Minecraft Wiki:Admin noticeboard

The Admin noticeboard is one way through which users can notify administrators of issues needing administrative attention. While users are welcome to directly contact specific administrators (especially if they are seen to be active), posting here can be an easier and quicker way of ensuring that at least one admin will notice an issue and respond to it promptly. Remember to sign when posting an issue.

Before posting an issue here, consider the following:
 * As this is a noticeboard and not a talk page, please refrain from discussing.
 * Post only issues that require administrative action, i.e. blocking vandals, protecting pages, restoring deleted pages etc.
 * Do not post deletion requests here. Deletion requests should be made by adding  to the top of the target page, which will then automatically mark the page as a candidate for deletion.
 * Do not post issues regarding content disputes. Try making a request for comments instead.
 * Mediation requests between users should only be made if a resolution could not be reached between users.

In case of vandalism, posting about it here is low priority. Revert it first, anyone can do so. If the vandal created a new page, tag it for deletion. Assume good faith and consider leaving a message on that user's talk page to explain the reason. Post here only if the user has made several disruptive edits and/or persists despite a warning. Always avoid a revert war with the vandal; it is far better to wait until an admin has a chance to intervene.

Current issues

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Right-aligned Floating box
The box containing "Recent Community Articles", an advertisement and the "Mojang Tweets"; is poorly implemented (it doesn't align itself to the page; it's just floating there).

In various resolutions and on various pages it will obstruct important information, Please fix! Thanks in advance.

--Adare 18 January 2012

Ocelot mob page
The ocelot is a confirmed mob added in snapshot 12w04a, so Ocelot should now be unlocked. --Barracuda 15:27, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Cauldron on
Cauldrons are currently listed as only obtainable by /give or inventory editors. Should be listed as normal since the addition of the crafting recipe in Minecraft 1.0.
 * The cauldron block and item are different things; you cannot normally obtain the block, so the tables are correct. This belongs on the talk page, not the admin noticeboard. -- Orthotope 01:41, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, didn't know either. Thank you for correcting me. -- Gman1012 8:43, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

SOPA/PIPA
Have you administrators thought about protesting this. I know even minecraft has, so what do you think?NINJAS KICK BUTT 23:14, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Claimed on Harmful Mods that my mod can, under certain occasions, destroy your Minecraft install. It does not, and the error preventing it from starting up with a specific mod pack is scheduled to be removed on the next version.

As per: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/index.php?title=Harmful_Mods&action=historysubmit&diff=236885&oldid=235006

--RichardG867 21:05, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Another vandal account. I reverted one of his edits myself but gave up when I encountered a page that wouldn't let me auto-undo because he had made two edits. Steve the Pocket 22:35, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

vandalism. – Scaler (t) 15:08, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Dealt with it--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  15:33, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

vandalism – Scaler (t) 22:41, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

"Large deletion from article by new editors"
I wanted to delete some poorly written traps in Tutorials/Traps added last days. But got this warning. Off course it is good that you can't delete much from an article. But someone added a lot of bad traps. For example i think that this isn't a good trap idea:

"Okay. Make a roller coaster. At the end, a iron door closes, and lots of falling gravel falls BEHIND you. Then there is a sign that says: Chose your path wisely. Okay, so they walk down a path for a bit. Then they drop down. At the end of the fall, there are 3 pathes. All have trapdoors, which lead to lava at the bottom. "
 * You simply have to be registered and make 10 legitimate edits in 3 or 4 days to become "Autoconfirmed" then you can make your changes without triggering the filter. You can check your user group status in your "Preferences". -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  09:48, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Automatic anti-vandalism #2
I wanted to correct trivia on the Obsidian page, but got blocked with Nonsensical anon edits. Just do not consider me a bad guy or whatever. System may also need revision, because my edits looked quite nice to me. 87.228.24.249 15:59, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Disabled the guilty filter; it was getting *way* too many false positives. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 22:59, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I would not necessarily say that 5 false positives out of 500 is way too many, but it seems other filters were catching most of the bad edits anyway. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  09:50, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * When I disabled the filter, it was blocking some 20+% of anon edits. The "Statistics" line shown on the filter page is a sliding window view of the most recent actions and matches. If the filter is meant to block one particular editor (it is shown as blocking a single spammer IP several hundred times), the filter should be made specific to the editor (and in the case of that IP, it's simpler to just add the URL(s) they're trying to spam to the spam blacklist). 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 18:17, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Automatic anti vandalism
I tried added a message to Known_bugs/Version_1.0.0 but it was stopped with the following message: Nonsensical anon edits. This was the message I wanted to add: undefined cr Hitting the higher part of a door makes the door drop as a resource.
 * How is this a bug? - Aristocrat
 * In creative blocks don't drop as resources, normally, right? --188.203.195.65 10:41, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Minus the bold, offcourse.
 * Disabled the guilty filter; it was getting *way* too many false positives. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 22:59, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism
By at Portal (disambiguation), Stone Brick, Technical blocks, and Enderman. Obviously a vandal-only account by looking at the username. :L 'Dawn' 'S.'  Ikk  07:07, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Section Removal 2
Not allowed to clear away erroneous and/or old data?

