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NoriMori from the far side of a Combine portal Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#26: Mar 18th 2013 at 2:34:05 PM

[up][up]He only mentioned it. That still isn't what this topic was about, or what we were wanting Fast Eddie to do. We just want someone (I believe someone said any admin could do it?) to add a line to the "How This Works" folder saying not to CamelCase namespaces.

Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#27: Mar 18th 2013 at 5:52:43 PM

Fast Eddie is the only active admin.

NoriMori from the far side of a Combine portal Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#28: Mar 18th 2013 at 6:57:38 PM

Ah. Well, in any case, we're talking about adding that line to the folder, not changing the code.

ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#29: Mar 20th 2013 at 8:46:00 AM

So am I to assume from the locking of the "borked up custom title needs fixing" thread that submitting a new title for a page with a broken custom title works now? As I recall, once it had a custom title, that was it - get it right the first time, or else be forced to take it to staff to fix 'er up. Is that no longer the case?

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NoriMori from the far side of a Combine portal Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#30: Mar 20th 2013 at 8:52:03 AM

[up]Fast Eddie says about that thread:

"Closing this. It is confusing folks. Just go ahead and use the customizer on the menu to put in your requests."

edited 20th Mar '13 8:52:17 AM by NoriMori

ShadowHog from Earth Since: May, 2009 Relationship Status: Healthy, deeply-felt respect for this here Shotgun
#31: Mar 20th 2013 at 8:55:02 AM

I know what Fast Eddie said. I wanted to confirm what I asked.

Moon
lu127 Paper Master from 異界 Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: Crazy Cat Lady
#32: Mar 20th 2013 at 9:01:31 AM

Ok, let me clear this up:

Submitting a new custom title overrides the previous one, if the request is accepted.

THAT IS NOT THE CASE WITH THE CAMELCASE PROBLEM. If you submit a custom title with the namespace camelcased, then while the display on the page itself will change, it will not work on the wicks and we have no way to reset it, other than Eddie. Future custom titles can change the on-page display, but it will do nothing on the wicks.

That's how things have been until now. Unless Eddie changed something.

"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
ArcadesSabboth from Mother Earth Since: Oct, 2011
#33: Mar 20th 2013 at 3:17:14 PM

Then why was that custom title thread closed? What are we supposed to do now about broken custom titles?

And I still have no clue how to submit a custom title that won't break. I am still sitting on a pile of custom titles that I broke that A. cannot be fixed, and B. if they were fixed, nobody has said there's any way to re-submit them correctly.

THIS is why we asked for a heads-up note on the Custom Title page.

edited 20th Mar '13 3:22:11 PM by ArcadesSabboth

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#34: Mar 20th 2013 at 3:20:23 PM

He's either fixed the CamelCase bug (or the "Can't fix the CamelCase namespace submissions" bug) or he's not aware of the latter.

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#35: Mar 20th 2013 at 4:03:18 PM

Has someone PM'd him about this?

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ArcadesSabboth from Mother Earth Since: Oct, 2011
#36: Mar 20th 2013 at 8:18:08 PM

I'm pretty sure a PM was why he posted in this thread at all. And you see his response.

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#37: Mar 21st 2013 at 9:21:09 PM

I meant about what do we ordinary tropers do about the CamelCase issue now that he decided to close that thread.

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ArcadesSabboth from Mother Earth Since: Oct, 2011
#38: Mar 22nd 2013 at 3:41:53 PM

I have the same question.[up]

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StarSword Captain of USS Bajor from somewhere in deep space Since: Sep, 2011
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#39: Apr 17th 2013 at 11:16:16 AM

[up]Yes, thank you for that.

Eddie, we're not talking about you fixing the code for custom titles so this bug doesn't happen, we're talking about you adding some text to the custom title form to say how to type the page title. That should be like a ten minute fix.

Trust me, I'm an engineer!
NoriMori from the far side of a Combine portal Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#40: Apr 23rd 2013 at 3:07:23 PM

I'm a bit annoyed now. Fast Eddie said "Just go ahead and use the customizer on the menu to put in your requests." But the whole reason we had that thread is because that doesn't work — and last I checked, this hasn't changed. How are we supposed to get broken custom titles fixed now?

edited 23rd Apr '13 3:07:31 PM by NoriMori

Sixthhokage1 Since: Feb, 2013
#41: Apr 23rd 2013 at 3:25:38 PM

What I'd do is use the box for moderator assistance in the sidebar to let the staff know

NoriMori from the far side of a Combine portal Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#42: May 9th 2013 at 1:06:44 PM

[up] I tried that. More than once. Nothing.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#43: May 9th 2013 at 1:10:18 PM

The only idea I see there is to make an Ask The Tropers.

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NoriMori from the far side of a Combine portal Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#44: May 9th 2013 at 1:15:51 PM

[up] I don't think that's the place for this kind of issue...

Telcontar In uffish thought from England Since: Feb, 2012
In uffish thought
#45: May 9th 2013 at 1:20:07 PM

It's a place where we can get mod attention, and where it's clearer whether or not there is a response. It's not where I'd go at first, but when one method isn't getting answered then it serves.

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NoriMori from the far side of a Combine portal Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#46: May 9th 2013 at 2:09:40 PM

[up] Oh, I see. Well, I might try it then.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#47: May 9th 2013 at 2:15:35 PM

The moderators can't do anything about this. It's entirely on Eddie to fix whatever the programming glitch is that messes up CamelCase namespaces in the custom titles. Until/unless he devotes the time to doing it, we're all stuck.

Edit: I can't type all of a sudden.

edited 9th May '13 2:16:12 PM by Fighteer

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#48: May 9th 2013 at 2:23:27 PM

And again, we're asking for a stopgap, not for it to be fixed!!!!!!!d Igis becusbci cu can doc vxdnfndhnote 

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
StarSword Captain of USS Bajor from somewhere in deep space Since: Sep, 2011
Captain of USS Bajor
#50: Jun 6th 2013 at 7:59:08 AM

Bump. One line of plaintext in the custom title form, that's all we ask.

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