User talk:Ironyak1

COG dates
When you watch COG today, could you keep your eyes open for the excact moths? I think it's mentioned how many months have passed since the first film, but I forgot how many.--Rodolphus (talk) 08:47, November 15, 2018 (UTC)

Speeding up the Credence discussion
Okay, so I started discussion on the name of the Credence page. Let's resolve this ASAP before some poor soul edits the whole page. Lightning Laxus (talk) 07:24, November 16, 2018 (UTC)

New York Police Department Characters
I created two credited police officers, do you think you could rename them to find what their badges read, please? (Hobbiton777 (talk) 18:58, November 16, 2018 (UTC))

Minerva
Hey :) I would love your thoughts on the Minerva McGonagall timeline problem I have mentioned on her talk page. Trying to make sense of this! I wish Rowling would stop messing with established canon because it's going to cause a mess. Thank you. - Kates39 (talk) 19:00, November 16, 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes that was the problem I found. But beyond the scenes that take place with a young Leta at school when she was aged 13, and at the scenes at the school in 1927, no explanation is given beyond the script. I feel that someone will add this to her biography soon, so I'm getting worried about the fall-out.


 * But sorry for springing this on you when you haven't finished the book! I was thinking we should only mention her appearance in Behind the Scenes and treat it the same way of an error for now. This is too much of a kind of major crime against established canon for it to be treated as canon right now, even given our policy on Rowling's word. The Credence thing was far-fetched enough but this is basically impossible. Rowling certainly has some explaining to do, but I think she will have to change the name of the character and take McGonagall out of the story. - Kates39 (talk) 19:29, November 16, 2018 (UTC)

Duplicate images
File:Credence Barebone-1.png, File:Credence-Barebone-1.jpg, File:Credence-Barebone.jpg and File:Credence Barebone-.jpg need to be deleted. User:Flowertje keeps uploading duplicate images even after multiple warnings. File:Albus newt.jpg and File:Glass-Ceiling-French-Ministry-520x245.jpg needs to be deleted as well. IlvermornyWizard (talk) 19:01, November 18, 2018 (UTC) IlvermornyWizard

Renamed images
I think File:GRt9Wfx0 o.jpeg and File:71O-8wS1srL-1024x610.jpg needs to be renamed. It doesn't say anything about the image and is confusing/complicated. I think the first one should say Chupacabra.jpeg or something. IlvermornyWizard (talk) 19:05, November 18, 2018 (UTC) IlvermornyWizard

Re: chat
Hey you still there? Your last edit seems 25 mins old. Reverb frost (talk)

Spelldown
Hi Ironyak,

Sorry for what happened with the Spelldown page. I went to see the film with my mother three days ago and though I'm a bit fluently in English (I'm Peruvian, from the South American country with best Quidditch team ;), sometimes I mistook phrases I heard, and I'm sure that I likely misjudged the pronunciation of the magazine's name, because J.K. has the Word of God in this series and if she wrote such name in the screenplay, she must have the reason, not me.

Regards,

X9 The Android

Wordmark and Background
Hello! I'm just letting you know that because of the release of Crimes of Grindelwald I have taken it upon myself to update the site's wordmark and background. This was mainly because the old wordmark had the block of white around the actual logo rather than the transparency that would have allowed it to blend in with the header color. I used the current font style for Crimes of Grindelwald to tie in with the film, and also used promotional material to update the background which was still using images from Fantastic Beasts. I have also updated the main page slider with more relevant articles for the new film.

Usually I look for input when making changes like this that affect the way the site looks in a significant way, but I felt that the update was needed due to the release of the new movie so I apologise if the change is sudden or jarring. In hindsight I should I have done this earlier and gotten input from the administration team so if you feel any changes need to be made, or the changes reverted, then please let me know. Hopefully though, the design rework is acceptable. Once the film is over, I will endeavour to create a new permanent wordmark that looks better in the header space. - Cavalier One ( Wizarding Wireless Network ) 13:59, November 19, 2018 (UTC)

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery Follow-Up
Google Play's Fan Favorite game awards are still underway, and we would love to help promote Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery's success on your wiki! Would you like some some assets to promote the game? We would be happy to create your suggestions! Would you like to host a poll or giveaway? We would love to provide you with Google Play gift cards to give! We also have created a compilation image of the nominees if you would like to retweet/share on your wiki's social channels: Twitter Facebook

Let us know if you have any other requests and we will try to assist. :)

Rrrockio (talk) 20:34, November 19, 2018 (UTC)

Well, the messages are annoying. I want them. Thanks.M.O.E. 17:27, November 20, 2018 (UTC)M.O.E.