Vandalism
Vandalism on Ambience. -User:Conscripta 01:27, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
Vandalism on Diamond (Block), Item Repair, and Glistering Melon. Eearslya ( talk | contribs ) 07:23, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
. – Scaler (t) 22:33, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Spam 2
on User:Calinou‎. – Scaler (t) 12:36, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Spam
This pages were created to advertize some site User:VDanetteCalhounw User:HPamilaJohnsr User:ALeonardoPadillal. Looks like a bot. Can he be IPbanned or something? — MiiNiPaaT 17:01, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Done. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 17:13, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Section Removal: Mods
The "Safe Mods" section in Mods is mostly redundant with "Harmful Mods and Mod Safety". I just edited "Harmful Mods..." to that effect, but couldn't delete "Safe Mods" due to automatic vandalism protection. The only remaining unique content is the claim that outdated mods could "develop into a virus", which is clearly ridiculous. Hence, please remove. 80.237.156.64 03:34, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Page Rename: South/West rule
The page South/West rule needs to be renamed to reflect the compass changes in game. The rule is now referred to as the South-East Rule. Also, there seems to be a disagreement on the format of the rules name. While the page uses a /(slash) the actual pages seem to use a -(dash) between the names. I represent the - (dash) here in the name as it seemed to be the most common usage. --Mystara 19:52, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Suggest "South/East" instead of "South-East", because the rule affects South AND East, not only SE (i.e. diagonal). "South-East" would imply diagonal only, where as "South/East" implies South OR East OR both. Kroc 09:06, 13 December 2011 (UTC)


 * South/East is not a valid page name. As it means East is a sub-page of south. – ultradude25 ( T &#124; C ) at 16:35, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
Several incidents by SjasFaic DreadLindwyrm 21:38, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * sorted. again, SO sorry I blocked you! D: these situations make us need to block so we have some temporary order. I've unblocked you now. again, sorry! --Kizzycocoa 21:56, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Name
is there any possibility that someone could change my name? because it was supposed to be TheVelho22 but its TheVeho22 which annoys me a lot so it would be very nice if somebody can(or knows how to)change my name...Thank you!
 * Register the correct name, and then request a user merge here. Your contributions from the old username will be moved to the new name, and the old name will be deleted. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  09:51, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Captcha problems
I was trying to add a references section to the ladders page, and did that successfully; however, I then realized that I needed to add a <* references/> tag to the section for it to actually display the references. however, the site told me to complete a math problem before I submited my work; I did so, and then went to hit "save". however, It also said that I needed to preview the page first(which I had already done.) however, after I had previewed the page and hit save, it wanted me to do another math problem... and the loop began. Help please?

User Lazdo/Lazdogrape
Accounts were apparently created just to add embedded videos. May also be the same user as. Orthotope 02:46, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

More vandalism
Repeated edits by

Has done nothing but post links to his(?) own Youtube videos, which have been consistently removed as spam. Since being unblocked for violating the video policy, he's repeatedly tried to remove an existing link to a video in order to promote one of his own on the same topic. His commentary on it includes a link to another of his, encouraging people to download a cracked copy of Minecraft and providing a URL to do so, a rather blatant violation of the Minecraft TOS. This might warrant further administrative action, not my place to decide. -- Orthotope 19:43, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Doubled his previous block.--Quatroking -  MCWiki Administrator  22:07, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism
Multiple vandalism by. Also his edits need to be reverted

Pocket Edition upcoming features
Repeated playing with the release date and additions of Cyrillic text, from multiple IPs. I don't know what the source of the attention is, but I suggest protecting the page. —kpreid 18:37, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I semi protected it. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  18:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Keeps spamming on Pocket Edition upcoming features, reverts to his own edits. Somebody500 (有人500) 01:47, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Repeated vandalism of User:RyanDolan123. —kpreid 18:42, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Twitter feed is broken
The Mojang Tweets feed on the right sidebar appears to still be showing Mojang tweets from a day or two after Minecon, most notably, "We found it hard working with Yogscast, but we regret that this was aired publicly. We will now sort this out with them directly."

I think the best solution is to remove the Mojang Tweets section, morph the Recent Community Articles into the left sidebar, and move the box advertisment to the bottom of the page (where there are already two other box ads). Then we wouldn't have the Twitter glitch, AND the entire wiki wouldn't feel so cramped any more. -O x g u y 3  t c 20:13, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't recall whether there's a rule against sock puppeting, but Doggey is doing it: see, —kpreid 21:03, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Saw it too. It's not the only thing that's happening with Doggey. Hopefully it will be more quietly tomorrow. CrazyBliep  ( NL Admin ) - 14 Februari 2012 21:10 (UTC)


 * I have no problem with editors having a publicly-disclosed second account. When they start using it for vote-stacking, though, it becomes a problem. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 22:07, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * ^^That's why we don't VOTE on the wiki. -- Wynthyst [[Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png ]] talk  13:39, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I wasn't implying we did, I was using the word "vote-stacking" in a more general sense. ;) 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 23:18, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Sorry guys. Im new to all this stuff. Doggey (talk • contribs • [ logs])
 * That's okay. Welcome to the wiki. You can learn very fast by checking other pages and how these pages are constructed. CrazyBliep  ( NL Admin ) - 22 Februari 2012 16:40 (UTC)

Deleted content from the Griefing article with a false edit summary: and reverted my revert. reviewing Special:Contributions/65.27.185.114 suggests they see themselves as removing anti-griefing bias... —kpreid 23:54, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Enchanting
There is a garbled section under '22 silk touch rarity' that would feel better if it was removed. -- Zaz 21:31, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed. -- Orthotope 23:07, 18 February 2012 (UTC)