User talk:Acer4666/Archive 3

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Countdown
With a release date, I thought it might be cool to bring back the countdown on the main page. I found a new plugin that's a little more flexible. You would just copy what's on my Wikia.css and Wikia.js to the site ones and it should work. This version will probably look best in the right column. --Pyramidhead (talk) 19:16, January 15, 2014 (UTC)


 * Awesome! On it like a car bonnet. The site css/js sometimes takes a while to update, but should be working by tomorrow!--Acer4666 (talk) 19:35, January 15, 2014 (UTC)
 * Hm, seems the numbers are too big now. Could you change the font size from 300% to 250% or so? --Pyramidhead (talk) 20:36, January 15, 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh! You also need to delete the old .countdownbanner and .timerholder classes. --Pyramidhead (talk) 20:56, January 15, 2014 (UTC)
 * This is strange. Everything looks right on Common.css but it's not looking the way it should. Does it normally take this long for the styles to update? --Pyramidhead (talk) 01:19, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * No, theoretically everything should be fully updated every 24 hours. If it worked on your personal css and not on the site's, I'm guessing there's stuff elsewhere on the style pages that is overriding it. Any way to tell which lines of the new code are the important ones; or or we gonna have to shove an !important on the end of every line haha?--Acer4666 (talk) 01:34, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * In the inspector it doesn't look like it's pulling anything for .countdownbanner and .timerholder. That would seem to suggest there's a syntax error somewhere above that section. Hopefully I can track it down --Pyramidhead (talk) 01:42, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm lost. What's weird is it actually worked before when the old versions of those classes were still in. Right now, it looks like nothing below the [id~=map_google] rule is getting included. --Pyramidhead (talk) 01:47, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * I have a new version of Common.css on my style page - just moved the countdown stuff further up in the page. I have no idea why its placement might matter, but maybe it'll kick in finally. --Pyramidhead (talk) 18:25, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay, think I figured out what's up - seems the geniuses at Wikia decided to just disable Common.css without telling anyone. If you want it to actually be applied to every skin like it, you know, says at the top, you have to put in this line at the top of Wikia.css:

/*LEAVE THIS IMPORT ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE*/ @import url("http://YOURWIKI.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&usemsgcache=yes&ctype=text/css&smaxage=86400&action=raw&maxage=86400"); Mind you, there's some stuff in Common.css that might override or mess with what's on Wikia.css. But at least we know the problem now. --Pyramidhead (talk) 18:57, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, I did know about that but always thought we had it here. I'm stupid, I thought our "sidebar" classes were called "infobox" classes so was like "other stuff on common.css works"! Hopefully should fix the problem now?--Acer4666 (talk) 19:11, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes! Nice!--Acer4666 (talk) 19:11, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * One small thing - I'm seeing the counter counting down to 8pm GMT, ie, May 5 8pm in the timezone I am currently in. Do you see it counting down to 8pm your time, or GMT too?--Acer4666 (talk) 19:27, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I noticed that. There's a way to adjust for the timezone, but I think I can also make it so that the date it counts down to doesn't have to be hardcoded in Wikia.js. I'll see what I can do. --Pyramidhead (talk) 19:49, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * Got it! Just change the last two lines of Common to this:

debut = new Date($('#countdownDate').text); $('#defaultCountdown').countdown({until: debut, timezone: -5});
 * Just remember that with daylight savings you'll want to change that to -4 sometime in March. --Pyramidhead (talk) 19:54, January 19, 2014 (UTC)

Helllo
Hi thanks for your message.

I would like some cool imiages on my userpage and on my talk page with 24. Where i can place rules for my talk page get back to me on mytalkpage Dan aka CTUMason --CTUMason (talk) 00:09, April 20, 2014 (UTC)

Assad's terror cell group category

 * Why does that have to be removed? They're a terror cell that while with few members is still as key a presence as Fayed and Marwan's various cells.--Gunman6 (talk) 00:45, January 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * Please, the relevant place to discuss this is on the Wiki 24:Articles for deletion page--Acer4666 (talk) 00:53, January 19, 2014 (UTC)

User page
Can you set one up for me please? This is the current page User:Silent_Hunter_UK/Filming_Locations_in_London_for_Live_Another_Day Silent Hunter UK (talk) 17:15, January 22, 2014 (UTC)
 * I moved the page to your userspace, the title needs to be prefixed by "User:" then your username and a forward slash. Good luck hunting out locations! I'm keeping notes on anything that gets revealed too, here--Acer4666 (talk) 17:34, January 22, 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Silent Hunter UK (talk) 17:45, January 22, 2014 (UTC)

