Thanks for the rights at w:c:factionparadox. I was thinking about what you said about my updated having made my wait longer than it should have been. Have you ever thought about adding the following to your forum code:
addcreationdate=true
ordermethod=created
That way, people wouldn't lose their place by giving additional information. I do this little trick at tardis:forum:tech notes so that our tech notes are always in the same place, even if they get updated. It seem to help people find particular threads, and it might work for you guys.
Just a thought! Thanks again for the permission changes :)
Hey CzechOut. Thanks for the suggestion! We added the order method code which should help with that, though we left off the addition of the creation date because the formatting became a bit awkward. What we have now will definitely help, though. Thanks again!
Hi, I got your message and I want to explain. I made the wiki by mistake, i was going through the steps because i might want to start one for a book i read. But i didn't realize that the final step was well, so final. Thanks for your time.
Hi. It looks like you started a wiki earlier this month so you won't be eligible to adopt until it has been 60 days -- which would be around July 7th. You would also need to have contributed to the wiki for at least a week. Good luck with it!
Hi. That would be up to the admins on the Club Penguin Wiki itself, as they give out those positions and not Wikia staff. They probably have some standard community rules about it if you ask them!
Our wiki Hunterpedia has four inactive admins. Their last edits are around December 2011 to January 2012. Could you please remove their right as they are not active now?
(cur | prev) 05:32, November 12, 2011SpikeToronto(Talk | contribs)(18,174 bytes)(→Edit for your review: Yeah, I knew that the parser thing was not that editor’s doing. I wish I knew how to fix it, but I know less than zero about wikiequations. Thanks Jeff!) (undo)
(cur | prev) 03:37, June 19, 2011Jeff G.(Talk | contribs)(13,256 bytes)(→What a surprise!: :::Sorry for the delay in responding on-wiki. Thank you for taking appropriate action as discussed while I was unable to login and take such action myself. 49.144.109.249 01:02, May 20, 2012 (UTC)) (undo)
(cur | prev) 12:44, June 3, 2011Jeff G.(Talk | contribs)(7,140 bytes)(→Request for page protection: :Done, and I went ahead and promoted you so you can adjust them as necessary, because you are online far more than I am lately, and because I trust you. 49.144.109.249 01:02, May 20, 2012 (UTC)) (undo)
Hi. If you have removed all instances of the name, the page should fall out of Google's search results the next time they update their cache copy. You would have to contact Google about that -- we cannot do anything about their cache.
To the best of my knowledge Google does not index the history versions of the page.
You may want to leave a message for Jeff on his talk page explaining why you removed all those names; otherwise he may not understand and could try to restore them.
I am not sure why you are removing instances of your name from a wiki, but it is usually frowned upon editing other user's pages to remove content therein. Like Spike posted in one of them "You cannot delete other user's comments".
If you had bad blood and want to cover it up, that's not quite the way wikis work. All content added to wikis (even after reverting) is still accessible. Perhaps you should think about the ramifications of adding your real name to sites before you actually do it. I would agree with Jeff and Spike on banning you from there for removing that information without contacting them first and asking for the removal of personal information.
You are who you are... for good and for bad and that should be a real life lesson (according to Google, you're 11/12). Your actions have consequences and reactions. Your best bet is to speak with SpikeToronto or Jeff G. here on Central and explain why you are wanting to remove personal information and see if they will do it. Otherwise, there's not much you can do. Wikis have their own rules about content removal and most of them are against it.
Yeah. I reverted his deletion at Math wiki b/c they removed entire discussions, etc.
Normally, when one uses a username like Rappy, one has an expectation of privacy regarding one’s real-live name. However, this person is the one who chose to use his real name as his username.
If he now wants that removed, he needs to seek something equivalent to Wikipedia's Right to Vanish. Staff have a mediawiki tool that removes his name, but leaves the edits intact.
I believe Staff use the OVERSIGHT tool to achieve this result.
If all he wants is for them not to be searchable by Google, etc., then I can place {{NOINDEX}} at the top of those pages if Jeff agrees.
Also, he wasn’t banned for six months for that. An anonymous user’s IP address was school (i.e., soft) blocked for removing large parts of a talkpage. I have no way of knowing that the IP is the same person as the permabanned registered user. The IP range is completely different from that that had been used all those months ago.
P.S. Also, I hate to point out the obvious, but Staff globally permabanned him and his many, many sockpuppets (ATW has lists of them) months ago. I think it was either TimQ or Brandon).
Okay. But, let’s wait and see what Staff and Jeff say also. It is the weekend. So, let’s wait until at least Tuesday. Thanks! — SpikeToronto 02:14, May 21, 2012 (UTC)
okay, but it could still be googled and that page result would still come out. Would that take time for GOOGLE to remove it from the page in its result?
