User talk:Nick O'Demus/Archive 6

Ted Lupin Picture
The main infobox picture can't be canon, right? There is a McDonald's in the background. --JKoch (Owl Me! ) 14:21, July 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * Seth got it. - Nick O'Demus 18:55, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

Re Birthday
Thanks for the cake, it was yummy! -- Darth Jadious 21:51, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

Ok ! Thank you Nick O'Demus ! I will say exactly from where I gained the info. THnx!

Aurora Sinistra
Once again, even though he has no proof, Pol187 is adding photos to Aurora Sinistra, and changing the article to fit the pictures from the movies. --JKoch (Owl Me! ) 14:00, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, I see what was done, but I disagree. That is not proof, but b/c she is the only person with dark skin.  Until we get serious actual physical proof, we can't do that.  --JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Owl Me! ) 14:04, July 7, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Aurora Sinistra
I would say the image currently on the Vector article is correct. If you look carefully, you can see that the collar of the cloak is identical, and the frills on her (I don't know how to call it... say, turtleneck?) match the ones on the lego minifigure. --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 22:27, July 7, 2010 (UTC)

Logo
Hey, Nick. Just to let you know, there's a forum underway to discuss a potential change to the site's logo. Jayden Matthews 21:56, July 8, 2010 (UTC)

Activity Log
Are you having trouble seeing edits back past the last hour or so? Also, yesterday it was displaying seconds from the previous edits in thousands instead of converting to minutes and hours. --JKoch (Owl Me! ) 22:08, July 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * I saw that too. The contribs log on my page has a few edits out of order too. It's ok, I was wondering why no articles had been promoted and found that they have FAs until November. --JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Owl Me! ) 22:14, July 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't even have the option of viewing anything before your edit to Lavender Brown about 45 minutes ago. --JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(Owl Me! ) 22:26, July 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * You know at the bottom of the activity feed, it usually letts you click on a link that lengthens the list. I don't have that option. 35 minutes is the furthest out right now. --JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 22:37, July 8, 2010 (UTC)

On a different subject, do you remember it what book Dumbledore describes the DEs as (forgive me for paraphrasing) "the weak looking for power, the thuggish looking for more refined forms of cruelty..." --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 22:41, July 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm referencing Riot at the Quidditch World Cup and the first part of the article is about the origin and demised of the DEs and have been looking for that quote for two days. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 22:49, July 8, 2010 (UTC)

Sorting Hat
The article for Sorting hat says that it considered putting Neville in Hufflepuff. The source is from the Lexicon, but it doesn't seem kosher to me. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 19:10, July 9, 2010 (UTC)

Info Box
Hey Nick,

I was just wondering how you can add the main info box that appears at the top of most of the pages. I think it would be really cool to have one for my user page and i think they also look really cool,

Thanks for the help!

HarryPotterobsessed1232 01:22, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

Antonin Dolohov
Hi Nick. The release of a recent image confirms that Arben Bajraktaraj will be playing Antonin Dolohov in Deathly Hallows, which means he also did so in Order of the Phoenix. I'm telling you because, as I'm sure you know, we've preiviously claimed that Richard Trinder played Dolohov, and then we changed it because IMDB said it was Richard Cubison. I think the matter requires an administrive hand. Thanks:) Jayden Matthews 13:01, July 10, 2010 (UTC)

how d'you make get a order of Merlin and those information pages?

Unidentified employee.
I´m sorry, but I don´t know it myself. The image was added by Pol 871, who added it to the Hogwarts page, and I merely created the coresponding article. --Rodolphus 07:09, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Hi! This is the source of the image: http://www.mugglenet.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=1541&pos=31Pol 871 12:48, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Coincidence
I think we should keep an eye on User:Jeffrey1993, b/c I have a feeling this account is another incarnation of User:Jeffrey1992. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 15:15, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

Creatures and Beasts
Hi! I noticed that none of the "Beasts" are categorized as "Creatures". This should be fixed or it was intended to be that way? If it was...why? Thanks Wise Whim 21:40, July 11, 2010 (UTC)

"Articles placed in categories should not also be placed in that category's parent category; for example, articles in Category:Hufflepuffs should not also be placed in Category:Students."

