User talk:Lordganon



Mitro 03:10, May 11, 2010 (UTC)

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Congratulations
Congratulations, you are now a Lieutenant in the TSPTF. I would like to spend sometime discussing those powers:


 * You should now notice a red button at the top of every article with the word "Delete". You can use this to delete articles, obviously. Use this power sparingly and always stay within the framework of the Deletion Policy. The policy itself was passed with little discussion, so if you have any suggestions or comments regarding it I would be glad to hear it.
 * You can also block users from editing. This can be done by clicking on the History page for articles or the Contributions tab on editor's user pages. Again, use this sparingly. This is our most destructive tool. We don't have a policy on this, but there is a general custom that has been followed: always assume good faith with edits (unless obviously vandalism), warn before blocking (try using the three strikes approach) and start with short block durations for first time offendors. Generally other administrators will not interfere with your decisions regarding blocks, as long as it appears fair on its face. Permanent blocks, however, must be brought before the TSPTF as a whole and will only be confirmed if there is a 2/3 approval.
 * You will also notice a button on the top of every article that says "Protect". With this you can prevent certain people from editing a single article. The first level prevents anons and new users from editing an article. The second level limits editing only to administrators. Use this to prevent excessive vanadalism or to prevent edit wars between users.
 * There are other obscure powers that are not used often. If you have any questions on those or the ones I mentioned above, feel free to ask me.

Again, congratulations on being elected to the TSPTF and good luck. Sorry for not doing this sooner, but I just got back from my honeymoon and I am trying to get my life back in order. Mitro 21:33, January 4, 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations, Lordganon, on becoming a Lieutenant!BrianD 21:45, January 4, 2011 (UTC)

I did actually. We went on a cruise to Cozumel and Costa Maya over New Years. I got to celebrate the start of 2011 while on a ship! Mitro 19:23, January 6, 2011 (UTC)

A Thank You From A Friend
I've always appreciated the assistance with categorizing my pages (I'm a bit scatterbrained sometimes and forget to do these things properly) but I never realized you were such a fan of the Napoleon's World TL until I spotted your generous nomination on the Awards page. It's an honor to have loyal readers such as yourself, Mister Sheen and Tbguy (and enthusiastic contributors such as Yank) who enjoy my work. Thank you so much for the nomination (though I can't, in good conscience, vote for my TL over 1983: Doomsday). If you ever have ideas you want to pitch me for NW, don't hesitate, I'm always pumped to hear suggestions.

KingSweden 07:13, January 8, 2011 (UTC)

I'm glad you like it. You know, the war itself I've wrapped up, I'm just touching up on the aftermath bits.

Featured this month!

KingSweden 21:30, January 10, 2011 (UTC)

Doomsday
I think I'll stick with the Kerr Republic. I might try making other pages, but I'd like to create a survivor state in a place I know.

CrimsonAssassin 19:10, January 21, 2011 (UTC)

The Ancient and the New
Hey I've been noticing that you've been adding all the categories on my new timeline The Ancient and the New.\

Thanks for doing that.

What do you think of it so far? Does it interest you?

-Thanks

Flagman Flagmania 03:38, January 23, 2011 (UTC)

Anon "68"
I am not sure what this anonymous user is up to, but placing information on obsolete articles seems a benign enough activity. I would not agree that such would amount to "vandalism." I warned him to leave active articles alone, for messing with the content of canon is clearly improper and CAN be considered vandalism in many cases. If "68" takes off the 'obsolete' tag, that would be disruptive and certainly vandalism (or we would have to move in block him for such actions). Likewise if he added such a tag to an active article without following established protocol.

