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Welcome to the GargWiki Community Portal! Here we provide a simple introduction to the GargWiki community and a few useful tools to help editors navigate the site.

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Ongoing discussions

GargWiki talk:Community Portal, this page's associated talk page, is for discussions and suggestions relating to the whole of GargWiki. If you would like to get more involved in the running of GargWiki, or if you have an idea to improve the site, you can add it there. Please remember to respect your fellow editors.

As well as this, here is a list of other ongoing discussions elsewhere on the site:

Tasks

In this section, editors can list GargWiki pages according to the work that needs to be done on them. Editors can request pages anonymously or sign their comments by adding three tildes at the end: ~~~

Editors are also encouraged to give a brief explanation as to why they have listed the page, and ideas for improvement.

Requested pages

Special:Wantedpages contains an automatically-generated list of non-existent pages with the most incoming links, but users can also request pages to be created by listing them here.

  • Gargoyle Way -- We hear this phrase a lot to mean a lot of different things. Maybe someday we can cook up a page talking about the gargoyle code (parenting, banishing, leader/second, all that) Mabe it could help split up the gargoyles page more, as I did when I made clan. -- Matt 16:44, 1 January 2008 (CST)
I would rather have a series of interconnected pages, like Gargoyle, Gargoyle culture (which would link out to, e.g. Clan and Wind Ceremony), Gargoyle biology (which would link out to, e.g. Egg), and maybe even Gargoyle history or similar. We can keep some information (mostly canon) in the main article and then direct people wherever they want to go. Gargoyle Way can redirect to Gargoyle culture. We might even be able to merge some info back into more general articles from clan and egg and whatever else. To keep in line with the archives at Ask Greg, gargoyle culture could also be called gargoyle customs. ... Huh. That seems kinda complicated when I write it all out. -- Supermorff 17:21, 14 January 2008 (CST)
I wonder how much we should break this down. Perhaps we can have a page for Aircraft or something and include all the airships, skysleds, helicopters (including Lex's rebuild) and all that. -- Matt 12:23, 12 October 2008 (CDT)
Since I see that Sky-Sled and Lex's Helicopter pages are starting to pop up, I feel we should get a bit better organized. I like what we've done so far with Exo-Frame and feel that a page with all the aircraft would be much preferable to a bunch of individual pages. If we had such a page there would be individual sections for Lex's copter, Xanatos' copters, all the Cyberbiotics craft, Macbeth's aircraft, the New Olumpian chariots, the Hunter's aircraft (starting with the renaissance glider of course), etc. I feel it'd be more organized than a bunch of small and disjointed pages. Just my two cents. -- Matt 23:22, 2 January 2009 (CST)
See, while I agree in theory, there are just so many different kinds of aircraft, that such a page would be big and very image heavy. More so than even the exo-frame page. I am sure we can get something worked out, but let's examine all our options. --GregX 13:19, 3 January 2009 (CST)
I disagree, mostly for the reasons Greg already highlighted. What I would not mind, and might be a good idea in other places as well, is creating a hub or list article, e.g. List of aircraft, which would have very few pictures (if any) and only a small amount of information about each aircraft, but would include links out to the more detailed pages. We can use similar things not just for aircraft, but other things as well, where categories are not sufficient (and in most cases on this wiki, I believe categories ARE sufficient). So that's one of the options to examine. -- Supermorff 14:55, 3 January 2009 (CST)
Fair enough. I like Supermorff's idea of creating central hub pages that link out to more detailed pages. Aircraft might be a suitable place with subsections for things like helicopters (Xanatos has two types, the police have one, the Redemption copter and Lex's), hovercraft (Cyberbiotics various models, the Hunters airship and sky-sleds, Macbeth's harrier jets, the New Olympian chariots, etc., gliders (Fox's glider and the 1495 Hunter glider) and so forth. So the Aircraft page would essentially be a well organized list linking to much more detailed pages. -- Matt 15:30, 3 January 2009 (CST)
Works for me. --GregX 16:00, 3 January 2009 (CST)

