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Randomly moved Terraria to Terraria Wiki:Terraria and Talk:Terraria to Terraria Wiki talk:Terraria for no reason. 172.58.172.238 22:15, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Seems to be purposefully making edits in small steps to grind up their edit count. Refer to edits such as from this to this, from this to this, and this to this. Their entire contribution history is filled with what I'd call "double edits" where they change 1 tiny thing followed by a second tiny thing shortly afterwards. These double, triple, or even quadruple edits are done within minutes of eachother and have no summary, leading to a contribution history of only "Mobile edit, Mobile web edit". While some double edits can be seen to be informative, some are completely un-necessary, such as from this to this. If an example of quadruple edits is needed, one can look further on the Honey page. After the un-necessary edit to the wording of their tip, they followed up with these edits: this edit adding a useless info box, the following edit removing the info box, the next edit adding an image of honey in a "Forest", the next one editing "Forest" to be "Bee Hive" but with "Bee" and "Hive" being linked separately, and then this edit fixing the link to properly point at "Bee Hive". Multiple edits is acceptable but this user is clearly making purposefully incorrect edits to pad out their edit count. ImmortalZypther (talk) 19:40, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Only 2 edits, both of which contain incorrect information. ImmortalZypther (talk) 19:27, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Attempted subtle vandalism with information that is incredibly obvious along with information that is riddled with spelling errors. See this Sand Shark edit and this Daybreak edit. ImmortalZypther (talk) 19:11, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Incredibly persistent in adding references to "certain Japanese cartoons" in the Suspicious Looking Tentacle page. ImmortalZypther (talk) 19:11, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Potentially the same person. Their only edit is of the and both edits can be seen as vandalism. ImmortalZypther (talk) 19:11, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Persistent vandalism with no real edits in their entire contribution history. Examples in their contribution history here. ImmortalZypther (talk) 00:11, 2 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 05:17, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Persistent vandalism with no real edits in their entire contribution history. Refer to here for examples. ImmortalZypther (talk) 00:11, 2 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 05:17, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

Vandalized multiple pages. For evidence, see this edit to the Bubblegum Block page and this edit to the Stardust armor page. 193.210.231.154 13:11, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

- Multiple vandalisms. --  Dinoxel  talk  02:43, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

- Constant repeated vandalism on the Zoologist page. — Philo04 20:10, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

- Multiple vandalisms -- Breathlessblizzard (talk) 09:00, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Vandalized multiple pages 82.128.159.205 06:19, 20 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked Equazcion  ( talk ) 19:02, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

- Repeatedly inserting gibberish and youtube links, starting edit wars Breathlessblizzard (talk) 07:51, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Sockpuppet IP (identical behavior): and
 * Another one:
 * More:

- Repeated blanking of page sections Breathlessblizzard (talk) 10:37, 18 May 2020 (UTC)


 * - Suspected IP while logged out: behavior is identical (blank page and replace with 'rawr') Breathlessblizzard (talk) 10:41, 18 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked both. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 10:50, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

- Multiple minor vandalisms; no other contributions 165.166.117.65 01:37, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

- Multiple minor vandalisms - Breathlessblizzard (talk) 05:47, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 06:01, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

- Repeatedly creating and undoing non-constructive edits - Breathlessblizzard (talk) 05:44, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

- Vandalism on rolling cactus page

- Deleted the entire table on Item IDs — Philo04 (talk) 09:38, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

- Inserting gibberish on some pages — 193.210.229.119 05:34, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

- Multiple vandalisms


 * Blocked. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 23:09, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

- Vandalized the Guide:Class Setups page with racial slurs and opinion "summoner is trash". I don't know how to fix it so I'm reporting it here.


