User talk:Brucker

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Rather than a unique page for each tag, most of which are pretty clearly descriptors of her videos, couldn't we have the tags all direct back to one page that says these are tags of no particular significance, and then break out into new pages if we need them? Or could we just leave meaningless tags without links?--JayHenry 17:25, 9 October 2006 (PDT)

My wiki experience is somewhat limited, so I wasn't sure what the best approach was. I think those pages should all exist so as to keep them off of the list, but perhaps they should redirect to a list of all tags used?--Brucker 17:30, 9 October 2006 (PDT)

as long as they direct somewhere they'll disappear from that list. The list is only for broken links -- I think the new YouTube tags page you set up is good. But I don't know, I'm not an admin or anything. Let's ask Dharmabum--JayHenry 17:40, 9 October 2006 (PDT)

tag page

I completely agree. What happened was I was trying to fix links to disambiguation pages. Some vids have the tag "lonelygirl15", which links to the lonelygirl15 disambig page. I changed it to link to Lonelygirl15 (tag), which redirects to the Category page for YouTube tags. Should I leave that as is and just not include lonelygirl15 (tag) on the disambig page? Another option would be to link those tags directly to lonelygirl15 (character). Whatever we do, I just want it to be consistent and hopefully not link to a disambig page. Thoughts or suggestions? Thx. OwenIsCool 16:15, 30 November 2006 (CST)

My feeling is that in the case of the lonelygirl15 tags on the videos, there actually is ambiguity there. Furthermore, the tag is on virtually every video, and cleanup of any sort would be huge undertaking that is largely unneeded. I think the tags should only be redirected in cases where they refer clearly to something that we already have a page for, like a few cases of the tag "helper" being redirected to the Lucy page. In general, there ought not be any page that has a name ending in "(tag)", just for style purposes. I think the non-unusual tags are largely unimportant, and don't warrant a page of their own. --Brucker 17:36, 30 November 2006 (CST)

Sounds reasonable. Thanks for trying to fix some of them. I'll go back and fix the rest that link to the old tag page and get everything back to normal. OwenIsCool 01:36, 1 December 2006 (CST)

Dr.

I didn't see the Dr. links. All the page said was "Dr. is an abbreviation for Doctor" so we can always bring it back if needed. But, I wonder if fan fiction should have all their YouTube tags link the same way we do for lonelygirl15 canon material. It seems to me that we shouldn't track tags for anyone except LG, DB, Jonas and Gemmers -- and frankly I'm beginning to wonder if there's anything behind the LG tags or not.--JayHenry 22:41, 4 December 2006 (CST)

Some more category ideas

If you check here: Special:Uncategorizedpages you can see a list of all the uncategorized pages. In theory, I think almost all these pages should eventually have categories. I'm stumped on what to name the categories. A lot of pages are about real world influences of LG15 -- like Stargirl or Dava Sobel or even Richard Feynman. It would be cool to have these items categorized together. There are a number of items about stuff in the LG15 series that doesn't really qualify as Category:theories and speculation but needs some sort of categorization -- like Breebrows or Hot pink feather boa or Bandage. We also have a number of Breeniverse events (I think Category:Events is probably adequate -- but this would include items like "The Road Trip" which is currently listed as a location, Bree chat, Fall equinox, etc. Also, we need a category for articles surrounding the series, articles like Phorum 3, Firing of Yousef or A Message From The Creators. Any other ideas??--JayHenry 15:20, 5 December 2006 (CST)

I've got a lot of ideas. I like the idea of information that relates to, but is not directly part of, the Breeniverse, such as Feynman and Sobel. Actually, I've expressed before that I'd considered the idea of how to deal with information that is part of the Breeniverse that involves real people. Perhaps Category:Real-world references with possibly sub-categories like Category:Real-world people et al.

I'm not sure how to categorize the minor details like the Hot pink feather boa, but some of the little details are more important than others, like the bandage, of course. Perhaps somebody needs to coin a new term like "Breeniverse" for these things, such as "Breeism" or "Breeica" (although those don't have such a ring to them).

I've already created a category called Category:Meta-discussion, although I've only used it once, and although I didn't intend it to be used in such a way, perhaps it would work for discussing behind-the-scenes issues.

As for the very specific issue of The road trip, while I think it's a legitimate enough location, I think it's a poor name, as it seems to indicate an action/event rather than a place. Likewise with The ceremony, both for the reason already stated, and because it's too easily confused with The Ceremony. I'm actually going to continue this discussion at Category talk:Locations, and leave the talk of new categories here. --Brucker 16:01, 5 December 2006 (CST)

I added categories to the OpAphid video template at Template:Aphid -- you can see them in action at You Made the Right Choice, Bree!‎. Pretty easy for this. I've never looked much at the wikitext in Template:Blog3 but it might be pretty easy to add there too.--JayHenry 12:29, 7 December 2006 (CST)

I'd like to see a "Category:Userpage" myself. --Treefunk 01:03, 8 December 2006 (CST)

Where you at, Brucker?? In the middle of finals or something? I'd love your input on the potential main page redesign at Main Page/redesign.--JayHenry 13:51, 12 December 2006 (CST)

Three jobs and two kids!! You must be loco. I totally assumed you were a college student!--JayHenry 14:50, 12 December 2006 (CST)

Thanks

Thanks for fixing that for me!!! --Iris2009 15:01, 12 December 2006 (CST)