Alright, well I created an Aircraft page that contained all the aircraft seen in the show that I could think of. Will each get their own page now? If so, Sky-Sleds will become an obselete page and should be deleted as the information should be covered in more detail elsewhere and the general idea will be covered in the Aircraft page. Anyway, let me know what you guys think. -- Matt 16:16, 4 January 2009 (CST)

I like it, but I don't think Exo-Frame needs its own section. It could be linked to in a "See also" section, perhaps? -- Supermorff 13:26, 5 January 2009 (CST)
  • Construction Worker -- Another recurring character without a page. Where there any others we have not done yet? -- Matt 17:15, 23 January 2008 (CST)
From Vendettas and Hunter's Moon 1. Any other appearances? -- Supermorff 15:10, 1 February 2008 (CST)
  • Freakazoid! - In the style of other non-Gargoyles TV series, such as W.I.T.C.H., with focus on the Gargoyles references. In particular, mention the Lawn Gnomes segment (video) and the gargoyle at the opening of this video. -- Supermorff 15:33, 28 May 2008 (CDT)
I think this should specifically be Bad Guys Leica Reel with Leica Reel redirecting to it. -- Demonskrye 06:15, 10 July 2008 (CDT)
With the cancellation of the comic, I'm not sure these pages are necessary any more. Gargoyles (SLG) is now more-or-less synonymous with Clan-Building, and Gargoyles: Bad Guys is pretty much synonymous with Redemption (story-arc). That said, we probably should put some information specific to the story-arcs into these articles. -- Supermorff 12:46, 9 September 2008 (CDT)
You mean the bit at the end of an episode where Xanatos reveals that he was behind everything that happened (assuming that wasn't already obvious) and points out how even though the gargoyles foiled his plan or apparent plan, it's all good because he learned something that will make him more awesome? Does that really need its own entry or can we just cover it in the David Xanatos article? -- Demonskrye 06:15, 10 July 2008 (CDT)
Yeah, one of them things. The problem with putting it in the Xanatos article itself is that Xanatos is an in-universe canon character, whereas the Xanatos tag is an out-of-universe production... thing. Besides, Thailog sometimes has his own "Xanatos tags" as well. -- Supermorff 06:45, 10 July 2008 (CDT)
I think a "Behind the Scenes" section would cover it. And we could put an additional link to Xanatos in Thailog's Behind the Scenes section when talking about his penchant for similar speeches. -- Demonskrye 07:28, 10 July 2008 (CDT)
I don't doubt that a Behind the Scenes section could cover it, but why should it have to? By the way, has everyone seen this? -- Supermorff 12:02, 10 July 2008 (CDT)
  • Gargoyles (trading cards) - So according to an advertisement in one of my old comics I just recently happened across, there was a line of Gargoyles trading cards produced by a company called SkyBox. The ad predates the series' premiere, and indeed informs potential viewers that the series will premiere in syndication that coming fall, the card series was set to debut April 1995, the whole page is really quite nostalgic in a way (especially given that I wasn't really aware of the show at the time), and all in all, something tells me we really ought to have a page about this. - Caswin 21:34, 18 July 2008 (CDT)
Oh, yeah, that would be cool. There were two sets of trading cards-I have both. It might be interesting to have a page on the cards-maybe what is written on the cards themselves. Also, what about some of the books? Maybe we could list some stories from old Gargoyles books in the apocrypha section--PGFish 01:59, 19 July 2008 (CDT)
(Three and a half months later...) Wait, there are books? - Caswin 13:11, 2 November 2008 (CST)
It appeared in "Legion". Anywhere else? -- Supermorff 15:37, 8 September 2008 (CDT)
I think we should consult Greg to find out if he has a name for this war or at least a placeholder name. -- Matt 12:23, 12 October 2008 (CDT)
Good plan. I wonder if the involved races have different names for it? -- Supermorff
  • Gargate - The term has now been used in the series, so I believe it has earned its own page. Probably something I'll tackle soon. -- Matt 08:26, 14 October 2008 (CDT)
  • Gargoyles Universe - This should be a priority, I think. This page should define what exists inside the canon universe. I've noticed that most mentions of the Gargoyles Universe on the site direct to Gargoyles (TV series). Now that the Gargiyles Universe isn't confined to the TV series, I think we need to make a seperate page. -- Matt 11:37, 20 December 2008 (CST)
  • Kenner Toys - A page about all the Gargoyles action figures and their impact on the series including the motorcycle, etc. Or perhaps a broader page called Gargoyles Merchandise? I dunno. -- Matt 11:46, 20 December 2008 (CST)
Or Kenner, including all the Kenner toys, but including brief background on the company and the ways they... uh... influenced the show. -- Supermorff 13:02, 2 January 2009 (CST)
  • Yeti - They were mentioned in "Reunion", so we sort of know they exist (and don't have wings). Greg has also confirmed that creatures exist who inspired legends of Sasquatch (here), so maybe we could mention that too. -- Supermorff 21:01, 31 December 2008 (CST)
  • Nokkar's Ship - We've seen enough of it, and we would have plenty of images to include. --GregX 19:36, 3 January 2009 (CST)
  • Do we need an entry for Brod's favorite restaurant? We have an establishing shot of it and some of the interiors, but we don't even have a name for it, and the place got blown up at the end, so I don't know. What do you guys think? DTaina 20:36, 3 January 2009 (CST)

