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Please add new messages to the bottom, thanks :) -- sannse (talk)

I can't upload favicon or logo to Pleo wiki
I upload it. It says that I have uploaded it, but the image does not change! Please help! Sh ee p m a n ! Sheepytalk 21:41, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, it sometimes takes a while for your browser to pick up a new favicons... I can see it OK. Try clearing your cache - for firefox that's: "Tools" > "Clear private data" > check "Cache" > "Clear private data now".  For IE use "Tools" > "internet options" > under "browsing history" click "Delete..." > "Delete files"
 * Hope that helps -- sannse (talk) 17:24, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

No it doesn't. Sorry. Sh ee p m a n ! Sheepytalk 19:24, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Inactive Bureaucrat.
Hi Sannse.

I am one of three Bureaucrats from Bully Wiki.

The other two are Megabuster who requested and started the Wiki, and McJeff who I made into a Bureaucrat a month or so back.

I was wondering if you could take away the Bureaucrat flag away from Megabuster, who has been inactive ever since he requested the Wiki and has never made a contribution yet. Dan the Man 1983 04:02, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Plus we took a vote on this over there, and the results were 2 for, 0 against. Dan the Man 1983 13:30, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, that's done -- sannse (talk) 20:01, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Necyklopedie (Czech) is asking for assistance
We need a technical help.

1. We need the button "Save Page" (in Czech "Ulozit zmeny") to be active only after the unregistered user has filled the Summary field.

2. We need the setting in "My preferences/Editing/Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" (in Czech: "Nastavení/editovat/Upozornit") to be ticked (filled in with the check mark) by default for all registered Users. Which means that every new registered user will be prompted to fill in the Summary field. Any unregistered anonymous editor should be automatically prompted to fill in the Summary field as well.

--Zylbrsztajn 23:04, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if this is possible... but I will find out and get back to you -- sannse (talk) 20:30, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Compile asking for help on Dewback Wing Wiki
Hello, I am having trouble with two things so far.


 * 1) I am setting up a infobox that can be filled in, like the one that I have up at Richard Tan.  However, I am not getting it to look right.


 * 1) I am also having trouble understanding how to edit the MENU for the content I need.  Can you show me an example on that perhaps?

Thank you.

--Compile 13:10, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, This is on the dewbackwing wiki?
 * If you are using the new editor then you can click on the template in Richard Tan, and you will see several fields to fill in. That should give you a good looking info box.  What you are using at the moment is the code:


 * Which isn't set up on dewbackwing. What you need (if you use source mode to edit) is:


 * But using the new editor is easier.
 * Which menu do you want to edit? I'm not sure what you mean there.
 * -- sannse (talk) 20:45, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

On the infobox, I used the new editor and not all of the info is showing. How do I set up an info box page, cause I do nto understand the pages I have read. I have what I think is one up, but I am not sure if it is even right, and that can be located at the following link Character Infobox. If is the menu to the far left where you can search for pages, but I figured out how to do it.

Thank you again for your help.

--Compile 16:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Infoboxes are not easy to create. It looks like you got the one you copied over to work in the end (from the deleted page) but I know they are tricky things.  We are trying to improve the system to make them a lot easier.  In the mean time, you might want to stick to using Template:Infobox, rather than the more complicated ones.  It means you have to type in each title line (as in the example above) but it does mean it's easier to get everything in.  I'm glad you found the menu part! -- sannse (talk) 13:02, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Education Wikia
Hi,

