User talk:QueenBuffy

Welcome
Hi, welcome to Game of Thrones Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the User:QueenBuffy page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Werthead (Talk) 00:25, April 22, 2011

House Grandison's Shield?
Could you weigh-in on the use of House Grandison's shield on House Grandison's talk page? I would like to have a quick discussion and put the issue to rest.

Thanks Ser Shield McShield (talk) 17:56, December 10, 2016 (UTC)

Languages
Quick language survey, for wiki interlink purposes (answer in thread): http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:52705 --The Dragon Demands (talk) 00:40, January 2, 2017 (UTC)

Feature quiz on mainpage?
Hi QueenBuffy! I hope this message finds you well. Are you open to adding this piece of programming to the mainpage slider? Might be fun to add an interactive quiz for new and current users visiting the wiki. Let me know either way!

Therese

Thereselovesyou (talk) 21:23, March 2, 2017 (UTC)

Sigils
Hey, I'm trying to get back into the swing of things around here and I know you were asking about the sigils a while back... Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you, but anyway the answer is yes, it's predominantly me who makes them. - 15:54, April 10, 2017 (UTC)

Locked pages
Hello QueenBuffy,

I would like to make minor edits (no spoilers, of course) of locked pages, among them: Maggy, Azor Ahai, Catelyn, House Tyrell, Sand Snakes and more. I assume these pages are locked due to repeated vandalism or posting spoilers.

For instance: I wish to add to Catelyn's page the prophecy about her death "I dreamt of a roaring river and a woman that was a fish. Dead she drifted, with red tears on her cheeks".

My question is: for gaining access to the above pages, do I have to be a member of this wikipedia for a certain period, or make a certain number of edits? Moonracer (talk) 15:03, April 14, 2017 (UTC)

They were getting vandalized so much we increased the lock on them so only Admins can edit. I'll unlock all except the Catelyn one.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 15:24, April 14, 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Moonracer (talk) 15:36, April 14, 2017 (UTC)

Enable "Discussion"
Wikia Staff wants to open "Discussion" - what do you think?

Would take time to police, but also draw in more audience away from other places. http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:The_Dragon_Demands#Enable_Discussions_for_the_coming_season.3F --The Dragon Demands (talk) 05:32, April 22, 2017 (UTC)

OITNB
Hey Buffy, hope this message finds you well. I wanted to contact you about the OITNB wiki as you're still a bureau over there! Sorry to spam your page on different wiki, just thought we've talked here before and you're active here :) feel free to delete.

Lovely bones doesn't visit the wiki a lot anymore and says she doesn't really have time for it. However, that leaves us with no active bureaus. Meyerliane and myself are in agreement that it would be best for us to become bureaus so we can make more admins if needed, as there's now only two of us and the new season will be out next month. However, Lovely bones hasn't responded to our messages about it (here's the discussion).

Was wondering if you'd feel comfortable popping by and doing it for us? Otherwise we'd have to go the official appealing to wikia staff way with a bunch of supporting evidence, which I don't mind doing, but it'd be a faff.

Lmk either way! Thanks :)

Ruby (Ruby Doomsday (talk) 11:01, May 1, 2017 (UTC))

Images
Okay, but please don't lock these pages. I must admit, your work on imagery is great, but please don't lock these pages, could you just add a note saying not to change it, I would be very grateful if you did. MedusaandPoseiden (talk) 20:12, July 15, 2017 (UTC)

Okay, can you just add the old images into the gallery below, if you have time, I know you are very busy. MedusaandPoseiden (talk) 20:15, July 15, 2017 (UTC)

Fair enough. When you say "soon enough" you do mean before tommorrow night? I am just so excited for the premiere, you the same? MedusaandPoseiden (talk) 20:19, July 15, 2017 (UTC)


 * This was actually discussed a while back, and it was agreed not to change Cersei's image for now... not until a decent one becomes available. She's starring at the floor in the S7 one, and isn't wearing her crown. Likewise with Bran. - 14:05, July 16, 2017 (UTC)
 * Alright, I wish I had been asked to join in on the convo so I was on the same page. From now on, can you guys bring me into the blog as usual? I don't know why it matters if there is a crown on her head, when we've always gone by the most updated image, regardless a crown. lol. Also, we all know what Bran looks like. haha. 15:38, July 16, 2017 (UTC)

Pageviews
I just updated the forum thread on pageviews from the Admin tool...our site hits are already at 1 million for the past two days...before the Season 7 premiere. The spike is always day-after, everyone reading it the Monday after it airs (I don't think anyone seriously thinks everything can be updated in the mere 2 hours between when the episode finishes at midnight, at which it becomes "Monday").

