Discussion page

If you have an idea for a funny name, go ahead and create a page with that name (just put it in the Doom_Wiki: namespace). Something similar to the Village Pump on Wikipedia?

There is the Doom Wiki:Community Portal which I suppose should be expanded with more information on how to use the wiki, communicate with others etc.

By the way, you can sign your posts with ~~~~. Fredrik 08:37, 10 Jan 2005 (PST)

Sysop

You now have sysop rights. This means (among other things) that you can edit protected pages, delete pages, and block users. Have fun. Fredrik 09:12, 10 Jan 2005 (PST)

Style tips

You could create an official manual of style page instead of hiding such things on your user page :) - Fredrik 14:30, 16 Jan 2005 (PST)

P.S.  Was it you who made a page of "frequently misspelled words"?  I remember seeing one somewhere, but now I can't find it.   Ryan W 06:28, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

"Make sure you read the style guide if you haven't already." Yes, I saw that. (In fact, I have the much longer Wikipedia version open in another tab.) And maybe someday I'll be ambitious enough to make edits so large that I actually need it.  :> Let's get to work. Ryan W 03:46, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nukage/Slime

In Nukage I wrote "nukage is green and slime is brown", based on the texture lump names, but now I'm not so sure. Any thoughts? radius 17:49, 11 Feb 2005 (GMT)

I think it's all rather arbitrary. In the end I think what you've written is fine. Does the Doom manual say anything?

It says: "Slime and other radioactive waste: Many of the areas in Doom/Doom II contain pools of dangerous liquids that will damage you if you walk through them. There are several varieties of waste, each doing an increasing amount of damage. If it looks fluid, beware!" So, maybe nukage is green slime, or maybe it is "other". And then, there is lava which is liquid but maybe not radioactive. And those hot rocks that sometimes are damaging, which are not even liquid. Maybe I will rework the article into a general one about "Damaging floors", and redirect "Nukage" and "Slime" to that... radius 19:39, 12 Feb 2005 (GMT)

Making polygons

Any ideas how to construct the convex polygons that make up level geometry from the level data lumps? I guess the most important info is in SEGS and SSECTORS, but I can't figure out how it works. Fredrik 15:38, 25 Feb 2005 (GMT)

Yeah, this looks kind of tricky. The SSECTORS themselves are lists of SEGs, and each SEG seems to have a starting "distance" along its length but no length or ending distance.

You can probably infer the end point of SEGs by something like (ruby pseudocode):

seg_hash = {}

# create a list of segs for each linedef

foreach seg in segs
    seg_hash[seg.linedef] = [] if seg_hash[seg.linedef] == nil

    seg_hash[seg.linedef].push(seg)
end

# go through each linedef
seg_hash.each_key do |linedef|

    # sort by start point

    seglist = seg_hash[linedef].sort { |a,b| a.startpoint <=> b.startpoint }

    # assign endpoints from the start of the next segment in the list
    # use the full length of the linedef for the last entry

    for i in 0..seglist.length-1
        seglist[i].endpoint = if i >= seglist-1
                                  linedefs[linedef].length
                              else
                                  seglist[i+1].startpoint
                              end
    end
end

Then you'll get the complete data you need in order to highlight segments for example. You wont be able to get complete polygons unless you do something cleverer (maybe involving the dividing line data in NODES?)

Fraggle 16:01, 25 Feb 2005 (GMT)

Regular segs and subsectors

glBSP segs and subsectors

All of a sudden I came to think of glBSP, which generates convex subsectors. Watch the difference :)

I wanted this for more advanced level statistics such as volume, volume per sector, monsters per volume unit etc. Fredrik 18:10, 25 Feb 2005 (GMT)

I finally figured a way to do this (see third image):

Original IWAD subsectors

For each subsector, determine a point within it (in map coordinates). I did this by taking the first (or only) seg, finding the normal vector at the midpoint and projecting -1 units (i.e. to the right of the seg). (N.B. The end points of each seg are given by the vertices in the seg structure.)

Create a rectangular polygon enclosing the whole map.

Starting with the root node, slice the polygon using the node's partition line, and keep just the part on the same side as the subsector point determined above. Then, select the subnode corresponding to the side the point is on and repeat slicing and subnoding until you reach the subsector in the node tree (0x8000 bit set in child node).

Now, the polygon covers the subsector but may extend out into the void. To clip, slice the polygon with each seg in the subsector, keeping just the right-hand slice each time.

There is one subsector in E1M1 (subsector number 143) for which this does not seem to work, and one or two subsectors in some of the other maps I checked as well. I'm not sure why this is, but I just ignored these anomolous subsectors.

radius 14:59, 15 Nov 2005 (UTC)

Style

Hi, I just read your message and checked out that link, I should have no trouble adapting to the style if writing you have laid out. Thanks for the link =)

impse

Why'd you rv without talking on Talk: ? The edit wars go on. I vote to drop the article altogether. 82.39.116.133 21:37, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

doom internals

My main interest on the Wiki is in writing quality technical articles about Doom's internals.. I really like your Barrel suicide and Picked up a medikit that you REALLY need! writeups along these lines, exposing the guilty code is a lovely touch. I look forward to similar edits :) Now I've got my hands a little dirty in the doom source code, I will be trying similar write-ups. -- Jdowland 09:59, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

cube wikipedia link

on Kurt Kesler, but there's a link to Cube on Wouter "Aardappel" van Oortmerssen too. I plan to write a small Cube article for this wiki. I may well base it on material from the wikipedia article, but

1. the wikipedia article sucks (I'll probably work on that too)
2. there's definitely some doom-specific stuff to discuss about cube which would be out-of-place on the wikipedia one

-- Jdowland 08:41, 14 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Spammers

