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Contents 1 Developing this page 1.1 Question about piped links 2 Recent changes RSS 3 FAQ Talk Clearing 4 Spam Trolling 5 Sig help

Developing this page

See Wikipedia's help page for when I am getting most of this from. Really I'm just trying to get this started. I know we are going to need much more. Any ideas? -- Tom 07:25, 29 Jul 2004 (MST)

Question about piped links

[moved to discussion page]

• The piped link to properly sort items in Categories doesn’t seem to work yet Drhaggis 13:05, 13 Sep 2004 (MST)
  • I noticed this last week. If you make a category link a piped link, the bit after the pipe is supposed to be the sort key for the category page, e.g. for The Cheat you could do [[Category:Characters|Cheat, The]] in order to make The Cheat appear under the C's and not the T's. But for some reason this doesn't work here. Any ideas, anybody? -- InterruptorJones 13:22, 13 Sep 2004 (MST)
    • The correct way to link to a category is [[:Category:Characters]], which will result in Category:Characters. noclip

That's right, but Jones and Drhaggis were talking about something else six months ago. That is piped links in categories. It's the Albert Einstein example on that page that doesn't seem to work. -- Tom 09:46, 22 Mar 2005 (MST)

Recent changes RSS

It seems the RSS and ATOM feeds of the Recent Changes page aren't getting all the changes. I really can't tell why it's picking up what it does or why it omits what it does, but this could use a look. --Southpaw018 05:23, 25 Oct 2004 (MST)

FAQ Talk Clearing

Should we begin to clear out the FAQ Talk page? It's beginning to look cluttered. →[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]

Nah, it's fine. -- Tom 09:03, 3 Jan 2005 (MST)

The "Ask Away" heading really looks nice. →[[User:FireBird|FireBird]]

Sweet. -- Tom 09:20, 3 Jan 2005 (MST)

Spam Trolling

For the past few days this page has been vandalized every hour at about 25 minutes after. We have tried constant reversion, leaving the vandalism there, and blocking IP ranges, but nothing has been effective. There has been a suggestion to protect this page to prevent the troll from continuing his attacks. We would appreciate any input on this matter, whether to support protection or come up with other ideas. Username-talk 21:34, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Having been here and reverted some of these attacks, I totally support whatever you guys eventually decide on doing. This needs to stop. I wish I could come up with something more clever, but support is all I can offer. Good luck with whatever course of action you decide. --DorianGray

I really dislike the idea of protecting the page, but just in case, I started work on this template: {{vprotected}}. — It's dot com 21:54, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

I say, put the note, protect th page and watch out if the spammer move to another page. Aprat from the updates in the help pages from lapper, there were no real signs of activity here. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 22:31, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

I think {{vprotected}} is a viable option at this point. -- Tom 00:29, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

We'll try it for a coupla days to a week and see what happens. —BazookaJoe 01:08, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

It happened again. That bot likes it here. Rogue Leader / (my talk) 00:06, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Interesting. Perhaps a constant protection is the only permanent solution. Thankfully this page is usually pretty static. People can always request changes here like the template says. I'm going to leave this protected until a good petition for unprotection comes along. —BazookaJoe 01:47, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Sig help

How do I keep my signature from skipping a line? --(U)(T)(C) 17:47, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Easy. Don't put it in a table. By the way, don't make a gray background. — It's dot com 17:52, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

A. Okay, how do I get the gray background without using a table?

B. Why not have a gray background? --(U)(T)(C) 20:03, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Never mind. --(U)(T)(C) 17:49, 1 December 2005 (UTC)