User:RRabbit42/Talk archive:Jan-Mar 2013

Archive of older Discussion items in January 2013.

Custom font headers
REQUEST: Could this wiki have it's headers with a custom font like on Survivor Wiki? With the Simpsons font obviously...? 13:30, January 10, 2013 (UTC)


 * The Simpsons font really isn't a good design for that sort of thing. It's okay for an occasional emphasis header, but it looks sloppy when it is used for large amounts of text. The Survivor font is more uniform and the bold weight of the font helps it even at smaller text sizes. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 03:16, January 11, 2013 (UTC)


 * I just noticed that the SpongeBob SquarePants Wiki changed their header font. The font has a mix of thin and thick strokes in the letters, so when you're looking at smaller text, letters like the J, y and the o in the third section header on the Jelly Spotters page have lines that almost fade into the background. If you look at the other characters, like the W in Recent Wiki Activity on that same page and it's almost a blob. And it's even worse when you look at the small bolded headers in their forums.


 * I have re-checked the Simpsons font and it also does poorly at small font sizes (11 point and below) unless everything is in uppercase. So unfortunately, while this idea sounds good, we would have to avoid using the font associated with the show in order for the headers to be legible, especially with the level 3 and level 4 headers. And if we're not going to use the Simpsons font (Akbar), then it wouldn't be worth having custom fonts. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 07:01, January 29, 2013 (UTC)

Protected pages
Hello. I was trying to work on this wiki, but I found that some pages are protected. I know it's to protect them from vandalisms, but in this way neither good edits are allowed! Wouldn't it better to free them and, if it is needed, to block vandals and rollback bad edits? --Meganoide (talk) 14:39, January 15, 2013 (UTC)


 * According to our Protected pages list, there aren't that many pages that are fully protected, which means only an admin can edit them. Most of these are templates and a couple of files and they are used enough that they probably should stay protected.


 * I have unprotected several of the episode and character pages that were semi-protected. You should have been able to edit any of these since you've had your account for more than a week.


 * Most of the decisions to protect a page were made by admins who aren't here any more. We will be reviewing things like this and there is a policy that I wrote for another wiki that can be used here that describes when and when not to protect a page. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 04:49, January 16, 2013 (UTC)

Ferbot pruning redirects
Is there a way to get it to stop pruning useful redirects of given names like how it deleted Nikki? Even if there isn't a (current) on-wiki link using that, redirects can still be in use via people typing it into the browser bar or linking it from off-wiki. +Yc 15:04, January 15, 2013 (UTC)


 * Already answered in two other places, but summarizing here: that was done by me with that account as part of cleanup to get our redirects down to a managable number that actually are useful. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 04:32, January 16, 2013 (UTC)

Re: File names and file types
Sorry, it's just my computer automatically saves them as '.png's. I'll use '.jpg's from now on. Yeah, and I'll use spaces from now on, it's just that not many people'd be reading the file names, mainly looking at the pictures, but yeah, I'll do that :) Mother Fudger! (talk) 19:53, January 17, 2013 (UTC)

Also thanks for deleting the Lisa the Treehugger/Quotes/Qoutes page ;) Mother Fudger! (talk) 19:55, January 17, 2013 (UTC)

Special:Leaderboard
S'probably me being OCD, but how come on that page, some people have green arrows next to their names but others don't? I mean, people like Terry12fins24, Jhonevans and SolarDragon do, but people like you, me and BDE1982 don't? Mother Fudger! (talk) 18:24, January 21, 2013 (UTC)


 * I think that's a glitch. Up and down arrows are supposed to indicate which people are rising and falling in the rankings. Five of the people haven't made any edits in several months, so they should have a down arrow as Terry12fins24 rose to #3. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 03:17, January 22, 2013 (UTC)

Today's vandalism
Hello. We have another vandal on our hands. This Jason McMartin character has been renaming some episodes’ pages with sexually explicit names. I have undone some of his vandalism, but he likely redid it. Please block him.—Brandon Devers 19:33, January 28, 2013 (UTC)


 * There was only one page that qualified for that, which has now been fixed. I was able set the block during the day and have finished the cleanup now. If he continues to be a problem, I have done enough research that a very long or permanent block would be warranted. Whether that is needed is up to him. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 02:41, January 29, 2013 (UTC)