User:SpikeToronto/talk/Archive 5

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 * Love it! — Spike  Toronto  20:13, March 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * Awww. (: – Tm_T@Scratchpad:&#126;$ 19:20, March 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * I loved the fact that I was just greeted on a wiki that, at that time, was being closed. That reminds me: better check that message! — Spike  Toronto  23:12, March 25, 2012 (UTC)

Chat JS
Hi Spike. I decided to not go on with the chat JS things. The JS will not work for me (not sure if I am not importing the script page correctly or not), and I don't want to interfere with the other JS. However, until more information is noted on the JS, I will put it on hold. Though, I made adjustments to two MediaWiki pages, and added links to users who join. -- Plasma  ( Talk ) 00:03, April 5, 2012 (UTC)

Categories for usergroups
Hi Spike! I would like to ask if I could create categories for administrators. May I? Thanks! -- Plasma  ( Talk ) 16:01, April 5, 2012 (UTC)


 * Can you explain a bit more? You mean like  ? —  Spike  Toronto  02:41, April 6, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, we can add to our user pages for users to recognize us.  --  Plasma  ( Talk ) 17:47, April 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Sure. It’s going to be a heavily-populated category. :P — Spike  Toronto  23:42, April 7, 2012 (UTC)

Block 75.168.85.121
Can you please block this wikia contributer known as 75.168.85.121? He/She keeps cause problems to me and other users by deleting contents on a page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.244.136.26 (talk • contribs), 16:27, May 31, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi 69.244.136.26! I appreciate that some editors can be difficult to work with. However, before we can block 75.168.85.121, I need you to give me specific examples of his/her editing that you consider disruptive. To do this, you have to provide me with links to specific diffs. (See Help:Page history for details.) Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  07:11, June 1, 2012 (UTC)

 UPDATE :   I went through your contribs to see what edits of the other person’s you were undoing. Unfortunately, those edits that you undid do not constitute disruptive editing. Wikis are collaborative environments. Anyone can edit any article. However, significant changes should indeed be explained ( Everyone : Use edit summaries!), and consensus sought.

Follow these steps to resolve the matter:
 * Start a discussion on the article’s talkpage.
 * Use a descriptive heading for the new talkpage discussion
 * This way, anyone looking at it knows immediately what it’s about
 * Ask politely:
 * Why the big change?
 * What was the goal, the intention?
 * Leave a message on his/her talkpage
 * Tell him/her what the discussion's about
 * Invite his/her participation
 * Provide him/her a link.
 * Always be POLITE.

Let me know how things are going. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  07:42, June 1, 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism on another wiki
recently this wiki here has been vandalized by idiotic people i've been trying to remove their stupid edits & they just keep vandalizing can you help me get rid of those dumb pictures & help me be an admin to this wiki i believe i'm the only true user on that website: w:c:jayjay. — Skullzproductions 06:54, June 8, 2012 (UTC)

Hey Skullz! I took a look at the Jay Jay Wiki for you. The Founder is both the only Bureaucrat and the only Administrator on that wiki (verify). That person is User:Bulldog180. He has not edited on that wiki in three years (verify). While he still logs in at Wikia, he edits elsewhere.

To become an Administrator there, when there are no active Administrators, and no active Bureaucrats to promote you, you have to adopt the wiki. This is done by filing an adoption request at Forum:Adoption requests at the Community Central Wiki.

Hope this helps! Please, do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance. Thanks! —

Spike Toronto  08:40, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * ok thanks man Skullzproductions 08:50, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * You’re welcome. And, good luck! Let me know if I can help in any way. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  08:53, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * You're welcome & I was able to make that adoption thing here. Now all I have to do is wait Skullzproductions 08:57, June 8, 2012 (UTC)

user 37.128.194.108 on the Jay Jay wiki
just today that user told me the reason why they keep editing the wiki which was a big mistake for because this is what he said to me just because i "keep removing their fun"

