User:Curiouscrab/talk/Archive 1

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Talkback: Community portal
— Spike  Toronto  13:10, March 19, 2013 (UTC) Curiouscrab (talk|contribs) 22:48, March 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks.

Signatures
You know it's not nice to rip off other peoples signatures and just recolour it :P 15:19, April 5, 2013 (UTC)
 * I was testing it out. I change my sig a lot and was taking a look at that. Sorry about that.Curiouscrab (talk) 01:09, April 6, 2013 (UTC)

Talkback: Template:Archive bar
— Spike  Toronto  10:34, April 28, 2013 (UTC)

RE: Hide Revision
Ahoy,

At the moment I am just doing mass cleanup on general stuff and not really paying attention... Will get around to my edits at a later date and hide stuff :) Thanks for paying attention though...

And keep up the good anti-vandal work :)

Regards, Kris. 21:31, July 10, 2013 (UTC) ~Curiouscrab (talk) 21:33, July 10, 2013 (UTC)
 * I haven't been doing too much with article content. Just messing with the Archive bar template code to spice it up. Check out that template. You'll notice something interesting. ;)

Talkback: MediaWiki:Edittools
— Spike  Toronto  08:10, August 4, 2014 (UTC)

Talkback: MediaWiki:Edittools #2
— Spike  Toronto  03:25, August 19, 2014 (UTC)

Talkback: User:SpikeToronto
— Spike  Toronto  03:41, August 19, 2014 (UTC)

Re: Sandbox sections
Regarding Scratchpad talk:Sandbox/Write BELOW this line ONLY!!, we don’t really need to section the sandbox. The next person to come along just clears out what’s there, and then does their testing. Also, if we wanted to be able to add/create new sections, we just have to imbed the magic word  which adds a new-section button to the top of the page. — Spike  Toronto  08:03, August 19, 2014 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 02:01, August 20, 2014 (UTC)
 * That's what I was saying, but whatever. : P

You’ve got a lot of ideas. Keep ’em coming! — Spike  Toronto  08:32, August 19, 2014 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 02:01, August 20, 2014 (UTC)
 * You got it!

Talkback: SpikeToronto
— Spike  Toronto  23:25, May 16, 2015 (UTC)

AjaxRC
CC, if you want me to have the AjaxRC refresh more frequently, I can change it site-wide. No one else here uses it. So, just let me know. — Spike  Toronto  03:53, May 17, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 15:45, May 17, 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, cool. The wait time does seem a wee bit too long.


 * ✅ See: http://sp.wikia.com/?diff=1730700 —  Spike  Toronto  21:05, May 17, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 22:22, May 19, 2015 (UTC)
 * Much better now


 * Glad to hear it! —  Spike  Toronto  19:26, May 21, 2015 (UTC)

Mass categorization, etc.
Hi CC! I noticed that you did some mass categorization of some templates over the past few days. I’ve had to revert most of those edits. The issues are: There are some namespaces that I am very protective of: Please do not change templates – unless fixing broken ones (of course!) – or their documentation without running your ideas past me first. In this instance, the edits had to be reversed because they were incorrect; otherwise, I have no problem with you wanting to clean up categories and categorization here (they are a mess!).
 * category placed in wrong spot
 *  tags not closed
 * incorrect categorization (not all of them)
 * example: Category:Templates should only be populated by subcategories, and contain no individual templates. (I know this is not the case right now, but that’s how it should be..)
 * MediaWiki:
 * Template:
 * Project:
 * Help: (to a lesser extent)

Do you by any chance have a  Skype account? It’d be much easier to discuss maintenance and administrative issues with you using Skype. My Skype account is. You can send me a contact request. (By the way, I am not suggesting Skype for audio/video chat. I am suggesting it for text-only, just like here on talk pages. Many of Wikia’s admins use Skype to help each other, etc.) —  Spike  Toronto  05:57, May 20, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 02:46, May 30, 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't have Skype. Anyways, that makes sense. Better organization.


