Arcaedia

Hi Aeratus,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'm glad users of the wiki have pointed out that they'd like this article to stay. I've removed the nominated for deletion banner.

As for what to rename the page, how about something in line with quotes included on character pages like "Deus Ex series notable quotes"? Open for other suggestions though.

"Deus Ex series notable quotes" sounds good to me.

Sounds like a good idea to me. I didn't actually realise it was possible to do a ban across an IP range, and so am not sure how it's done. Would it be possible for you to do it?

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Yes, MediaWiki supports range blocks using the so-called CIDR notation. For example, "197.210.0.0/16" means 197.210.xxx.xxx. Here's a handy CIDR range calculator for the reference.

I blocked 197.210 and 197.211 ranges for now. Hopefully this will be enough.

Thanks, that's good to know. Yeah hopefully that will mostly sort the problem.

FYI - I got in touch with Fandom support and they turned on the AbuseFilter extension (description). It can block comments that match a text pattern and autoblock the offending IPs. I think this will be a good addition (or maybe a better alternative) to the existing IP block.

I'll set up a filter for those comments some time later this week.

Here's the filter: Special:AbuseFilter/1

Interesting, this looks like it'll work well too. We'll see how it goes and can do both if needed.

Reminds me of those Nigerian Spam messages from Human Revolution.

I've deleted the shorter one, which was also created after the other one. I don't think there was any extra content on it that wasn't already included on the first. Thanks for noticing.

Also a spammer created a spam page here.

You might want to implement the ConfirmEdit captcha to reduce spamming. On a small wiki (non-Wikia hosted) that I've run, adding a simple lore-based question as a captcha completely solved all the problems with spamming.

Nuked that page.

I was thinking of an IP range block (most of that Illuminati spam comes from Nigeria) but so far the spam is relatively low and easy to deal with manually. If it becomes more frequent and annoying, we'll figure something out.

Anon just created 2 spam pages.

Removed! Thanks.

I edited out the nasty bit.

Game criticism in general is fine imho, as long as it's not offensive/hate speech.

I agree. But also, shouldnt his comment be moved over to the article concerning the mission, instead of Daria's page?

Comments are just that, so as long as they are somehow related to the topic there's not much reason to move them. Also not sure if the OPs get notifications when their comments are moved, so I'd rather leave the comments where they are to avoid confusion.

I have never attacked you for anything. I have only defended my contributions and arguments. Nor am I taking anything personally. I have even agreed with you when your edits and suggestions were superior to mine. 

Not personally attacking no, but you are attacking anything that brings into question that page, as instead of letting the admins decide on it (who are admins for reason) you keep arguing, like following me over here and commenting on it when I'm asking for an admin to just step in as you've turned a simple one comment thread into 9 (more if I hadn't chosen to just stop responding) instead of letting the admin say their thoughts first. And that's the last I'm saying of this until one of the admins asks.

I followed you over here when I saw that you were claiming I am attacking you, so I felt the need to defend myself against false accusations. You have the been the one attacking me and my contributions. I want to make sure the admins are aware of that. Everything I have done has been in a defensive response to your attacks. 

I've replied on the other post, but I'll just state again here that I'm happy to talk on Tumblr, Reddit or Skype!

Oh, is your name the same on any of those platforms or something else?

https://join.skype.com/nKDJOVmut3la here's a link to a skype conversation if that works. Otherwise here's my tumblr and my reddit name is the same as tumblr name.

There isn't an explicit policy on this but I think the practice previously was to put the image from the game the character features most prominently in first. I'm not necessarily against the way the anon editor has arranged the images, as long as other editors are happy with it. What's your opinion?

Yeah, I'm ok with the edit as is, and I don't see editing wars breaking out over it (thankfully most leave the infobox images alone).

Sorry for my really late reply to this! I would say that RPG wiki banner at the bottom of the homepage is enough and anything additional might make it look unprofessional, but if the logo could be added neatly I would be in favour of it.

What's your take on it?

The FF Wikia has a separate affiliation page (http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Wiki:Suggested_Links#Affiliated_wikis), which includes the Square Enix Wiki instead of placing logos on the front page.

>> I would say that RPG wiki banner at the bottom of the homepage is enough

That's my thoughts too.

I'm not sure the logo would be appropriate because it's the logo of the pre-merger Square (that DX has nothing to do with) and not Square Enix. And to be honest, I don't think the idea of "link exchange" is worth it just for the sake of getting an incoming link.

I'd rather just add the wiki link to the Square Enix page.

>> but if the logo could be added neatly I would be in favour of it.

I tried a couple of things... In our current layout, the logo could be placed in the lower right corner, under "Quote":

But on small-width screens where 2-column layout is used this will look a bit less neat - with empty space in the adjacent column. However, this is the far bottom of the page, so the empty space might be not a big deal.

Thoughts?

Sorry for taking so long to get back to this. What you've come up with looks ok to me, and I'd be happy to add it to the main page if other editors agree and the Square Enix wiki are still interested.

I think the anon is correct, although there is slightly conflicting information about this. One email says:

">I'd like to investigate the possibility of resurrecting
>the bovine manipulation project (MJID-9803HU8932), with
>an eye towards recreating the "Gray" lifeform -- while
>the project was deemed a failure at the time, it _was_
>successful as a propaganda tactic in diverting attention
>away from actual Dreamland research."

which I would say confirms they're not really aliens and are meant as more of a diversion. Although it might be slightly speculative to say the idea is to discredit any whistle-blowers rather than just confuse the public. Do you think the current phrasing should be reworded at all? Thanks for asking!

Ok, thanks for that. I'd probably reword it just to remove the whistle-blower part then, as that email shows it was a diversion, but can't say for certain if it was also meant to discredit any potential whistle blowers.

How you've rephrased it sounds good. Thanks for that :)