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Contents 1 Oops Double Post 2 Chat Themes 3 Editing a page 4 Recent Changes js 5 "Wonderbolts" -> "Wonder Bolts"? 6 I have to ask you for a thing 7 Not a baby 8 Orion Challenge 9 [Browser ponies] 10 Mini-editor on Chat 11 [Re-add script] 12 Hello 13 Removing personal pages 14 Fan made re-name pics 15 The Wonderbolts 16 Picture 17 User:Foodbandlt/Sandbox/List 18 [Contribution message] 19 Ad-Blocker 20 The adventures of Foodbandt and Handsome Bony 21 Chat system 22 A request 23 [Help] 24 [Random message] 25 Source removal 26 The Vandal 27 Redlink JS 28 Random anon 29 Block request Just kidding! 30 Concerning my latest post 31 Re: 32 JavaScript, again 33 Disambiguation 34 Image Link 35 Renaming Fanmade Images 36 Hmm... 37 Fancy Pancy Fru-Fru Signature 38 Placeholder name poll for Alula 39 just 2 say hi! 40 Against the wiki 41 A Great Admin 42 Helping Me Out 43 Dear Foodbandlt, I'm User 68.57.233, and since I don't actually have an account could u please help me. I don't have an email, but I want 2 put my cool pictures on my page. What should I do??? 13:51, March 12, 2013 (UTC)68.57.67.233 44 Comments with Inappropriate Words 45 Gallery Picture on the Magical Mystery Cure 46 More of the same kind of thing 47 Changing the name of Forum:Unwritten_Rules to Forum:Chat_rules_discussion 48 Re: Thanks! 49 Need ya help. 50 Minor Promblems 51 Yo Food...An Odd Request 52 Thanks 53 Your move script 54 Hey This is Important

Oops Double PostEdit

Hello! im Tuckyd and admin on the Gravity Falls wiki, EvergreenFir told me about your image control and we would like to be able to implement that on our wiki! Would you please tell me how you do it! Thank you, Tuckyd

I'm assuming you had a discussion on on your wiki. I don't know how things run on your wiki, but just contact Wikia, and they'll create a group with the specific user rights tailored to that group, plus they can call it whatever the community voted on (so in case you don't want to use "Image Control" or "Custodian"), or however things are decided over there. If you want a group with the same rights that the group has here, it needs the "movefile" user right, the "noratelimit" user right, and the "suppressredirect" user right. Also, if you want, you can give them the right to delete pictures as well; however, the "delete" user right applies to all namespaces, so if you don't want them to be able to delete pages from any namespace, you're going to want to copy over our Abuse Filter #4. I don't know if non-admins can see the abuse filters, so if you want, I could copy over the text from "Export this filter to another wiki" to here. -- This is Jonny Manz, signing off! 19:06, August 4, 2012 (UTC)

Chat ThemesEdit

Hi I'm from the [Icarus Wiki]. Were you the one who made the code for the dual themed chat? If so can you help me with doing it on my wiki. I tried typing in the codes you had on your Chat.css; Chat.js; and Chat.js/load.js. I then typed in custom settings for my wiki but it doesn't work. I took out the part that made the chat moderator icon change depending on the time but everything else is there. Can you check it and then tell me what I did wrong, or I could give you admin rights for a little while so you can edit it yourself. It would be very helpful if you could do this for my wiki.--Captain Comet (talk) 12:37, August 7, 2012 (UTC)

Responded on your wiki.  Food Foodbandlt 10:26, August 8, 2012 (UTC)

Editing a page Edit

Could you (or another admin) please edit this blog post and replace the redlinked image at the top with this one? I am being prevented by the excessive capitalization abuse filter, heh. I even had a nice edit summary typed up, though I assume it's too long: "eww jpg, I'll be replacing it eventually - it's an early episode so shouldn't be too long from now unless school tremendously gets in the way - just re-linking for now. Also "fraightening scene's in grafic" [caps removed]? >_>" Anyway, that's assuming admins are allowed to bypass the filters :P. Thanks, ~Bobogoobo (talk) 05:46, August 8, 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, admins are also subject to the abuse filter. We should add an exception for that... I've renamed your image and removed the capitalization. Apparently it thought that any capitalization was excessive on that blog, hah.  Food Foodbandlt 10:21, August 8, 2012 (UTC)

Recent Changes js Edit

Unfortunately, ?limit=x still isn't working on my RC page, so it looks like I'll just have to use the normal RC page all the time. Do you know of any way to make all the collapsible things automatically uncollapsed when the page is loaded? It's pretty dumb that they do that, especially now that sometimes clicking on one just takes you to the top of the page. Hopefully a fix would be able to include the usual Wikia half-assed fix for grouped article comments. Thanks for any help, I wish I were better with JS. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 21:00, August 10, 2012 (UTC)

I'll look into it over the next few days, just finishing some things up at the moment.  Food Foodbandlt 21:28, August 10, 2012 (UTC)

