User talk:Original Authority
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Block
I regret having to do it, but I'm going to have to block you for a couple of days. In chat you acknowledged, in front of several witnesses, receipt of the message in which I told you that you would be blocked if you continued asking that question over and over again. Then, you left an unsigned message on my talk page, once again requesting information on how to get and set up a bot. I therefore must block you, to impress upon you the fact that I was dead serious. I don't block quickly or often, save for situations of attack against the wiki. So when you hear me tell you that you're getting close to being blocked, you need to listen.
Your block is only for two days, and in the meantime you are able to leave a message here on your talk page, if you wish to protest or ask questions.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:50: Mon 19 Sep 2011
Why I won't help you get a bot
I do want to make my position on helping you get a bot absolutely clear, so that you won't have to ask me again. Bots are extremely powerful. They can easily rip apart the fabric of a wiki if you don't know what you're doing. And you simply have not displayed the most basic knowledge of wiki structure or operations. When I talked to you about getting a bot, you couldn't find the help wiki, you couldn't find help files on your own wiki(s), you couldn't successfully upload a wordmark, you had no real knowledge of template coding.
And I'm not saying that to make fun of you. We all need to start somewhere, and it is good that you are thinking big at ths early stage in your knowledge of how to run a wiki. But you need to take the time to edit in one place long enough to understand the way that a Wikia wiki is laid out, and indeed the way that the MediaWiki software works. I myself edited wikis for essentially the whole of the 2000s without having a bot. But now that I have one, I don't tend to make a whole lot of errors with it. I tend to be able to use it with greater precision, because I understand the MediaWiki software pretty well.
No wiki on which you are currently an admin is in any way big enough to even need a bot, anyway. But I will give you a tip for that time in the future when you do need a bot. Categories are the lifeblood of a bot. Bots require categories in order to perform virtually any function. If you put Cat A insdide Cat B inside Cat C, then put Cat C back into Cat A, you will create what Nyssa once called recursion. This will cause your bot to die. Well, not die exactly, but it'll run down the rabbit hole you've created and never come back up for air. It'll just go around and and around in circles. So when you're starting out a wiki, pay attention to the category tree. Bots require good, clear category trees in order to function properly. One of the problems of this wiki that I'm still having to struggle with is the fact that no one in the early days of the wiki paid attention to a category tree, or structure, that made logical sense. Long before you get a bot, you need to build a category structure that will allow the bot to actually work. So, you should probably Google "category tree", and spend some time understanding category theory.
If you want to use bots really effectively, you'll also want to spend some time learning a markup language called "regex" or "regular expressions". It's supposed to be a timesaver, but frankly I find it quite a mindbender sometimes. Success with regex is a whole lot of trial and error. Unless your changes are really big — on the scale of at least hundreds of pages — it's usually less time to hand edit pages than it is to come up with some regeex expressions.
Finally, I think you fundamentally misunderstand what a bot can do for you. On a wiki of less than, say, a few thousand pages, a bot can't do all that much for you. A bot simplifies repetive edits over the span of thousands of pages. It can't actually write articles for you. If you'd like to take a peek at the raw code of a bot, you can take a look at tardis:Spelling policy/user-fixes.py#The code. Basically, a bot takes one word or phrase and replaces it with another. The most creative thing a bot can do is change words on a page, typically based upon what category that page is in. And that's it. It's not magic. It doesn't write articles. It doesn't help you actually create a whole lot. The simple fact is that, with wikis the sizes of yours, you just don't need a bot.
So I hope you don't think I'm being mean or anti-community-spirit. But I do have very good reasons for not acquiescing to your request. Please let the matter drop, as I can't keep dealing with it.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 16:50: Mon 19 Sep 2011
A couple of points
A couple of points:
- You must sign your posts in discussions, according to both signature policy and tardis:discussion policy. You've now shown a disregard for this rule on both my talk page and that of user:Tybort on multiple occasions. The reason this is important is because it tells other readers when and who added the comment.
- {{real world}} is incompatible with any category ending in "from the real world". I note on Nintendo that you were reverting user:Tybort's quite correct deletion of this template. Please see the instructions at category:Floor 500, or indeed, read this helpful message. (The template assumes that it will be on a category page, so it may read strangely, especially the first sentence.)
{{FTRW}}
Thanks for your contributions and enthusiasm!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:30: Wed 21 Sep 2011
Chatban
You have been banned from chat for again asking the same question multiple times, then running away just as people start to answer you. It's just . . . rude, and it wastes people's time. When your chat powers are restored, please remember to introduce yourself into the room, make some light conversation, then proceed with your question. Ask your question once, and once only, then respond to any questions you're asked in chat. Please don't come into chat, demand for someone to fix a technical problem you're having, then run away. Your chatban will be lifted sometime during the next week. Sorry I can't be more precise, but it's not automated, so someone has to physically throw the switch. Therefore, I can't promise an exact time when it will be lifted.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:40: Sat 01 Oct 2011
4th Doc enemies
Category:Fourth Doctor enemies--Skittles the hog - talk 09:54, October 28, 2011 (UTC)
Names
Probably. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:32, October 28, 2011 (UTC)
You have a new message
Short answer: I have no idea. It was User:CzechOut would changed it, so yur best bet is to ask him. Thanks. MM/Want to talk? 15:33, October 28, 2011 (UTC)
No more lies
Lying & repeatedly asking same questions
This negotiation was witnessed by user:Skittles the hog.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:39: Fri 28 Oct 2011
Say what?
