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Help with infobox
I know how to add the alien species infobox but I always have trouble adding the pic. The pic won't show up on the Yardrat and Vortaak articles that I created. Elcidman 21:11, January 6, 2013 (UTC)


 * While the Vortaak image had been fixed by the time I had arrived there, I fixed up the Yardrat image for you. For your own future reference, what the problem seemed to be was that it was missing the "image:" part at the beginning of the link. Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you, I am always glad to be of assistance, and thanks for the page adds! Keep up the good work. =) — Somarinoa (talk) 13:50, January 8, 2013 (UTC)

Cryptid Wiki
I gave you Adminstership on Cryptid Wiki.

--Australopithecusman


 * Awesome! I won't let you guys down. =D — Somarinoa (talk) 07:49, January 23, 2013 (UTC)

opinion
i want an opinion, did I do an okay job on the Imperial, Native, and Shadow People pages? I tormented myself trying to obtain all of the information. ralok (talk) 06:39, January 23, 2013 (UTC)


 * I'll go check and let you know if there's anything that needs fixing. =) — Somarinoa (talk) 07:48, January 23, 2013 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, you did quite well on those pages. Excellent work! — Somarinoa (talk) 09:17, January 23, 2013 (UTC)

Yo
I plan on being active here for now, just letting you know.

PS: I'm administrating like 3 wikis so it's hard to have time, but I'll try.--面白い 18:59, January 24, 2013 (UTC)
 * I perfectly understand — I admin or otherwise moderate 11 wikias myself, and edit anywhere between those 11 and 31 total wikias daily; it can easily take a majority of my time just to make my rounds. Do what you can when you can, we'll certainly appreciate it. =D — Somarinoa (talk) 10:40, January 25, 2013 (UTC)

You sir, makes me look lazy x3, also can you take me out of the "retired" ASPF personnel? I'm here o_o'--面白い 02:40, January 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * Oh! Of course! And yeah, I'm pretty insane with my wiki work, though it stretches me thin so I can't add like 50 pages a day here like I used to and that I'd like to do. ; - ; — Somarinoa (talk) 05:38, January 26, 2013 (UTC)

Template
I noticed there was no template for planets, what do you think of this sketchy template I made? Template:Planet--面白い 02:35, January 26, 2013 (UTC)

please help
can you please transfer the terra universe crap to another wiki? It needs to be deleted. . .badly, and I will feel guilty if I just delete it. ralok (talk) 14:49, January 30, 2013 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that, I was out of town all day. Is there still work needing to be done? I was never really sure about whether the Terra universe was real or not. — Somarinoa (talk) 07:28, January 31, 2013 (UTC)


 * It has all been removed, and it was false 90% of the planet images were from star wars. ralok (talk) 17:23, January 31, 2013 (UTC)


 * OK, that's cool. If it got deleted before being moved as a bureaucrat I can deal with that since I can restore pages (and then just simply not actually restore them, instead simply using it to grab the information back out), but it's a little more obnoxious as it requires having to delete a bunch of rows of gibberish and such when I go to paste the info elsewhere. My Internet has been pretty cruddy for the last few days (storm, maybe) but I can definitely attempt at least to work on that stuff. Browser hates attempting to edit wikias right now especially but with 50 reloads, I can probably get it to actually load at least once per page, heh. — Somarinoa (talk) 22:33, January 31, 2013 (UTC)

I personally wouldnt consider those pages worth-it :/ but if you want to ressurect them to transfer them. . . be my guest, I will focus on creating as much new content as I cant. ralok (talk) 22:38, January 31, 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, as an administrator/moderator/and such, I tend to try to keep myself pretty professional. I do what I can to keep my personal opinions out of my equations (I'm not saying everyone needs to do that, that's just how I do it). As an artist and as a writer, I know that you are supposed to keep a portfolio of literally everything you've ever done, and never get rid of anything, ever. As a grown up who spent my life creating things and perhaps overdosing on my own imagination, I cannot picture my life without having that material I've done around me still, despite how absolutely terrible of a writer I was when I was 10 in comparison to now. I generally try not to assume anything or have a strict line about how talented someone needs to be at something to feel that they can contribute -- try to give everyone an equal opportunity to express themselves, even when they do it in ways I may or may not agree with. I also have had hundreds of pieces of content of mine -- that I actually put a lot of work into -- purged from SporeWiki several times over the years and I therefore lose access to the info since I go through a computer every other year and therefore cannot keep the info reliably on any hard drive for too long. SporeWiki made me grow to have a strong disliking for taking away people's only access to their own information since I knew that I had no more access to my info for years at a time because of their idiotic purges (they would wait until they have ~20,000 articles and then purge down to ~1,000, seemingly without any rhyme or reason to what stayed and what went). I like to leave people the opportunity to get their stuff back if they, like me, ever choose to do so. Also,  sorry for the wall of text .


