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| =Battle Template= | | == Current Administrators == |
| Me and Shane have been working on a template with aim to replace the individual wikitables on the battle pages Merv created. I was hoping I would get some feedback from you on the appearance etc.
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| The testing area is [[User:Mercifull/Battle template|here]] and you can see the actual template at {{tl|Battle Data}} --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] 13:49, 21 June 2006 (CDT)
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| :I left a note at [[Template talk:Battle Data]]. --[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]]<sup>([[Special:Contributions/CalculatinAvatar|C]]-[[User talk:CalculatinAvatar|T]])</sup> 14:24, 21 June 2006 (CDT)4
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| =Inadvertent Deletions= | | ===Senior Chiefs=== |
| | Senior chiefs are, in Wikipedia's terminology, bureaucrats who have the ability to make other users into chiefs. They also have the ability to check user and other advance functions not under the purview of the chiefs. |
| | Currently senior chiefs are: |
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| | ** [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] |
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| | ** [[User:Shane|Shane]] |
| | ** [[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] |
| | ** [[User:NCommander|NCommander]] (Technical Issues Only) |
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| I have inadvertently save over another's edit 2 0r 3 times (RFA for Merciful) in the last 2 days . I thought that the wiki prevented that automatically. Is it because I talking so longer to edit sometimes? Or is there a problem. Just don't want to keeping doing it. --[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 14:03, 23 June 2006 (CDT)
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| :I think this happens when two people are editing the same page, always preview your work before posting to make sure you havnt made a major fubar. I recently did it on the ships page cutting off half the page lol and if i had previwed i wouldnt have messed it up hehe. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] 14:05, 23 June 2006 (CDT) | | Chiefs are administrators who have access to move, delete and restore pages as well as blocking malicious users. The current chiefs are: |
| ::Thanks, I usually preview, but will make sure that I do in the future.--[[User:Gougef|FrankieG]] 14:08, 23 June 2006 (CDT)
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| :::Steel re-added the vote, so no problem there. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 14:13, 23 June 2006 (CDT)
| | **[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] (established by Joe Baudoin since August 17, 2012) |
| ::::It also helps to only edit a section (not the whole article) when possible; this limits how much teeth gnashing you have to do as you repaste your contribution. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 17:25, 23 June 2006 (CDT)
| | **[[User:Enabran|Enabran]] |
| :::::For the record, that can't happen on an RFA due to it's design. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 18:00, 23 June 2006 (CDT)
| | **[[User:LIMAFOX76|LIMAFOX76]] |
| | **[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] |
| | **[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] |
| | * Inactive |
| | **[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]] |
| | **[[User:Catrope|Catrope]] |
| | **[[User:Day|Day]] |
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| | **[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] |
| | **[[User:Gougef|Gougef]] |
| | **[[User:Jonathan|Jonathan]] (PR Coordinator) |
| | **[[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] (Primary Wiki Frakr! Contact) |
| | **[[User:Talos|Talos]] |
| | See [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators|list of all chiefs on Battlestar Wiki]] |
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| = Unlock the [[BW:SC]] Archives = | | = Discussions = |
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| I am going around to most of the pages that are getting to long and making archives to keep the content clean and the [[BW:SC]] archives are protected and ''[[BW:RFA#Shane|I]]'' can not edit them. So can someone unlock them for me. They do not have to be locked up as items would have to be removed if the same issue arised in the future. Thanks. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 08:35, 24 June 2006 (CDT) | | == Request For Article Deletion == |
| | Hello, I hope this is the correct page to ask for such things. I have done a lot of editing on the BSG: Deadlock articles and I have taken note that there was a duplicate article created (possibly my mistake) Please can I request that [[Assault Raptor|this]] (assault raptor) article be deleted? The duplicate for this article is [[Assault Raptor (Deadlock)|here]]. {{unsigned|Fisher 2000}} |
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| : I'm confused... You want to archive the archives, or...? Maybe a link to the specific page you're wanting archived. --[[User:Day|Day]] <sup>([[User talk:Day|Talk]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators' noticeboard|Admin]])</sup> 22:25, 24 June 2006 (CDT) | | : No worries! The duplicate has been deleted. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 03:05, 14 February 2024 (UTC) |
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| :: Just the old archived pages. It's already been done. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 22:55, 24 June 2006 (CDT) | | == lost access to my old account == |
