User talk:Mr. Garrison/Archive 1

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Hiho
Hello Mr. Garrison, while reverting the latest vandalism on this wiki, I've noted that the founder and currently only admin is inactive since 2005. And I also noted that you are active in a good way and for a longer time now :-)

So, are you interested in "adopting" this wiki? This would mean, that you'll get sysop rights here and therefore will be able to adapt the wiki's interface in many ways (including the logo, CSS and JS). You will also be able to delete needless redirects or nonsense pages, or to block vandal accounts by yourself then.

If you are interested please read the Administrators' how-to guide carefully and leave me a note afterwards. Of course, I – and also the other members of Wikia's Community Support Team – can always help you personally later if you have any questions.

By the way, I've asked Lemniwinks the same question. If you both are interested, there'll be two admins then, and it would be best if you could "work together" in some way :-)

I already gave you rollback rights some minutes ago :-)

Greetings --rieke 18:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

PS: I removed the obvious troll message at the top of your talk page (he left the same pointless sentence on more than 100 pages all around on different wikis). I hope this is ok with you.


 * You're sysop here now. I'll leave an additional note about the adoption on this wiki' description page on Central Wikia. Enjoy :-) --rieke 20:58, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

The same goes to you. Congrats on becoming an Admin. As for ideas, what I am thinking about right now is a change of logo. Some thing more artistic, but nothing has come to mind yet. --User:Lemniwinks
 * Yap, a better logo would be cool. I have also no idea yet, though ;-) --rieke 21:14, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

The South Park sign would be a great idea for it, I think. Better then Ike, and when we come across the best logo ever, we can replace it.
 * P.S. It depends on the content of the character. People Like Jimbo and Mr. Mackey should get their own page, but people only appearing one or more times like Halfie or Nurse Gollum should all be put together. --User:Lemniwinks

Just doing as you said - Contacting you for help!
Hello "Mr. Garrison", I just wanted to know how exactly you can become an administrator. In my position, (1. I've placed nearly every character article on my watchlist so I can monitor them for vandalisms. 2. I've been spending time creating new articles for characters who didn't have their articles here yet. 3. I've been repairing many of their images thanks to your kindness, and those articles which I've fixed the images on look way better now.) I was thinking maybe I ought to at least consider becoming an administrator myself, if it's not a lot of trouble.

Another thing. I know you work for Wikipedia as well, so you may have seen me post this up in the discussion thread for the Students section, as well as in Bertha's article right here in South Park Wiki. But nobody seems to be answering, and while they may answer sooner or later, I would like to know as soon as possible. Did Bertha really work with Craig on that egg science project? I could have sworn - from the copy of the script which I have read - that Craig worked with Millie. I even remember part of Mrs. Garrison's dialogue in the first scene being "Millie, your husband is Craig". Was that a naming error? Do you know what was actually said? (I never actually watched that episode on the TV.)

When you answer my questions, please answer them on my talkpage instead of here. That would be much appreciated. Please answer them ASAP!!! Thanks!

Wilhelmina Will June 27th, 2007.

The Community Portal needs to be updated.
I must point out that all of the articles in the "List of Stub Articles" have indeed been extended already. I think we should remove them from that list, and put in a list of articles which are still stubs, if there are any. But I can't figure out how to do this. Can you give any suggestions? Wilhelmina Will June 29th, 2007.

You might also find this question in Wikipedia.
Where do those images of the characters standing alone on a blue or a white background come from? I've collected as many as I can from Wikipedia, but I'd like to know where the other editors of that encyclopedia got them from, so I can get the rest of them. Thank you. Wilhelmina Will July 1st, 2007.

Thank you once again for that tip. I'll get around to there and get some plain images of the other characters as well. And as for leaving the comment on my userpage, don't worry about it. Just so long as it's somewhere where I can be notified about it, I'm okay with it. Wilhelmina Will July 2nd, 2007.

We have a problem here. I wanted to get an image of Heidi Turner, but I couldn't find her hair style anywhere. Do you know how this can be attained? Wilhelmina Will July 2nd, 2007.

