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If you want to contact Cru, try Facebook. He's been a bit too busy to log onto the boards for a while now.

Go ahead, if you want--I'd love to see your take on his history! And, as I said, I'm a little too consumed with "Lord of the Oval" to do anything with the Wiki. Let me know if there are any blanks you need to fill.

Whew... down the rabbit hole with Clive.

I started researching him yesterday and that is one complex history for a guy who only kicked around for a couple years! I like the challenge, though, and I think I'll be able to do it justice. I'll bounce it off you in a couple days.


So... a categorization question for anybody that wants to chime in:

What do you think would be a good category for people who are not themselves heroes, villains, or even allies of the LMB... just peripheral characters that one or more members might know? I'm looking for a blanket term to cover both personal associates and family members.

In a fictional setting, you could say "supporting characters" and that would cover people like Lois Lane and Alfred Pennyworth, but if we don't want to have references to the fictional nature of these stories, what would you call such people?

I was thinking that "associates" itself might just be best, but do you think that is too formal a term to be inclusive of family members, as well?

Thoughts?

They don't all live on Legion World, right? So we can't call them citizens.

Associates sounds good. Certainly better than "Others".

I think either "supporting characters" or "associates" would work. I guess I prefer the former to the latter a little. Of course, there's also "Gen-Chars", though admittedly some of those have played a much bigger role than others. Yeah, I "saw" you researching some of Clive's highlights and took a stroll down memory lane. I know Clive as "Lard Lad Robot" first popped up during the time Lardy left LW to live on the Sorceror's World after he married Dru. He had a pretty steady presence. Then, after Lardy returned to active duty around Five Faces of Death, both Lardy and Clive had parallel storylines.

I wonder if you've discovered how Clive came to take his name?

Come on now, brother, what sort of entry-level researcher do you take me for?

The night of July 9th 3007, the Lard Lad Robot dined at The Beacon restaurant with Babette, the android server from SHAKES. Being wooed by his charms, she referred to him as an Adonis, then remarked that his "smoldering, yet compassionate good looks" reminded her of the 20th century actor, Clive Owen. Asking her preference between the names "Adonis-bot," or "Clive," she chose the latter, and he changed his name accordingly.

Sheesh.. everybody knows that!

How in Hades do ya track down all that info, Ex?!?! I mean the "search" function ain't all that comprehensive!

In any cae...well done, my friend!

*sigh* Clive and Babette's brief courtship was fun!

Ex, I'm really loving all your recent entries. The Floating Foxlike Creature one was brillaint and I know that poster would enjoy it.

Always let me know if I can be a resource for you as you do things. I have a list of people, places and events that I keep in my "LMB folder" that I plan to get to on the wiki, but I've just been busy in real life and with the Novella lately to do so. But I do plan to get started again eventually!

I love that you've offered to do an entry for folks who may not have the time or inkling to do so. I suggest people take up Ex on this generous and awesome offer!

Thanks a lot, man. I'm having a blast revisiting this project. I was pretty gung-ho when it first kicked off, but went into a extended lull for about six months or so. This is my second wind, I guess.

I've been doing a lot of clean up work the past couple of weeks, adding links, categories, etc. and trying to fill in some gaps using existing "wanted pages" as targets (mostly launching off of your "Triumvirate" and "LMB Leadership" articles).


Some non-character articles I've added over the past couple of weeks, but didn't announce here yet, are some smaller sub-team articles:

Legion World Founders
LMB Founders
Legion of Former Deputies

Some of the Legion World institutions:

Grand Central Space Port
Legion World Orphanage
Legion World Playground
The Museum of Legion Arts

A couple planets (from the whole N'Chaka thing):

Throon
Vuruna

A couple more Primary Color Gang articles:

Lifeline
Metropolis Place

and the newly revised, "definitive" Exnihil article:

Exnihil


Yeeeeeeah... it's been a slow couple of weeks at the office.

Awesome, awesome, awesome! I've begun reading through them, loving them as I go.

One editorial suggestion I'd make is that on the LW Founders page, I'd add that their authority over the LMB exists only pertaining to matters for the governance of Legion World. (Since they have no official authority over the LMB other than the type a Government official like a Mayor might have over a citizen). When off LW, they have absolutely no authority except for how it would be applied within the LMB leadership system. One caveat, however, is because of their longtime role as figures of authority, parts of the LMB membership often looks to them during major decisions.

