User talk:Ironyak1/Archive 3

Customs Official
Could you put a character template for the Customs Official, please? (Hobbiton777 (talk) 23:44, November 20, 2016 (UTC))

Yes, thank you! Just need to put in some references as well as a short history of him during the film. (Hobbiton777 (talk) 00:08, November 21, 2016 (UTC))

Credence
I don't recall a statement from Rowling that Credence has a large role to play in future films. All I can remember is this summary of an Entertainment Weekly article, where it's stated that Credence is "apparently a character that becomes notable in the Harry Potter universe," but it's from a year ago, when information on the film was just starting to come out. Chances are that the filmmakers decided to change Credence's fate after the article was written, or the article's author(s) simply got their facts incorrect. Every indication from the movie/script is that Credence is dead. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 09:00, November 21, 2016 (UTC)

Talk Page
Can you give your two cents on the Theseus Scamander talk page?--HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 15:15, November 21, 2016 (UTC)

Fawley source
I was able to tell due to the face of the actor Richard Clothier. (Hobbiton777 (talk) 17:20, November 21, 2016 (UTC))

Here's the proof:http://www.unitedagents.co.uk/richard-clothier (Hobbiton777 (talk) 22:36, November 21, 2016 (UTC))

Wanted posters
Actors known to have played criminals on the wanted posters in Beasts in case we want to try to put names to faces: Aileen Archer (profile with photos), Abigayle Honeywill, John Murray, Anick Wiget. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 02:57, November 22, 2016 (UTC)

Actors Nationalities
Wikipedia nationality guidelines do not state that only English actors should be labeled as British. If we are to follow the same style across the whole wiki then all English actors should have their nationality listed as English and not British as have been done with Scottish actors. Either change the English actors to English, or have all British actors listed as British. Continuing to have only some of the United Kingdom actors/actresses listed as British and the others as their respective Union nations is inconsistant, controversial and seen as very political.

Thanks for your thoughts on the issue. In my opinion I would prefer all British actors to be labeled as British. It certainly is a controversial issue, which is why I tend to stear towards the practice of one label, despite the recommendation of not enforcing uniformity. Due to conflicting opinions I would refer to official and legal definitions of nationality within the United Kingdom which is those who are a citizen of the UK are a British national. English, Welsh, Scottish and N Irish are seen as ethnicities and not nationalities, therefore labelling nationality as English or Scottish etc is, while perhaps satisfying some feelings of some groups, is not factually correct by official standards. It's using incorrect information to pander to one side of the issue, while ignoring those on the other. That being said, if it is indeed impossible to stick to the official nationality of British for UK citizens, then the second best option would be to use the individual countries for everyone i.e all English actors as English. I think the biggest issue here is having everyone from England labeled as British and everyone from Scotland labeled as Scottish appears to invoke a political statement, not to mention appears inconsistent with styling. Your thoughts? Albion85 (talk) 04:40, December 2, 2016 (UTC)


 * On the whole, I agree with Wikipedia's UK Nationality guidelines. I think specifying the consistency, when it's easily verifiable, is the best approach, but there's no need for 100% uniformity since enforcing that seems to only bring about counterproductive edit warring over something that's frankly trivial. --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 12:55, December 2, 2016 (UTC)

HP/Hannah Montana
Have you gotten the chance to see Fantastic Beasts yet? I really want to. My brother said that they cast Johnny Depp as Grindelwald. I cant wait! Also, I don't know your age, or what you were like as a kid, but Hannah Montana is back on Disney Channel for the month of December! Please pass the Hannah Montana message on to everyone. Anyone that grew up watching it as I have, should get the chance to watch it again. Fenrirgreyback02  ~This love we have will never end. We're circles we begin again.  21:12, December 4, 2016 (UTC)

Unidentified individuals in Fantastic Beasts
Could you please create pages for all the credited unidentified individuals who appeared in as well as pics of them, please? (Hobbiton777 (talk) 19:14, December 6, 2016 (UTC))

3rd Slytherin Chaser in first movie
Can you Please made photo of him? --Matthew Bowyer Fan (talk) 11:07, June 5, 2016 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. --Matthew Bowyer Fan (talk) 10:13, June 6, 2016 (UTC)

Can you Please help me find him? --Matthew Bowyer Fan (talk) 18:32, December 11, 2016 (UTC)

hey! you havent answered me in awhile. has something come up?

i look forward to hearing from you,

[User:Fenrirgreyback02| Fenrirgreyback02 ]][[User talk:Fenrirgreyback02| ~This love we have will never end. We're circles we begin again. ]] 19:32, December 14, 2016 (UTC)

Okay sorry i found it on a site that i thought was not lying thenn i found it on an image that was not linked to the sight. But i will stop i just thought it wasnt a lie cause i sw it on an image twice.Charmsking (talk) 01:47, December 22, 2016 (UTC)

This is the site i used Amino have a look and when or if you have determined please write back.Charmsking (talk) 02:05, December 22, 2016 (UTC)

