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Contents 1 Two questions: Sigs ünd User Pages 2 Reverting edits 3 Votes for new skin? 4 Changing Undictionary Entry into Uncyclopedia Article 5 New CSS stuff 6 Page Numbers 7 quote of the day 8 Humorless foolishness wanted 9 Wikipedia migration 10 Help me please! 11 Three Quick Questions 12 Enemies/Disliked 13 Unstory 14 New! Improved! A++++++++ 15 Proposed VFH Reform 16 Different VFH format 17 HELP 18 Proposition! 19 I'm Making a Vanity Page (but for someone else) 20 Retarculous 21 When sigs go too far 22 Colorful Sig 23 Wik or Unc? 24 License 25 Happy Birthday! 26 Changes in Zork formatting 27 Link featured images to relevant article? 28 How to send messages 29 Colonizations 30 crappy new year! 31 Talk:Euroipods reformat 32 VFDYK 32.1 Do you care? 33 Rate Your Adminatti 34 Delayed automatic revert bot? 35 New Anti-Vandal Ideas 35.1 Wikipedia-like Semi-protection Policy 35.2 "Only logged-in users can create pages" Policy 35.3 nerd42 screwed up. Again. 35.4 Other Comments 35.5 the "Uncyclopeda" approach 35.6 Better protection policy

Two questions: Sigs ünd User Pages

I saw the rest of the page, but that didn't help me. I need want to know two things:

1. My current sig (Acid bitch at me 00:47, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)) is the best I could do at editing it. How can I make it beautifuler?
2. How can I put more then one page in my User Page?

Any help is appreciated. --Acid bitch at me 00:47, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)

It's easier to help through IRC, buuttt... umm... to add a subpage of your user page just create a page User:Acid_Ammo/ whatever. Um. I'm sure other people can help more. --KATIE!! 00:50, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)

It's easy - Just avoid a sig like the one above, and beauty is yours! Bonus if you can keep it to less than 3 muted colors, no images! Sir Famine, Gun ♣ Petition » 03:44, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Is my image and color scheme that annoying? » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 03:54, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Compared to most, no. But some of the admins' sigs here make me want to gouge my eyes out. Sir Famine, Gun ♣ Petition » 04:08, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Well, I like Dawg's, I think it comes together well. I agree that most other sigs are a pain on the eyes though. I prefer to rock it old-school with my sig. -- neoEva88 MUN F@H PS CM NS (talk.to-do)

I'm with Famine on this one; to Hell with fancy colors. --Sir gwax (talk) » Major KUN UotM FH++ F@H CM GD NS Bur. +S 23:49, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)

MY SIG IS BEAUTIFUL AND YOU KNOW IT. --KATIE!! 00:04, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)

So, the color tag in wiki is by numbers (like <color=000026>) or by names (<color=darkblue>)? --Acid bitch at me 00:03, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)

<span style="color:#000000;">. Use the hexadecimal color values. There are other ways, but most people use that one. --KATIE!! 00:06, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Acid Ammo - Don't use <font> tags. Our site isn't even XHTML 1.0 compliant, but the less of the crufty HTML 4.01 we have, the better. color=[something] and style="color:[something]" can take any value that would usually work in X/HTML, which means hex codes and color names work. Either will work just as well, but using a name may cause it to render different in different browsers (aside from display variations) and using style= is more forward-compatible than using color=. » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 01:45, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Thank you all for your help, I have a new sig now. As Ariel as it is, here it goes: Boy Toy bitch at me 02:01, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Reverting edits

Is it a "only admins can do it, n00b" kind of thing? And if not, how do I do it? Acid Ammo 21:02, 13 Jan 2006 (UTC)

If it's clearly vandalism or blanking, just go on the history and click the revision you want to revert to. Then click the edit tab and it'll tell you that you're editing an old version of the page and changes will be lost. Put "reverting" or something in the edit summary, check minor edit, and save. Anyone can do it. If it's not clearly vandalism, you can still revert, you just need to give a good reason in the summary or on the talk page. Thanks for your help! --KATIE!! 21:13, 13 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Well, admins get the "Rollback" button which does it automatically, but it's a very simple procedure for users too.