- Harry Potter Wiki: Layout guide

I clearly missed that one! I'll always be the annoying person that calls to support lines and then reads the manual...some of them do have helpful information...I'm sorry for bothering you and I'll correct the edits. It won't happen again, I promise.

Past tense
Past tense is used in the personality, physical description, and relationships sections too, right? If it is, a lot of the major articles need to be looked at. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 23:54, July 12, 2010 (UTC)

Unidentified Death Eater (VII)
Could you look at the source. First I don't think this is a legitimate source. Second the source doesn't actually confirm the statement, so the article is most speculation that should be put in the BTS. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 04:04, July 16, 2010 (UTC)

Dress Robes
I added a little blurb about the Slug Club Christmas Party, b/c in the movie it appears that the students are wearing them. Think we can expound a little on what they look like. Mens' dress robes being kind of like the robe equivalent of a Tux, and Ladies' being very much like a traditional dress or gown? --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 15:00, July 18, 2010 (UTC)

FA
Hi Nick. Could you please change our FA? If I´m right, it should have been changed days ago. Thanks.--Rodolphus 11:43, July 19, 2010 (UTC)

Wikiproject
An unregistered user just created the following page Harry Potter Wiki:WikiProject and a category Category:WikiProjects. Could you look into this? I'm going to give the heads up to a couple other admins as well. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 02:07, July 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * It's been taken care of. - Cavalier One Gryffindorcrest.jpg( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 07:39, July 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, could you talk to User:Donmax about how he edits BTS sections. He just adds a dash to the end of the last bulleted piece of information and fills in, not even trying to use an asterisk or format like he's supposed to.  For proof see the edit history of Gringotts Wizarding Bank or Forbidden Forest.  I've practically begged him to edit correctly, but to no avail.  --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 05:27, July 21, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Featured Article
I see the article Deathly Hallows has already been added to the main page. I agree it should be given an extended run like Snape, but I think it would make more sense to have it up for all of November, when DH: Part 1 comes out. This presents two options:


 * 1) We can take down Deathly Hallows, switch it with another article on the FA list, and put it up again for an extended run come November
 * 2) We leave Deathly Hallows up, nominate another DH-related article for FA, and put it up for an extended run in November.
 * If you do option number two we've had Elder Wand sitting on the FA Noms list for months, Grunny, LVKTVJ, and I have all done significant work to improve it. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 14:47, July 22, 2010 (UTC)

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Help
Could you look into Traitorous Muggle and Unnamed remote island please. The unregistered creator tried to tell me the info came from the extra stuff section of jkrowling.com, but I couldn't find anything. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 04:03, July 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * Scratch that on the Island. That info is also on the page about Hermione's father. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 04:16, July 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * I've had it up to here with User:Donmax. No matter how many times I ask him, he continues to screw up BTS sections.  And, I would have relented on those two articles if he could have given me exactly where he got the info from.  --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 15:00, July 25, 2010 (UTC)

Cottage
Could you talk to the unregistered/Donmax who keeps adding the BTS stuff about Lego. On Potter cottage, he keeps adding this info to the references section, that I have incorporated into the article and referenced. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 04:53, July 29, 2010 (UTC)

14 Feb/Feb 14
I think this is self directing. Wikia won't let me move Feb 14 to 14 Feb and when you click 14 Feb it takes you to Feb 14. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 04:02, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, yesterday someone moved Return of the Dark Lord to Return of Tom Riddle. Having to change all the articles where that is referenced would be an pain.  --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 05:10, August 6, 2010 (UTC)

Battle of the Department of Mysteries
I think we need to note somewhere that the DEs somehow managed to recover from their hits. We know Dolohov participates in the Death Chamber, but he was incapacitated by Harry. It is likely that while Harry and Neville were regrouping with Luna, Ginny, and Ron, that some of the DEs had their curses reversed, b/c as I said Dolohov fought until the end of the battle, and doesn't Harry say that there were like 10 DEs surrounding him when he was about to turn over the Prophecy? I count 5 DEs down just by Harry and Hermione before they regrouped with the other group: Nott, the 2 unnamed that attacked in the time chamber, Jugson, and Dolohov. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 20:22, August 7, 2010 (UTC)

RE:Order of Merlin
Thanks!-- L.V.K.T.V.J. ( Send an owl! ) 17:13, August 8, 2010 (UTC)

Complaint
Raindrops 242 is always putting my stuff under Articles needing vertifcation. Ex. Newt, Tubeworm, Fur spell, Pufferfish. I know that these pages are canon. They come directly from the books. Please help!

