User talk:5urd

Stub

Hi Cole. I don't like having the stub mark everywhere. Well, it's done now, so we'll leave it. Better you ask next time before making such big changes. The problem I see is that many pages will never get updated, for example the old baseband version pages. Adding this stub mark will add no value to the page, nor help in getting the page extended. This might be good for Wikipedia, but not here. On other pages (like the AT+XNONCE) I don't see what should be missing there. If you know what is missing, please add it. --http 17:23, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

It looked too short is why. --Balloonhead66 17:31, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Pictures

And for the new pictures for the stub pages, you probably just copied them from somewhere on the Internet. Please draw your own images instead of stealing it from somewhere. I'll delete them otherwise. We cannot have the official Apple logo just as a mark for general Apple issues. We might be able to use official product photos or the Apple logo on a page describing Apple, but nothing else. Treat images the same way as software. The jailbreak image probably comes from a scammers page, but it's still not yours, even if they do bad things. Geohot has enough trouble right now, so don't add copyrighted material to this wiki. I'll delete the images tomorrow if you haven't replaced them by then. Thanks. --http 17:23, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Ok, i'll replace the copywrited images with Public domain. --Balloonhead66 17:31, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. (I had to laugh when I saw your new Apple!) --http 17:39, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Images:

Android logo.png - public domain, kept On Commons

Generic iPhone.png - public domain, kept On Commons

Apple-logo.png - logo, copyrited, replaced with Apple Mac.png from Commons

Jailbreak.jpg - unknown license, replaced with Gp.png

Filesystem Listing.jpg - from blog, unknown license, replaced with Iphonefw.png from my site

Hacking.png - icon from Template:Wp project - unreplaced

Software Icon.png - icon, copyrited, replaced wth Crystal Clear device cdrom unmound.png from Commons

P2P.gif - unknown license, replaced with P2P-network.svg from Commons (2000px) at P2P.png

--Balloonhead66 17:53, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Flooding

Please stop flooding the wiki with your changes about your vfdecrypt GUI (one of what like 200?) all the recent changes most of the time are from you about little menial stuff that i doubt most people care about, i had to stop following the wiki twitter account because it seemed like 99.99% of the updates were from you, all useless. PLEASE STOP --Nito 19:53, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Obviously keeping the wiki up to date is more important than inconveniencing anyone regarding their twitter feeds. The more accurate the wiki, the better. MuscleNerd 20:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes but when his updates are about stupid crap re: ANOTHER vfdecrypt GUI then i think it does a disservice to everyone who uses the wiki. --Nito 20:37, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

I think it's better not to judge *anyone's* contributions, large or small. This is a community of contributors. MuscleNerd 20:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

I understand that, but mostly every time i look in the recent changes pages its filled up with garbage about idecryptit or whatever, rendering "recent changes" 99.99% useless imo. --Nito 20:42, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

The more active the wiki, the better. It means (1) people are contributing (2) info is being refined and corrected. Even if it's the tiniest details, over time that makes a big difference. MuscleNerd 20:44, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes, because people learn a lot from a GUI. He uses the wiki as an advertisement for it. --cj 20:50, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

If it's a valid wiki topic, then it "deserves" to be updated as much as any other topic. If it's not a valid topic, ask to have it removed. He's actually marking all of his minor edits properly (that bold "m"). Perhaps whoever owns that twitter account shouldn't rebroadcast edits marked as minor like that. MuscleNerd 20:54, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

I think it straddles the line of "valid" i definitely remember reading somewhere that geo didn't want the wiki to be used as an advertisement for apps --Nito 20:56, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

The rule is actually "don't create a page just to advertise your new website please". More details on the Ground Rules page. MuscleNerd 21:02, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

I am not advertising. I am just posting relevant info on an iPhone related app. Also, now that is it published, I am done. Whenever a new firmware comes out, the recent changes is flooded with about 30 edits! --Balloonhead66 23:16, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Don't worry about it...feel free to make any changes whenever they're needed. You're actually doing a good job marking minor changes as "m", and those can be filtered from the Recent Changes page via a single click in the user preference panel. (Whoever's running that twitter bot should filter away "m" changes.) MuscleNerd 23:29, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I only try to contribute. I never advertise (except with AdWords) and I always try to do my best to make sure this wiki has the latest info. --Balloonhead66 23:35, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Yep, there can never be "too much" latest info :) The more contributors the better! MuscleNerd 23:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)