• Click the "history" tab
• Click the date and time next to the edit you want to revert to
• Click "edit"
• Save the page remembering to include "revert" (or "rv" if you've got RSI / are lazy) in the edit summary)

...and there you are. -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·S · (Harangue) 21:15, 13 Jan 2006 (UTC)

All right, I thank you both for the answers ^^. Acid Ammo 21:22, 13 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Votes for new skin?

Note: After saving, you have to clear your browser cache to see the changes: Mozilla: click Reload (or Ctrl-R), IE / Opera: Ctrl-F5, Safari: Cmd-R, Konqueror Ctrl-R.

Well, I made a new skin (to be set in Preferences) for Uncyclopedia. By "made" I mean "worked on it for 15 minutes, got bored and then sporked it from Memory Alpha". Nontheless, I like it, but it needs some tweaking before being ready to release as a skin. You can find it here. To try it out, Copy and Paste it into your personal user CSS (User:YOURNAME/Monobook.css). Vote for it here.--officer designate Lugiatm MUN NS CM ZM WH 18:32, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Changing Undictionary Entry into Uncyclopedia Article

How do I create a new Uncyclopedia article on a subject that already has an Undictionary entry by the exact same title, to which the term is automatically redirected? (The title is "Kabbalah" if anyone cares. Yes, I could spell it a different way but that's the most common spelling today.) Would deleting the Undictionary entry, prior to creating a new Uncyclopedia article in the usual manner, be okay, or is that considered blanking? --Ialdabaoth 04:27, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I'd say, edit the redirect first, possibly by copy/pasting the undic entry there (use a {{construction}} or {{WIP}} tag if you don't want it insta-huffed), and then remove the undic entry with edit summary "expanding to full article"). --Splaka 04:32, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

New CSS stuff

How do I put that little edit thing in the bottom corner of my page?

Zork

Zork page formatting has been changed so that links and lists are yellow. As long as you use {{Zorkheader}}, you don't have to worry about changing any css.

Underlined Links

You can use the new underlinelink and nounderline link classes to make sure a link is or isn't underlined regardless of what someone has set in their Preferences. To use:

Which produces:

Underlined Link
Not Underlined Link

Images on a colour background

I fixed something a while ago that made image thumbnails work on a colour background. I accidently went on IRC when I should have been working, and I was asked to fix it. Never one to turn down a CSS challenge, I fixed it. Now if you want to put an image thumbnail on a coloured background, add this around the outside:

Paulgb 00:54, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Additional. Paul and I devised a way to automatically and optionally make headers clear floating images. This is being utilized in Vote for Featured Pictures now, that had to have <br clear="all"> before. Now you can just use the global wrapper:

on any large lists of floating images, or articles that could benifit from such. Note now that you no longer need clear=all on VFP. Also RC and I devised a {{vfp}} template to auto-link to the image discussion page, making the vfp a bit cleaner. --Splaka 03:08, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

In reality, what "RC and I devised" means is that Splarka did all the code and stuff, and mentioned it to me in passing. --—rc (t) 03:22, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Okay, Splarka's inital edits were great but they caused the [edit] link beside the sections to be misplaced, sometimes appearing halfway down the previous nomination. After hashing it out in IRC, batting several possibly solutions around, we came upon a compromise. I modified the CSS on the edit link to force it directly above the header, and used relative positioning to manually force it down two character heights. In Internet Explorer, the edit links are smaller than other browsers so they aren't quite beside the header, but they are close enough to avoid confusion. In other browsers they should look similar to most other pages. If you encounter any serious problems contact Splarka or myself so we can take a look. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 04:36, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Page Numbers

Pardon if this has been discussed elsewhere, but I've been wondering where the bottom-of-page hit counters went. Is this a measure to reduce server load? -- T. (talk) 12:23, 11 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I think it's a side effect of the recent server freak out - like the fact that most of the Special:Specialpages are displaying no information. *looks hopefully in JasonR's direction* -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·S · (Harangue) 12:28, 11 Jan 2006 (UTC)

<JasonR> We are running in "Miser mode" right now, which disables some of the more database -intensive pages. It should improve performance a bit.

IRC reveals all.