I would like to put in a request for User:Fasten on the Education Wikia. Unfortunately, I really haven't been as attentive to that wikia as I needed to be, as Education is not one of my strong points. I came on board because there was a fair amount vandalism at the time. Since the last Bureaucrat left, and the remaining other active project left, Fasten has been doing the bulk of the activity. And he does know more about the subject than I do. Now that he is interested in being an Admin as well, I would like to be able to facilitate his promotion in status. --Kirk 00:44, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I see Catherine has done this for you -- sannse (talk) 17:43, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Chip2009
Hi, I am an Administrator of Grand Theft Wiki. I'm just letting you know that your Wikia-wide block of User:Chip2007 and User:Chip2008 has recently been circumvented again using User:Chip2009. See his GTW user page, as it says his real name is Martin Owen (the same as 2007 and 2008). I have blocked him on GTW, but it's up to you to enforce the Wikia-wide block. Thanks! Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 03:19, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi. I'm not going to chase Chip around Wikia :) if he's returned, and doesn't make the same mistakes again... then I'm happy to ignore him ;) -- sannse (talk) 17:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
for the talkpage note --Paul Arblaster 21:42, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Password recover
Hello, My friend, user:אבונטו מן in the Hebrew uncyclopedia had forgotten his password. He tried the Email password recover, but it did not help. I’ll be glad if you will be able to help us. Thanks, Doly.
 * Hi, if he can email community@wikia.com with all the details, we can have a look. Possibly he made a mistake in filling in his email address.  Thanks -- sannse (talk) 14:15, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

A problem
A user recently joined Custom Bionicles, but then created a new account stating he "didn't like his old account".What do you think I should do? It is a case of sock puppetry,after all. The user's two accounts are:


 * (Takua) (new account)
 * Old Story Bionicle Fan (original account)

-- The Oracle  02:54, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't consider this a problem at all :) it's really only "sockpuppeting" when people pretend that the second account isn't theirs. And as we can't currently change account names on Wikia, this is the only way to change your nick if you don't like it or make a mistake.  As it's clearly marked that the other account is him, there is no deception involved and I'd say this is fine -- sannse (talk) 14:17, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

CheckUser
Hello Sannse, on RuneScape Wiki we've been having a bit of an issue with this troll (creating spam pages, impersonating users,offensive material, etc.), I'd appreciate a check user to discover his IP range. Here is a list of a few of his accounts: Many thanks!--Azaz12919:05, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * WillSmith
 * ToiletLucky
 * Sdfsdfsdf
 * Iuckytoilet
 * Jason Ginn
 * Jason Gin


 * Hi, I've blocked the two IPs he's used (one was blocked, but only for anons). If he pops up again, then please let me know, and I'll look to see if he's switched IP.  -- sannse (talk) 18:24, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Sannse...

Some notes to translate the french interface. Many thanks and best regards,

Translation notes to the administrators
On the main left menu

"Top content" should be changed to "Palmarès" Inside "Top content" menu The sub menu "Content le plus sav" should be changed to "Contenu le plus vu", The sub menu "Pages les plus visité" should be changed to "Pages les plus visitées" The sub menu "Pages les plus notez" should be changed to "Pages les plus annotées" The sub menu "Pages modifés récents" should be changed to "Pages modifiées récemment" the sub-menu "Edit this menu" should be changed to "Editez ce menu"

"Community" should be changed to "Communauté"

"Importer un image/fichier" should be changed to "Importer une image/fichier"

"Already a member?" should be changed to "Déjà membre?"

The title "Community" should be changed to "Communauté"

"Dernières actiones" should be changed to "Dernières actions"

On the main page

"Editing this page" should be changed to "Editez cette page" "Report a problem" should be changed to "Rapporter un problême" "Hubs" should be changed to "Centre d'activitée" "Featured" should be changed to "En vedette" "Wikia is hiring" should be changed to "Wikia embauche"


 * Many thanks, I'll try and work on this tomorrow -- sannse (talk)

Desysoping
It is with a heavy heart that I post this, one of RSWiki's admins Stinkowing, has requested to have his sysop privileges revoked. Also, I'd very much appreciate you commenting on this discussion here, many thanks.--Azaz129


 * Hi, I'll looking at the discussion on Stinkowing. On the other, unless there are copyright or other similar issues involved, then it looks like a matter between the game makers and the community -- sannse (talk) 21:38, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Request for Adminship: Star Wars Miniatures Wikia
This is a just request for adminship over on the Star Wars Miniatures Wikia. I only ask for this because I'm planning on fixing up the wikia and then introducing to the SWMinis community. And also because the only administrator there hasn't been seen for over a year (judging by his contributions to the site).

Thanks, and hopefully you get back to me soon.

P.S. Please leave any replies on my talk page at the SWM Wikia. Thanks.