 * Hey CC! Would you consider creating a “curiouscrab” Skype account? Otherwise, we’ll have to use chat here. The good thing about Skype, though, is it lets you leave messages that the other sees whenever they next log in. — Spike  Toronto  21:20, May 30, 2015 (UTC)

Thanks …
… for this!! —  Spike  Toronto  06:48, May 20, 2015 (UTC)

Requesting edits to protected pages
Hi CC! When you want to request an edit to a protected page, after you press the view source button, you should see at the top of the source code for the page a button for submitting an edit request. This is especially visible in the Monobook skin. When you press it, it helps set up your request. — Spike  Toronto  07:12, May 20, 2015 (UTC)

Talkback: Template:Proposed deletion because
— Spike  Toronto  07:28, May 20, 2015 (UTC)

Talkback: Template:User6/doc
— Spike  Toronto  07:49, May 20, 2015 (UTC)

Talkback: Template:!!/doc.
— Spike  Toronto  08:16, May 20, 2015 (UTC)

Yikes! Time to slow down
Hi CC! It’s going to take me awhile to get caught up with you. Could you take a break for a few days until then? — Spike  Toronto  14:09, May 20, 2015 (UTC)

Talkback: Template:Archive see also
— Spike  Toronto  15:09, May 20, 2015 (UTC)

Big project for YOU!! :)
Hi CC! I have a big job for you, if you’re interested. We have tons of accidental categories that contain a “/” in them. For example: Category:Thomas/Cars. Almost all such categories are errors that need to be repaired. (Some are acceptable (see Scratchpad:Categories/Subcategories).)

To repair our example, Category:Thomas/Cars, you would need to do the following: I would suggest you start with this list: Special:PrefixIndex/Category:Thomas/
 * 1) If the category is populated, each of those pages has to have their categorization fixed.
 * 2) * Sometimes the cause of the mistake was simply a typo where “/” was typed instead of “|”, such as if the Thomas/Cars page was accidentally categorized as    instead of as  [[Category:Thomas|Cars] . And then, subsequently, WantedCategories were created en masse, giving rise to this incorrect category page.
 * 3) ** N.B. This is not the case with Category:Thomas/Cars. It is a total mistake.
 * 4) After all pages categorized to Category:Thomas/Cars have been correctly re-categorized, the incorrect category page is deleted, using an appropriate edit summary from the Deletereason-dropdown. For example:
 * 5) * Blocked/banned/defunct/nonsense category (under Problems and issues)
 * 6) * Typo(s) in pagename (under Problems and issues)
 * 7) ** Thoroughly read the instructions provided in the delete screen. They will be different than others you’ve seen elsewhere at Wikia.
 * 8) ** Please familiarize yourself with the Deletereason-dropdown for future use.
 * 9) After deletion, there will be a box with various instructions, guidelines, etc.
 * 10) * Click on salt to create-protect the category page, using an appropriate edit summary from the Protect-dropdown. For example:
 * 11) ** Blocked/banned/defunct/nonsense category (under Create protection - articles)
 * 12) ** Typo(s) in pagename (under Create protection - articles)
 * 13) *** Thoroughly read the instructions provided in the protect screen. They will be different than others you’ve seen elsewhere at Wikia.
 * 14) *** Please familiarize yourself with the Protect-dropdown for future use.
 * 15) * Click on WhatLinksHere and make sure to correct any redlinks that may have occurred as a result of the category page deletion.
 * 16) Start over with the next incorrect “/” category page!

Because I have not yet created a page deleter usergroup, I will have to attach full sysop rights to your account for you to do this (huge) job. Do not use these rights for anything other than this project. You are not an Administrator yet. For example, other than these “slash” categories, do not delete any other pages: Continue to flag other pages for deletion with either or, as appropriate. Also, do not make template changes: Continue to propose your edits as you have been doing. I am still reviewing all the pages you proposed deleting, as well as all your recommended template changes. With this week’s ghastly breakpoint/typography release, I have to give priority right now to fixing w:c:admintools:MediaWiki:Wikia.css/editorFixes.css, which we use here at SP.

Let me know here if you’re interested in this project. I hope you are! — Spike  Toronto  23:56, May 20, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 18:51, May 29, 2015 (UTC)
 * Currently interested, but you might have to explain it a little differently. From what I read, you want me to move Category:Thomas/Cars and the like to Category:Thomas Cars or something like that and then categorize that category in Category:Thomas.


 * Close, but no cigar. I’ll try to clear it up in chat when we’re next on at the same time. —  Spike  Toronto  21:23, May 30, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 18:52, May 29, 2015 (UTC)
 * BTW, if you need help with CSS on that other wiki, I'm a pro with CSS. :)


 * I may just take you up on that offer. —  Spike  Toronto  21:23, May 30, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 23:34, May 30, 2015 (UTC)
 * Alright. Just leave me a note whenever you need help, or tell me what needs to be done while we have the conversation in chat about what this conversation was initially about.