Judging by conversation in #wikicities earlier this evening I get the impression that page views are off permanately due to a new web proxy/caching application installed on the server in an attempt to speed up page requests. From what I gather, this has a side effect of causing Wikipedia actually not being able to receive and process a large number of the requests so the counters would be rather useless anyway. If I am wrong on this, somebody please correct me as this is all going by the conversation I saw. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 06:32, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

quote of the day

any one have any thoughts on replacing word of the day with quote of the day. Choosen from a article in uncyclopedia.--Da, Y?YY?YYY?:-:CUN³ NotM BLK |_LG⁸+::: 05:50, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it's such a good idea. It will take quite a lot of work to find a quote of the day for every day. Right now word of the day has a queue set up that's more than a few months ahead of schedule but you wouldn't be able to do that with quotes because things change on a wiki so you probably couldn't make a queue of more than a couple days. The need for a very quick turn around would also make a voting system difficult to implement. On top of that, I really like word of the day; it's small, elegant and I've sunk a bunch of effort into it. --Sir gwax (talk) » Major KUN UotM FH++ F@H CM GD NS Bur. +S 15:14, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Concur. It's cute and fun and annoying in its way; let's see what it comes up with and results in for a while - David Gerard 18:01, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I do like the idea of changing the word of the day section, though quote of the day might not work. Perhaps the 'subject' of the day could change every day to rather arbitrarily wacky things in the traditional Uncyclopedia style. Colour of the day, potato chip flavour of the day, monkey of the day, alkali metal of the day, etc. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 18:08, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I suggest calling this "Thing of the Day" or "Thing of the Randomly Indiscriminate Time Period" where "Thing" would change to be an absurdly specific category the thing is an instance of, or something. --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 20:35, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I would like to point out that the only difference between word of the day and random thing of the day is that word of the day rules out proper nouns. Random thing of the day also introduces the issue of there being a lot of things that are funny to list but don't make good topics, whereas very few words make bad topics. Additionally, we've got some pretty fun words coming up after we stop procrastinating (take a look). Also, feel free to drop us some suggestions. --Sir gwax (talk) » Major KUN UotM FH++ F@H CM GD NS Bur. +S 20:41, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

True, although it might work better if the random thing category was wikilinked rather than the thing itself, for example, Board Game of the Day: Risk. Alternatively, wikilinks could be chosen on a thing-by-thing basic. The purpose would be mainly for a quick gag rather than a link to an article. It might be feasible to split the "Word of the Day" box in half and have both (or at least, Word of the Day plus something else). --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 20:59, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

• but the words are not funny by themselves. The things is more like randomly choosen crap featured article link. Also you wouldnt need a new quote every day just every couple of days or quotes could be choosen random from a list which is added 2 as suggested --Da, Y?YY?YYY?:-:CUN³ NotM BLK |_LG⁸+::: 03:10, 11 Jan 2006 (UTC)

A randomly-selected link to a featured article is something which is already being built but, Do You Care? So far, nobody cares as the effort to create one Do You Care entry for each previously-featured article is currently only one-quarter complete at best so still easily several days away from being ready to replace the rubbish currently in the DYC section of the main page. --Carlb 20:23, 11 Jan 2006 (UTC)

My biggest complaint with the idea is that maintaining word of the day already takes a bit of effort and it's not even particularly fancy; anything else will take even more effort. Right now I have committed to making sure that word of the day doesn't fall to the wayside because I like word of the day. Unless I find the replacement sufficiently compelling, you will need to find someone else to commit to taking care of it. If you can find a reliable person to watch over the replacement then by all means consider replacing it, but if you can't find a reliable person to take care of it, you will end up replacing word of the day with something that will eventually be defunct. --Sir gwax (talk) » Major KUN UotM FH++ F@H CM GD NS Bur. +S 20:45, 11 Jan 2006 (UTC)

how my idea would look / function.(minor formatting needed) --Da, Y?YY?YYY?:-:CUN³ NotM BLK |_LG⁸+::: 07:30, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Humorless foolishness wanted

I'm working on Something and need examples of humorless foolishness here on Uncyclopedia to quote and adapt. People's attempts to justify mutilating an article because it gores one of their favoured oxen. I already have poor Nerd42 on Red shirts and whatsisname on Fursecution, but need as much as possible - David Gerard 13:16, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

This edit might be the sort of thing you are looking for. ---Rev. Isra (talk) 22:35, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

