User talk:PikFan23

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Welcome to my user talk! Just leave me a message about... Well, anything, really! Just be sure to follow some of the rules/guidelines below:

Rules/Guidelines
 * Do not flame (for those who don't know, it means getting mad at someone).
 * Do not edit my or other people's comments in any way. Also only I (save for special circumstances) can make major changes to this page.
 * No spam. It will be removed without notice and a warning will be issued.
 * Please use your signature (save for new users, they will be helped).
 * Please try to use understandable spelling/grammar.

Now that you understand them, go ahead and leave me a message! :)

Thanks!
As the title says. I'll have to decide later, but thanks!

As an update related to the Guild of Bulborbs, I have created all the pages for it except Working Wild. I thought I could leave that one to you since that page is pretty much exclusively yours. Also, a new user, Donopik (he contacted you already) wants to join the Guild of Bulborbs. Just notifying you about that.

I am a newbie at coding, so I am hoping you could help me. I successfully added the Ask Louie forum to the list of other forums and thus easy to access. However, when one follows a link to the Ask Louie forums, they will find that the page is not updating authors. Can you help?

Please Help Me
Pikfan, thank you for telling me how to use an image but I want to know how to get an image from my computer files to the wiki. If you respond to this, it would be of great help. Thank you.

Hello,
Hi this is DonoPik! i would just like to tell you that i would like to join The Guild Of Bulborbs. if its ok with you I would like my position to be "The Dwarf Orange Bulborb Lover" thank you!

Thanks!
im also sorry for the late response, my wifi has been out for a long time because of a storm, but anyways thank you so much for the apprentice orange bulborb position! i really appreciate it! sincerely~

Is He Active?
Out of curiosity, is Wraith active currently, or is the school part of the year keeping him busy? I was just thinking he would be the perfect guy to be a Orange Bulborb master. Not that he has too or anything ;)

All right. I was actually thinking of adding a little "mini-rank" to the Guild that would be someone who would step in while the Spotty Bulbear was absent.

DonoPik Needs Help!
Hi. Someone apparently spammed DonoPik's talk page, but I can't find any trace in the recent edits or history for his page! Any advice?

Hmm. Well, putting aside practicality, is it theoretically possible to hack and remove any traces of your actions?

I'm going to ask DonoPik whether it said "You have new messages" when he logged on. Because if not, someone could have used his account and placed the ad. Then we wouldn't take a second look because it was by DonoPik.

Another mystery solved. That disturbing thing actually creeped me out. Are we going to stop him from the plagiarism of Pikipedia, as in shut his wiki down?


 * Something for both you and Piki1:

Here is where I stand on Donopik, the spammer, and his wiki.

(1) Donopik- He seems like a fine guy, but this whole business just confused me. (2) The Spammer- Definitely seems fictious. Every way you look at it, though, it makes no sense. What would Donopik gain by claiming someone spammed his page? Why would a spammer go through all the trouble of hiding the evidence he spammed? Why do people spam, anyway? (added that last one for kicks) (3) His Wiki- It depends. I definitely don't think he should copy Pikipedia word for word and I think the people from Pikipedia should tell him to stop. If he makes it all himself, that his choice, and I am not going to tell him that he can't make his own wiki. The internet is a free domain. And as for my idea on the Guild of Bulborbs, I don't really mind him copying and remixing it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all. As long as he doesn't go claiming it is his own idea, it is OK with me.

If I am being too lenient and too eager to keep everybody happy, please tell me so. But this is where I stand on him, plain and simple.

Well, first, to answer your questions.

1: That's very true. I didn't consider him to be a very useful user, as in actually helpful, but I figured him to be alright.

2: I checked the situation on that just for myself, and yes, it is almost definitely fictious. What would he gain? I'll tie together this and your question about spam - maybe he, and spammers, do this simply for the pleasure of knowing they have tricked people (DonoPik) or that they have irritated or cause trouble for people (spammers). They simply enjoy the feeling that we are annoyed because of their actions.

3: He can most definitely keep the wiki, as long as he agrees to erase all articles and start over, as all wiki founders had to do. Espyo is planning to put a stop to his wiki, though, but with good reason: PikFan and I have both attempted to contact him through the wiki, and nothing has been changed. Perhaps a week, maybe two, or just a few days if Espyo's temperament is not at its best, and we will contact Wikia (also, Wikia does have a rule against duplicate wikis, and a Wikia Pikmin wiki, alongside our NIWA version, does exist) and attempt to shut him down. Also, do any of you recognize the name "ThePikminMeister?" He is a user over there, and I think I've seen him here. . . if so, he should know better than to help DonoPik (he is an editor over there) but perhaps that is his first Pikmin wiki experience.

All in all, what I think is that if he doesn't cooperate, we will take him down, but if he agrees to what we say, we will let him keep his wiki and do what he wants with it. This is not my native wiki, so do what you think is appropriate to him on here; his repercussion for the spammer incident is entirely your decision. -

Okay, posting this here, because it'll be easier for everyone to see.

Like I said, I've warned DonoPik, but I don't think it'll be effective because he's just disappeared, and so not seeing the warning. Bottom line, if he lies again, I'm blocking him for a week.

Anyway, about the wiki copy: I hope Wikia takes the wiki down. It's just vile, even worse than Wikia's usual trash, and just poisons the name of Pikipedia. If Wikia doesn't comply with taking it down, we'll have to tell DonoPik to at least attribute the work to us. And yes, I've seen ThePikminMeister over there, but I for the life of me don't see why he'd edit over there... I guess I'll leave a message and ask why.

All in all, DonoPik's inane actions will be stopped.

Just noticed: DonoPik deleted our comments on his wiki informing him about the situation. Should we tell him again, or do you think once is enough? -

Request
Hey, PikFan! Just a question, can I change my password even though I have no email recorded for my username? I want to do this because my current password isn't the strongest. Thanks.

Hey!
I wasn't lying about the spammer, he deleted his posts after he posted them so it didn't appear on my history page. You didn't have to be so mean. :'(


 * DonoPik: the only way the edits just magically disappeared is if the spammer is a high-level admin with access to MediaWiki coding. Any other way is just not possible. And that really wasn't the point of the posts: the point is that you've copied Pikipedia, and we expect the copied material to be gone if you want to keep the Pikmin-O-Pedia. -

Under that, wouldn't it theoretically be possible for a spammer to discover the password to one of our accounts.

Anyway, I don't suspect Donopik of lying. He wouldn't have anything to gain by it anyway. On the other hand, this spammer came in the past, and he seems to be gone now. So I say we just forget about it.


 * There are "password bots" that generate infinite combinations of letters and numbers, sometimes together, sometimes not, which might if left alone for a few days. I can't see the point of lying, either. But that, unlike the wiki issue, is possible to move on from, so we will. The most important point is for DonoPik to listen. PikFan and I contacted him on his wiki about the plagiarism, and he has since deleted the comments. Note how he only addressed the less confirmed topic rather than the plagiarism. -