User talk:Heaven's Agent

Greetings! If you have a question to ask, or are simply stopping by to say a few words, feel free to leave me a message.

Re: Template Revisions?
Heya, Sure go for it, would be nice to see a bit of new styling to the templates. feel free to email if you need to ask anything satire@geekonaleash.com  --Satire 16:47, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Templates
Hi, I really like the style you have gone for, fits quite well, and is easily readable. I myself don't have a huge amount of time to dedicate to the wiki at the moment but help as as much as I can. I'll pass your info on to one of the other admins who I know will be here a lot more than myself. Although I check here on a regular basis though, at least once every other day. So feel free to leave me a message if you have any Q's. But keep up the good work and hopefully I will be back in action very soon. --Satire 03:49, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Wissa
Hi. Satire told me I should contact you about your new templates. I looked at your sandbox and love the new template for quests. I'd been complaining about how bad the old one looks. We'd love to have you update and tweak our templates. If you need anything, feel free to contact me. Wissa 14:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Class Pages
The warrior page is looking very very nice. Feel free to continue with your revisions. Wissa 02:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Item Template
They look very nice. I'm impressed with all your template work. :) Wissa 20:56, 17 June 2009 (UTC)


 * From what I remember, the armor and weapon templates have something to do with being able to sort themselves into their own categories on the armor and weapon pages. (or something like that, i didn't make them.) the general and potion was because I am a coding noob and was unable to make things hide the way i wanted them to so i just gave up and went with simple separate templates. feel free to find a way to make everything jibe the way you want it. I'm just along for the ride. Wissa 23:48, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Just noticed that your item template needs a place for whether the item is bound or not. Doesn't show up when I tried to put it on there. Also the color of the item names needs to be able to change. Not everything is a green. hehe Wissa 03:48, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by an explanation of item rarity. I can tell you the order they go in, but other than that there really isn't much to explain. Least rare to most is: white, green, blue, purple, orange, brown. As for drop rates or anything, we don't really have a table for frequency. Wissa 12:49, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * You are gonna be so tired of me soon. lol... Here's a couple more things the item template will need: more slots for more stats, right now you have to use a line break to add more, I prefer the old template's way where you can put in | stat2      = and get another stat on it on the next line. Plus your slot for the stats seems too short. It cuts off the name of the stat (like Savant IV) and puts part of it on the next line. Sorry for being a pain. >< Wissa 13:30, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

I added bind on equip, bound on pickup, and item shop item to the template. you can change them around if you want to make it look better. I also fixed magic defense. it was showing the pdef value not mdef.

also, I tried to make a box describing what each line does at the bottom like in the old template and in the quest template but it keeps overlapping the template and doesnt show below it. (I am not good at making templates). here is what I am talking about User:Mizuki/sandbox. Mizuki 20:35, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Honestly, i just dislike the look of the lil blue edits everywhere. and the icons i was going to ask if you could make the template change the size because most people won't remember to put in the px anyway. feel free to do it however you like though. -wissa

the template needs the orangename and brownname added in for rarity. here is the colors and you can add them into the template. orangename is color: #FF8C50 and brownname is color: #AD7E41 Mizuki 17:32, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey heaven's Agent

would you be interested in playing a larger role in the wiki? I'm needing some more admin help and you've been doing a super job... do you have msn? I'm DDuncan@curse.com


