User talk:Starstuff

Error
Should be Katrina MacDougal not Katherine (Vaudree (talk) 07:44, December 7, 2015 (UTC))

Request
Hey,

So I was just wondering, seeing as you're an admin, if you had any jobs that needed doing because I am very keen to do something for the Wiki but I find myself with nothing much to do most of the time. I am only two and a half months old on the HPW but as I said, I am very keen to help out.

Thanks a lot for the help,

ArrestoMomentum &#124;  talk  02:59, December 21, 2015 (UTC)

Katherine redirection
Hi, do you know how to edit the redirection in Isobel MacDougal. Someone made an error and put Katherine MacDougal see Katherine (disambiguation) and redirected it to Isobel MacDougal, but the name was Katrina MacDougal see Katrina (disambiguation). How do you change the redirection from Katherine MacDougal to Katerina MacDougal so that I can delete Katherine MacDougal from the disambiguation.

I did not edit the Isobel page but left a message in the box saying what you edited.(Vaudree (talk) 04:34, December 21, 2015 (UTC))


 * Rowling showed her original hand-written list of students in Harry's year in the 2001 TV special Harry Potter and Me. Steve Vander Ark of the Harry Potter Lexicon managed to reconstruct half the list from screenshots of the special. This was all that HP fandom had to go on for years. People did their best to work out the names, but the reconstructed image was low resolution and incomplete, and in addition the list itself was stained and crumpled, and Rowling's penmanship somewhat scrawly.


 * Katrina/Isobel MacDougal is listed at the bottom of the left page in the image. Rowling's finger is partially obscuring the name "Katrina," so that only the "Katr-" part is clearly visible, and her "r" looks like it could be an "h." So "Katherine MacDougal" was a best guess at transcribing the name from the low-quality image. Rowling released an official transcription of the list on Pottermore in 2011. This clarified that the name on the list was actually "Katrina MacDougal."


 * There's no reason to delete the "Katherine MacDougal" redirect when we can simply create an additional redirect for "Katrina MacDougal." &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f (Owl me!) 09:11, February 12, 2016 (UTC)

Does Fred Weasley have a middle name?
Someone has it down as Gideon. (Vaudree (talk) 07:21, February 5, 2016 (UTC))
 * Fred's middle name hasn't been revealed anywhere to my knowledge. Thus it's fanon/speculation. &#x2605; S t a r <font face="Times" color="green">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!) 08:25, February 12, 2016 (UTC)

Permissions request
Hi there! I recently posted a request for Content Moderator rights, but only Seth Cooper has posted yet. Just wondering if you may be able to wade into the discussion as well? Thanks! --Sajuuk 19:45, February 9, 2016 (UTC)

Chat?
Hey there. Just wondering, if you aren't too busy atm, could you nip onto chat? Just wanna ask a quick'ish question :P --Sajuuk 15:31, February 16, 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't do chat, sorry. Feel free to ask here on my talk page. <font color="Green">&#x2605; <font face="Times" color="green">S <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">t <font face="Times" color="green">a <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">r <font face="Times" color="green">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!) 15:32, February 16, 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh ok, that's understandable. The question I wanted to ask was whether my edits to clean up various special list pages (eg WantedPages/WantedFiles/Wantedtemplates etc) are fine with people here? I know I'm spamming a lot of edits, but I get only short bursts of time to contribute and need to do a lot at once. I'm not using a bot or anything like that on myself just in case you wondered. --Sajuuk 15:34, February 16, 2016 (UTC)
 * I think the time is probably long overdue to go through WantedPages to create articles for redlinks. Just be careful to make sure that the redlinks are things we actually need articles on, and not fanon characters listed on somebody's userpage, links to deleted articles, etc. It's probably a good idea to clean out the clutter on WantedFiles, i.e. links to images that have been deleted. Don't worry too much about spamming the RecentChanges list. It's bound to happen whenever there's a flurry of activity on a relatively quiet wiki like this one. You could always mark your edits as minor edits so they can be filtered. <font color="Green">&#x2605; <font face="Times" color="green">S <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">t <font face="Times" color="green">a <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">r <font face="Times" color="green">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!) 15:42, February 16, 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, cool. Yeah, most of the redlinks I'm removing are for obvious titles that will likely not get created (where I wasn't sure if a page would be made, I left an edit summary where if I've removed a redlink by mistake, it can be reverted back.
 * I already have my edits marked as minor by default in my preferences (across all wiki's on Wikia), but wanted to make sure that there wasn't any rules or policies against "edit spamming" (some wiki's have this, but I disagree with such policies as it's pointless) on the wiki. :D
 * I'll continue to clear up the clutter as best as possible, within the limited time I do have. Obviously if I do get content moderator rights (the way the request is going, it's possible it won't happen as apparently 3 votes of support are needed to get the majority), this will be made even easier lol.
 * On a related note: I notice that article deletions seem to be quite rare. Is there some policy where a deletion tag needs to remain for a certain length of time before the deletion is done? Or are deletions done in bulk at certain times by sysops on the wiki? --Sajuuk 15:50, February 16, 2016 (UTC)

