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Patroller
How do I become a Patroller or Sysop? Tails777
 * Take a look at FAQ -- 22:25, 5 January 2011 (EST)

Question
Hi, while i have been looking through some pages I've noticed the words Sequel and follow-up. What is the difference between a sequel and a follow-up?

-IGGY7735
 * I don't think there's a very large difference, a sequel is a game that came out to follow-up the game before. So I'd say they are the same, or so similar that it doesn't really matter.

Hi, i cant edit my page,can you help?Minimario
 * You have to be a member of the wiki for a week and make ten mainspace edits before you can create and edit your userpage. It's explained on Autoconfirmed users. - 23:41, 3 February 2011 (EST)

What are the benefits of being a member on Super Mario Wiki?
 * You can edit the database. - 20:27, 11 February 2011 (EST)

How can I make my User page User:Jmt0404
 * Please see User space for questions about user space, but basically, you have to wait a week after joining, then click on the red link. - 22:34, 16 March 2011 (EDT)

This Big Box
I am a new user. HOW DO I GET THIS ANNOYING BOX OUT OF MY TALK PAGE???!!!??? --MushroomMadness1221
 * Do you mean the table of contents, or the welcome template? If you don't want a table of contents, edit the page and type __NOTOC__ at the very top of the editing window, in the line right above the welcome template (don't leave a space between them, or there will be empty space above the welcome template). If you don't want the welcome template, simply remove it (edit the page and remove the part that reads ). -  13:04, 22 February 2011 (EST)

The 'Shroom
Dear Super Mario Wiki,

I have a question. I see that many places on the 'Shroom are vacant, but some are not. Is there any way I could write on the 'Shroom too? I would really like to do the Fake Police Blogger, but it may not be vacant by the time you may answer me. But is there any way I can do the 'Shroom? My name is Nintendo Bro. and I am a "member", or something like that. But however, I just started. So please write back in your free time, Sysops or Administrators? I appreciate it. -Nintendo Bro--

--Nintendo Bro. 07:16, 17 March 2011 (EDT)

Thursday, March 17, 2011


 * Here
 * What he means to say is, if you want to sign up for Fake Police Blotter, you should talk to this user - you can talk to the director of each subteam to sign up for that sub-team.

Q
Can anyone give warnings, reminders, ect, or do only Wiki Admins get to do that? I was wondering, that if we can't give warnings, do we report a person to a admin?
 * Anyone can give reminders or warnings, but make sure not to abuse giving them out. 17:54, 14 April 2011 (EDT)
 * Also, always use the official templates: personalized warning/notice templates will be deleted (yes, people have tried to make them in the past, iirc). - 19:46, 14 April 2011 (EDT)
 * OK, so if I give a warning/reminder (not that I would do that in a hurry or frequently) does that count as a User Talk against my UserSpace Count? Or does it not count towards Userspace? I know it doesn't count toward mainspace, so what does it count towards?-- 22:58, 14 April 2011 (EDT)
 * It'd count as a User Talk edit, which is different than Userspace edits. If you go to the search page, it has all the different types of namespace listed (all of which are tallied separately in Edit Count); if you want to know which namespace a page fits in, just look at the prefix that comes before the colon (and of course, if there's no colon, it's mainspace). - 12:43, 15 April 2011 (EDT)

User:Robe
how you make a user page?


 * You have to be with the wiki you have to be a member of the wiki for at least one week, and have 10 edits. Also please sign comments with

Infobox
How do you make an infobox?

Will anyone answer me?
 * As in make one from scratch? Find an existing infobox similar in design to what you're planning and copy its coding, then tweak it to fit your needs. Remember to check to see if your new coding makes the infobox look like how you want it to look using the Preview button, rather than saving and re-editing it over and over again. - 12:52, 28 April 2011 (EDT)

OK. Thank you.

Wrong Image
I tried to upload a new version of a file, but I got the same version of the image instead of the new one. Why did this happen?
 * If you're talking about the change you made on this image, your version shows up fine for me. Try to clear the cache? --Glowsquid 09:32, 25 April 2011 (EDT)

Well, I removed the backround & when I did upload it, the BG was still there. o~0
 * Sometimes the image doesn't appear to change right away. Try checking on it again later (or, as Glowsquid suggested, clear the cache, which should update it right away). - 19:47, 25 April 2011 (EDT)

How do I clear the cache?
 * Your browser should have an option that allows you to access your recent history (in terms of what sites you've visited over a given period of time). Clear that information, and there you go.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhgggggggggg! #2
I am trying to make a table for a PipeProject and I can't set up a table! How do you do that? User:Boochoomba P.S.: Gowser, that was a cool title with the userboxes.

Why do you need a table? 16:05, 9 May 2011 (EDT)
 * @Boochoomba Go here. 16:23, 9 May 2011 (EDT)

User Page?
i really wanna create a userpage i know i need to be autoconfirmed but how do you know you're that and where you have to click for that?

Link
How do I make my text a link(those in blue)?!!?KoopaMan 16:03, 23 May 2011 (EDT)KoopaMan


 * Just click on the  blue  button above the typing box and type in the article you want to make a link of, or you can type in two square brackets:  on each side of it, for example: Mario - you type in Mario . Look at Help:Link for more info.

How can I add text ?
How can I add text, images,etc. to my userpage?

The most of what you ask, just use the toolbox seen above when clicking the "edit" page.

Donkey Kong Wikia copypasta?
Not the NIWA-affilated Donkey Kong, but the Donkey Kong from Wikia apparently. If I am not mistaken, this wiki and Wikia do not share the same license. Here's an example of their article K. Rool. Luigifan95 23:38, 7 June 2011 (EDT)
 * I'm not exactly sure what we're supposed to do about this...

That's their way to get info, unfortunately. Each wiki provides original research based on the sources taken and used as references. The info in the wiki can be used by anyone as it of free-content and thus can be edited or deleted by anyone. As our information the we give has no license (it's free-content) they can use them whatever they like, even copy-pasting for their own wikies. In short, there is no way to stop them.
 * Well, that sucks.
 * Free content or not, it's still plagiarism and we have a right to at least ask that they do something about it. In fact, if you look on General disclaimer or on wikipedia (and wikimedia in general), you'll see that the Creative Commons License we use says that info can only be copied and redistributed if the contributing authors are attributed. If the DK wikia doesn't note that we wrote the info, they're not actually supposed to use it (as quoted from wikipedia: "public domain content is plagiarized if used without acknowledging the source''"). By the way, the guy who copy-pasted our stuff is a user here (although he hasn't edited either database in months). - 18:22, 9 June 2011 (EDT)