User talk:Steelviper

Welcome to the BSG Wiki, Steelviper! Be sure to fill in your User page sometime to introduce yourself! --Spencerian 17:26, 26 October 2005 (EDT)

User page created (albeit quite spartan). Thanks for the encouragement.--Steelviper 12:52, 27 October 2005 (EDT)

Rave Reviews!

Hey. Nice work. Probably we should rework that section, now, to simply be a note to leave the Unknown Delegate alone. However, it's 4:33am here and I don't feel like doing it just now. Anyway, welcome and glad to have you. --Day 05:33, 3 December 2005 (EST)

King of the TOS Pages!

Hey, Steel. I'm sure many of us are noticing you taking point in getting the TOS pages filled in and fortified. It's much appreciated. Someday, when I'm drunk, I'll buy my TOS DVDs and join in. (I'll need some crystal meth to go to get myself to watch Galactica 1980, but you gotta do what you gotta do.) --Spencerian 10:08, 14 December 2005 (EST)

Thanks! I agreed completely with your observation that our TOS deficiencies are pretty embarrassing. Actually, much of the progress stems from working the Special:Wantedpages as suggested by the "Original Series Article Development Project." That was the first I had heard of that page, and I love it! A lot of the bigger offenders were topics where there was plenty of information available, it was just spread out across the wiki. Hopefully it won't be too long before the front page of the "wanted" pages are all user pages. --Steelviper 10:29, 14 December 2005 (EST)

Screenshots

First off, although I am not personally a fan of TOS, I want to commend you for your contributions to those pages here. I think our site has benifited immensely during the relatively short time you've been active here.

Secondly, I note that there is a quite a dearth of good illustrative screen captures from TOS episodes. To that end, I would like to offer to donate a copy of the TOS DVD box set to you via Amazon.com or somesuch. Let me know if this would be useful. --Peter Farago 19:30, 22 December 2005 (EST)

Thanks! I appreciate the thought. "Santa Claus" already beat you to the punch, though. --Steelviper 08:05, 28 December 2005 (EST) (Updated)

Administrator Nomination

Seeing how you've just as obsessed with this place as many of us are, I've nominated you as an administator. --Spencerian 11:44, 27 December 2005 (EST)

Thanks! I'll get right on that. --Steelviper 12:13, 27 December 2005 (EST)

Congrats!

You are now an admin! If you have any questions, feel free to bring them to me or any of your fellow admins. So say we all. -- Joe Beaudoin 21:24, 3 January 2006 (EST)

Welcome to the clubhouse. --Peter Farago 21:37, 3 January 2006 (EST)

Since you're the new kid, you have to do the mopping. Congrats! --Spencerian 01:44, 4 January 2006 (EST)

Thanks guys! I'll try not to make too big of a mess. --Steelviper 09:01, 4 January 2006 (EST)

Yes. Congrats. Don't let my "neutral" vote imply that I'll point a gun at your head when you try to depose the President of the Colonies or anything. *wink* --Day 10:34, 4 January 2006 (EST)

Galactica 1980

Hi Steelviper. Send me an email at weller43@cox.net so I can confirm for you that the site you mentioned is mine. - Mark Weller Mokwella 23:24, 3 January 2006 (EST)

Since Joe, as host, is ultimately the liable party, it would probably be best to go directly to him. --Peter Farago 00:58, 4 January 2006 (EST)

I didn't mean to stir anything up when I linked to your site. I just stumbled across it, as there isn't that much that comes up on a Google search for "Galactica 1980 dvd". Hopefully after you've emailed Joe everything will be clear. Sorry for any inconvenience. --Steelviper 09:01, 4 January 2006 (EST)

FLeet

Thanks for spotting these typos. It's an unusually common one with me. I'm getting better about catching them, but some still slip through. --Day 15:01, 16 January 2006 (EST)

You're welcome! Fortunately the consistency is what got them on my radar (they ended up on the "Wanted Page", which I tend to patrol). Thanks for doing all those, by the way! I was getting tired of linking to "The Fleet#Original Series|the fleet". The Fleet (TOS) is much more concise. --Steelviper 15:15, 16 January 2006 (EST)

Oh, I didn't make The Fleet (TOS). Someone else split up The Fleet into the RDM and TOS name-spaces. I'm just currently purging Fleet since nearly all of those should be double-redirects. I'm not done, either, but I'm getting there. --Day 15:19, 16 January 2006 (EST)

I think Peter Farago and Spencerian were primarily responsible for making the change. I just saw you were doing a lot of Fleet redirect work.--Steelviper 15:22, 16 January 2006 (EST)

