User talk:Ekyl

Evil
I wasn't quite serious, but the TOS does state that "we're evil, Miss Cam is evil, this is just stupid", and the PPC can be considered guilty of mass killing from a certain POV. Point taken though, and the article wasn't entirely serious.

Operations vs. Personnel
It looks like you're going back and forth over which department handles agent training. The tradition is that most people don't really get training beyond "Here's a weapon, now go find your RC," but I would think it's something Personnel would handle, if anyone. Operations is more support staff for things outside the Canon Protection Initiative itself. Neshomeh 18:57, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

I was going to ask about that. I got confused since one of my characters is an Agent trainer, albeit one more thorough than usual. Thanks, sorry for being a bother but I was trying to get it straight and got confused. I'll switch everything back to Personnel. KGarrett 04:07, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a bit confusing, because Operations does include the Nursery, and presumably the schooling for older PPC kids, too. So by that logic it could include Agent Training. Since Personnel handle the recruitment side of things, they're probably a better bet, though. And anyway, thinking of the Marquis training Agents is far more than the Nightshade... :P Huinesoron 14:54, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't mean to be a bother, I just mixed myself up. Sorry again. I'll modify things accordingly, then drop it. Helps, but I never meant to bother you with it. KGarrett 15:53, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Welcome
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-Sunflower Official (talk) 21:26, May 9, 2013 (UTC)

Query
Who's in charge 'round here?

KittyEden (talk)

Nobody is. There are Permission Givers and Designated Arbitrators who have authority over the Board and IRC, but there's no one person in charge of the community. That's part of what keeps the PPC a group rather than a hierarchy. The PGs and DAs are more akin to moderators, helping keep order to an extent and introducing new functions and ideas, rather than leaders that everyone has to obey. They need to be respected, yes, but that goes without saying.

Outhra (talk) 15:46, July 23, 2013 (UTC)

Editing notes
Just a couple quick things:


 * 1) I'm not sure it's really helpful to put "source needed" tags on stuff that may have been lost due to site deletions and stuff like that, like the Really Big Monkey Puzzle Tree being the head of the Bad Role-play Department. You might be able to track down mentions of it in character journals or something, but then again, you might not, and if you can't, the tag sits there shouting "this information is dubious!" forever. Also, I've been operating under the assumption that things like who runs what department are common knowledge and don't need to be proven. IIRC, I haven't put sources on that kind of information on any of the department pages I've worked on except when the source is a Board discussion or something obscure like that. Even when the info isn't mentioned in stories, you can find a lot of it in reference docs like the Handbook, the Manual, or Araeph's archival LJ entries.
 * 2) Italics for long works. Quotation marks for short works. Consistency with the type of quotes already on the page. Please. If you're gonna edit as much as you have been, help me out here, will ya? {= /

~Neshomeh 14:20, February 23, 2014 (UTC)

I thought I'd been on the ball with the italics/quotes, sorry if I've forgotten a few. Fair enough on the source tags - a lot of the time I put those in while I go looking for the info or to remind myself to look at it, but I'll rein myself in with those. Ekyl (talk) 17:21, February 23, 2014 (UTC)

Who is Sandra?
This is a relatively minor matter, but I saw that you added a new agent to the list of Potterverse natives a while ago, and I was wondering what PPC story she came from. If the newer text had just said "a witch", it would've been too non-distinctive to isolate, but apparently there was enough information in her first appearance to determine that her name was Sandra and she works in Medical. Where did she come from? Any agent on the continuum lists should have a link to their source, if there isn't a page, and as the fiasco with tracking down mentions of Cold proved, it's difficult to track down single-mention characters for purposes of complete cataloging or future use if there are no leads. Do you remember where you first read about Sandra?

Outhra (talk) 05:00, March 31, 2014 (UTC)

Wobbles' first mission, she doesn't have enough to warrant a page right now but she was helping Kevin Thorpe treat an injured canon. Also, that "requirement" you're getting all worked up about doesn't seem to actually be on any of the continuum pages. Ekyl (talk) 05:01, March 31, 2014 (UTC)]

I wasn't saying that it was a requirement, and I don't know where you got the idea that it would be listed on the continuum pages themselves when it's more of a consistency-of-information measure than something particular to a specific section. I did say that any new agent added to the "native to this continuum" lists need to link to their source, and by extension the department lists and the general lists like the Glossary should do likewise, because the wiki is a resource for all currently canonical information in the PPC multiverse, and if a new character is introduced, it's important to know that they actually did come from some work that's currently in-continuity. If there's a page on the wiki, then that can be linked to because it'll have its own sources, but if there isn't, there needs to be at least something.

Thanks for the directions, though. I'll add those to the Medical and Harry Potter pages.

Outhra (talk) 18:59, March 31, 2014 (UTC)

Curious now
(Have been for a while, actually)

You're clearly on a crusade against 'the 2006 invasions of HQ' being referred to as 'the Crashing Down crisis'; do you mind if I ask why? The Reorganisation is called The Reorganisation; I'm pretty sure I've used the phrase 'the Lofty Skies insanity' before, too, though you may have bludgeoned that one, too. I'm just curious why you're so dedicated to this change. Huinesoron (talk) 06:05, April 30, 2014 (UTC)