You can also block all the spammers that tried to modify the Entryway, There were yesterday 4 attempts (note that the last IP reverts and is no spammer). Ducon 09:08, 21 Jul 2005 (UTC)

I've just dealt with those two. I note they're from the same IP block as the two before that. I suggest we keep all spam discussion in one place - how about Spam? -- Jdowland 10:38, 21 Jul 2005 (UTC)

No, Spam may be interpreted as a spam article about Doom. It should be Doom Wiki:Spam. OK, I moved the page, can you delete the redirect? Ducon 10:44, 21 Jul 2005 (UTC)

this isnt an xhtml page.

this isnt an xhtml page. - it certainly claims to be: the doctype is XHTML 1.0 Transitional and the HTML tag carries an xhtml namespace declaration. Also, the BR tag I used is backwards compatible, the one you've reverted to is not forwards compatible. If you still disagree, please explain why :-) -- Jdowland 10:20, 27 Jul 2005 (UTC)

"Tick" redirects to "Tic"

Fraggle says: "there is no article about the doom 3 tick yet; a disambig page will be useful then but for now, might as well just redirect to tic".  Okay, but that doesn't solve the problem of the link in the Monsters article pointing to the wrong place.  Do you like my new solution better?   :>    Ryan W 06:17, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

That looks like a better solution. I think it is pointless having a disambig page with only one entry in. There is hardly any Doom 3 information on the Doom wiki, and nobody has expressed much interest in adding any. If that changes then we should think about these things, but for the time being I think it is better to just concentrate on Classic Doom.

Note that 'tic' is not just a misspelling of 'tick'; that is how units of time (1/35th of a second) are consistently refered to inside the game, and it is commonly used terminology. Fraggle 14:59, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Agreed.  And I never said that "tic" was a misspelling of "tick"; I thought that someone was saying "tick" was a common misspelling of "tic".  :>   I didn't know that people actually used it as a variant.    Ryan W 07:27, 3 Oct 2005 (UTC)

deletion of "Glitches in Map 16 of DOOM II"

Hmm.  But if this was just a HOM, then why did it only happen in that corner of that map?   Ryan W 21:54, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

I bet it works in loads if you try it Fraggle 22:49, 26 Sep 2005 (UTC)

It does seem to work on any level.  On the other hand, it is definitely not a normal HOM: the extra wall textures he talked about do appear.

I'd bet you a Happy Meal that this is actually an incidence of a different bug, the rendering problem involving large pieces of architecture disappearing and reappearing (like sprites do when there are too many) — play E2M3 of DARKHELL.WAD with monsters, for example, and you'll see the outer walls suddenly develop giant rectangular gashes as one observes them on the run from across the arena, then reconstitute themselves — which we don't have an article on at the moment, and which I don't even know a good name for.   Ryan W 03:28, 30 Sep 2005 (UTC)

That sounds more like a nodes issue to me. Plus, this description of textures flashing in and out sounds more like what happens when you venture near the ±32767 boundary. Bloodshedder 05:14, 30 Sep 2005 (UTC)

It could indeed be a nodes issue.  I was using Doom95 exclusively at the time, and you wouldn't believe how many weird problems Maximum Doom (from the days of vanilla v1.666) seemed to cause that engine.   Ryan W 06:56, 5 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Doom movie article

"[T]his isnt the place for random speculation."  Are you therefore of the opinion that we shouldn't have an article about the movie until it has been released and some of us have seen it?   Ryan W 05:31, 30 Sep 2005 (UTC)

The DOOM/DUNE article was random "what if Id decided to do this..." speculation. It had no basis in fact whatsoever and was just an idea that a fan had come up with. Having a Doom Movie article is fine because we can reference actual articles about the movie - we know who is going to be in it, where it is set, when it is going to be released and some details about the plot. Fraggle 12:03, 30 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Link to Doom movie on Entryway

"I'm putting this here under the justification that it is part of "doom's history" - it doesnt really fit with the games"    But by this logic, the Doom novels could be there too, and surely nobody would put those on a par with the release of Heretic (e.g.).

I think the movie should be linked on the front page because it's a topic of current interest, and I agree that it fits as well into that column as it would anywhere else.  But I say we delete the link three months after the DVD release.  :>     Ryan W 01:31, 17 Oct 2005 (UTC)

system specific/unspecific i_*.[ch]

I looked at the source before performing that revert: i_main.c is not system dependent, none of the *.h files are system dependent; which, with prboom, leaves i_network.c and i_udp_sdl.c. The latter appears to be system independent too. So, why exactly is it correct? -- Jdowland 21:48, 19 Dec 2005 (UTC)

You should look at the original source, as it is more pronounced. Also, you missed the src/SDL/ directory which makes it more obvious. i_* is for stuff like low level video access, sound, networking etc. In PrBoom, SDL and SDL_net provides all of this, but originally, there were separate modules for different systems. Essentially, they provided their own hardware abstraction layer, the kind that SDL now provides. Fraggle 10:28, 20 Dec 2005 (UTC)

User_talk:Ashley_Pomeroy

Sorry it took so long to answer your question (it's item 10) — I've been on the road a lot during the last month.   :>    Ryan W 15:55, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Screenshots

Hello. I was wondering if the "taken by me" thing that is common for some users to say on Wikipedia (regarding image pages like screenshot ones) is somehow avoided here in the DOOM Wiki. It's no big deal, really, but I'd like to know. Thank you.--Kaonashi 19:16, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I might add that the text in Template:screenshot seems a bit incomplete.  It's fine for levels designed by id, but doesn't say anything about additional copyright claims the author of a PWAD (or of Strife) might have.  I would revise it myself, but I don't know enough about the legal issues associated with emulation.    Ryan W 05:44, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

I've changed it to state that it may be under the copyright of id or "others". Is that ok?

