User:RansomTime/talk/2

Blocking
Hello. I have heard that a friend of mine, User:64.252.124.32 has been autoblocked for spamming on SmashWiki. While I concede that his actions do constitute for spam, I request that he is unblocked because he is aware of the mistakes he made. In the future would you mind warning him before blocking? He has made some useful contributions but I believe he was carried away with the move and took it too far. Mr. Anon 23:22, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * No. Out of interest, which of these contributions do you count as "useful"?  Random Time  23:24, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * His normal account was Doc King} and he made some useful edits. [[User:Mr. Anon|Mr. Anon] 23:32, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * That block wasn't performed by me, but by a local admin - Toomai.  Random Time  23:34, April 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * That's not the block I was talking about. I was talking about your block to his IP. I'm fine with blocking his IP at SmashWiki, but around all of wikia? I believe he is even an admin at one. Would mind reducing his block to only SmashWikia please? I would also request that you lift the spam filter for the NIWA smashwiki, as some wish to link to it on their userpage. Mr. Anon 23:41, April 24, 2011 (UTC)

AWB
Hi RT, can we use AWB to send messages to many users ?


 * No answer ? !

Thanks
Hey. Thanks for clearing up that Mass Effect vandalism on the Uncharted wiki. That guy that's spamming everywhere just doesn't seem to be giving up. He's even gone off Wikia now and has started spamming external forums, although I know you can't do anything to fix that. Thanks again for sorting it out. I'll let you know if I see him/her using any other accounts. --Klock101 16:57, May 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * No worries, he did state in his intital vandalism that he was going to do that, hopefully the forum mods at wherever he's posting will have the sense to delete his posts without causing too much of a hassle.  Random Time  19:01, May 1, 2011 (UTC)

AWB Question of my own
Hey, I myself have an AWB question. I have been trying to figure this one out for a while. Is it possible to exclude images from a find and replace somehow? I have been trying to correct character names on Bleach wiki but often times people don't use the japanese accents when uploading files so when I am trying to replace Kugo with Kūgo, it also changes any image names with Kugo in them, messing up the image. Is there any way to exclude those?--
 * There's a tickbox box on AWB's find and replace for you to ignore external/internal links, images, math and no wiki tags and comments - not one for only images though. For anything more complex, you'd probably need to break out regular expressions.  Random Time  18:54, May 1, 2011 (UTC)

Talk Page Edit
Hey Randomtime, I know you deleted an edit to my talk page on the ME wiki a few days ago, but something keeps bugging me. While it was probably something I would have reverted, is there any way I can see what it said or what the edit was? I'm not saying to restore the edit, but rather I just want to see what it stated. I just looked at the VSTF wiki and one of the comments there peaked by curiosity and like I said, it keeps bugging me. Lancer1289 16:28, May 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * Replied via email  Random Time  17:06, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Spams
Hey can you block this anon : This because he is spamming comments with external links?
 * Tommy6 dealt with it before I got there  Random Time  12:58, May 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah i saw it. Sorry for bothering you :)
 * No worries, he didn't do everything we normally do for spambots, so your message allowed me to check a couple of things  Random Time  13:34, May 26, 2011 (UTC)

misunderstanding
im sorry Mr. Randomtimme,but it has come to my attention that you have recently blocked me from messaging. I would like to clear that up by informing you that it was a (very unlucky) typo. I hope youll reconsider my blocked status and allow me to ask your help fo the reason below.

