User talk:Jack Phoenix

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Beglium
Why did you delete my page as spam that had my initials on it? I am a moderator of this topic.... please do not delete people's pages with initials on them, as that is the class instructions from the professor. —This unsigned comment is by MPollitt (talk • contribs).


 * I presume this is about internationalbusiness.wikia.com, is it not?


 * Well, the pages were reported as spam on Talk:Spam Blacklist by another user and after examining those pages, they indeed looked like spam to me, so I deleted. Three to six letters on a page (especially since most of those pages were created by unregistered users) looked like common spam instead of any meaningful content related to international business. Spam is an annoying problem that can be quite hard to control at times, and Wikia janitors, such as myself, have been tasked with spam removal across Wikia's 5600+ different wikis. I apologize if I accidentally deleted content from the wiki, but I still fail to see how three to six letters are meaningful content. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 19:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Favicon for Jack Phoenix's Wiki
'Ello Jack Phoenix,

I can create a favicon for your wiki if you like.I am going to start now and tell me if you want to see it.-- Techie 22:46, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * If you don't have anything better to do, feel free to create a favicon for my wiki. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 13:23, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Major Outbreak of Vandalism on Second Life Wiki
Looks like someone who is doing the PN radier thing... Patriotic Nigra spam on doznes of pages. We really need to have some more administrators created on this wiki... who do I talk to? Lillie Yifu —This unsigned comment is by 68.244.94.204 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * I've blocked the vandal now. You can talk to the Community Team about more administrators for the wiki. Thankfully Wikia has some very good tools for fighting spam: you can add the URL that the vandal spammed to MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist on the Second Life Wikia (requires admin rights). That's the local Spam Blacklist for that wiki. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 12:11, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! Lillie Yifu

Import Flickr Images
Hello again,

I am a sysop at cannabis.wikia.com
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/User:Timeshifter
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

I tried out this new tool:
 * http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Import_Flickr_Images

I left some questions at the talk page for it, but User:Yukichi deleted them. I don't know why. See
 * http://inside.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Yukichi
 * http://inside.wikia.com/index.php?title=Talk:Import_Flickr_Images&action=edit

Could my comments there be undeleted? --Timeshifter 08:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Timeshifter, I've restored the talk page. Mistakes might happen with page deletion, as sadly too often people test out the cool new features on the Inside Wikia, which means that it gets a lot of test pages & images that do not belong in the Inside Wikia. Please let me know if you need further help with ImportFreeImages tool or any other feature. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 13:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I started a new section below with some questions I have concerning interwiki links. --Timeshifter 18:40, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

(unindent) Do you have any ideas concerning my questions at w:c:inside:Talk:Import Flickr Images?

Please respond there. Others may be informed by that thread. --Timeshifter 23:55, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki links
I have some questions about interwiki links. Please see also:
 * w:Help talk:Interwiki link/technical

I have studied the interwiki help pages linked farther down, and learned how to use interwiki links to link to some pages. But there seems to be some inconsistency across Wikia concerning whether interwiki links work.


 * Help:Introduction
 * Help:Interwiki link/technical

Examples:
 * http://inside.wikia.com/wiki/Import_Flickr_Images
 * w:c:inside:Import_Flickr_Images


 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
 * w:c:cannabis:Main Page

But this does not work:

Cannabis:Main Page

Cannabis:Main Page

This last method is recommended here: Help:Introduction

It gives this example:

Creatures:Main Page

Creatures:Main Page

That example works here, but not Cannabis:Main Page

Can this be fixed? --Timeshifter 18:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * To quote some wise man / woman, "it's not a bug, it's a feature". Back when Wikia (then Wikicities) was a new project, new wikis would get their entry in the interwiki table. That allows links such as StarWars:Main Page or Creatures:Main Page. This system is quite buggy and this practice was abandoned - as it states on Help:Interwiki link, "Note：starting from July 10, 2005, no new Wikia was given a simple wiki prefix (w:c: redirect is used instead); see announcement.". So the standard is to use links such as w:c:cannabis:Main Page. c:cannabis:Main Page works only in this wiki, the Central Wikia, but w:c:cannabis:Main Page works on every Wikia. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 19:46, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks again.


