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Another Response ;)

Heya GreenReaper. Thank you for you warm welcome here on thsi Wiki. Its my first, so i guess there will be a few questions once I worked myself through the Style-Code provided here.

Welcome Response September 12, 2006

Thank you, GreenReaper. I kinda stumbled across this site yesterday and decided to 1. Create an account and 2. Make my page. I was quite flattered to find my name listed in the DJ section of Rainbow Tiger's page, so I got my hooves wet and started a personal page. I'll try to keep it rated PG, but we'll have to see what happens. I'll have a placeholder up for a while with many ... many edits while I figure out the syntax.

Heuvadoches Naumova

Welcome response

You're welcome! I'll be sure to let you know if I need any help. =^.^= -Alfador

Thanks, GR. -- VederJuda 10:54, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

PAINWOLF

Name painwolf I need to talk to about my page.

Contact Info: Yahoo and AIM: NL4PAINWOLF MSN: PAINWOLF@hotmail.com

E-mails: PAINWOLF@gmail.com

Replied --GreenReaper^(talk) 02:58, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Norn

Ok, so i guess the question is, why is there a norn running around on the furry edit link ... it seems to hide if I try to interact directly. Do you have more info? -- Amar Shadowpaws 14:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I think his name is Hebe. He followed me over from the Creatures Wiki. I've not had the time to catch him and release him back into the wild yet. Besides, he likes to help out - he's done a good job at finishing off the stubs people leave around. --GreenReaper^(talk) 18:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for coming to lunch

Here are my notes from our lunch. We will start working hard to get more information out on where the features and bug fixes are going. I really appreciated your support and encouragement, not too mention chatting with you at dinner Thursday.
Gil| talk

Response to Welcome

Just wanna say thanks for the greeting, I'll be sure to ask if I need help with anything ;)

Thanks for greeting me. I had to make my own page look a little spiffier ya know? :D

Thanks for cleaning up after me

I've been multitasking, so I'm a little scatterbrained at the moment. =^_^!= --Frizzy 05:37, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

And me as well, thanks. Couldn't figure out why I couldn't get those wikipedia links working internally, o,O --Anima 18:24, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Picture on commons

Your lecture was very interesting. I have one more picture of you. See:

• http://www.poli.toya.net.pl/Wikimania_2006_galeria/pages/100-0070_IMG.html

Fill free to copy it if you want.

Polimerek.

Thanks again! I'll do that. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 20:39, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

infoboxes ?

I copied Wikipedia:Template:Infobox Webcomic to Template:Infobox webcomic because I thought having webcomic infoboxes (such as the one at Wikipedia:Aozora) would be nice. The template partially works (example at User:EarthFurst). I'm guessing the rest of that template doesn't work because WikiFur doesn't have Template:If ? WP has Wikipedia:Template:If. --EarthFurst 05:22, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

According to Splarka, it's due to a problem with tables and parserfunctions on Wikia. He going to try fixing it . . . --GreenReaper^(talk) 05:34, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, the infobox was working beautifully at TwoKinds, but doesn't seem to be working now. I've posted question to wikia's Help desk on the matter http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Wikia_hiccup_%3F&t=20060817035856 . I'm reverting TwoKinds until the error is resolved. I'll be re-checking User:EarthFurst to see when the infox starts working again. --EarthFurst 05:03, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Did you know?

Rod O'Riley's band Illegal Operation will be performing live as part of the furry programming track at this month's Worldcon in the Los Angeles area. Do you think it would be a reasonable use of the Did you know? box to add an entry for this to help draw attention to it? Thanks! --Frizzy 16:39, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Don't see why not. That whole section could do with a full update. --GreenReaper^(talk) 16:56, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I just got some bad news that the concert event had to be cancelled due to issues out of their control, so I revised the entry. --Frizzy 05:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Featured article

It's fun to see that my bio is a Featured article now. That means both of my pages have gotten onto the front page. Fox Cutter 21:45, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

I know! This wasn't actually intentional - I only noticed after I featured it. It seemed to be a good pick, so it went up. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 21:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi there!

Thanks very much pal, if I need any help I know who to turn to now. ^^

- Eric B.

P.S. I'm sorry for posting this as an article, I really don't know how to respond to the comment you gave me. Well, maybe I need your help already. ^^;

RVDDP2501

Hey GreenReaper, Its been a while since I had last heard from you, hows things? Listen, I just wanted to say thanks for the reversion of the damaged done to one of my character pages, man, when will this stupidness stop, hope to hear from you - RVDDP2501 23:15, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi there. Things are good! The vandalism will continue, undoubtedly, to a greater or lesser extent, but we seem to be coping with it well enough. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 23:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi GreenReaper, the upgrade was a pleasant surprise after that last bit of unpleasant business. Thanks! --Frizzy 04:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

sorry for the previous post :

Sorry for the post, I just wanted to report a raid that was headed your way. If i suspect a raid in the future where do you think i should report this too?

I had to check the article history to find the post you were referring to. At a guess, it was probably mistaken for link spam, which we get here fairly often. We do appreciate the efforts of people to notify us of attacks in the offing. For future reference, it would be helpful to include a couple of sentences saying what is to be found at the link. (By the way, when I tried the link just now I got a 'Thread Not Found' error - whatver had been there is gone now.) --mwalimu 07:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Here is fine, although you could try the forum as well. As for your post, someone else edited my user page to remove it, but I'd already read the thread before you posted it so that was OK. :-)

We get a lot of people planning stuff, but half of them never show up, and the rest turn out only to have 5 people or so. --GreenReaper^(talk) 16:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Incomming Raid Group!!!

This is the WikiFur logo!

Be On the lookout for the next few days please sir! --PaulRevere 21:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

It would be helpful if we had a link to the site where this came from so we could investigate further. --Douglas Muth 21:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, DeusEx again? He's been working on that for a while, as I recall. I guess we'll see if anything comes of it. We've coped quite well so far with a full bot attack, even when it was using a network of 600 proxies.

It's cute the way they seem to think using Í will stop google indexing their site, let alone the "totally inept" part. So far it's about 10-0 on successful "organized" raids. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 21:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

That reminds me - did we ever implement a "panic button" - something any of the admins could use in an emergency to block all updates if a major vandalism/bot attack were in progress? If there is an easy way to protect the entire site to sysop only, that would probably suffice. --mwalimu 21:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Like a "Lock-down" script? Spirou 22:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

More like a "restrict edits to group X" script, though locking the DB might be a reasonable first step. --GreenReaper^(talk) 22:17, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

You know, we need to write an app to have a Score Board like what Nidonocu has. --Douglas Muth 21:45, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I edit that manually you know. ;) Though I agree a panic page would be useful. --Nidonocu - talk 23:20, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh Gods ^-^ or a DHS's like Security Advisory System,... "Today's Threat Level is "Fluffy," with some chances of /b/tards in the afternoon." Spirou 22:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

sorry duesX or whatever your name is, I'm almost finished with my "vandalism vaccine" project. so nless you can get it in before that's done, you're just wasting your time working on a program that won't work... : ) - cchristian

Removing a name on "People".

Hello there! i am Crowe Basalt, and previously, i did go by "Grimmutt". i edited an article on "Grimmutt", but, as i am going back to only using the "Crowe Basalt" name, i'd like to have "Grimmutt"'s page removed.

thank you! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Crowebasalt (talk • contribs) .

Hi there, Crowe, and welcome back to WikiFur! The best way to go about that is usually to move the article, as that preserves the original history. I will fix that up later tonight when I get home. Do you wish us to keep the information about your character Grimmutt as a separate section on the page about you, or should I remove it and just mention that you used to go by the name? --GreenReaper^(talk) 22:40, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Alternative to page protection

Hey, this is Carrie Pika.

Is there any way I can get this page locked so it shows only this? I don't want anyone adding personal information about me without my knowledge, so I'd like to have it left at just this.

Thanks~ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CarriePika (talk • contribs) .

We can probably do that. You could also just put your email into your user preferences and then click the Watch tab, so it will tell you whenever someone edits so that you can check it out. Which would you prefer? --GreenReaper^(talk) 23:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, that'd work great, actually! I'll go ahead and do that. Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CarriePika (talk • contribs) .

Excellentage. Enjoy WikiFur. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 04:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

And thanks to you.

I do appreciate the clean-up of my page, and the separation of the book summary. Many thanks! You guys do an amazing job here. - Alicia

You're welcome. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 21:37, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

something to be very angry

I wrote an article and someone, german wrote me this:

"Meine Fresse, ich hab noch nie so ein BESCHISSENES ENGLISCH gelesen. Kauf dir mal ein verdammtes Leben!!"