Darth mavoc 09:51, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Replied at SWM as requested -- sannse (talk) 21:38, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Sannse. I looked at the link you gave me, and I'm endeavouring to meet the criteria. Seeing how I have to wait a bit to be able to request for adminship, is it possible you can unprotect the main page of SWMWiki? I'd like to be able to spice it up, and make it more interesting. Thanks again! Darth mavoc 23:39, 18 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure, that's no problem... done -- sannse (talk) 08:48, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Uh, I'm having slight trouble getting a couple of templates to work on the SWMWikia. Can you help me fix them? Or do you know anyone else who is good at template construction. Thanks, again. Darth mavoc 22:57, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

You blocked me?
Hi Sannse. A few days ago I requested to Azaz129 that a user impersonating me should be blocked. Thanks for imposing an IP block on my school. Unfortunately, you also seem to have blocked me as well. Maybe this is because the impersonator had an account called luckytoilet (Lowercase L) and you mistook him for me. I can't contact Azaz129 himself because I'm blocked on the Runescape Wiki, but I'd appreciate it if you could help me. Thanks. Luckytoilet 03:04, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've adjusted the block and left a message for Azaz129 to explain. The problem was the shared IP between you and the vandal... I guess you have some interesting classmates ;) -- sannse (talk) 09:10, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Logo
Hey Sannse,

I know you're kind of good at graphics, so I was wondering if you could help me get some of the "fuzz" (useless transparency) off our new logo at Custom Bionicles wiki.

The link is.

Thanks,

-- The Oracle  17:19, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, a friend got it done. Sorry!-- The Oracle  16:56, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Looks good :) -- &#91;&#91;User:Sannse&#124;sannse&#93;&#93;&lt;staff /&gt; (&#91;&#91;User talk:sannse&#124;talk&#93;&#93;) 15:03, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Favicon
Hi Sannse! Can you make a favicon for Foldapedia? 'Cause I'm having trouble making one.

- The Pirate  Ahoy! Talk T' Th' Pirate 09:07, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sure :) I've made you this one:
 * Think it's OK? You may need to clear your cache before you see it in place on the wiki -- sannse (talk) 15:09, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for making a favicon for Foldapedia! :) - The Pirate  Ahoy! Talk T' Th' Pirate 13:29, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Wiki Request: Hoping you can answer
Hi there Sannse,

On December 6 this request was denied: http://requests.wikia.com/index.php?title=Kota&action=purge

Although I can understand the reason, there's something that puzzles me. At least one wiki was created for an individual RuneScape Clan in the past: http://darkriders.wikia.com/wiki/

I'd just like to know why that wiki was created for an individual RuneScape Clan but my request for a wiki for my RuneScape clan was denied. I have been trying to contact the staff member that denied my request since the day it was denied, both via her talk page and email as well as the talk page for the request, but I have still received no response. I am posting this on your talk page in the hopes that I can get an answer.

Thanks, Soldier 1033 00:18, 21 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi. Requests is something more of an art than a science... so sometimes we get things wrong, and sometimes the guidelines we work by change over time.  In this case, we started the Darkriders Wikia in January 2008.  By June, someone had requested a wiki for all Runescape clans, and we had seen that clan wikis tended not to grow well.  So we started trying to see if it would work better to combine clans in one wiki, accepted the Runescape Clans wiki, and started asking new clan requests to go there.
 * It might turn out that this isn't the best solution. We are constantly talking about how to best choose the wikis we accept, and hope to have a new, improved, system next year (details once we work them out!).  But one thing to remember, we can always split off content if it starts on a more general wiki and grows well.  So a section on Runescape Clans could be a stand-alone wiki if it takes off :)
 * I hope that's helped, and sorry you didn't get a reply before, we are all a bit here-and-away over the holiday period -- sannse (talk) 15:18, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Wikination
PLease take off the moderator rights of User:American Eagle on wikination. He does very dictatorial things also please delete somee pages and restore some pages and also unblock some users. Also unprotect some pages Pierlot McCrooke 14:55, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, this is a matter for the Wikination community -- sannse (talk) 15:27, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Bot for CBW Wiki
I was thinking about creating a bot for Custom Bionicles Wiki. The purpose of this bot would be to add a template to every page listed on Special:Wantedpages. The reason I need a bot to do this instead of a user is because there exactly 1000 pages listed there. Now, I'll probably have to create the bot framework after Christmas for personal reasons, but maybe I should start by creating the bot account?

