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"eluded" is not "alluded"

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but the featured article of the week "Philosophy" says "Many references to their ideas have also been eluded to"; I think it should be "alluded" not "eluded": to elude means to escape, to allude means to refer to something indirectly. Olivier101 13:35, 8 June 2007 (PDT)

New to Lostpedia?

Let me just say that the "New to Lostpedia?" heading is misleading. When I visited www.lostpedia.com, that thing immediately caught my attention, because I thought it meant "New to Lostpedia? Start here!" and that it would point me to some sort of root of a hierarchy of pages, kind of like Template:Nav-Storyline. It indeed links to a portal, but a rather unrelated one; the Lostpedia:Community_Portal. Moreover, the items listed in the "New to Lostpedia?" section are more of... Lostpedia's News (new skin, new youtube tag, new BBCode forums feature, etc.), and are of little or no interest to somebody who is "New to Lostpedia"!.

Personally, I find the Media Appearances box way more useful! Ever though of swapping it with the "New to Lostpedia?" one?  —Thinker   03:35, 26 February 2007 (PST)

  • Thanks for your thoughts. Do you have any specific suggesstions for content that might be more useful to new users? -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯T 15:58, 26 February 2007 (PST)
    • How about a link to the general guidlines and the Job List?--J-- 16:52, 26 February 2007 (PST)
    • For new users I would suggest pointing them to "An introduction to LOST" (maybe Lost after the article attack?) and then from there to a more detailed index/portal page, something that combines Template:Index, Template:Nav-Storyline etc. possibly with images.  —Thinker   18:58, 26 February 2007 (PST)
  • The thing is, new users to Lostpedia are not necessarily new to LOST. An introduction to the site is not really the same as an introduction to the show, and many new editors are old veterans to the show (and for those new to LOST, we do have several of the portals to help navigate the site at the top banner: Main characters, Others, Locations, etc. to help them explore) I guess maybe we could link the article LOST somewhere in the center? I just don't know where. PS: The community portal already links to guidelines and job list. --PandoraX 07:18, 2 March 2007 (PST)
  • Right. However "New to Lostpedia" still refers to "News of Lostpedia" (plus or minus a couple of sentences :)  —Thinker   09:53, 2 March 2007 (PST)
  • However, that is only a part of it. It redirects all the new users to the community portal primarily, and informs users what changes have been made as a secondary concern.  Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  04:24, 5 March 2007 (PST)

Enter 77

Why is Enter 77 listed as airing in Ireland before the US?Alib999 02:20, 27 February 2007 (PST)

Just a bug, fixed now -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  02:44, 27 February 2007 (PST)

Lostpedia in the Media

Might not be main-pagey, but no idea where else to put it. I've noticed Lostpedia getting more and more recognition in the media as of late (especially in the last week). This month's issue of Rolling Stone has an article devoted to show-specific wikis, and Lostpedia is mentioned, and I caught a reference to the site in a review for the film "The Number 23" in last Friday's New York Times. I don't mean for the site to become all self-congratulatory, but is there a way we can document/make a page for these such things? CastorTroy 09:34, 3 March 2007 (PST)

  • We mentioned the Rolling Stones article in the Lostpedia Blog. This is a great achievement for us. Oh, and we were mentioned in the New York Times? Awesome. I'll check it out. --Marik7772003 09:39, 3 March 2007 (PST)

Transcripts

I've just noticed the transcripts for episodes are major pages (ie: I Do transcript) shouldn't they be a subpage like the theories are... ie I Do/transcript?  Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  07:36, 7 March 2007 (PST)

  • That makes sense... and would make it so we could automate the infobox links... -Chris[dt7] 12:30, 7 March 2007 (PST)
  • I agree. Princess Dharma (banned)
  • It wouldn't matter which way to me... if we are to do it, I'll help. --Marik7772003 16:48, 7 March 2007 (PST)
  • I disagree. The theory pages are on a subpage in order to have a standard delimiter for the extension to work with a little logic. If anything they should be in a separate namespace called Transcript: which Admin would need to define in the wiki's localsettings.php file.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 17:12, 7 March 2007 (PST)
  • But that makes no logical sense. A subpage is designed to be a subsection for a major topic, so if the topic is I Do, a sub topic would be its transcript, much like its theories. Like creating folders within folders.  Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  08:15, 8 March 2007 (PST)
  • If I were a new or unfamiliar user I'd be more likely to look on the episodes page for a transcript than on a seperate page. Princess Dharma (banned)
  • Well, unfortunately I named about 50 of them this way (and sorry if this caused anyone inconvenience). As I said to plk's comment on the transcripts page, I wouldn't mind either way, but unfortunately I won't be around to help you guys move it after today... so if you do want to move them, please just be aware that this will be quite a job... over 130 pages is my estimate, including fixing a number of redirects. I do think his reasoning could make sense, though. One pro would be that you could quickly navigate back to the main episode synopsis, but Paul, keep in mind that all the links are also at the tops of the individual transcripts, also (all the templates have the link to the episode synopsis page and the writers and directors at the top; see I Do transcript for an example). I'm not sure if they could be given their own namespace and think this is a great idea also. Sorry I can't help more! --PandoraX 14:44, 8 March 2007 (PST)