I forgot to mention... there was another problem. While for characters like Heidi Turner, I couldn't find certain body parts, for characters like Kelly or Bebe Stevens, I was able to put them all together. The only thing was, the program wouldn't let me save the pictures on my hard drive! But if this can't be done, how did the other editors manage to get those images uploaded to Wikipedia??? Wilhelmina Will July 3rd, 2007.

Thank you, but I'm afraid my computer doesn't have a jpg. format. Do you think you could maybe get another user to do that, please? Wilhelmina Will July 4th, 2007.

Another question I forgot to ask was: How did they manage to create images of adult characters like Sharon Marsh? As far as I know, create-a-character only works for creating images of children. Wilhelmina Will July 4th, 2007.

Wilhelmina Will July 7th, 2007.
 * Hello again. I was reading your reply to my comment about not being able to save the images on my hard drive. You said something about how the people who created those images screenshotted them, and then they did some other stuff, and then converted it to a jpg. format. But how do you screen shot an image, anyway?


 * Yes, I do have PowerDVD. What comes next, though??? Wilhelmina Will July 8th, 2007.

I read over what you said several times, and, when I finally decided I understood how it works, I went to try it for myself. The only remaining problem is that I couldn't figure out how to use the camera icon! Wilhelmina Will July 17th, 2007.

Let's Get Going on this, Please.
I finally got around to creating the articles for the missing episodes of South Park. I've already done the beginning for "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics". (Check it out!) But there are a hell of a lot more to go, and I don't think that I can do them all. I'll try to get all of the articles for the missing episodes in Season five done by July 25th, but could you please work on the missing ones for Seasons three and four? I think it's high time someone did something about them. Wilhelmina Will July 15th, 2007.

HELP!!!
We have a problem, here. When I was creating the article for "The Entity", I moved the article from "The Entity (South Park)" to "The Entity". Then I tried to erase the old link, but I ended up erasing most of the connection to the new name! You can still get to the new one by checking the old name's history, but that is so inconvenient! I was so upset by this, I couldn't even bear to continue with paraphrasing the article! But I don't know how to fix this error! Help! Wilhelmina Will July 17th, 2007.

Honestly, Why Keep all of Those Useless Articles???
I was looking at the "Content (A-Z)" link in the side-department, and I realized that there are an awful lot of useless articles in this Wikia, which I never realized existed. I think all of the articles which are named in Italics (in other words, ones that have been redirected, or moved to a new name) should be deleted. It would save a lot of confusion among newer readers and users. Please explain how the articles can be completely removed from this Wikia.

By the way, I still need answers to the following problems:


 * While I'm still struggling with trying to screenshot character images from create-a-character, I would like to know in the meantime, how were the other users able to create adult images, like that of Sharon Marsh? As I mentioned before, I don't know if people are able to create adult characters with that site.


 * I still would like to create images for as many characters as possible, but as I mentioned, some of the desired body parts aren't available. Yet I heard a couple of months ago that there was an updated version of the create-a-character. I was thinking, perhaps this newer edition might have the desired body parts available? Could you please tell me where I can find this updated version, or provide me with a link to it?

(Or, if you can't answer these additional questions, could you at least direct me to a user who can?) Wilhelmina Will July 20th, 2007.

Perhaps this could also be done...
Your directions on how to get images from create-a-character got me thinking... if one can photograph the images with the camera icon from PowerDVD, and the alter the settings in that method you mentioned, could one also do the same to screenshots of the characters, which have already been done?

Okay, that was probably confusing. But what I meant was, find screenshots of episodes that have the desired characters in them. That's step one. Step two: find some way to screenshot them again, and then alter their settings, by eliminating everything in that picture, except for the character. Then copy the character, and move their image to another jpg. document on your hard drive. Now you have the image of the character you wanted, and it's on a blank background as well! (And, there's no inconvenience of not having all the right body parts, as there is with create-a-character!!!)

So, the question is, can this be done?

Please reply ASAP!!!

Wilhelmina Will July 21st, 2007.

