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This page is in need of cleanup. Srsly. It's a fucking mess.

Article of the Now

We need this. What are you guys, gay? --75.172.47.63 03:50, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

INFOBOXES SIIIINDRIIII

Well now, I'm proud to present our first infobox. Here it is.

You can see an example of its usage on my Talk page.

I do understand, however, that the infobox is far from ideal, so I encourage you to change whatever you wish before we start using it in the articles, when changing the template will require rewriting of the articles it's used in.

The reference I was using is here, and the main problem with the template just yet is that it uses the defaults for the fields you don't specify, not just hide the fields. There is a way to hide them, and you can find it here. My brain is exhausted now, however, so if you want it implemented, go for it.

Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes.

Fatum 11:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Field hiding is done, I also restyled the box to look more like Wikipedia infoboxes. 10,000 hours in a copy of mediawiki running on my laptop Tgcodefag 15:41, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, the template is good now; I don't think we need publisher in the same field as the game's name, though. Look at the example in my talk - it can get quite ugly. Fatum 10:01, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Also, we need a bunch of templates for RPG character classes, publishers, persons etc. Fatum 10:03, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

\o/ --86.52.83.245 20:52, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

References

They don't work. 86.110.187.142

They were never meant to. This is wiki, it has it's own way of formatting stuff. Fatum 14:54, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

What exactly is our "angle?"

I'm asking because we've made a lot of articles that dispense no information whatsoever, and are intended to be jokes to people who already know about said subject. This is suspiciously akin to ED, is that our purpose, to make a /tg/ related ED, are we going to make a general knowledge encyclopedia of /tg/ related topics, or are we doing something of an in between: A general purpose wiki that gets the whole point across with humour in some parts? --ManWithNoName 18:17, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

I'd say the last one. --Myomoto 18:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles that are just jokes are fine, but if someone writes an informative article on the subject and puts that up, the informative version is preferred. I believe Wikifag said in a thread that his intent was that the wiki be primarily informative, yet where possible convey information in a humorous manner. --Carcer 19:56, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

I concur. -Destro

It's probably also worth saying that where possible articles should not simply be isolated descriptions of the topic but at least include a mention of how the topic in question relates to /tg/ in general beyond just "it's from a traditional game". --Carcer 21:08, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

If random opinions count at all, I would vote for the informational & helpful as a priority, but with the comedy stylings upheld as a way to encourage visitors. I came for the story on The Bitch Who Ruined TSR, and stayed for the lulzy learnings.--Furore23 13:26, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Fucking stupid shit

Yes I am putting this at the top of the page because it's annoying me.

We don't need pages for shit that isn't /tg/ related. Case in point: Furry. We're not Wikichan, we're not ED, and dear god we're not Uncyclopedia. So please stop posting this shit. It's just trollbait crap that has no purpose on 1d4chan.

Feel free to rage at me lol Aegis 22:05, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

But furry is /tg/-related T_T Fatum 22:06, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

They are subjects that are relevant for understanding /tg/ in one way or another I'd say, I don't really see anything bad in having them. Currently they only take up one category. --Myomoto 22:07, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, furry stuff shows up on /tg/ a lot. As long as the article is written such that the major part of it describes the topic from the perspective of /tg/, I don't see why these "unrelated" articles can't stay. --Carcer 22:40, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

To be honest the page itself isn't a problem, I'm just concerned about the proliferation of the faggotry. It tends to get fucking everywhere and destroy all that's good. Aegis 08:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

We could start posting articles about Ironclaw, Furry Pirates, Furcadia d20, Worldtree... or we could have one article called "furry" and not speak of any of these horrible, horrible things ever again. :3 - Lord Licorice 08:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

You may have noticed that I'm deliberately picking controversial topics to write up, and giving them a sensible and relevant treatment in each article. This will help to pre-empt trolls, because if they can't produce a better article then they'll either get reverted quickly or just won't bother in the first place. The best trollbait is a blank page. -Destro

Categories

Alright people, try to use the Categories markup so everything's nice and easy to search for - Kasdaye 13:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Images

Dear gods. If you have twenty-hojillion, please put them into image galleries at the end instead of the article body - Kasdaye 13:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Stubs

Please don't go stub-crazy. The Stub stub was largely a test, and is way too generic for widespread use. I'm going to make a D&D stub and a Warhammer40K stub, since those seem to be taking up the most pages with the least content. If there are any other low-content areas that require expanding, feel free to make a new stub, and try to follow the Template:Stub example.

