Yes... What about it? -- <small><span style="border:2px solid #333333;">[[User:Seth Cooper|<font style="color:#333333;"> '''Seth Cooper''' </font>]][[User talk:Seth Cooper|<font style="background:#333333;color:white;"> '''owl post!'''</font>]]</span></small> 17:08, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
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Yes... What about it? -- <small><span style="border:2px solid #333333;">[[User:Seth Cooper|<font style="color:#333333;">'''Seth Cooper'''</font>]][[User talk:Seth Cooper|<font style="background:#333333;color:white;">'''owlpost!'''</font>]]</span></small> 17:08, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
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Oh... I must be really out of my mind; I hadn't even noticed I'd done that. Thanks for being attentive! =) -- <small><span style="border:2px solid #333333;">[[User:Seth Cooper|<font style="color:#333333;"> '''Seth Cooper''' </font>]][[User talk:Seth Cooper|<font style="background:#333333;color:white;"> '''owl post!'''</font>]]</span></small> 17:23, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
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Oh... I must be really out of my mind; I hadn't even noticed I'd done that. Thanks for being attentive! =) -- <small><span style="border:2px solid #333333;">[[User:Seth Cooper|<font style="color:#333333;">'''Seth Cooper'''</font>]][[User talk:Seth Cooper|<font style="background:#333333;color:white;">'''owlpost!'''</font>]]</span></small> 17:23, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
==RE:Infobox pics==
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Well, they do have the right to start a vote. I'll cast my vote right away. -- <small><span style="border:2px solid #333333;">[[User:Seth Cooper|<font style="color:#333333;"> '''Seth Cooper''' </font>]][[User talk:Seth Cooper|<font style="background:#333333;color:white;"> '''owl post!'''</font>]]</span></small> 13:15, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
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Well, they do have the right to start a vote. I'll cast my vote right away. -- <small><span style="border:2px solid #333333;">[[User:Seth Cooper|<font style="color:#333333;">'''Seth Cooper'''</font>]][[User talk:Seth Cooper|<font style="background:#333333;color:white;">'''owlpost!'''</font>]]</span></small> 13:15, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
It was most likely just "hit-and-run" vandalism, and I doubt we'll even see anything from this person again. Personally, I usually save Vandal2 until either they continue to vandalize after getting the Vandal1 warning, or if their edit was especially vulgar, profane, or disruptive. - Nick O'Demus 00:17, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
Well, I'll admit these are just my personal guidelines. You don't have to apologize for having a different point of view. - Nick O'Demus 00:21, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
Well, I am sure that others will agree with the new image Seth has uploaded and switch around their vote. If the picture gets over 6, I will eliminate the one with less votes, as we can't eliminate the other image, as it wouldn't be fair, as Seth just put on the image a few minutes ago.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 20:00, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
If you change your vote others may follow. And we will finally be able to end this vote. –K.A.J•T•C•E• 20:00, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
The original article needs to be moved back, not just copy-and-paste the text, or it will lose the page history. I'll ask an admin to fix it back to the way it was. - Nick O'Demus 03:41, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
Kind of iffy. The source reference does have it capitalized as a proper title, but it also says "Chief Snatcher Picture Double", so it's not enough to tell if that will be the character's actual credited name in the film or not. We probably need to find a better reference. I'll go ahead and give it the conjecture tag for now, as the reference it's based on isn't official. - Nick O'Demus 04:07, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
I was going to do Mafalda Hopkirk after Griselda Marchbanks, but you can have a go at it. It's just too brief and sourceless. Not so "long-term", though... -- Seth Cooperowl post! 02:50, March 9, 2010 (UTC)
Hi Hcoknhoj. Not to nag or anything, but you mustn’t remove peoples comments from talk-pages, as you did with Sirius Black. I know anons are not allowed to vote, but they may still voice thier opinions. Thanks. Jayce•Avada Kedavra•Crucio•Imperio• 08:49, March 10, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, guys. I did it by accident. I must have went back too far on the "backspace" key. As you can see in the history I put "Unsigned" on their comment. My bad.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 21:19, March 10, 2010 (UTC)
> Sorry for eavesdropping, but you seem to have put considerable thought into this issue. The population part is a very compelling argument. I going to take a leap and say that you have a biology background. --JKoch[1](Owl Me!) 13:26, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
Guilty as charged - I'm a biologist by training, even though not by career.
Considering that wikis are collaborative projects, I would say that eavesdropping is no crime.