 * Blocked Equazcion  ( talk ) 00:40, 10 Apr 2020 (UTC)

- Inserting a racial slur on the Magic Quiver page. -- Dinoxel  talk  23:28, 9 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked Equazcion  ( talk ) 00:40, 10 Apr 2020 (UTC)

- Multiple vandalisms on the Expert mode page. -- Dinoxel  talk  05:24, 29 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked Equazcion  ( talk ) 00:40, 10 Apr 2020 (UTC)

- Vandalised the Cyborg page — Philo04 (talk) 23:06, 28 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked. --Eraloiz (talk) 23:08, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

- Lone edit is a vandalism, reporting here for awareness. — Philo04 (talk) 21:45, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

- He keeps adding information on the Angler page after I already reverted his edits. --  Dinoxel  talk  04:55, 8 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked. Eraloiz (talk) 10:20, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

- Multiple vandalisms -- Dinoxel  talk  19:05, 25 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Blocked, thanks. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 19:49, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

= Other issues =

Blocked edit from a filter
An attempt to add an internation link to a page in another (Russian) language was blocked by the filter "Too many foreign letters or repeat symbols". Well that's how it works I guess. (In that case I tried to add russian link on Tile IDs, but it would also prevent from adding any other link of this kind. The link itself gets blocked even here) Pickpocke (talk) 10:35, 9 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for reporting this. I added the interwiki link in question (see edit) and also modified the filter so that it allows adding those from now on, regardless of number of foreign letters. Apparently, interwiki links weren't considered when that filter was set up, so thank you again for noting it! --Rye Greenwood (talk) 04:02, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Login Issues
Permissions problem: Was getting an odd message on all profile pages including my own: "You do not have permission to add comments or reply. Please make sure you are logged in, have validated your email address, and have performed at least one edit to an article.". At that point it looked from the top bar like I was logged in, but I tried logging out and then back in. The site told me all logins should go to the main Gamepedia portal... Then it force-redirected me to the Twitch portal to log in, but after logging in I got "Forbidden - CSRF token invalid", and I am not logged in. MentalMouse42 --71.62.166.54 12:31, 22 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Not being able to comment is a known issue (ticket), probably caused by the platform update from yesterday. It appears to have been fixed very recently, though.
 * Are you still unable to log in? --Rye Greenwood (talk) 21:57, 22 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Yup, just tried it now. Same message.   MentalMouse42 /  --71.62.166.54 01:10, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Still broken. MentalMouse42 --71.62.166.54 23:30, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Aha -- after another couple of refreshes, now it's let me log in again. --MentalMouse42 (talk) 23:36, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Page evaluation Problems
"Expansion depth limit exceeded" all over Trophies and Royal Gel pages, dunno where else but if it's hitting both of those it will be elsewhere. --MentalMouse42 (talk) 13:53, 23 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reporting, should be all fixed now. A simple purge was all that was needed. For the future: All pages with this specific error are categorized in Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded. You can also find other maintenance categories like that one in Category:Things to do. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 19:37, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Broken page
The crafting table of https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Mining_Potion is broken and is saying "Lua error module:item at line 146: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value). 47.40.26.130 05:29, 26 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Errors should've cleared up by now - there was some backend changes related to the recipes template. --Eraloiz (talk) 12:37, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Category:Things to do
Another people do not need to edit this page. Protect it. ← Alex Great talk/rus? 07:08, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Cargo tables, Drilldown -> "Permission error" for anonymous users
I understand if it's disallowed because it's cpu intensive or whatnot, but if it's just an oversight, please add permission for anonymous IPs to use it. Atm I just use offset=0&limit=10000 to work around it which is probably more resource intensive. 84.248.92.236 06:49, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Missing data from Cargo table
The Items_new cargo table seems to no longer contain yoyos which has broken the table on the Yoyos page. EDIT: Has now been fixed. TrockDoge (talk) 10:29, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Unsure What To Do
Hello. I have a problem. I am only knowledgeable with stuff prior to Old One's Army. Now that there's been some updates, I unsure what I can do. Any tips? Anything that hasn't changed? I also am not very good with images and GIFs.Pispacedolphinmachinegun (talk) 16:35, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Infoboxes
So I made a notice on the community noticeboard that there's no offical Dreadnautilus infobox. Someone made one and it hasn't been ready to transclude. I'm also wonderingHow do I create an infobox? Actually, how do I create a template?Pispacedolphinmachinegun (talk) 16:25, 22 May 2020 (UTC)


 * See Templates on the Gamepedia Help Wiki for a first introduction to templates and Help:Templates on the MediaWiki wiki for an extended and technical explanation. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 17:33, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Yoyo page - all images broken
All of the images are broken on the Yoyo page https://terraria.gamepedia.com/Yoyos


