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{{Main Page talk}}
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==Pipe Plaza==
==Pipe Plaza==
What happened to it? Was it replaced by The 'Shroom? {{User:Plumber/sig}}
What happened to it? Was it replaced by The 'Shroom? {{User:Plumber/sig}}
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#'''Personal Images''' – some of you have over 10 personal images, and note that the personal image policy says you can only have four (five including signature image). Some of you just upload and stick them onto your user pages without even labeling them as personal images. I found a shocking number of unlabeled personal image while going through all images. Some of you didn't know about it before and that's okay. But now that you do know after reading this, you should take responsibility and dispose of your extra personal images. Tell other new users and friends who aren't aware of the rule too.
#'''Personal Images''' – some of you have over 10 personal images, and note that the personal image policy says you can only have four (five including signature image). Some of you just upload and stick them onto your user pages without even labeling them as personal images. I found a shocking number of unlabeled personal image while going through all images. Some of you didn't know about it before and that's okay. But now that you do know after reading this, you should take responsibility and dispose of your extra personal images. Tell other new users and friends who aren't aware of the rule too.
#'''Stubby pages''' &ndash; some of you have been creating one sentence pages, mainly around SPM. Others like the [[Fay]] article use <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> to simply look like the writer gave no effort in creating the page and copy & pasted it. My point is, if you don't know anything about an article (other than what game it appears in), don't create it at all. This drives away the attention on the red links and drives serious writers away. I mean no one wants to work on crappy pages, do they?
#'''Stubby pages''' &ndash; some of you have been creating one sentence pages, mainly around SPM. Others like the [[Fay]] article use <nowiki>{{PAGENAME}}</nowiki> to simply look like the writer gave no effort in creating the page and copy & pasted it. My point is, if you don't know anything about an article (other than what game it appears in), don't create it at all. This drives away the attention on the red links and drives serious writers away. I mean no one wants to work on crappy pages, do they?
#'''Vandalism''' &ndash; you all need to be informed in this department. You guys shouldn't block anyone on first warning. People make mistakes, it happens. Some people could be caught up in recent sockpuppet vandalism problem. Before anybody blocks or suspects another user of being a sockpuppet, give the user a chance. At first offense, use {{Tem|Reminder}}. If you have reason to suspect the user is deliberately continuing trollish actions, us {{Tem|Warning}}. If the user continues with the maliceful behavior despite knowing the consequences, use {{Tem|Last warning}}. If the user disregards the Lastwarn template, then it is appropriate to block him/her. After doing so, place {{Tem|Block}} on the user's talk page including information about how long he has been blocked. Remember to keep block times sensible. Don't block a user for an infinite amount of time just because he/she was creating bad articles or spamming. The only time it is really okay to block a user for an infinite amount of time is if that user is a [[MarioWiki:Trolls|troll]]. IP blocks are only used for drastic measures as well. Use common sense.
#'''Vandalism''' &ndash; you all need to be informed in this department. You guys shouldn't block anyone on first warning. People make mistakes, it happens. Some people could be caught up in recent sockpuppet vandalism problem. Before anybody blocks or suspects another user of being a sockpuppet, give the user a chance. At first offense, use {{Tem|Reminder}}. If you have reason to suspect the user is deliberately continuing trollish actions, us {{Tem|Warning}}. If the user continues with the maliceful behavior despite knowing the consequences, use {{Tem|Lastwarn}}. If the user disregards the Lastwarn template, then it is appropriate to block him/her. After doing so, place {{Tem|Block}} on the user's talk page including information about how long he has been blocked. Remember to keep block times sensible. Don't block a user for an infinite amount of time just because he/she was creating bad articles or spamming. The only time it is really okay to block a user for an infinite amount of time is if that user is a [[MarioWiki:Trolls|troll]]. IP blocks are only used for drastic measures as well. Use common sense.