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/custombionicle/images//6/6b/TheOracle_Sig.png 22:02, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S:Link to the wanted pages is here. Be warned though, it is quite long.

A Change to LocalSettings.php
Hello, I was wondering if you could add a few lines to the end of the localSettings.php for runescape.wikia.com to give bureaucrats the ability to manage forumadmin. The discussion for adding the lines can be found here.
 * $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['forumadmin'] = true; # Gives bureaucrats forum adminship.
 * $wgGroupPermissions['forumadmin']['forumadmin'] = true; # Gives forumadmins forum adminship.
 * $wgAddGroups['bureaucrat'][] = 'forumadmin'; # Bureaucrats can add forumadmin (keeps current groups too).
 * $wgRemoveGroups['bureaucrat'][] = 'forumadmin'; # Bureaucrats can remove forumadmin (keeps current groups too).

If forumadmin does not show up on Special:UserRights, then adding &darr; should make it visible.
 * $ForumAdminKey = array_search('forumadmin',$wgImplicitGroups); #finds the key for forumadmin in implicit groups
 * unset($wgImplicitGroups[$ForumAdminKey]); #Removes forumadmin from implicit groups.

Thank you. Dr5ag2on1 21:46, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll pass this along to the technical team. --Uberfuzzy 22:34, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for sorting this Uber -- sannse (talk) 15:24, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

autochange categories and general messages
Hello, on the Dutch RuneScape Wiki here we have created a template in the past and added auto-categorisation (this template). This template was then added to some pages. Later the autocategorisation was changed (category Armour instead of Equipment), but the pages which contain the template doesn't seem to change automatically, I have to open the edit window for these pages and then click save in order for the categories to change. So basically (sorry for the messy explanation) I was wondering if it's possible to automatically change the category of all pages containing a template, if the autocategorisation of this template is changed.

I was also wondering how you can make messages appear on the top of each page (for example: Help out this wikia as much as possible. There are plenty of things to do. Futurepedia needs images, especially for imageless articles. Vote for new Featured pictures here. on the Back to the Future Wiki). Thx, Therealmagicrune 13:41, 27 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, there was a problem with this type of update over the holiday... usually the system puts such tasks in a queue to be worked on when traffic is low (it runs about midnight UTC). But it missed a few days, so there was a back-log.  It looks to have cleared now, so all is well.  Generally, you should expect unedited pages to update once a day... sometimes a bit longer if you have made a template change that affects a lot of pages.  If it's longer, please let us know and we'll give the servers a bit of a kick ;)
 * You can put a message at the top of the page using MediaWiki:Sitenotice. Some wikis rather overuse this in my opinion, it's not good to push the content down any more than is necessary... but it's a handy way to talk to all users at once. -- sannse (talk) 15:31, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Tyvm for that. There also seems to be an issue with our mainpage, where the sidebar (with search, categories, upload image, special pages) overlaps (hope that's a correct word in English) our Wiki image. Is this caused by the layout of our mainpage? No other page seems to have this problem. Therealmagicrune 16:19, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Got to remember to close those divs! :) I've made the edit to fix the page -- sannse (talk) 18:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thx alot for that fix :D Therealmagicrune 20:10, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Mediation
Hi. I am requesting mediation for this Forum:De-adminship_of_Jorge_Queirolo_Bravo_on_es.literatura. That page has all the information about it. Thanks in advance. --David 14:59, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I understand that Zuirdj is helping out there -- sannse (talk) 15:32, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Notification
No idea if you noticed it yet, but I answered the question you posted at The Ancient World OT request at my user talk profile, but I don't know if that is the right place, so I just thought it'd be usefull to notify you. Heer Karel Heer Karel 18:22, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've copied the comment to the right page and replied there :) -- sannse (talk) 15:42, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Help.
Hi Sannse. Can you help make a Favicon for Club Penguin Fanon. And can you also tell me how to put it on? Thanks. Oh can you also visit Forum:Unfair block by Toughpigs? Thanks. -- H a pp y f a c e 01:06, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'll have a look at a favicon. And I'm sure Danny will look at your message when he's back -- sannse (talk) 15:43, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