Our all-time high remains 9 million for the day-after the Season 6 finale. Last year we stayed at over 1 million every day....since after the second episode, Jon Snow's resurrection, good ironborn stuff, all that (frankly the Dorne crap in the season premiere may have turned people off). That got us to 2.2 million. We're already at 1 million now and it hasn't even aired. Well, we got 1.7 million day-after episode 6.1 but then it dipped below 1 million in the following week. Year before that in Season 5 we'd get over 1 million on the day-afters but they'd dip below in the following week. Crud, it stayed over 1 million from the Season 6 finale on June 27 through July 19.

(shrug)

I look forward to having 18 months to finally catch up on everything after this. Dear god I hope I can get to everything before 2018, just six months of solid work. We'll see how that goes. I want to be at a point where everything is so "done" that I can go back and start a rewatch project in order from Season 1 (we were shorthanded then and had a lot of work to do). Combing through for better details. Crap, I've been promising myself that rewatch since Season 2.

I look forward to the prequels without Benioff and Weiss's antics.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 20:15, July 16, 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh I know! I noticed that too! (about the 1 mil views a day already!) Impressive and yes, a little scary. haha. But we've done it this long and will continue to. Now that the season is back on I'll be around a little more to help control spammers; lock any pages that need to be, etc. Don't stress too much about it. We'll handle it. :) 20:18, July 16, 2017 (UTC)

I'm afraid of everything all the time. It's kept me alive. Only fools aren't afraid. If I seem outwardly angry all the time (which I deeply regret) it's because I'm afraid of everything. And I fear Benioff and Weiss screwing up what few things they haven't already. But here we stand.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 20:44, July 16, 2017 (UTC)

By the Smith's hammer...the day-after site visits for the Season 7 premiere were 4.2 million. The last time we broke 4 million was after the Hodor death episode. Where the hell will we be by the Season 7 finale?--The Dragon Demands (talk) 01:05, July 20, 2017 (UTC)

Brightened Images Needed
Can you prepare a brightened image of both Alys Karstark and Ned Umber so they can be used in their respective families family trees?

I'll take of updating the family trees but I am a bit swamped at work at the moment.

Ser Shield McShield (talk) 02:01, July 20, 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the brighter pictures - those should work.

On a related note, now that you don't have Photoshop anymore, you might be interested in this free photo editing software: https://www.getpaint.net  It doesn't have all the bell and whistles of Photoshop but I found it to be surprisingly useful.

Ser Shield McShield (talk) 18:07, July 20, 2017 (UTC)

Images on Right or Left?
Aren't all the images supposed to be on the right? Because the First Warning says that they are supposed to be on the left?

Ser Shield McShield (talk) 20:06, July 24, 2017 (UTC)

Watch this playlist
Please watch this playlist I made on YouTube. Try to get to it soon, it's about 13 hours of content already and its unfinished - but it represents over a year of research. I figured out everything we didn't understand before. You need to see this.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxojMpX5XGoXvaoZfioEVQP2dgQfisigd --The Dragon Demands (talk) 02:28, August 6, 2017 (UTC)

Rhaegar edit: Gilly (Eastwatch)
http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/episodes/7/65-65-eastwatch/synopsis.html

 Gilly (reading a diary): This High Septon Maynard, he recorded everything. He even recorded his own bowel movements. What does "annulment" mean?

 Sam: It's when a man sets aside his lawful wife.

 Gilly: Maynard says here that he issued an annulment for a Prince "Ragger" and remarried him to someone else at the same time in a secret ceremony in Dorne. Is that a common thing in the south or--?

