SmashWiki:Administrators' noticeboard
The Administrators' noticeboard is intended to be a page to quickly alert the administrators to issues that need their attention.
To make a request or statement, create a new section and provide a neutral, precise summary of events with thought-out reasoning, and, if possible, links to any pages with relevant discussions. It is also a good idea to notify any users involved with the request with a link to the section on this page. Make sure to add new sections to the bottom.
Report vandals and sockpuppets at the top of the appropriate section labeled for such reports using {{IP|Username}}, where Username is the name of the user or the IP vandal's IP address.
For reporting similar and unacceptable usernames, a talk page was formerly used to keep the reports in one place instead of on this page. For future reports, they will be kept under the "Inappropriate usernames" section on this page to keep the reports centralized on the same page.
Vandal/Spam accounts
86.18.61.190 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Inappropriate edits to Ken (SSBU). Repeat offender. --CanvasK (talk) 11:54, January 9, 2023 (EST)
- 24 hours later and nothing. To elaborate, this IP previously made an edit to Pyra (SSBU) to change a quote to her eating babies and on Ken (SSBU) they made an extensive edit about rape. Tyrant, Aidan, Toomai, and Serpent all appeared in the online list at some point after this submission and the IP was not dealt with. Tyrant blocked another IP for vandalism after the above IP was reported; I also reported that other IP 4 days ago and no action was taken against them. Aidan appeared online at the same time as Tyrant when the other IP was blocked and made edits later on. Why is this page being ignored? --CanvasK (talk) 12:56, January 10, 2023 (EST)
- To put it simply (and partially summarizing a previous discussion had with OT), it's just that much easier to ping us on Discord to alert us to a vandalizing IP. A majority of the userbase uses Discord to interact with other wiki members and notify the admins of anything (vandals or otherwise), so this page has kind of lost its original function. Notice that you have submitted nearly all of the reports in this section—everyone else has pinged the admins on Discord, and those are swiftly taken care of because it's something we can all see easily and thus take care of. Aidan the Celebratory Gamer 13:30, January 10, 2023 (EST)
- I'm well aware that discord is faster, what I'm getting at now is that there was nothing; doesn't matter if it is a fast response, I'm expecting a response. Days, weeks, sometimes months go by and submissions here are ignored until someone else pings you all on discord. You all can easily see this page too, its on the sidebar and (I would hope) your watchlist for easy access. What is expected of new users who want to report something? Will they use the clearly labeled admin noticeboard and be ignored or will they download a third-party app to report it? If they are forced to do the latter, I can bet that a few will either not put in the effort and let someone else do it or go to an admin's talk page. --CanvasK (talk) 13:49, January 10, 2023 (EST)
- Just get on Discord already, I'll reiterate again that this page is obsolete for vandal reporting when we got a tool like Discord available that all of the admins use, wikimedia diehards can huff and puff that we're telling people to use a technically third-party service (that the vast majority of people already use) over an onwiki function, but posting on wiki pages just cannot compete with real time direct notification for urgent matters. By continuing to adamantly insist on using this page instead of just going on Discord, at best the vandals still get a delayed response that allows them to vandalize more, because no one sane is going to be spending their time refreshing wiki pages 24/7, at worst the vandal goes completely missed. Also just because I'm shown as online here does not mean I was on refreshing recent changes, much less the noticeboard, most of the time it's probably just me having a tab open on some wiki page. Omega Tyrant
13:56, January 10, 2023 (EST)
- "I can bet that a few will either not put in the effort and let someone else do it or go to an admin's talk page."