Actually, the main image was concept artwork for the fifth film, so technically, it is not fan art.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 02:18, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
Whoever wrote that sentence clearly dropped a word, and it was impossible to me to find out which. Someone more skilled in wikis than I am might have found out the author and pointed it out to him, but it is too early for me to know how to do it. This way, I felt that the faulty passage would get a faster resolution than otherwise, and this is what happened.
John, before this one-upmanship with Thorning about the number of Voldemort's horcruxes escalates in an edit war, or whatever, I wanted to ask you. If it looks like a horcrux and behaves like a horcrux and has to be destroyed before Voldemort can be killed, what is it if not a horcrux?
Note seven of the horcrux page on this wikia states that Harry does not count as the horcrux-making process has not been used, but it looks highly suspicious to me. First, the soul fragment within Harry had to be killed before Voldemort could be, and I suspect that it is the killing of the soul fragments to be important rather than the destruction of the horcruxes. Second, a murder has been done (or more likely, at least two, since both James Potter and Lily Evans got killed withing minutes from each other). Third, at the time of the killing of Harry's parents', Voldemort's soul has already been split five times (since there are five horcrux), presumably using the same wand. It is not inconceivable that after repeating the process so many times, in the conditions present on that event, the wand (or Voldemort's subconscious mind) automatically activated the spells for making the horcruxes. after the Avada Kedavra spell that killed (presumably) Lily Evans.
I get the feeling that Thorning is right.
BTW, I noticed Thorning's post after I wrote this.
Sorry, John, for using the wrong term. Having seen what seemed to be a series of reciprocal "undo"es performed within minutes, I used the term "edit war" for want of a better definition, and felt compelled to step in with my opinion.
Guess I will get the knack of things here pretty soon, and in the meanwhile I'll bang my head in a few walls. Please, bear with me.
Well, as little information we know about her, it looks great. Speaking of cleaning up articles, can you help me work on Albus Dumbledore's Pensieve? It only has information about what happened in Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows, so we need information about it from Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 01:46, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
Well, I will start a 1997 subsection right now, so you can work off of what I did. If we don't edit the same thing, then it will not matter. That is what I found out while we were editing at the same time.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 02:41, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I was about to do that, I was working on that (I am on a tab right now). But I am working on 1997, so you can change it to 1998.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 02:49, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
Well looks like you have alot on your plate ;). Okay, I will keep working on the article. You can make other edits later.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 02:57, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
Ok, I had just seen some characters, such as Harry, Ron and Hermione, in the present tense. However, now I can see they're fixed. Thanks! User:Quirinus Quirrell
By the way, I have created a template for when you need to tell people to use British spelling, syntax and grammar, as I have seen you tell people to use British grammar many times. The link is right here. Feel free to fix it up as much as you want, as it was made specifically for you.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 23:44, March 18, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, Jkoch, you may have been overterse again, because I am not sure that I have gotten what you mean by this. English not being my mother tongue again... Ngebendi 21:50, March 19, 2010 (UTC)
Half of it is pretty redundant. I'm thinking remove a lot of the stuff about the Minister, leaving just a brief mention and link to the Minister's article, expand the sections on the support staff, and retitle the article as Minister for Magic support staff with a {{Conjecture}} tag. What do you think? - Nick O'Demus 12:50, March 20, 2010 (UTC)
It is mentioned in Chamber of Secrets that Slytherin looked like an aged monkey when Harry looked at his statue in the Chamber of Secrets. --L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 22:44, March 20, 2010 (UTC)
No problems on the Hufflepuff thing; that's the only source I've ever seen for that info, so I don't trust the source :) - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 23:16, March 21, 2010 (UTC)
do you know why it wasn't working? because last night i did it exactly the way you just did —The preceding unsigned comment was added by emmafofemma (talk • contribs).
Hey, the Hogwarts Castle page keeps getting the main picture changed... so should we have a vote on it?--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 03:25, March 29, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry if I'm going about this in the wrong way; I am a new person, so I'm going to come off as very ignorant.
The edit I made in the Order of Pheonix today that you changed back is what is bothering me. Mr. Weasley was not in the First Order, if I am not mistaken. Even if he was, further up on the page where the table telling about each Order member is listed, he is only put as being in the Second Order. So, when it says:
"Molly Weasley is not stated to have been a member of the original Order, despite her husband and her brothers all being members." (bold is mine)
That would be incorrect, wouldn't it? He was never mentioned as being part of the Original order either, likely for the same reason as Molly. Her brothers were mentioned in the picture, but Mr. Weasley wasn't.