And wow, just read the Grand Central article! Well done! You totally connected it all together brilliantly--and I know it's never been laid out like that before.

When we do the next LMB history volume, I think it might have to be as co-writers since you enjoy it just as much as I do.

Wow, Cobie, thanks!

Yeah, I completely dig the world of the LMB. It's pretty much the same phenomenon for me as the actual Legion, that type of massive universe just rife with minutia. A key difference though, and something I think make it even more enjoyable for me, is that because it is a collaborative work of so many different people with different styles, it's always so fun to try to make it contiguous. Every little bit, from the deadly serious to the silliest inanities, can be fit into a whole without having to jettison a bit. That just rules.


On the topic of the Wiki in general, over this weekend (and still ongoing), the site has been the target of massive spambot attacks. A question for anyone with previous wiki experience (I'm thinking Reboot), apart from simply blocking individual IP's, is there a more comprehensive safeguard that a general admin (that is to say, not the site owner) could enact to stem the spam tide?

Wow. Just... wow. I haven't read all of them yet, Ex, but I love your Exnihil and Survivor: Marzal articles.

I just stokes me how together, we've created this awesome shared universe. Makes me proud to be part of it.

Not really - even rangeblocks need tweaks to LocalSettings.php to enable. And I notice none of the extensions installed at LegionWiki are present on LMB Wiki .

Just a reminder on a related note to the bots that Ex mentioned: Please log in before you make any edits. It makes it much easier for us when we patrol for spam and vandalism when we can see that edits are made by a legitimate user.

Just an FYI for anyone planning on contributing to the wiki in the future:


After fighting off rampant spam-bot vandalism for a month or so, a couple of small safeguards have been added to the site. Nothing too excessive or inconvenient, just a couple things to try to keep the content legitimate:

- Anonymous editing has been blocked. That is to say, unless a registered user is logged in, no pages may be created or modified.

- A simple Q&A validation has been added to the registration process. Basically, when a new user first registers they just have to answer a simple Legion-related question. It's easy enough that anybody here would know the answer, but hopefully wouldn't be something that a bot could parse.


And that's it. Simple enough, and hopefully it does the trick.

Thank you EX !

WOW! What Power Boy said - thank you.

Just a Q - what if one of us forgets our password? Any way to retrieve it?

Sorry for the delay in response, Ibby... I took a bit of a break from the wiki after the "Great Bot fight". I imagine if you ping Nightcrawler, he should be able to retrieve lost passwords.


So, it looks like the wiki has been spam-free for a while now, so it seems the stopgaps worked. Some recent articles added that I don't think I posted here yet are:


A couple bits that I think are tied into the Tempest pantheon:

The Forbidden Mountains
Maleficent


A very minor bit of the Primary Color Gang mythos:

The Micro de Sade


Celebrating his return in the Lord of the Oval story, charter member:

Goon Boy


and what I hope will actually be one of the most useful reference pages from the wiki:

List of LMB members

The latter still needs about 4 years worth of chronology and there is a ton of info missing for the list that I have so far, but I think it's a pretty good start.

I still plan on doing up an article for Clive, Lardy, I just took a break for this for a bit.


EDIT:

Boring day at work, so I did a couple more for some long absent honorary LMBers:

Cookie Monstress and
Series-5 Ranger

Ever wonder about the true story of Santa? The LMB wiki explains it all:

Santa Claus

Merry Christmas!

I love it Ex! As I told you privately, the Goon Boy entry is incredible!

I would only change that Cobalt and Mystery Lad are genuine founders, not additional charter members. The LMB as an organization was not officially formed until they linked up with the other three. This goes along with Lash's original post, Cru's Founders Park, etc.

Gotta protect my resume

And on Santa!

Half of that I made up in a drunken haze I think.

Is the other half from you? It's hilarious!

Easy fix on the founder thing... done and done.

Nope... everything in that article (and almost all the ones I write) are sourced in full from Legion World, the Yahoo Group, or the LMB archive. The only time I embellish is for the sake of a smooth article flow, but I try to keep all the content as close to "real" history as I can.

A couple quick additions for some bygone LMBers from the earliest days:

Ding Boy and
Chip Ahoy! Boy