Heh. I forgot the links would be bad. Anyway... yes. --Day 19:09, 16 January 2006 (EST)

Gah! I was about to start finishing this thing off but I kept finding them already fixed. I hit the refresh and they were GONE! *GASP*! Thanks, man. I can cross that one off, then. --Day 17:17, 18 January 2006 (EST)

You're welcome. I saw it was almost done, and got in groove. Now I just need to figure out how to use scripts to do that (as Spencerian suggested on his talk page). Unfortunately a lot of times it takes a human eye to figure out which way a particular link needs to go (if I had just thrown a script at it I would have gotten the Eastern Alliance one wrong, unless it somehow could check the categories of the page). --Steelviper 17:20, 18 January 2006 (EST)

Yeah. I was thinking about that. I don't think a script could be smart enough unless you took forever to write it, and then you're not being any more time efficient. I think hand-fixing things is the only way to do it, really. Now, the next project will be to go find all the links that go to "Last, First"-style character pages and fix those... A nit-pickers work is never done.--Day 17:23, 18 January 2006 (EST)

Humano-Cylon Naming Question

SV, when you have an opportunity, provide your two cents to the debate to "retire" the Humano-Cylon term on its talk page. I'm generally against it as it's rather pervasive and works fine for here. Peter is for the change, but the logic surprises me. --Spencerian 11:54, 24 January 2006 (EST)

Que? Oh. Well, I put in my two cubits (though I'm not sure how much that's worth with the conversion rates, inflation, etc.). Lots of interesting issues at hand. Hopefully more people will weigh in (unlike on the translation stuff). --Steelviper 12:41, 24 January 2006 (EST)

Glad to be of service

It's going to take me a week or two of doing this, and my Spanish will come back...in the mean time, bear with me and don't hesitate to correct anything if you see something blatantly wrong.

Glad to be of service, I assume this is mostly your project, I applaud the effort, and I'm glad to help. --Leoben Conoy

I never really intended it to be my project... I just mostly tried to start forging the translating pattern in the hopes that other people might join in. I am extremely pleased that people have! (Especially having two languages going at once!) I still don't have the whole picture of how everything will go (does Water/es:Water ever turn into Agua?), but I'm sure we'll figure things out. Joe might have a better concept of how the whole operation will work. I'll try to read over the Spanish work, but I expect that even your "blatantly wrong" will make more sense in Spanish than what I was doing. Also, if you want to sign your comments with your name/timestamp (all the cool kids are doing it), just use four "~"'s like this ~~~~ (though we often prefix that with a couple of dashes, for style. --Steelviper 09:08, 2 February 2006 (EST)

Nuclear warhead

I just added how he got it because it was mentioned later down the article, when he gives it to Gina. --DrBat 08:57, 14 February 2006 (EST)

Right on! I left in the part where she gets him to request the nuclear warhead. I'm just not sure it has been detailed that he actually used the warhead as part of the detector. It seems like he just requested it to placate Six. The details of the working Cylon detector remain (I think intentionally) a little fuzzy. If they explicitly mention that he actually uses the warhead in the detector, then go ahead and add it back in. It just just seems that he was flexing his scientific muscle, though.--Steelviper 09:02, 14 February 2006 (EST)

Thanks for the Welcome

Hi, I don't know how much use I can be around the rest of the site (I'm not very tehnical-minded) but I love transcribing things (I must be mad) and so I'm happy to do as many of them as I can for you. Don't hesitiate to correct me if I mess something up too, like I said, I'm not brilliant with computers. Anyway thanks for saying hi. --Misco 15:40, 14 February 2006 (EST)

You're welcome! Usually that job falls to Spencerian. (In fact his initial greeting is still at the top of this page, as I don't get enough traffic to require archiving.) I jumped at the opportunity to welcome a new transcriber, though! I've tried doing it myself (though I managed to lose my work), but find that my OCD-like compulsion to get EVERY SINGLE sound (including the filler um's, ah's, sort of's) slows me WAY down. It amazes me when I get a chance to read transcriptions of people like yourself and Peter Farago that have excellent filters that clear out all that junk leaving only the good stuff. Feel free to contribute in whatever ways you are comfortable! As with any wiki, the more the merrier. --Steelviper 15:47, 14 February 2006 (EST)

Printed Media Copyrights

Did you catch who uploaded those Official Companion pictures? We need to make a note on their user page immediately. This is something we would get sued for, fast since this is a publication and not a broadcast. --Spencerian 14:06, 16 February 2006 (EST)