User talk:Dronian

Archive 1

I've cleaned out the old talk and put it into a seperate page. Dronian (talk) 01:13, December 3, 2012 (UTC)

Main page redirect
I don't understand why you're reverting the edits on the redirects to the main page. I'm making it redirect automatically to what is in MediaWiki:Mainpage because it contains the name of the actual main page. If we ever decide for whatever reason to change the name of the main page, then all the redirects will work immediately and we won't have to change anything. Mark Otaris (talk) 02:20, December 3, 2012 (UTC)


 * It's a smart idea, but there's one problem. The redirect you've made with the MediaWiki template doesn't work at all. Dronian (talk) 02:23, December 3, 2012 (UTC)
 * I just realized that. Yet, I'm sure I managed to get it to work on another wiki at some point... I guess you can revert them, I didn't realize before that it didn't work. --Mark Otaris (talk) 02:26, December 3, 2012 (UTC)


 * Alright. Dronian (talk) 02:28, December 3, 2012 (UTC)

Ninenyan9 (talk) 03:28, December 3, 2012 (UTC)hello, the mods here give off topic a bad rap

Obsolete comments...
Could you clean the Special:DoubleRedirects page from all the items in it that contain "@comment" when you have time? It isn't exactly that important, but it'd clean up these broken comments and it'd also clean the maintenance logs at the same time. --Mark Otaris (talk) 05:03, December 4, 2012 (UTC)

Alrighty. Just let me finish some Skyrim quests and I'll do just that. Dronian (talk) 05:08, December 4, 2012 (UTC)

And done. The Double Redirects page is more cleaner than before. Dronian (talk) 05:31, December 4, 2012 (UTC)

New Background
Hey Dronian,

I like the new background! In the future can you please contact either Ajedi32 or I before changing it.

Thanks,

Alright. Dronian (talk) 02:29, December 5, 2012 (UTC)

Exactly 1000 unused files...
Right now, there are exactly 1000 unused files: Special:UnusedFiles?limit=20&offset=999.

That's a lot of work for you. Of course, not all should be deleted, as some may still be useful, but most should. I wish I could help you, but, unfortunately, I can't. Instead, I'll try to work on other things like orphaned pages or stubs. --Mark Otaris (talk) 02:53, December 5, 2012 (UTC)

Alright. I'll go through them and delete the ones that stand out the most. That'll get rid of a few. Dronian (talk) 02:54, December 5, 2012 (UTC)

And I already found a problem... most orphaned pages are item pages. If they were things like pages about scripting concepts, or building, or the website, etc, then just adding links to pages would make them not orphaned anymore. But when it comes to items, it's a bit harder. For example, take ACSII White; I don't think there is any page in the whole wiki that should even contain a link to it. As for making an index of hats, that's out of the question: that's what categories are for. --Mark Otaris (talk) 02:57, December 5, 2012 (UTC)

Hm. That's quite odd. However, if there is an item that is a retexture of another, we could link the two together, getting rid of some orphaned pages. Dronian (talk) 03:00, December 5, 2012 (UTC)

I just realized why there were and still are exactly 1000 unused files: the Special:UnusedFiles page only shows up to 1000 of them... which means there are probably a lot more.

Oh, that's great. Dronian (talk) 01:40, December 6, 2012 (UTC)

Protected pages
This wiki has a lot of protected pages, and I think something should be done about it. Many pages, for example, were indefinitely locked many years ago only because of vandalism.

Normally, pages should very rarely be indefinitely locked. Pages (other than very important pages like the main page) should not usually be locked in prevention of something but rather be locked to solve a problem. If a page has no vandalism problem, it shouldn't be locked just to prevent a possible future vandalism attack.

I think a cleanup of locked pages should be done; pages that do not really need to be locked should be unlocked. Of course, if a page is really critical to the wiki, if a template is used on hundreds of pages on the wiki or if a page has been vandalized recently, it shouldn't be unlocked. But otherwise, it really just should.

Currently, there are about 25 locked blog posts. That's very funny, because blog posts are actually only editable by the person who created them and by administrators. Special:ProtectedPages?namespace=500 --Mark Otaris (talk) 02:21, December 7, 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure WHY the blog posts would be locked, unless the creator kept editing it to get points. Dronian (talk) 03:09, December 7, 2012 (UTC)

The most ironic part of it is that the creators of all of those are admins (either Colgatecity or Ajedi32). Therefore, protecting it really changes nothing, since everyone who could edit it before can still edit it after and nobody new can edit it. Mark Otaris (talk) 07:15, December 7, 2012 (UTC)

The page: http://roblox.wikia.com/wiki/EliteOfCrossroads shouldn't have been deleted, just saying, he's generally famous.

