User talk:Michael von Preußen



Military Unit infobox
I thought I should let you know that I created this Military Unit infobox. At first glance, while it looks similar to this one (and it should be because I copied the code), I actually deleted a great deal out of the one I've created. You can see it working on Shock Squadron's article, and while it's essentially the same I changed "country" to "alliance" to make it work better in that role, rather than for a nation RP, along with removing all of the aircraft section and a few other things. I figured I should tell you in case you might have deleted it, thinking I had made a duplicated template. Cheers! -- Imperial Emperor - Talk 12:52, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

GOONS
It would probably be better to just revert those two anon edits. From a quick scan it doesn't look like they actually added any content. And I have no idea why some people randomly add a lot of spaces for the fun of messing stuff up :P. Btw, there seems to be a problem with Style being used next to the infobox (text goes into/on top of the infobox). Those darn infoboxes :P. Bobogoobo -  Talk  -  Nation  22:00, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 (ET)

RE: Forums
The results of the test seemed normal, and other sites (such as the CN Forums, the SOS-dan forums, YouTube, Wikipedia, and a ton of other sites) are still loading normally, so the problem might not be on my end. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    23:30, Friday, 21 May 2010 (ET)

Team templates
Should all of the team templates have clear before their content? I didn't look through all of them but so far I noticed that Black and Green don't have it. Bobogoobo -  Talk  -  Nation  20:45, Saturday, 22 May 2010 (ET)

Spring Update
Badges sound fun, I hope they'll be awarded retroactively :P. Also, I looked at that site traffic thing for this wiki and the most daily views by far was when the CN forums were offline ^_^. Bobogoobo -  Talk  -  Nation  13:45, Monday, 24 May 2010 (ET)

Alliance History
Hey MvP,

Thanks for updating my alliance history page, it's appreciated. I almost forgot about it. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    19:52, Monday, 24 May 2010 (ET)
 * Thanks for tweaking the infobox. Though, would it be possible to fix the infobox so that text doesn't flow into the next entry when it gets too long?
 * Also, are you actually in Singapore? If so, then have fun! ^_^  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:14, Tuesday, 25 May 2010 (ET)
 * Yeah, that's what I meant. Wouldn't you be able to fix the problem if each entry was separated into a row of its own?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:10, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 (ET)

UnknownUnavailable's message
Wow had no idea you were so important here Micheal :) your page looks awesome

Flag trouble
I dunno why, but part of File:Bobogoobo (Province) Flag.svg isn't showing up. There's supposed to be another red bar thingy in that white space on the right. But this link does display it. What am I doing wrong? Bobogoobo -  Talk  -  Nation  21:04, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 (ET)
 * Also, in the CN Wiki version the red bar that is there does not appear to be vertically centered (there is more white space under it than above it), although it is centered in the other link. Could this be due to how adding a filter increases the border/size of the object? What do I have to do to make the wiki happy :P.  Bobogoobo  -  Talk  -  Nation  21:26, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 (ET)

Barnstars
I've been planning some wiki things recently, and while I was looking for information for various projects on Wikipedia I came across the barnstar awards. Would you be interested in introducing something like this here? Barnstars would by far be the best sort of CN Wiki award to create, they would be self sustaining in the end as there wouldn't need to be an award panel or such to grant them. Barnstars could be created for things like alliances, updating alliance stats, reverting vandalism, team information, nation information, RP, etc. Because anyone could introduce a barnstar, it means a few people don't need to try and think up all the awards all the time. As for the graphics themselves, there are many talented artists in the CN community and it may be possible to enlist their help for say, the first batch of awards at least, as it gives a good base. What do you think of this? -- Imperial Emperor - Talk 13:04, May 30, 2010 (UTC)

Categories
Hey MvP,

Do you think categories should be cleaned up if they have subcategories (such as Category:Cities) to make things more organized? For example, instead of categorizing Jubilife to Category:Cities, Category:Capitals and Category:Cities of Disparu, the page can just be categorized to Category:Cities of Disparu, since the category is a subcategory of Category:Capitals (which, in turn, is a subcategory of Category:Capitals). This would make categories more navigable since they would be less cluttered and more organized. What do you think?

