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SlyAceZeta·10/20/2021

You don't need to ask for my permission.

I'm closing this thread, it served its purpose years ago.

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SlyAceZeta·9/14/2021

Yeah, you don't need to ask. As long as you don't get too close to real-life geopolitical issues, you're totally fine to make up characters and events in the AH universe.

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SlyAceZeta·9/14/2021

Absolutely

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SlyAceZeta·9/10/2021

It has to be related to Ace Combat.

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SlyAceZeta·7/30/2020

You have to make pages yourself.

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SlyAceZeta·7/13/2020

It's been a week. Not enough people have responded in this thread, and we don't have consensus on Acepedia, so we won't be going forward with this. Thank you to everyone for voicing your opinions!

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SlyAceZeta·7/8/2020

@Solowing106 There's a few points there:

I vaguely remember that as well, but at that point, I was unaware of the ability for a wiki to host a fanon section. That's why I used the Avatar Wiki as an example; they've had a fanon part of the site for years and it's worked out well enough for them.
It did indeed take forever to clean out all of the fan-made information, and I'm sure there's still some vestiges of that time period hiding in a couple of pages. The problem was that people were trying their damnedest to pass off some of that false information as completely legitimate without any references to back any of that information. Fanon articles, however, would very obviously start with "Fanon:" in the article name, without exception, and there wouldn't be any references on those pages either.
A lot of people don't know ACFW exists. My understanding right now is that there aren't many places for people to organize their thoughts and fanfics and ideas. I think it would be cool to say "hey, you can do all that over at Acepedia in our dedicated fan section".
This isn't about me at all. I barely pay any attention to ACFW because of its inactivity. I don't mind having the two separate wikis. I just think merging the two would work out well.

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SlyAceZeta·7/7/2020

Clearly obvious jokes, like XWTF-21 Flying Noob, will not be transferred. Other than that, I don't want to act like fanfic police, dictating what's not "good enough" to be transferred. I'd rather save most things than lose too much, you know?

SlyAceZeta·7/6/2020 in News

Merging this wiki into Acepedia

Over at the Avatar Wiki, they have an entire section dedicated to fan-made content. This allows for wiki contributors to edit their fan works within the same community, as well as link their pages to on-wiki content.

My idea is to do this for the Ace Combat Fanon Wiki, merging this wiki into Acepedia itself under articles named "Fanon:Article Name". So, for example, the ADF-37 HellHawk would be on Acepedia as "Fanon:ADF-37 HellHawk".

This requires community consensus, on both this wiki and Acepedia.

If the community agrees to this, here's what would happen:

All ACFW articles will be exported to Acepedia. Main articles will be under the Fanon namespace, Talk articles will be under the Fanon talk namespace, and other articles (User, Project, Template, etc.) will be under their respective namespaces.
All ACFW user blog posts will be exported to Acepedia and remain as user blog posts.
All ACFW Forum posts and Discussions will NOT be exported and will be deleted.
Files on ACFW will only be exported depending on the following:

If the files also exist on Acepedia, they will NOT be exported.
If the files are from something else (this photo of Maverick, this photo of General Hux, etc.), they will NOT be exported.
If the files are Ace Combat fan art that was NOT uploaded by the original author, they will NOT be exported.
If the files are Ace Combat fan art that was uploaded by the original author, they will be exported.
Any files that do not fall under the above conditions will be exported on a case-by-case basis.

Click here for the Acepedia thread with more information on the process there.

This is not an automatic process. This will take time and will be done carefully to ensure it's all done without any issues. It will not happen unless there is a consensus in this thread to make it so, but I think this would be beneficial to the collection of Ace Combat fan works.

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SlyAceZeta·11/21/2015

Zexcoiler, my apologies for that other user. He's a known spammer on a couple of other wikis, Acepedia included, and he shouldn't have said anything stupid like that.

This wiki isn't active because there's no real reason for it to be active xD It's mostly a staging ground for people to share their fanon ideas as well as to put stupid Ace Combat-related humor. It fills a niche on top of the niche that Ace Combat already is.

If you want to contribute, absolutely nothing is stopping you :)

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SlyAceZeta·8/14/2015

For the record, that very map is hanging in my room.

Here's the source: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Ace-Combat-World-Map-Poster-305018650

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SlyAceZeta·6/27/2015 in News

Aircraft articles updated

On May 16, I upgraded Template:Aircraft to use Acepedia's new style. Since then, I've been upgrading all of the aircraft articles on the fanon wiki to use the new template coding/style, and I've just completed all of them. I've done other minor changes along the way, including revamping the copyright tags and adding Template:Fileinfo from Acepedia as well as upgrading Template:Humor.