Mysterious Happenings

For this link, would a title such as mysterious occurrences be more appropriate, happenings sounds clumsy and informal. Ryan stowers 13:46, 7 March 2007 (PST)

Improvement Article?

I was inspired by [[1]] to suggest that we have an Improvement Article of the Week. One semi-weak article would be posted every week so that users could steadily improve it and fix the grammar and such. User:pom5msu 15:54, 8 March 2007 (CST)

We already have this, see Article Attack. --Mr. Crabby (Talk) 13:56, 8 March 2007 (PST)

Ok, didn't know that was there. Wouldn't it make sense to have it on the main page where it is easier to see? [--pom5msu] [--talk] 15:02 9 March 2007

The main page is primarily for veiwers nt editers so no. Princess Dharma (banned)

OK, sorry then. Just thought it was a good idea. It might entice people to join if they know they can improve an article they know something about. [--pom5msu] [--talk] 13:31, 9 March 2007

An article doesn't have to be under article attack for it to be improved. You just don't get a reward for regular improvement is all. Only you shouldn't edit solely for a medal in the first place. Princess Dharma (banned)

We agree on that. It wasn't for my purpose or the purpose of an award or anything. I just want this site to be the best and most thorough database of LOST information that it can be. User:pom5msu

Thanks for your enthusiasm pom5msu :) hope to see you around more!! --Lewis-Talk-Contribs 13:52, 9 March 2007 (PST)


  • Hi pom5msu, thanks for your interest. We do have it listed in the Community Portal, and even have a small blurb on the Community portal in a block on the main page near the bottom right ("New to Lostpedia"). I suppose nothing is stopping us from directly listing a particular task from the Community Portal directly on the main page, but that would be a fundamental shift to put 'meta content' out front. -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯T 21:24, 9 March 2007 (PST)

New Zealand

Hi Please put 'Not in Portland' for Wednesday (14th) on main page, as The Survivor Guide aired last night (Fri Lostpedia time). See revised airdates.Thanx Kivipat09:12, 10 March 2007 (PST)

Front Page Lost

Would it be possible where it says: "Currently 2,805 articles dedicated to ABC's hit TV show Lost" Could the lost be linked to Lost rather than the abc website after a successful Article Attack? DrGiggles 12:59, 14 March 2007 (PDT)

I can do that.-Mr.Leaf 18:11, 14 March 2007 (PDT)
  • In the same phrase, should "ABC" redirect to the ABC site, or to our own article ABC? -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯T 12:44, 15 March 2007 (PDT)

Tomorrow is TODAY!!! :)

The main page still has the next airing (US) happening tomorrow, but tomorrow is today. Lost is on tonight! Hooray! Alright, I'm calm now, but could somebody use their sysop powers to change that protected little page? Thanks! -BearDog 17:50, 14 March 2007 (PDT)

Beardog, are you sure, mine says it's Tonight, could you possibly have your time set to something other than your correct timezone, check your preferences, and see what time zone you have it set to. If not, let me know, it'll see what I can do.-Mr.Leaf 18:11, 14 March 2007 (PDT)
No, it seems to know the correct date. But, timezones did just get really stupid around here with moving Daylight Savings Time, so it could just be a Windows glitch that'll sort itself out in a few weeks. Today it says the next airing is next Wednesday, so that's right. I don't know if it runs on the same sub-routine or not, but I didn't see the "Dear Canadians, please don't ruin the suprise for the Americans" site message either. It's probably not a massive problem, and I'm relieved to hear it didn't affect everybody else too. Just weird. -BearDog 09:06, 15 March 2007 (PDT)
Yes, there is definitely something wrong with the wiki software regarding DST, i'll look into it and talk to admin.-Mr.Leaf 09:11, 15 March 2007 (PDT)
  • FYI I had a similar glitch on my WinXP machine and I'm in a time zone that does not observe DST. Actually my originating country also showed up wrong, as some other websites I visited during that time automatically came up in foreign languages. Both this problem and the wiki day discrepancy spontaneously cleared up at the same time. Haven't pinned it down, but I wanted to drop a note to corroborate Beardog. -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯T 12:43, 15 March 2007 (PDT)

Themes

In the index at the bottom of the page there is the topic of 'themes' and then under it comes 'recurring themes';which in itself is quite odd. Also, it sends you to the same page! Needs editing, please Ryan stowers 12:12, 20 March 2007 (PDT)

Transcripts, Again!

