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Michaelmangino (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Shameless (self-)promotion of a 'SEO-site'. --DarkShadowTNT NL Admin (t ♦ c) 12:33, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

IP-hopping vandalism on Ender Dragon

Lots of IPs making random deletions or insertions. Anomie x (talk) 12:47, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Please be more specific; Are you asking for the page to be semi-protected, or do you want something else? The BlobsPaper 02:55, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
Majr figured it out a week ago without your help. I've seen you do this sort of thing several times now, Blobs2, and I think it would be best if you stop trying to tell everyone how to communicate "right". Anomie x (talk) 10:11, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Observer block

On the 'Pocket edition alpha 0.15.0' page, people keep going on about observer blocks, although I'm pretty sure it won't be in 0.15.0.Someone even put a texture which is most likely fake. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Robinhoodn64 (talk • contribs) at 6:00, 10 May 2016 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Interwiki table request

Since Gamepedia PRO was introduced, Wikis are now able to use HTTPS instead of HTTP. But there's one issue: When clicking on an interwiki, it gives you the plain old HTTP-connection instead of the user-related HTTPS. My question: Can someone please remove in the interwiki table the http:-prefix for the other Minecraft Wiki-Wikis? (I've done it already for the Dutch Wiki) --DarkShadowTNT NL Admin (t ♦ c) 14:28, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Related suggestion: Wikipedia also uses HTTPS, so the corresponding interwiki can be changed accordingly. — NickTheRed37 (issues’ wall) 14:57, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Yep, there still are some resources (especially in CSS files) which are loaded using http links. For example, File:Background.png is loaded using an http link in MediaWiki:Common.css. | violine1101(Talk) 17:46, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
There are some unsafe connections left which can only be changed by Curse. Apart from these, the German Minecraft wiki is mostly HTTPS now by changing http to https in both MediaWiki:Common.css as well as MediaWiki:Hydra.css and Widget:FileUrl. | violine1101(Talk) 18:13, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Ummm... @Violine1101: Not all the user are a PRO. Only users who are a PRO user can use an HTTPS connection. Users who aren't PRO still use HTTP. The best option is to let the browser decide by using, as example, //hydra-media.cursecdn.com/minecraft-de.gamepedia.com/9/90/Minecraft_Wiki_header.svg instead of http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/minecraft-de.gamepedia.com/9/90/Minecraft_Wiki_header.svg and/or https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/minecraft-de.gamepedia.com/9/90/Minecraft_Wiki_header.svg. --DarkShadowTNT NL Admin (t ♦ c) 19:00, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Also non-PRO users can use the media server with HTTPS, so this should not be a problem at all.
I just realized I put that into the false topic, but hey, it's about PRO too. | violine1101(Talk) 20:28, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Done; language interwikis now use protocol-relative URLs. Looking at the interwiki table, I'm wondering if a lot of them could be removed, as they don't seem to have any relevance or use here. -- Orthotopetalk 19:32, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Fix ftb: and gphelp:, please ^_^ A lot of the URLs are just there per default, so some of them are kind of useless. They aren't really taking any space though. -Xbony2 (talk) 12:50, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

two "drops" sections

There are 2 "drops" sections on the stray page. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Waspwing (talk • contribs) at 12:09, 19 May 2016 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Fixed. Not an admin, just an editor. There were no editing restrictions on the page. --AttemptToCallNil, previously known as GreenStone (report bug, view backtrace) 12:18, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Localization issues?

Often, on the order of every 15 to 25 pages, I am seeing the page fail with a backtrace, like the following: 

[2c675cd5] /index.php?title=Fishing_Rod&curid=2756&diff=979355&oldid=979236 MWException from line 468 of /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/cache  /LocalisationCache.php: No localisation cache found for English. Please run maintenance/rebuildLocalisationCache.php.