I said this before, but you have to wait until Google happens to update their cache copy of the page for it not to appear in search results. They do it periodically, not instantly. I've now answered your question in 2 places; you need to wait and stop posting about it.
As for the rest, he had also requested properly (via contact) to have his real name removed from that page and that is allowed. I would have removed it, but when I checked he had blanked names (and no substantial content) on the page at that time.
but why I was blocked in that wiki for doing that (removing real names) . Could you unblock me first? so I could remove the real names? My real name is the F*rrell Eldri*n W*, so could someone here please remove it? Maybe spike?
Seriously, you need to read the comments here and stop repeating what you've already said. It can take months for Google's code to stop indexing that page. This is not an instant process.
If you want faster results, bug Google... because they are the only ones that can give them to you.
I googled my name, F-rr-ll Eldr--n W-, actually, the blanks are a, e, i, a, u, respectively, and it came as the 7th or so google entry. Please remove that link to the Math Wiki page. Thanks.
Answered 1 thread up. Although as I said there, we cannot do anything about Google's results or cached copy of the page; all we can do is change the content here so it will disappear the next time they index the wiki. For anything else you have to contact Google.
Hi. You can make a request to adopt a wiki here. There are adoption guidelines and links to pages for international (non-English) wiki adoption requests as well. Good luck!
Thank you for replying to my spotlight request for Warrior Clan Fanfiction Wiki. I have received your message regarding the improvements my wiki needs to qualify for a spotlight. I have fixed all of the uncategorized pages so far, but I must inform you that many of the uncategorized pages were deleted earlier in the week because the user who created them was inactive. I am not sure when the list will be updated again, but I will do my very best to make sure that all my wiki's pages will have the correct categories. I have also updated the front page with a new poll as you suggested.
We have further discussed the idea of banning anonymous editing on Arthur Wiki. We have decided that we are not going to do this at the current time, but we are going to monitor the vandalism levels and community growth, and depending on them, we may talk about this again in the future. Thank you for all of your help!
Hey, Wendy! I keep seeing the orange banner that says, "You have new messages on Community Council Wiki", but I can't open it to read it because I'm not on the council anymore. Can you delete it? By the way, it's nice to see a picture of you!
Hi Ken. Since you describe it as an orange banner I'm going to guess you are using monobook (should be a green bubble on muppet these days for the wikia skin :) ). In that case it should be fixed with the release on Wednesday this week.
Hi, i'm an admin on zombiefarm.wikia.com and was recently unblocked because the blocker had no reason for blocking me and that vandal, Teams820 removed my and Ease96's admin rights. Could you please give Ikk200 the bureaucrat rights so he can make me and Ease96 an admin again.
Ok. It appears that Teams820 has his rights back and is editing the wiki. Could you please send a report to Special:Contact so we can investigate the situation further?
I'm still not unblocked! Teams won't stop! He was recantly banned by a good admin and now he unblocked himself and blocked Me, Ikk200, and Ease96 and Ease was the main admin! Please at least review our actions and see that we're not doing anything wrong. Plus this time Teams820 left no reason for his blocks and I can't contact IZombieFarmer! And if you do unblock me, please let me and Ikk200 have our rights back and remove all Teams820's rights and block him for a long time.
Hi. If you sent a request the situation should be investigated soon. I asked you to send a request because it's a bit complicated to sort out an argument among admins here on the message wall.
http://zombiefarm.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:7907#3 Reason: Sorry for creating that account, I just wanted to talk respond the message anyway, Ikk200 wasn't suppose to be blocked according to the last proof.
Please do not block my other account, I promise i won't use it anywhere anymore and I did not know that that was illegal on Wikia.
Hi. I'm sorry you got blocked. However, admins are generally allowed to manage their wikis in the ways they deem most appropriate, and staff generally doesn't intervene in user disputes. In this case, with Ease gone (before he was blocked), Teams820 was the senior admin on the wiki. While his decisions seem somewhat particular they do not violate our terms of use. If you cannot find a way to sort this out with him, then your best choice is to focus your time on a wiki where you are not blocked, or to create one of your own.
Hi, I was blocked from Alice in Wonderland Wiki for "spam", when all I did was have a conversation. I admit, it was not related to Once Upon A Time, but I didn't know it was classified as "spam" because it wasn't specified on the Community page. I have already asked the blocker to unblock me, or at least reduce the block, but she immediately ended the conversation and hasn't replied. I came to you because I understand that you have sorted out this kind of stuff in the past (if I recall correctly), which generally comes to a fair and beneficial conclusion. Could you please give me a hand?