Well, looking on the Doom_Wiki:Style page, under the "other" section, it says not to sign your name to articles you write... I would imagine that this applies to screenshots as well. As far as templates for D64 screenshots go, there's Template:Doom_64_TC_screenshot for screenshots of the D64TC, and Template:Doom_64_screenshot for screenshots of D64 itself. -- Nuxius 08:28, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah, okay. That's alright. It's just that I was thinking things here would be more or less like Wikipedia, where it's common to see people saying "taken by me" at screenshot pages, but it's no big deal. I've also noticed people don't pay as much attention to image pages as they do to regular articles (not even close). And about those DOOM 64 templates, I didn't know. That'll be useful. Thank you.--Kaonashi 18:01, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I kind of see your point. When the pictures are photos, it makes sense to have "taken by me" type messages as it asserts who the photographer is, which gives a source for copyright reasons. For game screenshots, the author of the game usually has a better claim to the copyright, so ownership messages are less useful. Anyway, feel free to add such messages in the future if you want, I hadn't thought through all the issues. Fraggle 18:31, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

WadC

agreed :) -- Jdowland 23:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Sleeping Sergeant of Doom II MAP02

The fact that it was nonsense had been noted on the talk page.  I was hoping that that editor, whose technical familiarity with Doom far exceeds mine, would just fix it him/herself.

Do you suppose the article should have a less map-specific name, since any instance of the "wild coincidence" (as Phipps called it) can induce the bug?    Ryan W 20:11, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I was going to add more stuff last night, but I got distracted and it seems you beat me to it :-) I do think a better name would be "Blind Sergeant of Doom II MAP02" - I don't think that making the name map-specific is a problem. Fraggle 10:21, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I think you rewrote the article while I was putting off rewriting the article in order to make the demo.  :>    Ryan W 19:53, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Image reverted

Er… sorry, I reverted Image:Screen melt.gif by mistake. I wanted to see the difference between the two images and bam! Ducon 16:46, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

That's ok :-) To clarify: the only difference in the new version is that I made the last frame last longer - that way it doesn't immediately restart the animation. Fraggle 19:11, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

novel covers

You just beat me to it, I was about to upload them :) -- Jdowland 20:54, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Doom RPG walkthroughs

Remarkable work, sir.  Given the ephemeral nature of cell phone OSes, this is an important scholarly task you are performing.    Ryan W 21:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Speedrun

Yes, there are Heretic speedruns.  :>   But I certainly agree with your basic point.    Ryan W 00:16, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Articles from Raven website

Hi!

Yes, I have permission. I obtained way email. Cacodemon 20:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Doom RPG monsters, etc.

Doom RPG and Doom 3 are both retellings of Doom using most of the same weapons and monsters, but completely different engines and somewhat different plotlines.  Our Doom monster articles are stuffed with information which is presumably not valid for either of the remakes (except by coincidence or as an easter egg), including:

• tactical advice (Doom RPG is turn-based!);
• WAD lump data, such as sound names and sprite names;
• statistics such as hit points and reaction time;
• historical notes.

Therefore, I think the Doom RPG information should have its own articles (even if they're currently not very long), as the Doom 3 information does, rather than just being a misleading sidebar in each article about Doom monsters and weapons.  As our local Doom RPG 'club pro', what would you think of that?   :>     Ryan W 19:03, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Doom RPG behaves very similar to classic Doom in a lot of ways. Monster behavior, for example - Archviles still resurrect things, Pain Elementals explode into Lost souls when they die. The authors have obviously tried to maintain the same behavior as classic Doom as far as they can. I do agree with some of what you're saying, but there is a lot of common text that is relevant to both classic Doom and Doom RPG. I don't think it's worth the effort splitting them into separate articles for Doom RPG. Fraggle 08:27, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I'll take your word for it, since I can no longer buy new consoles etc. for testing whenever I feel like it.  :>   I still think the Doom RPG info in the monster articles is incongruous and should be placed as close as possible to the "See also Doom 3" links.    Ryan W 15:59, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Re-re: Articles from Raven website

Cacodemon 22:09, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay of the answer, it's because I had no internet for a long time. Here's the email copy:

Law, Caryn <CLaw@ravensoft.com> to me

Hi nightmare!

I don't think there's a problem with using that biography as long as you state where you got it from.

Thanks!

- Caryn Law Technical Artist - Raven Software www.ravensoft.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: nightmare [1] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:59 AM To: GRP RAVENSOFT www Subject: [Retrieved]permission

Cool! Thanks! Fraggle 12:41, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Template edits

Are you saying that trailing carriage returns are always included with a template?  If so, I'll have to go back and take them out (there are a lot more than the ones you fixed) when that becomes possible again.    Ryan W 22:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Doom RPG Trivia

I think this should go in the Junction article.  But is it Dr. Kelvin or Dr. Jensen?    Ryan W 17:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree. I don't know which of these it is, though, if it is one of them. Fraggle 11:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Chainsaw sound effect

Reading this for the first time, I have just exclaimed "awww N1CE" to no one in particular.  My co-workers appear somewhat puzzled.    Ryan W 23:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

deletion of Bio Force Gun v3.14

merged into BFG9000   I am not sure this was really the consensus on the talk page; most said they agreed with your original recommendation.  More importantly, it is not consistent with precedent in articles like Doom novels and Doom comic, where the differences from classic Doom are discussed in the expanded universe article, not in the main gameplay article.  (We did make an exception when listing all those names at the top of BFG 9000, but that makes a little more sense because people new to the game might have seen/read about the movie and need to be set straight.  :>     Ryan W 21:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

deletion of editing software subcategories

Hi.  I notice that you recently deleted several of these, which is probably a good idea.  There are still more, however, left over from my first attempt at reorganization.    Ryan W 02:13, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Ryan W

I suspect that we ought to be careful about copy-editing outside the main space.  There can occasionally be controversy.  :>    Ryan W 18:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help

