User talk:ThatHatGuy

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Wikichievement!

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Frontier Notice Create new pages for recent contents and updates, keeping the Wiki up to date.	VasyaTheWizard	Wikichievement unlocked! Surprised you don't have more than one wikichievement already. You've been tirelessly adding pages to newly added items, such as medals, with every patch that gets released (lately we've been getting new patches surprisingly often). You're basically the only person that knows how to has the willpower to create pages for new medals, tons of which get added every patch. And that's not all, you also went through the infoboxes on a ton of items and added the team-colored styles for them. Oh, and by the way, congratulations on 10,000 edits :)

VasyaTheWizard ^{(talk) • (contributions)} 17:12, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Another one!

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Taskmonkey Contribute to the Wiki by doing a lot of "manual edits" (such as migration of data to templates).	VasyaTheWizard	Wikichievement unlocked! Looks like it's time for another one! Community and tournament medals with their events looking really nice and tidy - keep up the good work :D

VasyaTheWizard ^{(talk) • (contributions)} 12:08, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

I didn't need your help, ya know?

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Helping Hand Help other users to improve the Team Fortress Wiki with constant tips and coordination.	GrampaSwood	Wikichievement unlocked! For lending me items (taunts and cosmetic(s)) for demonstrations

Don't be fooled by the title, I just tried saying thanks as Demoman.
GrampaSwood (talk) 18:02, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Congrats

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Videographer Create a video for the Weapon Demonstration project which gets added to the official YouTube channel.	GrampaSwood	Wikichievement unlocked! For getting an official demonstration uploaded.

GrampaSwood (talk) 09:26, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

Press space to speak

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Audiophile Contribute significantly to the files of the audio category.	GrampaSwood	Wikichievement unlocked! Taking a look at the Wheatley responses makes me wonder why you don't have this yet.

And I'm keeping your doubloons
GrampaSwood (talk) 10:33, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

don't drop them :D Naleksuh (talk) 18:07, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Return to sender :]

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Credit to Team Collaborate with other users on a project.	Faghetti	Wikichievement unlocked! If we do not count translating /da, then this project was the first 'big' project I partook in on the wiki and I must say that it was an ingenious idea you came up with and the wiki will forever be improved because of it. No more red links and copy pasted cookie-cutter-look-alike-season-56-medal pages. Not to speak of the way cleaner cosmetic NavBar design that followed. You did the wiki a huge favor and I thank you for letting me in on it, as it was a thorn in my side as well. Keep up the great work, buddy!

Prefixes are kewl

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
It's the Little Things... Provide a large amount of edits whose primary goals are to correct grammar, punctuation, etc.	VasyaTheWizard	Wikichievement unlocked! For going through many years worth of items, adding prefixes to articles where they were missed, all while going mostly unnoticed. You really should try joining the IRC sometimes, I'm sure it'd be fun :D

VasyaTheWizard ^{(talk) • (contributions)} 14:51, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Achievement unlocked!

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Credit to Team Collaborate with other users on a project.	GrampaSwood	Wikichievement unlocked! For helping me finally complete a project I've been procrastinating on since last summer.

It even says it on my to do page that I would do it in 3 weeks time and it would be done on 17-8-2019
GrampaSwood (talk) 09:54, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Achievement unlocked! Again!

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Credit to Team Collaborate with other users on a project.	BrazilianNut	Wikichievement unlocked! For your recent navbar, update articles, and action special taunts projects.

BrazilianNut (talk) 01:31, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your help!

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Helping Hand Help other users to improve the Team Fortress Wiki with constant tips and coordination.	Lexzach	Wikichievement unlocked! For helping me with the correct paint gallery format.

Lexzach (talk) 13:53, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Moving images

Please don't move images when an item reuses an existing asset. You can make a redirect using the following: #REDIRECT [[:File:Existing filename]]. Thank you. — Tark lm(pt-br) 03:56, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Oh, interesting. I didn't know we could just create redirects back, I'm sorry, I'll do that. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 11:12, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Names of mission makers of operation Starched Silliness

I know it's very very late, but can you please ask the members of potato.tf or pineapple.tf (now moonlight.tf) for the name of authors of these missions? Yaroslav tv (talk) 18:22, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Starched Silliness was Pineapple, I don't have a contact I can ask for that sort of information within that group, the way I did for Potato's MVM missions; so you'd be able to find out their names as well as I could. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 02:34, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello !

Thank you for correcting my mistake, I genuinely appreciate it. Moreover, I have an additional question- this way I can know, in future and similar occasions, how to properly handle the case.

Why are the medals from the Operation Peculiar Pandemonium removed from the table of Mooonlight MvM, if the operation is hosted by Moonlight, same as Operation Binary Blackout?