Apology Accepted.
That's a big relief; I was beginning to think you had walked out on the Wikia like the old administrator had. (You could say he was an "administraitor"!) Anyway, I'll understand if it takes a while, but could you please, when you have the time, perform this activity on the images which are currently in Anne Polk and Heidi Turner's articles? I would have, but I'm afraid I will also be busy doing research for characters who still need their articles, as well as for creating episode pages. Will-Girl 20:07, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I would still be interested.
Yes, I would still like to become an administrator. Oh, and by the way, don't be confused if you read "Will-Girl" on my comments sometimes. That is merely the pet form of my username. Will-Girl 21:27, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Just wanted you to know: If you haven't already recommended me as an administrator, be sure to ask whoever it is that you have to ask to look at my userpage. Even if you have, I would still like for them to see it. (It may increase my chances of becoming one). Wilhelmina Will August 4th, 2007.

I Think Something May Be Wrong, Here.
It's strange, but even with all the articles I've now created, and with all the cleaning up I've done, there's still very few actions committed by anyone else here. May I also point out that the other administrator, Lemniwinks, also doesn't appear to be doing much (but only as far as I've seen).

It's strange, how inactive this site seems to be, even now. But if there's some way I can make this site more noticed, I'd like to know how. Any ideas??? Wilhelmina Will August 5th, 2007.

I'm afraid I won't be back for some time.
There are some issues elsewhere that I must deal with, so I am afraid I won't be able to work here for some time... perhaps even a month or two. Just so you understand why I'll be absent for a while. You might as well not bother recommending me as an administrator till then. Will-Girl 06:29, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, as it turns out, I managed to find time to come back here for right now. I'll do all I can in this time, and hopefully I'll have more opportunities to sneak back for the next month or so, but I can't make any garuntees! Will-Girl 21:18, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

What about this?
Instead of waiting for Season 10 to come out on DVD, why not just take the screenshot character images in this Wikia, and perform my suggestion on them. I would, as I always say, but I can't figure out how to use that camera icon, and besides, I have my hands full of other projects for the Wikia. Will-Girl 22:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

No, actually, I haven't. For some reason, they never seem to show it. Oh well. Will-Girl 22:58, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

It sounds interesting... but I'm not sure what could be done for episodes that haven't even aired yet. Provide a summary of details on this project??? Will-Girl 21:32, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I Would if I Could, as Usual.
Unfortunately, I tried to join the list of Active Users, but I couldn't figure out how to add my name in, even when I clicked on the edit link. I had this same problem when I tried to clean up the community portal page. Darn! Can you explain how one might add their name into the active users page? Thanks! Will-Girl 18:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Better Keep a Watch-out for this Guy:
I noticed that you blocked Flatts from editing. I must thank you for that; who knows when he/she would have struck again! But keep a watch-out for this one: 84.67.161.164. If you'll go to Stan Marsh's article, and look into it's history, you'll see why. Thanks! Will-Girl 20:40, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

What Happened???
What happened to Pearl and Kelly's articles? Now their links are red, and the categories say they don't exist! Who deleted them??? Will-Girl 04:01, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, I personally don't care much for character merges, but if you think it's best for the site. How about this then: both those characters have only had one prominent appearance each, right? Maybe if you merge all of the characters who have only ever had one major appearance each, but I'll restore their articles after they've had at least one more major appearance in the upcoming seasons?

Speaking of which, isn't it marvellous that Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone are going to do three more seasons (or was it four?) ??? Will-Girl 07:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey
Hello thanks for that By the way i did some little things. Any way In mayor mcdaniels the words go off the page? Just mentioning! Anyway hi and if you need me to do any thing let me know!--Mr.Hankey 17:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Entertainment footer
Hi -- I'm working on a project for Wikia to help link the TV wikis together, and encourage people to see this as one big site, rather than a lot of little wikis. I'd like to post this footer at the bottom of the main page.

The gaming wikis have started a similar project, and they've seen a lot more cross-traffic. Would it be okay to post this at the bottom of the main page here? You could also feel free to edit it, to fit in better with this community. -- Danny (talk ) 01:57, 16 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, definitely talk it over with the other contributors. I'll check back in later to see how it's going. Thanks! -- Danny (talk ) 14:50, 16 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Cool, thanks for trying it out. I see that the spacing doesn't quite work with the space that you have, so I made another version for you here. This one should look better. So you can swap out the other one for, taking out the w:. -- Danny  (talk ) 18:26, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Recalling one of the things you did in Wikipedia...
I remember you were trying to create individual pages for the South Park seasons in Wikipedia, but some "selfish person" kept reverting them. A couple of days ago, I got to thinking... what's stopping anyone from creating those pages here in South Park Wiki? How do you like that idea?

