User talk:Nikolai Banks

Hi! I saw the message you put on your user page. Wikia staff have already been alerted to that bug, and we hope they'll have it fixed shortly. Your post still exists, you just can't see it on your profile.


 * It looks like they've made some "progress" - they appear to be down to only one missing parameter. Wikia's pretty swamped right now in fixing problems from the new MediaWiki 1.16 upgrade, so it's hard to say how long it will be. If you still want to create a blog post, you can use Special:CreateBlogPage. It won't show up on your profile till they fix it, but it'll still be visible to everyone else (:


 * P.S. My avatar is a monster from a game I play. You can see it's wiki page here.

Talk pages
I think that's probably a new change, it doesn't sound that buggy. It could be a glitch, I guess, but I don't think so. The preferences thing is a good idea, I'd check to make sure you didn't change a setting by accident. Otherwise, I think it's normal.


 * I'm not sure, I tend not to change my preferences often. But it appears as if I'm getting the same thing you are - when you message me, it only appears here on Community Central. However, I also apparently have a message from another wiki that also shows up here. So I think you can see all of your messages on Community Central, but otherwise, you only see your messages for the wiki you're on. It might not be a preferences thing. You could ask about it with Special:Contact if you want, I'm sure Wikia would know.


 * It might, it might not. I can't say for sure.


 * Default settings would mean you get all of the "normal" settings options, so anything you changed before would go away.

Yea sorry, I responded in the wrong place. I've never heard of Redwall, what is it?

Skin glitches
Likely never. Wikia doesn't have enough people to maintain Oasis properly. Either that, or they aren't listening to us.

Much better
Hi. That's a much better description of the problem.

I think you'd do better working out the issue with LordTBT, although that may be hard now after what's gone on.

Try to understand LordTBT's point of view, he and others (and yes, I see you've been participating for awhile too) have put in a lot of work to make the wiki a worthwhile place to spend time.

A bunch of new users coming on and chatting with only statements like "wow, like that" will overwhelm the wiki's good content. Exactly where you draw the line between "discussion of the topic" and "social chatting" is a judgement call. I suggest you work with LordTBT and other active participants to help draw and clarify that line. Wikia staff tends to stay out of "internal wiki" debates unless they violate Wikia Terms of Use.

Or, as I mentioned elsewhere, you can go to the work of creating a separate site where a different level of chatting is permitted.

Best wishes and thanks for showing a willingness to tone it down and explain in a clearer way about the problem!

-- CocoaZen 16:20, October 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hope your day gets better. It's hard sometimes, especially when you really care about a subject, and especially when there are important points to be made on both sides, to keep the dialog productive.  It's easier for me in this case, since it's not one where I'm personally invested in one side or the other.  I hope you can come to a good resolution.
 * One thing that's especially difficult once you're already upset about a situation is to give it a bit of time to work itself out. It helps if you can step back and see what the other side is trying to accomplish.  Even if you think the method is totally wrong, I think you can see that LordTBT and the others who agree with him on this are not trying to wreck the wiki that they've spent hundreds of hours (in LordTBT's case over 20,000 edits on that wiki alone and other time here and on other sites trying to figure out ways to make things better).  I bet if you step back and think about it, discuss it without name calling, give reasons and examples, you can work it out.
 * Working it out may require some compromises. For instance, the rules on the existing wiki could be changed in a way that's not completely what you or what others want, but that are acceptable to both.  Or, you could create a wiki that's more social and chatty.  That would help the existing wiki because they could point people to the new spot for chatting -- when that's what someone wants.  And the newer wiki could point people to the older wiki when they want something that's more of an information or something in line with that wiki's stated goal:  "The Redwall Wiki is intended to be a neutral source database. If you are not totally sure about something before adding it or changing the content of an article, check the book first."  And still another option would be to work out what kinds of content go where on the existing wiki.  The chat feature could be turned on for realtime chat and the wall pages could be used for more "permanent" discussions of content -- or whatever the community decides.
 * Again, good luck. I hope you can come to a good resolution.  -- CocoaZen 16:57, October 30, 2011 (UTC)