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Contents 1 So, these tab templates... 2 Wikisimpsons christmas logo 3 Question... 4 Spam users 5 Old Money 6 Spam accounts 7 Spam protection 8 Spam IPs 9 Forum thread 10 Re:A couple of things 11 About the play buttons 12 Dealing with spam 13 User pages 14 Deletion of candidates for deletion 15 New template 16 "The Man Who Grew Too Much" and "Diggs" Promo Images 17 Spam articles and spam accounts 18 Can fix this image map, please? 19 Fix the lyrics of this song, please?

So, these tab templates...

If I was going to change the template, there'd need to be a bot edit ASAP. Any ideas? | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 07:09, November 30, 2013 (EST)

How much are you changing and what exactly are you changing? ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 07:46, November 30, 2013 (EST)

TabR, TabA, TabC, TabG, TabQ -> Tab. gags = yes -> gags. quotes = no -> noquotes. | | Talk | Contributions | Edit count | 08:44, November 30, 2013 (EST)

Wikisimpsons christmas logo

Hi Solar! I put the Wikisimpsons christmas logo, but the page still continues with the normal logo. So please, fix the problem. --BTony70099 (talk) 15:37, December 1, 2013 (EST)

The main logo is from a different source and Jake has to change it himself, along with the skin. Jake's been fairly busy with college recently so he hasn't had time to get the Christmas skin up but he should do in the next few days. ☆The Solar Dragon☆ 17:22, December 1, 2013 (EST)

Question...

Excuse, me I have just started an official account. How can I get clearance to edit a semi-protected article? Do I have to wait a few days, I've already done 10 edits.--Spare-tire (talk) 21:55, December 1, 2013 (EST)

You have to wait a set number of days after making a certain number of edits. Both are undisclosed to try and stop users making random crappy edits that do nothing just to get the ability to edit semi-protected articles. Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 05:02, December 3, 2013 (EST)

How many days? --Spare-tire (talk) 16:19, December 3, 2013 (EST)

Did you actually read the comment I wrote? I said it's undisclosed to stop users making random crappy edits. The Solar Dragon 16:31, December 3, 2013 (EST)

That's the point, I don't intend to do that. I should be allowed access to all pages having an authorized account. --Spare-tire (talk) 16:48, December 3, 2013 (EST)

Well, when I say "undisclosed", truth is, it's so undisclosed that I don't even know what it is. :P I think it's either 5, 7 or 10 days though. Not sure which one, if any, is correct. The Solar Dragon 16:50, December 3, 2013 (EST)

Spam users

You know the users that keep registering and put really strange/in-depth personal information on their user pages? I have reasons to believe they are spammers. Surely no-one would reveal such personal info on a wiki, one user page I came across posted an in-depth address. What do you think? ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 11:48, December 7, 2013 (EST)

They're spammers, all right. We've been blocking them and deleting the pages if they post anything with an off-the-wall link in it. If you come across one posting PII such as a street address, go ahead and slap a Speedy Delete tag on it and it'll get the same treatment. -- Mythigator (talk) 12:08, December 7, 2013 (EST)

Yep. Spammers. Unfortunately, there's no way to permanently stop these unless they release their regex accidentally. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 14:10, December 7, 2013 (EST)

I just had a thought related to our spammer asshole. It looks the user count under the wiki stats includes EVERYTHING. Is there any of fine-tuning that count so that we don't have the spam-hole inflating the numbers? If that count could be tweaked to exclude blocked accounts and those that have never made a contribution, that should eliminate all of the spam accounts, and hopefully give the spam-hole one less incentive for continuing with his crap. -- Mythigator (talk) 14:50, December 15, 2013 (EST)

Tried to limit it to autoconfirmed but the code doesn't work for some reason so I emailed Jake. Hopefully get this set up by tomorrow. {{NUMBERINGROUP:autoconfirmed}} should do it but isn't for some reason, only returning 0. Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 15:03, December 15, 2013 (EST)

Good thing I make a practice of looking closely at the entries on the Recent Changes page. For a second I thought that Petrovichnyamilelenkossarian was the work of our spammer. :-D -- Mythigator (talk) 19:27, December 17, 2013 (EST)

Well, the name in yellow next to it should have given you a hint. :P Oh, Jake said that what I was trying to do is not possible and he can't think of a way to do it. The Solar Dragon 03:55, December 18, 2013 (EST)