 * You were gone from chat when I returned. Something about errors in your console. I checked back a few more times, but still didn’t see you there. — Spike  Toronto  01:17, May 31, 2015 (UTC) P.S. Going for supper now. Catch ya later!  —  Spike  Toronto  01:17, May 31, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 01:18, May 31, 2015 (UTC)
 * K, I'll just wait here til the cats are deleted so I can continue. :)

It just occurred to me that a lot of these “slash” categories have zero pages populating them. In which case, they need only be deleted, and create-protected (i.e., “salted”). Please look here to see the two steps required for dealing with a “slash” category with zero population (i.e., one that is empty). Would you like to take care of those? Be sure to use the two pull-down descriptions I’ve used, and to blank the other line if it contains text. Let me know if you want to work on these, and we can deal with the populated categories later. — Spike  Toronto  03:15, May 31, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 17:26, June 8, 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure. BTW, take a look at this.


 * Sounds like a great idea! I cursorily reviewed the first 500 at Special:UnusedCategories and deleted some (you might want to look at their logs). I also left a note to you on a few of them distinguishing good “slash” categories from bad ones. Read before deleting!.
 * Work on the 1,000 categories listed at Special:UnusedCategories
 * by doing it first, it will let the system generate another new list at 4:00AM-EDT.
 * Do not delete anything but Categories.
 * I still have to review the entries flagged for (speedy) deletion, many of which I am fixing rather than deleting.
 * Be sure to read the instructions at each admin tool as they pop up
 * you will find them different than at most wikis here at Wikia.
 * You are now officially in charge of Categories!! If you have any questions, you know where to find me. (Have you created a  Skype account for texting yet?)  —  Spike  Toronto  22:03, June 8, 2015 (UTC)
 * P.S. If you delete any of my often-empty admin categories, you will be keelhauled, then hung from the highest yardarm! — Spike  Toronto  22:08, June 8, 2015 (UTC)
 * P.P.S. Please do not use a bot or AWB. Do this job manually, one page at a time. —  Spike  Toronto  22:08, June 8, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 15:03, June 9, 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, no Skype. I went through a lot of the unused categories and a lot of them were created by Cblair91 and his/her bot HottieBottie in order to clean up Special:WantedCategories, but now they aren't used at all. Should I continue deleting those?


 * At the time Kris ran the script that mass created all those categories, the were redlinked (i.e., needed). But, since then, many of the pages that had populated those categories have either been re-categorized, or deleted. So, if a category is unused, it is okay to delete it. BUT, don’t delete my often-empty, admin categories, please. —  Spike  Toronto  07:31, June 10, 2015 (UTC)

Class Change Report
Here’s the class change report for Thursday, and it’s huge! The changes from Wikia are coming so fast and furious, I cannot keep up. — Spike  Toronto  04:34, May 21, 2015 (UTC)
 * http://report.wikia.net/classchange/index.php

Hurricanes!
Hi CC! Thanks for reverting this vandalism: http://sp.wikia.com/?diff=1730912 Sadly, the miscreant is from my neck of the woods. I think he’s also on that list of IPs you gave me to check on. (Sorry. Still haven’t got to it.) Anyway, since that happened to be a hurricane article, I thought I’d take a moment and explain hurricane articles here at Scratchpad. You may have noticed that most of that article was fake. The reason is, before the hurricane group over at Wikipedia will let people work on hurricane articles over there, they sometimes send them here to work on fake ones (likewise with the hurricane wikia). So, if you are ever inclined to want to delete them because they’re fake, just know that we leave them up as practice material for those other sites. — Spike  Toronto  19:24, May 21, 2015 (UTC) ~Curiouscrab (talk) 18:38, May 29, 2015 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. I was reading through the history and names kept changing and dates and years and nothing made sense. I've noticed lots of other articles have constantly changing names as well.

Template:Unreferenced
Hi CC! I like how you combined and  into one. Now, how would you like to [ write the combined documentation] at ? By the way, instead of deleting, I re-wrote it as ; that way, any use of will not fail. — Spike  Toronto  20:04, May 21, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 18:31, May 29, 2015 (UTC)
 * Will do. Right now the category I created appears to be broken.

~Curiouscrab (talk) 18:46, May 29, 2015 (UTC)
 * The category works now. Could you add  to Template:Unreferenced-section since you protected it?


