User talk:MrBlonde267

JSA: The Golden Age Pics
Can you get any other scans of characters from the JSA: The Golden Age mini-series to put into the bios files? thanks (VicGeorge2K9 13:56, May 17, 2010 (UTC))


 * Sure, no problem. I'm a like a more cool and awesome version of the scantron that does not prevent you from getting into college. I'll look through the pages and see which characters need it. Anytime you ever want me to go through a book and scan something for you, don't hesitate to ask.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 14:58, May 17, 2010 (UTC)

Main Page Character Accents
Beautiful! Very well done! We need to update our dudes on the Marvel side as soon as we're done promoting Iron Man 2. The bit you were missing was on MediaWiki:Monaco.js, all you had to do was switch the 'Batman' and 'Superman' there. Still, awesome job! :)

&mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 04:04, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

"Adopted" Elseworlds and stuff
In light on the recent article attacks on the disambiguation pages, I've got some questions about how to properly disambiguate Elseworlds that have been "adopted" into the 52 Multiverse. You see, WildStorm has everything called "(Earth-50)", but the other miniseries and elseworlds stories are a mixed bag. Earth-19, Earth-21, Earth-22, Earth-31 and Earth-32 all have some under the "Character (Earth-N)", and some under "Character (Miniseries/Elseworlds name)". Shouldn't there be a bit more consistency?

Also, something else: I haven't read either "JLA: The Nail" or "Another Nail". Do they share continuity? -- Tupka 217 14:35, May 19, 2010 (UTC)


 * This is the subject of a debate that has nearly torn the community apart. We have literally been arguing about this for years on the forums. I could point out the discussion boards if you ever want to flip through them. I always took the position that we should use the Elseworlds designations... i.e. Kal-L (Red Son) instead of Kal-L (Earth-30). It's also been a big deal with the Tangent characters. But that's controversial. Right now, the policy is that if they have a 52 designation we're using it... but we're considering the characters in their entirety. That means none of that crap about making distinctions between the elseworlds versions and the 52 versions and having them on separate pages. Where there are noticeable differences, we write down the differences on that single page. I don't know, what's your opinion? Do you have a preference? and yeah, Another Nail is the sequel to The Nail. we're inconsistent on the nailverse because we have yet to come up with a good naming convention for that whole thing.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 22:50, May 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * I figured there'd be earlier questions about this... I personally prefer "Earth-N", since it's been confirmed in several DC Nations that those Elseworlds are the 52-Earths.
 * But unrelated to that, shouldn't Bruce Wayne (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) at least be moved to Bruce Wayne (Earth-DKR)? -- Tupka 217 06:43, May 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * The counter-argument is that some of them are incompatible. For example, the Superman of Dark Knight Returns is killed in Countdown: Arena prior to his appearance in Dark Knight Strikes Again. But yeah... we should move all of those articles over to Earth-31 pretty much.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 15:29, May 21, 2010 (UTC)

Stanley And His Monster
Thanks for doing Stanley And His Monster/Covers. One of my favorites! Goblyn4evil 20:06, May 27, 2010 (UTC)

Bruce Thomas Wayne
Are you aware that Batman from the animated DCU is named Bruce Thomas Wayne on this site?


 * Butting in since I added the full name to Bruce Wayne (DCAU): his full name is given in . -- Tupka 217 18:05, June 12, 2010 (UTC)

Fan fic
You probably missed this one in the recent changes: Clark Kent (Earth-14). Can you delete it? -- Tupka 217 11:46, June 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yeah. The intention was innocent though and he seems like a nice enough guy so I sent him a link to the DC fanon wiki instead.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 17:36, June 18, 2010 (UTC)

New Earth -> Earth-Prime bot stuff finished
What next? --Profzoom 05:28, June 26, 2010 (UTC)

Lois Lane
You added Lois Lane (Earth-Teen Titans) to the Lois Lane disambig page. I've been going over my collection (missing about 15 issues, so I could have missed something) but I couldn't find her. What issue does she appear in? -- Tupka 217 09:38, June 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think it's issue #21. If you don't have that, I do, and I can find the picture, it's just on my other computer.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 23:19, July 6, 2010 (UTC)

Absolute Crisis
I'm sorry but i'm afraid that do not possess a copy of Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths

However, you can look up Earth designations Here and "http://www.marvunapp.com/master/earthteaz.htm#numbered"

Marvel and DC editor,, 23:50, September 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'll butt in here; I've got a copy of Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths, you said you needed help with page moving? (I can't respond for the next, oh, 14-15 hours after this post, but I'm free afterward). Firebird 14:39, September 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't need help with the moving just yet, only figuring out what needs to be moved. Supposedly it contains some sort of holy grail manual to the multiverse, that may or may not be reliable and may or may not be canon. Is there any way that you could post up a listing of the Pre-Crisis multiverse worlds it establishes?
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 17:03, September 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * I can write them down and send the list to you via e-mail or something, but I don't know how long it'll take; I can't scan the pages since my scanner's not working atm. Firebird 05:59, September 8, 2010 (UTC)

