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Scofield Edits
Yes, Charlie Prince uses a Schofield Model 3 in 3:10 to Yuma, the problem is: that has absolutely no bearing on information regarding the weapon in game or even real world information. Then: where do it stop? The Schofield revolver was used by The Schofield Kid in Unforgiven. The Schofield was used in a composite weapon in Resident Evil 4. The Schofield was used by Imperial Russia. Iver Johnson, H&R, American Firearms, etc all copied the popular top latch design pioneered by the S&W Schofield to produce inexpensive pocket pistols for self defense and target shooting. All that information is just as relevant as the fact that Charlie Prince uses Schofields in 3:10 to Yuma. Understand?

That discussion won't really achieve anything quickly, it'll just break down to exactly what's going on now, but take longer to reach that point. I honestly don't think that we need to talk about what guns are used in what movies on ANY of the pages. It makes no sense to talk about guns in movies if we're talking about a game. There's an entire website dedicated to guns in movies that people can refer to. Mentioning that the "exact same model" is used in 3:10 to Yuma also makes more of a connection between the game and movie than truly exists. Like I said, we might as well mention EVERY time a Schofield is shown in a movie, rather than just 3:10 to Yuma if we're gonna talk about 3:10 to begin with. Just my opinion, and I act on my opinion. CantRelax

You know what? I'm going to apologize first off. I'm coming off as more hostile than I actually feel and mean to be. But, I'm going to remove superficial information and change incorrect information without consulting a committee. Like the "45 Long Colt is long because of ACP" BS someone posted up or random movie mentions on pages, as that's what a wiki is. In anycase, sorry for seeming so hostile. CantRelax

I think I found a decent compromise. Instead of stating a random movie, we tie RDR in with the recent revisionist western tradition, combined with the idea that there were more guns in the west than the 1873. I hope the edit is up to your expectations, but I feel this makes a better case for mentioning films regarding the weapon. My reasoning is to place RDR in the same category as revisionist westerns regarding firearms. Think about Western films: how often do you see the Schofield?! Just in recent revisionist pieces, right? So, I think this'll work. CantRelax

Hmm...
So I was wondering, with the recent flood of game reviews, for Redemption, is a Reception section called for?-- C  2  / C C  00:26, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll update as much as I can. Quick question, should I include a description of the review, or simply put what the site gave the review, and a link to the review?-- C  2  / C C  00:32, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

Vandals
There's been a lot of vandalism really recently, all of the "Unregistered Contributers" I've checked have been adding random things to pages, such as IT'S OVER 9000! and faggot to another page.

99.238.181.140 is one of the ip addresses of the vandals :P

EvanChandler326 00:39, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Ironically I was about to post the same thing. I was edit blocked :( here.-- C  2  / C C  00:41, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

Question
Is it standard to use third-person, or first-person in articles? Like, is using the word "you" acceptable?-- C  2  / C C  01:02, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * I gotcha, I've just seen a heavy use of the word "you" and was wondering if that was part of your MoS.-- C  2  / C C  01:23, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

Again...
The Possepage is getting hit a lot today by vandals, is there any way to lock the page for a day or something? Hope I'm not bothering you with all of this haha. Just trying to keep this site as clean as possible while I'm waiting the last four hours till this game is is my possesion.

EvanChandler326 01:07, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

Again, I revert the edit, you report EvanChandler :P. And umm.... there, it is called protecting.-- C  2  / C C  01:08, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

And this guy.-- C  2  / C C  01:10, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

Haha well at least we're on top of our game xP

Can we do that? Or is it up to the administrators to handle that?

EvanChandler326 01:11, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Nope, only admins have the protect page function.-- C  2  / C C  01:13, May 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * I kinda figured, oh well maybe this will get seen. At least this gives me something to do while I'm waiting for midnight.


 * EvanChandler326 01:16, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the spam Tiktaalik.....-- C  2  / C C  01:18, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Haha this is true. I'll be leaving now :P EvanChandler326 01:20, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

P.S. This guy needs blocking.-- C  2  / C C  02:01, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

Hate to be a bother, but the page needs to be deleted, and user needs to be blocked.-- C  2  / C C  02:54, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

[http://reddead.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/210.84.39.105 Hmm... this is becomming really bothersome.]

Answer Phone
I like the message beep :)

Work ..
Had to overwork today, i hope there wasn't to much release crazyness around here.

Will be on tomorrow though

Anyway did you manage to get hold of the game yet? worth the wait ?

