User talk:Vatsa1708

Happy Independence Day!
Happy Independence day, V! Altaïr Skywalker 47 Agency Laptop 07:00, August 15, 2013 (UTC)

A plea for Resurrection
Hi there,

It seems like an eternity now, but about 13-14 months ago, we became affiliated wikis.

I now send this plea to you and your users:

Our wiki is dying and in desperate need of help. It seems I'm the only Admin there actually around to do something about it.

I ask only that you refer some of your editors, preferably ones who know about the achievements to Cheevo.

I am sorry to bother you.

Regards,

Community Manager http://images.wikia.com/cheevoarchive/images/d/de/Cheevo_Archive_Wiki_Small.png Tawatson  05:40, August 19, 2013 (UTC)

Just wanted to say hi
Hello Vatsa, My name is Wilc0, I'm a bureaucrat on Halo Nation and want to contribute to the AC Wiki as well, so you will see me a lot from now on. If you need any help with a project or something, just ask!

Greetings,

IRC
When you have a chance, could you come on over? -- 19:15, August 26, 2013 (UTC)

Some MediaWiki:Common.js coding please
Hello Vatsa,

Could you do me a favour and add this coding to MediaWiki:Common.js $(function {    if (wgUserName) {        $('.username-replace').text(wgUserName);    } }); This will make my template work, showing the username of the person who visits the page.

Greetings,


 * Could you please add this coding in, many wikis already use it!

Delete please
Could you delete these two redirect pages: [1 ] & [2 ]. I can't mark them the traditional way, since they are technically blogs. The main reason they should be deleted is because they fill up a lot of space at Special:DoubleRedirects

Thank you in advance,


 * I'm sorry, but this also goes for these 2: [3 ] & [4 ]

Requirement
If you believe the heading italicization is not required, can you undo the edit on all game and ship articles? The ship articles are only the Jackdaw and Aquila. Other games also include. Sorry. Altaïr Skywalker 47 (talk) 14:41, September 10, 2013 (UTC)


 * All reverted. And FYI, the template is more relevant to articles with these naming conventions.. -- 14:43, September 10, 2013 (UTC)


 * Erm... V? For some reason, it now redirects into the main page! Altaïr Skywalker 47 (talk) 14:52, September 10, 2013 (UTC)


 * Nvm Altaïr Skywalker 47 (talk) 14:54, September 10, 2013 (UTC)

External IRC Client (s)
As I'm sure you're aware, we have two methods of connecting to the Wiki's IRC, a beginner's level which configures settings for us, and an expert level which allows to download an external program to manually enter the information in ourselves. I am having trouble getting XChat Azure (Aqua) and Colloquy to connect to the Xeriton network channel despite having followed the directions to a tea spoon and measuring cup, ah, figuratively speaking. Could there be anything I'm doing wrong, or are these settings miswritten? If it helps you at all... I'm running an OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5) on a Mac Mini. Anyway, get back to me when you can.  Supreme Master Assassin O Mentoras 23:11, September 14, 2013 (UTC)

Parent Filter
Hi, Vatsa1708!

I wanted to swing by and let you know of a new feature we've recently released for interested sites. It's called the Parent Filter and can be accessed through adding /wiki/MediaWiki:ParentFilter to the end of the site's url.

The purpose is two-fold: 1) to provide information to parents about the site's subject from people who are actually very familiar with the content and 2) to eventually provide a home or hub for all such pages parents can visit.

Here's a great example of the feature put to use.

You can learn more about it here. Feel free to throw any questions or comments you might have into that blog.