"who even uses this wiki in a serious way tho other than you i mean we use it for satanic worship and fun but you use it for serious reasons"

i believe you already know that NO ONE uses a wiki for satanic stuff like that right? Skullzproductions 22:47, June 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * This just supports why the wiki needs an active admin, so that the IP can be blocked. You might want to add that diff to your adoption request. (The satanic comment, I am sure, was not serious.) — Spike  Toronto  19:27, June 9, 2012 (UTC)

I need help here
those guys on the Jay Jay wiki just won't back down & i can't wait any longer for the adoption to be complete can you help me talk to those satanic idiots for me? i'm getting really tired of doing all of this fixing myself Skullzproductions 03:45, June 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * They’re increasing their efforts because you are responding. It’s called “feeding the trolls”. (See wikipedia:WP:DENY.) I can ask the VSTF, but they only deal with spam. But, I’ll try. — Spike  Toronto  19:28, June 9, 2012 (UTC)


 *  UPDATE :   Skullz, that IP is now blocked. You can look at the log here. —  Spike  Toronto  20:44, June 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * thanks also as admin i may need help on how to block though Skullzproductions 22:06, June 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yep. Left a message in that regard on your talkpage at jayjay &rarr; w:c:jayjay:User talk:Skullzproductions — Spike  Toronto  22:09, June 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * thanks man also i think i may have it covered Skullzproductions 22:12, June 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, there are guidelines for blocking, protecting pages, etc., that you should follow. Ask anytime you have a question. :-) — Spike  Toronto  22:14, June 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * ok thanks man Skullzproductions 22:16, June 9, 2012 (UTC)

What is Scratchpad?
What do people come here to do, Sandboxes? 18:10, June 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Originally, we could not create our own wikis here at Wikia. We first had to create a miniature version of the wiki we had in mind for Staff to approve. Those mini-wikis were created here at Scratchpad Labs. Once Staff approved the wiki, then a full-fledged wiki would be created and the contents of the mini-wiki transferred. Once that system ended, and we could just create our own wikis, the lab system was retired. But, this wiki wasn’t closed down and took on a life of its own. Basically it’s become the Twilight Zone of wikis! There are all these little communities of mini-wikis that just seem to grow and grow. It’s a very busy wiki. In a typical week, there are almost 400,000 page views and 6,000 edits (some days having 1,200+). Hope that answers your question. — Spike  Toronto  21:04, June 22, 2012 (UTC)

Odd pages
Hi Spike. If you find some odd pages that I imported like Shawn's Page they're probably just things I moved from elsewhere. For example, people often mistakenly add pages on the wiki about Google so I move them here in case the authors need that content. If you find any more, a good mini wiki to put them into might be a "moved from the Google wiki" one rather than my own user subpages. Good luck with reviving this wiki! Angela 09:31, July 2, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for clearing that up! I really could not figure those odd pages out. So, I’ll create a mini-wiki for them. Thanks for the guidance on this matter. It’s very much appreciated! :) — Spike  Toronto  09:33, July 2, 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅   Thanks again! —  Spike  Toronto  09:57, July 2, 2012 (UTC)

Lego Set
ST, my man! Hey is it possible to get my Lego Set Ideas page put up on the home page like some of the others? I could really use some viewership. It'll make me feel welcome. No harm meant, man. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.24.31.123 (talk • contribs), 17:51 July 2, 2012 (UTC).


 * Hi! I'd like very much to help you out, but I'm not quite sure what you're asking me. The only mini-wikis appearing on the mainpage, as far as I know, are mini-wikis that have left Scratchpad to become full-fledged, standalone wikis elsewhere at Wikia. However, along those same lines, it might be a nice idea to have "spotlights" for mini-wikis here at Scratchpad, sort of like how Wikia spotlights full-fledged, standalone wikis. Get back to me with a bit more info about what you're asking, and we'll see what we can do. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  04:23, July 3, 2012 (UTC)