MySims Wiki Help
Hey I am one of the new guys over at the MySims Wiki. I was wondering if you had any idea how to make pages like they have on the Viva Pinyata wiki where the page is in tabs at the top? This would be very useful for our wiki as the game MySims has 2 games with the same Sims in completely different stories. Here is a example. Thanks a lot for your time.--Rbfskywalker 12:09, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, that wiki use custom code to make tabs, but we have something similar with "Tab View". This is installed on MySims already, so you just need to add the code.  There is help on this at http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Tab_view -- sannse (talk) 16:32, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow thanks that works. The bit I don't get is how to style the tabs. I read the bit at the bottom about this but I don't get where you put that code. Thanks again.--Rbfskywalker 19:14, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Your site css is on a couple of different pages. For something like this, which doesn't depend on what skin people are viewing the site in, you should use MediaWiki:Common.css.
 * In case you need it later... if you are changing the general look of the default skin, then you will need MediaWiki:Monaco.css (see Help:Customizing Monaco for more on that) -- sannse (talk) 19:32, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey Sorry but I don't really get what you are saying. I know what skins are but what do they have to do with this?--Rbfskywalker 20:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki:Monaco.css will ONLY get used if the skin is set to Monaco->Custom
 * if you need to change something for ALL monaco themes, you will need to put it in MediaWiki:Common.css and prepend all your css rules with
 * but in this case, for changing the styling for the tabview, put it in MediaWiki:Common.css --Uberfuzzy 20:15, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok I don't think I can do this then as I am just a normal user atm as there was me and this other guy wanting to start the wiki at the same time but he asked first so he has all the power ect. Will be be able to do this if I ask him?--Rbfskywalker 20:25, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, he'll be able to edit the css pages. He will also be able to give you admin rights so that you can make the changes... perhaps you could talk to him about that possibility?  Good luck -- sannse (talk) 14:15, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

French FFXIclopedia
Hey Sannse - when you get a chance can you take a look at the User Rights Management code at http://fr.wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/ and ensure that I can op/deop the Jr. Sysop position (and/or other missing positions)? Thanks. -- 23:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Gahoo, I've requested this from the tech team -- sannse (talk) 16:31, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

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Atukamakirk 2.9
Atukamlitib has returned as Atukamakirk 2.9. He has already done around 50 counts of vandalism, and has received a permaban. However, this is getting to be a big problem. He will keep returning, I am certain of it. I think we should add him to the Spam Blacklist or something similar. And, can you please reply about the bot I'm thinking about?

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/custombionicle/images//6/6b/TheOracle_Sig.png 03:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I see Uberfuzzy has blocked the guy's IP.
 * On the bot... sorry for missing that. I'm confused as to why you would want to put a template on wanted pages.  There will be more than 1000 (that's just the limit for listing, once the top ones are gone others will show) and the idea of the page is that it shows you what articles might be useful to add.  If you create them with a template, then you won't have redlinks any more... and that means people will constantly be going to useless pages looking for content!  The redlinks are useful, and the wanted pages list is just a tool to help you decide which to add content to first -- sannse (talk) 18:40, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Grawp
Some users who are fed up with Grawp are planning Police action that could stop him once and for all. See here on Palaeos.