| | hello! this is [[User:DrWho42]] from a new account. my old account used an old university email which i no longer have access to. if possible, i would like to regain access in preparation for the new series (love sam esmail and ''mr. robot''!).-[[User:DoctorWho42|DoctorWho42]] ([[User talk:DoctorWho42|talk]]) 02:03, 5 January 2020 (PST) |
| | : Send me an email at webmaster@battlestarwiki.org with your new email address. I should be able to update your account and send you a password reset link. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 18:40, 5 January 2020 (PST) |
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| ::: Okay. I thought so... That's what had confused me. They didn't look locked to me. *wink* --[[User:Day|Day]] <sup>([[User talk:Day|Talk]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators' noticeboard|Admin]])</sup> 23:52, 24 June 2006 (CDT)
| | == Improperly Archived Talk Pages == |
| | | I'm seeing a lot of archived pages in the Talk namespace with "/Archive 1" appended to their names, where the corresponding unprefixed Talk page does not exist. It looks like someone mass-archived talk pages and neglected to create new talk pages or an archive index. I suggest that we move these pages back to their unprefixed titles, with a bot or mass edit tool if possible. --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] ([[User talk:April Arcus|talk]]) 19:59, 12 April 2020 (PDT) |
| =Request that User "Shane" be given a warning ban= | | : This was caused by the initial deployment of the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StructuredDiscussions StructuredDiscussions extension]. It should've provided a link the "archive" from the main "talk" page, but it didn't deploy that. I'm seeing about a means to rectify that. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]]</sup> 14:17, 13 April 2020 (PDT) |
| | | :: 👍 --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] ([[User talk:April Arcus|talk]]) 16:57, 13 April 2020 (PDT) |
| Per the discussion on "[[Battlestar Wiki:Requests for comment/Shane]]",
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| :"The Battlestar Wiki community, taking decisions according to appropriate community-designed policies with consensus support, following consensus on the case itself.
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| # The Administrators can impose a parole whereby any sysop can, at their judgement, impose a 24-hr temp ban for a violation of the parole, even though this offence would not normally be a bannable offence."
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| Per the Appeals Process for banning (my italics):
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| :"Community-derived bans may be appealed to Joe Beaudoin via a ''request for arbitration''. Joe will decide such a case based on whether the ban followed a genuine Battlestar Wiki policy, whether the procedures were correctly followed, and whether the ban was consistent with other Battlestar Wiki policies.
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| I'm formally requesting the Administrators and specifically sysop/Bureaucrat Joe Beaudoin, to, as per the suggestons in the RFC linked above, give user Shane a warning ban of one week, followed by the standard probatationary period of one month. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] <sup>([[Special:Contributions/The Merovingian|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/The Merovingian|E]])</sup> 17:03, 25 June 2006 (CDT) | |
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| :I think this process is already underway. The appropriate place for other administrators to weigh in on the decision is still the RFC. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 17:12, 25 June 2006 (CDT)
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| ::The "[[Battlestar_Wiki:Banning_policy|Ban]]" Policy is not even "Official". It's {{tl|Proposed Policy}} --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 17:13, 25 June 2006 (CDT) | |
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| I can not sit idlily by and watch this vandel mess up the site. I am taking action to revert the pages. --[[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 23:40, 28 June 2006 (CDT)
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| =Report on Vandalism by [[User:Mickey McGizzle]]=
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| ==Summary of Events==
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| On 18:42, 28 June 2006, [[User:Mickey McGizzle|Mickey McGizzle]] joined battlestar Wiki. He immediately initiated a series of attacks against several articles. These consisted of blanking the original content, which was replaced with a short string of nonsense, and quickly moving articles from one name to another, generating a massive number of redirects.
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| At 18:57, [[User:Kkimball|Kkimball]] took notice and posted a [http://www.battlestarwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User:Mickey_McGizzle&diff=prev&oldid=62022 comment] to McGizzle's user page.
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| At 19:00, Kkimball restored the contents of [[Battlestar Wiki:Cast and Crew]] (at that time located at "Cwap"). At 19:04, he restored the contents of [[Battlestar Wiki:Human Census Survey]], which had not been moved. At 19:24, he restored the contents of [[The Battlestar Galactica Drinking Game]], (at that time located at "The Land of Seventeen Guatemalens") and attempted to return it to its original namespace by moving it to "A Battlestar Galactica Drinking Game".
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| Immediately after Kkimball's edits, McGizzle renewed his attack on the Drinking Game, and retaliated with an attack on Kkimball's user page.