In the meantime, that user: "Flatts", somehow got back on here again, even though you blocked them from editing the Wikia. But how could that have happened? Will-Girl 03:38, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

In Response to your messages
Firstly, I'm glad that you like my idea, and I'm glad that Season 11 has a private page. Secondly, no, I won't tell Cartman that Family Guy has a link, and thirdly, when does the voting take place? Will-Girl 18:43, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Since you asked, I'm not sure how many I've seen. I've seen all of the ones up to season 9, and I think I've seen most of the ones from then. I know I haven't seen "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina", and I haven't seen "Follow That Egg!". I've only seen a few from season ten, and I haven't seen any of season eleven. I dare not watch them online, but I have read all the scripts. Will-Girl 03:38, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

This was Quite the Surprise!
There's something I don't understand. Normally, I only have six tabs at the top of an article: one for the article, one for it's talk page, one for editing, one for reading the article's history, one for moving the article to a new name, and one for watching the article. Yet now I see a seventh tab: one for "reporting a problem". Am I missing something? Did you or one of the other administrators change the settings around? Please reply ASAP! Will-Girl 03:40, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh well. I suppose the answer will come up sooner or later. In the meantime, I was looking over the main page, and the renovations it went through. Looking good, I'll say! What I'm especially pleased about is that in the list of episodes which will be airing over the course of the week, "Something You Can Do With Your Finger" and "Marjorine" have their articles, thanks to little old me! If it had been about a week and a half ago, they would have appeared as red links! (Personally, I think the red links are ugly, as they represent incomplete work.) Will-Girl 06:34, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Does it usually take this long?
I don't mean to sound impatient, but how long exactly does it take to become an administrator? I dare say it's been a couple of months now. Not that I'm unable to wait much longer; after all, that'll give me time to contribute to this wikia even further, and increase my rights to hold that title. (Besides, working for South Park Wiki is a lot of fun!!!)

In the meantime, I brewed up the funniest story, to defend myself from that "Flatts" guy, when he said he'd kick my butt! Check it out on his talkpage; it's absolutely hilarious! Will-Girl 00:21, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Of course, I will come and go. Sometimes I won't be here for very long, and sometimes I'll be away for a while. Other times, my absence will be short, and my stay will be long. But I'll always try to do as much as I can for this wikia; I do it for the South Parkites themselves.

I'm not sure what you mean by "we should keep our eyes peeled" over User:Ned and User:Mom; what exactly is so suspicious about them? Will-Girl 17:31, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Beware of this!
The episode page is getting too long, according to its edit section. Better speed up the process of creating those individual pages. If you need help, I'll look at the edit sections for each individual season, and see how the mechanism works. Just let me know! Will-Girl 21:46, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

By the way, I was fishing around on Google's image search, hoping to find simple images (or images which could easily be condensed) of the rest of the characters in need of them (I have them all on two lists: One is for characters who need simple images, the other is for characters who have simple images, but a better (e.g., larger, fuller, more accurate, etc.) one would be nicer), when I came upon this myspace page: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=65945920

If you'll believe it, it seems to belong to Sheila Broflovski. Pretty strange, but fascinating, huh? Will-Girl 22:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Then later, I found these as well: http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa53/gracethevirtue/fossebutton.png

http://www.myspace.com/bebestevens

If you have any theories on this, don't hesitate to share! If I'm right, this may mean that in some other dimension in our universe, the South Parkites actually exist, and we somehow are receiving online transmissions of websites from that dimension! Will-Girl 23:47, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, paraphrasing what Wikipedia has said is partly why I haven't been working on creating the missing episode pages lately, as it's a pretty long process. The other thing is that I'm really more interested in working on the character articles and image uploading. If you need help changing the wording around, though, I think I could manage do some of that. Could you provide me with some examples, though?

