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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:Catrope|Catrope]]
+**[[User:BlueResistance|BlueResistance]] (established by Joe Baudoin since August 17, 2012)
-**[[User:Gougef|Gougef]]
+**[[User:Enabran|Enabran]]
-**[[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] (Primary Wiki Frakr! Contact)
+**[[User:LIMAFOX76|LIMAFOX76]]
 **[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]]
-**[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]]
+**[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]]
-**[[User:Serenity|Serenity]]
-**[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]]
 * 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:Talos|Talos]]
 See [[Battlestar Wiki:Administrators|list of all chiefs on Battlestar Wiki]]
-== Javascript Reported Vandals ==
+= Discussions =
-''No recent reports.''
-<div style="clear:both;"></div>
-== WYSIWYG editor problems ==
-The new WYSIWYG editor is surely very nifty (though slow), but did you notice how it messes up internal links? All by itself changes something like <nowiki>[[Natalie]]</nowiki> to <nowiki>[[Natalie|Natalie]]</nowiki>. And that for ''all ''links within the text whenever you edit a page with it. Functionally, it's the same, but generally we took care to remove such unnecessary piping by hand. I could make understand something like <nowiki>[[Battlestar|battlestar]]</nowiki>, but it changes anything no matter what. That kinda clutters up the text if you read it the old way.
-It also didn't take my nowiki-links here for some reason and translated them into html characters. Typing them in text view and then switching to WYSIWYG worked. Moreover, it writes categories in one line instead of one line per category. More seriously, none of the quick links below the edit box works anymore. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 10:12, 26 May 2008 (UTC)<br>
-:What the hell.. those who prefer to read and edit plain wikitext (like I do) can click the "Wikitext" button in the top left corner of the editor. Anyway, according to [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28by_Mafs%29#Introduction the extension page on MediaWiki.org], it's an "'''expirimental''' approach providing a '''semi'''-WYSIWYG concept". IMO, FCKeditor is not ''nearly'' mature enough to be used here. Also, I was surprised that such a major change was made without discussion or without testing on the Hangar Bay. Shouldn't we at least go through the Think Tank and all that? --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 10:29, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
-::Yes, you can do both, but if someone fraks up the formatting with the editor (and that happens merely by using it), that's also visible in the standard wiki view. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]]
-:::Guys, you can simply disable the text editor via your [[Special:Preferences|preferences]]. Click "Misc" then click on "Disable rich editor". (Or, if you have the JS toolbar disabled, it'll have the same effect, as Shane and I found out just last night.) Oh, and we've been testing this on BSP.com between [[:bsp:User:pagad|User:pagad]] and myself. Also the piping issue is [http://blog.battlestarwiki.org/2008/05/25/easy-to-use-what-you-see-editor-now-available-on-battlestar-wiki/ known to me] and I'm working with a bot person from WP to get a bot that will nip that problem, until the guys at FCK/MW can get that kink worked out.&nbsp;:) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[:bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 15:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
-:::::Ok, ok. Sorry, I said anything&nbsp;:s&nbsp;;) -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
-::::::Us 'expert users' will not use this, but hey&nbsp;:) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User talk:Shane|talk]]) 20:31, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
-:::::::I'm really getting fed up by FCKeditor behaving as its name suggests, namely fucking up wikitext. One of the most blatant examples is [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Battlestar_Wiki:Translation_Project&curid=4908&diff=161659&oldid=160036&rcid=164977 this diff]. The guy just added himself as a translator for native Turkish, but that's hidden between lots of no-op changes. I say we disable FCKEditor for the time being and look for another WYSIWYG editor (there are others out there) that does not fuck up as severely as FCKEditor does. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 21:59, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-::::::::I am in agreement here. I think we should remove it or disable it by default. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User talk:Shane|talk]]) 22:15, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-::::::::At the least it should be disabled by default, so that not everyone messes up the layout of the pages by using it because it just happens to be on. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 22:59, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-:::::::::It's not really so much of a frakup as you make it sound Catrope. It's merely piping links... something that can be corrected with a bot. I'm doing some exploratory code work to see why it pipes links, but I'm fine with disabling as default for now. 	:) -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 23:19, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-::::::::::I think it makes the texts far less readable in the editor. It also makes comparing differences all but useless when someone edits a whole page. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:01, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