"Wonderbolts" -> "Wonder Bolts"? Edit

There seemed to be agreement on Forum:"The Wonderbolts" article name that The Wonderbolts (and by extension List of Wonderbolts) should be renamed to match the most official spelling, but the forum has since been archived and the {{move}} template removed from both articles, without any renaming. Is there any reason that the articles weren't renamed? 76.9.91.170 20:51, August 13, 2012 (UTC)

Went ahead and started a new discussion on the matter. 64.118.112.195 08:38, August 16, 2012 (UTC)

I'm terribly sorry, I didn't notice this message at all. At the time there were two messages that were posted in my absence.  Food Foodbandlt 11:39, August 16, 2012 (UTC)

I have to ask you for a thing Edit

Please, may you unban me from chat? I accidentaly called CJ a nigga, and it's an altisonant word, so I got expulsed. Can you get me back?

HM96 ROCK SMASHER 00:28, August 14, 2012 (UTC)

You just said it again, be very careful throwing that word about please. You will be unbanned when your time is up. BluesirTheFox Private Pansy is best pansy 00:32, August 14, 2012 (UTC)

Not a baby Edit

Spike is not a baby dragon any more he is a young dragon plus you do not call a baby dragon a baby you call them a hatchling.

Orion001 (talk) 01:06, August 17, 2012 (UTC)

Quote from Friendship is Magic, part 1:

Fluttershy: [gasps] A baby dragon!

[thump]

Fluttershy: Oh, I've never seen a baby dragon before. He's sooo cute!

Spike: Well, well, well...!

Fluttershy: Oh my, he talks. I didn't know dragons could talk. That's just so incredibly wonderful I, I just don't even know what to say!

Twilight Sparkle: Well, in that case we'd better be going.

Fluttershy: Wait, wait! What's his name?

Spike: I'm Spike.

Fluttershy: Hi Spike, I'm Fluttershy. Wow, a talking dragon! And what do dragons talk about?

Spike: Well, what do you wanna know?

Fluttershy: Absolutely everything.

Twilight Sparkle: [groans]

Spike: Well... I started out as a cute little purple and green egg...

Spike: ...and that's the story of my whole entire life! Well, up until today. Do you wanna hear about today?

Fluttershy: Oh, yes, please!

Spike: Gyah!

Twilight Sparkle: I am so sorry, how did we get here so fast? This is where I'm staying while in Ponyville and my poor baby dragon needs his sleep.

They do indeed refer to him as a "baby dragon". Them referring to Spike as a "baby dragon" in the show therefore makes him a baby dragon. There is nothing incorrect about calling him a baby dragon, and therefore no reason to undo the previous edit. In the future, please do not undo previous edits until the discussion about it is resolved. Thanks!  Food Foodbandlt 01:11, August 17, 2012 (UTC)

He is a baby dragon, and that is a fact, so this conversation is therefore pointless. Bluesir 01:22, August 17, 2012 (UTC)

thats right ! i am with you in this case ,they said that he is a baby draon only becuase their are dragons bigger in part 1 too ! i have a picture for baby cute spike , he is so much younger than now !!!!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinkiepie444 (talk • contribs)

I assume the picture that you have is fanmade, in which case cannot be used in the main namespace of this wiki.  Food Foodbandlt 06:19, August 18, 2012 (UTC)

The So Soft toys' official term for younger Spike (shown in Twilight Sparkle's flashback during The Cutie Mark Chronicles and in a photo during Dragon Quest) is "newborn" rather than "hatchling" (and newborn Spike is referred to as a baby dragon like his current self is, as seen in this Hasbro description and this toy commercial). 76.9.82.128 07:28, August 18, 2012 (UTC)

Orion Challenge Edit

Orion Challenge the biggest challenge and the toughest challenge you will ever see. http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Orion001/Orion_Challenge

Orion001 (talk) 01:40, August 17, 2012 (UTC)

[Browser ponies]Edit

Mr. Manz merely recommended that I remove the GIFs from my talk page, which means that I don't actually have to do it.

--Who would win in a fight between you and yo mama? (talk) 08:48, August 17, 2012 (UTC)

He recommended that you do it because there was a ridiculous amount, and talk page messages couldn't be seen/left.  Food Foodbandlt 14:31, August 17, 2012 (UTC)

Mini-editor on Chat Edit

RandomRock RandomRock RandomRock RandomRock RandomRock

RandomRock – Hedgehog Reborn TALK – 00:25, August 18, 2012 (UTC) Hello, my name is RandomRock from the Nickelodeon Wiki. I can see you are very good with MediaWiki and such, and possibly can you add the mini-editor (the editor used on comments) on the chat. The Nickelodeon Wiki might use it.

Without support in the core coding of the chat to support message editing, I'm afraid that's near impossible. It would be too much work and effort to achieve than it is worth in the end. I'm sorry.  Food Foodbandlt 03:31, August 18, 2012 (UTC)

[Re-add script]Edit

Could you please re-add the script? I promise not to spam it anymore. I really don't want to ruin this for everyone.

