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Nominate new admins
Hey, guys! This Wiki needs new Admins. But, to keep everything regular, I want you to propose those who you think would be the best for this job. When the nominations are over, we'll have a vote.--UskokHail HYDRA! 10:48, August 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello! Is this where I should put my opinion? I'll go with yes. I would like to nominate two members. 1: Shabook, seeing as they have the most edits of anyone on the wiki. However I remember seeing a minor blowout about him/her resigning? I could be wrong, I saw it a while back. You guys know better than I do, so use your own judgment.
 * 2: I would also like the nominate Bratpack, as he has the most points after two of our current administrators, Uskok and TurtleTrekker. These are my nominations.:-)


 * ~Silverstream (talk) 11:08, August 9, 2014 (UTC)Silverstream


 * Well I know there is need for 2 more admins, I will only nominate one.


 * I will nominate Shabook to become an admin, the amount of work he has put in for the wiki is just massive, yes, he has been a pain for the current admins multiple times, but he is just a perfectionist and someone with his activity and amount of work would be usefull to have i the admin corps.


 * I have seen someone nominated Bratpack because of the amount of points he has earned, which can be a good reason and I believe Bratpack could be a good admin as well. but my reaction to that is: New Captain, the Main Admin, is only the number 12 on the wiki, Having many points shouldn't be the only reason to become an admin.


 * TomasDerksen (talk) 11:33, August 9, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen
 * Hello I would like to nominate shabook as he is one that does not settle for anything less than perfection and is very good at cleaning pages up.--Doctor Stranger (talk) 13:18, August 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello, I'd like to nominate Shabook and Bratpack for admins. They do a ton of work and are both friendly and helpful to others. I'd also like to nominate myself as I have done a ton of work on it and enjoy the wiki and the community.  Coluanprime (talk) 14:12, August 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * Greater good would make a good candidate i think. Byzantinefire 15:50, August 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * I feel like I would be a good Admin. I work well with other people and I would make sure people follow the rules.

The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (talk) 18:12, August 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * I am fine with Shabook as an Admin since he is dedicated and has a firm grasp on grammar and coding. He is also online more than anyone here for quick responses to problems. While Bratpack is a great writer, his coding skills are not up to Admin quality. Lowriders95s10 (talk) 18:56, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * I would like to nominate 1. Shabook and 2. ThomasDerksen, because they are both good people who know exactly how to handle every situation here on the wiki. I feel like there is nothing else to be said, they are my two obvious choices.


 * MCUFFTW (talk) 19:28, August 9, 2014 (UTC)


 * Good evening. My two nominations are Tomasderksen and Shabook. Their knowledge of this wiki's policies are great and constant. Their work is extensive. Shabook in my opinion was my S.O. when I first came here, teaching me how to write "wiki-style". Tomas is kind ( something I can't even claim) all the time, even in ignorant situations. I hope my thoughts are written correctly, in the right spaces. Thank you, Bratpack (talk) 21:38, August 9, 2014 (UTC)Bratpack
 * Bratpack (talk) 21:38, August 9, 2014 (UTC)

Modified templates (Closed Thread)
On the request of user Bold Clone, here you can vote about his proposal to modify our current character templates. You can vote for, or against his proposal. Just add your signatures and that's it.--UskokHail HYDRA! 17:52, August 9, 2014 (UTC)

Here is my proposal: As things currently stand, anyone currently using or preferring the "MonoBook" wiki skin is unable to read the Character template, because all of the font is rendered as black. The proposed changes is that the template's coding design will be altered so that the white font is compatible with the MonoBook skin while leaving the Wikia's appearance intact. -- Bold  Clone  18:04, August 9, 2014 (UTC)

For
 * 1) Coluanprime (talk) 18:09, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Bold   Clone  18:14, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) Coq87rouge (talk) 18:28, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 4) The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. The Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (talk) 16:00, August 10, 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) WickedHanschen (talk) 14:54, August 12, 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) Chrisflistal (talk) 20:00, August 13, 2014 (UTC)

Against

 * 1) Shabook (talk) 17:54, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) MCUFFTW (talk) 19:19, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) ~Silverstream (talk) 19:57, August 9, 2014 (UTC)Silverstream
 * 4) Lowriders95s10 (talk) 19:59, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) --Doctor Stranger (talk) 21:02, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) Bratpack (talk) 21:40, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 7) Babyrockhopper (talk) 21:40, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 8) Blaublau94 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (talk) 21:58, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * 9) Tomas Derksen (talk) 00:39, August 10, 2014

Comments
What are the propsed modifications?Coluanprime (talk) 18:09, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * Look here. And remeber to sign your comments.--UskokHail HYDRA! 17:59, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * As things currently stand, anyone currently using or preferring the "MonoBook" wiki skin is unable to read the Character template, because all of the font is rendered as black. The proposed changes is that the template's coding design will be altered so that the white font is compatible with the MonoBook skin while leaving the Wikia's appearance intact. -- Bold  Clone  18:04, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * As things are, my current view of the character template is this: Thor1.png