In a free translation it's:"Damn I've never read such a shitty english. Buy a damn life" Well maybe my english isn't taht good but is it necessary to write the comment in this way? Without an name or anything else.

I think you're not able to find out who did it are you?

And so maybe you could delete my account and the article about me. because I don't want to be a part of something like this. Sorry and thanks for the chocolat. ^^ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Andraste (talk • contribs) .

That comment was made by a person with the IP address 89.48.235.195. They are obviously not a regular user, otherwise they would indeed have signed their comment - and made the edit with a registered account. That edit to the talk page was their only contribution so far. There is therefore little to say about them, other than that their IP address resolved to the name "Lebc3.l.pppool.de" - probably a dialup account in Germany.

I would suggest you pay as much attention to you as someone who posts once on a forum anonymously to insult you, never having contributed to that forum before - that is, precisely no attention at all. If your English is not the best, so what? You are German! The fact that you can write English at all is better than most English people could do with German. If they thought the article was bad, the anonymous editor should have fixed it rather than complained about it. And, in fact, many others did. :-)

In the last day several edits by at least four other people have been made to the article about you (perhaps you made a link to it from somewhere else?). I would ask that you consider those edits to be an example of what WikiFur is, and not the anonymous commenter - who, I would note, could not even manage to put their own comment in English. We have a policy against personal attacks, and any regular contributor would know better than to make such a comment. --GreenReaper^(talk) 17:59, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Recategorization of List of convention acronyms

I don't see why this fits better with Category:Convention terms than Category:Conventions when it seems to fit the Conventions cat just as well as List of furs who were married at a furry con or List of conventions by attendance (both of which are in Category:Conventions), since like those two, its a sort of comparison/reference list between different conventions, as opposed to Category:Convention terms which seems to be a list of general terms used within a convention. --Chibiabos 21:12, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

OK. Change it back if you wish. My view was that an acronym was a convention term, but I can can see your side too. --GreenReaper^(talk) 23:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikifur now adversarial?

I've read with interest the discussion on Sibe, specifically your comment:

That is why I am opposed to the removal of the article in whole - because what he has done deserves remembering. It is our business, because Sibe has been bothering us as a community.

Does this mean Wikifur will not be so much as a source of neutral information, but that Wikifur will now become adversarial in relations to information about people who you (singularly or collectively) believe have wronged Furry? Do you feel that it's now your job/right/reponsibility to punish these people by using Wikifur as a "bully pulpit"?

I hope this isn't the case. Wikifur, despite a healthy dose of pro-Furry slobbery, has been a respectable source of neutral information.

You'd have to put that question to the wider community for a full answer, as it's a question about where they want WikiFur to go. I'm one of the editors leading the project, but there are others. Still, I can provide some explanation, and the answer I would give is basically "no, but we're not going to go out of our way to do such people any favours either."

The information on the individuals itself should unquestionably be neutral and factual (no, this doesn't always happen, and if you see a problem, please explain why and fix it). The only choice we have been making in some cases is whether or not to remove that neutral information (or some of it) on request, per the personal information policy. This might well not be a neutral decision, because this is a community made up of members of the furry fandom, and as it is our website it is up to us to decide whether or not that is appropriate. Ultimately our role is to serve the best interests of the fandom, and that generally means trying not to hurt those who are or have been worthwhile members of it. We may care less about the possibility of hurting other people.

If a person is just a regular member of the fandom - maybe well-regarded, maybe just "one of the gang", then people tend not to fuss too much if they want to remove personal information - and if they have not really done all that much special, that might include the entire article about them (if not, then references to them might remain in other articles). If an individual has, over time, given the community a significant amount of grief, they are likely to say "no, this person is just trying to hide from the problems they have caused" and deny the request. In short, if they've had no respect for our community, then we as a community are likely to have as little respect for them. That is why exclusions that may be contentious go to talk pages - so that the community can decide what to do in that particular situation.

These sorts of situation are fortunately pretty rare. In Sibe's case, though, his "bothering" was widely commented-on, were intimately connected to his person (not any external group), and occured over a long period of time. If WikiFur is recording furry history, it makes little sense to exclude him, particularly given that he has shown no reticence (or regret) on occasion over detailing the lives of others where it suited him. We're perfectly aware that he doesn't like it being up there, but over time he's pissed off enough people in the fandom that few seem to care about what he feels anymore.

The thing is, all we have to do is say the truth. His own actions are what comdemn him. We don't even need to say they were bad. If telling the truth about someone makes them look bad in the eyes of the reader, then it's a fair bet that they deserve it.

This situation of information removal based on respect does not really apply to groups, whatever the standing of the group in the community. I would not support removing the history of the Burned Furs, for example, or that of Sociopolitical Ramifications, or FurryMUCK, because these are important groups that have had a historical impact on the fandom. Maybe if it was a really small and personal group that hasn't . . . again, that'd be discussed on the appropriate talk pages.

One final question: why is it so common to list the real names of people who've had adversarial relations with furry but not with those individuals considered friendly to the fandom? Why are real names included at all?

There might be various reasons for the inclusion of real names. For some people, their real name is just one item of information about them, such as the colour of their character's fur. Other people might not have nicknames that are well-known within the fandom (but really, this applies as much if not more to people "friendly to the fandom" as to others). In that case, it seems appropriate to use their real name, just as we tend to use the real name of artists that have used it as their identifier in the fandom.

In some cases, there may have been a good reason to find out the real name of a person, particularly if it might allow members of the furry fandom to more easily identify a person who is using a variety of nicknames or even their real name in a different venue (we can't say "go look at Laurence's posts in forum X" without telling them who Laurence is). It might also be that people are just more inclined to include the real names of people that they don't like, in the hope that others outside the fandom will see what that person is like. This is not ideal editing, but if the person concerned doesn't request the removal of their name, it will not be changed - the article will be reworded to be based solely on facts if possible, or removed if not.

The question perhaps shouldn't be "why are real names included at all", but "why aren't real names included for everyone?". Ultimately, aritcles should be under the name which people would link to, and so that is the only name that has to be there. In the furry fandom, this is more often than not the person's fan name, if they have one. They may only use this name, or they may use their real name as well. If so, people may or may not decide to add it, but it's not considered critical if it's not usually used. Even if a person's real name is regularly used, in general we will on request remove a person's real name and replace it with their fan name/nickname when describing them, whether or not they are/have been members of the fandom. However, members of the fandom are a) more likely to request this, becuase more of them come here, b) are (slightly) more likely to have such a request accepted (because if non-members are listed here it is usually because they are either famous or infamous, not just because they're furry), and c) are more likely to have such nicknames to use in the first place (we can't exactly say "The comic Fuzzy Things, authored by {blank} . . .").

I'm aware this answer was rather long and rambling, but that's because I'm tired, and it's a complicated issue when talking in general. If you have specific cases you want explained, feel free to point them out. --GreenReaper^(talk) 02:29, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

GreenReaper, in response to your reply, I have added comments to two talk sections, Sibe and Burned Fur, pointing out what I see as an unfair biasing. I'm interested in your reply on both.

There's also one other possible point on Sibe that you might want to run by an attorney, since the status of Wiki's as "legitimate publications" is still in legal limbo: Sibe is legally a "private figure" and his actions in Furry do not make him, in the legal sense, a "public figure" (both of these are legal terms). As a private individual, he's afforded certain legal protections about what information can be revealed. These protections may or may not cover his criminal record or other information. I think it would be worth your time to consult with someone from the EFF and make sure you haven't crossed the line. While you say that you're just one editor, if no other person can over-rule your edits without your consent, it's your "publication". As such, even if Sibe were to decide to come after Wikifur et al for any damages the publication of protected information caused him (if any such protections exist at all), you'd still be on the line. Again, the law regarding this may or may not cover him.

I agree (unlike some) that Sibe is a private figure, and as such someone might be liable if we were negligent in publishing made-up facts, even if we did not act with the knowledge that they were false (or with reckless disregard as to whether or not they were false). For example, if we said that the Burned Furs burned people, that would be libel without good evidence. However, a glance at the talk page archives and article history should show you that we have been willing to work with concerned parties to ensure the accuracy of the article, and to obtain exact sources for assertions where appropriate. We have no interest in being negligent (and certainly not grossly negligent), because that makes for a poor article.