--Who would win in a fight between you and yo mama? (talk) 21:20, August 18, 2012 (UTC)

I have re-added the script. Please do not abuse it again, or I will remove it once more.  Food Foodbandlt 03:22, August 20, 2012 (UTC)

HelloEdit

Hi, I'm Madnessfan34537 from the Call of Duty Wiki. I was looking through the Archived Forums on here, and saw a Forum about giving Chat Moderators the ability to add Emoticons. I was going to open a Forum on the Call of Duty Wiki about the same thing, as I love the idea. I just want to check with you to see if the script works, and stuff like that. -- Madnessfan34537 ^Talk

If you've found the forum, then I'm sure you've also read the forum. There is a security risk with the method used to only allow chat mods and admins with a major vulnerability. Yes, the page would be patrolled like any other page on Recent Changes, but it is a vulnerability nonetheless. I need to rework it some day when I have time using a different method, but at this moment I don't have much time.  Food Foodbandlt 03:21, August 20, 2012 (UTC)

Your so cool ~ Gigipony

---

Sir, forgive my computer for the bad formatting issues. It tends to do strange things. However, I would like to inform you that I feel I have been permabanned from the chat under false pretenses by Bluesir. I do not mean any disrespect to him. However, as you know, we personally discussed the topic, and therefore, I don't believe this was done with your knowledge. If you could, I would most likely respect it if you could contact Bluesir. Not for the sake of interrogation, but to find out of my appeal could be met, and that I could be unbanned. I highly appreciate your input.

Zakattacks (talk) 03:05, August 28, 2012 (UTC)

At this point, I ask that you take it to the forums. That way the discussion will be recorded and can be seen by everyone.  Food Foodbandlt 10:04, August 28, 2012 (UTC)

Removing personal pages Edit

Thank you for removing the defunct page :) Can I delete my own pages if I think they're no longer useful? If so, how? Steph physarum (talk) 10:38, August 30, 2012 (UTC)

Deleting pages is a right only available to administrators (and Image Control for files). If you need a page deleted, you will need to ask an administrator on their talk page, or mark it with the {{delete}} template and it will be deleted when an administrator looks at Category:Candidates for deletion.  Food Foodbandlt 10:41, August 30, 2012 (UTC)

please coud you tell me how to become a admin???

Fan made re-name pics Edit

Sorry I'll be sure to dot that next time! :) Reedman211 (talk) 15:10, September 2, 2012 (UTC)

it looks liek you require happiness. You need a pinkie in your life. Addopt one today.

— tippy685 (talk) 02:57, September 3, 2012 (UTC)

The Wonderbolts Edit

Shouldn't the category include the "The"? There's still some usage ambiguity, but that at least seems more correct. I believe it was Category:The Wonderbolts before the other move. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 05:02, September 3, 2012 (UTC)

Was it? Not sure what my reasoning was when I did it, I honestly suddenly don't remember, hah. I'll change it then.  Food Foodbandlt 05:04, September 3, 2012 (UTC)

Food, you have brought us the good news! Now the Princess Celestia's aerial acrobatic ponies group have the new official name at MLP Wikia. That reply from Hasbro you uploaded shows that their group should be called The Wonderbolts. I wish they could thank you personally but they are busy practicing their tricks.

Thank you for this contribution! Brohoof! /)

Teyandee (Talk) 17:37, September 3, 2012 (UTC)

Heh, not a worry! (\  Food Foodbandlt 19:01, September 3, 2012 (UTC)

PictureEdit

The photo "AppleBloom ArentYouGoingToStayForBrunch.png(cropped).png" is actually very similar, and possibly a duplicate of the original image used for the same page it was posted in. (っ◕‿◕)っ ♥ ☂ᗩᒪḰ℃◎ᾔ⊥ґї♭ṧ €∂ї☂¢øυᾔт 22:28, September 13, 2012 (UTC)

Could you please delete both versions of that file? I hadn't caught the typo in the filename. Thanks in advance.

--Who would win in a fight between you and yo mama? (talk) 22:46, September 13, 2012 (UTC)

I did not know about this file when I uploaded my image:

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/File:Apple_Bloom_asking_Twilight_to_stay_for_brunch.png

Please don't delete mine, though. I shrunk it from it's original size because as the "profile picture", it doesn't need to be any bigger than it is; the page will also load faster because the new image is smaller and takes up much less space.

--Who would win in a fight between you and yo mama? (talk) 23:08, September 13, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, deleted it before I saw this. The size difference is relatively negligible, I believe, and the other image is nearly twice the size in terms of pixels, so I think it's better. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 23:25, September 13, 2012 (UTC)

Personally, I prefer that Apple_Bloom_asking_Twilight_to_stay_for_brunch.png be the image because it's Apple Bloom's most memorable moment.

