User talk:DarkLantern

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I have read that Figwit has been renamed Lindir in the Hobbit films. He was given a bigger role. I suggest we rename Figwit to Lindir or maybe we wait until it has been announced properly or something. Your choice :) - Darkchylde 14:07, December 15, 2012 (UTC)

94.174.41.50 has begun vandalizing some pages, e.g., revision 95047. - Gradivus, 22:54, December 18, 2012 (UTC)

As the Hobbit has been released, I think this wiki could do with a few design upgrades. User:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd

I think that the Goblins page should be merged with the Orc page, makes sense as it will stop confusion that they are separate breeds but I don't think that goblins should be completely removed as the word is mentioned a lot and from the way it it used in books like The Hobbit it does seem possible that Goblin refers to smaller or less advanced orcs, also goblin imps are mentioned so they must be a real thing in the universe. (The Great Goblin (talk) 00:30, December 21, 2012 (UTC))

Can you please restore my account? I'm not spam. I've visited LOTR wikia for a while and I wanted to create a profile to contribute.

Thanks.

Mreilly

Reporting Vandals
Vandals who need to be banned:

94.12.255.166

141.0.148.42

Is there a quick way to report vandals for banning?

Short-Circuiting the Rules?
Take a look at the "Removing without notice" section in Talk:HiddenVale

Well, here's my confusion: supposedly (as I understand it) those and  notifications on pages are not supposed to be removed by anyone (except administrators) but are supposed to be left there so people can go to the discussion link and vote on the proposed deletion or merge, and then the administrators can make a decision. But HiddenVale just decided on his own that the Goblins page was to be left alone and therefore he just unilaterally deleted the template without even bothering to mention it to anyone (either on the discussion page, or in the "History" box.) And furthermore, since I asked him about if on his talk page, he says that he makes those decisions on his own all the time, and that you know about it and approve, and that's just the way it's done, and then puts me down sarcastically for calling him on it.

So I'm asking, which is it? Just trying to figure out the right way of doing things. Are such things supposed to be discussed and voted on, or should we editors just make the decisions ourselves?

P.S. - I've since put a template on the page and he hasn't removed that – yet. But now he's announced that he's decided it shouldn't be merged. - Gradivus, 00:01, December 23, 2012 (UTC)

Copies removal (and deletion of contribution)
Hi! I've been offline for several months and am only just back online.

Regarding your last posting on my talk page: a bit cheeky asking whether I'm interested in contributing to a forum after you deleted my detailed contribution: http://lotr.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum%3AProject%3A_Tolkien_Gateway_and_Wikipedia_copies_removal&diff=87901&oldid=77994

-- Robin Patterson (Talk) 04:08, December 24, 2012 (UTC)

Confused
Hello, I'm MsIsamisa :) Nice to meet you! I would like to know something...When I'm wondering the wiki, some users add fan-arts to characters that aren't physically portrayed by either Tolkien or Peter Jackson...Is that okay? Just asking! :) &#42;MsIsamisa (talk) 14:19, December 31, 2012 (UTC)

The late Lord of dale
Tell me, DarkLantern, is Girion a man or not?? HiddenVale 03:40, January 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * I assume you are referring to my reverting of your adding of the Men category to Girion page. A category already exists 'Category:Men of Dale and Laketown', that is all that is needed. There is such a thing as over categorization. It will stay as it is now.--DarkLantern (talk) 04:17, January 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * ...If the Category you mentioned leads to the Category of Men, in general, since he is (was) still a Man. And it probably does.  HiddenVale 04:20, January 1, 2013 (UTC)

User Block
Thought I'd pass this along to you...

Unsure who the admin's are here, but this user is removing content from pages and needs to be blocked. User 109.131.86.253 :) --QueenBuffy Dec. 27, 2012

Peter 17:06, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

RE: navigation menus
Hi DarkLantern. I'm back to work, so I'm just now seeing your last message. The 'On the Wiki' section of the navigation menu is inaccessible, so adding links there is not an option.

