User talk:Masterpwn/May-September 2014

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story titles

Hi! Please note that it is not necessary to pipe switch story titles to their dab terms (unless of course there is more than one article with that title). In fact, it is preferred that you do not change them at all. If you choose to write citations with the dab term, that is ok, but making edits just for switching to dab terms is highly discouraged. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 13:31, May 6, 2014 (UTC)

Re: stretched images

It's not just you. It's either a wiki-wide thing that will have to be fixed on our end, or someone on our wiki is working on something and images are temporarily wacky. It will probably be fixed soon, but if you want you can leave a report at Board:The Drax Cave.

As for your second issue, I assume you're talking about the contents box? That's not an issue I'm having. What browser do you use? Wiki doesn't support IE anymore, so it just doesn't work in many ways (when I use it for wikis, it crashes). Also, Safari was having problems a little while back, as you can read at Thread:154468. Since this is specific to you, if you're not using one of the problem browsers, you should definitely bring this one up at the Drax Cave.

And that is pretty much the limit of my technical know-how. Reporting your problem on the Drax Cave should get the attention of the more tech-minded admins. Shambala108 ☎ 22:33, May 12, 2014 (UTC)

Problem reports

Thanks for reporting in with technical issues. We're working fast to resolve them. You should already find that the stretched image thing is not a problem anymore, though you may need to clear your cache to see the resolution:

Clear your cache often around here

After changes are made to this site's CSS or Javascript, you have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes. You can always do this by going to your browser's preferences panel. But many browsers also offer keyboard shortcuts to save you that trouble. The following shortcuts work in the versions of the browsers that Tardis currently supports. They may not work in earlier versions.

• Firefox: hold down Shift while performing a page reload.
• Opera offers no default keyboard shortcut, but you can create a custom keyboard shortcut with the value Clear disk cache
• Safari users should simultaneously hold down ⌘ + Option + E. You may need to enable the Develop menu first
• Chrome: press Ctrl + F5 or Shift + F5 while performing a page reload.

If you could provide more details on your table of contents issue, it'd be helpful.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  00:49: Tue 13 May 2014

Sorry, I don't know what you mean by the phrase "content box". Nor do I really understand what you mean by "growing bars". Could you please take a screenshot of the issue? Thanks :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  13:32: Tue 13 May 2014

Ahhhhh, now that you've given that text mockup I see what you mean by "contents box". Thanks for the clarification. In the code, the phrase "content box" is ambiguous. You're talking about a "table of contents", or TOC, but now that it's clear what you're talking about, choose your own noun :)

What's still not clear at this point is what sounds like some kind of animation on unhiding the TOC. That's not at all happening in any browser to which I have access. If you'd upload your screenshot and put it on my user talk page, that'd be most helpful.

Also, if I could get your browser and operating system version numbers, it might go a long way to helping to diagnose. Thanks :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  17:17: Tue 13 May 2014

Thanks for the greater clarification of your situation. I've tried in about 10 browsers under iOS 7.1.1, and none of them present the results you describe. The TOC pops up pretty as a picture in every single one of them.

I'm left to conclude that the problem would be solved by simply upgrading. We at Wikia are in a tricky place with iOS 6.

As a member of Wikia staff, I point you toward help:supported browsers, which says that we do support iOS 6, but "we recommend accepting all prompted browser updates to ensure you have the best browsing experience".

As Tardis' chief technical admin, I have to advise that I don't really have an easy way to actually support iOS 6 on this site, since my devices are at 7. And from the sound of things, all the IOS devices owned by local admin are also at 7.

Nevertheless, I have submitted a bug report to Wikia's engineering department, to see if they can offer any more advice. If they do, I'll let you know as soon as I do.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  04:36: Wed 14 May 2014

Hey, just checking back in with a question from our Engineering Team. Are you still having this TOC issue? Rhey've tried in Safari on iOS 6.1.3 and they aren't able to reproduce the bug. Is your device maybe running something earlier than iOS 6.1.3? It'd probably be helpful for you now to go to Settings > General > About and find your exact version number. Thanks :)
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  19:37: Thu 22 May 2014

Gaffabek and more

Do you have a source for the "Gaffabek" spelling? If I'm going to correct such an old page, I'd prefer to have a source behind me.

On another note, I changed the category on your user page from [[Category:User pages]] to [[Category:Users]]. The first category is for wiki policies regarding user pages.

Lastly, I appreciate the vandalism patrolling as you did on CzechOut's talk page, but it's better if you just notify an admin. Only admins have a rollback feature that can undo several edits by the same person in one easy move. That makes cleaning up vandalism a bit easier than having to search through multiple edits and undos for the most recent correct edit.

Thanks! Shambala108 ☎ 17:01, May 21, 2014 (UTC)

Forgot to get back to you on this. We actually had a discussion a while back, at Thread:127706, that concerns closed-captioning. It doesn't look like Netflix captions count at all, and CC is placed so low on the list of preferred sources that I'd rather hold off on renaming the article unless/until we can get some better confirmation. If I get a chance, I'll dig out my DVD, but there may be some higher-preferred source that comes to light. Shambala108 ☎ 14:56, May 27, 2014 (UTC)

I found a website dedicated to transcripts for Sci-fi shows like Doctor Who, which includes this episode here. The spelling is, as you can see, 'gaffabeque'. Hope this helps. 76.220.12.30^{talk to me} 22:42, October 16, 2015 (UTC)

Source needed

Hey, a while back you created the page Spam (email), but you didn't include any sources. Right now, the page is just an unsourced definition. If you can't provide any sources, the page will have to be deleted. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎ 03:55, September 2, 2014 (UTC)