Grand. The Template:Dnd-stub and Template:Wh40k-stub are ready to go - Kasdaye 14:04, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Kasdaye. Nice stubs. I'll try to use them reasonably. As soon as I figure out how to wiki. BloodyWanker 00:28, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Unportant notes

Are you stopping us silly niggers having userpages for people to whinge at us? I was looking forward to the bitching, lol. Aegis 19:11, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Is this some tripfaggotry? Nothing's stopping you customising your User:page, but then again, nothing is stopping anyone else posting about what a gigantic faggot you are on it. Especially not me.--Wikifag 19:17, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

As far as I can tell the rule is that you can't make a page called Edward reading 'Edward is a cunt and whacks off to GURPS' but you can go to User:Edward and write 'Edward is a cunt and whacks off to GURPS.' A subtle but important distinction. -Destro

I thought it seemed more to be that there should be no articles for tripfags, and if a known tripfag registers on the wiki using a recognisable name, Wikifag doesn't particularly care if you fag up their userpage just because. Although one would hope that it's done creatively, at least. Making a userpage for a nonexistant user is just silly. --Carcer 18:55, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that's what I meant. I'm not even sure whether you can create a userpage for a non-existent user. -Destro

Don't be silly. This is a wiki. You can create anything. - Ahri 19:01, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Speaking of making User:pages, could we all just write a stupid blurb and cut down on all the broken links? That'd be great. --FlintTD 09:32, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Two cents: Is it possible to have a user page that is only editable by who created it? This would have the benifit of 1. keeping tripfaggotry out of the real wiki pages, and 2. prevent the god-damn annoying wars - which leads to MORE than user pages being vandalized - as best demonstrated by encyclopedia dramatica. --Sintua 20:26, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Seconded for the reasons mentioned. While it would be fun to have massive internet arguments, it would fuck up the rest of the site, and like Sintua said, we're not ED. Aegis 21:54, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

It's possible to put various locks on a page, I'd suggest waiting until it actually becomes an issue and then locking individual pages. Everyone's done nothing but have good clean fun on each other's user pages so far. -Destro

New theme

Just putting an official request out here for a more 4chan like theme for the wiki, just a simple recolour would easily do. --Myomoto 23:03, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Seconding. The wiki white is very bland... even 4chancolors would add alot to the look, but i don't know how easy that'd be to do. --Sintua 20:30, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Somebody on /tg/ mentioned it like it was just a matter of changing a few numbers somewhere, but I honestly have no clue how to do it. --Myomoto 20:32, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

HOLY SHIT THE COLOURS JUST CHANGED WHAT THE FUCK --Myomoto 22:08, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Now you just need to get rid of this: http://1d4chan.org/skins/monobook/headbg.jpg

DEAR GOD WIKIFAG, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? - Ahri 22:35, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

The thing most be located somewhere, he could replace it with a gradient like the one on 4chan, or he could replace it with a transparent image. --Myomoto 22:36, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

DING DONG THE WICKED BACKGROUND THING IS DEAD. --Myomoto 22:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I approve of the Blueosity. --ManWithNoName 22:48, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I'M COLOUR BLIND YOU INSENSITIVE FUCKS. --Carcer 22:49, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

We need a "YOU ARE INFERIOR!" Howling Banshee sound emote from DoW. --Myomoto 22:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Btw wikifag, do you have any plans of making a nicer front page any time soon? --Myomoto 23:04, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, we need to move the discussion to the Community portal from here.

