User talk:The Clawed One

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I am the user formerly known as Drake Clawfang, but had to create a new account when I lost my password. But it is me.

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[edit] Need a reference for Jim Raynor

"Blizzard Entertainment has since explained that Clotworthy is willing to return, and they understand the fan connection to his work, but they also enjoy the new voice actor they've found, and the final decision has not been made yet."

Do you remember where you got that from? I really need to get that referenced. -- Sabre (talk) 18:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

It still exists, it just moved house. I just need those transcripts back up to fix the appearances references. I'm trying to sort out the article so that as soon as the transcripts go back up, I can happily submit Raynor's article to GAN. I didn't think it would take this long to sort out though, its been months and its only only been restored to the first few missions of Ep2. The lack of those transcripts is holding back progress on at least six articles - Kerrigan and Raynor need theirs fixed to submit to GA, Species of StarCraft needs them before it can be moved out, Brood War needs it for GA submission, StarCraft series needs it for the story section until Blizzard releases the second part of their summary and the StarCraft article itself needs it to maintain its FA status (how it ever got it I'll never know). Not to mention the need to fix the references on the Characters and minor characters articles. -- Sabre (talk) 20:44, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
By the way, your thoughts on the new picture? I just thought that since we just got given a nice high res mugshot of his in-game appearance, we might as well use it. -- Sabre (talk) 21:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I just tried something else with the image after looking at how User:David Fuchs did the images for Cortana and Master Chief (Halo). Its meant to merge nicely with the infobox. What do you think? -- Sabre (talk) 19:05, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm also going to see if I can't split the development section to create a "character design" and an "attributes" section, going by the two aforementioned articles. They are, after all, the only two individual VG characters that have made FA. -- Sabre (talk) 19:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Right, I've done the "attributions" section, short but to the point, and I've got the image up right. What do you think? Feel free to add anything I might have missed. -- Sabre (talk) 22:15, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
We can't fully see Raynor's hair in his SC portrait, so we should refrain from statements on whether he's bald or not, especially as all his SC1 concept art depicts him as having a full head of hair. As for Kerrigan, I've still yet to receive the new novel (Amazon says its out of stock, still), so I can't do anything in relation to that.-- Sabre (talk) 10:47, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kerrigan refs

I'm fairly content that the content for Sarah Kerrigan is sufficient for a GAN, its just a matter of sorting references out. I've reworked the appearances section based on some other VG FA's, and David Fuchs kindly gave it a look over to see if it could be compressed any further. I'll move back to Jim Raynor and give him similar treatment. However, I need your help for some references for Kerrigan's article, namely because you've got Shadow Hunters and I don't:

  • "Kerrigan sends Zerg to its location, infesting the half-dead body of a Dominion mercenary, Ethan Stewart." - What chapter and page number(s) does the infestation take place?
  • "inadvertently raises the suspicions of Arcturus Mengsk, who wonders what could have motivated it" - what chapter and page number(s) first shows Mengsk taking note of this?

In addition, do you have the ebook version of Uprising? I'd prefer to use references to the original instead of those in the SC Archive compilation. Thanks. -- Sabre (talk) 11:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Right, thanks. I've got them into the article. I also updated the references to Uprising using the pages from the SC Archive, they'll do fine: the original page numbers aren't massively necessary. -- Sabre (talk) 14:30, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

But he was Dominion employed right? He was working for Valerian? (I'm still working soley from Firstborn here) -- Sabre (talk) 14:36, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I've added in "Dominion-funded black marketeer", otherwise the significance of the character is lost in such a short description. The fact its not directly and openly funded is a bit too much detail for his character in Kerrigan's article. -- Sabre (talk) 14:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I've put the article in for GAN (I've updated the transcript urls to where they should be, even though they're incomplete), there's really not much more that can be done with it until new information presents itself now. -- Sabre (talk) 15:31, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:KainPriests.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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[edit] Characters of StarCraft FAC

Characters of StarCraft has been nominated for Featured Article status. Good luck! FightingStreet (talk) 18:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mythbusters accidents

Good day, o unspecified reptilian! I was checking back to the MythBusters article history for the injuries section which you removed here. I personally don't agree with the term "encyclopedic" as there seems to have never been any clear definition and saying that something should be removed as unencyclopedic is a tautology. Nonetheless, that level of detail does not belong in an overview, so thanks.

