User talk:Nick O'Demus

Dumbledorenotgay
I've tagged this template for deletion, again. Not because I think it is a policy violation, but because it is unnecessary. If the user in question wants this box, then all they have to do is copy the raw code onto their page. Having a wiki template dedicated to purporting a view point that's completely false is unnaceptable, however.

Help
Hey, so I've been mulling over some page ideas, but I'm not 100% sold that they are necessary or what to title them if they are. In Goblet of Fire there is a wizard who makes claims of being a dragon killer to impress a group of veela's, but then another wizard steps in and says that this wizard is actually a "dishwasher for the Leaky Cauldron" and that he is in fact a vampire hunter. The guy claiming to be a vampire hunter has a BTS blurp about him under the Vampire article, but the dragon killer/dishwasher has no mention, nor could I find mention of the job of dishwasher at the leaky cauldron. Any suggestions? --BachLynn (Accio! ) 19:07, October 7, 2010 (UTC)

Sexual orientation
I just wanted to let you now I have created a new Sexual orientation article, redirecting Homosexuality and Asexuality to it.-- L.V.K.T.V.J. ( Send an owl! ) 00:24, October 8, 2010 (UTC)

?
Whats weong with seven cursed diamonds, its canon72.229.249.242 05:24, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

FAN?
Sorry, I don't mean to rush you, but with the Deathly Halows: Part 1 premiere in a a month, we need an a couple FANs to become featured articles for that time, so can you help, with yor Unspeakable position? Seth Cooper and I have agreed it would be best if Elder Wand was featured on the premiere weekend, but it is your decision. Also, the FA and Featured picture need to be updated. Thanks.-- L.V.K.T.V.J. ( Send an owl! ) 22:22, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you! --BachLynn (Accio! ) 19:40, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Fixing
Could you fix the featured articles logos so that they aren't ad a picture of the charactwers? Or should I ask a Sysop?--Station7 20:52, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

The featured article logo appeared on a character's picture.--Station7 20:57, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Hermione Granger to start with. ;) --Station7 21:08, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I checked it out also, I looked at it with all the skins, and found that if Station7 is using the new wikia look, the feature article image does appear over the main photo/info box, but not in monobook or Monaco. --BachLynn (Accio! ) 21:38, October 13, 2010 (UTC)

Bellatrix's whip
Hey, there's been some discussion about this article, and people who were at the advanced screening have apparently confirmed it is a spell, I was going to move the page but I'm not 100% sure what the article should be titled, Unidentified whip spell, Whip spell, Bellatrix Lestrange's whip spell, etc etc. --BachLynn (Accio! ) 15:03, October 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * That I would say is the largest debate, clearly in the trailer she is using a whip, the question being whether it is a real whip of her own, or a spell she produced. This is what Damien wrote: "It's from the trailer, and those who went to the advance screening of the movie have confirmed she uses this spell to take Gryffindor's Sword from the Snatchers. Damien O&#39;Hagen 14:51, October 14, 2010 (UTC)". --BachLynn Gryffindorcrest.jpg(Accio! ) 15:15, October 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * If you look carefully at the image and the trailer you can clearly see the distinctive shape of her wand handle. Damien O&#39;Hagen 15:38, October 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Bellatrix Lestrange holding the Godric Gryffindor's sword.jpg Here's one. Damien O&#39;Hagen 15:48, October 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Damien O&#39;Hagen 16:11, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Template question
Hi, Nick! Thank you for the explanation. I think I now know how it functions whenever I want to use it. Thanks again!!! Harry granger 19:03, October 15, 2010 (UTC)

Signature
Thanks. I saw on another wiki how most of them had it so i made mine the same. I'll change it asap. Slyhades99 23:30, October 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks again. I changed it as soon as I finished reading the message. Gryffindorcrest.jpg Slyhades99 Hallows.png 13:21, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Birthday
Thanks!-- L.V.K.T.V.J. ( Send an owl! ) 03:47, October 16, 2010 (UTC)

Re:Hello
Thanks for the note. I've just been very busy unfortunately. Have there been any major developments or new policies about which I should know? &#x2605; S t a r s <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">t <font face="Times" color="green">u <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">f <font face="Times" color="green">f <font face="Times" color="darkgreen">(Owl me!) 19:24, October 18, 2010 (UTC)

Forums
Sorry for the late reply, Nick; for the video blog forum, I'd say add it to the relevant policy. Its been an informal one for a while now, so codifying it will be fine. I support it personally, although I have failed to say so on the forum. As for the inactive admin one ... I'll hold it open a little longer as I've added a small caveat about administrators gracefully resigned instead of being forcibly de-opped. - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 12:42, October 19, 2010 (UTC)

Avada kedavra
Could u please explain in FULL DETAIL why u reverted my edits(Donmax) to the Avada Kedavra page.