 * I actually went and bought 6 new sci-fi books while out of town the other day, and I am hoping that there are some aliens or planets mentioned in them. If there are, I will be adding all of those as I go along. I was working on adding all the images for illustrated sapient K-letter species from Star Wars, too. I can work on getting those pages actually added in, if we want an influx of content. Keeping in mind of course that my net may or may not suck. — Somarinoa (talk) 23:09, January 31, 2013 (UTC)

need your opinion on this
this is a difficult subject ralok (talk) 21:49, February 8, 2013 (UTC)


 * I was curious when this discussion would finally pop back up again. I wasn't sure whether you had given up on finding us a better term or were doing research. I've made a couple of comments thus far, and I'll keep a close watch on the page to see how this turns out. — Somarinoa (talk) 00:51, February 9, 2013 (UTC)

Predator Page (Remake)
I have come to the conclusion that the predator page is irreparable, I have started recreating a new page for the Yautja from scratch. And I would like your opinion on it, click here to see it. I had to create a new format for the page to show the sources of non-film information, so that contradictory information doesnt butt-heads. . . if it works out, it is my hope to redo the xenomorph page in a similiar way (for it is also borked). ralok (talk) 23:22, February 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * Oh yeah, I haven't so much as gone near the Yautja or Xenomorph pages in years if my calculations are correct — they were by far the most commonly edited articles and so I as we picked up and got more staff, I just left those two to everyone else while I dealt in the more obscure (despite that Yautja and Xenomorphs are within my top 5 aliens ever). I'll go check it out here soon as I can. — Somarinoa (talk) 10:44, February 21, 2013 (UTC)

96.243.246.134
this anon has been creating problems first he has vandalized the Anunnaki then he created a useless page Snake Men I gave him a months block so he won't be around for a while but I have a feeling this wannabe troll will be back --Owen1983 (talk) 19:22, February 25, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up, I will definitely keep an eye out for him or any other vandals. Were the vandalisms bad enough to warrant a protection of the Anunnaki page and if so has we as a collective done that yet? — Somarinoa (talk) 04:43, February 26, 2013 (UTC)

he just added a useless line on the Anunnaki and created a page titled snake men article so i did a roll back and Blocked him I am glad I stopped a would be vandal if there any more people like him i will inform you by. --Owen1983 (talk) 19:19, February 26, 2013 (UTC)


 * Awesome. Keep up the good work. — Somarinoa (talk) 01:28, February 27, 2013 (UTC)

69.94.169.125 13:12, March 28, 2013 (UTC) Do you mind if I move the Razor Centipede to the Fanon site myself? I'll report to you when it's done, so somebody can delete it on this page.

69.94.169.125 13:19, March 28, 2013 (UTC) What I meant by "move", is to write exactly what it says, but on the sister site. But, I'm not going to do it until I get permission from a high ranking user first.


 * Absolutely, go for it. I'm surprised it isn't up there already. You can even move other fanon if you find it on here before we do. =) — Somarinoa (talk) 22:35, March 28, 2013 (UTC)

69.94.169.125 13:42, April 1, 2013 (UTC) I've finished the page and I think you might be happy with the results. Now Razor Centipede can be deleted on this page.


 * Awesome, thanks for the heads up. :) — Somarinoa (talk) 01:48, April 2, 2013 (UTC)

Hello old friend
Got any room for a captain coming out of retirement? Insurgence {ADMIN} 21:29, April 2, 2013 (UTC)


 * Absolutely! We can always use the help and you're one of the first names to pop into my head when I think of contributors who have helped us out a lot. =) Do you need reinstatement? — Somarinoa (talk) 00:27, April 3, 2013 (UTC)


 * Nope, still have my admin rights. Just wondering what's changed (anything I should know about that would affect editing/policy?). Also, would you like me to archive your talk page? It's a little... full. :P Insurgence {ADMIN} 03:06, April 3, 2013 (UTC)


 * OK cool, that makes things easier than, hehe. You know, I was just looking at this talk page and thinking to myself, "That's... rather grotesque." If you'd like to save me the time and effort of figuring out the coding of archiving this puppy I'd be quite appreciative! As for changes, lately we've been purging a lot of fanon from the site, which includes, I believe, most of Dantescifi's posts for Star Wars races -- don't get me wrong, the races tend to actually exist, but the information on them hasn't been solid. Stuff we find that is fanon I've been trying to get moved over to Extraterrestrial Fanon (our new fanon sister site, as the new ruler of Aliens Fanon stated a while back that they wanted that fanon site to become strictly about AVP stuff, though frankly that completely killed the site; I run ET Fanon however so we know that information is safe there and definitely will remain allowed). I need to post up ET Fanon as a Sister Site on the front page along with the others but haven't had time to create a primary image yet (real life gets in the way a lot).


 * I personally prefer to get the content moved first before it gets deleted as, as a science fiction writer myself, I've kept all my information posted on a wiki (SporeWiki to be precise, because that's how it used to be handled, all concept alien races) as I go through computers fairly fast so it was easier to have it banked online than expect to be able to keep the information safe on my computer, only to have SporeWiki purge vast swathes of it. It's quite frustrating, and it can take me upwards of a year or more to convince them to restore info I need. However, if you were to help with this fanon purge here and didn't move the info, I wouldn't front you or anything and simply try to move it on my own. Moving it yourself though would absolutely help me and ET fanon out.