In contrast, the limitations on information that is actually true are really quite small, and in general don't apply to us as a private site. I'm not a lawyer, but this situation has come up before and so I've done some research. Criminal records are public information in the State of Washington (and generally speaking in other states). Most other privacy legislation is aimed at restricting what companies can tell third parties about their customers (who they have a contract with), and not about what individuals (who never agreed to any contract) may publish from their own knowledge. The First Amendment gives us rather sweeping powers in this area that allow us to publish just about anything as long as it is true, and in practice the "due process" terms of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourteenth Amendment extends this to the states as well. Credit card numbers, social security numbers and driver's license number would probably be stuff that should be removed. Other than that, it's pretty much fair game and up to the community to decide what it should publish, in a moral sense.

Wikia is able to overrule my edits without my consent. If people feel I'm not doing a good enough job, or that WikiFur is infringing their rights, they should contact them. They have more experience than I do, and I am willing to defer to them. --GreenReaper^(talk) 19:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Peace from AU

Hello, my name is D. Coldheartt. I am the head admin of the Alternative Universe wiki which is also pretty big. I am a big fan of, well furry stuff and creatures and animals so i decided to join here. I was wondering if i could also become a administrator here if at all possib;e. D. Coldheartt 23:44, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Admin status is generally given to users who have a history of contributing to the wiki. If you're interested in becoming an admin, we recommend following Special:Recentchanges and contributing to/cleaning up articles, dealing with vandalism, etc.

I'm curious about this Alternate Universe wiki that you mentioned. Typing "Alternate Universe wiki" into Google brings up zero matches. A slightly more liberal search did not help me find it either. Did I misspell or typo something? --Douglas Muth 00:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

The AU has actually been down for quite some time and replaced with Vandal Manifest Editthis Wiki. D. Coldheartt 00:24, 13 September 2006 (UTC) WikiTV started at Revived Haven Editthis and moved on to Meta Wiki. Jimbos one of the users alowed into revived haven. D. Coldheartt 00:24, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Googling for Vandal Manifest does not turn up anything.

Googling for Revived Haven does not turn up anything, either.

I'm sensing a pattern here. --Douglas Muth 00:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

And he first spammed a bunch of the admins to ask for admin privileges. --Frizzy 00:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Heres the link: to VM, http://editthis.info/vandal_manifest/Main_Page a former vandal war site but now good. Ignore the messages the page their is called WikiTV. D. Coldheartt 00:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

None of the pages are available for viewing without a password 63.204.227.202 00:46, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Please ignore User:D. Coldheartt, it is a swfanon sockpuppeter and general wikia attention spammer. Usernames include: Alacaster Torn, The Vanguard, ThatLittleMidget, Proffesor Mephisto, Black Dawn, Licorice ... --Splarka (talk) 01:47, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Well cheers for the welcome!

Just thought I'd drop by and say thanks for the welcome - wasn't expecting that! Been using this site as a resourse for a good while now so I thought it was only right to inflict a little of myself on here.

Werewolf Of London

Hey hey

Well I had some problems with creating the article of our new Polish Furries forum and website, but I'm good now.

Say would t be a problem for you to place an info about http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Polska_Strefa_Furry on the main page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TerrisRacoon (talk • contribs) .

I will update our Did you know? section on the front page, and include a link to that page, as it is interesting to know about new forums.

Oh, and a couple of tips - you should not remove a message on a talk page after you have saved it - it should be left on the page so that the person can reply. Otherwise there is no record, and it looks as if there has been no message, which is confusing when the window pops up saying "you have new messages". :-) Also, you can sign your name on Talk: pages with this: ~~~~. It gives this sort of result: --GreenReaper^(talk) 08:32, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Furry gaming project...?

Seeing as how Wikipedia has a project that concetrates on improving the quality and quantity of gaming articles, may I suggest implementing a similiar project? The amount of games with furry elements is not a small one, and it would be very helpful, if information about those games (most are old, PC DOS titles, which run perfectly under DosBox) was included in one place, for sake of completeness and subject coverage.

Especially games like Project Nomad could use that coverage, as they have literally truckloads of content, and it would be helpful to store it in one place, much like Albion's articles are done.

Just a thought.

Oh, and what is the general stance about making articles about oneself? Mikael Grizzly 22:30, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Seems like a nice enough idea. We already have something similar for fursuiting, although that's been slow recently. The trouble is there are few "meta"-editors at this time, and so you may find it hard to gather contributors to help you out. I would suggest that you concentrate on one or two particular projects at a time so that it doesn't bog down in needing to do 10 different things at once. :-)

Articles about yourself are fine as long as they are neutrally written, like any other article. --GreenReaper^(talk) 04:19, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Need help putting up an article

I want to put up an essay that's under the GNU Free Docement Lisence, and I want to ask for a little bit of tips on how to do it before I actually do it. Or even how I'm suppose to do it. --Foxpaws 00:52, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Could you be more specific about what you're trying to do? If you have a GFDL essay from another place, then in general it's fine to just copy it here into a new page as long as you give attribution for the people who wrote it (for example, with Wikipedia you would link to the history page) and preferably link back to the original source. Of course, it would have to fit the topic of the wiki, and be neutral in tone. If it was not neutral (whether or not you wrote it), you should probably avoid putting it in the main namespage - it should go a subpage of your User: space - e.g User:Foxpaws-zupe/Article name - and it should have a note up at the top similar to that of the personal-article template. --GreenReaper^(talk) 04:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Hey! I'll be alright, I guess. I'll fix the entries up s'more later.

I should remember to tag that 'minor edit' box more often. *nods*

Thank you

Hi and thankies

Hi and thank you for this brill site —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fox92 (talk • contribs) .

Happy Birthday!

• 24 wolftytailswat-spankings!* --Chibiabos 03:45, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Im sorry for the late reply, but thank you for welcoming me

Im afraid I am not use to this place yet and still have a long way to go on it. But im glad that hospitality is shown here ^_^

From Duragan —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Duragan (talk • contribs) .

All Fur Fun now has official dates!

Hi there! Could you please edit the convention area to show that All Fur Fun will be held March 31 - April 1, 2007? Thanks much! :D

--Teeka 01:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Done, and I hope you guys have fun! --GreenReaper^(talk) 01:52, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Nah~

Just tell me if I should remove the images. They are censored though, but you still see enough~ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Garyu (talk • contribs) .

Vandalism

Hey GreenReaper, thanks for repairing the damage to my page as well as other I may not know about - RVDDP2501 20:26, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! --GreenReaper^(talk) 20:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Spam cleanup script

I have no idea if that was a valid spam cleanup script or if it was an elaborately created vandalism technique, but either way, it was blanking whole pages rather than just removing "spam" links (which weren't actually spam), so I blocked it temporarily. Feel free to unblock it if it isn't actually something trying to erase the whole Wiki. ;3 Spaz Kitty 02:42, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Higgs Raccoon

May I nominate Higgs Raccoon for upgrading to admin? In addition to contributing to numerous articles, he's helped revert vandalism on more than one occasion. --mwalimu 15:07, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Let's try that out, then. Contributions are a little low (and lacking discussion edits), but they are all good, and it's not like there aren't a couple of admins with fewer. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 15:27, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, this is quite an honour. Thankyou Mwalimu for the nomination, and GreenReaper for OKing it. Quite unexpected, really - as noted above, I haven't been here very long and haven't contributed a lot as yet. Hopefully the whole Wikifur novelty won't suddenly wear off. Oh well, if that happens I guess what GreenReaper giveth he can also taketh away! ;) --Higgs Raccoon 10:13, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Technically, no - I have to go to Wikia for that. That's why I don't generally give it out without recommendation. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 22:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism War!

A user going by the name of User:Arwel Parry is vandalizing a number of pages right now! I'd reverting edits as fast as I can. Always happy to help! --Tori 11:18, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Fixed vandalism with User:Arcturus --Tori 11:33, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Where you be on Eye Arr Cee?

• cough* Um.. ignore the poor rhyming, just wondering where you is as I've snuck back to the IRC channel the last few days and haven't seen you on at all. o.O --Nidonocu - talk 20:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

...Now I see your note, make it bigger next time. X) --Nidonocu - talk 20:30, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

SilvrWingsDragon

He! Its me, Carrie, from Anthrocon. I tickled you, remember? And I think I had the pupper fox plushie. :) Whats up?

You can, btw, reach me at AminElea@aol.com

Hi there! I do indeed remember . . . *hides*

I'm doing fairly well - indeed, I just went to another convention last weekend (which I need to actually write about sometime this week). I'll try and contact you when I get back home - still busy at work right now. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 21:39, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Furcadia origins?

