User talk:Root

Campaigns listing

So, I have one of those weird ideas of mine again. See, we already provide space for campaign info pages, and charsheets and shitte, right?

Now, why don't we tell /tg/ to publish info about the campaigns they run on a specially designed page on 1d4chan, as well? I could make a template for campaign info and everything. The only problem I don't know how to work around is tracking which campaigns are active. We could ask the GMs to mark the last time they had a session, and once a campaign is not running for a month, move it to frozen; once it's frozen for two months, move it to dead. But is there a way to make those moves automatic? Fatum 00:24, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

PageCSS

Any chance you could install PageCSS, or something like that? Page-specific CSS would make some of my new attempts at automagical sections for character sheets much easier to set up. Leviathan 02:28, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Witchcraft, sorcery and character sheet creation! Fatum 03:06, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll look into it. --Wikifag 08:29, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

So hey, is this every happenings. :< Leviathan 08:52, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Image uploads not workin' for me.--Seventhseal 07:13, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

The permissions weren't set up properly for the webserver to write to the directories it needed to, image uploads should work fine now. --Wikifag 04:33, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

>inserting false information

Haha, what, you don't find Louisville, Kentucky, to be a trendy place? Fatum 22:59, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

I run an alternate wiki that's in part taken over being the repository for the nine million often-abandoned Exalted campaign pages and character sheets, so I decided to move the Overgame to there. Someone is apparently dedicated to not letting this happen. If you could lock the page or something so people know where to go now, I'd appreciate it. (ty ty~) Ashel 01:33, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

4e Edit War Resolution

So, there's been a pretty gnarly edit war going on between me and someone else over the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition page for several weeks now. It started when I added counter-criticisms to the criticisms section, and was instructed to instead make a "Benefits" section. I did, but ever since it's been under attack. Admittedly I've been in a very ruthless war with this guy, just for the last couple of hours I've been going back and forth with him. I decided to consult the main page for advice and was told to come here. This edit war won't resolve itself, the guy I'm up against is just pissed, and I'm definitely exceedingly stubborn myself. Think you could have a look and say something? Thanks in advance. I'll open up a discussion about it on the 4e talk page, so you can get a general idea of who stands where on it. --Zabasaz 05:45, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

p.s buttes

Thank you for the lock; in fairness, the benefits section really should go back up. --Doom

Thanks for stepping in. I don't recommend either section, they'll just cause a shitstorm. They can make pages for criticisms/benefits and link them over, but the page is about the edition, not about what Doom and I think of it. --Zabasaz 21:09, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

• Well, I suppose that works. Mind restoring the Kalashtar, Changelings, and so on to the playable race list? The addition got lost in the edit warring [1] --74.85.80.191 21:13, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Indeed, it's not what I and most other thing, or what Zabasaz thinks either. Although, curiously, the shitstorm only happens for Zabasaz and this mysterious sockpuppet. --Doom

I've got no interest in adjudicating your argument and all the section is doing is causing constant edit-warring. Nobody wants constant edit-warring, and the section made the page damn ugly besides; the section never needed to be that long. Since we don't seem to be able to come a consensus on the specifics, for now that page is going to be one of generalities. Everyone involved should simply drop the issue for now; if the next time I check Recent Edits it's full of constant back and forth and reversion over some new page or pages, I'm going to start temporarily banning users.

