Wookieepedia talk:Community Portal/Archive9

Advertising for other wikis
What is the problem with advertising for editors on other wikicities? Why was Padme 829's add of the advert reverted? --Darth Mantus 12:02, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think a quick notice here is bad, but a separate page is unneccesary. &mdash; Silly Dan 12:44, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's polite to try to draw people's attention away from a wiki that has an admin shortage itself. &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  14:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I deleted it, because an attempt to draw our editors away from this wiki does not warrant its own page. --Imp 14:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Why is it drawing editors away, I try and edit now and again on both Wookiepedia and the Lord of the Rings Wiki, so I don't see the problem--Darth Mantus 19:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * If people want to edit your wiki they will. You don't need to advertise.--DannyBoy7783 06:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Disabling Google ads
Open Preferences and select the Uncyclopedia skin. It's identical to Monobook, except it doesn't show the Google ads and the "From Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki." text. - Sikon [ Talk ] 08:42, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks!--DannyBoy7783 18:26, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * This was actually a bug. The Uncyclopedia skin should have been available only on that wiki. Sorry, but this is reverting to monobook now. Angela (talk)

Should we lock featured articles?
This was brought up briefly in the most recent Jabber meeting, and I thought it was worth expanding on; should we lock featured articles while they're on the main page, what with them being some of the most frequently vandalized articles? I don't think it would hinder edits a great deal (partly because they're featured in the first place, so they shouldn't need a whole lot), and if something does need to be added they can bring it up on the talk page and let an admin handle it. I've made a tentative template to go along with the idea if it goes through. With a lot of crap, --MarcK [talk] 08:05, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No. There's always potential for further improvement. Pages should be protected only to prevent edit wars. - Sikon [ Talk ] 08:52, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Locking the featured article would be overkill. But we should insta-perma-ban everyone who vandalizes it, with no warning and no appeal. &mdash;Darth Culator   (talk)  17:48, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Spam Protection Filter?
I just tried editing the Kinman Doriana page, and the wiki wouldn't let me save my changes because the link to a HoloNet News website triggered a 'spam protection filter." Is there any way for the admins to turn this off? Kuralyov 19:35, 21 January 2006 (UTC)


 * It shouldn't be turned off. If there is spam in a page, it needs to be removed. The Spam cleanup script will revert any pages with spam left in them. However, HoloNet News isn't in the blacklist so shouldn't have triggered this anyway. I can't repeat the problem but please let me know if it happens again. Angela (talk) 07:29, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Formatting problem in Mozilla

 * Does Wookieepedia look screwed up to anyone using Mozilla besides me? The formatting is all weird and the tabs and stuff normally displayed at the top of the screen and along the left side are way down at the bottom. jSarek 01:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * . . . and now it's cleared up. Probably some kind of caching error on my end; disregard, unless I gripe about it again. ;-) jSarek 03:10, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Star Destroyer
The official names are not present on the wikipedia site.
 * Yes they are. The databank names aren't always what we keep our articles at - please see Super Battle Droid, Thrawn, Turbo Tank and many others. Wookieepedia is a place for consensus, not new users running amok. QuentinGeorge 08:47, 24 January 2006 (UTC)