Broken categories
I don't know who's the tech/maintinence guy for this wiki, but you seem to be the de facto leader, so; some of the categories - Category:Red Hair and Category:Auburn Hair are the ones I'm particularly concerned with (and for some reason I cannot Wikiword them without categorization coming in, ugh) - are messed up; the first few names are sorted alphabetically just fine, but once it hits a point, it loses arrangement cohesion and the names are scattered randomly. It's been happening for a while now, I hadn't brought it up until now because I thought it would fix itself, but it hasn't. Firebird 14:39, September 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Linking categories requires a semi-colon at the front for some reason if you don't want it to categorize. I'll bring this up on the forums.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 17:03, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Problem solved, thanks to Nathan once again. Should be good once the server parses through.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 23:26, September 7, 2010 (UTC)

Orion image
Re the Orion image, I just felt it would be useful to have an image of him in the gallery that displayed his alternative costume. But, by now I guess I'm used to being the only person on the planet who actually liked it...Tony ingram 21:06, September 11, 2010 (UTC)


 * There's nothing wrong with that costume, I uploaded a different image of it. In general we prefer to use virgin or interior images rather than cover art for character galleries, though. It's not really a rule, it just looks nicer.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 01:15, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

Oh, that one is better. Yes, that makes sense. Tony ingram 08:03, September 12, 2010 (UTC)

Administrator
I'm flatter to be voted as administrator, but I think I have enough responsibilities (especially on other wikis). So no thanks.

Oh, my user alias is meant to shorten as 'Dragon Yen,' but you can call me Fil (as in Phil, short for Filbert).--Drgyen 07:35, September 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's no problem at all. We were just discussing people who we thought might be capable, and you've been with us for a very long time.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 11:16, September 18, 2010 (UTC)

Other Media
May as well ask why there is not a "In Other Media" thing on Batman's page like there is on the rest of wikipedia. Does it hvae to be more complex than the simple one I typed up? If so, I can totally do that!


 * I'm sorry for the confusion, I should've explained in the edit summary. We do have one, you just weren't looking in the right place. Batman (Bruce Wayne) is our history of the main character in modern continuity. Batman is our more general article that has all of the different versions, and already has a section on other media here. (also, we're not wikipedia)
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 01:11, September 24, 2010 (UTC)

Impact Stuff
Hey, thanks for the work you're doing on the Impact pages. I've been trying to add some characters & summaries, etc. Your character details are awesome, great pics too.

I've seen WEB agent Rad Styles/Stiles spelled both ways in the comics. It looks like you've seen the Who's Who pages. What's his correct name?

Tictoc77 21:26, September 28, 2010 (UTC)


 * I only just realized how badly it needed documenting, I love these stories. Thank you. You've been doing great work too. I put up all of the real names in the Who's Who pages. They list him as Radcliffe Stiles.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 21:30, September 28, 2010 (UTC)

Cool, thanks, I'll get Rad started. I thought the first year of Impact stuff was really awesome...they certainly put some top notch talent on those books. I especially liked the Jaguar title. Maybe all of these versions will pop up on some Earth in some multiverse, some day!

Thanks again.... Tictoc77 21:41, September 28, 2010 (UTC)

Moves and such
No problem, I'll try to get to them asap. I'm working on a preliminary background for the new skin coming out from Wikia. Do you have any other main hero images you'd like to incorporate below Supes and Batty-Boy?

Point me to the images you'd like to see. I've started to use artist-specific themes on Marvel, with Marko Djvurek? as the first one. It's kind of nice when all the characters are drawn the same way. Maybe Alex Ross' characters would work well on the background?

&mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 05:44, October 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's awesome! I will definitely get to work on looking through images. Probably not going to go with Alex Ross though because he's so cliche. I'm going to say that Wonder Woman definitely needs to be on there... as do Green Lantern and the Flash, at the very least. I have a question... would it be at all possible for us to make multiple skins and have different ones show up at random? Like we could do different artist themes, or one that's all villains...
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 05:54, October 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hmmm. I can't say it's impossible, but would probably come down to some javascript rotating the image linked there.  It'd likely be controlled by pageload, meaning you wouldn't get a different background unless you completely reloaded the page.


 * It's much more likely (and easier) for you guys to create new backgrounds on a routine basis, and change them out whenever you're feeling frisky. :)


 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 21:36, October 4, 2010 (UTC)

Moves
So all the moves you requested are done, save one.


 * Renegades --> Renegades (25th Century)
 * Renegades (Earth-One) --> Renegades (New Earth)

So according to my bot, the Renegades page has a move tag with "Renegades (New Earth)" as the new name. So it's not the right pointer, and the page already exists. Are you sure what you had listed above is what you want? If so, we need to make sure the Renegades page has a move tag with "Renegades (25th Century)" on it, and the Renegades (Earth-One) has a move tag with "Renegades (New Earth)" on it. We also need to make sure neither "Renegades (25th Century)" and "Renegades (New Earth)" already exist.

&mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 03:20, October 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * I fixed this. Take care of it whenever you have the time.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 20:41, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

re: wiki changes?
Hi Billy. Are the admins on the DC site planning to follow suit with implementing XBox Achievement style awards like the admins have done at the Marvel site? I really dislike it. Actually, I could use some very foul language to tell you how I really feel but I see no point in stinking up the air. I see that the DC site hasn't implemented it yet, so I don't know if that means the admins here are of different opinions than the admins at the Marvel wiki or that it simply hasn't been implemented so far.

Darkseid01 15:37, October 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * I have no idea what you're talking about, so my guess would be no.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 16:28, October 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * We voted on it in the forums, and there was just a little bit more 'for' than 'against' in this case. They can mostly be ignored and don't effect your edit count... :)
 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 05:16, October 8, 2010 (UTC)

Cluemaster
Uh, sir? Hi, I'm new here, and I think that I accidentally screwed up the page on Arthur Brown, the Cluemaster. Could you please help me with that? Thanks.

SeattleDude15


 * Don't worry about it, no problem. I made the same mistake myself several times when I was first getting started on the site. There was a broken link in the text and that screwed up the code in the template. All better now.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 05:38, October 8, 2010 (UTC)

JLA/Avengers/JLA
Should you get to issue #4:
 * Royal Flush Gang
 * Ace of Spades
 * Jack of Spades
 * King of Spades
 * Queen of Spades
 * Ten of Spades

For one panel, but they're there. Also, Card Scooter (should I ever get around to make that one) for the Vehicles section. -- Tupka 217 22:11, October 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hahaha, thank you. Yeah, me and a Marvel admin are teaming up to get through the series.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 01:51, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

. Bronx72 07:18, October 13, 2010 (UTC)bronx72

Batman main image
dude the reason you have to change the pick for batman to the Batman_0175.jpg is because bruce isn't wearing no more that outfit because is dick's now


 * The article is supposed to provide a look at the character from a historical perspective, not just whatever he happens to be doing this week. The image we use is the most well-recognized costume... this is for the same reason we didn't change all of his main information to "Insider" stuff during the month that Road Home came out. Or the same reason that when characters die, we don't change their main image to a corpse. It's misleading. The image of his new costume should be in the history section where he starts wearing it.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 01:11, November 23, 2010 (UTC)

Change Bruce's Bio pic
The header pretty much says it all. He hasn't worn that suit in a while. He is now operating in a new outfit and the newcomers to Batman lore won't understand seeing a different suit when they check the bio.Wazzirving 20:39, November 24, 2010 (UTC)wazzirving


 * Hey, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I've had a lot of stuff going on in my personal life lately. First of all... by that logic, wouldn't changing it also alienate all new readers who start anywhere along his 70-year publication history other than the past month? A lot of people get in through trades before randomly picking up the monthly single issues. Second of all, our policy is to go with an image of the character's most classic appearance... and in this case, there's not that much of a big difference in the costumes anyway.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 09:17, November 27, 2010 (UTC)

Teen Titans: Robin
Thank you for that. I've asked around and everyone says that Jason was never on the team. I know quite a bit about Batman, but I don't get into any of the superhero team books. That makes it a little hard in DC after they have a crisis and one Robin book to the next, Tim has a completely different suit, Dick lives in Manhattan, or Bruce is dead. I consider those "side books", but I try to acquire, what I consider, important issues involving Bruce, Dick, Jason, and Tim.Wazzirving 01:19, November 25, 2010 (UTC)wazzirving

Batman
I'm getting that you don't want anything added to Bruce that you or Tupka didn't add yourselves? Is that the case or is this a misunderstanding?Wazzirving 13:28, November 26, 2010 (UTC)wazzirving


 * That's definitely not the case, it's just complicated building an article that large. This site couldn't exist without the community working together. Your recent edits might have gotten overlooked in a recent overhaul, I had the page open for several hours that day while I was making a massive edit. The thing is... people have a tendency to over-complicate things on the big articles, and we're very watchful of that because when it's not monitored at all they get out of control. It's important to keep things concise and mention all of the important details but not get too cluttered down with all of the trivial minutiae. There's a place for that, and we link to comics and storylines throughout the entire page so that people can get the bigger picture on every little detail. But on the character page itself, things are a lot cleaner and easier to understand when we talk about the really important points of a story like Batman: The Long Halloween and then let the actual page for the storyline mention every last detail that happened inside. For example, the Superman (Clark Kent) page is a mess right now because that hasn't been kept under control in the most recent issues. That's why I was making that big edit to clean up the page.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 09:17, November 27, 2010 (UTC)

Thank You
Thanks for clearing that up. I'm sure now we'll work this out.Wazzirving 12:44, November 27, 2010 (UTC)wazzirving

Hi Mrblonde267, I just want to say thanks for restoring the lana pic gallery. I was trying to add some pic, when I accidentally deleted it. I was trying to restore it and failing miserably, when you did it in like 2 second (lol. I'm not very good at all this stuff yet, but I'm learning quick and soon I hope to kick butt at it.I was also hoping that you could tell how you reverse the edit, so that if I make a mistake( Hopefully not) I can correct it. Once again Thanks alot.--Superlana 18:35, January 16, 2011 (UTC)

Batman

 * moved from Template talk:Batman

Ok Mrblonde267, I just want you to know that I just want to put in a few changes to fit in with some parts of Batman's biography. I know you don't agree, but I just want to know that if I can put them in and you can agree. Signed, Frank Russo.