I have had some trouble with crafting items. i.e.:buckets,demonite tools/armor, hellore tools/armor/weapons(mainly because ive searched a wide part of hellworld and still cant find a broken down building w/ a hellforge), and also i cant find any magic stars. This may be because i have a cracked version,because i wanted to try the game before buying it cause im quite picky, so if you can help me with that please do.

note:im not sure what to put for my sign so i put this V

76.175.25.145 17:58, May 30, 2011 (UTC)anthophyll (or #171or 76.175.25.145)
 * I don't know about the game you're talking about - but you've been unblocked  Random Time  20:22, May 30, 2011 (UTC)

Bot (easy)
This bot should be quite easy to construct:
 * Someone create extra categories again. Articles needs to be uncategorized from this and this category.
 * needs to be removed from all pages that use it. It can be done with find and replace.
 * 's parameters needs to be changed on all sites that use that template:
 * Title = title
 * Image = titlecard
 * Back = prev
 * Next = next
 * Season = season
 * Episode = episode
 * Airdate = airdate


 * The first 3 are easy enough, I'm running them now, the last one's more tricky, it'd require some regex to check to make sure we're in BTranscript, and I don't think I can do that without guaranteeing that I'll change a bunch of other things, I'll have a fiddle, but I don't think I can do it, sorry  Random Time  10:07, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

You just need to replace "|Title =" with "|title =". I am completly sure that it will do right thing because I know how those articles look like. And, my next project will be fixing transcript pages (dialogs). That means that I will notice if sth is wrong. I just need a bot that will quickly change parameters and allow me to redesign template BTranscript.


 * Sorry, I was typing a reply whilst you were posting here, I've got it to work and I'm running it now  Random Time  10:41, May 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * The bot's run fully these pages didn't work with it, not sure why - but if you can see an easy mistake I'm happy to run it again  Random Time  12:03, May 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * On those pages template was called with {{Template:BTranscript . I will fix that manually. Thank you! {{User:AW10/SigReal|12:51,5/31/2011}}
 * That's an easy one to fix, I can run it again right now if you'd like  Random Time  12:56, May 31, 2011 (UTC)
 * I would like to.{{User:AW10/SigReal|13:24,5/31/2011}}
 * All done  Random Time  13:33, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

Blogging bot!
Is it possible for a bot to add comments on blogs?...I just saw a user that added a comment to a lot of blogs on this wiki at a high speed:).--
 * Spambots often do abuse the blog/article comments freakture in order to spam Wikia, if that's what you mean. There isn't a wikibot that does it (that I know of), as most of them were designed for Wikipedia, which doesn't have Article or Blog comments  Random Time  11:01, May 31, 2011 (UTC)

heyy
heyyyy why doesnt my chat work? everytime i go on it it says error.. —This unsigned comment is by Lewisloftus (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * what browser do you use?--
 * (edit conflict) I wouldn't know - please, as they're probably the only ones who can get to the bottom of this  Random Time  10:42, June 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * How come you get the (edit conflict) ..while I dont?Do you type it?
 * Yes, I typed  Random Time  10:48, June 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * How do you know when to type it?will you (somehow)know if someone else is editing?
 * I typed it because I got an edit conflict  Random <font color="Orange">Time  10:52, June 3, 2011 (UTC)
 * i use internet explorer...an it says error in the corner wen it loads up... —This unsigned comment is by Lewisloftus (talk • contribs) . Please sign your posts with !
 * I haven't heard of this error happening to anyone else, so the only real solution would be to - they may well ask you for more details to help you fix this, nobody else can help.  Random <font color="Orange">Time  10:55, June 3, 2011 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for removing that vandalism from my talk page on Peanuts Wiki and for blocking the user. --Simon Peter Hughes 13:08, June 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * No worries  Random <font color="Orange">Time  13:36, June 5, 2011 (UTC)

Hey, thanks a lot for your help on cleaning up the Mobius Encyclopaedia wiki when it was spammed by those vandals. I greatly appreciate it. -Arbiter0416

no @
I already posted this to the talk of Template:User:Randomtime, but you seem to have missed it there: The GuildWars wiki you're editing has dropped the character "@" from its name half a year ago. --◄mendel► 14:41, June 5, 2011 (UTC)