That's all for now. Try to keep things civil, and if you two really must continue to have a go at each other, take it somewhere else. --Wikifag 21:32, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I saw no reason to run to Mamma over something like this, you need not 'adjudicate' between me and Z and his sockpuppets. If the place can't handle it, the place can't handle it, no argument from me. Thanks for your time.--Doom

Spammers galore

Getting some sort of spam/vandalism from 76.170.16.140, you need to ban that IP. It's made a few comments that are markedly familiar in tone, but I wouldn't presume to jump to conclusions. --Sanity

Do something already, bro. Also, template:promotions is broken now thanks to css not working. Also, mail user function is not working. Fatum 13:06, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

For fighting the spambots, you have my axe. ...er, 'undo' button. I'll always put the words 'spam', 'SPAM' or 'FUCKING SPAM' in my edit comments. I fear the bots will outpace the volunteer fire-fighters before Christmas. (Anyone know why the bots love Talk:Furry so much?) --NotBrandX 22:03, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

This is a consequence of the ReCaptcha extension being disabled; it had stopped working so I had to turn it off. I shall attempt to make it work properly again as soon as possible. --Wikifag 09:06, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Test test test. --Wikifag 13:53, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Okay, ReCaptcha works again (I'm still not sure why it failed in the first place, but oh well). I have noticed the AddScript extension seems to have stopped working and shall look into it. I shall also investigate the e-mailing thing. --Wikifag 13:56, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

e-mail still doesn't work. Fatum 00:28, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

"This is the weirdest spam I've ever seen..." In case you were wondering, it's software doing a spam probe. The robots (usually pwned workstations turned into zombies) are given a URL and told to make an "innocent" edit, to check if it's possible to make changes to the wiki. If the probe is successful, it notifies the other zombies in the horde that this URL is a valid target for spam attempts. The reason why you keep seeing it over and over again is because there are different zombie hordes that don't talk to each other, but the zombie horde owners all bought the same URL list. --NotBrandX 14:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

I don't suppose it would be possible to disable posting by new accounts for like half an hour after their creation? I hardly understand the nature of the spam, but it seems as though the process is for the bots to create an account then post within the next fifteen minutes. Might this screw up the procedure or help in any way? Or ReCaptcha? Thanks. --FatherDuke 04:11, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Back in the summer of 2012, we had a big wave of spammers for several weeks. Their procedure was to create an account, wait for about two days, and then start spamming. I basically had to come in every day and clear out the new spam registrations (often a dozen or more -- so don't complain too hard about the spam levels, because it has been worse before), because I knew that if I let them stick around for too long, they would make pages. Wikifag implemented a DNS blocklist that stopped them from editing, but we still get spambots that wait a while before spamming, or who make multiple pages spaced a few hours apart. We also get spam from IP addresses who do not bother to register before making spam pages, or inserting spam into existing pages.

In summary, your suggested strategy would inconvenience legitimate users (because most people who register accounts with us want to use them immediately) while spammers would still spam anyway. Not a bad attempt (MediaWiki does provide functionality to restrict privileges to users with a certain number of edits under their belt -- ten edits or four days is the default, I think), but not likely to be implemented. --AssistantWikifag 21:37, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Touhou Power Cards

Say, what happened to the Touhou Power Cards page? Could it be that it didnt survive the server moving? I liked the cards and wanted to update them soon, as i'm actually playing 4E. Zarathustra01 08:50, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Oh wow. I'm not sure what's happened to the page - the article might have gotten corrupted or something - but fortunately for you all the images should still be alright, you'll just have to search through the lists for them manually for now. --Wikifag 10:58, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

4E Edit War - REDUX

Yep, the same people going at it on the 4E page are now, again, going at it on the Tarrasque page.

Entailing the section on how to kill a Tarrasque with a fighter, someone made another section with a wizard in order to criticize the balance issues between the classes in a humorous way. His tactic involved using a shade to bypass the tarrasque's abysmal touch defenses to damage its mental stats and then suffocate it while its unconscious so it can't regenerate.

The 4E-attacker from the 4E page has assumed a couple of new IPs (all the while accusing any other editor of being a sockpuppet of User:Zabasaz) and, as revenge for the ATROCITY of insulting the 3.5e tarrasque, began vandalizing the before-mentioned section and added a new, long-winded section about how to kill a Tarrasque in 4E. Other people (SOCKPUPPETS HERRDURR) criticized the section and so it became a sort of pile-up, but that's not really the issue.

