User talk:Brandon Rhea/Archive 4

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Feel free to leave me a message. I will get back to you ASAP!

Lostpedia - Jabrwocky7
Yeah, I don't think he's suitable to be an admin over at Lostpedia - basically he created a stupid page on a box on a wikia based on Lost the TV show. So I suggested to delete it and he tells me to "get the fuck off" and then I say why it should be deleted and he says "if it annoys you so much, I can block you for the rest of the day". Clearly I didn't do anything wrong; he did and then he threatens to block me... I think you should consider letting him keep his privileges. -> Evidence is here http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:The_Box#Delete -- Julietfan2626

You should send this to Special:Contact--

Could you do it for me, I have no idea what to do :) -- Julietfan2626

Click the link--

Tekken wiki and other wikis
It has come to my attention,that there is a hacker,in the wikis it's best if you guys look into this,the hacker goes by many IP's(Hangingmanpeter0 23:03, April 1, 2011 (UTC))


 * The odds of hacking a wiki are extremely remote. However, please send this to Special:Contact with as much information you have. Thanks. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 23:22, April 1, 2011 (UTC)

Wikia Wikis on IRC
Hey dude. I has an idea to use the layout of the Wikis on Facebook page to make a page for Wikia Wikis on IRC. Here's a link. May I improve it a bit and add it into the namespace so that other Wikis can add their channels? Thanks! -- Zombie talk • blog 10:23, April 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * That looks like it could be a good idea. I'll bring it up with the rest of the community team to see what they think. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 17:00, April 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * Pleasure and thanks. -- Zombie talk • blog 18:38, April 5, 2011 (UTC)

Save GTA Wiki please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The admin A-Dust sent a take down request for articles to Wikia because I copied articles from www.grandtheftwiki.com to this wiki, but this is not copyrighted to them, they have no right to delete these articles, they are not the owners of any information, its rockstar that owns all the names and information, and the articles they have are created by users just like here. So please consider this first please before deleting any article here, they just doen't want any benefit to Wikia or this wiki, they jut want to destroy it!: here's a link to what he said: http://gta.wikia.com/Talk:Liberty_City/New_York_Landmarks thanks.

www.grandtheftwiki.com is a website they made because of a dispute between them and wikia and took all the articles that this wiki has, there. So there is no reason for them to delete articles, it's not copyrighted to them if it is a violation to any copyright law then they must delete their's.WikisEditor 21:40, April 10, 2011 (UTC)

Applause
About time someone actually did something with that blog. Good work sir.--

Could you review my promotion request on GTA Wiki
Here's a link: http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Central:Adoption_requests#Bureaucrat_Promotion_Request.


 * Hi. We look at adoption requests in the order that they're posted. We'll get to yours as soon as possible. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 17:28, April 12, 2011 (UTC)


 * Brandon, ignore this. Dopp took care of his adoption request but he is not happy they chose not to give him Bureaucrat rights, only admin rights.--

Archer Wiki
Hi Brandon, I apologize if this is inappropriate, but on the Adoption page you mentioned we might be able to review my request to adopt the Archer Wiki on April 15th. I notice a lot of requests that are on hold haven't gone anywhere, so I wasn't sure what the procedure was to get a review, do I post another request? Mine was the request to adopt the Archer Wiki. And I posted on update with the things you said I should follow up on.

43 Adopt the Archer Wiki (on hold)

Mianla (talk 12:50, April 15, 2011 (UTC)


 * Today's the 15th, so sometime today we'll be able to look at it. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 17:35, April 15, 2011 (UTC)

You Don't like Me When Im Frustrated
Hey Brandon, do you know any way to change the names of pictures? It is REALLY frustrating putting the names of them in the character templates when the names are just a bunch of random letters & numbers(Well, I guess it's partly my fault cause Im the one who uploaded them that way,...ButThatsNotTheMatterHere!!) So, can you help me out?

