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openBan Evader
First Strike might be another account/sockpuppet for Ultimate Lazer.
This is like, the fifth time he ban evades right?
openSomeone misquoted; don't want to start an Edit War
This is a very minor offense, but there's a reason why I'm bringing this up. So on the Heartwarming.ER page, I corrected Benton's quote to Carter in the Season 6 finale, in which he clearly tells Carter "Carter, you wanna fight? That's cool, man, but either way, you're getting your ass in that van." Again, that's the correct quote, and I fixed the original misquote and changed it to the correct quote on June 1st. However, Macsen edited that by changing the words and thereby misquoting it. Now, I want to reword it back to the correct quote again, but I fear that if I do that, I'll start an Edit War. That's why, even though it's just a misquote, I don't want to change it back right away. I want to know if I'll be starting an Edit War if I correct the quote.
Again, this is a very minor offense, but in the long run I don't want to cause an Edit War, since I've known for a year now that that's one sure-fire way to get suspended. What should I do?
openPossible Page lock workaround?
So the Yakuza 2 page had a lock, and for whatever reason I decided to right-click the "Edit Page" button and opened the link in a new tab, which allowed me to edit the page. After making my edit and saving it, the lock no longer appears and I'm able to edit it freely.
I attempted the same on the "Garfield and Friends" page, but I made a minor change that wasn't saved and the lock still appears, so it's not a complete solution.
Anyway, something worth trying out?
openFeel Like "Hilarious in Hindsight" for TomLehrer/YMMV needs an edit
I am thinking of removing the Reagan example for George Murphy (controversional), the "Old and Gray" example (feels redundant), "New Math" (controversional again), and the L33t example. Should I proceed or not? Also, what other examples could I get rid of?
openImage Upload Web Original
Has there been any idea when the Image Upload option will be fixed? Sorry if I'm coming off as impatient about the issue. Just curious.
openUser with poor English
izzyravin appears to be a relatively new user to this site. They have terrible grammar, don't know how to use punctuation or capital letters, and one of their examples had them just say they had no idea what she was doing. Would a mod pull them in for a chat?
Edited by N8han11open Against Despair Character page
The Against Despair character page is edit locked. Can that be fixed?
open UsefulNotes.SeparatedByACommonLanguage locked
Another page hit by the locked bug, I assume? ;)
Edited by SeptimusHeapopen Garfield and Friends locked Western Animation
As of recently, the Garfield and Friends page has currently been and still is locked. When I checked the Locked Pages section, it isn't currently listed on the Works subsection. What's the specific reason why it's locked, and is there any chance of getting it unlocked?
If not, will its listing be added to Locked Pages any time soon (hopefully with a valid reason)?
Edited by snichols1973open difference between…
What is the difference between Forum Roleplays and Play-by-Post Games?
open Certain Moments pages locked in Paranatural Webcomic
Although this seems to be more of an issue on my end (i saw a very recent edit on the Awesome subpage), some of the Moments (Heartwarming,etc.) pages for Paranatural are locked. I don't see a reason for these being locked, and I'd like to remove spoiler tags from those areas (as Moments pages are Spoilers Off pages) as well as try to fix some links (links with id=page# redirect the user to the newest page of the comic instead of what the original poster requested, so I've tried to replace them with archived links to make sure they work).
Edited by SeptimusHeapopen Spuriously locked page Videogame
The character sheet for The Caligula Effect page is locked.
openLocked out Web Original
I've been randomly locked out of editting my sandbox for the day, and I have no idea why. I'm not locked out of editting anything else
open Spuriously locked page Videogame
The characters page for Metro 2033 is locked with no explanation.
Edited by borgjonesopen Aliens Never Invented Democracy locked page
Aliens Never Invented Democracy was locked with no explanation, I'm guessing is a bug
open Another Locked Page for the Pile Web Original
This time it's Funny.Markiplier
Do we have a thread or someplace to report these things, because it looks like ATT is getting flooded with them and the 1.8 thread probably doesn't need to likewise be flooded.
I tried to edit the Dreadful Musician page yesterday June 29, but saving just redirected back to the edit page and now the page is locked. Please fix.