User talk:Imamadmad

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17:21:43 Mon 22 Aug 2011

hello! :)

A "New Who" fan then, eh? I guess I qualify as one of those.. although I absolutely DESPISE those squishy, big-bummed Teletubbies they try to pass off as Daleks. I hate 'em with a passion. Sorry, WHERE was I going with this?

Anyway, nice to talk with you. Feel free to contact me for anything. 17:16: Tue 20 Dec 2011

Community tab
Well it wasn't exactly intentional, but I suppose I did decide to exclude the Howling from the nav menus in wikia. (It's still in the monobook nav.)  We're at the limit of the things that can be added to that particular drop-down, so a few things have actually been squeezed out. The Howling was deemed of a lower priority. After all, the Howling isn't even in the same namespace as the genuine forums, it allows spoilers and its excluded from searches. It's very much meant as a place you have to work to find anyway, so that you won't be spoiled by its contents. The fact that it was effectively pushed off the navbar therefore seemed appropriate rather than problematic. 12:55: Sun 13 May 2012

Thank you so much for helping me the asylum of the daleks was awesome and as a big fan of the daleks I really needed to watch that rather then wait a week thank u so much --Kingalien ☎  07:15, September 2, 2012 (UTC)

Siggys
If you click through on the link and look at the last part of the "when required" section, you'll see that signatures are required on "all odd numbered namespaces as well as 110, 112, 500 and 502". Howling is 112, as noted at the chart on the namespace page. And, indeed, Howling:The Howling reminds users to sign their posts.

The Howling is somewhat irrelevant to the post I just made, since it's not really a forum. Fortunately, the change of the code at the real forums makes it instantly clear that the Howling is a totally distinct area.

I suppose you could argue that this point needs to be made clearer, since you were confused about it. Ordinarily, I"d agree.

However, it's important to note the honest truth: we only have three custom namespaces available to us. This forum software switch is going to force us to create a brand new custom namespace, which would only leave us with one more. If we need one after that, guess which namespace will be deleted without even the slightest blink of an eye? Therefore, I'm not crazy about specifying the Howling in too many pages, because this might obligate the staff to have to do an extensive cleanup, should the Howling be deleted. For simplicity, whatever rules there are for the Howling are best left explicit at Howling:The Howling and Tardis:Spoiler policy. 04:02: Mon 03 Dec 2012

Banned from chat?
I've just noticed you appear to be falsely banned from chat. We had another user who experienced this same bug, so I've just filed a report with Wikia to have that fixed up for you. It has to do with an errant flag that's set on your account which local admin can't change. Sorry for the inconvenience; I wished I'd known earlier.

Also, I appear to be banned at Doctor Who Answers. Congratulations on your recent promotion there, but I was wondering if you knew that I'd been banned and could explain it, since I've not edited there in over two years. 15:00: Thu 20 Dec 2012
 * Heh, no, it is actually a bug. I mean you were very temporarily banned by Skittles the hog, but then came a software update to the chat feature, and you were stuck with the old flag.  When I installed custom javascript over here to change the nature of the user group tags seen to the right of people's names, that js picked up on the old flag and is therefore showing you to be banned from chat. I'm not entirely sure whether you're actually banned from chat or whether it's just cosmetic.  I wanna say that it's just cosmetic, because I seem to recall the other user affected by this issue being completely befuddled by being able to enter chat even though it said he was banned.  Even though you don't use the feature, you could try entering chat to see if it works.


 * As for the other matter, I suppose I wasn't forceful enough in my request. I'd rather you just revert the ban, as it's plainly unjust.


 * The whole thing is a huge misunderstanding. If you dig a bit deeper into the evidence, what you see is that BroadcastCorp banned me, Skittles and Mini-mitch at DWA in a fit of pique because he had been perma-banned here for clear, Wikia-verified sock puppetry.  The Thirteenth Doctor therefore reverted the ban within a matter of hours, then promptly banned BroadcastCorp for abuse of powers.  user:BroadcastCorp was then globally banned by Wikia.  Thus there was no actual, reasonable ban of me at DWA. As can be seen at my block log the original block lasted for a little over four hours.  It didn't, as Master of Spiders is alleging, "lapse".  There's no question of him re-instating the wishes of the previous administration, as it's very clear the previous administration meant for me to be unblocked.


 * Moreover, according to the current state of w:c:drwho.answers:Doctor Who Answers:Policies there are not now any policies in place to cover the kinda "crimes" of which user:Master of Spiders is accusing me. As you're aware, you guys are in a state of upheaval over there, and are only just now writing policy.  Thus to block someone who hasn't even contributed to your wiki at all since 2011 for something that happened long ago, when there aren't even current policies to cover the alleged behavior, is clearly wrong.