Grawp is causing problems for many users and administrators on many wikis. It’s not good for him that he can get away with such actions as threatening to rape and murder people. It’s not good for those who read distressing material that Grawp has written. Most of those on the receiving end of such threats will know that he’s thousands of miles away and won’t harm them. A few might get frightened. In any case reading that type of material is unpleasant. Can Wikia help deal with Grawp? Proxima Centauri 17:33, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

More about Grawp. Proxima Centauri 18:10, 1 January 2009 (UTC)


 * We can block him any time he causes problems on Wikia, but that's all I'm afraid. I always recommend the technique of "revert, block, ignore" for any vandal... or a discussion with your local police if you feel threatened in any way. -- sannse (talk) 18:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

User Wilberj
Hi Sannse can help me to get this user Wiberj off my back about thing because i am the head Adimmeter on Monster MASH and i have block him due tell on to run that site and i will be best if you like tell to leave alone --Wiezorek James 02:23, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, it looks like you need to talk to him rather than block him. Are pages being copied from Wikipedia without credit?  If so, you need to either remove them or give proper attribution.  I've added a template to MASH Wiki for you to use for this.  Just type  (replacing "name" with the source article name) on each copied article. -- sannse (talk) 18:48, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Checkuser
Hi, Sannse. I request a Checkuser to check if  and  share the same IP address, due to a complain of all three being blocked by this block. I suspect that all three are the same person, and I think it would be worth to warn him to not have several accounts in use. Thanks! --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 20:40, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, now I found that Uberfuzzy is a checkuser. I've passed this request to him. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 12:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Banned
Why am I banned? How did I abuse my E-mail?--  ₪  ΔĢєŋŦGεиιυς  Yes, I am banned 22:05, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

And while we're on the subject, why is Happyface414 banned? Sh ee p m a n ! Sheepytalk 11:45, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

You've gone too far. I edit on the CPW. It's bad enough that every one there occasionally goes nuts and then bans everyone in sight for no reason. But now staff members have started mindlessly banned users as well. And before you contradict me, I can name two: HappyFace414 and AgentGenius. I mean seriously! I advise you unban them, because otherwise you will never get a moments peace from the CP Fanon wiki.

Yours in extreme anger, -- Sh ee p m a n ! Sheepytalk 11:56, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * HappyFace414 was blocked as he is too young to be allowed to edit Wikia. See Angela's talk page on ClubPenguin for more. AgentGenius was blocked for spamming Wikia with a large number of duplicate emails.  This is not acceptable behaviour. -- sannse (talk) 11:06, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm very sorry, I hadn't realised that Happyface had done that. I am sorry I sent quite that many E-Mails, I was very angry and you weren't replying to my questions here. Even so, I sent several times more E-Mails than I ment (I just cheked.) Please forgive me.

- Yours very apologeticly, -   ₪  ΔĢєŋŦGεиιυς  Yes, I am banned


 * Let's be clear here, this wasn't a mistake or an accident, you used some sort of a script to automatically send many emails a minute to our mailing system. I am not willing to discuss this further here, especially as you are evading your ban.  Perhaps we can review this in a few month's time... but for now you are not welcome on Wikia.  -- sannse (talk) 17:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Ok. Sorry for the outburst. I can see why Agentgenius was banned. But I looked at Angela's talk page, and there is nothing there to do with Happyface's age. Sh ee p m a n ! Sheepytalk 14:54, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I got the wikis confused. Angela explained the bans here.  Our terms of use say that you need to be 13 or older to use Wikia, and Happyface isn't.  I'm afraid there is nothing other than time that will change that -- sannse (talk) 17:48, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Legal threats information
Greetings, I'm Pfenner, a Nonciclopedia admin.

Occasionally we happen to receive legal threats involving our articles. The latest seems a serious one (although we are still not sure whether it is real). The point is, we (admins and community) have little knowledge on the subject of legal issues. All we want is to be able to deal with the next legal threat properly, so - if you don't mind - I have some questions for you:
 * In the terms of use there is this sentence: All legal action will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts in the state of California, USA. Does this apply only to direct legal threats to Wikia, or is really any legal action against the content of any site hosted by Wikia also included?
 * Are users individually responsible and liable for what they write? And are they supposed to "be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts in the state of California, USA." even if they are located outside the U.S. and the supposed offence in question has occurred outside the U.S.?
 * Could Wikia give us some form of legal assistance?
 * Who is, legally speaking, the target of a legal threat concerning an article? Is it the author? Is it the admins? Or is it the entire site?

