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Patroller

How do I become a Patroller or Sysop? Tails777

Take a look at MarioWiki:FAQ#How do I become an admin? --™ The 'Shroom 22:25, 5 January 2011 (EST)

Question

Hi, while i have been looking through some pages I've noticed the words Sequel and follow-up. What is the difference between a sequel and a follow-up?

-IGGY7735

I don't think there's a very large difference, a sequel is a game that came out to follow-up the game before. So I'd say they are the same, or so similar that it doesn't really matter. Marioguy1 (talk)

Hi, i cant edit my page,can you help?Minimario

You have to be a member of the wiki for a week and make ten mainspace edits before you can create and edit your userpage. It's explained on MarioWiki:Autoconfirmed users. - Walkazo 23:41, 3 February 2011 (EST)

What are the benefits of being a member on Super Mario Wiki?
The preceding unsigned comment was added by Daisy75 (talk).

You can edit the database. - Walkazo 20:27, 11 February 2011 (EST)

How can I make my User page User:Jmt0404

Please see MarioWiki:User space for questions about user space, but basically, you have to wait a week after joining, then click on the red link. - Walkazo 22:34, 16 March 2011 (EDT)

This Big Box

I am a new user. HOW DO I GET THIS ANNOYING BOX OUT OF MY TALK PAGE???!!!??? --MushroomMadness1221

Do you mean the table of contents, or the welcome template? If you don't want a table of contents, edit the page and type __NOTOC__ at the very top of the editing window, in the line right above the welcome template (don't leave a space between them, or there will be empty space above the welcome template). If you don't want the welcome template, simply remove it (edit the page and remove the part that reads {{Welcome2|MushroomMadness1221|Banao}} ). - Walkazo 13:04, 22 February 2011 (EST)

The 'Shroom

Dear Super Mario Wiki,

I have a question. I see that many places on the 'Shroom are vacant, but some are not. Is there any way I could write on the 'Shroom too? I would really like to do the Fake Police Blogger, but it may not be vacant by the time you may answer me. But is there any way I can do the 'Shroom? My name is Nintendo Bro. and I am a "member", or something like that. But however, I just started. So please write back in your free time, Sysops or Administrators? I appreciate it. -Nintendo Bro--

--Nintendo Bro. 07:16, 17 March 2011 (EDT)

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Here Yoshiwaker

What he means to say is, if you want to sign up for Fake Police Blotter, you should talk to this user - you can talk to the director of each subteam to sign up for that sub-team. Marioguy1 (Talk | Contribs)

Q

Can anyone give warnings, reminders, ect, or do only Wiki Admins get to do that? I was wondering, that if we can't give warnings, do we report a person to a admin? Boo Who Plays Games Happy Easter!

Anyone can give reminders or warnings, but make sure not to abuse giving them out. MrConcreteDonkey 17:54, 14 April 2011 (EDT)

Also, always use the official templates: personalized warning/notice templates will be deleted (yes, people have tried to make them in the past, iirc). - Walkazo 19:46, 14 April 2011 (EDT)

OK, so if I give a warning/reminder (not that I would do that in a hurry or frequently) does that count as a User Talk against my UserSpace Count? Or does it not count towards Userspace? I know it doesn't count toward mainspace, so what does it count towards?--

Boo Who Plays Games Happy Easter! 22:58, 14 April 2011 (EDT)

It'd count as a User Talk edit, which is different than Userspace edits. If you go to the search page, it has all the different types of namespace listed (all of which are tallied separately in Edit Count); if you want to know which namespace a page fits in, just look at the prefix that comes before the colon (and of course, if there's no colon, it's mainspace). - Walkazo 12:43, 15 April 2011 (EDT)

User:Robe

how you make a user page?
The preceding unsigned comment was added by Robe (talk).

You have to be with the wiki you have to be a member of the wiki for at least one week, and have 10 edits. Also please sign comments with ~~~ Xzelion^ETC

Infobox

How do you make an infobox? Superfiremario

Will anyone answer me? Superfiremario

As in make one from scratch? Find an existing infobox similar in design to what you're planning and copy its coding, then tweak it to fit your needs. Remember to check to see if your new coding makes the infobox look like how you want it to look using the Preview button, rather than saving and re-editing it over and over again. - Walkazo 12:52, 28 April 2011 (EDT)

OK. Thank you. Superfiremario

Wrong Image

I tried to upload a new version of a file, but I got the same version of the image instead of the new one. Why did this happen? BoygeyPumpkineer

If you're talking about the change you made on this image, your version shows up fine for me. Try to clear the cache? --Glowsquid 09:32, 25 April 2011 (EDT)

Well, I removed the backround & when I did upload it, the BG was still there. o~0 BoygeyPumpkineer

Sometimes the image doesn't appear to change right away. Try checking on it again later (or, as Glowsquid suggested, clear the cache, which should update it right away). - Walkazo 19:47, 25 April 2011 (EDT)

How do I clear the cache? BoygeyPumpkineer