WugHD2.0(talk) 00:30, May 19, 2010 (UTC)

are you the main Admin
?SteppeNomad 23:23, May 19, 2010 (UTC)

Red users
Hey there,

I lately have seen alot of users withouth Talk and User pages, is this because they delete them or that the wikia bot forgets to send them that intro message?

Its kinda annoying when you cant click their names and have to do it manually.

And tbh i can't be bothered when an anon just comes here to Vandalize to put or the  template

And Of-topic: Whats the side mission you enjoy most? i tend to do alot of sidemissions/jobs in these games.

WugHD2.0(talk) 15:54, May 20, 2010 (UTC)

Hahahaha, swweet.

Is the hunting as good as they say? i have really looked forward to hunting since the day i heard about it.

And i was amazed how deadly those Random encounters are you just told me about :O, gunna be fun.

WugHD2.0(talk) 16:07, May 20, 2010 (UTC)

== Weapons ==

Hey,

The Colt M1911 should be called the High Power Pistol. As I start buying all the weapons with the money I got from Blackjack I will leave the replacement names which you haven't already got here.

TheShadowXi 21:05, May 20, 2010 (UTC)

Also I have edited the Colt M1911 article to be set up for the High Power Pistol so just changing the name of that would probably be easier

TheShadowXi 21:09, May 20, 2010 (UTC)

Last message!

I'm going to call it a night but before I go the Tomahawk isn't in the game as far as I know.

Cheers,

TheShadowXi 21:12, May 20, 2010 (UTC)

Oi. The High Power Pistol is a Colt 1903, not FN 1903, you tell by the length of the slide and barrel. The 1911 does make an in game appearance, but by way of cutscene, not gameplay. I'm asking you to revert the article back to my last edit. CantRelax

Second opinion
This guy thinks his block is unfair: here

This is how it went, he was posting pointless blogs so i warned him and banned him for 2 hours to read the rules, then he came back and continued his previous behaviour so i stated he learned nothing and blocked him for one month.

Now he thinks its unfair, can you review this case i don't want to be labeled unfair.

WugHD2.0(talk) 00:24, May 21, 2010 (UTC)

Edit:

Also Admin kryten from RDN wants to help us out on the wiki as admin,he doesnt have Admin experience but he does have experience as editor.

And maybe we should promote The Black Artist to rollback user.

We are heavily understaffed, the wikia is getting messier each day..even some edittors blog or msg me about it.

WugHD2.0(talk) 00:27, May 21, 2010 (UTC)

It was wikia's fault, honest!
I tried to purge the latest blog posts by editing the page, and saving without editing. I didn't know they had this new system, last time I edited a comment page like that, I entered some wikitext to get it up.

Either way, due to me being Norwegian and having set my settings to Norwegian, it decided to create a new page in Norwegian rather than updating the old one, which was in a different language, English. Can you delete this?

Sorry for any inconvenience. I'll get back to editing now. -=KAG=-The VaultNO 22:05, May 23, 2010 (UTC)

Removing all text from a page doesn't delete it
I see you've gone over the pages I marked with the Delete template. You've simply removed all the text. Well, this doesn't delete the page. You need to physically delete it, with the button that's on the toolbar near the top of the article, in the same place you'll find the Edit, History, Move and Watch buttons. Cheers. -=KAG=-The VaultNO 10:01, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

Deletion
Why did you delete Category:Outfits? I restored it. It might be empty aside from its subcategory, but it's an important part of the multi-game category tree. Ausir(talk) 08:03, May 27, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the Stagecoach page
Can you rob stagecoaches? If so, is that the kinda thing you'd put on the Stagecoach page? If so, I'll go figure out how to rob one and edit the page.

DJ TechnoBrat 22:08, May 27, 2010 (UTC)

DJ TechnoBrat

Hey there Billy.
Epic post at my thread, anyway my Gamertag is Barsufa and ive added you but i haven't seen you onlin yet. ill be on tomorrow and i have a headset so you can enjoy some sing and dance from me. haha nahh ill behave for this time..

Just got legend of the west outfit yeeehaaaww.

Cheers! WugHD2.0(talk) 22:53, May 27, 2010 (UTC)

Hello there

2 hour ban
Hey dude,

Sorry i didnt get your warning until it was too late. I thought that people would actually want to see what the real guns looked like versus just the video game. Sorry about that. That said, i kept putting them up because i didnt get the warning so i just wanted to let you know that there was no disrespect intended! Look forward to contributing more!

Once Again, Sorry for the Confusion!