On an unrelated note, what happened to your blog's site? I haven't been able to open it for a while. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    16:44, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 (ET)
 * I placed Category:Cities of Disparu under Category:Capitals since I thought every article in that category was about a capital city. I forgot about Montreal though, so thanks for pointing that out. :D Anyways, wouldn't it be possible to program a bot to automatically re-categorize articles in those categories? A bot could check if an article is categorized in a main category and a subcategory, and if it is, the bot could un-categorize the article from the main category. Would that be possible?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:45, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 (ET)

List of blocs
Well a little too late now lol but sounds awesome. Lol pie (talk &bull; contribs) 19:34, June 2, 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism
Hey MvP,

Thanks for blocking the guy who vandalized my nation's article, it's appreciated. ^_^ I noticed both of our nation articles were vandalized this morning. Even though my article was vandalized four hours after yours was, and the guy who vandalized Disparu was using a Japanese IP instead of an American one, could both incidents be related somehow? Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    18:14, Thursday, 3 June 2010 (ET)
 * You're welcome. On an unrelated note, if you don't mind, could you remove Labrador from File:Disparu (orthographic) (provinces).svg and the versions for Almia, Coronet, Nunavik and the Gaspésie? Labrador was ceded to a new CNRP player yesterday, so the maps will have to be reupdated again.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    19:22, Thursday, 3 June 2010 (ET)
 * Thanks, MvP. :)  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:51, Thursday, 3 June 2010 (ET)
 * Once the "What links here" pages for Pastoria and Labrador gets refreshed, I'll fix the links to them.
 * Anyways, I ceded Labrador due to OoC reasons. A new CN player who wanted to participate in CNRP sent me a message one day, asking if he could have Labrador (since that was also his in-game nation name and location). I didn't really have anything planned for Labrador in my RP (besides a terrorist RP that didn't really turn out great), I wanted more players in CNRP, and I didn't want to drive out a new CN player, so there weren't any major reasons for me to deny his request (besides having to update a ton of stuff here in the wiki).  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:05, Thursday, 3 June 2010 (ET)
 * Okay, I've updated the two images. Thanks for pointing those out. Anyways, I agree, Labrador's secession will probably make for some interesting RP. That, and the Parti Français has been slowly gaining more support and seats in Parliament since the Gaspésie joined Disparu, so retaining English as an official language might make them overthrow the Government - which is mostly composed of Illuminati Pokémonist Society Disparu Committee members and supporters. :P   Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:35, Thursday, 3 June 2010 (ET)

Signature bot
Hi, I'm an admin and b'crat at Battlefield Wiki, but I'm also a Wikipedia user. I couldn't help noticing your post asking for a signature bot for this place. I'm wanting the same for my wiki, so I was wondering, did you ever get a reply? - User:Bondpedia (talk) 18:54, June 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks anyway - User:Bondpedia (talk) 19:06, June 7, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Images
Ah, thanks for the update. I think it's a problem with thumbnails as a whole, since the map thumbnail in the Imperium of Canada is displaying an older version of the file even though it isn't a SVG file. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    20:12, Monday, 7 June 2010 (ET)
 * Heh. Wikia seems to be having a lot of image problems lately... <_<  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    11:32, Monday, 21 June 2010 (ET)

Huh?
Out of curiosity, why was File:DisparuStorm.jpg considered spam/vandalism? I don't remember spamming or vandalizing that file before it was deleted... O_o  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:45, Monday, 7 June 2010 (ET)
 * Heh, fair enough. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    22:49, Monday, 7 June 2010 (ET)

LIFTS
Is it worth me putting any more effort into the LIFTS page? It was fine till I made a joke page which I'm not arguing as an issue now. You might give me a heads up on the "style" problem. Mech88 (talk &bull; contribs) 22:09, June 8, 2010 (UTC)

Commanderneyo77's comment
Nice Wiki, did you do it by yourself?

