PipeProject:Special characters

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’. â. Where are these weird characters coming from? Is it intentional and correct? And if not, what is to be done about it?

1. The answer to the first question is that the server move has caused some special characters to be incorrectly to...some freaky special characters, like the above. Some appear in link names (the easiest to fix – using What links here) and some don't.
2. No, they are messing up link titles and article accurancy. ;)
3. This PipeProject is here to organize the effort to correct these mistakes – cleanup after the server move. That's the only goal – no need to make a list.

List of Known Problems

Add any existing or preexisting problems here.

Problem Characters

This is in general – not all of the occurances of the special character on the wiki will change to their freaky [counterparts]. It is suggested that using Special:Random, you scan the page for any of these, or any other out-of-place symbols. If a template has this issue, look in the edit box, find the template name & page, and get rid of it there.

• â becomes â
• ' becomes ’
• ♪ becomes ♪
• - becomes — (← - should become – anyways, so we'll be instituting the true dash at the same time.)

Problem Links

Red links will result from this switch of characters. Using "What links here", you can find out all the pages that have the faulty link, in addition to scanning for other problems.

• "Château de Chucklehuck" was transferred wrong on all pages with the text because of the â in "Château". It has been fixed.
• Yoshi’s Island was only transferred wrong on a couple of pages. It has been fixed.
• ♪ Block was correct in name, but had "♪ Block" across the whole page, and in {{blocks}}. MM fixed all of the problem text.

P-S-Y

If the three letters P-S-Y (without the dashes) appear in the title of a page in a row, you won't be able to access it. Talk to a sysop about creating a new article with a modified name to work on the wiki. Porplemontage may be able to retrieve the source code for the new page.

If a page already contains P-S-Y in it somewhere, you won't be able to save it without removing any instances of P-S-Y.

No pages will be able to be created that contain P-S-Y. If you go to edit a page and you get a "Mario is not amused" error, remove any instances of P-S-Y in the page.

Pages already with this issue: Yoshi TopTemplate:Sy-Turvy, FlopTemplate:Sy

To Fix/Deal With a P-S-Y

From: Help:Naming conventions (technical restrictions)

The three letters P-S-Y (without dashes) cannot appear in a page title or wiki page. All instances must be removed before a page can be saved. Our recommendation is to use the code p{{s}}y which produces pTemplate:Sy, which is simply a workaround so that the three letters are not displayed in a row when saving a page. For page titles, š can be used in the place of s. And of course any article title that needs the special character will use the normal {{wrongtitle}} template.

Members

Going to help fix this annoying problem a ton of times for us? Be sure to add #~~~, and thanks!

1. Wa _T^C_@^Y
2. Knife (talk)
3. Phoenix Rider
4. Paper Jorge (Talk·Contribs)
5. HK-47 w4z h3R3 at 13:33, 22 November 2006 (EST)
6. 

I'm awesome.

Wikis I'm On

• Wikipedia-Rat235478683

Yes! Waluigi has started to take his first, clumsy, steps into the Warioverse!

Articles I've Created

1. Poink
2. Six-Face Sal
3. Penny Crygor
4. Form Baton
5. Temple of Form
6. Jimmy P.
7. Pianta Village
8. Fronk
9. Timber 64
10. Seedy Sally
11. Short Fuse
12. Spooky (Shy Guy)
13. Nintendo 64DD
14. Pixl
15. Cheep Cheep Falls
16. Blooper Bay
17. Nintendo Village
18. Halberd
19. Cosmic Wario
20. Crate
21. Shell Shot
22. Air Lift
23. Air Raid
24. Stilts
25. Cudge
26. Barry
27. Spiny Flip
28. Spiny Surge
29. Cloud Nine
30. Hurricane (move)
31. Squirt (move)
32. Dimentio
33. Bit Land
34. Donkey Konga 2
35. Water Block
36. Tidal Wave
37. Squirps
38. Dashell
39. Cherbil
40. Jawbus
41. Poison Cherbil
42. Spiky Tromp
43. Cursya
44. Boomboxer
45. Wario Waft
46. Onigiri

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If I Were a Video Game Creator, I Would...

1. Conker would turn over a new leaf.
2. Gregg would start his own series.
3. Donkey Kong Racing wouldn't be cancelled.
4. Lanky Kong would appear in more games.
5. Super Wario Bros.
6. "Super" Waluigi 128
7. WarioWare: Warped
8. Mario Smash Football (American football)
9. Mario Extreme Baseball
10. Super Mario Sunshine 2: The Sea Creature Islands
11. Donkey Konga 4: Rise of the Animal Buddies
12. Timber's Island
13. The Adventures of Bumper
14. Bowser Goes Bananas
15. Private Rodent would get his own game series.
16. Luigi's Mansion 2: The Hidden Mansion
17. Wacky Wario Races
18. Banjo-Kazooie: Bottles to the Rescue
19. Dario and Daluigi
20. Mario is Missing 2: Girls Got Power
21. Lanky Kong's House of Fun
22. Krazy Kong Races

Random Facts

1. I was the 1,000 viewer to view Pikachu.
2. I was the 600 viewer to see User:Kelt's user page.
3. I was the 1000 viewer to view User:Smiddle's user page.
4. I was the 4,800 viewer to see the Shroom' main page.
5. The 1000 registered user is User:Burnttoast5691.
6. I was the 400 viewer to read User: Paper Jorge's talk page.
7. I was the 100 person to view User:Freekhenstra's user page.
8. My 1,000 edit was on User talk:Shkai Bones.
9. My 2,000 edit was on User talk:Yoshi626.
10. Out of all of the users here, my edit count is eighteenth highest.
11. My 3,000 edit was on Cream.

My Mario-Based Dreams

1. To become a sysop.(though it'll probably never happen, there are much better users than me.)

Links

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