User talk:Sol Pacificus
Old sock
I think we have another sock on our hands. User:FrikiXL has revived the "Warren Vidic was a Nice Guy with Empmathy" edit wars, insisting that they "have been studying the psychology of fictional characters for 5 years". They've also been adding/removing [[Category:Scientists]] to the Historians category, and admitted they "will never give up". Thought you should know. – Darman (talk) 21:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Templar Pages
Hey! Been rather busy on my end, however got more time recently. Regardless of personal Life, recently I`m currently writing a few pages in regards to Templars(The Templar Pledge), their distinctions(Corruption & Moderates), specializations(Assassin Hunters), ranks(Advisors, Knights, Commanders, Lieutenants) and organization(Rites & HQs). So I've been going through existing pages as well for all of this to gather whatever information we've missed previously, because by the look of it, Templar pages seem quite neglected in comparison to Assassins pages. Just giving a heads up on the progress itself and recently found out how to use sandboxes, so i'll begin working on the pages in my own sandbox here rather than on Notes. And it would make these discussions far more focused on the source material instead of semantics such as discussing the terms Moderates, Moderates Templars or even if there is such a thing.ACsenior (talk) 12:01, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- Welcome back ACSenior. I'd actually be excited to see more of your work on Templar pages (because you're right they do get neglected) as long as you don't mind my reviews of them. :P I am hoping to be more productive again as well. Sol Pacificus(Cyfiero) 14:48, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Cult of Kosmos debate
While I've not been part of the Kosmos debate and no idea of the current status of the staff debate. Just a proposal given my current updates on Templars pages, that is to create a Navigation template for the Hermeticists that includes all information on Hermeticists, including the Cult of Kosmos. Because regardless of its status as proto-Templar, it is an Hermeticists organization that simply had a different view from the original under Pythagoras and treating it as part of Cult of Hermes makes their organization page less disjointed as it currently has elusively the "correct" versions only that also ended up collaborating with the Templar Order instead of the Order of the Ancients. Thoughts?ACsenior (talk) 15:45, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
Memory infobox
Just to be sure, I thought the description field of the memory infobox is the place for ingame descriptions of the memory (like we did with Odyssey articles). I saw Baftan13 changing descriptions, like here on Reporting on Cent and now i'm in doubt. Is the ingame description supposed to be there or not? I've been adding the ingame descriptions from the quest log, and if that's incorrect I can do something about that :) Thanks in advance! Kennyannydenny (talk) 09:57, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
Category spam
I believe we have a new badge hunter about. User:Samanthademeste recently added the "Assassin allies" category to a number historical personages pages, despite the page content not reflecting such a classification. Louis XVI of France and Jacques Necker seem to be repeat targets, having been hit with this act thrice at time of writing. I've since undone the edits, but this is not my first dance with them. Their contributions show they've performed similar tricks with "Templar allies/puppets/conspiracies" on pages where the category does not apply, and I tried to advise against such activity on their talk page in late January after they had another edit flurry, though it seems to have been ignored. Just thought I would bring this to Staff attention. – Darman (talk) 14:55, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- They've been at this since 2018, it's certainly... something. - Soranin (talk) 20:38, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
Constant reverter
I don't know if this user has slipped Staff attention, but User:NoMoreVillains has persisted in their edit spamming. I've been watching them for a while, and despite DarkFeather's attempt 2wks ago to reach out on their talk page and see if they're having trouble editing after spamming the ACU logo, they have not acknowledged his message in a reply, nor do they show any signs of stopping what I've identified as their trademark of continually and unnecessarily reverting images to past versions. Indeed, just today, they reverted [File:ACIII Templar Cross.png] a total of 6 times within 2hrs before Soranin restored it to its original upload. I cannot say whether they're badge hunting, as some of their regular page edits have been legitimate, but these constant reversions certainly add to edit counts. I felt I should mention this for the sake of editor integrity, as they do not appear to listen to Staff. Thank you. – Darman (talk) 01:30, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
