User talk:Dave Vanderburg

Sysop Confirmation

• Hi, I'd just like to confirm whether or not you're a MouseHunt staff or a player volunteering Sysop. Thanks! Eepeng 14:06, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

If you go to Lore then Game Credits, you will find that Dave Vanderburg appears under game development as a coder/designer of HitGrab. So yes, it is confirmed that Dave is part of MouseHunt's staff. --Peter888 20:32, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism Reporting

Hey Dave.

Wondering if you wouldn't mind if I setup a page where people can report vandals? It's quite non-wiki skilled people friendly too.

What I'll use looks like this ... well, it IS this, I'll just copy/reword to MHWiki and adapt for the images until image uploads are available.

Daworm 03:42, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Page deletion, etc.

Dave, I'm wondering if any of the sysops are actively monitoring Category:Pages_proposed_for_deletion and/or if there's any system in place for getting rid of trash pages, making decisions on what's appropriate for inclusion, establishing policies, etc. There's a growing amount of what I consider to be garbage on MHWiki and I can see it getting exponentially worse as time goes on. I've done quite a bit of cleanup already and would love to help out further, but I'm feeling a bit frustrated that there's no visible admin presence and it kinda feels like the Old West to an extent. A bit of law and order would be a real help. Thanks! --Brossow 02:34, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Just re-read my entry above and really didn't mean it to sound as whiny and demanding as it seems when I look at it again. Sorry if it came across that way to you! -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 18:00, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Images and copyright

The more I've been working on infoboxes, the more I've become aware of how much copyright violation is going on with regard to MH images. Maybe you're not concerned about the posting/hosting of the high-res images of the mice, traps, etc. on other sites, but I am. Wonder if HitGrab would be willing to make the "official" images available for linking from this site. After thinking about it, I'm not sure you'd want to upload them directly here because that would effectively release them into the public domain (I believe -- haven't really read the terms & conditions here) but hosting them on your own server and linking to them would work nicely. Just a thought -- it's your intellectual property, not mine.  :-) -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 19:56, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

• Given your reply on my Talk page, I wonder if I can ask a favor. We are missing high-resolution images of just three mice: Leprechaun, Mobster, and Master Burglar. Inquiries have been made and requests posted in various places, but no success. Is there any chance of getting those three images directly from you kind folks at HitGrab? I can provide an email address privately or you can find me on Facebook at this link. (Don't want to post it because then it's here forever in the page history.) Thanks! -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 04:27, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Tools Page

I recently found out that the tools page has listed or has had listed some abusive tools, which is why it's not linked to from the main page or links page. What is considered abusive, and can we get rid of them and maintain links to useful, non-abusive tools? Thanks --Navarr 20:50, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Lycan + cheddar

Dave, can you comment on the recent attraction of Lycan mice to cheddar cheese? I've seen nothing from a developer regarding whether this is temporary or permanent, whether it's limited to the Mousouleum, etc. Another user continues to recklessly (IMHO) post speculation as fact on the Lycan Mouse page and I'd like some closure on this. If what he has said about the devs announcing info about cheddar is true, that's great, but I've seen no evidence of such and this guy ignores all requests to simply support his claims. Thanks in advance! -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 14:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

• Disregard -- someone finally pointed out Bryan's post. -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 19:36, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Repeated vandalism by user - please ban

Dave, any chance you can ban Kevster402? Every one of his edits (link) since 15 Nov 2008 has been to vandalize the wiki. Thanks. -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 01:13, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

• Please also consider the edits by Madrocker to the Mole Mouse page (see page history) This user continues to remove blocks of legitimate information from the page despite requests to stop or at least discuss the changes. Attempts to contact the user via his Talk page have been met with silence and deletion of said requests. Thanks. -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 16:42, 23 January 2009 (UTC)