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Contents 1 Dr. Price on Play With Me Sesame 2 Sam Plenty 3 Jog 4 Code 5 Money to Sesame Workshop 6 Stump tags 7 Bob Hope transcript 8 Toxic 9 misc 10 Tags 11 New skin 12 Archive

Dr. Price on Play With Me Sesame

Could you answer a question that I posted at Talk: Dr. Nobel Price? I saw that you added the info that I asked about. --Minor muppetz 02:44, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Sam Plenty

Hi, Nick! Just so you know, please don't create a Category:Sam Plenty Actors, not yet anyway. As noted at Category talk:Tinseltown Cast, we don't normally categorize actors by show outside of Sesame Street, but by production type. And since some of the same people appear on camera in more than one of these recent Henson Company non-Muppet/Creature projects, it makes more sense to have one category for them, the same way we do for Category:Muppet MOvie Actors and Category:Creature Shop Actors. Thanks! -- Andrew Leal (talk) 19:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Jog

Just so you know, Jog lost his password to his original account, and switched to User:Jogchem. He hasn't been around since November anyway, but any messages should be left there. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 19:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Code

Hi, Nick! Something else that's even going on awhile. You have a tendency to leave notes, often personal reminders only to you, in code so they'll be hidden from the main article, but visible when editing. That's not how we do things here; that kind of code is only used for specific policies like "no edit" warnings and such. We've tried to clean it up when we find it, but there's no way of knowing which pages are still affected, so in the future, please, if you need to leave a reminder, put it on your to do list or park the info on the article's talk page or something. Thanks! -- Andrew Leal (talk) 18:47, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

And you did it again on Season 39 (2008). Please stop it, Nick. It may be fine on Wikipedia, but here it's just messy hidden text we have to get rid of. If something needs to be explained (which alphabetization etc. really doesn't), make the text visible to all, don't hide it. If it's a personal note or reminder, park it on your user page. Thanks! -- Andrew Leal (talk) 19:06, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

All but the alphabetical note is from Season 38 (2007). They were added Scarecroe, and again by Scarecroe. I was only copying things over, to continue the standardization of the seasons. -- Zanimum 19:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

But you've been doing that all over the place, with all kinds of things, for over a year, and we can't find them. So if you can remember any of the other pages where you've left such coded notes (I've caught several myself), please remove them, especially any reminders to yourself. I've taken out the Season 38 code too. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 19:27, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Money to Sesame Workshop

I've oticed that you've recently added notes on a number of pages that various companies (Nickelodeon, HBO, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, etc) have donated money to Sesame Workshop in 2007, but they are all unsourced. What is your source for these? --Minor muppetz 21:41, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Nick! Thanks for specifying the source, but I don't think we need to create red-links for annual reports, which frankly wouldn't make for very interesting articles. If you have the URL for the online version, it would be better to include a direct link. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 16:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I added them to redirect to a general page on their reports, mainly a cover gallery. I believe the 2003 or 2004 one won a design award, so there's at least one tidbit besides the covers. But don't worry, I never intended to create separate pages for each year. -- Zanimum 16:27, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm not convinced it needs a general page either. It's not actually "merchandise" in any way, and there's nothing really to say about it; the reports are full of useful info and the pictures are nice, but it's better to link to it then just create a gallery for the covers, and a design award isn't really justification either. It would make more sense to include a link to the overall Financial page on the Sesame Workshop page. I'm going to go ahead and do that, in fact. Andrew Leal (talk) 17:05, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Stump tags

Hi, Nick! I removed your stump tag on Talk:The Cosby Show, since as you noted yourself, it's not an unresolved issue, and the stump tag is exclusively designed to denote articles "in need of information requiring more extensive, long-term research." What you did is basically info parking. When Scott and I or others do that, usually noting an upcoming DVD release or bits of info found but which can't yet be integrated into the article, no tag is needed, and the user can update it as more info is found. Thanks for pointing out the Carsey Werner clips, though! -- Andrew Leal (talk) 17:57, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Bob Hope transcript

Hi, Nick -- I don't know if you've seen the discussion about the Bob Hope's World of Comedy transcript that you posted... Just a heads-up. -- Danny (talk) 01:01, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Toxic