Backtrace:

#0 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/cache/LocalisationCache.php(369): LocalisationCache->initLanguage(string)
#1 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/cache/LocalisationCache.php(284): LocalisationCache->loadSubitem(string, string, string)
#2 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/languages/Language.php(2658): LocalisationCache->getSubitem(string, string, string)
#3 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(839): Language->getMessage(string)
#4 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(766): MessageCache->getMessageFromFallbackChain(Language, string, string, boolean)
#5 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/Message.php(1146): MessageCache->get(string, boolean, Language)
#6 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/Message.php(932): Message->fetchMessage()
#7 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Hooks.php(191): Message->isDisabled()
#8 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Hooks.php(98): CirrusSearch\Hooks::overrideMoreLikeThisOptionsFromMessage()
#9 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/extensions/CirrusSearch/includes/Hooks.php(58): CirrusSearch\Hooks::initializeForRequest(WebRequest)
#10 [internal function]: CirrusSearch\Hooks::onBeforeInitialize(Title, NULL, OutputPage, User, WebRequest, MediaWiki)
#11 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/Hooks.php(201): call_user_func_array(string, array)
#12 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/MediaWiki.php(181): Hooks::run(string, array)
#13 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/MediaWiki.php(714): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#14 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/includes/MediaWiki.php(508): MediaWiki->main()
#15 /home/hydra/beta_public_html/index.php(41): MediaWiki->run()
#16 {main}

.. or pieces of the page will render like this:

16w20a<sup id="<cite_reference_link_prefix><cite_reference_link_key_with_num><cite_reference_link_suffix>" class="reference" style="white-space:nowrap">[1] is the first snapshot released for 1.10.

.. or the "More", "Share" and "Special" tabs will show as: <vector-more-actions>, <sharing> and <nstab-special>

Is anyone else experiencing this? – Sealbudsman talk/contr 15:55, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

I am experiencing this too. Is your edit summary intentionally specified as "<newsectionsummary>"? --AttemptToCallNil, previously known as GreenStone (report bug, view backtrace) 17:10, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
How ironic.. it wasn't intentional, because we don't have the option of entering a summary when we hit "Add Topic". It must have tried to pull the standard string, which would have been, I think, "Localization issues? new section", and failed. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 17:27, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
I got the placeholder text a few times last night, though it seems better recently. -- Orthotopetalk 21:09, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
This appears to be specific to this wiki only; I didn’t caught this error on the Russian section. — NickTheRed37 (issues’ wall) 17:25, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

24.180.251.38 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Spam; mostly edits talk pages as if we are Mojang (and he/she received a talk page message about this). The BlobsPaper 03:13, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Only a few edits, and none in the last three days; I don't see a need for any administrator action at this point. -- Orthotopetalk 05:16, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
It appears that Game widow has already blocked the IP address. The BlobsPaper 02:35, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

24.91.5.237 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Spam The BlobsPaper 03:01, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Prinjal74 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

(Self-)Promotion of a site and (probably) personal information in their 'About me'-section. --DarkShadowTNT NL Admin (t ♦ c) 17:44, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Kabart211 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Uploading a crapton of files with really spammy descriptions (and, to top it off, making Recent Changes almost unreadable). - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 21:03, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Outlooknumber (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Possible sockpuppet of Kabart211 to escape edit block, both uploaded similar types of spam. -75.179.18.235 15:47, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

He was blocked by Ortho. --MarioProtIV (talk) 19:03, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Template:ID table outputs wrong names

It seems {{ID table}} just does a simple transformation on the item names, so it gives minecraft:wood_planks for "Wood Planks" and minecraft:magma_block for "Magma Block", for example, but those are not the correct names, they are minecraft:planks and minecraft:magma, respectively. The template needs to be changed to show the proper names instead of making such an assumption on the format of the names. nyuszika7h (talk) 16:05, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

There's a nameid parameter which does that:
NameIdentifier
?planks
?magma
– Sealbudsman talk/contr 16:11, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Oh, I see, the planks show up correctly on Data values/Block IDs, it's just the magma block that needs a fix, now I know how to fix it. I didn't notice that when editing the page. nyuszika7h (talk) 16:13, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Don't need to say anything; just look at the username.. Block that user for indef --MarioProtIV (talk) 18:57, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

As it was previously said, by putting a request to block a user with unacceptable (e. g. offensive) username here, it is made more visible, which is not good. There is another user with a similar unacceptable name (with a repeated vowel), but I don’t want to fully tell it because of that reason (administrators can just look up the user registration log anyway). An IRC-or-otherwise channel for non-public administrative issues would be great for this, but either way anyone can contact an administrator by e-mail.
That particular user is already blocked by Orthotope. Why do administrators not reply to topics about issues which were resolved? This makes it look at first glance like these issues aren’t still solved. — NickTheRed37 (issues’ wall) 13:07, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Agentbano (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