Green Lantern trailer
Hey have you or anyone else considered putting up the Green Lantern trailer on the main page? That'd look cool! Also, is there a specific reason the main page is locked (not that I was going to add in the trailer myself)? It seems vandalism, if any, can just easily be undone, so no biggie. On the MArvel side, we've had our main page open to edit for a few months now, and we've had no problems since. We also have the Thor trailer up, and thats actually what made me think of Green Lantern. Let me know what you decide. Thanks. --Johnnybravo 44 (talk) 17:30, December 30, 2010 (UTC)

Green Arrow Volume 4 Cover Images Help
Hi Billy been a while since I've talked with you hope you had a good Holidays and New Years. I was wondering if you could possible help me out with finding 3-Green Arrow (Volume 4) from the current series written by J.T. Krul for my Green Arrow Wiki Site. The first image I'm looking for is a Green Arrow #5 Variant Cover drawn by Gary Frank I have the official version of the cover on the site already but what I'm looking for is the teaser version of the cover basically without the title and everything that normally appears on a official cover. The other two covers I'm looking for are official Variant Covers for Green Arrow #6 and Green Arrow #7. I know there is a Green Arrow #6 Variant Cover Image currently at the DC Database site but it looks way to dark if you could find a clear looking one that would be awsome. With the Green Arrow #7 I'm looking for the Variant Cover as well if you could help me find it that would be awsome. Overall I been have trouble finding these Variant Cover Images for Green Arrow (Volume 4) if you could help me out that would be great. An if you find them and upload them on the Green Arrow Wiki Site that would awsome and a big help. Oh well talk to you later.

From Rod12

Image Needed/Wanted Categories
Took care of DCAU and BTBATB for you. Another question: these last few days, I've been going through Special:WantedCategories. Two problems arose: what to do with "Glossary:Space Ship/Appearances" and "Glossary:Henchman/Appearances"? Unlink? Create? Also, I haven't been able to find a way to categorize images by movie, and my upload benders did result in a couple of them being high on the list. Any idea? -- Tupka 217 21:56, January 18, 2011 (UTC)

Converting the "Executive Editor" section: Jenette Kahn to Mike Carlin
Currently, I'm switching the Executive Editor section from Jenette Kahn to Mike Carlin for the issues published from July 1996 (the first time that Carlin was credited as EE for DC) to May 2003 (the last time), based on the Green Lantern comic collection that I downloaded two years ago. Since it's going to take a lot of work, I was wondering if someone can build a bot that will do this en masse? Of course, I'm aware that there are limitations (e.g., Karen Berger was the EE for Vertigo, Jim Lee for Wildstorm, etc.). DuoDeathscyther02 08:22, February 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * The last time we built a bot for this it was for Dick Giordano, same problem, and it screwed up all of the Bergers and McDuffies. I would suggest talking to Nathan, as he is our resident code guy and I am more of a content editor. Make sure you mention the exceptions, though.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 21:13, February 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'll try doing that. DuoDeathscyther02 01:36, February 7, 2011 (UTC)

"Error: String exceeds 1,000 character limit"
Lately this message has been showing up on a lot of the articles, and all of the issue articles (or at least the ones that haven't been done manually) seem to be stripped of their characters and creators categories. Any idea what the deal is? It's emptied out a lot of categories.J&#39;onn J&#39;onzz 05:16, February 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * Wikia changed some important code. We're talking through it on the forums.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 11:57, February 12, 2011 (UTC)

This might be vandalism
Possible vandalism. I don't read a lot of DC comics, so I'm not sure if Santa Claus is actually in any of them, but it seems sort of odd. In the Larfleeze article a new user adding something that sounds a bit out of place. Not sure who to ask about that. You are the first administrator on the list, so I thought I'd just post this here. Since the person has made few contributions, I'm thinking it might just be a prank.  D r e a m Focus  23:09, February 28, 2011 (UTC)

JSA Recommended Reading
I am extremely annoyed that everything I personally recommended on the JSA Recommended Reading page, which I actually bothered to create, has been actually removed, as though my critical faculties are so out of step with current thinking as to be worthless. Particularly since half the stuff now on that list is stuff that I personally do not consider to meet the same 'standards of quality' as the material removed. I would like my recommendations reinstated or I would like my text deleted from the page. I don't really care which. Tony ingram 09:03, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I seem to be being touchy, but I was really offended by this. Adding to the list would have been fine, but removing from it, to me, is simply saying that my tastes are out of step with modern thinking. And if that's the case, there's little point in my being involved with the community side of things at all. A story does not need to have been published within the last twenty years in order to be good, and I was interested in recommending what I consider to be good stories which give an understanding of the characters, to new readers. Tony ingram 09:36, March 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey... I didn't delete your recommendations from the list, I just reworked it and reorganized it. Everything you recommended is still on the page, I just thought it needed to be presented differently. I wasn't taking an issue with your recommendations... they're all great comics, I don't disagree with you at all. I wasn't insulting your taste, it's just that the purpose of these articles is to help newer readers get into the teams and Golden Age comics can be kind of intimidating. I didn't remove them, I just bumped them down to suggested further reading for people who wanted more of a background on the characters rather than someone who was looking to get in step with the JSA as they are today. The only discrepancy I had wasn't with what I would recommend to another person... I personally could spend all day pouring over those early JSA classics, and have been at my leisure lately... it was with what I would recommend a new reader to pick up first having never read any JSA before. It's easier to get into the swing of the team with something a little bit more contemporary and focused on characterization.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 10:14, March 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh... it occurs to me that I did drop Crisis on Multiple Earths while I was moving things around. Personally I've always found those stories a little dry, and I prefer the forties' comics, but I would have no problem putting them back if you think they should be included.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 10:14, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