Thank you for your time <3 Yossef | Talk | Contributions 07:23, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

This is a special case. Moonlight MVM announced on their Discord that the Binary Blackout charity drive would continue past when Peculiar Pandemonium concluded. Though they've also announced about an hour ago that the Peculiar Pandemonium drive will also continue until the end of the month, as well. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 01:07, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Got it! Thank you Yossef | Talk | Contributions 13:46, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

potat

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Photo Bomb Continuously upload and add screenshots to articles.	Gabrielwoj	Wikichievement unlocked! For all your consistent / Shugo-style Item icons for Tournament Medals you have been uploading for a while now, and all the potato.tf / pineapple.tf medals with proper item icons and paint variants.

- ▪ - 13:15, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! I really appreciate it, but I should mention, I'm not the one that does the painted variants for the potato.tf/Moonlight MVM medals. That's H20verdrive. I do the item icons though. -ThatHatGuy (talk) 14:47, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

The icons still good. - ▪ - 15:01, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

You did well!

Wikichievement	Awarded by	Reason
Taskmonkey Contribute to the Wiki by doing a lot of "manual edits" (such as migration of data to templates).	Yossef	Wikichievement unlocked! For single handling the Tournament Medal article. From creating the strings/templates, to manually adding/improving the medal's icons.

Good job! Yossef | Talk | Contributions 10:58, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Tarkchievement unlocked

Tarkchievement	Awarded by	Reason
Potato Fan Potato lover.	ME	Wikichievement unlocked! By the power vested in me, I hereby grant you the title of Potato Fan.

May I thank you for all of your efforts and present you with this not-so-one-of-a-kind special achievement. — Tark 22:29, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

200k image proposal

Hey That Hat Guy, can you review the image I did for your Heavy on Andrew360's page? Do let me know if you want something changed.
Thanks!

Luno 🎃 14:32, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

I like the pose, it's a good facial expression that meshes with the beard nicely -- don't change that, but I don't really like the Golden Pan like that, it feels unnatural. I'd have preferred something with the Top Shelf Minigun, like how it was in the 100K picture, but if that's unfeasible, I'd rather just have the pose on its own. — 00:10, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Operation Holographic Harvest page

Hey, noticed you were working on a sandbox page for the new community-created MvM operation. I originally was intending on working on that page as well, but since it's obvious you have been working on it for quite a few weeks now I'm going to leave that page alone until you're ready to create it. It would feel a bit strange to create the page just before you pushed all your changes to the main site. Just as a small note, I have grabbed a couple of the elements you've written up and used them in a sandbox template of my own, hopefully that's okay.

Let me know if you need any help with anything, or if there's something in particular that I should know about site etiquette and etc regarding these types of things - just want to make sure I'm properly familiar with the right way to go about all of this. Thanks for your hard work, much appreciated!

Epsilonal (talk) 15:38, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

The sandbox page I made is pretty much content complete now, but due to the community notability guidelines, the staff would prefer that I wait until a blog post appears about the tour to push it to the main space. That usually happens around the time the tours launch properly anyway, so I haven't had an issue with it.

As for wanting to help with it, I appreciate it, but really the only thing left to do is properly credit mission co-authors, and add new missions as they release; which I was planning to do once a creators page went live on the Potato Servers site. Mission articles may also be worked on, but they must all be completed in a user space first, before moving them all to the main space – so we haven't had community missions documented in quite some time, and that's not usually my domain.

In the future, if you'd like to help create articles for future campaigns, I'd be happy to have you! Please be sure to use the other articles as a guide, and follow their structure. I designed the format for community event / tournament medal pages, with a few collaborators, so I'm usually the main one that has an interest in working on them. It'd be nice to have another helper! — 22:43, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Gotcha, I was wondering whether the medals being added to the game was sufficient under the notability guidelines - but a blog post makes sense. I'd also be more than happy to help with the community event / tournament medal pages! I know there is usually a lot of work to be done with the details (maps, missions, wave count, authors, workshop creators, etc..) so I'm sure it'll be a lot easier to split the load. I've been basing most prior contributions of mine on existing pages, so I'll make sure that I take a close look at their formatting and structure in future as well.

Epsilonal (talk) 03:07, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Note that those guidelines are still under review and not official yet, there's just a basic requirement for things to be notable. Medals aren't enough because there are a lot of medals for a lot of tournaments that we don't really consider notable, especially when this event is still in beta.
GrampaSwood (talk) 09:46, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Dereko says thank you

The information you acquainted this one with is helpful and timely. Thank you! 05:07, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikichievement unlocked!

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Frivolous Fooler Make a notable contribution to an April Fools' event.	GrampaSwood	Wikichievement unlocked! For the Corolla Corral and the Moustachium weapons! They were great gags.

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