User talk:Delta759

Welcome!

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You say on your user page that you are here to "help out". Please do that. This is not a site where you wait for "things to be done" (as you said on the talk page for North Andover) -- this is a site where you do it yourself. If you see a problem with the "sites of interest" on a city page -- then take action.

Regarding the "marching band" issue. See my comments on Talk:North Andover, Massachusetts about how to correctly "fill out" the North Andover city page. --Shannonr 00:30, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you feel something is wrong, and want to know more, the best way to do that is to look at similar entries and see how it's being handled there. This place is very rewarding if you make the effort! :) --Shannonr 06:16, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Licorne[edit]

just FYI - he started his "I know the truth and nothing else matters" editing spree on Dec 28.

It took a month before people started giving up on advising him about manners, and another month before there was an actual arbitration case about him. See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Licorne for where he's currently at. --Alvestrand 07:36, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

F.E.A.R. editing[edit]

Hi, just wanted to drop you a line to get some advice about some extra editing for the F.E.A.R. article. You can see at User:berserker79/b79sandbox a reworked "Trivia" paragraph and a "Director's Cut" paragraph I'd like to place in the article. If you'd like to fill in what's incomplete, provide corrections or feed-back anything of this would be appreciated. Thanks. Berserker79 10:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there Delta, I worked on a new "Story" section for F.E.A.R. and I'd like to hear your comments about it, to see if it can actually replace the current "Story" paragraph. You can read it, as well as edit it, at User:berserker79/b79sandbox. Let me know your opinion if you get the time to read that. Thanks. Berserker79 15:08, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: F.E.A.R. Story[edit]

You can leave any comments on my talk page or even better on the talk page of my sandbox here.

Re: Comments on F.E.A.R. Story[edit]

Thank you for your comments. Personally I decided to re-write the whole thing trying to make it look less "fanboyish and overly detalied" as requested, but since I felt I couldn't do it on the existing version I wrote a new one. I tried to keep details low in the new version, but it's still far from being a simple plot description. We need to decide whether we want a detailed storyline or simply a plot summary like Half-Life. Or maybe both, with a very, very, very short plot summary in the article intro and the full story in its own paragraph. What do you think about this? Berserker79 09:53, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think we should bring the question up to the F.E.A.R. talk page and see how many are in favour of a detailed story and who likes best a brief summary. If we reach a consensus on either one we'll update the article appropriately. Berserker79 09:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your Help Desk query (schools)[edit]

Hey, Delta. :) Just letting you know that I've jotted down a quick answer to your question at the Help Desk. For the sake of convenience, I've copied what I wrote there onto this page. Please note that others may want to expand on what I wrote, however, and so you might want to check back at the Help Desk itself a couple times over the next day or two.

I think it would depend upon how the article is written. For more information on that, you might want to check out WikiProject Schools for discussion and guidelines. As far as stubs go, I don't believe they have an expiration date so long as they are providing useful information that another editor can expand upon to create a full article. Stubs details Wikipedia's Stub guideline. I hope this helps!

If you have more questions or I wasn't clear enough, please feel free to drop a note on my talk page. Happy editing! —PaperTruths^(Talk) 02:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: F.E.A.R. screenshots[edit]

Thanks for hunting down some screenshots, I spent about an hour yesterday trying to take some good pics with Frapps while playing, but none satisfied me in the end. I like the last picture in your list best, so I think I'll upload that to wiki and put it in the article. As for the other pictures I think you are right about the Holliday one: I guess it's that mentioned in the "characters page" where Holliday was clad in the F.E.A.R. suit. Thanks for the help. Berserker79 07:28, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: help[edit]

Sure, no problem! Here is what I do when I want to upload a screenshot/boxart/titlescreen picture of a computer game under "Fair Use":

For game screenshots and similar I seem to uderstand a limited resolution would be better (800x600 or 1024x768 or lower), also the PNG format seems to be reccomended. For the F.E.A.R. screenshots I also lowered the number of colors from 16M (24Bpp) to 256 (8Bpp), I don't think this is 100% necessary, but may help for that Fair Use thing.
Next the picture is to be uploaded with the "Upload file" function. Once you've selected the file to upload (Source filename) you can also change the name under which it will appear on wiki (Destination filename). In the "Summary" field I usually put a description (e.g. Screenshot of computer game), the source (e.g. [1] or selfmade) and the FU rationale.
In the "Summary" field I also place the FU rationale. You can find here an example you can "copy&paste" into the summary field and then customize the single entries to suit your needs. I copied this from a Wikipedia policy page, so it should be quite safe. I seem to understand you must have a FU rationale for every article where your picture appears; e.g. if you'll use a screenshot both in the F.E.A.R. main article and the List of characters page you'll need a rationale for both articles on the picture page.
For the license you have the "Licensing" dropdown menu: you should find useful the "Video game cover" tag under the "Covers" section and the "Computer game or video game screenshot" under "Screenshot". Select the one that fits your picture.
Last I place this comment tag before the Image entry in the article: . Obviously you have to change IMAGENAME.jpg with the correct filename.