Block query
i dont see what i did wrong i dont even come here all that often why did you ban my ip for spamming —This unsigned comment is by 184.46.79.29 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !
 * The IP address you posted with has never been blocked - could you paste the entire block message?  Random <font color="Orange">Time  11:49, June 11, 2011 (UTC)

Hi Randomtime
Hehehe XD, I like the name you came up with, its pretty cool. Anyway, I was wondering about something, how does the Community Central Chat, works, I've tryed it couple of times and what I have typed in doesn't show up after I press enter, can only the people I am chatting to can see it, or must you wait for your comment to show up? <font color="navy" style="background:Yellow">Niko Banks <font color="yellow" size="2" style="background:Blue">Whats up gangsta!, 11:35, June 12, 2011, (UTC)
 * You should just be able to send a message into the chat. I see you've sent one message ("Hows it going?") - the messages should show up about a second after you send them, so there might be an error if they're not showing up. If this is the case, you might want to and report it as a bug --  Random  Time  21:38, June 12, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help, you seem to be a nice guy or girl, IDK what your gender is for sure though, which exsplains why I put in guy or girl. We should chat sometime if you like :) <font color="navy" style="background:Yellow">Niko Banks <font color="yellow" size="2" style="background:Blue">Whats up gangsta!, 11:44, June 12, 2011, (UTC)
 * I'm a guy - I'm normally online on the chat here, but I don't check it very often, feel free to send me a message, but you might have to stick around for the reply --  Random Time  21:44, June 12, 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism??????
Hi Randomtime,

I visit the iCarly wikia regularly, although I don't currently have an account or make edits. But a box popped up in the comments section today telling me that you had blocked my IP adress or username across the entire wikia network for vandalism. This really confuses me, I have never vandalised or will vandalise anything on any wiki, especially on the iCarly wiki, everyone there worked so hard to set everything up. Did you block every non-user or just me???? Because I don't even have a username at the moment, but I may want to make one in the future, and I can't do that if my IP address is blocked. Please leave a reply on this talk page to explain. If the block was just an error with the wiki, that's fine, no hard feelings :)

I just want to clear things up.

71.190.140.241 13:01, June 18, 2011 (UTC)Brenna


 * IP, no one would block you across the entire Wikia network if you didn't disrupt Wikia - per that, Randomtime doesn't believe you. Just explain why you were chastised, then RT will review your block. RT did not block every anonymous user. That's in my opinion, unwelcoming to everyone if done so.
 * There's no block at the moment for your IP address, I'm happy to look into this for you, but I'll need some more information in order to do that. Did the block message give a block ID? Were you using a different IP address (perhaps you were using a different internet connection) when you got the block message? The more information I have, the easier it is to track down what happened, and see if it was a mistake.
 * MULU: It's entirely reasonable that someone could get an IP address that was recently used by a vandal or spammer, due to the nature of the internet. Please assume good faith --  Random Time  14:02, June 18, 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry. A user account has one owner whilst IP addresses can have many owners, especially when its a public address. Sorry, I should have assumed good faith. Best regards -

Hello
I apologize for all my misbehavior today, I was bored and it was stupid. Sorry. Can you please not ban me for infinity.
 * I assumed your account was created for vandalism only. As it's been blocked on the wiki you were vandalising on now, you've been unblocked - do not vandalise again --  Random Time  21:24, June 18, 2011 (UTC)

SpamTaskForce
Hey Randomtime. Can you tell me how you became a SpamTaskForce? Because I want to become a SpamTaskForce.<font color="#00EE00 ">DarkPain14 <font color="#000000">(Dissi) @Game-Pedia 12:55, June 25, 2011 (UTC)
 * See Help:SpamTaskForce --  Random Time  13:48, June 25, 2011 (UTC)

Wiki creation issues
why can we make a new wikia becase my frinde wants one
 * You should be able to make a new wiki - if you're having problems with the wiki creation tool, please --  Random  Time  10:56, June 26, 2011 (UTC)

