User talk:WikisEditor

Welcome
Hi, welcome to Community Central! Thanks for your edit to the Community Central:Adoption requests page.

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gta wiki
By all means, start an on-wiki discussion about new bureaucrats for the site. If the community has decided it wants a new bureaucrat and who that will be, let us know. It appears that User:Spaceeinstein is a moderator who still keeps a fairly consistent watch on the wiki and responds to talk page messages. If he and/or the others will not promote the new leadership chosen by the wiki community then let us know and we can help. -- Wendy (talk ) 05:25, March 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. I see that Spaceeinstein isn't being overly helpful. If you are still interested, why don't you start a blog or forum about new moderators for the wiki? There are lots of active editors it seems, and I think a few active admins would be a useful addition. Given the cricumstances we'll be ok with promoting the users that the community picks. -- Wendy (talk ) 00:57, March 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * While it is great that you started a blog, only one actual user of the wiki has written to support you as bureaucrat. The other two have no other contributions to the wiki and are disabled (ie spam) accounts. Today alone there were 24 active editors on that wiki. On the other hand, you have not contributed to the wiki except for your blog post in the last month. It is hard to understand your claims to want to help the wiki when you never seem to edit there. Nonetheless, if the community is ok with it, then I would not go against that.


 * I strongly suspect that most of the community is unaware that they can choose new admins at this point. Perhaps you need to leave some talk page messages for other users. Direct some attention to your blog post and see if some sort of community discussion can be started. And please make it clear that more than one admin can be chosen. -- Wendy (talk ) 02:38, April 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. What you did explaining your intentions on the blog and messaging other users was great and exactly what is needed. Let's give everyone to the end of the week to respond, just to make it more likely that all of the active users had the opportunity. Please continue leaving messages for users you see editing in the meanwhile (or go to Special:Listusers and sort by date to see all of them) -- that is really helpful also. If the consensus is still positive at that time from whoever has responded then I will grant you the rights friday night (US time), ok? I'm sorry - I realize that you are eager to get the rights, but the discussion with the community process is particularly important on a large wiki with so many active users. -- Wendy (talk ) 00:06, April 7, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Help me save GTA Wiki from its doom!!!!
Keep the calm! the original wiki is gta.wikia.com, sorry for them, but the content is here, and it'll be here for a long time (forever :) ) if he send you more messages, ignore them, we are working in our articles, not their articles, so if they have a problem, they should contact to the wikia staff not you, but, please, don't take anything (articles, templates, etc) from gradtheftwiki, we have our own articles and they have other (same) articles. And don't worry ;) --Bola (discusión) http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png Helper 22:23, April 10, 2011 (UTC)

Admin but no Bureaucrat
reposting my response from the adoptions page...

Hi WikisEditor! Thank you so much for your passion and persistence in taking care of this wiki. We've been reviewing this situation, and decided that your level of experience with managing wikis more appropriate for admin status than bureacrat status on a wiki as large and sensitive as GTA is right now. However, User:Bola from the Spanish GTA wiki is very experienced, and he has agreed to help out for awhile on GTA until it's back on it's feet. You can still lead, but please treat him as a resource and let him advise you on sensitive issues. If you need anything that only a bureaucrat can do, please ask him for it, and if he agrees, he'll take care of it. We look forward to seeing you in action! --Dopp (help forum | blog) 20:52, April 11, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Things I can't do
Hi WikisEditor! All users with admin rights can edit MediaWiki pages, so you can do it yourself, try it! Related with the removing rights issue, are you sure? if you remove the rights to the others users means that you are the new "sheriff", the only one. I think that you should remove the rights to the other users when you have the total control of this wiki, with bureaucrat rights and a stable admin team, why? because this is a sign for the users, the change of cicle. In addition, if you remove the admin rights now, the users will see that there is only a admin (or two with The Tom) in the wiki, and they can think that the wiki is more vulnerable (and the vandals too!), so keep the inactive admins is better than remove their rights. Wikia advices it, and me too, but if you are sure, and prefer do it now, let me know and I will remove the rights now, any problem hehe, but remember that it isn't urgent. The name for the bureaucrats can be changed in these MediaWiki pages MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat-member and MediaWiki:Group-bureaucrat. And congratulations for The Tom, new GTA Wiki admin! Btw, have you solved the issue about the copied articles from grandtheftwiki?--Bola (discusión) http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png Helper 01:22, April 14, 2011 (UTC)