Having said that, since this user seems to be determined to stay "anonymous" (though the writer seems to be the same, and thus is 'known' to us), it may be prudent to initiate a block on this IP. If he then found himself unable to "contribute" on our wiki, he might seek to co-operate and play by the rules. SouthWriter 02:23, January 24, 2011 (UTC)

Reverted edit to Rhodope
May I ask why you reverted the edit? It was just a small one, putting the opening words in bold-face. Isn't that the standard on all wikis? 18:22, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay. I was unaware that that element of formatting could change. My bad. 20:13, January 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * IMO, bolding the subject matter of an article does not look bad. Nevertheless to avoid an unecessary edit war I started a new topic on the main talk page that I hope you check out.  Same goes for you Arma if you see this.  Mitro 20:15, January 25, 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations, Lordganon


You are the winner of the 2011 Stirling Award for Best Writer in a Community Timeline in 2010 for your work in 1983: Doomsday. Though you technically won the award a while ago, I officially congratulate you for your achievements and formally present you with this award. Good luck in the next year! Red VS Blue 17:56, January 26, 2011 (UTC)

Qu'il Tous
Hey LG, as I've seen, you've been able to observe my new article Qu'il Tous and I wanted to know if you want to work with me on it as a joint project. Ownerzmcown 04:40, January 27, 2011 (UTC)

Question ?
Who's the owner of North American Union so i can ask if i can adopted it. Alterman09 14:07 January 29, 2011 (UTC)

Nouakchott (1983: Doomsday)
I did my research on the subject, and there's a few things you may want to keep in mind when working on the country, should you choose to follow through with it.
 * Economy. The economy of Mauritania before DD was centered around iron ore and fishing.
 * With the de-industrialization of the world, iron would be a weak source of income if at all.
 * Fishing may have been damaged as well; the area could have been affected by radiation in water, which could have killed fish. Radiation from Spain and the UK could have flowed down the Canary islands ocean current into the area. Similarly, the Equatorial counter could bring radiation from Cuba.
 * You should look into seeing who takes control of the Chinguetti oil field, which could bring a lot of income to Mauritania. Keep in mind, however, that this thing was only discovered in the 21st century OTL.
 * Goods. The deep-water port of Nouakchott was only opened in 1986, after doomsday. Lack of food and water would kill off a lot of people, especially the majority living in the slums. Those who survived would undoubtedly be a threat to any government.
 * Poverty. The country would be extremely poor, especially with lack of imports. We could expect it to enter a vicious circle of poverty; nobody wants to trade with it because it's poor, and hence becomes poorer, so on and so forth.

There are my two cents. If you want, we could cooperate on the article. Hope this helps you. 17:06, January 30, 2011 (UTC)
 * It's all good. I just wanted to inform you about what's going on over there, and the available resources. 17:20, January 30, 2011 (UTC)

1983: Doomsday
Hey LG, what other places are there left for a new country in 1983: Doomsday? Ownerzmcown 23:57, January 30, 2011 (UTC)

TSPTF- lieutenancy
Thanks for thinking of me to upgrade from constable to lieutenant, but at the moment i'm happy just being a constable, i dont really have the computer skills needed for the upgrade. thanks anyway--Smoggy80 19:25, January 31, 2011 (UTC)

TSPTF: Re
Hi Lordganon! Well, this of TSPTF is new for me, just now i read more about this. jeje But, if i can help to the wiki in somehow, i would be glad and honored. What i should do? Regards --Katholico 00:41, February 1, 2011 (UTC)

OK! Thanks very much Lordganon!! :D --Katholico 22:45, February 3, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Your Query
I'd have to give it some thought. As a student I'm often very busy with my studies and don't have a ton of time to be combing other people's articles for errors or adding categories or the such, and I'm not SUPER comfortable with a lot of the wikilanguage used in coding and categories and templates and whatnot. HOWEVER, I am very level-headed and good at negotiating, so if the TSPTF needs someone to help settle disputes in edit wars (although now that She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named seems to be gone, the need for that seems to have dwindled.)

In short, let me think about it. I'm honored by the offer though.

Also, noticed you were Canadian. You might get a kick out of these:

Kialgory

Sahalee

Quad-Cities (Napoleon's World)

KingSweden 05:06, February 1, 2011 (UTC)

Well, I'll give it some thought. If there's a vacancy, I'd be honored to be nominated and let the rest of the contributors decide by vote, I think it's fairest for them to decide who's going to be combing through their articles haha.

