User talk:My Name Is Tom/Archive 1

Your recent Changes
Great job, man. I really appreciate your help.

Since your doing so well with the Templates, you think you can make a new Characters of the Office template? The current one seems to just be a lame copy of the wikipedia one.DaHumorist 07:48, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

The bottom Nav-- or the one i made look like the lame wikipedia one? That was my bad, i guess, there was alot of wasted space on the right sides, so now the info hugs on the left. What are you looking for? info wise? color wise? me to but out?--My Name Is Tom 07:54, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I was talking about the bottom nav, not the individual character one you did. That one's great. DaHumorist 08:09, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Hey, man. I was making a small change on the page Calvin (previously Lester), and somehow the formatting for the infobox screwed up the whole page. I can't, however, figure out what's wrong? Maybe it's in the new template you created? If you can fix that, it'd be a great help. Or at least tell me what I did wrong, though I don't think I did anything wrong... Weird... DaHumorist 17:20, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
No problem :). Hopefully, I'll be able to update it more quickly when my computer gets repaired. Mr. Hat 00:11, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

That's your opinion
Hey, first off a lot of what goes into wikia's is opinion. Like "Quotes" or "Funny Moments." If you look at other Wikia's like Dollhouse for example you will see that the critical reception is an integral part of the wikia. It helps connect the show to how people are reacting to it. Years after the Office finishes people would be able to see the impact it made and that is very valuable. The links to critics pages aren't just about that critic but about the users of those sights and how they reacted to each episode. The reason I linked to the TV Critic is because it keeps all the Office episodes together and doesn't eliminate any as time goes on. I thought it would be a good resource for people wanting to learn about The Office. As there wasn't much else on a lot of pages I thought it would be a good way to add something relevant. It would have been polite for you to make your case before just deleting everything. User:Robinpierson ??:??, 4 June 2009


 * First off, i wouldn't waste my time looking at dollhouse it most likely wont last till mid second season. We don't need people's possible negative, or for that matter positive opinion. It would have been more polite to ask about adding someone elses mediocre opinion over all those pages before someone had to follow up behind you and clean up your mess. But I'm not the last word, go ask someone else, see if you get the same answer. I don't think those additions are really relevant. If you want wikia is lax about letting just anybody create wikis. So go create a TheOfficeOpinion.wikia.com and go crazy over there. Unless That TV critic becomes a sponsor of wikia, I'll treat it as spamming. It's obvious that you are a newbie because you didn't have this conversation in the right section, and didn't properly sign your response.--My Name Is Tom 22:41, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Well I understand your point of view. Maybe I should make a separate page sometime about critical reception of The Office. What do you think? .--Robinpierson 10:22, 5 June 2009

Hello!
Hi! I just came here from Kirby Wiki. You seem like the most active user considering the top editor hasn't been here recently. So I was just wondering what you guys needed help with. I personally think that the character pages could follow the same layout that Jim and Kevin's page follow, having a biography/ Character Profile section for broad descrptions followed by a season subsection for more minor facts about them. Well, get back to me soon so I can start helping!

Oh, and you can also reach me at Kirby Wiki if need be. EmptyStar 17:10, October 10, 2009 (UTC)

Problem with tag?
Hi! I tried tagging the test article Niagara with the tag, but the template doesn't seem to work. Is this something you can help me with? Thanks. --Captain Infinity 14:43, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

Lock Season 6
Did you lock season 6? Put a new image for Double Date on that page. If you go on the DD main page, it's there. Much better quality. --Dwide Schrude 19:29, December 20, 2009 (UTC)Dwide Schrude

Admin
Yeah, that'd be great. Also, Double Date is done. And I have a ?, how many people come here every day/week/month?--Dwide Schrude 21:14, December 20, 2009 (UTC)Dwide Schrude

We need to fix main page.
Let's use more pictures, a much better template (or at least include episodes, webisodes in a yellow box) and ask that people focus on WANTED PAGES or PAGES THAT NEED ATTENTION. It's time by now. I'll try my best but--Dwide Schrude 14:57, December 21, 2009 (UTC)Dwide Schrude

Main Page
I heavily edited the main page. I just need help with making another Employee of the month, and than adding another employee, like Pam, Michael, or Ryan. I hope we can keep this, because I think it's a bit better. Let me know, --Dwide Schrude 17:33, December 21, 2009 (UTC)Dwide Schrude