Proper Attribution
Hi WikisEditor! We need you to address the copyright issue now. For every article that you copied from GrandTheftWiki.com, you need to either

a) Delete it, or

b) Provide proper attribution (a line of text at the bottom of the article that states the source of the article and links back to where it came from. A good example of proper attribution is shown here: http://www.wikia.com/Licensing#Using_Wikia_content here ).

It is critical that you take care of this immediately. If you don't, your wiki is vulnerable to attacks and harassment from former members. Please let us know when this is done.

Thanks, --Dopp http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 17:56, April 14, 2011 (UTC)
 * >can I not put a link and alter the articles alittle, I like changing/deleting some texts?
 * You can rewrite the articles so that they are in your own words. That requires a full rewriting, though... not just making a few changes.
 * > Is all this really necessary, what might happen if I don't do this?
 * If you don't address this, the conflict with former members will escalate, and Wikia will need to step in and intervene because of legal threats. It's better if you handle it directly, so that you can maintain full leadership. --Dopp (help forum | blog) 20:53, April 14, 2011 (UTC)
 * > Is all this really necessary, what might happen if I don't do this?
 * If you don't address this, the conflict with former members will escalate, and Wikia will need to step in and intervene because of legal threats. It's better if you handle it directly, so that you can maintain full leadership. --Dopp (help forum | blog) 20:53, April 14, 2011 (UTC)
 * If you don't address this, the conflict with former members will escalate, and Wikia will need to step in and intervene because of legal threats. It's better if you handle it directly, so that you can maintain full leadership. --Dopp (help forum | blog) 20:53, April 14, 2011 (UTC)

Re: New Admins
I'm sorry for the delay! I didn't see your message, we should speak in GTA Wiki, it'll be more easy check the new messages and follow the discussion. About the new admins, have you contacted them to offer the rights? Owen1983 doesn't look too active - it's my impression - but if you think that could be a good candidate, I haven't problem to promote him, and Haruhi Suzumiya looks more active than Owen1983, so good candidate. I hadn't got enough time to create the spanish page about the "international collaboration project between gta wikis" but I'm going to create it in the next days, when I finish it, I'll translate it to english (could be cool if you correct it then, because my english level isn't native and I will do it a lot of mistakes, I'm sure hehe). I monitorized your last editions on GTA Wiki, you are doing an incredible work, don't forget keep updated the page about news, it's probably that in the next E3, Rockstar shows something (I hope it!). Btw, have you visited the project pages on es.gta? we have projects for characters, places, easter eggs, etc, I though that we could coordinate these project between GTA Wiki (english) and Grand Theft Encyclopedia (spanish) with the international project, you should create these projects on GTA Wiki like es.gta, but I think that it sounds good and it's a good idea hehe, because in a project you can find people interesting in the same things that you, for example vehicles, and you can improve your favorites articles with the help of other users, imagine if user from other gta wikis could send you images and information to complete the articles, we could do the best wikis in our respective languages! Ah! another thing, if you agree, when we start the project between gta wikis, I will speak with Wikia to give you the bureaucrat flag. Good luck!--Bola (discusión) http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png Helper 11:51, May 10, 2011 (UTC)

Latest News
Thanks. I believe the question, though, is: did you update it with content that you copied from their wiki without attribution? --Dopp http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 16:35, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

Hi WikisEditor, I did give you a chance to explain yourself: look at my question directly above this message. If you have a plan for providing attribution, that's great! But it's unacceptable to post copied articles without proper attribution, period, even if it's while you're working on a new way to attribute. One of the articles reported to us has been up for over ten days. That's not okay, and you're well aware of that. You're still able to edit on the wiki, so please fix ALL attribution omissions immediately if you wish to keep those rights as well. We should not be receiving any more reports of this kind of error on GTA. --Dopp http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog) 19:50, May 29, 2011 (UTC)