Best regards,

Raylan13 ( talk ) 19:38, September 16, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey there, I'm working on the Parent Filter initiative for Wikia and have created a basic page for this wiki. I'll be filling out as much information as I can but would appreciate edits, feedback, and contributions from the community as necessary. Thank you! Generaltsao @   (profile)•(talk)•(email) 18:24, October 4, 2013 (UTC)

Reply to "Point?"
Don't we scrub the comic's dialogue boxes while uploading to ACwiki? I've seen some of them. And thus, I scrubbed many dialogue boxes and for some reason, you reverted all of them :) Altaïr Skywalker 47 (talk) 06:11, September 21, 2013 (UTC)

We went over this once. While we remove subtitles/text from our images, the text being there is better than large empty white blobs covering the image. Thus, there's no point in removing text from comic images, otherwise, it would've been done already. 08:46, September 21, 2013 (UTC)

Won't they spoil at least part of it? Altaïr Skywalker 47 (talk) 10:34, September 21, 2013 (UTC)

That's why we pick images carefully, until the spoiler period has subsided. Slate Vesper (talk) 22:41, September 21, 2013 (UTC)

Templars
Shouldn't we be removing all OOU categories? What makes those game factions categories different? Altaïr Skywalker 47 (talk) 15:37, September 23, 2013 (UTC)


 * Who said anything about removing all OOU categories? -- 16:58, September 23, 2013 (UTC)


 * Nobody. This is an IU wiki, so I had a doubt.... Altaïr Skywalker 47 (talk) 05:22, October 2, 2013 (UTC)

The cats
There was a talk on Storm's page about the OOU-IU category thing. Have a look here. --Kainzorus Prime Walkie-talkie  15:41, September 23, 2013 (UTC)


 * Oh? And does he have a category tree to substitute the current OOU categories? -- 16:58, September 23, 2013 (UTC)


 * Iunno, I figure the staff will have some sort of agreement on that. It's Sima's idea to move away from OOU cats after all. --Kainzorus Prime Walkie-talkie  17:20, September 23, 2013 (UTC)


 * Nothing yet. Ever since the characters were renamed, users seems to have jumped on the IU category broom, causing inconsistency and edit wars. -- 17:34, September 23, 2013 (UTC)

Project Hylian Creed
Hello Vatsa1708, I am Tim. I am the last day start with a petition on Change.org and a webpage on Facebook, I call this action Project Hylian Creed. For more clearly about this, for the webpage on Facebook, you can click here and for the petition on Change.org itself, you can click here. Anyway, I want to ask you for your help with this. Tim Auke Kools (talk) 11:36, September 29, 2013 (UTC)

AC Sweepstakes
Hey there Vatsa!

I sent this message to Sima Yi, but he suggested I talk to you instead.

So recently Ubisoft wanted to reach out about hosting a sweepstakes for the Assassin's Creed community that could potentially give a random winner a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox One. We'd have to host this on an article page though, as it features a video embed. I wanted to reach out today to see if that's something the AC Community would allow and if you could protect the page for the length of the sweepstakes. Let me know if you're interested. If not, we can try an alternate route.

Thanks Vatsa, Jorge (profile)•(talk) 15:48, October 1, 2013 (UTC)

Help with an experiment?
Hello,

I wanted to ask you if this community would be interested in helping us improve search suggestions by participating in a little experiment? As part of our constant effort to improve this facet of our search functionality, we want to try out some alternate methods. If you agree, we will try out these changes here and measure the results.

The testing period will last between two to four weeks.

During that period you will see the following improvements: much faster search suggestions and a different look for the way they appear.

The possible drawbacks are: search suggest will only provide namespace suggestions (no images or categories), and any new articles created during the test will not automatically appear in search suggest (although we can manually add them if that will help).

Can I sign this community up to help us test this out? --semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 16:18, October 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * Just a heads up that this experiment will be going live this week (took a bit longer to prepare than I anticipated) and is scheduled to run through the end of the year. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. --semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 19:37, November 19, 2013 (UTC)

ilu
<3 Slate Vesper (talk) 15:54, October 8, 2013 (UTC)

Refresh
Yep, the refresh button is gone from the feed again. --Kainzorus Prime Walkie-talkie  12:57, October 9, 2013 (UTC)


 * Failed to notice this since I have a custom script, globally. Will check for the changes Wikia has done.. -- 05:44, October 13, 2013 (UTC)


 * Changes caused due to Wikia updates with effect from October 8, 2013. I'll implement temporary fixes where necessary.. -- 06:48, October 13, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks V. --Kainzorus Prime Walkie-talkie  15:14, October 13, 2013 (UTC)

Edit: Seems the polls are still broken though. Not sure if you can do anything about those, though. --Kainzorus Prime Walkie-talkie  14:08, October 14, 2013 (UTC)

Dunno of it's related but tabs appear broken too. 14:14, October 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * Polls, I can customise. As for tabs, it's up to Wikia and their weekly update.. -- 14:24, October 14, 2013 (UTC)

Wiki meddling broke more things than it fixed. The link suggestions when editing articles no longer show up at all. For example if I try putting in [[Alt it would usually give me a popup that would complete link to Altair's article. Doesn't work at all for any link now.

