User talk:Camperxl

Thanks
I love having someone helping me here. I felt I was the only one here. Mostly what I've been doing is trying to sync up the episodes which are all in uneven states of info; numerous episodes still only have summaries where synopsizes should be or are still completely undeveloped. However, I don't have a lot of quotes if you can help there.

I don't know what happened to the original creator of this Wikia. Thor2000 (talk) 18:28, July 15, 2014 (UTC)

Definitely concur. Encouraging to see the edits scrolling up. Right now I'm focused not so much on developing the individual espisode (although that will come in time), but getting the infrastructure of the wiki in shape. It's a complete mess. I'm getting the Seasons 2 & 3 landing pages in shape now and refreshing small images (<200px) with better ones (>450px). Once complete then can begin filling in individual epsiode info. I've messaged the sysop and got no response. Some of the infrastructure requires sysop level permissions, so  I've put in a request to adopt the wiki and if approved will need some co-sysop/beauracrats, etc if you're interested.

Camperxl (talk) 19:42, July 15, 2014 (UTC)

I'm not up on codes, I don't mess with those at all. I've worked on enough Wikia sites to get by, but it is good to know someone knows how those work. I'm mostly a writer, and I know this site can be something awesome, but you're right, it's a big mess. Each of the episodes seem to have separate formats possibly from being created by different people over a long period of time, and I'm still trying to get each of them into a consistent format based on what I've already found here. Thor2000 (talk) 19:58, July 15, 2014 (UTC)

Much appreciated. Since we appear to be the only two active contributors here I'd say even the consistency out how you see fit. My only request is on dates - that they are formatted as [December 26, 1966] since that seems to be what the majority of the pages are using (some are not, but when I run into them I change them over) and the format I've standardized on. Other than that I'll follow your lead on the formatting.Camperxl (talk) 20:14, July 15, 2014 (UTC)

You've Been Disconnected
The telephone operator in the episode was played by Sandra Gould from Bewitched; the lady in the image you used was the Theater Matron giving movie times. I can't seem to identify her.

Oops. Thanks for the catch. I'll fix it up (if you didn't ).Camperxl (talk) 20:22, July 18, 2014 (UTC)

Adoption
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Thanks! Much appreciated. Hope to have things spiffed up pretty soon. Best regards.Camperxl (talk) 02:25, July 23, 2014 (UTC)

The Cartoons
Somewhere down the line, I think we should add pages for "The New Adventures of Gilligan" and "Gilligan's Planet." Although I would definitely refer to them as non-canon to the regular series and movies, each series should be formatted like regular additional seasons with links to regular descriptions of the episodes. It's nothing we can jump to immediately, but something we can prepare for eventually. Thor2000 (talk) 16:53, July 23, 2014 (UTC)

Sounds fine. We'll get it going soon.Camperxl (talk) 17:03, July 23, 2014 (UTC)

I've started the first drafts of the cartoons - Somewhere down the line as you get a chance, maybe you can punch them up. Thor2000 (talk) 22:50, September 19, 2014 (UTC)

By "punch them up" are you referring to images or something else? I see them in the Seasons menu now. Sorry to be so dense; mind is a bit distracted.

We may be limited by what we can find on the Internet; I was just hoping you had better access to stuff, but depending what I can do, I'm sure you might know how to always make it look better. Thor2000 (talk) 00:36, September 20, 2014 (UTC)

Main Page
On the main page where the photos of the castaways go to their bios, why don't we add Dr. Balingkoff and Wrong Way Feldman? That way we have a perfect block there instead of empty spaces next to the Professor? Thor2000 (talk) 01:24, July 25, 2014 (UTC)

I'm not opposed to it, but am curious if evening out the gaps and getting it to look more symetrical is the goal there may be other options in the tools for spacing and arranging. My only hesistation is Balingkoff and Wrong Way aren't regular cast members (although appeaing multiple times). Your thoughts?Camperxl (talk) 15:42, July 25, 2014 (UTC)

I thought of those two characters as being the most popular or iconic from the series, played by actors who appeared multiple times, or we could use three images for directly reaching the three seasons of the series, but them we'd still be two images short of a perfect block. Or we could fill the two empty blocks with direct links to the Island bio and the Castaways bio with their multiple links then line the Seasons along the bottom. Or just center the Professor in the bottom of the block and leave an empty space on either side for an aesthetic look. I'm just spit-balling ideas here - Thor2000 (talk) 17:41, July 25, 2014 (UTC)

Played around with the tools a bit on the photo alignment. Looks like the original admin had set it up to justify left. That gets a 4 on top 3 on bottom split. If I choose a center justification I get 3-3-1, with Professor on the bottom. Personally I like it better, but your thoughts? Haven't pulled the trigger on it. Camperxl (talk) 21:03, July 27, 2014 (UTC)

try it out - Thor2000 (talk) 02:16, July 28, 2014 (UTC)

Ok - give it a once over and see what you think. Camperxl (talk) 13:44, July 28, 2014 (UTC)

It looks better, but now we have that long empty space off to the side; shame we can't fill that in with something Thor2000 (talk) 13:56, July 28, 2014 (UTC)