I don't see how any recommended reading involving JSA can or should omit the stories that brought them into the modern era-particularly Crisis on Earth-One/Earth-Two. You see them as dry? I see them as tremenduously imaginative and fun. That's kind of what got my back up. Removing articles from the list rather than simply adding to it (and removing the descriptions I'd given to the stuff you bumped down, thereby marginalizing it) just seemed to me to be implying that that material is of less value because it isn't to your personal taste. If you'd simply added to it, fine. But removing material, and removing the specific TPBs which collect the Silver Age/70s stuff and are easy for new readers to find (like the Multiple Earths trades and Justice Society (trade paperback) Vol 1), I have an issue with. When I was getting into comics, I loved the reprints of GA stuff in the back of the eighty page JLA Etc because they were a window on the characters pasts. I don't believe that the current generation is any less interested. Tony ingram 10:35, March 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * Just finished writing up descriptions on the rest of the items on the list, didn't mean to marginalize, just wanted everything in the same voice and hadn't quite gotten around to it last night.
 * I completely agree with you that no list of recommendations would be complete without those stories, I think they're fascinating and essential to the characters... my only disagreement was that they're not the first thing I would hand to someone who was only just getting into comics and deciding whether or not they want to read contemporary Justice Society stories. I'm not saying better or worse objective storytelling quality, just that if someone is completely unfamiliar with the JSA and wants to know what the fuss is about they're going to get a better feel for the characters picking up a cheap trade from a contemporary storyline with a good jumping-on point like JSA: Justice be Done than they would blowing $100 on the first two volumes of All-Star Comics Archives. That's why I put them in further reading instead of new readers.
 * I recognize that these pages are subjective by nature, so there's probably always going to be at least a minor degree of dispute... personally I wouldn't particularly recommend a lot of the early Crisis team-ups, but you would, and that's fine... if you strongly disagree, I'm not at all going to fight you on that point. Feel free to put them back on the list. I didn't realize you would get offended.
 * That being said... isn't including the Justice Society collected edition and the archive editions a little redundant, given that those stories are both already listed as All-Star Comics on the page? If someone is interested in those stories, the collected editions are listed neatly as such.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 11:59, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

I just thought it would make them easier to find. It is a recommended reading list, and the Justice Society TPB is a lot cheaper and easier for a newer reader to get hold of than All-Star #58-67 and DC Special #29. As far as the rest goes, I was probably being a little touchy. I'm glad you added in JSA: The Golden Age, I'd completely forgotten that yesterday and it's definitely one of the better more modern JSA stories. Tony ingram 13:00, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

Editing help
Hi. I'm a little new to the wiki, and I was wondering how I would add a reference. I've already left messages for editors only on a couple of pages saying that I'd like to reference things, but I don't know how. Ivy12 15:30, March 20, 2011 (UTC)

Hi. You said that I could ask if I needed help with anything else, so how do you write solo appearances? Ivy12 23:20, March 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry, could you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 04:13, March 24, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Editing D'amsi Page (Dakotaverse)
MrBlonde267:

Recently, I made some edits to the D'amsi entry in the Dakotaverse section. Then, I realized that the entry listed them as an alien race when they are in fact a team like the Green Lantern Corps.

Is there a way to change the template of the page to reflect this?

Thanks in advance

Zeraze1 00:53, March 26, 2011 (UTC)zeraze1

re: the apn template
Hi Billy. Is there anyone else here that I need to have onboard if I start making chrono links on the Bats and Supes issues? I got complaints from a couple of the Marvel admins who didn't understand why I was spending hours making quick edits. I'd rather not ruffle feathers here unnecessarily if I don't have to.

Darkseid01 18:10, March 26, 2011 (UTC)

Flash Comics problem
While looking up some info on a character earlier, I noticed that the page for Flash Comics #71 had the Golden Age Hawkman listed as Katar Hol rather than Carter Hall-and further inspection shows that the mistake seems to appear in several issues, possibly even all of them (I haven't looked through 104 pages to check). Is there any way for this erroneous info to be removed without having to go through all 104 issues changing it manually? I've already had to change 'Katar Hol' to 'Carter Hall' in several All-Star Squadron entries, and I suspect there may be more. Tony ingram 14:46, March 29, 2011 (UTC)

Heads Up
I'm going to start the Bot going through your comic pages tonight, adding the appearing templates that we have on Marvel. It's not a perfect program, so while I am hopeful there will be no real problems as it goes through all 30k comic pages, I'm also realistic in that I know there will surely be problems. (There were ones on Marvel which I was able to successfully program around, but I'm sure you guys have a few different issues and setups here).