Thank you for the rephrasing process in Doom Italia article. Now the whole article sounds indeed more encyclopedic. :) --Afullo 00:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Registration on Doom Italia

Here are the links to register on Doom Italia site: http://www.doomitalia.com/register.asp and to register on Doom Italia forum: http://www.gamesforum.it/board/register.php --Afullo 19:37, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Brainless

Please ban the brainless that spammed the wiki, and delete the crap he left. Ducon 06:06, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Void

map01? this is a single map!   Interesting.  Would you want to remove *all* single-level PWADs from those categories?  I suppose it is a bit inconsistent to put them in the slot categories but not in "Levels by name" (which might look very silly since they are already in "PWADs by name").  On the other hand we would end up with dozens of slot categories which contained almost no PWADs (because 99+ percent of PWADs only have one map).    Ryan W 06:29, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

IMO, there should be a distinction made between "level" articles and "WAD" articles. If we use GothicDM as an example, you'd have the main GothicDM article and then separate articles if you _wanted_ to write individual articles on each of its maps.

Er... right.  I thought we had all agreed on that already.

If you have a single-map WAD then it's obviously absurd to have separate articles on the WAD and the level, because they're effectively the same thing. But that's okay! The whole point of the MAPxy categories IMO is for disambiguation. You search for "MAP23" and the wiki says, "MAP23? Which one? Do you mean MAP23 of Doom II, Plutonia, TNT, Hell Revealed ....?". It isn't just an end unto itself: it's there for a specific reason.

More important is the specific point you bring up: 99+ percent of PWADs have only one map. We run the risk of making Category:MAP01 frustrating/useless. Imagine if in three years from now we have 100 more articles on single map PWADs, all of which are in the MAP01 category. Now imagine yourself as a user trying to search for MAP01: Entryway (Doom II). You do the obvious thing and put "MAP01" into the search box, and get back a page listing every single single-level PWAD article on the entire wiki. Effectively you've then broken the search function because you have to manually search through the category list to find what you were looking for. It's not inconceivable to think that this might end up stretching onto multiple pages. Fraggle 09:00, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm.  Okay, you've convinced me.  I'll fix the other single-level PWAD articles and tweak the policy page.    Ryan W 20:10, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Still one possible problem for maps which were released both singly and as part of a larger project.  If we rename it to MAP##: Level Name (WAD Name), we make it sound like the megawad release was the more important part of its history, which is not necessarily true (e.g. DWANGO5, RALPHNEW).  If we don't rename it, however, someone doing the above described search in Category:MAP27 might not recognize Thematic Elements as the level he's stuck on.  (Yes, a megawad editor should patch the titles in, and yes, the readme file should be included with every download, but...)    Ryan W 20:50, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

It's not inconceivable to think that this might end up stretching onto multiple pages   Hmmm, especially if we use Fredrik's criterion for WAD notability, which is that it was released.  (I can easily visualize a bot that auto-dumps every text file from Doomworld/idgames into a poorly organized stub.)    Ryan W 05:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Doom 3

okCapt Jim 21:25, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

also don't you think we should get a character template or something? CaptJim 23:48, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

yeah, just like that. they usually contain stuff like a picture, name, gender, status (dead or alive), job, and weapon of choice.CaptJim 02:36, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

geekery

I just saw on the Doomworld forums that you linked to this, which is four dimensions of awesome through space and time.    Ryan W 05:03, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

User:JuJube / "vandalism" on User:Danny Lilithborne

Apparently, this guy and User:Danny Lilithborne are one and the same, as given by the fact that going to User:Danny Lilithborne on Wikipedia redirects to User:JuJube on the same site. I don't know if that edit was real or if somebody had hijacked the guy's account or something, but I'm just letting you know. TheGreenHerring 20:41, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Broken pages

Doom: Gates_of_Hell [2] and Doom: The Battle for Mars [3]

Are inaccessable

They return bad titles

96.240.16.221 20:33, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi 96.240.16.221, welcome to the wiki.  I'm sorry that your first editing experience was so frustrating!  This is actually a known problem with MediaWiki, which I thought was fixed, but seems to have returned in the most recent upgrade.  Because Wikia appears to value interwiki links so highly, perhaps we should cut our losses at this point, change the article titles to omit the colons (there are actually four: [4] [5]), and use Template:Wrongtitle.    Ryan W 01:35, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry for the mess, I thought I could fix it with a few magic tricks up my sleeve, but alas none of the brackets worked (not even the template brackets). That page is really really messed up good. 96.240.16.221 07:27, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I asked on IRC and the wikia techs are looking at the problem. It's some kind of namespace/interwiki link problem. Fraggle 20:23, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I posted this to bugs.wikia.com a while ago, and it was bug 61, but since they moved over to bugzilla.wikimedia.org I can't find it.    Ryan W 07:02, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:Search logo.png

Wikia seems to have deprecated this, at least in the new skins.  Do you think we still need it?    Ryan W 08:09, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I guess not. Feel free to slap a delete tag on it. Fraggle 09:19, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Command line arguments

   

Please don't spend time trying to bring this up to date. I have a script that generates a list of command line arguments from the source code automatically and one of its output modes is wiki text for use here on the wiki.

!!!!

Does that mean you could do the same thing on this wiki?

If so, would you advocate trying to document how command line options changed between releases of a given port, or should we just refer people to the docs (if they exist)?    Ryan W 14:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean, exactly. I have a script that extracts special comments added into the source code, like the Javadoc system that Java has. I then use this to autogenerate the Chocolate Doom command line arguments wiki page, the manpage and plaintext command line list. The advantage is that I can make the code self-documenting, and the different forms of documentation are all automatically updated when I make a new release.

