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)

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)