Secondly, the popups detailing badges no longer appear at all. --Kainzorus Prime Walkie-talkie  01:08, October 18, 2013 (UTC)

Wiki rename proposal
Honestly, a wiki as big and with as good of information as this one, in my opinion, needs a more recognizable/notable name than "Assassin's Creed Wiki", which I feel is too bland for a wiki such as this one.

I'm just proposing a rename, but I only have one name idea that comes to mind: Abstergo Archives. (NOTE: This is just an idea that came to my head at the moment; feel free to change it, if you do at least think about this proposal) Why? Well, because it sounds like a good name for an Assassin's Creed database; not to mention that you guys seem to use a few Abstergo themes in your design (ex: the Abstergo logo in your article category boxes).

You can ignore me, or you can at least consider it. I will tell you that, statistically, Wikia hosted wikis that have a unique name tend to be more active, notable, and popular than wikis with a bland name only composed of the name of the subject-topic of the wiki with "Wiki" thrown to the back of it. To back up my claim, I will list wikis that are/were ("were" being for the wikis that forked/split and lost popularity) very popular, with their wiki name probably playing a huge part in said popularity:
 * The Vault / Nukapedia - a wiki about Fallout that had a jaw-dropping amount of traffic prior to their split; Wikia was probably earning a crap-load of money during those days. And even after the split, the wiki still has a huge amount of traffic, but I highly doubt the wiki would have attracted so much traffic if it wasn't for it's unique name.
 * WoWWiki - Now I know this wiki doesn't really have a super unique name, but something about a simple "WoWWiki" got people going. WoWWiki used to be Wikia's "poster wiki" if you will. The amount of people who visited this site is just... "wow". Though the wiki is pretty much dead now, it was once a place where a person would edit once every one/two minutes.
 * Wookieepedia - I can't leave out Wikia's sci-fi holy grail; Wookieepedia is almost never called "Star Wars Wiki". For this wiki to have been founded so long ago and to still be so active is amazing.
 * Halopedia / Halo Nation - not really hard to believe that a wiki about Halo was once great, with someone editing there every, I guess, four minutes most days. Things went down there that caused a split, and now, though still popular, the wiki is pretty much split in traffic.
 * Combine OverWiki / Half-Life Wiki - though nobody visits it much anymore, the wiki used to be quite popular. But, things happened, they lost one of the best content editors I've seen in my life (a guy named Klow; he added most of the content you see there) and another amazing user who acted as the wiki's tech-admin (a guy name Bramblepath; he came up with the name as well, if I'm correct). After that, the wiki went down the drain in traffic, and they didn't even come up with a long-lasting replacement name.

Now, I know most of that was kind of like a Wikia history lesson (I got a little carried away; this is a wiki about history anyway lol), but those were once (and some still) very popular, high-traffic wikis.

I hope that I have persuaded you to at least see what the rest of the community thinks about the idea of changing the wiki's name. I think it would be highly beneficial to the wiki, giving the wiki the traffic/attention it deserves. ~ Anonymous 01:57, October 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Not happening.. -- 13:06, October 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hope you don't mind me interrupting, but I, for one, like this Idea. Could we at least have a community vote?    Wolfenstein     ~  The Hidden Den  14:44, October 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Cause the name change is just visual, the core name remains the same and because it doesn't change the SEO. There is no need to change the visual name of the wiki just because we utilise a few visual themes from the game like every other wiki. No matter what changes we do visually, it'll always be as Assassin's Creed Wiki. And this matter closes here.