I guess you could use this for other ports, but you'd have to convince the port authors to adopt the system I've made for Chocolate Doom - not likely to be an easy task :-) Fraggle 19:54, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, okay.  I inferred that you were extracting a list of the switches themselves (which would IMHO help complete the article, even absent any auto-generated descriptions).  The actual procedure is of course much more elegant for your site.   :>     Ryan W 20:55, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism... or not?

I sense that I shall regret asking this, but:  Given the reversion of this edit, is there some reason to keep this one?    Ryan W 01:15, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Dunno if my opinion matters at all, but I think controversy should stay if it was significant at some point in time. By significant, I mean "This created a noticable amount of drama and a bit of debate among Doomers," and not "There isn't nearly enough ammo in E1M8." Anything in between is up to the editor. Zack 02:27, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

By significant it sounds like you mean "there were good points on either side", as opposed to "a lot of energy was expended in discussion/flaming".  The latter type of controversy might still be widely remembered a decade later, however (the Quake aimbot problem comes to mind), therefore notable enough for an encyclopedia.  What I am really asking Fraggle, and others of standing in the community, is whether the CodeImp controversy falls into either category.  (I wasn't there.)    Ryan W 02:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Strife Demo 1.0

Hey, got your message.

I found the Strife 1.0 demo here: http://gokuma.site.voila.fr/strife/strife10.zip

Apparently, he got v1.0 from Frans de Vries, who had the original demo on floppies. Go figure. :p

Interestingly enough, 1.0 has two more maps: MAP35 seems to be a things test of sorts. Enemies, pickups, sector effects, lots of stuff. Not sure what MAP36 is supposed to be... looks like some sort of basic stair/door stuff. It's also mostly untextured, so HOM aplenty! :p

My sizes and MD5 for it are a bit off, though - must've accidentally saved the file or something while mucking around with it in XWE. The one from that file and the solo IWAD I'd RARed up for backup purposes match exactly, so I must've messed up while making the page. I'll change those. :) --Dark Pulse 01:25, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm late to the party, but I notice that the download linked here does not include the original De-ICE installer. I do have the Strife Demo 1.0 with the original installer and timestamps intact. I can upload it if you're looking for it. 90.225.93.214 05:46, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

removal of super shotgun pwad

Moved to Talk:List of WADs.

So you're implying that this would be a questionable use of my leisure time?   :D     Ryan W 20:18, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Regarding who I am

• I know it's way after the fact to matter, but the guy going by User:JuJube on Wikia is not me. Someone just took the name and used it to vandalize. I think I already complained about it some time ago. Danny Lilithborne 18:55, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Zilken989's blog post

Why did you remove the merge tag from Zilken989's blog post? I know the tag's link doesn't actually point to the right place, but if you ask me the article should still be kept tagged because it serves as a reminder that the post should be moved to the blog namespace. Otherwise the article may be permanently forgotten to keep residing as a regular article (apart from its category, which marks the article as a blog post even though it isn't). This is also a pretty unfair advantage for a blog post, as posts posted as regular articles are listed before actual blog posts on the blog category page. -- Janizdreg 01:43, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I thought the merge tag wasn't relevant any longer, as pages had been moved around, etc. and it seemed to be suggesting that the article be merged with a non-existent article, which obviously doesn't make sense. Sorry if I misunderstood. Fraggle 16:15, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Sorry about being misleading myself. I used the merge tag as a substitute for a move tag since we don't have a move template at the moment. I might actually create one at some point myself. -- Janizdreg 01:29, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Doom 3 alpha

why are you removing the doom 3 alpha? its a Id collectors item. leave an answer please.

The death messages

Hi Simon, about the messages you recive when the player dies after being killed by a monster, an object (particularly falling ceilings), or kills himself by accident, when you say it's not part of the original game, do you mean it's only used in those special versions of Doom like Ultimate Doom, and nothing else? I'm not sure if the messages appear in all the released Doom games, I know Ultimate Doom and Doom 2 have the messages, although I'm not sure if Doom 2 had 2 different versions of the game, but that's all I know. I'm also not sure if they only appear in the pc versions of the game as well, if I can remember correctly, I think the demo version of Doom 1 doesn't have them, but, of course, that's only a demo version, and not the main pc version. Sorry if a bit of this sounds confusing by the way, I just want to know what you meant by the messages not being part of the original game. Wattamack4 18:17, 26 August 2009 (UTC)Alex

I mean that messages that appear when you die aren't part of the original game as released by Id Software. If you're seeing those messages it's because you're using a source port like ZDoom and the author of the source port added them so that they appear when you die. None of the versions from Id had those messages, by which i mean the original DOS version of Doom (doom2.exe), the Doom 95 Windows port, ports to other operating systems, or any of the versions released for various games consoles. Fraggle 20:09, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok. Well, the versions I'm currently playing are downloaded, although I'm sot sure from what site. Do they only appear in downloaded versions, if that's what you're saying? Wattamack4 23:17, 26 August 2009 (UTC)Alex

I'm not sure what you mean by "downloaded versions". They only appear if you're using a source port. What is the executable called that you use to run Doom? (eg. zdoom.exe, skulltag.exe, jdoom.exe, etc.) Fraggle 11:21, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Nevermind about the download versions thing I said, I guess I just got confused on your question. I can check, though I'm not sure where to look for those. Are they found in the game, or only in the manuel? Wattamack4 13:17, 27 August 2009 (UTC)Alex

The best suggestion I can think of: start the game, then press ctrl-alt-del and select "task manager". Go to the "processes" tab and there should be a list of the running programs on your machine. Look through the list for the something with "Doom" on the name, like one of the ones I listed above. Fraggle 13:00, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok,I checked and it said said something like "gdzdoom". I'm sot sure if this counts as a source port though... Wattamack4 16:28, 28 August 2009 (UTC)Alex

Yes, it is, you probably mean GZDoom, which is a fan-made source port based on ZDoom. Fraggle 21:40, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok, then that version supposedly has the messages. Wattamack4 23:47, 28 August 2009 (UTC)Alex

"ancient history"

Hi Fraggle.  I confess that my mind is boggled by this edit.  Not only is ancient history the main aim of the wiki :>  but we have had our share of NPOV issues over the years, including one where you said that an article should be deleted if we decided we couldn't retain all available information.  Can you educate me as to why this situation is so distinct that it calls for a lack of trivia?    Ryan W 01:00, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Ryan, glad to see you're still around.

