[NGTM-1R]

Don't make me purge this thing again people, read the Veteran Comments policy!

[Taristin]

Just a heads up, skelkwank.bluescalie.net is dead, thanks to Japanese squatters, but I have reuploaded the site to http://skelkwank.muddytoe.net/  So if there are links to the old site around, this new address will replace it.

[Deadly in a Shadow]

I think I've found some inconsistency. The wiki says that the UEC Sanctus's manufacturer were Han-Ronald Corp. but that's wrong, Han-Ronald are GTA/GTVA manufacturers.

[General Battuta]

I think I've found some inconsistency. The wiki says that the UEC Sanctus's manufacturer were Han-Ronald Corp. but that's wrong, Han-Ronald are GTA/GTVA manufacturers.

The UEF postdates the GTA in Sol and developed from it. Han-Ronald persisted as a corporate entity there, in much the same way that Volkswagen outlasted the Nazi Party in Germany.

[Sandwich]

The UEF postdates the GTA...

Bit too much Supreme Commander lately?

[General Battuta]

The UEF postdates the GTA...

Bit too much Supreme Commander lately?

Out of the loop a bit lately?

Shares a name but not much else. Ask Darius.

[General Battuta]

Fascinating. UEF seems to date back to at least 1999 as part of a future Cthulhu RPG. Can't say if Darius' creature was an homage to any other instance or a case of parallel evolution.

[Sandwich]

Out of the loop a bit lately?

Shares a name but not much else. Ask Darius.

Ah, I assumed you were referring to "UEC" from "Deadly in a Shadow"'s post.

[General Battuta]

Out of the loop a bit lately?

Shares a name but not much else. Ask Darius.

Ah, I assumed you were referring to "UEC" from "Deadly in a Shadow"'s post.

UEC = United Earth Cruiser, a cruiser in the service of the United Earth Federation, as GTC is a cruiser in the service of the Galactic Terran What-Have-You.

[Snail]

When adding new external links, the 'bot-proof arithmetic check' shows "Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.):" in place of the correct text

[Snail]

Dude, we have Chinese spambots all over the place now.

[TopAce]

They've created user talk pages like this one:

And then there are [LINK] individuals who appreciate LV bags, and have found out a bag that

is as a good offer [LINK] as 30 many years of age that is nonetheless in high quality shape.

Well, at least they aren't editing articles in the main space.

[Shade]

We're nuking them when we see them. Also, whenever they're spotted, feel free to blank or (in case of existing pages) revert any pages they create until one of the admins deletes it.

Further, the main page is currently under full protection (admin-only editing), as that was the target several times before this user talk page attack started, so at least no immediately obvious vandalism should happen.

[TopAce]

What's the use of blanking if they get deleted soon?

[Shade]

Nothing much, on our end. It does keep the bots from achieving their goal, though.

While annoying, the whole "creating page with lots of links" thing isn't for our benefit. Is is, essentially, a google bomb. It's done to present google's spider (and those of other search engines) with extra links to the page in question in order to improve their placement in search results, and as such, if the page is blanked before a search engine's spider sees the page, the bot has failed. Otherwise, it has succeeded, even if we later delete the page.

So really, it's just the part of me that doesn't want malicious bots achieving their goal that suggests blanking it. It makes little difference for members of HLP.

[Snail]

I think we may need new Captchas unless they're getting through by flesh and blood spammers.

[Sandwich]

Considering that the only reason to log in to the Wiki is to edit it, perhaps the captcha should be based off something only known to someone who played FS. A few examples could be:

- What star went supernova in FS2? (Capella)
- What planet was cut off from the rest of the galaxy in FS1? (Earth)
- What is the player's designation in both games? (Alpha 1)
- What is the equivalent of "hyperspace" in the FS universe? (Subspace)
- What is the last name of the leader of the anti-alien faction in FS2? (Bosch)

Etc. Basically, the idea being that the answer is not available whatsoever on the page, yet would be readily available online with a slight amount of digging, or immediately for any FS fans.

[Shade]

That's a very good idea actually. I'm all for this.

[Sandwich]

However whoever implements it, make sure that it's capitalization-agnostic, and if possible, allow for more than one right answer (Alpha 1 / Alpha One).

[Shade]

Could just make it a multiple-choice quiz. Given, say, 6 choices per question, and 5 questions (those being the ones you came up with), that's over 7000 permutations. Admittedly a bot might get it right once in a blue moon if they hammer it hard enough, but I think we could live with that.