User talk:Ando1400@legacy41958204

Protip
Thanks for the tip, I'll look into that a bit later today. Would now, but I'm going to a movie :P

--Felicia's Champion, 9:06, 17 July 2008 (EST)

Ah
Finally, he's blocked. Those edits he made I couldn't even revert. I literally had to copy and paste everything from a former edit onto the new edit. --Felicia&#39;s Champion 02:52, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Whoa, seriously? He only made one edit to each of the pages that you reverted, though... Why couldn't you? Was it giving you some kind of error? 02:55, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Not exactly, but it wouldn't load up. Matt tells me he was trying to fix the vandalism by revision for thirty minutes. My method took about 2 minutes... --Felicia&#39;s Champion 02:57, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Six months? Seriously! This vandal is the evilest vandal I've ever seen. I've seen some bad ones before, especially on Wikipedia. But this one takes the grand prize. He should have had an infinite block. The pages just locked up and never loaded. Captain Cornflake tried and tried but couldn't get anything to load. I never thought of that other method. Fairly simple really. 02:59, July 18, 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I took a closer look at the previous edits, and I see what you mean now. He made those pages absolutely huge so the server or something couldn't handle them. Wacky. As for the block time, well, I've been thinking that maybe my constant indef-blocking is a little harsh (everyone else always blocks for like 3 or 6 months! so was I being too harsh by going indef?). But I guess that if my peers who would tell me that it's harsh are saying "why DIDN'T you do it" then I guess I should go edit his ban time then, huh? 03:27, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Infinite blocks might be harsh for some types of blocks. But this is a very dangerous user. We don't want him to be back here ever again. Destructive, and obviously evil, users should always be banned forever. That's what I think. 03:32, July 18, 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed. --Felicia&#39;s Champion 03:38, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry for not being here. I should have been at my compy to help revert these huge pages :( 14:18, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

No need to be sorry. We can't all be expected to be here all the time. Heck, I wasn't here - I was at a Scout meeting. 15:23, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Eww, he used that disgusting shock site picture. I think we better use Matt's article on removing embarrassment to prevent any vandals from getting ideas. 21:20, 18 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah. If another vandal sees the huge pages in the history then they might get the idea to do that too. Here is that link again: Removing embarrassment . I suggest testing this on either the Zelda Universe article or the Video Gamer X article first to see if it actually removes the revision from the article's history, or if it simply makes the revision inaccessible. If it does remove it from the history, then go and delete every single revision that this vandal made. 21:40, July 18, 2008 (UTC)


 * Do it on Video Gamer X's article. If something happens to destroy that article, we lost nothing of real importance. 22:29, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Will do later - just got back from THE DARK FREAKING KNIGHT WHICH WAS THE BEST EVER and now I've got stupid Friday night TV shows that I wanna watch. Arggh. Don't think I won't be checkin' in, though, vandals. 01:00, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * So you saw the Dark Knight? I heard it was good, I can't wait to go see it. Anyways, since we're on the topic of movies and TV shows, I reccommened watching Hancock (Movie) and Total Drama Island (TV Show). 15:32, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Alright, well it was an incredibly easy and successful fix for the Video Game X article. I'll go do the rest of the edits-that-could-destroy-computers now. So I'll be temp-deleting user pages. :P 21:01, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * What did the vandal do--Rapido 21:20, 19 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, for obvious reasons, we are not going to tell you exactly what he did. But he basically vandalized a few articles. Then other users reverted his edits. He then vandalized the user pages of those users. He inserted a great deal of nonsense into the pages. Most likely he did a lot of copy and pasting. 21:33, July 19, 2008 (UTC)


 * Let's just say it included a certain shock site picture. He put it on certain pages, people stopped him, then he started vandalizing their pages. 22:32, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Whoa! We have another page that requires this surgery. The April 30th revisions on this page. 14:10, July 21, 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah. I was reverting the guys edits, and back then when I was really rash, I took his flames, copy and pasted them back on his page, and said right back at ya, and signed it. Apparently he wasn't too happy ;) 14:27, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Infinite Ban
Zeldagirl101 wants one. Shes leaving. FOREVER. 19:55, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