--Prey

I was wondering if the admins had any problems with me adding in weapon information for RDR's multiplayer? (Unlocks and such)

You Deleted It
You deleted my "Red Dead Money Guide" Wiki page. Why? You said there was already one made, but that had simple links to other Wiki pages. I was going to create a very in depth one, writting all my own things and giving suggestions. If I can't upload it here, I guess I'll have to quit this wiki and find another Red Dead Redemption wiki/make my own

MistahSnipah 02:52, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

RE: Welcome to the team
Why, thank you. Glad I can be of help here.--WouldYouKindly 19:59, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

Re: BeardedHoplite
I deleted a picture?! I apologize, I didn't know. Bearded Hoplite 00:31, June 1, 2010 (UTC)

JoeBoe1998
GJ on getting rid of that guy before he became a problem. He was banned on the CoD Wiki because he was using a sockpuppet account in order to evade a block for unacceptable language. Darkman 4 20:17, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * I just didn't want it to seem like i was passing him onto you to deal with. Darkman 4 20:25, May 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Good show, I was keeping an eye on him since the second he made that blog, but you made the "final blow" before me :P--WouldYouKindly 20:34, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

I was going through some of the maintenance reports in this case Special:UncategorizedCategories and Special:UncategorizedTemplates. Special:DeadendPages is already empty, Special:LonelyPages could use some help from someone more familiar with the details of weapons in the game for all those "Winchester" articles. Is there any way to opt out of these stupid website achievements? Reset my score to zero? I love achievements in video games but here I don't need any points, I don't need any badges, I just want to help out. I'm not kidding, message someone at Wikia and tell them to set my score to -1000 or something --31stCenturyMatt 15:02, June 1, 2010 (UTC)

Nice edits so far

Donkey page.
Would you please delete the donkey page? Simply, there are no donkeys in the game. Thanks. Mynameiscool 19:39, June 1, 2010 (UTC)

Multiplayer Maps
Should we have separate articles for the maps as this can include tactics for each map and the guns you get on each obviously linking to there respective articles, you could obviously just have them mentioned in the trivia section of the respective gun pages as well

Answers
I believe that I granted you admin rights on the Answers - let me know if this isn't the case. - Wagnike2 03:46, June 2, 2010 (UTC)

Administrator
Hey, is it possible for me to become an administator?, if so how?

Yours sincerly

carlos 'quickdraw' burritos.

I can answer this myself: No

An admin is the highest rank possible, AKA owning the wiki. You can become a moderator, don't ask me how, but not an admin. MistahSnipah 02:51, June 4, 2010 (UTC)

Infobox Location
Just a heads up, I attempted to fix up the Template:Infobox location, I think this is better than what we had before. Though, I wasn't sure whether or not to leave the inhabitants part on it. - Wagnike2 20:57, June 2, 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Hey thanks for the help. I didn's think someone would answer so quickly. --CryGame--

Another Achievement Booster
Hey, you might want to check out User:GTA all day's activity, it would indicate that he has at least been achievement boosting a little bit. Though I can't tell to what extent, he might just need spoken to or a short couple day ban. I'll leave the decision up to you. - Wagnike2 17:08, June 5, 2010 (UTC)

Graveyard people
I will do that... :) thanks for the help.

Xbox or Ps3?
xbox or Ps3?

Quit improving my improvements!
Who do you think you are, some kind of author in Canada that's going to university? Oh wait you are....just teasing, nice to see my polish polished even more.

ShotgunMosquito 01:14, June 6, 2010 (UTC)

Joeboe1998
I suggest that you remove the content from his userpage and delete the template he made. --CodExpert 19:20, June 6, 2010 (UTC)

vandal
Unregistered contributer 99.144.231.175 vandalised some pages. I'm not sure what to do when i come across them.

vandal
Unregistered contributer 99.144.231.175 vandalised some pages. I'm not sure what to do when i come across them. Bumfree 22:43, June 6, 2010 (UTC)

Re: oh dear lord what have I done?
I think it was instinctively hitting back in my browser to make changes after viewing the preview that messed things up. I'm having another go at it now. I also intend to give the article a more thorough clean tomorrow. I was going to remove duplicate reports, rewrite the more verbose ones, and perhaps categorize things to make it a little easier for whichever poor Rockstar employee is tasked with going through it. Any suggestions for how best to organize it would be appreciated, as would attempts to dissuade me from such a futile act. Frogtopus 02:19, June 7, 2010 (UTC)