That's along the right lines. Then claiming their mutilation makes the article funnier would be perfection - see Talk:Fursecution and look at the edits - David Gerard 22:38, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Two words: Tourette's Syndrome. --Carlb 23:58, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Oh dear God. Yes, that's just the sort of thing I'm looking for. More please. - David Gerard 00:51, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Would nominating Kitten Huffing for deletion qualify? Around the same time, {{cruelty}} was created IIRC. --Carlb 17:23, 16 Jan 2006 (UTC)

From Alternative Medicine [1]. Also from Wright Brothers [2]. The guy who wrote the Wright Brothers changes also wrote to my talk page demanding to know why I reverted his edit, but since he had an annonymous IP, I couldn't write back. --Cap'n Sir Ben GUN WotM VFH VFP 01:15, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

The alternative medicine edit in fact pastes John Gohde quotes. (First fuckhead I ever got kicked off Wikipedia. Ah, those were the good old days ... 2005.) - David Gerard 08:19, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Reasons to become an atheist has a wierd talk page, as does Euroipods (heh heh heh). Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but hey, a flamewar is a flamewar.--Bradaphraser 02:56, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Oh dear, Nerd again. "Dude!!! Go look at most of the other articls on Jesus and Christianity and after defeating those (which are ten times more extreme) then I'll think about taking stuff that is actually funny off of my page for the sake of unbiased humor." Um, yeah. Johnny C. Raven provides just the stuff I'm looking for too. (Mind you, I laughed out loud at the Dead Serious Scrolls version and am tempted to VFH it myself. I like both other versions just fine too. Some people are just on crack.) - David Gerard 08:19, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Reasons to become an atheist is just crazy man - in Soviet Russia, complaint makes YOU!! --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 20:37, 10 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I resent the implication that I am on crack. Angel dust is not crack. Get it straight, people. 07:09, 12 Jan 2006 (UTC)

In Soviet Russia, the fuck shuts you up. --User:Spintherism

Perhaps, but on Uncyclopedia, post signs YOU!!, Spintherism --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 02:14, 11 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia migration

Out of curiosity, has anyone else noticed that users who start on Wikipedia and migrate over here when they find it boring are often a whole lot better (for longer than a learning curve would justify) than users that come here first? --Sir gwax (talk) » Major KUN UotM FH++ F@H CM GD NS Bur. +S 23:33, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

It's the motivational power of bitterness - David Gerard 23:44, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

It's true. I never contributed to en.wp, but I read quite a bit and decided against it due to the level of rigidity. When I was sent a link here, I couldn't help but sign up and stick around! Infinitely more fun. » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 00:48, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Uh, that same thing is true for me as well, Dawg. I read WP but never edited anything seriously before I joined here. And look how bad I suck! --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 01:59, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

That's not something to be proud of.--Sir Flammable KUN (Na Naaaaa...) 03:01, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Captain Obvious! :) --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 02:17, 11 Jan 2006 (UTC)

My experience was the same as Dawg's. I read WP a lot, but had no inclination to join or contribute in any way. Too stuffy.  :) Uncyclopedia pulled me in immediately. I signed up without a second thought, started writing Dwight Schultz, and I've been a junkie ever since. Kudos to Paulgb for noticing me. That was encouraging. -- T. (talk) 03:54, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I actually meant people like me, who are fiercely addicted Wikipedians but use Uncyclopedia for stress relief. I think part of it is having a very good idea of how to parody an encyclopedia, to whatever degree of verisimilitude. Hardly all it takes, but a useful skill - David Gerard 17:25, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Help me please!

Just a quick question, how do I nominate images?--Dangerandy

Add the picture to VFP. To find the name of the image, click on the picture. It'll bring you to the image's page. See how other people do it on VFP.--Sir Flammable KUN (Na Naaaaa...) 19:55, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Three Quick Questions

1) Replying How do I reply to a message?

2) How do I add a table of contents? Or is it automatic?

3) How do I add multiple pages to an article?

1) Edit your talk page.

2) It's automatic.

3) Multiple pages are unnecessary.

--KATIE!! 16:18, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Actually, regarding 3) - Uncyclopedia Vanity policy states that: "Sub pages are allowed, as well as wikilinks to User: namespace for users that have registered nicknames".

