User talk:Madness Divine

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-- New user message (talk) 22:03, 23 November 2021 (EST)

A/An Grammar Edits

Hello. I have a question regarding your grammar edits to some articles. In the Narukami and Commando articles, for instance, you replace "a" with "an" where the displayed text it precedes would normally require an "a". I'm curious if I am mistaken or you did mass edits searching for "a XL" and it caught wiki-text (not displayed) by mistake. Those are the only two articles I reviewed, there may be more.--Cache (talk) 13:28, 22 December 2021 (EST)

Sorry for the Blackjack revert

Hiya, just wanted to say sorry for accidentally rolling back your edit on the Blackjack. This keeps happening when I check the Recent Changes on my cellphone, I just hit the "rollback" button while scrolling and half of the time don't even realize I did it. Had nothing to do with your work on the article. I was going to revert it again to your version, but saw you'd already done it. Keep going! :) Frabby (talk) 14:07, 28 December 2021 (EST)

No problem. My clumsy fingers would do the same thing. Madness Divine (talk) 11:46, 29 December 2021 (EST)

Impertinent comentary on an Admins edits

MD, I don't appreciate you reverting my edit on A Place as not an improvement, your comment comes across as Impertinent and borderline disrespectful. You have been doing very good work thus far, don't spoil it by annoying the people in charge.--Dmon (talk) 20:07, 28 January 2022 (EST)

Four minor points

Hiya, I saw a few things in your edits that I wanted to raise with you:

• The preferred spelling for "aerospace fighter", as far as I recall the old BattleCorps style guide, was all lowercase and in any case no CamelCase/capital "S".
• And in the Phoenix (novel) article, the Mad Jumpin Jacks are actually spelled/named thus, without the apostrophe. Seems to be a strange mix of english words with German punctuation, but still. (It's an original, German-only novel.)
• In the same article, you removed the hyphen from co-founder. But according to my admittedly shallow research, co-founder is actually the correct spelling, or at least permissible.
• Finally, I don’t think it is appropriate to correct citations from the back covers of books or other products. They’re citations, after all, and arguably shouldn’t be edited. May just be me though.

:) Frabby (talk) 02:18, 6 February 2022 (EST)

Hey mad one, thanks for your reply. Point of order, post discussion points to the user talk page, not the user page. People get pinged by the system when new their talk pages are edited (like you presumably were for this text), not so for user pages which are used for and by users to write stuff about themselves. Editing another userpage (as opposed to their talk page) is generally considered a no-go on wikis. No harm done though, I've moved your reply to my talk page. Another advice is that most of the time, when a discussion emerges on a given user’s (or article's) talk page even with several participants, the discussion stays where it is so that it remains readable. As such, you could have replied right here on your talk page. I wouldn’t get a ping then, but would have checked your talk page for a reply occasionally. If you add to a talk page discussion, make sure to indent your text one step further than the previous poster, by prefixing one more colon (:).

On the subject matter of how to spell AeroSpace Fighter, I was very surprised to read that on our style guide - we originally decided to follow the BC style guide so I don't know where thst came from. I'll have to look into matters here abd see what the current "correct" firm is supposed to be. Busy right now with rl stuff right now so it will be a day or two. Frabby (talk) 04:49, 6 February 2022 (EST)

Oops. I thought I was writing on your User Talk page. The hazards of several days of insomnia. Madness Divine (talk) 12:52, 6 February 2022 (EST)

Regarding "aerospace fighter": In the latest Total Warfare, it is not capitalized. When capitalized in a title, the "s" is not capitalized.

