said that you have a short fuse, and I may have said things in my farewell message that could be taken personally. But that's all behind us now. All of it. All I'm asking is that you stop calling me an idiot. I'm not trying to make you look like the bad guy. I'm not trying to get sympathy from people. I'm not here to harass you or "stir the pot" or do ANYTHING to offend ANYONE. I'm here to contribute, make friends, and make a name for myself. I have nothing against you. In fact, I apologize for everything I said. It's true, I'm sorry. Now let's stop going at each other's throats. We can reach a peaceful resolution if you promise me that you will stop calling me an idiot. I've offended you. You've offended me. I've apologized. Hell, I don't even want an apology from you. I just want you to say, "Fine, I'll stop calling you an idiot." Please, just say this so we can stop wasting each other's time. - GalaxiaD (talk) 02:48, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

So, it's a deal then? You'll stop calling me an idiot, right? - GalaxiaD (talk) 01:30, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

speaking of that, did you read my agreement on there? KP317 (talk) 02:22, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Cafinator mah boi

He's been blocked. I know he has a terrible way of humoring others, but that's him. He can also get really annoying with those mind tricks he does. If it wasn't a joke, can I ask what he did? --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 10:19, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Reply

Thank you. It seems as though she is ignoring me. --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 00:25, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

More likely she's just not on SmashWiki as much as you are, or is bogged down with other things. There are times when I will have too many other things on the go to be bothered answering a question that's been answered hundreds of times before and don't get around to it for several days. It's pretty rare that a sysop will be actively ignoring someone--it's just not in the job description. --RJM ^Talk 00:30, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I know what you mean. I'm currently helping out the Donkey Kong Wiki. --Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 00:48, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

I gotta learn it sometime

As you can see by viewing my talk page, I'm in need of archiving it. I know you don't archive yours but I'm pretty sure you still know how to do it. Do you mind telling me how? If I just ask you to do it, I'll never learn myself. Shade (talk) 00:29, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Well I do actually archive talk pages, I just do it slightly differently and much less frequently but nevertheless, good question. What you need to do is cut the contents of your talk page and paste them into a new article at User talk:Shade487z/Archive_1. Then, at go back to your talk page and put the following text at the top:

{|align="right" style="border: solid 1px #CCC; padding: 1px; background-color:#FCFCFC" |- |<center>[[Image:Replacement filing cabinet.svg|40px|Archives]]</center> |- |<center>'''Archives'''</center> ---- [[/Archive 1|1]] |}

Below that, your new conversations begin and the talk page appears with a link to archived old discussions. Give it a whirl and lemme know if you run into any problems. *thumbs up* --RJM ^Talk 00:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Um, Randall? I don't think Shade's here at the moment. By the way, I already left a message on his talk page saying how he should make an archive. Just wanted to let you know. MarioGalaxy {talk} 00:47, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Can you not resist for just one second to mind your own business? And it doesn't make a difference whether or not someone is "here" when I post a message, come on--be realistic. --RJM ^Talk 00:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Randall, I don't recall a rule saying that you can't help a fellow user. But either way, Shade's not here. All I wanted to do was to let you know that I already told Shade how to archive his talk page. MarioGalaxy {talk} 00:56, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Of course, help other users. You just have a habit of jumping into conversations that don't involve you and not really contributing much to the conversation at hand, forgive my flippance. --RJM ^Talk 01:10, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

I generally hate taking sides in an argument but seeing as how I'm the subject (I'm so honored lol) I gotta say Randall WAS the guy I asked. Thanks for trying to help out, MG, but Randall seemed to beat you to it...well, that and he actually told me how to use the code lol. Thanks, btw. Shade (talk) 01:22, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Heh. I can respect that. But uh, you made a little typo. By the way, he didn't beat me to it, I left the message on your talk page before he replied, but that's not the point. The typo; your archive says [| 1], when it should just be 1. MarioGalaxy {talk} 01:25, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Please...

User:Blue Ninjakoopa is constantly PA-ing me, JtM and Xtrme over whatever he can find. Whenever we tell him that he needs to stop, even more PA ensues. I'm tired of risking getting banned just for fighting back against this bully. I don't care if he's banned or not, but I want him to just leave us three alone. Think you could help me out? Here's all the places he's been messing with us at:

User talk:MarioGalaxy#Ahem...