And yes, they are. Had to Russianize some elements of Alaska/Canada (f.ex. Anchorage becomes Aleksandrgrad, Juneau becomes Yunova, etc.) I inflated the populations of Kialgory/Evgenigrad a little bit though since they seem to be a tad bit more habitable than Alaska, and since the Alaskans failed to capture their real prize, OTL Vancouver metro area and Washington state in the Alaskan War.

KingSweden 07:58, February 1, 2011 (UTC)

I think I have Kialgory a bit bigger since it is RIGHT on the US border, plus it is further south (warmer, right?) but they are the Nos. 1 and 2 cities in Alaska population-wise and economic-wise.

Interesting! Well I still think the proximity of Kialgory to the American border would have a San Diego/Tijuana like effect (or Vancouver, BC's proximity to my own hometown of Seattle). Residents of Montana would likely have work in Kialgory, much like Mexicans in Tijuana work in San Diego, and cross the border regularly into the large city.

KingSweden 06:00, February 3, 2011 (UTC)

Sure, if I'm elected by other contributors after being nominated, I'd be honored.

KingSweden 06:38, February 3, 2011 (UTC)

South pole Republic of alaska
I see you are planning to dealte the blog on Republic of alaska in south pole. i am doing my best to put info on its involment in the south pole check ive add that it put a rescerch center on the south pole. (sorry for bad spelling cause am trying to double write)

~
Am sorry abount my edit to the republic of alaska but i just have a few question

(1)if alaska has no point in this timeline why is it their

(2)i thought everyone could edit

(3)are you like a admin?

(The Republic of freedom)
Ok i understand now that i have to ask the maker of the timeline,s first (but i can make my own alt history,s right?) also send my sorry,s to maker of great white pole.(you can dealte the thing on republic of alaska)

(The Republic of freedom)
Ok i understand now that i have to ask the maker of the timeline,s first (but i can make my own alt history,s right?) also send my sorry,s to maker of great white pole.(you can dealte the thing on republic of alaska)

Error
There was an error in the last attempt that I made, so it came out like that. Two duplicates, and I don't know how to delete it.

Age of Darkness
I changed the dates, it wasn't very hard. Is the current version acceptable?

"impossible to happen" is the very definition of quite a few alt hists here. I don't see why "solar storm" is any different from "hitler wins" or "America nukes Russia".

...so you'd be satisfied if I said something to the effect of "Great depression got worse" instead of "solar storm"?Wanderingmagus 16:30, February 6, 2011 (UTC)

States of the United States
Thanks for the corrections. I sort of hurried through with the article. I has so much trouble with the formatting that the spelling and links were secondary. SouthWriter 15:27, February 6, 2011 (UTC)

Some Food for Thought on Greece
Sorry, I have a mountain of homework to go and the spine of a 60 year old at nine days from 17, so I can't stay for long ;).
 * I've just completed a unit on Russia in my AP Comparitive Government and Politics and I came across something rather interesting. In the Russian language there are two words for "Russian", one meaning a citizen of the Russian Federation and another for the Russian-ethnicity. With Greece being highly multinational now (you have Greeks, the Tsakonians being encouraged to nationalise, Albanians, Bulgarians, Copts, Arabs, Grikos, and Italians), we Greeks might need to follow suit. Perhaps, once the Monarchy is called into being by the referendum, the state is actually the Roman Empire? Now I know it sounds sickeningly-nationalistic, but at it height Rome was multinational and thus all the ethnicities in this new Kingdom could call themselves "Romans" without fearing Hellenisation. Or, if you'd prefer something else... We Greeks have three words for ourselves: 'Graikoi', 'Ellines', and 'Romaioi'. 'Romanos' fell out of favour during the Revolution because for some reason the Westernised-Nationalists wanted to primarily call on their Archaic-roots (why, I don't know). 'Graikos' fell out fairly recently because I was told that's what the Turks called us. Thus in the modern language, 'Ellinas' has solidified as the word for ourselves. But post foundation of the Monarchy, we could bring one or even both of the words back. 'Romaioi' for ethnic-Greeks like myself and 'Graikoi' or 'Ellines'for citizens of the Kingdom of Greece regardless of ethnicity or religion. Whichever combination-pair you like I'll be happy with.