The issue is, someone who I SUSPECT is just a registered version of the 4E vandal blanked the Wizard-killing-Tarrasque section entirely, claiming it was "plagiarized." He failed to provide links but I checked google and found out there is indeed a page where someone explains how to use an allip to kill a Tarrasque. What he fails to mention is that not only are there notable differences in the tactic, but its not copy and pasted at all - the wording is entirely different and there's no way to tell it isn't just a coincidence. And if it was used as a reference, it isn't plagiarism anyways, two players are entitled to use the same tactics in an RPG, there is no ownership. If you actually care to settle a plagiarism issue, though I don't think its worth anyone's time much less yours, here are the links:

[2] - Page from which I think he says it was plagiarized. Tarrasque "How to Defeat a Tarrasque in 3 Easy Levels" is the "plagiarized content."

That said, I issued a warning that I would e-mail the admin if he continues to blank the pages or add unorthodox commentary into the sections he doesn't like, so I doubt this problem will persist, but if he is who I think he is, he is legendary for moronic persistence.

That said, thanks for your time and I love you.

TL;DR version: 4E edit war is now taking place on the Tarrasque page, but this time it's not as bad and you should probably keep your eye open or lock the page.

--76.94.191.184 00:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Please note that the previous post is from one of Zabasaz's sockpuppets (he just edited his own user page from the IP given), as the logs show.

Note also, Zabasaz has written the previous post as though he were not sockpuppeting, even as he denies his plagiarism, taking pride in it, no less.

Note also, the "long winded section is written primarily by NotBrandX, as the logs show.

In short, this person is blatantly trying to play you for a fool. Sanity

Everyone knows this is my laptop IP. I see you blanked the section again.--76.94.191.184 07:35, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

So, basically, Zab not only passes off other's work as his own, he tries to pass of his work as others. You not mad, bro, you crazy! -- Doom

Wikifag, you should probably also have a look at this. --Zabasaz 00:21, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Hey Wikifag, sorry to bother you, but the guy you banned for 30 days is back, and flipping the fuck out over that Tarrasque page again. Have a look at these links and you'll get the general gist of the situation.

http://1d4chan.org/index.php?title=Tarrasque&diff=67659&oldid=67639 - His revisions
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/User_talk:BobtheMighty - His talk page, in which NotBrandX tries to reach out to him, and Doom proceeds to go apeshit, himself.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Talk:Tarrasque - Where NotBrandX brought the issue up in the talk page.

Doom seems to have made some blanket e-mail so that he can privately exchange insults about me, and plan on how to bring me down or something. I'm not particularly bothered nor intimidated so it's not an issue, but I thought it might help you make sense of some of his posts. I'm going to send you an e-mail to alert you to the situation, since I don't know how consistently you check back here. --Zabasaz

I had no idea the crap I was stepping into when I decided to have some fun with what I (and others) thought was just another 4chan joke; I've enjoyed much of the humor of the site, didn't know I needed permission to contribute. Now that I know the truth about Zabasaz (or whoever the hell he is), I want nothing to do with that fucker. I see he's sending you e-mails, probably the better to hide his lies; you might want to read NotBrandX's discussion page (among too many other sites to list here) to get a better idea of what you're dealing with, in case you don't already know. Anyway, I know it sucks to be a moderator, but it sure looks like you're banning the wrong guy, IMO, at least consider banning the one that keeps bugging you, is all I'm saying. --BobtheMighty

Hey, 76.94.191.184 is at it, again. This makes, what 100% of the time this guy has been a source of drama, relative to his posts? --BobtheMighty

Hey, 76.94.191.184 is at it, again. Just how thin did you say that ice was? --BobtheMighty

Zabasaz is at it, again. I really don't think you realize what a menace this guy is. A year ago, you said he was on thin ice...how many transgressions has it been since you said that? How many more does he get? I really think you need to read up on this guy: http://daeity.blogspot.com/2011/01/zabasaz-troll.html --Sanity

Zabasaz is still at it, again. I really don't think you realize what a menace this guy is, so I figure an extra reminder. A year ago, you said he was on thin ice...how many transgressions has it been since you said that? How many more does he get? I really think you need to read up on this guy: http://daeity.blogspot.com/2011/01/zabasaz-troll.html --Sanity

This tool is still at it. Get rid of him already. Check his user log and see with your own eyes what he has been doing.