Template:Citation needed deletion
Hi Dronian,

I appreciate all of the work you've been doing on the roblox wikia. I was wondering what your thoughts were on deleting the citation needed template? I had made that page in the hopes of encouraging more accurate information on this wikia (although it appears that the page didn't catch on), would you not agree that creating a system similar to that on wikipedia would be beneficial to the accuracy of the information here?

00:20, December 14, 2012 (UTC)

Background removed
Hey Dronian,

The community came to a consensus on chat that our theme sucks. I've removed the background for now, reverting it to what it was two weeks ago. Please don't add the background back without community consensus. Thanks,

Roscape
Hey, I just checked, and I found out that Roscape created a vandal account in late July. Look here for the account he created and it's contributions.

14:54, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

Aha! It all makes sense. Roscape says he was Malcolt3 in his profile! So it helps to that he actually deserved the ban. Dronian (talk) 22:10, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

I think i know why my page got deleted, well not really, could you explain that to me please.

201.171.121.235 20:55, December 20, 2012 (UTC)

Help
May I please know why my page was deleted?

Melhem1 (talk) 21:00, December 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * You're not famous.


 * Roscape (talk) 22:24, January 4, 2013 (UTC)Roscape

Concerning message walls...
I have looked at the page you sent me a link to, and what I see is that only 5 people voted, out of which 4 said that they loved the new message walls and 1 said that he didn't care. That means nobody hated it. I'm therefore not sure I understand. -- Mark Otaris (talk) 04:58, December 22, 2012 (UTC)

I misread a poll. Dronian (talk) 05:03, December 22, 2012 (UTC)

Oh. Well, anyway, I don't think it really matters, because only 5 persons voted, and I don't consider polls as a reliable way to take decisions. If we were actually able to know who voted on them and to restrict them to logged-in users (anonymous users who have never used a message wall or a talk page before should not be able to vote on which they prefer, obviously), then they could be good, but otherwise, they're just too easily manipulable. I could add 50 votes to any option of my choice on any poll on Wikia simply by using a proxy switcher. -- Mark Otaris (talk) 05:08, December 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Talk pages are easier to use and make our wiki have a better appearence.  13:28, December 22, 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I agree with that. But message walls are more friendly to new users. I've seen a lot of users forgetting to put their signature on talk pages or using them incorrectly. -- Mark Otaris (talk) 23:21, December 22, 2012 (UTC)

Concerning the Clockwork Wiki project...
I think you should move the blog post to a page in the Roblox Wiki namespace. It's a project and it doesn't really belong in a blog post. We could then discuss it using the forum. Mark Otaris (talk) 23:14, December 24, 2012 (UTC)

Alright.

Is Making Negative Edits Considered Vandalism?
BlasterBuilder, a user with one edit, changed an article about Iron Force, adding many negative comments. I'm not sure if this is considered vandalism or not, but I thought I'd point it out.

Before His Edit: http://roblox.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Force?oldid=73563

His Edit: http://roblox.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Force?oldid=76900

Yep, that qualifies as vandalism. However, it's rather old and the user doesn't go on the wiki anymore. Dronian (talk) 01:56, December 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Note that making positive edits in the same way would also be vandalism. Both consist of inserting bias into the page. Pages on this wiki should be neutral, and therefore, inserting statements that are either in favor of the something or against it is vandalism. --Mark Otaris (talk) 02:00, December 26, 2012 (UTC)

Concerning the infoboxes...
The descriptions of the player, place and group infoboxes should not be the descriptions set by their owner. They should be a description written by the editor adding the infobox. The only cases where it should be the description from the ROBLOX website is when it is the description of a catalog item, like a hat, gear, package, etc.

There are many reasons for this. The main reason is that there isn't much to say usually about catalog items, which is not true for players or places (most hat pages barely contain two paragraphs, while pages about players or places are usually much longer). Another reason is that the descriptions of items are endorsed by the ROBLOX staff.

This means that descriptions of places, groups and players should not be the description given by the player, but rather a description written by the wiki's community, that describes the element in question. Mark Otaris (talk) 23:04, December 29, 2012 (UTC)

Please do not allow the "Hack Advertising" page to be reverted.
Hello. I am from the Globeofgeek.com staff. A while ago a few members from our site thought it was a good idea to create the notorious ROBLOX Studio DLL. This has been horrible for our site, and we are constantly flooded with ROBLOX members seeking expoitation software. The site in no way endorses ROBLOX exploiting.