One thing to look for in the coming days is the Wanted Categories Special Page. The templates I'm installing and the Bot is putting in essentially create the Appearing categories we had before one at a time, but if they're used incorrectly, ie, around links like 1987 and Superman Vol 1, it's going to create Categories like 1987/Appearances and Superman Vol 1/Appearances. This was specifically an issue in our Recommended Reading, Notes, and Trivia Sections, so keep an eye out for those.

I can't create a perfect program due to the fact that there are just too many variables in this transition, but the idea is that the Bot does the grunt work and the users do general cleanup.

Thanks for being so patient, and please let me know immediately via email if something is going catestrophically wrong. I'll be checking the bot from time to time, but it will probably be on autopilot for the majority of the changes over the next few days.

I'm sorry it's taken me this long. :)

&mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 05:33, April 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh, and I've found that you guys have more Comic Appearance Templates than we do. Maybe you guys could help me out and change all the templates over to the new method?


 * There's basically three types of these templates:


 * The nothing style, which is the 'A' Template, showing nothing after the end.
 * The '1st' style, which shows a standard blurb after the end.
 * The '1stas' style, which shows a blurb that can be modified at the end.


 * It's pretty easy, just use these three templates as, well, templates, and determine how the other Comic Appearance Templates work. If they are just standard blurb, copy the 1st template and paste it in there, changing the standard blurb accordingly.  If they are a modified blurb, copy the 1stas template and paste it in there, changing the modified blurb accordingly, leaving the  's wherever you want the modified bit to show up.


 * If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks for the assist! :)


 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 06:38, April 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * Maybe. The reason we decided to go this direction on the Marvel side is so that in the future, we can further categorize all appearances by the specific type.  So if we want to know a character's first appearance, it's easy to find if it's using the 1st template surrounding the link to their name.  The intent is to be able to further sort out what kind of appearance each one is, so that we could sort the appearances by type as well.  Say you wanted to know all the appearances of Spider-Man where he was only shown and didn't say anything.  You could potentially filter out all appearances with the exception of the Cameo template appearances.


 * While we don't have the code set up for this yet, it was one of the ideas/reasons we decided to go this direction in the first place. If you guys elect not to use the Appearance Templates this way, we'd essentially be just using the A Template around every link in the appearing sections, and there'd be no ability to do this in the future.  (It hasn't actually been tested, so it's possible it might not work anyway).


 * So I suppose it's up to you guys. I can change the bot implementation code to leave the Appearance templates out of it, or we can slowly work on converting all your Appearance Templates.


 * Let me know what you'd like to do.


 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 15:27, April 1, 2011 (UTC)

Image Needed
Just letting you know that I'm off the image hunt for a while. After the E was done I had planned to work on the F, but I've lost the urge. It's highly addictive, and has been dominating my life. I haven't thought about buying comics for three weeks in a row... good luck on the A's. If you need any specific help - animation, Dakotaverse or Johnny DC or something - let me know. I'm either going to clean up the Pantheons or Amalgam next, not sure yet. -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 13:26, April 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hahaha, that is totally OK... thank you very much for the hard work you've put into it. I'm excited that we've almost cleared the 3,000 mark. You've been doing a lot of awesome work lately. To be honest I've mostly been on this so much because I've gotten addicted to HBO television series' on DVD and I need something mechanical so I can multitask.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 13:33, April 4, 2011 (UTC)

Forum
I know I should be asking Nate, but do you know what's up with the forum, and when will it be fixed? -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 20:00, April 8, 2011 (UTC)

I've been wondering that, too. Tony ingram 20:31, April 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * No idea, sorry guys... they're hosted by Jamie Hari, he's the one who would know if anything.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 21:02, April 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * They're back up, FYI. It was a server host issue, so Jamie called and complained and they eventually fixed it. :)
 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 16:15, April 15, 2011 (UTC)

Aquaman and such
Hey Billy, I've been working on wikifying the Adventure Comics series (I started with the As), and I've run into some problems with the appearances of Aquaman.

Aquaman appears in most of the issues, but there's some confusion as to when he stops being Arthur Curry (Earth-Two), and starts being Orin (New Earth).

Now, here's the problem. I've read that Aquaman switches FROM Earth-Two designation to something else with Adventure Comics Vol 1 215 (because of something to do with the colour of his gloves). So, I'd use that as my starting point, but I don't know what to change it to. Should it be Orin (New Earth), or some Earth-One version? (We don't have a page for an Earth-One Aquaman, by the way). So...

I guess I'm just wondering if you can clear up which is which for me... Or find me someone who can.