 * As for policy changes, we've not had anything too terribly new and exciting or draconic and ever-frightening, outside of how much the majority of our staff want the fanon out of here. There is a new template for creatures that we should start updating pages too, however.


 * As usual, any content we don't have added that you know about, of course, please feel free to post it up! And I apologize for the wall of text... it seems that no matter the more I try to make something short and sweet, the longer it becomes, haha... oh well. — Somarinoa (talk) 03:13, April 4, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, when I need anything, I'll tell you.

Lord Uzur (talk) 05:48, April 27, 2013 (UTC)LordUzurLord Uzur (talk) 05:48, April 27, 2013 (UTC)

Archive
I've archived your talk messages by 50 headings each. Let me know if you want that more, less, or if it's all good. :) Insurgence {ADMIN} 15:49, April 28, 2013 (UTC)

RFA open, by the way. ASPF:User Rights#Insurgence RFA. Please vote or leave a comment or whatnot. You know the drill by now. :P  мет еж    19:31, April 28, 2013 (UTC)

Skyrim
I wonder if the Elder Scrolls universe's main setting, Nirn, doesn't classify as "terrestrial", perhaps a change of wiki to anything that is from Nirn, only counting Oblivion and its dwellers as "alien".Gobi-Aoi 11:35, April 30, 2013 (UTC)


 * Nirn is not meant to be earth, thus aliens ralok (talk) 15:12, April 30, 2013 (UTC)


 * True, Nirn is shown from a planet view proving it not to be Earth. It is referred to as a Water Planet and has two orbiting moons, as well. In a similar vein, the Might & Magic/Heroes of Might & Magic games also take place on (several) planets, and Warcraft takes place on another (two primary) planet(s), with each specifically indicating that it is another planet other than Earth. What I want to know personally is, is Nosgoth supposed to be Earth or is it, as I always saw it as a kid, another planet? I am uncertain if they've ever specified or not. — Somarinoa (talk) 20:32, April 30, 2013 (UTC)

Category name capitalisation?
This might come off as a little pedantic but I was just wondering what was up with the capitalisation of category names? There is some inconsistency but the vast majority of them are capitalised as so "Star Wars Universe" however while "Star Wars" is a proper noun, being the name of a work, "universe" is just a noun, therefore shouldn't it be capitalised as "Star Wars universe"? I looked through the naming policies and saw nothing about it so I thought I would ask.

I realise that given the sheer number of pages and categories on this wiki that even if you agree with me, it may feel like too much effort to change them all and instead change the ones that don't use the majority format to being the same, but I feel that it could be done with enough effort it can be done, I have had experience in doing such things on other wikis so am willing to help if it needs to be done. - The Light6 (talk) 11:23, May 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah but they aren't sentences, categories are the titles of pages dude. Generally most words in a title are capitalized. ralok (talk) 14:58, May 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, in most cases, now I know this isn't wikipedia and the same guidelines don't apply but its policy says what I am suggesting, hence why I suggested it when I found that there appeared to be no policy on the matter. - The Light6 (talk) 17:02, May 1, 2013 (UTC)

In Regards to my RFA
Could you either close ASPF:User Rights#Insurgence RFA by either granting rights, denying rights, or prolonging the voting for further input when you get the chance? Thanks. мет еж   21:42, May 10, 2013 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I would have dealt with this on that day but my Internet bandwidth (10 gigs total) got all used up by someone on my house property so I couldn't really use the net anymore for the month—could only get online during slow times at work. I'll get right on fixing this up here (I tried to extend the time because of this issue but looks like my edit didn't save, which happens a lot on this online deal at my home when we run out of bandwidth). — Somarinoa (talk) 08:10, June 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * No worries, but thank you!  мет еж   Vergina Sun.png 19:54, June 18, 2013 (UTC)

New Lookout
Well tis me, Jadenyuki93 from the Supreme Dragonball Wiki AKA Lookout. Because Kuzon was sick of struggling with users like Geti and arguing with Zion over the control of the wiki, being constantly insulted, and called a bad admin...we made a new wiki and forgot the past. The lookout is dead but there is a new lookout and most of the old members of lookout are there now. You should join. http://dbzuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Universe_Wiki 04:22, June 15, 2013 (UTC)


 * That is unfortunate to hear about Lookout, but I will definitely make the journey to the new one. The wiki is dead! Long live the wiki! ..I'll make my way there now, in fact. — Somarinoa (talk) 21:05, June 15, 2013 (UTC)

Go back to lookout, its alive again
Bah, I forgot to tell you. We don't go to Dbz Universe wiki, it is inactive now. The old lookout, Supreme Dragonball Wiki, got back on its feet in late June - early July. I forgot to tell you. Lookout got back into business because Kuzon decided to go back to it and he changed his mind. Everything is back to normal now. Kuzon decided he didn't want to be an admin anymore, so did Zion. Kuzon demoted himself but he is still active and gets on chat, he is just a normal user now. He is also going to make a big role-play arc soon. As you might know, different people use Zion's account (they are all his brothers). The Zion that created the wiki was named Ron, he was the one who met Kuzon at UDBW. Ron left after a while but his brother Reggie began to use his account. Ron was in May and he left in late June, thats when Reggie came. After Reggie left, his brother Erick came. Erick was kind of a jerk though and wasn't well liked. Then, Ron returned to wikia in May but recently he left and Reggie has come back. Reggie is the new Zion and he is super friendly, you will like him.