Also, best articles on the front page. Fatum 23:08, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Community portal? Sorry, I'm a major wiki retard. --Myomoto 23:10, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Community Portal. Don't you see the link on the left, just below Main Page and over Current Events? Fatum 23:45, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikifag, could you name the default 4chan theme something other than monobook (for instance, '4chan') and restore the old monobook as one of the optional themes? I don't know why the blue scheme is bothering me so much, maybe the 4chan colours just bring back too many bad memories of 4e flamewars.-Destro

Сolons

Do you use them, motherfucker? Fatum 23:54, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, like this. Like this, baby.

Well you sure walked into that one. -Destro

AMIDOINGITRITE?!? --ManWithNoName 19:01, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

It's cold out here, let me back in guys Aegis 21:55, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Templates

I know jack shit about them, but I'll see what I can learn. I was adding the 1,000 Blank White Cards article and realized we should probably have a template for some slight standardization (e.g. # players, difficulty, length of a game, etc.). - Lord Licorice 08:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Time to go steal code from wikipedia! --Carcer 08:13, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Woohoo! Road trip! --Myomoto 13:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Dammit, that's MY line! - Ahri 18:31, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm just gonna leave this ting here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox --Myomoto 23:32, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I can't seem to get it to work, does wikifag need to enable something first, or am I just too hamhanded? --Myomoto 00:27, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Video games

Should we, or should we not include a section for /tg/-related video games? We already have DoW on here. --Myomoto 18:04, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I think we should add a section for it, but every single fantasy themed game out there does not deserve it's own page. Strictly /tg/ related by way of virtue. --ManWithNoName 18:29, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Even strictly /tg/ related is a lot. I say a page for roguelikes (Castle of the Winds, Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, etc), a page for adventure/RPGs (Torment, Baldur's Gate,NWN, etc), and a page for board/card analogs (Blood Bowl, RISK, XBL Board games etc).Björn Freigh 18:35, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

That would be the most logical choice. Any naysayers? --ManWithNoName 18:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Individual games with a lot to them (like Planescape or BGII) should have their own page. If it's YET ANOTHER NETHACK CLONE with nothing really special to distinguish it, then a separate page isn't particularly warranted. --Carcer 18:42, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

We could have a main /tg/ related games page with a paragraph for every game, that links to games that deserve their own pages. --ManWithNoName 18:44, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I've already made a category for video games, sounds a lot like what you just described. --Myomoto 18:46, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I was envisioning something more descriptive, so that games that don't deserve their own page could still be discussed. Also more like a standard page.

You could create a page for that? Sky's the limit in this business. --Myomoto 18:59, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Means testing would be good but that never fucking works on the internet. If someone can produce evidence of significant /tg/ discussion on the vidya then it should be allowed a page, perhaps? With non-entity games going into the general "some video games" pages? Aegis 21:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

If someone's willing to write a full-length article on a game, it gets its own page; if it would otherwise be a stub, it should just get an entry in a larger page. -Destro

Style

Ok, I seriously think we need to discuss some sort of overall style for when we make articles, stuff like if we should stick to American spellings or British spellings of words, for example: Flavor, or flavour. Overall we just need some sort of style guide to make a consistent experience out of reading this thing. Now, I know this is something we can always add in later, and we should probably focus on getting some articles written and all that wash. But the fact remains, it'll be a goddamn hell to edit a gazillion articles up to the same style, so why the hell not try and produce them in a similar manner in the first place? --Myomoto 18:39, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I think Wikifag's a Britfag. If so, Brit spelling? - Ahri 18:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

How about a table for RPGs? Like recommended players and so forth. Wern't we going to do that? --ManWithNoName 18:42, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, we need stuff like this. To be honest I'm just hoping wikifag will get off his ass and make some general designs for the different kinds of pages, if not we'll just have to do it ourselves. --Myomoto 18:44, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I think we should just use our native spelling when we write, it's readable either way and not worth the hassle of trying to 'correct' it. As for general designs it's probably best to let them evolve somewhat organically, although I am making some effort to establish a standard for describing games (System, Setting, Relation to /tg/, See Also/Links). -Destro