Note: This only applies to vanity pages and/or pages within your userspace. As Keitei pointed out, there shouldn't be any need for the average article to spill over onto subpages. If you do need to create a page as per the above, simply add a forward slash and the subpage title to the page name - e.g: User:Codeine/links. But don't do it to regular articles! -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·S · (Harangue) 19:55, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Note that Zork and its sequels are an exception to this rule, each game uses a large number of subpages. --Carlb 23:15, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Expanded answer to 1): The table of contents automagically appears after a page has three or four headings, I can't remember which. You can force it to appear with fewer headings by using __TOC__ or make it go away for good with __NOTOC__ (include the underscores). --—rc (t) 03:23, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Four. :) -- T. (talk) 04:16, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Enemies/Disliked

While I'm not a fan of the recent proliferation of colourful signtaures, at least I don't see any harm of them. Regarding this trend of users, ranked members, and even sysops having subpages containing names and notes about who they dislike and why... honestly, I'm embarrassed. What are you thinking? What do you hope to achieve through passive-aggressive game play? If you have a problem with someone, approach them directly. Leave a message on their talk page. Have a rational discussion with them so you can come to some understanding. And if that's impossible, okay. Ignore them. But don't lower yourself. And don't cop out with some it's all in good fun bullshit. I read a lot of what goes on around this entire site (and only comment on a portion of it), and a handful of entires are in good fun—some are even placed there by the user—but most are not. That being said, I'm happy to see a few examples of people making lists of who they admire, and why.  :) More, please. -- T. (talk) 15:14, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I do agree with this sentiment. I don't see a lot wrong with the occasional admin having a list of "quasi-vandals to watch", because it is our job to keep tabs on this site and the people who use it. However, I'm 100% against "people I dislike" lists. I'm not overly fond of "people I admire" lists either. Regardless, I motion to apply the IHF (Instahuff flag) to all "list of people I hate" pages, because they don't help this site's community, image, and because they are lists. And I hate lists. Sir Famine, Gun ♣ Petition » 15:35, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

"People I like" lists are okay, but I would say "people I dislike" pages are in rather tactless and unneccessary. If I ended up on one I'd probably be pretty pissed; moreso than if the user simply told me to stop being an idiot. In the defense of the the only sysop I know who has one of these lists (Dawg), he (and everyone else for that matter) has made desperate attempts to get through to these people but to no avail. So at least it's not like talking behind their backs or anything. Discourage them strongly, but don't delete them. Animosity between users is going to come out somewhere, and it might as well be in someone's User namespace. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 19:44, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I completely support lists for tracking vandal edits by nick/IP. And I don't have a 'favourite persons' list because the people that I like already know it. But I'd rather have people praise to others by lists than not at all. :) -- T. (talk) 15:45, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

It is morally reprehensible to modify a user:page -- it is evil, despicable, cowardly, kitten-hating, stinky, and causes Jebus to weep. But would it not be the Wiki Way to modify "people I hate" pages...since they are not the user's primary self-identification page? ----OEJ 17:53, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I maintain such a list entirely for my own use. It is so that I can quickly thumb click on a bunch of links to see what various users have been up to recently. I tend to be rather forgetful so it serves as a way for me to separate users in my head without having to remember them. The negative side is used primarily for tracking vandals/possible vandals. I certainly don't go flaunting it and if there were a way for me to hide it from people's What Links Here, I would. --Sir gwax (talk) » Major KUN UotM FH++ F@H CM GD NS Bur. +S 23:24, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I love each and every one of you. Except when you write bloody stupid shit. Particularly on talk pages. But I don't write a "People I Dislike" page ... I add the quote to the Cat Piss Man article I'm working on right now - David Gerard 23:48, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I agree totally that having enemy / "people I dislike" / hit lists looks terrible for the image of the site and the community, and I know what I'm talking about based on my being an h2g2 researcher. h2g2's site/community image is very important (I'd almost say fundamentally important) to them and you'd never catch their admins pulling any of that kind of crap. Wikipedia isn't a very good example in that reguard but better than some places. Uncyclopedia's community in general is, based on my limited experience, actually rather bad at the whole community image thing - partially/possibly because some of the articles don'e make the site/community look good either. Basically people frown upon n00bs in general around here. I've suggested before that we setup some kinda welcoming/hospitality committee or someting to help out new members the way some other wikis do. (and as one would expect, make fun of the other wiki's welcoming committees at the same time) --Nerd42eMailTalkUnMetaWPediah2g2 02:09, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Fine, I've nuked my list. --Sir gwax (talk) » Major KUN UotM FH++ F@H CM GD NS Bur. +S 02:55, 9 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Adopt a Noob. --KATIE!! 12:17, 11 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Unstory