 * What are you talking about? They are all there for me. --172.58.4.138 23:39, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

Inflammatory comments
I am bringing the behavior of User:Sebine and associated IP Special:Contributions/66.168.225.100 to attention for inflammatory comments and personal attacks left in edit summaries/talk pages. Many thanks. -- Breathlessblizzard (talk) 05:49, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Recipes: Critter statues
In Recipes/Heavy Work Bench, Bird, Bunny and Fish statue's traditional recipe has a 3DS icon. 3DS doesn't even have Heavy Work Bench thus the logic should be instead? -- Creeper_NoDenial (talk) 14:18, 26 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Indeed, thank you for noting. I have updated the database. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 17:33, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

NPC infobox $auto in a mess
Like take Green Slime as an example. Expert mode damage 112 max life 324? That's nowhere close to the proper value... I see that infobox template is getting a lot of updates recently and hopefully you're working on this issue and the addition of Master mode NPC stats.

The Expert mode damage is not just post-Plantera damage either. Check Slime where the data is the same as when I first edited Blue Slime to add in Master mode data- Blue Slime is currently displaying the data I updated, and in the brackets with a question mark are the data from $auto.

The max life and damage data for blue slime are a bit messy from this, I know, but it's better than telling people the wrong expert mode data and missing master mode data.

I hope that the data for $auto can be fixed and have Master mode data included asap. Thanks a lot! --Creeper_NoDenial (talk) 15:20, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Update: I’ve checked just now and on Green Slime’s page it said Blue Slime banner. Added “banner = yes” for a fix but well, to make its code cleaner, this should be dealt with by fixing auto information. —-Creeper_NoDenial (talk) 23:48, 27 May 2020 (UTC) (Yeah I’m too lazy to log in as I’m on phone)

Editing Issue
I was trying to edit the reference to the Town Bunny name "Inaba" since I incorrectly thought it was Tewi Inaba, but after thinking things over more, I realized the reference was more likely to be the character Reisen Udongein Inaba from Touhou. I tried to edit my edit, but I got an error saying something about the new edit was inappropriate despite linking to the same sources as Tewi, and I'm not really sure what I did differently or wrong... 70.112.20.156 05:05, 27 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Your addition contained a string of characters that alerts the filter, which then prevents you from saving the page. It has nothing to do with the content, it was just a false positive. Thank you for reporting this! I have improved the filter so that this should not happen again.
 * Sorry you had to experience this, and thank you for your commitment to contributing! I have added what you initially attempted to: Special:Diff/1009196. Of course, feel free to adjust it. --Rye Greenwood (talk) 17:33, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Lesion Chest as incorrect recipe
The lesion chest is listed as the only chest that does not require 2 bars of any iron to craft. In game, however, 2 iron bars are required to craft the chest just like any other chest. The Guide NPC verifies this crafting recipe.


 * Good catch! I've updated the recipe. --Eraloiz (talk) 23:17, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

API help
Dear Devs, I am working on my custom Discord bot (All Credit will be provided once finished) and I was wondering if there was API documentation for terraria.gamepedia.com because I am currently struggling to write a python code since the closest thing I can find is the API documentation for League of Legends' gamepedia (https://lol.gamepedia.com/Help:API_Documentation). Please let me know if you could provide me with a little help or show an already existing help page which I cannot find. Thank you for taking your time reading this email. P.S. In case you're wondering what will the bot do, it will take in the keyword as an input from the user and give it a brief summary which will be taken from you wiki (I was told that all the info here is free to use)


 * Hello, we don't have a page dedicated to API help, but most of what is described on Leaguepedia's page applies to the Terraria Wiki as well, since both wikis are based on the same software. In particular, MediaWiki's API help is a good reference, and every wiki has an API sandbox that you can use for testing queries. The entry point is, again, as on all MediaWiki wikis, /api.php: https://terraria.gamepedia.com/api.php.
 * In general, if you're writing in Python, I highly recommend you to take a look at the two packages linked on Leaguepedia's page, mwclient and MWParserFromHell. I have very positive experiences with them.
 * Lastly, I'd like to inform you that MarkusRost has created a bot, "Wiki-Bot", whose functionality is similar to what you seem to want to create. Maybe you can get in touch with Markus if you need assistance, or pay the bot's Discord support server a visit.
 * --Rye Greenwood (talk) 17:33, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Bot account
How do I create a bot account? I would like to create one. Also, can you make several bot accounts?Pispacedolphinmachinegun (talk) 22:33, 28 May 2020 (UTC)


