Screwed up custom titles to fix.

World War II has a custom title that needs killing.

Could someone please fix the custom title for The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes? I already requested four times for it to read, "The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes", and it annoys me as heck to see written it in articles without at least a "the".

edited 10th Feb '13 2:05:57 PM by dsneybuf

Did you submit it as WesternAnimation/ or Westernanimation/?

WesternAnimation/

And that's why it's not working - never submit a custom title with a CamelCase namespace.

Submitting it with a lowercase "a" in "animation" doesn't work either. The requests keep getting rejected!

It's too late - once the wrong custom title has been submitted, it can't be easily fixed.

If your first request was in CamelCase, then so are the next ones, despite what you input in the custom titler.

I'm assuming all this is being stored on some SQL server somewhere out there, where a quick UPDATE statement would solve these issues.

I'm also assuming only Fast Eddie has access to said SQL server...

Unless that SQL Server is set globally to case insensitive—and Eddie is unlikely to have access to that setting unless he has the server running in his basement. I suspect, however, that he only rents space at a server farm, so the only dirty solution would be a DELETE statement. I also suspect that the recent reset of a lot of custom titles (see the last couple pages in this thread) was a consequence of such DELETE action applied to recent additions.

Eddie can manually reset custom-titles back to default setting, so that we can resubmit the correct ones afterwards. It's been done before.

King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow —Got its custom title messed up when I was trying to see if I could figure out how someone finaly got a custom title to work properly for the Video Game namespace in the first place and accidentally submitted it. I quickly submitted a correction when my goof got approved, but that was a few days ago and the correction is still sitting there. X3

It's working here.

Guess somebody finally got it through. Thanks!

I was directed here to get custom titles fixed on a couple of fanfic works pages. Being a newbie, I didn't know at the time that we're not supposed to use CamelCase in the custom titler. The pages in question are:

FanFic.Courtney And The Violin Of Despair

FanFic.Total Drama Island By Gilbert And Sullivan

Even non-newbies often don't have any idea about that. Yours truly is a living proof of that.

I also made the mistake of submitting a Custom Title Request with a CamelCased namespace: DarthWiki.Half Life World Line (a fan fiction I'm writing and made that page for). The title at the top of the page displays properly, but not in Wiki Words. I wondered why it wasn't working, and then felt like a moron when I read How to Make a Custom Title. I've resubmitted it several times without CamelCase on the namespace, to no avail. What can I do?

Also, I don't know who or where to go to about this, but the caveat that you can't CamelCase a namespace when submitting a custom title request, should really be under the "How This Works" folder on the request page itself. Who can add that, and how do we ask them to?

edited 10th Mar '13 11:43:59 AM by NoriMori

Only Fast Eddie can add it, and it's under discussion here.

That's good to know. In the meantime, what can I do about my broken Darth Wiki title? Should I submit a "moderator assistance" request under the tools sidebar?

edited 10th Mar '13 11:48:54 AM by NoriMori

You want just one .

As for the current title, you'll have to wait until it gets removed.

Oh, really? Sorry. O_O I see people use them all the time, so I thought it was just a way of pointing at the one above, I didn't realize the number of arrows was important. XD

Anywho, how do I get it removed?

By posting here. This thread is here so that Eddie and the moderator staff has a list of custom titles that need fixing. By posting here, you've added it to the fix list.

Also, the comment about the was a suggestion, not an order.

edited 10th Mar '13 11:51:45 AM by SeptimusHeap

Awesome! How long do you figure it'll take?

"Also, the comment about the was a suggestion, not an order."

I didn't take it as an order, more so as a statement about posting conventions in the forums. :P

Edit:

So, ah, does anyone know how long this ordinarily takes? Is there a huge backlog or do these get taken care of in fairly short order?

edited 11th Mar '13 11:16:51 AM by NoriMori

Looks like I might have accidentally done this with Lilo & Stitch: The Series before I knew about the limitation. ^^;

During my wiki-travels, I've also noticed that Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers seems to have a similar problem - there's a custom title on the page itself, but it's not showing on the links.

edited 12th Mar '13 6:36:46 PM by MarkKB

I don't want to sound like a nag, but does anyone know how long it might be before these get fixed? After a few days I sent a moderator assistance request with my page, but still nothing. How long can I expect to wait? I'm asking because some titles posted have already been fixed, while some that are farther back (or more recent but still a few weeks prior to now) remain broken.