I am not trying to be a pain in the rear here, but I wonder about the claim on the furcadia article that says that it has been around since 1996. I was following this stuff back in the late nineties and I was pretty surprised to hear that. Wolfhome was one of the first websites featuring multi-user chat and I don't remember furcadia.com being around. We were running a company by 2000. While I didn't do an exhaustive search, I am surprised that a furry chat site that would have been a direct competitor to Wolfhome escaped me. Wolfhome started on Gre7g Luterman's site, TempleOfLuna.com, back on October 31st, 1999.

The other thing that I discovered is that the whois record for Furcadia.com was created in 1999 (see below). Add to that a web search on the "Wayback Machine" http://web.archive.org, which tracks websites back to the mid nineties, which shows that in 1999, furcadia.com was a placeholder site:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://furcadia.com

Here's that whois record:

Registrant: DRAGON'S EYE PRODUCTIONS, INC.

  767 Sam Bass Rd
  Round Rock, TX 78680-1048
  US

  Domain Name: FURCADIA.COM

  Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
     DRAGON'S EYE PRODUCTIONS, INC.            sanct@furcadia.com
     767 Sam Bass Rd
     Round Rock, TX 78680-1048
     US
     +358407672478 fax: +358427672478

  Record expires on 03-Feb-2011.
  Record created on 03-Feb-1999.
  Database last updated on 10-Oct-2006 21:10:34 EDT.

  Domain servers in listed order:

  NS.FURCADIA.COM              72.36.220.234
  NS2.FURCADIA.COM             72.36.220.239

None of that is meant to take away from the current success of furcadia, but I wonder what supports the claim that they were running a website back in 1996?

Here's the web archive for templeofluna.com:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://templeofluna.com

BTW, thanks for providing this great site focusing on the Furry community!

underdog

Hi there, underdog! The claim is that they were running Furcadia (the client-based MMO experience) since 1996, not Furcadia.com (the website), and I think it is substantiated by this thread from May 1999 in which Dr. Cat states in passing that it "opened two and a half years ago". There is also this website (www.realtime.net/furcadia) from December 1998, at which point they appear to already have had 400,000 visits.

As for the website - you're welcome! I didn't exactly do it by myself, though - you can thank the people here, along with the hundreds of other editors for filling it with content. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 02:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Ah, ok.. I read that wrong

Thanks for the clarification. I had interpreted that pretty narrowly before. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wunderwood (talk • contribs) .

Hiya there

yeah, I found that I had a page to edit and submit info to, and thanks for the help offer. Ill be editing when I can, and look forward to contributing here. :3 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zippo (talk • contribs) .

Wikipedia's techniques on trolls

Wikipedia usually reverts banned troll's comments and semi-protects pages. It works better. Tretonin 10:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

It works for their situation. We have to make our own decisions and see how they work out. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 21:43, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

From Buska

Hi and thanks for the welcome! I tried creating my own page as well. I really need to study the Wiki format a bit more however ^^ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Buska (talk • contribs) .

RE:Page name correction

Hey GreenReaper, thanks for the move, I will try not to make mistakes like that in the future - RVDDP2501 00:26, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

No worries. We make them too, sometimes. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 00:29, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Hey GreenReaper, I was wondering if you could perform another page name edit, could you add an "s" to my Remalon page turning it into "Remalons" (since there are five characters in that page), I would really appreciate it, thank you - RVDDP2501 18:20, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Once again, thanks - RVDDP2501 18:26, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Extinctioners main page fixing

Hey GreenReaper, sorry to drop questions on a regular basis but I was wondering if you might know or see a way to modify or re-arrange the list of groups in the Extinctioner's main page, to some how make it appear more neat, thank you - RVDDP2501 18:17, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I have readed that you use Openbsd to host the wiki

Hello Greenreaper, thanks for your work on this Furry Wiki, I am trying to install mediawiki on openbsd, but can not login on mediawiki, can you help me? after i have logged in sucessfully, then i try to use the preferences page and it say that i am not logged in

thanks in advance. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aureliof (talk • contribs) .

I'm afraid I don't really have any idea why that is not working for you, other than that possibly you do not have sessions or cookies setup properly in your browser or web server. I do not administrate the server side of WikiFur, and so I know little of the details of hosting it. --GreenReaper^(talk) 08:16, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

DAMN YOU!!!

You ALLWAYS seem to be around to delete my...um...helpful changes no matter what time and what wiki I'm hitting :(

WHY?????????????????? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.106.208.18 (talk • contribs) .

Because I'm everywhere - I'm like the wind . . . --GreenReaper^(talk) 20:32, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

That was odd

I see that earlier today you blocked User:216.224.121.151. It struck me as odd that there have also been a couple of good edits from the very similar address User:216.224.121.141 (knowing that sometimes a vandal who gets blocked will simply switch to a different workstation, which often has a very similar IP; this time, however, that did not appear to be the case).

Then I tried to make a couple of edits, while logged in, and was told that I couldn't because my IP address, 216.224.121.151, has been blocked. I found this really odd, since I was logged in, I have admin privs, and on top of it all, the IP address of the machine I connect from doesn't look anything like that (and just to be sure, I checked with http://www.whatismyip.com/ ). I retried a couple of times, and my edit finally took - not sure what changed, but there you go.

Then finally, I ran nslookup on 216.224.121.151, and it returned ut4.sjc.wikia-inc.com. I tried 216.224.121.141 and it returned cache1.sjc.wikia-inc.com. Curioser and curioser. Is there something funky going on at wikia.com that's causing incoming edits to look like they came from their server instead of the actual originating user or IP address? --mwalimu 18:57, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

It does indeed seem odd. I've also recieved two separate messages about this from other users. Unblocked this for now. --GreenReaper^(talk) 19:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I got a response from John Q. over on the Wikia mailing list saying that this is fixed/will be fixed shortly. --Douglas Muth 00:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. Maybe not quite fixed yet, I had trouble getting that edit to go through... --Douglas Muth 00:29, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome ^^

Hey, thanks for the welcome to WikiFur. This is my first time actually registering for a Wiki community, so it'll be a learning experience, but I'm looking forward to adding what I can, when I can. Oh, question -- how do I reply to things on my Talk page? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by IanKeith (talk • contribs) .

Welcome to wiki, then, too. :-) You can reply to others in the way you did just now. You should generally sign your names when on talk pages, though, so that people know who left the message without going to the history. You can use ~~~~ for this, or just ~~~ if you don't want the date. --GreenReaper^(talk) 02:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

timeline tag

Hi. I just solve timeline bug and you can use it again --Inez 10:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Inez! --GreenReaper^(talk) 12:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

NO CARRIER

Thanks for cleaning up after my messes. :) I'll get the wiki standards hammered through my thick skull eventually!
-Furv

How to do bot vandal rollbacks

In cases of mass vandalism (page blanking and the like) it is acceptable to use the "bot" rollback method. To do this, go to the user's contribution page by clicking their name or IP address in the userlist, then add &bot=1 to the URL (or ?bot=1 if there is no ? already in the URL). Press enter to reload that URL, and then just open all the rollback links in new tabs. This will give the initial edit a "bot" flag, so that only your revert will be visible in recent changes. --GreenReaper^(talk) 19:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I'll do it that way next time. By the way, when responding to a user talk comment like this, is there a way to have the thread automatically replicated in the other user's talk page? I've always done it by manually copying the response in both places. --mwalimu 19:09, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Not that I know of. Would be nice! --GreenReaper^(talk) 19:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

'twas fun playing with you furries. --149.9.0.27 19:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC) =)

more vandalism

Hey GreenReaperm, were getting vandalized including the front page! - RVDDP2501 14:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

O NOES VANDALISM @_@ --85.214.66.61 14:23, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

WERE UNDER ATTACK! - RVDDP2501 22:01, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Chinmyou

Thanks for the welcome. X3 Chinmyou 06:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Extinctioners Wikipedia page deletion threat again

Hey GreenReaper, Sorry to constantly bother you but I just saw on the talk page of the Wikipedia.org Extinctioners page that it will be coming under a deletion threat within several days claiming wikifur IS NOT a reliable source (yeah right), here is the link to the page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Extinctioners - I hope it will not be removed, I don't understand it, they have pages for other furry comics but they seem the think this one is not worthy but if you think its not worth fighting over, I will understand, thank you - RVDDP2501 13:16, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, WikiFur isn't a reliable source, at least not in Wikipedia's terms. Someone could come by and change anything at any time. Articles are not guaranteed to be peer-reviewed - indeed, there is no particularly certainty that information on WikiFur has been checked by anyone. Contributions are, in many cases, anonymous. If you want to have an article at Wikipedia, you need to give proper references to the primary sources (the comics themselves), or to secondary sources that have been published in some kind of guaranteed editorially-reviewed medium, like a comic review in a published fanzine (or better).