Adopting Some Policies
Hello again, I am an admin at a couple of wiki's here at Fandom. I have been thinking about adopting some policies from here, so I am messaging you to ask for permission. I don't want to just steal them without permission :).

cheers, Dave (talk) 22:09, November 20, 2018 (UTC)

Grindelwald/Dumbledore cleanup?
Can you look at the abilities and skills sections of Dumbledore and Grindelwald when you get the time? It looks like someone have added what seems to me to be quite a bit of hyperbole there today, but I figured you'd be better suited to make a judgement call on that than me. ^^' Maester Martin (talk) 14:36, November 21, 2018 (UTC)

RE: Discussion Post Deletion
Hi!

Look, I must admit my first reaction was “AHHHH Ironyak1 just messaged me!”

Anyway, back to the subject at hand.

I believe I deleted that before reading any of the post and thinking that they were just posting random stuff. After I went back and read it, I un-deleted it and locked it instead. Sorry if this wasn’t the right decision (I’m still quite new to this role).

Thanks for pointing this out and sorry for not replying earlier.

TDOHRTFT &#124; We&#39;re all stories in the end, just make it a good one, eh? (talk) 06:02, November 23, 2018 (UTC)

Spoiler Template for Banana Fish wiki
Hi there, had a go at adding the spoiler template (this one for the top of an article) for the Banana Fish wiki only I think I might not have added it right. It can be seen under 'edit' what else do I require?

S3r0-Ph1i (talk) 16:57, November 23, 2018 (UTC)

RE:COG & McGonagall
Generally I liked it; the mere mention of McGonagall had me very nearly screaming at the screen. I don't think it makes any sense, and the idea of a 30-year-long leave of absence sounds weird. McGonagall's chronology was pretty solid up to this point and the Hypable article, while an honourable attempt, reads like grasping at straws and is not entirely airtight itself:
 * It necessarily has Minerva not at Hogwarts in 1971 due to her "leave of absence", unlike what we see in the Prince's Tale in Deathly Hallows (her possible leave of absence is, at any rate, an assumption that is not in any way proven or even suggested anywhere)
 * It argues that the age difference between McGonagall and Elphinstone Urquart must not be significant, when in fact it is outright stated that it is: the source text refers to him as "her much older boss".
 * It makes Urquart's already long courtship of McGonagall since her early years at Hogwarts ridiculously long: instead of from 1956 to 1982, Urquart had to have proposed to McGonagall "every now and then" from 1910 to 1982, a grand total of 72 (!) years.

Perhaps more telling that the Hypable article is silly when concluding that we were at fault when it came to "[our] ability to research and analyze the canon that we have been given" is the fact that, apparently until a couple of months ago, McGonagall's Pottermore bio read that "She grew up in the Highlands of Scotland in the early twentieth century" — a sentence that has since been truncated.

I'd be tempted to ignore it as an inconsistency (normally, the most recent canon takes precedence, but this seems to change too much well-established facts), especially when one considers it was only a brief and inconsequential appearance. However, this might end up not being a sustainable position: who's to say McGonagall won't have a larger role in the upcoming films — and what to do then? --  Seth Cooper  owl post! 19:54, November 28, 2018 (UTC)

clips
one of the clips on the the grindelwald page has been changed to justin bieber how do I change it back. Freddy1428 (talk) 09:07, November 29, 2018 (UTC)

Exclusive icons for HPWiki Discussion
I have Ideas for the Harry Potter Wiki and was adviced by Reverb said if it's on behalf of the wiki I should let an admin know of it. I hope they are good ideas that can help the wiki. -- 11:59, November 29, 2018 (UTC)

Is that true that in the films Pettigrew is slightly less cowardly than in the books?
In the third movie he admits his guilt much faster than in the book. After Harry stops him from harming Sirius and Lupin, Pettigrew smiles evilly, waves sarcastically goodbye and transforms. In the fourth movie he smiles evilly at Frank Bryce when he sees him. Later, when he kills Cedric Diggory, he does it ruthlessly and in cold blood. Also, in the fourth movie, he hardly shows any signs of cowardice or fear.Kintobor (talk) 17:24, December 1, 2018 (UTC)Kintobor

Motivations Survey
Hi Ironyak1

I’m doing a study about the motivations of Wikia contributors, and you’ve been contacted as you are listed as an active admin of this wiki. Would you be willing to fill out a survey to provide data for this study? Thanks for your consideration.