 * In order for me to see any normal font (non-links), I must highlight the whole page so that it looks like this: Thor2.png


 * As you can guess, this is a huge hassle for me to go through any time I must use any template anywhere on this site. Hence my proposal. -- Bold  Clone  22:09, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * I am pretty sure that the majority of the wikia's users and visitors don't use this Monobook skin and by that, we can not choose the demands of the minority over the demands of the majority. When you change the template's background colour to gray, it makes very hard, if not saying impossible, for us (the "normal" wikia's skin users) to read the pages. You don't have to be a graphic designer to see that a white text on a gray background is something you shouldn't do. I'm sorry if it is a huge hassle for you to visit the wikia the way it is--Blaublau94 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (talk) 23:18, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! That is just what I needed to hear. No one else earlier would tell me what they were seeing, which meant I could not collaborate with them to imrpove the template. That said, if you had read my comment above, you would have seen that I have found a way around that, which means the template can still be black, but the font is visible in MonoBook. -- Bold  Clone  23:22, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * I told you earlier, right here...--Blaublau94 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (talk) 23:36, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * ...You said grey-on-grey there. My aim was dark grey-(close to black)-on-white--which is what I was seeing. -- Bold  Clone  23:38, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * Why would you not use the the look of this wiki, like 99% of the users do, instead of the look of wikipedia, instead of changing something most agree on to something you agree on, you could also change your skin, alot easier.
 * TomasDerksen (talk) 23:28, August 9, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen
 * One, I am most familiar with the look of Wikipedia. Wikia is just a scrambled-up, poorly-colored mess to me.
 * Two, I am most comfortable with look of Wikipedia. I think it looks neutral, calm, and professional, as compared to having movie posters for backgrounds screaming at me for attention every time I load a page.
 * Three, if the changes work, the Wikia users won't notice anything, because like I mentioned earlier, I found a way to make the templates visually identical but mutually compatible for both skins. -- Bold  Clone  23:36, August 9, 2014 (UTC)

Well, this is the wiki about a Cinematic Universe, so that poster in the back ground is beloved. And it isn't pooorly colored at all it is black and white. I have seen your sandbox, on which you have 10 different colors, including black (Which wont work, white would). 10 different colors for those links, that would be a to much different colors, keep it simple, white on black.TomasDerksen (talk) 23:46, August 9, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen
 * Aesthetically speaking, the human eye is drawn to the color black, because it is so dark. Having the background be mostly black is a poor decoration choice. Additionally, the colors were to code the movies, so you could easily see which franchise they belong to. Color-coding a movie title in bold is nowhere near the scale of blacking out the background (the titles are much smaller, so even though they are a veritable rainbow of colors, their effect is considerably less). -- Bold  Clone  23:52, August 9, 2014 (UTC)
 * For one the effect is less, for another it isn't. I do not think it is a poor decoration choice at all, it is a good one, it is simpel and I like it more then white (which is quit boring). I personaly would only think it is to much difference, to busy, to have 10 different colors in a template. The effect it would have on me woul be considerably more. Luckely enough there is only a small change the templates would be changed, and even a smaller change to have templates with 10 diffent colors. It is not that I am against you, but I just do not think something should change for a minority of the people, when a majority of the people do not want it.TomasDerksen (talk) 23:57, August 9, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen
 * At the end of the day, it comes down to personal aesthetics. But we're not voting about my prototype templates. We're voting over whether or not I can make the Character template visible to myself and completely unchanged for you. You realize that, right? -- Bold  Clone  00:01, August 10, 2014 (UTC)
 * yes, I am aware of that and I voted against that, since you know, it was your choise to no use the skin this wiki uses, so the problems it gives to you, are not our problems.TomasDerksen (talk) 00:03, August 10, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen
 * I wish all users were as honest about their apathy as you are. -- Bold  Clone  00:07, August 10, 2014 (UTC)
 * Three votes for, and nine votes against. I guess this subject is settled.--UskokHail HYDRA! 15:22, August 10, 2014 (UTC)

