Guild Wars Wiki:Admin noticeboard

__NEWSECTIONLINK__ Please refrain from discussing here! (read the rules) The Admin noticeboard is one way through which users can notify administrators of issues needing administrative attention. While users are welcome to directly contact specific administrators (especially if they are seen to be active), posting here can be an easier and quicker way of ensuring that at least one admin will notice an issue and respond to it promptly. Remember to sign when posting an issue.

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In case of vandalism, posting about it here is low priority. Revert it first, anyone can do so. If the vandal created a new page, tag it for deletion. Assume good faith and consider leaving a message on that user's talk page to explain the reason. Post here only if the user has made several disruptive edits and/or persists despite a warning. Always avoid a revert war with the vandal; it is far better to wait until an admin has a chance to intervene.

As a sign of courtesy, also leave a message on the talk page of any involved user.
 * Creating a new request &mdash; vandals
 * 1) Edit the Vandal issues section
 * 2) At the top of the list, use the   template. Provide a short and neutral summary of the issue
 * Creating a new request &mdash; non-vandal cases (e.g. user issues, page protection/undeletion, etc.)
 * 1) Add [ a new section (+)] to the page and enter an appropriate title (without using templates or links) in the subject field.
 * 2) In the edit field, enter a short and neutral summary of the issue. Use the   template to refer to users involved with the case and provide links to important pages or edits.

Vandal issues
Starting with the most recent vandals.

Appears to be same as 71.125.133.221. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:55, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked. [[Image:User Aiiane-a.gif|Go to Aiiane's Talk page]] (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 22:07, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Any chance of protecting Signet of Spirits from IP edits? It seems to get hit on a semi-regular basis, always from IPs. -- Hong 12:51, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Second removal of SoS trivia within 7 days. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 18:31, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment -- looks like the Trivia Vandal. I was almost starting to miss him. -- R i ddle 18:38, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * :) 71.125.133.221 18:50, 4 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Blocked by User:Tanetris — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:49, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Bugging us — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 08:47, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
 * b& - Auron 10:46, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

Currently being targeted by spambots. -- Hong 10:20, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Talk:Bot
 * Taken care of by Auron. G R E E N E R  04:09, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Random vandals. • • • Mora  00:46, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Gone. Didn't see this before, sorry. G R E E N E R  03:39, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Unable to resist Nicholas Sandford ( over a dozen changes about two dozen changes, in two three sessions; each edit within a session about 1 min apart). — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 09:28, 10 June 2011 (UTC) (updated 11:13, 10 June 2011 (UTC))
 * Resolved by User:Tanetris. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 17:50, 10 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Scandalous! -- R i ddle 05:48, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * *update* whacked by Tane. -- R i ddle 05:56, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * *update* whacked by Tane. -- R i ddle 05:56, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Vandalizing the Admin noticeboard. 46.73.77.95 Vald [Citation Needed]  02:08, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked. — [[Image:User indochine dsk tree.png|15px]] Indochine  talk 01:08, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Creating vandal pages. 95.135.141.69 -- Kniblet Beast  04:31, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Taken care of by Tanetris. G R E E N E R  05:26, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Creating vandal pages. 24.162.138.215 18:55, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Creating french pages. I left a message on the talk page. --Xeeron 19:19, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Creating vandal pages. • • • Mora  19:24, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Resolved – Emmett  19:31, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

This user made Precisely how To make a Authentic H2o Word Consequence and filled it with spam Rumian 08:02, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Auron blocked him. — [[Image:User indochine dsk tree.png|15px]] Indochine  talk 07:40, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

A dozen plus entries. (Jon is probably on this already.) — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 20:50, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Banned by Jon. Kaisha  User Kaisha Sig.png 21:07, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

— Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 03:32, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

removing all content from this page
 * Blocked. G R E E N E R  21:51, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

but using the undo revision by User:X trick to make it look like something other than vandalism. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 16:55, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Blocked. G R E E N E R  21:51, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

V A N D A L S -- The Holy Dragons 10:35, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

All vandals again. (what is this madness? perhaps one guild trolling here?)-- The Holy Dragons 10:23, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

and another load of vandals... -- The Holy Dragons 10:06, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

another vandal.. (I can't take his anymore!) -- The Holy Dragons 09:27, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

all vandals again... -- The Holy Dragons 09:24, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

We could really use an admin atm. another vandal -- The Holy Dragons 09:16, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

as promised another vandal. -- The Holy Dragons 09:12, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

All vandals I'll probs add more (it's an invasion of vandals atm) -- The Holy Dragons 09:10, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Keeps removing content from IP's talk page. Has been warned, alerted to policy. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 16:57, 15 April 2011 (UTC)


 * vandalising this very page
 * b& --The preceding unsigned comment was added by BramStoker (talk &bull; contribs) at 12:21, 14 April 2011 (UTC).

, (The Zombie Warlock fan.)

marked prof historical, altered quotation, added trade value of armbrace; inappropriate, but not vandalistic, http://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Attribute&diff=prev&oldid=2277628,,.