Re: Title Templates
That's definitely convenient, thanks for the heads up about that-- and I'm going to request Rollback, too. Thanks a lot! -- Emmy  (★) 21:16, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

So handy... I was definitely going about things a really unnecessarily roundabout way. Thanks again. -- Emmy (★) 18:18, October 23, 2010 (UTC)

Quidditch World Cup
Ohhh, I see. Thank you for pointing that fact out to me. I appreciate it. =)
 * from OmarSamad

In response to your adding of that onto the Behind the Scenes, I'm very happy to hear you gave me that courtesy. Thank you once again. =) lol

Harry Potter wiki: Userboxes
Why do you see my edits as "propaganda campaign" and "gaming the system"? Is it forbidden to express fondness of a non-canonic character? Are userboxes only for canonic ones? --Fo01 07:21, October 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * Look, you can use all the skirty rhetoric you want to claim that your fixation with Dumbledore's sexuality and his "ex-girlfriend" are objective and innocent, but in the context of reality, and specifically your history, it would be beyond ridiculous to expect anyone to believe such a thing. You're free to think what you please, of course, but it's insulting to everyone else's intelligence when you blithely deny that your actions are loaded, when they so obviously are. You've stopped just short of being overtly offensive, and you know it, so why bother pretending you don't understand what people are telling you? -- Emmy (★) 08:12, October 24, 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, Nick, but I really had to say that. -- Emmy (★) 08:16, October 24, 2010 (UTC)

Awards
Haha, I'd love to! Thanks. -- Emmy (★) 08:29, October 24, 2010 (UTC)

Dumbledore Template
I agree; I've deleted it. If he wants to recreate it using code of his user page then that's fine, but we won't take it as a template. - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 12:13, October 24, 2010 (UTC)

Fleur
Thanks for telling me the proper voting procedure. I only uploaded a newer version of the picture of Fleur because the one that was being voted for is photoshopped. I was only putting up the official one that was actually release from WB. I can show you multiple links to where the original image was released too, if you want. Jack5555 14:22, October 24, 2010 (UTC)

Fo01
He does it again, we block him for a month. I hope this doesn't become a vendetta though. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 15:25, October 24, 2010 (UTC)
 * I just copied the raw code on my page, just like Cavalier One recommended me to do when he deleted the userbox. There are no reasons for a block, especially such a lengthy one. --Fo01 15:34, October 24, 2010 (UTC)

Avada kedavra 2
Yeah why was stuff deleted under fatality. It said theories on how the spell kills possibly draining energy in a persons brain, killing every living cell, shutting all organs off, or having the soul go to the afterlife. i liked it, it should go back.Donmax 04:07, October 25, 2010 (UTC)

Okay, I give up
Why IS a raven like a writing desk? -- Emmy (★) 17:55, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Verification help
That could be a mix-up of a-Chamber of Secrets (GBC) item -- Revive Potion -- whose icon is a wand emitting a few sparks. But seeing as the so-called "Healing Sparkle" is from Philosopher's Stone, I have no idea what it is. And this brings another question to mind: wouldn't the dummy/glitch items (i.e. the ones one can only gain access via GameShark) be considered canon? After all, they were included in the game (albeit not accessible via normal gameplay)... -- <font style="color:#333333;">Seth Cooper <font style="background:#333333;color:white;">owl post! 20:20, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

Talk page
I just edit your talk page. There was a little mistake at your archives. It's fixed now ;) --Station7 20:45, October 26, 2010 (UTC)

Fenwick family
Is it alright if I remove refences to Robbie Fenwick from the Fenwick family page? While there is at least one wizarding and one muggle Fenwick family known to exist, the page basically implies that they're the same family-- and that's kind of unlikely, considering Robbie is some kid Hermione Granger knew from back in the days of living among the muggles. I just wanted to ask before I made a relatively major alteration the page, small as it is. -- Emmy (★) 19:09, October 29, 2010 (UTC)

Oh, thanks, that makes more sense than taking Robbie Fenwick off the page completely. -- Emmy (★) 19:52, October 29, 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate way to contact you, but I couldn't find any other way that seemed more reasonable. (This is the first time I've tried to contribute to a wiki...please don't bite the newbie!)