I would like to be an admin
Hey Marvelites (that is slang for Marvel fans, if you haven't heard)! This is Milomilk! I have been wanting to be an admin for the past 2 years. I have been even asking the admins if I could be one. I have made many of the pages and templates on the wiki including: And that is not even half. I have re-watched the MCU films numerous times to get more information for the wiki. I have been asking for this for 2 years so please nominate me. Milomilk was here 03:03, August 10, 2014 (UTC) (This is a self nomination by Milmomilk)
 * Odinsleep
 * Alexis Denisof
 * Richard Armitage
 * Kenneth Choi
 * J. J. Feild
 * John Slattery
 * Garry Shandling
 * Jack McGee
 * Jim Wilson
 * P.J. Kerr
 * Amadeus Cho
 * Martin Starr
 * Jacques Dernier
 * Bruno Ricci
 * Kathleen Sparr
 * Christina Cabot
 * James Badge Dale
 * Joe Greller
 * Peter Mensah
 * Stanley
 * Paul Soles
 * The Incredible Hulk (video game)
 * Sayed Badreya
 * Wang Xueqi
 * William Sadler
 * Alice Krige
 * Fan Bingbing
 * Yang Mi
 * Stephanie Szostak
 * Edwin Jarvis
 * Titus Welliver
 * Imir
 * Peter Stark
 * Peter Billingsley
 * Jeremy Latcham
 * Mark Fergus
 * Hawk Ostby
 * Art Marcum
 * Matt Holloway
 * Roxxon Corporation
 * Adriana Barraza
 * Anatole Taubman
 * Joe Cornish
 * Malibu
 * Yevgeni Lazarev
 * Whiplash Armor: Mark I
 * Whiplash Armor: Mark II
 * War Machine Armor: Mark II
 * Stephen Broussard
 * Gale Anne Hurd
 * Karen Gilchrist
 * Denis L. Stewart

Comments
Hello, I did not vote on whether you should be an admin or not because there is the nominations stage to go through beforehand meaning someone is to nominate you or you are to nominate yourself. I also believe an admin should not be chosen by the number of pages they have created as anybody can do that. Thank you. --Doctor Stranger (talk) 17:09, August 10, 2014 (UTC)

Upcoming category and template.
Hey guys,

As you might have noticed we got rid of 90% of the really wanted wantedpages, from the wantedpages list (the others are not wanted).

This does mean we have a lot of new pages without an image and even more stubs.

We currently have 124 stubs and even more imageless articles. Alot of those pages are for articles that belong to an upcoming marvel product, therefor they cannot be edited yet (as in: in universe plot and image). It can be a hard thing to do for people to filter the page they can de-stub or can place an image in, within does 124 (and more imageless) pages.

To make it more easy I wanted to make a template and category for all in-universe articles that belong to upcoming products (Agent Carter, AOS Season 2, ant-man, Capt 3, All the netflix series, AoU). The template will then replace the imageless and/or the stub templat on the page, removing it from those categories and placing it in the upcoming category.

This would decrease the amount of pages in the imageless and stub category and make it alot more easy to find the pages you can edit and to oversee the amount of pages that could be edited by no one particular.

I wanted to know if anyone does not agree with this plan.

TomasDerksen (talk) 01:17, August 11, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen


 * If no one objects, I start doing this tomorrow TomasDerksen (talk) 18:29, August 11, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen


 * Sounds good to me!Coluanprime (talk) 19:39, August 11, 2014 (UTC)


 * I've modified a little the template, to differentiate it from the stub template. Also, I've fixed the category it would automatically add the articles to, with the name used in other wikis for similar purposes. But given that I once had a similar idea about a template for upcoming characters that was disregarded by our current administrators, I would wait a little before doing so.Shabook (talk) 20:00, August 11, 2014 (UTC)


 * The admins have been online, so if they had objections (or anyone else) it could have been placed already. The content behind it, yeah that works. Thanks for improving it.TomasDerksen (talk) 20:07, August 11, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen


 * This is a great idea. I have one little suggestion. Since most of the info on these articles are from leaks I think we should add something that says something like "Since this has yet to be released this information is subject to change." That way people know that the content is not set in stone.Lowriders95s10 (talk) 22:18, August 11, 2014 (UTC)


 * You can edit it in, it is usefull.TomasDerksen (talk) 03:09, August 12, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen

I have no objections.--UskokHail HYDRA! 06:28, August 12, 2014 (UTC)

Race/Citizenship
I was thinking about adding "Citizenship" on the Race Template because when you look on the Broker character you can see his "Citizenship" is Xandarian, but his race clearly is not, as James Gunn said himself "Xandar is multi-cultural".


 * About human characters, the Citizenship can be their nacionality, like "Steve Rogers -> American" and "Camilla Reyes -> Peruvian"
 * About the non Kree characters under the Kree Empire like the Sakaarans, Korath and the Exolon Monks, it would be perfect to add "Kree Empire Citizenship" to them.
 * About Hogun, it woulb be "Vanir Asgardian"
 * About Natasha, it would be "Russian American" (Quote: "Regimes fall every day. I tend not to weep over that, I'm Russian, or I was.")
 * About Blonsky, it would be "Russian English"

And soo on...--Blaublau94 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (talk) 18:21, August 12, 2014 (UTC)


 * Looks good to me! Coluanprime (talk) 01:19, August 13, 2014 (UTC)


 * Makes a lot of sense. Greater good (talk) 01:40, August 13, 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree.--UskokHail HYDRA! 06:01, August 13, 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree.Bratpack (talk) 10:34, August 13, 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree.TomasDerksen (talk) 14:14, August 13, 2014 (UTC)TomasDerksen
 * If everyone agrees, now all we need is the admins to unlock the character template.--Blaublau94 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (talk) 15:08, August 13, 2014 (UTC)