We visited Chicago and came back yesterday night. My older sister is here and has to leave tomorrow. How was Fantastic Beasts? I'm assuming you have seen it. Who was your favorite character? [User:Fenrirgreyback02| Fenrirgreyback02 ]][[User talk:Fenrirgreyback02| ~This love we have will never end. We're circles we begin again. ]] 16:05, December 29, 2016 (UTC)

RE:FB Cases images
Yes, it's mostly because they're .png, so they ultimately look better even if they are of somewhat lower resolution. I don't have that many screenshots from Cases (mainly because taking screenshots on my tablet is a royal pain), especially of the blink-and-you-miss-it glimpses of the clues that you mend/clean-up/etc., so be my guest! --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 03:05, December 30, 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year
Just wishing you a Happy New Year in advance. :) &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 05:01, December 31, 2016 (UTC)
 * The page function for doesn't seem to be working. Can you give it a look when you've the time? Thanks! &#x2605;  S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 06:35, December 31, 2016 (UTC)
 * Good work on the Chocolate Frog Card revision so far. I hate to put more work on you after you've already gotten started, but could you alphabetize the character entries by surname? I might go in and do this myself when I have a bit more time. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 03:51, January 2, 2017 (UTC)

Reply
Hello, I do see now that that was kind of pointless. Would you like me to go back and fix it or are you okay? Lasso, do you have any ideas to help my edit count as I cannot see anything to correct or add. Once again, sorry for putting in pointless information. Thank you, Harrypotterfreak233 (talk) 18:54, January 2, 2017 (UTC)

Re: Physical Descriptors
As far as I was aware, if the book doesn't say something, we will in with the film information, yes? Well, we know Lavender's description from the books, but we do not know any of Astoria's stuff due to her not appearing. So, per the tiers of canon that this wiki works on, we have to use the appearance of her from the film; brown hair and eyes, pale skin. There is no other possible information that was can use. --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 03:33, January 6, 2017 (UTC)

Very well. I'll go and yell at Seth later; it's 04:32am here now!--HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 04:33, January 6, 2017 (UTC)

Ron
Hope you don't mind, but I added another reference to Ron's skin colour. --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 21:01, January 6, 2017 (UTC)

Serephina
Because I don't know how, I thought I'd tell you here. References 4 and 5 are the same. Can they be merged? --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 19:05, January 8, 2017 (UTC)

Sorry to meddle again... but 1 and 2 are the same too. --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 19:10, January 8, 2017 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Seems, today at least, that I can't do anything right. I shouldn't've bothered you. Never mind. --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 19:15, January 8, 2017 (UTC)

Quidditch Chocolate Frog Card
Hello!

Primarily, sorry for my poor English.

I noticed that you were trying to re-organize national Quidditch teams articles because of Chocolate Frog Cards in HP6 DS/PSP. I just want warn you that some names and tiltes are different from Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup. For exemple, worst is Japanese team cards : the card Tamotsu Iwamoto shows in fact Ryotaro Tanaka, Ryotaro Tanaka ' s card shows Noriyuki Sato, Noriyuki Sato ' s card shows Keiko Takahashi and Keiko Takahashi ' s card shows Tamotsu Iwamoto. You can heard/see right names/characters in the Quidditch World Cup video game. Shinra (parlotage) 21:33, January 8, 2017 (UTC)


 * Sadly, as you know, the names in this game can be only heard. If it can help you, I've already checked some teams for the French Wiki, the American and Nordic teams cards are right, but those of the Australian team seems to have some mistakes. Shinra (parlotage) 14:20, January 9, 2017 (UTC)


 * I played with the Australian team, and there's also some mistakes :


 * There's also something I wanted to ask you, do you know the name of the Australian Team Special Move ? I know it's "Déferlante de Farcing" in French ("Farcing's Surging" ? "Surging of Farcing" ?), but impossible to find the original name on the Web... Shinra (parlotage) 15:01, January 15, 2017 (UTC)

Aliases & random deletes
How about just fixing the changes instead of deleting them?

Re Malfoys = Slytherins
We can take it literally; it'd be something Draco would know and be proud of an, as we saw, boast about. --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 18:32, January 9, 2017 (UTC)

Alright
I'm still learning the ropes at editing so I'll stumble a bit, thanks.--BlueKraid (talk) 19:42, January 10, 2017 (UTC)

Ollivander
Can you see the latest thing on the talk page? Cheers!--HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 23:50, January 11, 2017 (UTC)

Question
Would it be possible to use your bot to replace instances of Category:Patronus Forms with Category:Patronus forms? The former is currently what's in use, but the capitalization is unnecessary, and inconsistent with existing categories. I'd normally just manually change instances if there were like 30 or so articles in the category, but there's over a hundred. X_X &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 01:39, January 17, 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Can I also ask if it would be possible to get a higher-quality scan of File:AlbaniaMap.jpg? Not right now, obviously, but whenever you've got the chance. Issues related to the Macedonia naming dispute have popped up a couple of times on this wiki in the last couple of months. I think a higher-quality scan would more firmly establish that "Macedonia" is how the country has been referred to in a canon source. &#x2605;  S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 02:13, January 17, 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for moving everything. I don't think there's an issue. There were 121 pages listed in Category:Patronus Forms, and now there's 121 pages in Category:Patronus forms. So it looks like everything has been converted successfully. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 02:36, January 17, 2017 (UTC)


 * Re:AlbaniaMap.jpg - It isn't in Film Wizardy, Page to Screen, or The Artifact Vault, as far as I can tell. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 02:59, January 17, 2017 (UTC)

QWC - Australian / German Team
My bad, I confused them, Echunga is indeed the younger. I'll check twice in the future.