As you can doubtless tell from my IP address, I'm the user who attempted to make a comment on "Talk:Dark Force Defence League" a few minutes ago. I had attempted to add links to my comment, which obviously did not work out. I'm still not sure what I did wrong. (This is one reason I prefer to do stuff like this by hand rather than trusting the software to do it for me!) I reposted my comment without the attempts at linking and it seems okay this time. Thanks for pointing out the, er, bloody-confusingness of my initial effort! 174.111.242.35 20:20, October 29, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Article titles
Well, can I just point out that if you're going to attack my new articles like that and change their names to lower case, you need to have a very good look through Category:Hogwarts locations, especially Category:Staircases, where every single conjectural name in that category has full capitals. Jpkilleen 15:12, October 30, 2010 (UTC)

Rollback
Thanks so much for making sure I got rollback privileges. I really appreciate it! -- Emmy (★) 12:27, October 31, 2010 (UTC)

Hey, did you just talk to me?
I'm new here, and I was wondering... are you like the go-to guy? I'll probaly ask alot of stuff.. so I'm just making sure.Ginnyweasley101 20:59, October 31, 2010 (UTC) GinnyWeasly101

"Affray" in the Chamber of Secrets
Could I/you possibly change the name to "Skirmish in the Chamber of Secrets" or, I don't know... "Confrontation in the Chamber of Secrets" or something? It's really bugging me that an "affray" really implies a dispute of some sort in a public place (and in British common law is a public order offence), and the Chamber of Secrets is pretty much as far from a public space as it gets... I didn't want to just change it on my own, but I think the term affray is really all wrong. -- Emmy (★) 16:56, November 1, 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks -- Emmy (★) 17:17, November 1, 2010 (UTC)

Human Transfiguration
Sorry to bother you again, but I've basically created an altered and expanded version of the "Self-Transfiguration" article to a "human Transfiguration" article, including different types of human transfiguration, and adding some comparisons to Metamorphmagi in addition to the comparisons to Animagi. I've also include Barty Crouch Jr. transfiguring Malfoy into a ferret and his father into a bone. Can I go ahead and move it to Human transfiguration, or should I wait...? -- Emmy (★) 20:29, November 2, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Doctor Flitwick
I see. I thought one could consider it cut-content because Rowling didn't strike just the word "doctor" (what I'm trying to say is that Rowling didn't correct "Dr. Flitwick" as "Professor Flitwick"; but replaced "Dr. Flitwick [...]" with a new (perhaps more catchy) sentence altogether. As for Ron's claim that doctors are "Muggle nutters that cut people up", I think he's referring to "doctor" as in "physician", as we know some wizards use "doctor" as an academic title, not being necessarily physicians (i.e. Dr. Medusa, Dr Ubbly, Dr Filibuster). This would be Flitwick's case. But, of course, if you still think it should be moved to BTS, I have no objection. -- <font style="color:#333333;"> Seth Cooper <font style="background:#333333;color:white;"> owl post! 23:55, November 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Fine by me. -- <font style="color:#333333;"> Seth Cooper <font style="background:#333333;color:white;"> owl post! 15:17, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Hi, Nick! What has happened to this page? With all the sources in the middle of the text it is difficult to read! Harry granger 21:47, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I find the new Wiki has a lot of worsenings. When I use the new Wiki, I cannot see anymore which link I have already used. By the old Wiki the colour changed. That I appreciated. When I use the old form under preferences I see these differences but then I cannot see the number of my edits anymore. The one you let, the other you get! By the new Wiki I think the article gots longer because the place for the article seems to be smaller. That is not an improvement. But that is only my opinion. I don't want to say that all is worse but there are things who have worsened. But I think they will not change it back so we must live with the changings - the improvements as well as the worsenings. Harry granger 18:48, November 4, 2010 (UTC)

