User talk:AssistantWikifag
http://1d4chan.org/index.php?title=User_talk:174.106.244.48&diff=108032&oldid=107861
This individual is repeatedly linking some blog drama to my IP discussion page, can you tell him to stop? Sidenote: Are you at any authority to even do so? If not I'll just email Wikifang. --174.106.244.48 06:05, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- I was deputized to deal with spam. User:Wikifag is the individual with authority on these matters. --AssistantWikifag 17:33, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
- Gotcha, well good work on the spam and carry on then, I'll get to him if the problem escalates. Thanks! --174.106.244.48 03:43, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Zabaspaz is a tool and a menace, and the sooner you get rid of him, the better. He's been trolling this place for years, griefing and griefing and griefing and griefing. Him directing racial slurs at other users is enough for a banning, above and beyond his incessant trolling. Please, just look at his record here.
- Gotcha, well good work on the spam and carry on then, I'll get to him if the problem escalates. Thanks! --174.106.244.48 03:43, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- I'm not an expert on Dungeons and Dragons and have no interest in how easy or difficult it is to kill a Tarrasque, but I can judge misbehavior. I will likely have a complete investigation and policy recommendation in not less than a week and not more than three weeks. --AssistantWikifag 15:55, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- It's important that you understand that this goes way back, AssistantWikifag. This individual Sanity (also known as Doom and BobtheMighty) has been sort of harassing me on this wiki, following me around and vandalizing every edit I make, for the last two or so years. I'm not really sure what the issue is but it began when we got into an editwar because on the 4E page he made an enormous list of "flaws" for 4E that weren't exactly grounded in fact and when his section repeatedly got blanked, then ultimately removed by Wikifag and the page locked, he blamed it on me and continued the fight on the Tarrasque page. As of the last year or so I've mostly ignored him but I'm getting a little annoyed that his activity is building up again. In the past he's blanked my campaign pages, blanked mine and other people's edits, vandalized 4E related pages, sent people messages on their talk page saying things like "Want to know the truth about Zabasaz? E-mail me," and other such weird nonsense. At this point it's gone from being a vendetta to a discomforting obsession. I sent Wikifag emails about it in the past and he ended up banning the person twice, but he's back now. Be informed that there's more to this than meets the eye, it isn't just an editwar, there's some seriously weird shit going on. I'm reluctant to send him anymore e-mails since I imagine he's tired of putting up with it and the guy himself is more or less harmless (other than flooding Wikifag's talk page with repeated requests to ban me.) That said, it's a hell of lot of information that's all in the past and has been dealt with so its not entirely relevant. It's hard to honestly prove this is the same person as the one who was banned but they behave exactly the same so it shouldn't matter. Anyways, thanks for reading and good luck with your investigation.--174.106.244.48 01:59, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- >implying you were any better in all the aforementioned cases. Fatum 23:34, 27 May 2012 (BST)
- It's funny, I read "tool" as "troll", since that's usually the best word for Zabasaz. Still, "Tool" seems pretty appropriate, since he's incredibly deferential to authority, as least when he thinks you're looking, and has a completely different face otherwise. Go and look at this guy's 'edits'; and be sure to talk to NotBrandX, who's been forced to undo a few of his page-blankings. It's worth noting that Zab has been warned in the past about this behavior which he's been warned about, and note that he has been warned that calling everyone a sock puppet is a bannable offense. The poor guy has so many 'enemies', as well as victims, that he can't keep them all straight, so he just assumes they're all the same person, as near as I can tell. Anyway, investigate away. In the meantime, can you ask Zab to stop his reign of terror with all the goofy deletions and violating additions? --Sanity
To clarify my course of action: I will review the edit logs of the Tarrasque page and related pages (4E, talk pages, user pages, etc.), and contribution logs of related editors. I have not begun yet, and it may take some time (especially if the spam maintains its recently elevated levels), but the result will be a recommendation -- I may suggest that some party or parties be banned, or that some page or pages be protected, or that no action be taken besides the donning of sunglasses and admonishing all parties involved to "deal with it." In any case, neither of you are helping your cases by arguing on my talk page, so cut it out! My recommendation will be posted here when it is finished, and not a day sooner. --AssistantWikifag 06:24, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- I didn't come here to argue, I came here to inform you. Thanks. --174.106.244.48 06:02, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Contents