Unfortunately, Special Moves' names aren't listed and can be only heard when you do them - and it seems that some names are rarely said (like for the German or the Australian team).

By the way, I've also check the German team (this time, I'm pretty sure it's correct) :


 * Up, left to right : Elena Eldritch (beater), Katrina von Glockenspieler (beater), Hermann Wiel (keeper)


 * Right : Kursten Blijk (chaser)


 * Down, left to right : Konrad Weiss (seeker), Kurt Todt (chaser), Igor Brand (chaser)

Shinra (parlotage) 21:25, January 18, 2017 (UTC)

Hey
In response to your question, I'm looking. I didn't add the original reference to it in, just the one for the 1953 d.o.b, because Sirius says the "Lestranges" were at Hogwarts with Snape and the group. This is either both brothers or Sirius, as he's talking about his married cousin at the time, I believe, means Bella and Rod. --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 01:55, February 3, 2017 (UTC)

Hey2
I know it's a little too late asking this, should I keep the Magical Congress of the United States of America departments cat page? I saw that there was a cat for the Ministry departments and separate cats for each department, so I figured I'd add it, but wanted to check in you to see if I should keep adding the cat to the MACUSA department pages or have it deleted. Andrewh7 (talk) 21:27, February 22, 2017 (UTC) Andrewh7

Errol Hawkworth
We can assume that children have the same surname as their father unless there's some evidence to suggest otherwise (e.g., the parents are conclusively known not to have been married, or they gave their children hyphenated surnames like we now know that Ron and Hermione did).

As for Emmett, unless he's explicitly identified in the game's text as Errol Hawkworth's father, it's possible that he was Ernest's maternal grandfather, and thus not a Hawkworth. In which case we'd just have the article on him located at Emmett. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 19:19, March 8, 2017 (UTC)


 * Currently, Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World is handled under Template:FB, but I'm thinking it would be best to spin it off into its own appearance template, since the game has little to do with the film. Template:FBC? &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 20:29, March 8, 2017 (UTC)


 * A user made has made a complete muck of the birth categorization system, adding Category:20th century births to the articles of characters whose specific year, or at least decade, of birth is known. This, of course, is redundant and has made a mess of the century categories, which are reserved for characters whose century of birth, but not specific decade or year, is known. I could really use some help going through this and trying to put things back in order if you've got the time. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 09:52, March 9, 2017 (UTC)


 * I manually cleaned up the "20th century births" category. Some of the other birth categories might need to be cleaned up, though, and it's looking like the Category:Individuals by year of Sorting and Category:Individuals by year of death and their children will need to be seen to as well.


 * I can't think of an instance where both higher- and lower-level birth/death/sorting categories (e.g. "Category:20th century births" and "Category:1970s births") would need to be included in an article. If we're able to pinpoint a specific character's birth to the late 1970s based on new information, for instance, then there's no longer a need to list them under "Category:20ths century births." That category is for when we only have enough info to pin a birth down to a specific century. Or where when a character was born at the turn of a decade and we can't pinpoint on which side they fall. Like many of the students in Harry's year. We don't know if Lavender Brown was born in 1979 or 1980, and it wouldn't be appropriate to categorize her under both "Category:1970s births" and "Category:1980s births," since someone cannot have been born in two decades (excepting, perhaps, the very rare baby born at 12AM on New Year's Day, which I doubt applies to Lavender). So she has to default to "20th century births," even though her birth falls in one of two specific years.


 * Nationality categories are a bit more complicated. It's possible for two child categories to apply to a character in the case of emigration (e.g., "Category:French individuals" and "Category:English individuals" for Fleur Delacour, who moved to England from France upon marriage).


 * I'd love to be able to delegate the job of removing redundant categories to a bot. My only concern is that the bot wouldn't be able to discern where to place a category within the alphabetic ordering used for to organize categories, and would just slap it onto the end like a lot of new editors do. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 20:33, March 9, 2017 (UTC)


 * Would you be able to use your bot powers to change instances of Category:Second War casualties to Category:Second Wizarding War casualties? Thanks! &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 01:39, March 10, 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks again! :) &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 03:02, March 10, 2017 (UTC)


 * I proposed cleaning up Category:Creatures a while back. I do think it could benefit from an effort to reduce redundancy, but, at the same time, I think there's a benefit to cross-listing articles in both parent and child cats that might not apply elsewhere. The Ministry of Magic divisions categories (Category:Beasts, Category:Beings, Category:Spirits) seem speculative in a lot of cases, i.e. we don't have official canon confirmation that certain creatures fall under certain categories, we're inferring their classifications based on their similarity or dissimilarity to known beasts, beings, and spirits. Thus I think it would be impossible to to completely empty the top-tier level Category:Creatures into the MoM division cats.