Transfiguration
Looking through the transfiguration pages, I thought of something. Do we have an article on turning obkjects into others? I´d suggest the conjectural title Inanimate to inanimate transfiguration.--Rodolphus 10:07, November 6, 2010 (UTC)

Harry Potter Premiere Events
Hi Nick, This is Kacie from Wikia Entertainment. I wanted to let you know that Wikia is celebrating the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:Part 1 by giving away a trip for 4 to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, hotel and airfare included! The giveaway will launch on Harry Potter Wiki tomorrow-- we hope it will excite both old and new users and motivate everyone to participate on the wiki! Our friends over at Mugglenet.com will be helping us promote the wiki and the giveaway to the larger community of Harry Potter fans. :)

The Wizarding World giveaway runs from November 8-30. To enter the giveaway, Harry Potter fans must create an account and leave a comment on the giveaway page answering the question: "If you could spend one day in Hogwarts, what would you do?" Each comment counts as an entry, and one lucky muggle will be randomly selected from all eligible entries on December 1st. Since you're a Harry Potter expert, we need your help to come up with a special, tricky Harry Potter trivia question on the giveaway page- it will be another way for extra dedicated HP fans to enter the giveaway. Can you and the other admins help us come up with a tough trivia question (and the answer) by tomorrow?

We will also be enabling category galleries (which beautify category pages) and article comments (which allow users to comment about an article) for the giveaway and premiere. these tools have proven to facilitate conversation, engagement and collaboration on many of our wikis, including Twilight Saga Wiki and Glee Wiki. We are positive that they will help the giveaway run more smoothly, allow users to review and discuss the movie much more easily, and foster a heightened sense of community here. If you have problems with this, please let me know.

In collaboration with local San Francisco radio station 92.7 KREV, Wikia is also giving away a limited number of tickets to the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 in Redwood City on November 18. We hope to see Bay Area Harry Potter fanatics at the Redwood City AMC theater at 11:00pm on November 18 for a local Harry Potter meetup complete with games, raffles, prizes, costumes and picture-taking! If you or any Harry Potter Wikians you know are local to the San Francisco Bay Area, please come join us as our guests of honor! Thanks so much for all of your hard work on Harry Potter Wiki. Cheers <font color="Blue">Kacie (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 00:18, November 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * Nick, the first few difficult but not too crazy obscure questions you listed are PERFECT. You're amazing! Can you email a couple more like that to entertainment@wikia.com so no one here can find the answer on my talk page? Thank you so much!! <font color="Blue">Kacie  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 01:10, November 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * I got your email--thank you!! So sorry you're too far away to attend the premiere. :( <font color="Blue">Kacie  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 16:13, November 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * As much as I'd like to go, I have to pass. I work a full eight-hour shift that day; tack on about an hour each way driving to and from work (which is already 10 hours), then about another hour and a half each way traveling to San Francisco and back (3 hours), it's a strain on my schedule. By the time I got home from work that next Friday, I'd have been awake for 36 hours on almost no sleep. If those were my days off, it would be a different story. -- <font face="Gisha" color="red">Cubs Fan <font face="Gisha" color="white">(Talk to me)  21:56, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

Gamp confusion
I edited Gamp's law of elemental transfiguration and listed 5 exceptions love, life, information, money and food. wh was it reverted?Donmax 19:31, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

Protected page
how long do you have to wait to edit a protected page?

Skin
Yeah, it's a pain to be sure. Any admin can change the backround with the theme designer, but like Cavalier said, Wikia will probably want us to keep this one, as they are showcasing us in their new advert. To be honest, I think moving to a new host is an option worth exploring. Many wikis are doing so, including World of Warcraft. Even though Wikia tried to bribe them into staying by offering them increased article width (which, by the way, the didn't offer anyone else). It's not a nice feeling, putting so much hard work into building an encyclopedia, and then being forced to sit back while Wikia change into something else:( Jayden Matthews 12:01, November 9, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Hoo boy
Good god! And I suppose those who have set up this competition are expecting you admins to sort through this mess and delete all the spam and invalid entries. If there is anything I can do to help you out please let me know. On a somewhat happier note, we are a short week away from Deathly Hallows:) I've upload a moving gif graphic of Jamie Campbell Bower as the young Gellert Grindelwald. Is there any way of getting it to move in the article, without having to click on it? Jayden Matthews 22:05, November 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for fixing that:) Well the shoutout from Mugglenet is cool, if nothing else. I guess there's nothing else we can do. It sure is inconsiderate of Wikia to force this madness on us, and then expect you guys to clean it up. Jayden Matthews 22:29, November 9, 2010 (UTC)