Seconded. Either version is fine, as a mix doesnt really make things any less legible. Hell, I was raised in American schools by a British father, so I already tend to alternate between valour/valor, etc. --Sintua 19:54, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Seconded--Hanyufag 18:54, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Wikifag does indeed appear to be British. As am I. Brit spelling ftw. Regarding article layout, I generally format proper content pages (i.e. ones that don't solely consist of a dumb joke like the DURR CLANG and what have you) similarly to wikipedia, which is to boldface the first instance of the article's subject in the text, and place a relevant image thumbnailed on the right at the very top of the page. Most of our pages aren't actually long enough to warrant additional side images in the body of the text, so additional images go in a gallery at the very bottom of the article (after See Also and External Links sections). Stub notifiers and the Needs Images template and what have you should probably be placed at the top of the page. --Carcer 18:50, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Good point. Even if initial article is written out of style, having a neat guide when cleaning it up is great. As for the spelling I don't really care.--Hanyufag 18:54, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Let's alternate British and merkin spellings within each article, and switch them all on alternate Tuesdays. Or we could just have a nice cup of tea and a sit down and not bother about which way it's done. Me, I prefer darjeeling, but if you guys want to constantly switch spellings I can go along with that. HUGE 18:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Destro, or anybody for that matter, feel free to simply create a page for no other purpose than to show off the intended style of a page, just dump it in the under development section in a new category called style guides or something like that. --Myomoto 18:55, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Check this shit yo. --Carcer 19:01, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Damn bitch that's some fly shit.

Shit is SO cash. --Myomoto 19:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I noticed how there are many copypastas that are, well, copypasta'd. Should this kind of text be in italic or do you guys prefer another way of differenciating it? Quotes don't really help when many paragraphs are involved. - Murmur 00:17, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Deleting Articles

Can we do this yet? I didn't think we could, This page is really bothering me.

I don't think we can, wikifag needs to hand out some more powers to a few people to help us clean up. --Myomoto 19:31, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

We are not sufficiently popular and hectic for me to feel any additional sysops are required to maintain order at the moment. If there is consensus that a page should be deleted (as in on its talk page) and you want to make sure I notice, leave a message on my talk page. --Wikifag 19:34, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and for a little additional clarity: the only things I'm deleting by default are articles about tripfags and articles which are just pointless ranting or racist drivel or suchlike. In other situations I'd prefer to see some sort of consensus reached by the users and I'm going to err on the side of non-action when opinion is divided. --Wikifag 19:42, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Let's run with it. --Myomoto 19:44, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Hooray! - Ahri 19:49, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Great news, everyone

My new Special Page tells me that we're close to our first thousand articles. And 50000 page views as well. Hooray for us! Fatum 20:06, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I just know all the NSFW will the most viewed once we actually make them.. --Myomoto 20:08, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I like the way that only about 1/5 of our pages are considered legitimate. Must have been a whole lot of extramarital fucking going on. - Ahri 20:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, we just surpassed the 50k mark. --Myomoto 21:03, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Allemandtando page?

Start putting in some recent events? --ManWithNoName 21:06, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Heh, you know, I might know a man named GameJunkieJim who's not familiar at all with Warhammer 40K but helped get that article protected for a few days. Well him and his logged out alter ego. It was fun fucking with EMIV or whatever the fuck his name was. Björn Freigh 21:38, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh god no. All this invasion and raid shit was what caused wikichan so many problems in the first place. Wait until it blows over and then document it later. --Carcer 21:45, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Change vote for this. --ManWithNoName 22:04, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I vote for an Allemantando page. That shit is hilarious. --Dunefag 15:43, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Clean up of Categories and such

