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.
» 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))
Track the most recent changes to the wiki on this page.
User talk:Fabian42diffhist+271SLScooltalkcontribs(Created page with "== Forking Policy and the Forked Wiki == Fandom's Forking Policy prohibits promoting and advertising the forked wiki. I have therefore removed your messages to other users promoting the new wiki.~~~~")
» 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: {{delete|reason here}}. If the subject matter is valid but the page is bare, give it some time and honor any work-in-progress tags.
» 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: {{delete|reason here}}.
» 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: {{delete|reason here}}.
» 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.
What templates are available?
Tags
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test
test2
test3
Navigational
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{{about|USE1|USE2|PAGE2}}
Use this to resolve disambiguations that don't warrant their own disambiguation page or can really, really cause confusion.
This page is about USE1. For USE2, see PAGE2.
{{back|BACKTO}}
Use this on top of sub-pages to navigate users back to the parent page.
CSS "clear"'s on both sides of the page. Useful on pages which have so many images on the side and text flowing around them. Use this to interrupt the text until there are no more "floating" boxes like images. "left" or "right" is an optional parameter to just clear the left or right, respectively.
No visible example
Infotables
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{{Armor Crafting}}
General crafting tables for types of armor, for easier updating
This infobox is for Block pages. For parameter information, see the template page Template:Block
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Text
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{{!}} or {{!!}}
Allows pipe characters in tables/templates to interchange them. Use single or double for their respective number of pipes.
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Utility
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Silly
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MediaWiki
MediaWiki comes with a lot of "magic words" that provide variables like {{SITENAME}} to print out the site's name (Minecraft Wiki). 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[citation needed] and you've got evidence to provide for that or anything in general (ie. a twitter post by notch), then use the <ref>http://urlgoeshere</ref> tags at where the citation is needed. Then, if the article does not have a == References == section, make one (make sure it's above any == External Links == and == See Also == sections) and then directly under it just put <references />. 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.