I recently cleared our name from the Hack Advertising page on your wikia, but it was swiftly reverted. It would be in everybodies best intrest if your community stopped trying to turn our forum into an exploiter kongregation. Thank you.


 * May you please show some evidence that you're a staff at Globeofgeek.com.
 * UPDATE: Just looked at some of your edits on the Hack Advertising page. It would be appreciated, staff at Globeofgeek or not, that you do not add notices like that to the page. It's not informative. Thanks,


 * I appologize for the notice; we figured that the page was not of any good use for anybody, and most of the people who would come upon our website via that page would be young enough that they would only surrender their attention to large letters.


 * I'm Ethan from Globeofgeek.com. http://forum.globeofgeek.com/showthread.php?tid=34
 * We temporarily cleaned our forum as we are rewritting our site, but a good 10,000 posts in our trash archive are regarding ROBLOX exploitation. We'd appreaciate any help you can give us.


 * Well, I think a notice on the GlobeofGeek forum will do.  01:34, December 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * Within ten minutes of clearing our forum, somebody joined with the username 1x1x1x1, and tried to post some chat "exploit".


 * We've been fighting the flood of ROBLOX users seeking exploits for two years now. We're tired of this and we are trying to break as many refrences to GoG from ROBLOX affiliated websites. We hope you understand.
 * We don't actually need a page on "hack advertising", we already have a page on exploits, which, at least, is accurate. While I would normally oppose removing information at the demand of a concerned subject (in this case, Globe of Geek), the page is really terrible and the information is really not important. Thousands of users have exploited on ROBLOX and the users from GOG aren't really worth mentioning. --Mark Otaris (talk) 01:55, December 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * I understand that you prefer not to remove information based on a complaint, but GoG being refrenced on the Wikia is in nobody's best intrest.
 * How about we stop spamming up Dronian's talk page, and move the page into exploits. Please, take it to the discussion if you have a problem.  Your friend, Wookee8wikiperson  02:13, December 30, 2012 (UTC)
 * How about we stop spamming up Dronian's talk page, and move the page into exploits. Please, take it to the discussion if you have a problem.  Your friend, Wookee8wikiperson  02:13, December 30, 2012 (UTC)

SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX Needs Category Removed
The page SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX needs to be removed from the nonexistent category: Hated players.

Clockwork Project
Were is clockwork project? I enjoyed helping with it

It's right here. Dronian (talk) 15:39, January 5, 2013 (UTC)

K thx

My mistake
Thx i have done it correctly before but i messsed up on his

Help with clockwork project step 3
How do you do step three i need help i did it on gollygregs but i cant do it anyomore plz tell me what i did difrently compared to gregs thx Epiccookie11 19:54, January 6, 2013 (UTC) Epiccookie11

First, you don't capitalize image, activity, or any of the words before the =. Also, most of the choices from PlayerInfo will not work on Infobox player. Dronian (talk) 19:56, January 6, 2013 (UTC)

K Thx Epiccookie11 19:57, January 6, 2013 (UTC) Epiccookie11

Perfection edit
We did the edit for profection at the same time lolz

vandals
How do you find vandals so tht if i find any i can report them

Admin request
HI I am Epiccookie I am 13 years old and been on ROBLOX since September 28th 2011

I never done anything bad on the wikia

Before i do somthing that might not be right or if i make a mistake i tell someone or ask and admin or mod before i do it or after i made a mistake on the wikia

I have 201 edits

I have been good friend to all my friends on roblox and the wikia staff

I help new people

ROBLOX has gave me building skills and taught me scripting which im currently learning

My grammer is good most of the time when im paying attention and not rushing

My ROBLOX is distroyer119 back up accound epicskittles11

Hope You Accept Me as Admin

Your Friend

Epiccookie11



Epiccookie11 01:40, January 7, 2013 (UTC)Epiccokie11Epiccookie11 01:40, January 7, 2013 (UTC)


 * No. You joined this wiki in December, and you don't seem to be experienced enough yet.  02:05, January 7, 2013 (UTC)


 * Ok you are right though

Vandalism
Tiff or Nick has been vandalizing several pages. He vandalized TwoShue. I had to revert it. He also vandalized several clothing pages such as Olive Trilby etc. Can you please block him indefinitely?

Nice try. Dronian (talk) 03:55, January 9, 2013 (UTC)

Adminship
I had posted a request about 2 weeks ago. No one has replied to it. Could you please check it out? Thanks! Tiff or Nick (talk) 04:03, January 9, 2013 (UTC)