According to a quick Google search, Freedoom 0.5 was released in 2006. So it's now been at least eight years since the pink fish easter egg has been in Freedoom. Note that Freedoom is not like a "traditional" Doom mod - it's a constantly-evolving project more in the vein of an open source project. Including details in the article about things that were in the project years ago and that have long since been removed seems redundant. Fraggle 01:12, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Agree 100%. --Quasar 21:12, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Really?  Er... didn't we just painstakingly add a piece of trivia about the demonic dagger, which was only true for like a week and never part of a release?  In general, only non-traditional projects seem to have history sections at all (which I disagree with but I'm not in charge).  I dunno, maybe I'm jet-lagged, but this may create a precedent of removing information solely due to age.  Five years from now, should I scratch out the list of ZDaemon controversies?  No one talks about that stuff anymore anyway.    Ryan W 23:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

I guess it comes down to what you think the purpose of the website is. I mean: people might find the ZDaemon controversies relevant (actually: the section is criticisms, not controversies, and many of those criticisms are still valid, not just historical). I'm also pretty sure there are no shortage of people who are interested in the development history of Doom. I don't find those to be valid comparisons.

When it comes to the Freedoom article, why do we have an "Easter eggs" section? ie. What are the reasons people might be interested in it? To me, people like easter eggs because they're cool secret things hidden in the games they play. They're fun to discover and learn about. Someone reading the article reading that might want to fire up Freedoom and check Freedoom's Easter eggs out for themselves.

That isn't the case for the Pink fish easter egg. Not only was it removed years ago; I don't think the old Freedoom releases that contained it are even publicly available any more (they were scrubbed for copyright reasons). So ... what's the point? "Freedoom once had this thing that was removed years ago based on a Doomworld in-joke". I don't find it interesting, notable or relevant to the article. Fraggle 01:10, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

And that's why I agree. It's not comparable to information about Doom's original development because that info is not only primary canon, but also limited - there's only so much we'll ever find out about it. As long as Freedoom on the other hand continues development, it could accumulate an arbitrary amount of no-longer-relevant data. I have absolutely no problem if you want to add it back properly rewritten to state the fact that it can't be found any more and why, but, at some point all of that business is going to clutter up the article. --Quasar 01:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

In fact, it already said it had been removed. I removed it precisely because it was clutter.

Hmmm.  Okay, I'm starting to see the point about relative importance.  I'm not here to champion this one item (perhaps because I never got the joke in the first place), although it could be interesting for the article to mention the broader IP issue — how do you make a set of resources that is recognizably Doom, but not so recognizably that you can't use a free license?

The purpose of the wiki is not always easy to encapsulate.  In theory, it gradually changes via our collective behavior.  For something internal to the Doom community (which, let's be honest, is all but a tiny handful of community topics), I tend to ask: suppose it's 150 years from now, all the original reference material is gone, and our article is the only remaining exposition of this project/person/event.  What would a reader need to know to understand the whole story, or as much as they could do without firsthand memories?  This thread then leads to: when we go beyond that essential exposition, how much extra information is interesting local color and how much is clutter?  Does the said reader gain anything from a list of IRC channel regulars? [6]  James Haley's place of birth? [7]  A taxonomy of a megawad's delays due to mappers procrastinating or retiring? [8]

There may be an unspoken assumption that if a trivial point remains in an article for years, it's been seen by many people who have declined to remove or even discuss it, thus tacitly incorporating it into the site's mission.  Of course that isn't true, since all content decisions are decentralized; probably no one's spent enough time with the article yet to actually evaluate such things [9] [10].  And in the end perhaps we cannot enforce such a standard consistently (page validation be damned [11]), without suppressing some of the essential creativity of the open editing approach.

So yeah, not only still around, still tldr I guess.    Ryan W 07:57, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Re-licensing proposal

If you have time to weigh in on this on Central Processing, I'd appreciate your input. I figure out of all our mods if anybody has a strong opinion on it, it might be you, and I respect your opinion a lot. If even one of our active mods has an objection, I don't intend to proceed. I do see some benefits from CC BY-SA 4.0, though nothing that's critical and definitely nothing worth creating any friction in our small community. --Quasar (talk) 14:56, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

File:Cake.jpg

Hi Fraggle.  In IRC, Quasar mentioned that you had a standing practice of disclaiming all ownership of images you created.  Based on that, I have taken the liberty of changing the license on this picture to PD-self.  If you have any objection to this, please let me know.  Thanks.    BetacommandBotRyan W (talk) 03:09, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

I didn't say disclaiming all ownership, I said disclaiming composition rights. There's a very important difference, as otherwise the fair use template claiming that composition rights are disclaimed would not be appropriate. --Quasar (talk) 12:29, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Sure. I certainly didn't create that file. Fraggle (talk) 17:29, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Hm.  Okay, well, if nothing else I've backed out that edit (perhaps I should have realized my error based on the description text, but I didn't).    Ryan W (talk) 22:30, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

My email won't verify with my account

When I was editing my preferences, I noticed that, in spite of the fact that I confirmed my email address, I still couldn't configure my email address-requiring preferences.Ultimate Freedoomer (talk) 19:15, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Are there any specific error messages you are receiving when you try? --Quasar (talk) 00:25, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

No. It says it hasn't been confirmed when I go to configure my email address preferences. Note that I did click on the URL in the confirmation email address, & the URL said "You have now confirmed your email address", my user preferences just don't realize that.

