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page name correction

Hey Dmuth, RVDDP2501 here, listen I made a mistake of mislabeling a page I made, how do i fix it? - http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Hyesta - RVDDP2501 00:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

You tell us, and we move it. --GreenReaper^(talk) 00:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Just to add to GreenReaper's comment, pages can be "moved", but only administrators have that privilege due to past abuses. --Douglas Muth 00:23, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

ah, I see, I understand, alright, thanks - RVDDP2501 00:24, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

rv harassment

Hi Giza,

Thanks for reverting User:Higgs Raccoon. I'd have done it myself, but I've been sitting here scratching my head wondering who Sveemon is and why he would think I was trolling. <shrugs> Oh well... --Higgs Raccoon 14:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I haven't a clue what his malfunction is either. --Douglas Muth 16:34, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hey Dmuth, it looks like wikifur is getting vandalized, is there anything I can do? - RVDDP2501 14:59, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!!! - RVDDP2501 21:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Reverting vandalism

Hi, I was wondering what the best method to help out with reverting vandalism is. I found this for Firefox and Greasemonkey, which should help, but I notice you are able to roll back quite a lot of articles very quickly. Is that due to your admin status or is there something that could streamline the process for a regular user like me? Simba B 22:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, us admins have a few extra "powers", such as being able to roll back edits through the wiki. :-) Thanks for the script though, I'll pass that around. --Douglas Muth 22:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually that script doesn't quite work as advertised. Here's a fixed (and tested) version that includes *.wikia.com addresses. Simba B 22:57, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

polishing up contributions

Been referring to the help page on wikifur for some of my basic editing, yet can't quite get that higher standard. Is there a step by step tutorial that would piece it together? No biggie, just want to make my stuff easy to read.

- cowboys of moo mesa - macskafogo - dogthanian

Help:Furry Book of Style is one starting point, assuming you haven't been there already. Other than that, a good way to get the "feel" for pages would be to click the edit tab on some existing ones and see how things are done. If you watch Special:Recentchanges, you can also click the link labeled "diff" next to some of the cleanups that are done to see what exactly was changed, which may be helpful. --Douglas Muth 20:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Any subjects not covered yet?

Giza, do you know of anything not covered in wikifur yet, or a choir list of subjects that need work? Point me in the right direction please. Happy Halloween. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Broken conspiracy (talk • contribs) .

Actually, if you check out Special:Wantedpages, that will give you a list of articles which have links to them, but haven't been created yet. That's a great starting point of things that need writing.

Also, there are plenty of articles that need some form of cleanup or copyediting done on them. Feel free to browse around Category:Cleanup and fix up articles that need help. --Douglas Muth 00:09, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

65.93.15.75

What to do about this person's edits to Convention? Simba B 18:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure yet. I'm kinda hoping that they say something more substantial than, "you people are stealing bandwidth". Personally, I'm all for trying to find some sort of comprimise. --Douglas Muth 18:52, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Duplicated Image

Curse my Mediawiki skills ;-P...I created a duplicate image here. If you could use your deity admin powers to fix my boo-boo, It'd be greatly appreciated. Simba B 00:23, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Sure. Done! --Douglas Muth 00:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Archive problem

Hey Dmuth, I just created an archive page in my Usertalks page for October but something is wrong, everytime I click on it it wants to be editied instead of viewed, I can't figure out what I'm ding wrong? - RVDDP2501 16:04, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

I was hoping someone would come and clean up Jirris's page :) I tried but I had no idea what i was doing.

lol Thanks :)!! K —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Damaged Girl (talk • contribs) .

No problem. I'm happy to help. --Douglas Muth 03:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

numbers vandalism

You just blocked a user for that...what's the point of it?? e.g. why would you put random number in an article like that? it seems a strange thing to do (not that vandalizing a wiki isn't)...I actually saw that edit and figured it was some wiki markup I didn't know about. Simba B 18:30, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Because it's an ongoing problem that has been reported over on wikia-l over the last few months, affecting all wikis. While that IP only vandalized one page, there have been cases where one IP vandalized dozens of pages, so I wanted to err on the side of caution. (Since the vandalize type was part of a larger vandalism problem, we can assume that the individual was NOT acting in good faith.

You can read more about the problem at Wikia:Forum:String_of_numbers_type_vandalism. --Douglas Muth 19:25, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

**reads the linked page** Hmmm...some kind of bot looks like. Interesting. Never heard of this before. Simba B 20:27, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:DSC02082.JPG

Hello Dmuth,

This is in regards to Image:DSC02082.JPG. It has not been tagged with a copyright status. This can be a complicated area, so I can try to help if you need any. The Wikipedia Image use policy may give some background, but it isn't policy here.

To deal with this image, there are a few choices:

• If you are the copyright holder, release it under a free license, for example:
  • Public domain {{PDImage}}
  • Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike {{Cc-by-sa-2.5}}
  • GFDL {{GFDL}}
• If you are asserting that this image is usable under fair use, add an appropriate fair use tag. A very basic summary is that fair use is used for commentary, criticism and review on the image when no free image could be used instead. Some fair use tags are:
  • Logos: {{logo}}
  • Covers: {{Cover}}
  • Comic panels: {{Comic-panel}}
• If the image is already under a free license, provide information on the license, and tag the image if you can.
• If you would like the image to be deleted, ask any administrator

To see a list of current copyright tags available on WikiFur, see Category:Image copyright tags If the copyright status is not resolved, the image may be deleted.

Unless you have a question for me specifically, I'd prefer responses on the page for the image. --Rat 04:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Done! --Douglas Muth 18:01, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Magic Tom.jpg

Hello Dmuth,

This is in regards to Image:Magic Tom.jpg. It has not been tagged with a copyright status. This can be a complicated area, so I can try to help if you need any. The Wikipedia Image use policy may give some background, but it isn't policy here.

To deal with this image, there are a few choices:

• If you are the copyright holder, release it under a free license, for example:
  • Public domain {{PDImage}}
  • Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike {{Cc-by-sa-2.5}}
  • GFDL {{GFDL}}
• If you are asserting that this image is usable under fair use, add an appropriate fair use tag. A very basic summary is that fair use is used for commentary, criticism and review on the image when no free image could be used instead. Some fair use tags are:
  • Logos: {{logo}}
  • Covers: {{Cover}}
  • Comic panels: {{Comic-panel}}
• If the image is already under a free license, provide information on the license, and tag the image if you can.
• If you would like the image to be deleted, ask any administrator

To see a list of current copyright tags available on WikiFur, see Category:Image copyright tags If the copyright status is not resolved, the image may be deleted.

Unless you have a question for me specifically, I'd prefer responses on the page for the image. --Rat 06:54, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Fixed.

And um, it's not necessary to send me the same form letter twice in a row... A simple, "can you set copyright status on this image?" would suffice. :-) --Douglas Muth 14:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Ok. Not intended to bother you. Just easier to use the form letter than come up with a custom message each time.

Also, the GFDL requires giving attribution to the creator. If you are the creator(which I gather is the case here), then you should specify that so others can give you the attribution. --Rat 15:29, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Noted and done. --Douglas Muth 17:37, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

userpage vandalism

Thanks for the assist there! Simba B 17:38, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem. This seems to be a certain vandal who has caused us problems before. Looks like another complaint to his ISP might be in order. --Douglas Muth 17:40, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the help on swifthorn. I am defiantly new to the whole wiki thing. What else do I need to do?