 * I copied some of your reply in order to update this: Help:Introduction. --Timeshifter 22:12, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Cool, thanks for keeping the documentation up-to-date. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 22:24, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Special:MultipleUpload
I was wondering if there was an introductory text page that I could edit for
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:MultipleUpload

I edit http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Uploadtext which is the transcluded text page for:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Upload

But http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Special:MultipleUpload is a different upload page.

And I don't know if you noticed my additional questions at that I added later. --Timeshifter 02:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * MultiUpload's messages are prefixed with multiupload as of now, but do note that the MultiUpload version that Wikia runs is a bit outdated, there have been changes in message names between the trunk version and Wikia's version. You could check out your wiki's Special:Allmessages to find out what messages MultiUpload uses...(compare Special:MultipleUpload page's text to the various messages on Special:Allmessages).


 * Regarding ImportFreeImages extension questions: you can create the template (actually, it seems like a system message...very odd) on cannabis.wikia, of course. I don't know what to put in there though, sorry. The developer of this extension seems to have forgotten a thing or two...or maybe he wanted to give individual wikis the change to create the templates from scratch? Dunno really. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 12:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for all the links! It took me awhile to figure some things out, but it was worth it. I found the page that I can edit:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Multipleupload-text
 * Now I need to study your info on ImportFreeImages. --Timeshifter 00:44, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I left some more comments and questions at w:c:inside:Talk:Import Flickr Images and
 * http://inside.wikia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=53


 * What system message were you referring to? Maybe I can find someone who knows a lot about creating templates. I have seen some very complex templates. So I don't know how to create them. I only know some very basic stuff about transcluding one page into another page. --Timeshifter 01:57, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * System messages like MediaWiki:Flickr4 (the one you used in your question) - they're not real templates, but instead system messages that are used as templates. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 12:07, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I guess the Special:ImportFreeImages extension creates a custom system message each time it imports an image. I don't know. Maybe the creator of the extension will explain things at the forum or talk pages I asked at. --Timeshifter 13:52, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Renaming
Please, rename user Noah Reykjavik into Zoop |Signed by Noah Reykjavik| 19:51, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Users cannot be renamed on Wikia due to the shared user database. Thus, there's no way to get edits reattributed to a new username. If you want a new user account called "Zoop", just create it on the login form. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 19:56, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! |Подписано Ноем Рейкявиком| 19:57, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Second life
Hello, my page of the Second Life military roleplay group Sparta has recently been vandalized repeatedly by IP # 167.1.126.100 who recently changed the link to our website to some porno...thing, I am not sure what to call it. He has also been changing our parts to various retarded things constantly no matter how many times I change it back. If you could either lock the page (I dont care anymore if end up unable change it from the version I have it as) or somehow keep him from editing anymore, I would greatly appreciate it.-Bruno Ziskey


 * Hi Bruno, is this still an issue? GHe blocked the harrassing IP yesterday with an expiry time of one week, but he can be blocked for a longer amount of time if that's neccessary. Please let me know if you need further assistance. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 16:48, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Will you help me expand this?
Jack, could you help me expand the Fairly OddParents Wiki? I would very much appreciate it. Please? RoryReloaded 08:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi RoryReloaded, what kind of help do you need? I'm not really that good at content writing (plus I have no idea what is the wiki's subject), but I'd recommend reading the documentation on help.wikia.com &mdash; especially Help:Starting this wiki. If you need help with expanding the wiki's contents, please talk to Wikia's helper team. Thanks! --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 13:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

wikia helper
I am sooooooooooooooo a wikia helper here, you don't know me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sincerly, --Piplupluvr 00:57, 28 March 2008 (UTC)Piplupluvr


