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Featured Articles/Images/Episode

Any ideas for the article and episode? I am going to upload the new Simpsons opening image for the pciture. Also im going to make a record of previous featured articles/images/episodes somewhere. --Sgtcook 17:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Language Links

Here's a copy of what a posted on every Simpson wiki for reference.

Hi(i used google to translate this in case you can't understand English) I'm from the English Simpsons wiki and i'm going to update our language links tonight and over the weekend.One question though, does it update your Homer page if i put it on the English page?--Sgtcook 21:45, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

About the Language links... I think that they're a wiki in french, the admins can adds this links please? I can't because i'm not an admin. Thanks. Sincerely.

--User:FedericoF/sig 02:34, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Anyone can add language links just on this wiki just put fr:page name and on the French put en:page name.--Sgtcook 15:36, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Spam?

Hi ive been visiting numerous of pageson this site and have been seeing this on alot of pages about characters.

"Great Great Nephew. Bart Great Great Nieces Lisa, Maggie Great Nieces Marge, patty and selma Great Nephew, In law Homer Brother in law Abe"

Is someone spamming that or is that intended to be there, i have the feeling its not supposed to.

• "Unregistered contributor 85.12.64.150" keeps changing the Roofi page and Abe Simpson page, adding caps- and bold-filled nonsense. Someone get a handle on this while I revert the edits. JaffaCakeLover 15:05, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

About This Wiki The Simpsons Page

This Alex Estrada, this page should be edited with a little more heart and soul, meaning there needs to be more info on every page, and most importantly, on the home page.

Thanks, for anyone who read this all the way.--Novatv456 23:35, 29 July 2009 (UTC)--Novatv456 23:35, 29 July 2009 (UTC)--Novatv456 23:35, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

well anyone can add the info,we all don't know everything off the top of our heads.--Sgtcook 11:24, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Video games pic?

OK, there's Template:Ep, which is used for the TV show in the Appearances box for characters (i've revamped Homers). There's also Bon (for comics) and UL (for the Tracy Ullman shorts). Where's the one for Video Games? Does it still need to be made, and if so, what picture would suit it? Are there any other catagories for appearances (the templates aren't in a group)? JaffaCakeLover 18:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

There's MOV for the Movie. A gaming controller maybe. I don't think there's one, Kingcjc made them so i'd check with him.--Sgtcook 18:35, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

What about adverts as well?--Sgtcook 20:40, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

And books.--Sgtcook 20:51, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Don't think there's any for adverts or books; i've come across Ullman Shorts (Ul), Episodes (Ep), the movie (mov), Treehouse of Horror (THOH), comics (Bon), and games does exist (Game).

I made games, books and adverts the other day.Here they are Episode – "[[]]" – The Simpsons Movie Comic story – [[]] Simpsons short – "[[]]"

THOH – "[[]]" Video game – [[]] Template:Bookapp Template:Advert --Sgtcook 19:13, September 8, 2009 (UTC)

Hiding attributes?

In the infoboxes (episode, character etc.), I could swear there's a way to hide attributes: for example, if you don't fill in a 'hair' attribute on a Character template for Milhouse's page, then the 'hair' line doesn't show up at all. What's the code/syntax for this? JaffaCakeLover 15:33, September 8, 2009 (UTC)

I saw it on another wiki, i'll dig it out for you.i was going to add it but i never forgot it.--Sgtcook 16:03, September 8, 2009 (UTC)

This is probably it, i'm trying now. {{#if:{{{publisher|}}}|Publisher(s)|}} .--Sgtcook 16:46, September 8, 2009 (UTC)

This wiki needs serious fixing

There are too many stubs, bad spelling and grammar, and plus some pages I can't even find here. It needs to be more updated. BuddyComics 08:13 27 September 2009

Well i and other user can't do everything. We have lives away from the wiki, like school. It's up to users like you to fix these things.I had been using the AutoWiki Browser to fix spellings (my spellcheck is in British English), but it hasn't been working recently.--Sgtcook 15:46, September 28, 2009 (UTC)

Skin

This wiki seriously needs a skin, maybe a yellow kind or something else. But really get an admin to deign a skin for you many wiki's have them. --Homer-simpson 15:50, December 26, 2009 (UTC)

• They just added a new skin, but it's rather ugly in my standards. Ldude893 00:59, February 27, 2010 (UTC)