Help!
A certain Enyclopedia dramatica user is targeting camp half-blood wiki. I desperately need some help. Supernado 16:48, June 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * He's been blocked and cleaned now as far as I can see, I'll keep an eye out --  Random Time  16:52, June 26, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think they've stopped for now, but I can guarantee that they'll be back later. They even wrote it on their ED talk page. Supernado 17:03, June 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * we're watching out. It's easy to revert vandalism, and it causes no long-term harm to your wiki --  Random Time  17:06, June 26, 2011 (UTC)

Report spam
Hello I just create a page and it seams you report this as spam. Can you tell me why ? (I dont wante to do any spam, so if you tell me why, I should fix the issus) Thanks
 * Your page was an advert, advertising your product is not allowed on Wikia - if you want to do this, feel free to buy advertising space from Wikia --  Random Time  17:46, June 27, 2011 (UTC)

Template/Signature
I have a question I want to run by. If I were to make a template here, while making it my signature, would it appear in all Wikis? If so, I would like to make one, but I'm not really allowed to create a page. So if you're able to help with this, I would be most grateful. :) http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110515011517/pirates/images/thumb/4/4f/CJSFan_Sig.png/75px-CJSFan_Sig.pngBlack Pearl, HMS Interceptor, Queen Anne's Revenge 00:26, July 10, 2011 (UTC)


 * If you are trying to create a Sig template here, you will have to create the same template on all wikis you edit at. --
 * You can transclude pages from central to any other wikis, but I'd advise you not do it with your signature, as it creates a whole bunch of caching issues. It'd be best to try and fit your signature in the signature line in preferences, and failing that, you can subst: a signature from central, and not transclude it, to avoid the caching issues. (i.e. - you'd want to use instead of just  ) --  Random  Time  00:38, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * This is kind of why I'm asking about it. I tried fitting as much as I could in the preferences many times...and have failed. That as well as it is time consuming trying to make my "CJSFan" image appear, if you get my drift(it's a dumb reason, I know, lol). How exactly do I create the "avoiding caching" signature? http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110515011517/pirates/images/thumb/4/4f/CJSFan_Sig.png/75px-CJSFan_Sig.pngBlack Pearl, HMS Interceptor, Queen Anne's Revenge 00:46, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem with your current signature is that it'd probably break a bunch of other wiki's signature policies (as it links to talk pages on other wikis, etc) - I've gone off using fancy signatures, and now just use my name. In the long run, people care more about the content that you write than what signature you use.
 * If you want a custom signature, my advice is to set up a trick that allows you to edit it for each wiki you're on, and have a simple general sig for the rest. To set this up, go to Special:Mypage/~.js, and put the signature you'd like on community there, then - on the signature line in your preferences, put this code:

User:CJSFan
 * That code uses #ifexist to see if User:CJSFan/~.js exists, if it does - it places whatevers there into the page as your sig, if not, it just links to your userpage. This way, you can make a new ~.js page for every wiki you want a new signature, and you can put more than the signature line allows in your signature. The page doesn't have to be ~.js - but pages that end with .js are automatically protected by mediawiki, and this prevents vandalism. --  Random Time  01:05, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much! I'll see if I can do it. Just to be sure I'm doing it right...I just have to put whatever I want into that "Mypage/~.js" page as my signature, and it will appear whenever I sign on my posts. Right? --CJSFan_Sig.png Pearl, HMS Interceptor, Queen Anne's Revenge 01:19, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, you can have a different ~.js page for each wiki - and it'll check for the ~.js on every wiki you visit. If you havn't set up your ~.js on the wiki you visit, it'll default back to a link to your userpage --  Random Time  01:23, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, one more question about it and I should be good. I know it's idiotic thing to fuss over...but I semi-helped with putting this bit together(actually, just posting it on POTC Wiki), and I happened to notice that it worked in every wiki fine. Would this work with the code that you suggested to me or would it be too much? And if I were to have an image, would I need to upload it here or something else? --CJSFan_Sig.png Pearl, HMS Interceptor, Queen Anne's Revenge 01:45, July 10, 2011 (UTC)

