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Great job on the ??? items. Look forward to seeing them all with the new layout. --Gahoo 17:27, 2 February 2007 (EST)

Agreed, looks amazing--Zagex 00:32, 3 February 2007 (EST)

Thanks! I always got annoyed that you couldn't get from one ??? Axe (for example) to all the other ??? Axes easily. Or see all the Assaults that dropped a particular type of ??? Item. This should close that gap. --Divisortheory 00:34, 3 February 2007 (EST)

Re: New User Guide

(copied from response on Talk page)

Um ... because it is Nynaeve's Guide for New Members, and it's on her member's page. --Mierin 18:56, 21 February 2007 (EST)

To clarify, it is a personal guide she made, not an official FFXIclopedia guide. If you like, you can create an all purpose guide that anyone can edit. There are many different existing sources you can pull info from; most of them are on your Welcome Message. If it's up to snuff (as discussed by all the admins in our private forum), we can approve it to be moved to FFXIclopedia namespace (i.e. make it the official site guide). --Chrisjander 22:47, 21 February 2007 (EST)

Protected Pages

Nynaeve's guide was unprotected at her request. You can have your guide protected if you request it. However, be aware that if you do this, you will be unable to edit your guide unless it is unprotected. Needless to say, we admins will be very annoyed if someone (anyone, not singling you out) requested Protection for their page, and then Unprotection every time they wanted to edit it. We would be more than happy to protect it at your request if it is a final product. Also be aware that just because a guide is "protected" doesn't mean it's copyrighted in any way. It still falls under the GNU Free Documentation License, just like any information here that does not actually have copyrights. It will just be uneditable by any non-admins (including you). --Chrisjander 22:23, 21 February 2007 (EST)

I think I used one too many double negatives. A protected page can only be edited by admins, and not even the original author can touch it (unless he is also an admin). Named guides (XXX Guide by <Username>) can be protected upon request; it just doesn't get requested often. Hope I wrote that right this time... <feels silly> --Chrisjander 22:42, 21 February 2007 (EST)

As Chris said above, that particular guide was a subpage of a members page. To be perfectly honest, I don't know why that guide or the WHM guide was protected, but I'm not going to question actions of other administrators unless they do something patently wrong. I won't protect any of my guides. In general, though, it is highly frowned upon to edit someone else's guide for anything other than simple spelling or grammatical changes. If it is not a personal guide (ie, doesn't have "by XXX" after it), then it is free game. But personal guides contain personal opinions and to edit those opinions would be wrong.

However, this goes past your original question and my original answer. You made comments to the fact that you wanted to edit the guide. I was pointing out that it was a personal guide on a personal page. Maybe the protection was unnecessary, but protected or not, you should not be editing the guide. --Mierin 08:49, 22 February 2007 (EST)

And don't forget we have {{Guide}} and {{UserGuide}} to warn people against making such changes. --Gahoo 09:50, 22 February 2007 (EST)

Vandalism

I took care of it. Yes, I think revert is admin only. But other users can always just pull up the prior version, click edit and click save to do the same thing. --Gahoo 18:24, 22 February 2007 (EST)

Salvage

Your new format looks nice. BTW, I have more details about Arrapago mob layout on my home computer; I will post it on BG when I get home. --Aurikasura 16:31, 2 March 2007 (EST)

Pretty sure there are some inaccuracies with map1 southeast. I'll take detailed notes when I do it again, should be tomorrow. --Aurikasura 04:00, 6 March 2007 (EST)

RE: Skirmish Peph in bhaflau

This information has been drawn as a conclusion from my own experiences, as well as discussion with a number of reliable sources who have seen similar occurrences. Between us we have had well over a hundred salvage runs in Bhaflau Remnants, and have yet to see any evidence to prove the contrary. :/

Evidence to the contrary was posted on BG recently now, so we can remove that claim --Aurikasura 15:21, 5 March 2007 (EST)