See about me section. -Xbony2 (talk) 12:15, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Users with unacceptable username

This User:Motherfucker15 is an unacceptable username | AndrewAB (talk) 16:01, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

I don't agree with you. MinecraftAdministrator101 (talk) 17:05, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Do you, MinecraftAdministrator101, agree or do not, it is not our matter in the end. Also, the same issue applies to the username of yourself: it appears to be misleading. Going further, I can suspect that your account is a sockpuppet of the user mentioned in the first place. — NickTheRed37 (issues’ wall) 17:36, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Rumors of 0.16.0

I heard from here that the features listed are going to be in 0.16.0. I myself kinda doubt it, so can someone confirm? (I'd post this on 0.16.0's talk page, but it won't let me)-75.179.18.235 22:49, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

This would be better to have put this on the Community portal. But anyway, this is a hoax, 99% sure. One of those pictures is of the Desktop version, one is just an Igloo someone made, one looks like a youtube thumbnail, and the last one is also a screenshot from the Desktop version. Don't add anything! :P -Xbony2 (talk) 23:51, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
The Igloo is indeed an old build someone else made, per reddit. -Xbony2 (talk) 23:53, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
And the command block image was posted nearly four years ago. If it's not coming from a Mojang employee, it's probably fake. -- Orthotopetalk 00:01, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

97.91.14.125 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Likely sockpuppet of CreeperFan2015 (talk • contribs • logs • block log) based on misinformation to Human, Giant and Removed features. --MarioProtIV (talk) 21:53, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Quick note regarding such, is there any way for admins to perform an IP check on users? -BDJP (t|c) 21:56, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Yeah, its Special:CheckUser. --MarioProtIV (talk) 21:58, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Only Curse staff have access to it; regular admins such as Goandgoo and myself do not. (Technically there are some admins with the checkuser right, but they haven't been active here for years.) Blocks applied and extended. -- Orthotopetalk 23:57, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Confirming that it is indeed CreeperFan's IP address. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 13:38, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

User advertising

UserProfile:Russian25 is advertising some travel something. | AndrewAB (talk|contr) 09:59, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Banned. -- Orthotopetalk 15:53, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Same with this UserProfile:Teslacadau | AndrewAB (talk|contr) 10:07, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

And this user: Webdevelopmentpark . | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 17:15, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

User:Aromaazinternational - | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 11:49, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

User:Morikhusain | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 21:37, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

User:Wendycalvo, User:BeckyWHale, User:JohnvStewart, User:SofieHeilmann, User:SusangCottle, User:AyanaDRoss, User:Kittyjhouston, User:Carvalhokau, User:GeorgeGaffan, User:GracecNaylor, User:Anitajblohm, User:GarysCash, User:Lisawprice, User:Jonetoner, User:TimmBlake, User:Kristiansjacobson, User:Lindseybsullivan1, User:Marilynsdwyer1, User:FosterDavide, User:Sheriqgrady, User:EarlkTrapp are ALL ADVERTISING. | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 13:08, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Gee, we should make it so you can't edit your user profile without a CAPTCHA or something. -Xbony2 (talk) 12:07, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
We sure should. These users edit their pages like a house on fire. (my 1000th edit!!!) | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 12:09, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Have they got a bot to add a profile, edit it and save or something? | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 12:13, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
It's not really necessary to list every spam account, since they all show up in the logs. Majr, can we please have user profile edits subject to abuse filter restrictions? -- Orthotopetalk 20:29, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! I though the list was so filled it was gonna explode! | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 23:07, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
The abuse filter only applies to edits, moves, account creation, deletion, and uploads. All other log actions are ignored. User profiles bypass all spam protection, basically. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 06:50, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
I've noticed this. :/ To clarify my previous comment, is it possible for Curse to modify the abuse filter so that it also applies to profile edits? If that's not an option, I'd be inclined to disable profiles entirely – I rarely see them used for anything other than spam. -- Orthotopetalk 06:59, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
There's no obvious hooks to allow custom actions to be added, so the extension itself would have to be modified. Doubt Curse wants to maintain their own fork of AbuseFilter and SpamBlacklist, just for the unnecessary profiles feature. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 07:23, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
Oh well, let's just keep adding. Won't do us any harm. | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 09:34, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Erm, do you mind a few more? User:Suzannehlott User:Elmhomeandgarden User:MaisieMPoole User:Pearlhcurtis1 User:KatieHCarr User:JoyceKKellar User:GeorgeMEmerson User:WilliamXSmith User:Karenasauve1 User:FinleyGForster User:Nancybwerner, also can't we remove blank accounts that have never edited (like created a blank account and left it for ages) | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 09:38, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