User 24.192.153.178
the user who is a wiki contributor 24.192.153.178 has been abusing my page Mr. Conductor's Adventures of Veggietales & says it's fake because of the fact i haven't made it yet my projects take time just because it's not made yet doesn't mean you instantly call it fake & on top of that on the page before i undoed it he said to ban me to life do you think you can take care of this user please? Skullzproductions 11:57, July 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅   I have protected the page from anonymous users for one month. I have blocked 24.192.153.178 for three days for intimidating behaviour/harassment, violating the three-revert rule, and for abusing categories. —  Spike  Toronto  09:17, July 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * cool thanks man Skullzproductions 11:16, July 8, 2012 (UTC)

AbuseFilters
Hi, gonna making this message simple; I added two filters, you may take a look if you like, both relate to preventing profanity and bad words. :) --  Plasma  ( Talk ) 16:11, July 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * Great thanks! I'll look at them tomorrow. Were you able to prevent creating a new page with bad words? Also, do you think you could make some to prevent shouting, page blanking, etc.? If you want to discuss these filters, I should be on IRC at   tomorrow. Thanks again for taking on the AF project. It'll be a great help! :-) — Spike  Toronto  01:50, July 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * We'll talk. In the meantime, look at how many hits we gotten so far;  this one has even more!  --  Plasma  ( Talk ) 13:56, July 9, 2012 (UTC)


 * Wow!! Or, should I say, “Holy sh!t!” Color me impressed. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  04:47, July 10, 2012 (UTC)


 * P.S. Now that we have a bunch of results for each of the two filters, we should review the logs to determine any false positives. Also, the warning messages should indicate where to file a false positive report. We can keep that simple here at Scratchpad, if we want, and just tell them to go to one of the Administrators’s pages (see Category:Administrators). I made it more complex at ATW, but then complexity is the nature of that wiki (see Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Abuse at ATW). Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  05:29, July 10, 2012 (UTC)

Plagiarism
This user made a claim on my talk page that the crossovers pages like Ash Ketchum Meets Robin Hood and Ash's Adventures of Aladdin belong to him when they are not even his contributions. The information he had written on them are actually stolen from another Wiki site where I am in charge at called the Pooh's Adventures Wiki and those articles should never be written on any other Wikia site outside the Pooh's Adventures Wiki. Now before you say anything, I want to also add this. True, I may have replace the false information on most of the false articles that are seen here with deletion in the past, but I have reasons to do it. Whenever that I see that someone had written the same crossover article from the Pooh's Adventures Wiki who copied the same information from the site onto this site, it makes me so mad that it makes me want to replaced the stolen information with deletion, but now I stopped to doing that and decided to do the right thing by telling. Now I was told that it would be vandalism to replace information with deletion on this site, but on the Pooh's Adventures Wiki, it's not vandalism. When a user on the Pooh's Adventures Wiki replaces information with deletion on an article, I would then delete the article instantly. So all I ask for you is to block that user and delete the stolen articles, please.

BrerJake90 (talk) 02:20, July 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi BrerJake. Thank you for discussing this issue with me before taking unilateral action that may have led to an edit war. Please take a look at the Wikia Staff blog The CC-BY-SA License and You before proceeding. After you have read it, let me know if you still think there is a copyright violation. I won't be blocking anyone or deleting anything until then. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  11:13, July 22, 2012 (UTC)

User 74.75.79.133's unwanted catagories
this user here keeps adding unwanted catagories on some pages even mine like "Amanda Wood's Video ideas" or "My Video Ideas" they're not HIS video ideas they're MINE! do you think you can help me get rid of this guy? Skullzproductions (talk) 17:14, July 21, 2012 (UTC)


 * I've rolled back all of his categorizations that were current, back to April. I have also left a message on his talkpage, which you might want to take a look at. Let me know if the problem starts back up. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  11:52, July 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * all righty if he tries another unwanted catagory thing again i'll let you know Skullzproductions (talk) 20:20, July 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * he tried to put his unwanted catagories again Skullzproductions (talk) 22:13, July 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * Since it’s an IP address, the protocol is to place a six-month “soft” block on it (aka, a “school” block). That is, the block is for anonymous editors only. Therefore, if s/he will not log in, s/he will not be able to edit from that IP address for six months. However, if s/he creates an account, and logs in, then s/he can edit. BUT, at least with a registered account, it will be easier for us to communicate and try to teach that person why what they are doing is not correct. Perhaps we might make a better editor and Wikian out of them! :) And if not, registered accounts — unlike IP addresses — can be given indefinite blocks. Thanks Skullz. — Spike  Toronto  08:32, July 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * you're welcome Skullzproductions (talk) 15:16, July 29, 2012 (UTC)