 * Might be better to try to impose an organization scheme similar to Category:Individuals, where there's various thematic container sub-categories. Like "Creatures by classification", "Creatures by species," "Creatures by range," etc. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 07:10, March 10, 2017 (UTC)

BeccaMalfoy
My personal suggestion? Block her immediately. On the Harry Potter Fanon Wiki -- of which I am part of -- she had taken to stealing characters made by other editors (including mine!) and fitting her own characters around hers. We did ask her to stop, but in the end we had to get an admin to block her from editing to protect our pages. Just my two cents. --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 22:00, March 26, 2017 (UTC)

Hulleywood
Just thought I'd inform you that Hulleywood has vandalized multiple wikis and has been infinite banned on them. You might consider doing the same here, or informing VSTF. Zane T 69 (talk) 03:01, April 7, 2017 (UTC)

How do you become an admin on this wiki? I noticed that you do a lot of high-quality work here, thanks for that by the way, and the wiki has a major shortage of people who can guard the wiki against the threats. At least from what I have seen, anyway. Zane T 69 (talk) 03:16, April 7, 2017 (UTC)

Official Magical Secrets Act?
Hello, there. :-)

I recently lent my edition of the updated version of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to a friend of mine, and thus can't check it myself, so I wondered if you got it too? If so, would you care to check wether I am remembering this correctly? Didn't Newt Scamander mention something along the line of an 'official magical secrets act', a law set down by the British Ministry of Magic forbidding those under their jurisdiction who was present in certain historically significant incidents from telling people about it as long as the files was classified? Ninclow (talk) 17:53, April 12, 2017 (UTC)

Wow, that was quick! Good job! :-D

Thanks. Hope we can continue to cooperate on maintaining the wikia like this without arguing all the time. ^^' Ninclow (talk) 21:20, April 12, 2017 (UTC)

Oh... Epic fail? ^^'

Well, even if we don't always see eye to eye, I honestly do think your dedication to accuracy and so fort makes you a valuable resource for the wikia. So thumbs up anyway! :-D Ninclow (talk) 11:43, April 13, 2017 (UTC)

Gellert Grindelwald main image
Can't the main picture in Gellert Grindelwald's page be changed to a batter version of it? This is too old.

Movie vs Movie script:
Hi, just wondered if I could pick your brain about this thing I'm pondering on. Any thoughts? Ninclow (talk) 22:31, April 19, 2017 (UTC)

Good point, I should have thought about that. :-)

Re: Fidelius Charm - UK vs US
Hey! I checked both the UK eBook and the hardcover edition and they both say complex as well so I'm not sure where challenging came from :) -- Kates39 (talk) 20:11, April 21, 2017 (UTC)

Re: Admin assistance
Yeah, no prob. That's what we're here for, right? Given him a warning; if he does it again, a block will be enforced. -- Cubs Fan (Talk to me)  02:05, April 22, 2017 (UTC)

Chat
Hello, there! Do you think you can join me on chat for a moment? Thanks! --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 19:01, April 23, 2017 (UTC)

Re: British expulsion
No problem!

The UK government has the same approach as the American one. There are two kinds of exclusion / expulsion - fixed period meaning suspension and permanent meaning expelled. There are schools who have their own approach though. This link might help you. -- Kates39 (talk) 19:26, April 24, 2017 (UTC)

RE:Family categories
You know, I really don't know how to answer that. I would say, at a first glance, that listing just that characters' surnames seems to be the cleanest, most straightforward option — genealogical relationships could be given just on the family category page? (i.e. the "Potter family" page being under the "Peverell family" category? Though I can see this becoming a mess quite easily -- should Weasley be under Potter or Potter under Weasley?) This perhaps needs more thorough discussion; would you be willing to create a forum on this? --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 09:40, April 26, 2017 (UTC)

Re: Professor vs Teacher
I was removing all references of them being called professors from the page. I suppose their jobs could be said to be professors at Hogwarts, but given that they weren't called professors I changed it to teacher. -- Saxon 14:16, April 26, 2017 (UTC)

Re: Undo marathon
Thanks! - I am getting a bit tired of hitting the undo button today. Hopefully the problem will be sorted soon and we can get back to normal editing! -- Kates39 (talk) 23:03, April 30, 2017 (UTC)


 * No problem! I have to go now, but they appear to have given up for the time being. Hopefully an admin can intervene soon. -- Kates39 (talk) 11:23, May 10, 2017 (UTC)

Can you?
Can you see my comment on the talk page of "Pure-blood: round 2"? Thanks!--HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 02:09, May 6, 2017 (UTC)