Would anyone a bit more adept at wiki editing like to clean up the categories page a bit? All the 40K races should be linked into a single article "Races of Warhammer 40K" Or a general purpose "Races of Warhammer" that has sections for Fantasy and 40K. Other races from other games could definitely use the same treatment, If a race is similar enough in multiple games, change the specific page by adding a paragraph as to how they differ in each game system. All D&D category pages should be subcategories of a D&D Category too, that will clean that up and make stuff easier to find as the wiki grows, I think. Björn_Freigh 04:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Also made a cleanup template. --Björn_Freigh 16:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Awesome, I've been doing a bit of cleaning today, but far from enough. --Myomoto 19:41, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Bold text

I'd be willing to make a Rac es of 40k and such. Also, OH GOD WHY IS IT SO BLUE?!? CAN YOU SEE THE BLUE? CAN YOU?!?

DO YOU SEE THE BLUENESS TOO? Blame Wikifag, he's the only sysop here. - Ahri 22:07, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Sysoppery has nothing to do with style editing. You have to be able to get at the .css. Unfortunately what RGB value in there is actually tied to what is not immediately obvious and I'm far too manly to actually look this stuff up so expect to see some bizarrely coloured items for a bit. Also, consider yourself lucky I don't know how to make this thing do gradients, so no RAINBOWIKI today --Wikifag 22:10, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

My only complaint is that it's about thrice the bluenosity of /co/, and the lines under headers are hard to see. --ManWithNoName 22:11, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't mind, I'd just like t get rid of the background in the segment outside of this. --Myomoto 22:16, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

This seems somewhat related. What about all of these "Campaign" articles that have been popping up? I'm not even sure of what category they belong to or if a new category is needed. Other then those, I went through and categorized most of the uncategorized articles this week.--Anonykota 03:08, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. I'ma go make a Campaign category with subcategories for each campaign. Let's see how that works out. - Ahri 09:30, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Aaaaaand done. Sorry about filling almost the entire Recent Changes page with that lot, but now the wiki's vaguely more organised. - Ahri 09:43, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Woops, looks like I missed half of them. Fuck doing any more I missed. And fuck you and your million character sheets. - Ahri 20:08, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Why are these on the wiki anyways? Seems like it'd be easier to host text documents somewhere else and link them all in one artcile instead of making a crap ton of them here.--Anonykota 20:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

People seem to like using wiki-markup to make their character sheets all pretty. It wouldn't be quite so bad if they all started helping expand other articles on the wiki to show their appreciation for wikifag letting them do this.--Tgcodefag 01:24, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Fanfics...

I've seen a lot of pages featuring stories and nothing else, while I think it's acceptable to have them here, I think they should include some sort of template to mark them as stories and a short (one, two sentences) foreword. Perhaps also containing something like [story] in their article titles. It's weird clicking on a link and getting just a wall of text with no indication of what it's about. What do you think? --Teataine 18:07, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. -Destro 12:09, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, they should be differentiated from regular text. Either italics or a template would do the job. I don't think article names should be changed though, if we do this. - Murmur 02:34, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Made a template, feel free to put it on any stories/fanfics that you come across. I've done all of the categorised ones but I imagine there's a few more that aren't correctly categorised. - Tgcodefag 02:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps one page that links to all fanfics/writefaggotry, and then those pages link back? It could encourage wikipedos to copy-paste from the suptg archives for an easier read (by not having to slog through all the trollan and "oh em gee epic winzz" shitposts) and help cleanup Special:DeadendPages. --CreatingAnAccountJustToHideMyStupidIP 08:25, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Main Page

Now that Wikifag has unprotected the front page, how do we want to go about making it easier on the eyes? Do we want a featured article box or what? - Tgcodefag 06:13, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I say let's have a voting for the best article once in a month in the Community Portal page, and then place a box on the main linking it and give the article itself a 'chosen best' template, just like they do in TOW. Fatum 09:34, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

I agree, a featured article box would be nice. And while I can see why you would knock this back, perhaps a featured suptg archive thread once a week/month/whatever? Just throwing it out there, could foster some good relations between the two sites so we can all totally cyber and stuff. NightRapier 11:27, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Now that's just ass-licking, sup/tg/ already has a rating system allowing anyone including us wikipedians to vote on the threads. Like the thread - vote for it, make it an epic one, it's that simple.