--Who would win in a fight between you and yo mama? (talk) 23:52, September 13, 2012 (UTC)

In truth, whether you use a big or small image as a profile picture, the load time is exactly the same. Because of the systems Wikis uses, their servers shrink the image on their side before the image is served to you. No matter how big the source image is, you'll always be served a 250px image. (example)  Food Foodbandlt 00:20, September 14, 2012 (UTC)

But what about images with a large file size?

--Who would win in a fight between you and yo mama? (talk) 00:30, September 14, 2012 (UTC)

It will be resized to the requested dimensions, making the file size the same no matter how large the original image is.  Food Foodbandlt 00:35, September 14, 2012 (UTC)

User:Foodbandlt/Sandbox/List Edit

Just wondering, are you still using said page? If not, it would be best to delete it so that, for example, images don't have to be replaced in two places. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 22:11, September 14, 2012 (UTC)

I suppose not, I just used it to fix the List of ponies page before we disabled visual editing is all. I've deleted it.  Food Foodbandlt 02:53, September 15, 2012 (UTC)

[Contribution message]Edit

Thanks for the contribution message.

Xuanmadissen (talk) 02:37, September 15, 2012 (UTC)

It's automated, but no problem :P  Food Foodbandlt 02:53, September 15, 2012 (UTC)

Ad-Blocker Edit

When Bobogoobo said that he still can`t see the image, I had an idea that he has a anti-banner software. I did not add it because I though that he uses it for all browsers and not just FireFox. It was before he said that the image is visible in another browsers. I forgot that Firefox has it`s own Ad-blocker. Teyandee (Talk) 05:31, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

Hah, that's what I meant by you "ninja'd" me. Generally that means you said almost exactly what I was going to say right before I said it, which you did because I edit conflicted ten seconds after you replied, lol. I didn't mean anything more than you took the words right out of my mouth, or in this case, my keyboard.  Food Foodbandlt 05:34, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

The adventures of Foodbandt and Handsome Bony Edit

I was going to make a blog post about my OC pony and yours , but first I gotta know your OC pony's personality.

Chat system Edit

Hey. At TTTE Wiki we are looking into implementing a system where you need a certain number of edits to join the chat and we were told you are the guy to go to. If you could lend us a hand that would be great! Thanks, Toby7 Ding!Ding! 14:49, October 20, 2012 (UTC)

hey make a profile , id like to know more about you tennispony (talk) 23:58, October 22, 2012 (UTC)

A requestEdit

Mr. Delicacy Thief, I see that mods and admins are now having custom icons. If you could be ever so kind, whenever you get the time, to change mine to . Thanks in advance, man. :) AppleJon-Talk 20:08, October 29, 2012 (UTC)

[Help]Edit

Hi Foodbandit,, I am not to sure where to start with helping out can you give me something to make to make this wiki grow-User:Gwens gal

[Random message]Edit

Sorry, Foodbandit, I have my own account, it name is G.D.(C.T.), okay? 175.145.199.17 07:05, November 16, 2012 (UTC)

I'm... not sure who you are or what you're talking about.  Food Foodbandlt 11:47, November 16, 2012 (UTC)

Source removalEdit

Sorry, people just think Gilda is going to return, because off the source.What day is it? What3e4gbvhp -[;41/mjk,*/ 12:25, November 29, 2012 (UTC)

No worries, there was just no reason to remove the source and information.  Food Foodbandlt 14:08, November 29, 2012 (UTC)

The VandalEdit

Thanks for taking care of the vandal Food. It was really starting to annoy me. Great Job :D Juan Brony Bro 03:51, December 4, 2012 (UTC)

No worries, and I'm sorry that I didn't see it sooner, I've just returned home.  Food Foodbandlt 03:53, December 4, 2012 (UTC)

Redlink JS Edit

I guess decodeURIComponent shouldn't be there because it isn't actually working. I described what I meant to do in my most recent post on the forum topic (not sure why it was archived). I wasn't sure how to decode stuff. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 08:49, December 15, 2012 (UTC)

Ahh. As far as I know, the URI returned in JavaScript objects isn't encoded, though. Wikia automatically decodes and redirects to the decoded URI IIRC. Good job on the coding, by the way. I never would've thought of using JavaScript to interpret the anchor to make a link to the page's history.  Food Foodbandlt 00:59, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

It has to encode the anchor or something, and when I put that in as the href directly it doesn't get decoded. The two links here do not work with it, and I assume any similar characters will break also. It looks like anchor encoding uses . instead of % (same codes though) and the function can't handle it, and I think I have an idea how to fix it now. And thanks, good to know my brain still works sometimes :P. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 03:57, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