Feel free to go back to lookout and start edtiing again, we are active again. 17:24, August 13, 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure, I can do that! I'll see you there. — Somarinoa (talk) 06:04, August 15, 2013 (UTC)

sorry dude
but I have had to explain this about Space Station 13 way too many times, some people obviously have some sort of infatuation with it. ralok (talk) 00:47, September 16, 2013 (UTC)

Editing Help
Um i need Help editing. — TheOmiGroup


 * Sure, what are you trying to do? Anything specific? — Somarinoa (talk) 19:42, November 2, 2013 (UTC)

try as I might
I couldnt find any information on the "super evolution xenomorph" in any of the books, games, or anything else... :/ ralok (talk) 18:08, November 19, 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunately, your wiki pages appear to be far too hostile an environment for me to make any further contributions. I'm sorry, but I won't be making any further contributions since they are obviously not welcome.

sorry
I have found more info and I no longer think it should be deleted I must admit though some of the work we have concerning Aliens is quite good so deleting it is out of the question. Owen1983 (talk) 18:08, January 30, 2014 (UTC)

Thanks
Just wanted to say: thanks for correcting that mistake on the Rill page! I usually try to double-check my spelling and grammar, but sometimes these things escape me, heheheh -- BlueFrackle (talk) 13:57, February 14, 2014 (UTC)

Deputron
I have to say I am impressed with Deputron mainly becuse he rolled back Vandalism and and I want to recommend him for promotion from what his profile says he has the XP and he is a commuted user. --Owen1983 (talk) 19:26, March 6, 2014 (UTC)


 * And I want to say no, because no time in human history has anyone ever made a single edit and been immediately recommended for adminship or gotten this much attention from anyone. In fact if I had to guess, I would say that he somehow hacked Owen1983s account, and set up this whole ruse to make himself look good to become an admin... because thigns dont happen this fast - _- ... and I mean that literally, Deputron almost immediatly reverted the vandalism on the rancor page so fast its unreal that it would have been noticed so quick. As well the vandalism was a simple blanking of the page rather than anything complex... this whole thing seems ridiculous and contrived and I am suspicious about it... ralok (talk) 21:49, March 6, 2014 (UTC)


 * Was going to work when I noticed these messages. Was just on Deputron's userpage, and he specifically asks to not receive special rights. Dunno if that is before or after the request here on my talk page, but looks like the issue worked itself out. -- Somarinoa (talk) 01:48, March 7, 2014 (UTC)

Twilight Cave
I have finished this article and spoke to the editor that just adding a line is not the point of the wiki. Owen1983 (talk) 18:22, May 14, 2014 (UTC)


 * Awesome. Big thanks on going through all that effort. I hope to see those blank pages stop occurring. Do we still need info added to the other one that contributor "added"? I can't recall what it was right off the top of my head. -- Somarinoa (talk) 06:41, May 15, 2014 (UTC)

Re: Kron
No worries, for I have the solution to this strange case! I did find it weird that you seemed to have created the page, but I checked out other pages' history and turns out the info for "Kron (Bot 1 Chronicles)" was previously under just "Kron". You relocated it, giving the impression that the page had been yours creation, and then "Kron" was made into a disambiguation. Currently, since we have no other Krons, I made it into a redirect to Kron (Sonic the Hedgehog), but let's keep an eye if there are other species with the same name out there so we might bring back the disambig in the future. Anyway, turns out you haven't been abducted, which might be good news or bad news depending on your POV. Personally, I kind of wish I'd be abducted some day... Well, depends on which aliens abduct me, some seem to be more pleasant than others :) -- BlueFrackle (talk) 12:13, July 4, 2014 (UTC)

Korob and Sylvia
Just thought you might be interested to know: I created a page for those aliens you had asked me about: they're Ornithoid Lifeforms :) -- BlueFrackle (talk) 21:05, July 19, 2014 (UTC)


 * Sweet! Thanks for the heads up! :D -- Somarinoa (talk) 23:56, July 19, 2014 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for the kind greeting.Cynycyl (talk) 21:56, July 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * Hey, no problem. Enjoy your stay. :) -- Somarinoa (talk) 08:13, July 31, 2014 (UTC)

Image deletion?
Just letting you know has been replaced by  in most places, except your favorite alien page and someone's profile. --Gobi-Aoi 00:16, October 5, 2014 (UTC)


 * That is a fine plan if you ask me. I definitely prefer higher definition images when possible. -- Somarinoa (talk) 14:31, October 6, 2014 (UTC)

Aliens in Music Videos
I was just wondering, would aliens that you see in music videos be allowed on this wiki?