 * Hi, do you mean that you're a helpful Wikian? If so, that's very nice, keep it up. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 13:33, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Business
Please don't get into my business, mind your own. Please and thank you! —This unsigned comment is by Piplupluvr (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * What is this all about? I have always minded my own business, I really don't care about other people's business. Could you please elaborate on this? --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 13:33, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

welcome
Hello, I see your new here to the SS Free's wiki, be sure to join our forums as well .--Xgmx 23:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Heh, thanks. I'm not really a new user, been editing Wikia since 12 July, 2006. ;-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 23:18, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Userpage Revert
Thank you for protecting my userpage and talk page. :) I do have one request, though. Would it be possible to set an expiry time on my user page and talk page (3 weeks-2 months?), so that I can move it, if I have to. Thanks in advance!  Gl ac ier Wo lf   23:50, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Glacier Wolf, surely it's possible to set an expiry, I just didn't set it as there's very little need to move userpages (well, perhaps you want to archive your talk pages by moving like I do). But please contact me or another admin whenever you need the protection reduces &mdash; we're happy to help you anytime. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 00:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Just cause wiki
hello i am xpopox from the just cause wiki, i am new so i might not be entirely correct, but i think that there may be some articles on this particular wiki that need cleanup or removing, particularly the ones that there are two of

Thank you in advance

Xpopox


 * I took a quick look into that wiki and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. If you need to tag pages for deletion, simply add   into them. You might want to talk to the founder of that wiki, Whitehwk. As far I'm concerned, he's still active in Wikia. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 10:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Translations
Thanks for your help with the Create your own translation. I was wondering if you could help with a new translation project at Translations/Edit tips. It's for a new feature which we hope will help new users learn to edit. Angela (talk) 16:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Done, thanks. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 16:47, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

whyed did i get blocked?
my IP is 165.139.0.120 and i was blocked for "vandilisim, could you please tell me what the vandilisim was?Darkdragon 11:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Personal attacks are not taken too lightly. The block is only three days though. P.S. It's "vandalism", not "vandilisim". --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 13:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

i understand, it wont happen again as im done with those attacks on battlecry,and they endend a while ago thanks for helping me sort this out BTW sorry about spelling Darkdragon 21:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Hide
Hi Jack.
 * 1) Can we hide contributions form showing up in Recentchanges page?
 * 2) How can I add extention to wikia?--BlueDevil Talk 22:11, 10 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello BlueDevil, I'm afraid that there's no tool to hide edits from Special:Recentchanges. If you are reverting a vandal with an offensive name, there is a way to hide those contributions and reverts from the recent changes page. Go to http://wikiname.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Some_vandal_account_name_here&bot=1 (of course, replace the wikiname with the appropriate subdomain and Some_vandal_account_name_here with the vandal's username). Note the &bot=1 part of the URL? That hides the vandal edit + rollback from the recent changes list. This is called bot rollback.


 * Adding extensions can only be done by Wikia Staff. You can visit your wiki's Special:Version to see the installed extensions. Help:Extensions at the Help Wikia has some more info about extensions. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 11:50, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I have another question that is there a bot that can put Welcome Template(Message) on the new users talk pages--BlueDevil Talk 17:35, 13 April 2008 (UTC)?


 * Not really, but you can download the pywikipedia bot framework. I suppose it has some scripts that might do the automatic welcomings for you. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 18:13, 13 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you :-)--BlueDevil Talk 18:43, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Error in user page
Your user page on the factual nonsense wiki has a problem, because some sort of template in it isn't working properly. This is probably the case with your user page on many wikis, so I thought I might inform you.

Sithman8 00:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Shared templates are a tad bit buggy, sadly. They'll fix themselves in time and the template shows up as it should. But thanks for the info. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 08:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

why have you blocked me
i didnt go on that stuff i wasnt even on my computer how long will the block last —This unsigned comment is by 83.100.173.124 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * Why did you ignore the red notice at the very beginning of the page? If I don't know who has left the message, how would you expect that I know why I have blocked you? Besides, I block a lot of people - I have no idea on what wiki I've blocked you. In any case, you should see the block expiry time (and in most of the cases, a reason too) on the "You have been blocked" message. Double-check it to find out. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 14:11, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Question
Hi Jack Phoenix: Why I cannot go to my user page on fa.wikia when I do this?

And also can you link the Homepage of fa.wikia to this wiki and wikias in other languages. I cannot do that. Thanks.--BlueDevil Talk 20:47, 28 April 2008 (UTC)


 * You've added an interlanguage link to your user page at fa.wikia. If you want to link to your fa.wikia userpage from text, use something like my userpage at fa.wikia &mdash; note the semicolon before fa:.