Guradian1098 04:46, April 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey. If you're an admin, you can rename them the same way you can rename a page, using the "Edit" button on the file information page. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 04:49, April 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Alright, Gotcha. But if I remember correctly, Small Owl, Gunius and I will be made admins on Guardians of GaHoole Wiki, Am I right? I remember from here. --Guradian1098 03:52, May 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * You don't need to keep changing the timestamp on your message. I replied to the adoption request 2 days ago and I'm currently awaiting a response. Thanks. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 03:56, May 1, 2011 (UTC)

Wikia Deletion
I have two wiki's the Rex The Runt Wiki and the Ball Hockey Wiki. While the Rex The Runt wiki is small time and nobody goes there yet I'm planning on making it useful. But the Ball Hockey Wiki is about extremely minor youth ball hockey leagues and I was wondering how to delete it as not to clog up room on Wikia.

Tyler2513 23:29, May 1, 2011 (UTC)


 * You don't have to worry about taking up room, there's more than plenty! But if you do want it closed, you can send a request from the wiki to Special:Contact asking for it to be closed. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 23:43, May 1, 2011 (UTC)

I am having a hard time as an admin
Greetings, I am the admin of GTA Wiki, and I am having a hard time as one, I would like to be promoted as bureacrat please, I can't promote other people or edit the MediaWiki or anything, Wikia was testing me so they gave me just admin rights and I think I made a great job, I stoped vandalism, and I think the wiki is getting alot better now, User:Bola should be helping me but he doesn't log in much, last time I told him to promote people for me he didn't reply or did promote them. Me and The Tom are having things under control and I think I deserve the promotion, this wiki needs more admins and there are few Me and The Tom think they deserve to become one, thanks.WikisEditor 11:47, May 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * Admins are allowed to edit in the MediaWiki namespace. As for the rest of your message, you may wish to talk with Merrystar instead, as she's the one who gave you the rights.


 * The only thing a Bureaucrat can do that an admin can't is change user rights. MediaWiki is freely available to be changed by admins.--

RE: Dublicate Wiki
Brandon, in response to your email about the issue I contacted Wikia about, request contact number 18965, or at least I think that is the number you guys use for that. After just a quick discussion, we think it would be better all around for you to make the contact, so if you wouldn't mind doing that, we'd appreciate that. Thanks in advance. Lancer1289 23:51, May 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Brandon, I'm sure SpartHawg948, the B'Crat on the ME wiki will leave you a message at some point, as he has a few questions, but there is something that keeps bothering me. Since he is basically importing the entire site, pictures, templates, articles, from my understanding of the situation, he would need to import everything and cite it as such, articles (which there has been no progress so far), templates, and pictures as well. Now again if I'm understanding correctly, if he doesn’t do that by next Wednesday, then the site will be closed. Again please correct me if I'm wrong, and feel free to either respond here, or on my talk page here at Community Central. Lancer1289 17:52, May 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean. He doesn't have to import anything he doesn't want to import. Also, let's please keep this via e-mail from here on out so it can all be in one place. Thanks. - Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 18:25, May 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry I'll send an email about this in a minute. Lancer1289 20:03, May 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * This will be my last message on your talk page about this. I did send an email about 10 minutes ago, but just a fair warning, I tend to respond to them quickly. Again apologies for not keep this in one place and I promise this will be my last message on the subject here. Lancer1289 20:25, May 12, 2011 (UTC)

Freeware Catalog
Many years ago I started a wiki called Freeware Catalog.

The interest from those who wanted me to start it died down after some time and

it has been dormant for several years. I tried to transfer the responsibility for this wiki to those who were most interested many times but to no success. But now and then a new user finds it and writes

something on his talkpage and every time it happens I get an email about the change.

I want to get this wiki off my watchlist but cannot find any way to do that as my watchlist is empty.

Please try to disconnect me from this wiki so I don't get any more emails about it.

For many years after I ended my participation in this wiki I have been active in wikipedia and has started a opensourcing religious wiki with another usernamene, Roger491127, and I don't want these messages from a distant past to clutter my email inbox.

Roger Johansson roger4911@gmail.com

I have now gone into my preferences in this wiki and unchecked all emails about pages I was following, but I fear it will not be enough because I get emails about userpages I was not following.
 * Turn off email notifications in your preferences.--

If you can remove me from all positions in this wiki it might help.

Roger Johansson roger4911@gmail.com

As long as emails are not active, you will not receive emails. You can also change the email address of the account as well and set it to a nonexistent email.--

I thought about that too, just before I fell asleep. If Wikia doesn't accept a non-existent email account I have a spam-infested email account I never use. Thanks.

