Thread:TheRealPella/@comment-26090008-20150729012035/@comment-15636815-20150729045259

Nickdude! :-D

Yes, I noticed you were back in the editing game. I was going to write something on your wall yesterday, but the day got crazy. I'm glad you wrote on mine. ;-)

Since you mentioned it, it would be a huge help if you created Special Offer pages and their set pages with everything except the images. I can knock out the images pretty quickly now. The part about doing SOs that slows me down is verifying all the data. Sounds like the start of a beautiful partnership! LOL

You're not the only one who's been MIA around here for a while. In early April, I went to south Texas for a week on business. I knew I wouldn't be editing during that week, but I didn't when I got back, either. I did a little bit of stuff a few weeks ago, but really, I just returned this week, too. You definitely have no reason to apologise.

1. Yes. With you and me both absent, Mike (Mhommer) has had to keep up with things by himself as best he can. Frequently, that meeans that he checks content but lets things slide on formatting. The spam on the Dave page is one example. There are many others.

2. Speaking of which, many of the set pages are starting to look like crap, too. The correct templates for the pax and mail icons, as chosen by the community, are PassWagon, MailWagon, and CombWagon, which produce, , and , respectively. Also, some people have decided that the  parameter on set pages should end with the set icon. I disagree. I think it's overkill. But hey, this is a community-driven site. If we open that topic for discussion and folk say they want to see it, then I'll get the template to display it automatically when we do the sitewide infobox revisions. Regardless of what happens, I'm leaving them alone for now. It's too much trouble to remove them when I have higher priorities breathing down my neck.

3. Also related to that topic is the issue of formatting on new pages. Specifically, new editors come along, genuinely wanting to help, and they use the Visual Editor instead of the Source Editor, because the VE is what they know, or because the SE looks intimidating, or whatever. When I go to edit those pages using the SE, I usually end up deleting everything on the page and replacing it with the correct format. Usually, it's quicker and easier for me to do it that way than to edit the VE stuff to make it look right. ANYWAY, when Wikia introduced the new VE, the community discussed adding TemplateData to all our templates, or at least the ones that have heavy user input. At the time, the community decided against the TD, saying that the SE was the editing method of choice. In the meantime, the VE got popular, and new editors learned how to use it. It looks like we're going to have to add the TD, after all. It probably needs to be one of our highest priorities, too, since we're getting more new editors every day, and almost all of them are using the VE. The longer we go without adding TD to our input templates, the worse the problem will get and the more difficult and time-consuming it will be to fix.

Are you taking classes over the summer? How are things going for you, generally?

Welcome back!