The Sims Wiki:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive 1

Request for interpretation of consensus
This forum thread has been sitting open for several months, and has gone two months without any new additions to it. Due to a conflict of interest I cannot call consensus for this one way or the other, so I would like another administrator or 'crat (preferably neutral) to determine whether a consensus has been reached and to state the outcome of the thread or, if consensus is not reached, to determine a proper course of action. --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 07:27, June 21, 2014 (UTC)

Food Fiction: The Sims Feast
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Hi Sims admins,

I wanted to run a fun idea by you all to see if you can help us make it as fun of an idea as possible.

We've been running Food Fiction programs with various communities. Here is a list of all the ones we've done so far here.

With the release of The Sims 4 upcoming, we'd like to plan to do a Food Fiction with you all!

For each program, we start off with a blog post on the community, inviting users to nominate their favorite dishes in various categories. We'd need admin help promoting that post as well as help deciding what those categories should be. We think it could be as simple as an appetizer, main dish, dessert, drink, and some extra fun category. Here's an example of that from our Adventure Time Food Fiction.

One idea we had would be to ask the users to design their feast, create the feast in game, and submit a screen shot of their party menu laid out (can be from any version of the Sims). We think this makes it a little harder to submit a menu, but definitely more fun.

Finally, we'll take the most popular nominees in each category and put them into polls by category on a post on Recipes Wikia. Here's an example from the same Adventure Time FF.

If you all like the idea, we'd like to save it for the mid-August/early September time frame. That would give us some time to also try to get a prize for the winner! Let us know what you think about the ideas and categories.

Thanks!

Annette (profile)•(talk) 22:38, May 12, 2014 (UTC)Acardwell415

Delete the unnofficial name
I would like to delete Gypsy caravan and its talk page. Since the official name is this and some evidence in Google. :)  .ThePeculiarMe  |  (talk to me)  |  (my mistakes)  12:31, June 22, 2014 (UTC)

Rudeness on IRC
i would like to report ecks and mrc for being very rude

i ask for help in getting sims 2 complete edition and this happened

 how do i activate a copy of sims 2 on origin?  answer me please answers are $1.99/min visa accepted, mastercard too  Bitcoin is also accepted at the rate of 2 bitcents per hour.  s/hour/minute/  mojo_joejoe, contact ea support  Or, 1 bitcoin per hour.  that's as far as our help goes.  thank u danny for actually trying to help but can i activate sims 2 without talking to the ea rag heads at their support?  also, feel free to check out the FAQ article EA support has on the ultimate edition  no  you can only activate on your own games released from 2009 onwards  that is sad thank u danny for helping  TS2 was released five ears before that,  so go on ea support  you're welcome, but next time, try to find the answers yourself  to ecks and mrc i find that u r very rude and i am going to report u to whoever is in charge here i am offended and i do not think ecks and mrc should be allowed to help people and i hope whoever is in charge here will see this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.221.255.98 (talk • contribs) 19:17 19 July 2014 (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~


 * I cannot see any hint of rudeness in the chat conversation. Generally, we do ask people to Google their answers before they ask, just to avoid redundancy in answering questions that have already been answered. Also - if the people that respond to you are correct, reporting them usually isn't of any good. ecks was not being rude, Danny was not being rude, nobody was being rude. Being unhelpful does not equal being rude in the slightest. Therefore, I decline any sort of administrative action. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 19:33, July 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't see anything rude or inappropriate about they said, they were simply joking. You shouldn't take offense to little things like this. I will not be pursuing any administrative action either. -  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 20:07, July 19, 2014 (UTC)
 * I have to agree. Ecks and mrc may have been joking and even of no real help to you, but they were not rude. I'm sorry that you took offense from their light-heartened responses. From your report, it is hard to tell if there was a long time between their jokes and David's response. It is interesting that they didn't respond after David started to respond. Icemandeaf (talk) 00:16, July 20, 2014 (UTC)

I agree *shrugs* --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 00:30, July 20, 2014 (UTC)

Template:Broken-face
Hi, I was trying to edit this template so that it would be able for use by fanon Sims who use a broken face template, but it didn't work so I reverted my edits. If no one else things this is relevant then that's okay, it doesn't have to be used for fanon Sims. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 03:55, July 21, 2014 (UTC)
 * You were trying to get the template to categorize fanon Sims in Category:Sims who use a broken face template (fanon), correct? If that's the case, it is working now. -  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 04:07, July 21, 2014 (UTC)

Yes, that was the case. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 04:28, July 21, 2014 (UTC)

Fanon Mannequins and fanon Bigfoots
Has anyone else noticed that all fanon Mannequins and Bigfoots automatically fall under the category for normal Sims even though they aren't normal life states.

I am familiar with this cause, but I don't know how to fix it. Could someone please help?