Photos that contain copyrighted 3D objects vs libre licensing

While US code does allow for photos of merchandise, is it still possible to apply a libre license like the GFDL to them, or do the terms of the GFDL necessarily imply that all contained content is freely reusable regardless of context? I've been looking for any kind of answer to that question and so far haven't found anything but a long list of sometimes contradictory case law quotations. Just curious if you know more than I do. Thanks for the pics, though, they are great. --Quasar (talk) 03:51, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

No idea I'm afraid. Fraggle (talk) 06:23, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

IANAL but I would think that a libre license must permit modification by re-users, whereas these statute wordings usually address reproduction and publication only.  Freedom of panorama in the U.S. is restricted to large-scale structures anyway, so photos of figurines, memorabilia, fan art, etc., would be considered derivative.    Ryan W (talk) 21:46, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

This material would agree, and Linguica (who may or may not be an actual lawyer) agrees that stuffed toys wouldn't meet the utilitarian requirements to be covered by 17 USC sec 113(c). So at best these photos are fair use as deployed on the wiki, but could include the author's additional waiver of their own rights. I do not think they can possibly be placed under CC BY-SA or GFDL though, unfortunately, because those licenses imply either complete authorship and ownership, or permission from all other authors under the same terms, in order for their terms to apply. --Quasar (talk) 15:34, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Cats

Not the kind that meow ;) Just a friendly reminder that it's best to try to find at least one category that an article fits into when creating a new one, even if it's a stub. I know it's a pain in the ass sometimes ;) --Quasar (talk) 17:27, 26 May 2015 (CDT)

SVE and EE

Strife: Veteran Edition uses a number of utilities and library code from the last-c-revision branch (GPLv2+ licensed) of the Eternity Engine, including qstring, dllistitem_t, and a variant of some parsing code. Its native heap is also partially derived from Eternity's, though that was itself in turn originally derived from the one that Chocolate Doom has but is not using. --Quasar (talk) 01:33, 14 July 2015 (CDT)

While you can certainly claim that port A is 'based on' port B if it includes code from it, I think it's a very loose definition of the phrase that certainly doesn't match what I expect it to mean.

Code sharing is common among all ports. Chocolate Doom has bits of code imported from PrBoom+, and I believe EE uses libtextscreen from Chocolate Doom. But I'd never say that Chocolate Doom is 'based on' PrBoom+ or that EE is 'based on' Chocolate Doom. While it might be technically correct if you look at the details of imported code, in practical terms I don't think it would be an accurate statement to make, and I think would border on outright misleading.

Rather, when we say that port A is 'based on' port B, I take that to mean that the majority, or at least a major part of, its codebase descends from that of port B.

Of course you know SVE and EE far better than I do, so maybe I'm wrong in my assessment. But the elements you describe sound like small chunks of reused code and utility libraries, kind of like the examples I provided above. The kind of things that every programmer has in their toolbox after writing any significant portion of code, and that they naturally tend to reuse.

For SVE to really be 'based on' EE, I'd expect it to either 1) literally be the original basis for the port's codebase, or 2) at the very least, contain major imported elements of functionality such as: EE's renderer and rendering enhancements, EDF, the Eternity console, or some other major subsystem. But it doesn't sound like either of those are the case.

Fraggle (talk) 12:10, 14 July 2015 (CDT)

You may be correct and it's just my natural vanity that likes having it listed that way and it would therefore be inconsistent with the treatment of other ports in the genealogy linkage. I'll reconsider and get back to this shortly. Assuming showing a genealogical link isn't really appropriate, I can just mention the use of such code in the article for SVE in an off-handed manner, which would be entirely appropriate. --Quasar (talk) 15:41, 14 July 2015 (CDT)

That sounds good. It's no big deal, I just wanted to explain my reasoning. Fraggle (talk) 17:03, 14 July 2015 (CDT)

This discussion mirrors another that Quasar, myself and chungy were having about a month ago. I think it would be worth bringing it to Central Processing if that's ok with everyone! -- Shambler (talk) 01:47, 16 July 2015 (CDT)

Congrats

Chocolate Doom was voted for the featured article for this month. --Quasar (talk) 21:29, 1 October 2015 (CDT)

Congratulations! -- Jdowland (talk) 03:38, 2 October 2015 (CDT)

Unknown Logon problems 173.162.177.161 11:16, 27 October 2015 (CDT)bcw142

It seems that much like User:Ultimate_Freedoomer it doesn't link my email correctly so I can't reset my password. My login is bcw142. I did reset it back to the original password back on 7/20/2015, but now it won't take the password I know is right (or any of the other 6 common ones I use). I was just trying to edit my user page to link to Doom/Walkthough (instead of walkthough), hmmm or is that Walkthru? I forget right now. Anyway I couldn't login with IE8 or Firefox 41.0.2 (from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS which I'm using right this second). Cookies on tried turning on pops and no help there. Has something happened since July 20 that would have caused a problem? Anyone else have a clue what could be going wrong? Anyone else that knows the login setup here that's better to ask? 173.162.177.161 11:16, 27 October 2015 (CDT)bcw142 PS Shows my IP because I can't login of course.