Hey, I hadn't noticed until just now, but it seems that several of this season's episodes are missing transcripts. I've got a Tivo in my dorm room and some spare time, so unless we'd like to wait for the DVD's or for Spooky transcripts, I could take a stab at the next few episodes. Thoughts? --CastorTroy 08:34, 23 March 2007 (PDT)

Index: Rename "Flashback Characters"?

I think that that section should be renamed "Major Flashback Characters", or something similar, as it's clearly not the complete list. Anyone agree? Disagree? --Invertebrat 14:00, 27 March 2007 (PDT)

I agree random2502 14:10, 19 April 2007 (PDT)
  • Disagree All flashback characters who are credited, and not periflight / after the crash shoudl be listed. If not go ahead and add them. If you really don't like the title, the actual article title probably deserves to change too.

Update Main Page

Can someone update the main page please? "Exposé" airs TONIGHT, not tomorrow. Thanks. David 13:34, 28 March 2007 (PDT)

UPDATE MAIN PAGE

Can someone update the Ireland listing - Catch 22 shows next monday on RTE2 not left behind.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by J4joey (talk • contribs) .

Done. If you wouldn't mind since you seem to know the airdates could you update the Ireland row on airdates for Season 3. It would be much appreciated.-Mr.Leaf 10:09, 18 April 2007 (PDT)


Regarding Next Time on LOST, Ireland , the two hour season fianle airs on RTE Two at 9:00pm and not 10:05pm as stated on the main page.

  • Thanks, it's been fixed. --Marik7772003 06:59, 23 May 2007 (PDT)

April 1 warning

Can someone put up a site wide banner (like the one currently up for the Hugo cup and Lostbook) reminding our contributers that any Lost "news" circulating today is likely to be an April Fools joke? (Although an article listing such jokes could be interesting...) --Jackdavinci 21:11, 31 March 2007 (PDT)

You guys nearly gave me a heart attack with your current headline about Matt Fox wanting to "quit". dposse 13:24, 1 April 2007 (PDT)
Uncool. It should still read "Matt Fox Quitting." Putting "smoking" in the headline ruins the gag. Have you people no festive spirit? =P --- ZachsMind 09:24, 2 April 2007 (PDT)

NZ Done

New Zealand has finished with Tricia Tanaka Is Dead. Can you please change it to Enter 77 on the main page? Project X 02:42, 4 April 2007 (PDT)

It is set to automatically change when the day changes (ie 4th to 5th). The episode is supposed to air on April 4th, if this is incorrect please let me know. Currently in the U.S. where the servers are, it is April 4th. I believe the problem comes from the time difference. While it may be April 5th in NZ at the moment and the episode has aired, it is still April 4th in the U.S. I'll look into fixing this, or see if we can. I have manually changed the template for those in NZ, and I 'll see what else I can do. Could you please just confirm that the current template is correct?-Mr.Leaf 09:38, 4 April 2007 (PDT)

Index

In the index it shows Edmund Burke in the Others category. Surely this should be removed?--Phil 15:45, 4 April 2007 (PDT)


Recurring Themes Template Addition

I didn't know where else to put this proposal, so figured I'd put it here. I made a little template addition in my sandbox ages ago, but its not til recently I remembered about it and got some positive feedback. I was wondering whether I should add it to the current template, making it into an L shape like with Theorytabtop. Here's a comparison link: User:Nickb123/sandbox. As you can see, it makes a little bit of difference actually showing little pics, brightening up a section of ep articles where there's hardly ever any images. The box of pics is still a little proto-typey, but you get the general jist.