And that's exactly what I was thinking. I've thought, for about two years now, that the South Parkites, as well as lots of other animated programs we see on TV, really do exist in another dimension, and that Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone are receiving brain waves from them somehow, which tell them about events that have happened in the South Parkite's world in particular. And perhaps in this dimension, it's also like in The Chronicles of Narnia, in that it's time period doesn't flow at the same rate ours does. I just wish there was some way for those of our dimension to get there; I've always wanted to meet characters like Craig, Anne Polk, Wendy Testaburger, Tweek Tweak, and Heidi Turner!

Will-Girl 19:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

I guess this is a strange question, but...
Should I rename the articles for Stan and Kenny? Maybe they should be entitled "Stanley Marsh" and "Kenneth McCormick". Those are the more formal versions of their names, after all. I won't chnage anything of the sort until you give your opinion, however, considering those pages have gone ancient with the names they have (they're over a year old, each.) Will-Girl 03:34, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Please block this user.
Please go into Wendy Testaburger's article, look into it's history, and when you see an edit made by user 82.1.228.58, check their list of contributions. I think you'll agree they need to be blocked from editing. Will-Girl 22:52, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Don't worry if I appear to have left.
There are a number of reason why I haven't been heavily contributing to South Park Wiki lately: 1. I have many things I'm doing away from the computer. 2. I have work I'm doing for Wikipedia as well. 3. I want to test the Wikia's newly-found popularity; see how frequently it gets edited by other users. It has been happening a lot more, I'll say, and I'm very pleased about this! I'll be back here very soon; I'm waiting to see if there's going to be any new information on the characters given in the upcoming episodes. The character articles are where I specialize, after all! Will-Girl 22:43, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Images
Hi. I've been conserned about the image use on this wiki. The South Park wiki should create rules about uploads similar to StarWars wiki. Are you interested in doing this? One way of finding images that are probably in copyright violation are Uncategorized images, since they have not been licensed properly. --Steinninn 05:21, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Question
Is there any sort of guideline on plots for episode articles? From the few I've seen, they are pretty long and out of hand. Since this is a South Park wiki, I can understand a longer plot summary (compared to Wikipedia), but a seemingly detail-by-detail guide seems a bit unnecessary. RobJ1981 21:23, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

How Come?
The article for the episode "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers" didn't have to be deleted. You could have erased the profanities, and written in about the plot - or asked me to do it; I would have been more than happy to fill it in. Will-Girl 00:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Mm-hmm!
I would still like to be an administrator. But I thought you said some months ago you had recommended me? Will-Girl 02:22, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Forgot to mention: Merry late Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!!! Will-Girl 02:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

I also have this site in my favourites (so I don't have to hunt it down every time a new script shows up!). It contains South Park scripts up to "Hell on Earth 2006". The later episodes can be found on other links in that website. I think there the episode in question is called "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers". What a funny episode!!! Will-Girl 02:27, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Only ten weeks? My, how the time flies by when you're having fun! So twelve will be a March bloomer like eleven was? Will-Girl 18:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Just asking, but...
Why exactly is it that you replaced the image in Randy Marsh's infobox with that other one? Was there something wrong with the one that was already there? Will-Girl 08:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I redirected them.
In Wikipedia, that is. A user there who goes by the name "TTN" - perhaps you've heard of them - often goes about merging or redirecting articles he deems trivial, especially episode articles. Significant info other than plots has to be added in to make the episode of a show notable enough to be included. I figured I'd make use of this for the wikia. I write down a list of episodes from a particular season which don't have articles here yet, and then I check through their articles there, to see if they're notable enough for Wikipedia. If they aren't, I copy their information and move it to here. Then I redirect those WP pages. If they are notable enough to be included in Wikipedia, then we of the wikia will have to write its articles ourselves. Well, I thought it was a good idea, that's all. Will-Girl 00:07, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Just so there's no misunderstanding, I'll explain what's going on over in Wikipedia. Many users are complaining about my redirects; fans are saying I'm a vandal, others are saying that I need to propose a discussion on merging first. That's what I'm going to be doing, and as it it likely that my case will win, at this point, I will continue with my transferrations. Like User: Ned Scott has done, I will place a notice at the bottom, explaining that the articles have immigrated from Wikipedia. Please understand. Will-Girl 07:31, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Featured articles
Which articles are featured articles? I know Mrs. Garrison, Cartman, and two of the Imaginationland episodes have featured articles, but are there any others? And what does it take to make an article a feature? In Wikipedia, they usually put a star in the top right handcorner of the article if it's a featured article; do we have something like that here? Will-Girl 01:37, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh, cool! When does the next election take place? February? Coz I'd like to nominate Clyde's article. Will-Girl 21:22, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

