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I'll start it off: could someone please unlock Hootie And The Blowfish so I can make a new page on it? The last page was cut for being copypasta from Wikipedia.
edited 18th Nov '14 1:26:41 AM by SeptimusHeap
I'm aware of that. I'm just saying that it's a damned shame that all the other tropers have to be permanently inconvenienced because of one idiot. (Honestly, I wish he'd channel his rage into something important, like feeding starving children. Yeah, I know, Appeal to Worse Problems, but I'm too pissed off to care.) I hope that changes someday.
This isn't about Nate. It's about a different vandal who targets the Teen Wolf and Vampire Diaries articles for a massive onslaught of ZCEs and trope misuse. Every time we unlock them, she returns within days.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Mark: Fighteer was responding to the request about the Teen Wolf page, not your request at all. We do hope to unlock those administrivia articles; we will do so when we feel Nate is gone enough.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.Hint: He is not. /sigh
Too bad it's very difficult to detect open proxies reliably, or stopping him would be a lot easier.
edited 20th Feb '14 5:28:18 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"All Animation Is Disney. In addition to an obvious typo in a place where it should be noticed, it's not a controversial enough subject to warrant a lock.
2025: the year it all ends?Indeed. I fixed a typo — is that the one you meant?
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.I really don't like that one person can be persistent enough to paralyze a page. I think everyone will benefit from a whitelisting system.
I now go by Graf von Tirol.Do you have an alternative? I know Wikipedia can soft-lock pages, so that they can only be edited by "trusted" people. That's something that we could consider doing, if Eddie's willing. But the truly determined vandals will eventually get a foot in the door even if it gets slammed on them immediately.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Well, we have some ideas in the pipeline. Can't discuss in too much detail now. It helps that most of our regular vandals have patterns that are easily identified.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I'm trying move Stargate SG-1 recaps to unhyphenated pages, but the following unhyphenated pages are locked. Could they be unlocked so I can move the content there?
- Stargate SG-1 S 1 E 1 Children Of The Gods
- Stargate SG-1 S 1 E 3 Emancipation
- Stargate SG-1 S 1 E 7 The Nox
- Stargate SG-1 S4 E2 "The Other Side"
- Stargate SG-1 S6 E1 "Redemption, Part 1"
edited 22nd Feb '14 6:39:11 AM by Viira
The Taps YKTTW ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=3rk87sgwvna09vsqvxoi5twb
) is ready to be launched, but the page under the same name is locked. Unlock please?
The Variable Geo character page should really be recreated at Characters.Advanced Variable Geo, to avoid potential infringement on the "Bleached Underpants only" rule (all the OVA's characters come from the first Advanced V.G.). I have a saved copy of the old character sheet, by the way.
Characters.Advanced Variable Geo is already unlocked.
Faux Pas was locked due to our dear friend Nate. Again, we will unlock it when we feel he is gone enough.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.Can I suggest we unlock the Persona 5 page? The game has officially been announced for several months & has now had a US release confirmed, and yet we still have a blank page for the title.

A very persistent anti-namespace vandal targets the Administrivia pages regarding namespaces. Take a look at their histories.