P.S. I know that Mannequins aren't really an official life-state due to not being part of normal gameplay, but you can hardly call Mannequins normal. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 03:55, July 21, 2014 (UTC)
 * Can you list some examples of fanon Mannequins and fanon Bigfoots (bigfoots? bigfeet?) please? --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 04:10, July 21, 2014 (UTC)
 * Also, I wouldn't call mannequin a life state, as aside from skin tone there's nothing that distinguishes a mannequin Sim from a regular Sim. It would be better to treat mannequins as a separate skintone category, similar to Category:Light-skinned Sims, Category:Dark-skinned Sims, etc. -  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 04:12, July 21, 2014 (UTC)

First of all, I correct myself, only the Mannequins fanon category is like that (Nikel23 modified my edit on the Bigfoot article stating that it was only supposed to cover the bigfoot life state in general) and this was potentially not the case for fanon Bigfoots to start with.


 * Fanon:Galaxy Nine Asteroid a Mannequin
 * Fanon:Doctor Agent J. Triton a Mannequin
 * Fanon:Gothic Agent Triton a Mannequin

--  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 04:27, July 21, 2014 (UTC)


 * The reason why mannequin was listed as "normal Sim" is because there was never any instance of mannequins in this wiki before, and the creation of the page was rather recent. I don't know how mannequins elaborate themselves. I'm not sure which category a mannequin should fall under; life state or skin? Life state mechanics in The Sims 2 were never elaborate.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  08:07, July 21, 2014 (UTC)

Yes it was, I had to create it myself! :) --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 08:13, July 21, 2014 (UTC)


 * Sims whose life state parameter is a mannequin will have the Category:Mannequins (fanon) instead of Normal Sims now. This is limited to fanon namespace only. There aren't premade mannequins anyway.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  08:29, July 21, 2014 (UTC)

I thought it would be the case, but that's alright because it's exactly what I would have done, and most people I'm sure would have done the same. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 08:32, July 21, 2014 (UTC)

Requesting bot flag for K6kaBOT
This should really go on the "Bureaucrats" noticeboard (if one existed, which it doesn't), but I would like to request that a bot flag be given to K6kaBOT, per LiR's suggestion that I use a flagged bot to make my AWB edits, so I don't fill up recent changes.

Concerned of the bot? It's already in operation on another wiki.

Any bureaucrat response would be appreciated. Thanks. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 21:19, July 22, 2014 (UTC)


 * Rejected. How dare you even request such a thing.
 * Nah, it's alright. I'll add the flags now. --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 22:02, July 22, 2014 (UTC)

Rudeness on IRC (2)
i wish to report mrc for being rude to me again

i broke up with my girlfriend and he was rude

<mojo_joejoe> nooooooooooooooooooooooo my girlfriend is breaking up with me! <Beds> well, actually, 2 months and a few days <MrC> Gee, I wonder why. <mojo_joejoe> you dont have to be so rude <MrC> Guess JoeJoe lost his mojo.

im very upset by this

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.221.255.96 (talk • contribs) 22:01 23 July 2014 (UTC) - Please sign your comments with ~

Administrative Projects
I'm interested in seeing if this is something that could be revived. Ѧüя◎ґ (talk) 21:06, July 25, 2014 (UTC)
 * My $0.02 is that the Administrative Projects as a whole should be retired. The feature was never widely embraced, and its existence now is little more than a formality. I'd rather we focus on cleaning up projects as a whole, and encourage users (admins and non-admins alike) to join them on a voluntary basis. If it's decided that we should keep Admin Projects, we'd probably need to see some changes to make the projects more effective and make it more likely for people to participate in them. -  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 21:11, July 25, 2014 (UTC)


 * I support dumping administrative projects. TBH, nobody's taking them seriously as of now. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 21:15, July 25, 2014 (UTC)
 * I stand with k6ka and LiR. MILK FOR THE UNYUUFEX, FLAT CHEST FOR THE CUTENESS THRONE, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL PROBES  (user talk:Mathetesalexandrou) 03:31, July 26, 2014 (UTC)

It seems that three people so far advocate for retiring Administrative Projects. As a result, I've started a discussion thread in Community Discussions. --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 15:59, July 26, 2014 (UTC)

Bawt still an Admin Bot?
Hey, I've noticed that our fellow editor Lost Labyrinth has retired from editing.

I've just wanted to point out that on this page, Lost Labyrinth's bot is still labelled an 'admin'.