Hello!
Hi, Tom - I'm Shawn from Wikia Entertainment, I'm leaving a quick message with all the admins here. We've been checking out what you guys have been doing and we really like what you've accomplished as a group so far. I want to lend a hand by making a few changes to your main page and search engine optimization that will help with getting new people to visit and make edits. Is it OK if I take a crack at a new skin and main page for the wiki? We've been having a lot of success on other Wikia sites with our methods lately and I think it'd really be a big advantage here. As soon as I have something for you to check out, I'll leave a link. Shawn ( talk ) 21:03, December 21, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the compliment. I wanted to make my favorite show's Wiki much better. I hate to say it, but this Wikia fell to crap during Season Four. I think it's now better than ever. We need more visitors though to get better article quality, to get better google rank. I am going on forums (so far Tv.com and some other one) to promote the new Office wiki, and someone said that it's better than it was. I was an unregistered contributor who edited a lot, and realized that I can make this website better. But, overall the survival of this wikia depends on getting more people. So, like me, I encourage you to go on forums. I am trying to not be SPAM, so that's good. I like the main page much better. It is great. The poll, I thought, would be a great addition, and the Blog posts would be informative. I am editing many pages, adding new ones. Lets get over 1000 sometime soon. --Dwide Schrude 01:11, December 24, 2009 (UTC)Dwide Schrude

Purge
So, to get a new image, I have to click Purge on my Talk Page? That seems annoying. I added "The Office UK," "Movies Containing the Cast of The Office," and "The Office Nielsen Ratings" pages. What do you think of page ideas. We need to have more. Some Wikias have many. Also, I am trying to get people to come on Dunderpedia. But think about that Random image, I don't know, really. --Dwide Schrude 03:35, December 26, 2009 (UTC)Dwide Schrude

Making Phil an ADMIN and Vandalism
An unregistered contributor made possibly vandalism. Unless "Lizzy the Nunes" has to do with The Office, I think it is vandalism. If so, let's make sure we ban that contributor. I would like to know how to do that. Not only that, but I tentatively offered JustPhil an ADMIN position. First of all, I don't know how to grant ADMIN status. Also, I do not think he deserves the position as of yet. He has not made substantial edits to any pages in a while. I am not sure he'll be back soon, as he took a break from June to December. Please help me decide whether making him an ADMIN would help. Also, maybe we should promote Dunderpedia in a respectful-NON-spam way. Thanks for your help--Dwide Schrude 15:57, December 27, 2009 (UTC)Dwide Schrude

Linking to Forums
I know you set up Watercooler like forums for the office. We could 1. relate to each problem on this wikia and 2. Have episode threads, ect. to gain interest. We really need to promote on sites, though to get people into our watercoolers. Can you find a way to link the Watercooler/Forums to the main page. Thanks so much, --Dwide Schrude 14:32, December 28, 2009 (UTC)Dwide Schrude

Forums and Main Page
I have to fix the Kelly Kapoor paragraph and cannot figure it out. Also, can we link to the forums, so we can have episode threads and stuff and connect more with the office. Thanks in advance--Dwide Schrude 20:03, December 31, 2009 (UTC)Dwide Schrude

Re: your question about number of site visitors
Getting page view information is a staff function, there might be some sites you can use to get an approximation. I would look at Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/theoffice.wikia.com hope this helps! Sena 23:44, January 2, 2010 (UTC)

quick question for you
Do you guys have time to change the Community Corner? http://theoffice.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Community-corner&action=edit

It's a great way to give users a window into what you're looking for on the site.....let me know what you think..I just think having that will encourage people to edit and help.

Cheers Sena 23:14, January 4, 2010 (UTC)

Nice to Meet You!
Hi Tom, I just wanted to stop by and introduce myself. I'm Kacie, from Wikia Entertainment, and I'll be helping out and producing content here on the wiki. If you need anything or have any questions, please let me know. Cheers Kacie  (talk ) 18:35, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Quotes
Hi Tom,

I've noticed that a lot of people search for quotes from The Office, but there's no specific category for them in the wiki. I'm going to go ahead and create a "Quotes" category and start adding more quotes to the wiki because I think it'll help with SEO. Let me know if you have any questions/suggestions!

Best Kacie (talk ) 23:17, January 7, 2010 (UTC)

Shout Box
Hi, I'm recommending all users get Shout Box, it allows people to communicate (admins, users, ext.) on this wikia, and others that have this benefit. To get it, please go to Special Pages on the side dashboard, then go down to Widgets and select one. Please ask for help if you can't find it. Thanks--Dwide Schrude 15:54, January 9, 2010 (UTC)

One Last Thing
Where is the site runner, Da Humorist? Thanks --Dwide Schrude 16:08, January 9, 2010 (UTC)

Hey, Tom and Dwide. As you can see, I haven't been actively working on this project since February last year. You guys have done a hell of a job making things better. I'll be around to help out here and there. Nitpicking and fixing minor things. Great job with everything! - Greg DaHumorist 20:05, January 9, 2010 (UTC)

Relationships
Tom, Thanks for your support on the Quotes category! Now I'm going to start working on a Relationships category-let me know if you have any suggestions. Kacie (talk ) 22:48, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