Order of the Phoenix book page
Want to tag team a rewrite of the plot synopsis? If you read the synopsis, you will find that it is incredibly out of order, and presents minor things too heavily and major things without enough emphasis. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 00:50, August 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Been there. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 13:55, August 16, 2010 (UTC)

What
What are u saying. These pages are too minor.

Barely IDed people
Why is the article for the character introduced "Mr. Mason" in the story at "Mason," but "Mrs. Cole" is still at "Mrs. Cole?" --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 07:18, August 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm assuming there was a problem in moving the the women then? --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch Ravenclawcrest.jpg(<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 16:28, August 22, 2010 (UTC)

thank you for having this information change the word correctly, I was not very reliable because I am not english but I'm from Indonesia

Statute
I saw the edit to the bTS section. I thought we used the introduction the The Tales of Beedle the Bard (real) to justify the existence of JK Rowling (witch). Meaning that the information in that particular BTS would be false, since we consider JKR established in the Wizarding world. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 16:35, August 22, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Videos
Personally, I'm not entirely sure about videos on the site at all. I'm worried that they might break copyright restrictions and licenses. In any case, videos should be limited to HP-specific, and only to illustrate a certain point, in my view. Random videos serve no purpose. If a user wants them on their user page, they can link to Youtube. Feel free to delete any you come across that you're unsure of, and I'll see about writing up a video use policy. - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 08:40, August 23, 2010 (UTC)

Administrator/ video policy
I have no objections to nominating either to the position; just make sure they accept the nomination and then put it up on the Requests for Permissions page and let the community vote. As for the video policy addendum; looks good to me, but we may need to adjust this wording: Video uploads are for official use in articles only. to ''Video uploads are for use in articles only. Videos allowed to be used in articles include publicly released material such as trailers or promotion reels. Videos not allowed include partial or full scenes from released films.'' - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 08:32, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Bureaucrat
Hi Nick. Sure, I'd be willing to accept the nomination :-). Cheers, Grunny  ( talk ) 09:03, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Nomination
I accept. --<font face="Times" size="4" color="Black" >JKoch (<font face="Monotype Corsiva" size="1" color="Red">Owl Me! ) 12:22, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Vandal
Hey, Nick, 72.73.112.222 constantly changes Ravenclaw's House animal to an eagle, despite the editor's note right on the page. Can you or one of the other admins block him and protect that page? Thanks. -- <font face="Gisha" color="red">Cubs Fan <font face="Gisha" color="white">(Talk to me)  19:07, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Transfiguration
Hey Nick O' Demus,

In the harry potter series, it is mentioned that proff. McGonagall transfigured a desk into a pig. I was wondering how she changed a non-living object into a living object, an inanimate substance to animate. I would be grateful to you if you cleared thid doubt for me.195.229.237.41 10:38, August 26, 2010 (UTC) Alison .G. Potter

PLEASE HELP
The articles Scottish stag, Transmogrify and Take Root are directly from trading card game. i cant download images can you help me?

BIG QUESTION
So when are you guys going to fix asexuality. Its canon.

AHHH
AHH what happened to the ettiqutte teacher page i created and unnamed professor who gives advice.

Hallam/Sinistra
Hello Nick! I'm afraid I need your help. Recently we have been discussing about Natalie Hallam and Aurora Sinistra ... Well, apparently the site IMDB credits the actress portayed the character. Can we take it that Aurora appeared in GoF? What do you think about this? PD: Im get an image of Hallam during the first task.Pol 871 19:44, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Article Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hi, Nick!

I saw that the unlinking of the names of actors and roles were taken back on Part 1. There are also unlinkings on Part 2. I imagine that was overseen. Can you perhaps take them back with a special button or what admins have for quick undoings? I thought it is perhaps helpful when the links are back. Harry granger 18:42, August 31, 2010 (UTC)