Well i have cleared my catch but still can't see the new skin.--Sgtcook (My Talk Page) 01:04, February 27, 2010 (UTC)

• Why dont u insert the episode and season number? very strange ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.185.255.152 (talk) 19:01, May 5, 2010

What are you on about? ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 18:08, May 5, 2010 (UTC)

Main page header

Please, if any admin read this, I edited the Template:MainPageIntro and added a border. Anyone who can edit the Main page, please remove the link {{navigation}} and I will add it to the Mainpageintro box. Thanks, --Simpsons88 (messages · +) 15:02, January 20, 2010 (UTC)

Done.--Sgtcook (My Talk Page) 16:03, January 20, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, --Simpsons88 (messages · +) 16:11, January 20, 2010 (UTC)

Facebook

I've created a Wikisimpsons page in Facebook. Please join if you have an account there. Please, write it in the Main Page. -- 23:26, February 3, 2010 (UTC)

Joined.--Sgtcook (My Talk Page) 17:40, February 4, 2010 (UTC)

The main page's looks

Can we change the look of main page? We can use the look of the page in spanish. I think is better. We should do a vote. What do you think? Link to page

--User:FedericoF/sig 02:59, February 8, 2010 (UTC)

Edited link, i does look cooler. Another thing we need is a better skin. Anyone know if the skins are in CSS(CBA to look)?

You have to go in Special:Preferences, then you go to "Skin" and click the "Smoke" skin and you save your changes at the bottom of the page. It's yellow you can watch it here.

PS: Congratulations for the 4,000 articles.

--User:FedericoF/sig 15:12, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

It is CSS, so if anyone has a colour scheme i could give it a go. Also can't see anything cos i think we use a custom.--Sgtcook (My Talk Page) 15:43, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

Maybe you should talk with Simpsons88.

--User:FedericoF/sig 18:17, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

Me and Solar kinda failed.--Sgtcook (My Talk Page) 20:15, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

Time to make a request then? ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 21:00, February 9, 2010 (UTC)

I've tried to improve the background. Took it into Photoshop, made it a seamless tile & removed the logo & crow. Here you go. I also improved the logo image (but didn't get round to posting it), by tracing Homer's head from the DVD cover & the wikipedia logo. That one's here! I made a favicon too (why is the logo Homer but the Favicon Bart?), but it doesn't look better than the current one, so nothing yet. --JaffaCakeLover 14:48, March 10, 2010 (UTC)

Looks good. One thing. Can you change the file format to a jpg or something similar please? ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 17:19, March 10, 2010 (UTC)

Wow, nice work, love the Homer - Also Solar the logo has to be a .png. Can't comment on background as mines still the old one.--Sgtcook (My Talk Page) 18:34, March 10, 2010 (UTC)

Changed them now. When my cache resets, I will tell you what I think. ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 22:11, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

Very nice :) JaffaCakeLover 14:57, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

About the main page

This wiki has nearly every article for nearly every subject in the Simpsons, and yet they lack an article about the show itself. The article name "The Simpsons" is just the main page. Ldude893 09:44, February 19, 2010 (UTC)

The Simpsons (show) Started it off. ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 22:13, March 16, 2010 (UTC)

Odd text characters glitch

Back working on the Season templates, someone's stuck on proper next and previous arrows... nice. Trouble is, for some reason the right arrow (→) shows up, but not the left one (←). I'm replacing them with different arrows, they don't look as nice but both display. (⇐ ⇒) JaffaCakeLover 15:01, March 18, 2010 (UTC)

Featured Video

If Fox ever decide to update there YouTube with Simpsons promos, we could do like the featured picture, with fan choices when new episodes stop. Any comments?--Sgtcook (My Talk Page) 12:16, March 27, 2010 (UTC)

I guess. We could include small sections of video footage. ☆The Solar Dragon ^(Talk)☆ 13:02, March 27, 2010 (UTC)

Default Skin

About 1/10 times I visit a page it appears in the Default Sapphire skin, does this happen to anyone else? --Smiley12 was here at 22:55, June 4, 2010 (UTC)

This happens occasionally to me when Wikia is messing about. When Wikia becomes slow, due to database errors and the like, this will happen. If this happened yesterday, it was probably because there was an error they were trying to fix, hence the image upload being disabled as well. The Solar Dragon 06:54, June 5, 2010 (UTC)

Hmm. Just did it to me then. Must be a Wikia fail. The Solar Dragon 09:18, June 5, 2010 (UTC)

Where to begin

First let me say, I’m new to Wikisimpsons, but no to Wikipedia, where I’ve had my share of edits. (I went by a different name there.) I want to help improve Wikisimpsons and there are just some thing I want to discuss.