Survey Link

 Tower12346 06:14,3/12/2018 

Sorry for the doublepost Ironyak, but it would be appreciated if you did fill out the survey. It should only take 5-10 minutes. If you'd rather not for specific reasons then can you get back to me on why you didn't want to fill it out? (and if possible I'll try and accommodate for your reasons by adjusting the survey). I'd like some kind of response because I'm doing this study for a class.  Tower12346 03:04,5/12/2018 

MACUSA
Can you add to the Magical Congress of the United States of America that the pronounceation of the of MACUSA is ma-COO-zah so that we know how to say it? Ladyathena1 (talk) 06:18, December 5, 2018 (UTC)

Bot problem?
Hi, Ironyak! Has your bot a problem? [//harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Fantastic_Beasts:_The_Crimes_of_Grindelwald?diff=next&oldid=1185423 https://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Fantastic_Beasts:_The_Crimes_of_Grindelwald?diff=next&oldid=1185423]

 Harry granger   Talk    contribs  22:23, December 21, 2018 (UTC)

When to include "the" in names
Hi, sorry if this comes off silly. This probably has been asked before, but consider me belatedly confused and bear with me? xD TBH, I didn't really have a problem with Daily Prophet being named the way it is (sans the "the"), until I noticed the "the" is in fact printed on their newspaper; so I'm just wondering why the likes of The Quibbler, The New York Ghost, The Witch's Friend, The American Charmer and many others, get to have the "the" included in their article titles, and not the Daily Prophet. How is it determined?

Happy holidays! =D

-- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 19:32, December 31, 2018 (UTC)


 * Oh!! That actually makes a lot of sense! I'm a heavy audiobook listener, so somehow I completely forgot there's the option of checking how it's italicized in the books. I'm assuming, if The Witch's Friend and The American Charmer were later mentioned in future scripts and no longer just seen as film props, and happened to not have the "the" in italic, their article titles would thus be renamed? (Likelihood of this scenario is probably very slim lol, but I just want to make sure I'm understanding the concept correctly.)


 * -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 20:25, December 31, 2018 (UTC)

Bot making errors.
Hello there, I am contacting you because your bot is removing articles from category from which they belong, which it keeps on doing. For some reason, your bot seems to believe an Azkaban escapee is a Death Eater, from which it obviously is not, so has purged several pages, such as Bellatrix and Dolohov, from which they need to belong. I have done this a few times now, and it is a bit annoying. Your bot, thankfully is mostly getting things right, but this is its only issue, but it is really annoying me, as I like categories to be full and correct. This bot like all others is automated, so I don't know how it has been programmed. I don't mean to be a nag, it is just a small issue I have noticed. Said bot has also removed spelling repairs on Pansy Parkinson's page, claiming that "biasses" is British spelling when it is a mispelling. Thanks RedWizard98 (talk) 03:28, January 1, 2019 (UTC)

Trouble with spelling.
Hello again. Your bot still seems to incorrectly think that the word biased is spelt "biassed"; it is not spelt like this formally nor normally, under any form of the English language nor under any official English dictionary. Such word is even highlighted in red, meaning it is a spelling error under this wikia's language Please stop it doing this, it is annoying me. RedWizard98 (talk) 03:35, January 2, 2019 (UTC)

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/biased

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/biased

Bot and individual old spoiler headers
Hi, previously I was sort of under the impression that when only a single spoiler is present on an article, they'd be kept; however, I belatedly realized all articles previously including, were never reverted back, thus most of the applicable articles couldn't be easily found via the template.

