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Otto4711

There's a page I want to split but I can't find step-by-step instructions on how to do it, to make sure that existing links point to the split-off page, etc.

What's the page, and what's the kind of splitting you want to do? -- Drini 20:29, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Irina Derevko, I want to split the section on Katya Derevko off onto its own page and make sure all the links which currently redirect to Irina get pointed to the new page.Otto4711 21:26, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Also I would like to know how to insert the Character chart that's found at the bottom of the Irina page into the new page and how to add characters to the chart.Otto4711 21:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Firstly, take a look at Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style (writing about fiction).

I'm not advocating the splitting of the article - perhaps an Alias wiki (that deals just with Alias) is what you are looking for.

To do the split you just create the new article. You would need to check the "What links here" for the Irina Derevko page (available in the toolbox, under the search bar) to fix any links. The "Character chart" is a template available at Template:alias. Any change to the template will affect all pages it's used on - so discuss on the talk page first.--Commander Keane 22:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, I give up

How do I add something to a category page, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/Category:Fictional_technology

To add a page to that category you do not edit the category page itself. You add ] at the bottom of the article you want to add. Check out any article, eg Tai Nam Wan, to see how categories are added.--Commander Keane 07:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

TAR

Hello Otto...thanks for your note. I guess the 'issue' about Frankenberry is that there are multiple editors of the page all of whom don't recall this nickname. As I stated, I've just rewatched all the episodes (not because of this!) and don't hear it. If it is in there once, does that constitue a real nickname? If I am hearing Fran N' Barry but they said Frankenberry once...does that truly need to be in the page. I guess that will be a discussion point. As you might have seen I have reopened the discussion on the TAR discussion page. With regards to having to 'prove' this, all the other nicknames are easily recalled by multiple editors thus there wasn't a need to specify an episode/timestamp. Those nicknames were used continously in multiple episodes by multiple teams. KsprayDad 12:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Andrian Lazarey

Please do not remove maintenance tags; they are there so that editors can provide the appropriate citations and references to the information on the article.

There's no indication of where the information is from. The actual television show? The official website? A fan website? An article in Entertainment Weekly or the New York Times? Please leave the tag there, so that the appropriate references can be added by editors. --Madchester 16:55, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

FTL (Alias)

I believe the Alias section would greatly benefit from an article on FTL, seeing as there is one for almost every major intelligence organization on the show. As I am not a member, I cannot do this myself, and last time I submitted an article to the article requests section, it was ignored. So, here is my article. Feel free to edit it as you will.

FTL is a fictional Chinese organized crime group on the TV series Alias that deals in intelligence. It is featured in the first season. It is based in Hong Kong and led by Quan Li. Another known operative is the torturer Dr. Jong Lee, aka "Suit and Glasses." FTL is a rival of the Alliance of Twelve (mainly SD-6), K-Directorate, and the CIA. At the beginning of the series, FTL appears to be ahead of the other groups in the hunt for artifacts of Milo Rambaldi, as many artifacts are retrieved from FTL bases. In the pilot, we learn that FTL was responsible for the death of Oskar Mueller, a modern-day alchemist (who based his work off of Rambaldi's designs) who is later revealed to have once headed the Prophet Five project. Later in the season, FTL headquarters is raided by agents of "The Man" led by Julian Sark. Quan Li is assassinated by Sark in public. After that, its agent roster was compromised, and presumably most of its agents were either killed or forced to work for the Man.

The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency

I added those comments you made about Claudia to the article, which could give us an indication of what could happen during the series' run, which means we could see more models with related LGBT ties or other personal issues. Robert Moore 18:36 (UTC) 26 June 2006

Production Staff

What production staff are you talking about that have appeared in 2 out of 3 hours of Treasure Hunters?TeckWizContribs_Guestbook 18:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

The medical guy in episode 2 and the rescue divers and other production people who were hovering around the Browns in Hawaii.Otto4711 19:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

And this amounts to two whole hours how?TeckWizContribs_Guestbook 19:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

There have been three hours of programming. Production staff appeared in hour one of programming and hour three of programming. I didn't say they appeared in "two whole hours" of the show. That doesn't even make sense.

Production staff are also in TAR a lot. There are production people at a zipline which I think was in season 7. Another instince was season 9 when Fran was having a hard time bungee jumping. Also, the most obvious is also season seven when Brian and Greg flip their van and the camera guy is lying on the ground.TeckWizContribs_Guestbook 20:14, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I didn't say that TAR staff are never seen on-camera. I said that the producers take pains not to break the 4th wall. See the trivia section for The Amazing Race where it talks about how TAR goes as far as digitally removing members of the crew in post-production.

Honestly, I don't really care all that strongly about that particular item. I do think it's a somewhat significant difference between the two shows and it's worth including, and obviously I would prefer that it stay, but if it truly, truly bugs you so much to have it in the article then I'm not going to fuss if it gets deleted.Otto4711 20:25, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I would like to put back the comments about good vs. evil... They are NPOV--the point is that some viewers thought her good and others thought her evil, and the final episode resolves it (not a POV, but fact). I worry your deletion of that stemmed from some possessiveness. Please respond on my talk page--Denn333 09:00, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Reversion of special characters

Why when I edit articles do special characters (arrows, accented characters) sometimes suddenly spontaneously turn into question marks? See for example Treasure Hunters (TV series) in which a minor edit by me nowhere near any of them caused every arrow and accented character on the page to mutate. Otto4711 21:24, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

It's most likely the browser you're using, or the character encoding that your browser is using at the moment. Have you tried changing the encoding to Unicode UTF-8? --JD 21:45, 20 July 2006 (UTC)