It's possible that at some point we can do a user cleanup to remove the spammers, but I'll need to write up a script to weed out the spammers from legitimate users and then remove all of their information from the database. At this point, I'd say it's not very high priority and I'd rather focus on other site improvements first. --Jake 12:12, December 18, 2013 (EST)

Old Money

Again, hello, how are you? Watch that episode and Grampa is at Nighthawk Diner. 24.141.5.202 12:39, December 8, 2013 (EST)

Nope. Grampa was at a parody of the painting Nighthawks. It's a different parody of the same painting. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 12:41, December 8, 2013 (EST)

What does "a parody" mean? Are you saying Rex Banner is at different diner that also a reference to Nighthawks or because Grampa is just a short visual gag as opposed to the entire scene with Rex, Eddie, Lou and then Barney makes it different? Again, how is it a different diner in "Old Money" then having the exact same diner be shown again in "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"? In The Simpsons universe there's a diner that we've at least twice which is a reference to Nighthawks painting, that those references are for the "Behind the Laughter" section, but the article is suppose to written a real place to The Simpsons and Grampa and Rex Banner are at the same place and Springfield has two diners that look the same even down the building across the street? 24.141.5.202 12:47, December 8, 2013 (EST)

1) Please do not change talk page comments after posting them. It makes conversations confusing. 2) After finally loading up the episode and finding the scene, which took a lot longer than it should have, I played "spot the difference" with the two. The main difference is that there are seats by the windows in the later episode and not "Old Money". However, I have added it to the article. The Solar Dragon 13:13, December 8, 2013 (EST)

Well, the Simpsons house changes all the time (mostly for the need of a gag which is also what happened since Rex Banner has to be at the window to sham it and grab Barney), but it doesn't make it a different house. To be fair, you didn't add it, I did. You toke it away comrade ;) I get you had to take the time to look at the episode, but couldn't you have just done that first before removing it and arguing against it. Anyhow, thanks for double checking. 24.141.5.202 13:29, December 8, 2013 (EST)

Yeah, as I've said before, and other users have too, IPs are generally treated worse than logged in users. They usually have their edits rollbacked first, questions asked later. I would again suggest that you make an account to allow other users, and me, to take you more seriously. ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 13:36, December 8, 2013 (EST)

Spam accounts

I have reasons to believe all the red-link accounts registered this past half-day are spam accounts: one, they probably would have made edits by now. Two, I recognize some of the names (well, one, to be honest) I believe something needs to be put in place (a few Simpsons questions, for example), when someone registers an account. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 08:12, December 28, 2013 (EST)

I would also like to add the fact that most of them have spam account-like names. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 08:19, December 28, 2013 (EST)

Not sure how it could affect this, but maybe putting in a recaptcha also, if we don't. -- Webkinz ManiaTalkContributionsEditcount 10:18, December 28, 2013 (ESTy

We already have a very advanced captcha system in place which is required for all non-autoconfirmed users to do before saving edits. We don't know what else to try at the moment. ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 11:02, December 28, 2013 (EST)

I know this sounds VERY cruel, but what about automatically blocking/deleting accounts that had not made an edit in the past 12-24 hours since its registration. Some spam accounts don't edit for a few days after their registration, some maybe a few minutes after. This could wipe out and prevent a lot of spam. If these spammers continue to do their business here, I believe we'll have to have an official wiki discussion. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 11:12, December 28, 2013 (EST)

Spam protection

Why is web.archive.org in the spam protection filter? I'm trying to put an address with that in my revised The Simpsons Archive page. ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 13:43, December 28, 2013 (EST)

It was being used to spam on pages hence the adding to the spam blacklist. I'm about to remove it for you. Solar Dragon ^{(Talk • Contribs.)} 04:03, December 30, 2013 (EST)

Spam IPs

Hi Solar, I've just noticed that this IP has been doing vandalism: 156.34.199.194 !!