OCDfag here

Three trivial corrections to the D&D 4e page, in order: "time consuming" -> "time-consuming", "huck" -> "chuck", and "weaboo" -> "weeaboo". If someone who has admin access and a few spare seconds could change these, I'd appreciate it.

Edit conflict

Mr. Spooky and I are looking to be engaging in an edit war on /tg, and I'm asking for your help in preempting it. His edits are basically that /tg/ is useless and abandoned, which is obviously wrong. I settled for a compromise and rewrote the paragraphs we were arguing about, and he reverted it, with the comment "Let the trolling...BEGIN!". Obviously the two of us aren't going to resolve this, since he rejected my compromise. Can you step in? Someone else. 17:22, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Heresy

Please nor revert deleting of a heresy. This denigrates the honor of Ultramarine Chapter. And the honor of 40k. --Matt.

WTF

What the fuck in Special:RecentChanges? 31.22.0.13 21:02, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Jesus christ are we still doing this? Is it possible to just SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING. for a few days? At least editing? --Petro 15:09, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

I did that overnight since I obviously wouldn't be able to fix anything while I'm asleep. While I can simply prevent editing I'd really rather not unless I absolutely have to. Some people will want to make legitimate edits, after all. --Wikifag 15:13, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Maybe just new account creation then. Sucks for new people but its better than a mass block. --Petro 15:15, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

I'd also have to disable anonymous editing (which is also something I really don't want to do) for that to have much effect. Boy this sure is mildly annoying. --Wikifag 15:24, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

I think our friend the vandal made a critical error by not making a new account for a few edits. Try banning this IP: 93.104.214.226 --Not LongPoster Again 18:29, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Link help

hey, can anyone do me a favor and link a page properly for me? the original was deleted in the purge/vandalism. i happened to have it open and was able to copy paste what i believe is all of it. here is the link, you should be able to figure out where it goes. http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Aeric_Dalia/Vol_2_Chapter_5

Done. Here's how to make a wiki link: [[Aeric_Dalia/Vol_2_Chapter_5|Chapter 5]] --NotBrandX 15:40, 20 September 2011 (BST)

thanks, didn't want a good writefags work go to waste.

i have now created a new account and would love for someone to give me some pointers so i can actually get some shit done also, why won't my signature show up? user page is havoc. someone please taech me how to use the site properly. thanks!

Wikifag, please add [[Help:Editing|How to write wikitext]] to the front page in the quick links section for Contributors. --NotBrandX 03:09, 21 September 2011 (BST)

Just an idea, but a page for new userers so that they can figure out thier user pages might also be a good idea. --Havoc

Hi Wikifag, I just wanted to say thanks for keeping this place going. It's pretty great. Since I'm here, is there anyway you can jiggle the site so it understands lower-case page names and redirects them? The way it is now, if you don't capitalize all the proper letters it can't find the page. Thanks for being awesome! --Oinoloth 05:11, 6 June 2012 (BST)

Galleries Seem To Be Not Working

Hey. I've been getting some weird output on the pages with galleries. While the galleries are normally supposed to look like a grid of thumbnails, as of lately, they've been looking like a tall column of thumbnails.

I've took a screenshot of what I've been seeing lately:

http://my.jetscreenshot.com/2306/20110917-ezqp-61kb

Is this related to the vandalism spree that's been taking place lately? Also, what can be done to rectify things?

Please let me know.

