User talk:Walkazo/Archive 10

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The first eleven months. The summer of '08. The winter of discontent. The spring of squelching superfluous spaces. The sporadic fall. The absentee school semester of 2009-2010 The age of the new computer The new computer's last springtime The hectic half of 2011

Status: Busy as always. But not so busy that I can't field any questions you might have for me, so ask away: I'm here to help.

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Why can't a range block be done on the IP(s) Plumber is using to sock? 64Fan (Discussion) 00:53, 13 November 2011 (EST)

The ranges that can be blocked are 58.110.0.0/16 and don't forget 58.163.0.0/16 --Bryce talk contributions 01:01, 13 November 2011 (EST)

And also don't forget 58.110.240.0/22 --Bryce talk contributions 01:04, 13 November 2011 (EST)

The biggest problem is that this guy is using DYNAMIC IPs, and thus, it's VERY difficult for us to stop this guy completely. The best we can do is every time he tries to create new accounts to bypass every single ban we place on him, we just block those as well. And IP bans are done in extremely rare circumstances -- even then, according to the rules, we have to place a temporary time limited on them too so that legitimate users can still sign up under that said IP that we blocked in hopes of getting a certain banned user to cease their disruptive ways on this wiki. --M. C. - "Mario Gals" Fan! User Page | Talk Page 01:11, 13 November 2011 (EST)

Range blocks are for dynamic IP addresses. It can be done by inputting similar IP's in the same range into a range block calculator, then the range will be determined. --Bryce talk contributions 07:47, 13 November 2011 (EST)

He's not harming the wiki and there aren't an overwhelming amount of socks being made or whatever, so there's no need to go blocking swathes of IPs, which could potentially affect innocent users as well. - Walkazo 12:41, 13 November 2011 (EST)

Reviewing the block log, most of the IP addresses blocked for "Vandal's IP" are in the range of 58.110.0.0/16. In my opinion, since this disruption has been going on for about four months already, it's best if this range block is temporarily enforced. --Bryce talk contributions 06:12, 16 November 2011 (EST)

We must be looking at different logs, because I see a range of IPs that have been blocked, and the CheckUser logs also show that socks are being created all across the board. These accounts are not damaging and blocking them as they occur is not hard; a range block is not necessary. - Walkazo 21:02, 16 November 2011 (EST)

Just in case you aren't already aware

We need to keep an eye on SM64LoZ (talk) and XX Yoshi Rocks Xx (talk). They both have the same IP address. Mario4Ever (talk)

Imageframe(?) tag?

Hey Walkazo, I've tried asking 2257 about something (it's pretty important because I need it for NWiki), but he didn't seem to be responding - so here is the original message:

• "Hello 2257, I recall seeing some kind of imageframe tag being used in one of the articles in MarioWiki and I can't seem to figure out where it is, or what the name is. I need to know what is the name of the tag, and how it functions. As far as my knowledge goes, it allows you to display two images in a frame without any overlapping. Do you know what it is? Can you please assist me?"

Can you please answer? --RAP... 22:46, 13 November 2011 (EST)

I'm pretty sure you're looking for {{Multiple image}} and/or {{Multiframe}}. A handy back-to-back comparison is here. Other examples of {Multiple image} in use can be found here (different sized images), here (same sized images), and here (one summary for both images). Examples of {Multiframe} are here (comparing background-less images, whereas the first template is good for images with backgrounds) and here (making more room for a caption and even adding a background colour). Hopefully that's what you're looking for. - Walkazo 23:34, 13 November 2011 (EST)

Oh yes! Thank you thank you thank you; I'm definitely going to add these two things into the to-do list. Freaking epic! --RAP... 01:35, 14 November 2011 (EST)

My edit on the Ludwig page

I already had a feeling that someone would delete my edit despite the reference I added. So thanks for restoring it. Still. Some questions for you. Why was "precocious" changed to "presumptuous"? Both have quite a different meaning. Was the translation wrong? Aside from that. Is it normal that Bop1996 can just ignore the reference I added and delete all my edits on all five Koopaling pages I edited? He has now deleted my edit on Roy's page too. --2wiki 14:29, 15 November 2011 (EST)

I just went with the word that was already on the page. I checked it out, and it turns out neither word seems to be correct, at least according to my dictionaries. The passage can be romanized as Otona bite namaikina, nakama no uchi de ichiban no zunō ha? (I think - I did this really quick so there might be slight discrepancies); all I could find for otona bite is "grow up", and namaikina is "conceited"; "precocious", "presumptuous" nor "arrogant" appear, but maybe the guy who translated it was taking liberties to make it scan better. I think the second part translates to "number one brains/group head (ichiban no zunō ha) within the group (nakama no uchi de)". But I'm far from being fluent in Japanese, so take this with a grain of salt. As for the normality of the situation... sometimes if things are added wrong, the knee-jerk reaction of users is to take it off to preserve the quality of the page, rather than go to the effort of fixing it; maybe that's what happened here, but I can't speak on Bop1996's behalf. On Roy's page, the fact that it's his defining feature isn't exactly key info (unlike the insights into the characters of Wendy, Iggy, Lemmy and Ludwig); having it there wouldn't be bad or anything, but I was short on time so I didn't re-add it. - Walkazo 23:42, 15 November 2011 (EST)

I asked one of my Japanese TAs and she said the most direct translation of 「大人びて」 otona bite is "adultish" - like "childish", but the opposite way around. So, "precocious" is actually a good approximation for the description. I checked my other dictionary for 「ナマイキな」 namaikina (also written 「生意気な」) and again it offered "conceited", as well as "impertinent" and "smart-alecky", but not "arrogant" (and Google offered up "cheeky", but it's not the most trustworthy dictionary; another online dictionary also had "insolent" and "impudent" given as possible interpretations). - Walkazo 21:02, 16 November 2011 (EST)

Thanks for putting so much effort in translating it ,Walkazo. It really makes you wonder why NOA didn't translate the seperate Koopaling bios. As for the edits. I understand. It's just that I joined this wiki recently and getting all your work deleted like that wasn't a nice welcome. But enough complaining. Thanks again. --2wiki 14:38, 21 November 2011 (EST)

Goomba's Shoe

Is the fact that a recent Nintendo Power called it Kuribo's Shoe enough to change the name of the article Raven Effect (talk)

According to MarioWiki:Naming, the latest name has precedence, but I don't think Nintendo Power is a very strong source. However, if Super Mario All-Stars - 25th Anniversary Edition calls it "Kuribo's Shoe" like the original Super Mario All-Stars, that'd be a different story entirely. - Walkazo 23:28, 20 November 2011 (EST)

I asked a friend about it once and i think he said it does but i'll ask again Raven Effect (talk)

Not to intrude, but there's no mention of it in the SMB3 section of the instruction booklet, and it's not named in-game as far as I know. Mario4Ever (talk)

Yeah, I checked the instruction booklet earlier myself, actually. But there might be an in-game Peach letter, since there were letters in other versions of SMB3: here, and here (I got the links from this edit summary). - Walkazo 00:06, 21 November 2011 (EST)