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- BlueResistance (established by Joe Baudoin since August 17, 2012)
- Enabran
- LIMAFOX76
- Mercifull
- April Arcus
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- CalculatinAvatar
- Catrope
- Day
- Serenity
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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 this (assault raptor) article be deleted? The duplicate for this article is here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fisher 2000 (talk • contribs).

No worries! The duplicate has been deleted. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 03:05, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

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!).-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. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 18:40, 5 January 2020 (PST)

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. --April Arcus (talk) 19:59, 12 April 2020 (PDT)

This was caused by the initial deployment of the 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. -- Joe Beaudoin ^{So say we all - Donate} 14:17, 13 April 2020 (PDT)

👍 --April Arcus (talk) 16:57, 13 April 2020 (PDT)

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 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:
-*[[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]]
+* Active
-*[[User:Shane|Shane]]
+** [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]]
-*[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]]
+* Inactive
+** [[User:Shane|Shane]]
+** [[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]]
+** [[User:NCommander|NCommander]] (Technical Issues Only)
 ===Chiefs===
 Chiefs are administrators who have access to move, delete and restore pages as well as blocking malicious users. The current chiefs are:
 * Active
+**[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] (established by Joe Baudoin since August 17, 2012)
+**[[User:Enabran|Enabran]]
+**[[User:LIMAFOX76|LIMAFOX76]]
+**[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]]
+**[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]]
+* Inactive
+**[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]]
 **[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]
+**[[User:Day|Day]]
+**[[User:Serenity|Serenity]]
+**[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]]
 **[[User:Gougef|Gougef]]
+**[[User:Jonathan|Jonathan]] (PR Coordinator)
 **[[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] (Primary Wiki Frakr! Contact)
-**[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]]
-**[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]
-**[[User:Serenity|Serenity]]
-**[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]]
 **[[User:Talos|Talos]]
-* Inactive
-**[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]]
-**[[User:Day|Day]]
 See [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators|list of all chiefs on Battlestar Wiki]]
-== Javascript Reported Vandals ==
+= Discussions =
-''No recent reports.''
-<div style="clear:both;"></div>
-== Vandal ==
-At 3:19 (CST) [[User:Syshiran]] joined the wiki.  At 3:20-3:24 (CST) the user posted three ads on new pages in the site found at [[RF Coaxial Connector]], [[Chinese antique furniture]] and [[Web site building]].  I found the edits an hour later and blanked the content, posted deletion tags.  I choose not to write anything on the user's talk page, as it had been over an hour since the edits, and I did not want to alert the user to the changes.--[[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 05:14, 7 January 2008 (CST)
-:That's cool, OF. Thanks for the help. Serenity's already sent the user away...far away. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 17:24, 7 January 2008 (CST)
-::No problem, just happy to help get rid of these guys.--[[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 18:34, 7 January 2008 (CST)
-:Wasn't there a previous spammer who advertised coax connectors? Might be a repeat offender, but there is nothing much we can do. Doesn't happen that often anyways. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 17:45, 7 January 2008 (CST)
-::Yeah, there was actually. Less than six months ago, if I recall correctly. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 17:46, 7 January 2008 (CST)
-== Extension updates ==
+== 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}}
-We may want to go through and update the MediaWiki extensions soon. In the meantime, I was thinking of seeing what other extensions people thought might be useful... -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 21:54, 10 January 2008 (CST)
+: 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)
-:Upgrading extensions is a good idea. You should probably hold off on it for another week or so, though, as lots of extensions are currently being fixed to load messages only when necessary, which is anticipated to cause a noticeable performance gain. An extensive list of extensions can be found [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix here]. Extensions that are used on Wikimedia wikis are listed [[w:Special:Version|here]]. I'm listing a bunch of extensions in the next section, replies about specific extensions should go there. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 05:40, 11 January 2008 (CST)
-:: Good to hear! I wasn't planning on undertaking the task immediately anyway, but I'll definitely hold off now, more than likely until the BSP.com beta on the 18th... and speaking of, it would benefit from the updates as well.
-:: A bit off topic, any idea when MW 1.12 will be released? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 15:56, 11 January 2008 (CST)
-== Proposed extensions ==
+== lost access to my old account ==
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser CheckUser] allows privileged users to get a list of all IPs a user has used, and the other way around. This makes it easy to check for sockpuppetry (multiple users on one IP). We could adopt a protocol similar to Wikipedia's in which only a few users (Senior Chiefs in our case) can perform CheckUser checks, and others can request them through [[BW:CHECKUSER]].
+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)
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversight Oversight] allows privileged users to hide old revisions that may contain copyrighted or otherwise illegal content, so they're invisible to everyone save other privileged users. There is a branch implementing this natively, but I don't know whether it will be merged before the 1.12 release (I'm asking around, though).
+: 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)
-*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EasyTimeline EasyTimeline] can create graphical timelines from wikitext. This could be a nice addition to the timeline articles.
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Countdown Countdown] could replace [[Template:Countdown]]'s functionality.
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AntiSpoof AntiSpoof] prevents malicious users from registering as, say, "Ƈatrope", and impersonating me.
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpamBlacklist SpamBlacklist] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Username_Blacklist Username Blacklist] could be used for fighting spam, but we don't really have much of a spam problem (yet?).
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EditWarning EditWarning] displays a notice on top of the edit page if someone else is also editing that page.
-*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FireStats FireStats] generates all kinds of statistics information.
-:: We've already got CheckUser. We don't use it much, though. Still, it can stand to be upgraded, no doubt. The others will probably help... and I would really like it if the EditWarning extension would lock out other edits as well, so we can get rid of the need to lock down articles before new episodes air. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 16:00, 11 January 2008 (CST)
+== Improperly Archived Talk Pages ==
-:::EditWarning, Countdown and maybe EasyTimeline would be useful. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:12, 11 January 2008 (CST)
+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)
+: 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)