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streamlined adding of new nations
I created a page (using the "preload" parameter of the inputbox) which should make it much easier to create new nation pages. See it here. Let me know what you think. - Alphacow 22:46, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Awesome, I love it. I had thought about that earlier but forgot.  Well done. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 00:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Great! Now people will be able to make god looking articles easily! Thanks! Aido2002((talk)) 20:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * And good looking ones too :-P. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 20:32, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Glad you folks like it. It actually took a while to make. If you're interested in wikicode, try simply using "preload=nation infobox". You'll see that it won't work. Look at the source of "nation infobox code" to see how I did it. - Alphacow 20:38, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I actually did something very similar at SporeWiki.com in the creature database so I understand, are you sure a preload not be more complicated then this? Because this works. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 20:45, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh... well, that doesn't work on this wiki. If you try to do what you did, instead of having the simple transclusion, it first renders the template and THEN sticks the result in the edit box. What I was ending up with was all the ugly HTML &lt;table>, &lt;tr>, &lt;td>, and everything else in the edit box. Try what you did there here... maybe you'll figure out something I missed. (It is possible, though, that we're just using a different version of wiki than sporewiki.) - Alphacow 20:55, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That is most likely the case, and the input box here is different. Just thought I'd bring it up in case it would be easier.  -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 20:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Concerning the Nordreich Video
This is MAJOR news. I feel this deserves its own article and we should work on researching the topic in depth for it. J Andres 03:39, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That seems fair, it's a touchy subject, so sources will need to be cited of course. Just put it in category:Nordreich.  It must stay NPOV of course. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 18:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Cyber Nations Early History and History of Cyber Nations
These two articles need to be merged into History of Cyber Nations. I'll be working on it soon, but I want to hear what people think about the two articles and there ideas. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 03:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

GATO-INC War
Not being there at the time I can't provide NPOV information, but I can spot when POV information exists, and I believe this article needs to be cleaned up of all of that. Again, I'm looking for ideas and suggestions. All of the "I" and "we" should be removed, and we shouldn't quote a pro GATO member without quoting a pro INC one. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 04:01, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Edits by Palachinov

 * ''Moved from Talk:Main Page

New user edited multiple nations and nation information without consent. Most was nonsense.
 * As stated on your talk page, people need not ask consent to edit an article that isn't locked. Although it's common courtesy not to just make up rp for another nation.  That being said, the only article that he did that on, was the Politics of Templuria page, which you took care of.  All other edits were grammar, spelling, or other similar additions that are encouraged on any article.  Only one of his edits was nonsense, unless there was something that I missed (if so, just provide a link).
 * Also, that being said. I don't approve of your "revenge" edits to his article.  He obviously doesn't know exactly how things work here, and damaging his article for fun or in revenge is a bad thing to allow to go on here.  So I'd hope that the next time something like this happens (if it does) you just undo their edit and explain it on their talk page, more nicely. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 00:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that.

Template:News css
What are we doing with this, it's in the sidebar but not on the main page, Plans Aido? -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 00:25, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

It's important, but not important enough for the Main Page. However, if we develop news articles *cough cough* news namespace *cough cough*, then I think we should replace the page he sidebar links to with a homepage for news, giving the most recent articles. That's why I wanted a news namespace. Aido2002((talk)) 00:30, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Figured that was the point, thanks. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 00:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

News Namespace
As I just found out, the "News:" and "News talk:" namespaces are now up and running! I already moved News:A Report on Treason, let's look for others that should be news articles and move them to the namespace. Aido2002((talk)) 00:41, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Quick links/Nav section
I think that we should add a section with quick links to frequently accessed topics to the main page. Being that we are an encyclopedia, we should have the most-likely-to-be-accessed topics quick at hand. I threw something together here to show what I think could be useful information. Basically, I want the casual user who will come here to find out how to increase happiness or what the algorithm for strength is to have a very easy time finding answers. Let me know what you think. (Note: I will be leaving to go out of townlater today... if you guys discuss and decide this is a good idea, someone stick it on the front page... dont' wait for me to do it.) - Alphacow 15:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Mutual Defense Pact web and Image map
I recently took an effort to tweak the MDP web that SC had made so that it could fit in a screen easily (at least at a 1200+ resolution). Now it appears there is a mediawiki extension that can allow someone to create an imagemap. I see tremendous possibilities here, even if only for this page. I'm planning on requesting this extension be added to CNWiki in hopes that this page can be made to serve an even more useful purpose. If this ends up happening though, there will need to be a significant effort to keep that page updated, the image and the imagemap. What does everyone think? -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 07:08, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * This is something Wikia will be able to get once we upgrade to a later version of MediaWiki which should happen within the next few months. Angela talk 07:13, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Ah, fair enough, if you could let me know about it when it happens, that'd be great, thanks. -- Mason11987 (T - C - E - CN ) 08:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

CN Peerage
This seems pointless due to the existance of articles, and the group... ideas?