just in case
Hey, so I just thought I'd let you know that I'm still jobless and available pretty much 24/7 if you need help with anything with this whole contest/comments/new harry potter movie opening coming up this month. --<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="4" color="Purple" >BachLynn (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="2" color="Purple">Accio! ) 23:44, November 9, 2010 (UTC)

Belated block
Hey, Nick. Yesterday, a pair of anonymous IPs (82.36.197.143 and 93.97.169.6) inserted some fanon into a few articles that I had to revert. Can you block them? Thanks. -- <font face="Gisha" color="red">Cubs Fan <font face="Gisha" color="white">(Talk to me)  09:39, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

Deleting comments
I had the same problem, and I'm doing it manually by adding code to the address bar like so: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Article name/@comment username-somenumbers?redirect=no&action=delete. Copy the comment location in the address bar, and add the stuff in bold to the end and it will take you to the delete page. - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 00:00, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Vandal
User:Brandeno45 has posted 21 extra posts for the Wizarding World giveaway. Could you delete them? Thanks.-- L.V.K.T.V.J. ( Send an owl! ) 01:28, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

question
Hey, I know that there's a lot going on the wikia right now, but I was thinking of maybe adding a category for "voice" actors, so to separate the actors(real world) between the movie actors and the actors who did video game voices, what do you think? --<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="4" color="Purple" >BachLynn (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="2" color="Purple">Accio! ) 01:31, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Hmmmm, true, hadn't thought about the actors who did voices in the movies. I also can't decide that the category should be called, keeping in mind that some of the actors in the movies also did voices in the video games, so Voice actors (real world) probably wouldn't be appropriate for them, ya think? --<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="4" color="Purple" >BachLynn (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="2" color="Purple">Accio! ) 13:08, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Formating
oh, that would be lovely if you could help me with the formatting of my uderboxers and infoboxes thank you! DANCEMELISSADANCE 07:42, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

thanks so much!

123.2.84.161 13:09, November 14, 2010 (UTC)

couple more questions
Hey, I was also wondering about tables in the new wikia look, it doesn't seem to matter how they are styled with color and width, but in monobook they look like they are supposed to. Also, I want to use monobook now instead of the new wikia look, the only thing is, how do you create a page in monobook? In the new wikia look there is a link for creating a new page, and maybe I'm overlooking something, but I don't see anything like that in monobook. --<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="4" color="Purple" >BachLynn (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="2" color="Purple">Accio! ) 13:22, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

RE
Yeah thanks but i dont understand why sheltered cove, and cliffs were deleted. They were legitimite locations and why does hurricane keep getting redirected to enchanted window. A hurricane is mentioned in book 6 by the Prime minister in what the muggles think happened in west county,can u help me?Donmax 01:40, November 12, 2010 (UTC)

Beedle
see this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W62uVzpqAM8&feature=player_embedded

-.-'

that is the wrong image

the correct image it's the my image thumb

I'm sorry :D bjos

Coding
Hello, I've been on another wiki with diff. coding, could you help me? I know some stuff on that wiki, I've been on that for a wile, I'm on kingdomhearts.wikia.com if you want to see some diff. stuff on my userpage there it looks sort of the same as that thin where it puts stats at the left of my page with a picture above it please help, I'm Hangon if this doesn't work, 04:10, November 14, 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, I just went to a random user page, By 14:07, November 14, 2010 (UTC)

Help
Ok I need help I want to leave a comment so I can try to enter to get the harry potter tickets to orlando how do I do that?

Info box for profile
heyy!! im new here and i was wondering ow you make those info boxes.just please help me.thanks!!

Avery Malfoy 21:57, November 16, 2010 (UTC)Avery Malfoy, i love you!

ummmmmmmmmm confused.

hahaaha yesss i was.thanks alot

lolz ok thanks.i appreciate it =)