-I've gone ahead and disabled it, since it stripped image captions that used wiki markup, like it did on a recent Cylon related page. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 00:10, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
-== new old promo pics ==
-Photographer Carole Seagal has released about 175 promo pics of old episodes: http://www.segalpix.com/sections/battleSTAR/index.html
-Sometimes they're already available, but there's also lots of new stuff there, and some are from cut scenes. They aren't high-res and only around 500*360, but of good quality. Might be some interesting stuff there for one or the other article. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 19:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-: Golly frakkin' damn... Sweet! :D -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 19:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
+== Request For Article Deletion ==
-:: Mass download? :) [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 19:15, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
+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}}
-:::There seems to be one available [http://www.box.net/shared/2txx05fggc here], but you need to register. -- [[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 19:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-== SUL ==
+: 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)
-Single User Login was enabled for everybody at Wikipedia today. This feature has been planned since 2005, and enables users to log in with the same name at all Wikipedia wikis. The idea is basically that you first unify your accounts. I, for example, had accounts called "Catrope", all with the same password, at mediawiki.org, enwiki and nlwiki. After unifying them, SUL registers that you now have a global account called "Catrope". This means that as soon as I visit, say, dewiki, SUL will automatically create an account for me and log me in.
+== 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)
-Maybe we could use this so we won't have to create accounts at all wikis (en, de, ..., zh, media) anymore? The extension that does all this is [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth here], and of course it requires MediaWiki 1.13 unless we're willing to settle for the stripped-down and probably buggy version that is compatible with 1.12. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 21:21, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
+== Improperly Archived Talk Pages ==
-:A neat plan. I like unification so long as security is maintained since it's an all-eggs-in-one-basket situation. (Wow, this editor is funky to use). Thoughts? --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 21:46, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
+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)
-::Security is maintained, or they wouldn't enable it at Wikipedia :P There are procedures in place for when someone else has already created an account with your name on another wiki (not likely to happen on our modest wiki farm), and group membership (such as sysop-ship) isn't site-wide. This means it's possible for e.g. [[User:Baltar Gaiolas]] to be a sysop at [[:es:]] but not at [[:en:]]. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 21:50, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
+: 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)
-:::I been waiting for something to come along. We will implement as soon as it's Saturday Night. I think this is a good idea. We should test it with the HB. How does it work with bots, edit counts, etc? [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 22:11, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
+:: 👍 --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] ([[User talk:April Arcus|talk]]) 16:57, 13 April 2020 (PDT)
-::::Well bots are just users who just happen not to be human. To use SUL for a bot, you'll have to login as the bot and go to [[Special:MergeAccount]] to merge its account (i.e. enable SUL), then let the bot just try to login at any wiki (whether through the UI or the API), and an account will automatically be created for it if it doesn't exist yet on that particular wiki. Edit counts are separated per-wiki, as are permissions, contributions and pretty much everything else. As to the HB testing part: we'll probably have to create a second HB so we can test the SUL feature. Just one wiki isn't enough ;) --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 22:15, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-:::::Aye. I see that you can do a dry run before we do it. I think it would be good once we upgrade to do that. I will have to create a user account database for SUL. That's not really that big of a deal. [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 22:16, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-::::::You don't necessarily have to create a new database for that. You can also use one of the existing ones. I also changed the extension today so you can add the tables through the familiar <code>php maintenance/update.php</code>, rather than having to import an SQL file. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 22:20, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-:::::::I rather it be on it's own database. That way I can use it for other things. <code>php maintenance/update.php --importsql</code>? [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 22:22, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
-::::::::No, that won't work. You have to either import the <code>central-auth.sql</code> file manually (through e.g. phpMyAdmin) or change AdminSettings.php to point to another database (and change it back afterwards... kind of sucks). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
-::::::::::I have phpMyadmin on another "URL". I'll just use the sql file to create the tables. :D [[User:Shane|Shane]] ([[User_Talk:Shane|talk]]) 10:15, 28 May 2008 (UTC)