Terraria Wiki:Admin noticeboard

__NEWSECTIONLINK__ The Admin noticeboard is one way through which users can notify administrators of issues needing administrative attention. While users are welcome to directly contact specific administrators (especially if they are seen to be active), posting here can be an easier and quicker way of ensuring that at least one admin will notice an issue and respond to it promptly. Remember to sign when posting an issue.

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In case of vandalism, posting about it here is low priority. Revert it first, anyone can do so. If the vandal created a new page, tag it for deletion. Assume good faith and consider leaving a message on that user's talk page to explain the reason. Post here only if the user has made several disruptive edits and/or persists despite a warning. Always avoid a revert war with the vandal; it is far better to wait until an admin has a chance to intervene.

As a sign of courtesy, also leave a message on the talk page of any involved user.
 * Creating a new request &mdash; vandals
 * 1) Edit the Vandal issues section
 * 2) At the top of the list, use the   template. Provide a short and neutral summary of the issue
 * Creating a new request &mdash; non-vandal cases (e.g. user issues, page protection/undeletion, etc.)
 * 1) Add [ a new section (+)] to the page and enter an appropriate title (without using templates or links) in the subject field.
 * 2) In the edit field, enter a short and neutral summary of the issue. Use the   template to refer to users involved with the case and provide links to important pages or edits.

Vandal issues
Vandalism.  Equazcion ( talk ) 21:08, 28 Oct 2014 (UTC)
 * Won't be seeing him again for quite some time. --0icke0 (talk) 22:28, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Good to know :) Thanks.  Equazcion ( talk ) 22:35, 28 Oct 2014 (UTC)

has a history of sporadic and nonconstructive edits. Gearzein (talk) 21:31, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Additionally, both and  declared goofy, short-lived little "invasions" as retribution for reverted edits. Maybe my warnings were worded a little too condescendingly... Gearzein (talk) 00:59, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked two, left a warning on for the other user. --0icke0 (talk) 09:30, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Added junk to a half-dozen pages. FyreNWater (talk) 17:32, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 21:13, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Yo momma jokes. Dick jokes. Rape jokes. Hit them with the hammer. FyreNWater (talk) 03:08, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 10:49, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

constantly vandalizing the neptunes shell page, maybe the page could do with protection too?
 * Blocked the vandal. As far as I can see that page received some vandalism, but nothing out of the ordinary. --0icke0 (talk) 20:09, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Yo I'm gonna be real, I don't know what to make of at all. I don't have the mobile version so I can't really even be sure that there's no Lihzahrd Temple, but he seems pretty diligent in insisting that it's there by removing the version tags from even tangentially associated pages, even going so far as to mess with the conditions of its opening by editing Plantera's availability and claiming that the Golem's drops are also available, sometimes as bugs, other times without further explanation. I'd be hard-pressed to say he's malicious- perhaps misguided, so I sent him a warning. Usually people who think editing the wiki will change the game code are after just one or two items though, so this guy's dedication is actually starting to make me wonder if he just knows something I don't, and this report might be in error. Gearzein (talk) 04:31, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * As far as I know mobile is only at v1.1, so it shouldn't be in the mobile version yet. Also considering this edit I doubt that it isn't just all vandalism. For now lets see if the message you left on his talk page changed anything. --0icke0 (talk) 10:30, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Commercial spammer. Gearzein (talk) 18:07, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 23:54, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Vandalism.  Equazcion ( talk ) 07:28, 14 Oct 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 17:49, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Repeated vandalism of the Accessories page. One other person vandalised the page, too. I'd also like to note the page seems to be a vandal target. Gamablaze (talk) 21:56, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked and protected the page. --0icke0 (talk) 06:09, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

A vandal bot who actually took the time to make an account! Look at his user page. WelchDrew (talk) 12:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
 * They are getting creative. Not that it is going to help them. Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 15:05, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Seems to be an IP used by at least two different people. Has gone several months either making useful (if informal and poorly worded) edits or vandalizing articles with references to butts. Maybe allow account creation so the useful editor can continue making edits? FyreNWater (talk) 19:12, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Done. --0icke0 (talk) 20:21, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Did a few vandal edits on the Neptune's Shell page a day or two ago. WelchDrew (talk) 06:31, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
 * For now I see no reason to block him. I think he tried (but failed) to undo the vandalism he did, so it is likely that future edits will not be vandalism. --0icke0 (talk) 13:33, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Persisting "trolling". OdnHarfagre (talk) 22:18, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 06:13, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

has seen quite a bit of vandalism recently. Perhaps consider protecting it? 98.196.175.207 16:08, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Protected the page for some time. --0icke0 (talk) 17:34, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, since I'm here, same thing's been happening on . Some guy thinks editing the page will make it available on ios or something, and they come in on a different IP every time, a handful of which have already been blocked. 98.196.175.207 02:01, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Protected that page too. --0icke0 (talk) 09:32, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

It seems this one still isnt blocked yet, a few days ago this one did a large wipe on the notes section of the herbs page, replacing the whole notes part with one useless line. WelchDrew (talk) 09:41, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Blocked. --0icke0 (talk) 20:01, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