For the Monobook navigation menus, they are controlled by MediaWiki:Sidebar. JoePlay http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/a/a5/WikiaStaff2.png (talk)  18:46, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

Hey, I just finished with Cair Andros from the Article Attack page. Let me know if you desire further changes. I hope it is passable as an article. Henneth Annun (talk) 14:39, January 3, 2013 (UTC)Henneth Annun

Witch-king/Witch-King of Angmar
Right now there is a "Witch-King of Angmar" page (in which the "K" in "Witch-King" is capitalized), and a special page "Witch-king of Angmar" ("k" not capitalized) that redirects to Witch-King of Angmar (which according to the history was done by user SarumanTheGray). My problem with that is that Tolkien never capitalized the "king" in that name; it was always the Witch-king. If that's the way Tolkien did it, that's the way we should do it. But I'm not sure how to switch those two pages without messing something up, and I thought I'd run it by you in any case. Your thoughts?

Rollback Rights
You're asking me if I'm having problems with Rollback. I'm not, but as I mentioned previously, I use "Undo" when I want to give the person who made the edit an explanation of why I deleted it, so he won't just make the change again. "Rollback" is a one-click operation, so there doesn't seem to be away to leave an explanation in History. Would you prefer I use "Rollback" and then give the explanation in the person's Talk page? - Gradivus, 04:16, January 4, 2013 (UTC)

Hi there,

I don't know how to do that so I'm going to ask User:Joeplay to help you again with it...

Cheers, Peter 18:56, January 4, 2013 (UTC)

Here was Joeplay's response to you- http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:DarkLantern#RE:_navigation_menus

Does that help? Peter 19:03, January 4, 2013 (UTC)
 * I didn't see any response from him (your link just goes to this page), but I don't think I'm having problems with it. - Gradivus, 22:18, January 4, 2013 (UTC)

Anar
Hello. Is there any reason to delete Anar (dwarf) if he is a non-canon character? I'm curious, because other articles like Nordinbad and Gorin exist and you placed a deletion tag on Anar. Greetings 22:03, January 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Here is a walkthrough video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BP8S6EmoGY&list=SPA7616F403F1289E1) that features Anar. 23:42, January 4, 2013 (UTC)

Tense when discussing ancient Tolkien languages
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I've asked HiddenVale to stop replacing past tense with present tense when discussing ancient Tolkien languages such as the various versions of Elvish, having noticed that you've begun reversing those changes he made, having decided (quite rightly, in my opinion) that regardless of whether fans of Tolkien have learned those languages, they are languages of a fictional antiquity and therefore must be spoken of in the past tense, as is customary. - Gradivus, 18:54, January 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * Or not; I just saw you correct tense in the other direction. - Gradivus, 19:48, January 6, 2013 (UTC)

Apology
I'm sorry I wasn't aware I had deleted any templates-Ronin6401

Rollback
Can I please have rollback rights? Keelan717  (  Talk  )  11:01, January 6, 2013 (UTC)

Something rather disturbing
Forgive me if I'm bothering you, but I just saw this on the Legolas page: "He dreaamed of fucking frodo, until his hobbit brain went pyscho crazy like gollum, Legolas is the reason why gollum fucked up because he fucked his brains with the ring... poor gollum! Your sincerly Peter Jackson." I deleted it but I thought I should let you know. 13:44, January 9, 2013 (UTC)

RE: Message highlight problem
MediaWiki:Sitenotice only works on the Monobook skin. The newer skin uses a different method for alerting all users of important information. See Help:Community messages to find out it works. If that method isn't good enough, you could just add the message to the main page itself above the slider. JoePlay http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/joeplayground/images/a/a5/WikiaStaff2.png (talk)  17:30, January 11, 2013 (UTC)

Blocking
I think "1 day" is hardly worth the trouble. I'd give at least a week to anyone who removed content, more time if it was important or extensive. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 09:53, January 13, 2013 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the welcome! :)  XXLVenom998 ''' (Surprise me!) 15:58, January 14, 2013 (UTC)