I noticed that the actual articles that inform you on how to edit at this Wiki, such as the Manual of Style, are not very organized. For example, the MoS makes it clear how to list a character’s or location’s appearances, but it doesn’t show the actual templates to do this. There is no link to Wikisimpsons:Templates from there, or anything. There is also no locations section at the MoS page.

The MoS also doesn’t make clear when and how to use section names. I still don’t know for sure if the “scenes” in “Behind the Scenes” is supposed to be capitalized or not, or if I’ve even been using that section correctly. Is it the same thing as a Trivia section or no? And is the “Used for” field in the location template supposed to be used to actually describe what it is the location is for, or name what the actually location is? For example, for the Springfield Public Library, should it say, “Library” or “Research”?

I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, I’m not, it’s just that if we want this Wiki to get organized, we have to start here. I don’t mind fixing these things myself. (Also, not that it’s a big deal, but I noticed that the syntax of the location template is itself unorganized. It requires that you capitalize the t in “Town” or otherwise it won’t show up, while other fields require that they remain lowercase such as “first appearances.”)

I also plan on improving the Project Locations page if no one minds. There is also no {{User Project Locations}} box.

Now unto another topic. A “stub” is characterized by an article that is a paragraph or less and could be more, but then there are some articles that could never be more than one paragraph, let alone a paragraph, such as “Ron's Meat.” My question is, are articles this small--in this case, something that was just mere background scenery--worth an article at all? I would think no, but this is in essence an encyclopedia, so why not? I’m just wondering, for an article like that, when is it considered to be in a “finished” or “definitive” state, since it will technically always be a stub. Is there something we could use for this Wiki that says, though this article is just a stub, and will never reach featured article status, it is “complete”? An infobox or something. If not, do articles like this warrant their on page.

And last, but not least, these are just some suggestions that I have for Wikisimpsons:

• Change “Behind the scenes” to “Behind the laughter”. More to the point, and a lot of fans will immediately get the connotation.
• Perhaps making the yellow used in the episode tabs a little lighter. The current dark orangey yellow makes it a little hard to read.
• This is The Simpsons, so why not a quote of the day on the main page.
• Adding an “Employees” section to the location template would really help.
• And a picture for video games appearances that’s more related to the Simpsons like the others appearance pictures.

Again, these are just suggestions and my feeling won’t be hurt if they are not accepted.

I do all this rambling because I only want this Wiki looking its best. TheUnderfaker 16:06, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

Great suggestions! We'll have to wait and see what the other users says though, before making any big changes.    Effluvium    talk    contributions    email   16:12, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

To be honest, we need to agree to what we want in a MoS, as it seems all editors do it their way. I would be happy for you to help. I personally am fine with articles that cant be expanded being short. Over on brickipedia, where I also admin, we have a completness system, where if an article can't be made into a good or featured article, it can be complete. It could work here, but it only came about following a very rigid and structured FA and GA scheme. Behind the laughter sounds cool, and a quote a day is a good idea, as I found some funny quotes earlier, "Its Mr. McGreg, with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg". Your rambles, are very good. Kingcjc 17:07, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

We do need a few changes I feel. I never use the Manual of Style so if someone could bulk it up and start discussions on the talk page. If an article can't be made any bigger, it is not a stub. Remove the template. we should have the article as we are a Simpsons encyclopaedia. ☆The Solar Dragon 18:17, July 4, 2010 (UTC)

Each Bullet Point is a response to each of your ideas.

• Why didn't I think of that. Good Idea.
• I don't see what's wrong with the current colour, but it's like that because it was originally copied from Family Guy Wiki...
• Yep. There is heaps here and all over the internet.
• Yep.
• Not quite sure what you mean there.
  

You should see what the MoS looked like before I started here. ;)
--Smiley12 was here at 05:10, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

Oh, never mind, I get it now --Smiley12 was here at 08:54, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

I didn't copy it, I borrowed it.... Kingcjc 18:24, July 5, 2010 (UTC)

Featured quote now in place. ☆The Solar Dragon 10:05, July 5, 2010 (UTC)