Mako Lim
Hey MvP,

Are you controlling this account, or is it an impostor? Just wondering. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    21:41, Thursday, 10 June 2010 (ET)

The Legion
Heh, thanks for filling in the white space on the Legion article. I'm searching for other clever ways of filling it in! Imperial Zealot (talk &bull; contribs) 18:25, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Unknown War and current crisis
Certainly. I'll split it from the main article as soon as I get through the other stuff I'm working on here. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    17:00, Sunday, 20 June 2010 (ET)
 * The supposed war between the US and the Great Lakes seems to have turned into an environmental cleanup project, so I might end up keeping the Unknown War section with the main article. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    11:21, Monday, 21 June 2010 (ET)

RE: Sandbox
The cake is a lie. :V Apparently, it's the cake recipe used in. I found it funny, so I put it in my sandbox for future reference. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    11:47, Monday, 21 June 2010 (ET)

You should really talk to me before you undo my edits >_>
The second SF is not connected to the first one, it's on a different colour, has a very different history, and came about through the merger of a number of SF alliances that had formed in the past.

Please undo your edit, I am working on the new page, but you are making things difficult for me. --James D. (talk &bull; contribs) 00:09, June 22, 2010 (UTC)

Fine I will obliterate the old one
I suppose that will make you happy. --James D. (talk &bull; contribs) 00:22, June 22, 2010 (UTC)

It's not the same alliance, that doesn't even make sense.
That doesn't even make sense. It has a different flag, different colour, different founders, different origin, different FORUM, different IRC channel, different EVERYTHING. There is no connection between the two other than the name.

And yet, you have seperate articles for the Order of Random Insanity (TE) and the Random Insanity Alliance (TE)

It seems you have taken the tactic of "I don't like him, I'm going to prevent him from doing anything." --James D. (talk &bull; contribs) 00:31, June 22, 2010 (UTC)

It's ok
I've just encountered "shoot first and ask questions later" editors on every wiki I've ever been on. Part of it is me, I just make changes and am not fond of discussing them or getting approval first, but part of it is also the wiki culture breeds the mentality that everyone new is probably a vandal. --James D. (talk &bull; contribs) 00:41, June 22, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Something amusing and yet irritating
That's odd...how did that ever happen? O_o It seems that my theory on Wikia randomly selecting images and screwing them up is still true. :P  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:08, Thursday, 24 June 2010 (ET)
 * Same here. I never received e-mails from Wikia when you left messages in my talk page.  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:38, Thursday, 24 June 2010 (ET)

WIKI FACIST
hand over the control of the wiki to the people you facist faggot
 * I'm curious as to what a facist is. I've not heard this term before.   Michael von Preußen   voicemail  •  nation   @ 9:74, Décadi, 10 Messidor CCXVIII

Truce
I come offering a truce. At my disposal, I have a near limitless amount of proxies and enough time to mess with this wiki for a while. (but not as much as you you wikifascist sperglord faggot) I will cease my attacks on the conditions that you step down as admin and delete all your articles, and then go outside for once in your life. You have 10 minutes to decide.76.73.16.122

Alliance Help
Hi

I made a new alliance but I don't know about forums, treaties, IRC and all other information related to Alliance. Can you please help me?

Cyber Jalal (talk &bull; contribs) 08:29, June 29, 2010 (UTC)

Navigations
Hey Michael! I have recently started playing another game alongside CN called Lord Empires. Anyways, it has a wiki for it as well, and the Admin of the game asked if I would improve the left side navigation bar. However, I don't believe I can do that without administrative powers on that wiki; am I correct in my assumption? Which brings me to my second question, if I cannot figure out exactly how to change the left side navigation bar correctly, would you be willing to help?

