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Please stop making repeated edits to pages. It's best to use the show preview button whenever possible. Thanks! -- Sulfur 03:17, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Repeated Edits

As I mentioned above about a month ago, please make use of the Show Preview button when making edits to articles (such as "Ship of the Line"), 7-8 edits within about 10-15 minutes is far too many, especially when several of them have merely been to correct typos or links. Those are best solved with the preview option rather than saving them. Thanks! -- Sulfur 20:28, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Again, please make sure to use the Show Preview button to preview your edits for errors or missed formatting. This prevents multiple edits and clogging of the Recent Changes and History of the page. 12 edits in less than 15 minutes in one article is quite excessive, so make sure to preview ;) Thanks! - Enzo Aquarius 02:38, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

STOP!!!

Stop copying articles from Memory Beta, as these constitute copyright violations. --OuroborosCobra talk 04:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Again, please STOP copying articles from Memory Beta, if you continue to do so, you can be blocked. - Enzo Aquarius 04:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Additionally, please read our copyrights page. Thank you. --From Andoria with Love 04:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Actually, having looked at the edits, they're not copyright violations... they're the book jacket summaries, which we allow here as well. So, um... why is WT being accused of violating copyright? Although WTRiker copied the formatting from MB, all we need to do is reformat it to MA standards. The book jacket summary is fair game so long as its used for review and attributed to the book jacket. There's been no violation. --From Andoria with Love 04:25, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Done with Grand Designs and Demands of Honor ;) - Enzo Aquarius 04:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

There was with Resistance (novel), though obviously that was not WTRiker's intention. --OuroborosCobra talk 04:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Apology

An apology is in order for the mistakes in regards to your recent book additions. Since the introductions are just the book covers, even though you appear to have used information from MB, it can't be qualified as a Copyright Violation (As, even if we used the book blurb, it would be the same :P). I mentioned the Copyvio thing to Cobra, which prompted this, and thus, I am sorry for what has happened in the past 10 or so minutes. - Enzo Aquarius 04:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

Guess what, turns out we were wrong. The parts you copied over were just the jacket (which is fair use), and the characters list (which we would have had eventually). I blame Enzo Aquarius, he made me think these were copyvios in our discussion in IRC. Sorry, we goofed. In the future, though, you would do well to write it up here rather than copying any code from Memory Beta, as their templates and such are not the same as ours. --OuroborosCobra talk 04:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Your best bet to avoid anything like this is simply not to copy code or text from anywhere else. Write your own stuff when you make additions here. Original work cannot be a copyright violation, and won't confuse people into thinking it is one. As I said though, Enzo and I jumped the gun here. Sorry again. --OuroborosCobra talk 04:39, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Apology #3

I, too, would like to apologize for not securing Enzo and Cobra in their cages and allowing them to run amuck. Rest assured, they'll be receiving an extra helping of "Threshold" tonight. ;) --From Andoria with Love 04:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Re:New novel

Hey, WT. I'm not sure if you read my response or not (I don't know if you make use of the recent changes page), so just to let you know, I did reply to your question. See ya around! :) --From Andoria with Love 05:41, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Years vs Production Years

I saw that you added production/real-world information into the Las Vegas, 1966, and 2006 articles. Those articles are for things that have occurred inside the Star Trek universe. Stuff that took place in the "real world" should go into articles such as 1996 and 2006 instead. Thanks! -- Sulfur 01:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Novel covers

The last two novel covers you uploaded already exist. In fact, you previously uploaded the one that is currently in use at Resistance. --Bp 01:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Upcoming Productions

Btw, when removing stuff from the upcoming productions page, please make sure to actually "move" it (read: add it) to the relevant productions page. In the case of the three most recently removed items, to the 2007 page. Thanks! -- Sulfur 02:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk Pages

You are free to add your comment back to Talk:Hobus but do not remove other people's comments. Thanks. — Morder (talk) 23:21, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

USS Farragut (alternate reality)

I removed your additions to the USS Farragut page, since there is already a page for the alternate reality USS Farragut. - Archduk3:talk 05:10, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Images

Please take a moment to read the image use policy. All images uploaded to MA need a proper image licensing template as well as citations. Images without an image licensing template or citation will be removed from articles and are subject to deletion. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. - Archduk3 22:48, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

This again. You uploaded several images today without episode citations, no links in the text, and essentially only a license. Please make sure to upload images and document them properly in future. -- sulfur (talk) 10:03, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Spoilers for unreleased material

As the film has not been released yet and per the spoiler policy we don't create in-universe articles until the film is officially released.

Also, please do not remove deletion tags on articles. Ever. Comment on the discussion instead. -- sulfur (talk) 07:43, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Moving articles

Please note that removing all content from an article and redirecting it to a new page that you have created is NOT the appropriate way to rename articles.