@Anonymous: I've been around Wikia long enough to see all the issues that transpired between Wikia and the original editors of most the wikis you have mentioned. There will be no name change.. -- 15:01, October 12, 2013 (UTC)

If you have been around long enough to see that, you will know that it wasn't the name that caused the split; it was due to something else. And honestly, is it your choice? ~ Anonymous 15:56, October 12, 2013 (UTC)

I disagree that a name change would be beneficial -- we have established our reputation as the Assassin's Creed Wiki and that is reflected in things like our URL, watermarking, etc. People know to find us by this name -- changing it now would be a logistical nightmare as well as a technical complication. DarkFeather <font color="#FFF">Raven's Nest<font color="#F00">Raven's Hunt 15:59, October 12, 2013 (UTC)

It does make more sense to have it as it is. "Search it up on the ACWiki" is much less confusing than "Search for it on Abstergo Archives". 16:06, October 12, 2013 (UTC)
 * Alright alright; I'll back off, since I can already tell most of the uber users here probably don't have a mind of their own and will agree with an admin's decision regardless of their own opinion. I'm not trying to be an a**hole or anything. It's just what I think, because I've seen it countless times before... Anyway, later and thanks for at least responding (unlike Sima's high-strung ***, and Nesty hasn't been active in a few days). ~ Anonymous 16:08, October 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Don't see why you'd call Sima an ass, since he was the only one willing to discuss this with the others. Seems like you're the one being high-strung and throwing a tantrum because others disagree with you.


 * Personally, I wouldn't mind some form of semi-IU name, but I'm not gonna throw a fit because others disagree. --<font color="#7575DB" face="OCR A" size="3">Kainzorus Prime <font color="#4C99A6">Walkie-talkie  01:31, October 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * And for that, "Anonymous", I banned you. I don't think the best way to propose an idea is to insult others, especially not those willing to consider it. -- 17:34, October 14, 2013 (UTC)

Edward rename
So we got some info off the front page of Initiates (doesn't need a log in so NDA doesn't apply), and we'll have to rename Edward Kenway to Edward James Kenway. I'm posting it here instead of going ahead and doing it because there'll be a mass of redirects to sort out, so we'll need the bot's help. I'd appreciate it if you took care of the rename when you have the time. Thanks V :) 09:16, October 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure, will sort it out as required.. -- 14:00, October 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks again V :) 14:14, October 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * Uhm, we don't have to rename Edward Kenway's article because we now know his middle name... No wiki does that, and we have not done it for Nikolai Orelov either. A middle name does not need to be featured in an article title. -- 17:27, October 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * Point noted. -- 14:23, October 15, 2013 (UTC)

Get your bot redirecting?
Hi Vatsa. I was hoping you could help me with categorising some articles we have which, unlike all the others, have been effectively ignored; our redirects. A lot of our articles, far too many for me to go through each one, so I was hoping you could task your bot with adding Category:Redirections to any article with a "#REDIRECT" in it?

Is that something you think help me with? -- 10:31, October 15, 2013 (UTC)


 * That can be done, JD. -- 14:23, October 15, 2013 (UTC)
 * My thanks for doing that. -- 15:26, October 15, 2013 (UTC)


 * All done. But, there might be a few redirects from forums and fanon since I have them listed in the source. -- 15:58, October 15, 2013 (UTC)

Removing interwikis
Hi Vatsa. I would know why in this wiki this community deletes all interwiki links that the users adds. I see some examples at the AC IV page and the Main Page (this or that). I would know if that's because some local policy or what reason do you have for do this. --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contacta) 13:43, October 25, 2013 (UTC)

JS issues fix
Hello,

Unfortunately there is a JavaScript issue on this wiki. A recent site update released a lazy loading right rail. With this release, some custom JavaScript has stopped working and is now breaking some site features (both standard and custom).

Specifically, the custom code changes the functionality of the "Add a Photo" button within the right rail. Now that the rail is lazy loading, this button does not exist when the site's JS runs and it is causing a fault error which stops all other JS to load (such as TabView).

