User talk:Ion frigate

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I'm really happy to have you here, and look forward to working with you! -- Paxed (Talk) 13:58, December 22, 2009

Observations about Crawl: The interface is much, much better than nethack's. [...] Pressing ^p brings up a full-screen display of your latest messages, instead of one by one.

Options msg_window=reversed in nethack - Cheers 62.80.22.186 11:19, April 9, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for fleshing out the Tools table

You were very prompt. Thefifthsetpin 01:51, September 26, 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome! The table format makes it much easier to give that information, so thanks for doing that. -Ion frigate 22:08, September 26, 2010 (UTC)

Nomination

Hi, would you like to become an admin? Discussion here: Forum:New_admins. --Tjr 21:34, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

I'd be willing to do that; this wiki is pretty quiet, so I don't imagine it'd be a huge time-suck or anything like that. -Ion frigate 14:26, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Account

So my account may very well have been hacked. The password has been changed, and apparently the email has been cleared. I'd suggest removing the admin bit in the meantime. Ask me anything to confirm that this is me. -96.231.155.177 06:27, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

EMail me (paxed at alt) from the email you used for your NAO username and I'll manually reset your password. --paxed 06:51, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

I have two separate email addresses (one is very obviously my screenname); I can't honestly remember which one I used, so I'll email you from both.

Done, I think.

Acid Mage role

...still exists in THEM, and I had literally just tagged it for a retool before you went and deleted it. The talk page I linked you to outright discusses as much, saying that the SLEX content should be removed while leaving everything else. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 22:50, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that - I just didn't know that one is in THEM (haven't played it, and it wasn't mentioned in the article itself). I'm going to let you go through and tag the articles in that category before I start deleting them (I undeleted the Acid Mage pages). Thanks for your help here! Ion frigate (talk) 22:52, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Sure - just double-check the repo if you're not sure something still exists within THEM that was in SLEX. You want the "develop" branch to be absolutely clear - I should have everything properly tagged in one pass, but that's there in case I miss anything. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 22:54, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

As for Amy's userpages... I don't know actually. I'm inclined to leave them, but probably worth asking other admins/users about - can't say for sure. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 23:29, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, my view is that those are certainly less urgent, since they shouldn't be indexed by Google and casual readers of the wiki wouldn't find them. Ion frigate (talk) 23:37, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Turns out they're only categorized in the first place because they were direct-linked rather than given a leading colon to pothole them properly - solves that problem, and I'm done with de-SLEXing the relevant pages in those categories - do what you please with the rest. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 00:33, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Deferred SLEX features

What do you (and others but I'm leading with you first) say to listing the really sparse stuff that's deferred/commented out in SlashTHEM on its own article? --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 03:31, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Yeah I think that's a good idea, something like Deferred feature (SlashTHEM). I'm going to finish what I'm doing for now (there's only five or so articles left), but feel free to combine those articles into one, and redirect the stubs there. Ion frigate (talk) 03:33, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Talk page deletion

Not that I think it's pressing we go over the talk pages of articles we agreed to remove and undo it all immediately, but in the future would it be fine to leave a deleted article's talk page up if there's discussion on it related to why it was deleted? --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 12:35, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

I'm not averse to preserving deletion discussions, but I personally don't want to leave talk pages for (now) non-existent articles. The standard practice on Wikipedia is to have a deletion discussion in project space (Articles for Deletion), and link to that discussion in the deletion summary. While I don't think we need to implement a formal AfD system like Wikipedia has, perhaps we could make a project page to archive deletion discussions to? That way, anyone looking to create the page will see a link showing why it was deleted.

If there are concerns about preserving talk page history, we could instead move the talk pages to somewhere in project space - something like moving it to NetHackWiki:Deleted_article_discussions/Item_(SLASH'EM Extended). I just don't want to leave orphaned talk pages in article talk space - though if the general consensus is to do so, I'll go along with it. Ion frigate (talk) 18:35, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

I don't see why talk pages need to be deleted. Wikipedia is orders of magnitude larger than NetHackWiki is and ever will be, so it needs orders of magnitude more bureaucracy. On our relatively small wiki, anybody interested in goings-on can usually keep up with Special:RecentChanges by just checking it once per day (or even once per week, when there's not a massive project like deslexing going on), so we don't really need a central place like AfD for people to find deletion discussions. The deletion process is basically to tag stuff with Template:Delete, and if anybody contests it, they can remove the tag and give a reason in the edit summary, or discuss it on the most natural place to do so – the talk page, which is also a natural place for someone to look for a deletion discussion after the page is deleted (if there is not a link to the discussion in the deletion reason, which there is in most of the recent slex-related deletions). We could have a category to keep track of talk pages containing deletion discussions.

We could have admins do something like moving the deletion discussion to some other place and linking it in the deletion reason if they really don't like orphaned talk pages, but I think that is just unnecessary work for negligible (if any) benefit. However, if the admins want to do it that way, they're the ones who have to do it, and I don't oppose it. Cathartes (talk) 01:08, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

Alright, it seems that's the general consensus here. I'm undeleting the first talk page (Talk:Kobolt) I deleted, since that was where I asked what was happening with the SLEX articles (I hadn't known about the whole fracas before that). Most the other articles I deleted didn't have talk pages, and of those that did I'm pretty sure most or all weren't deletion discussions, but let me know if there any others you think should be undeleted. In the future, I'll leave talk pages up if there are deletion discussions on them. Ion frigate (talk) 05:35, 7 October 2022 (UTC)