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MySims

Random Ranaun TALK - 04:46, 21 April 2009 (UTC) Are we going to delete the MySims information, because I think that everyone agreed to deleting it, seeing that there is a MySims wiki.

Admin

Hello A Morris. I would like to become a Sysops in the future. How does this happen. Is there like an election or is up to you? Thank-You, and I understand if you are not looking for anyone new!--Bella Goth 15:10, 17 June 2009 (UTC)Bella Goth

Joethatblackguy

Random Ranaun TALK - 03:36, 24 May 2009 (UTC) Joe has harassed Amy on her talk page. I think its time to permanently ban him from the Wiki.

Amy Cotton - Trust in yourself and you can archive anything. TALK - Hey there. Yes. He has been bad news since he got here. He has also hurt my feelings this morning.

Amy Cotton - Trust in yourself and you can archive anything. TALK - Hey there. We gave him enoth time, but know most of us have had enoth with him. Can you please do something?

Amy Cotton - Trust in yourself and you can archive anything. TALK - Hey there. The all clear for banning him. Two other users would have him banned now. If you decide to give him one more chance, okay. I wold give him 24 hours to move them all before banning him.

New skin + logo

Hi A morris. With The Sims 3 about to release, I though it would be a good idea to give the wiki a new look. I spent a few hours today working on a new skin and logo. I uploaded a preview here. I intentionally chose a short page for the screenshot to show more of the background. Take a look and let me know what you think. If you'd like me to make any changes, please say so. If you like it as is, let me know and I'll go live with it. Thanks. JoePlay (talk) 18:02, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I just uploaded it here at this wiki. JoePlay (talk) 21:31, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

AWESOME! If I ran the wiki, I'd change it to that! But, sadly, I only have rollback.PepterPepper

I'm glad you (and Pepter) like the skin. =) As you suggested, I added my logo to the contest page. I wasn't aware of the contest, so I hope no one objects to me (a Wikia employee) entering it. I guess it would be better to wait until the contest is over before going live with the skin. What do you think? JoePlay (talk) 18:27, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply. I agree that it would be better to implement the new skin before the logo contest, since that won't be finished until after Sims 3 releases. So let me know exactly when you want me to go live with the new skin (using the wiki's current logo of course), and I'll "flip the switch." JoePlay (talk) 19:53, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Snooty Sims

Just a heads up A Morris. I was a forum on Snooty Sims and somebody got some wrong info about the Sims 3 from wiki. It was about Mama Lothario being in the Sims 3. Now everyone on Snooty Sims is giving the Sims wiki a very bad representation.--Bella Goth 19:21, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Mensa

Amy Cotton - Trust in yourself and you can archive anything. TALK - Hey there. We have a page for ideas called Mensa. TNE has a page on the Kingdom Hearts wiki similor also called Mensa. What do you think?

TroisNyxEtienne Dessine-moi un mouton. 13:55, 19 May 2009 (UTC) See, why I put it into the Userspace is because sometimes the Forums can't handle all that stuff. Also, most people develop templates on the Userspace. If everyone's gonna have a talk bubble in the Forums, for example, each page only can take a certain bandwidth. The page will explode ! Not to mention being unable to see through all that coding... The normal user (particularly, I) might not be able to see through all those templates, and all of a sudden we have red text jutting out of the pages because there are just too many codes inside. I had the same problem over the Kingdom Hearts wiki and that's why I created my first Mensa over there. Then, this one was created (I consented to it).

Administrator Status

Random Ranaun TALK - 02:34, 31 May 2009 (UTC) I recently edited The Sims Wiki:Administrators to show administrator status. Please correct me if I made any mistakes.

Birthday

Amy Cotton - Trust in yourself and you can archive anything. TALK - Hey there. Today is my 15th birthday, A morris.

What am I doing?!

Amy Cotton - Trust in yourself and you can archive anything. TALK - Hey there. (Crying) I had an argument with another user. I kept on swearing to him over an offer. I have to run away from that devle due to this argument. It was Chaos Shepherd. He being rude to me got me so angry that we began to argue. I ended up swearing at him, but each time he deleted everything I said, nice or mean. I know I did this wrong. I'm so sorry. I am no longer safe here on this wiki. I made a new enemy and I just have to have a long break for a few days until I get back on my feet from the argument that I know I have goten into truble from. This is the first argument I (snith) had on this wiki. Please don't let Chaos Shepherd talk to me again, otherwise another argument can happen.

Amy has not been feeling like herself latly. Please be nice to her, since she won't wanta talk for awhile due to an incerdent that happened on another wiki. Emilyc 13:36, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Bug?

JEA13 TALK - Although I am an admin and I have been here for a considerable time, I am not included in the community list. Why is this?

JEA13 TALK - Sorry for the extremely late reply. This thing has been happening ever since I joined. It's not that I care anyway, I am just curious.

Sorry about that

I thought she started it and I was up all night with insomnia. Chaos Shepherd 14:48, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Caption Contest!