( I thought of the question after visiting this old relic from my younger years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc )

DeltaSquad5 (talk) 20:18, December 16, 2014 (UTC)


 * I don't see why not --Owen 22:04, December 16, 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, absolutely! I want to see this wiki showcase all aliens in all media (adult films obviously is a bit of issue with this that we have been avoiding). I hope to even see aliens from coloring books and the like appear on here, eventually. -- Somarinoa (talk) 11:22, December 17, 2014 (UTC)

If I ever told you Yog sothoth true size you would be shock


 * Ahh! Not Yog Sothoth! Wait...is he really 2 inches tall? He's really 2 inches tall, isn't he. -- Somarinoa (talk) 07:35, January 1, 2015 (UTC)

Website Glitch?
Hi Somarinoa.

I was just wondering if the website has glitched as I've been trying to contribute every day and go for the 365 day badge. However, even though I've contributed everyday, the counter has reset itself.

I don't know if that's a temporary issue or something else, but I was quite taken aback by it. You can even check my contributions page to be sure. I asked Ralok originally if he could help me, but he was unable to - so I decided it would be better to ask you

Thank you for your time.

DeltaSquad5 (talk) 05:50, January 5, 2015 (UTC)


 * I have been trying for that very same badge for well over four years now (it may be as long as six years now in fact). Every single time, once I get to within 60 days remaining it for some reason won't count one of my editing days and will reset the counter. It is the primary contributor to why I don't contribute very much these days as it has upset me so much so that now I am more adamantly focused on getting that stupid badge than I am about doing the work I want to do -- to the point of contributing to 15 wikis daily (down from 40) -- but even still it resets on me each and every time. Administration and bureaucrats however are not able to simply award badges to people by choice -- we simply have no option to do so. You may want to contact actual official wikia staff about the problem because it is absolutely a problem.


 * About the best that I now I have access to as bureaucrat is being able to set up a clock stating the server time, so people can make sure they are editing before the server time rolls over to the next day. I know that doesn't do much to help at this point, and as such I insist on you contacting the wikia staff. And if you do so, you should keep me posted because this constant resetting of the year-long badge timer is quite literally ruining my life. — Somarinoa (talk) 09:37, January 5, 2015 (UTC)

No worries...
I've sent a message to Wikia - stating what has happened both to me and to you. Hopefully, they'll get back in touch with a good solution. Fingers crossed.

Wikia's reply...
Here it is regarding the 365 day platinum badge:

---

Hello,

Thanks for contacting us. Unfortunately, we had a server issue on the 4th that may have caused problems with the tracking for this achievement. I have asked the technical team to look into the problem, but at this time I am not sure whether we'll be able to retroactively award edits. We shall see what we can do - and I do apologise for this happening.

This was a one-of-a-kind situation though - this would not be the cause of Somarinoa's issues. It doesn't appear they have contacted us to report their issues though, so it's rather difficult for me to say what might be going wrong in their case. Generally the main cause is timezone confusion though, as implied - the achievement's timing is not based on your local time zone, but rather the time zone known as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). For example, midnight in UTC is 7pm EST or 4pm Pacific. As such, a user needs to ensure they are editing on each day in the UTC timezone.

(We know this is not ideal - we hope to have it be dependent on user time zone in a future iteration of the tool. We also recently added a note about this to http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Achievements#Frequently_Asked_Questions_.28FAQ.29 to help other users find this information.)

Additionally, I am going to discuss with the team about whether to retire or modify the long-term edit-a-day achievements: we don't want to stress people out by teasing an unreliably attainable goal. In a perfect world, we'd never have server problems - but they're an unfortunate internet reality.

Apologies again for the server glitch, and best regards,

George Marbulcanti (Kirkburn) Wikia Community Support

DeltaSquad5 (talk) 05:50, January 7, 2015 (UTC)


 * Cool, fairly detailed response that will hopefully help you out there. And yeah, I never ever, ever ask for help in any fashion. Didn't in school, don't in adulthood. It's not a pride thing or anything I just... don't, I guess. It isn't a timezone confusion however as I have had them all written down, when an edit needs to be made on a specific wiki. I doubt they will update the server time as I have been editing wikis almost daily since 2006 and they still haven't addressed the issue. I would say if they knew how to correctly code, they ought to have the badges detect when the server goes down and lock the badge at its current level instead of removing it entirely. But maybe that's just me. -- Somarinoa (talk) 07:30, January 7, 2015 (UTC)

I know how you feel...
I've been like that in the past - when I get stuck on something, i just had a habit of sitting there staring at 'my problem' instead of thinking to ask for help.

Let's hope in the near future they sort that problem out, as it's not fun or fair.


 * Totally agreed. Keep me posted if they inform you of anything. -- Somarinoa (talk) 03:47, January 8, 2015 (UTC)

Aaron James
its a new alien only aetherius socety know
 * AH, those guys. Right. OK we will want to mention that as a category so that it doesn't get deleted then, since other admins will think it is fan fiction. -- Somarinoa (talk) 13:08, January 25, 2015 (UTC)

added responce
thanks Owen 22:30, March 4, 2015 (UTC)

Hi.LGP (talk) 11:11, June 14, 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi there! -- Somarinoa (talk) 06:50, June 20, 2015 (UTC)

New to ASW (well, Wiki entirely)
Hi mate. Just joined to post some material from my first book (second one coming) and suddenly realized I may be in over my head here. I suppose I will have to cover several pages of other's work to get a good idea as to format and how to follow the style and content placement and setup.

