RuneScape:User help

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Welcome to the RuneScape Wiki User Help page. This page is here to offer a central location for those who are participating with the development of this wiki to make general requests for help.

What this section is for

 * Coding help. Requesting help with writing templates, making a nice user page, or any questions on writing wiki-code can be asked here and users will help to the best of their ability.
 * Requests for non-administrative actions. If help is required with an action (such as moving a page), asking users here for help with that action is acceptable.
 * Questions on how the wiki works. All the policies and processes in use on the RuneScape Wiki may seem a little overwhelming at first. If you need help in understanding any of the policies, or more in depth instructions on a process, asking here is a good start.
 * Other questions to the users of the wiki. - While the Yew Grove is often a better place, a simple question may be asked here for a quick response.
 * An all-in-one place to put things. Many of the Wiki's procedures are lesser-known, so putting a note here is a good way to do something if the correct procedure is not known.

What this section is not for

 * Requests for actions involving administrator tools. Please use the section below for such requests.
 * Larger discussion with other users on policies or other wide-ranging actions. The Yew Grove is a more suitable location to discuss larger changes to the Wiki's policies, procedures and high-use templates.
 * General chat (about RuneScape or not). General chat about RuneScape (or an off-topic subject) should be taken to the Wiki's phpbb forums.

Requests
Note: This section is for requests that do NOT require sysop tools to fulfill.

'''Note to admins: Remove requests once they have been fully dealt with. Archive those that have a notable discussion.'''

I am having trouble getting every page that should be appearing on this forum to appear. If you happen to know anything about the brackets, I ask you look into the problem. 19:08, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * I had a look around and I think that's what you want. All pages where RfCs are used bar forums. Check this anyway, that's the manual for the extension in use. 19:37, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

Would someone read through the (new) section above about what this section is/is not for and add/remove notes and cleanup as necessary? I ran out of ideas. Thanks, 20:46, May 18, 2010 (UTC)

What this section is for

 * Protecting/unprotecting pages. Highly visible pages or content that may have links from outside websites are encouraged to have some level of protection. This can also include a request for administrators to try and calm down an edit war. This should be done according to the RuneScape:Protection policy.
 * Moving/renaming protected pages. Due to vandals' mis-use of the page move tool, some pages are protected from being renamed except by an administrator. If you can make a compelling case for a page move, or consensus has been reached on the respective discussion page related to the page you think needs to be renamed, formal requests for the page move can happen here. New contributors to this wiki or "anonymous" users wishing to rename a page that don't have the page move option available to them yet are also welcome to make such requests on this page.
 * Minor edits to protected pages. This is mostly on protected templates that can have a substantial impact on the whole wiki if they are changed, so caution is urged when they are modified.
 * Trivial requests for deletion. If you've accidentally duplicated content or wish to just clean up a mess you've made on the wiki, making such requests here is reasonable. This would be anything fitting in the policy RuneScape:Criteria for speedy deletion. Any pages that require more in-depth discussion ought to be included on RuneScape:Votes for deletion.
 * Announcements that are intended to be across the whole wiki. This appears on MediaWiki:Sitenotice, and should be something that would be of interest to the whole community.
 * Importing pages from another wiki. While seldom used for content on this wiki, this is an option that is available for bringing in content from another wiki and preserving its edit history, which requires administrator rights. This may involve some special actions on the part of Wikia Central to open this option between two MediaWiki projects, so be patient if you wish to make this sort of request. MediaWiki importing tools can sometimes be buggy, so be gentle on volunteer administrators doing this task.
 * General questions to the administrators of this wiki. You might get a faster reply by posting on the Yew Grove; however, the administrators here will try to help you to the best of their abilities.

What this section is not for

 * Problem users who may be vandalising content pages. Instead, please note the user that may be causing problems on the RuneScape:Counter Vandalism Unit page.
 * Requests to become an administrator. If you are interested in learning what an administrator does or how you can become one, please visit RuneScape:Administrators for information about administrators and RuneScape:Requests for adminship for the process to become an administrator.
 * General discussions about administrator behaviour. Most policy discussions, including policies that govern administrators, ought to be started on RuneScape:Yew Grove and kept to that forum for input from the larger RS wiki community.

Requests
Note: Please only make requests in this section that specifically require sysop tools to fulfill.

'''Note to admins: Remove requests once they have been fully dealt with. Archive those that have a notable discussion.'''

Note: I'm requesting in this section, administrators, per Help:Moving_pages; this Help page tells me to ask an admin for help in a situation like the following:

First off, see Talk:Mastices. I need help moving Mastices to either Bovimastyx or Bovimastyxes (you decided whether plural is important in titles or not, I personally am not sure) because per the Game Guide, cited here and here, these "-mastyx" animals in Daemonheim are correctly categorized as species of the Bovimastyx genus.

Now, the problem I have here is that the Bovimastyx article is already created. It seems that it's pretty deserted and unknown of, as someone also created the Mastices article. I can't move Mastices to Bovimastyx because the Bovimastyx article already exists. I'd like to do this because Mastices has much more information than Bovimastyx. I could just copy+paste the Mastices content into Bovimastyx and have Mastices deleted, but then the history of Mastices would be gone. Could an admin please recreate (by moving or merging) the Bovimastyx article with the provided information, while preserving both page's history? I don't know how it would be possible to preserve both page's history. Please and thanks. 00:17, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * I do not believe it is possible to preserve both pages history, I think the bovimastyx article will need to be deleted, and the other article then moved.  00:21, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I thought so. There's only three edits to the Bovimastyx article anyway, so it shouldn't be too much of problem. 00:23, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * In that case, he is just asking for someone to delete the bovismastyx article.  00:24, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * No no, the point of this request is to have all information contained at the Bovimastyx article, as that is correct. But, I'm just confused, as there seems to be no possible way to preserve all history. The Mastices article is the one that should be deleted in the end. 00:32, May 20, 2010 (UTC) (Forgot to sign)
 * Okay, so any info should be merged into bovimastyx.  00:31, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes. 00:32, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Here's the procedure for merging histories (moving page A to B, which already exists) (also explained here):
 * Move A to B, check the yes, delete this article box when prompted (allow A to be a redirect unless its not needed to be one)
 * Undelete original B after move (check all boxes, leave out vandalism at your discretion)
 * Edit B (which now has both histories) to restore the version you want
 * I'll leave it to you to decide whether to move it to the plural, just make sure to fix [ double redirects]. 13:33, May 20, 2010 (UTC)