Matta jr - I cannot believe how lucky I am with my unborn child. TALK - Don't Blink!Don't even blink! Blink and your Dead! Wow! Thank You for the cool new userbox! It looks ace! Matta jr

Premade Families

Hello A Morris, I have been legally playing the Sims 3 and the only premade families from the Sims 2 are the Goth, Crumplebottoms, Landgraabs, and Langeraks. Will it be okay to delete Sims 3 info from families not appearing in the game? Thanks!--Bella Goth 03:58, 4 June 2009 (UTC)Bella Goth

News

Matta jr - I cannot believe how lucky I am with my unborn child. TALK - Don't Blink!Don't even blink! Blink and your Dead! I was just wondering how to edit the new section on the home page? I want to put that Sims 3 is released in England tomorrow but I don't know how. Thank you in advance :) Matta jr

Biotech Station fix

Thanks for the link on the Biotech Station fix. I wasn't sure about the policy on linking to or mentioning hack/mod sites such as MATY. Dharden 18:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Block (not another mess-up...)

Sorry what happened, I'd like to be blocked indefinitly on this wiki, thanks. YOWUZA TALK 2 ME! 11:14, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

We give you forgiveness, Yowuza. Sorry about everything. Amy Cotton 11:17, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

NPCs and Deceased Sims

Random Ranaun TALK - 17:05, 6 June 2009 (UTC) Hello A morris. As you may know, The Sims 3 is already out, but there is still information about The Sims 2 that has not been retrieved. I am getting the headshots of Sims, making pages for ancestor Sims, uploading the storytelling pictures, and making family trees, so I have a lot of work to do, but there is still a lot of information we need to get about NPCs, Townies, and Deceased Sims, namely from Olive Specter's garden. I want to get all the Sims 2 information as soon as possible, so I need to find some Users who have The Sims 2, and either Apartment Life, FreeTime, or Seasons, so can you add this to The Sim Wiki news on the main page? They also must have SimPE.

The Sims 2

Random Ranaun TALK - 23:20, 6 June 2009 (UTC) I cannot get anymore information about The Sims 2, as I have no more memory on my computer. So now, I am going to uninstall The Sims 2 and install The Sims 3, so I can start getting information from there, but we need to find other Users who still have The Sims 2, so they can get the information that I was unable to get.

Sunny

Amy Cotton - Trust in yourself and you can archive anything. TALK - Hey there. I don't think Sunny is coming back. What are we to do?

Amy Cotton - Trust in yourself and you can archive anything. TALK - Hey there. Yeah. I have Sims 3, y'know. So does a few others. But what are we to do with the questions now?

Benjamin

Hey A morris, do you think the page Benjamin should be deleted? Because the adopted kids are diffrent in every game. 80.44.254.144 12:15, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Bureaucrat

Hello and thank you for making me a Bureaucrat. I have a problem though and that is that I can't do anything I should be able to do as a Bureaucrat eg. Deleting pages. If you have any reasons or suggestions to why this is it would be greatly approved. Thanks anyway --Bob Newbie is kl 19:57, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Still unable to access the admin features --Bob Newbie is kl 15:20, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks it works now --Bob Newbie is kl 20:19, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Theories

Random Ranaun TALK - 21:11, 14 June 2009 (UTC) Hello A morris. I just wanted to know, can we change our theories on the theories pages, because I though of a better theory about Mrs. Crumplebottom.

Version labeling

Hello.

I'm not very knowledgeable on the technical side of wikis, but from what I've seen from Wikipedia, a labeling system can be implemented through tags. Up to four types of tags may be needed: inline tags, section tags, article tags, and image tags.

-Inline tags are used within a paragraph, at the start of a sentence of a paragraph. It should be unintrusive, something like the small superscript like "citation needed". It can be an abbreviation (e.g. "TS2:OfB" for "The Sims 2: Open for Business"), possibly colour-coded. For clarification, it can show the version's full name upon mouse-over or some such. Alternatively, it can show the game icon (e.g. the green diamond with academic square for TS2:U)". Personally I've found those icons to be very indistinguishable, so at least a floating text would be needed. Otherwise, some kind of shrunk logo or any original icon that clearly shows the version would do.

-Section tags are used for each section, saying something like "this section contains info on TS2:U". This may be redundant as the sections names often specify the version already. However I believe that it is technically possible to automatically show a message on top of the section when an inline tag is present within the section (similar to how citations work, except they show up in a different section entirely). In this case section tags would be completely unnecessary. Idealy, of course, this message would also adjust appropriately to the content, such as "...contains TS:Unleashed, TS2:Pets and TS2:FreeTime". But if not separate messages, probably in the form of concise boxes, similar to userboxes but even smaller, will do.

-Article tags: ditto section tags. Probably redundant and unnecessary.

-Lastly, image tags are for, well, images. Image tags are easy enough to make, but I'm not so sure how this should show up since, I believe, image captions are independant from image files themselves. So perhaps we'd need to make people tag each image within an article? As I said, this hadn't been all that necessary, but I find screenshots of TS2 and TS3 quite similar without the interface.