I don't intend to add it if its not wanted obviously, so wanted a bit of extra feedback and redesign ideas. Cheers, --Nickb123 (Talk) 11:10, 8 April 2007 (PDT)

I don't get a) what it is

and b) what you'd use it for -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  11:18, 8 April 2007 (PDT)

a)Its just showing minor thumbs of some of the iconic recurring themes. I could make the images link to that themes article too.
b) Use it to grab attention and make visitors look at some of the themes pages. Intention is to add it to this template.--Nickb123 (Talk) 11:24, 8 April 2007 (PDT)
Yeah they do seem to be doing that, but then log back in once and it doesn't happen again at all for some reason. From a visitor perspective thats not a problem though, and it'll increase the chances of newbs looking at the themes pages --Nickb123 (Talk) 09:56, 9 April 2007 (PDT)
  • It didn't log me out. I use Mozilla Firefox, does that make any difference? --Mr. Crabby (Talk) 09:58, 9 April 2007 (PDT)
  • The problem is likely that the full URL's of the theme pages are hardcoded [http://lostpedia.com/wiki/Pregnancies], rather then just using [[Pregnancies]]. This full URL logs me out, because I am logged in via www.lostpedia.com rather than lostpedia.com. The root of this issue is with Template:ClickA. We could fix this issue, but I am still a little dubious about the usage of Template:ClickA. The ClickA code is very, ummmm, hackish. Wikipedia advises against its use.-- Dagg talk contribs4 8 11:28, 9 April 2007 (PDT)
Dagg is quite right, and so I added "www" in and now it no longer logs you out but still works fine. So thats main issue against it fixed --Nickb123 (Talk) 10:05, 10 April 2007 (PDT)
Nick, adding 'www' only worked for you since that is the URL you generally login to. I modified your sandbox to use http://{{SERVERNAME}}{{localurl:articlename}} instead so it will work no matter which URL you're viewing the site through.    Jabberwock    talk    contribs    email   - 12:14, 10 April 2007 (PDT)

Wiki Name Change???

I was just thinking, do any of you think we could change the name of the entire wiki to "Lostiepedia"? I have three reasons why I like this: 1. It sounds awesome! 2. It's like a parody of Wikipedia. 3. It uses the name "Losties", (the collective name for the survivors).

Questions? Comments? Post!!!! -WeirdAl 06:59, 17 April 2007 (PDT)

And here I was thinking Wikipedia should just change their entire name to Wikpedia. --Nickb123 (Talk) 07:03, 17 April 2007 (PDT)
Meaning...? (AKA: Do you like it or not?) WeirdAl 07:19, 17 April 2007 (PDT)
Sorry but no. We're about LOST and an encycloPEDIA. Also, Lostiepedia is a passive form, sounds a bit juvenile. Furthermore, Lostpedia is an established name around the world to Lost fans, as well as in some areas of the media. Lastly, Lostpedia shouldn't need to "parody Wikipedia". We're a serious site that happens to use the wiki software like Wikipedia does. They as a site didn't actually invent the software either, technically. --Nickb123 (Talk) 07:25, 17 April 2007 (PDT)
Oh, OK. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get that trivial. I guess I just figured that even though "Lostpedia" is cool, it doesn't roll off the tounge as easily as "Lostiepedia" would. My bad! Sorry to anyone and everyone, WeirdAl 08:29, 17 April 2007 (PDT)
What a bizzare idea. We've been working at this for a year and a half and the name is well known. Lostiepedia sounds quite juvenile to be honest. Wookiepedia works because of the name, TrekkiePedia would also work, but Lostie? Noooo. Dear god no.  Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  04:01, 24 April 2007 (PDT)

3,000 pages!

  • We just surpassed the 3,000 page mark! I'm so excited, man! --Marik7772003 13:46, 22 April 2007 (PDT)
  • Ace, cept I'm going through Category:Delete right now... hope I don't mess it up lol --Nickb123 (Talk) 13:53, 22 April 2007 (PDT)
  • One more page and we hit the 3000 club. --Mr. Crabby (Talk) 17:16, 22 April 2007 (PDT)
  • w00t --Blueeagleislander 00:15, 24 April 2007 (PDT)

Not using GMT times on Main Page

On the main page it says that the UK will air Catch-22 Tonight at 10. When in the UK it's actually 12:02am on Monday, so Catch-22 ended over an hour ago. So it should actually say D.O.C at 10pm on Sunday. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Magnet (talk • contribs) .

Unfortunately, the templates have to work off a system of {{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}-{{CURRENTYEAR}} - this means that there's nothing we can do about that, as Lostpedia's server runs on US time. It will right itself at about 6AM GMT, so its not a huge problem, but I see where you're coming from. Its just a case of coding that it changes as the date changes, but it'd be difficult to add a different time code --Nickb123 (Talk) 16:12, 22 April 2007 (PDT)

Him

As the articles on Him and Jacob have been merged, Him should be removed from the index. Triptolemus 16:04, 23 April 2007 (PDT)

Lostpedia a runner up in best Wikis

In case you guys didn't see it, Lostpedia is listed under the "Topic Specific Wikis" for the 12 Popular Wikis That Actually Work on makeuseof.com. Check it out: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/13-popular-wikis-that-actually-work/ Pkal 07:24, 28 April 2007 (PDT)

Yay, go us! --Blueeagleislander 21:18, 28 April 2007 (PDT)

Index clean-up

I think the Index needs a lot of cleaning up.