IF you've accidentally created a duplicate article, please add a {{merge with}} or {{rename}} tag at the top of the old page rather than redirecting it, and thus inappropriately hiding the history of prior contributors. -- sulfur (talk) 10:15, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

also, if you rename an article, you are responsible for correcting all of the incoming links. So please do so. --Gvsualan (talk) 04:15, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Discovery Klingon ship classes

Could you update this regarding my last response about DIS Klingon ships please? Thanks. –Gvsualan (talk) 01:34, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

a response here would be nice too, to settle this... --Gvsualan (talk) 04:20, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
Hahahaha! Big-time throwback! I'll reply there. --WTRiker (talk) 14:22, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Star Trek fan twitter accounts....

As per your contribution and citation to this on the Jackson Roykirk, Star Trek-fan twitter accounts are not production sources. –Gvsualan (talk) 03:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

He pulled it directly from the production designer's Instagram. --WTRiker (talk) 13:24, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Then that is what you should be linking to instead. –Gvsualan (talk) 13:27, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Image uploads

And I know that you know better... but you can't just upload an image and not list where it's from. Fix that for this image. -- Sulfur (talk) 13:28, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Sorry about that! I think I was about to head to dinner or something, so I was doing it quickly and got sloppy. Haha. --WTRiker (talk) 23:13, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Do you plan to fix it by citing a source/etc? -- Sulfur (talk) 23:27, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Never mind, I see that you added a source, but didn't clean up the rest of the information. It's fixed now. -- Sulfur (talk) 23:32, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Sorry. Tried to find it, but couldn't find how to update without using the source editor. --WTRiker (talk) 23:44, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
Please fix your images by correctly citing your sources. ‐ Yaroze86 (talk) 01:38, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

STO names

Star trek online may be the source of the designs, but techinical info from that source is not canon as per our resource policy until stated otherwise...officially. This much should have been evident to you given their non-use on the uss pioneer and enterprise-F articles. --Gvsualan (talk) 23:30, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

My thought was that, since the Ross, Gagarin, Reliant, and Sutherland all came from behind-the-scenes production (Dave Blass, e.g.) and other "tertiary" sources, I figured that it's a similar situation. --WTRiker (talk) 23:41, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Once confirmed, yes. On an unrelated note, please don't put spoilers in the subject line. It's pretty clear in the line directly above where you would write your summary: "Edit summary (Briefly describe the changes you have made.) PLEASE AVOID PUTTING SPOILERS IN EDIT SUMMARIES" Thanks. –Gvsualan (talk) 12:13, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry. Since it was more of a background thing, I didn't "read it" as a spoiler. My mistake! --WTRiker (talk) 04:36, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Eleven days ago I wrote the above...today you are quoting lines from the series finale in the summary bar? How is that showing any consideration to visitors who have not or cannot yet see the episode in question to now know Chekov has a son, or how old he may or may not be, or that he might be dead.... No more. –Gvsualan (talk) 17:30, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm so sorry. I hope you know that it is truly and sincerely unintentional and I'm just trying to do my diligence and post an edit summary and where I gleaned the info from or else came to a conclusion, when things are not outright stated or shown. In such cases, how would you recommend summarizing the edit when info is more extrapolated based on (e.g.) timeframes and Human lifespans? —-WTRiker (talk) 22:45, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
MaryMoss used a good example. "Updaing to add spoiler information from STO". -- Sulfur (talk) 13:51, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Moving articles (redux)

As per this....

If you rename an article, you are responsible for correcting all of the incoming links. So please do so in future. -- Sulfur (talk) 11:41, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

This again. When you moved the Archimedes 24th century ship, you didn't bother doing any cleanup at all. That needs to be done. -- Sulfur (talk) 16:15, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorry about that. TBH, work hasn't been great lately so I was editing to keep my mind off of today having been Monday. Can you remind me how to clean up?
And how is clean-up different from doing a Redirect page, out of curiosity?—WTRiker (talk) 01:15, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Citing web pages

We don't cite web pages like this. We do it like this. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 05:19, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

Khan

Star Trek: Khan is counted as an apocrypha resource – not an in-universe one – on Memory Alpha, as was discussed at Memory Alpha talk:Content policy#Star Trek: Khan. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 17:42, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Please review this. I reverted your edits, but a lot of that info could go into apocrypha sections possibly. Yaroze86 (talk) 20:53, 21 October 2025 (UTC)
Sorry! All of my alerts lately have been useless alerts so I've been ignoring them, so I just saw this! Gotcha. --WTRiker (talk) 05:22, 24 October 2025 (UTC)