Well, just to name a few. Thanks. Shade (talk) 00:01, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Shade487z

I sent you an e-mail regarding the problem. All he does is insult me, lie (as seen above) and act like he's better than me. He needs to be banned, as I barely ever flame at anyone (not since my ban was lifted). Contact me as soon as you can. Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 00:14, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

barely ever? what about this: without them going on a nerd rage like JtM did.? JtM =^] (talk) 00:16, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

From the links provided above, I have a hard time figuring out what the problem is or how it started when I have to skim through that much spam, but I do know one thing: I know that it doesn't look good having your name pop up in an incident involving conflicts with other users so soon after having your ban lifted. And it doesn't look good to have people accusing you of overreacting angrily when you have a history of doing just that which has gotten you into trouble before. The internet can be an unfriendly place but try to distinguish between what you've brought on yourself and what is another person's fault. You have to take accountability for your own actions and "hardly ever" flaming someone isn't the way to be a productive user on the wiki--don't flame anybody, ignore them. Take Shade's advice and leave one another alone; you don't get a third chance. And for the record, trying to smear his name in e-mails by accusing him of saying nasty things about me on offsite forums doesn't help your case either--I don't take administrative action on things that have nothing to do with SmashWiki, which is why I'm leaving it up to you guys to resolve this one. --RJM ^Talk 00:46, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

I have to agree with JtM. That was un-necessary. MarioGalaxy {talk} 00:17, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Of course you agree, MG. If I haven't said it before, I'm sorry JtM. If I have, he just doesn't want to accept it. I know for darn sure that JtM is not a nerd. He explained his accident. I understand it. Blue Ninjakoopa (talk) 00:24, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, you might want to stop leaving Randall messages. Galaxia says that our crew (and Shade's crew has stated this as well) (no offense, mind you, Randall). MarioGalaxy {talk} 00:49, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Right, yes, that's suitably nonsensical and irrelevant. --RJM ^Talk 00:48, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Resolve'd

I'm sorry. I'll just ignore the stuff that everyone says about me. He did write stuff on my page. I did apologize, but he turned around and insulted me, instead of apologizing. I reverted it, because I have a short fuse. If I blow up outside teh internet, I could hurt someone important to me. Everything Shade has said to me has offended me, but now I understand that that's just his way of telling others the truth. Again, I apologize. BTW, since when did Shade start liking you? Blue Ninjakoopa ^{Talk to me} 00:57, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Look, I'm just gonna apologize for insulting you and then never speak to you again. It's the ONLY way that there will be peace, because our views on many topics are just too different for an argument to not ensue should we have a discussion. I still believe what I believe about the crew and you (although not to the extent that my insults made it out to be), but I'm just going to keep it to myself from now on. Shade (talk) 01:08, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

He hasn't. Xtreme's part of Shade's crew, and he said that both crews hold a deep hatred for Randall (this is what he said, Randall, not me), and anyone associated or that agrees with him (Ike). Randall's a Sysop, that's just his job. MarioGalaxy {talk} 00:59, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Regardless if Xtrme has a disliking of Randall, his opinion does not reflect the entire crew's opinion. Shade (talk) 01:08, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

*cough* Not helping! Blue Ninjakoopa ^{Talk to me} 01:02, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Dude, none of you even know me, I just really don't care if people on the internet want to dream up reasons to hate someone that they don't know--as MG said above, it's just my job and it's not my fault if people for some reason take it personally. Whether or not someone claims to like me or dislike me doesn't sway my decision because I know it's not based on anything. In any case, thanks for handling that one the mature way. --RJM ^Talk 01:09, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

You know, the hatred we feel for him and vice-versa could soon vanish. If he promises to stop calling me an idiot, we can finally smokem peace pipe. - GalaxiaD (talk) 01:06, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Heh. That right there is funny. Well, it's your choice GXD. You represent our crew. MarioGalaxy {talk} 01:07, 21 September 2008 (UTC)