I've created Unstory, a clone of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikistory

New! Improved! A++++++++

Some crazy admin posted an endorsement on Euroipods, so I did too. I suggest we all immediately post eBay feedback on Euroipods. - Nonymous 21:18, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Proposed VFH Reform

A few of us were kicking around ideas in the IRC channel and we came up ith this proposed reform for VFH to reduce crud levels.

New Rule: If a page is being self-nominated, it must be X days old - we were thinking 7. Nominating someone else's work would still have no restrictions.

This would filter out impulsive self-nominations and give new users some time to see what sort of quality level they need in order to be featured. We could also put a note on the page that a good way to get a nomination from someone else is to get an article polished and then put it in the Recent Article Template.

This system would weed out a decent amount of crap and it would probably be mostly self-policing. Users would respect the rules without admin supervision because they would want to be featured without problems.

---Rev. Isra (talk) 00:46, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Is it that much of a problem, statistically? (Barring my own cases of course *AAAAAHEM*) I actually tend to spot new nominations by going through the "Recent articles" box on the front page, assuming anyone SMRT enough to edit that might be smart enough to write an article that isn't shite. I'm not convinced VFH is drowning in crud. Unless Rcmurphy says it is, of course - David Gerard 00:56, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

What you do would still be fine. In fact it would be the encouraged way of getting a nom. We would have a note saying to put things in the recent articles box and hope someone else nominates. Only self-noms would have the waiting period. Anyone could nominate any article reguardless of age if it wasn't theirs. And yes, IMO, there are too many hopeless nominations that get there without much thought. ---Rev. Isra (talk)

If Peer Review was being read and commented on, as it was intended, there would be a viable alternative to the clay pigeon shoot we've got now on VFH. I've tried to direct some traffic there, but frankly... to what? Even my shit stuff gets no comment. Will the people who are sick of VFH kindly line up and offer some advice over there? And anything not VFH grade could easily be copied over. Thoughts? -- T. (talk) 01:23, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if this is the right system, but i think a system needs to be in place. I am thinking either a shorter highlight, or possibly more than one highlight at a time, and just do it kind of like they do vfp. Idk, just a thought.   t o m p k i n s  blah. ﺞوﻦ וףה ՃՄ ண்ஸ ފއހ วอฏม +տ trade websites 01:48, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

for the record there actually is ONE featured image at a time. it gets half of the page views with the other half being random. Pictures actually get featured less frequently than articles. ---Rev. Isra (talk) 02:02, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I've instituted the proposed vanity regulation (self-nommed articles must be at least a week old) after discussion and general agreement on IRC. --—rc (t) 02:31, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Nice, me likey.--abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvWXYZ(talk|contrib) 15:44, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

It might help to empower the administrators (not that we technically lack any empowerment) to make judgement calls about whether or not something ought to stay on VFH. It seems that most of these cases should be relatively clear-cut, and if a page is unjustly removed, it would probably be eventually refeatured. I'm very tired, so forgive my poor phrasing, but I'm sure you get the pint. --S P I N N I E 07:29, 8 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Different VFH format

I've set up a demonstration of a different way VFH could work. Thoughts? - Nonymous 23:08, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

too decentralized, IMO. ---Rev. Isra (talk) 23:17, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

That's the wonder of it, with the {{}} brackets there can be a central page which automatically populates with all the votes from everywhere. It'd look exactly like the current page, except the edit section links would point to the individual voting page instead of editing the actual VFH page. If the admins give me a go-ahead I can set it up. - Nonymous 23:18, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Yes, they could all APPEAR on the smae page, but their wouldn't be a single edit summary. ---Rev. Isra (talk) 00:51, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

