Forum:Two Problems in One Wiki

Uh... hi. My name is Godzillabrawler. I am here because of a problem at Fanon Wiki. One may need admins to help, the other just needs some thought put into it.

PROBLEM A: RANDOM POLLS IN THE Fanonified Fighting Arena

I do not run this fun page, but a problem has occurred. Near the bottom is a list you can scroll down of all the previous battle winners. Three or four random polls with no description or options appear to the right of this when normally viewing the page. In edit preview, they are unnoticeable. I've tried, and maybe others have, but I couldn't get it to work. I think the page's owner, RaidenX, would like a way to fix it.

PROBLEM B: TERRIBLE, MUST-BE-DELETED PAGE

I myself have made a page about my game idea, Sonic Drift: Next Generation. After an unlogged-in contributor made a terrible edit, I reverted it and added a message at the top stating to get permission before editing (Fanon Wiki has no local admins, so no one's in charge really). Instead of following my message and asking nicely, the guy made an exact (and crappy) copy of my article and added one or two characters into the game. I would have added them in if he'd asked, but he made a useless page that I doubt anyone admires. I think it should be exposed of, but I needed to say that here or else nothing would have been done.

All help is appreciated.

Godzillabrawler: the King of the Kaiju Brawl 16:41, July 7, 2011 (UTC)


 * Problem B: Don't know, don't care.
 * In your wiki, there is a template called Template:Clear, it has extra new lines that should be removed. Take a look at Template:Clear.
 * Hum... Now problem A...
 * First part: there were about 300 extra div in the middle of the list of former battles, I removed it and things are looking OK.
 * Second part: I see what you mean by not showing in the preview but showing on the page! That is very strange. This can only mean one thing!
 * To the batcave!!!
 * Well... I fixed it too. In the box for categories there was a bunch of pools
 * 20:54, July 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * For problem B, try --  Random  Time  20:58, July 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks to Nidek, for removing the stick polls. I credited you for it. But you were wrong with removing the divs. They are supposed to be there. I changed it back (that's 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back). And to the second comment... maybe one day I'll adopt that wiki or become an admin there. But that is not today. Godzillabrawler: the King of the  Kaiju  Brawl 23:00, July 7, 2011 (UTC)
 * No need for a big speech in the page, I think it looks ugly and corny. ;)
 * It took you 45 minutes!? It took me 1 hour! I had to delete every one of those 300 div!!!1one!!!!
 * No need for a big speech in the page, I think it looks ugly and corny. ;)
 * It took you 45 minutes!? It took me 1 hour! I had to delete every one of those 300 div!!!1one!!!!
 * It took you 45 minutes!? It took me 1 hour! I had to delete every one of those 300 div!!!1one!!!!
 * It took you 45 minutes!? It took me 1 hour! I had to delete every one of those 300 div!!!1one!!!!


 * OK, I'm laughing very hard here.
 * I'll explain: many times the best way to change a page is to copy it to a REAL editor and do the changes there. Taking out the 300 div was done in 30 seconds: copy, paste in the editor, find and replace  with " ", copy, paste back in the page.
 * Or you could have gone to the history page and do an undo.
 * Back to your page. Did you notice that there are a few 	   lost on top of the window of previous battles? That's because of all those divs. You just can't use div like that; every div that you open (with   has to be closed with
 * I believe that what you are looking for is  and.
 * So try this:
 * I believe that what you are looking for is  and.
 * So try this:


 * go to the page
 * edit only the section with the extra divs
 * select the whole section and copy the whole section (ctrl+C)
 * paste it (ctrl+V) in an editor (even notepad will do),
 * use find and replace (should be on the edit menu or press ctrl+F)
 * enter  in the find field
 * enter  in the replace field
 * press the replace all button
 * use find and replace again
 * enter )''' in the find field
 * enter  in the replace field
 * press the replace all button
 * select the whole text and copy it
 * go to the edit window for the section
 * delete the whole content
 * paste in the new content
 * preview it
 * save it
 * This takes about 1 minutes and everything will be fixed. If you want I can do it for you, just ask.
 * 01:01, July 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * 01:01, July 8, 2011 (UTC)
 * 01:01, July 8, 2011 (UTC)