I would have gone ahead and removed it myself, but I'm leaving the task for 'someone else' to do. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 10:28, July 31, 2014 (UTC)

Loads of fanon re-directs to delete
Several of my fanon re-directs have been waiting a couple of days to be deleted. They can be found in this category here. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 10:28, July 31, 2014 (UTC)

Chat troll: SHOOPderWOOP
On chat on 31 July around 3.15pm UTC, SHOOPderWOOP logged on to chat. At first he acted like a fairly normal user, but around 3.32pm UTC, said user began abusing chat regulations. Namely, he swore, example: "F******************CK" and called other online users names: "k6 is a nancy" as well as saying completely random, irrelevant, and above all rude things "enormous dickwad", "cheesy vag", "coco balls". He also stated wishes for "Wikia's main offices to burn down", and also said the "The Sims is for pussies". Furthermore, SHOOPderWOOP also said that he did not care about the rules, "I can say whatever I want", despite K6ka and myself attempting to stop his trolling. Ultimately K6 kicked, then banned SHOOPderWOOP from chat, but I would like to request an investigation into the actions of this user.  Wiki Builder  1147  (Infinite Histories • Galactic Crucibles • The Sims Wiki • Memory Alpha • Memory Gamma • <font color="#006400">Why I'm here in the first place ) 15:49, July 31, 2014 (UTC)


 * Okay, I know I shouldn't have done that, but hear me out first. The chat froze on my side (I think it did the same for K6ka and WikiBuilder1147), so any entries I made weren't showing up on my screen, so I thought you guys wouldn't have seen it either. but apparently you tried to stop me, but i didnt see the warnings that u claimed to have given because of my frozen connection.


 * Fine, I know I've been blocked on the chat, I'll do my time. —ShoopDerWoop 16:17, July 31, 2014 (UTC)


 * That really is no excuse to try and disrupt chat. You can do that on your own test wiki, but not to take advantage of a glitch, which didn't even work. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 16:24, July 31, 2014 (UTC)


 * Soo, what now? I still don't understand WikiBuilder's request for investigation. Investigation of what? 10 edits so far? —ShoopDerWoop 16:32, July 31, 2014 (UTC)


 * Evidence that may have led to this outburst. Since you are a regular at The Last Stand Wiki, and I'm an admin there, I can easily tell from your behavior there that this was probably bound to happen, I just didn't expect it to be sooner. I have already kicked you from The Last Stand Wiki chat for inappropriate behavior. You've uploaded images with crudely drawn genitals on them as well, and you've made comments that had genitals drawn out of ASCII characters.


 * Transferring inappropriate behavior cross-wiki-wise is very unlawful, and it can look bad on you on all of Wikia, if you are seen as disruptive on not just one but two wikis. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 16:41, July 31, 2014 (UTC)


 * Ohhhh, well then, will one of those box thingies be added to this thread? you know, the ones that say if this has been resolved or not.. —ShoopDerWoop 16:47, July 31, 2014 (UTC)


 * Not fully resolved. Keeping this open, in case any more users have evidence or comments to provide. Once you can get back on chat with a different attitude and possessing different behavior than the one you used to have, one that is appropriate, we can close this.


 * As a side note, being involved in the situation, it's best if an uninvolved administrator closed this case. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 16:50, July 31, 2014 (UTC)

I have been watching this discussion from the start because I was not present to see the incident. I agree that there needs to be some more time to see how this goes. Having said that, take k6ka's advice to take the chat block and then come back with a different behavior when the block is over. That will probably resolve this matter then and there. Icemandeaf (talk) 16:58, July 31, 2014 (UTC)

Info box problem
When my revisions of Jonah Powers and Mickey Dosser were modified, they were unintentionally added to the category Sims from the Sims 2 (base game).

I had to paste the info boxes from my revisions over the top. So that they would be in the category Sims from the University. For some reason if the contents of the info box are placed in a specific order, they will be added to the Sims 2 base game category instead of the Sims 2 University one.

Does anyone know how to fix the info box so that these problems won't occur? --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 00:05, August 6, 2014 (UTC)
 * Parameter order would have nothing to do with this problem. It looks like you're forgetting to add the parameter in Sim2. -  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 00:38, August 6, 2014 (UTC)


 * No I didn't. It was when Nikel23 tried to tidy my revision up, but in doing so Mickey and Jonah were added to the category Sims from the Sims 2 base game. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 00:45, August 6, 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're right. Nikel23 changed the infobox from Unisim (which automatically sets the game to The Sims 2: University) to Sim2 (which doesn't) and he forgot to include the parameter. The parameter was empty so the template defaulted to putting them in the base game category. But, it's fixed now. -  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 00:48, August 6, 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I would have been able to fix it myself, but I just couldn't work out what the problem was. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 00:50, August 6, 2014 (UTC)

Duplicate user flags
After User:Joey.eyeball got promoted to administrator, User:Dharden forgot to remove the redundant rollback flag. Could a bureaucrat please remove the redundant rollback flag? Thanks. --k6ka (talk &#124; contribs) 21:02, August 7, 2014 (UTC)

How should be archive this page?
Discussion has been moved to The_Sims_Wiki_talk:Administrators%27_noticeboard.