(see also:

(BoA) Brotherhood of Acension
Hello, (BoA)Brotherhood of Ascension, has been restored and is now begining to start a new. we have been recruiting and are looking to restore our page here on wiki. We are not ready to fade as a historical guild yet, thank you for your help. , always Soul Raid
 * Moving your guild page from historical to active is something any registered user can do. It has been taken care of. Please do not remove the guild tag from the page. Also, please sign your posts with 4 tildes ~ -- Wyn [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon2.png|19px ]] talk  15:47, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Semi-protection suggestions
The recent storm of vandal bots fell on a lot of articles, some of which are templates that are used throughout the wiki. I would like the admin team to formally consider semi-protecting more of these templates; it won't stop all vandalism, but it will reduce the impact.
 * category:style templates
 * category:color templates
 * any research templates, e.g. Zaishen_quest_research, Nicholas_the_Traveler_research, math

Thanks — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 21:31, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

featured
can someone please change it over... its been 2 weeks with the white mantle.- Zesbeer 07:45, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

User:Smelly Seaman
Though I think no malice was intended, his username is undoubtedly inappropriate. elix Omni 10:04, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Swung by talk page. G R E E N E R  15:15, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

User:하나
Pretty much impossible to get to the user without copy+pasting. If he/she/it wants to contribute outside the guild namespace a new login should be requested. elix Omni 21:28, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * On it. &mdash;  Raine Valen  [[Image:User_Raine_R.gif|19px]]  21:29, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Requested partial protection
The Lucky and Unlucky article has been subject to multiple rollbacks now (presumably, by the same editor via socking) - with absolutely no helpful discussion placed on the talk page as to why it is being reverted, or how the previous version is of better quality than the revision. (See, here) Ryuu   - lol wiki 21:23, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Some questionable justification for the reverts has since been given, here, but for the sake of coming to a consensus, I'd still like partial page protection, if not an IP block - based on administrative decision. User_Ryuu_R.jpg‎ Ryuu   - lol wiki 21:43, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Resolved by Auron and Raine. Ryuu  - lol wiki 22:11, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I also did a check user to confirm Ryuu's theory of sockpuppetry. - Auron 22:25, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Banned
Admin Auron banned me and made up lies about me. He say I make 2 accounts. That lie I make only one. I want other admin to check info and prove I am telling truth and fire Auron for playing favorite with Ryuu and Tennisee Earnie Ford. I not telling lies I telling truth I want other admin to help prove I tell truth. Please help prove he is liar.
 * CheckUser says otherwise. Thanks for cutting it out to avoid being banned longer for ban evasion; thanks.  &mdash;  Raine Valen  [[Image:User_Raine_R.gif|19px]]  0:06, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * show me check user I only make one account I tell the truth
 * Resolved by Raine User_Ryuu_R.jpg‎ Ryuu   - lol wiki 00:13, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Render for Thackeray (Featured Page)
Hi I have a render of Keiran Thackeray. One considered official, like ripped from the game and rendered in a 3D program. It looks way nicer than the photoshop cut out that is used now, shows more detail, has a better angle and lighting and is larger, so I'd figured it would be great for the new featured page. But it won't let me upload it. Any way you can get me around that edit block? -- Magamdy 21:09, 9 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Feel free to upload it under your user space first, if you wish, and people with more taste than I can weigh in. I see you uploaded File:Keiran Thackeray (Hearts of the North).jpg, which is a great shot of him during that time, but I assume you're talking about a different image that you have. G R E E N E R  01:03, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Here this image: [[Image:User Magamdy Keiran Thackeray (Test).jpg|100px]] in favor of this [[Image:Keiran Thackeray.jpg|100px]] -- Magamdy 08:39, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Ohai.
Could i please have the first rev. of this image deleted? no biggy, just it'd be nice. --<span style="background-color: Lavender; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #c7c7c7; padding: 0 5px;"> Neil •  15:42, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Just cuz yer purdy. --JonTheMon 15:55, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Nicholas the traveler page update
Nic's post page needs to be updated. It shows the current map and item, however, the map caption is from last week, and also needs to be updated. 69.182.175.212 17:16, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It's been fixed by Kaisha. (FYI you can post this type of request on Nick's talk page; any registered user can make the necessary edits.) — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 17:50, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Landmark list template
Is borken and inserting raw HTML rather than Wiki markup, not sure what caused it. See any of the region pages for what it looks like, eg Far Shiverpeaks which is where I first noticed the problem. -- Hong 08:41, 1 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Yah, it's a #DPL issue associated with the recent update (i.e. it borked more than the Landmark lists). Progress on resolving it is being tracked at Guild Wars Wiki:Reporting wiki bugs. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 08:44, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Battle Isle Iced Tea
The revert wars really need to stop (especially since the talk page consensus is overwhelmingly in favor of removing the "possible" bit). -- Armond Warblade 19:36, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Semi-protected for a week. [[Image:User Aiiane-a.gif|Go to Aiiane's Talk page]] (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 21:35, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Spambots
It appears that GWW is being targeted by the same spammy mcbotnet that was busting up Curse wikis the other week. The steps we took to combat them on GuildWiki can be found from here down to the bottom of the page, but it looks like AbuseFilter was the single most effective measure. elix Omni 01:00, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * This (AbuseFilter) would probably be a good thing to put on GWWT:RFTA. [[Image:User Aiiane-a.gif|Go to Aiiane's Talk page]] (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 01:39, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Now that I look at that, it turns out AbuseFilter was requested a number of months ago at least; see GWWT:RFTA. That's... not good. [[Image:User_Felix_Omni_Signature.png]]elix Omni 01:41, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It looks like it never got turned into an actual formal request; Jon is writing up one for it now. [[Image:User Aiiane-a.gif|Go to Aiiane's Talk page]] (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 01:43, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Potential problem
Auron has been attacking me instead of responding to my arguments in several instances on Guild Wars Wiki:Elections/2011-06_bureaucrat_election/Aiiane, in particular saying things such as "I doubt anyone takes anything you say remotely seriously." and "You are not the first troll to attempt to disrupt bcrat elections." Besides violating the tenet of assuming good faith by implying I act to disrupt and damage the wiki, he is also attempting to discredit my arguments by attacking my character, which is directly prohibited by GWW:NPA. I have already requested that he respond to the comment instead of the commentator, which he only partially heeded, and he's also attempted to quash discussion by threatening bans, so I ask that administrators review the situation. elix Omni 00:08, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Guild page vandal
edited on TD(The Dawnrise) wiki page several times leaving malicious and slanderous content here is one of the posts she made:==About Us== The guild is run by Texan Vixen or Micks Little Queen on her side.She likes to gossip a lot and cause people to be miserable.The members are not allowed to talk in Alliance Chat about anything other than MQSC.Other than make people miserable,she lies about others,sends spies into other alliances and spikes the guilds.Her view is you mind your own alliance and she will mind hers,in reality she likes to know whats going on everywhere and will tell you how to run your alliance.She never boots guilds,so expect a guild to troll and it be fine with her.As long as she has Faction!
 * Addressed by Jon. G R E E N E R  01:52, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Nicholas the Traveler on the main page broken each new year's
the DPL magic on the main page to display nicholas' item gets broken for a few days every time a year rolls around. I think I've found the issue: Template:Nicholas the Traveler research.mainpage uses "W Y" as a dateformat, Weeknumber and Year, e.g. "52 2010" for the last week in 2010. The first days of a new year still belong to the same week, but the next year, so january first, 2011 turns to "52 2011". According to the php documentation there's an "o" parameter:
 * "ISO-8601 year number. This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (added in PHP 5.1.0)"