I'm new to actually editing and adding information, so I didn't know how to make a new topic, but it seems my information would fit fine in here. You asked me if I had any evidence to prove if the spikes on the Empathic Flan's head can return after being lost with a nuke from a spell that does not kill the Flan. Here is my story: Due to a rather unsuccessful run from not having many drops that assisted us in accomplishing our goals, we decided to try for Reactionary Ramparts. Having been able to successfully pop Mad Bomber's Rampart quite frequently (SAM 2 hour works WONDERS with killing Mad Bomber quickly) we decided to try and figure out the second floor Reactionary Rampart since we have previously been unsuccessful. I tried a new strategy before reading the updates on him here. I thought that maybe you had to melee until spikes were present, and then nuke. After nuking once, I noticed that the spikes were removed, and hence came to the conclusion (which has already been made) that a nuke removes spikes. Seeing this, we decided to have all melee stop attacking, save one to get the spikes to return. Not too long after, we noticed spikes again, and proceeded to kill it with magic at the end. The Reactionary Rampart did spawn in the end. Therefore, my decision to remove the statement that spikes would never return after a nuke was based on this discovery. It may be more difficult to have spikes return, but having the knowledge that nukes remove spikes would prevent risk in further testing. I apologize if it is frowned upon (I read this recently) to edit someones page w/o letting them know first. Thanks, and sorry for taking so much time to reply (had to figure it out).

-Onibaku, Odin Server, Leader of CrimsonSentinelz Salvage LS

Congratulations

Just noticed this morning when I woke up, hopefully you aren't the only one. :) --Charitwo 13:38, 7 March 2007 (EST)

Nice~ --Joped 16:32, 7 March 2007 (EST)

RE: Octave Club

I believe they were playing around with it, from suggestions on the BG forum. Nothing special seems to have happened yet. If something does though, I'll be sure to report it. ^^ --Anjiru 09:01, 8 March 2007 (EST)

Duplicate Wyrm Armor Set Images

Duplicates:
Image:Drg afb head.jpg
Image:Drg afb body.jpg
Image:Drg afb hands.png
Image:Drg afb legs.jpg
Image:Drg afb feet.jpg

Need to be deleted when an already existing set exists under the proper image format and of decent quality that doesn't need replacing. See: Wyrm Armor Set --Charitwo 10:41, 8 March 2007 (EST)

You can just delete these without moving the talk pages. --Gahoo 15:14, 8 March 2007 (EST)

Warp Cudgel Redirect

I was under the impression that Warp Club was an often-used alias for Warp Cudgel, pardon me for my mistake. --Jesyvut 16:07, 10 March 2007 (EST)

Not to be rude or anything, but your user page says:

"I'm thinking about a revamp of the Salvage zone pages.

• Arrapago Remnants
• Bhaflau Remnants
• Zhayolm Remnants
• Bhaflau Remnants"

I think you mean one of those Bhaflau Remnants (the second one?) to be a Silver Sea Remnants? --Joped 13:22, 11 March 2007 (EDT)

Arrapago Remnants

You put Arrapago Lv.15 armor dropping off of gears only. If that is true, then you (well, anyone, really) should change all times where it says "Archaic Machinery" for Arrapago lv.15 armor to "Archaic Gears". --Joped 17:09, 13 March 2007 (EDT)

P.S. I love the table thingies! --Joped 17:28, 13 March 2007 (EDT)

When deleting redirects

When you find an unnecessary redirect, be sure to make sure nothing links to it. If something(s) link to that redirect, be sure to fix the link before deleting the redirect page. --Chrisjander 14:39, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

It's possible someone reverted your change; I just went to the "what links here" page and saw the broken link. --Chrisjander 14:46, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

You can still access "What links here" from a red page. I just clicked on the red link in the Deletion Log entry. --Chrisjander 14:52, 14 March 2007 (EDT)

Linking errors

The next time I go through the Wanted category/pages section I will notice them and do something about it. --Charitwo 18:46, 15 March 2007 (EDT)

Zhayolm Remnants

I reverted a change of yours where you deleted a line that had a verification tag, because actually I verified it tonight. We pulled the ramparts on the south side of floor 4, and nuked with stone1 and then slept. One of them took 0 damage, so we killed it, and the teleporter became active. --Aurikasura 02:52, 18 March 2007 (EDT)

