User talk:GrampaSwood

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Re: Festivizer images

Hi, you mentioned my uploads being lower quality, but you linked to the old image that I am replacing.

My images have not been succesfully cached yet. I have included an example of the image you are referring to that I uploaded a new version of.

https://imgur.com/a/XhGgnmi

My HLMV settings are set according to the guides in the help section, and I do have 8x antialiasing on via nvidia settings. I did, however, downscale some of these a little, and may need to try and retake some if this is still not considered an improvement over the inaccurate, low-quality prior images.

EmilyEmbers (talk) 20:44, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

I compared the older upload, your newer upload, and the other Rocket Launcher upload. They may not have been cached on your end yet, but I had the right images on mine. Try CTRL + F5 on the image if it doesn't show up properly.

The downscaling likely ruined the image, so I advise to not do that for any image.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 20:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Downscaling manually via an image manipulation program will cause either bluriness or choppy-looking edges. If you would like to downscale, it's ideal to do that on HLMV itself, by zooming out a little. - ▪ - 20:55, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

I see it now, you're right, I needed to refresh the cache. I'll see about potentially fixing it later.

EmilyEmbers (talk) 21:20, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

Restored redirects

Why restore them? A few years ago, pretty much all names of items were changed, so all words are no longer capitalized like in the English language. I already created redirects with the correct names. Why leave the old ones? Now if someone would want to search them, there will be two identical results, with one using the old incorrect version. Denied (Talk) 15:40, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Redirects are to redirect people to the correct article even if they had the wrong name, see: Solider, Mann in Slacks, or Axetinguisher. Old names are also kept, including capitalisation changes, see: Claidheamohmor, Train Of Thought, Creature From The Heap, Mister Sentry. A redirect having the old name is exactly what they're for, to help users that may not know or remember the exact name. Redirects, in general, are also not harmful enough to be deleted.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 15:47, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Even if literally nothing links to them? They are used only in the search window. It's not a completely new name, like "Mister Sentry" to "Aim Assistant." And most of the examples you linked are misspellings or grammar mistakes that make more sense in English only. Polish translations are still the same; only now there are two results with the same name and directing to the same article. If there will be any major changes to translated items (which are very rare), then having both old and new names makes sense. Denied (Talk) 18:44, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah looks fine. If you type "Kucyk B" then the other one doesn't show up. Not everyone uses the search bar either (I navigate by changing the URL or using the shorthand wiki.tf). Similarly to all other capitalisation-related, these are just fine and there's generally no reason to have them deleted.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 18:49, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Is it possible to implement a search bar used on Wikipedia so when a user switches to the Polish interface and types "Kucyk bohatera", "Kucyk Bohatera", "KUCYK BOHATERA" etc., it will always show the correct article without creating every possible redirect combination? Or was it already suggested? Denied (Talk) 07:48, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm not sure it's possible to do that with our version of Mediawiki, but maybe in the future if we ever upgrade versions. But for now, it makes the most sense having the old name still as a redirect (even if we had that search bar system in place).
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 14:12, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

New account

Hey there. This is JupiterSphere. I've created a new Wiki account due to being locked out of my main one. Password managers look real good in hindsight.

Is there a policy against using your own user page on a new account if you can't access (or abandon) the other one? Reverentpsycho (talk) 04:17, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

As long as we can't verify you as the owner of the original account you can't touch any of the other account's stuff. Why not use the forgot password option?
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 10:53, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

I don't have access to the email used for it (I reset my computer without having a password manager/backup elsewhere), but I'm pretty sure I know what it is. When requesting a password reset for the email I thought it used, it gave me an unrelated account (User:Pennyeatsbricks or something) instead, which I apparently made at some point. Reverentpsycho (talk) 22:48, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

I can also edit my Steam profile (linked on JupiterSphere) to prove it's me if you want. Reverentpsycho (talk) 22:53, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

A message from Pootis1512

Can you add Featured article tag to my MeeM like Demopan?--Pootis1512 (talk) 14:02, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Featured article tags are only for articles on the main space, user space articles cannot have the feature article tag.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 14:10, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

Redirects from multiple languages using the same translation

There are issues with redirects where the same item has the same translation in multiple languages. Maybe instead of deleting them, for example, "Pistol" translates to "Pistolet" in French and Polish, so to create a redirect for French "Pistolet," the redirect could look like this. Can this method be used? Asking first so there's no problem later. Denied (Talk) 09:56, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

They're fine if you make them like that (albeit rather useless in my opinion), but the issue is that usually the lang redirect's purpose is for people looking up "Pistolet" to be redirected. A preferred alternative is some kind of multi-language disambiguation, but there needs to be some kind of format agreed on before we start making these.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 14:07, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

I have had an idea to add a small explanation that multiple languages use the same translation of the item, and to find the correct language, the user would need to click the correct flag below; this text would use translation switching. Should this be moved to the discussion page to discuss it with more users? Denied (Talk) 08:22, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