Your bot was also performing somewhat weirdly, such as this edit, where it added when it's already on the page. Is there a way to prevent this from happenning? -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 10:28, January 3, 2019 (UTC)


 * Hmmm; I see. I think I was using them as visual cues, like obvious identifiers that one would immediately see and know an article would contain info outside the original novels. I think I came to that conclusion because, while only a few times, I've seen certain comments about how there're people who are die-hardly recognizing info from only books as absolute and everything beyond that are add-ons. I know that's not HPW's stance on the matter, and I know there's apparently other wikis limiting to book stuff, but for some reason I thought those header templates was HPW being nice, giving those certain people heads-up about what they might want to read with caution lol. Sorry about that! My brain's playing trick on myself again. xP


 * Just to be clear, if factoring the time of release of spoiler subject matter is the way to go, does that mean a bunch of old spoiler headers are in fact to be deleted?


 * And yes!! I think the problem with did at one point cross my mind, probably around the time I talked about using short codes in talk pages etc., but for some reason, by the time I finished typing that part, I forgot about mention the navbox. (Urghhhhh again, sorry about that.)


 * No worries; glad it is something that could be tweaked!
 * -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 00:58, January 4, 2019 (UTC)


 * I see; time flies! For some reason I'm still under the impression that is recent! lmao. Last question about the subject matter (hopefully lol); if  and  are updated with new contents, would applicable articles be allowed having the spoilers back? I mean, I'm at the end of FBC, and have no idea if they will ever have new stuff, but that last chapter, while having tone of taking a break, it doesn't sound to me to be a definite ending, but maybe that's just me. -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 01:57, January 4, 2019 (UTC)

Categories
Unfortunately I have a few questions about categories; hopefully I won't be taking up too much of your time. The easier ones are, when I was filtering images of the Killing Curse, I saw that a lot of them are depicting Voldy vs Potter, so the boy's beloved Disarming Charm are also quite frequently visible, then there's some that lead to the Priori Incantatem phenomenon. This is a combo of a few super silly questions. I'm stumped already at the name of the category for the Disarming Charm; my instinct was  (with a "the"), but as category:Images of Killing Curse does not have a "the", I'm just like... should I match it? And since renaming categories are just more hassle than its worth, I figured I'd just ask someone else's opinion on the matter. Then there's the Priori Incantatem part; should it just be ? And does the phenomenon still count as a spell? Like, I understand it to be a byproduct of a spell, just not sure if it itself is still counted as one as well. I'm thinking about this because I'm thinking about what image cat it'd be under, if that makes any sense. Def. overthinking lol.

-- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 01:57, January 4, 2019 (UTC)


 * A different question about image categories. When viewing category:Images by film, I feel like the file numbers are quite overwhelming, so I thought about if there's other ways to further filter the images in each films, other than concept art and promotional images. What I thought of was the "moving gif" type, something I have been meaning to ask: if there's way to quicker locate, but haven't voiced it because previously I've been thinking way too small in scale, like "Gifs of spells", or way too large, like "Gifs" (like "screenshots" or "covers".) I'm not saying this is the best solution, but theoretically, canon Gifs def. should mostly all come from films, with the minority being from other sources (games, PM etc.). So I'm wondering if it's okay to go for it, and if positive, what would the category name be. ("GIFs from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)‎" etc.?") -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 11:04, January 6, 2019 (UTC)


 * Also add "Prop images from Harry Potter and the [...] (film)‎" into consideration. As I was browsing, I found a lot of those types being saddled with the promotional images category; while I kind of understand why, I also don't think they are exactly the same, a still or headshot is very different from the BTS package design of the props being used, which, I think most of the time are released/shared after the film they were from were out? Okay, it sounded less convincing when I type this out lol. But let me know what you think? =D -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 23:46, January 6, 2019 (UTC)

Bot help again
Hi, chances are, the bot would again not be able to help, but I figured it's still worth the try. The following batch originally was only in Category:Promotional images from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film), which isn't correct because they actually belong in Category:Concept art from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film). I'm using w:c:dev:MassCategorization, and supposedly the "replace" function should work (that's how I swap out Category:Images of spells with Category:Images of Killing Curse when applicable), however, something odd is occurring, and the promo img cat wasn't recognized, I was able to add the concept cat, but also failed to remove the promo img. At first I thought it was like last time (the unidentified muggles thing), but I checked, there was no pipe in the way, so I'm stumped. This is a larger batch than last time, so if there's a way for not doing it manually, it'd be helpful. -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 09:39, January 5, 2019 (UTC)


 * OMG, I guess Nth-time's the charm! Tried it again and it worked! No idea what happened yesterday. Next time I'll wait for a few more days to make sure it really wouldn't work before asking for help. -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 11:04, January 6, 2019 (UTC)

n/a
You deleted annoying orange.