Forum:All battle nominations will be reviewed by an administrator?
This community discussion has been up and running for roughly four days now. But no one else other than myself (the forum's creator) has participated. Yet it would be really useful to have other users weigh in on this discussion. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 04:12, August 21, 2014 (UTC)

Scott Wong
I accidentally uploaded the picture Robert Tan under the name Scott Wong. Now there are two pictures named Scott Wong. Do you think you could delete the picture of the Sim with the red hair from the Scott Wong file history, because he isn't Scott Wong.

I have re-uploaded that image under it's rightful name Robert Tan, so it doesn't matter if the redundant Robert Tan image named Scott Wong gets deleted. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 08:17, August 23, 2014 (UTC)
 * Done. <font color="#6B1D51">Beds (<font color="#512d17">talk - <font color="#512d17">blog ) 09:48, August 23, 2014 (UTC)

User:ASimsFreak
This user is a sockpuppet of User:ILoveSims5. It was just a coincidence that I happened to look at this user's userpage. Well I've got nothing more to say! --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 08:30, August 26, 2014 (UTC)

User:VeronavilleLover
This user is a confirmed sockpuppet of User:ILoveSims5. What more can I say? --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 01:05, August 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree. VeronavilleLover's profile appears to be consistent with other sockpuppets of ILoveSims5, such as the user living "In Our Dreams". This user's way of writing is also the same as other sockpuppets of ILS5, notably the use of caps in Almost Every Word. &#8213; Wiki Builder  1147  (Infinite Histories • Galactic Crucibles • The Sims Wiki • Hallows Maleficent • <font color="#006400">Why I'm here in the first place ) 01:11, August 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree that this is highly a sockpuppet of ILS5. I will keep an eye out for this user in the mean time because I don't know how to verify this myself. If another admin feels this is indeed sockpuppetry, then they can block the user. I won't disagree at all. - Icemandeaf (talk) 01:23, August 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * I think you should just block this user because they are clearly a sockpuppet of ILoveSims5. I've seen admins block users for months, so I know what I'm talking about, when I say that it's best if you just go ahead and block VeronavilleLover.


 * I could give you some suggestions on how to do this, or you could copy the details from her last sockpuppet block. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 01:29, August 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * I realize that, and that is the reason that I am going to wait for another admin unless this user gives me a reason beyond a doubt. - Icemandeaf (talk) 01:32, August 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * What exactly do you mean? That user has already given me a reason beyond a doubt, and by the sounds of it, WikiBuilder as well. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 01:35, August 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * I mean that this is something that I am entirely new to. I don't know a whole lot about the whole ILS5 issue, so I can't just jump in and do what you are asking. It will take me time before I see the exact same thing you are seeing. That is why I said that if there is another admin who blocks the user, that is fine by me. Until then I have to dig into the issue to verify without a doubt that this is indeed sockpuppetry before I go ahead with the block. - Icemandeaf (talk) 01:46, August 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, you can see her issue under Nikel's sandbox or C.Syde's but it is summarize. And I told her to stop this madness and add a note that users are trying to ignore her and had enough of her meddling.  .ThePeculiarMe  |  (talk to me)  |  (my mistakes)  01:59, August 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * @ Icemandeaf - Okay. Well although I've never been an actual admin (other than on a test wiki) before, I know a fair bit about the whole ILS5 issue.


 * Just a note - I have learned from my mistakes and I have come a long way from my first RfA. I am no longer fixated on ISL5. --  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 02:01, August 30, 2014 (UTC)

@ThePeculiarMe - That is what I am digging into because this issue is pretty new to me. I was hoping there was another admin who would come in, but it doesn't seem to be happening at the moment. In the mean time I am looking at everything I can get my hands on.

Thank you C.Syde65. I realize that I am not so quick to act, but it will be handled as correctly as I can if there is no other admin to come into the picture. - Icemandeaf (talk) 02:06, August 30, 2014 (UTC)
 * Icemandeaf has blocked VeronavilleLover. In this case she's an obvious sock of ILS5. But in the future, please remember that not all administrators are knowledgeable of every block and warning issued on the wiki at all times. I think Icemandeaf made a good decision by waiting for more information before blocking the user, even if it appeared to be an obvious sock. I would encourage everyone to be patient; blocks will be issued to sock puppets in a timely manner, but they're hardly emergency situations that require immediate action. --  LostInRiverview talk ~ blog 03:10, August 30, 2014 (UTC)


 * I would say a similar thing. Icemandeaf is still learning about banning and not used to it yet. Take your time when you're in doubt. Anyway, for future ILoveSims5 reference, check my sandbox since her socks are pretty obvious.  Nikel  Talk  –  Vote!  03:21, August 30, 2014 (UTC)