On the other hand, we could link the best images from the Paintchat somewhere. Fatum 16:03, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

My vote goes to a giant ASCII horse penis. --Anonykota 00:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

 Vote--Anonykota 19:58, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Random page

Newfag here, trying to educate myself. After a while, I started pushing the 'random' button, but most of the articles it comes up with are campaigns and chars. Someone care to change that?

There's no real way to do that besides either prohibiting putting the campaign materials and charsheets on the wiki (which is unacceptable) or writing up significantly more articles than there's said campaign materials and charsheets (which is a grand task to undertake). Fatum 09:59, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

That, or condense a grand majority of Campaign pages. Also a hard task, and liable for butthurt. Ragnasal 16:29, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

The Campaign articles should start with Campaign: in their names, to put them in a different namespace from the default [does mediawiki make new namespaces on the fly like that?]. Character sheets that are instances of specific characters should be named 'Campaign:NameOfStory/NameOfCharacter'. I would've thought 'Random Page' would grab a random from only the 'Main:' namespace, not the others like 'Talk:', 'User:' or 'File:'. I'd have to install Mediawiki myself and poke around in the code. --NotBrandX 21:15, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Franken Fran Fandom?

Wondering if there should be page 'bout Franken Fran. She is currently /tg/'s "the thing that triggers horrible hardons and hueg fandom." Durr, also rule Maggotsen 16:55, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Why not. Go for it, tiger. Fatum 03:34, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Grrr, but except nothing but porn! Maggotsen 15:12, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Okay. Done. What I lack in writing skill I make up with rule. Maggotsen 16:24, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Featured items

We should have a page with spotlights like other wikis so you dont have to click random page to find new stuff or go thru the link maze--24.176.167.20 02:08, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Pages disappearing after moving to new server?

Hey ppl, what happened to Touhou Powercards?? The page seems empty, when i load it.

Man, you cant do this to me internet, its the only reason why i play 4E! Zarathustra01 07:41, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Public Backups

Can we get a periodic Megaupload download link for a backup of the mysql database for this site? There's a lot of work on here, so it would be good to be able to retrieve it if the host gets hit by a bus. --Destro 14:07, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

I frequently dump the database and keep a copy of it safely on my home machine. In the event of my computer or the datacenter that hosts the linode being hit by a bus, a safe copy would exist. If I get hit by a bus, my wife and friends know enough about it to keep it running or make a database backup available. If it transpires that a lot of people would like available backups, I'll look into making a publicly available backup, although I'd probably only include the article content and not the user tables. --Wikifag 17:50, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

That sounds sensible, thanks for getting back to me. -Destro 21:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

/co/-related articles

I'm noticing an increase in /co/ stuff, and not just /co/-inspired tabletop/trad games. Should we call the Commissar to BLAM this infection ChaOs, or welcome our /co/mrades with open arms? If the latter, should probably make a label like Template:/vg/. I nominate Comic-Sans for the font. --NotBrandX 19:36, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

• It is because /tg/ is getting modhammered right now. Many /tg/-dwellers are fleeing to /co/ and /v/, so expect to see a rise in related interests. You want to stop it, fight the mods. --FlintTD 19:30, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Spambots

I've noticed too many generic, harmless and non-sequitir posts on the Talk:* pages (they love Talk:Journal_of_Kith for some reason), even posting to Talk:* pages for articles that don't exist. I've started adding a captcha of sorts to the Talk:* pages -- if you're a human, add new text above that 'spambots only below this line' header. Robots will ignore anything on the page, and just append text to the bottom after the captcha. It won't stop spambots, but at least makes the spam easier to detect despite using "harmless" text. --NotBrandX 14:13, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikifag could also just edit-protect this page to registered users only. It's not like spambots take the time to register and spam.
Serious dog 07:25, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Emprahsque

Just when I was about to forsake /tg/ for the recent lack of its humorous creativity, this thread sup/tg/ link easymodo link has given me new hope (and laughs). Should we make a new page?