 * A bot account is (as far as I know) simply a normal account that runs automated scripts in order to complete repetitive tasks. There is a special "Bot" account status that can be set, which does some convenient changes to make it easier to use. Multiple bot accounts would probably be doable, though there wouldn't be much point unless you need to have them do multiple things at a time. --172.58.172.11 22:36, 28 May 2020 (UTC)


 * See these:
 * https://help.gamepedia.com/Bots
 * https://help.gamepedia.com/Logging_in_to_third-party_tools
 * You'll need to create a separate account, clearly marked as a bot and with a link to the operator (you), and you'll need to generate bot credentials (second link above). Equazcion  ( talk ) 22:40, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Not allowed to make edit
Hello, I am trying to edit the Gem Critters page by removing a lot of invisible infocards which are cluttering the edit section. In that page, it appears that there originally was an infocard for every single type of critter, but they were condensed into 2 general infocards because they all had the exact same statistics. However, the old infocards were not removed and were instead made invisible by some method, which results in a lot of unnecessary clutter when editing. Would it be helpful to remove these invisible infocards, and if so, how would I or someone else be able to do it without it being denied? 24.152.169.72 01:17, 29 May 2020 (UTC)


 * A note on the page explains that those infoboxes are necessary for cargo storage purposes, that's probably why it's being blocked. --Wrpen (talk) 02:34, 29 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I wonder if we can make editing easier by putting those infoboxes somewhere else, and transcluding them into the page if Cargo requires that. Equazcion  ( talk ) 02:54, 29 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Well if there is I don't know how to do it. --Wrpen (talk) 07:38, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Vandalism Report
It seems I have been accused of vandalizing the Guide:Defending Against Events page, and I would like to clear that up. When I wrote the Guide:Goblin Army Strategies page, I wrote that a ditch with a little bit of lava was ideal. It seemed to me the 2 guides were contradicting each other, so I removed the simple ditch on Guide:Defending Against Events. In hindsight, I guess of should've replaced it with the lava ditch strategy. So yeah, sorry about that. Pispacedolphinmachinegun (talk) 05:39, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Breaker Blade
I was trying to add a trivia for breaker blade, but when I put it as a POSSIBLE reference to Cloud's Buster Sword, but there have been no response from the developers, due to me seeing stuff like that, it said the info I tried to put in was harmful. What's up with that?

Can't edit Stardust armor trivia
I understand why the page was locked, but since it has been confirmed since 1.4 to be a Jojo reference, the lock should probably be lifted. I was trying to change

"Due to the community's enthusiasm in comparing Stardust armor to the manga and anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Yoraiz0r has acknowledged the resemblance and said the armor can be a reference."

to

"Due to the community's enthusiasm in comparing Stardust armor's name and set bonus to the abilities of the protagonist in manga and anime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Yoraiz0r acknowledged the unintentional resemblance, and in 1.4 the Stardust Guardian's behavior was changed to even more closely resemble the anime/manga."

Just to improve clarity to the backwards way the reference got added to the game, but it seems that all edits to that section are locked.
 * "and in 1.4 the Stardust Guardian's behavior was changed to even more closely resemble the anime/manga" -- That's not confirmed. They actually said "All resemblance to a certain anime is purely coincidental." Much as that might be an intentional tease, we still have no confirmation regarding any intention on the developer's part to make this look like the anime. Equazcion  ( talk ) 19:27, 5 Jun 2020 (UTC)

All wing pages deleted
The Community Wiki Noticeboard said that there was admin agreement on creating individual wing pages. I did so. User Phil04 has deleted them all.Mathbrush1 (talk) 16:10, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not seeing any admins agreeing there, although admins alone don't necessarily decide these things. I feel like there was some miscommunication there. There's an ongoing discussion on Discord about this. Equazcion  ( talk ) 21:21, 6 Jun 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, I noticed when creating them that they had been created and redirected before. I'm fine with it staying as a list, so I'll just leave it alone.Mathbrush1 (talk) 22:51, 6 June 2020 (UTC)