I think this is all. Up to now I've never received any warning this procedure is not correct, but I usually try not to exaggerate with uploading FU images... If you have still some doubt or have other questions feel free to leave a message and I'll try to get back to you asap. Bye, Berserker79 09:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Return[edit]

Hello Delta and welcome back! :)
Funny enough, I'm leaving today for a couple of weeks of vacation, so I will not be around on Wiki for a while... BTW, as you may have noticed we are going to lose one of the F.E.A.R. articles, sice the "Weapons" page has been undegoing a VfD: I've merged the "weapons" section in the main article, but kept it light since the ongoing "cvg peer review" for F.E.A.R. suggested to trim the weapons descriptions. If your computer and the external temperature are willing to collaborate, I'd like to ask you to keep an eye on the "peer review" page and see if any useful suggestion comes up. Thankw! See you in a couple of weeks, cheers! Berserker79 11:49, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

NORTH ANDOVER?[edit]

r u from N.Andover?Warfwar3 19:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: F.E.A.R. Peer Review[edit]

Hello again! You remember the whole thing right about the peer review, there was only one reply. Digging through wikipedia I found it here; considering the poor attention the first peer review attracted, I'm not too sure if asking a new one is going to help. BTW, recently User:JimmyBlackwing has started some editing on the F.E.A.R. article to improve it; he's been the driving force behind Halo: Combat Evolved getting to FA status, so I'll try to help him out on F.E.A.R. to get the article to that same status. See you! Berserker79 12:05, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help editing F.E.A.R.[edit]

Hello Delta, how are you doing? Hope everything's fine. If you have some spare time to throw away, I'd like to ask you a favour dealing with the F.E.A.R. article editing. I thought I could use the in-game dialogues audio files to reference certain elements of the article (e.g. Plot), so I installed the SDK, let it extract all the stuff from F.E.A.R. data files, then hunted down specific wave files. It all worked fine, but I forgot one detail: my copy of the game has full voice over to my native language, so the dialogues are not in English...

So, the favour I'd like to ask you is to repeat the whole process, locate the files, listen to them, transcribe their contents and then use them as refs. You can post the contents of those files on my talk page or use them yourself to create refs (see Halo: Combat Evolved as an example). If you don't feel like you have the time to do this or you don't have the 600Mb SDK and do not wish to download it, there's no problem at all and I'll try to find another solution. In case you are up for the "challenge", I can help providing you a list of filenames I believe will be useful (hopefully the names are conserved between the different versions of F.E.A.R). Here they are (total = 20):

Filenames (.wav ext omitted) | Description of contents | (Character(s) talking)

15003 | Initial phone call | (Aristide)
150007-15011-15012-15016-15017 | Briefing | (Betters, Jin, Jankowski)
15018-15019 | Fettel is located by means of the chip | (Betters, Jin)
15596 | Laptop: Fettel as part of Perseus | (Betters)
15597 | Laptop: First prototype is mentioned | (Betters)
15645 | Laptop: Fettel is Alma's son | (Betters)
14646 | Laptop: Fettel is synchronized to Alma | (Betters)
15873 | Laptop: Fettel is looking for Alma | (Betters)
14654-14828 | Point Man is Alma's son | (Fettel)
14692 | Mapes covers up ATC activities | (Mapes)
15876 | Comment about ATC immoral research | (Betters)
15570-15571-15572 | Final phone call | (Aristide, Senator)

Once the SDK is installed and it has extracted all the game's files, the dialogues wave files can be found in this folder (if you chose to install to the standard path): "C:\Program Files\Sierra\FEAR Public Tools\Dev\Runtime\Game\voice".

Thanks for reading this far and for any help you may give! Cheers, Berserker79 12:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for giving the whole thing a try! I'm glad you could use a smaller install package for the SDK; probably my version was not up to date and requried the larger install or it might be an issue related to my copy of F.E.A.R. being voiced over. To answer your question: whether to upload as chucks or whole it mostly depends on the final size of the files, however I'd prefer if you can send me one single package, since my mailbox should be able to contain it. One workaround would be if you listen to them and put a transcription of the dialogue of each file on my talk page here on Wiki, this way we save the effort of sending over the files. Many thanks again! Berserker79 07:29, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great work Delta! Thank you for going through all the trouble of messing with the SDK and getting these files: they should award you a barnstar for this! :) I'll use the transcriptions you left on my talk page to make refs for the article asap. Thank you. Berserker79 07:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC) Extending reply: I just finished adding the dialogues as refs into the article. I believe it's looking good, maybe just a couple more will do the trick: citing Wade's dialogue when he frees Alma and maybe part of the ending dialogue on the helicopter might be interesting. I'll search for those files and get back to you with the numbers. Thanks! Berserker79 09:42, 17 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:[edit]

Hello again Delta! Thank you for your message. I'm doing quite fine and hope you're fine too. Unfortunately I don't have as much time as I'd like to hang on wiki, so I'm limited to dropping by, check the watchlist and maybe revert some vandalism, spam, etc...
As for the F.E.A.R. citations, I believe a couple more will complete the job: I have the sound files numbers written somewhere, I'll post them here for you in the next few days! Thanks for your help! Berserker79 10:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the last sound files refs for the article. You can write them down and add them yourself to the article if you have the time. Remember to remove the corresponding entry from the "To Do" list once done. BTW, I'm not sure the last words from Holliday and Jin (see point 3) in F.E.A.R. are a useful ref: what do you think about it?

15545-15547-15549 | Wade's final words | (Wade)
15844-15845 | Mapes' instructions | (Mapes)
15913-15914-15915-15916 | End | (Holliday, Jin)

Berserker79 15:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've been able to check out your work just now, sorry. I think all your additions are correct both in form and context. Nice job and thanks for your help! Berserker79 10:38, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Barnstar[edit]

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thanks again for your help in you know what. Only after the attacks were ongoing did I check the F.E.A.R. talk page and realized in retrospect how many times we'd corresponded many times over the years. For what it's worth, this obviously frustrated Wikipedia user respects and will remember what you tried to do to help him :-). Xihr 07:58, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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