User talk:Balthus Dire

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 * Deathwalker 13000
 * It is I, Deathwalker 13000, bureaucrat of Villains Wiki. I just wanted to say thank you for your contributions, you are doing great, and to keep up the good work. That is all. I'm out.

Thanks
I just wanted to take the time to thank you for your contributions to the wiki - your articles are very good and show that you take pride in your work, I'm also rather glad to see another fan of Fantasy fiction around (especially the RPG type) - I hope you continue to share your knowledge with us and have fun contributing: if you need any help or just feel like talking please contact me via my talkpage Stare Too Long Into The Abyss.. 04:16, July 20, 2010 (UTC)

Compliments
'Hi! I just wanted to give you my compliments. I've been reading some of your articles and find them very interesting and well-written (especially the articles about gamebooks villains are very good). Keep up the good work! That's all for now! Amnestyyy 21:37, November 30, 2010 (UTC)

we need more people that appreciate roleplay outside the video game subgenre - I play Warcraft but its not really the same as the old-school stuff like the original Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer board-games or gamebooks. Inferno Pendragon 18:17, December 1, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliments. (Rather late I'm afraid.) I have plan to add other gamebook villains to the category, but the first poblem is that I only know the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, and the second problem is that I have to finish the "Cosmo Entelecheia," "Father," "Madara Uchiha" and "XANA" articles that I started long ago and I lack time to go as quickly as I would have liked. But there is no need to rush. All shall be done eventually.Balthus Dire 19:52, December 4, 2010 (UTC)

Templates
I thought I would supply you with a List Of Templates since you are a fairly regular contributor, it may come in handy if ever you wished to use them.. Inferno Pendragon 03:21, February 8, 2011 (UTC)

Pages
Can I use the pages you made on Black Cat for one of my Wiki's. HazeShot 00:17, December 8, 2011 (UTC)

Of course you can, I would be flattered. I will just ask you to note "this material is from Villains Wiki" or something like that at the beginning of the article. Balthus Dire 09:30, December 8, 2011 (UTC)

Thank You, I will add the links give me a little time, if you dont like where or how im putting the links just tell ok. Also would you mind helping me on Train's page or give me tips. HazeShot 00:07, December 9, 2011 (UTC)

Adminship
don't worry - being an admin means you will have to face a lot of unpopular decisions and people will be childish, rude or troll-like to you more often than not (I've been called a bitch, whore and worse by users for doing my job): in the end any category you delete can be restored if enough people complain, nothing is truly permanent - it may be hard to get rid of categories or pages at first but in general doing so improves the wiki (look at the uproar that happened when Antagonists was deleted for example).

In the end run the wiki as you feel is appropriate, ask other admins if you want a larger-scale reform but never feel as if you are somehow obliged to obey the whims of others users (we should be approachable and kind, sure, but in the end we also need to remember that we are admins and need to make decisions, whether people like them or not).

On debate me and Inferno have been thinking on for a while now is whether to delete Real Life "Villains" from this wiki, it has traditionally been accepted but as we've matured we've began to realize demonizing real-world figures (even the most vile) causes us in turn to be demonized by people who are offended by such depictions.

This could be a debate you could ask other new admins - perhaps a vote on its talkpage. Queen Misery 15:07, December 20, 2011 (UTC)

New Guidelines For Admins
please read and follow - http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Queen_Misery/CATEGORIES_/_RULES_%28Read_Or_Don%27t_Complain_When_You_Get_In_Trouble%29 Queen Misery 01:07, March 28, 2012 (UTC)

Further Discussion
http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Inferno_Pendragon/Categories

The following is a blog I created and would like as many people as possible to read and discuss on, I think this is something the community needs to talk on now and is no longer a simple "admins only" solution Inferno Pendragon 20:49, June 14, 2012 (UTC)

Revived Extremists
I think Extremists can work, the problem was the person who originally made the category had no clue what they were talking about - how do you think on the new category? I know it is similar to "Lawful Evil Villains" but I think it is a proper term to use for groups like BNP, who we can NOT legally label terrorists no matter how nasty they may be Queen Misery (talk) 20:11, September 6, 2012 (UTC)

Lock
I cant blame you for locking voldemort, After thinking of what you said in talk page I agree I didnt even think of adding God Wannabe after you unlocked it. The only thing I thought of adding was Cowards due to his constant running away in the movies, were he was much more cowardly, but I didnt. Good thinking on your part for locking it, have a good Chaotic day. Jester of chaos 20:54, October 11, 2012 (UTC) }}

Creation of New Categories
since people aren't listening to rules (what a surprise) I'm writing to admins to say this, any user who makes a new category is to be blocked for a week - they can complain all they want but the rules are right there in community corner, they refuse to read then it is their own fault.. this will now be a wiki-wide rule that admins should enforce. Queen Misery (talk) 14:50, October 26, 2012 (UTC)

Can't Edit with the iPad
I feel like I need to talk to an admin about this. I had no problems editing with the iPad before. Now when I try to edit, it just has the "Loading Editor..." with no attempt of loading. All I can do is add categories with the iPad. Is there something wrong with this wiki? DragonDude83 (talk) 17:18, October 29, 2012 (UTC)