Consider: You wrote most of the pages on WikiFur about the comic. Who's to say you weren't making up half of the stuff you wrote? You can see their situation - they can't just rely on your words for its accuracy. It is not that it is a furry comic. It is the entire article is your original creation, and you've not backed it up with links that show the source of the facts that you state. Go look at this article for an example of what I mean. There are probably worse articles, but that does not excuse the one about Extinctioners. --GreenReaper^(talk) 05:12, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate what you have told me and I finally can see where wikipedia is coming from, I will leave this decision in the hands of those at Wikipedia (since I am unable to try and fight for it to remain again) and just continue with the one here, thanks for your help :-) - RVDDP2501 23:48, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Redirecting articles?

I was poking around in the Templates section to see how I could re-direct a link that currently goes nowhere to an article that is relevant. I wanted to link "Ace of Spades" and "Morrigan's War" to the "Empires" article but could not see a way to do it..? Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kette' Barona (talk • contribs) .

To do that, go to the pages Ace of Spades and Morrigan's War and put #REDIRECT [[Empires]] in there. --GreenReaper^(talk) 02:22, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

FA and such

I just wanted to apologize, again-- though I guess to you directly-- for what I did the other day. I was responding more as damage control to prevent an explosion of drama rather than following the guidelines stipulated. This whole thing, though not directly affecting me, has seemed to've killed my patience and thinking. Thankfully it's cleared up now.

It won't happen again. Verix 17:57, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

It's understandable. No worries. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 19:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Uploading avatar pic quesion

Hey GreenReaper, sorry to bug you but I have a question, there is a pic I would like to use as my avatar (or fursona if thats what its called), I have gotten the artists permission (no via e-mail), I was just wondering what porceedures I need to do before uploading such a pic, here are the links:

• Shadow-Wolf (artist) - http://shadow-wolf.deviantart.com/
• the picture I want to use - http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/8577254/?qo=165&q=by%3Ashadow-wolf&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
• and finally the message giving me permission to use this pic - http://my.deviantart.com/notes/1/52363257

I just want to ensure I do not mess up on this matter, I would really appreciate your help with this

I can't see that note, probably since they're private, but for that sort of thing we're fine with taking people's word for it unless the artist complains. Just make sure to mention the name of the artist in the picture description, and select "fursona" in the dropdown license box when you upload it. --GreenReaper^(talk) 20:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

heres the note -

From: *shadow-wolf Date: Nov 4, 2006, 12:17:03 PM sure, go for it! Could you credit me in your journal or something, link back to the original picture? It'd be a great plug for me if you could. ^^ Thank you for having the courtasy to ask first

~nymph

RVDDP2501 said the following:

Hi Shadow Wolf, I'm RVDDP2501, listen, I was wondering if I could get your permission to use your Venom Pic as my avatar, I really like it and I'm a huge Venom fan, I just wanted to ask your permission first, thanks

P.S. I'm the Extinctioners wikifur page creator

and finally (forgive my ignorence) what exactly is the drop box your refering to? - RVDDP2501 20:51, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

wait... I think I've found what your talking about - RVDDP2501 20:54, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Other-Language Wikis

We've talked before about a possible Swedish-language furry wiki. It is likely that I will find myself with a good chunk of free time (or at least that what free time I have won't be eaten up by pesky things like take-home schoolwork) in a month or so - would it still be of interest that I go ahead and request the wiki to be made? (Last we discussed it on LJ, I kind of got heaped with massive amounts of Stuff soon afterwards, unfortunately.) I could probably get Ricadonna to link it from the SveaFur homepage as well, so that there'd be at least a few contributors more or less guaranteed. --quoting_mungo 15:13, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Someone needs to learn to think before she talks. I also meant to ask if you have a preference for a Wikia-hosted wiki (would it help with organization, for instance?) or if it could be privately hosted for all you care? I know the host I plan on moving to makes it ridiculously simple to install a wiki, so if it's all the same to you that might be a better route, as that also eliminates the ads? I'm just disorganized today, sorry. --quoting_mungo 15:29, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I'd still be very interested in seeing more furry wikis in different languages. As the one who intends to do the work to found the wiki, it's up to you to decide where it should be. :-) I think Wikia is a good choice for those who don't want to be dealing with server-side issues or costs. If you believe that the technical ability to start and maintain the wiki software is available (whether you or they can provide it), and if you are sure that the hosting will be maintained, then there's no problem with hosting it anywhere. For various reasons, I felt it was suitable for the English language furry wiki to be here, but it doesn't mean others have to. We can link back and forth wherever you are. --GreenReaper^(talk) 16:22, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I talked to my boyfriend, whom I will be sharing the bandwidth with, and unless I magically get an insane permanent-ish workload, it sounds as though I'll privately host the wiki when we get set up at the new host. Would put it somewhere around early December, which suits me fine as that puts it past most of my current deadlines. --quoting_mungo 17:41, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Aaand, I'm slow at getting things done, as usual. I'm still working on this, and it should get somewhere relatively soon (or so I hope), so I just wanted to draw your attention to one little thing. Whether or not you feel the Swedish wiki logo should have anything in common with WikiFur's (font and general text layout is what's in question here, I have an idea of what I want to do instead of the pawprint graphic) is totally up to you. --quoting_mungo 08:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm personally fine with furry wikis in other languages having similar logos to WikiFur, as long as they act essentially like WikiFur as well (that is, the purpose and general "spirit" of the site remains the same, though obviously the details of the policies would develop based on its own community). For example, I wouldn't want a German equivalent of Furry Horrors Wiki using it - that wouldn't fit in with the expectations that users have of the logo. --GreenReaper^(talk) 09:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate the quick response. --quoting_mungo 09:07, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

More All Fur Fun stuff!

Hi GreenReaper! All Fur Fun (the new furry convention) has a new website up and running. It's already linked, but I was hoping someone could edit the convention's entry to show that we're a bit more organized now, hehe! I'd do it myself, but I tend to do Very Wrong Things when I try to edit wiki pages, so I'd rather have someone with experience do it. ;D

Thanks in advance! :D

--Teeka 02:36, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Did it last night, but forgot to note that here. If I've missed anything, or if you develop more details over time, do feel free to add it in. --GreenReaper^(talk) 23:50, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer

Thanks for the offer, and the cleanup of my page. If it would be at all possible, would you please make my page more wiki friendly? I'm not the best wiki editor. Much Thanks in advance. -- Jaie_Davis

RVDDP2501 character name change request

Hey GreenReaper, how are you doing, listen, I'm sorry to ask you to do this for me yet again but I need two character's names changed, the characters Slash and Short, I need the last name WhiteEye added to the both of them so they would be e.g. Slash WhiteEye, thanks, I would really appreciate your help with this - RVDDP2501 17:29, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - RVDDP2501 11:33, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

It was the least I could do to honor the memory of a fine person and a dedicated Furry (He was a Cheetah because he had freckles...lol).

I know all of you furries who knew him must miss him terribly.

I know I still find myself thinking of David from time to time and wish his life had not been taken away so violently and suddenly.

David's death was followed the week after by my Mother's death and the week after that my Grandma passed.

Three loved ones in three weeks.....you never know when they are gonna go...so make sure they know how much you love them...while they are here.

I am not a Furry, but, your members are really great people. Keep the fur flying!

Nice job on the Did You Know section...