Trivia - Behind the Scenes
Looking through the articles, I've noticed that some articles use Trivia sections. Is there any difference between a Trivia and a BTS section? If not, could we get permission to use your bot to rename all Trivia sections to BTS?--Rodolphus (talk) 18:14, May 6, 2017 (UTC)

RE: Rappapart's Law
True, it does not mention Muggleborns, but it's implied as all contact with Muggles is forbidden except for what they have to do to get on with their daily lived... and by marrying a Muggleborn, they're coming into contact with Muggles, which is forbidden, implying it's both that count. As for the ancestry, that backs up my point -- if Muggleborn are included, then at least one of Tina's ancestors has to, pre 1793, have become half-blood, meaning the ancestry is distant.--HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 03:01, May 9, 2017 (UTC)

Re: UK spelling check
Hi, no problem! Yes, it says "moonlight filters". -- Kates39 (talk) 19:30, May 9, 2017 (UTC)

switching to location as always stated as such
HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry, that was not really a mocking laugh as an amused one. Kind of like CinemaSins? - Because...

Oh... Sorry, that was a bit pressumptious of me... :/ Ninclow (talk) 11:41, May 10, 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) YOU being the one to undo my edit is not exactly surprising.
 * 2) The reason for removing actual canonically confirmed information doesn't even make sense. Ninclow (talk) 07:29, May 10, 2017 (UTC)

RE:"Inferi" articles
Oh, that's ok, I figured out as much. I meant to contact you about it the other day, but never got round to it. In the meantime -- as I am no Dumbledore -- I'll get a box of matches. --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 17:34, May 11, 2017 (UTC)

Section header
Just curious; why did you undo my edit? The way it's published now, it makes it look like Quidditch is no longer played, since it's written about in the past tense.TennesseeTimeLord (talk) 15:55, May 12, 2017 (UTC)TennesseeTimeLord

Fleamont family
Hey. Could I ask for your thoughts on the blood status of the Fleamont family? You have a better understanding of blood status than I do at the moment! Henry Potter's mother is currently listed as pure-blood. The reference states she must be as her son, grandson and great-grandson are but in light of your sources, only James can be confirmed as pure-blood.

Judging by the no muggle / muggle-born grandparent rule, Henry could be half-blood. Therefore, so could his mother and her family. Have I got that right? -- Kates39 (talk) 22:45, May 12, 2017 (UTC)

Can you fix it?
While you are, right now, the last person I want to talk too and I am currently loathing every single thing about every micro-atom of your body, Seth seems to have vanished, so cannot fix it. I have added some references to Pandora Lovegood's page; as they're the same reference they need to go under a named ref, which I can never seem to get right. Can you put them under one? --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 00:56, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

I know that you know, but...
Are you okay, mate? I know I can get worked up and be a bit... Less embracing than I could be when that happens, but HarryPotterRules1 stepped out of line with that last comment. I'm sure you're just going to lift your head high and ignore it, but just wanted to ask, because no one should be accused of something like "screwing up the entire wikia" lest they're some troll who actually tries doing that or something. :/ Ninclow (talk) 01:17, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

Great! :-D Ninclow (talk) 01:27, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

BTW, may I congratulate you with having a exceedingly wise uncle and a most realistic view on British wizard-Muggle relations? Ever considered a job in Muggle Relations? :P Ninclow (talk) 01:39, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

Uh?
You do know that was my page you posted on, not Seth's right? --HarryPotterRules1 (talk) 01:40, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

I am as elegant as an elephant in a glass store...
Mind helping me with this this? Merlin, I'm useless. Ninclow (talk) 12:50, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

What's your conclusion? :-) Ninclow (talk) 17:03, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

Was that a question about whether we should be categorized by nationality or what I meant by American criminals? Ninclow (talk) 20:11, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

Never mind, I re-red it. :p

Yeah, I figured it'd be more organized and stuff if criminals were sorted into the nationalities from which they hailed. Ninclow (talk) 20:21, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

RE:Full Black Family tapestry
Not that I know of, I'm afraid! (and I never got to go to Leavesden! Last I was in London I went specifically to watch Cursed Child, so I only was there for the weekend, so I was rather limited on my sightseeing!) --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 16:01, May 13, 2017 (UTC)


 * That's right! One thing I did stumble upon there was a tapestry at Victoria and Albert Museum from which they had clearly based some of the likenesses in the Black family tapestry prop (and I had never read about it, anywhere!) Imagine how surprised I was to look at a mid-fifteenth century Flemish tapestry and find Walburga Black staring back at me! --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 16:17, May 13, 2017 (UTC)

Hogwarts Library 2017
Hello.... Unfortunately I do not have the ebooks, well I wanted ... It is very difficult to find ebooks now, especially in Brazil. I found the images on the internet and on the website of ebooks illustrator "Tomislav Tomic". --JoaoRavenclaw07 (talk) 01:22, May 14, 2017 (UTC)