CSS quirk
Hey, I've noticed that the video thumbnails on the LAD page are a little too dim. If you get a chance do you think you could take a look? It looks like if you find this rule: div.thumb div { background-color: rgb(32, 32, 32); border-color: rgb(96, 96, 96); color: rgb(238, 238, 238); } and take out the background-color line, it will look normal. Thanks! --Pyramidhead (talk) 21:33, February 2, 2014 (UTC)
 * Another thing, when the site's in narrow mode the recent activity, photos, etc. boxes are too narrow. If you find this part in Wikia.css

.WikiaRail { float:right; padding:0 9px; width:300px; } and take out the width:300px line it works correctly. --Pyramidhead (talk) 02:33, February 4, 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry! now been done--Acer4666 (talk) 09:50, February 4, 2014 (UTC)

Establishing a Media Policy/Guidelines for 24 Wiki
Hi Acer4666,

My name is Luis and I am a Community Support Manager (ES) and Video Community Lead at Wikia. I had a few questions regarding the 24 Wiki and was told you were the person to speak to.

As you know Wikia is currently working with communities to create Video Policies/Guidelines to their specific Wikias. As you may already know Wikia currently has been establishing an expansive library of fully licensed Wikia videos covering various forms of entertainment.

Video Swap (LVS) is our newest tool which allows admins to quickly swap videos from outside providers to the same (or very similar) video that exists in our library at Wikia Video. All our videos are fully licensed with no expiration date.

We are always looking to improve on what we can provide to our users and if it was ok with you, we would like to know what we can do to better your experience.

Lastly we want to encourage communities to create a Video Policy/Guidelines that cater to the needs of your Wikia community regarding the uploading of any media for users to reference when visiting your site if you haven't done so already. If so, do you think you could link me to it? I would greatly appreciate it! We will we doing a feature on Wikias with Video Policy/Guidelines in the near future in order for those Wikias that need references to get some help in establishing their own.

Here are a few examples:

Tardis

Skyrim

Thanks again for your time!

Mighty No. 9 (talk) 21:25, February 6, 2014 (UTC)

Similair
File:Ryanchappellekill.JPG and File:Chappelle1.jpg are really similar to each other. Shouldn't be one deleted and another one stay? --Station7 (talk) 11:07, February 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * They are quite similar, yeah. I guess one is more of an "action shot" for the on-screen kills page, showing the actual moment of the kill, and one is more of a calm sombre picture to illustrate the sadness of the scene, for use on the episode page etc. But, if you want to nominate something for deletion, you can do so on the afd page--Acer4666 (talk) 15:35, February 19, 2014 (UTC)

Random
Howdy chief! I'm slowly getting into the groove of things again... slowly. Two things are still floating on my radar you may be able to help with if convenient, I hope it's not a trouble?
 * 1) It's been there awhile but can you recall the issue with the Bob redirect needing protection? Bob?action=unprotect
 * 2) In retrospect I certainly should not have called the UN flags observation you made during a large edit at Timeline "apparent nonsense". Given that cell phones and numerous other kinds of technology in Day 1 didn't exist in 1978, this one is truly an outlier among the other bits that generally point to 2001, 2002, etc. With that in mind, I'm curious about finding a fair analysis we can both agree on to exclude it. For example, what degree of certainty is there that Georgia is truly missing from the UN flags shot? are there any real life ceremonial/procedural explanations why it might be missing one day, or moved to another spot temporarily? (I don't know much about how the UN handles its flags.)

Thanks bud. To return the favor if there is anything floating around I missed in the last months you might want me to chime in about, just let me know here too. 07:33, February 25, 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey! Good to see you back Blue Rook! I'm a little busy myself at the moment, but hopefully can still pop in regularly.
 * There was an issue with redirects not leaving "breadcrumb" links once you used them, I'm not entirely sure why I protected the page (I guess as any editing might have stopped the problem being demonstrable) but Wikia never got back to me about it so I forgot to unprotect the page! Sorry about that, have done so now.
 * Yeah, no worries about that - I agree that it is an outlier, but I don't really see that section of the timeline page as trying to weave together all the evidence into one date, but rather it just demonstrates how there is no fixed date due to many different clues giving wildly different dates. There is an establishing shot in Day 1 using archive footagr from 1993! Kind of like how BGIN notes inconsistencies/mistakes, I included it being an interesting note about how that establishing shot places the days in an impossible timeframe.
 * And yeah, the UN flags outside the building are one for each member state all in alphabetical order. In the establishing shot there are the flags of France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, etc., meaning the shot was probably filmed between 1973-1992 (Germany joined 73, George joined 92).
 * I don't mind if the consensus is to remove it, I just thought it was an interesting fact to note.
 * The only debate that springs to mind at the moment is if 24: The Ultimate Guide is classed as an "in-universe" or "out-of-universe" book? Pyramidhead says that the whole thing is written iu, but I remember proudhug saying that it wasn't. I don't have the book myself, not sure if you do? I've contacted proudhug but haven't heard back--Acer4666 (talk) 10:26, February 27, 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah, unfortunately I do not own that book. But using Amazon's "look inside" feature, what I can see is written in reasonably IU style. I am seeing lots of "Day 1", "Day 2", however, which is a necessary IU evil that especially we here at this project are intimately familiar with. If the presence of "Day 1", "Day 2", etc., is Proudhug's only reason for saying it is OOU, I disagree. But the sample pages are not enough to take a position on. It sucks Proudhug is basically gone, as I'd like to see what his points are. Did Pyramidhead make a summary of what facts would be added to the wiki if we were to accept this as canon?
 * Also, regarding the flags, I can't really think of anything. Would you be comfortable if I added a qualifying line, something like "if this footage is given equal weight with the other content, it would place Day 1..." ? 19:27, March 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I don't mind any qualification being added to that flag note, but I think it does have a place on that page as it is an indication of how all the different clues to the timeframe contradict each other--Acer4666 (talk) 16:05, March 10, 2014 (UTC)