I just wanted to say, nice job on it. I never knew that CSI or any sutch show even knew about the fandom, let alone made episodes with dramatically skewed ideas. (Yiffing parties! :) hmm... whered they hear of those? I'd REALLY like to know... :b ) I wonder, I think theres an episode of law and order with furr... also, nice for ptting it on the front page. cchristian

Glad you like it! We should really update it more frequently. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 23:19, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, I'd be happy to fill it in for you or do something to help if you gave me some material or something. :) cchristian

Feel free to have a look through Special:Newpages to find some interesting tidbits, then replace the current text and add your new stuff to the archive page. There are other suggestions for ways to help on the Community Central. --GreenReaper^(talk) 14:45, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikifur page problem

Hey GreenReaper, I don't know if this is a problem caused by my computer, but recently the pages on wikifur seem a little out of pleace, all the user access links (contributions, watch list, etc.) are covered up by the page I'm looking at plust the page options (discussion, edit, etc.) are also covering up the pages name, the only thing I have done is update my internet explorer to 7.0, is this in fact a problem with my computer or is it something that is wrong with wikifur, please let me know, thanks - RVDDP2501 14:24, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

This appears to be a problem with Wikia - they have changed the CSS in a way that is incompatible with IE7. I've sent them a little note about this, hopefully it will be fixed within a day or so. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 21:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, let me know when this has been fixed cause I reverted back to the previous version of IE since the problem was starting to annoy me :-) - RVDDP2501 21:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Kirru sized.png

Hello GreenReaper,

This is in regards to Image:Kirru sized.png. 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 01:27, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

My Wikifur page

Hey, thanks for the help, I'm kinda new to this stuff ^.^

Little question tho, my page is also in the 'hybrid' catagory... Shouldn't be, since I'm 100% pure fox. How can I change that? Darkfoxx 14:22, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I took care of that for you Simba B 15:32, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Simba. Darkfoxx: The categories an article is in are defined by the [[Category:]] tags, usually at the bottom of the page. Remove them, and it removes an article from the category. --GreenReaper^(talk) 15:43, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

WikiFur Central/Header

It appears that since your latest edits to Template:WikiFur Central/Header, it is now covering up the Template:Newsbar, at least when I view it under Firefox. --mwalimu 00:23, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Eh, never mind. Looks like you fixed it. --mwalimu 00:25, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Interested users should see Talk:WikiFur Furry Central#Featured article length for more details. --GreenReaper^(talk) 17:28, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Species

Is it okay to change species? cause i don't think a wolf fits me well . . . Wolfie 02:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

it's fine, but changing your'e account name here? that's a thing... cchristian

Nobody's going to stop you doing either, though if you change your name, let me know what it is and I can move the appropriate pages over so that the history is retained, rather than just copying and pasting it. --GreenReaper^(talk) 03:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I guess i would want my new name to be Skunk-Raccoon. Wolfie 03:10, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Not going for something a little more . . . original? The danger of such names is that you might change over time, and also other people tend to do the same thing (see Tigerwolf). --GreenReaper^(talk) 03:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Original? Well . . . i'll try, uhm . . . could it taken from a band name or something? Wolfie 15:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

It's up to you. I just want to help try and avoid name clashes in the future. The advantage of making up a name that nobody else has is that . . . well, nobody else has it. --GreenReaper^(talk) 16:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I think i came up with my name . . . "Basic Bassist". It's not the coolest, but, it works, i guess :) Wolfie 22:12, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Cool. Let me know when you're sure, and if you want me to move the pages about you to a new location (perhaps after you register that as a nickname here). GreenReaper^(talk) 22:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

So, i just register that name, and that's it? Wolfie 22:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, and tell me here. *grin* GreenReaper^(talk) 22:30, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Huh? Wolfie 22:33, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

"I wouldn't want to move your user page until you've registered the name, so tell me here once you have." GreenReaper^(talk) 22:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Alright Basic Basist 14:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Done! GreenReaper^(talk) 15:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!!! *hugs* Basic Basist 23:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I spelled "Bassist" wrong . . . could you fix it? Basic Basist 02:27, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Sure. GreenReaper^(talk) 02:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Greetings

Hello, thanks for the welcome! I've removed some unnecessary personal info from a vandal's userpage, since no one here has checkuser it would be of no benefit to them. Here is the version with the IP info on it, in case you need to request a checkuser with the staff. ^_^ Redfur 04:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Heh

I (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Ket) didn't really consider it vandalism, so I removed that section. Hope that's fine-SkippFox 09:10, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Block of 71.98.64.0/18

Are you sure about blocking that entire subnet? We've only had two vandlism incidents from there over the last 24 hours. I'm concerned that we might exclude potential contributors from that block. May I propose that we unblock that block and reblock only if we keep having incidents of vandalism from there? --Douglas Muth 21:21, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

If you wish. It's only 16384 addresses, though - I doubt we have contributors and trolls in that same block. GreenReaper^(talk) 22:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome.

I'm slowly getting myself back onto the net, so this was as good a place to start as any.  :D —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Khromat (talk • contribs) .

Reversed clock time?

Note the edit history for High Tail Hall, specifically, my recent minor revisions. WTF. The "on second thought" revision should have been applied after the correction of possessive form. Repeating the edit seems to have been effective, but I'd rather not see that kind of glitch happening to anyone else. -- Siege^(talk) 10:08, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

This is due to de-synched clocks on the various Wikia servers... if you look at the actual revision numbers, you'll see that 105229 is listed as occuring after 105230. This should only affect diff viewing and histories (but can be spotted by looking at the numbers). We are attempting to find the reason for the time desynchings, but this happens every once in a while. I've asked the techies to see if there is an easy way to fix these (it should be a simple as swapping the timestamps of any revisions that are not chronologically sequential, maybe). --Splarka (talk) 10:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Request

Ok, the discussion seems to have died on the talk page, so I'll ask you personally: can you just delete the info on Aardvark, as he seems to have moved on to other wikis? He hasn't vandalized here in about two months, I don't see the purpose. I understand he tried to get it removed a while back, but was... none too friendly about it and vandalized pages. Well, while that's not the only reason I registered, it's part of it - to get rid of his personal info. I've removed it from the ED article already and several editors, including yourself, have had their attentions drawn to edits to that article, but no one has reverted. Does this mean you feel it's not necessary? Let's say he goes for the rest of 2006 without vandalizing WikiFur - would you consider deleting the vandal page for him then?

ALso, someone has brought up that I may be Blu Aardvark... I'm open to having a staff member checkuser me to prove I'm not. I've actually edited elsewhere under other accounts - I would assume that's allowed on Wikia for privacy reasons, but they can at least tell you I'm located far from Blu Aardvark and edit elsewhere constructively. Redfur 13:34, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

• You there? WOuld this be better handled by email? Or are you unconcerned? I don't mean to pester, but it's been buggin me. Redfur 01:38, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm here, but I have other things to deal with - work, sponsor relations and quick replies come ahead of replies to things I have to think about. :-)

If you don't get reverted on the ED page, then chances are nobody cares. However, I see nothing on the vandalism record page concerned that needs to be removed. There is no mention of the user's real name, or his full address, so it should not come up on searches for that, but it is possible for our users to obtain it if the vandalism resumes. It will come up on searches for Blu Aardvark (not high, as few pages link to it), but that seems more than appropriate, since the edits were made in connection with that name.

As he says himself, he's "opted for the benefits of accountability versus the benefits of anonymity." If he wants the benefits, he has to be willing to accept the costs as well. We're not about to give his life story (as ED would), but we will say what he did on our wiki, and point to other wikis where he did the same thing so people can see that, yes, there is a pattern here. Our objective is to stop him doing it again, or failing that, be able to respond in a meaningful way by contacting his internet service provider and asking them to enforce their terms of service against a specific customer. I don't see how hiding what he did will help that - I would view it as assurance that I could get away with anything if I waited a few months.

What will happen is that time will pass and eventually people who do happen across it won't care about what wikis he vandalized 5 years ago. He could quite reasonably say on his own page, "Well, yes, this happened, but I've moved on." I don't think many people are going to believe that after 3 months, though. GreenReaper^(talk) 15:46, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I guess the info that remains isn't so bad. I've taken his real name out of the pages it links to, so if you insist, I'm only happy you replied. Thanks! Redfur 06:39, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Thoughts on spam from webstores?

I've seen some links that state a specific item is "available at <insert webstore URL here>" where the website is an ordinary online store not involved with the creation of said item. When does this constitute unwanted spam? If the item can be Googled fairly easily, should we delete such link postings? Should we be supportive if the store is sufficiently furry or furry-friendly? -- Frizzy 01:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, this depends on the situation, but if the link does provide value to readers I wouldn't remove it. I may even have added it myself. There's a difference between "could be googled fairly easily" and "everyone will know where buy this item, and will do so without being prompted to do so," and it can often be the difference between a sale and a missed opportunity. I would probably consider putting a furry-friendly store above a generic link to Amazon.com, but I wouldn't remove a link to Amazon.com if it made it more likely that people would buy whatever it was. I see people buying more furry stuff as a good thing. *grin* GreenReaper^(talk) 01:36, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

IRC statistics

I think you should edit it so that it shows it by person, not by nickname. also, it need an update because even though it has the names of people who said only 5 or 6 lines, my names are not listed... I was also wondering, where can I put my stuff about the IRC that I'm working on? thanks Green, - cchristian

Archive Time?

IMHO, it's time for another User Talk Archive, GR. =3 Spaz Kitty 23:46, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

This is not cool

encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=User:Dukeotterland&curid=27747&diff=1997066886&oldid=1997066552 That. Tretonin 16:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Why are you complaining to GR about that edit? He's not an admin on ED. If you have a problem with my conduct there, you should take it up with the ED admins. (Or feel free to bring it up with me directly if you wish.)