Block
Hi. Can you block User:HarryPotterRules1 for a while? They were writing abuse and intimidating messages here and it seems they have a history of ignoring requests by others and writing similar levels of abuse and intimidating posts. --Sajuuk 08:25, February 17, 2016 (UTC)
 * Whoa, that escalated from a run-of-the-mill content dispute rather quickly. <font color="Green">&#x2605; <font face="Times" color="green">S <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">t <font face="Times" color="green">a <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">r <font face="Times" color="green">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!) 09:09, February 17, 2016 (UTC)

Sig Fix
Hey! I just thought you should know that I fixed your signature, as several of your font tags were ended with, which is not correct syntax. I should also point out that the font tag itself is actually deprecated and should not be used and you should consider replacing these font tags with span tags instead (an example usage would be ). You aren't required to do this, but it would help with making sure things are kept nice and orderly. Thanks! :) --Sajuuk 17:39, February 18, 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey! Thanks for cleaning up my sig! I guess it's showing my age that I'm still using the font tag. <font color="Green">&#x2605; <font face="Times" color="green">S <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">t <font face="Times" color="green">a <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">r <font face="Times" color="green">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!) 08:24, February 21, 2016 (UTC)
 * No worries! :) --Sajuuk 08:55, February 21, 2016 (UTC)

HarryPotterRules1
Thanks for taking care of that. I leave for two days and that happens (what's more, that was about an issue that had already been resolved). -- <font style="background:#FFFFFF;color:#333333;"> Seth Cooper <font style="background:#333333;color:white;"> owl post! 19:39, February 18, 2016 (UTC)
 * Don't feel bad. I didn't notice it myself until it was pointed out to me, as I was absorbed in creating articles on minor actors and spamming RecentChanges at the time. <font color="Green">&#x2605; <font face="Times" color="green">S <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">t <font face="Times" color="green">a <font face="Times" color="dimgrey">r <font face="Times" color="green">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!) 07:37, February 21, 2016 (UTC)

Tina Demoted
Concede that the Americans may have a different term for it, like they have for muggle, but, until then, Patrol is the only term we know for an occupation which would be a demotion from auror - or for people not quite skilled enough to become aurors in the first place. Copied from elsewhere:

Finally remembered the name of the position which is sort of a less skilled version of an Auror - it is called Magical Law Enforcement Patrol.

It is possible that Tina was demoted from Auror to a desk job rather than demoted from Auror to a Patrol - but since her outfit, from the link you used to denote her as a former Auror, is a cheaper version of an Auror outfit, a Patrol would be more likely? Patrol is not in that category of occupations Auror is in but don't know how to do categories.

Don't know if this is American or Canadian/British page numbers

'Will it be Aurors who catch them?'

'Oh no, this is too trivial for Aurors, it'll be the ordinary Magical Law Enforcement Patrol - ah, Harry, this is Perkins.'

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - p.123 - Bloomsbury - Chapter 7, The Ministry of Magic
 * We don't have enough information yet to speculate on what job Tina got demoted to from Auror. We don't know if there is even an American equivalent of the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol, which is a part of the British MoM. &#x2605; S t a r s t u f f  (Owl me!) 07:35, February 22, 2016 (UTC)

The Department of Magical Law Enforcement is the department which is in charge of enforcing wizarding laws. The Muggle Protection Act is one of those set of laws so Arthur probably worked for a subdivision of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement - Muggle Protection, which had a very low priority in the Ministry and only consisted of two employees. The Auror and the Magical Law Enforcement Patrol both work for the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Americans wizards have laws and a need to have said laws enforced. Americans have aurors and they have a position in which they can either demote an auror to or give to someone not skilled enough to be an auror. Canon said that the job was below Tina's abilities, NOT that it required a completely different skillset. Canon said that the job was a demotion, NOT a position in an entirely new field. Less ability, same skillset, rank below auror - that is a Patrol (or the American term for patrol).

Ok, and the Americans can use a different term instead of Department or call the department by a different name - but they need some portion of their government devoted to law and order or there would not be any American aurors to keep said law and order. (Vaudree (talk) 08:27, February 22, 2016 (UTC))