 * CC, would you please take a look at Template:Unreferenced and its /doc and see if you have anything else to do? If you’re through, I’d like to lock those pages up. —  Spike  Toronto  07:53, May 30, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 13:44, May 30, 2015 (UTC)
 * I think I'm pretty much done. What's going on with Template:Unreferenced-section?


 * Re: Template:Unreferenced-section &rarr; nothing is going on. It’s essentially mothballed. But, if anyone used to typing comes along and does so, it will still work by virtue of its code having been permanently locked in as . It’s much the same as we did with Template:Documentation notoc where we mothballed it by permanently re-writing its code as  when we added the notoc option to Template:Documentation.  —  Spike  Toronto  21:34, May 30, 2015 (UTC)

Time
By the way, when I created your local time page, I used my timezone. If you are not in the Eastern Daylight timezone, you may want to change it. — Spike  Toronto  20:08, May 21, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 18:24, May 29, 2015 (UTC)
 * It's correct.

~Curiouscrab (talk) 23:16, May 30, 2015 (UTC)
 * Glad to hear it. For all I knew, you were in Nome, Alaska. Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  21:36, May 30, 2015 (UTC)
 * Is there Interweb in Laska?

chat.js
You mentioned in chat that you were getting errors with. You should know that we run a script here at MediaWiki:Wikia.js/chat.js that creates the custom module at the top of the right side rail in the default skin. If you are running customized chat hacks also called chat.js</tt>, a conflict between the two same-named scripts could be the cause of your error messages. — Spike  Toronto  07:42, May 31, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 17:00, May 31, 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not running anything else. It was giving me an error because of some sort of privatemessage variable or something like that was undefined and thus throwing a fit.

Greetings
I'm Daniel Celano and who are you? ThomasandFriendsLover, 18:12, May 31, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 23:33, May 31, 2015 (UTC)
 * Curiouscrab. I pretty much assist SpikeToronto with cleaning up the wiki and creating useful templates and fixing items and pretty much the like.

Talkback: The Wizard (1989)
— Spike  Toronto  04:41, June 5, 2015 (UTC)

Hey, Curiouscrab.
(Can you delete SheenBob KidPants: The Great Bunny Race, CartoonTales: E.B. and the Big Wall! and CartoonTales: E.B. and the Big Wall! (transcript) for me?)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 20:43, June 9, 2015 (UTC)
 * Why? Make sure you use Template:Delete properly so that you include a delete reason. Use as  so that administrators know why the page should be deleted.


 * (Because, you have to delete SheenBob KidPants: The Great Bunny Race, CartoonTales: E.B. and the Big Wall! and CartoonTales: E.B. and the Big Wall! (transcript). Just delete them. Now!)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 20:49, June 9, 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not allowed to delete pages unless I give a reason why. It will kickback my request and disallow page deletion for some time (or until Spike undoes the temp block).

@Calvyn: Remember, you can only ask us to delete pages that you and/or VF2000 wrote. If other people have also edited those pages, you have to explain to us why you want the page deleted. That means you can still ask, you just have to give us a reason.

SheenBob KidPants: The Great Bunny Race is not yours. That page belongs to Tturjan. We can delete it if he asks. If you want it deleted, you have to tell us why.

I notice that the other two of those pages were actually yours and that Tturjan, VeggiFan, or Mkeane had vandalized them. Instead of giving up and asking us to delete those pages, you should instead ask us to help fix them for you. Anyway, both of them have been reverted back to your version (I fixed one of them, and VeggieFan2000 fixed the other one).

So, for those two pages that are yours, we don’t want to delete them, because you’ve worked so hard on them. But, if other people vandalize them again, tell us, and we’ll try something else to help, and we’ll warn the editors messing with your pages. Okay?

Thanks! — Spike  Toronto  07:53, June 10, 2015 (UTC)

Talkback: Template:Template category
— Spike  Toronto  10:12, June 11, 2015 (UTC)

Talkback: Template:Fakelink
— Spike  Toronto  05:22, June 12, 2015 (UTC)

Recent Common.js reverts
I reverted recent revisions to Common.js because they were causing problems. For example, UserGroupMessages.js was only sporadically loading (and revealing all our secrets!). RecentChanges was crawling. And, userIcons.js was also sporadically not loading. CC, if it has not already been done, you can be set up as a testing administrator over at ATW, which would allow you to perfect your work before installing it here.

