User:Gnu32

Greetings. Some people call me the Major. I'm a bored, homosexual panda in Milton Keynes, UK. I've got the best hat in the world and I'm always getting laid. LOLJK i'm such a fat bastard. I'm mostly a wiki-vigilante, I watch recent changes like a HAWK. When I'm awake anyway. While I'm experienced in wiki-software, my grammar is shambles so if I screw up on that feel free to revert me and tell me off. I LOVE doing wiki-maintenance. If you need someone to do a repetitive, seemingly trivial task like fix a common issue across a bunch of articles, give that work to me and I'll have a crack at it.

I'm bored, how can I help?
&raquo; Check Recent Changes for any suspect changes (last 5 listed)

Things to look out for are "Blanked the page", any entries that start with a bold N and huge diff numbers (ie. (+1,257) or (-5,012))

&raquo; Check newly created pages for spam or relevance (last 5 listed)

If you're SURE that any new pages break the rules, tag them with this:. If the subject matter is valid but the page is bare, give it some time and honor any work-in-progress tags.

&raquo; Find orphaned images a home

These images are currently not used in any articles, which are a violation of the rules. If they are useful (eg. clear screenshots) then put them in an appropriate place in the appropriate article(s). If not, tag them with this:.

&raquo; Find unlinked pages a friend

These articles don't have any other articles linking to them nor are they categorized. Find a relevant and appropriate article to link these articles to or, if they serve no purpose at all or violate the rules, tag them with this:.

&raquo; Make love to a random page

Play Russian roulette with the wiki and find an article to give some attention by cleaning it up, fixing any formatting and adding any relevant content.

MediaWiki
MediaWiki comes with a lot of "magic words" that provide variables like  to print out the site's name. To see what's available, go here.

Useless
These are templates that exist but serve no useful purpose, listed here if anyone can figure them out.
 * Template:Aligning

I'm a newbie at editing, can you give me some tips?

 * If you see a citation tag and you've got evidence to provide for that or anything in general (ie. a twitter post by notch), then use the  tags at where the citation is needed. Then, if the article does not have a   section, make one (make sure it's above any   and   sections) and then directly under it just put  . However...


 * A common mistake on this wiki is the posting of YouTube videos to articles. The rules make it quite clear that videos only serve a useful purpose of demonstrating things that can't easily be explained with text. If it's a how-to, it goes on tutorial pages. If you really think a video will serve a purpose on an article, then do not paste it in the middle of the text with a caption like "A video of this can be seen here". Use ref tags as noted in the first bullet point. If in doubt, leave it out.


 * Always make contributions in a wiki-style; the readers most likely won't know who you are, so don't use "I" (ie. "When I tried trapping spiders with cactuses") or "We" or any first-person grammar in articles. Make sure said contributions at least seem useful in some way. They won't be if it's something you've thought you experienced ONCE upon a time while playing or never seen before.


 * If you have some valuable information or suggestions to contribute but you don't know how to or if wiki-syntax/culutre scares you, simply drop a message on my talk page and I'll see what I can do for you.