Thanks, --  Dynasty   Talk  •  Grand Besaid   16:28, Sunday, 25 July 2010 EST 20:28, July 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * You were right, the left side navigation menu was really easy to edit. Thanks for the information and links.

Thanks, --  Dynasty   Talk  •  Grand Besaid   18:00, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 EST 22:00, July 27, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Flag of Disparu
Even though I like the new versions more realistic colours, I think it would be better if I kept the old one just to keep things consistent. Thanks for telling me about it, though. Pikachurin   Talk  •  Contribs    13:31, Thursday, 26 August 2010 (ET)

RE: Thanks
You're welcome, though I should also be thanking you for your edits to the Clannad Wiki. :D  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:09, Saturday, 4 September 2010 (ET)
 * Just out of curiosity, why did you put 2012 instead of 2008? Were you originally going to RP in the same timeline as Arrnea's RP?  Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    21:12, Saturday, 4 September 2010 (ET)

Question
Hey, how did you make this: File:Großgermania Reichstag Structure 2010.svg?

Thanks,

--  Dynasty   Talk  •  Grand Besaid   11:19, Sunday, 19 September 2010 EST


 * Thanks, but my new House of Representatives has 2987 members. Thus, I figured I'd try using 2008 NPC Seat Composition.png as my base. However, I can't seem to manage to edit the color of the seats correctly. If you'd like to give a shot at it, all of the information on my Grand Besaid House of Representatives page is correct (except the structure picture that is).


 * Thanks again,


 * --  Dynasty   Talk  •  Grand Besaid   17:33, Sunday, 19 September 2010 EST


 * It's okay. Any other ideas for trying to make a house structure around that size?
 * --  Dynasty   Talk  •  Grand Besaid   17:36, Sunday, 19 September 2010 EST


 * Look at what one can do with paint and two hours:File:GrandBesaidianHouseofRepsStructure.png


 * --  Dynasty   Talk  •  Grand Besaid   21:47, Thursday, 30 September 2010 EST

Re: TOC limit
Looks like coolness. I made it work :D. Thanks. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 19:00, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 (ET)

Doug Butcher's message
Why am I not seeing the lines display on any of my pages where I have tables? They were there previously and I looked through my history. They aren't displayed there either.

http://cybernations.wikia.com/wiki/New_Libertaria#States_Of_New_Libertaria

Updates Not Reflecting Visually, But Still Go Through
Hey Mike, I've noticed that from time to time Updates that are made don't reflect. You know the update went through when you do see it sometimes show up, and it's there listed on your Contributions Pave of your User Page. But, on occasion I've noticed Updates not "display" on a Page that's edited. It does eventually go "display" the latest Update, but is this normal? Is it cookie related? I've also noticed Time Stamp issues sometime display the wrong Date/Time of the last Update (even-though the History reflects the right info).

Can you shed any light on why this may happen from time to time? Again, we know the Updates go through, it's just a matter of them not always showing the latest ones. This happens the most when you do an Edit while Logged in, but come back later while logged out. You see the latest Edits while logged in, but not while logged out.

Thanks,

Nova Blue (talk &bull; contribs) 13:49, October 2, 2010 (UTC)Nova Blue


 * Thanks Mike, it does and did help.


 * --Nova Blue (talk &bull; contribs) 15:16, October 2, 2010 (UTC)

Welcome-message-user
Would it be okay to force a TOC either above or below (and which would be preferable) the entire div in MediaWiki:Welcome-message-user? It really bothers me how the TOC goes inside the thing :P (ex. here). Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 17:48, Monday, 4 October 2010 (ET)

Re: Progression
Very nice :D I did a basic import for now, I can edit it later. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 09:51, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 (ET)

AfD
Why are Montreal and Quebec City categorized as articles for deletion? Several pages still link to them. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 18:20, Saturday, 9 October 2010 (ET)
 * Done :P I like AWB, I definitely should've gotten it a while ago :P Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 04:57, Sunday, 17 October 2010 (ET)