And, for the record, I made the exact same edit to my userpage over on ED. www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=User:Dmuth&curid=32694&diff=1997066885&oldid=1997066457 --Douglas Muth 16:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

because I felt like it...

Congratulations GreenReaper! You have been awarded with a Furry-Treat for being... small... and uh.. green... yeah............................ . good job!  ; )

......... - cchristian talk

removal of name

Sorry to bother you again, I made a request from you about a year ago pertaining to the removal of my name and desc from your wikifur site(this was done & I thank you for it). I've one further request which I hope is in your power to grant, which is: Could you please remove my name entirely from even pointing to that I was ever on this site? As it stands now when I do a search in google or Yahoo, it immediately pops up at the top of this list even though there is no actual description in the wiki, it still gives a desc of past avatars and the info that I no longer wished to be apart of the site. Thanks in advance T*o*m N*a*r*e*y <--done to keep the name from cropping up once again :)

I have removed your name from the disambiguation page that mentioned it - it should be OK as long as the fan names are only associated with each other and not yours. This was the one that Yahoo particularly liked. I cannot guarantee when they will update their cached version of the page - until they do, it will still show up under your name.

I'm a little uncomfortable with removing our talk pages about the exclusion request, since they're essentially our public record of why it's excluded in the first page. It is true that admins can always look, but my view is that if you're hiding something, you should at least not be able to hide the request to hide something. If people care that much about your involvement in a fandom ten years ago, you have to wonder whether they're worth working for . . .

Regardless, another administrator has decided to delete it (read: remove it from public view) for now. The short message stating that you requested removal needs to remain on the actual page, regardless of the fate of the actual request, as without that there is no basis for people to avoid writing about you here. The best way to ensure people don't even read that is to make a web page about yourself that is titled with and which mentions your name. That way it will end up as the main hit for your name, rather than WikiFur, as long as you link it in a few places. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 02:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

The problem is, is that there is no indication of when I was involved. It just says that I was. I've no idea why my name might be up there as I never really did anything in the fandom except create a few pieces of art and almost immediately deleted them within a few months of their creation. Like it or not, there is a dark stigma attached to that fandom by professionals in the game, vfx, sfx, comics, industries; of which I would liked to have had left behind. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.195.85.174 (talk • contribs) .

Well, nothing prevented the addition of a date. :-) I'm guessing a fan who liked your artwork on Yerf started the article about you (it was done by an anonymous user). As for the stigma - well, I guess I must be lucky, since I work for a company that's in games and they're not unaware of my fandom activities - heck, I have a picture up in my cubicle, and my boss will be dropping me off at the airport for FC this Thursday. Maybe the rules are different for programmers vs. artists, but I like to think times are changing, too. It gets harder to treat furry fandom as its stereotype when fans start buying out convention centers for a weekend. --GreenReaper^(talk) 22:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Hey, GreenReaper. Thanks for welcoming me. As for your offer to help, I was wondering if you could give me an idea about what might get my fursona's article to lose its cleanup tag. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by XerxesQ (talk • contribs) .

Sure. Often, the user who put that tag on will have left a comment in the history. If it is not clear enough, or if there is no comment there, then you can ask them directly on their talk page. Making sure that an article sounds like an encyclopedia (e.g. avoids the use of an overly-informal tone) is generally a good idea, and the intent of many of the cleanup tags that are put on (we really need a few more specific tags than just cleanup). Of course, you don't have to agree with all of what they think is wrong about the article, and you can take the cleanup tag off once you think it's fine. They might then choose to do nothing, or edit it themselves, or give a more specific discussion on the talk page associated with the article. --GreenReaper^(talk) 21:32, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Search

Just wondering - how do you control the appearance of the links on the left side of the screen, in particular the search box?

I'm asking not on account of anything to do with WikiFur, but because of a different wiki where I've started doing some edits. On that wiki there is only a search button, and below that you can select to search that wiki, or a Google web search. I would like to suggest to the admins of that wiki that they consider changing it to the Go and Search buttons like we have here on WikiFur. --mwalimu 22:30, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid the answer here is "I don't know". The search box was, I think, tweaked somewhat by Wikia. I would suggest asking some of their techs would be a reasonable next step. --GreenReaper^(talk) 07:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The Lion King MUCK article

Excuse the rollback, but your edit to The Lion King MUCK doesn't seem to have been made to the most recent version of the article, and I think it'll be easier to re-do the tables then drift back through edit histories and get the rest of the article restored in bits. -- Sine 06:12, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Good catch there. I think I must have been looking in an older version of the article to see if it had a History section that had been removed. --GreenReaper^(talk) 06:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks and hiya!

Thanks for sorting my page out dude! I just got some questions: How do I do picture boxes and am I okay to put more up about the stories and stuff? Cya! Darker

You do picture boxes using the syntax in Help:Editing (for example: [[Image:Filename.png|right|thumb|200px|An image floating to the right of 200px width]] - but first, you need to upload the image. Make sure that the uploaded filename is descriptive. As for your stories, you're welcome to add more information about them, as long as it remains a descriptive piece about the works. Such descriptions should probably remain on the page about you unless they cover a work that has been published in paper form and have a notability aside from yourself (this is a slightly fuzzy boundary, but the majority of short stories and unpublished works lie under it). Oh, and on talk pages, you can sign your conversations with ~~~~, and get something like this: --GreenReaper^(talk) 17:18, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

page name change request by RVDDP2501

Hey GreenReaper, Listen, I'm sorry to bother you bu I was wondering if you could change two page names for me, could you add the last name "WhiteEye" to Miki and Rokko for me and I stupidly didn't know one could update a pic on any wiki, I uploaded a new pic of the Rokko character, I was wondering if you could delete the previous version called "Extinctioners_cast_Rokko_by_Ebonyleopard.jpg" for me, thank you I awould really appreciate it, thank you - RVDDP2501 11:47, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Looks like someone already did it. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 16:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok, thanks :-) - RVDDP2501 16:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

just thanking for the welcome

thanx for the welcome, btw is this the correct etiquette on answering usertalk msgs?

--Tigro Spottystripes 03:03, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome, and yes, it is right to respond on the other person's talk page unless they specifically say at the top of it that they will watch yours. Some people will have copies of their conversations on both pages, others may just respond on the page of the person they're talking to. --GreenReaper^(talk) 03:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Protected Dragonmorph

Hi there GreenReaper, this is Dragonmorph (for real), can you protect my editing from those unknown Furry haters? --216.61.101.247 15:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

It seems to be fairly well protected already - the change made by a recent vandal was reverted one minute later. --GreenReaper^(talk) 18:43, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Those trolls is gonna start messing up this web again and again. --216.61.101.247 20:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC) - Dragonmorph

It's always possible . . . but if they've not managed it this past year and a half, and not for lack of trying, I think we're reasonably secure. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 20:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Page move and disambiguation page request

Hey there. I was wondering if you or one of the other admins could move Orzel to Orzel_Aquila, and add a disambiguation page for Orzel to link to either Orzel_Tastyeagle or Orzel_Aquila. I can't determine how to easily do this myself, so I figure I'll ask you to take care of it for me.

If there is an easy way to do it, point me to the correct place and I'll take care of it myself.

Thanks. --Orzel 08:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Sure! It should be sorted now. --GreenReaper^(talk) 08:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Comics Template

Hey, Reaper sir. I have a proposition.

I don't know a great deal on the workings of WikiFur, but I am familiar with Wikipedia, and there's one thing I havn't seen here: templates. On Wikipedia, I think in particular of albums, they have -- ah, heck, I'm sure you know what I mean.

Infobox! That's the name.

Anyways... My point is that, and correct me if I'm wrong, they don't seem to exist here on wikifur, and assuming there isn't some technical reason for not having them, I think this place can greatly benefit from them. In particular, I'd like to see an infobox for all the comics we have, so that we can give them all a nice, unified look. It would make things look more professional, and it would help organize all the information easier.

I... think that wound up as more of a ramble than anything else, but yes, that's my idea.

Immelmann 02:27, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

*sigh* Wanna know how awesome I am? Apparently there IS such a thing on wikifur. It's just that no one uses them.

Maybe I should propose a project or something to add the to all the comic pages... Immelmann 03:07, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, we do use them,... We are starting to incorporate them to the appropriate entries, but it's a slow process. Your idea of additional infoboxes is quite fine, the problem is time, coding and incorporation (See: Forum:Infoboxes.) Spirou 03:24, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

There are, as has been mentioned, quite a few templates. If you're interested in helping to add them, and think it would add value to the project, go right ahead! We could use the help. :-) --GreenReaper^(talk) 03:36, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

What am I

Hey, i figured youd be the person to ask. I tried looking other places on the wiki, so here it is: Im a 17 year old male into Furry comics and animations(of the adult type). I can see myself engaging in intercourse with anthromoprhic animals, but not animals in real life. I dont fursuit, and im straight. What does this make me on the furry scale? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DJLO (talk • contribs) .