MercWithMouth 06:02, 19 September 2011 (BST)

He said on the main page talk before that got lost due to rollback that it's probably due to updating mediawiki and keeping the skins from the old installation, and that he'd fix it soon. Probably. --87.194.31.223 13:52, 19 September 2011 (BST)

• Still no change... The galleries are still totally messed up. Has The Emperor wikifag abandoned us? MercWithMouth 03:12, 24 September 2011 (BST)

• Galleries are back! THE EMPEROR BE PRAISED!!! MercWithMouth 02:25, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Partnership with Sturmkrieg

Hello, one of my friends sent me a link to one of your articles recently. I've read several articles here and it seems really good. I started a 40k wiki for user created stuff, including, fanfiction, custom rules, and player written codexes. I'm looking for like minded websites to partner with, mostly to at least share links on the main page or something like that. Since your website has a large 40k focus, I thought you might be interested. I like a lot of the 40k humor and was wondering if I could fit it into Sturmkrieg, but now I don't need to since I've already found this website that specializes in that. You can see where I've provided links for supporting websites here. I also plan to rotate links for all the supporters on that main banner there.

Sascha Krieger, Imperator des Sturmkrieg Sektor (Kaisar) 21:06, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Special Thanks

Wikifag, you do a shitload around here. I just want you to know how much we fucking appreciate it. -- Jaimas 00:14, 06 November 2011 (EST)

It cannot be denied. Wikifag is a bro. --64.202.243.128 06:42, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

(ny) --87.194.31.223 13:48, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

[[Image:brofist.jpg|how I feel about Wikifag]] -NotBrandX 22:19, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

hi

you're a pretty cool dude, I like you.--190.50.203.82 07:52, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

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)

I don't see why you wouldn't want to put up a thread on /tg/ for it, but I have no qualms about hosting such a file. E-mail it to me or link me to wherever it is you've stashed it and I'll upload a local copy. --Wikifag 18:06, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Why is there so much spamming?

I think... a lot of us have noticed that there's a tremendous of spam showing up on the site lately. Do you know why or how? Or even by whom? Some sort of public comment might be cool because I'm sure a lot of us are curious at this point. --MercWithMouth 04:54, 6 May 2012 (BST)

(responded to User_Talk:MercWithMouth --NotBrandX )

Speaking of which, it may be time to consider throwing up some protection / lock for Monopoly/OccupyBoardwalk
FourierSeries 12:00, 13 September 2012 (BST)

Done, and what's really sad is that this is not the first time we've protected that page. Since it seems to get spammed every few days when it's not protected, and the rules aren't changing any, I've put a longer protection period on it. --AssistantWikifag 18:42, 14 September 2012 (BST)

Another spambot has been targeting Talk:Furry and Talk:Dwarf Fortress, by the "name" of 199.15.234.60 (this one is rather persistent) --Not LongPoster Again 17:54, 8 October 2012 (BST)

Did you miss someone? This user's on a spam rampage: "019shabnormassamronbash193"
--FourierSeries 01:44, 11 October 2012 (BST)

More spammers: 67.212.179.218, 91.237.249.140, and 108.178.53.26. --Not LongPoster Again 16:45, 22 October 2012 (BST)

It's mad. I've been undoing/deleting spam every time I've been on this site today. Is there nothing we can do other than locking pages? Moonsaves 16:49, 22 October 2012 (BST)

Sadly not much other than the nuclear option of prescreening registrations. Spambots are a huge problem for wikis. --Petro 23:26, 22 October 2012 (BST)

Talk:Angry Marines and Talk:Lawful Stupid seem to be spambot magnets (attracting the likes of 61.55.141.10, 110.77.143.155, 58.22.151.6, and 65.60.2.186). 184.22.164.54 also monkeyed around on Talk:End Times, but that page doesn't seem to be attracting other spammers so much. --Not LongPoster Again 18:47, 26 October 2012 (BST)