Please feel free to punish if my first page is as terribly setup as I think it is. :)

http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/The_D%E2%80%99ouw_and_the_D%E2%80%99aul?venotify=created

Will try to reshape and edit appropriately. I realize you are way too busy to babysit so any direction will be of course appreciated. Evildweeb (talk) 18:32, June 28, 2015 (UTC)


 * Salutations, Evildweeb/Brian O! First off, congratulations on your book(s)! Are they in print or published? I am probably as good a source as any to ask when it comes to coding in Wiki Formatting, as I have been doing it nearly every day since mid-2006. There can be a lot to go over in terms of coding: Is there any questions you had in particular? I am looking at your page right now and it looks pretty good in its current state; immediate improvements I could see being made is moving an image into the infobox (presumably the first image on the page), and addition/alteration of some of the categories. Normally we would segregate some of the info into subcategories (example, ==Background History== or ==Physiology==, but you say this is a direct excerpt from your book, yeah? So I would not immediately say this absolutely needs to be done or anything. -- Somarinoa (talk) 12:59, June 29, 2015 (UTC)

We need to take a decision
Hey there Somarinoa. Sadly, I got pretty bad news. It has come to my attention that several of our articles about the Elder Scrolls Universe have been stolen from another wiki. This in itself is not surprising: a great percentage of the articles created before you and I became admins were stolen from some other wikis and technically, wikia content is not copyrighted, so it's not a huge deal - it sucks because original articles make our wiki far more special of course - but we've never been in trouble for it before. Now we kind of are. The folks from this site have come to me to complain about it. I believe the right thing for us to do is to delete the plagiarized articles, but obviously, I'm not going to do it without your approval, so I'd like to know what you think of the whole thing. Also, it's probably a good idea to contact Owen and Ralok about this, even though they haven't been active for months, they're still admins here and it concerns them. -- BlueFrackle (talk) 03:32, July 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * I think it might be a better option to simply rewrite the articles in question. One problem with fully deleting an article is that if someone were to ever come along and consider making the article again, it will show that the article was deleted in the past, and this alone may dissuade contributors from ever populating the content with articles from that universe again, and that would be no bueno. I have always been a bit uncool with just copy-pasting articles from other wikis (which is the solitary reason I can't produce 50 pages a day, because when I create articles, I spend hours writing them from info I can gather). It took me personally at least a year, maybe two before I decided it was OK to post the Deoxys page up, which had been deleted by the original crew - though their poor-judgment reasoning was simply because they weren't fans of Pokemon.


 * Do we have a "Page Rewrite Required" template and/or know exactly which pages need to be altered yet? -- Somarinoa (talk) 05:04, July 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * You raise a good point. And sure, rewriting the pages would be the better option, but it will take a lot of time and I personally know nothing about The Elder Scrolls. For now, a "Page Rewrite Required" template would be an excellent idea. They did hand me a list of the stolen pages, so I could easily create the template and add it to them. If they're still unhappy with it, another option would be removing the content of the articles, rather than deleting them, and mark them with Template:Blank so users will know that the page needs editing. -- BlueFrackle (talk) 17:14, July 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * If I may offer an opinion, I will be happy to help rewrite these articles. I work with the elder scrolls wiki, so I have the information at hand. I must admit I also feel that us coming to you with an offer of help put this wiki on UESP's radar, as much of your content has been left untouched for years. I am in chat now, I will be more then happy to talk about your option in how you guys handle this, maybe a outside voice can assist you.-Cheatcodechamp (talk) 05:18, July 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Cheatcodechamp, your help would be much appreciated :) -- BlueFrackle (talk) 17:14, July 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * Ill Get started. Seeing as this wiki focus' less on lore, the articles will not be huge. But I will still try to make sure that the articles are a decent size and not a copy of anybody else's work. Ill let one of you know if I come across any problems or ideas to help you guys.-Cheatcodechamp (talk) 18:15, July 6, 2015 (UTC)


 * That would work well, and thanks for the aid. I know a lot about The Elder Scrolls, having followed it since Daggerfall, but my focus here is for the more obscure content. As for UESP coming to us first, you also must keep in mind that unlike UESP, we are really only about 4 admins working through thousands of articles, and as I stated before, I focus on what I expect no one else will ever add (as well as my ongoing galleries projects), bringing the admins who would have noticed this down to a mere 3 or so. I personally assume the major alien races will get the most attention by everyone overall and do not need my particular help. -- Somarinoa (talk) 05:00, July 7, 2015 (UTC)

Alien Dragons
Just thought you might be interested to know I created a page for Dragons. I'm sure it's not complete, though. If you know more kinds of alien dragons and dragony aliens, please feel free to add them there :) -- BlueFrackle (talk) 02:36, August 23, 2015 (UTC)
 * Sweet, will do! Thanks for the heads up! -- Somarinoa (talk) 08:47, August 23, 2015 (UTC)

Hello
Hello! I was wondering if you could help me get started on this page. I would love to help contribute to the shorter pages.