If she brings it up I'll tell
If she says anything about it i'll be sure to tell her but If she dosnt ask then maybe she just dosnt care about zeldawiki.org anymore :'( but like I said if she brings it I'll be sure to tell her everything. Hope she does --Bubbles96 20:53, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

aBOUT gEYA
Ok first of all it wasnt supposed to say that second of all I didnt post it and I am not naming anyone...but thx for deleting it! -- 00:30, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Alright, but be careful next time. If you're having problems with people using your account to make edits or something, be sure to log out when you leave the computer. 00:32, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Either she's telling the truth, or she's pulling a Zanramon routine. 00:36, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

FA
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you used that script to add another template, correct? So how many are we on? 12:54, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah. We're up to 36 now. 12:58, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Got it. So say when we have the next one ready, you just write the template, redirect the next one to it, update the FA Template by filling it in to 37 and looking at result, and then if a sysop wasn't here and say, I did it, just tell you the main page is ready to be updated. Is that all good? Oh yeah, and add it to the achieves and clean up the page. That should be correct. 13:03, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Pretty much, only with the addition of making an FA/38 template as well (it should redirect to FA/37). 13:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, now we've got 4 people ready. Me, you, Matt, and Adam. I'm pretty sure we won't be waiting long for a new featured article/picture. 13:16, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Did you forget? We already had an open slot for a featured article. 13:42, July 21, 2008 (UTC)


 * I corrected most of the error. Our main page is blank now. So hurry up and fix it. It goes to FA/31. Remember that before the Pedestal of Time had four slots to it. 13:56, July 21, 2008 (UTC)


 * Remember to always check this page before adding a featured article. 14:02, July 21, 2008 (UTC)


 * Don't forget to set the featured picture back to rotation. 14:18, July 21, 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, Matt, when I use the file, do I take out ALL the code and copy and paste the result in? 14:29, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

You select and copy all the code on the result page. Then you paste it over the old code in the template. 14:33, July 21, 2008 (UTC)


 * Got it. Suddenly I feel important :D 14:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, I know that we fixed that 4-PoT-entries thing a long time ago. Like, when Master Sword became featured. I have no idea what happened here.
 * Regardless, while I appreciate you catching this Matt, PLEASE wait until you know I'm online next time something like this happens. The main page had blank nothing for its featured article for five hours. Unacceptable. 18:51, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I thought I still had both you and Mases when I asked. I asked Mases not but thirty seconds after his last edit but left before That. I was actually hoping you'd show sooner. I was going to ask one of the others that were always on the chatroom if you did not do it within an hour or so. But that whole delete template problem made me forget. Sorry. 19:06, July 21, 2008 (UTC)

Vandal
Ea thinks 3 months, I think infinite. and you? 01:38, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Eh, I'd have done infinite myself. Timed blocks, to me, say "Well, you did wrong, so I hope that this teaches you your lesson." Whereas those who are here for the sole purpose of vandalizing and are probably beyond all possible hope of ever being a real human being should get an indefinite block. These are my thoughts, though, and the ZW policy DOES state that "block times are up to the discretion of the blocking administrator". 01:47, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I honestly think he needs infinite. He's not going to learn his lesson. C'mon, he not only vandalizes important articles, but he calls ZeldaWiki shit and then curses me for reverting edits. Something tells me this isn't going to stop. 01:49, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree. I'm honestly not to worried about it, though. What are the odds that this person is actually going to remember in three months that their account isn't blocked anymore and that they can vandalize again? And are they going to even care given the speed with which the block was delivered? Something tells me that it won't happen. After all, a quick glance through the block log tells me that it's never happened in the history of the site. 01:53, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I hope he forgets me... 01:55, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, well, well. I step away for a few hours and this happens. At least this one is not as bad as the last one. Here is a suggestion for something for Ando to do while I'm gone for about the next week or so: Look through the block records and check out the pages that have been vandalized. See if any of them are bad enough that the page history needs to be altered. I know the Seablue's talk page needs this. You don't have to do all this at once. I'm going to be gone for some time. I already talked about it here. Even though I'm actually leaving Wednesday (July 23), I am going to be busy with other things later on tomorrow (July 22). It is basically getting supplies and stuff for the trip. We might catch a movie though, and I think you've suggested the perfect one to see. So everyone, watch for vandals, hope for me that I won''t get rained out like last time, and well, keep doing the improving the wiki stuff. 03:24, July 22, 2008 (UTC)


