User talk:Oscuritaforze

Underage User
Hey Oscuritaforze, i distinctly remember reading somewhere on the Wiki that you have to be at least 13 years old to edit entries on this wiki. Anyways, there is a newer member on the wiki named Evilgate, and apparently he is 9 years old. I haven't noticed any mistakes in his editing, yet, but I feel that since he is 9, he may not have the responsibility yet, to be editing. Maybe you could look into the matter? Thanks. TerrariamcSwaggins (talk) 18:55, December 1, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up. That user has been blocked.


 * (Also, for future reference, this wiki doesn't actually have any policies dealing with underage users – instead, the age requirement is part of Wikia's Terms of Use. It's not required that local admins police Wikia's global policies, but it is recommended that we do so (though how we do so is up to us.)


 * (All of this was actually explained to me around the time that I first became an admin here.))


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 19:23, December 1, 2013 (UTC)

New contributor
Hi, I'm Frui, and my home wiki is over at Avatar Wikia. I was just wondering a couple of things - namely your image policy, and general policies regarding things like page deletion/votes for deletion and the like - maintenance, really. Another note, I was also wondering why you have so many administrators and why three are inactive - one of them being a bureaucrat. Oh, one other thing - is there a standard on whether British English or American Egnlish is used on here. Found it! Sorry about that. I should also point out that, per the image policy, all these images need to be deleted. Thanks! Fruipit · Talk page · Writings 11:28, December 5, 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey there Frui. Welcome to the Terraria wiki! (Sorry for the relatively late response...)


 * Anyway, a directory of our formal policies can be found here, though do note that many of them are out-of-date and in need of serious review/revision – a discussion about this will probably be coming later this month. Until then, the following is (as I understand it) how policies have recently been enforced on this wiki:
 * Policies under EDIT which are usually enforced:
 * Do not post spam and vandalism (this one's pretty much a given on any wiki, I expect...).
 * Search thoroughly before creating a new page to make sure that it is not a duplicate (such pages are usually turned into redirects).
 * Use correct spelling and grammar, and do not post vulgar language (the latter is enforced by the abuse filter, though please report false positives to myself or Mathmagician).
 * Do not put opinions, rumors, guesses, or anything non-Terraria related on pages (if you see this kind of information appear on the content namespace, feel free to remove it).
 * Write using the third person narrative (enforced in that editors are encouraged to correct edits which don't follow it, but no one is going to be blocked for what is essentially a style issue).
 * ADVEDIT will eventually be merged with the regular editing policy/the wiki's formal manual of style, but for now:
 * Item/monster names should be regarded as proper nouns and be capitalized.
 * First instance of the article's topic should be bolded, but subsequent instances should not (we tend to use  for this in the chance that a page would need to be renamed due to an update or something – saves a tiny bit of work).
 * American English is the standard here (but you knew that already).
 * Videos...are a complicated issue. I'll deal with that later.
 * Update info gets its own section, and is listed in reverse chronological order.
 * (Infoboxes have recently undergone some changes, so that section will need to be rewritten.)
 * Assume good faith, report repeated or severe vandalism at the Administrator's Noticeboard, mark spam pages for speedy deletion, etc...
 * Duplicated/redundant pages should be made into redirects (there aren't a whole lot of main namespace pages which we delete, actually).
 * (The "don't redirect across namepaces" policy isn't really enforced. As I understand it, its for much the same reason that policy shortcuts (eg. BLOCK) exist.)
 * Pretty much all of MOD is valid, but mod articles aren't maintained all that much due to...lack of interest, I guess.
 * Parts of IMAGE which are enforced:
 * Some brave souls have attempted to start adding Category:Images to images without it, but it's quite the large undertaking. (Relevant. Note that the user who maintains this wiki's only bot does not come around terribly often due to lack of free time (it's an unwritten rule on this wiki that real life stuff almost always comes before wiki stuff).)
 * Several of the concerns on that policy page are legitimate reasons to mark an image for speedy deletion, so feel free to do so if you find an image which contains extra text, is duplicated or low quality, or meets the deletion criteria on that page.
 * The naming conventions for images are not enforced as strictly as it would appear. Basically, so long as the image's name describes what appears in the image to some extent, it would be fine. Good images with bad names will be renamed (hopefully, this ability will eventually be given to autoconfirmed users...).
 * VIDEO is an incredibly thorny issue on this wiki, and every iteration of it has pretty much failed (Terraria Wiki:Proposed Videos is pretty much never edited), so it's pretty much handled on a case-by-case basis at this point. (Quality concerns can be brought up and they'll probably be addressed, but there's pretty much no successful precedent for doing so.)
 * Pretty much all of the standards on ADMIN are enforced when admins are nominated, though they are more an ideal to strive to than an actual policy at this point due to the nature of the nominations.
 * As for why there are so many admins and some are inactive, I'm not 100% sure (as this was long before I formally joined/got involved with this wiki), but I believe it is partially in response to how this wiki was handled back when it first started (up until early 2012). Back then, there was only one active bureaucrat and admins were promoted/demoted at his sole discretion. After some nonsense which led to major changes in the wiki (see Forum:Wiki Mediation), I think it was just decided (unspoken, or somewhere I am not aware of) that user rights would not just "expire" in the chance that those users come back. (Which actually happens more than you would think: as new updates are released for the game, old users come and go along with new users.)
 * If you want more info on this particular issue, you'd probably want to ask someone who was here in an "official" capacity when that stuff was happening (anyone who has a large number of edits on the forum I linked above would probably know.)


 * (I apologize for any confusion, though! This wiki's in a bit of a weird phase, as we are still recovering from a period of massively increased activity here where it was impossible for any single user (or even a small, dedicated group of users) to monitor every single edit/uploaded file, so there's still a lot of cleanup to be done. Add in that many of the regular users here are extremely busy outside of the wiki, and the result is a surprisingly disorganized and informal wiki for its size. I promise that it is not usually this messy/poorly maintained; it'll probably be back up to snuff at some point next year. :P)


 * If you have any more questions 'bout the wiki, feel free to ask – I'm (almost) always happy to help! :)


 * Happy editing!


 * Oscuritaforze (talk) 22:24, December 5, 2013 (UTC)