This has literally become a case of a wack-a-mole. User:Boletobb. Some form of bot checking really needs to be put in place >.> -Xbony2 (talk) 19:49, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
User:Serenajully User:ErmaBRusso User:MirandaKings User:Nevilrossy User:EmilyRAvila User:JuliaEWalton User:DianeKNorman User:AsfourKnipst User:KeilaRYoung User:XavierMansour User:KerriTGould User:Janrhernandez User: KyraBLamb User:FrithWintle User:JoycesHanley User:Lemovski User:Staceyswysocki User:Trentmason User:Evanwalkerds User:HazelRKrok User:DTylerClare Are all advertising. | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 10:12, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

1 more than 0. User:BuyinstagramfollowersUK | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 13:34, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

User:SaffronLopez User:CardosFernan User:ErmaBRusso1 User:Crickshot2016 | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 12:59, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Page: Customized, Section: Trivia, problem: can't fix preset for Amplified

Trying to fix the Amplified preset in the Trivia section of the Customized page, on Save produces a Wiki error:

"Something went wrong"

"An automated filter has detected an unwanted word in your edit. As a new user, your action has been disallowed. If you believe your edit was constructive, please post a message on the admin noticeboard or notify an admin directly."

82.23.35.98 20:01, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

Yep. You need to be a User to edit that page. | AndrewAB (talk|contr)AndrewAB 20:07, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
The filter was being triggered by part of the preset code; it contains a string of characters that we generally don't want on the wiki. Page is fixed, sorry about the inconvenience. -- Orthotopetalk 20:15, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

About Teleporting

I am trying to learn about Teleporting... What is wrong with that? I have a screen shot; but is a .png... Do I need to convert it to .jpeg? cc -- Wiki Admin Board -- –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Hwy101 (talk • contribs) at 2:18, 28 July 2016 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

This is a wiki, not a forum. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 04:28, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Czech wiki

I think it's time a proper Czech language wiki is set up, at minecraft-cs.gamepedia.com (maybe with minecraft-cz.gamepedia.com as a redirect- the correct code is actually cs, but many people use cz because that's the code [ISO 3166 and Internet TLD] used to refer to the Czech Republic). There's a very sufficient amount of pages- 427 of them, and that will only grow with time and newfound visibility. One user, Rechris (talk • contribs • logs), has been active translating pages for about a month, and has been around doing translation for much longer, so I think they would make a fine administrator for the project. There's one major issue, though- the main page isn't translated. I'd like to request Rechris to translate it, if he/she/they doesn't mind :) -Xbony2 (talk) 21:38, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