Hogwarts Library 2017
I do not know how to do this, my English not so good and I'm kind of lost with so much information ..... To have an idea I'm translating and writing all these messages in Google Translator .... ops!!! Kkkkkkk But thanks for speaking this, I will look at the next time I put images and I'm sorry for my poor English.JoaoRavenclaw07 (talk) 01:34, May 14, 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your help! I'll try next time. Obrigado! (Means "thank you" in Portuguese)JoaoRavenclaw07 (talk) 03:19, May 14, 2017 (UTC)

Potter
Sorry, but it was kinda wrong to me for you to add a Fleamont Potter  sub-heading on the Potter family page! Tvurta (talk) 08:44 May 20, 2017 (UTC)

On the Images page, there are over several pictures of Credence that are the same and there is no need for more than one. Could you or have someone remove them? Tremewitch127 (talk) 18:51, May 22, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

In dept page
I understand your reasons for adding additional information to pages. I won't delete it again, but I am going to clean it up. Misskatniss1546 (talk) 20:05, May 24, 2017 (UTC)Misskatniss1546

School years
Could you stop deleting the information on Harry's first and second years! It's annoying me! Tvurta (talk) 3:22, May 26, 2017

Quidditch and school years
As you are currently working on the school year articles, perhaps you could also help me working on the articles on individual Quidditch matches I started creating a while ago? Its a bit hard for me, as I only have the audiobooks and don't have most Englisgh versions. I only created articles on the Gryffindor vs. Slytherin Quidditch match (1991) and the Gryffindor vs Ravenclaw Quidditch match. (1992) The infobox still has not been created as of now. Also, you have done good work on the school year articles! I wonder if there is enough information to create articles on earlier or later school years.--Rodolphus (talk) 18:04, May 26, 2017 (UTC)

Merlin's Beard
I've yet seen you should have gotten it a long time before. Now you get it. Congrats! <font style="background:#F75D59;color:gold;"> Harry granger <font style="background:yellow;color:black;">  Talk  <font style="background:yellow;color:;"> <font style="background: #99CCFF;color:#993300;"> contribs <font style="background: #99CCFF;color:#993300;"> 21:25, May 26, 2017 (UTC)

OOTP Film
Hey. I was wondering what the policy is for removing things on talk pages? This user is making a very lengthy recap of on the talk page of the film. There is some fanon within it as well. Since the talk page is not meant for that, would it be okay for me to just remove it? Thanks. -- Kates39 (talk) 20:17, June 2, 2017 (UTC)

articles?
Can you help me creating seperate articles on newspaper articles? We have a separate category and infobox, but not many individual articles yet.--Rodolphus (talk) 15:49, June 3, 2017 (UTC)

Re: Moving timetables
Great! I have made my way through the first few books. Do you know where the reference for Norberta's birthday of 24 April is from? I might be able to pinpoint a day of the week, but using the real world calendar places that on Friday. Norberta was hatched the same day Harry, Ron and Hermione skipped Herbology. However, it cannot be Friday as we know they only have double Potions and then the afternoon off. There is no reference for the date on Norberta's page.

I was wondering what your thoughts were on using real world calendars to find dates overall. It can be helpful, but sometimes Rowling gets the days of the week mixed up. Should we use real world calendars when it does not contradict anything else in the book? -- Kates39 (talk) 16:25, June 4, 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that was my main worry when using real world calendars in the same way the HP Lexicon did - it won't always work out! We should probably stick to the days of the week given, and work around them. Unfortunately, the second CoS DVD with the extras is the only one I don't have. Hopefully we can find someone else to help out with that one, and I will have a look online in the meantime. - Kates39 (talk) 19:13, June 4, 2017 (UTC)


 * Good luck! I would love to have a look if you manage you upload it onto youtube. -- Kates39 (talk) 10:00, June 5, 2017 (UTC)


 * I have updated and added references to the timetable on the 1992–1993 school year page. A lot of what was in them were errors or guesswork based on the real world calendar which as usual, didn't match up with the book's timeline! I put everything we can determine for certain in the actual timetable, as the book gives an actual day for them, but moved/put everything we don't know under a new heading called "Notes". -- Kates39 (talk) 19:06, June 5, 2017 (UTC)


 * Looks great - thanks for doing that! You have picked up most of the mistakes, but I have noticed a few more. For example, they have 31 October 1981 as the date Harry arrived at Privet Drive, but he arrived on 1 November. They also have the 3 September as the date of Lockhart's lesson on Cornish pixies, but it happened the first day back at Hogwarts on 2 September. I look forward to seeing the other ones if you have the time, but no worries if you can't! -- Kates39 (talk) 18:03, June 10, 2017 (UTC)

Questions
For the Ilvermorny page, could some of the unnamed Native American students be added to the list or because they're unnamed they can't? Also, hypothetically if my first account was blocked, but I proved I created the second one after the block, could he still block the second one? Tremewitch127 (talk) 19:35, June 25, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

Oh yeah I made a typo before; I said second one after the block, I meant before. Also, I was wondering if you knew how I might say it on the Ilvermorny page? Should I start off with unnamed or just say Wampanog/Narangassett and whatever after that? Tremewitch127 (talk) 03:47, June 26, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