If you don't transcribe it by tomorrow morning, I will. Remember to give it [[Category:Warhammer 40,000]] and put {{Story}} near the top. --NotBrandX 05:31, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

I warned you about transcripts bro. I told you dawg! --NotBrandX 00:48, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Best article of 2011. By far. Ragnasal 17:55, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Second --FlintTD 07:31, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Awww, you guys make it all worthwhile. Someone else.

Well, it's done now. The story's over. Someone else. 03:34, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Mailer is borked

I can't confirm my new account, the Preferences page says MAILER is broken every time I try. Any ideas? Someone else. 04:18, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

That which is Terrible and Bad is Terribad

Hey neckbeards, I just thought that since this was the wiki of all things /tg/ we should do domething about the mods. /tg/ is our board for going on about WH40K, Paranoia, Touhou, and whatever else Traditional games related we come up with. We shouldn't force this to become the memoirs to the /tg/ that was, we should fight for our right! Let us be the first to rise up against our mods, and what have you. Send em' to /b/ and let them raeghammer all they want to there, not in the good boards. --FlintTD 19:42, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Maybe whine elsewhere? Someone else. 04:53, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Main Page Index

It would be cool if you guys implemented some sort of featured page system, or maybe just a small index of pages which a casual reader could use to browse your wiki; I have nowhere to start with except for the list of all pages >< Cheers. --110.175.109.220

notsureifspammer Ragnasal 14:32, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

It's obviously a noob; I moved this to be above the spambot line. The noob it's a valid point, too: someone who walks in here off /tg/ without a specific article in mind is going to see the front page which is mostly codes of conduct. If you don't know MediaWiki already, the only thing that looks like a place to start browsing is the "categories" link, which is tiny compared to the rest of the page, and we don't have that many Categories. Sadly, the front page is locked, so we can't make ... wait. "(Aug 2008) Locked to registered users only." *rubs hands together* If you need me, I'll be in my lab. --NotBrandX 18:03, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

A new frontpage appears! --00:10, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

I like it. Very swanky. - Shock Mox 06:51, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Good lord in heavens, it's awesome. Fatum 17:12, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Fighting Racism

sigh 194.90.112.148 felt it was necessary to find all mention of 'Jew' in articles, and replace them with insults about Arabs, and remove talk about Israel that isn't rainbows and kittens. I admit the Jew-jokes make me uncomfortable, but I know oppressive censorship is not the answer. I undid some edits, softened others (from 'Jew' to 'Jew stereotype') or just took out the racist comments where they didn't add to the humour of the article. --NotBrandX 15:39, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

It's so weird how people fight against racism, unless the racist comments are about their ancestral enemies.

I'm for editing this shit out, not necessarily because its racist but because its just really lazy ass writing. Its almost never funny and neckbeards deserve better. --Petro 18:19, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Seriously guy if you're so offended actually help rewrite the articles so they're funny instead of just going on an emo blanking spree. --Petro 18:19, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

So anyway, because I just found out that reverting revisions every second wasn't as fun as I hoped, the edit war is getting uninteresting. The anon's edits are basically of his own personal, offended, opinion as a Jew (atleast I think it is, unless this is an elaborate troll plot that I'm still not aware of. In which case, disregard this statement), which he can't deal over the damned internet, it's not like every Jew in the world is being re-directed to this site and forced to read these articles.

Overall, a classic case of internet butthurt, while the jokes/stereotype aren't necessarily funny, deleting it out of his own incapability of accepting ethnic jokes/stereotype is hilarious in it's own right. So what if he doesn't think it's funny or it's offensive to him? This wiki doesn't revolve around him or his ethnic group either, it revolves around neckbeards, and to a lesser extent internet subculture.

P.S.: To 194.90.112.148: I suggest you commence your next E-crusade on this particular article.