Hooray, fixed, mostly. The problem is that decodeURIComponent returns a blank string if there's an error in it, it seems, and passing it anything with a lone % does that. So it will still not work for any file that has "." in the middle of it. Everything else is fine though. Actually, not quite, because the way I did the file extension replacements changes uppercase to lowercase. I don't really want to write out 20 replacements, and I assume the best way to do it is a loop through an array or something - if you have time, could you put that in? Assuming you get what I'm trying to do there. In fact, maybe there's a better way that would work in all cases, and that would be even better. But yeah, it should work for most cases now. Thanks again for the help. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 04:52, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, I see what you mean... that's entirely odd, for sure. That encoding seems to be happening on Wikia's end, and it doesn't seem like it should be happening. I've asked staff about it meanwhile, and once I get a reply I'll think about the best way to accomplish what we're trying to do. Thanks!  Food Foodbandlt 12:46, December 16, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you about JS again, but I have a relatively simple one and I'm not sure why it's not working. I was trying to change the chat page title since I noticed it had some wikilinks and stuff in it (and was way too long besides) and that text didn't seem to be stored in any system message. Here's what I tried on Chat.js and Common.js but didn't work either time. I left it on Common just in case it can be made to work somehow. Thanks, ~Bobogoobo (talk) 07:28, December 23, 2012 (UTC)

No worries at all, hah. I'm sorry I haven't been around much as of late, I'm trying to get things wrapped up here and there. You're code is indeed correct and works. The only issue is that Common.js is not loaded into Special:Chat. I can assume from long nights spent coding for the chat that the reason your code didn't work in MediaWiki:Chat.js is because of a really really annoying caching issue. I've removed it from MediaWiki:Common.js and added the single line back to MediaWiki:Chat.js. In Special:Chat, the additional scripts are not loaded until after the page's load event already triggers, so there's no reason to use $('document').ready();. Thanks Bobogoobo!  Food Foodbandlt 01:21, December 24, 2012 (UTC)

Aha, okay. I forgot about the caching delay the first time, guess I should've waited longer or tried a different browser. I don't usually use chat anyway, just went in once and felt compelled to fix it as usual :P. Thanks! ~Bobogoobo (talk) 07:00, December 24, 2012 (UTC)

One more small (edit: not so small) request. I'm not familiar with how MediaWiki:Common.js/userRightsIcons.js works and I don't want to break it, but I want to add something: a link to contribs on a "banned from chat" tag to help people know why they've been banned (hopefully). The variable should look like this, I believe (probably need to do a replace for spaces to underscores in wgTitle, or use wgPageName and take out the "User:"):

var chatBan = "<a href='http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/" + wgTitle + "'><span style='color:white'>Banned from chat</span></a>";

Could you add that, please? Also, I'm pretty sure the hrefs only need to start at "/wiki/" but meh. Thanks! ~Bobogoobo (talk) 09:40, December 28, 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I looked at it a bit more and it looks like you'd need somehow to see if <span class="tag">Banned From Chat</span> exists, and if so, add that user to the dictionary (I assume that's what {} means as in Python). I'm not really sure how to do that, but if you don't have time I can do more research. Unless I'm just overthinking this, heh. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 10:14, December 28, 2012 (UTC)

It would be a conditional statement that checks if there is a tag whose html is "BANNED FROM CHAT", and if so, wrap span.tag inside of an anchor element. I'll take a look when I get home from work.  Food Foodbandlt 21:33, December 28, 2012 (UTC)

Okie doke, its done.  Food Foodbandlt 23:39, December 28, 2012 (UTC)

Ah, interesting. Looks like I need to learn some more. Thanks again! ~Bobogoobo (talk) 00:52, December 29, 2012 (UTC)

Random anonEdit

hello —Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.117.3.190 (talk • contribs)

Hi?  Food Foodbandlt 18:40, December 29, 2012 (UTC)

Block request Just kidding! Edit

Wishing you all the best in the New Year! Yours truly, Steph physarum

Thanks a lot Steph, to you as well!  Food Foodbandlt 04:16, January 2, 2013 (UTC)

Concerning my latest postEdit

I want to apologize for my hasty posting of my latest post, and would would like to politely ask if you would remove it for me. I don't like causing problems, and I feel this one might and has.

I also don't believe in unnecessary posts. Sorry if I caused a problem. Thanks for your comments and help.

RM aka Lightning Dash (talk) 05:46, January 13, 2013 (UTC)

No worries, and I'm sorry if my comment caused an issue for you. The blog has been removed.  Food Foodbandlt 05:48, January 13, 2013 (UTC)

Really, It wasn't your comment. but that the post itself was uneccessary, as I did it without thinking first. one other question, the post still shows up on my blog list, shouldn't that change when one is deleted? It has with the others.RM aka Lightning Dash (talk) 06:20, January 13, 2013 (UTC)

It's probably cached by Wikia like everything else. It starts to get annoying after a while, hah. It will update on it's own in the next few days at the most.  Food Foodbandlt 06:24, January 13, 2013 (UTC)

Re:Edit

Sorry for the late reply. But thank you and I'm happy to help out the wiki in anyway I can. Argorrath _{おしゃべり} 06:13, January 23, 2013 (UTC)