Thanks - Hatebunny 21:45, April 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * That would be 'Arthur Curry (Earth-Two)'. The Earth-Two Aquaman had yellow gloves, the Earth-One version green gloves (though there's a period of a few months when the gloves vary in colour from yellow to green before settling on green, so there's not a direct switchover, Adventure #215 is the first appearance of the green gloved version. Since there's no real continuity between the individual stories at that point, it can be assumed that we're seeing stories of both Aquamen) Tony ingram 07:24, April 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the response, Tony. So, if they're indistinguishable, would it make sense to keep calling him the Earth-Two version until things switch to Post-Crisis? Or would it make sense to say every issue with green gloves is Earth-One? Like I said, there is no Earth-One Aquaman character page on the database, so I wouldn't know what to do anything. I would think that Orin (New Earth) shouldn't be entered anywhere pre-crisis, but I may be wrong. - Hatebunny 13:53, April 9, 2011 (UTC)

No, the Earth-Two Aquaman is not the green gloved one who later goes on to appear in JLA. That's the Earth-One version, who is effectively the same character as the New Earth version. Basically, if it's before Adventure #215 or if it's one of the fairly few stories after that featuring the yellow gloved version, it's Earth-Two (the Earth-Two Aquaman later resurfaced and was confirmed as such in All-Star Squadron #60). Otherwise,it's not. The name 'Orin' wasn't actually used until post-Crisis, but it is currently being used as the designation for all of Aquaman's Earth-One appearances simply because the current version is basically the same character (much as Alan Scott (New Earth) is the same character who previously existed on Earth-Two). There's only really a need for a separate Earth-One character if their history is significantly different from the New Earth version. So, there are separate entries for the Earth-One and New Earth versions of Superman and Wonder Woman, for instance, but not for Barry Allen or Hal Jordan, because they weren't significantly rebooted post-Crisis. And neither was Aquaman, despite a revised origin. I'd say, stick with Orin (New Earth) for all of the Earth-One (ie green gloved) appearances, rather than get hung up about the name and create a new entry. Tony ingram 14:49, April 9, 2011 (UTC)

Appearance Categories by Size
Fixed up this little category for you. Check out the link to more than 500 appearances, and you can see the most appearing characters starting at the end and working your way backwards. :)

&mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 16:17, April 15, 2011 (UTC)

RE: Stuff
Hey Billy!

Thanks for the info, I'll check out those Template:C errors and see what I can do about them. I'm sure I can make it back to the way you prefer to have them displayed. (Or even different, depending on how you'd like to see them).

I've been neglecting the DC side of things for far too long. I'd like to get in here and help you guys grow and have all of the whamma-dine stuff I developed for Marvel, DC style. So I hope to be able to update a lot of stuff over here and break as little as possible. But please let me know where you see errors. I'll also be having a bot or two run through a bunch of things to help clear it all up, primarily on the Image Template, but possibly elsewhere. Again, if you run into anything jacked up, just let me know about it and I'll get it fixed.

As for the disambig template, I've been working on a new one on the marvel side, but haven't yet touched the main description area. The main request over there was to have the availability of having multiple main characters on one disambiguation page. Would that be something of interest to you? I'll work on the text-wrapping problem regardless. I noticed on Batgirl's page, you guys still are using the A I G Q links. While I know that an experienced user understands these things, most newb's get confused by it. Would you be willing to leave them out or have an alternate method of getting to them?

&mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 22:33, May 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, since the c template is going to be adding the italics where necessary in the future, I'm going to have a bot go through and remove the extra italics surrounding the c template uses. All you guys have to do is remember not to use them anymore.


 * Then, I'll be changing the results of the c template to the format you guys prefer (TITLE (Volume #) #), which I thought was the was it was previously setup, but doesn't look that way.


 * I've also begun work on the top part of the Disambiguation template, so I hope to have the final version of that thing for you here soon.


 * Holler if I break something. :)


 * &mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 23:06, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Comic link formats
Hey Billy,

I commented out the bolding of each link so that it more closely matches the links in the section you showed me. I left the italicized part of the links because that's the standard method of referencing a book, with the title italicized and everything else normal font.

I'd still like to have a big meeting with all the admins on both sites to help decide one unified use of this thing, so that it's both easy to update on both sides, and adds a level of consistency for users of both sites. The forums just take so long to hash these things out! :)

Thanks for your patience, let me know if I can fix anything else while I'm fixing the other templates.

&mdash; Nathan (Peteparker) (Earth-1218) (talk &bull; contribs &bull; email) 18:27, May 11, 2011 (UTC)

Cassandra Cain (DCAU)
Actually, it's a point of much discussion whether that actually is Cassandra, as opposed to "just a blackhaired girl". In fact, adding it to the other place without citing a source for "Bruce Timm totally said that" gets you a ban. It's been on wikipedia for ages, but no-one's actually found out where Bruce Timm totally said that. -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 16:10, May 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * I figured why not just add it and slap the conjecture template onto the actual page. I mean, the image is clearly supposed to be showing members of the Batman Family... it doesn't make a lot of sense to me that they would have three popular recognizable characters out of four and then just some random made-up girl. I can definitely see where the dispute would be, but that's why we have the conjecture template. It's at least worth having a page to denote the controversiality of the cameo.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 16:41, May 13, 2011 (UTC)