I think this user needs to be blocked:
User: 206.255.186.75, that is. Take a look in the history of the following articles, and see what he/she did: Tweek Tweak, Officer Barbrady, Stan Marsh, Wendy Testaburger, and Liane Cartman. The user claimed in the infoboxes that all of these characters were either Jewish or act as though they were. As they would say on Seinfeld, "...Not that there's anything wrong with that", but if the characters are not Jewish, then it's just lying, and therefore constitutes vandalism. What do you think? Will-Girl 02:52, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Well I can't say for how long, but at the moment I'm back! So what's this big idea? Will-Girl 23:09, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

link exchange
hello, i am the admin of southparkpedia.de, a german southpark fanpage with a wiki, some games, some avatars made by me and some howto's...

i would like to ask you for a link-exchange with southparkpedia.de.

are you interested? mail me: info@southparkpeida.de

regards westpark

-- sorry for my bad english^^

link exchange #2
=D

do you have an 88x31 px banner to put it on my page?

regards westpark

link exchange #3 -done-
yeah =D

you have been added at the bottom of the wiki mainpage =) --> []

regards westpark

Hello
Hi, I'm Wendy, a helper with the Entertainment group on wikipedia. I dropped by today and was really pleased to see all the current content you are keeping on the front page! I was wondering if you'd be interested in having a "Spotlight" for South Park to attract new contributors/readers. With the new season just starting it seems like a good time to advertise a bit :). -- Wendy  (talk ) 23:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * That's great that you want the spot! Yay! So the first thing is to look at Spotlights. You don't need to suggest your wiki there (we covered that part :o)) but the "Best Practices" section is still important.  You've already got a logo, and a great front page, and over 100 content pages so you're actually past all the hard stuff already!
 * So the next thing is probably to move your main page to a better name. This should take all of about 2 minutes :o), and is actually generally useful for helping search engines rank your wiki higher anyhow.  Let me know if you need help getting that done.
 * The other stuff is making sure you welcome new users (which doesn't happen until people show up) and cleaning up the categories, and we can work on those. Sound good?  -- Wendy  (talk ) 21:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Since you aren't likely to need to do it again, I went ahead and just moved the mainpage for you - hopefully that's ok! Basically if you look at the tabs on the top of every page, one of them says "Move".  If you click it, you can "move" the page and it's talk page to a different title.  The old page/talk page remain as a redirect, a page which automatically forwards to the new one.  This is a very easy way to change an article title without losing the page history in the process.  In the case of the mainpage you then have to tell wikia, via Mediawiki:Mainpage what the new page name is, so that instead of sending everyone through the redirect when they type "southpark.wikia.com", they will go directly to the main page still.  -- Wendy  (talk ) 23:20, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm glad you're getting started on the categories :). Let me know if you need help!  -- Wendy  (talk ) 23:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Welcomes
Hi again. So I was noticing there have been a couple new contributors. You do actually have a welcome template that somebody made for the wiki a long time ago at Template:Welcome. I think it's a bit short myself; I personally like to say something about "Thank you for your contributions" and "We're glad you're here!" and such, but you should customize it for what you want to say to new contributors.