For ease, this was the code removed: <pre style="width:95%;"> // Add tabs compatibility importScriptPage('Mediawiki:Common.js/tabs.js', 'scratchpad'); // END Add tabs compatibility

// Add extra link features // importScriptPage('Mediawiki:Common.js/createLink.js', 'scratchpad'); // END Add extra link features

// Add id to first item in recent changes // created by Curiouscrab // ask questions at User:Curiouscrab/talk if(wgPageName==='Special:RecentChanges') { document.getElementsByClassName('rc-conntent')[0].getElementsByTagName('h4')[0].id='list-changes'; } // END Add id to first item in recent changes

// Create uniform signatures importScriptPage('Mediawiki:Common.js/uniformSig.js', 'scratchpad'); // END Create uniform signature

 Questions : <pre style="width:85%; margin-left:48px;"> if(wgPageName==='Special:RecentChanges') { document.getElementsByClassName('rc-conntent')[0].getElementsByTagName('h4')[0].id='list-changes'; Even though it must seem like all I do is throw up roadblocks all the time, I really do appreciate all your enthusiasm for Scratchpad. — Spike  Toronto  05:01, June 13, 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) What is the purpose of createLink.js?
 * 2) What is this supposed to do? I don’t see anything new at RC. But, it sure is slowing it down for me.

~Curiouscrab (talk) 16:23, June 13, 2015 (UTC)
 * createLink.js was for fakelinks so that the red links that the template generates still link to the pages but stay out of Special:WantedPages, but, per File:WhatLinksHere for Helloworld! 2015-06-12.jpg it appears that it hasn't been working and has created phantom links instead so now I can't really fix that. The other code was supposed to add an id to the first heading (the date, i.e. today it would be June 13, 2015) and then users could add #list-changes and the page would automatically bring them to the recent changes area rather than having the user manually scroll down. Some of those other items I'll look at to see if something I used in my code was causing issues there.


 * Thanks for clarifying all that. With respect to the Fakelink template, take a look at Template:Red link: It uses the magic word  to create clickable, red-colored links. I just stole it from wikipedia:Template:Red link. As for the code for RC, I saw no change to RC other than a slowdown. Remember, though, you can write as many scripts as you want as sub-pages in the MW namespace. BUT, don’t begin importing them into the top-level CSS/JS pages in that namespace until you’ve thoroughly tested them in your personal CSS/JS, and they’ve been approved for importation. Keep up the good work!  —  Spike  Toronto  06:51, June 14, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 21:30, June 14, 2015 (UTC)
 * That would probably work better.

Talkback: Scratchpad:Noticeboard/Header
— Spike  Toronto  07:05, June 14, 2015 (UTC)

User talk notifications
Hey CC! I changed scripts for my fake talk page notifications. See: http://sp.wikia.com/?diff=1748416&oldid=1721358 It works much better. Give it a try! — Spike  Toronto  06:02, June 17, 2015 (UTC)

“Severe lag”
The “severe lag” that this was intended to solve, was not at our end. It was an issue at Wikia’s end. It got resolved with this week’s second semi-weekly wikiware update. Generally, if no changes have been made at our end in the MediaWiki namespace, the source of the problem is at Wikia’s end. We can confirm this by comparing response times at some other Wikia wikis and temporarily turning our personal CSS/JS off. — Spike  Toronto  10:51, June 19, 2015 (UTC)

Template:Hero character infobox
Hey CC! How would you like to see if you could fix Template:Hero character infobox? You’ll notice from the example on the doc page that it has this odd repetition of code at the top of it. Also, it repeats each of the section headings, which you can see as you scroll down the page. You’ll find that, generally, the infobox templates here are mucked up, with the exception, perhaps, of Template:Infobox. — Spike  Toronto  10:27, June 24, 2015 (UTC)

P.S. For reference, these are very useful: — Spike  Toronto  10:34, June 24, 2015 (UTC)
 * Help:Infoboxes
 * User blog:Rappy 4187/Guide to Infoboxes

~Curiouscrab (talk) 15:42, July 4, 2015 (UTC)
 * The person who created it is using Template:T which creates those. Not sure why though. I'll remove them since they don't belong.