The urge to make a cynical comment about the odds some other recent products having the old CamelCase form... I've left off trying to make it match the MOS. Madness Divine (talk) 02:52, 7 February 2022 (EST)

Not all hyphens are evil

Hi, just wanted to inform you that I rolled back your edits regarding Bone-Norman. Because, well, that’s the proper name of this system. Not a grammar or style issue. :) Frabby (talk) 00:40, 7 February 2022 (EST)

Its wiki page has a hyphen, recent CGL products have a hyphen, it's 0346 local time and I'm not bothering to go through products and make a case for when it was changed. Thanks for the heads-up, though. Madness Divine (talk) 02:49, 7 February 2022 (EST)

Welcome and Hello

Hey Madness, I'm BobTheZombie, and I noticed you just passed me in edits after only a few months, which is pretty awesome (and I'm kinda jealous lol). I've been out of the game for a bit, but lemme know if you wanna team up on any proofreading projects, I'm always hankering for some editing ;) -BobTheZombie (talk) 10:36, 15 February 2022 (EST)

Hi Bob. I'm mostly focussing on misspellings and similar things that catch my eye because they don't take a lot of attention. Some of the stuff I've slapped a cleanup template are wince inducing because it looks like they've been run through Google Translate before posting; I would appreciate it if you'd have a go at some of those. I'm stealing some moments between bridge hands right now. Madness Divine (talk) 13:48, 15 February 2022 (EST)

Darn, I'm also trying to squeeze out small edits here at work... I'll have to save the longer edits for home, and I'll have varying free time for that. I'll try to work more on that stuff tho. Do you have any pages or lists in particular, or just the ole { { cleanup } } tag? -BobTheZombie (talk) 17:25, 15 February 2022 (EST)

I've been through so many I can't think of a single one. I had to go about half a dozen pages of my contributions (@500 per) to find the last one I did, on 1 February. You check out Pserratv's work; I'm pretty sure English isn't their first language but they're incredibly productive. Madness Divine (talk) 17:41, 15 February 2022 (EST)

Yeah Pserratv is not a native speaker of English, he is spanish. But he knows his english is not always top notch and takes corrections with good grace. He is another one of our powerhouse editors.--Dmon (talk) 17:49, 15 February 2022 (EST)

Casual Edit Award

I can't believe I am the first to hand you one of these. I know we haven't spoken before, but I see you at it every day, and I just wanted you to know your efforts at "cleanup" are noted and appreciated!
Talvin (talk) 14:15, 25 February 2022 (EST)

Thank you. Madness Divine (talk) 14:48, 25 February 2022 (EST)

Technical Readout: 3050 Upgrade

Hello again! You added the cleanup tag to Technical Readout: 3050 Upgrade with "needs quote from back cover rewritten". We discussed this over in the Discord server, and Revanche has clarified that we do not change those: they are direct quotes. Is there some reason that one in particular needs attention? Unless it deviates from the actual text, it should be left alone. Talvin (talk) 20:34, 1 March 2022 (EST)

It differs markedly from the actual text. The 2007 and 2009 editions of Upgrade both begin with "Over two hundred and fifty years ago", just like the original and Revised; the CGL store blurb matches the print editions. I was in a hurry so I slapped on the cleanup tag and moved on.

This isn't the first "direct quote" I've run across that was inaccurate but they're usually reasonably close. I'll paste in the CGL store text and check it. Guess I should have checked the store first. Madness Divine (talk) 21:09, 1 March 2022 (EST)

Ah! I see. I am passing this on to others in the Discord so they can keep an eye out for any where the text does not match. Though, I must raise the question of "Different printing?" I know that different editions and printings of books sometimes have different cover texts. Talvin (talk) 21:18, 1 March 2022 (EST)

In this case, 2007 and 2009 (2nd Printing) are PDF editions but lack the Upgrades rather than Upgrade in the quoted text. The 2007 doesn't have the usual Version x.x or back cover appearing immediately after the front that seem to be the usual signs of PDF releases rather than scans.

I have noticed that some of the CCG cards' pages use different titles than what appears on the card in the image on the page. I expect if I looked closely I'd run across more minor inaccuracies; I only noticed the TRO because I'm trying to check actual quotes before correcting misspellings/less common spellings. Madness Divine (talk) 21:29, 1 March 2022 (EST)