• No green light from me. In future, I'd strongly suggest setting up these pet projects in a subdirectory under your user page, rather than playing in public space. -- T. (talk) 18:13, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
• I oppose this for the same reason as Isra. Also, I don't particularly understand how this works differently. It seems the same as it is now, only a lot more work. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 18:15, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
  • It's less work because all someone has to do to nominate is add {{VFHS|Article name}} to the list. As a result, the VFH page isn't a total mess. I was just being italic, my bad. - Nonymous 18:17, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
    • Yes, less work to nominate it perhaps, but that's not exactly a gruelling process as it is. Easy to maintain is the important thing, and this doesn't go very far to help that in my opinion. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 18:19, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
      • Well IMHO it is easier to maintain, if only because each vote is tied to the article it's for (prevents vote hijacking) and with a simple visit to the Feature nomination category admins can, I dunno, do admin stuff. It encourages voting because if a person is reading a nominated article and finds it amusing, they can vote for it right from the page itself, the changes of which are then propogated to Uncyclopedia:VFH automagically, as you can see from the Jewish Kings and WWJD nominations. - Nonymous 18:21, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
        • It's very important that a total edit summary exists so votes can be monitored and such. Segregating it in such a way removes that and forces an admin to view the edit summaries of several pages rather than one. --Sir Volte KUN Talk (+S NS CM Bur. VFP VFH) 18:26, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)
          • I guess it's up to you to determine but the reason to do it, the way I see it, is that people can vote from two places - VFH and the page itself, which may or may not be a fair tradeoff for a single edit summary. - Nonymous 18:36, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I've taken this off VFH. Mainly because it was fucking up ALL the section edit links, and the TOC. -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·S · (Harangue) 19:01, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I don't think the current system needs an overhaul of this type, partly because of the decentralization issue and also because it's just not really necessary (VFH may have problems, but I don't think this in particular is a step forward - voting is already pretty easy). And like Todd said, testing in user subpages is usually for the best, but it's not a big deal and I'm glad you're trying to help. --—rc (t) 19:46, 7 Jan 2006 (UTC)

HELP

How do I edit a series or group? For example, the apple group:

Template:Apple

How do I edit it? --Sparky2002b 20:48, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

• at Template:Apple. ---Rev. Isra (talk) 21:05, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)
  • but it changes every instance of it, so don't screw it up. ;) ---Rev. Isra (talk) 21:06, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Proposition!

Bleeding eyeball award. For people who make our eyes bleed with their sucking. Nominations submitted, admins pick every two weeks.

Suggestions? Improvements?

Template is being worked on as we speak.

KATIE!! 17:33, 5 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Wait... Are you Propositioning me? All of Uncyclopedia? In that case, I think I speak for all of us when I say, "We accept!". Now, what time shall we pick you up for wine and cheese? --PantsMacKenzie 14:00, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Sounds great. :^OBlindingMask 18:43, 5 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Vote for award

You mean for people with obnoxiously colored sigs with stupid-ass images in them? Good call! I bet we can hand out lots of those awards. And I know a certain someone who's overqualified to make the template... Sir Famine, Gun ♣ Petition » 00:35, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Do we really have to wait every 2 weeks? To give away one award? It'll take years to catch up. :) -- T. (talk) 14:08, 6 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I'm Making a Vanity Page (but for someone else)

So, being the loser who writes to many Uncyclopedia inside-joke articles that I am, I began writing a page about our lovely admini Keitei. Though she isn't actually the person writing the article, it is obviously a vanity page in the first degree. I think it looks like it has a lot of potential however, and just wanted to know what everyone else thought. The page, found here documents the continuing debate of whether or not Keitei is actually a she. It's definitely pretty stubby, but I think there's a lot of room for growth. -- neoEva88 MUN F@H PS CM NS (talk.to-do)

I feel popular. I think. KATIE!! 04:07, 5 Jan 2006 (UTC)

I love Keitei as much as the rest of us (except that guy that bitched and got her a bastard admin award) but I just don't know if being an admin makes her exempt from the vanity policies; that's kind of what user pages are for (please note the FH in my sig). --Sir gwax (talk) » Major KUN UotM FH++ F@H CM GD NS Bur. +S 04:28, 5 Jan 2006 (UTC)

Wha