Anyway just my ideas. I'm sure someone who knows more about wikis can come up with better designs. Uly 04:13, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Segregating versions

Hello a_morris. I want to start working on some of the career and skill pages, but I think the current structure for these pages is a bit messy. I suggest segregating all career and skill pages between TS1, 2 and 3. Merged pages for individual sims, families and such are meaningful because their stories are coherent and carry across versions. But skills and careers are essentially "practical" info that only matters to one game -- putting them in the same page just adds to the clutter. We can name separate articles like "Fishing (The Sims 3)" or "The Sims 3: Fishing" or "The Sims 3/Fishing", as long as it's consistent.

What do you think? Do we need a concensus on this before proceeding? I'm quite glad that people are contributing to the TS3 collectible page very nicely, but ultimately I think the info contained there should be broken up into appropriate pages. I think the sooner we set up the TS3 career and skill pages, the sooner people will start contributing. Uly 03:06, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and for the career table template (which I don't know how to make), we'd need:

Level, Branch, Position, Description, Work Place, Work Days, Hours, Base Pay/h, Promotion Bonus, Performance Factors, and Notes/Perks/Rewards Uly 03:12, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

The career template looks good. Just a few things:

• You're right, work place seems to be constant.
• Perhaps combine Level and Branch in one column?
• Instead of "Days Off", I think "Work Days" is more appropriate in the TS3 mentality. Salary is earned hourly and not weekly, and many advanced jobs have more days off than on.
• I'm not so sure how we should go about the pay and promotional bonus, since they seem quite variable. Better idea?
• And I take "promotional bonus" to be the one time pay bonus upon promotion? Should there be a separate column for the special perks and rewards, or do they go in this column?

As for skills, I wonder if we need a template for the challenges?

Anyway I'll go ahead with the pages. Oh, can you make those category boxes? Don't know what they're called exactly; those quick links like "TS2 Skills" and such. Uly 14:08, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Part-time jobs and Career template

Hey, the new pages are progressing nicely. A few things:

• If you try applying for the Burial Specialist part-time job, you'll see that "Burial Specialist" is just the starting rank, not the actual PT job category, which is "Mausoleum Clerk".
• Similarly, the "Spa Receptionist" category is just named "Receptionalist" -- without "Spa", even though it is at the Spa. This could possibly mean that, in the future, there could be other places for the receptionalist PT job.
• I still think there needs to be a "Perk" or "Bonus" column in the career template, as the perks are plenty in TS3. Just to think of a few of my head:

• At a certain level, a Business sim can schedule meetings, in effect decide his own work schedule.
• Military sim learn to salute, and above a certain rank will get saluted
• Medical sim get a pager later on that adds extra work hour
• Culinary sim can eat at the workplace
• Journalists can interview people and write articles
• Law Enforcement officers get a police car, pager, and can go dump diving for various objects

Unfortunately I didn't make good note of these perks, but they are certainly many and significant. Uly 21:29, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

New Sim Bio Layout

I think different templates should be used for the premade families. Here is a copy of my template below. The template should only reflect the games that the Sim is in. I don't know what I did wrong but the template is not displaying the way that I want it to be displayed. I hope you get the point of this. The Sims 1 (heading) -Additional information about the character would fall here-

Player Stories (heading) The Sims 2 (heading) -Additional information about the character would fall here-

Player Stories (heading)

The Sims 3 (heading) -Additional information about the character would fall here-

Player Stories (heading) Sleepyd2k 22:27, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Moving Things

Hey can we move aspirations off the side pannel so that they only appear under The Sims 2 since they are not included in The Sims or The Sims 3? Sleepyd2k 22:27, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Sims Deleted Before the Sims 3 Was Released

Can you please put that page back up because I wanted to create some of the Sims that were not featured in the game? Sleepyd2k 22:27, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Nomination for Deletion

I nominated a bunch of articles that were redirects for deletion and another user deleted my nominations. I think that users should let admins decide what articles should be deleted. Sleepyd2k 22:27, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Too Many Admins

JEA13 TALK - Hello. There is something I must tell you regarding the number of the admins on this wiki. As you know, admins are trustworthy users trusted with "some extra" buttons to manage the community and the quality of the articles. Well, this may sound offensive, but it is the truth: you have sysoped the 2/3 of the active users here. We are around 15 active users here and the 10 plus one are sysoped... I had doubts if my RfA would make it, but you are constantly accepting Requests. Halopedia, the wiki about Halo, has 300+ active editors, being third in the related wiki hub, and has 7 admins who are doing their work greatly and manage the wiki perfectly. Some of the users who you have flagged had not been here for two months prior to their RfAs. The Cyber Nations wiki, having 3000 articles more than the previous one and 100 active users less than the other one, has 8 active admins.. We have 20 maximum active users and the 11 are sysoped. Sorry, but this is wtf. I think you as the "head admin" of the wiki should create some kind of voting for this. Maybe a forum post? Or even instantly unflagg some new, undeserving or normal user-acting admins, even me if its necessary. Thanks for listening. :)