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| At 20:40, 28 June 2006, [[User:Shane|Shane]], currently banned from editing on an informal basis, posted a notice to [[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques]], due to an error on [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators' noticeboard]], which he corrected at 20:41. At 20:42, I reverted his comments to Official Communiques, and at 22:19, I moved his comment to the Administrators' noticeboard. It is the opinion of this administrator that due to the extraordinary circumstances at work, Shane's actions were not in violation of the terms of his ban as set forth in [[Battlestar Wiki:Requests for comment/Shane]].
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| Immediately after his post to Official Communiques, Shane notified me of the attack via GMail. On 20:42, 28 June 2006, I banned Mickey McGizzle with an expiry time of infinite, and set to work on repairs. By 21:34, all the attacked articles had been restored and moved back to their original locations. By 22:04, all spurious redirects had been deleted.
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| During this time, [[User:The Merovingian]] attempted to help by tagging several redirects for deletion.
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| ==Analysis==
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| ===Damage===
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| *Mickey McGizzle was able to actively vandalize Battlestar Wiki for exactly two hours.
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| *He attacked a total of fourteen articles:
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| **[[Galactica Discovers Earth (Book)]]
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| **[[Sparto Relamia]]
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| **[[Galactica (RDM)]]
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| **[[Battlestar Wiki:Human Census Survey]]
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| **[[Battlestar Wiki:Cast and Crew]]
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| **[[The Battlestar Galactica Drinking Game]]
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| **[[Battlestar Galactica]]
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| **[[User:Kkimball]]
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| **[[Battlestar Wiki:News]]
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| **[[Battlestar Wiki:Translation Project]]
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| **[[Battlestar Wiki:Original Series Article Development Project]]
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| **[[Battlestar Wiki:Project List]]
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| **[[Battlestar Wiki:Community Portal]]
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| **[[Battlestar Wiki:Site support]]
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| *He generated over 200 redirects.
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| *The Wiki remained vandalized for 52 minutes after Mickey McGizzle was banned. Deletion of all redirects took 1 hour and 22 minutes.
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| *[[User:Kkimball|Kkimball]] first noticed the attack 15 minutes after it commenced, but he failed or was unable to report it to an Administrator.
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| *[[User:Kkimball|Kkimball]]'s attempts to combat McGizzle's vandalism on his own were ineffectual.
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| *[[User:Shane|Shane]] noticed the attack 1 hour and 58 minutes after it commenced, and notified me. If he had not done so, the damage would undoubtedly have been much worse.
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| ===Threat Assessment===
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| McGizzle's personal response to Kkimball ([http://www.battlestarwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User%3AKkimball&diff=62108&oldid=33060 replying] to a [http://www.battlestarwiki.org/en/index.php?title=User:Mickey_McGizzle&diff=prev&oldid=62022 comment] on his user page, and subsequently moving Kkimball's user page to "Fatass") clearly indicates that he is not a bot, of the variety we've occasionally seen depositing link span. That a human being was able to cause so much damage raises serious concerns over automated agents using the same techniques.
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| McGizzle's vandalism method is extremely time consuming to revert. Vandalized articles must be identified from a large number of move log entries, then followed to their final destination, reverted, and returned to their original locations. This took an average of 3 minutes and 42 seconds per article. Following this, an enormous number of redirects must be deleted. This is tedious and inconveniently floods [[Special:Recentchanges|recent changes]] but the presence of redirects does not directly harm the usability of the wiki.
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| I recommend that the ability to move pages be restricted to administrators, and, if possible, other trusted users. I understand that current versions of MediaWiki allow a distinction to be made between newly registered users and old hands; if it would be possible to implement here, that would be ideal.
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| Straightforward vandalism would still be possible, but it is much easier to revert than the redirect technique.
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| The fact that it took two hours for an administrator to be notified of the attack is extremely disturbing. Hopefully Mercifull's election as an Admin will enable more round-the-clock surveillance, but Kkimball's attempt to revert McGizzle's edits personally, rather than contact an Admin is disappointing. Presumably, it simply didn't occur to him. Perhaps contact information for admins should be consolidated in another location besides user pages, to which a link could be included in the welcome greeting.
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| [[Star of Kobol|Stars of Kobol]] should be awarded to [[User:Kkimball|Kkimball]], [[User:Shane|Shane]] and [[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] for their valiant efforts to stop McGizzle's rampage.
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| --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 02:15, 29 June 2006 (CDT)
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| = See also =
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| * [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators|A list of all admins on Battlestar Wiki]]
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