If you can make an article on your user space to show it off that would help. I personally thought of simply including a header with the language's name.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 12:47, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

Something like this, but I have no idea how to create it. Denied (Talk) 21:26, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

The issue is that for those who don't speak English, this isn't very useful.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 01:11, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I said I don't know how to make it work. I can only visualize it; someone clicks on the redirect, and the page has flags of countries that use the same translation, and clicking each flag shows different translations of the same text because I forgot lang switch won't work here. Can you show your idea? Denied (Talk) 11:18, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I'll see if I can put my idea together later today.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 12:59, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Probably a mistake in template:Bot skill levels

In the Rocket launcher aim row, 1 cell says bots which have enemies closer than 150 HU would "aim at target's feet" and "aim at head", which is weird. I thought one of the situations was actually for "longer than 150HU". Is it a mistake?
Spacefield (talk) 09:46, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, they aim at the feet if more than 150 Hu away. I've fixed it now.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 12:59, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Account return

Just for the sake of a hypothetical, how would one prove that they are the owner of an account if they happen to get locked out of it (such as by being hacked)? Lolimsogreat21 (talk) 14:55, 9 February 2025 (UTC)Lolimsogreat21.

We can e-mail the user's e-mail address or confirm they're the owner of the e-mail. But you can just hit forgot password.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 15:09, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Undo on Template:User Autism

The edit on User Autistic does not "bloat" the documentation. It was simply to add more types to the userbox, and it's removes my edit which simply was suppsoed to add more types of ASD. I've undone your edit.

Signed by Plutonium. (talk) (contributions) (thank)

It does bloat the documentation as it's unnecessarily adding many more examples that do not need to be shown off. The first parameter ({{{1}}}) takes any kind of input, adding more examples for the types that can be included could end up with hundreds of examples. Just a few are necessary to show off what the template looks like, it does not need to show off every single possible variant. As for "it supports these parameters", this is blatantly false. As I said, it supports any type of input and not just the ones that you think should be used there. They are also not parameters, but inputs, a parameter is something like {{{1}}} or {{{type}}}.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 16:42, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

The documentation simply lists which parameters can be used. Nowhere on the help page does it mention that you cannot show all available parameters. And yes, these are parameters. In the |info section of the undefined userbox, it uses a parameter for {{{1}}}, which can be modified. Also the page lock was admin abuse, and there was no reason for it to be locked.

Signed by Plutonium. (talk) (contributions) (thank)

a {{{1}}} can be literally anything. I could put "bringobrongo" and it would say that bringobrongo is a form of autism spectrum disorder which is obviously not accurate. Your documentation makes it seem like it requires specific inputs to recieve an output when currently you can input anything. The lock seems justified to me given that you would repeatedly undo the correction. Mediarch ♥ Talk ♥ My Edits 17:32, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

It would not accept that.

Signed by Plutonium. (talk) (contributions) (thank)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ {{user Autistic|bringobrongo}} results in

This user is on the autistic spectrum, and has bringobrongo.

Mediarch ♥ Talk ♥ My Edits 17:39, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Documentation is indeed meant to list all the parameters, which is under the "parameters" section. When you put "accepts these values:" for the unnamed parameter, that isn't listing all the parameters. For the {{{1}}} parameter, it accepts any and everything put into it. I could put "I love TF2" in there, and that's what would show up. Besides that, it's also not really productive to try and limit the input here considering that autism isn't limited to "types" (anymore). I never said there weren't parameters, but you're confusing parameter with an input/value. For example, on {{No Paint Diff}}, there are several named parameters. {{No Paint Diff|nodiff=Radigan Conagher Brown}} would have nodiff as the parameter and "Radigan Conagher Brown" as the input. Listing all the inputs was one of the issues of your edit, having 5 examples in the "Examples" section does not have any more benefit than 2 examples. As for admin abuse, Wiki policy dictates that in the event of an edit war, a page should be locked (as was the case). This is not admin abuse, but policy.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 17:41, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

I will stop talking here as this is a large waste of time trying to constantly prove I am right.

Signed by Plutonium. (talk) (contributions) (thank)

But you are not right.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 17:43, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

I am.
Signed by Plutonium. (talk) (contributions) (thank)

But you are not. You are incorrectly calling inputs "parameters", you're incorrectly saying that it won't take any input (as Mediarch showed, it quite clearly does), and you're accusing me of abusing my powers when doing something explicitly outlined in policy.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 17:47, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Race to be the fastest kill taunt

Hi, what do you mean by how the Showdown taunt "kills faster"? How can the kill happen later if the Arrow Stab is shorter? Xarbon62 (talk) 17:37, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

Arrow Stab kills at the end of the taunt, while High Noon kills before the taunt finishes. Heavy blows the "barrel" of his finger guns before finishing the taunt.
| s | GrampaSwood (talk) (contribs) 17:39, 13 February 2025 (UTC)