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Cutting the toolbar in half
It's been discussed. Requesting for the bottom half of User:Xbony2/common.css (the stuff under the commented out part) to be merged with the common CSS. It's a bit more than copy-paste if you do it right, but I think you can figure it out. -Xbony2 (talk) 20:27, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Eh, I don't really like how this looks. Rather than a huge toolbar it's a cramped toolbar. Neither really look very good imo :| --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 21:07, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * That's how I felt too at first, but try using it for a while. -Xbony2 (talk) 22:04, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * After using it for a month, how do you feel? Thinking of it as cramped makes sense for an initial reaction because of the scale change, but is about the same size as Wikipedia's and other wiki's. -Xbony2 (talk) 14:16, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I want the logo in the corner to be larger, like it is on other wikis. My current CSS does that but it has a red line through the middle which is ugly. The bar itself is fine. --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 18:46, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

I don't think I should be able to edit this page as an anonymous user. I was just clicking around from Foundry's wiki page.
 * - no, you have every right to. Anyone can request and discuss stuff. -Xbony2 (talk) 01:16, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Spritesheet extension missing
The spritesheet extension we were using disappeared. To be honest I'd rather use multiple images than it anyway, since it's only used on Turbine (Advanced Generators); it doesn't have much of a benefit if any benefit at all, but it should be reinstalled or Turbine (Advanced Generators) should be fixed. -Xbony2 (talk) 23:21, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, since nobody cares, I'm probably going to split it up if nobody says anything. -Xbony2 (talk) 15:09, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Get in contact with Scott first. --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 18:17, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Personally I don't see any reason you couldn't just make this into a standard template using the sprite sheet image as a background image for divs / table cells etc. with positioning adjustments or offsets made based on the tile selection code used. I usually do this by nesting an absolute-positioned div inside a relative-positioned container (either div or td) with expressions built with left and top offsets using a fixed size for the container being used as the viewport on the image. You use the image as either a background setting for the absolute positioned div, or simply include it inside that, while you set overflow to hidden for the relative part of the container. DSquirrelGM (talk) 04:07, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Sokratis' wikipoints balance
On Special:WikiPoints- take away 21701 from "Sokratis12GR330661", and add 21701 to "Sokratis12GR". He had his account broken a while ago. -Xbony2 (talk) 17:19, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I am unable to remove wikipoints from the former. It is as if that account doesn't exist. 17:43, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Maybe you can request the deletion of the account after adding the 21701 points to sokratis? Indestructible Pharaoh VII  19:46, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * It is a deleted account. Although according to Special:WikiPointsAdmin, "It is not possible to manually award negative points. To remove points, check the box in the "Rev" column next to the points you wish to revoke and press "Save revocation"". -Xbony2 (talk) 23:02, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Nothing is displayed on that page for Sokratis12GR330661 so I can't revoke anything from it. 23:04, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Ugh, I guess we should poke curse. -Xbony2 (talk) 23:47, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Dentedharp90041 for Editor
for Editor, since why not. Would be able to mark his own page for translation every time he updated it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -Xbony2 (talk) 11:25, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I guess this passes. (My endorsement was intended to act as a vote.) -Xbony2 (talk) 16:00, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Crazierinzane for Editor
has been making a few edits here and there (well, 135 or so). He documented some of Ex Nihilo Adscensio in way back in January and then went inactive but recently came back to help with Cyclic in December and he participated in the 2017-2018 Editathon. He's new but mostly seems to know what he's doing. @: as Editor, you are not committing to anything but it is a recognition of you as a trusted and somewhat decent editor, and you gain a few rights that normal users do not have that may assist you in editing (see Special:ListGroupRights) -Xbony2 (talk) 23:37, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . -Xbony2 (talk) 23:37, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . I don't support anyone unless they provide me with high quality rabbit pictures or gifs that I have not seen yet. 23:40, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * , he seems to do a good job so far. -- Hubry  (talk) 23:41, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . Haven't interacted with him at all, sorry. --Xenoflot (talk) 23:55, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
 * fine by me --  Satanic Santa 🎅F T B Wiki Admin 00:10, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * -- sokratis 12GR  Staff  06:34, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I like the name, and Xbony2's right about that committement, that's my first edit in months and no one is hating me :) (yet) Indestructible Pharaoh VII 08:08, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, nobody remembers what you edit because you do so little of it ;) -Xbony2 (talk) 12:31, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * . I rarely saw him and speak with him on Discord but his edits looks correct to me. -Trytoonex 10:39, 4 January 2018 (UTC)

Decision
Decision: this passes with 5 supports and 3 neutrals (these votes are suppose to edit in 3 days but we are slow). Requesting or  to promote  when they are online. -Xbony2 (talk) 02:05, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I will cut you. 11:44, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Great. Your opinion is noted. -Xbony2 (talk) 14:04, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Improve first-time user experience of new wiki editors
I tried contributing to an existing page, and got the message "This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do." The message however contains no hyperlinks or tips on how to actually "inform an administrator". Where are editors supposed to contact the admins? When I go to the main page of the wiki and use my browser's search function to search for "admin", it highlights the Admin toolbox and the Admins' noticeboard on the sidebar menu. Is this the expected place to ask about these things? (If this is the wrong place to ask this question, it only serves to highlight the issue even further.) I also tried creating an entirely new page (about Thermal Expansion 5's Steam Dynamo) and used up several hours to edit it, and only upon submitting it I get the same message that the action was identified as harmful. I get that these filters are supposed to keep spammers from corrupting the site, but for an actual human user willing to contribute, this user experience is just awful and one would think it pushes many potential contributors away from helping out with the site. So, where do you think new people should be kindly directed to, and how? And can I actually submit my page somehow? --EspriteSylph
 * This is the right place, yes. Your article was automatically detected as a spam page. I'm actually going to disable that particular filter (#9) since bad stuff should be mostly covered by Gamepedia's global filters anyway. I'm really sorry, that's definitely a pain in the ass. Most non-malicious edits have not had trouble getting past the filters but some do. You should be able to save Steam Dynamo (Thermal Expansion 5) now (if you lost the wikitext, I can give it to you). I have just saved your other edit to Thermal Expansion 5 however. If you want quicker communication I would encourage you to join our Discord, which is linked on the left of the page. I'm going to look at the message and see if I can change it to be specific with this. -Xbony2 (talk) 14:50, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, should be a bit better in the future ^^ -Xbony2 (talk) 20:40, 21 January 2018 (UTC)