Hmm I'm curious what's going on with the ramparts then. Certainly merits more investigation, because stone1 did damage to the "non-key" ramparts for us. Also it's similar to SilverSea floor3 where the proper rampart to open the east door is fixed in place...it's like they're giving us clues as to which one opens the door. --Aurikasura 14:32, 18 March 2007 (EDT)

Salvage Acquisition

Now I know this looks odd - and perhaps not worth making any changes, but take a look. What I like about this is that it tells you at a glance what zones you would need to hit to acquire each piece. Just a new concept for this rather complex drop system. We could always add little images of the colors so that the links would go to the item, etc. --Gahoo 16:53, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

Acquisition

Marduk Jubbah Set

Glad you like it - feel free to implement, change, modify, augment, ignore as you please. --Gahoo 17:10, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

Sample:
Marduk Jubbah Set

	Head	Body	Hands	Legs	Feet
Anu's (Lv.15)
Ea's (Lv.25)
Enlil's (Lv.35)

= Bhaflau Remnants | = Arrapago Remnants = Zhayolm Remnants | = Silver Sea Remnants

--Divisortheory 18:10, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

I'm done editing now. Transparency looks like it worked. Maybe refresh your cache. --Gahoo 18:25, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

Yea i refreshed it a few times, but eventually it finally gave me the new version. I'm gonna continue these to my user page until I complete all the tables, then update all the articles. --Divisortheory 18:27, 22 March 2007 (EDT)

Not sure about the zone tables. They are certainly not as clear to me as the armor set ones. You could use the same format but just use checks instead of the circles. That might work just as well. Not sure though. --Gahoo 15:37, 23 March 2007 (EDT)

I like the numbers better than the dots for the areas. Good idea. --Gahoo 09:52, 26 March 2007 (EDT)

Resolving Articles for Deletion

When making a resolution to an article for deletion, you should first make a note on the discussion before deletion and discussion move stating that in fact it was resolved. For example

Resolution - Delete: Explanation goes here. --~~~~
or
Resolution - Do not Delete: Explanation goes here. --~~~~

This is per your deletion of Lamia No. 8. --Charitwo 12:27, 10 April 2007 (EDT)

Preview

Can you tell your friend the important of the preview button please? :) --Charitwo 01:50, 19 April 2007 (EDT)

Your Mandau

I was thinking about this today, and I have no idea why. I know that you don't use the same name in-game as you do on the forums (here or BG), but I know you're keeping the Relic list as part of your user page. I was poking through it and noticed that your in-game name has no link to your userpage, as some other users have done. Is there a particular reason why you don't have yourself linked, or are you just trying to maintain some anonymity? I was going to make the change, but I decided I should ask you first :3 --Toxictaru 18:18, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

Okie. I just wanted to make sure. Maybe not something you want to announce, but its still a feat. --Toxictaru 08:20, 18 May 2007 (CDT)

Notoc?

For each of the jobs I was thinking it would be cool to have the Japanese equivalent next to it. I feel that this is another step to help ease the language barrier, and would be especially useful for ppl trying to learn Japanese. In the edit page I see the the other language equivalents are already there, but are in a section that is not visible labled Notoc. What exactly is that section for, and does that mean the Kanji characters cannot be displayed in another portion of the the article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Omsagro (talk • contribs).

SE Questions

Per the edit, I noticed, due to the patch, the HQ rings were removed from the DAT files. So you can safely remove that Vulcan Ring question. :P --Charitwo^Talk

recent Category:Daggers changes

Back in early January I made a few edits to the dps/dmg ratings listed for the Mercurial Kris, Blau Dolch, and Heart Snatcher on the Category:Daggers page to reflect actual combat usage. While the page originally (correctly) contained the statistics for the daggers as listed in their item descriptions, my edits changed the statistics to what they become when people use them. For example, when using the Blau Dolch, the latent switches the base damage to 33 for TP < 100 and weaponskills. Editing the Category:Daggers article to use 33 instead of 26 for the base damage value allows people to more informatively sort the daggers listings to see what daggers suit them the most.

Two days ago user Hellstorm17 changed the base damage value of the Blau Dolch back to 26. I don't want to start an edit war, but I strongly believe the value should be 33 as in my edit. What are your thoughts?

--Malizia 19:50, 29 January 2008 (UTC)