Hi there! I think I can manage that. Let's take a look on the Official Furry Scale:

You are a 4. Hope that helps! --GreenReaper^(talk) 04:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC) Note: Anyone who takes the above seriously deserves to. :-)

Oh man, that is SO wrong. I like it! --Douglas Muth 19:27, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

haha thanks! DJ 20:12, 17 February 2007 (UTC

So this means the average furry is homosexual? I knew it haha!!--Tagenar 22:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Removing a NPOV

I am not sure if I have done enough research, so forgive me for missing a relevant FAQ, but I want to know how to remove a NPOV designation from the entry on Wolfhome. Is there a procedure for this? If it still seems to be a slanted viewpoint, what criteria is there for knowing when it has been successfully reworked?

On a separate note, I am curious how to sign a document that I've edited... Yeah, I know, I *really* gotta learn how to RTFM someday! :) My posts are showing up with "The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wunderwood"... Am I supposed to sign my comments?

I'm sure GR will forgive me for responding on his talk page, but to sign your comments, just type -- ~~~~ and it will autosign it. Also, you can just click on the 2nd button from the right on the toolbar, the button that looks like a squiggly.--Kendricks Redtail 03:30, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Kendricks. I will practice by signing this update. :) Anyone want to step up to the plate on the NPOV question? It's not urgent or anything, but I figured since Wolfhome is active now and the article isn't all that acerbic, maybe it should be considered. --underdog 00:30, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

If you think it has been successfully neutralized, you are welcome to remove the template. If people disagree, they will probably add it back, along with a note to the talk page or in the edit summary. The criteria is the people's consensus opinion of the article. --GreenReaper^(talk) 00:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Welcome!

Hi GreenReaper, thanks for welcoming me to WikiFur! I've messaged you once before in the FPS IRC channel (under the name wolfi386). I have to say, once again, that WikiFur has been an excellent introduction to the furry fandom for me. Being so new to the fandom (my first exposure to fandom-produced furry artwork was roughly three years ago, but I only started exploring the fandom itself about two months ago), I probably won't be able to expand many articles at first, but I'll do my best at copy-editing and wikification in the meantime! :) --chaos386^(talk) 18:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Just another member saying thank you

Hi GreenReaper, I just also wanted to say thanks for the welcome and kind offer of help, I really appreciate the warm welcome. Crimson Divine

Archiving talk pages

How do I archive an over-full Talk page so that it has a "Talk archives" box like this page? Mitch 20:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Have a look at User talk:GreenReaper/Header. You can copy the top to make your own - I use {{User talk:GreenReaper/Header}} to include it. --GreenReaper^(talk) 20:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for the welcome. There was one question I had, how to send messages; but as you can see I found it out for myself. ^_^ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nido (talk • contribs) .

Hehe, indeed! It's usually a good idea to sign messages on talk pages, too, so other people reading don't have to go back into the history to see who said what - you can do this by putting ~~~~ at the end (or just ~~~ for your name) - like this: --GreenReaper^(talk) 05:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello and thanks!

Hey GreenReaper! Thanks for your help and for cleaning up my page! You're kindness has not gone unnoticed!! >^.^< --Kitoichi 03:37, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

It was a team effort - but, on behalf of the team, you're welcome! --GreenReaper^(talk) 04:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Anthrocon 2007 plannings

I've created a new page over at WikiFur:Conventions/Anthrocon/2007 so that we can discuss what is planned for AC07 as far as wikifur related activities as we discussed on IRC. Please add whatever information or ideas you have concerning events and such. :) -- JaeSharp 10:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Category:Furry

Any chance you'd consider asking the whole Wikifur community to contribute more pictures for this category and Category:Fursuit? -- Zanimum 18:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

We talked in IRC - for those interested in free-licensed images, check out Category:Images by license. --GreenReaper^(talk) 18:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Abando

Hello! Regarding your last change to Abando, I did mean the actual site, not the website (it doesn't exist yet). I couldn't find a real word for the meaning, it's a place in the country, it's like a farm but there is no primary sector activity, it's just a private site, and quite large at that, with almost 84 acres (almost 34 ha). There's many pictures at part 2 of this page.

Thank you for the help! :-) Ekevu 13:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Vandals

No prob - just happened to be fortuitous timing! --Scani 01:51, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey! Thanks for warm the welcome and clean-up of my page. I appreciate it. :D —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tau (talk • contribs) .

Wiki Page, Luca Shoal

Yes, it was Luca Shoal, I was just too stupid to realize that the character from High Tail was a real person. People make mistakes :). Anyway, thanks for cleaning up my page, I know my phrasing isn't the best in the world. --VosAbeo 17:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Rollback

There doesn't seem to be any precedent, except the one set by SK on the 20^th (see [1]). I'm really too tired over here to fight, but it just doesn't feel right. Blast 21.03.07 1324 (UTC)

That's probably because you're from Wikipedia, where most users do not have main-namespace articles about themselves. We have very few categories that are intended for user pages, and they are mostly included for things such as convention attendance which are not considered particularly notable (and which therefore have userboxes). Consider: Would you put Category:Animators on a user page at Wikipedia? No . . . if the person was notable enough to have an article in the main namespace, it would be on there instead. You would remove it from a user page, because main-namespace categories are not meant to link to user pages. Here, almost everyone is considered notable, and so has an article about them, and it is those articles that are under Category:People and the various subcategories thereof. --GreenReaper^(talk) 13:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

For a few more examples of this, check out the user pages linked at WikiFur:Administrators. Most of those people also have pages about themselves. In practice, many users do not have anything but the {{ContributorU}} template link on their user page, added by another user. --GreenReaper^(talk) 13:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, it's hard to get rid of that 'is this notable?' mentality (even if I don't agree with it) on here, so it seemed kind of...I guess narcissistic to make a mainspace article on myself, rather than put it at my userpage (which in practice on WP is where all non-notable people have their 'articles' hosted). Consider also that, when I came here, there were a lot of userspace articles listed in the categories, and so I thought that had been okayed a while ago.

But screw it. I'll shut up and go back to patrolling vandalism on WP now. Blast 21.03.07 1341 (UTC)

Our major problem with user pages is that they're not easy to find or link to. Most searches only cover the main namespace, and with good reason - because those are the ones people want to read and link to. This is fine for Wikipedia, where user pages do not have notable information on, but it doesn't work so well here, where you might well want to link to pages about artists (for example). It also separates the "information about you" edited by anyone from the "information from you" edited mostly by yourself. --GreenReaper^(talk) 13:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

WikiFur News linkage

Hi GR!

I just wanted to point something out to you as I'm not sure if it's supposed to work this way or not.

I've noticed that the ConFuzzled article has this at the bottom:

WikiFur News has a related story:

UK furs plan to be ConFuzzled in 2008

However, the link one would expect to lead to the News article about ConFuzzled actually links back to the ConFuzzled article via: http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search/ConFuzzled

This also happens with the Ursa Major Awards.

I'm not sure how to, or if I even can, rectify this myself so I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction or help out. :) --Graafen Blackpaw^(talk) - 21st March 2007 - 17:47 (UTC)

Good call! This should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing it out. --GreenReaper^(talk) 17:50, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Milestone

I guess at this point GreenReaper should be congratulated for his hard work, having just broken 10,000 Article Edits. --Higgs Raccoon 19:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Yipe! Yes, that's been creeping up over time. The irony is that, as the "other" column shows, almost as much of my time is spent not editing articles but instead talking about them with other users. There's only so much I know myself, but I try to magnify that by helping and encouraging others to edit, both on and off of WikiFur. For every edit I've made, another two were made by people in the "top 10", and another three by other members of WikiFur, which - for me - makes it all worthwhile. :-)

I'd also like to take this opportunity to note the contributions of one of our more reclusive editors, and the second on that list. Sine has written many articles from scratch, and has gone to great lengths to fill out numerous sections of WikiFur, including much of the literature and roleplaying areas. It just goes to show that you don't have to have a big name in the fandom - or any name - to be a great wiki editor and administrator. --GreenReaper^(talk) 21:10, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey GreenReaper, I did a bunch of edits and additions, I want to make sure they're all okay. Thanks! Sgatsby 22:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)