 * Um, sure. I can't promise I'll be here all the time; I'm one of the many looking for work at the moment, and I already Admin two other wiki projects. But I'll do my best to help out. -- Heaven&#39;s Agent 12:19, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Re: Redirect to a Category
Thanks for clarifying your reason for deletion...I am no pro at the Wiki stuff. I was trying to setup the Category:Epic - The Seductive Dark Pearl the same as the other Category:Epic - Bloody Demon Blade. If you notice...it too has a redirect to the category. What do you think the best approach would be? --Static4u 21:18, 29 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm still somewhat new to the game myself, but Epic - Bloody Demon Blade and Epic - The Seductive Dark Pearl are listed as the zone heading both in-game and in the quest articles that mention it within this project. Is it actually an instanced zone? If so, it needs to be treated as such, complete with any background we can find, NPCs and creatures found within, and quests associated with it. Essentially, it would contain the majority of information that the category does, but organize it in a polished format rather than a listing; the category already fills that role. -- Heaven&#39;s Agent 21:42, 29 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I see the confusion. Epic - Bloody Demon Blade and Epic - The Seductive Dark Pearl are not zones at all.  Both of these should list the necessary quests in order to obtain the final reward at the end. The template was built to list the section and subsection of the location of quest giver.  Someone used Epic - Bloody Demon Blade and Epic - The Seductive Dark Pearl instead of listing the location.  I understand what you are saying about the category. When people are questing for a Epic item, it is great have a list of just the quests(sorted if possible) so they can step through one at a time.  I think that is why the Epic category was created, and why I continued to use that format.  I can create a overview page like you mentioned that would list the quests required and let the Epic - The Seductive Dark Pearl and Epic - Bloody Demon Blade be the cross-reference index for it all. --Static4u 22:17, 29 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Alright, if it's just an epic quest chain that does clarify things a bit. In that case then yes, the article itself should consist of a summary of the chain in its entirety. Something along the lines of what was done over at HammerWiki for epic quest lines, though obviously modified to match the flavor of this project. -- Heaven&#39;s Agent 22:57, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Spam
I noticed about 2 months ago an increase in automated account creation, but they were just creating accounts. now some of them are spamming the wiki. maybe Doranm can add something like this? http://help.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup do the other wikis you are on use some kind of Captcha or another way to stop automated account creation and spam? Mizuki 16:18, 7 September 2009 (UTC)


 * It's never been an issues for any other projects I've worked on, and as such I've never considered a Capchta. I'm not sure our spammer is automated, anyway; if it were, why not impliment code to make edits to all of the user pages at once, and create new accounts each day. It's either a really inefficient automated spammer, or a person doing the work. I can't help but feel it's the latter, but that's not to say we wouldn't benefit from implementing a user verification system. -- Heaven&#39;s Agent 17:32, 7 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I did some digging into the code used on the user page before deleting it this time, to see if we can find some functionality that we can simply block across the entire project. It would seem that the spammer is utilizing div tags to hide the normal interface present on any page of the project:

 [URL OMITTED Buy Pain Meds - Free RX, USA Pharmacy]


 * Experimenting with the code reveals only a single string actually modifies the default display of the wiki interface:




 * If we could find some means of rendering a page utilizing such a string inactive, we could kill the spammer's edits automatically. We might even be able to find a means of blocking edits containing such code from being accepted by the software in the first place. -- Heaven&#39;s Agent 18:37, 8 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I just finished implementing a Spam Blacklist for the project. If I understand how it works, and provided I entered the information correctly, it [i]should[/i] prevent any edits containing a link to the blacklisted sites from being made. We'll have to see if this does the trick. -- Heaven&#39;s Agent 00:28, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

ok, lets see if this will work, they are using the same div code, but a different website each time. I added two sites to the blacklist, did I add them right? and yes the second one does end in .name. Mizuki 14:38, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Looks pretty much correct; a forward slash is needed before a term starting with "b", due to it being a special search term, but otherwise I think that's it. I'm also running through all of our deletions so far, and adding every url in them. Unfortunately, there's not too much repetition. I'm also going o try restoring one of thos deleted pages, and see if the blacklist's actually working. -- Heaven&#39;s Agent 14:42, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * My test spam made it past the blacklist, meaning I've either implemented it incorrectly or it's not functioning as intended; I suspect it's the former of the two. If we want, we could copy and paste a blacklist directly from one of the big Wiki projects, such as Wikia -- at least we'd know the information was correct then. But there's also no telling if they've encountered our spammer.


 * Wikia does't get targeted by the spammers as much, due to the unique structure of the software they run. Links spammed on Wikia do not show up on search engines, resulting in little benefit for spammers to act in such a manner there. -- Heaven&#39;s Agent 14:55, 9 September 2009 (UTC)