I'm sorry for my poor English, and thank you in advance for the answers.. --Pfenner 20:26, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Pfenner, complicated questions :) Please remember in reading my answers that I am not a lawyer and cannot give legal advice.
 * Taking the last question first... any of those can be the target of a legal threat. Each of us is responsible for our own writings, and that should always be a consideration in what you put on the site.  Admins are a bad target in most cases, they don't generally have any responsibility for the actions of others on the site.  However, they do still have responsibility for their own actions (so, for example, if you were to replace a copyright violation and protect the page, that might be seen differently to you just not noticing a problem).  And of course, Wikia has certain responsibilities - for example to remove content promptly if we get a proper take-down notice.
 * Going up the list... yes, Wikia is able to look at any threat and may be able to give assistance. For example, in a recent case on the English Uncyclopedia we got a lawyer's letter but felt that a page could clearly be defended as parody.  So we got our lawyers to write to the complaining person's lawyers to say so.  Of course it depends on the situation each time, and most complaints can be dealt with a lot more easily than that.  But the option is there if we need it.
 * And for the first (last) question... this applies to any action taken against Wikia, relating to any site hosted by Wikia. But, of course, we would have no control over someone suing an English user in an English court over their actions on Wikia or any other site.  That goes back to personal responsibility for your actions.
 * In general, I would say your first step is to look at any complaint with common sense and see if you can resolve the dispute. For example, if it's a page written by students calling their teacher names... do you really need it on the site? So a quick deletion and ban of any students replacing it should fix the problem.  Copyright issues are easy too, another quick deletion should end any complaints.  But if there are any complaints that worry you or you can't resolve, then I would recommend that you tell the person to contact community@wikia.com and the Community Team will help.
 * Let me know if you have more questions :) -- sannse (talk) 11:30, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the answers, they were useful. :) In this case the threat is against this article (a parody article of an animal rights association) and basically, it involves a supposed defamation, even if there is no real defamatory content in the article. We think (and the author agrees) not to delete any part of this until a further notification, and we'll let you know about that. Thanks again! --Pfenner 14:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Infobox help on Dewback Wing Wikia
I am trying to get another infobox to look right, but for osme reason, the text int he infobox is the same color as the background. It is located here and the infobox it I am using is Droid Infobox. Uberfuzzy helped me, but the box still in not working correctly. Can you possibly show me what I am doing wrong?

Thank you in advance.

--Compile 21:09, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I got the problem fixed.--Compile 02:10, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Glad you sorted it :) don't forget you can get help from other users on the forum or on IRC -- sannse (talk) 11:34, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Page Problems
Just wanted to remind you of this discussion on asterisks messing up formatting on pages. We're still having this problem, the latest page is here. Please see previous discussion for other links to pages this has happened to. Do the techs know if this is being caused by the new WYSIWYG editor or something else? Our users are getting frustrated with pages being messed up. Thanks! &mdash; Jeiara 22:44, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reminder Jeiara. I'm going to be looking at this either today or tomorrow, and will make sure the tech team know it's a priority!  -- sannse (talk) 11:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, can you turn off the new editor, until things are sorted out? &mdash; Jeiara 19:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, I've done that -- sannse (talk) 09:48, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Move
Could you please move OnePiece to One Piece? The actual name does include a space, but since this page was not a move redirect, I cannot move the page back. Please and thank you! 02:13, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem... that's done -- sannse (talk) 11:38, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Abandoned Wiki
Sardapedia has unfortunately been abandoned by its original Bureaucrat. I've have been asked and volunteered to become a sysop in his absence for protection from vandals, which are abundant. My page is here. I was recommended here, and I volunteered here (different wiki). Thank you for your time. Scathe Mote

Assistance requested
We've had a bit of a problem on the RuneScape Clans Wiki. A user by the name of Btzkillerv basically went into a blind rage yesterday and blatantly attacked more than one user after his clan page was vandalized. I had issued him a 1 day block to allow him to calm down and now this is turning into a mess. I'm being threatened by him and I don't want to issue another block that will only serve to anger him more. Would you mind taking a look and possibly commenting to help calm things down?

Here are the revisions that caused me to issue the block:


 * Here
 * Here

Followed by a bunch of personal attacks and blatant abuse on Btzkillerv's talk page.

Thank you, Soldier 1033 22:06, 9 January 2009 (UTC)