- You answer your own question: the admin talk pages are also readily available for people to go to, which arguably is on the same level of direct notification as Discord due to the giant bar at the top of the wiki saying "you have an unread message on your talk page". Aidan the Celebratory Gamer 14:18, January 10, 2023 (EST)
- Just get on Discord already, I'll reiterate again that this page is obsolete for vandal reporting when we got a tool like Discord available that all of the admins use, wikimedia diehards can huff and puff that we're telling people to use a technically third-party service (that the vast majority of people already use) over an onwiki function, but posting on wiki pages just cannot compete with real time direct notification for urgent matters. By continuing to adamantly insist on using this page instead of just going on Discord, at best the vandals still get a delayed response that allows them to vandalize more, because no one sane is going to be spending their time refreshing wiki pages 24/7, at worst the vandal goes completely missed. Also just because I'm shown as online here does not mean I was on refreshing recent changes, much less the noticeboard, most of the time it's probably just me having a tab open on some wiki page. Omega Tyrant
- I'm well aware that discord is faster, what I'm getting at now is that there was nothing; doesn't matter if it is a fast response, I'm expecting a response. Days, weeks, sometimes months go by and submissions here are ignored until someone else pings you all on discord. You all can easily see this page too, its on the sidebar and (I would hope) your watchlist for easy access. What is expected of new users who want to report something? Will they use the clearly labeled admin noticeboard and be ignored or will they download a third-party app to report it? If they are forced to do the latter, I can bet that a few will either not put in the effort and let someone else do it or go to an admin's talk page. --CanvasK (talk) 13:49, January 10, 2023 (EST)
- To put it simply (and partially summarizing a previous discussion had with OT), it's just that much easier to ping us on Discord to alert us to a vandalizing IP. A majority of the userbase uses Discord to interact with other wiki members and notify the admins of anything (vandals or otherwise), so this page has kind of lost its original function. Notice that you have submitted nearly all of the reports in this section—everyone else has pinged the admins on Discord, and those are swiftly taken care of because it's something we can all see easily and thus take care of. Aidan the Celebratory Gamer 13:30, January 10, 2023 (EST)
76.36.218.126 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Changing content on character pages to be about different characters. --CanvasK (talk) 06:13, December 30, 2022 (EST)
172.101.37.90 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Repeat offender. --CanvasK (talk) 08:50, November 24, 2022 (EST)
60.102.179.86 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Making inappropriate edits, changing character's gender to a derogatory term. --CanvasK (talk) 21:46, November 19, 2022 (EST)
74.75.12.212 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Vandalism. Repeat offender. 
Nokii · 20:46, October 30, 2022 (EDT)
152.173.251.127 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Changing release information like 152.172.31.120 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS). --CanvasK (talk) 19:11, October 24, 2022 (EDT)
- 152.172.58.85 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Changing release information. Probably related. --CanvasK (talk) 12:56, November 10, 2022 (EST)
92.29.32.76 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Replacing content with jokes. Mean comments on PenguinofDeath's talk page. --CanvasK (talk) 08:37, October 22, 2022 (EDT)
- They're back to vandalizing after being blocked.
Nokii · 13:45, November 2, 2022 (EDT)
198.14.216.235 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Nonsense edits that they immediately revert. Repeat offender. --CanvasK (talk) 14:20, October 20, 2022 (EDT)
- Doing the same thing again. --CanvasK (talk) 10:21, November 18, 2022 (EST)
- 98.21.204.139 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Same as the above, same edits and similar and sometimes identical edit summaries. They've already been blocked but only for 1 week, but as a repeat offender I feel it should be extended. --CanvasK (talk) 06:48, December 6, 2022 (EST)
Robotnik's Pingas (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · Pingas WHOIS) Vandalism, personal attacks towards Emmett and Omega Tyrant, and inappropriate username. --CanvasK (talk) 14:13, October 20, 2022 (EDT)
Sockpuppet reports
173.73.52.111 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Yet another DFB sock. Nokii · 22:30, November 5, 2022 (EDT)
24.45.74.116 (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) Another DFB sock. Nokii · 22:20, October 24, 2022 (EDT)
Edit warring
Inappropriate username
Llmknjbhvhgcffs (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS) and 3ymehmqehmwdmsfm.wr (talk · contribs · logs · block user · block log · WHOIS). Gibberish names. --CanvasK (talk) 00:28, December 20, 2022 (EST)