Hi. It looks like you were having an extended discussion about Merlin with another contributor who does not edit that wiki (Tns31091), while your other contributions were similarly off-topic discussions. I'm not sure why you felt it was better to have the conversations there than on the Merlin wiki itself, but most people don't like having their wikis used that way. In effect, you were "spamming" that wiki with Merlin stuff, even if it was just on talk pages. It may not be intentional harm to the wiki, but it is not at all polite whether or not it is in the wiki-rules. I cannot imagine you would be happy if the situation were reversed and people were using Merlin Wiki to talk about Once Upon a Time in-jokes. If they cannot be held on Merlin Wiki, you can have such discussions here on central.
While it is certainly polite for admins to warn users that behavior is not welcome before blocking them, she was well within her rights to just give you a short block as a warning instead, which is what she did.
Finally while I appreciate that you attempted to work out the issue with the admin first, your message to her was actually pretty threatening; if you wish for people to have a discussion with you it helps to be nice to them.
I'm sorry; I realize this is not what you wanted to hear. But honestly, this is a month-long block on a wiki you don't edit. The best thing would be just to ignore it and go back to working on your own projects.
The reason I was discussing with Tns31091, was because she was blocked on Merlin Wiki. And she is paranoid about giving her email. I simply didn't know. But I do agree, I generally don't use that wiki, and it is not airing in my country for another month so I suppose it is convenient, I guess I was just dissapointed about the lack of consideration for the user. Doesn't matter though.
Your comment isn't making any sense, since your long comment is missing, what would she be paranoid about? Use complete scentenced please, with not "it" and "that", but actual descriptions please, since I speak 2 fluent languages and one partially, it gets confusing at some times. Anyways, I have to go because I have an important sociology test tomorrow. Goodnight, and the best of luck with this.
I'm not really a big fan of video games, occasionally I'd pick up my PC controller and play a bit of Tony Hawk, Fifa, or CoD. What country are you from? I'm from Australia.
Was born in Hungary, moved to states at 9, now I'm 14 and moving back to Hungary. Up until the third grade (in Hungary), I had to learn Slovakian as a second language because foreign language is a necessity in Hungary, and plus English, but I didn't get that far until moving to the states.
I was born in Switzerland, then I moved to Australia when I was 5. I know French, English, and Latin, plus I can lightly speak other various languages. I have always wanted to visit Hungary, it seems like a wonderful place.
Right now, there's quite some political unrest. It's not so bad, because we're moving back to Hungary so my mom can help my aunt with her law office (lots of traffic, and she has had enough of GoToMyPC). But overall, if you ever have the time, visit Gyula, a small-town. It's the best tourist city for a reason, and my former hometown. There's also the Balaton, the biggest natural lake in Europe, and there's a natural water spa, very good for medicinal purposes. So yes, if you have the money and the time, I definitely recommdn you visit. :)
Hi Merrystar, I'm a bureaucrat at the micronations wiki MicroWiki, and we're having some social difficulties with user rights. I just returned to activity there after about a year, so I'm not very familiar with how this conflict started. Any recommendations or actions that could help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hi. I'm not really very familiar with the current situation either; I know the admin there was not very active and he appointed a bunch of other people and left. I will ask another staff member who I know has dealt more with them recently to look into it.
Hi Kyng Fyrst. Wendy briefly mentioned a situation from a few weeks ago. Essentially, it was a situation where a group of users and admins who moved to a new wiki off of Wikia wanted to keep some level of control over MicroWiki, but not to the benefit of MicroWiki itself (but to their other, off-Wikia wiki). An individual involved with that had their user rights removed and was subsequently banned from the wiki.
A few days ago, another user rights situation was brought to Special:Contact, as someone asked that a new bureaucrat there be demoted. I told this person that we don't remove user rights except in the most extreme cases, so I advised that the community hold a discussion about whether this person should have their rights removed. Once that discussion is finished, it can be sent to Special:Contact by an administrator and we'll take a look. Thanks!
Hi. I'm Iphoneorange. I have taken interest in the wikia nes.wikia.com. I was wondering if you could help me adopt the wiki, since I don't think the original admin has logged on in a long time. Can you please help? Thanks!
Hi. At what step do you get that message? If it is after the first screen I recommend you try making a wiki with a different URL; after the wiki is created you can write to us at Special:Contact and ask to have it switched to the URL you really want....
Been happening all day at Ghostbusters Wiki. Not cool. I lost a good 30 minute edit over it. Wikia needs to warn when they switch over to that backup database thing.
errr. he was talking about a glitch making wikis from several days ago; it was actually separate from the database issues today :) The switchover to backup is usually not planned - it happens automatically to keep the site readable when there are problems on the main database server. So it would be a bit hard to warn you about it. I'm sorry you lost an edit like that!
Thanks for responding. I mixed up with Klintrin1011 wiki problem. Thanks for addressing it anyways. I am more wondering if this server issue is over. I don't want to lose work again in large degrees. Then again it serves me right for not saveing more often. Thanks again.