 * What exactly do you mean by linking fa.wikia to this wiki? Do you mean interlanguage links? While I cannot set up interlanguage links between all the Central Wikia, I've already asked sannse to look at this. :-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 05:34, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes. I mean interlanguage links between all the Central Wikia. I cannot do that with the fa.wikia. I want to link my user page in central wikia to mine in fa.wikia, but not inline.  Just like what you have done in your user page by these:

de:Benutzer:Jack Phoenix fi:Käyttäjä:Jack Phoenixes:Usuario:Jack Phoenixja:利用者:Jack Phoenixpl:Użytkownik:Jack Phoenixpt:Usuário:Jack Phoenixru:Участник:Jack Phoenixzh:User:Jack Phoenix
 * --BlueDevil Talk 20:18, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Yup, those are interlanguage links and sadly they're totally missing from some language versions of Central Wikia. Please poke sannse about this, she's working on it. ;-) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 20:51, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

I am the administrator of CrimePROBE and have been making changing to the composition and navigation of this site. You have repeatedly undone multiple edits of mine and have cost me days of work. Please desist. —This unsigned comment is by CrimePROBE (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !

Quit reverting my edits or i will move this wiki to another host - CrimePROBE moderator
Quit reverting my edits or i will move this wiki to another host - CrimePROBE moderator —This unsigned comment is by CrimePROBE (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with !


 * Firstly, I don't like threats. Secondly, a user reported mass-vandalism and page blanking to me on the Wikia IRC channel yesterday. An anonymous user removing a lot of content surely looks like vandalism to anyone who's worked with wikis for a bit longer time. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 14:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Era Icons in HaloFanon
Hello JP,

I am Subtank, user in Halofanon.

I recently noticed that the Era Icon in the wikia didn't work as I expected it would work like in Halopedia.

The Era templates were stacked on each other rather than being in a line next to the title. Can you fix this?

Really appreciate if you could do it...

Cheers and have a nice day/night

H-107 Subtle Tank 17:57, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Subtank, could you please give me an example of such a broken page? It is quite likely that Halopedia has updated their JavaScript / CSS codes when Halo Fanon hasn't. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 18:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Picture
That picture's back on Halopedia. The guy created a new account, and re-uploaded it. Can you ban his IP this time? -- Specops306


 * GHe has taken care of this, I believe. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 04:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Recipes Wiki!
Please let me know if there's anything I can help you with. Elocina 15:23, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

your User Talk on Guildwiki
The redirect on http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Jack_Phoenix is listed as broken, because it is. A redirekt does not work off the wiki, anybody who sees that page sees the link; if it worked, we'd be seemlessly seeing this page here. Until it does (if it ever does, I think that is a conscious design decision for that redirect to not redirect), you'd get the exact same effect by placing a "contact me at w:User talk:Jack Phoenix, I read that most often" message (I think wikislang calls that a "soft redirect") on the page, and that gets you off the broken links list and changes nothing from the way your talk page works. Please consider doing that; I'd just love to have a clean "Broken Links" list. ;-) User:M.mendel on Guildwiki 22:38, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't call that broken really; what is broken is Special:BrokenRedirects &mdash; that's by design. Interwiki redirects can be enabled, but usually aren't because it can be confusing for (other) users. It's annoying to get a notice "You have new messages on (random wiki name)" only to find out someone's been changing my redirect to something else. An interwiki redirect doesn't directly harm anyone, more like otherwise. I personally would just hate to have a talk page on almost 6000 different Wikia-hosted wikis. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 23:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I am not suggesting that you entertain a talk page on every wiki you use. I am rather suggesting that you change your hard redirect to a soft redirect. See here. The soft redirect will not affect the Broken Links list. Guildwiki-mendel 23:58, 31 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm aware of what a soft redirect is and it's a rather pointless idea in my opinion. Normal redirects have been used by Wikia Staff for many years and I'm relatively positive that there are others using normal redirects than just me and the staff. In either way, the majority of wiki users haven't complained about something as meaningless as one redirect. It's not really users' fault if Special:BrokenRedirects is broken by design, that's something for MediaWiki developers to fix. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 12:51, 1 June 2008 (UTC)