Ah, I see what you want to do. An image should be uploaded to every wiki - sorry about that. I'd recommend that you don't use an image in your general sig. The following code in your signature line might be the best for you, then:

This code will, on any wiki - look for User:CJSFan/~.js, if that exists on that wiki - then it puts the contents of that page as your sig. If not, it'll put the contents of Template:User:CJSFan/Sig (Transcluding from community doesn't work with a .js page, you have to use a template: namespace page). Does that help? --  Random Time  02:05, July 10, 2011 (UTC)
 * Kinda. Only this is the first time I've had to deal with this sort of thing...so it's a bit confusing for the time being(I know I'm slow, lol). --CJSFan_Sig.png Pearl, HMS Interceptor, Queen Anne's Revenge 02:12, July 10, 2011 (UTC)

Nice Name
They're similar. Randomno 09:55, July 16, 2011 (UTC)

Forum
My friend complained that you copied his message to Sannse and put it on a forum. Since you were trusted enough to be in the VSTF, I thought you must have a reason.

Another thing: Doesn't "VSTF" stand for "Volunteer Spam Task Force" instead of "Vandalism and Spam Task Force?" That's what it says on the help, anyway.

(˙puoʎǝq ɯoɹɟ ǝɹnʇɐǝɹɔ ǝɥʇ ǝɹɐʍǝq ˙ǝƃɹoǝƃ pןo ǝɹɐʍǝq) spɐoɹ ---****--- 14:13, July 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, popped it on a forum so that it's easier for other people to edit and give feedback on, there's a link on sannse's talk to it. VSTF does mean volunteer, but we deal with vandalism, and sometimes I have a brainfart and confuse the 2 words that begin with "v" --  Random Time  14:16, July 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Would you mind if I could delete your response to Sannse so i could get a official response to her, i mean it would really help. TheBen10Mazter  (Talk -Blog -Contribs)  14:24, July 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't quite see how removing my input would mean that sannse would change her reply. --  Random Time  14:26, July 19, 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, I'm not quite sure what the intention was here - I never claimed this was my input, the initial edit summary attributes it to you, and it is signed per the original topic. --  Random Time  14:28, July 19, 2011 (UTC)

Mass deletion
Hi, thanks for the mass deletion earlier! Anyway, I've removed the sub category, can you ran as a bot and "Cateory:Content concept images"? Technobliterator 19:50, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Running now, hope all goes according to plan --  Random Time  20:03, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * It has, thanks! However, can you please run the bot to restore deleted images that were formerly on the pages in User concept category? So every image on those pages should be restored. Thanks!--Technobliterator 20:49, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * There's no way I can tell which images were in that category, unless you have a list of them somewhere, sorry --  Random Time  20:51, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * I meant the images that were on the pages in that category. They are still linked to on those pages.--Technobliterator 20:56, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * There's no way for me to easily run that into the bot, if you can provide me with a list of pages to restore, then I can run them through fairly quickly, but otherwise I'd have to scrape each individual page, and that wouldn't save much time, if any - compared to manually restoring them, sorry --  Random Time  20:59, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Erm, can't the bot make a list of all images on a page? Anyway, here's a list of the images, I've used AWB to make a list of images. However, I can't guarantee that some images on those pages won't have been restored.
 * I may have missed some when copy-pasting, but oh wel I can do that myself. The other pages have few images so they can be done manually. If you can restore these, we'd all be grateful. Thnks!--Technobliterator 21:16, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, restoring all the ones you posted now --  Random Time  21:22, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, you wouldn't believe how long it's taken the wiki to clear out concepts!--Technobliterator 21:37, July 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Glad I could help, sorry for the extra haste --  Random Time  21:39, July 22, 2011 (UTC)