I have absolutely no idea what your question meant, now please fix your signature, it's leaking code onto my talk page.--Skittles the hog - talk 13:18, October 29, 2011 (UTC)
Removing content from talk pages
Not sure how I could make this clearer. Do not remove content from talk pages. "Sorting it out" means fixing it, not removing it.--Skittles the hog - talk 15:52, October 29, 2011 (UTC)
Signature
Your signature is in violation of signature policy as it does not offer a timestamp. You have 30 minutes from the timestamp below to successfully produce a working signature that is fully in compliance with our policies on my talk page. Failure to do so will lead to your blocking.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 20:09: Sat 29 Oct 2011
See ya next year
Unfortunately, you must now be prevented from further editing.
In a chat session today, you asked the same question, "What size should the picture be?", nine times in the space of six minutes. These questions were peppered into a conversation with another user, thus reducing the ability of the other party to receive timely assistance. As per the earlier agreement, cited above, witnessed by Skittles the hog, you are now blocked until 1 January 2012.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:17: Sat 29 Oct 2011
See ya never
Now it's till the end of time.
LeonardoWyatt is a bureaucrat at w:c:charmed, a wiki that you obviously frequented until you were blocked. Your alt account, LeanardoWyatt, is an attempt to impersonate him, which almost certainly derives from his block of you at charmed. You likely lied to me when you said that you created the account just to help you "remember your password". You're therefore infinitely banned for lying to me, violating T:MISLEAD USER and, evidently, T:SOCK.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 21:24: Tue 01 Nov 2011
How do you change your signature? I want to rejig mine to be a little more unique.Dragonmaster79 talk to me 16:04, November 7, 2011 (UTC)
Your input is needed!
You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 04:54: Tue 20 Dec 2011
Your input is needed!
You are invited to join the discussion at Forum:Can we disable visual editor please?.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 18:56: Thu 22 Dec 2011
Return denied
This user has been in contact with me at this message wall thread, begging for a return to this wiki. He has been denied, and must continue to be denied. He is absolutely banned forever.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 14:27: Wed 22 Feb 2012
Christmas cheer
As this fiftieth anniversary year comes to a close, we here at Tardis just want to thank you for being a part of our community — even if you haven't edited here in a while. If you have edited with us this year, then thanks for all your hard work.
This year has seen an impressive amount of growth. We've added about 11,000 pages this year, which is frankly incredible for a wiki this big. November was predictably one of the busiest months we've ever had: over 500 unique editors pitched in. It was the highest number of editors in wiki history for a year in which only one programme in the DWU was active. And our viewing stats have been through the roof. We've averaged well over 2 million page views each week for the last two months, with some weeks seeing over 4 million views!
We've received an unprecedented level of support from Wikia Staff, resulting in all sorts of new goodies and productive new relationships. And we've recently decided to lift almost every block we've ever made so as to allow most everyone a second chance to be part of our community.
2014 promises to build on this year's foundations, especially since we've got a full, unbroken series coming up — something that hasn't happened since 2011. We hope you'll stick with us — or return to the Tardis — so that you can be a part of the fun!
Unprotecting your pages
I am investigating the matter. Note that the protection summary says "per implied request of user". It's been a couple of years and you've gone through a name change since then, so it's not exactly easy to find.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 23:38: Tue 01 Jul 2014
- Eh, I need to move on with my day here. How in the world you were able to convince people to give you so many name changes is a bit beyond me. I can't remember whether this is on LeonardoWyatt (or the two names that have come after that) or some variation of Original Authority. But at some time, on one of your accounts, you said something — I believe in an edit summary — that you didn't want my bot tripping your user pages. So I protected your user and user talk pages in order to be able to set my bot to ignore protected pages — and thus stop touching any page that had anything to do with you.
- I've removed the ban on your talk and user talk pages for this account.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 00:06: Wed 02 Jul 2014
Game of Rassilon
It's no mistake. Truth is that Terrance Dicks is entirely vague as to what the GOR is. Is it the essentially physical challenge the Doctors had to face in making their way toward the Tower? Is it literally just the moment following Rassilon's declaration, "This is the game of Rassilon"? The latter seems the most probable, since there's clear emphasis on the word this. But it's still by no means certain.
For a number of years, the article Game of Rassilon languished in a state of imprecision, with the best attempt probably rendered by Tangerineduel: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Game_of_Rassilon?oldid=1189769. However, even this relied on a ton of speculation not given in the episode.
In fact, we just don't know what the Game of Rassilon actually is. So I co-opted the term, once we started using Wikia's achivement system. At this point, most links to the Game of Rassilon are about the game we play here. It might be that we could add some text to article as it currently stands, but it would have to be in a very minor, sidebar kinda way. In a sense it actually helps our attempts to educate people as to what the term means, because we could use a very "out of universe" voice to describe it. And that's probably the best way to approach the in-universe concept, because it's honestly not at all clear what it is — other than "a game played in The Five Doctors."
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 17:41: Sat 23 Aug 2014
When can I edit?
Big message on the front page addresses your question.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 19:22: Sat 23 Aug 2014
