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Another bad ad
Some sort of evil dating site geared toward gamers? Either way, doesn't seem appropriate. 02:09, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I've reported the ad to our advertising manager and they will take a look at it shortly. -- JSharp 02:30, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually this one seems okay. -- [[Image:User Gem sig.png|Gem]] (gem / talk) 17:17, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * It may sound bad, but you click the link and realize it's a nerd version of Facebook. Don't worry about it. :P RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.jpg]] 02:59, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for volunteering to click on the link o_O -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 03:03, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm a curious cat. I have regretted it before.  But yeah, the only people on that site are the ones that actually will be impressed with the size/type of a MMO mount and not much else...  Blocking that site would be kind of sad...  Felix reads into things too much.  :P  This one really was literal, no hidden meanings.  ;) RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.jpg]] 21:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't actually click these links. I just report them. How about this.
 * [[Image:good_one_google.jpg]]


 * It's not that I object to cosmetic surgery, ofc; I just don't think 12-year-old kids need to learn about reshaping of the private regions while on this wiki. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 16:50, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * That one's already been reported two sections down. Kyle needs the URL to block it.  &not; Wizårdbõÿ777  ( talk ) 17:53, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 09:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Reporting that ad to have it removed. Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 17:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

deleted pages
is it a new thing that deleted pages are getting their entire history removed from recent changes? I know that it gets removed from a person's list of contributions but removing it from RC makes it annoying to go back and figure out who made it after it was deleted if I wanted to ban them or something. Also... didn't I read somewhere about an option to protect non-existing pages to keep them from being created? &mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 17:31, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * They've always disappeared from RC. -- [[Image:User Gem sig.png|Gem]] (gem / talk) 17:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * If you "recreate" the page (going to the Edit) it shows a small link which shows deleted versions. There, you can see who edited it last, and thus who made it. --- [[Image:VipermagiSig.JPG|Ohaider!]]-- (s)talkpage 17:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The easiest way to prevent pages from being created is to use cascading protection. Create a page with links to page names that you want protected from creation, then protect that page with cascading protection (it's a check box on the protect page screen).  Doing so will protect all pages linked from that page. --KyleH (talk) 19:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Another Bad Ad
For some reason, whenever I view the noticeboard is when I get the bad ads... I guess it is out of spite ^.^ I'll post is right after this. X Deity X  18:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Here... Image:Bad ad noticeboard.JPG
 * Heya ... I'll be happy to report that, but in order to block it, I need to know the link it goes to (just right click on the link and click Copy Link URL). Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 19:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Errors
A lot of the time I go onto GuildWiki (but not all the time) my Firebug error tracker repeatedly picks up this error:

urchinTracker is not defined var wgCatId;

Also sometimes I'm given another urchinTracker error with something along the lines of this (different green lines denote different error messages):

urchinTracker is not defined if (wgUserName == null) ...     if (wgIsArticle) ...      if (skin == null) ...

It also sometimes catches a div tag in the green part. Also, Firebug will not work at the moment, and the first bug on the huge list (which has been stacking up each time I change pages) is:

Any clue? --Gimmethegepgun 21:28, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Looks like a Wikia problem to me, I suggest moving this to the staff noticeboard. It's probably not a site-breaking problem though so I wouldn't worry too much about it. -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 23:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Does this happen on both monobook and Monaco, or just monobook? --KyleH (talk) 04:11, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I checked, the Urchintracker thing is still there in Monaco as well as monobook --Gimmethegepgun 02:04, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Steward
With the Wikia Migration, Entropy's Bcrat powers have decreased a tad, and she can't desysop anyone. As well as this, she can't give anyone the Bot Status, and we have 3 people currently who are going to be running bots, and so I was wondering if you could promote Entropy to a Steward (Or is that Wikia-Thing-Only?). &mdash; Warw/Wick 19:57, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Entropy and I had a conversation about this here. The gist of it is that right now we can't give rights above what Entropy currently has; however, we are currently looking in to ways of expanding the powers that wiki bureaucrats have.  Either way, I, or any other staff member, can modify user rights as necessary upon her request. --KyleH (talk) 04:09, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Another Bad Ad
Not sure if we care, or if it is even against Blizzard's Code of Conduct, but www.accountbay.com is selling WoW accounts on here.
 * If you see that ad again, please reply with the full URL that the ad links to by right-clicking on the ad link, clicking "Copy Link Location" or "Copy Shortcut", then pasting that link in to your message. Thanks! --KyleH (talk) 04:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Special:Wantedpages
Some pages seem to be showing up in here more than once, and the extra copies say they have different numbers of links to them. But they both link to the same whatlinkshere page, with the same links. For example, R/N Touch Ranger shows up at least twice, the first saying it has 24 links, the second saying it has 21.  &not; Wizårdbõÿ777  ( talk ) 01:36, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Those ones that are for builds also seem to be borked, because if you click the Whatlinkshere link you'll see that none of them are even linked. Probably needs a system cache purge --Gimmethegepgun 02:04, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * More than likely it's due to transclusions, and the fact that the wiki engine deals with refreshing link counts (among other things) only when an article gets edited. When a source article is created with a link to a certain article, say "Article A", that adds 1 to Article A's link count.  When another article is created that transcludes the first article, then Article A's link count is again increased by 1.  However, there's still only 1 actual link to Article A, and it exists on the transcluded article.  When the transcluded article gets edited to change the link, Article A's link count is decreased by 1.  The count that the transcluding article added for Article A will not be removed until that article gets edited again.  The system cache definitely needs to be purged if we've got incorrect link counts for articles that were deleted a year ago.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 04:08, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

The deletion log
Is borked? See this. Note that the offset number in that URL is approximately one decillion, and it's showing edits from august 2007.  &not; Wizårdbõÿ777  ( talk ) 02:07, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * It went back beyond the beginning of time and wrapped around, obviously d-: -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 02:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yay everyone's back and I've still got all my teeth! --Xasxas256 02:39, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Also, just fyi, it shows those entries for any offset number of 10000 or higher.  &not; Wizårdbõÿ777  ( talk ) 17:26, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Considering the "correct" behavior is probably "ERROR! Invalid offset! Go delete more pages!", I doubt this is high on the priority list to fix... -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 18:07, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, that's not what the correct behavior should be. Perhaps using an offset of one decillion wasn't the best example. Look at the deletion log with an offset of 10000 and with an offset of 10500. They show the exact same entries. But go to the bottom of the page and look at the date of the last entry - July 9th, 2007. The builds wipe was in May of 2007, so there should be entries in the log after that, but you can click "next 500" forever and it will never get to them, it'll just keep showing the same 500. Those entries are still in the log - if you search for a specific user you can see them, and you can probably see them if you search for a specific page, but you can't see them without specifying a user or an article.  &not; Wizårdbõÿ777  ( talk ) 21:17, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification. -User:PanSola (talk to the [[Image:follower of Lyssa.png]]) 21:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)