Thank you for complying with these rules. &ndash; [[User:Confused|MarioWiki Maintenance]]
Thank you for complying with these rules. &ndash; [[User:Confused|MarioWiki Maintenance]]


OK Mr. Maintenance, my thoughts:
OK Mr. Maintenance, my thoughts:
#Personal image templates & licensing is very important. I'm especially getting tired of using {{tem|personal-file}} all the time on certain users' images. {{tem|aboutfile}} is optional, but good for article images. One-sentence image summaries is usually sufficient, depending on the content.
#Personal image templates & licensing is very important. I'm especially getting tired of using {{tem|personal-image}} all the time on certain users' images. {{tem|aboutfile}} is optional, but good for article images. One-sentence image summaries is usually sufficient, depending on the content.
#'''This Friday, I'm officially counting all personal images and telling everyone over 4 to trim down.''' You have thus been warned.
#'''This Friday, I'm officially counting all personal images and telling everyone over 4 to trim down.''' You have thus been warned.
#Remember [[MarioWiki:Manual of Style]]. It also advises to not create the article if you know nothing about it. Construction pages for SPM, like the list pages, are fine, but one-sentence pages are not. [[Catch Card]] is an excellent example of what we're looking for.
#Remember [[Help:Article]]. It also advises to not create the article if you know nothing about it. Construction pages for SPM, like the list pages, are fine, but one-sentence pages are not. [[Catch Card]] is an excellent example of what we're looking for.
#I have to half-agree and half-disagree here. The warning templates in order should be used, sometimes if it's bad the first time you can skip to {{tem|warning}} right away. But spammers will come back after their block is up, so we rarely do not block indefinitely. The "block time" variable is mostly nonexistent on this wiki. Plain & simple.
#I have to half-agree and half-disagree here. The warning templates in order should be used, sometimes if it's bad the first time you can skip to {{tem|warning}} right away. But spammers will come back after their block is up, so we rarely do not block indefinitely. The "block time" variable is mostly nonexistent on this wiki. Plain & simple.


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::I think that certain exceptions, like Aipom's Comic Archive, should be allowed. But that should ONLY be used it certain cases. {{User:TheGreatBlockyBoo/sig|Now me, I don't have to worry...}}
::I think that certain exceptions, like Aipom's Comic Archive, should be allowed. But that should ONLY be used it certain cases. {{User:TheGreatBlockyBoo/sig|Now me, I don't have to worry...}}
:::Those images can be deleted, and he can link them externally. Also, I'm going to go through [[Special:Ipblocklist]], and round up the IPs. Then I'll post them here with a brief description of what the person with the IP did, and we can decide if the block is justified. --{{User:Yoshi626/Signature}} 23:41, 25 April 2007 (EDT)


:::Thinking about the rules (look at the top of this section) makes sense, I'll think I'm goanna start this at problemly tommorow; after school. Only "Image Uploading" and problemly "Stubby Pages" Confused posted in this section {{User:RAP/sig}} [[Special:Contributions/RAP|All right, let's go let's go! Let's clean up this whole crazy place!!]]
Alright, this is what I've come up with:
 
*168.69.134.1 (IP of the original Peachyackes)
# Not Aipom's Comic Archive! anything but that!
*68.96.23.7 (IP of Wapiko. and Zeli, blocked for sockpuppetry)
# I told DB about the Dry Pics page a month ago.  
*24.252.62.178 (IP of 17, who vandalized the Wario page with crude language)
# {{User:Maxlover2/sig}}
*64.252.166.7 (IP of Kazzy, who vandalized, removed warnings, and created a sockpuppet account)
 