Nice work on the Britney story! —Scott (talk) 19:44, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! The Sesame Workshop press people seem pretty willing to help, so should we need clarification in the future, we know they're a-okay to turn to. -- Zanimum 19:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

misc

Hi. A couple of things: I reverted your edit to Season 38. Denyce Graves' appearance is not original to that season. I reverted your edit to Everybody Be Yo'Self; we don't keep a list of every time a segment has appeared in an episode. Just the earliest known. —Scott (talk) 15:40, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I thought it was a new segment, since it wasn't mentioned in the bio. -- Zanimum 15:43, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Tags

Hi Nick: What's the stuff that you're doing with image tagging? I see the stuff on Recent changes, but I don't know what it means. -- Danny (talk) 19:59, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Eee... I must have been flooding recent changes... I was testing a new feature out, got a bit carried away. They now allow you to create what essentially is like categories, but for images. Check out this link to see what the gallery it creates looks like. It allows for an easy way to find images associated with characters/actors that have articles on the wiki. Do you think this would be of use to the community? It's a great way to be able to sort through the hundreds, likely thousands of images on the site. -- Zanimum 20:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh, that's interesting. How would I find the different tags? Is there a category of tags, or something? -- Danny (talk) 20:14, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to be, though that would make sense. "Tagged Images" under the special pages index just leads nowhere. You pretty much have to find a picture of whatever you're looking for, and hope that it is tagged, so then you can just click on the "images" part of "(images|remove tag)" on the image description page. Of course, we could manually make a page of links to categories, in the "Muppet Wiki:" namespace. -- Zanimum 13:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

If that's the only way to access the tags, then I don't think it makes sense for us to use it -- especially because it creates such a mess on the Recent changes page. Would you mind not doing it for right now? It's hard to see what else is happening on the wiki. -- Danny (talk) 15:02, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Sure, no prob. -- Zanimum 16:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! -- Danny (talk) 17:06, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

New skin

Hey, dude: I saw your note about the new Wikia skin. I'm still using the old monobook skin because I wasn't crazy about the new one. How's it working for you? -- Danny (talk) 17:55, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Horrible. Basically, everything is where it shouldn't be. (I've since switchback.)

For example, to edit a page or go to the talk, you have to go to roughly where the "Ads by Google" are now.

One of the new features is that it predicts what categories you want to put the article in. Only thing, once you click on the ones you want, it lists them like "cow, chicken, duck", with no square brackets or "category:". So since they're separated by commas, it thought it was this... http://muppet.wikia.com/index.php?title=Jon_Stewart&diff=prev&oldid=234145 .

It highlights the most visited pages at the top of the page, as well as having other tabs listing other things, like most recently edited pages. Thing is, the most visited page list is useless, all it is is "Dr. Teeth and the...", "The Muppet Show", "Miss Piggy", "Rowlf the Dog", and "Sam the Eagle", it probably will never really change.

I dunno. Maybe newbie will find it the greatest thing ever, but for someone like me who's spent over five years on the traditional mediawiki layout, it's just not worth it. Bleck. -- Zanimum 18:13, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

He he. Just clicked on the rate it symbols for "The Rock and Roll Monster", chose 3 stars. It's now the first article listed in "Highest ratings". -- Zanimum 18:16, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, nobody's really using it yet. I'm surprised you even know about it. I know that they're currently revising a lot of things about it -- it's very much in progress. I don't know if they know about the category bug, though. -- Danny (talk) 19:45, 6 June 2007 (UTC)`

It was the default skin on one of the featured wikis that they rotate through at the bottom of each page. I happened to click, and there it was. I've raised my cat' concerns on the Wikia problem board, we'll see what happens. -- Zanimum 20:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Which board? I usually use the Central mailing list. -- Danny (talk) 21:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Index http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:New_skin_screws_up_categories I didn't know there was a mailing list. -- Zanimum 23:06, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, you can join the Wikia mailing list here. I didn't even know about that forum. It doesn't look like Wikia staff ever post there, which is odd. -- Danny (talk) 23:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[Grimace] I don't know, I have so many Wikimedia mailing lists already! I'll look over the archives, see if it looks interesting enough to go with. -- Zanimum 00:50, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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