This type of problem is why we ask people to minimize custom code, and why certain types of changes are against the Terms of Use. In this case, the change to the "Add a Photo" button is against our Terms of Use, because it removes the functionality of that button and replaces it with a link to Special:Upload.

In order to fix the current problem, reduce future problems, and bring the wiki within the Terms of Use, I will be removing the JS from this site shortly after this message. Please do not adapt, replace, or add any similar code to change the functionality of these sidebar buttons or features. You are, of course, welcome to change your personal JS to adjust your own view of the wiki in any way.

Regards, Kirkburn (talk) 14:18, October 28, 2013 (UTC)

You look like a nice kinda Admin, a nice mate.

Billy cougar (talk) 18:16, October 31, 2013 (UTC)

Background
Hey man, can you get on the IRC? Steen got us a new background we can use, and since Wikia did not really allow me to manually upload it the last few times, I might need some help again. -- 13:40, November 3, 2013 (UTC)

Are You talkin' to me?

Billy cougar (talk) 13:47, November 3, 2013 (UTC)


 * Billy cougar, since this is my talk page, we can safely presume Sima is talking to me. -- 13:58, November 3, 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok...
 * Billy cougar (talk) 14:14, November 3, 2013 (UTC)

Mary Read
hi Assass creed black flag was amazing but i have a quetsion when mary read died it made me heart broken will their be a dlc were mary didnt die and that she survied the prison escape and she went with edward kenway 69.121.174.236 18:50, November 5, 2013 (UTC)

No, there won't be. Live with it. Slate Vesper (talk) 18:58, November 5, 2013 (UTC)

Question I Have Wanted To Ask...
You have one seriously amazing Wiki in terms of layout and features. I hope you do not mind my asking, but I would like to know how you managed to calculata the number of Daily Readers and Total Pageviews in the Statistics Section on Your Front Page.

I am an Admin from another Wikia and I would like to add something like this as well to my wiki. As far as I know, there are no tools currently on the wiki to know the total no. of visitors and pageviews. Have you used an offsite tool? How did you manage to do this?

I will be grateful of any help.

Kind Regards,

LadyGryphonInia (talk) 09:08, November 6, 2013 (UTC)LadyGryphonInia

AWB
Category talk:Voice Actors#Page name,Bot plz :3 14:45, November 6, 2013 (UTC)
 * Moved.. -- 16:28, November 6, 2013 (UTC)

Category renames
Would you mind getting VatsaAWB to go through and change Category:Development Team and Category:Development Tools to "Development team" and "Development tools"? nucl3arsnake (  talk  ) 23:22, November 6, 2013 (UTC)
 * Never mind. I'll go through and do it myself, as it seems you have no intentions of assigning VatsaAWB to do the task. nucl3arsnake  (  talk  ) 23:30, November 7, 2013 (UTC)
 * Don't try to think you know me better. I wasn't around yesterday to complete the move. -- 15:19, November 8, 2013 (UTC)

Boshjonard ban
Vatsa, don't you think the ban you've placed on Boshjonard is a bit pre-emptive? He's only made on edit, which admittedly wasn't entirely constructive, but doesn't warrant an outright ban without warnings first. -- 15:34, November 14, 2013 (UTC)


 * As most on Wikia say, it's just a block. If he has any desire to edit, he can always contact me and explain the reason behind his edit. -- 18:16, November 14, 2013 (UTC)

SAVAK
Accusing the Mossad in involment with the SAVAK is some dangeroug business with international law. Be careful with what you are doing every thing is recorded and *will be used in court.
 * Me and my bot shall will present ourselves in this so called court when called upon. -- 18:16, November 14, 2013 (UTC)
 * Vatsa, less than a few hours unblocked and he's at it again. I think a more permanent deterrent might be in order. -- 13:33, November 19, 2013 (UTC)

Sweep
V, could you send your bot on a sweep across Liberation memories? The category "Memories relived using the Animus console" needs to be renamed "Memories relived using Animus Omega", since it's the official name of the console equipment. Thanks. --<font color="#7575DB" face="OCR A" size="3">Kainzorus Prime <font color="#4C99A6">Walkie-talkie  12:34, November 25, 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure. -- 14:35, November 25, 2013 (UTC)


 * Cheers. --<font color="#7575DB" face="OCR A" size="3">Kainzorus Prime <font color="#4C99A6">Walkie-talkie  14:56, November 25, 2013 (UTC)

Hi
<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:13px;line-height:21px;">H-Hi. Sorry for taking your time, I'm admin. and bure. of another wiki and....how did you put "Mentore" has your Title(is title the name for that?) instead of "Administrator"?