 * If you really need proof that a user who's been on Wikia since it started, and who's been on Wikipedia since basically it started, did nothing wrong, then I urge you to look at this list of my contributions and hit every single occurrence of the word "diff". That will show you exactly what I've contributed to your wiki.  (Well, exactly since 2010. In fact I've been there much longer, but records prior to the time that they re-did the way Answers wikis worked don't appear in current logs.)  I challenge you to see one thing there that's seriously inappropriate.


 * I notice that you personally are in a state of indecision over what to do about 41.whatever. If you're unwilling to ban him, given his actual, current, ongoing abusive behavior at your wiki, there must be no question that I, who haven't said a word on your wiki in about two years, should be banned.


 * Please revert the ban immediately. 21:45: Thu 20 Dec 2012

Protecting category creation
To answer the question you most recently asked at w:c:drwho.answers:forum:Eliminate the categories now, I suspect you will not be able to ever eliminate category creation at a Wikia wiki. It is technically possible, because it's a switch that's flipped in the MediaWiki configuration files. But that means it would require Staff involvement to do it. I don't think they'd agree, under the theory that they want each Wikia wiki to look and operate pretty much like every other. Because the assumption that they want to have all wikis behaving roughly the same is probably true, you couldn't javascript it away, either.

I think you're just stuck.

However, it's always worth asking staff, because they might see your point. I'd recommend a Special:Contact query.

Also, category control is one of the things that a bot is really good at. I don't share the pessimism of 88.240 in that discussion. It would be relatively easy to control the massive numbers of random categories at your wiki with a bot. I could even do it for you, if we get this little blocking matter resolved.

Oh, and I've just got word that you're no longer "banned from chat" here. 22:34: Thu 20 Dec 2012

DWA block
I understand your caution, but I must point out that Master of Spiders has not, in fact, removed the block — despite apparently assuring you and definitely assuring me — that he has done so. I have always been a friend to your wiki, long before it was "your wiki", stretching back to 2008. Again, the only reason I was ever blocked there was because a person who broke our T:SOCK rule here, decided to exact revenge there. Again, I never broke any rule ever promulgated at your wiki, and my ban was reverted in a mere 4 hours, and remained struck down by the legitimate administration team on your wiki. Since MoS has now indicated his willingness to unblock me, but simply hasn't pushed the button, I urge you to please unblock me immediately. 12:57: Fri 21 Dec 2012
 * Weird, cause it's still getting the "blocked" tag next to my name. Have you tried blocking me then unblocking me again, to see if that clears things? Ohhhh wait I know what it is.  It's because he blocked me for 100 years, including my IP address, and 100 years haven't passed yet.  You have to unblock my IP too.  Please see help:Blocking for instructions.   13:39: Fri 21 Dec 2012
 * I can't even give you a block ID number, because I'm now locked in an endless loop where every time I hit the edit button, I'm sent back to the login screen. Could you please send in a Special:Contact form to Wikia Staff and let them know there's a problem beyond your ability to solve, please?  13:43: Fri 21 Dec 2012
 * Wait a sec. Looks like that endless loop was just at the forum page.  When I try to edit my talk page, I get the standard block error.  Looks like the block ID is 250. So what you need to do is click this: http://drwho.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Special:BlockList?action=unblock&id=250


 * That should take care of the problem without a need to involve Wikia. Thanks :) 13:50: Fri 21 Dec 2012
 * Perfect! Thanks :)

Bot at drwho.answers
Now onto other matters.

I've asked Icecreamdif (as the most recently-active bureaucrat) to submit a request to Wikia that user:CzechBot be given a bot flag. Without this, all of the bot's edits will show up as normal activity in the logs, which — trust me — you don't want. So, start drawing up your list of things you'd like cleaned up that occur repeatedly on pages and I'll fire up the bot when the flag has been changed. I'm trying to figure out a way that you can communicate your requests in a way that I could easily see them. Obviously the preferred solution would be just for you guys to switch over to the new forum style. Then, you could create a new thread dedicated to desired bot runs, and every time there was movement, I'd see it. If, for whatever reason, you don't want to implement the new forum style, I guess you're gonna have to just put a little note on my drwho.answers talk page, advising me that there's been movement at the forum thread.

Also, I'm looking at the logo I made for you guys and it's not quite right at higher resolutions. I'll try to slide you a new one soon. 14:03: Fri 21 Dec 2012