This thread has become nothing but a vehicle for people complaining that their username isn't here, and is therefore a net negative to this forum, therefore I will be locking this post. If you came here looking for an actual list of users, please see Special:ListUsers.
It means that a different file to the one that you were trying to upload had the same name as that file. Try renaming the file on your computer to a name which a file on this wiki does not already have, and try again. You can search for files which exist on this wiki by searching normally, with "File:" before the name of the file, to check if a file with that name exists.
It hadn’t passed me by that today was the anniversary of the chaos, but I hadn’t specifically brought it up. To illustrate just how much this site has changed over time, I have attached to this message a screenshot of what wiki activity looked like on 8 August 2017 (I have shared this in the Discord server before).
As stated above, a screenshot of this will be needed for us to have any real clue of what is actually happening, but I can tell you that transclusion is when part or all of one page is included on another, without all of the code having to be copied onto the other page. Transclusion usually happens with templates. In the source editor, transclusions will be in the form {{Name of template}} if it is a template, or it will also be preceded by the name of the namespace if the page being transcluded is not in the template namespace.
@ZigMaster192 From the least to the most recent, the reasons for my valid blocks given by the blocking administrator, which remain contained in my block log, are the following:
"continuing rude comments"
"Swearing, personal attacks, breaking rules on chat when no mods were around."
"continuing rude comments, and general rude behaviour toward users."
"Inappropriate messages"
2 of my other blocks were requested by me, and my 2 other blocks were wrongly automatically placed by the abuse filter.
The last time I counted, I believe that I saw 15 warnings that had been put on my message wall during my time on ESB, and I have also received 4 valid blocks in my time on this wiki. Considering that I am now an administrator, it shows that it is entirely possible to change and have others' view of you change over time.
I have been here active here on and off since I made my first edit on June 22, 2016.
Hello,
As many of you may not monitor ESB:Ongoing discussions or Special:RecentChanges particularly closely if at all, I am creating this thread to inform you that I have created an administrator request, which can be found at the following link: https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/ESB:Requests_for_adminship/The_gamer_987654321
If you have any opinion on the request at all, even if it would work against me, I urge you to vote on the page linked above in the appropriate place.
If you are incredibly desperate to leave but you cannot bring yourself to do it, ask an admin to block you permanently - it worked for me for over a year.
I am writing this to inform users here who do not keep an eye on this wiki's proposals that there has been a notable change to the policy regarding off-topic threads being posted here. The text that was added to the communication policy as a result of this proposal passing is the following:
"No more than 30 off topic posts may be created on discussions per day. A day is defined by the time period from each midnight using coordinated universal time (UTC). This restriction does not include games threads. Posts which exceed that limit will be removed, and the user who created the thread will be warned or blocked in line with the blocking policy."
This is intended to limit the number of those sorts of posts which clutter this forum everyday, and the indication is that this will be enforced fairly strictly by the discussion moderators. As for knowing what the exact time is in UTC, there is a clock which shows what the time is in UTC on this wiki's pages outside of discussions, and barring that any quick search on the internet will give you a conversion to your local time. With this change, I will now always implore you to check carefully that the limit of 30 off-topic posts for the day has not already been reached before you choose to post another off-topic thread, and if you are in doubt, do not post it. Also, do not try to get around this by putting posts in the wrong category - it will only likely be changed by a discussion moderator and will then count towards the limit.
I have considered changing my username in the past, but at the present time I don't see that being for the better. I say this because I am mentioned and attributed to things by this username in countless locations on the wiki, many of which are archived and therefore fully protected, and my current username would therefore still be seen in many places on the wiki. I also believe that usernames listed in edit summaries and other logs would also stay the same, and of course changing my username would not necessarily lead to a change in how people refer to me, and it could confuse a fair few users at first considering that I'd say I have fairly deep roots in the wiki at this point,
If I had one solid explanation to give for the username that I now have, I would give it, but the truth is that I was 11 at the time I created this account the best part of 5 years ago, and I hadn't the slightest clue about good practice for usernames - I was still in primary school for one thing. One possible reason was that I feared being lambasted if I contributed to a wiki related to a game and my username was related to SpongeBob. In practice I did not really contribute to a wiki related to a game much until 2020, and even so having contributed here with the username I have has probably turned out to be much worse than having a username related to SpongeBob could have ever been.
Wednesday 22nd June 2016 at 17:38 UTC. My account was registered 3 days, 1 hour and 5 minutes earlier than that.
I question whether spamming this highlight was strictly necessary to be honest.
Activity on this site is often very limited around this time of day, simply due to the fact that most of the Americans are asleep at this time - and they make up a very large proportion of this site's users, without a doubt.
After having uploaded the images onto the wiki through Special:Upload, you need to copy the file name onto the relevant page in a specific format:
[[File:Name of the file|300px]].
It does not have to be 300 pixels; it can be any number, or none at all if you want the image to be displayed at its native resolution. After the file name and the vertical bar but before the closing square brackets, you can also put in text such as "thumb", "left" or "right", if desired.
Are talk pages supposed to come up when Special:Random is used? I thought that it was only ever meant to take one to main namespace content pages, yet I was taken to Data talk:Titlecards when I clicked for a random page.
I have found out the answer to my question through other means, and the way to get it enabled on a wiki is to send a ticket into Wikia staff through the Zendesk form (although I think you have to be an administrator on the wiki you want it to be applied to).
I think that you should consider how it went the last two times before making your final decision honestly (read: don't apply).