Question
I'm new here, and new at using information boxes. How do you add pictures to them?Darktriggerhappy (talk) 20:48, November 3, 2012 (UTC)Darktriggerhappy

Re: Re: Question
I already did that, and even put in the size, yet no picture. It only appears as the "page does not exsist" text.Darktriggerhappy (talk) 21:07, November 3, 2012 (UTC)Darktriggerhappy

Madara Uchiha
I'll leave that category in there for the sake of peace and because so many want it, but it still doesn't change my personal belief that he is not. What you said can be looked at no only as him being a god wannebe, but also a disillusioned old man whose past life and the times he lived in made him so warped that he believed that he was not capable of helping humanity in any other way, but than to put them into genjutsu and make them live in peace in an illusion. This is backed by his belief that the world can't change from the way it was in the past. The Fox King(tylerbryant547@gmail.com (talk) 16:27, November 5, 2012 (UTC))

Yeah well i added that photo cause it was empty and so far no one has put it there so i just decided to.let me know if there are any other villains here without photos...DeviantBlastDeviantBlast (talk) 14:16, November 10, 2012 (UTC)

Copyright
Hello, the articles Dr. Nefarious, Maximillian (Ratchet & Clank) and Captain Angstrom Darkwater use a large amount of content copied from the Ratchet & Clank wiki. This isn't an issue but unfortunately the way the content is currently displayed is in violation of the copyright license the content is under. According to the CC-BY-SA license the content is under, attribution to the original authors must be given. In order to follow the license please add a notice to both articles with a link back to the Ratchet & Clank wiki's original articles and a link to our history page for each article to ensure full attribution for all original contributors. Let me know if you need any help or would like to discuss this further. Thanks. --Hunterj|My talk 18:59, November 10, 2012 (UTC)

Copycat (& Fake) Categories
Hi Balthus Dire. Today, I've just found a "Friends of the Hero" (ripoff of the real "Friend of the Hero"), another unwanted copycat category on one of the locked pages, Tobi. & I can't get it out of there. So I figured you or one of the admins can do that. I'm just lettin' you know that. - Best regards B1bl1kal Don't cha judge me! 09:10, November 11, 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. & don't you worry pal, I'm gonna keep my eyes out for anything. Anything comes up, I'll let ya know. - Best regards B1bl1kal Don't cha judge me! 23:30, November 11, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Truth to be told...
I'm so sorry, I didn't know that ripoff category was created by you. I had no idea. Yeah sure thing, I'll check the page's history right away. & yeah, I totally understand where you're comin' at. Nobody in their right mind would want no trolling & no problem users screwin' with the pages. I can believe that. Well anyway, you're very much welcome. - Best regards B1bl1kal Don't cha judge me! 23:55, November 11, 2012 (UTC)

Hello could you please add Lord Voldemort to the liches catagory,He fits the description and qualifys to many as he used objects to become immortal by using them to house his soul.Please do respond sincerlyJester of chaos 00:27, November 19, 2012 (UTC)

Are you a mod, sir? Take a look at the Babs Seed page please Frostare (talk) 22:35, December 12, 2012 (UTC)

How do i add categories to my contribution? I mean i want to add Personality and Story, but i cannot find the concerning button. When i want to create a page i can only create it without the use of categories, which makes my contribution somewhat cluttered. You can consider this as a very inexperienced question, but i just registered recently.

Bob Goodall (talk) 09:00, December 17, 2012 (UTC)Bob Goodall

How do I post videos and more than one image?Macaulyn (talk) 23:36, December 22, 2012 (UTC)

Wanted Villains
I keep putting up a deletion candidate to have this category removed seeing it as mostly a charismatic villain, but Garfield1601 keeps removing it. Could you please tell him that that is not acceptable. DisneyVillain (talk) 01:30, December 23, 2012 (UTC)DisneyVillain

Disney Villain is wrong. Wanted Villains are not the "same" as Charismatic villain. Garfield1601 (talk) 01:49, December 23, 2012 (UTC)

Okay I can see the problem. True, "Wanted Villains" is not exactly the same as "Charismatic Villains", but there is no denying that the two are very close. But the root of the problem is elsewhere, as this category was created this month, long after the rule that forbids new categories from being created. Granted we have lots of problem to enforce this rule since users, usually well-intentioned, keep creating new ones. Still, we have far too many categories and I am very afraid that "Wanted Villains" is too close to "Charismatic" to make an exception. Balthus Dire (talk) 12:28, December 23, 2012 (UTC)

OK, but I have not seen even ONE user getting blocked for creating a new category, and many have done exactly that, including some pretty bad ones Crayzee Dawg 101 (talk) 04:02, December 27, 2012 (UTC)

Different Penguin articles
Do you think the time has come to create new Penguin articles based on how he was depicted in the media? I think this page has way too many categories. For example, Penguin (Batman Returns) is the only one who's known to be a mutant and child murderer. Penguin (Arkhamverse) is more of a Trophy Keeper. We all know Penguin (Adam West Batman) is campy. I just think we need new Penguin articles. --DragonDude83 (talk) 05:23, December 25, 2012 (UTC)