User talk:Tark

Error creating thumbnail

Hey, I've recently been remaking some paint galleries for some potato medals and I've run into a problem, maybe. I uploaded the first of the galleries today and saw that many of the images I had uploaded show up in the gallery and file itself with the text saying "Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination." (Example File:Painted Madness vs Machines Burnished Beryl 2019 UNPAINTED.png) I was just curious if this was just a cache issue or if I should be doing something different before uploading more images. I would appreciate any help! H20verdrive (talk) 02:45, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Hey, that's only a cache issue that should not affect images and should fix itself in a few days. This is the most recent image stored, which is what you uploaded · Ashe (talk) 03:10, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Delete my account.

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Please do the above and delete as much data and public info as possible. I do not want anything with this alias on the website. I would like my account to be renamed to DeletedUserXXXX and all of my edits and revision history to be hidden.

Done. — Tark 14:16, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Gloves of Running Urgently uses wrong defindex.

Hi. The GRU is using the wrong defindex. The weapon had a new defindex when the Jungle Inferno update came in. The current defindex "1184" on the Template:Dictionary/defindex page is now used exclusively to the robots on MVM. The new index should be "239". Due to this, clicking to purchase the weapon on the page does not work, as it's redirecting to the old defindex.

Was going to update but saw that the page is automatically replaced by this bot, so.

Oh, and I posted this on User talk:PhoneWave beforehand. I thought no one used the "About this board" section, lol. - ▪ - 03:04, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Please edit User:PhoneWave/forceDefindex. — Tark 14:30, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

April Fools Day

Hi Tark. You expressed displeasure with the content I created for April Fools Day 2020, instead delaying it to 2021 which arguably created other problems. Since April Fools Day 2022 is coming up, I was wondering if you had any comments or thoughts or simply wanted to use whatever is made? Naleksuh (talk) 22:02, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

I haven't been following the wiki lately, but I recall some users are throwing ideas around for an April Fools event. I'm not sure how far they are (or if they gave up already), but I'd suggest contacting them instead (see April Fools talk page).

Once you guys have a project ready to go, please contact an active staff member so they can review and setup everything. — Tark 00:38, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Operation Peculiar Pandemonium on Main Page Current Events?

Will we include Operation Peculiar Pandemonium, the usual Pineapple.TF custom MVM memes tour, on the main page's current events section once it gets a blog post soon? It's a short event, April Fools tours usually only last a week or so; it shouldn't preempt anything potentially more notable in say, a week's timespan, the way Binary Blackout lasted four months. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 14:29, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Are you involved in this project in any way? I always see you making pages before events like this one are even announced. — Tark 18:15, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Not directly involved, no. I just grab the info that's available from tf_english.txt and items_game.txt and make sandbox pages for the eventual tour. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 22:19, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Good.

As I said before, you're free to include any events that have a blog post. Events must have a start and end date and must be labeled as such on Steam: Bowmann Brawl Tournament is eligible, Operation Binary Blackout is not.

Also please remember to make use of the {{item description}} template. — Tark 15:05, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

That's the first I've heard of a new description template. I've added the medal descriptions, but what do I do in terms of the {{backpack item}} displays I'm using? I understand that putting the item's name in the item-name field makes it read the string from the dictionary, and the name gets filled in. But the item-description field just displays plain text, like it always has. Do I put nothing in there, do I put the item name in there? I imagine it would still just display the item name as text. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 01:50, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

|item-description = {{item description|medal name}} — Tark 02:03, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Account Deletion

Users that no longer wish to have their account publicly present on the Team Fortress Wiki may request a deletion of any self-made content created and/or uploaded within their user space, including the user page. Users may also request their edits to be hidden in the History tab and/or have their account renamed to DeletedUserXXXX.

Could you do the following to my account?

Done. — Tark 17:29, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Operation Anniversary Annihilation hotlink

I noticed you hotlinked the Operation Anniversary Annihilation text in the patch notes yesterday - I've been working on another sandbox page for the medals, since they're all the information we know about the tour conclusively at the moment. Would you rather I move that to a mainspace Operation Anniversary Annihilation page already? I thought the protocol was typically to wait for an official announcement, or something of that nature. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 00:35, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Yes, in theory. The community event assessments project kinda died out, so there are no rules to enforce.

Given your involvement in these communities, could you ask them what they think about the proposed guidelines? Please leave all feedback here.

Thanks. — Tark 17:14, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

I've asked my contact at Potato's Servers about it, but I can't promise any feedback from them. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 04:53, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Player Medals in Promotional Item Tables

Last October, Swood and I discussed that he thought medals earned through actually playing TF2 in community events shouldn't be put in the promotional item tables, because they don't promote anything external, the way that say, the Random Acts medals do, and of course, charity donor medals do. I argue that they're still promoting an event, whether or not that event is in-game or not - and I feel that's different from a tournament medal, because it's something a wider range of the community is intended to take an interest in.

It was at that point that we had come to a compromise: that I would remove medals earned by playing the game from the promotional item tables, in exchange for him producing a disambiguation page for Community Medals that showed all available community medals, in the same style as the Genuine quality item table. It's now the following July, and nothing has come of that -- so I thought I'd ask you what your thoughts on the matter were.

Do player-earned community medals belong on the promotional item tables, and if so, should I just put them back, at least until such time as the disambiguation page is created? -ThatHatGuy (talk) 05:01, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

For your perusal, I've also created a sandbox page to show what the Expired Promotional Items table's Community section would look like, if player-earned medals were reinstated. If you don't have a problem with it, I can just merge it in; it is up to date with recent donor medals, as well. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 13:59, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Community medals (and, by extension, the Wiki Cap, Lo-Fi Longwave, and other community items) are technically promotional items. And so are tournament medals.

A good compromise, in my opinion, would be to remove everything that isn't a genuine promotion with other games in favor of creating a separate page for them. ([[Community promotions]]?)

And if this does not sound like a good idea, then please put them back/merge. — Tark 14:14, 12 July 2022 (UTC)