JavaScript, again Edit

I'm wondering if you could help me polish up some JS once again. I tried to write some code that splits the Table of Contents into three columns, but it doesn't seem to be working: see the last section of User:Bobogoobo/wikia.js (if you want to test it, you may want to choose a smaller page :P. Though note that only level-2 headings will exist on the one it's for, so it doesn't need to handle level-3 or smaller.). Can it be fixed, or is my method fundamentally flawed? Do I need to do what I described at the bottom? There was some CSS that did something similar but it didn't look quite as good as altering the source can. Thanks! ~Bobogoobo (talk) 10:04, January 24, 2013 (UTC)

The method that you decided to use is extremely sound, and I'll admit, I never thought about doing it that way. The two lines near the end are trying to edit the HTML of an array, though, of which an array has no innerHTML node. I'll take a look at it when I return from work today, great job thus far!  Food Foodbandlt 11:12, January 24, 2013 (UTC)

Is this what you had in mind? I haven't tested it on multi-level, although it should theoretically work (it may split the level two links into a second column, but that's easily fixable if it happens). Let me know how it works for you and of any changes that you feel are needed, although I'm sure you can perform them yourself seeing how far you got on this script. I'd also like to admit me being wrong about the innerHTML part above. I didn't realize that toArray() actually kept them intact as DOM Elements.  Food Foodbandlt 22:27, January 24, 2013 (UTC)

Looks good to me! I'm not really sure what all the stuff you added does, but I'm curious, why does tdToAppend need three nested tables? And yeah, I was happy to find that even changing something in the array applied it to the source. As for implementing this for all users, do you think maybe the containing if statement could be changed to apply if the page's TOC's parent has a certain class, say "toc-multicol"? That way we could put it in the common JS and put some simple code on any page to apply it. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 01:19, January 25, 2013 (UTC)

That is a direct emulation of Wikia's coding. I didn't want me changing anything small to affect the entire thing from working, but feel free to change it up and see if there's any positive or negative impact on the page. The simplest thing that comes to mind concerning your last question is putting an anchor on the page with the id "toc-multicol" and style="display: none;", and changing the if statement to if (document.getElementById("toc-multicol").length != 0){ . The anchor can even be put into and easy-to-use template that transcludes it.  Food Foodbandlt 01:58, January 25, 2013 (UTC)

Eh, I wouldn't know how to avoid breaking it, it's fine as is. What about something like if ($(".toc-multicol #toc").size() != 0) { ? (I'm thinking the code on the page would be <div class="toc-multicol">__TOC__</div> which I think is simple enough not to need a template.) ~Bobogoobo (talk) 02:18, January 25, 2013 (UTC)

That would work in the same way, and it's good to see that the div doesn't negatively affect the placement of the TOC. The only thing that I was trying to avoid was containing the TOC inside of something, as that would require that it's declared on the page with __TOC__. Using an anchor, it's a standalone tag that doesn't need to be wrapped around anything. My reasons for that are entirely personal, it really makes no difference on what method you choose.  Food Foodbandlt 02:28, January 25, 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I see. I don't really like putting hidden things as much, and using the behavior switch wouldn't really require a template, which is also nice. I'll use my method for now, but it can of course be changed later. I'm not really expecting this to be used much anyway, but it's handy to have around and for future reference. Thanks as always for all your help! ~Bobogoobo (talk) 02:58, January 25, 2013 (UTC)

Yep yep, no worries! Feel free to ask about anything in the future.  Food Foodbandlt 03:01, January 25, 2013 (UTC)

I don't think we finished this, the CSS I did (see bottom of here) doesn't work. But anyway, I'm here because once again I tried something and must've done some little thing wrong but I'm not sure what it is. Here's what I did, if you're bored :P. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 09:22, February 12, 2013 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, I completely forgot about that! Thanks for reminding me. I've thought of an easy way to do it stemming off of the method that you tried, and I'll try to look at it by tomorrow or the next day.  Food Foodbandlt 02:08, February 13, 2013 (UTC)

DisambiguationEdit

Stickipedia -_- really? i haven't a slightest idea why it couldn't even be DISAMBUGATION!? dude please i was half asleep at midnight when i typed up all that! really? REALLY? you coulda talked this over! Stickipedia (talk) 00:34, January 30, 2013 (UTC)

That title is based on the in-universe (or fandom universe in this case) spelling of "Main Six". This wiki is also against the use of disambiguation pages whenever possible. The group of main characters is not referred to the "Main Six" in the show, and if people are coming here searching the main characters, they are more likely to search for them by name rather than "Mane Six".  Food Foodbandlt 00:42, January 30, 2013 (UTC)

Image LinkEdit

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Special:MovePage/File:Rainbow_Dash_with_sunglasses_20%_cooler.png

Renaming Fanmade ImagesEdit

Try changing the file name to something cleaner when renaming images like the one that's being linked here, Thanks The Americanized Brony03:28, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

