RuneScape:User help

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Instructions
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Going through Category
Does anyone or any group of people want to go through this category, and make sure that all the references are valid? Instructions are on top of the page. 02:05, March 16, 2011 (UTC)

High alchemy prices
hello,

atm im working on the high alchemy calculator now i have the question is it possible to automaticly pick this amount of money u get.

like the code for the G.E. price :

thnx C0ws


 * Lol at marking your own comment as unsigned (you can sign by using ~ ). Anyway, I don't think there is such a thing since every item requires filling in the alchemy values on their own page atm. It may be an idea for a project but I think it would be a lot more work to make than the use you'd get out of it, since alchemy values don't change and aside from those calculators and the item's own page I don't think they are used anywhere. 16:21, May 29, 2011 (UTC)


 * 222 marked it as unsigned. Anyway, for high alch you would use and for low alch it's  . -- 17:58, May 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * Why aren't we using those in infoboxes then? 18:28, May 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * Looking at the code in Template:Infobox Item I think it could be used in those boxes with a few simple changes, this would ensure that the GEMW includes alchemy prices, cause they will be fed from the infoboxes. However, any edit to the template requires consensus first on its talk page so I will raise the question there as well. 18:41, May 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * If anything, it should be the other way around, to use the Exchange info in the infoboxes. There's already enough vandalism and cluelessness in the Main space articles. It's better not to have it propagate to the Exchange space. -- 18:50, May 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, your proposal would be better in the Yew Grove than on a talk page. -- 18:51, May 29, 2011 (UTC)
 * I did mean the Exchange values would be included on the infoboxes, but the boxes have a link to the Exchange pages. Example, more people check Mithril dagger than Exchange:Mithril dagger. And I might start a Yew Grove page on it as well if the talk page remains silent, last time I started a YG thread though they said I should try the associated talk page first so I went with that. 19:20, May 30, 2011 (UTC)

Avoiding wanted pages
Anyone know how to avoid a page from appearing on wanted pages when it does not exist using code similar to this:

If I were to remove Signatures/Tharkon then it would appear on the wanted pages, as can be seen here. 17:17, June 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * Nope, ifexist will treat it like a wanted page/red link IIRC. Makes sense, you want that page if it exists. 17:20, June 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * To solve this, use instead. It checks if the page exists only at the time of saving the page, preventing it to appear in the wanted pages (as the code after saving would not include #ifexist then). This is only for specific situations, so not for templates that need to check for this. Templates should either use  or just normal .  19:22, June 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * I think Tharkon was interested more specifically what to do with users who sign their posts with signatures that never existed. If they don't have a signature page (because maybe they're clueless), they're even less likely to manually type in the subst expression. Unless there's a way to administratively edit their preferences to include the subst expression as their signature, I think the only thing to do is follow around after them and replace all their dead signatures with a simple user page reference like the default signature. -- 01:14, June 2, 2011 (UTC)
 * ...or tell them to change their prefs to include subst: in it 10:25, June 2, 2011 (UTC)

I got sort of a portfolio page with signatures I made, and to keep track of if the user ended up using that signature. I thought would be enough to avoid wanted pages until I noticed one appearing on there a few days ago. wouldn't work in this case either. The problem is caused by signatures that were requested but never put in use. 20:05, June 2, 2011 (UTC)

Merging Beacon Network into All Fired Up (activity)
RuneScape:Requests for merging/All Fired Up (activity) was closed with consensus to merge. Unfortunately I don't know much about the Beacon network, so I am hoping someone with more knowledge will be able to merge these two articles together, better than if I were to attempt to. Note that Beacon Network is to be merged into All Fired Up (activity) (and redirected there of course). Thanks, 06:01, June 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * ... 06:02, June 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * If you don't know enough about it, just don't close it. Simple. 11:18, June 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * I beg your pardon. Part of my role as an administrator is to find consensus in discussions and close them appropriately; never did it say I must also be an expert at the topic at hand. Also, it was well within my means to merge the two articles together if I so wished, but I chose the ask for an "expert" on this topic to ensure that the information being merged was helpful and fully accurate. Curt comments like you posted do not help at all with this request, nor do they reflect entirely well upon yourself. 11:34, June 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Or you could just wait for someone who does know enough about it to show up before closing. Last time this kind of thing happened, at the Skeleton's RfS, it was forgotten about quite soon. To prevent this from happening, the closing admin should just merge/split the articles himself, or wait for another admin to close it (unless they have already found someone to do it). Implementing the proposal or making sure the proposal is implemented is part of closing threads. That also applies to RfM/RfS. (unless of course the proposal is a wiki-wide change, in which case everyone should do it, but you get what I mean) 16:39, June 4, 2011 (UTC)

How do I go to a random page
there used to be a link somewhere but I can't find it


 * Special:Random 03:16, June 6, 2011 (UTC)