I second the motion, and am excited for this idea! – Sealbudsman talk/contr 00:16, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
I'm all for reducing translation clutter on this wiki.
@Rechris: Please confirm if you would like the translation project to be completed and given its own wiki, and then translate the main page, and any pages it links to. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 03:52, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello, It would be pleasure to translate it to our language, but there are problems. I don´t know about anyone, who can help with translation, but would probably someone found, and the second problem is, that I don´t know, how to make our main page. So if you help or advice, please? :) - Rechris (talk)
I made the proper subpages for it for you, so that should fix that. Don't worry too much about other translators; they'll come. -Xbony2 (talk) 11:03, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
Thank You :) It will be progressively translated. But I still have one more question: It is still necessary to write extension /cz behind references in the article? Or We have to set up a page with Czech title? For example: New page Compass/cz or Kompas? - Rechris (talk)
On the new wiki, you'll want to want to have Czech titles. And you'll want to move the currently existing articles, like Compass/cz -> Kompas. I (and maybe others) will probably try to help you with this. Eventually, when all of the links are correct, you'll want to start deleting the redirects (like Compass/cz). -Xbony2 (talk) 19:37, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Rechris- I think you just need to translate the words "About Minecraft" and "Version history", and it should all be good ^^ -Xbony2 (talk) 11:57, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
Translated :) Thank You, I missed it. - Rechris (talk)
Majr -Xbony2 (talk) 19:34, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
There's still plenty of links on the main page which haven't been translated yet. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 06:37, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
Eh, anything in particular? "Demo" and "Minecraft Realms web" pop out at me, but it looks pretty complete. -Xbony2 (talk) 22:13, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
You can't see all those redlinks? –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 23:14, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
It will take some time before it will be translated. - Rechris (talk)
I thought you meant the links in general, not the pages in themselves. But yeah, those should probably be translated (which they are being :)). -Xbony2 (talk) 10:40, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello guys, sorry, but I must stopped translations for now. - Rechris (talk)

Remove redirects and translated pages from the search bar

File:Problem.jpeg

Honestly, I find this looks way too confusing. We have pages for foreign language translations, and redirects for simple capitalization differences, crowding out actual pages.

Is there a way to hide these? It seems like it might be a bit confusing for newcomers. - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 11:46, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

Don't believe so. However, we could probably get rid of all those old redirects. We haven't used those titles for years, so there's probably not many external links to them still. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 06:26, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
Getting rid of a lot of redirects (or rather, tagging them for deletion). I might create a new section for this in the community portal. - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 16:23, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Woah, ok, well I meant the sort of titles like in that picture, useless redirects from old page names that we haven't used for ages (and were never useful names to begin with), but I suppose we could be a bit more aggressive with removing unnecessary redirects...
Don't do mass actions like this on a whim in the future, wait for people to actually agree first. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 06:32, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
I  Agree to this. I also want to note that if we do this, we should get help from KnightMiner, Majr, Dand0 and NickTheRed37. One of them can have their bot do the task. The BlobsPaper 15:10, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
Only Majr's one really, as his bot is the only one with an administrator flag. --dand0 (talk) 15:32, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
And please note that Dand0 and I are more active on Russian wiki instead. — NickTheRed37 (issues’ wall) 15:38, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Wiki advertisements causing page load issues

Hello Admins. There's a pretty glaring issue with browsing this wiki for me, whether I'm logged in or not. In the background, things are being loaded practically all the time. After a while of having a page loaded, it becomes almost impossible to navigate the page because of framerate issues, caused by these things loading in the background. Things never cease to be loaded it seems, even after 5 minutes of being on the page. I'm running Chrome on Windows 10 on a gaming PC with respectable specs from 2013, and my internet is a fairly standard 1.5 MB/sec connection. I've tested this with AdBlock on, and it seems to be fine, however I don't like using it.

Here are some screenshots of Chrome's Network tab from the Inspector.

This is probably beyond your abilities, in which case please escalate it to Curse or whoever because it's quite annoying and makes browsing almost impossible. If this is just an issue on my end, sorry! Any advice would be helpful.

Cheers

--User:Kris159 (talk | legacy) 10:28, 7 August 2016 (UTC)

Current snapshot not on front page

The newest snapshot for 1.11, 16w32b, though we have an article for it, is not in the box on the right side of the page. Can someone with privileges add this? Thanks! Grid Command Block DigiDuncan! (talk) File:Grid Blue Floppy Disk (ComputerCraft).png 20:45, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Account Problems

I have tried to login to my old account at GunslingerN7 but the account, despite multiple attempts, is now inaccessible. I have filed a request at Gamepedia's help desk. In the meantime, can somebody please delete my old account if possible? TheFallenOneGOTH (talk) 22:48, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

I suspect that the problem is due to enforcement of U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (specifically deleting accounts registered by children under the age of 13), of which I myself once became a victim. Judging by the data on your user profile, you were already 13 when joining Minecraft Wiki; did you join any other Curse project beforehand? — NickTheRed37 (issues’ wall) 12:50, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
I was 13 when I registered the account - that much is true and if you guys can't delete the old profile that's fine - but the bigger problem right now lies within my user rights because as of now I can't even edit my own userpage due to certain filters. TheFallenOneGOTH (talk) 13:30, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Unable to create new pages in the Mods/Runecraft namespace

I'm trying to add information about the new runes in 3.0.x, but it tells me that "as a new user, [my] action has been disallowed" when I try to create a new page, and tells me to "please post a message on the admin noticeboard". So I'm doing that!