Pages in need of expansion

Special:Shortpages contains an automatically-generated list of pages with the least information, but users can also list pages to be expanded here.

Requested images

Here, users can list articles that they believe could be improved by the inclusion of appropriate images.

  • Ishimura Clan -- Matt has requested a collage of higher quality pics of all members seen in canon.
  • I just noticed that there are no pictures of the New Olympians on that page. I thought this might be an excuse to show pics of Taurus, Boreas, Proteus, Talos, Sphinx etc...not all of these naturally, but enough to give people an idea of the diversity of the speices. Griffinwyrm7 03:26, 16 August 2008 (CDT)
I'll make a collage of all the New Olympians, how's that? DTaina 18:23, 16 December 2008 (CST)
  • Oberon - Perhaps a shot of him in the human form we saw in "The Gathering Part One"?
  • Most of the aircraft listed on the Aircraft page need pictures. -- Matt 19:42, 6 January 2009 (CST)

Kudos

GargWiki:Special Thanks contains a list of influential people that helped create GargWiki in its current form. Editors can also recognize the efforts of regular users of GargWiki by listing them here:

  • Kudos to VA for rewriting the first sentences of tons of articles for better uniformity of format! (Feel free to use this section for kudos to other editors too.) -- Demonskrye 20 September 2007
    Oh, thank you! :) -- Vaevictis Asmadi 13:09, 20 September 2007 (CDT)
  • Kudos to User:Supermorff for his hard work creating and implementing the CIT text and banner templates. -- Vaevictis Asmadi 21:22, 26 September 2007 (CDT)
    Thanks very much! -- Supermorff 03:53, 27 September 2007 (CDT)
  • A big well done to User:Matt, and also User:Greg Bishansky, for adding Appearances sections to every canon character article. -- Supermorff 14:45, 31 December 2007 (CST)
    Thanks! I can't believe it took less than a day. Thanks everyone who helped put it together, offered suggestions, corrected errors and reminded me of things I'd forgotten. Wait'll you guys hear my next big idea! -- Matt 14:48, 31 December 2007 (CST)
  • Massive kudos to D Taina for image contributions past, present, and future. -- Demonskrye 14:25, 15 May 2008 (CDT)
    Thank you!!  :D I try! -- D Taina 00:50, 20 May 2008 (CDT)
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