User:TheUltamate/Admin Noticeboard

Hello, gentlemen! Welcome to the Admin Noticeboard, where you can have general adminy discussions and see my latest ramblings that are specific to you folk.

I'll post here when I have something I want all rollbacks and admins to hear and take part in. --TheUltamate 01:05, September 12, 2012 (UTC)

Housecleaning and Deleting
Well, time for the first major thing we need to take care of here: the incredible mass of pages that need deleted.

We have a category for things that need deleted. In your travels across the wiki, add  Category:Candidates for deletion  to things that need it so I can delete them.

--TheUltamate 01:05, September 12, 2012 (UTC)

Images
Should the Candidates for Deletion message go on images as well? I've seen dozens of images of hives and such that weren't linked to on any page, and at least a few of those might need to be pruned.

Outhra (talk) 22:17, September 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yeah, go ahead and mark any unused images and empty categories for deletion as well.


 * --TheUltamate 22:19, September 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * What if they're images being used on one page, but the page hasn't been updated in a year and the image is a brutal affront to good taste? Like [shudder] Beach.png. I would have linked to it to provide how delete-worthy it is, in fact, I preemptively apologize for you having to look at it, but I forget how to link to images in articles and I do not want to post it.
 * Outhra (talk) 22:46, September 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Technically, we still have to keep it, no matter what the age or quality is.


 * --TheUltamate 22:49, September 12, 2012 (UTC)'


 * Also, is there any way to keep the addition of a category from showing up on the main wiki edits list? I added the Candidates for Deletion tag on that ultraviolet blood Sue and I don't want my name associated with it.
 * Outhra (talk) 22:57, September 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Uh, why is it a candidate for deletion to begin with?


 * --TheUltamate 23:47, September 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * ... Have you looked at the page? I don't know what factors you personally would delete a page for, but it trips all of mine save "page has no text" and "character is blatantly plagiarizing one of the canon twelve".
 * I guess since it's a dry run of the pruning process, there might be a few higher priorities, though. What are the criteria for this set, then? My "removal of long-abandoned Sues" policy apparently met a lower priority, and I suppose I'm okay with putting it off.
 * Outhra (talk) 12:07, September 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * Oh, and I've found loads of troll fanart here when cleaning up that wasn't linked to on a page. Those are fine to tag, right? I ask because I've already found a few dozen and I don't want to hunt them down just to have you untag them. Is untag a word? It is now, I guess.
 * Outhra (talk) 12:19, September 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * You can't delete a page just because you don't like it. There are three criteria: no text on its page, blatant plagiarizing, or the author wants it deleted.


 * Well, basically, as long as it isn't on a page, it needs to go. Make an exception for a few images Dunnedays uploaded a while back; I've seen those in the unused images category and he's presumably working on adding that stuff.


 * --TheUltamate 13:47, September 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * There's an unused images category? Hmm. Good to know, I guess. I can't directly access the categories pages for some reason unless there's a direct link from a data page, and this would be good to see.
 * Okay. I'll hunt down unused images and you try to find blank pages, then, I guess. I've been doing pretty well at the images thing today. I dug up probably forty-odd images without devoting much time to it, so this should go pretty well for me. Plus, you know your data page deletion criteria better than I do. Or rather, you would stick more to your deletion criteria than I would. Is Dunnedays going to help you, or is he going to just basically do his own thing while we do this?
 * Outhra (talk) 22:10, September 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yonder unused images section bëest here. Dunnedays is also helping out when/if he can, though I recently had him do a bit of damage control on a griefer we had. Looking at the recent activity, he seems to be gone for the time being.


 * --TheUltamate 23:46, September 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Apologies for my absence. I only have certain times in the day in which I can edit, due to college and sleep. However, when I look at the Recent Changes, it seems to be largely filled with categorisation by either of you, so it seems that you're easily capable of holding down the fort without me, as it were. Not that that's any excuse for my absence!
 * Aside from college and sleeping, I've also been trying to work on my own trolls. Once I've got them done, I'll be able to throw on some new versions of those images I uploaded a while back but didn't use. I need to get them checked into the Pimp My Sprite thread first, since I'm utterly terrible at design myself.
 * I did watch out for that griefer making any more edits, but he seems to have absconded now that he is under surveillance.
 * Regardless, I'll go through a few pages here and there and throw them into the "Candidates for deletion" category when I can. That's really all that I can do, after all. ∞ Dunne Days ∞ Talk  ∞ Blog  00:31, September 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * Whoops, haha, meant to imply the griefing anon had vanished, not you. I understand firsthand the combined load of college/trolls/wiki/sleep. Do what you can when you can, it's not something super pressing that needs to be done. Outhra's been doing most of the work, honestly, so it's something that's going decently well so far.


 * --TheUltamate 00:35, September 14, 2012 (UTC)

New Rules Discussion
I've drafted some rules! Head over here to discuss them.

--TheUltamate 19:00, September 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay, these rules all seem fair enough. I'll just go cleaning up my pages to conform to these new rules. Particularly, I'll move the "A Million Ways To Die" page to my userspace, much as this Admin Noticeboard is on your userspace, if that makes sense?


 * Also, just mentioning that Rules 3 and 5 are the same, but with different wording.


 * ∞ Dunne Days ∞ Talk  ∞ Blog  19:38, September 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * A few of those rules implied some sort of consensus before making decisions, which is fine, but there are, what, five regular editors here? Maybe, six, seven, but my point is, there aren't a lot. What number of people do we need to get before it officially counts as a consensus?
 * Outhra (talk) 20:57, September 14, 2012 (UTC)


 * To keep this page from getting super ugly and cluttered (at least, more than it already is), I'm going to be moving discussion to the page with the rules on it.


 * --TheUltamate 22:02, September 14, 2012 (UTC)

The Category Crusade
It has begun.

--TheUltamate 16:34, September 20, 2012 (UTC)