=Current Issues=

Grappling hooks -> Hooks
Can we move Grappling hooks to Hooks? It seems more intuitive than using the plural of Grappling Hook. I realize we have Hook, which could continue causing some confusion... but, being that the Grappling Hook is one of the current Grappling hooks, I think it would still be an improvement. Plus, the game and the developers refer to them as "Hooks", not "Grappling hooks".  Equazcion ( talk ) 23:51, 31 Jul 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm in support of this idea, but leave a redirect from Grappling hooks to Hooks, and put something like Wikipedia's "for" template on the Hook and Hooks pages. --Xolroc (talk) 02:13, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok, I've moved it. --0icke0 (talk) 08:35, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks again Icke, and thanks for the input Xolroc :)  Equazcion ( talk ) 11:59, 1 Aug 2014 (UTC)

Page protection
The article Boss is a regular target of vandalism and addition of false information &/or speculation. Can that page be locked so only logged in users can edit it? FyreNWater (talk) 22:42, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I've protected it for some time. Hopefully the vandalism will reduce after that. --0icke0 (talk) 08:50, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Keep up the great work FyreNWater (talk) 05:33, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Nipping edit war in the bud
The List_of_Console_Items page creator created a redundant list that got tagged for deletion. Rather than discuss the deletion, they removed the tag and continued to edit the page. If someone could step in and stop the edit war, as well as point Dxos3 to a place to learn how to write proper articles, that would be helpful. FyreNWater (talk) 01:47, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * User has removed the delete tag on the redundant page yet again. I'm not going to get into an edit war. FyreNWater (talk) 05:10, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * For now just leave it like that. I'm aware that the page may need to be deleted and discussion goes on on the talk page, with or without the notice. We'll see how it turns out and if any further actions may be needed after that. --0icke0 (talk) 12:33, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Problems with starting Terraria
So on, before long (very very long) time ago (when i had windows xp sp2 now i have sp3) terraria was working fine. Now i wanted to continue playing. But i have problems. I've tried lots of things. And i cant solve this. I get "Terraria has encountered a problem and needs to close" error. When i try using "Run As..." i get "Cannot find a version of the runtime to start the application" or something like that, now i'm trying the last thing i can do. I hope this thing helps...and if it does i will type it here. 87.121.212.112 02:07, 23 August 2014 (UTC) (I'm sasdom919 from minecraft but whatever)
 * You might want to search and/or post to the tech support section of the forum here: http://www.terrariaonline.com/forums/technical-support.83/.  Equazcion ( talk ) 02:45, 23 Aug 2014 (UTC)

So on, i've fixed this problem. I use non-steam version due to that steam is too laggy for my 1gb ram computer :( 87.121.212.112 05:46, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Rarity colors

 * Template Sandbox: Template:Item infobox/sandbox

Gonna try to explain this as best I can. I was recently taking a closer look at rarity colors, and found it very confusing to match the on-wiki colors with in-game text. I started playing around with the colors shown at Rarity and found it impossible to reproduce the in-game appearance using web formatted text (the in-game colors are actually light pastels, and using them here doesn't look right without the black border the game adds -- which you can't do currently using HTML/CSS).

I started producing images instead. I created Template:Rare2 to help place them. Right now it's only in use on the Rarity page, but I think it might be worth considering using it in Template:Item infobox. They're larger than most infobox text, but spiffier, and I think they provide an important visual cue that the current infobox rarity labels lack.

I created Template:item infobox/sandbox to illustrate, which you can see an example of to the right.  Equazcion ( talk ) 05:12, 26 Aug 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok, I've implemented this. --0icke0 (talk) 08:59, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks :) I just uploaded slightly smaller images so as not to overpower the other infobox text. You may now want to protect Template:Rare2 and all the images it uses, since they're now transcluded on all item pages.  Equazcion ( talk ) 15:40, 27 Aug 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd have to say, I like this. Thanks for you taking your time to implement this and of course 0icke0, for implementing it for the infobox. ;) Great work! 22:05, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the kudos :) Today I also added categories. The infobox now automatically adds items to a rarity tier category, so you can see listings of all purple, blue, etc items. You can see them by clicking a tier color at the Rarity page. PS. I reverted the change you made to this talk page -- sorry -- but there's no need to require level-3 headers for discussions here. Two is the standard, and there's no particular reason to deviate from that here.  Equazcion ( talk ) 22:17, 27 Aug 2014 (UTC)
 * I've removed the sandbox preview but added a link to it. This is because the  tag is not implemented. (It's suppose to make the categories not display if present.)  22:40, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Talk pages / Signing comments
Some users who don't register or may not know how to really use a wiki often don't sign the comment they make on talk pages, or such with the tildes. ( ~ ) Well, I have a code (below) that I would like to be added to the following MediaWiki page. This will pop up every time on the top of the wiki when editing a talk page.

I'd also like this section (below) to be added to the wiki rules.

==Talk pages==

* When making comments or asking questions on a talk page, be sure to sign the end with four tildes ( ~ )

* Always remain civil during discussions.

