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Request for interpretation of consensus
This forum thread has been sitting open for several months, and has gone two months without any new additions to it. Due to a conflict of interest I cannot call consensus for this one way or the other, so I would like another administrator or 'crat (preferably neutral) to determine whether a consensus has been reached and to state the outcome of the thread or, if consensus is not reached, to determine a proper course of action. --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 07:27, June 21, 2014 (UTC)

Food Fiction: The Sims Feast
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Hi Sims admins,

I wanted to run a fun idea by you all to see if you can help us make it as fun of an idea as possible.

We've been running Food Fiction programs with various communities. Here is a list of all the ones we've done so far here.

With the release of The Sims 4 upcoming, we'd like to plan to do a Food Fiction with you all!

For each program, we start off with a blog post on the community, inviting users to nominate their favorite dishes in various categories. We'd need admin help promoting that post as well as help deciding what those categories should be. We think it could be as simple as an appetizer, main dish, dessert, drink, and some extra fun category. Here's an example of that from our Adventure Time Food Fiction.

One idea we had would be to ask the users to design their feast, create the feast in game, and submit a screen shot of their party menu laid out (can be from any version of the Sims). We think this makes it a little harder to submit a menu, but definitely more fun.

Finally, we'll take the most popular nominees in each category and put them into polls by category on a post on Recipes Wikia. Here's an example from the same Adventure Time FF.

If you all like the idea, we'd like to save it for the mid-August/early September time frame. That would give us some time to also try to get a prize for the winner! Let us know what you think about the ideas and categories.

Thanks!

Annette (profile)•(talk) 22:38, May 12, 2014 (UTC)Acardwell415

Delete the unnofficial name
I would like to delete Gypsy caravan and its talk page. Since the official name is this and some evidence in Google. :)  .ThePeculiarMe  |  (talk to me)  |  (my mistakes)  12:31, June 22, 2014 (UTC)

Rudeness on IRC
i would like to report ecks and mrc for being very rude

i ask for help in getting sims 2 complete edition and this happened

< mojo_joejoe > how do i activate a copy of sims 2 on origin?< mojo_joejoe > answer me please answers are $1.99/min visa accepted, mastercard too< MrC > Bitcoin is also accepted at the rate of 2 bitcents per hour.< MrC > s/hour/minute/< Danny > mojo_joejoe, contact ea support< MrC > Or, 1 bitcoin per hour.< Danny > that's as far as our help goes.< mojo_joejoe > thank u danny for actually trying to help but can i activate sims 2 without talking to the ea rag heads at their support?  also, feel free to check out the FAQ article EA support has on the ultimate edition< Danny > no< Danny > you can only activate on your own games released from 2009 onwards< mojo_joejoe > that is sad thank u danny for helping< Danny > TS2 was released five ears before that,< Danny > so go on ea support< Danny > you're welcome, but next time, try to find the answers yourself< mojo_joejoe > to ecks and mrc i find that u r very rude and i am going to report u to whoever is in charge here      i am offended and i do not think ecks and mrc should be allowed to help people and i hope whoever is in charge here will see this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.221.255.98 (talk • contribs) 19:17 19 July 2014 (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~


 * I cannot see any hint of rudeness in the chat conversation. Generally, we do ask people to Google their answers before they ask, just to avoid redundancy in answering questions that have already been answered. Also - if the people that respond to you are correct, reporting them usually isn't of any good. ecks was not being rude, Danny was not being rude, nobody was being rude. Being unhelpful does not equal being rude in the slightest. Therefore, I decline any sort of administrative action. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 19:33, July 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't see anything rude or inappropriate about they said, they were simply joking. You shouldn't take offense to little things like this. I will not be pursuing any administrative action either. -  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 20:07, July 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * I have to agree. Ecks and mrc may have been joking and even of no real help to you, but they were not rude. I'm sorry that you took offense from their light-heartened responses. From your report, it is hard to tell if there was a long time between their jokes and David's response. It is interesting that they didn't respond after David started to respond. Icemandeaf (talk) 00:16, July 20, 2014 (UTC)

I agree *shrugs* --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 00:30, July 20, 2014 (UTC)

Template:Broken-face
Hi, I was trying to edit this template so that it would be able for use by fanon Sims who use a broken face template, but it didn't work so I reverted my edits. If no one else things this is relevant then that's okay, it doesn't have to be used for fanon Sims. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 03:55, July 21, 2014 (UTC)
 * You were trying to get the template to categorize fanon Sims in Category:Sims who use a broken face template (fanon), correct? If that's the case, it is working now. -  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 04:07, July 21, 2014 (UTC)

Yes, that was the case. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 04:28, July 21, 2014 (UTC)

Fanon Mannequins and fanon Bigfoots
Has anyone else noticed that all fanon Mannequins and Bigfoots automatically fall under the category for normal Sims even though they aren't normal life states.

I am familiar with this cause, but I don't know how to fix it. Could someone please help?

P.S. I know that Mannequins aren't really an official life-state due to not being part of normal gameplay, but you can hardly call Mannequins normal. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 03:55, July 21, 2014 (UTC)
 * Can you list some examples of fanon Mannequins and fanon Bigfoots (bigfoots? bigfeet?) please? --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 04:10, July 21, 2014 (UTC)
 * Also, I wouldn't call mannequin a life state, as aside from skin tone there's nothing that distinguishes a mannequin Sim from a regular Sim. It would be better to treat mannequins as a separate skintone category, similar to Category:Light-skinned Sims, Category:Dark-skinned Sims, etc. -  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 04:12, July 21, 2014 (UTC)

First of all, I correct myself, only the Mannequins fanon category is like that (Nikel23 modified my edit on the Bigfoot article stating that it was only supposed to cover the bigfoot life state in general) and this was potentially not the case for fanon Bigfoots to start with.


 * Fanon:Galaxy Nine Asteroid a Mannequin
 * Fanon:Doctor Agent J. Triton a Mannequin
 * Fanon:Gothic Agent Triton a Mannequin

--  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 04:27, July 21, 2014 (UTC)