Main page

Hi Brucker,
I really like the Characters page you made. It's simple and clean and takes a load off the Main page. However, I think it might be premature to start changing the main page. My impression was that for now we'd be working off Main page redesign to implement our suggested changes. When we're closer to our redesigned page, then we would move that to the real main page. Otherwise I think we would wind up with a bit of a mish-mash between versions. As you can see, the color on the Bloggers table doesn't even match the rest of the page. You probably know what you're doing anyway, but I just thought I'd mention it.
OwenIsCool 12:37, 20 December 2006 (CST)

Just my way of trying to be a little pushy. I figure if i start making changes, it will make others look into it more. If anyone doesn't like it, I won't be offended if they roll it back. There certainly is a lot more work to be done before the full revamp. --Brucker 12:54, 20 December 2006 (CST)

Yeah, I understand what you mean. We haven't made many real changes in Main Page redesign yet, so it's important that more people get involved. However, I see now that some people have started tinkering with the changes you made (and adding their own) directly on the main page. I don't think you meant to promote people's making numerous experimental edits to the Main page, as this would be disorienting to new users... but unfortunately that seems to be how your edit was interpreted by some. I've reverted a couple of the needless changes, but I'm not sure how to direct more people to the redesign page, which is I think what you meant to do. OwenIsCool 13:33, 20 December 2006 (CST)

Hehehe, your new heading on editing the Main page should get the message across. That was a smart way of doing it. Thanks for taking care of it. OwenIsCool 14:42, 20 December 2006 (CST)

Nice job Brucker

Those are great images you chose for the main page. Much much better than the ones before. Great work.Garfwog 19:11, 21 December 2006 (CST)

Thanks for the support

I just wanted to thank you and all the staff here at the LGpedia for the support you've shown Dr. Immant. The picture captions are hilarious! I'm taking the series on hiatus after "Flee." Hopefully we'll return bigger and badder. Thanks! --Immortal1 19:55, 1 January 2007 (CST)

Bann

Please click this link this is his sec vandlism warning http://www.lonelygirl15.com/lgpedia/index.php?title=User_talk:194.80.32.8 --Iris2009 12:46, 2 January 2007 (CST)

Templates

The real problem with templates is that there's no good way to test their functionality without saving the page dozens of times. I saw you made some edits on Template:blog3 but I couldn't tell exactly what you were trying to do.

On the topic of templates, last night, before I made the init template, I also made Template:imagelink. I was originally thinking of using it for linking icons, but couldn't make it work the way I wanted. Here's what the template does:

It makes an image link to an article instead of its image file. Kinda cool, huh? Anyway, though I'd let you know that the template is floating around out there, but it's also a highly sensitive template that causes all sorts of explosions. Oh well...--JayHenry 15:22, 3 January 2007 (CST)

You're about to join Modelmotion in the over 2000 edits club!--JayHenry 17:18, 3 January 2007 (CST)

I think I'll make it today; I'm going on a vendetta against uncategorized images. I figure just about every image should fit in one of these categories:

Maybe make Category:Images of Bree's parents into Category:Images of minor characters so we can also categorize The Deacon (individual) and the Watcher and my personal fave The Other Monkey. Could always make a Category:Miscellaneous Images for the oddballs like on Cannon or Baphomet. Or is that cheating? I've been wanting to go through and categorize all the articles as well, but I've been trying to finish the Main Page redesign first.--JayHenry 17:38, 3 January 2007 (CST)

Image links?

Saw the edits you tried to make to the vid template. Not sure if this is the effect you want, but you can actually make the image redirect to the video. Somebody set this up for the character pictures on the main page, making the images redirect to the character's page. Check out:

Is that what you want it to do?--JayHenry 15:18, 8 January 2007 (CST)

Yeah, that's what I was trying. --Brucker 15:19, 8 January 2007 (CST)

help

my userpage is going to catagories it should not be going too can u help me fix it please? --Iris2009 19:08, 9 January 2007 (CST)

sorry must of missed it :( is there another templete?--Iris2009 19:18, 9 January 2007 (CST)

Thanks Once agian sorry :( --Iris2009 19:31, 9 January 2007 (CST)

Hey Brucker, tried to send you an e-mail through the LGPedia system a couple days ago... Does the e-mail system work? Did you get it?--JayHenry 22:12, 14 January 2007 (CST)

Youtube tags on fanfic vids

Hey Brucker,
I saw what you did with the Immant blogs (the making broken links redirect to Immant), in order to clean up the wanted pages list. Do you think this is something that we should do with other series too? Tachyon, Oppy, all have tags that have a meaning in their puzzles, but would not make pages. I think what you did would work well there too, since ideally we'd like to leave the tags there. Another option would be to just remove the brackets from the broken links and leave them as text (might be less confusing to people). Lemme know what you think, I'd be glad to lend a hand. OwenIsCool 12:31, 20 January 2007 (CST)

I think it would be good for tags in general to link to the place where their meaning is explained, if it is not obvious what their meaning is. Sometimes that means linking to another page (when the odd Immant tags become clear eventually, I expect that info to be on the Immant page anyway) but sometimes it may mean linking to the same page (see what I did with the tags on Hungover. That's my view on the matter of tags in general; you may notice that I have tried in the past to make every tag on an lg15 video have a page marked with the category tag, but not every tag leads to that page. (See also the change I am about to make to Purple Monkey Returns after posting this.) --Brucker 10:23, 22 January 2007 (CST)

interwiki links

I've noticed that somehow our policy on interwiki links seems to have shifted. We used to link quite a bit within transcripts, to relevant articles. We've mostly given that up. It seems to me, however, that every video with Bree in it, should link to Bree -- every video with Daniel to Daniel. Basically, any item should link on its first appearance in the transcript or notes. Or is there a compelling reason, not to do this?--JayHenry 11:29, 22 January 2007 (CST)

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