Making Kacieh a ADMIN
I know we already have enough, however, she has been great in getting more articles (611!) and she has shown consistent effort. Think about it. Also, we have gotten 4 new users in the past two days. Thanks--Dwide Schrude 23:31, January 11, 2010 (UTC)

Oops.--Dwide Schrude 02:55, January 13, 2010 (UTC)

Sidebar
Hi Tom,

I have some ideas to streamline the sidebar--I've shown the page to a few people who found it a bit confusing, and I think it might help SEO to remove redundant links and put only the main categories people search for up there. I've also added a random character category that I think users will get a kick out of. Let me know what you think. Kacie (talk ) 23:37, January 12, 2010 (UTC)

Main Page Title
Hi Tom, the wiki is looking amazing, and I have an idea to bring more Office fans to the site. "Dunderpedia" isn't an often-searched tem, so i'm going too tweak the main page title a bit to help with SEO. I'm going to change it to include the top keywords that Office fans search for, and then track to see if it increases traffic. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Kacie (talk ) 02:03, January 15, 2010 (UTC)

Favicon
Hi Tom - thanks for the compliments, I enjoyed working on the skin here. I'm not seeing any problems with the favicon - can you describe how it isn't working properly? I'll pass that along to the Entertainment team and we'll see what the matter is, it might be browser specific or something. Shawn ( talk ) 00:32, January 16, 2010 (UTC)

Signature
Just out of curiosity, how do you change your signature. ThanksDwide Schrude 03:00, January 18, 2010 (UTC)

Re: Forward Thinking
I was under the impression the point of a wiki was to have up-to-date user contributed content. I visit this wiki quite often, and yes, I do understand your thinking, and I was thinking that the page would need to be changed again.

Unregistered User
Ryan Howard page was edited by an unregistered user and changed Scranton to prison in the biography section, as well as the link being mis-formatted. I am not sure if you are able to tell where (i.e. IP) this user came from, but just letting you know.

Community Links
Hi Tom, I removed those links because the sidebar's a place where we only want to link out to sites that link directly back to us. All of the links listed there are friends of Dunderpedia, with prominent links to our main page on their sites. If you want to make a separate section for general Office links, we can do that elsewhere. Also, feel free to reach out to your favorite Office sites and ask if they're interested in link-sharing! Thanks-- Kacie (talk ) 20:12, January 20, 2010 (UTC)

Outside US streaming - fish story episode
Thanks for getting onto my question so quickly. I really appreciate it. The clip you posted won't stream outside the US (I am from Australia) - it says something about legalities etc. But now that I know the episode is from travelling salesman I will keep searching, unless you know of other sites that I can download the clip from? Thanks again! Nyree 02:54, January 22, 2010 (UTC)

Getting More Active Viewers
Hi, I'd like to propose getting more active viewers. For example, we could put a heading on the Main Page saying "To keep this wikia going, please sign up," and we could have a link at sign up. We could comment on various office-related forums (not spamming, of course) and this could be a huge help. Right now, It's pretty much you and me with a few other people.

Also, adding on to The Office UK section of this wikia, I added Series 1 and Series 2. Check them out. I haven't really checked them yet, but I will soon.

But most importantly, to keep this wikia going we need to put a heading on the main page, and maybe comment on some forums. I don't know if you have any other ideas, but if you do, please hit me back. Thanks-- Dwide Schrude (Talk / Edits). 18:18, January 24, 2010 (UTC)

Expensive parser calls + main page background
Tom - I put a word out to the tech team who have fixed the template problem you were having. The problem was with too many "ifexist" instances, and the fix is a stopgap solution. What you should do is copy instead the episode templates used on Chuck - http://chuck-nbc.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Templates, which uses a small template for each episode that you can very easily change and maintain. Take a look at that, and if you still have questions, please ask.

I also fixed the wiki's background image - it really shouldn't be repeating as the graphic wasn't designed for it. Thanks for understanding. Shawn ( talk ) 18:32, January 25, 2010 (UTC)

Skin
I liked the skin going all the way down. Don't know if that's a problem but hit me back. Thanks-- Dwide Schrude (Talk / Edits). 16:36, January 26, 2010 (UTC)

Editor Drive
Hi Tom, I just wanted to let you know that we're launching an editor drive for the Office Wiki at the end of February! Users will be able to win special badges for their user pages when they recruit friends to come help edit the wiki. I'll make a page specifically for the drive, and users will only have to leave their user names plus the user names of their recruits to win badges for their user pages. It would be great if you and the admins could be in charge of handing out badges to those who have earned them. Let me know if you have any questions! I'll keep you posted. Thanks-- Kacie (talk ) 23:56, January 27, 2010 (UTC)