So, I don't know if you want to change it, or how we go about doing things now, but I just thought I'd let you know, because it bothered me. I use the site myself to check up on obscure facts, and I want people to get the right information.
I got rid of the infobox and the article. It was meant to serve as a simple disambig page, not an article with an infobox, as you said on the talk page. Thanks.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 02:33, April 12, 2010 (UTC)
The reason I have proceeded with the edits is for the exact reason you just sent me on my Talk Page. The article looked extremely cluttered before my edits, therefore I was trying to un-clutter it. Lee7003 16:27, April 14, 2010 (UTC)
What do you mean? I did not get that, sorry.
Also, you've done a good job with that dialogue it's correctly formatted and I'm almost sure the quote is correct now. -- Seth Cooperowl post! 21:39, April 14, 2010 (UTC)
I think I see what you mean. But I don't know if that can be done as those are, after all, supposed to be footnotes. -- Seth Cooperowl post! 22:38, April 14, 2010 (UTC)
I added it at Ron and Hermione, because it was at Harry. If the trio should be delted, then the loyalty "Harry Potter" should be deleted too, i guess. --Thorning 08:37, April 16, 2010 (UTC)
Okay, i agree --Thorning 17:53, April 16, 2010 (UTC)
I agree too. I think "Lord Voldemort" and "Albus Dumbledore" should also be deleted, especially when "Death Eatrs" and "Order of the Phoenix" is listed above it.--Rodolphus 21:01, April 16, 2010 (UTC)
What's the point? I just tried both of those links. "Voldemort" redirects to "Tom Riddle" just fine. Same with "Barty Crouch Jr." redirecting to "Bartemius Crouch Jr." If it'll redirect without any problems, why does it matter?Dstebbins 20:44, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
No, that's not vandalism. We have to assume good faith on this, as the user probably didn't notice he was deterring the article's quality. -- Seth Cooperowl post! 22:09, May 14, 2010 (UTC)
I've never really had any participation on the voting/shuting down process, so I suggest you to ask Cavalier One instead. -- Seth Cooperowl post! 18:18, May 17, 2010 (UTC)
At the moment, they're not. Wikia is refusing to suspend the feature since they are being used by a lot of people. I'm counter-arguing at the moment, and hopefully it may do some good. If not, I intend to set a strict policy for blogs in place, and police them rigidly. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 13:50, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
Wikia believes that the current vote is not a wide enough consensus to warrant the suspension of the feature. As I said, I'm arguing the point and not giving up on it :) - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 07:35, May 19, 2010 (UTC)
The thing is, that's already covered by the editing policy. "The Harry Potter Wiki is not the place for fanfiction or roleplaying". Currently the blogs are being used exclusively for that purpose, and should therfore be discontinued completely. I'm really angry that wikia won't allow us to remove something from our wiki, that we as a community have unanimously agreed is counterproductive. Jayce•Avada Kedavra•Crucio•Imperio• 18:33, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
Actually there are other wiki hosts. And it is possible to transfer the Harry Potter wiki to another host. It's been done before on a wiki that I used to edit. They decided that wikia wasn't serving their best interests, so they upped and moved to another provider. Here's a list of other wiki providers. Jayce•Avada Kedavra•Crucio•Imperio• 18:54, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I know. That's why I usually try to get everything done in one sitting. Making, say, ten separate changes just clutters the recent changes page and floods the edit history. --Cubs Fan(Talk to me) 06:40, May 21, 2010 (UTC)
Hey, H. After our last discussion about reffing the SWW article, I've broken the Deathly Hallows refs down into chapters (I don't want to use specific pages, since it's possible everybody's copy is different). Do you want to take a crack at Goblet (which by itself should be relatively easy, as the war doesn't start until the end of the book) and Order, and I'll do Half-Blood Prince? --Cubs Fan(Talk to me) 06:17, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
Oh, that makes sense! Well, I was born in England. If I forget the spelling (I live in he US) I can ask my parents XD! TheLunarEclipse 10:32, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I've noticed that a few other users have had to revert some of his edits. But I can see it's done in good faith, so no harm, no foul. --Cubs Fan(Talk to me) 18:09, May 30, 2010 (UTC)
Can I please ask why you reverted my recent edit? I know it's a set pic, but surely it's better to have an image of him as a teenager, as that's when they were freinds. Alessandro Auditore 19:37, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
Actually, Fawkes left right after the tomb was created. See the quote in "The Ceremony" subsection of this section of Funeral of Albus Dumbledore.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 03:19, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
Thank you. I also agree that the Biographies should be primarily chronological. If you want to run a rewrite by me, sure. Right now, I'm trying to get sources on all the new actor articles people have been making for the DH film, then I'm going to try to clean up the nominations pages for the featured content (QOTW, DYK, etc.), then there are users like Wizard44 whose edits need to be cleaned up, then I still need to get around to formalizing the Alias policy and putting it into effect. So much for taking a time off for a breather. : ( - Nick O'Demus 07:56, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
Why did you write that Bellatrix is mentioned only in HBP? Isn't she in the second chapter ('Spinner's End')?