I don't worry too much about changing the base-name of fanmade images. There's no point in doing so.  Food Foodbandlt 03:35, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

I know that but it makes the wiki seem neater even if it's just a bit. Anyways, this was just an suggestion. The Americanized Brony03:44, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the suggestion. I usually prioritize the neatness of things visible in the main namespace before things that will never see the main namespace. That's just me, though.  Food Foodbandlt 03:48, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

Message moved to User talk:Dragon Theology  Food Foodbandlt 04:06, February 24, 2013 (UTC)

Try replying to messages on your talk page. The Americanized Brony18:19, February 23, 2013 (UTC)

Hmm... Edit

Reckon this user has anything in common with this? Might be a long shot but I'll keep an eye out. -- Ozank (Talk) 13:05, February 24, 2013 (UTC)

Fancy Pancy Fru-Fru SignatureEdit

Just out of curiosity, I want to know if it's possible to make my signature neat looking and not as dull (kinda like yours) and if so, can I make mine with a dragon.  I'd appreciate a response when you get the time :)

Alright...new target.  Thanks for the reply.  Needed something positive today :)

Oh crap forgot to sign it

Dragon Theology (talk) 03:45, March 1, 2013 (UTC)Dragon Theology

Placeholder name poll for Alula Edit

Hi Food! Can you re-open this poll and/or make me mod on /r/listofponies? Thanks! –Throwy 12:23, March 1, 2013 (UTC)

Oaky took care of it! –Throwy 12:33, March 1, 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for the slow response, I'm away at the moment. I'll make you a mod regardless so you don't have to keep asking, though. What's your username on Reddit?  Food Foodbandlt 12:36, March 1, 2013 (UTC)

TheodoreRowy 13:37, March 1, 2013 (UTC)

Done.  Food Foodbandlt 14:17, March 1, 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! –Throwy 14:26, March 1, 2013 (UTC)

just 2 say hi! Edit

hi Food its me the one that you sent the "helping message" to

i was just wondering (this has nothing to do about wiki) but what are your thoughs on Omnipony?

27.96.192.134 06:17, March 4, 2013 (UTC)Rainbow Dash27.96.192.134 06:17, March 4, 2013 (UTC)

lol forgot the T in thought :P

also if u dont know what Omnipony is check it on youtube

Against the wiki Edit

Could something be done .....  I think this comment is against the wiki rules, Talk:Magical Mystery Cure/@comment-Nihi The Brony-20130305060632/@comment-Dragon Theology-20130305061457   

A concern anon.

Taken care of, thanks.  Food Foodbandlt 19:32, March 5, 2013 (UTC)

A Great Admin Edit

Helping Me OutEdit

I just wanted to thank you once again for helping me out when someone was asking me for personal information.  You really showed a great deal of leadership the way you banned that user who's name I will not say due to privacy sake.  You helped me solve most of the problem except that we blocked the wrong person.  The one we blocked was the one that did the offense but the mastermind of the plan to get me globally banned was the idea of someone else who has a large role in this wiki.  

But there has not been any trouble or aftermath of that problem so I thank you for your help.  You truly are doing your job properly as an admin.

P.S. I want to catch up with you on chat one time cause I have not spoken to you in a while and I wanted to know what you thought of the season finale.

Slack345 (talk) 02:57, March 10, 2013 (UTC)

No worries at all. I'll try to jump on the chat the next time I see you there.  Food Foodbandlt 03:49, March 10, 2013 (UTC)

Dear Foodbandlt, I'm User 68.57.233, and since I don't actually have an account could u please help me. I don't have an email, but I want 2 put my cool pictures on my page. What should I do??? 13:51, March 12, 2013 (UTC)68.57.67.233Edit

Uh, Foodbandlt,what is the (R) thing anyway???

Dear Foodbandlt, can u please tell me the steps...User 68.57.67.233

Ok, me again, I'm soon gonna be Firefly233, but the link you sent doesn't load very well... so I'll try again later...

Ok, it's me User 68.57.67.233, and I was wondering... can I write stories on my Wiki?

Hey, Food, happy belated birthdy

Me,again, I'm writing a new story called Insainity I'm still working on it. You can read it on my profile.

Comments with Inappropriate WordsEdit

There's plenty more where those came from, also, tons of censored ones. Just letting you know. The Americanized Brony00:52, March 13, 2013 (UTC)

Gallery Picture on the Magical Mystery CureEdit

I don't know how to leave comments about why I made a certain edit... if you could tell me how to do that it would be helpful.  I changed the gallery picture because that same image is already used elsewhere on the page, literally a few paragraphs up, regarding her transformation.  If you want to keep it the same, then you need to change the other picture, it looks rediculous with the same picture twice.

Additionally, I chose the new picture, because it looks like a photograph anyways, with all the ponies in their own spotlights... and the episode was a musical.