Please could you block it or something????, thank you!!!!!!!!! / Loco87 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 19:30 December 29, 2013 (EST)

I put a warning on the IP's talk page. Next offense will result in a block. -- Mythigator (talk) 20:24, December 29, 2013 (EST)

Thank You Mythigator!! / Loco87 ^{(Talk / Contribs)} 20:31 December 29, 2013 (EST)

Forum thread

Hi Solar, just wondering if you could post the link to this forum thread in the site notice. I'm trying to decide which table design looks best and it'd really help if the community chose one. Thanks, ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 08:29, January 5, 2014 (EST)

Re:A couple of things

I doubt that I'll be around for long. I'm just starting a page that has been on my mind for a while. As for tables, I won't lie, I'm not going to use that template. The version I'm using now is slightly more complex, and templates usually don't work out with that kind of thing. Isn't it possible to simply re-jig the default settings for wikitables, then you can do away with the templates? -- Brian McClure (talk) 14:44, January 8, 2014 (EST)

About the play buttons

Hi Solar! I really don't like the play buttons. So, i ask the user, Loco87, that re-upload the new versions of the images, without that buttons. Loco87, should re-upload the files that you deleted, with good quality and without play buttons. --BTony70099 (talk) 21:03, January 11, 2014 (EST)

Dealing with spam

How do you deal with spam accounts? The Infosphere has had a lot lately, and they are getting rather aggressive. So I'm wonder what you are doing to prevent them? --Svip (talk) 13:16, January 16, 2014 (EST)

We've installed ConfirmEdit, SpamBlacklist and ConfirmAccount. If you need me to explain any more, will do later. Dinner right now. The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)} 13:23, January 16, 2014 (EST)

How have you configured ConfirmAccount? --Svip (talk) 03:45, January 19, 2014 (EST)

I'm not 100% sure as I don't handle extension installation. You can ask Jake, our server manager, via jake@simpsonswiki.com. The Solar Dragon 04:48, January 19, 2014 (EST)

User pages

May I ask why are you creating user pages for 'new users'? ~ Phinbart (talk • contribs) 16:19, January 18, 2014 (EST)

It's an automatic process when I approve a new account. ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 16:49, January 18, 2014 (EST)

Deletion of candidates for deletion

Hi Solar! Please, delete the articles and files containing the template {{delete}} and which are in the category, candidates for deletion. Wikisimpsons needs a maintenance. --BTony70099 (talk) 16:01, February 13, 2014 (EST)

They have been deleted. For future reference, articles requiring immediate deletion should be marked with {{Speedy delete}} whilst those that are on Wikisimpsons:Pages for deletion use the {{Delete}} template. The Solar Dragon 16:21, February 13, 2014 (EST)

New template

Hi Solar, just if you are interested there is a new similar template for the font: [1] The wiki is looking nice, greetings. --Simpsons88 (talk) 18:34, February 18, 2014 (EST)

We have no use for that template any more. After all, we now have <simpsons></simpsons> tags that do just that. :P i.e. The Solar Dragon 18:36, February 18, 2014 (EST)

"The Man Who Grew Too Much" and "Diggs" Promo Images

Hi Solar, I've uploaded the promotional images for the episodes "The Man Who Grew Too Much" and "Diggs" from Season 25. However, as you have access to FoxFlash, it would be better that you re-uploaded them with better quality. Thanks!! / Loco87 ^{(TALK / Contribs)} 20:27, February 18, 2014 (EST).

Spam articles and spam accounts

Hi Solar! Please, delete these articles, because are spam that has nothing to do with The Simpsons:

Greetings! --BTony70099 (talk) 22:33, February 21, 2014 (EST)

Scratch that last message, The user AleWi did all the work for you. --BTony70099 (talk) 13:26, February 22, 2014 (EST)

Please don't link to the spam pages. It creates red links. I was without Internet for the weekend but I'm back now. The Solar Dragon 15:58, February 23, 2014 (EST)

Can fix this image map, please?

Hi Solar! Please, fix this imagemap:

User:Randomno/Fourth Grade imagemap

Because after re-upload a new version, the positions of the names of the students are disordered, so, please, reorder the names of students, for me it is very difficult to do, so i can't. --BTony70099 (talk) 15:38, February 28, 2014 (EST)

That kind of thing takes a LOT of time and patience, neither of which I have. In other words, I really can't be bothered to do it. The Solar Dragon 15:43, February 28, 2014 (EST)

Fix the lyrics of this song, please?

Hi Solar! Please, fix the lyrics of the song "The Simpsons NFL on Fox Theme Song", because have ortographic errors and words in foreign language. Sorry for putting the lyrics that was not, is that English is not my mother tongue. My mother tongue is Venezuelan Spanish. --BTony70099 (talk) 14:10, March 1, 2014 (EST)