User talk:Brossow

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Wiki Contributions

Invaluable Contributor

In recognition of the excellent contributions that Brossow has made to the MH Wiki.   -- Grexx 21:41, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Some notable contributions:

• Major revamp of the Main Page. (Dec 2008)
• Creating many of the templates in use at the moment.
• Major cleanup to the Mice page and creation of the Mice table. (2 Jan 2009)
• Creating and maintaining the Cheat Sheet. (10 Feb 2009)

RE Cheat Sheet

I realise you want this to be right, but i've been very careful in what i've done. How can I let you preview it before it goes up? If I knew how, thats what I would have done.--Amyarlp 14:30, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Click the "Show preview" button instead of "Save page" -- you completely messed up the table, so you were NOT "very careful" as stated. Go look at your old edit if you need to know why I'm less than happy about your edit. Sorry to be harsh, but I've got hours and hours of work in that page and even one character out of place can mess it all up. -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 14:32, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Very sorry. I had been working on it for a long time, and hadn't spotted those slips. Will keep working though. Nearly got the whole thing up to date now.--Amyarlp 14:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Check Grexx's note on the Talk page for the Cheat Sheet before you make any changes. Please coordinate with him on edits. -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 14:41, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I also have an up-to-date table, but it won't let me edit anything because of the "lost session data" error. --Mikeyco 14:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Y'all need to be having this discussion on the Talk page for the Cheat Sheet.... -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 14:45, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I quite liked Angus's pepper table, do you think it may be worth putting it on the pepper page? (top or bottom perhaps). WyndStryke 16:49, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

All the info is already on the pepper page or elsewhere. When editors insist on adding information that's already found elsewhere in the wiki, it doubles (or more) the amount of work others have to do to maintain it, especially when there's an update like today. -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 16:57, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Guide to Mousehunt

I've been working on a pretty large walkthrough of the game, which you can get here http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=ahwm9rm5zg9j_39fnmksqf2&hl=en. I spoke with some other people, and they said that you had a certain policy regarding guides on the wiki, but they weren't sure what it was. Do you want to post this somewhere on the wiki for people to be able to access it?--Kirbix 22:41, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Other people were mistaken, period. There is not and never has been any such policy. -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 23:25, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually someone has already added the link to the guide into the wiki before you did. See here. You can also find suitable pages from which to link to it, much like how Rohan links the Pooflinger tools from the associated travel/hunting pages. -- Grexx 05:17, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Contribution Templates

http://mhwiki.hitgrab.com/wiki/index.php/User_talk:MD#Contribution_Awards_Template

Haven't been online in a long while. Just thought that it would be nice to have some sort of official contribution template. Would appreciate any comments/feedback.

MD 12:30, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

Looks great to me! I haven't been on in a meaningful way in a long time, either. Work and family obligations.... -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 12:56, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

MythMonger Wiki

Hey!

Thanks for beginning the wiki for MythMonger.

We were planning to setup a wiki for MythMonger on our servers, the same way we setup one for MouseHunt.

We'd love your help, as you've done such an awesome job for us on MouseHunt. It would be silly for us to start again, so please consider sending us the database dump for this wiki!

Please message me on Facebook! =)

Giorgio Sintichakis 02:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Mice Images

Hi! I'm not sure if you are aware, but all the mice images that are in your gallery on Photobucket display the warning that the bandwidth is exceeded. I'm replacing the links now, but I don't have some; like the Christmas 2008 version of Abominable Snow... I don't know if you can do something about the issue with your storage; this has been an issue for a while. -- Camomiletea 19:45, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Wasn't aware of that. Haven't looked at my PB account in ages. Amazing that the pics are so popular that they suck all my allotted bandwidth! I'll look into other hosting options this weekend. Thanks for the heads-up! -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 22:46, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

(Undo revision 86013 by Victor.Song (Talk) QUIT LINKING TO MH SERVER IMAGES!)

And why not? Instead of being Billy Mays, explain, in a civilised manner, what the manner is. Is it that hard to do? EDIT: If you were so annoyed by it, at least insert a comment in the talk page or in the article itself. Victor.Song 22:53, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

It's been stated "why" a million times. I can't be bothered to explain it every time, nor should it have to be inserted as a comment in every article just to coddle those who can't be bothered to make themselves familiar with the editor's corner. And if I was being Billy Mays, I would have been silent; he's dead. -- B.Rossow ^talk_contr 23:05, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Pardon me, but are you...