Wouldn't Gregory Goyle's mother be a pure-blood considering a pure-blood and a half-blood makes a half-blood like Delphini and if Goyle's mother was a half-blood, so would be? Tremewitch127 (talk) 14:44, June 28, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

I removed the references because I feel they weren't needed, imo most of the ones that did have references were either already stated in the movies or they just weren't needed. Tremewitch127 (talk) 18:02, July 6, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

Okay, but are they/most of them really necessary? Also are Tina and Queenie's parents Americans seeing as how Tina and Queenie both went to Ilvermorny? Tremewitch127 (talk) 19:02, July 6, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch12

Wouldn't Draco and Delphini be blood relatives of the House of Black seeing as how both of their mothers are blood relatives of the HOB? Also, why should I not blank a page that's just going to gen deleted anyways? Why should I also let others review the page when it's fanon and it's complete nonsense? Tremewitch127 (talk) 18:42, July 7, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

I want to add that Ilvermorny was mentioned in one or two of the articles of Ilvermorny; not that they were mentioned, but was in the articles, but I don't know how to say it. Should I saw in the New York Ghost or just go straight to it? Also, on the Potter family page, should I say that the American branch is loyal/affiliated with MACUSA (in the infobox)? Tremewitch127 (talk) 05:31, July 12, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

Could I add a description of the castle on the Ilvermorny Castle page kinda like the description of the Hogwarts Castle, but shorter? Is there a rule about no gifs on the wiki? I found an image of the duel between Isolt Sayre and the boys vs. Gormlaith, could I add it to the Ilvermorny Castle page despite it not being the castle yet? Tremewitch127 (talk) 19:17, September 2, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

Could J. Ward and the others from the Rat memo have second floor sorcery staff put on their pages? The memo was for the staff and directed to them. Tremewitch127 (talk) 00:35, September 8, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

Is the edict that made Thunderbirds and the North American magical beasts named the Protective Order on Thunderbirds or just what they called it? Tremewitch127 (talk) 06:13, September 24, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

Re:Dragon eggs
It's in the first case, when you find the nest in the bell tower. Mathilda comments something like "at least we know it's not a dragon". But, yes, an image reference for that statement would be useful; I wasn't thinking of it at the time. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 21:02, July 13, 2017 (UTC)

Chat
Hey, are you available for chat? &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 00:15, August 23, 2017 (UTC)
 * Has this issue become unmanageable? &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 01:10, August 25, 2017 (UTC)

Creature categories
One issue I noticed with the bot cleanup is that it's sometimes leaving a sub-sub-category as the only category on an article. For example, the bot has removed Category:Creatures from a number of animal articles, leaving only Category:Patronus forms, as the Category:Patronus forms is sub-sub-category of Category:Creatures. This means that a number of creature articles are now effectively buried in an obscure corner: Category:Creatures -> Category:Creatures by trait - > Category:Patronus forms. I think the solution here is to create a number of categories for creature types (reptiles, birds, whales, etc.) and then add those to creature articles, so that they'll be more readily accessible from the top-level Category:Creatures. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 22:20, August 24, 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, there definitely needs to be exceptions to the bot's category-pruning parameters. It's a useful tool, but sometimes what's needed is not the efficiency of a hammer, but the precision of a scalpel.
 * I definitely think there needs to be exceptions for actors and Hogwarts students. Having them all applicable articles listed in the root category is useful, because someone may remember part of an actor's name, without remembering specifically in what movie(s) that actor has appeared. So being able to browse through lists of every known Potter actor and Hogwarts student can be useful for readers.
 * I noticed some issues with Category:Humans too. Remus Lupin isn't listed in Category:Werewolves any more, I guess because the bot saw he was already in Category:Wizards. And I think it's also removed some people from the root-level too. I don't know why. I just know I've had to re-add Category:Humans to a few articles where it apparently got removed.
 * The issue with creatures is probably something that a bot can't fix. I think we need to work that one out manually, and I'm giving it a shot right now: something like Category:Creatures -> Category:Creatures by type -> Category:Mammals -> Category:Horses. I don't know if "Creatures by type" is a good name. A bit too close to "Creatures by classification." Maybe "Creatures by taxonomy?" But that's a bit too jargon-y. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 23:37, August 24, 2017 (UTC)


 * Another issue I've found is that the bot seemingly disallows cross-listing a category in two subcategories of the same parent category because it's been programmed to look for "redundant" categories. There's plenty of cases where an article could legitimately fall under two categories that fall under the same parent category. I'm finding this now as I try to sort out Category:Creatures. Take Category:Vampires. The bot automatically removed Category:Beings, even though that's a valid category, and left Category:Living dead, because both are some degree of sub-category of Category:Creatures. If we try to better organize Category:Creatures, there will naturally be cases in which multiple subcategories apply to a creature article. Taxonomical categories, MoM danger classification categories, range/region categories if we decide to go there. I can also imagine the bot mucking up Category:Individuals. Because there's so many different categories, and they're all children of that one giant parent. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 01:27, August 25, 2017 (UTC)