You may also edit the above to fit your best liking, this is just my start of it. Hopefully this will reduce the amount of users not signing comments. :) 22:32, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not really sure if this is a major issue here, especially since the wiki doesn't get much discussion in general. Couldn't hurt though. PS. I edited the above a little.  Equazcion ( talk ) 12:28, 28 Aug 2014 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't expect much from it, but it wouldn't hurt to do it because their are people who do pay attention to what's actually on the screen. ;) 18:20, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Added. Lets hope it helps. --0icke0 (talk) 11:18, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

iOS Hardmode release
I made Template:PC-Console-iOS only in preparation for the iOS 1.2 release. Not sure whether to use it or just wait for the Android release, but it's there if anyone wants to.  Equazcion ( talk ) 11:27, 28 Aug 2014 (UTC)
 * Now that they have announced that Android will be released in a few days I guess this is no longer needed. --0icke0 (talk) 11:18, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Tizona inconsistencies.
When viewing the Excalibur page the wiki says to craft the Tizona you need 1 Excalibur and 15 Adamantite bars. When I click on the Soul of Blight page it says it requires 2 Excalibur and 20 Adamantite Bars.
 * Fixed. I think the Soul of Blight page was showing an old pre-1.2 recipe.  Equazcion ( talk ) 21:48, 31 Aug 2014 (UTC)

Version icon tooltips
I created sandbox versions of the version icons with tooltips added. The actual templates are protected so I can't update them myself. User:0icke0, could you update the main templates (assuming you think this would be an improvement)? Thanks.  Equazcion ( talk ) 09:49, 1 Sep 2014 (UTC)
 * Template:Pc icon/sandbox
 * Template:Console icon/sandbox
 * Template:Mobile icon/sandbox
 * I've looked at implementing that before, but without success. So I'm glad we have this now, thanks for your work on this. --0icke0 (talk) 10:14, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * No problem, thanks for making the edits :)  Equazcion ( talk ) 10:25, 1 Sep 2014 (UTC)

NPC infobox tweak
I'd like to add an optional width parameter to npc infobox. It's a pretty simple change. I made npc infobox2 with the parameter added. You can see it in effect on Cursed Skull, one box with the optional width specified and the other without it at the default setting.  Equazcion ( talk ) 04:13, 6 Sep 2014 (UTC)
 * In the first line, this:
 * would become
 * Ok, I've updated it. --0icke0 (talk) 09:53, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks :)  Equazcion ( talk ) 12:22, 6 Sep 2014 (UTC)

Anonymous page creation
I wonder if we could request a user rights change for anonymous users so they wouldn't be able to create new pages, and only autoconfirmed users can (registered users with validated email, 10 edits, and registered for 3 days). It is technically possible, if we can get someone to do it. It's pretty much always vandalism when anon users create pages, and we get something like 7 or 8 of those per day, on a good day. I could see anonymous page creation being useful perhaps for the month after a new major update is released, but it's not worth the hassle it creates all other times. People who want to create legit pages tend to register. <font face="Century Gothic"> Equazcion ( talk ) 15:45, 7 Sep 2014 (UTC)
 * The main problem with this would properly be the translation pages. Most other language users create an account and immediately start creating new pages. Forcing them to wait 3 days and make 10 edits on other pages will likely result in a halt to the translation progress. As far as I know it is not possible to only allow users to create pages matching a certain format (in this case containing a / in the page name). --0icke0 (talk) 17:49, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean. Although it seems I could be wrong about the autoconfirmed requirements on this wiki, apparently -- you semi-protected Boss so only autoconfirmed users could edit (protected 6 sept 2014, expires 6 oct 2014), but User:Newman1239 was able to vandalize it immediately after creating an account today. Not sure how that works. <font face="Century Gothic"> Equazcion ( talk ) 18:51, 8 Sep 2014 (UTC)
 * I guess the requirements are different on this wiki then. I wonder what they are, as I cannot find them anywhere. --0icke0 (talk) 09:35, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It is possible to setup an AbuseFilter to do the action you requested, but we would generally suggest not to. If you are having issues with spam or vandalism, you can contact a member from Gamepedia's Wiki team, and we will assist you in doing so :) Cblair91 (talk) 10:11, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Alright, I've modified the abuse filter to give a warning when an anonymous user tries to create a page. However creating the page is still possible after that. This should stop most vandal bots (I hope) and possibly some of the vandalism by anonymous users, while being a minor inconvenience for legitimate users. For now lets just see how well it works, modifications can always be made later. --0icke0 (talk) 15:43, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Wiki logo/favicon
The new terraria.org features some redesigned graphics. The logo and favicon at this wiki were originally designed to match TerrariaOnline's graphics, and since the new terraria.org is going to be replacing that, I figure the graphics here could probably be updated to once again match. I created File:WikiNew.png as a possible update for our current wiki logo (File:Wiki.png). There's also File:Favicon New.ico, which is taken directly from the new terraria.org favicon, and could replace our File:Favicon.ico. <font face="Century Gothic"> Equazcion ( talk ) 15:54, 14 Sep 2014 (UTC)
 * I've uploaded the new image, they should be visible soon. --0icke0 (talk) 15:28, 15 September 2014 (UTC)