If your email address has a hotmail.com, live.com, or msn.com domain name, you will never receive password reset notifications because our server has been blacklisted from Microsoft email services due to web form email abuse originating out of some other service on MancuNET. Either way, please send me a message at haleyjd@hotmail.com with your current email address so I can verify it is set correctly and, if you are using one of the above listed domains, an alternate email address that you can use instead (you will have to set one up if you do not currently have one, I apologize for the inconvenience). --Quasar (talk) 12:44, 27 October 2015 (CDT)

EDIT: I see that you may not have edited or logged in here since the fork in 2011. You said you tried to reset the password, but when we copied wikia's database, all existing users had to contact us through a special procedure to reclaim their accounts due to the emails and passwords being cleared out for security reasons. Go ahead and follow the steps above and I will reinitialize your account for you. --Quasar (talk) 12:48, 27 October 2015 (CDT)

Boomref errata

The boomref.txt is known to have various errors and deviations from the actual implementation, some of which were only discovered as late as a year ago while I was revamping the linedef system in Eternity. Are you interested in a list of those so you could possibly make note of them in your version? --Quasar (talk) 17:04, 27 October 2015 (CDT)

Absolutely. Fraggle (talk) 17:06, 27 October 2015 (CDT)

Editing conflict

We just conflicted an edit on the Artwork of Doom and I was not able to decipher what changes were lost so I saved with overwriting the changes you made. I'll restore them now. --Quasar (talk) 11:00, 19 November 2015 (CST)

Hey, what are the "massive style issues" you refer to? Seems like you only fixed some minor formatting issues. Fraggle (talk) 11:05, 19 November 2015 (CST)

Massive only in the number of them, not the severity. I'll try to enumerate:

• Capitalization of links or words not referring to proper nouns (Cyberdemon, Arachnotron, Revenant)
• Lack of use of {{wp}} for links to Wikipedia
• Inconsistent use of {{cite web}} versus consensus style on other articles (date format, author last name first, access date and publication fields provided)
• Punctuation to end sentence before ref templates, not after.
• Capitalization of "Id"

--Quasar (talk) 11:08, 19 November 2015 (CST)

Okay, I was just a bit surprised when I saw the edit summary because it came across as so negative. I put quite a bit of work into this article (which I haven't finished yet) so forgive me for being a bit defensive. Fraggle (talk) 11:11, 19 November 2015 (CST)

Sorry totally didn't mean anything like that by it. I am really impressed with it actually. --Quasar (talk) 11:12, 19 November 2015 (CST)

Autochecked perm

Seems this permission doesn't actually do anything.[12] We're behind on MediaWiki versions due to issues upgrading our customized stuff to 1.25 so it still appears in our system. Either way, in general I'd rather have promotion of users discussed on Central before it is executed wherever it might not be totally uncontroversial, as I felt it was w/Frans (if I was wrong on that point, I'll apologize). There are a number of people I feel might be of equal stature to Nukeykt (and I mean no offense to him of course) who are still waiting to earn their autopromotion through FlaggedRevs and it can come off as being unfair to them. --Quasar (talk) 14:42, 1 February 2016 (CST)

Okay, whatever you think is best. I just wanted to avoid toil associated with having to manually approve changes - as I see it, the more known users we can just promote to autoconfirmed the better. Fraggle (talk) 14:50, 1 February 2016 (CST)

I can see that up to a point, but beyond that point, it would undermine the intention of the extension. That's why I feel promotions should be by a minimum consensus at least. --Quasar (talk) 16:16, 1 February 2016 (CST)

https:// external links

Hi Fraggle.  From your recent edits, should I infer that all links to doomworld.com and chocolate-doom.org had best use the secure prefix?  (Naturally there are more.)    Ryan W (talk) 23:50, 2 March 2016 (CST)

It's best, just to avoid the 301 redirect if nothing else. However I wouldn't call it high priority either, from my POV. Fortunately the ones handled through templates are trivial to fix. --Quasar (talk) 08:52, 3 March 2016 (CST)

Yeah, I updated the idgames template because it seemed like the biggest bang/buck, and a couple of other pages just because. In theory it would be nice to update all links on the wiki to https: and I know there are ways of doing this, but I haven't done it before. Maybe Ryan W knows? Fraggle (talk) 09:01, 3 March 2016 (CST)

Off the top of my head, all but a handful of Doomworld links are templated, and it looks like Gez just modified those.  Analogously, links to the Chocolate wiki are supposed to use the interwiki syntax, and Special:LinkSearch is supposed to pick up the stragglers but doesn't always.  I'll have a look for the latter.    Ryan W (talk) 10:11, 3 March 2016 (CST)

Sounds good - fixing interwiki to the Chocolate wiki didn't occur to me, although I don't know how many links there are to pages there. You can also add soulsphere.org to your list of domains.

Side note - it would be nice to see doomwiki.org made available over https (and this might provide some incentive). The Let's Encrypt CA is making this much easier than it used to be. Fraggle (talk) 10:18, 3 March 2016 (CST)

Legal Name Change

Hi Fraggle.  I'm re-posting this because it appears to have been blocked spuriously — the edit filter claimed it contained links when it clearly did not.    Ryan W

Note that if the whole page is edited, versus adding a section, and already contains links, AbuseFilter still triggers on it. --Quasar (talk) 15:54, 23 October 2016 (CDT)

Hello! This may be an interesting request. I'm squibbons, one of the two mappers who worked on No Rest For The Living. At the time my legal name was Richard Heath, but I am trans and have long identified as female and used a different name. I have since the release of the level set changed my name legally to Arya Iwakura. I'm not exactly sure what the process is here for going about changing my name on the pages here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Squibbons (talk • contribs) .

DOOM (2016) Pinky page source link

The burningconcept webpage just redirects to the Level3 search results page. Mrchris (talk) 01:06, 3 July 2017 (CDT)

Test, just a test

Hello. I'm Jeff

Username change?

Hello Fraggle, is there a way I can alter my username so it appears as FrogMaster? If not, can I have the username deleted so I can make a new one. Thanks! Fr0gm4st3R (talk) 13:11, 15 Jan 2019 (EST)

You should ask Quasar instead, modifying user accounts requires special privileges that regular administrators do not have. --Gez (talk) 14:13, 15 January 2019 (CST)