Theme Song
I created a page for the theme song. Do you have any images of the opening to place next to their corresponding lyrics? Thor2000 (talk) 20:36, August 8, 2014 (UTC)

Yes, can do - but won't be able to get to it until the weekend is over. Cool add. Camperxl (talk) 02:59, August 9, 2014 (UTC)

I tried finding a few images on line - but I'm sure there's better images that would fit better. Thor2000 (talk) 14:44, August 9, 2014 (UTC)

Info Box - Guest Stars
When you get a chance, check out the codes for the info box for the episodes and why everything appears except the guest cast. 03:30, August 12, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, the Wikia system for this isn't the best and honestly is confusing. The problem here is Wikia has a new and improved editor, which is actually pretty good and an improvement for a lot of editing tasks, but in this application it falls short. The infoboxes were created with Wikia's Classic Editor. I don't know if internally there's some disconnect or whatt, but if you want to add Guest Cast to the infoboxes you'll have to use the 'Classic Editor' (under the Edit pull down). I did a test one on Gilligan the Goddess so you can see the results there and give an opinion. I also looked at it in the Modern Editor and saw your attempt to add it there, but it's like it's just a separate system almost. FWIW. Camperxl (talk) 14:13, August 12, 2014 (UTC)

Images
In most of the pages, I'm using the tag "Pages Needed Images," I figure you'll fill them in as you get a chance, and using images to fill in others that you might want to replace later. One in particular is the image for the Black Morning Spider - there are no really good images for that one available. Thor2000 (talk) 17:34, August 17, 2014 (UTC)

Good call. The tagging helps call my attention to where we need images. I got Black Morning Spider updated, Igor the Monkey, Imposter Howell and will work through some more today. Camperxl (talk) 13:54, August 19, 2014 (UTC)

Episode Summaries
What do you think of the episode summaries for Beauty Is as Beauty Does, The Little Dictator and The Sweepstakes? I was wondering if they needed expanding like some of the other episodes. 19:58, September 7, 2014 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with them per say. They're certainly sufficient. When I worked on the Lost In Space wiki (back when I had way more free time) I would completely dissect an episode from start to finish. I always enjoyed the documentary aspect of doing it this way - but time commitment is a necesary evil of that method. If you had the time and willingness I support it. Camperxl (talk) 18:17, September 8, 2014 (UTC)

I just like sticking to the summary of the episode and devoting the details to the smaller profiles and bios. There are some episodes that warrant grander details and others that don't. I try to create the site I'd want to see. Thor2000 (talk) 19:38, September 8, 2014 (UTC)

What the???
What is this "# in series Network/Country: ??? IMDB [1]" showing up on all of the episodes? It's also green on top and blue on the bottom. Could you fix this? Thor2000 (talk) 17:57, September 18, 2014 (UTC)

'''Looks like TimRock edited the episode info box template. I'm not necessaily opposed to the Green/Blue. It looks ok. Not a fan of the Country/IMDB. Will remove that. Are you opposed to the Blue/Green?''' Camperxl (talk) 19:11, September 19, 2014 (UTC)

The colors don't annoy me nearly as much as the links to off-site locations, the added references to material already on the page or the risks of having material plagiarized from the Wikipedia. Thor2000 (talk) 19:22, September 19, 2014 (UTC)

'''The template has been returned to "normal". IMDB, Country & # in series has been removed.'''Camperxl (talk) 19:32, September 19, 2014 (UTC)

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When you get the chance, there's several pages with the "Marked For Deletion" category that need to be deleted. I would do it, but it won't let me.Thor2000 (talk) 18:30, September 19, 2014 (UTC)

'''The marked pages have been deleted. Thanks for the heads up'''.Camperxl (talk) 18:42, September 19, 2014 (UTC)

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Something has to be done with that "Gilligan's Island Wiki" image on the main page. It has to be cropped, shrunk or something because its taking up too much space! Thor2000 (talk) 18:35, September 19, 2014 (UTC)

'''Umm.. yeah. Looks a bit out of sort. Looks like a new user added that image. Not sure if it should hang around or not. The layout and flow is off now because of it. I'm leaning towards reverting the landing page back to the last time I edited it. Thoughts?'''Camperxl (talk) 18:47, September 19, 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, the new guy is keeping me busy cleaning up everything he's adding - he obviously had the right idea, but I can't help but think he lifted it from somewhere and I'm not letting this site get shut down after all the hard work I've done. Your call, since I don't know that HTML stuff Thor2000 (talk) 18:51, September 19, 2014 (UTC)

Images
You found some great images - particularly Timothy as that was exactly the image I was hoping to see. Thor2000 (talk) 00:25, September 23, 2014 (UTC)

Thanks - I also checked in on some episodes for Badminton (Gold Strike) and Gilligan's Fish Scale (Diogenes) and didn't find any references to those sports/items in their respective episodes. Would you double check that those are the correct episodes for those items?Camperxl (talk) 02:30, September 23, 2014 (UTC)

I don't know how I missed that - but Badminton was the game the Howells were playing when Gilligan tried to tell them about the mine (Mine Hero) and Gilligan's Fish Scale is the large scale the Skipper uses to weigh himself (Physical Fatness). 04:04, September 23, 2014 (UTC)