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Please note that I reverted your changes to the order of the Movies directors page as it was previously in alphabetical order by last name, in the same way as all of our other similar production lists. -- Sulfur 16:11, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
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Trek movie info pages 
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Hi, Alientraveller. A few of us have further discussed your suggestion regarding the creation of userpages for info from the Star Trek film. The general decision is that it's just not a good idea. Please read the entire discussion on my talk page for the reasons. Sorry if I initially misled you, but the truth is, I should have involved the community in this discussion before giving you the "go ahead." --From Andoria with Love 20:55, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
Image uploadsEdit
Make sure that you cite your images properly on your uploads. All images from the new movie should have the following text at the end of the description (before the license):
({{film|11}})
That will indicate the source. Please also make sure that all descriptions are in the correct POV and that you give apt categories to the images. Thanks! -- sulfur 19:00, November 16, 2009 (UTC)
Just an aside, you do not need to put on the license-based category or the category listing the movie/episode that the image is from. As long as you've cited and licensed the image properly, those categories are automatically maintained. :) -- sulfur 11:29, November 17, 2009 (UTC)
The alt pages Edit
The wording of the mirror universe articles is wrong. It has to be changed to the correct POV, see ISS Enterprise. - Archduk3:talk 11:39, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
Image revertsEdit
Please do not revert images without giving a quick reason as to why. The only case that this is not required is when reverting obvious vandalism. Thanks. -- sulfur 16:25, January 25, 2010 (UTC)
"clear" after imagesEdit
Please note that we have a template designed to handle this: {{clear}} -- it makes life a fair bit easier and simpler, and also allows us to quickly find every instance of its use without having to look for 6-7 different styles of clearing. :) -- sulfur 17:53, March 7, 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks mate, was looking for a template, on other wikis it's marked as {{-}}. Alientraveller 17:54, March 7, 2011 (UTC)
New ProposalEdit
Hello there. I wish to invite you to contribute and/or vote in this discussion on a new way of electing and retaining admins on Memory Alpha. Should you not wish to vote, your thoughts and opinions on this matter would be greatly appreciated in the "discussion" section. Kind regards, TrekFan. --| TrekFan Open a channel 11:37, September 15, 2011 (UTC)
Image uploadsEdit
When uploading images, please be certain to add categories to them. For comic book covers for IDW releases, please use Category:Memory Alpha images (IDW comic book covers). Thanks. -- sulfur 13:16, January 1, 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. --Alientraveller 16:22, January 1, 2012 (UTC)
To followup on this, when adding images, ensure that you cite them correctly in their description. Just adding the category is not acceptable. For example, your latest upload should have ({{film|11}}) at the end of the description. This will automatically add the relevant categories. Thanks. -- sulfur (talk) 19:02, September 10, 2012 (UTC)
- Cool, did not know that works as a template too. :) --Alientraveller (talk) 19:07, September 10, 2012 (UTC)
- Although it's been a while (looks up) :S --Alientraveller (talk) 19:07, September 10, 2012 (UTC)
Episode links and galleriesEdit
When putting in links to episodes, please use the {{e}} template. This is important. Also, when creating image galleries or adding images to them, please prepend the image names with "File:". This is not required in Mediawiki software, but makes our use of bots much easier. -- sulfur (talk) 17:14, November 20, 2012 (UTC)
Galleries. AgainEdit
When creating image galleries or adding images to them, please prepend the image names with "File:". This is not required in Mediawiki software, but makes our use of bots much easier. -- sulfur (talk) 17:23, May 9, 2013 (UTC)
Copyvio revert Edit
Information on Wikipedia is licensed under a Creative Commons license that is incompatible to ours. This means that text can not simply be moved between the projects, and doing so constitutes a copyright violation. There has been an additional edit to the copyvio plot summary as well as an edit to the gallery, that didn't lead to visible changes. Please don't re-revert if I remove the copyright violation again - the other option would be to go for a full copyvio discussion on a page that is currently very high profile. Not really a good idea. -- Cid Highwind (talk) 20:30, May 9, 2013 (UTC)
New images Edit
Do you know where those images are being obtained from? I think(though not sure) it's only fair use if they are directly from the film(i.e. home video). Sulfur or Cid would know better than I, though. 31dot (talk) 14:35, May 19, 2013 (UTC)
- They're all taken from trailers, TV spots or publicity photos. --Alientraveller (talk) 14:39, May 19, 2013 (UTC)
- The uploader as well as any subsequent user has to claim "fair use" for any image that is being used although there's a copyright to it. The exact source doesn't matter in that regard - but could matter for us internally, because not every image from a trailer is necessarily canon. --Cid Highwind (talk) 16:05, May 19, 2013 (UTC)
DEFAULTSORTEdit
When creating new pages for people that have a first and last name, please ensure that you add {{DEFAULTSORT:Last, First}} to their article right before the categories. This ensures that they sort properly in the category pages. -- sulfur (talk) 23:07, May 19, 2013 (UTC)
- Yeah sorry about Eric Greitens the other day. I placed a defaultsort when creating Greg Weisman's page on Wookiepedia though. :) --Alientraveller (talk) 18:46, May 20, 2013 (UTC)
Image Policy Edit
No problem Alientraveler, I know the nurse on the Starfleet uniform (alternate reality 2250s) page wasn't the best resolution, but it was the only one of her I could find and I thought she'd be decent addition. I don't mean to cause any trouble as far as using copyrighted material. --FaNbOy1988 (talk) 03:34, May 22, 2013 (UTC)
Image licensesEdit
Please be careful with your image licenses. There should be almost never a reason to use the base {{image fairuse}} license. For covers, please always ensure that you use the {{image fairuse cover}} license. For images posted by people on twitter (ie Edgar Wright's photo), that image is actually copyrighted to him, and the appropriate license must be used. We are using it in a fairuse context, but the correct license must be used. Thanks. -- sulfur (talk) 13:09, May 24, 2013 (UTC)
- Do you mean {{image paramount}}? Because that's what I use. --Alientraveller (talk) 13:33, May 24, 2013 (UTC)
No, image paramount is good for screenshots (and that's about it), while "fairuse cover" is for covers (of anything, no matter who owns them), and "image copyright" if something is copyrighted to an individual (for example).
I bring it up because I had to do a bunch of fixes on comic covers for the ongoing #20-24 covers you uploaded recently. :) -- sulfur (talk) 13:36, May 24, 2013 (UTC)