another page harassment
i've just fixed it but earlier a user by the name number of 153.106.93.9 removed all content from my Mr. Conductor's Thomas Tales of Equestria & replaced it all with this "THOMAS FAG ALERT PAGE WILL BE REMOVED IMMEDIATELY!" i hate it when people act like this to remove my ideas think you can help me again dude? Skullzproductions (talk) 16:36, July 24, 2012 (UTC)


 * Skullz, it really helps me if you provide me links. For instance, Special:Contributions/153.106.93.9. Also, to save me going through all those page histories, since you’ve already found the edits, you should provide me with the diffs for those edits (see also Help:Page history). Okay. I’ll be right back, once I’ve looked into this. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  08:42, July 29, 2012 (UTC)


 *  UPDATE : Because of the offensive edit summary, I completely removed the IP-only editor’s edit. I also semi-protected the article for one month so that only registered, autoconfirmed editors can edit it. Thanks Skullz. — Spike  Toronto  08:52, July 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * you're welcome dude Skullzproductions (talk) 15:15, July 29, 2012 (UTC)

Asmit005
Hey ST,

I don't often post messages on your wall, but I'm posting this message because I am having trouble with a user, Asmit005. I asked him not to edit my Thomas parody cast (which I would like deleted due to vandalism and the fact that I don't make them anymore). He doesn't listen to what anybody has to say, and he's an idiot.

Now, if you wouldn't mind, I would suggest two favors please: 1. Delete the page ThomasandMichael's Thomas Parody Casts. And 2. Please tell him to stop posting/editing unwanted casts that he came up with himself.

Thank you for taking the time to read my message. Have a nice day.

ThomasandMichael (talk) 16:40, July 27, 2012 (UTC)

Hey T&M! I appreciate you bringing this problem to me as it gave me the opportunity to “fix” it. I was not able to do all that you asked since there are certain wiki principles involved. Hope this helps. Thanks again for bringing this matter to me. — Spike  Toronto  20:53, July 29, 2012 (UTC)
 *  Ownership : There is no ownership of articles in the main/article namespace. At the very heart of the wiki ethos is the concept that anyone can edit any page in that namespace. Therefore, other editors are indeed permitted to add their own versions of parody casts.
 * Consequently, I have renamed the page Thomas the Tank Engine Parody Casts, removing the ownership component from the name.
 *  Warnings : Because no one owns any page in that namespace, there cannot be any warnings at the top of the page preventing others from editing.
 *  BRD Cycle : Instead, we editors need to apply the bold, revert, discuss cycle. That is, be bold in your edits (that’s what User:Asmit005 did). If another editor does not like the bold editor’s edit, he reverts. At that point, everything moves to the article’s talkpage where we discuss the direction of the article, arrived at by consensus. (See WP:CYCLE at Wikipedia for a better understanding of the bold, revert, discuss cycle.)


 * Thanks a lot! :)  ThomasandMichael (talk) 21:47, July 29, 2012 (UTC)

Re: Thanks...
hey no problem this is my favorite wikia page :D Skullzproductions (talk) 23:19, July 29, 2012 (UTC)

Talk: The New Ownership Policy
Hello, This is FlyingDuckManGenesis. I'd like to have a talk with you about the new Ownership policy, if that's okay with you. If you agree, could please tell me which page we should have the talk on? Thank you.

FDMG, 3:44 P.M. Approx. FlyingDuckManGenesis (talk) 19:44, August 4, 2012 (UTC)


 * We can use Scratchpad's chatroom. You can access it from the right-hand siderail on most pages, from the menu at the top of the wiki by clicking on Chat, or by typing Special:Chat into the search box. — Spike  Toronto  19:48, August 4, 2012 (UTC)