  • Why are Rose and Bernard listed in the Main Characters section, while Paulo and Nikki are in the Supporting Characters section?
  • Also, what qualifies a character to be listed in the Flashback Characters section? My suggestion would be to list all characters that have appeared in more than one pre-flight flashback. Otherwise, the list would be way too big if you listed all of them. Either way, the list needs too be updated since the selection of characters that are listed right now is quite weird.

--husdoktorn 08:57, 29 April 2007 (PDT)

    • I've had a bit of a tidy up, and made the flashback characters the notable ones. If there are anymore that you'd like to suggest leave me a message.  Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  05:05, 1 May 2007 (PDT)

RSS Feed?

Why isn't there an RSS feed for the main page? It would be soooo cool to get updates on my Yahoo! My Headlines widget from the main page of Lostpedia.com Can anyone make this happen? It would be really great! :D --SorryCharlie 11:59, 30 April 2007 (PDT)

There is an RSS feed for recent changes, but the main page doesn't have a feed because there is really no need for it, do you mean for the news on the site? -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  01:18, 1 May 2007 (PDT)

Main page mistake,,,

guys,, the show will air at 8/7c at CTV,,, not 8/10c over here in canada,,, thanks --mo-- (Talk | Image:Saa.gif ) 13:46, 2 May 2007 (PDT)

Character pages being made before the episode has aired.

Why are character pages being made before the episode has aired? This is really beginning to annoy me. It spoils the show for those who don't want spoiling. I know lets place a spoiler tag on the page they protect poeple for seeing it on the recent changes page (Which also appears on the blog.) Why is this being allowed to happen? --   Dee4leeds  talk  contribs  all  10:21, 4 May 2007 (PDT)

And to a further extent adding character apperences befoer the episode has aired. --   Dee4leeds  talk  contribs  all  10:42, 4 May 2007 (PDT)


The Lost Novels

This is a question for the lostpedia community. Should information about characters (eg. Claire once came across a deadly snake whilst on a walkabout in Australia) be put into articles, considering the novels are canon? --Phil (talk) 15:51, 7 May 2007 (PDT)

erm.. as far as i know the novels are considered deutro canon? Meaning that i dont think whats printed in those novels is what most people would take into the mythology. --Lewis-Talk-Contribs 16:32, 8 May 2007 (PDT)

Apparently the novels are considered canon!--Phil (talk) 16:20, 9 May 2007 (PDT)

Lewis is right they are deutrocanon or however you spell it lol. Basically, novel writers get a relative carte blanche (as far as I know from chatting to Nancy Holder one time) - their work is overseen by the creators of Lost to make sure it doesn't conflict with their story, but they don't have any input in the novel story etc. Consequently it should be seen as rejected from canon as the Lost writers most likely had absolutely no input in what happens in the story or the new characters introduced. --Nickb123 (Talk) 16:27, 9 May 2007 (PDT)

fix the date counter...

it says the episode is tomorrow,, its tonight and we're all dying to see it :P,, if its a script that counts days or somthing,, it needs to be fixed,, thanx --mo-- (Talk | Image:Saa.gif ) 16:18, 9 May 2007 (PDT)

Er the date timer says Tonight as far as I can see. Maybe its your cache that needs clearing? Try, this --Nickb123 (Talk) 16:30, 9 May 2007 (PDT)
umm,, I saw it at first as Tomorrow, I refreshed and it still stayed as tomorrow,, but now it says tonight,, thanks :P --mo-- (Talk | Image:Saa.gif ) 16:38, 9 May 2007 (PDT)

Update Episode

On the Spoiler Warning template beside "The Man Behind the Curtain" it still says "Season 3 Episode 19". DrGiggles 13:40, 10 May 2007 (PDT)

richard

I'm not sure if this has been discussed yet but I just wanted to point out that Richard was wearing some peculiar clothing during Ben's flashblack. The clothing appeared(to me) to be of the 16th century or something like that.

"Cogito Ergo Sum" -Spencer- --Spencer bruce 19:14, 10 May 2007 (PDT)

Episode reception?

I don't know if this is the right place to mention this, but I thought it would be nice if in every episode article, there could be a section about how the episode was generally recieved by fans. For example, whether they thought it was slow and predictable or exciting and suspenceful. You could obtain this information by looking in archived episode revieves or podcasts. If at all possible, LOSTPEDIA could even integrate a user rating system. I realize that this project would take a lot of work, but I thought it might be cool. Let me know what you think. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tylerr395 (talk • contribs) .