 * Question: is the bot constantly active or does it only operate on command? Like will it automatically scan through articles/categories for redundant additions? Because I suppose if you've already run it on Category:Creatures, and it's done it's job, it's not such a big issue. We can just smooth out the kinks mentioned above by manually re-adding categories the bot accidentally removed as redundant. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 01:42, August 25, 2017 (UTC)

Rune Credit
The term "Rune credit" appears on the bank form I just made a page for that you edited. Any theories of what that might be? Ninclow (talk) 19:29, September 3, 2017 (UTC)

Skender's Circus - it is indeed Circus Arcanus
Hi. I have insider information on the circus in the upcoming film as I've recently been in correspondence with the actor Henry Douthwaite, who actually played Skender in the original film before his part was cut. Here's what I gleaned:

-Skender is Russian. -When I inquired about the enchanting snake girl, he confirmed she was there. -He said that the circus is a freak show. -He apparently influences Credence to join the circus to Europe. When Credence has a moments pause, he tells him, if he stays, "they'll kill you!"

This means that Skender's Wizarding Circus is in fact Circus Arcanus. Can we change the articles, now?

Category:Wands
Someone recently added Category:Wands to a number of character wand articles. Can you run the bot to remove this category? It's a bit too much work to do manually, I think. Can you also target it so it only removes the Wands category, but doesn't remove false-positive redundant categories? Thanks! &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 00:28, September 7, 2017 (UTC)


 * By "false-positives" I basically meant how the bot sometimes removes individually relevant categories as redundant simply because they are both nested under the same parent category. For example, I mean the bot would see Category:Poplar wands, Category:Unicorn hair wands, and Category:Wands crafted by Garrick Ollivander on the same article, and remove two of them because they're subcategories of Category:Wands. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 03:35, September 8, 2017 (UTC)

Rollback
You might notice a little something different next time you edit. :) &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 00:47, September 7, 2017 (UTC)

Re:Please not again
Stop and rethink it? I haven't done anything else since the admins said no and brushed off my real life unhappiness as if it meant nothing.I know you don't know this or have any reason to care, because why would you possibly do, but - I am going through a depression and is these days in a rather dark, gloomy place. I really, REALLY don't need stuff like that taining my life right now. The wikia loses nothing by removing it without childlishly arguing about it. It is insesnetive, disrespectful, cavil, demoralizing, there is literary NO benefit of it being there AT ALL, and the only concivable reason for ANYONE to make a problem out of it is that they're a) such a stickler for rules that it clouds their moral judgement or 2) Enjoy seeing me misreable. Do you have ANY idea of how degrading it is to see that crap on the talk page, to know it's there, displaying on a silver plate whant an ass I can be when I lose my temper? That's the only two things I am capable of getting out from this situation. Ninclow (talk) 19:43, September 10, 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree with Ironyak. If you're going to be negatively affected by situations like this, then the internet is not the best place to be. Also it doesn't allow you to bend wiki policies as you please, just because you don't like them. ― C.Syde  ( talk  |  contribs ) 10:47, September 11, 2017 (UTC)

US vs UK spelling
Just wanted to point out that just because Harry Potter was filmed and takes place in the UK and the UK spelling is still the same word as the US one doesn't mean that the spelling always has to be U.K. spelling, especially on any pages about the US or pages about people or places in the US, and that words should be changed on a page just because it's the US spelling rather than the U.K. one. Tremewitch127 (talk) 19:50, September 25, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

Subcategories
Just to be sure, but if there is a cat like Wizard families and has subcats to individual wizard families, is it safe to add to the cat or should it remain a subcategory? Tremewitch127 (talk) 03:55, September 28, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127


 * Why is it that categories have be subcategories to other categories? Take the Malfoy family for instance, the Malloy family cat has to be a subcat of the Sacred Twenty-Eight families cat which is a subcategory of pure-blood families and that to Wizard families and the Malfoy family cat can't be added to the Wizard families and Sacred Twenty-Eight families cat? Tremewitch127 (talk) 21:03, September 28, 2017 (UTC) Tremewitch127

Event articles, FB...
I´m just think about something: Could we create more event articles on FB events? We already have the fund-raising dinner article.

I don't think we have any canon names, so I think we could use titles like:


 * Attempted arrest of Gellert Grindelwald near a chateau in Europe (quite long title, I know.)
 * Obscurus manifestation in New York
 * Newton Scamander's break of the International statute of Secrecy
 * First arrest of Gellert Grindelwald. (Doesn't Newt refer to himself in the foreword as the the first person to arrest him)

Unless we already have those.

I'm not experienced with writing event articles, so maybe you start them of you like. Thanks.--Rodolphus (talk) 22:04, October 2, 2017 (UTC)

Veela Page
Hi, I'm getting trouble on the Veela page with user AVoraciousReader, who's removing words specifically placed for readability. Could you weigh in on which edit is best? I don't think this person is gonna stop making tiny petty edits like this, and they insist on making petty continuous comments.

Estrildis (talk) 22:02, October 2, 2017 (UTC)