If you have any difficulty understanding how to use any of the new templates or if I broke something on one of your articles, please never hesitate to ask!

I'm not sure what will be next on my to-do list. Maybe adding fileinfo templates to all of the files here and/or deleting ones that violate copyright. Might also work on Template:Character which was also upgraded. We'll see. But please feel free to leave your comments. :)

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SlyAceZeta·6/22/2015

This is a fanon wikia. You can pull something out of the air. :P

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SlyAceZeta·12/23/2014

How's this? (Hold CTRL and press F5.)

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SlyAceZeta·12/23/2014 in News

New wikia theme

While the Ace Combat Fanon Wiki isn't that active, I don't think it should be abandoned. The old theme was starting to show its age, so I wanted to give the Fanon Wiki's visual theme - based off of Data Swallow - a software update!

One of the biggest changes I made was to the wordmark, aka the logo or banner at the top-left. The old one was here since August 2011. I decided to switch this with the official banner of Data Swallow, using a fan-made Ace Combat 3 font to replace "Data Swallow" with "Ace Combat Fanon".

Next, I changed the color of the main area, getting rid of the pink hue and putting a standard grey. However, this grey is just as transparent as the pink was, allowing the background to bleed through, giving it a little color.

And then the background. Midsummersnow designed a really cool background based around the Data Swallow OS, and I didn't want to completely get rid of it. However, it couldn't stay since it was getting split in the middle, the top and top-left were getting cut off, and larger resolutions weren't fitting well with its colors. I decided to reorganize the plug-in files and move the left side a little further, changing its curved state to a vertical bar. For higher resolutions, the color in the background will be repeated throughout the outer edges. I also got rid of the center ACFW logo, which was getting split apart due to Wikia.

Last but certainly not least, I changed the favicon. It's still the bird in the UPEO logo, I just removed the white background and made it a little bigger to get rid of some weird spacing thing.

Main Page

Article Example

Favicon

New on Left, Old on Right

I'd appreciate any and all opinions :)

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SlyAceZeta·8/18/2014 in News

New admin, new changes

Hello, everyone! After finally getting through the adoption process, I am now the newest admin and bureaucrat of the Ace Combat Fanon Wiki!

I'd like to prevent anyone's worries right now; I do not want to delete any content that doesn't need deleting. I won't be touching anyone's fanon, nor will I be enforcing a decrease in the language used. Everyone is free to express themselves on here however they wish, as long as it doesn't harm other users or the wiki.

All of the spamming IP addresses that have been attacking the wiki over the past few days have been indefinitely blocked. Everyone else who has been blocked has only been blocked in the past couple of years, and all are indefinite. For at least the next year, those blocks will stay. This wiki is going to be run no-nonsense; if you're being an idiot, you'll be kicked out. (Not indefinitely, unless you're really trying to harass someone.) Simple as that.

For now, I'm just going to clean up all of the broken redirects, missing file links, minor stuff like that that should have been taken care of a while ago. I've also disabled and enabled some features:

Polls are now disabled
Maps are now enabled
Chat is now disabled
Top 10 lists are now disabled
Achievements are now disabled

I'm also going to contact Wikia concerning the demotion of Protostealth (whose account has been disabled), Raymorn (who hasn't logged in since October 2013), and Wywyrm 1 (who hasn't logged in since June 9, 2014 and ignored multiple threads on his user page concerning the spam we were getting). EDIT: Their positions have been removed.

However, please understand I'm not trying to enact martial law here. If you guys want one of those features back, or if you want to say anything else at all, please share your thoughts. I'll be more than happy to listen and take everyone's ideas into consideration. Let's bring back the fanon wiki off the ground!

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SlyAceZeta·8/2/2014 in General

Adoption request

Hey, everyone! I'm the head admin over at Acepedia, but I wanted to become the new administrator/bureaucrat for the fanon wiki as well. I also wanted to bring up taking a couple of people out of the position.

I've already talked to Wywrym 1 and HavocReaper48 (founder), but neither of them responded to me. No admin has logged in since June, and none of them have edited anything since May. Midsummersnow already gave me his approval to be the new head of the fanon wiki (link here: http://www.pixenli.com/images/1405/1405368522086593800.png ), but since he's left as a bureaucrat he can't promote me himself. I'd want to just do some clean-up behind the scenes, including the home page, templates, categories, and redirects. I won't touch anyone's actual content at all, I promise.

Additionally, I wanted to also contact Wikia about kicking out the following users from their positions:

User:Raymorn (bureaucrat, administrator) last logged in on October 9, 2013
User:Grabacr 1 (administrator) last logged in on January 21
User:Protostealth (bureaucrat, administrator) has deleted his account

I'd highly appreciate anyone's support. Thank you for reading. :)

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