Roger J.


 * Wikia does accept non-existant email addresses.

Adoption Request
Sorry to be such a pest, but I've been editing quite a bit on the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Wiki as of late. I requested to adopt it. --  Webkinz Mania  (  Talk  |  Contributions  ) 23:22, May 11, 2011 (UTC)

Math wiki adoption
Please read Jeff. G's math wiki adoption requests. Farrell99999 01:14, May 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * We review requests in the order that they're posted. There are still a few before that one, so we'll get to that one once we first reply to the others. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 16:44, May 14, 2011 (UTC)

Abusing multiple accounts and vandalisation
Hi this user has been vandalizing the Glee, Sonic New Network and Icarly wiki for the past 4 days. When we ban her she makes a new account. She vandalises templates and adds pornographic pictures to the wikis. Can you please check the users IP and do a range block on her? We really need help, she has made more than 10 accounts until now on the glee wiki. The main problem is she adds pornographic pictures to the wiki, and there are many young users there.


 * Meepsheep has been taken care of--
 * If there was a range to be blocked, we would have done it already. We've taken action in the accounts we've seen, and put in some extra filters, and are watching the situation carefully  Random <font color="Orange">Time  18:10, May 15, 2011 (UTC)
 * The problems is some users are complaining because of the pornographic images. They say they have nightmares and all.
 * If they're still appearing due to page caching, you can tell them to temporarily disable it on special:preferences under "appearance"  Random <font color="Orange">Time  18:14, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

Spammer problem on Wiksteria Lane
We have a constant spammer on this wiki - http://desperatehousewives.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity he's constantly commenting on pages saying things like "thanks, now it all makes sense" it's very annoying because he's clearly a troll and somehow it's a different IP address every time - so what I wanted to know is how we block unregistered users from editing because they're just gettingout of control. -- Julietfan2626


 * Hi. If it's just one person with multiple IPs, that's not really cause for blocking all unregistered contributors. The best thing to do is delete the spam when you s:ee it, block the IP if necessary, and then otherwise ignore it. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 17:05, May 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * That's the thing.... we've been getting multiple people spamming quite recently. And we can't simply block this person, everytime he makes a comment it's with a different IP address; and it's quite clearly the same person - plus he's been posting links which I assume lead to viruses or something that will enable him to hack someone once they click it. All the admins on that wiki have decided together that we want unregistered people blocking - it'd be appreciated if you respected our wishes :) -- Julietfan2626


 * make a report on c:vstf:Report:Spam and one of us will look into the situation in more detail for you. -- 18:12, May 21, 2011 (UTC)

Check User
A user known as Ao Oni has been disturbing me on Fan-Ball Wiki. Someone on the wiki uploaded a picture of the character, which is from a horror game, and the account was created shortly after. He then proceeded to ask me if I knew who he was and began posting some more images of him and his "friends" on a blog that I had. I have asked another user, who I suspected created the account, if it was him, but he denied it. I was wondering if you could determine if this is a genuine account or a sockpuppet of another user there. Thanks, LDXD=D- Paladin of Hatred 23:35, May 21, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. According to CheckUser, Ao Oni has used the same IP as DMSwordsmaster. However, because of the friend issue, this doesn't prove anything about it being a sockpuppet, because it's entirely possible that school IPs or shared computers could have been used. I hope that helps. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 21:52, May 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. LDXD=D- Paladin of Hatred 21:53, May 27, 2011 (UTC)

Emergency
Hi Brandon, I hope you're online because there is a big problem on the Camp Halfblood Wiki. <font face="Segoe Script" size="3" color="Indigo" >Head.Boy.Hog <font face="Currier" size="2" color="Green">(Talk To Me)  22:20, May 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Dealt with, please report vandalism here in future  Random <font color="Orange">Time 
 * Shouldn't you block the user? He violated Wikia policy. <font face="Segoe Script" size="3" color="Indigo" >Head.Boy.Hog <font face="Currier" size="2" color="Green">(Talk To Me)  22:26, May 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * I did  Random <font color="Orange">Time  22:27, May 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't see it in the log. <font face="Segoe Script" size="3" color="Indigo" >Head.Boy.Hog <font face="Currier" size="2" color="Green">(Talk To Me)  22:28, May 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Vandals like that get globally blocked, so you don't see them in the log. Rest assured, we know what we're doing  Random <font color="Orange">Time  22:30, May 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * The reason I didn't report it on the VSTF wiki was because I felt that sould have been reverted right away and didn;t think the VSTF would do it until maybe tomorrow. (No offence) But I knew some Wikia Staff or Helper or VSTF would be on this wiki and find my message. <font face="Segoe Script" size="3" color="Indigo" >Head.Boy.Hog <font face="Currier" size="2" color="Green">(Talk To Me)  22:34, May 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * It is normally faster - and there's normally nobody at Wikia on Sundays  Random <font color="Orange">Time  22:37, May 22, 2011 (UTC)