Broken redirects
Special:BrokenRedirects is finally all crossed out. For whatever reason, I just needed to purge the cache on and  and that crossed them out :S. Just had to share my moment of triumph :P. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 19:03, Monday, 11 October 2010 (ET)
 * :3 Well you usually don't see the redirect icon anyway, so it isn't a big deal, right? :P Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 19:25, Monday, 11 October 2010 (ET)

RE: Avatar
She's a major character from   Pikachurin    Talk  •  Contribs    20:21, Thursday, 4 November 2010 (ET)

UoE
hello Michael,

I've noticed that Union of Empires still exists on CN wiki.. UoE actually reformed into The State.. the Ruler John A MacDonald hasn't really posted anything on CN forums of notices of such events.. The reforms went from The Confederation of Canada - Union of Empires - The State.

Just wanted to let you know :)

Cheers, KarlA

Re: Alliance infobox
I made it so that alliance factbooks will be displayed if they match the acronym instead of the full name, because I noticed some were like that. I fixed it a few minutes after I broke it; the server cache for that page was out of date. How long does it usually take for them to update? Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 16:14, Saturday, 20 November 2010 (ET)
 * Looks like Locke fixed that, the problem was that they used up instead of UP. Try again :P Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 15:05, Sunday, 21 November 2010 (ET)

Military infoboxes
Pages that use WPMILHIST Infobox style and the infoboxes that use it, such as Philippine Air Force, are screwed up for me. The styles for headings don't get applied properly - they show up as text. Is the same thing happening for you? I've spent at least an hour looking at those templates (including an attempt to reproduce the error by using the code as it would look without using templates, which failed), so I really don't want to see them anymore :P. Do you see what would be causing that? Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 20:53, Sunday, 21 November 2010 (ET)
 * Okay, thanks. I wasn't aware that they had changed the software, though. What did they change that broke that template? Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 18:19, Monday, 22 November 2010 (ET)
 * Okay :P In other news, I found out through a random comment on Community Central that it is still possible to use Monaco! - with "&useskin=monaconew" instead of "&useskin=monaco" (or "?useskin=monaconew" for pages not using /index.php?title=blahblahblah). So I was wondering if there was a way to add that to all internal links. I tried hard to learn the JS to do that, and maybe I was trying to make it overly complicated as usual, but it was way too complicated for me :P. Would you be able to do that? Don't worry about it if it would take too much effort. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 23:23, Monday, 22 November 2010 (ET)
 * Yay :D I dunno how long it'll last though, now that people have discovered the sekritz. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 23:33, Monday, 22 November 2010 (ET)
 * Awesome. Apparently I have a lot to learn about JS :P. But for some reason, that isn't working for me. It works as Opera user JS, but doesn't work in any other browser or in Opera without adding it to user JS. :S What am I doing wrong? Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 00:25, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 (ET)

Yeah, sorry, my wording was confusing. What I meant was, it isn't working in User:Bobogoobo/wikia.js for any browser. It only works when I add it to the Opera browser JS. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 00:40, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 (ET)
 * I forgot to try removing all of the other JS. That leads me to think that something in there is causing everything else to break, and that if it is removed, everything will work again - callapsibles, USERNAME, etc. I'll test them one at a time tomorrow. (Hmm, also, it seems page preview doesn't work - it sent me to editing the last saved version of the page.) Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 01:01, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 (ET)
 * It was removed already, that was fast. I'll go back to trying to fix the Oasis JS now. Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 16:41, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 (ET)

CN:CSS
Using just a plain  on my CSS page worked for transcluding it to CN:CSS properly. I don't remember why I didn't just do that at first. I think I copied the commented pres from your page actually, so why were they commented? :P Bobogoobo | Talk | Nation 19:36, Saturday, 4 December 2010 (ET)