Spammer
112.205.235.54 is a very sneaky spammer who's been inserting plain links into Angry Marines. Tim 10:16, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Good catch! --AssistantWikifag 15:31, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
Ward troll
If it's not too much trouble could please semi-protect the Matt Ward page? That annoying little troll who was vandalizing my userpage is back, and now he's changing my talk page edits. Banning him won't do anything (he's bouncing off IP addresses so much I doubt he'd even notice) and it's pretty clear he's not interested in talking it out. -- SFH 14:19, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
- Now we have confirmation that Tim doesn't want his page like that and the guy doing it is a troll. Is that enough to delete and make a few blocks? -- SFH 23:34, 16 April 2012 (BST)
- Yes. The IP addresses which vandalized the pages in question have been blocked for two weeks (it seems that at least some are Tor exit nodes, so I'm hesitant to block them permanently), and your and Tim's user pages have been protected for the same amount of time, to be extended if vandalism continues subsequently. I'm sorry that you've had to deal with this. --AssistantWikifag 02:53, 17 April 2012 (BST)
- Got another, 146.185.23.179. These guys also think it's hi-fucking-larious to swap the heresy and awesome templates / links. That guy vandalised the Oldschool template by doing that. Tim 16:25, 18 April 2012 (BST)
- Yes. The IP addresses which vandalized the pages in question have been blocked for two weeks (it seems that at least some are Tor exit nodes, so I'm hesitant to block them permanently), and your and Tim's user pages have been protected for the same amount of time, to be extended if vandalism continues subsequently. I'm sorry that you've had to deal with this. --AssistantWikifag 02:53, 17 April 2012 (BST)
- I blocked the users above because they were vandalizing your userpages and attacking you (Tim and SFH) personally. I am hesitant to block for a lesser offense (Wikifag, if you have input, especially the kind that will help us hammer out some hard guidelines, it would be appreciated), though I have decided to protect the template for the time being. If 146.185.23.179 continues to vandalize, I will consider escalating. --AssistantWikifag 01:10, 19 April 2012 (BST)
- Personally I see fucking with the templates as a more serious problem than dicking about on someone's userpage, since it's actually affecting pages in the main article namespace. My general approach to clear-cut "humorous" vandalism and disruption would be to ban freely but lightly; a few days is enough to let someone know their shenanigans are not appreciated. There's no need to ban for longer unless they keep on doing it. --87.194.31.223 10:35, 19 April 2012 (BST)
- I blocked the users above because they were vandalizing your userpages and attacking you (Tim and SFH) personally. I am hesitant to block for a lesser offense (Wikifag, if you have input, especially the kind that will help us hammer out some hard guidelines, it would be appreciated), though I have decided to protect the template for the time being. If 146.185.23.179 continues to vandalize, I will consider escalating. --AssistantWikifag 01:10, 19 April 2012 (BST)
- Pretty much this. If someone does a spot of vandalism but doesn't go on a massive spree, short-term ban just to ensure they stop and are conveyed the message that they shouldn't do that again. Sometimes it's people trying to be funny and even if they're not very good at it, it doesn't feel necessary to use serious measures. I'd be inclined to agree that vandalism which affects article pages is more signficant than posting crap on someone's userpage, as well, but if someone is persistent and annoying they should get a knock-it-off ban as well. --Wikifag 11:06, 19 April 2012 (BST)
Uploading
Not entirely sure if you're the person to talk to about this but is it possible to upload a .pdf file similar to the one on the Angry Marines page (the 4E one, I'm not going to bother to thread it on /tg/)? I've been working on a revised fan codex for the Angry Marines for a long while here, play tested over and over again, and gave it to a couple of fellow war gamers who've given their approval on my work so far, so I would like to get it on 1d4chan and link it to the bottom of the corresponding article page. I'm also planning on doing a similar thing for the Knights Inductor in the future. -- User:Remoon101 17:02, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
- Wikifag's the sysop, but I can think of a couple of alternate courses of action if uploading PDFs is not an option: you could add a link to a file-sharing website (Mediafire is quite good), or upload screenshots of each page (maybe just the crunch-pages -- the actual Army List, wargear, special rules, and such).