FroxicTog (talk) 12:56, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

There's no way to turn off the filters for individual users, but once you make a few more edits to existing pages, you'll no longer be considered a 'new user', so this restriction will be removed automatically. -- Orthotopetalk 17:17, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

AzuRAR2 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Supposed sockpuppet of CreeperFan2015, seeing that the user replied to a comment on Orthotope's talk page regarding CreeperFan, and also creating a user profile for CreeperFan. -BDJP (t|c) 20:52, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

The edit summary to AzuRAR2's edit on CreeperFan2015's user profile: (Created page with "Im now into a new account") – Sealbudsman talk/contr 21:34, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Majr, can you look into this, since you're the only admin with checkuser rights? -- Orthotopetalk 02:33, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
Different IP, but exact same user agent, probably a sockpuppet. They've also registered a number of other accounts: P145965716 (talk • contribs • logs • block log), NDBLaurence (talk • contribs • logs • block log), MarleneMusser (talk • contribs • logs • block log), and MarceloMathes02 (talk • contribs • logs • block log). –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 06:28, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Can't edit profile

Hi, sorry if I posted this in the wrong spot, I'm a new user, but how come I cannot edit my own profile page? Cherryblossom000 (talk) 02:55, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Randomly getting logged-out

I and MinecraftPhotos4U have been noticing in the past half-hour or hour or so, we've been getting logged out repeatedly. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:17, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

And my signature in the preview-box appears to be an IP, pretty often – Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:18, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

In my case I automatically get logged back in again. The first time I didn't and it asked me to merge my Curse account or something like that, so maybe my details are in the hands of someone less deserving now. Kind of worrying. - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 22:41, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
It just happened again (my watchlist is in an auto-refresh tab, and it presented me with a logged-out login screen, instead of that). And just like what MinecraftPhotos4U said, on the next refresh, I was logged in again. – Sealbudsman talk/contr 15:58, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Doesn't seem to be happening anymore. - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 08:34, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Okay, so I know this is pretty unrelated, but I've been getting a similar effect over at Wikia. So either this is something to do with MediaWiki itself or something much more sinister. - MinecraftPhotos4U (talk) 19:43, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
It was caused by some auth issues with some nodes during the PHP7 migration, it wasn't a client-side issue. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 05:39, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Can't create page

Hello, I tried to create a page about light gray dye/light gray wool, but after I spent an entire hour making sure I had correct information, a message popped up when I tried to post it that said, and I quote, " An automated filter has detected that you are attempting to create a possibly unwanted page." I believe this is not correct, because on the page about wool, it doesn't show anything about dye or go into detail about any certain wool color. Please change this, because I believe my edit to be constructive and laborious. Yes, I know that filters cannot be changed for specific people, but can an admin please create this page, if it is not to much to ask for. Tartigrade (talk) 18:41, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

There are already articles on dye and wool. The article you were trying to create would not be allowed by our style guide, as everything that was in it is already covered in existing, more complete articles. -- Orthotopetalk 20:01, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps another range block is needed.

IPs that have been blocked before are in bold. There may be more than the ones shown here.

These IPs appear to have been vandalising, edit-warring, and making tons of unexplained or unneeded edits for the past three months (maybe longer, not sure).

As for evading blocks: multiple IPs has have been used for block-evading, but they appear to only do around one edit for every block that has been given on the others. -BDJP (t|c) 20:12, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately, those aren't the actual IP addresses. They seem to all be cloudflare addresses, so I'm assuming it's because Gamepedia uses cloudflare that those IPs come up. Even you have used a few of the IPs from the 172.68.0.0/16 range, blocking that range would in-turn block you. –Majr ᐸ Talk
Contribs 05:35, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Protecting the Undead page from IP edits

Due to constant vandalizing (see Minecraft_Wiki:Admin_noticeboard#Perhaps_another_range_block_is_needed.) on the Undead page, I'm requesting protection against IP edits. Skylinerw (talk) 13:16, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Can't edit page; says I'm trying to add a link when I'm not.

