HRWiki talk:Cleanup

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I'm sure you guys have noticed that most of the special characters are now broken. Is there any quick way to locate the problems? Should the finding and fixing of broken special characters be added as a project on the cleanup page? Aurora Szalinski 16:55, 9 Mar 2005 (MST)

Seems like more of a project to me, as cleanup tasks are ones that never really get completed. See the ? replacing non-regular characters section on the talk page there for more information. Also, Talk:Se�or (Talk:Se%F1or]) might be of some help. -- Tom 08:27, 10 Mar 2005 (MST)

I clean up in my spare time, but I work more on projects, so I aggree. dylnuge 22:37, 24 Mar 2005 (MST)

Wiki vs. wiki

Okay, clearly I'm not getting something here. I'm trying to consistencify all the uses of "wiki" across the site. It seems that the best usage is to capitalize it when part of the site (Homestar Runner Wiki), but not when used alone (here on our wiki...). However, I immediately ran into two problems:

1. There are some locked pages where it needs to decapitalized, such as HRWiki:General disclaimer and MediaWiki:Blockedtext. Somebody who's a superuser will have to attend to those.
2. The more I use the Search function, the more I don't understand it. I searched for the word wiki, and I clicked a whole mess of checkboxes including the HRWiki checkbox. But the search did not find HRWiki:Cleanup as a page containing the word wiki, even though it does (and they need to be decapitalized). I'm going to assume that the search function is completely unreliable pending somebody telling me what I'm doing wrong.

— Bill 00:16, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I fixed the two instances you called attention to. As for the search, I'm not sure why it's missing certain results. I'll keep my eyes peeled for an answer to that question, though. — Joey (talk·edits) 01:21, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Fun Facts need re-organization

Most of the fun facts I've looked at recently involving toons and such are just kind of there matter-of-factly and have no order whatsoever. I'd like them to be placed in the order they "appear" in the toon. I realize this is rarely possible with some of the newer games: Peasant's Quest, Thy Dungeonman 3, etc., but it should be a simple matter with the toons. Is this an unreasonable request or am I just visiting the pages that haven't been ordered yet? —NFITC1^talk 04:22, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Homestar Runner on Wikipedia

Looks like the Homestar Runner page over on Wikipedia needs cleanup, plus a few other articles have been proposed to be merged into it. Maybe a mention here is enough to get a few of our people involved, but does anyone else think this should be featured as a week long community project? — Joey (talk·edits) 00:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Well... it's on another wiki, so it doesn't sound like it should be a top cleanup priority. However, it is Wikipedia, AKA the god of all wikis, so it should probably be cleaned-up by one of our users, and it probably does have a place on some sort of clean up project page here. But, that's just my opinion. Others? Bluebry 00:34, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I put the thcleanup tags on there, and did quite a bit of it, but lately I've been slacking and/or busy. There have been a handfull of few people who have helped so far. Would love to see anybody doing what they can. The goal is to bring it to featured article status with a lot of strong side-article support. Homestar Runner viewership has been in decline over the past couple of years, so there's a good motivation to bring it to the world's attention again. See the talk page checklist and discussion for things to do. —BazookaJoe 00:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)