User talk:Xymph

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MAYhem mayhem
I had no idea that map was renamed. I used to take the names from the MAPINFO lump and I've got a copy of "mayhem2048.wad" where it's still called Sheltered Outpost. It's great when beta releases aren't marked as such. --Eris Falling (talk) 08:17, 6 August 2019 (CDT)
 * And I wasn't aware that the overview page had been created from a (unidentified) beta. Thanks for the clarification. --Xymph (talk) 10:28, 6 August 2019 (CDT)

gamers.org URLs
Sorry about that. This is another case where the age of my environment impedes me from seeing every situational detail (like the security certificates). Sometimes a browser cruises right past warning dialogs. :>

That said, I just noticed you *did* clarify the situation for users like me: "You can also use a Browser and use HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), which is what is used by the links below."  Clearly not the same as the /idstuff links I replaced. So I'll remember that for future cases where Doomworld or 3ddownloads is missing items (which again I assume are ultimately the Doomworld staff's purview). Thanks for double-checking. Ryan W (living fossil) 12:06, 31 January 2020 (CST)

Source modification
Hi Xymph, I just saw your edit on source modification - External links: sort first in its own cat)

Looking at the change and reading your message, i'd need some additional clarity. What has to be done extra?

To put in advance: I did see that its quite redundant to have the article source modification when the header already says that the main article is in fact, source modification. But that's just as far as i got with it. Thanks in advance. -- Redneckerz (talk) 18:41, 27 April 2020 (CET)


 * Nothing more has to be done:  to sort the main article (correctly referenced via catmore) for a category first in that category. My edit accomplished that, that's all.
 * I don't see anything particularly redundant, so not sure what you're referring to above. --Xymph (talk) 12:23, 27 April 2020 (CDT)
 * Oh. Well, you see, the attached text made it sound like an task that had to be done (Sort first in its own cat) so that got me confused. Good to hear it was a nothingburger, then! Thanks Xymph for clarification. -- Redneckerz (talk) 21:08, 27 April 2020 (CET)


 * That happened elsewhere today too, but edit summaries normally describe what the edit accomplishes, not what another editor should do. ;-) For such discussions there are talk pages. --Xymph (talk) 14:16, 27 April 2020 (CDT)
 * Somewhere i knew and it just did not register haha ;) Nevertheless thank you for all your hard work done here and its beeing a great learning school for me. -- Redneckerz (talk) 21:27, 27 April 2020 (CET)

Interwiki table
Hi Xymph. This doesn't impact your edits, which look good, but see here and here. It isn't case sensitive. The interwiki extension simply does not backfill links when a prefix is added, like Whatlinkshere or Linksearch would, necessitating an edit to each page. (And since it's more difficult to identify affected pages, Quasar was probably right to be irritated when I removed those entries.) HTH. Ryan W (living fossil) 07:23, 5 May 2020 (CDT)
 * Oh, ok. Thanks for the clarification. --Xymph (talk) 07:32, 5 May 2020 (CDT)

Crazy idea #2
I might could code a selector and cookie storage for the table color scheme you're experimenting with so that users could choose one that looks good to them. This is particularly sensible for accessibility reasons (ie, various forms of colorblindness may make a good looking default in our opinion hard to parse for other people). --Quasar (talk) 07:08, 12 July 2020 (CDT)


 * I realized that accessibility/colorblindness would make finding a good compromise scheme harder, so yeah, crazy idea but it could be helpful. Let me know how it will work so I can incorporate it in the table generation script. --Xymph (talk) 09:13, 12 July 2020 (CDT)

Hope this is useful
Regarding your email questions: User:Quasar/Sandbox/Doom 64 info --Quasar (talk) 12:12, 13 July 2020 (CDT)
 * Thanks, this is more complete but I got the parts relevant for DMMPST from Edward850 already. --Xymph (talk) 12:21, 13 July 2020 (CDT)
 * Cool. --Quasar (talk) 12:40, 13 July 2020 (CDT)

Reviewing changes
Hello there. I wanted to know if you have the ability to review other users' contributions? Because it seems other users with this ability are currently busy. I've been making some contributions, but they haven't been reviewed in quite a while already. This is the reason why I'm asking. I apologize if it's an inconvenience. Hfc2x (talk) 13:20, 9 November 2020 (CST)
 * I review/approve a lot of edits, but only if I'm familiar enough with the subject matter (or they're trivial enough that this doesn't matter). For your DE edits, that does not apply. Quasar is busy but may get around to them at some point. --Xymph (talk) 13:38, 9 November 2020 (CST)
 * Oh, that's okay. Thanks for your reply! Hfc2x (talk) 15:08, 9 November 2020 (CST)

Nomenclature and spacing
Hey Xymph. I've noticed that you cleaned up a lot of incorrect bits of capitalisation (like Hell knight) and spacing (BFG9000) in most of my edits. My bad. Is there a page where I can see all of the official spellings so I don't create any more avoidable work for you and other curators? Thanks. Jack Kellar (talk) 13:32, 9 November 2020 (CST)
 * Why, the policies and guidelines, of course. ;) And searching for the canonical articles also helps. Although it's not required to use canonical wording all the time, minor variations are usually captured via redirects. --Xymph (talk) 13:46, 9 November 2020 (CST)

DSDA link migration (side note)
This seems harsh TBH. I hope no one really expected you to complete such a large task to match another site's roadmap, which wasn't even announced in advance. (Andy's departure, at least, seemed to surprise people.) I too held out hope for more development: they have some very skilled contributors, and my impression from Wikipedia's API discussions was that if any validated output has reached the public, the most difficult milestone is passed, and adding more columns and rows is simpler.

(deep breath) In any event, it's great to hear that such a large piece of this implementation is done. I really do want to follow up some loose ends while the new code is still somewhere near your front burner... but I keep finding offline obligations under every rock this year. :> Ryan W (living fossil) 10:57, 4 December 2020 (CST)


 * Well, I said that about myself and it didn't feel harsh to me. :-) Besides the aforementioned reasons, I was also surprised by the shutdown of Andy's site. Older Compet-n and DSDA sites are still online so it was unexpected to have an intermediate site drop out of the middle of the timeline. But in my projects I always try to think at least one step ahead, so if I had really thought about it, I would have concluded the template migration to be a good idea sooner, and we'd have avoided the period of dead/archived links altogether. And there's still plenty left to do, e.g. collection zips have not (yet?) been made available on the new DSDA.
 * Anyway, thanks for your kind support, as always. If you don't mind, I'm not holding my breath for loose ends though. ;-) --Xymph (talk) 14:18, 4 December 2020 (CST)


 * Haha, fair enough. I am pretty sure the collection zips are still there, but with new IDs and without landing pages, so they look like single runs until inflated.  I am also doubtful there's a reason to prefer a landing page link to a (working) file deeplink, unless for some reason one cited the transactional fact of Andy posting the file.  But I plan to examine those also, if I'm optimistic.  :>  Thanks,  Ryan W (living fossil) 22:20, 4 December 2020 (CST)

PSX's MAP14 and MAP10 bugs section removal
Hi! vanilla doesn't distinguish DM/coop, the monsters are there for coop

However, PSX Doom is unique in this. Multiplayer flag is only used to spawn anything on DM only. Coop things spawn the same as they do in Single. --MtErebus (talk) 07:00, 1 February 2021 (CST)