Rename image
If you can't delete this image, can you at least rename File:5D1C0D50-B335-437A-977A-1D5387CDB5F8.jpeg? As you can see, it is way too long and confusing. IlvermornyWizard (talk) 07:15, January 7, 2019 (UTC) IlvermornyWizard

Userbox sorting
Would I be okay for me to Category:Userboxes page. All the userboxs are shorting in U instead of anyother letter. Tucker100 (talk) 07:46, January 13, 2019 (UTC)
 * It's great that you're doing this; this is a known problem with category sorting, another way it manifests itself is that blogs get categorised by user name, rather than by title as I think should happen. — evilquoll (talk) 17:18, January 13, 2019 (UTC)

Canon
Is the artwork from The Art from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald or something (the book) considered canon and reliable? IlvermornyWizard (talk) 23:07, January 19, 2019 (UTC) IlvermornyWizard

Jacob's sibling's second wand
Since the Wand of Jacob's sibling was destroyed and the new chapter of Hogwarts Mystery is up where the player picks a new wand, could the Wand of Jacob's sibling page be renamed the First wand of Jacob's sibling? IlvermornyWizard (talk) 21:54, January 24, 2019 (UTC) IlvermornyWizard


 * Leave a redirect is an admin/bureaucrat thing, non-admin users are not able to not leave a redirect and leaves a redirect regardless. IlvermornyWizard (talk) 23:18, January 24, 2019 (UTC) IlvermornyWizard

Images
Hi there, Ironyak1! Hope all is well! I have two questions that are image related.

First one is to know the judgement on "when a image is needed". User:IlvermornyWizard has occasionally tag images to be deleted citing due to poor quality, even going as far as asking the uploaders to stop uploading those images that are "poor in quality" on their talk pages. Personally, I'm torn about this because the images that got this reaction definitely cannot be seen as high quality; however, as cases such as the Red Haired Young Witch, I see no harm in having a temporary image regardless of the quality; after all, all images can be replaced and updated if/when higher quality ones are available.

That being said, I'm wondering about the situation where "there really won't be higher quality ones available". Mainly like the Roberts family. Mind you, I don't think in this case it'll permanently stay that way (fingers crossed, hopefully GOF's illustrated editions will get us a better view of them), however, it currently is, and User:Yechezkelb went through the trouble of producing, , and , all altered from. They are rotated and still really aren't recognizable. So in this case, I find myself guiltily wondering "if this is necessary", and felt being a little double standard since I clearly didn't have much issue like IlvermornyWizard is to low quality screenshots. Would like your opinion on the matter.

The second issue is about the possibility of having warning template(s) about image related actions. I've seen Admins repeatedly asking certain users to fill out, and if there is in fact a template they are substituting from, I'd like to know where the template is located at. I say this because to me, the uncategorized images are the wildcards when finding and sorting images; those images could actually be used on a great amount of pages and still couldn't be easily found. I feel that for Users who have been repeatedly warned to take care of their images and failed doing so, should eventually warrant a temporary block. I understand they are being very helpful in terms of providing images, but if they mass uploaded 100+ images without bothering to add info, that's 100+ images that someone else will have to cleanup after them, or not, as that's more like what's happening on this wiki since there's so many of those in this situation. On the long run, this action adds more workload to others, while raising the chance of having duplicates, since it's hard for people to know some images already exist here due to the lack of info and categorizations.

I'm asking because I don't want to overstep whatever boundary there is, and also because I'm just not good at keeping the tone neutral. I understand most people all are uploading images under good faith, but I think it's important to let them know that accumulating neglect leads to great inconvenience and hinderance. I feel that a warning template is needed (if there hasn't been one), but just don't know how to go about it without sounding super rude. Advise will be deeply appreciated. Thanks! -- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 18:40, January 26, 2019 (UTC)

Eulalie Hicks page
Can Eulalie Hicks' page from the movie (artwork and the real page if there's enough seen in the background) to the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Ilvermorny Castle pages? Eulalie Hicks is a professor at Ilvermorny and was at Ilvermorny during their conservation so those images show more of Ilvermorny and what it looks like than we know already. IlvermornyWizard (talk) 03:44, January 27, 2019 (UTC) IlvermornyWizard