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PDL Since: Jul, 2010
#1: Jun 27th 2015 at 6:58:16 PM

This page was made with the wrong page type. I've looked all over the site, and there doesn't seem to be any way to fix this. The administrative pages on how to fix a page type is also outdated.

videogmer314 from that one place Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#2: Jun 27th 2015 at 10:56:47 PM

You can't. Only moderators can fix page types.

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#3: Jun 28th 2015 at 1:28:50 PM

Yeah, an annoying issue. I already fixed your page.

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CrystalGlacia from at least we're not detroit Since: May, 2009
#4: Jul 21st 2015 at 6:01:05 PM

If that's so, we might want a sticky for page type changes. From time to time, I find pages like Characters.Rokka No Yuusha, Creator.The Black Duelist, or Fanfic.Yu Gi Oh Revolution Gathering that were accidentally set to do indexing.

So is this a glitch, or is it an anti-vandal measure?

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#5: Jul 22nd 2015 at 3:10:01 AM

Fixed these three pages; further requests can go here.

It wasn't an anti-vandalism removal, by the way, even if the number of bad page type changes has dropped dramatically. It was removed because it was associated with another function that was breaking Google indexing.

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Antwan Ramblin' Mushroom from Washington Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
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#6: Aug 14th 2015 at 11:47:49 PM

I like to ask something. Since the page types are breaking Google Indexing, does that mean we should not be using the Un-Typed Pages tool?

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#7: Aug 14th 2015 at 11:48:50 PM

It's not the page types that were doing it; it was the presence of creation and modification dates.

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lakingsif Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#8: Aug 15th 2015 at 3:32:56 PM

Wasn't there a tool to change page type in the left sidebar? I'm sure I used it a few times. Do the [[index]] tags still work?

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#9: Aug 16th 2015 at 11:29:48 AM

There was. The wiki changed and it started to hurt the Google stuff, so it was made moderator-only until we finish moving to 2.0 style, which might render it unneeded.

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#10: Aug 16th 2015 at 11:32:28 AM

We won't have page types like that in 2.0. Way too much of a hassle to maintain.

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