Profanity
When Tupka217 warned me a month ago, he used the phrase gtfo. That is profanity, even whwn warning a user.--1966batfan 22:58, May 19, 2011 (UTC)


 * Fuck, really? I'll talk to that asshole. That shit's not allowed here.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 23:35, May 19, 2011 (UTC)

Help with page creation
Could you help me create the page Priscilla Rich (Earth-One)? She is the Cheetah, like her Earth-Two counterpart of the same name and made her first appearance in Wonder Woman Vol 1 160. I however, don't know how to use the page creation template.--1966batfan 18:10, May 30, 2011 (UTC)

Bumping two-year old blogs
You don't happen to be fishing for badges now, would you? ;) -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 19:28, May 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hahahaha. I was looking through them and I realized that I'd never even seen most of these... I wasn't aware people actually used the blog functions on this site at all. I'm having a sort of slow day at home, so I thought I'd take an hour out of my time and actually customize these things. I'm having varying levels of success, the automatic cropping is weird.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 20:03, May 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * The temptation is strong! There haven't been many recent blog posts... apart from the ones that were made because people are fishing for badges... (Also, I dig the new Johnny Public badge).
 * - Hatebunny 20:06, May 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * Anything to replace the Wiki Planner Badge? I have like 30 of them, I want my page to look less blue. -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 20:13, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Replacing images
Do we have a policy for when there's a low quality image on a page, and we have a better one, and we want to replace it? Do we just upload the new version, link it up, and let the old version float around on the servers? Is there a special process? Is replacing low quality images uncool and passé?!
 * - Hatebunny 20:08, May 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * Tag the old ones with delete. -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 20:13, May 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * Woah there, Billy, I tagged the old low-res cover of for deletion, uploaded a nicer version, and linked it to the comic. Aaand it appears that by renaming my new file with the same name as the old file, the site has decided to show the old file instead of the new one. Is that the server's cache needing to be emptied, or did you mean to do that?
 * - Hatebunny 01:02, June 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * It's definitely a cache thing. Sometimes it corrects instantaneously, sometimes it'll take a day or two. I was just putting your new file at the old name, not trying to get rid of it. I didn't realize that only admins could reupload new images under old names, I wonder when that started... I can only remember having a problem with people using that for stupidity or vandalism once or twice in the five years I've been here, so it seems like something silly to institute.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 01:26, June 2, 2011 (UTC)

Custom badges
I'm noticing a lot of Batman supporting cast badges. Why no WW? Supes? GLs? (Kyle Rayner would do good for the Decorator badge) And please make the wiki planner badge a pretty woman, I have to look at it 38 times. -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 22:36, May 31, 2011 (UTC)


 * Jimmy Olsen for the Paparazzi badge, perhaps? - Hatebunny 01:29, June 2, 2011 (UTC)

Olsen already has one.--1966batfan 02:20, June 2, 2011 (UTC)

should they make a marvel vs dc game?
shoould they mkae a marvel vs dc video game? since they are comics books foesTeddybearlover 23:41, June 12, 2011 (UTC)

Doomnaut
Blame User:DC and Marvel editor. He mad a lot of amalgam articles with made-up (or poorly researched) real names. Remember "Anne Marie Reynolds" that debuted in Amalgam years before the name "Anne-Marie" was ever used in comics?

Anyway, when I encountered them, I just moved them without discussion. -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 20:21, June 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah, good to know. Thank you.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 20:23, June 13, 2011 (UTC)

Flash Comics Miniature
Actually, the comics does exist. It's the 1940s Wheaties giveaway Flash Comics Miniature Edition (no number, no date). But it should be "Dmane (Earth-Two)" anyway. See also Raven (Earth-Two) -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 07:06, June 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * Ah, okay. That would explain why I couldn't find it here or on the Grand Comics Database. The overwhelming majority of pages in the Image Needed category were made by that guy who created a page for every one-shot super-villain ever without really adding any information on them, and a couple of them have turned out to be just impossible to find or even non-existent because we don't know where this guy got his information from, so I've deleted a couple with the logic that if anybody actually does dig up information on them they can restore it then... until then, we don't have any information or a confirmation anyway. That's good to know though. Also, I assume you've noticed, but how cool is it that we're almost down to triple digits?
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 07:13, June 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * Yeah. I couldn't get the V empty because Vacuum Master (Earth-S)'s only appearance hasn't been scanned yet. Same for the currently first Bat (Earth-X).
 * They're mostly answerguy, who made up a lot of first/last names, or, it seems, worked off the DC Indexes, which has a lot of questionable material. (Diane Lindsey? She's only referred to as Diane unless she has more appearances)


 * Don't worry though, there's still Organization Image Needed and Image Needed. And then we can go through Locations and delete all the non-DC maps and pictures for various real world places. -- <font color="Green">Tupka <font color="DarkOrange">217 07:22, June 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * You and me, pal. What a magical adventure it's going to be.
 * - Billy Arrowsmith (Talk), 07:34, June 14, 2011 (UTC)