By changing the date format from "W Y" to "W o", this issue should be resolved. See the difference, before:, after:. Since I can't change that template, I'll have to ask an admin to do so. It needs to be replaced in both invocations of the #time template. Thanks! Tub 14:47, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * done by Poke. Thanks! Tub 23:20, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

== Nathe <em class="plainlinks" style="margin-left: 0.5em; font-size: 90%;">(talk • contribs • [ logs]) ==

Harassing Anet employees again on Feedback_talk:John Stumme. elix Omni 22:01, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Oroku
So, there's a Factions crafter and an ally in WoC both named Oroku. I put a move notice at the top of the existing Oroku page (which is about the crafter) because I thought the ally should be the default article. At least one person objected, and noone has agreed with me, so no consensus for moving has been reached. However, Falconeye has now moved both Orokus to their own pages, Oroku (crafter) and Oroku (Ministry of Purity). I want to undo this because there's no consensus yet, but I can't because the Oroku page still exists -- at least without manual copy-and-pasting. Can a nice admin do the moving for me? -- Hong 17:39, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The objection I mention is here, BTW. -- Hong 17:48, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Signet of Spirits — time for a new approach?
In the past 12 months, there have been 83 edits to Signet of Spirits.
 * Only 6 edits have been of substance; each of those edits was made by a registered user (Silver Edge 2x, TEF 3x, JP 1x).
 * 3 of the edits have been protecting the page against vandalism.
 * The remainder (74) have been vandalistic removal of the Fear/Anger/Hate trivia...or undoing of the same. (In case it doesn't go without saying, all of the vandalism has been done by anonymous editors.)

I know the wiki has a strong policy about being open to any contributors, but I think this page has become an attractive nuisance. When over 90% of the effort involved in an article is graffiti or its cleanup, it's worth considering whether we should treat this page differently. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 08:36, 11 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you for grabbing those details. I will up the length of the protection to 3 months. Other admin may disagree, and they are more than welcome to reduce the time. G R E E N E R  03:54, 12 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 04:03, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Request to hide history
See. The user does not want his toon's name to appear in the screenshots. (Please hide the earliest versions.) Thanks. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 21:21, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Done --JonTheMon 21:24, 13 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Super. Thank you for the quick response. — Tennessee Ernie Ford ( TEF ) 21:35, 13 July 2011 (UTC)