User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.

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Hey, Joe, if you look over at the Quorum, you'll see the discussion on how Sci-Fi's very own Wiki has been stealing some of their info from us here at Battlestar Wiki. --BklynBruzer 21:22, 24 October 2006 (CDT)

Hi again from Wikia

Hi Joe,

I saw the discussion about hosting, it sounds like you decided to try something else for now. Best of luck with the adbrite tools. If it is of any value, we'd be happy to discuss hosting you with the following if you ever change your mind

• Ads only on content pages for registered users (not on talk, history, edit, etc) if that makes the site cleaner and faster loading.
• Offering attribution, Youtube, easier photo uploading (try our image button), polling, mapping and a bunch of other extensions that have improved functionality
• Links from the wikia home page to help you grow

That said, I respect the desire to build what you have, so best of luck with a great site - I'm a fan of the show and of your work.

Gil @ Wikia

Hi Gil! Thanks for your kind words! My team and I will look into the features you've mentioned above. You also mentioned something about a link from the Wikia home page. We can still do this, if you'd be willing. Basically, we would add you to our "Friends" box on our main page and you can link to us from the Wikia main page. Would this be feasible? Obviously, if something changes, I'll let you know. Thank you, again. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 10:24, 30 November 2006 (CST)

Those are some really cool features, perhaps we could look into implementing a few of them here. I still have lots of concerns about moving to Wikia however, there would be a big increase in adverts on the whole wiki and of course if the site got popular enough to make a profit, you wouldn't see a penny of that Joe. I worry about the overall loss of control. The only real benefit is an already existing massive database of users already signed up and the advertising on a popular site. --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 11:40, 30 November 2006 (CST)

Welcome

Thanks for the welcome --Trödel 10:45, 6 December 2006 (CST)

Requested Pages

Joe, I don't think you should create requested pages if you don't have anything to fill them with. The red links encourage people to start articles - they don't see that nothing's there, they have no reason to contribute anything. --Peter Farago 01:43, 14 December 2006 (CST)

The {{requested}} tag however adds things to the Community Portal, which people can then see to add pages for. By adding the requested tag things are actually listed rather than only appearing on the "broken links" page --Mercifull ^{(Talk/Contribs)} 03:50, 14 December 2006 (CST)

Special:Wantedpages serves the same function, and is the better choice, IMO. --Peter Farago 14:00, 14 December 2006 (CST)

Actually, the reason for requesting (as opposed to merely linking and thus having to deal with the "red link" effect) is for the benefit of Battlestar Wiki:Tasks. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 17:30, 14 December 2006 (CST)

And why is this worth losing the red links? --Peter Farago 06:00, 15 December 2006 (CST)