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:13px;line-height:21px;">AnakinGabriel (talk) 19:50, November 29, 2013 (UTC)

This is a short title
Hello there! I'm very, very bored these days, and decided to just jump by and ask how things are doing. I hope you still remember me, I kinda disappeared out of no where when I got sick of the way people treated me on the web. Then again, I won't argue if I deserved it or not. Anyway, enough about that. Hope you're all right! Anyway, I might make a few edits here, though we'll see about that. Honestly, just stopping by. / Alareiks

<span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:'LucidaConsole';line-height:20px;">193.14.114.222 14:12, November 26, 2013 (UTC)

Favor...
Hi, I was wondering If you could crop the cover of the AC Brahman comic book so only the symbol is left. Can you then put the picture on the Indian Assassins page. Thanks.

Raghava  Shah  02:19, November 27, 2013 (UTC)

Nevermind, just ignore it. Raghava  Shah  02:26, November 28, 2013 (UTC)

Mainspace
Vasta, how many mainspace edits do I have right now?MB543 (talk) 17:43, December 1, 2013 (UTC)MB543


 * 171. And there is no need to keep asking, I have taken notice of your signing up for the Apprenticeship Initiative, and I will message you on your talk page when you have reached sufficient main space edits to warrant an interview. (Sorry for swiping this off your page, Vatsa, but this was the easiest way to go about it.) Nesty  Contact me! 18:02, December 1, 2013 (UTC)

Assassin's Creed V
If I want to find out information about when Assassin's Creed V start to announced to the public do I hear it from E3, or etc. --Cococrash11 (talk) 22:41, December 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * E3, Ubisoft press releases, games journalists, all that jazz. We won't know until Ubi release details. Slate Vesper (talk) 03:09, December 2, 2013 (UTC)

Faction -> Affliates
Hey V, could you possibly alter the character infobox template to say "affliates" instead of "faction" for its code? Right now, it displays as "Affliations" on a normal article, but it'd be nice to have the code matching to avoid any possible confusion.

That being said, if it's a gigantic task for you and VatsaAWB, it may not be worth the effort. Thanks either way though! Slate Vesper (talk) 22:46, December 12, 2013 (UTC)


 * Not a problem, but that section of the infobox will be out for a while until the bot completes replacing. -- 14:25, December 13, 2013 (UTC)

RE: Template
I was not aware of that. I'll let it do its work.--The Forgotten Jedi (talk) 05:12, December 14, 2013 (UTC)

Broken the wiki
Vatsa, I'm afraid your recent edit to the MediaWiki.css has broken our background somewhat. --Jasca Ducato (talk | contributions) 14:39, December 16, 2013 (UTC)

Affiliation proposal
Hi there, I was thinking that you would be the most appropriate person to approach with regards to affiliation. I come from the Watch Dogs wiki and think that it could be a good thing if another wiki concerning an Ubisoft product were affiliated.

Maybe for providing quicker linking between the two Ubisoft-centred wikis for readers and maybe quicker linking for editors who may be interested in both titles.

I hope that you consider my proposal, and look forward to any response. Thank you for your time JBanton (Talk | Contribs) 10:31, December 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey JBanton, I'll get back to you regarding this as soon as possible. -- 14:25, December 21, 2013 (UTC)

Request
Hey, Vats. If you have some time, do you think you could get a bot to remove pages from the "time period" categories such as American Revolution weapons and other similar names? Thanks in advance. -- 20:20, December 21, 2013 (UTC)

Indian?
I know this is a pretty stupid question to ask but I was just wondering if you were from India. Raghava  Shah  23:52, December 25, 2013 (UTC)