I would also like some help making links and new pages.

Thank you,

Wylietrout (talk) 22:59, August 23, 2015 (UTC)

Hello! I would like to know how to get my creature, the Ice Cracker, onto he Darwin IV species homepage. Thank you!

Wylietrout (talk) 17:03, August 24, 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello there! I apologize for the late reply, I have been about 100 miles away from my computer during my weekend. Well, for starters, this side of our three-wiki affiliation actually doesn't take fanon anymore -- instead it now can all be found on our fanon sister site, Extraterrestrial Fanon Wiki! You can always add your stuff there! To edit pages, there is an edit button near the top of each page that will take you to either visual or source mode dependent upon your user account personal settings. To make a link place article name here for an article that is on this particular wiki, or [direct link here followed by a space with what you want written for it] . To make new articles, there is a button up top that says "Contribute" -- click that and then click "Add New Page", type in the article's name and open and begin editing. I hope this helps you out! -- Somarinoa (talk) 11:18, August 25, 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I would love if you checked out my creature, (which is now on the fanon wiki) the Ice Cracker, and give me some feedback! Thanks! -- Wylietrout (talk) 00:57, August 27, 2015 (UTC)

Portable Infoboxes
We’re reaching out to a few of our top communities, hoping to get you on board with the migration to the new infobox markup. And we have tools to help!

‘’’Why we’re doing this’’'

Simply put: Most current infobox structure translates very poorly to mobile experiences, and indeed any device that doesn’t use desktop-style displays. On desktops and laptops, they often look amazing. The problem is that Wikia’s traffic is trending mobile.

There is an important graph from our forum post about infoboxes a couple weeks back, and I want to share it here as well:



Mobile is the future. Not just for Wikia, but for the web as a whole. Take a look at the recent trends and future growth predictions for mobile traffic - it's staggering.

We partnered with the Wikia community to create this new markup to make sure that your hard work can be displayed on mobile devices (as well as any future technologies) easily and without any new coding conventions. It’ll take some effort up front, to be sure, but we’re here to help, and the work you put in now will pay for itself tenfold in the future.

‘’’Tools we’ve designed to ease the process’’’

We’ve enabled two new features on your community. One is a tool for migrating the “old” infobox code to the new markup. It identifies templates on your wikia that look like infobox templates and places a box on the right rail of the template page. When you click the “Generate draft markup” button in this box, it opens a new tab containing a draft of your infobox using the new markup.

The second is a new feature on Special:Insights that will highlight which infoboxes on your wikia have not been migrated to the new infobox markup. It’s fairly intuitive - you can click on the infobox title link itself to see the old markup, or simply click the “Convert!” button on the right, which performs the same action as the “Generate draft markup” button.

This is our help page for the new markup. I’ll help get things rolling by converting a template or two as an example if you’d like me to, as well as watching this post for any questions. Pinkachu ( talk ) 23:51, August 25, 2015 (UTC)

Affiliations
Hello! I'm from the FCB Wiki. I would like to request to be affiliated with your wiki. Here is our wordmark.

Thanks!

Wookieepedia
Thanks. If I may recommend something, on wookiepedia, there is a page called "list of sentient species a-z" and it has all of the alien species catalogued.
 * It will still take some time to add everything since we have to rewrite all the info but thanks for the heads up! -- Somarinoa (talk) 08:57, October 18, 2015 (UTC)

Klingon Image
Hey, sorry about that. I thought the lead image should be something from the actual show, that's why I replaced it, but you're right, I should have relocated the original one rather than removing it. -- BlueFrackle (talk) 00:43, November 24, 2015 (UTC)


 * That's not a problem, I didn't think you had done it maliciously or anything, but I definitely thought it best to cover bases. It makes sense to update the image of course, especially when it is the main image. -- Somarinoa (talk) 11:48, November 24, 2015 (UTC)

Monstar Expertise
Hi my name is Carolyn I'm an expert on the Monstars. -- Cvitek93 (talk 11:08, December 20, 2015‎ (UTC)
 * Hello, Carolyn! Welcome to ASW.  I'd love to see what you have to share with us and I hope you enjoy your stay!  If you have any questions or comments at all, do feel free to get a hold of me or one of the other staff at any time.  -- Somarinoa (talk) 14:08, December 21, 2015 (UTC)

Fanon Contributions
This guy http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/80.0.180.77 keeps putting his own fanon on a few of the articles and adding fictional races to the "actual universe" category. Can you sort that out? -- Hunter12396 (talk) 17:56, December 21, 2015‎ (UTC)


 * Yeah, let me see what is going on there, if it hasn't been taken care of yet. We've got a place for fanon.  -- Somarinoa (talk) 08:20, December 22, 2015 (UTC)

This guy http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/80.0.180.77 is still doing it

also, can you delete this unnecessary page please? [ http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Unique_Animals ]