More spambots for the spambot throne: 198.20.65.202, 142.4.117.114, 218.25.249.186, 27.158.147.84, and 67.212.184.122 (basically anyone whose edit summaries include the words "jersey" or "gawaychoccata"). 91.237.249.249 keeps putting up "test, just a test" sections, which aren't spam but are definitely suspicious. Talk:Angry Marines, Talk:HS40K, and Talk:Love Can Bloom seem to be the main targets. A temporary protection might dissuade them. --Not LongPoster Again 17:34, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Spambots a go-go - 142.4.117.169
--FourierSeries 12:57, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Nominating Board-tans/a for anonymous edit protection, spam edit drive by rate's a bit high. Also, if there's a better way to go about this, email etc., let me know. I understand that both you and AWF monitor this page. --FourierSeries 23:46, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Edit War: Death Korps

Sorry to bother you, but we got an edit war on the Death Korps of Krieg page. There's another anon who keeps putting in the Zapp pic, while I keep deleting it.

Why was I blocked?

And why was my account deleted? My contributions were worthwhile, so what is the justification? There seems to be a certain lack of due process... Signed: Formerly Urhixidur

As you can see from the logs Wikifag blocked you for being a spambot. If you would like to appeal this action please submit notarized Turing test results along with a 2000 word essay about this thing called love. --Petro 04:16, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Misidentification. See your talk page for clarification. Sorry about the inconvenience. --Wikifag 15:11, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Need some more help?

I've had a bit of experience with wikis in the past and have served as an administrator before in several of them. If you need someone else to keep the spam levels low, just tell me and I'll do what I can. I'm online most of the time, so it should bring it down to a manageable level.--Newerfag 22:26, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Possible Trouble Brewing

Heya, Wikifag, Jaimas here. The reason for my writing you here is that we appear to be having a burgeoning potential SkubWar going on in the talk page of the DoWpro article. Some unregistered dude has been complaining about the article itself, calling it blatant advertisement, so in the interest of equal time, I made a page dedicated to Some of the best mods for Dawn of War, and re-wrote the DoWpro article to seem less like passive-aggressive THIS IS AWESOME wankery, getting down some of the history of the mod, and its pros and cons. This did nothing to stem the tide of the recent non-regged posters and appears to have angered them even more. Considering that posters in question have literally no contributions to the Wiki outside of complaints on the talk page, I thought it a good idea to let you know and keep you abreast of things as they happen. --Jaimas 14:18, 12 January 2013 (EST)

Favicon

The favicon is tough to test due to long-term caching, but at this point I've believe the situation is that it's working fine on the mainpage, and nowhere else. The reason it's often visible on other pages is because it's retained by your browser as you travel from the mainpage to other pages which don't send favicon data, but this doesn't apply when linked directly to a page from an external site (such as /tg/) nor if you have a page open for a long time and then refresh it. Cruxador (talk) 00:24, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Unbanning request

Hello, I was registerred under the name EspejoHumeante, and was a regular contributor for some time before that. I was banned on March 10 for being a spam account. If this was an error, please unban me, and if not, I would like to know what it was that I did wrong. Thank you for your time, sorry for the inconvenience. -EspejoHumeante.

False positive. I was blocking a lot of spammy accounts at the time and at first glance your account name fits one of the general patterns used by spam accounts. I can see from the logs that you've made legitimate contributions before; the account and IP should be unblocked now. Sorry about that. --Wikifag (talk) 04:30, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Editing Conflict

I'm having a problem with Ahriman's Aide: he's editing the story I posted over at [Bound Fate] with inflammatory personal rhetoric. It's a repeated issue, and I'm not the first person it's happened to; I'll warn you he has access to a college campus with a few different IP addresses. Could you head this off before it becomes a real problem? --ILikeCommas 15:54, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

UPDATE: He's started reverting under an IP address rather than his name, and continues to do so periodically. UPDATE: It's been resolved.