Sam: These maesters they set me to the task of preserving that man's window counting and annulments and bowel movements for all eternity, while the secret to defeating the Night King's probably sitting on some dusty shelf somewhere, completely ignored.

 Read more: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=game-of-thrones&episode=s07e05

Schieftain (talk) 17:30, August 14, 2017 (UTC)schieftain
 * Who didn't say what things? Gilly?
 * What is considered a spoiler? I have included no spoilers.
 * Gilly said that "Ragger" got an annulment and was remarried in Dorne.
 * Lyanna isn't mentioned by name. Elia isn't mentioned by name.

Ratings going in to S7 finale
I've been going over the numbers:

In terms of TV Nielson ratings (not including streaming or DVR, which increase it by something like 50%), episode 5.4 "The Spoils of War" set a new record high with 10.2 million, which was surpassed by "Eastwatch" with 10.72 million (though that's spillover from the preceding week...we've seen that often enough, day after a "bad" episode airs the next week gets terrible ratings, but that's due to the hype from the preceding episode; same thing with "good" episodes, momentum builds...though finales are usually live event-viewing regardless of how well the last one did). Anyway, live ratings for "Beyond the Wall" (which I just keep calling "The Wight Hunt" in my head) dipped down slightly back to 10.2 million (still tying for second-highest of all time).

Wiki traffic, however, just kept going up. Prior to this season, the highest "normal" episode was "The Door", after Hodor died (second highest of all time), with 4.8 million site visits - followed by one or two others with incrementally going down to 4.6, 4.1, etc. Highest of all time was the Season 6 finale, which jumped to 9.1 million (combination of reveal of Jon's Snow's real parentage and a lot of characters dying).

Well, episode 7.4 "The Spoils of War" was already up to 4.6 million, then "Eastwatch" broke the record set by the Hodor episode, with 5.1 million. Despite TV ratings dipping slightly, wiki viewership increased yet again after that: "Beyond the Wall" had a day-after figure of 5.3 million.

...Just before the Season 6 finale aired, I jokingly said it would be cool it if hit 6 million, thinking it might hit 5 million for once. I didn't realize how drastically finales jump (because they're event-viewing; people record or time shift mid-season episodes). The penultimate episode of Season 6 had a 4.0 million wiki traffic rating, which then jumped to 9.1 million for the finale.

Going by that factor (multiplying by 2.275), with 5.3 million for the penultimate Season 7 episode....the Season 7 finale should break over 12 million. I fully expect it to at least break 10 million and set a new record. What if it hits 15 million or more? Nothing is off limits now.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 20:18, August 27, 2017 (UTC)

...this is weird. The day-after results for the Season 7 finale were only 9.1 million - exactly tying the Season 6 finale results. Even though it kind of had a big revelation, what with the Rhaegar/Lyanna flashback.

...is...is it possible that we hit the ceiling? That no more than 9.1 million people think go even google stuff online after they watch? I mean there had to be an upper limit at some point. Nielsen ratings say 10 million households watch live (maybe 14-15 million including streaming). Maybe the remaining third or so of viewers are casual ones that just don't go online?

I mean it's not just 9.0 or 9.2...it's 9.1 exactly. Exactly the same as before.--The Dragon Demands (talk) 20:12, August 31, 2017 (UTC)

Page Protection
Why are most pages protected to sysop? Utkar22~ HEAR ME ROAR!  05:37, August 28, 2017 (UTC)
 * BLOG. 05:43, August 28, 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi there QueenBuffy. I have just finished watching "The Dragon and the Wolf" episode and taken notes of the events. I was wondering if you or another administrator could remove the protection for this episode now that it has been formally released. Alternatively, I could email you my notes. Please let me know what best works. Kind regards. Andykatib 09:32, August 28, 2017 (UTC)

