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Antiliun·11/19/2023 in Scowler's Words

ANNOUNCEMENT: Article Category Policy

Hey all,

I would like to take the time to inform you all that an article category policy will be implemented here on Walking With Wikis. Thanks to Spinosaurus Andrewsi Robertsonia over on the Jurassic Park Wiki for bringing this issue up, I have noticed that many of the articles on here are cluttered with a bunch of article categories, some of which serve no good purpose or are made redundant by another similar category. Therefore, this article category policy aims to address this issue and decrease the category bloat that affects many articles here on the wiki.

Categories are meant to organize similar pages and serve as a navigation tool for readers, but most of the time, they just serve as large blocks of text that take up space at the bottom of articles. Therefore, by standardizing what categories can or can't be used on the wiki, it will not only decrease category bloat but also make wiki navigation more user-friendly.

It's still a work in progress, but I have already listed the categories that may be used on most of the major article types (i.e., creatures, episodes, series). You can find it here at the bottom of the manual of style, and if you have any suggestions, you can reach out to me or Eren Freeman via our message walls. Thank you.

– Antiliun

Edit: As of December 7, 2023, the category policy will no longer reside at the bottom of the manual of style. Instead, it will be on a page of its own, which can be found under the Useful Links tab in the Community dropdown tab.

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Antiliun·3/20/2023 in Scowler's Words

New Necroposting Rule

Hello,

I just want to inform you all that a new rule regarding necroposting has been added to the Rules & Policies page. I've been noticing some instances of people replying to threads that have been dead for quite some time and I think it's time to put a stop to it. Please familiarize yourselves with the new rule, and if you think the rule needs to be fixed, message me your proposed amendment. Thank you.

-Antiliun

https://walkingwith.fandom.com/wiki/Walking_With_Wikis:Rules_and_policies

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Antiliun·12/22/2022 in Scowler's Words

Regarding Jurassic World content on this wiki

Okay, I've been noticing people inserting Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom & Dominion stuff onto main space articles over the past few months and it's gotten to the point where I just need to address it.

Please, do not add Jurassic World stuff here on the wiki. This is the Walking With Wikis, not the Jurassic Park wiki. We only cover stuff pertaining to the Walking With series, so if you're looking for somewhere to post Jurassic World stuff, just go over to the Jurassic Park Wiki.

Thank you.

P.S. Make sure you familiarize yourself with the wiki's rules and policies before you start editing, too.

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Lythronax·10/6/2017 in Scowler's Words

Announcement (06/10/17)

Hello all,

It has been over two years since I last posted a bulletin here and, since then, the wiki has seen a lot of people come and go. In that time, I have had my own personal commitments to deal with and, as it appears, Bacner and Collector1 have silently left the wiki. I hope to bring the wiki back to its former glory but I should probably outline the changes I believe need to be made.

The inaccuracies article

The article is awful - utter rubbish. I do have to concur with the remark that the article looks like it was written by a barely literate 12 year old because, in all honesty, it does.

There are no references or citations whatsoever which, for an article that is - in a way - lecturing the series creators about their factual errors, is truly unacceptable. In the coming weeks, I will try to make the article easier to navigate and include footnotes to improve the article's veracity.

Wiki features and templates

Since I was last active on the wiki, Wikia (or should I say 'Fandom') have made lots of changes to the wiki interface and their polices. As a result, there are some parts of the wiki that look a bit outdated or are just broken.

Article infoboxes will be updated to the new 'PortableInfobox' format and will be custom-styled soon enough.

I have, admittedly, neglected doing monthly featured articles and they will return.

I will post more follow-up posts once anything else catches my eye. Thank you for your time. -- lythronax (converse | stalk) 19:52, October 6, 2017 (UTC)

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Lythronax·5/27/2015 in Scowler's Words

Automatic Main Page updates

Hi! Most of you may have noticed that the featured article on the Main Page has been Phorusrhacos since January and the monthly poll has been the same since July.

The main page has been neglected and we apologise for that. However now, with a bit of wiki magic, we have managed to make the main page automatically update using magic words and templates.

Up until now, when we entered a new month, we would need to manually input the featured article and poll. Now, we can add them in advance and when we enter June, it will update according to the month.

This means that there will no longer be huge gaps between featured articles and polls and the wiki will be more up-to-date than before.

It's also worthy to note that at the time I am writing this, Walking With Wikis is currently celebrating its seventh birthday! Happy birthday Walking With Wikis! -- Lythronax (leave a message | contributions) 11:59, May 27, 2015 (UTC)

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Lythronax·5/23/2015 in Scowler's Words

Appearance Updates (23/05/15)

Hello all, Lythronax here! Apologies for my bouts of inactivity, life has gotten in the way of wiki editing. However, I now intended on evenly spreading my wiki activity out so I'm officially active again.

Due to some recent (unwanted) global updates by Wikia, some of our templates and CSS changes have been rendered useless and the wiki at the moment looks a bit ugly. As much as I want to change this, I cannot risk violating orders from Wikia staff to not change the changes wiki-wide so as an alternative, I will be releasing some personal CSS hacks soon to effectively reverse the changes made by Wikia.

I have changed the header image to in better quality and have added a box shadow, rather than the previous white gradient which was, to be honest, quite glaring and tacky. However, at the moment, that's as far as I can go. If you also detest Wikia's most recent updates, I recommend making your voice heard on this blog post by Rupert Giles.

Thank you for reading. -- Lythronax (leave a message) 15:55, May 23, 2015 (UTC)

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Lythronax·8/12/2014 in Scowler's Words

A couple announcements (12/8/14)

Hello all! It has been a while. I think we need to have a discussion about the state of the wiki.

Currently, there are quite a few things on the wiki I need to address. First off, the wiki infoboxes. I'm redoing them but the changes won't require changing the information on every article. However, as there are two different styles of infobox being used currently, I'm changing the newer style and dropping the old style.

Next is about the wiki policies. I'll be revising the guidelines and policies to make them clearer and better. Also, finally, when the policies and guidelines are completed, they must be adhered to. If not followed, the user will be either temporarily blocked or banned.

Image galleries will also be removed. I have realised that such an excessive amount of images may cause copyright issues for the wiki so they will be deleted. The images from the galleries will be deleted too.

I think that's it for now. I'll update this if any other issues arise. Thank you.

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Lythronax·5/29/2014 in Scowler's Words

Appearance Updates (29/05/2014)

Hello! You may have noticed that there are several massive differences to the wiki's appearance. This is part of the wiki update which includes the article formatting that is currently going on (i.e. the creature articles).

The background has been changed to Patchi and Scowler (which I think looks rather cool, despite the fact that my laptop is slow as hell when it comes to updating the theme and CSS/JS scripts).

The wordmark has been changed to white as there is now a navigation background of Walking with Dinosaurs 3D. Another minor change is the notification icon which now is (if I recall correctly) the MSN notification icon.

Another modification is to the user mastheads. As you can see on your user page, there is a beautiful image of Gorgon for you to enjoy! :)

Lythronax talk to me! 16:43, May 29, 2014 (UTC)

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