User talk:Phoenix

Spam

You are so awesome with the spam kill. Thank you, Phoenix. --Mrs. Potato Head 03:33, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

No problem its what I do, the last two projects make this wiki look like a walk in the park (15,000 pages deleted and 20,000 users blocked per) I am monitoring new account creation and will keep an eye on things until it gets handled. If you have any other bot requests let me know I am programmer :) Phoenix 04:13, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm not savvy enough to know how a bot could be used but appreciate the offer. I'm so happy you are working on the spam, Phoenix; it is reassuring to know this project is a walk in the park. Thank you again for any and all assistance! --Mrs. Potato Head 18:52, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you again, Phoenix, for battling the spam and helping keep Fanlore unfettered. :-) --Mrs. Potato Head 18:35, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Phoenix, "My Panic Romance" may be a legit account. Can you double check? --Mrs. Potato Head 01:27, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Not sure what happened, his IP address was previously flagged as a proxy, but I just double checked it and it was clean. Unblocked and welcomed. Phoenix 02:59, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

THANK YOU for helping me with that identity protection thing so quickly! --Mrs. Potato Head (talk) 21:14, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Not a problem, next time include a link to the relevant page and it can be dealt with quicker and easier. It took a little searching to find what you where referring to. Phoenix (talk) 21:39, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Phoenix, you're amazing. Thank you for all this spam work. --MPH (talk) 19:09, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

thanks, its no big deal. Phoenix (talk) 22:33, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Bot

Hi, I was just wondering why the bot is moving the fandom categories from the category line in the infobox down to the bottom of the page? See ThorBruce Week for example, I thought the whole of having a category line in the infobox was to keep challenges in their fandom specific subcategories and out of the main challenge category to declutter it, as per Category talk:Challenges -- Kingstoken (talk) 16:01, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

looks like the template needed a couple tweaks, you never want to put the raw category syntax directly into the template. (a lot of tools that are used look for a standardized layout) I am working on getting that fixed now. Phoenix (talk) 20:35, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you for working on making those references for Shadowstar and Twin Suns nicer. --MPH (talk) 21:25, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

References issues

Hi, I've noticed you've been making a lot of changes on pages lately, and most them are great. However, I've noticed that you keep changing archived fanwork links from {{source|url=url here|title=title here|archiveurl=archiveurl here}} to {{cite web|url=url here|title=title here|archiveurl=archive url here|archivedate=archive date here}}, the second option the "cite web" is great for quotes, etc and making sure that the info and their archived versions show up at the bottom of the page in the reference section, however, it is not good for listing fanwork examples and having the archive link show up beside them in the list. When you changed the "source|url" to "cite web" it caused red error codes to show up on the pages and I had to go in and reformat them. I know not everyone likes how "source|url" looks on the page, if you are one of those people another options is to have "fanwork link; archive link" as seen in the Meta section at the bottom of the Supernatural page for example. -- Kingstoken (talk) 23:24, 27 June 2022 (UTC)

@Kingstoken: can you please provide examples of the error message you saw? {{cite web}} is the preferred citation template. I actually created the {{source}} template about 8 years ago. By moving source to cite web, we can also assist in ensuring that all links have an archive link if possible. The current unformatted link usage makes it really hard to find and populate missing archive urls. Which means link rot is a significant issue, especially after the failure of webcitation.org Phoenix (talk) 02:10, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

@Kingstoken: I think I hid the error message you where seeing, that just highlights a problem that needs fixed. Once we convert everything over I can run back thru with a program and retrieve the archive date and other missing information. Phoenix (talk) 02:24, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

I undid my edit B'Elanna Torres for example, and you can now see an error message at the end of the page, but it doesn't look exactly like it did before. Previously there was also an error message further up the page as well next to the links.

@Kingstoken: That wasn't an error message, rather just a tracking category that hadn't been created yet. I created it with the __HIDDENCAT__ tag, and it now isn't visible unless you enable that preference. Phoenix (talk) 09:50, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

I guess this should go here instead: I just want to draw your attention to this edit on "AO3 Taggin Policy Debate" which has more Lua error messages. Also, not a huge problem b/c I already fixed it, but in your edit to Edward Elric/Winry Rockbell It looks like you used "archive-url" from {{cite web}} instead of "archiveurl" from {{source}}, so the archive link didn't show up on the page. This sort of thing can be caught by checking with the "show preview" button before you save edits, so I recommend doing that for manual edits. And finally, I want to thank you for your work on combating link rot and automating the archiving of external links on Fanlore!! -- Quaelegit (talk) 02:11, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Okay, the "archive-url" vs. "archiveurl" issue has popped up on LOTS of pages today, and I'm guessing you're running a script to do this many edits so fast. I would suggest changing the script to use "archiveurl" (without the dash) since that is accepted by both templates. It won't fix all the formatting problems I'm finding but it's hopefully a quick change that will fix a decent fraction of them. -- Quaelegit (talk) 09:13, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

That should now be fixed, sorry for the confusion, trying to pull in some updated templates and have some growing pains. Thought I had caught everything. Should be good now. Phoenix (talk) 10:26, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Welcome Template

Hi - our current most-wanted page is "Template:Welcome," which is a deleted template we don't want to use. It has 88 links, all of which are on user talk pages. You said you should be able to mass remove it? It'd be nice for it to be gone. Possibly instead of just deleting it, replacing it with "Welcome to Fanlore" because otherwise the signatures on those pages look weird; most of them have no other content than the "welcome" template.- User:Elf 20:59, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

@Elf: taken care of. Phoenix (talk) 23:17, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Fanlore Templates

Hi Phoenix, do you know why this user talk page is appearing in Category:Fanlore Templates? I thought it was because of a change I made to the "Reply to" template, but I've reverted that change and it doesn't appear to have fixed things. I can't see anything which could have caused this.. --Auntags (talk) 10:28, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Nevermind! It has fixed itself! It probably was the change I made to Reply to and then reverted. Sorry for bothering you--10:33, 30 April 2023 (UTC)