I'm trying to edit the Seed (level generation) page so that instead of saying 2^64 possible seeds, it says 2^48 in the technical section and removing the sentence about possible seeds in multiplayer. Whenever I try to do this, it says I can't because I'm inserting a link when I'm not. Can you make the edit for me? –Preceding unsigned comment was added by KittyCrafter156 (talk • contribs) at 1:57, 10 October 2016 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

As far as I can tell, the page is correct. If you enter the world seed yourself, any 64-bit value can be used. -- Orthotopetalk 06:35, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Broken File Upload

It seems like the file upload has been broken for a couple of days already (throughout multiple browsers). The following error appears whenever a picture (in this case a png) is uploaded (it does not seem like entering different values changes the outcome). 

Exception encountered, of type "InvalidArgumentException"
[c54a27e4b91bec46186e3470] /Special:Upload InvalidArgumentException from line 246 of /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/Message.php: $key must be a string or an array
Backtrace:
#0 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(1391): Message->__construct(NULL, array)
#1 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/context/RequestContext.php(457): wfMessage(NULL, ApiMessage)
#2 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(705): RequestContext->msg(NULL, ApiMessage)
#3 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(697): SpecialPage->msg(NULL, ApiMessage)
#4 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(472): SpecialUpload->processVerificationError(array)
#5 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/specials/SpecialUpload.php(206): SpecialUpload->processUpload()
#6 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(479): SpecialUpload->execute(NULL)
#7 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(576): SpecialPage->run(NULL)
#8 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/MediaWiki.php(282): SpecialPageFactory::executePath(Title, RequestContext)
#9 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/MediaWiki.php(745): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#10 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/includes/MediaWiki.php(519): MediaWiki->main()
#11 /home/hydra/stable_public_html/index.php(43): MediaWiki->run()
#12 {main}

As far as I can tell from the MediaWiki code (as far as that still applies to this specific fork) this is related to some kind of upload error occurring somewhere along the line. So I'm not entirely sure as to whether the issue could be caused by the file itself (A copy of the image can be found on imgur).

--LordAkkarin (talk) 12:11, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Same thing happening to me on Google Chrome. :(

LeeSpork (talk) 02:50, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Wyatt2050 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Back in June, Wyatt2050 was warned on his talk page by Goandgoo (talk • contribs • logs • block log) to not add speculation/false information because of what he was doing to the 0.15.0 page, and said if he did it again there would be consequences including a temporary block, and was blocked for it, as well as abusing multiple accounts.

Today, he removed the warning and discussion about it. After doing that he proceeded to add speculation/false information to the page Pocket Edition Alpha 0.17.0 and attempted to revert war before giving up. Obviously some form of action needs to be taken here, as he as removed a warning and gone against what he was warned not to do. EDIT: I got something a bit wrong, so I edited it, my bad. It should be fine now. Bbob1937 (talk) 22:32, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Dylano3333333 (talk • contribs • logs • block log)

Moved a bunch of Map-related pages into Minecraft Wiki space.

I undid them, but I botched the move of the talk page archive; it's at Talk:Map/Archive 01 and should go back to where it was, at Talk:Map/Archive 1 – Sealbudsman talk/contr 15:05, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Fixed. -- Orthotopetalk 21:17, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! – Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:05, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Jan - April Archive

Could someone complete the archive of the page I was attempting to do: to list Minecraft_Wiki:Admin_noticeboard/Archive_25 as a page in Minecraft_Wiki:Admin_noticeboard/header, and then to protect that Archive 25 page? Thanks, – Sealbudsman talk/contr 21:54, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Done. -- Orthotopetalk 22:01, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! – Sealbudsman talk/contr 22:05, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

Re-protecting Undead page from IP edits

Page protection on Undead page expired and was almost immediately met with the same repetitive vandalism from the same person. Unfortunately they've been doing this to a bunch of other pages, though Undead in particular is a primary focus and will likely need to be re-protected. Original request. Skylinerw (talk) 12:16, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Cannot add links.

Hello, I am trying to add links, but it is saying that what I am doing is harmful.

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