 * You fixed it! It looks awesome! Thank you. As for Template:T</tt>, way back when that infobox was created, that template’s code was simply this: . You can see it in that template’s [ revision history]. That template was later changed to being part of the, , etc., family of templates. At which point, the hero infobox probably began failing. One wonders how many other such ancient templates suffered the same fate.  —  Spike  Toronto  07:42, July 5, 2015 (UTC)

Special:Forum
Hi CC! Awhile ago, I activated the new forums (i.e., Special:Forum). It was a disaster. Most of our members thought it was just another namespace for cast lists. But, most of those were IP-only editors (i.e., anons), which we don’t have anymore. Anyway, it required way too much time to keep it monitored. However, if you wanted to be in charge of forums, I would be willing to re-activate it. But, it would be entirely yours to maintain. Thoughts? — Spike  Toronto  00:56, June 25, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 15:37, July 4, 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure, I could maintain it. Although, some weeks I might be gone for the entire time.


 * Then, you’ll have a lot of work to catch up on! I’ll go and activate it now. You can do the actual set-up when next you’re here. —  Spike  Toronto  07:44, July 5, 2015 (UTC)


 * Activated! I have to warn you, though, it seems that activating it again is more like re-activating: It seems all the forums that got edited when I did that test some time ago were all restored. So, you might want to make some changes to make it yours. —  Spike  Toronto  07:49, July 5, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 02:31, July 6, 2015 (UTC)
 * I took a look, and some of the things in there I can't tell whether they belong or not. There are cast lists, but it's unclear whether it is a suggestion or an actual page due to the way it is written and worded.


 * If it is a discussion about a cast list, including examples, it’s okay. If it is just a cast list, it is not okay. Please give me a list of any that are questionable, and I’ll review them. —  Spike  Toronto  04:34, July 7, 2015 (UTC)

lastEdited
Hey CC. Is your method at User:Curiouscrab/common.css of not seeing “lastEdited” working for you? If not, I was told that this will work: <pre style="width:50%;"> .lastEdited {display: none;} — Spike  Toronto  04:59, June 30, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 16:06, July 4, 2015 (UTC)


 * I confused it with fastDelete. Anyway, I seem to recall that you didn’t like seeing the last-edited details. In which case, I asked over at Dev wiki and was told that it could be hidden by the following:

<pre style="width:50%; margin-left:50px;"> .lastEdited {display: none;}
 * — Spike  Toronto  07:53, July 5, 2015 (UTC)

Wikia tours
Hey Crabman! Have you thought of creating a Wikia tour for your CC Wiki? You can find out how at Help:Wikia tour. — Spike  Toronto  08:20, June 30, 2015 (UTC)

Banned? Or, blocked? ;)
Crabbie, you were not banned: You were blocked. And, you’re not an Administrator on that wiki, so your block could not have been for “administrating”. So, there! — Spike  Toronto  11:42, June 30, 2015 (UTC)

Recently created categories
Hi Curiouscrab! I recently ran a script creating the wanted categories that were queued at WantedCatagories. Although I do review them first to remove any that should not be made, I’m sure there may be others that might need further review. (There’re always 1,000 of them to review before I run the script!) Since you’re so good with categories, when you have a moment, would you please review recently created categories for any that should be removed? I trust you to review my work. — Spike  Toronto  06:38, July 3, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 16:14, July 4, 2015 (UTC)
 * A lot of those are unused. Do you know whether Special:WantedCategories contains linked to categories (i.e. ) or when filed into (i.e.  )?


 * Wikia has some glitch that is causing unpopulated categories to show up at WantedCategories. Your very good question might point to the cause of the problem. You can test your theory over at w:c:spiketoronto: since there are almost no categories over there. —  Spike  Toronto  07:58, July 5, 2015 (UTC)

~Curiouscrab (talk) 02:28, July 6, 2015 (UTC)
 * Currently testing, will have to wait for update of special pages' cache to occur.

Happy 4th!!
Happy Independence Day, CC!! — Spike  Toronto  04:28, July 4, 2015 (UTC)

A blog of introduction!
Hey CC! You’ve been here awhile now; so, it’d be nice if you wrote a little blog to introduce yourself to the Scratchpad community. Tell us a bit about yourself, your interests, hobbies, studies, what you hope to do here, etc., etc. Some of this you’ve already written on your profile page; so, you can crib from that. On the technical side, when I draft a new blog, I do so in my own userspace until it’s ready for publication. This is mainly because Wikia’s User blog:</tt> namespace is such an oddity. Feel free to ask me any questions either via Skype or email. — Spike  Toronto  05:01, July 4, 2015 (UTC)

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— Spike  Toronto  07:40, July 4, 2015 (UTC)