Hi, thanks for your comments. I think the reason we avoid voting systems is the fact they are easily open to abuse. Also we try to be completely encyclopedic, so fan review scores in a way conflict with the idea. However, I think you have a good argument for some official rating score. For instance, if a popular news website rated episodes, we could possibly consider adding the rating. Or even the network ratings themselves, we could add a small graph or something similar to show trends and how watched episodes were? Just some ideas there. Its definitely an area I think we could discuss further --Nickb123 (Talk) 14:57, 7 May 2007 (PDT)

I understand why we would want to stay away from voting systems, but I don't think that generalizing about what people thought about the episodes would be un-encyclopedic. Just go onto any Wikipedia article about a movie. The have a section about critical reception. It would obviously be very difficult obtain enough information to write a section like this on every single episode, particularly on the older ones, but I think that if it was possible, it would be a very great addition and would not destract from the site's encyclopedic style if written correctly. Thanks for you comments, and I'd love to hear other's thoughts.Tylerr395 18:20, 7 May 2007 (PDT)

A voting system might be put in place in time for Season 4. We have got a system to do this, thanks to our friends at they might be wiki and quite a fair implementation too (registered users only) we're just working on how how we'd include this, and why we think it might be needed, if at all  Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  06:28, 8 May 2007 (PDT)

I think that It would be great if we could but a voting system in and registered voters could vote for how good they thought the episode was. This could, as an obove poster mentioned,lead to abuse of the polls, but other websites such as IMDB manage to have user-ratings that seem to work. I would say if we have the technolgy and potential, we should give it a try and see what happens. I also like the idea of putting in features about network ratings. But what i really would like the most is a section with generalizations of how each episode was received by LOST fans, and I would love to hear what others think about that.

Index

Under Locations, The Barracks is listed twice. Can someone please fix this? Tehr 16:13, 13 May 2007 (PDT)

Done. --Marik7772003 19:09, 14 May 2007 (PDT)

Australian Time change

Just dropping you a line to notify of a time change for Lost in Australia. Starting Thursday 24th May the states NSW and QLD will move to 9.30pm broadcast - all other states are to remain at 8.30pm. Thanks... Anthrass 15:54, 17 May 2007 (PDT)

Lostpedia article?

Hey, what would everyone think of an article about Lostpedia? It would be like our wikipedia article, just explaining the history of this site and refrences from different magazines, websites, etc. Would that be a good idea? --Mr. Crabby (Talk) 04:10, 18 May 2007 (PDT)

New to Lostpedia? Section

In this section it says under May 10-- "Lostpedia now has the ability poll users via the polldaddy extension" it should say "Lostpedia now has the ability TO poll users via the polldaddy extension" (the addition of the to). Now it makes gramatical sense. Can someone change that? Thanks. David 07:58, 20 May 2007 (PDT)

Sorted, thanks. -Chris[dt7] 08:08, 20 May 2007 (PDT)

Easter Eggs

I do not believe that the mention of The Looking Glass as Hatch is definite as Sayid's diagram seems to suggest that the hatch is just part of The Looking Glass station. The section on the main page seems to suggest that it is a definite production error. There is definitely still some debate on the subject and I believe that it should be removed.--Dorritjo 22:01, 20 May 2007 (PDT)

  • Also, In the latest podcast, the producers said that hatch is not a word the Losties use exclusively.--Dorritjo 18:48, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
  • I agree that D+C have effectively waved away the problem of the use of "hatch" on the schematic. The implication that it is an error should be removed.--XR15 19:11, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
  • The hatch easter egg (or lack there of) has been removed. Thanks guys. -Mr.Leaf 19:12, 21 May 2007 (PDT)

B.F. Skinner typo

In the Featured Article of the Week box, it should read: "Skinner also DEALT with fate versus free will..." not dealed.--TechNic|talk|conts 05:08, 22 May 2007 (PDT)

  • Thanks, it's been fixed. --Marik7772003 05:38, 22 May 2007 (PDT)

Summer Job List

I'm already aware of the Community portal, job list, and article attack so I'm set for the Summer (and Fall I guess!) in terms of editing tasks . But maybe on the main page we can mention, or have a link to a special article about what we want to focus on in editing terms for the Summer, whether it's just what's already on the job list, or if there's anything especially appropriate for the summer break. In any case, I think it's a good idea to address this on the fron tpage in some form or other. --Jackdavinci 10:54, 25 May 2007 (PDT)

Picture Problems

There seems to be a problem with some of the pictures around the articles. I was wondering if this has happened to everyone or it is just my computer. This is what the one from Naomi's page says:

Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to open image `/home/kcroy/sites/www.lostpedia.com/images/d/d9/Naomi3x21.jpg': No such file or directory. convert: missing an image filename `/home/kcroy/sites/www.lostpedia.com/images/thumb/d/d9/Naomi3x21.jpg/190px-Naomi3x21.jpg'.