As a second thought, you might consider a Template:Welcomeanon which is for IP address users, and would be basically the same message, only with an added line encouraging them to log in and create an account, with a link to Special:Userlogin to make it easy for them. What do you think? -- Wendy (talk ) 23:37, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * How's it going with the welcome templates? Can I help you with them at all?  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 01:39, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy Easter!
Yes, it's a few days early, but I'm really excited, myself! Things have been going really well, as I've observed, and I've still kept a watchful eye over the wikia. At times, especially whenever I witnessed vandalism occuring, it was really hard to resist editing. Needless to say, I'll never choose giving up editing the wikia for Lent again! I was just in such a rush to think of something; I had put it off till bedtime the night it started. How have you been keeping, anyway? Isn't it wonderful how the new season has started? Will-Girl 23:41, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

making a user an admin
Hi there! I understand you were interested in making User:Wilhelmina Will an admin on this wiki, but you were having trouble figuring out how to do it. Go to Special:Specialpages (linked in the toolbar if you want to find it again) and scroll to the bottom where you have a list of "Restricted special pages" just for admins. Click the "Make a user into a sysop" link, which will take you to a new page. Copy and paste the username (without the User: part) into the first field and click the "Set user rights" button. Voila! One more South Park fan to help you out with administartive duties here :) Let me know if you have any questions about it. —Scott ( talk ) 03:40, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, I'm sorry. That's totally my fault. I didn't realize which user rights group you were in. I can go ahead and make User:Wilhelmina Will an admin, so s/he'll have the same user rights as you do. —Scott ( talk ) 05:23, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Information from Wikipedia
Yes, you can definitely create a policy about copying from wikipedia and other sites. I suggest calling it something like South Park Wiki Style Guide, and adding it to Category:Article editing, but that's up to you.

Enforcing it is much harder: you can create a link to such a guide from Help:Contents, and you can also post on the front page that you don't want information copied from wikipedia with link to the style guide. You can further post messages on the talk pages of people adding wikipedia content, asking them to read the style guide, and to please not use wikipedia content. And you can (obviously) remove it when it is added. But ultimately, the database is freely editable; there is no way to altogether prevent people from adding wikipedia content, any more than you can prevent spam.

Hope that helps a litte. -- <font color="Blue">Wendy (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 23:29, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Don't worry - you aren't doing anything wrong to take images from press releases. In fact, the general guideline is to take them from wherever you can find them; as long as you use them appropriately to illustrate the articles and keep them moderately sized,  it should be ok under fair use.   If you're uncomfortable with that you can create a stricter policy for this wiki, but you don't have to.  -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 19:13, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Spotlight
Just a heads up that your spotlight went live this afternoon. So hopefully that will help remind people that there's a wiki for South Park! 01:46, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Good luck with London wiki, and thanks for all your work here! -- <font color="Blue">Wendy  (<font color="Blue" size="1">talk ) 02:45, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

About The Forum
Well i started making the forum but i need a bit of help, so could you help me?

<font face="Copperplate Gothic Bold"> Kenny McCormick   ( talk ) 09:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, when you go on to the forum there are 3 columns

ForumLast Edit-Last Author

But i cant get it to say the last author or last edit.

<font face="Copperplate Gothic Bold"> Kenny McCormick   ( talk ) 12:20, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks
I took a pretty big leave of absence for several reasons I wont go into, but Im back and I must say, you have done great with the wiki. I still remember when I first came here maybe a year or so ago and I was all alone and all the articles were crap. Glad to see its up and running, with a spotlight on it. Lemniwinks 19:20, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

No, I don't see templates on the left hand side, sorry. Lemniwinks 19:28, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Please i know you'll say no but what the hay!
Could you make me into a sysop? i know its a silly idea but please i would be good as a sysop because i am 1 on the H2O Wiki.

<font face="Copperplate Gothic Bold"> Kenny McCormick   ( talk ) 19:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

You do have the power!
To make someone an sysop you go to Special:Makesysop

Excellent idea
I haven't been on in awhile, due to computer issues, but I agree with you 100%. I see no point in having articles copied from the main wikipedia site. Its been a while since you suggested this, have you come up with an idea yet? Lemniwinks 20:33, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Southparkpedia
Hello Mr.Garrison =)

I'm Westpark (admin of www.southparkpedia.de).

Could you please replace the link to southparkpedia (http://wiki.southparkpedia.de/index.php/Hauptseite) on the main page with the main-url (http://www.southparkpedia.de)?

I edited the whole page and only the wiki remained^^ The structure is now similar to http://wikipedia.de, the German version of wikipedia.

Thanks in advance

Westpark - --85.180.186.249 19:02, 5 May 2008 (UTC)