Locking a talk page?
It's one thing to lock a page from further edits, but locking a talk page is basically silencing people from voicing their opinions and keeping a democratic discussion from occurring. I'm sure if you thought about it you'd see how questionable an action like that actually is --Mandon (talk) 17:39, August 28, 2017 (UTC)
 * Because, we've been here before. Over and over. We've said what'll happen on the page, and that should be the end of discussion, but people will still come by and debate this. It'll never end... as was the case with other characters. We get millions of visitors a day, trust me... this will become problematic. It won't stay protected forever, but with the high volume traffic we currently have, we can't keep worrying about this. 17:44, August 28, 2017 (UTC)

People have every right to debate it. That's what we call living in a democracy. When a bill is being passed in congress that's unfavourable to the general populus do you see the Supreme Court turning their phones off while senators are deliberating? No. Just because the admins have come to a consensus shouldn't mean that people aren't allowed to protest that consensus. Silencing voices is akin to a dictatorship and shouldn't be practised on a page that's literally intended for discussion. What if someone wants to bring up another issue unrelated to Jon's name? They can't now. --Mandon (talk) 19:09, August 28, 2017 (UTC)

MY EDITS
Anyone who sees this... STOP UNDOING MY EDITS!!!!!! IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH SOMETHING, COME TO ME FIRST!!!! IT'S COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE IF I DO WORK AND YOU COME BEHIND ME TO UNDO THINGS!!!! 18:01, August 29, 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe slow down a bit. Byzantinefire - There are no strings on me (talk ) 18:49, August 29, 2017 (UTC)
 * ?? 18:49, August 29, 2017 (UTC)
 * With editing in general also i'm trying to keep cool about the quality of uploads and possibility of already deleted images. Byzantinefire - There are no strings on me (talk ) 18:51, August 29, 2017 (UTC)
 * Well I wasn't talking about you. lol What do you mean by this? "i'm trying to keep cool about the quality of uploads and possibility of already deleted images"? 18:52, August 29, 2017 (UTC)
 * Well i just hate to lose images i upload here or have them uploaded over also perhaps it would be easier for the wiki to have an auto refresh on the recent activity board and a discord channel for conversations. Byzantinefire - There are no strings on me (talk ) 18:54, August 29, 2017 (UTC)
 * We usually delete images that aren't being used on pages... so they aren't just floating around. If you upload an image, make sure it's in an article. If you see a duplicate image, please let us know... we need to delete duplicate images. I'm not sure if Discord would work here, as people don't even go in our chat room here. :( That brings up the idea of making a Facebook page however. That could be fun. Your signature isn't working btw. 18:57, August 29, 2017 (UTC)
 * I know and should probably bring it over and Discord is probably more popular then regular wiki chats i'll link you to one right now. https://discord.gg/kbYKqZ9 Byzantinefire - There are no strings on me (talk ) 19:01, August 29, 2017 (UTC)

Hi.

I created the Test post. I did it because I have been trying to post an article for a while and I keep getting an error. I thought that maybe creating an empty article and then coming back to edit it I could then paste my text on it.

Do you have any idea why I keep getting an error when I click on the Publish button even though the Preview is ok?

TekForceOne (talk) 23:34, August 29, 2017 (UTC)

Hi I am the person that uploaded the Viserion Wright Dragon pic and I understand you deleted it (I think) but can I ask you why?I understand you had a reason but an you please tell me.Thank you.Brandonnovoa98 (talk) 17:02, September 2, 2017 (UTC)Brandonnovoa98

Images
Which image? Vegan God (talk) 20:10, September 3, 2017 (UTC)


 * The latest one with Samwell. I just have to make sure I stay on top of this. Thanks. 20:11, September 3, 2017 (UTC)

Discord
Has there been any recent development on this? Byzantinefire - There are no strings on me (talk ) 00:39, September 5, 2017 (UTC)

Hey Buffy!

I accidently made a page in the GoT wiki when I tried to upload a pic to my profile. I've now learned the correct way to do it, however, I don't know how to delete that original page... Could you delete it?!

Thanks,

ArryTargaryen (talk) 01:10, September 5, 2017 (UTC)

Test message. — Queen of the Andals and the First Men (talk) 01:26, September 6, 2017 (UTC)

Seasonal character articles
Didn't we remove all of them because they had become glorified transcripts?--Gonzalo84 (talk) 18:33, September 8, 2017 (UTC)