 * As offensive as the [automatically generated] edit summaries of this vandal are, It might be a good idea to modify the page history on those pages too. I just don't like the idea of having those oh so "colorful" words in the edit history of some of our most important pages. Agreed? By the way, I also suggest that you go no lower than three months for vandalism of this type. Just look how fast the few last two months have gone by. I can still remember little details like that from May and April. It is a little fuzzier a little farther back. I don't know if that will actually help you in deciding it. Perhaps we should make a block time guideline page. Then we could iron out the times on the page's talk page rather than have the talks about scattered all over the place. These are just my random thoughts. I tend to get a lot of the when I'm tired. but they often end up to be very useful later on. 03:35, July 22, 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I wasn't worried about editing the histories of the pages but you bring a good point with the language in the edit summaries. I'd forgotten about that. I'll go track down the pages that contain some less... good... edit summaries and edit them out later tonight (fewer people are on at night to notice that the Link page has been mysteriously deleted for a short amount of time). 03:52, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Maybe I should keep the newest vandalization on my page for the lulz.... 14:00, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * So I decided against fixing it. After thinking about it for a big, I didn't entirely see the gain. The "removing embarrassment" guide talks about removing things that could be potentially harmful (personal data, etc.), not necessarily undoing vandalism. No other Wiki does this as far as I know, and having to check off every one of the 700-something edits except those two for each of the big pages just seems like unnecessary work (there's no "invert selection" button. I've looked). With enough editing, it'll get bumped down so low that no one will notice anyway. :P 05:29, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Translater
I hope this translater was realiable..... Eu sou uma menina pequena stupid e eu realizo porque meu grandma disse que a o becuz I dito mimo agradece quando ela erm ...... dito ..... algumas coisas ...... -- 18:12, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

I am a girl small stupid and I carry out because my grandma said what I stated gift thanks for a becuz when it links erm ...... dictate ..... some things ......? 22:28, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Here is what my context menu translation extension says it means:

"I am a stupid little girl and I perform because my grandma said that the surprise gift becuz I said thanks when she erm ...... said ..... some things ......"

- Translation


 * That sounds a little bit better. 22:54, July 22, 2008 (UTC)


 * Shes not that stupid though... 22:56, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Correct, but the word is in there in English already. I don't know why. 23:03, July 22, 2008 (UTC)


 * Maybe she thinks she's stupid... 23:12, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

More likely, it is merely an attempt an humor. 23:18, July 22, 2008 (UTC)

Solving the Puzzle
Now that we have identified the exact cause of the problem with special pages showing nonexistent links (see here), we know have the responsibility of fixing the ParserFunctions extension itself. Countless wikis out there use it. As I said on the Hyrule Castle page, I'm having a discussion with an extension developer over at MediaWiki. But since I'm going camping, I'll be unable to continue said discussion until I return. The person I'm talking to might require more information. The page is Extension talk:ParserFunctions. Would it be possible for you to go there and continue the discussion for the next several days? I think you will only have to go there a few times each day. If you don't have an account at MediaWiki, then to the Wikipedia special page: Special:Preferences. Then click "manage your global account". Follow the simple instructions and you'll then have your Wikipedia username reserved on MediaWiki, as well all the other wikis of the Wikimedia Foundation. 03:36, July 23, 2008 (UTC)


 * Done, sir. I'll keep up with the page at least daily, if not checking in a few times a day. 05:14, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Me too. I'll try to answer to the best of my knowledge, getting help here whenever I need be. 14:26, 23 July 2008 (UTC)