--El Profeta Vespertino 19:50, June 10, 2010 (UTC)
You just create a new article, with the title User:(your name)/Sandbox (or Workpad, Project Page, etc.) For example, Cavalier One has Parchment for article rewrites (in-universe), Workpad for article rewrites (real world), and Scratch for templates and other ideas (although as far as I know most users only need one workpage). You can create as many sub-pages for your userpage as you feel you need, although you might want to add links to them on your main userpage so you can keep track of them. Hope this helps. - Nick O'Demus 06:14, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
Looks good so far. It might need some minor touch-ups in a few places, but the layout looks fine. Sorry I haven't been around much lately, but things have been a little hectic. I'm going out of town tomorrow, and I'm hoping it'll settle down a bit after I get back on the 21st. - Nick O'Demus 16:13, June 15, 2010 (UTC)
Nice job so far! So far I cannot see anything wrong with it, and it looks as chronological as it can. I am currently working on the Dudley Dursley page, but it needs much more work than the Ron Weasley page, and I am trying to get it to FA status by partially rewriting it and adding alot of references. Thanks.--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 18:44, June 12, 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I know. But when he says "[his] family", to me that means his immediate family: parents and siblings. --Cubs Fan(Talk to me) 05:15, June 13, 2010 (UTC)
John, I wonder if there's a problem with Wikia's software,
I remember having corrected a word spelling (changed a "prove" to "proved" in Neville Longbottom's page, section "Battle of Hogwarts") and the page's history appears to give it as a complete deletion of the quote, which you duly reverted. If this is correct, there may be a but in the software dealing with the modification of quotes.
To whom should I seek help, because this is nothing I can deal with myself?
Possibly - I remember this happened before. Well, next time I find something in a quote, I'll see to it I do it right. Many thanks! Ngebendi 17:14, June 19, 2010 (UTC)
Will do! But feel free to rearrange the sentence if needed, instead of simply revert to the older version. English is second language for me, and mother tongue for you. Ngebendi 20:18, June 19, 2010 (UTC)
I would tend to disagree. Deliberately trying to scare people away from making edits isn't really in the spirirt of the wiki. A polite request is all that is required. If people disobey, then further action can be taken. Jayden Matthews 12:28, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
I'm 100x100 agree with Jayden.Disagreements can be resolved by talking, no problem.
Oh... I must be really out of my mind; I hadn't even noticed I'd done that. Thanks for being attentive! =) -- Seth Cooperowl post! 17:23, June 22, 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of that. Her question was so disjointed, I couldn't understand what she was trying to ask. --Cubs Fan(Talk to me) 19:14, June 23, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, that it is not the right form, but I never did it and I am not sure how to do it right. Perhaps you can explain me. I see unter Controls the Source. Must I only klick or what must I do? Harry granger 20:56, June 28, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, but I have more than one time looked in the source. Perhaps I am too stupid. How you can see, I just failed twice and I don't make it to anger anyone. I think I should better ask an admin for help. Perhaps then it does function better. Harry granger 20:25, June 29, 2010 (UTC)
Why do you delete my contributions on the artcle about Antonin Dolohov?.All images are correct; look the mask.Is the same mask that Richard Cubison said that he uses in the film.Pol 871 15:46, July 6, 2010 (UTC)
please, am waiting for your response.Pol 871 15:12, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
when a character is so minor, it is logical that the images are in low quality.But it doesn't mean that would damage the article.Pol 871 17:54, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
As you can see, administrators have verified that she is aurora sinistra.
Before to accuse someone, you can solve the things talking.This is the best option.Pol 871 17:19, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder. I went ahead and changed it to the next Featured Article on the schedule (Lavender Brown). ★ Starstuff(Owl me!) 02:48, July 8, 2010 (UTC)