...a god here? Referring to this of course. If you your are a god or the God here, then you could say so. You could say that it will be as you want it to be no matter what other people say. I don't like to waste my time so maybe you could point out why did you revert my edit. Saying "nuh-uh" after certainly non obvious revert is rude and against wiki/net-etiquette. --Nux 21:05, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

If I need to explain why you can't just keep trying to sneak in this change, I'm not sure I can explain it to you. I'm not a god here or anywhere else, but I do have nearly 3000 edits on this wiki, as do others who disagree with you (with only two edits in total to the main namespace here, both of which were immediately reverted) and other newbies about this inappropriate change. The reason for the revert is obvious to anyone who's been paying attention, and most certainly to you, so please don't act ignorant and surprised. --B.Rossow · talk 21:10, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

So? You have 3000, I have much more on pl.wiki, so? I thought discussion is about arguments not about position in Hal of Fame.

And what "others" do you mean that disagree with me? Last time I read the talk page everyone except you and one more person said that the order should be almost any other then alphabetical.

And pleas stop insulting my and your intelligence for that matter. Yeah I sneaked in RBG order without stating that I'm ordering in RBG... Now what I could say is that you are sneaking in some insults because you are not answering on my talk page but on yours. And if I would now better I wouldn't even notice this. --Nux 22:22, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

No matter how many edits you have elsewhere (your edits number just over 2000 in the main namespace on pl.wiki, FWIW; if you want to have a pissing contest, I have about 7500 in the main namespace on en.wiki and more than 11,000 in total -- it's not about some bogus "hall of fame" but simple experience), apparently you still don't understand that when you post a comment on someone's Talk (Discussion) page, that's where the ensuing conversation takes place. (That's where "Watch this page" comes in handy.) I'm not gonna have a back-and-forth with you or anyone else across multiple pages. The bottom line is that you want to come in here and make changes without bothering to familiarize yourself with how things are done on this wiki. And I can assure you, though this is not Wikipedia, a simple show of hands isn't going to be how things are decided here, ESPECIALLY by a newbie with ZERO live main namespace edits. Every established editor who commented on that page agrees that alphabetical order is the way it will be, and it was not just Grexx and myself. I'll leave it to you to find the others as I believe it will do you some good to re-read the conversations and try to take in what has been said. Now, I've said all there is to be said from my perspective on this issue. I'm not interested in arguing as I have much better things to do with my time, like catching virtual mice or staring at my navel, both of which are more interesting than arguing with a disingenuous newbie over elementary reference paradigms. --B.Rossow · talk 22:43, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

I guess you missed the irony in "so" by a mile... But never mind that. Name one person except you and Grexx that agreed with you on the subject on the current talk page and I'll shoot up and apologise. --Nux 21:29, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Didn't miss the irony; what you're missing is that experience on a wiki actually counts for something, particularly when you're dealing with a newbie not familiar with how things are done who nevertheless wants to argue about how things should be done. At any rate, I wasn't going to comment further, but since you said you'd shut up (I assume you're not really going to "shoot up"; I'd never knowingly promote drug abuse) if I would point you to another editor in agreement, here you go. Check this edit. After the RGB joke, veteran editor M. says this: "I propose leaving it in ABC and colouring the headlines in the respective colour." You can save the apology, but shutting up as promised would be most welcome. :-) --B.Rossow · talk 21:41, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Well I did missed that and do apologise. Still I see you are very welcoming to newbies here, good thing wikipedians act differently. --Nux 22:08, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Newbies are great; it's those who want to change things without becoming familiar with the system first who irritate me. If by "welcoming" you mean just giving in and letting you have your way despite valid arguments and seasoned opinions to the contrary, then no, I'm afraid I'm not welcoming. I just don't have the time or patience for it. --B.Rossow · talk 02:09, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Lich

May I inquire as to why you reversed my edit in the Lich description?

--Jamescha 20:24, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Because the article as it stands doesn't suggest anything as a preferred setup, whereas your revision referred to a weapon not available to all players. Perhaps a better edit would be to not list any weapon at all but simply link to Arcane Weapons. --B.Rossow · talk 21:05, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Sorry about creating extra work for you. Thanks for clearing up a few of my blunders, I'm pretty new to this.

I have been reading the wiki ever since I started playing, but finally decided a few days ago to start helping when I saw stuff that I thought needed to be done, so a steep learning curve (two days) later I make my first page by myself with the wonderful help of the templates. This is why I love this game, and specifically this wiki, I (the uber newbie wiki editor) see the new GB House trap info and do my best to get a new page up with all the proper info in real time.Being a newb though, and having to run out the door in the middle of my edits because the freezing weather made our pipes explode, I left my page in disarray. I am very thankful, and I am sure others are as well, that you have shown so much dedication to a consistent style and format. I look forward to you correcting my many mistakes in the future. --Niehusa 03:00, 11 December 2009 (UTC)