Mr.Xeight 03:43, February 7, 2011 (UTC)

Mr. Ganon, I don't think you understand- the word for Roman wouldn't remind us of a foreign domination because we are Roman. If anything it'd remind others of foreign-domination. Mr.Xeight 22:10, February 12, 2011 (UTC)

Games being made category
Why did you remove those games from the Games Being Made category? I wasn’t doing that for points, you know. PitaKang 23:00, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Okay. Sorry for the outburst. PitaKang 23:05, February 9, 2011 (UTC)

Maps?
this must be embarrising and im problay the only that doest know how to make a map on this wiki...well can u tell how u make a map on the computer?

Alterman09 18:59 February 17,2011 (UTC)

KFC
LG, thanks for adding the infobox on the Kentucky Fried Chicken page! BrianD 00:06, February 18, 2011 (UTC)

My Timeline
I like to say thanks for making some edits on my kaiser,s empire page it be good if you can continue to help and tell me if ive left something out or if i made a mistake. (ow ps ive notice these game map things how do they work?) ~theblackeagle

Deletion
Why did you delete my Hanthawaddy (Principia Moderni) article? I was planning on expanding it when I got the time. Detectivekenny (Info; Talk) 20:06, February 20, 2011 (UTC)
 * It was not deleted, you renamed it to Profile of Hanthawaddy (Principia Moderni). LG was just deleting the redirect.  Mitro 03:52, February 21, 2011 (UTC)

I wrote "Hanthawaddy is a country" or something like that as a filler because I need to work on other TLs before I get back to it to expanding it. Detectivekenny (Info; Talk) 04:25, February 21, 2011 (UTC)

One's going to be a list of facts and figures for quick and easy reference. The other is an actual article format like Mexico (1983: Doomsday). Detectivekenny (Info; Talk) 17:54, February 21, 2011 (UTC)

Okay if you really care, I'll move the data-sheet to my sandbox and keep Hanthawaddy (Principia Moderni). But:
 * If you haven't noticed, I set the standards for that game and I'm trying to promote a move towards real articles. Everyone else created their data sheet after I created mine.
 * The system has been used successfully on Conworlds for maybe two years because it provides easy reference.
 * Everyone else has been using the data-sheet, and they would have to do the same transition that I would. Detectivekenny (Info; Talk)  05:23, February 22, 2011 (UTC)

Hold on. Show me where it says "redundancy" is a reason for deletion. Detectivekenny (Info; Talk) 06:06, February 22, 2011 (UTC)

Ip address
Can you look up user ip addresses? I want to know which one User:Mr.r is using. Mitro 19:27, February 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I found it. For a second I thought he was Owen (bad spelling/grammar and keeps mentioning him) but his ip is located in the US while all of Owen's have been traced to the UK.  Mitro 19:36, February 22, 2011 (UTC)

Africa
Hey, I'm wondering what drawing program your using? Detectivekenny (Info; Talk) 04:52, February 23, 2011 (UTC)

OK. That was my main tool for a couple of years until my X11 broke down. I noticed when you uploaded the Africa map, the resolution went down from 1000x1000 to 600x600, and it got blurry. I was wondering if there was a way to avoid that. You have a Mac, correct? Detectivekenny (Info; Talk) 05:08, February 23, 2011 (UTC)

Well, it is kinda blurry. I fixed it, and I'm going to upload it soon. If you have a Windows, maybe Paint is better, because there shouldn't be a risk of blurriness. Idk what they've done with it since the old version I'm familiar with, but yeah… Kinda random. Hopefully Gimp doesn't act up in the future. It's sort of a problem on map games, that 80% of uploads by players turn out in lower resolution. Detectivekenny (Info; Talk) 05:16, February 23, 2011 (UTC)