User talk:Game widow

Account merge
Hi, I had an account while the wiki was with wikia with the username "Legofan100". I created a gamepedia account names "BenTheTechy", not knowing that it is possible to still have the same account from wikia. I later found out that I can reclaim my wikia account and did so - resulting in me having second account (named "Legofan100332"). If possible, I would like for those two accounts to be merged and to use "BenTheTechy" as the username.

Thx

Ben

P.S. When I try logging in on mobile it goes to a blank screen so I have to log in on the Minecraft wiki and then come here - but when I log in with my Legofan100332 account it doesn't work on the MC wiki.
 * I will have the accounts merged tomorrow (I don't have the tools, so i must wait for the people at head office, tomorrow). As for the login, I will look into it, but possibly that, too, will require intervention from staff at the office. Do let me know if things improve before then, though — Game widow (talk) 13:46, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Thx a lot! Your response is better and quicker than the Wikia staff - no regrets at all about the move!

Ben  Also, does COPPA apply here? If so, should I ban an underage user or report them?

And what is the equivalent to the verbatim tag here? Sorry about all these questions :P

Ben
 * Glad to hear it :) I did make some changes to the mobile.css file, so hopefully things are better now. As for COPPA, we don't collect information on our users. Our official statement on the corporate website is "We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. We take children’s privacy seriously, and encourage parents to play an active role in their children’s online experience at all times." — Game widow (talk) 14:05, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * For I'll have to check. Can you link a page that uses it so i can figure it out ? — Game widow (talk) 14:06, 23 August 2015 (UTC)


 * The verbatim tag allows you to add regular HTML/CSS with unsupported tags to a page by creating a MediaWiki page, pasting the code there and then adding the tag to a page.

Ben
 * Hi again. Are you asking because of MediaWiki:EmbedMusic, or another page, or just in general? Mostly, plain html works just fine without this verbatim tag and if css is required for something, simply adding it to hydra.css or common.css will do. I know that at least one of our wikis plays music automatically if that's what the embed music mediawiki page was supposed to do, but i will have to dig around to see which wiki that was and how they did it. I suspect they simply use one of our default extensions and hide the element on the page — Game widow (talk) 14:49, 23 August 2015 (UTC)


 * That is an example, but I am referring to in general. I just want to embed HTML code without having to worry about unsupported tags. -Ben
 * You may also want to check our list of Available extensions. There may be some on there that you'd like or which could work around any issues you encounter. Shockwave/flash in particular can be a problem, so we may not allow that at all — Game widow (talk) 15:23, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Flash in general? -Ben
 * Flash in general has been in the news lately as a delivery platform for malware (not that we allowed it before). In general, we don't allow just any old code on the wikis because of security concerns. — Game widow (talk) 16:19, 23 August 2015 (UTC)