Sorry!
http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Community_Central:Adoption_requests#shipoffools_

oh man! I really goofed up over there,I corrected my paragraph!

Adoption
I Can adopt this wiki but cant pay or anything:) i love this game and think I would be great for the job. thanks!Dudeman7883 21:33, May 24, 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. I'm not sure what you're referring to. Can you please clarify? Thanks. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 21:36, May 24, 2011 (UTC)

RE:Support request
Hi Brandon, in response to your question, I was globally blocked by VegaDark. It appears to have been removed now though, but if it happens again I'll be sure to let you know. Insurgence: Like the Phoenix I rise again! 19:26, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, in fact it was an I.P. address. I remember because when I tried to edit, I was blocked, so I logged out and tried, and I was still blocked. Thats when I noticed that the Intended blockee: My IP. Thanks for your help Brandon! --Insurgence: Like the Phoenix I rise again! 19:57, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

Can't get rid of this troll!
This troll, Miss Toodles, has created tons of alternate accounts and spam articles. No matter how many times I try to ban her or her sockpuppets, they always come back. Can you block her IP range or something? Cobweb (Talk)


 * Hi. Can you send your request to Special:Contact. Someone should be able to look at it soon. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 19:48, May 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, I suggest getting rid of this blog and any other blog/discussion like that. That's just feeding the troll. Engaging a troll, either directly or indirectly, is 100% counterproductive to getting rid of them. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 19:48, May 25, 2011 (UTC)

Roranoa bot
I just saw u changed my bot's status,so that means if edits are made through bots,they wont be show on the activity feed and the recent changes?thanks


 * Correct. There was a request for the bot to be flagged. Did you not agree to it? - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 02:31, May 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm the one who asked the admin to make the req,though I did not think you guys would be this fast..thanks:)
 * Oh OK, that's good. I wasn't sure by your message if you were surprised or not. Thanks for letting me know! - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 02:37, May 28, 2011 (UTC)

Total Drama Comeback wiki
I'm sending them messages as we speak! Per Ankh 02:36, May 28, 2011 (UTC)

Only one more person needs to vote: The Kobold Necromancer. Since he wrote the stories this wiki is based on, his vote is final, and the most important. Per Ankh 05:01, May 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks! - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 02:37, May 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * Two have voted yes! Just a few more! Per Ankh 03:31, May 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks for letting me know. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 07:31, May 28, 2011 (UTC)

Adoption Request&Jobs
Hi Brandon! Mine and several other User's adoption requests are missing. Please do something about it. Also, I wanted to say that I applied for the position of Community Supporter in Wikia Hiring and I wanted ask you a couple of questions: If you can, check the application out if you can. Arceus The God of Pokemon 07:56, May 28, 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Do you have to be 18+?
 * 2) Do you have to live in USA?
 * 3) Is it a volunteering job?
 * 4) Do you get cash?
 * 5) Is there a Skype interview?


 * Hi. Your adoption request isn't missing. It was declined and added to the archive here, along with a number of other requests that were completed. As for questions about Hiring, and since I'm guessing you live outside of the United States based on question number 2, the best people to talk to about your questions are either Avatar or MtaÄ. - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 17:12, May 28, 2011 (UTC)

Message
Hi! Thanks for the message you gave me! Rapper Rapper Wrapper 17:48, May 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * I'd love to take credit for it, but it's actually an automated welcome message that uses the name of the last admin, helper, or staff who edits on the wiki. Welcome all the same, though! - <font color="#1A2BBB">Brandon Rhea <font color="#1A2BBB">(talk) 17:54, May 28, 2011 (UTC)