Noticed an unusual hacking from this user.

 * http://24.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:82.4.98.10 This guy is posting tons of gibberish.--Gunman6 (talk) 22:04, March 7, 2014 (UTC)
 * They are making articles about the indian 24. I have no way to tell if it's gibberish or not, because I can't watch the indian version. This is exactly what we told you would happen if the indian stuff was kept on this wiki!--Acer4666 (talk) 17:32, March 8, 2014 (UTC)

Spotlight Request
Hi. It is likely they intended the spotlight to go up either at the beginning or middle of May (when the new series starts); however I have also approved you for a user-requested spotlight. -- Wendy (talk ) 03:14, April 23, 2014 (UTC)
 * Many thanks!--Acer4666 (talk) 10:55, April 23, 2014 (UTC)

Nice job
Just wanted to say you've done a kickass job with the weapons and filming locations pages; congrats on finishing them all. It'll be nice to be able to do them one episode at a time from now on! --Pyramidhead (talk) 21:36, April 25, 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks man! I wanted to get them done before May 5; I'm raring to go with live another day stuff now. I might hold off on illustrating the locations & weapons pages until the DVD comes out so I can get good quality shots rather having rips from an online player or whatever.
 * Also, nice job on the innumerable awesome things you've been doing lately! I'm looking forward to the rush of new info we're gonna have soon :)--Acer4666 (talk) 23:46, April 25, 2014 (UTC)

John Keeler photos
I took some of the photos of Keeler on Air Force One, while watching the 10:00 P.M.-11:00 P.M. episode on Amazon.com
 * I realise that, but you took a photo of your laptop, and half of the picture was your keyboard keys. We try to have decent quality images here, which means taking a screenshot of the episode using computer software--Acer4666 (talk) 18:14, April 29, 2014 (UTC)

Lin Oeding's character killed by Jack Bauer?

 * Isn't he the last of Philip Bauer's mercenaries seen being explicitly killed by Bauer after Chris Gann's character if offed?--Gunman6 (talk) 04:25, May 5, 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. The guy shot by Jack is wearing a leather jacket which Lin Oeding was not. I thought it could possibly be the other guy with Oeding, but the shot guy has a pale blue shirt whereas that guy has a darker grey shirt on--Acer4666 (talk) 21:50, May 5, 2014 (UTC)

Double
Template:JackBauerKillsLiveAnotherDay should being deleted. We have it double. Template:JackBauerKills9 is used for the On-screen kills by Jack Bauer. --Station7 (talk) 10:10, May 6, 2014 (UTC)

Names
Yes look here. ;) --Station7 (talk) 09:53, May 8, 2014 (UTC)

Oh yes, you're right. I didn't know that. --Station7 (talk) 09:54, May 8, 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah that pic is from a behind the scenes clip rather than the aired episode--Acer4666 (talk) 09:55, May 8, 2014 (UTC)


 * Some of those names there are mixed up as you many of you know, including Pavel Tokarev, which was accidentally list as Peter Tokarev. I also put the trivia of that of Dave Conlon as it was listed as David Conlon. BattleshipMan (talk) 17:19, May 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * I removed that, as it isn't notable. The fact that Pavel was called Peter is a mistake, calling Dave "David" is not.--Acer4666 (talk) 19:41, May 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * I see. One other thing, you might want to add some Background information and notes on the ones that we seen, but is not seen on the list like Abu Fayed, Specter, etc. and also it was marines who Omar on Day 4, not Jack as it was seen on that list. BattleshipMan (talk) 20:08, May 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * Omar is already listed here. But you add the ones that are missing in the list from the episode itself. --Station7 (talk) 20:11, May 9, 2014 (UTC)