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You blocked an anonymous user on The Vault?
Hi! I'm an admin over at The Vault, and I notice you recently showed up to ban an anonymous user from our site. I wonder what your reasons are, since I see nothing in his contribution list that warrants it. Thanks.--Gothemasticator 07:58, January 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hey there! Did you check his deleted contributions? -- 15:48, January 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * I figured I was missing something. Thanks for the info.--Gothemasticator 02:45, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Checkuser
Hi there, I'm an administrator on the Cyber Nations Wiki. I was wondering if you had checkuser privileges, and if I could make a request to obtain the IP address of a user to determine if it is the same as another anonymous user. Please contact me with your response, ~ Michael von Preußen (voicemail)


 * Hi there. The Spam taskforce doesn't have the ability to checkuser. You'll have to contact Wikia with that request. Sorry I couldn't be of more help :) -- 05:09, January 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the prompt response, but the issue was resolved anyway. Thanks again, ~ Michael von Preußen (voicemail)

Sig
The sigX, is valid on All Wikia or, only in Central Wikia. 21:40, January 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Only here. You'd need to make your sig for each wiki. Take care to mind if the wiki's you edit at have policies for signatures. -- 21:41, January 3, 2010 (UTC)

Bullying
boy you do not bully me again do you hear me?


 * Hi, Scott. If you look at little closer, I was the one removing the vandalism, not adding it. -- 19:16, January 5, 2010 (UTC)

Why
a user can to be vstf? 18:00, January 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * See SpamTaskForce -- 18:18, January 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * and, who choose a vstf? A staff's member? 01:06, January 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Check out the bottom of the page at SpamTaskForce, it explains how to volunteer. -- 01:08, January 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * ¿I'm going on the right way, or not? 01:13, January 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's not really a question Charitwo can answer, it's more of a self-evaluating thing. Anybody can help get involved with the removal of cross-wiki spam via the IRC counter-vandalism channel. The best way to get noticed is to get involved and become a positive influence and asset. Joey (talk) 04:07, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

Also posted this on your talk page on CA wiki
It appears we're in need of your bot again on Combat Arms Wiki! Would you be able to reformat about... 75 pages... to correctly display a modified template? Template:Quote was changed from being formatted to display the attribution as you typed it, like this: "blahblahblah - Attribution" to requiring the attribution to be typed in like this: "blahblahblah"

- Attribution Thanks ahead of time. SeaCrane_1 21:59, January 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Replied at talk page at CA. -- 23:00, January 8, 2010 (UTC)

Blocked from my own wiki?
Care to explain why you've blocked me from editing my own wiki (http://online-teaching.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Online_teaching_dos_and_don%27ts_Wiki)?

Your stated reason was vandalism, but I've just reviewed the entire revision history, and I don't see any. What I see is a series of revisions by me, and one (18:56, January 9, 2010) by a friend whom I invited to comment. No spam, no vandalism.

Even if there had been vandalism, why block ME?

This is my first experience with Wikia, and looks like being my last. How would you feel if you created a wiki and four days later found yourself locked out of your own wiki by some meddling stranger? At the very least I'd like to hear your reasons for doing so.

Andy Baird Andybaird 01:04, January 10, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Andy. Can you please e-mail me the entire blocked message you receive as this is not a local block. -- 01:06, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

User: Scott Rankin
http://community.wikia.com/wiki/User:Scott_Rankin  It's a giant ad for some web hosting company.  λ T 16:06, January 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorted, thank you. You can also mark those with and someone will likely notice it quicker. -- 16:15, January 12, 2010 (UTC)

Bot
Hello, sorry to bother you (if you're too busy, don't answer). I wanted to ask you some things about bots (just curious). Here goes: I know it might be a lot of questions, so take your time. But please, answer in my talk page, so I can see when you've answered if I'm in another wiki. Thanks, -- Just  Me  19:33, January 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) Can any account be given a "bot flag"?
 * 2) Can you do automatic changes without a bot flag?
 * 3) Can a sysop at a wiki give a bot flag, or is it just the Wikia Community Team?
 * 4) If you have a bot, how do you make it edit automatically? (just a simple explanation, if it's too complicated, don't worry about it)


 * Yes, providing they have community approval to be flagged as one.
 * If you have a bot framework, such as AutoWikiBrowser or Pywikipediabot framework.
 * By default, only helpers and staff can grant bot flags. You request them via Special:Contact once you have community approval.
 * See #2, those are the two most community used programs to edit things "Automatically".


 * Hope this helps!-- 19:39, January 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, thanks a lot. Just one last thing: if I want see what it works like, which is easier to use (and to understand), AutoWikiBrowser or Pywikipediabot framework? -- Just  Me  14:47, January 20, 2010 (UTC)


 * Both have their uses, I use AWB on Windows and Pybot on linux (there's one for windows but I haven't used it). It's just a matter of what you want to do with it. I personally make ample use out of both, so if you have the resources, I definitely recommend getting both. -- 17:06, January 20, 2010 (UTC)

Please help
I am looking at helping out a certain wiki (http://hyundai.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) but need help getting out vandalism. Can you help me? Thanks, GG 360


 * Hi! I've cleared out some spam dating back to April of last year, if I missed anything please let me know. You may also be interested in adoption of the wiki. -- 15:42, January 31, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I would like to help out the wiki and become admin so that I can refresh it. GG 360

Categories
Sorry for that. I saw them on page and I thought it was good if I did make them. I did mean it good. Please don't take this from the wrong side.--Station7 19:57, January 31, 2010 (UTC)
 * Nah, it's cool, just wanted to give you the heads up before you made too many of them. You can check out User_blog:KyleH/The_future_of_Central_Wikia for more info on the changes I mentioned. -- 19:59, January 31, 2010 (UTC)

Malware-related Ads(?)
I realize that this isn't exactly the jurisdiction, but since you're from FFXIclopedia I'm starting here. Using Google Chrome to visit FFXIclopedia is returning a malware warning claiming that the page contains elements from 212.117.180.54 (link to the Safe Browsing page, not the page itself) which may host malware. Not all pages return this warning, and I assume that it's ads causing the problem because those which do not show it are userpages, edit pages, and other pages which do not have ads other than for other wikis. Typically I ignore Safe Browsing warnings as most of the time they're false and/or reference no real risks; even if they do have some substance, it's normally just one page that's infected and not the whole site. However, this one looks a little more interesting: Of the 100 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-02-04, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-02-04. Malicious software includes 105 trojan(s), 102 exploit(s), 1 scripting exploit(s). I haven't experienced this on any other wiki and obviously I'm not going to personally test to see if there's any real malware associated with the "infected elements." I'm not sure what qualifies as "consent" to Google's bots, so if you have to download something from the site then there's no real problem and you might wish to contact Google to have these warnings removed from Wikia wikis. However, whether the elements embedded in FFXIclopedia are directly related to malware or not, I don't know if it's a good idea to keep ads to or provided by this site. Just some thoughts, 02:45, February 5, 2010 (UTC)