User talk:Ath

RE: Robin & Drunken F00l's Valve Rocket Launchers

Hey, sorry for any inaccuracies. The community would probably want to see those videos as they're very interesting to "normal" players as an inside look on some rarities. It's one thing to describe something and a different animal to actually see it in action. Perhaps a separate page for the Valve Rocket Launcher might be appropriate? -Object404 16:08, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

The problem is not all of the Valve items in existance have the stacked attributes, some don't even have the "Flying Bits" particle attachment; so it could be misleading. Having a page just for Robin's Valve Rocket Launcher doesn't make much sense either. I think it's better left as is for now until a fitting usage arises on an existing page, if someone really wants to see an example they can do a search on YouTube. ~ Ath 16:19, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey Ath. While it's true that Robin and other Valve members can probably spawn any weapon they want and mod the attributes, as having been seen in public servers outside of beta, the item is now actually a little more like Blizzard's unique items with lore. I know that isn't the point of TF, but with the recent additions of the item system + tradables, the MMORPG-zation of the game is now a bit unavoidable. Anyway, it does add flavor to the game + lore.

As heard in the chat of the public game video below with Robin in, some of the players thought Robin Walker was a myth like Saxton Hale :) -Object404 16:54, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

The information is not encyclopedic, nor is it really relevant to the objective of the Quality page. As Lagg has explained to you, server admins can easily recreate these items and this Wiki is not a compendium of popular culture. Also, please do not clutter my talk page with videos, thanks. ~ Ath 17:02, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Version 2.2b

Didn't it add the cool Wiki linking too? :D  – Smashman _(talk) 18:26, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Oops! I'll add that now. Ath 18:28, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Kill notice crit

Hey, I'm not sure the MediaWiki software allows background images to be defined like that, however, if you add a class to the div I can edit the main CSS page and define it with the background there. seb26 [talk] 20:56, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

That doesn't work either Seb. I tried that.  – Smashman _(talk) 21:02, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

You did it wrong, crit means the style is applied to <crit> tags which don't exist. .crit means anything using the class "crit". seb26 [talk] 21:08, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I did? Whoops. Thought I did .crit.  – Smashman _(talk) 21:12, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I've done a little research and the problem behind background-image/etc not working is the result of a "HTML Attribute sanitization" feature; If overridden it should work as intended, but doing so could possibly introduce security issues. Solutions to my mind could be protecting the template from non-authorised editing and setting an exclusion on it, or adding a rule to the Wiki's master stylesheet with the relevant CSS and assigning the killicon-containing span the relevant ID, this would be very hacky though. Probably better to go with my original idea as outline on the template's talk page. Ath 21:21, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

proper_name

They added it? Nice! See? They do listen.  – Smashman _(talk) 22:38, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Indeed! I sent an email to Robin about it the other day and he replied. Already got it implemented in TF2B too, so I'm very happy. Ath 22:43, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

TF2B for iPhone

Yo. After Hideous dropped the bomb on tf2b for Android, I figured the best way to implement it on the iPhone without access to a Mac, some Obj-C skills and the SDK, it might just be easier to do it in something like jQTouch. Thoughts? ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 15:31, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Looks promising, I'll have to take a closer look myself as I've not really kept up with mobile devices. I'll point Hideous here and see what he thinks as he's the "phone guy" somewhat. Ath 15:35, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

He told me he was too lazy to look at it :P. I'm not big on JS myself, but I got an app of some sort done with it, at least. ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 15:37, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll see if I can "twist his arm" so to speak. My current phone is a Nokia N73 which hardly ever gets used as is, so I've got some catching up to do first. Ath 15:45, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Sounds gooood. At least he has an iPod to test on. ;) ~ lhavelund ^{(talk ▪ contrib)} 15:47, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Quality Updates

Hello. You recently rv my edits to the quality section without any explanation. I believe the edits improve the overall quality as well as fix some errors in the descriptions. Is there are reason for your rv's. Thanks. AGlassOfMilk 23:13, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Your edits were undone as they do not improve the overall wording of the article, and in some cases introduced certain technical inaccuracies. Additionally, you should use Show Preview instead of constantly committing new edits, repeated edits make it hard to follow or amend the article for people who watch the article. Please compress your changes down into single edits where possible. Thanks. ~ Ath (talk) 23:17, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I sorry that you feel that way. However, can you please point to exactly what in my changes is incorrect? Thanks. AGlassOfMilk 19:19, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

The Quality article is very carefully worded to be as specific as possible and avoid promoting any possible misconceptions, a number of your changes could possibly lead a user to misunderstand the finer technical details. (That may not be explicitly stated) Not only that, but you explicitly ignored the warning comment on not re-adding the note regarding the recent item vintagization, and your wording was generally more bulky for little to no overall improvement.

I don't want to dissuade you from contributing to the Wiki, but I would personally suggest that you choose another article to improve. Thanks. ~ Ath (talk) 19:53, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

I may have been originally, however there are currently problems with it...problems I attempted to fix. It sound like to me your problem is not with the overall edits, but with the vintagization section. Why should that info not be added? I feel it is important to add, since it many users have questions about. Furthermore, the section explaining with items achieved vintage status is clumsy. AGlassOfMilk 03:31, 18 April 2011 (UTC)