*209.200.19.180 (Made three accounts with vulgar names insulting me)
[[User:Isyou]] is also a pretty big offender, he
*71.63.11.0 (IP of Game theory, who vandalized Donkey Kong with crude language)
have thirteen personnal image and a crapload that he did not put on his userpage. And yeah, Aipom's Comic shoul'dnt be deleted.
*90.192.134.74 (IP of Potato man, who spammed and created false pages)
[[User:Gofer|Gofer]]
*24.181.65.251 (IP of Tonya Logan, who filled pages with false information)
:Aipom can just link his comics externally like [[User:Plumber/Comic Archive|Plumber does]], so he wouldn't have to upload them. If he did that, then they wouldn't count as personal images. --{{User:Yoshi626/Signature}} 07:47, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
*168.9.128.157 (IP of Tony Logan, who blanked pages and did the same thing as Tonya Logan, suspected sockpuppet of that user)
::How can you do that?  I'd really like to spruce up my user page, too ;) --[[User:Stumpers|Stumpers]]
*24.93.248.215 (IP of 84760, who blanked quite a few pages)
 
*193.216.129.69 (IP of a ton of Willy on Wheels sockpuppets)
To show images from another source, simply enter the full url of the image into the source code (<nowiki>http://img.photobucket.com/album/username/image.ext</nowiki>). You can't resize it, so if it's big, just link the pages. {{User:Wayoshi/sig}} 15:25, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
*137.226.13.2 (IP of Jimbo Wales impersonator)
 
*81.169.137.209 (IP of a Willy on Wheels sockpuppet)
Thank you, kind sirs! --[[User:Stumpers|Stumpers]]
*80.74.143.186 (IP of numerous Willy on Wheels sockpuppets)
 
*86.137.9.186 (IP of two Willy on Wheels sockpuppets)
I delete the personal image on Dry Pics and sorry max I don't really look at the disscussion on pics.
*88.108.144.39 (IP of Angela impersonator)
 
*62.48.34.110 (IP of "Weeeeee!", who added point of view and untrue things to Princess Peach)
{{User:Dry Bones/sig| sorry I had to many}}
*168.9.128.161 (IP of Grandma Logan, who blanked pages, and filled some pages with false information)
 
*168.9.128.173 (Same as the above IP)
Don't just delete the PI template; add this too: <nowiki>{{delete|Abandoned/extra PI.}}</nowiki> {{User:3dejong/sig|gooorooo.}}
*158.39.186.137 (IP of "The Havock MAn", who vandalized five pages, saying this wiki sucks)
 
*168.9.128.3 (IP of Thomas Logan, who blanked pages, and created false pages)
If anyone needs to upload an image, click the glowing Mario in my sig, when it finished uploading, go to the bottom where it says "Image URL", copy that, and paste it on your page (without any brackets or anything, just paste it, but make sure it doesn't touch something else likethis) {{User:Plumber/sig}}
*24.178.119.86 (IP of Gosalyn Mallard, who created a false page four times, likely sockpuppet of the Logans)
 
Alright, so what should be done with these blocked IPs? Like, which ones should remain blocked, and, if any, which ones should be unblocked? And if you find info on any of these IPs/accounts that I didn't mention, feel free to modify the list to reflect what you found. --{{User:Yoshi626/Signature}} 00:13, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
Is there any way to put an external image in a thumbnail? {{User:Plumber/sig}}
 
Dude, I wish. {{User:3dejong/sig|we can dream.... zzzzz...}}
 
... What do you mean? Do you mean I can not put images from imageshack on my userpage? And what do you mean by others I didnt use?!? {{User:isyou/sig}}
 
No, you can put external images on your page. ANd the ones you didn't use probably you forgot about them. {{User:Plumber/sig}}
 
What is an external image? And also, I put a delete tag on my pics when i'm done with them... {{User:isyou/sig}}
 
Can you look at, for example, what pages have "Personal-image|Maxlover2"??? {{User:Maxlover2/sig}}
 
An external image is an image from Picoodle or ImageShack or something that wasn't uploaded here. {{User:Plumber/sig}}
 
Then why was I screamed at?  I counted. I have 4 personal images. 2 of them are personal images from different users.{{User:isyou/sig}}
 
D'oh, sorry.
[[User:Gofer|Gofer]]
 
What if the images come from Microsoft Paint?--{{User:Aipom/sig}}--

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