- Yes thank you for taking note of this and letting us know. It really doesn't matter if they're badge hunting or not because whatever their motive, it does constitute spam and vandalism. Sol Pacificus(Cyfiero) 19:32, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
Ambient dialogue
Hi Sol,
I was playing ACOD recently and came across some ambient dialogue from Barnabus. I want to add it here, or check that it hasn't already been added, but I don't know where to put it. I could have sworn we had a page dedicated to ambient dialogue said when sailing about / exploring, and I think I visited it once or twice, but I don't recall the page name, and it's not in my watchlist, the ACOD template, or [Category:ACOD gameplay]. You wouldn't happen to know what it is, would you? – Darman (talk) 02:45, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Belated edit: And I don't think it was "Floating conversations", either, just to clarify. If memory serves, it had a bunch of lines from Herodotos and Barnabus, and I think it was some user's working subpage—like [User:Kennyannydenny/Valhalla notes]—that we forgot to move? – Darman (talk) 12:10, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
- Hello Darman, I really don't remember clearly at all because the closest thing I know we do have is the "Floating conversations" page. I definitely recall at least having a discussion about ambient dialogue like that but not if anything has come from it. You might have better luck asking Lacrosse. Sol Pacificus(Cyfiero) 21:34, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
Floating conversations
I'm not sure I follow your edit summary on Battle of Thermopylae? The page for floating conversations already exists and there's even a section for Kassandra? - Soranin (talk) 15:26, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, then what was the point of removing the link? It wasn't a redlink. Sol Pacificus(Cyfiero) 15:54, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- They were redlinks, because they linked to 5th century BCE conversations which does not exist, its function being served by the floating conversations. This is how it looked before I changed those links to the floating conversations one. - Soranin (talk) 15:56, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- Oh yeah looks like in my hurry, I saw it backwards somehow. My bad. Sol Pacificus(Cyfiero) 15:59, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
- They were redlinks, because they linked to 5th century BCE conversations which does not exist, its function being served by the floating conversations. This is how it looked before I changed those links to the floating conversations one. - Soranin (talk) 15:56, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
Le Buddha
Sol, changing topics onto Buddha. There was a mention of Buddha in the Cryptic Messages from ac1, but it was in chinese, so I might be completely wrong, since I'm only going by the translation in that page. Should be the second to last one in the list. Thought I'd let you know :D - Soranin (talk) 01:58, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Mister Pacificus
I wanted you to do an edit for me on the Cult of Kosmos page, about the Sokrates DLC of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. About him coming back after Sokrates, and returning to normal after Kassandra defeated Alexios, freeing the cult of corruption from him. DarkSword65 (talk) 15:52, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
Overzealous deletions
In case you may have missed seeing my reply on my talk page, I would like to say that I'm sorry for filling up the "To delete" queue in my overzealousness to clean up the wiki. I had not considered that as a consequence of repeatedly using the delete template. Given that this appears to be a problem for me at least twice now, I agree with your statement that it probably would be best for all of us if I were to step back from that and divert my attention elsewhere. Thank you for the message explaining this again. – Darman (talk) 13:25, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
- I didn't miss it, was just taking a bit of time to try to think of a thoughtful reply. As always, thanks for being receptive to our concerns. I understand that you didn't mean any harm and couldn't have foreseen that this would have been an issue since even we were kept off-guard about it. Keep up the good work! :) Sol Pacificus(Cyfiero) 16:05, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
Vandals
Hey Sol,
Sorry to bother you at this hour, but just a heads up, we have two incredibly persistent vandals—namely, LordOfTheFix and Frejth2King—plaguing Azar's page, making a slew of fake category pages, posting a file altered from the official 3D model, and vandalizing many other main and two users' pages. I've been in a rapid-fire edit war undoing everything they've done for the past hour and then some. Vetinari already noted on Azar's page that this is likely because they are gender-fluid, while I'm of the opinion that these editors are the same individual. When you can, could you block them and delete the pages they've made? Thanks. – Darman (talk) 00:10, 14 May 2021 (UTC)