User talk:Robin Patterson

Fairyland extended pages
I suggest you put as many of the extended pages as you can in the walk through section My Fairyland on Facebook/walkthrough or linking them there --Cs california 04:44, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Link to my garden :)
http://apps.facebook.com/fbfairy/fairygarden.php?id=2347500 --Rioiriri 04:26, October 27, 2009 (UTC)Rioiriri

Country Life Pages
Please merge some of your countrylife pages together. It does not seem necessary to have a page for each item. --Cs california 04:19, February 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * I am just suggesting that it is not really necessary for having a page for each unit of the game. You can combine multiple items on a single page for example Units First Tiberium War (Command & Conquer). I am pretty sure you can merge all the crops into one article called crops. --Cs california 00:19, February 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, I know what I can do. I have tens of thousands of wiki edits to my credit. No particular page style is "necessary" but some styles are desirable in some situations. Shorter pages make for less scrolling, which is a distinct advantage for some users, and simplify the creation of links. And the CL pages are certainly not exceptionally short for this wiki: only two are in the shortest 1,000 at this moment. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 03:53, February 10, 2010 (UTC)
 * The majority of the CL pages are items for a game which can be added to a list. You may want to start your own wiki for CL if you want to go into details about the item. I am pretty sure you can make a table or list for most of the information similar to Weapons (Call of Duty 4), Duke Nukem 3D monsters, and Samus's beams, which will make them more consistent to this wiki. --Cs california 00:41, February 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Policy of this wiki: "..Wiki Gaming exists primarily for broadening the amount of information that can be included in wiki article about games and gaming". — Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:09, February 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes I am familiar with that because I was the one who wrote that prior with GameInfo wiki the merge. The purpose of that section was to transfer information from wikipedia. But you can still do that with the pages merged. I would agree that something like this is ok. But what is the point of having pages in Category:Sorority Life socializing on separate documents. There is no details or paragraphs about what they are for. Its just a list of stats, which can be added into a table for better access and comparison. Also you have around 400-500 edits now not 1k just to let you know. See Special:ListUsers--Cs california 13:27, February 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * Most of the socializing items will be considerably longer when finished, because there are different numbers for different levels. And each already has perfectly adequate detail of what they are for - it says they are part of socializing, and a line or two later it says what levels they are available in, and lower down it says what you earn. It is - I agree - largely a list of stats, and a long one, and with the number of socializing items in the game (by no means complete yet) it would be ghastly for a user to have to scroll through to "compare" or whatever. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 09:16, February 12, 2010 (UTC)

Get on and "fix" the thousand articles that are shorter than nearly every CountryLife or Sorority Life page before you criticise mine any more. Policy page for this wiki says "let's focus on making real content". You're obviously good at that. Do more of that and less uninformed criticism. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 09:16, February 12, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Housekeeping
Sorry if I in any way upset you by deleting it. But as I remember correctly you left this wiki a year ago to edit on the particular wikis of those games. And what's the point of having the pages here then? Some are probably incomplete and no one else will come here and edit them, they will go to the specific wiki instead. I could have written a reason but didn't think it would matter. But I restored the page and will not delete any further page of SL or CL.Veilor 07:23, June 17, 2011 (UTC)

Oh, Really?
Due to severe amounts of neglect, there are many, many incidences of User Pages being used a spam platforms. We are still having issues with someone or something creating user pages explicitly to link to malware and dodgy sites. You can call it a gross over-reaction, but in the end, there was a lot of spam, and there are not a lot of active users here. It's a logical solution, and ensures that moderation of future User page creations can now start from a blank slate.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 13:42, November 28, 2014 (UTC)


 * It's a pity you didn't think of the "blank slate" idea sooner. It's easier to blank a page than to delete it. A blanked page contains no spam but can have its content restored by its user without reference to an admin (and if the content was spam or the new content is spam you can see it just as easily as you can when a new User page is created). -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 23:45, November 28, 2014 (UTC)
 * Deleting also has the bonus of not having the spam show through the history. For someone that's been gone for so long, you're acting with far more entitlement than warranted. A lot of mistakes were made on this Wiki, and they are going to be rectified. User pages are a privilege, and their deletion to wipe out spam is a sound prerogative, given how much neglect there has been around here. And, as demonstrated, a user can simply contact an Admin if they wish their content to be restored.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 00:16, November 29, 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm "acting with far more entitlement than warranted" - uh? Even a beginner has full entitlement to suggest improvements to a wiki and ask questions. It's a bit of a laugh being told off by someone who doesn't want to have a user talk page here and who seems to have little regard for the statement on this wiki that "Most people will ask before making major changes to someone else's user page ...". -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:22, November 29, 2014 (UTC)


 * I have a user talk page here, so I have no idea what you're talking about there. No idea where that statement is, but your reaction has been overboard. And judging from your past conduct, you have a habit of jumping on the aggression bandwagon. Here is the situation as it stands: The wipe has happened, and further wipes of content may happen if spam/vandalism is judged to be an issue. Deletion of content not in following with the goal of this site may also happen; those somewhat erroneously-named CountryLife articles would probably be a great start for that.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 01:22, November 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * By having your signature redirect to your main wiki, you make it unnecessarily difficult for people to contact you here. Tell me what's erroneous about those articles you refer to, and I'll see if I can remove errors. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:49, November 30, 2014 (UTC)
 * It's mostly your naming convention for articles. Let's take CL:gift as an example. It's not immediately apparent what it is for by looking at the article name on it's own. I do include the ability to have pages like this operating as sub-pages using the new Infobox and Navigation templates. I don't have a problem with the content inside per se, however, I am still of the opinion that documenting such games in great detail is detrimental to communities that could suitably host such content on a Wiki of their own.--TwoTailedFox (My Talk Page) 20:49, November 30, 2014 (UTC)