Board Games
Wouldn't it make sense to semi-protect that page so bots at least have to create accounts to spam it? Tim 18:52, 7 May 2012 (BST)
- I generally lean against protecting pages (since it prevents contributions from our many anonymous editors), but seeing as how the Board Games page is basically static (undoing spam aside), it does make sense to protect it. Anonymous editors can propose changes on the article's talk page. --AssistantWikifag 06:38, 8 May 2012 (BST)
lotsa edits
in b4 you went and reverted my large amounts of relatively small edits... -Windows2000pro 19:28, 27 May 2012 (BST)
- Fear not, your edits are secure -- your username just gave me a scare the first time I saw it. --AssistantWikifag 04:04, 28 May 2012 (BST)
the 1d4chan IRC is pretty dead usually isn't it... -Windows2000pro 07:00, 28 May 2012 (BST)
- I've never used it before (well, I popped in for a second just now, and it looked pretty dead). --AssistantWikifag 17:06, 28 May 2012 (BST)
SG/tg/
Hey - thanks for putting that page where it needed to be, I have one more request - would you be so kind as to place it in the catagory: homebrew linkpage itself? it's the one issue I am still stuck on - after that I am set to go. Many thanks good sire. ----
- You can add any page to a category by adding a special wikilink to the bottom (or anywhere, really, but by convention, we put them at the bottom): [[Category:Foo]] (to put it in the "Foo" category) --AssistantWikifag 11:13, 27 June 2012 (BST)
- Thanks dude, I am being somewhat tarded at this - getting there however ----
Talk:Main Page
I don't really know what happened there but long story short derps were herped. --Petro 05:50, 7 July 2012 (BST)
CSS and Javascript
I have no indication that this is your wheelhouse, but I'd like to get the ball rolling on this and emailing wikifag has not been productive so far. So. This is an ease of use and organization thing.
I was wondering if you guys would consider adding some provided text to a couple of pages on 1d4chan to allow a user to make text hideable or collapsible. I'd like to use these features to better organize campaign, setting, and project pages for things like the Chapter Master game page and so forth, as I'm one of the Chapter Master guys and the sheer amount of dev information we want to track in the fucking thing won't ever be easy on the eyes otherwise. Also there's a few other pages I'd like to make/help manage here and a huge table or list more for reference than anything else is probably best if hideable, as is a block of information that's rarely useful if everything in the at-a-glance section is enough for, say, functional understanding of a rule or mechanic or something. I'd like to be able to hide everything that isn't the bullet points in a few places, basically.
Normally we'd just put this sort of thing on our own free wiki and do it ourselves, but seeing as it'd be quite useful to keep said information on 1d4chan as this place has become a fixture for /tg/ and projects like ours can look more appropriate by maintaining a page here, I thought I'd ask.
The relevant pages are here:
both indicate that the relevant code resides in:
if that makes anything easier. This is a copy/paste job and is completely reversible with little work, if that makes things less hairy. And if the answer's no, rest assured there will be no bitching - we have other options.
Ash Mantle 09:36, 7 July 2012 (BST)
- I don't think I can make those changes. There aren't many wiki-related rights that I don't have, but I don't have access to the server itself. It seems that Wikifag's made the relevant changes, anyway -- check out his user page. --AssistantWikifag 13:59, 7 July 2012 (BST)
Troll notice
Just so you know, there's a guy trolling with multiple accounts here, here, and here. -- SFH 04:23, 6 August 2012 (BST)
- I've had run-ins with this guy too. I can't tell if he's a really subtle troll or just a well intentioned but highly excitable editor. --Petro 04:54, 6 August 2012 (BST)
- I take offense to that! --31.172.30.4 15:54, 6 August 2012 (BST)