(20 Percent Cooler In 10 Seconds Flat (talk) 04:59, March 17, 2013 (UTC))

Right in the summary box. I agree with you, maybe we can still find a more representative image but it should be one that isn't already used on the page. ~Bobogoobo (talk) 05:03, March 17, 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I didn't realize that the image was used elsewhere on the page. I liked the old image better because it looked better scaled-down, and you could better make out what was going on. Depending on whether you have the sidebar expanded or not on the edit page, the summary box can be in the upper-right or the very top of the page.  Food Foodbandlt 05:10, March 17, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation of the summary box.  I mostly comment, but I've been dabbling with edits here and there when I see something that doesn't look right, and its still relatively new to me.

(20 Percent Cooler In 10 Seconds Flat (talk) 22:50, March 17, 2013 (UTC))

More of the same kind of thing Edit

This and this are the same kind of thing that this was. 76.9.74.193 06:21, March 18, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I've reverted it and left him a talk page message about it.  Food Foodbandlt 06:33, March 18, 2013 (UTC)

Changing the name of Forum:Unwritten_Rules to Forum:Chat_rules_discussionEdit

Why did you do that? The purpose of Unwritten Rules was to discuss exactly that - rules that were in place but not in the list of policies and guidelines. Now there's a template on Forum:Chat_rules to merge, when each forum has its own separate purpose? AppleJon-Talk 02:13, March 23, 2013 (UTC)

Re: Thanks!Edit

No problem!  Got bored so I was like "why not make the wiki a better place 

Dragon Theology (talk) 02:10, May 6, 2013 (UTC)

Need ya help. Edit

Get on chat if you have the time, please. I need your help with something. :P ﾚ∆ㄅ Mother 00:37, May 11, 2013 (UTC)

Minor PromblemsEdit

For some reason Imagecontrol cannot rename images anymore. It says we don't have permission to move images. Khaos is having the same problem. Help us? The Americanized Brony13:31, May 11, 2013 (UTC)

I've emailed Staff regarding the issue. This is a result of this forum to restrict page move rights to administrators. Apparently you not only need "movefile" but you also need "move" to move files. It should be handled soon.  Food Foodbandlt 17:02, May 11, 2013 (UTC)

Yo Food...An Odd RequestEdit

Hey Foodbandit..this might seem like an odd request, but I would like to be blocked from the wiki until the 15 (aka tomorrow).  As you might know, I'm not too fond of EG and...other events that happened, and I don't want to have the ability to possibly say something outlandish if I see a comment that upsets me on it.  So what I want to do is have a day to calm down and take a short wiki break, and getting blocked will be a good incentive to stay off.

So, when you get this message please block the user and IP adress until May 15 or a period of one day.  Thanks.

Dragon Theology (talk) 01:01, May 14, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Edit

Thank you so much for deleting my blog post. *hugs* Autumoasis (talk) 12:18, May 14, 2013 (UTC)

Your move script Edit

I found a bug. The move/replace or queue does not pick up files starting like ":File:Blablabla". Thanks, Muud Talk to me! | Edits!
Contributions! 21:26, May 14, 2013 (UTC)

One of the biggest place that has those is Forum:List of non-720p images and another one with ~1000 links that are like that. It would be a cool feature, and hopefully you can make it, getting tired updating that forum! Lol! :P Thanks, Muud Talk to me! | Edits!
Contributions! 23:04, May 14, 2013 (UTC)

Found it, User:Teyandee/Sandbox/Duplicate images, it has around 3500 file links like that. Muud Talk to me! | Edits!
Contributions! 23:06, May 14, 2013 (UTC)

I don't think you can make a DPL of duplicate (or close) pictures. But for the forums, ok! Muud Talk to me! | Edits!
Contributions! 23:09, May 14, 2013 (UTC)

Oh, cool then! If I get yelled at for letting red links on those 2 pages, I'm blaming you! :P Muud Talk to me! | Edits!
Contributions! 23:12, May 14, 2013 (UTC)

Last question, is there a max number of files moves or pages to edit in the queue option? Muud Talk to me! | Edits!
Contributions! 23:24, May 14, 2013 (UTC)

Hey This is ImportantEdit

Hey I just want to say some guy named Ghhghgh-BOT is deleting pages and having them blank.  This needs to be dealt with as he/she is deleting information of wiki pages.  First victims are Shining Armor and Diamond Dogs.

Dragon Theology (talk) 05:40, May 16, 2013 (UTC)

I can't thank you enough for pointing this out. THANK YOU!  Food Foodbandlt 05:42, May 16, 2013 (UTC)

No problem.  Though it does suck that two whole pages got wiped :/.  I'll try to help as best I can (unless its somehow in the logs) but that was a lot of work that got destroyed.

Dragon Theology (talk) 05:47, May 16, 2013 (UTC)

No no, it's definitely a bad bot. I'm sorry, I just realized how unintentionally sarcastic that last message came off as. I'll have VSTF do a mass rollback of the edits. Thanks a lot for pointing this out to me :D  Food Foodbandlt 05:52, May 16, 2013 (UTC)