What do you say about creating an appropriate place for such information by adding a section to each of the episode lists? I checked featured episode lists for several other shows, and they had room for information beyond episode summaries. Granted, mishaps would be meaningless details in any sane show, but MythBusters is fundamentally based on watching irresponsible people screw around with gadgets, which makes mishaps highly relevant occurances that still aren't too common to list, as explosions would be. --Kizor 21:30, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I agree with the section's removal as it then stood. I tracked down the edit to see what had happened to the section, and then asked for your input about the possibility of improvement since the edit showed that you had been active on the subject. Thanks for said input, I shall indeed go nuts. --Kizor 22:50, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] RE:character images

I'm going to look into a two or three screenshots that show multiple characters, as that allows for a few characters in a single image: that's what other character articles do when there isn't a single image that shows every major character. The Brood War cinematics ones with DuGalle and Stukov, and Artanis and Zeratul potentials. What I'd really like is a shot of Raynor and Zeratul from the single player demonstration video. Mind looking into that for me? -- Sabre (talk) 14:54, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I'll make do with the two Brood War cinematics that show more than one character. They should suffice until we get a good SC2 shot.
Unfortunately the two images I put up are the best I can do with the original cinematics. They're rather bad, but until SC2 reveals a decent group screenshot they'll have to suffice. -- Sabre (talk) 15:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Species of StarCraft

I'm considering throwing in the towel with the current version of User:S@bre/Species of StarCraft. Its still far too bloated with story-based detail, this time because of the factions. I'm looking into a new structure for the article, one that can significantly decrease the amount of "cruft" I've written in it, I think that I may be able to modify the structure used by Elite (Halo) for use here. It will include appearances sections, but looking at how that article does it, it won't contain any major plot information. The factions will have to be summarised in "society" sections, having individual sections makes it too bloated and less encyclopedic value. Unfortunate, but I was hoping to have this article done a long time ago, and it just doesn't seem to be working in its current form. -- 09:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I've put up the new structure. Means having to start afresh with the content, but I feel far more optimistic about this draft. -- Sabre (talk) 14:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
By the way, thanks for that WikiDragon thing. I won't put it up right now, but I'll hold on to it for later. Besides, I don't fulfil all the criteria, I'm not being hunted by an angry crowd with pitchforks. Well, not yet. -- Sabre (talk) 17:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I've got together the bulk of text for User:S@bre/Species of StarCraft. I just need to do the reception section, deal with the referencing and upload the images and its done. Feel free to give it a look over. I may need to borrow you for referencing any points from Queen of Blades or Nova, as my copies are currently lent out. It'll be the same deal as last time, chapters and page numbers for particular bits. But if all goes to plan, it should be done within days! -- Sabre (talk) 15:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Construction is done...

... good enough for army work."

The Species of StarCraft article is in the mainspace. It is up. It is done. It has images, properly rationaled and editted specifically for the article. It has all seven million redirects from Protoss, Zerg, Terran, Xel'Naga and Psionic Technology pointing at it. I was sorting up to five redirects a minute according to my contributions...

I'm going to collapse now. -- Sabre (talk) 11:19, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Names...

I think it was your question at WP:EA, but I only saw the user name out of the corner of my eye and thought, "I wonder what the story is behind the username 'The Chewed One'?"   :-)   And so I know to quit for the day. Shenme (talk) 09:05, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Plot citations

I have been considering that, but it would be a really long and hard effort to quote the necessary bits from looking at the game and bringing it to here. What I really need is some transcripts to work from to get the quotes - a bit of a vicious circle, but access to transcripts would make the job much easier. If you know of anywhere where full transcripts are kept (it doesn't need to have the nice layout that SCL takes, as long as it has the text in English), I can get the quotes together easily and efficiently, as opposed to alt-tabbing out of the game to note down dialogue in notepad and replaying briefings over and over to get everything. StarCraft's storyline is great, its just awkward from this perspective as there is so much dialogue to it to cover.

On another note, the fan opposition to Species of StarCraft is much later than I expected it to be, although its always inevitable. Look back the histories the high quality fiction articles in WP:VG and it always seems to turn up sooner or later.

Few last things: 1) StarCraft: Ghost passed its GA - yay! I'm hoping to tackle Brood War next, the rewrite of the StarCraft article means its the only other one that is in need of cleanup to get to GA. 2) I'm not sure if you knew, but as part of a proposal over at WP:VG, a bunch of old inactive wikiprojects got merged into the main wikiproject as task forces. I took the liberty of incorporating that old SC wikiproject that never got going into it a while back, you can find it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/StarCraft. The Warcraft wikiproject also got taken in by Jacoplane. -- Sabre (talk) 22:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)