--Phil (talk) 11:19, 25 May 2007 (PDT)

No, this is a sitewide problem, it isn't just you. I would try clearing your cache, that will help we a few images, although there are still some that will not be working. We are trying to fix this problem as quickly as possible. Thanks -Mr.Leaf 11:54, 25 May 2007 (PDT)
I remember this happening last year. In fact, I think this might have happened around this time last year - weird. Anywayz hopefully it'll get fixed soon, cause this is annoying me --Nickb123 (Talk) 11:57, 25 May 2007 (PDT)

Spoiler on Main Page

well, somehow I can't take this sentence serious "Lostpedia is updated to US aired episodes (shown above) and official releases. All non-U.S. visitors should be very careful regarding which pages they visit." - All non-U.S. visitors should be very careful not to open even the main page, since it is full with spoilers. How about removing those and have it only on subpages? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Grendel (talk • contribs) .

Wow, you're right. This passage for example from the news section "Lost's mind-blowing third-season finale raised a million questions. Among them: Jack and Kate get off the island?! Who's in the casket?! Are flash-forwards the new flashbacks?! Fans will have to wait until next winter — when the fourth season commences — to stop scratching their heads. Until then, let's pause to remember Dominic Monaghan's Charlie Pace, the ex-junkie rock star turned self-sacrificing hero who died at the hands of Eyepatch Dude so that his fellow plane-crash survivors might be rescued." (spoilers for non-US viewers in bold) --Blueeagleislander 00:57, 28 May 2007 (PDT)

Wow... that's definitely a spoiler, all right. --User:Kbmusiclover 15:15, 28 May 2007 (PDT)

Also, the new AOTW. Full of spoilers. --Blueeagleislander 00:31, 29 May 2007 (PDT)

Guys unfortunately there isn't much we can do about this. Would you rather have a AOTW on the Swan, thats old news, or news from like Season one so the Japanese (who are on Season 1) don't get spoiled. We try our best to please everyone but our main group of visitors is American, Canadian, British, etc and we cater to them for the most part and they are all done Season 3. I have added a small warning on the spoiler warning on the front page about the lower sections of the main page but it is in entirety up to the visitors as to where they decide to look and if they get spoiled. -Mr.Leaf 09:55, 29 May 2007 (PDT)
But wasn't the "Not Penny's Boat" picture up before finale aired in Britain. I understand that your main target are American viewers, but I think it's a bit exaggerated to give away such plot details as Charlie's death, the flashforward or the penny's boat thingie on the main paige. Was there ever a vote about it? --tadayou 15:55, 8 June 2007 (PDT)

Index: Diane

Please can a SysOp change DIANE to DIANE (OTHER) in the index of the Others. Thanks--Phil (talk) 09:20, 30 May 2007 (PDT)

Ideas Page?

  • Does anyone else think that it's quite hard to implement an idea here? Generally, one asks a SysOp, but there's no place where you can propose an idea, the community can vote, and you either do it or don't. I think we should have a page like this, at LostPedia:Ideas or something similar, where the community can vote yes or no on certain ideas and give feedback on them. What does everyone else think? --   Lost Soul   talk  contribs  01:26, 1 June 2007 (PDT)

lost rewatch

there is very little details about the rewatch Whenn is it? What Channel? What time? it just lacks egnough details for someone who has no idea about it to watch it.--Connor401 10:35, 1 June 2007 (PDT)

I agree. We need to know more about this. It sounds really cool, and I'd like to help out, but I need more details. -WeirdAl 11:21, 1 June 2007 (PDT)

I think they want us to rewatch it on DVD. --Blueeagleislander 17:30, 1 June 2007 (PDT)


are you sure or is this just a guess--Connor401 17:46, 1 June 2007 (PDT)

Its a DVD, iTunes, whatever format you've got it in thing. The suggestion being, if you are here during close season, its likely you have all the episodes available to watch :-) -- Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  20:47, 1 June 2007 (PDT)

Quick question about the season 1 section and the rewatch. Is there a section of the website relating to translating foreign languages currently? I was looking and wondering if there is a translation of what can be heard of the transmission in French during the pilot or a translation of Jin's Korean portions of the pilot. I, myself, am not a gifted translator but surely someone has translated those sections. --Maraquin 06:01, 2 June 2007 (PDT)