 * The user has since been blocked. -- Somarinoa (talk) 10:06, December 27, 2015 (UTC)

101.181.231.58
This user has been blocked for vandalism. his block expires in a week but after a weeks finished and he hasn't or chooses not to learn his lesson a longer block is an idea. --Owen 15:57, December 31, 2015 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea. Let's definitely keep an eye on them. Also while I'm at it, Happy New Year, man. Thanks for all you've done to help us over the years. -- Somarinoa (talk) 11:54, January 1, 2016 (UTC)


 * Cheers buddy. 14:25, January 2, 2016 (UTC)Owen

Do you think that I can make an new page?- OOM-327 (OOM-327 (talk) 22:12, January 9, 2016 (UTC))


 * I don't know how I missed the alert to this one... I don't see why you couldn't! Go right ahead -- although keep in mind that fanon articles go to our our sister site, if that happens to be what you had in mind.  -- Somarinoa (talk) 12:05, January 26, 2016 (UTC)

Can you add the aliens from the 5th wave on this wiki? 35Baragon (talk) 13:10, January 27, 2016 (UTC)


 * The movie that just came out? Absolutely!  -- Somarinoa (talk) 13:34, January 27, 2016 (UTC)

Dresmiel
Thank you for the welcome!

I study subjects on demonology and angeology also needed changes on issues o f my knowledge and photos added too,  do not worry that the stories posted  on the homepage of interest I did not move.

Thanks for listening, and if you need help the matter, I will be available  to answer. -- Dresmiel (talk) 21:13, February 27, 2016‎ (UTC)


 * Sounds good! And let me know if there is anything I can do for you, as well. -- Somarinoa (talk) 15:30, February 28, 2016 (UTC)

I am new to this wiki and I am just asking why are creatures like the cloverfield monster on here? When clover is not proven to be an alien.

Darwin IV vandal
Hi there, just wished to inform you that I've decided to put several of the Darwin IV pages under protection. As you might be aware, the Darwin IV pages have been constantly targeted for vandalism and it's been going on for months now. It's aways the same vandal (similar IPs and exact same pattern), but he seems to be insanely persistent. I've blocked him on several IPs already and he always comes back no matter what. Some of his vandalism includes: So, yeah, since blocking him doesn't work as he always comes back, I figured out putting the pages under protection might be the best solution, at least for now. It makes me sad, as I don't like to prevent anonymous contributors from editing these pages, but it seemed the only good option in this case. -- BlueFrackle (talk) 13:45, March 16, 2016 (UTC)
 * Removing the species' name from the infoboxes
 * Adding links to nonexistant images
 * Making up information, for instance, inventing sizes for species whose size was never specified in the book
 * Adding nonsensical phrases such as "they's Head is a resembles a Wedge" (which makes me think that perhaps he doesn't even speak english and edits using some bad translator)
 * Randomly replacing words with synonyms (e.g. "bipedal" with "biped")
 * Randomly replacing words with non-synonyms (e.g. replacing "sessile" with "worm-like" for no reason, or replacing "wingspan" with "height")
 * Messing up with the categories (e.g. adding sapient species to the wildlife category, or adding "needs infobox" to pages that already have an infobox)
 * General nonsense (e.g. describing the electrophytes as "giant")

PS: Oh, also, seeing how persistent this guy is, I'm anticipating the possibility that he'll try to create an account. Let's keep our eyes open! -- BlueFrackle (talk) 13:49, March 16, 2016 (UTC)


 * Yeah that sounds like a decent solution for the time being, but yeesh. I'll keep my eyes peeled for the guy making an account!  I definitely take this stuff seriously and do not afford vandals any mercy.  Really, how is it even a thing?  Bozhe moi.  -- Somarinoa (talk) 15:05, March 16, 2016 (UTC)

Copypasted articles
It's getting out of control, really. There's an increasing number of articles copy-pasted from other wikis here. In the past I used to be quite tolerating of them, but the more I think about it the more I think they serve no purpose other than ruin the quality of this wiki. Personally, I believe it's time for some radical change in our policies. I'd propose that copypasted articles should be forbidden. And by forbidden I mean: first, they should be marked with the Template:Revision and rewritten. And second, the users responsible for creating them should be blocked. What do you think? -- BlueFrackle (talk) 23:06, October 25, 2016 (UTC)

Copypasting
I was contacted on this issue and I have made a new policy the situation is getting bad can you give me feedback. Owen 01:49, October 27, 2016 (UTC)


 * I forgot to mention that there's a possible exception to this rule that should be discussed. There exist some articles that are shared between Alien Species Wiki and Non-Alien Creatures Wiki, for example: the Silurian page. Since the staff of Alien Species Wiki and Non-Alien Creatures Wiki is pretty much the same, perhaps we could allow those to remain intact. What do you think? -- BlueFrackle (talk) 15:00, October 27, 2016 (UTC)


 * I think that makes sense. We shouldn't have to rewrite our own articles, as that is not plagiarism.  -- Somarinoa (talk) 05:46, October 29, 2016 (UTC)