The Lost rewatch is a good idea but I think there's another reason to go over these articles. I've been working on the first three since yesterday (Pilots 1 & 2, working on Tabula Rasa today) and I can't help but notice the same frustrating problem in all three: they're all written in past tense, while more recent articles - such as season 3 articles - are written in present tense. I've been going through the episodes I've named and changing them to present tense myself thus far. As well, I see on different articles different spellings for DHARMA - it's either "DHARMA" or "Dharma". All capitals is the correct way, let's try to keep it like that. Another thing is poor puncuation and word usage; commas are not needed as much as you think they are. They are not always needed before "but" and so on; believe me, just go to any article and you'll come across that nuisance. Another thing is poor word usgage - the word "decide" is overkilled in the most ridiculous situations within articles. For example, I've seen laughable things like this (not exact, but just a close example): "As Jack is being fired at, he decides to shoot back" or "With Mikhail shooting at him, Desmond decides to jump into the water and swim to the Looking Glass". Sure, they decided this but is it really needed to say so? Try not using the word unless it's a scene where there's actually, for lack of a better description, "phyiscal decision making" (ex: In the season 2 episode Orientation, where Jack is trying to DECIDE whether or not to press the button...and even that's pushing it). To continue with this problem, try to use better words and descriptions for things, more suitable words and descriptions. For example, try using "assualt" rather than "beat up" (ex: Jack beats up Ben/Jack assualts Ben); most of us are mature individuals, lets attempt to speak and write maturely. If it's truly that difficult, grab a thesaurus. Thank you. Tabula rasa 08:52, 2 June 2007 (PDT)

I've always supported present tense on episode articles, but many wanted past. I think considering nearly all of them are present we should just stick with such, but meh I'm sure people will debate this on the Lostpedia:Episode Manual of Style (proposed). With regards to the acronym, definitely I'd say using capitals as the rule. For commas, I think you're being a little obsessive about that lol - its not that big a deal (coming from someone who uses them a lot, I'll grant). However, I agree on the decide thing - another one that grinds my gears is "Jack tells Kate. Kate tells Jack. Kate then tells Sawyer" - usually followed by an almost direct word for word description. Its a synopsis and summary at the of the day, not a transcript. --Nickb123 (Talk) 11:38, 2 June 2007 (PDT)

could someone plesase up date the scedule for this week

Themes on Index

I think we should really consider just ditching the index template. Its right at the bottom of the page, and most people I'll wager use the top of page portals like the Others one rather than scroll down to see a list. --Nickb123 (Talk) 01:03, 3 June 2007 (PDT)

Poll Questions

  • Is it just me or are the poll questions kind of useless? This is Lostpedia so when you ask if people liked "Through the Looking Glass" your obviously gonna get 90% of people who loved it. How about Best Actor polls. Or Favourite characters. favrourite scenes per episode. Anyone have suggestions for better questions?--Dicola 07:28, 9 June 2007 (PDT)
    • I completely agree. Asking people if they liked a certain episode is pretty bland; it should be more creative! Tabula rasa 12:50, 9 June 2007 (PDT)
  • I am surprised that Eko is beating Charlie on the "which dead character would you bring back?" poll. But what surprises me more is the absence of Libby. I would bring Libby back in a heartbeat! --Roverclyde 11:57, 12 June 2007 (PDT)

Index

The index still shows the cable as a mystery. Please change this as we have found out the usage of the cable in "Through the Looking Glass". DrGiggles 08:45, 9 June 2007 (PDT)

Thanks, its been removed. -Mr.Leaf 10:19, 9 June 2007 (PDT)

Season 3 Episode 22

In my opinion "Season 3 Finale" sounds better. Can somebody change that? --Kemot from Poland 06:59, 13 June 2007 (PDT)

Why? Season 3 - Episode 22 is where we have got to. Sure, it was the finale, but putting that doesn't tell you anything, such as the episode number.  Plkrtn  talk  contribs  email  04:43, 14 June 2007 (PDT)

I just meant that "S3 Episode 22" can suggest that it's not the last episode in the season. --Kemot from Poland 04:56, 14 June 2007 (PDT)

Typo

Just a minor thing. Under "Lost Rewatch", it says "We're also discussion of these episodes on the forum" which should probably say something like "We're also discussing..." --Snake313 00:21, 16 June 2007 (PDT)

Changed. Thanks, --Nickb123 (Talk) 03:31, 16 June 2007 (PDT)
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