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Wow login screens without any UI[]

Hey, I loved the wallpapers you made from WoW login screens, without the login UI. But I want to know how you actually managed to hide the UI, because i want to record a video of the actual screen (BFA) Thank you again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Meetchyu (talk · contr).

As explained here, just simply download the folders here and place it into your World of Warcraft install directory. (e.g. World of Warcraft/_retail_/). — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 11:20, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Opinion needed[]

Heya, your opinion on this is wanted. --HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 08:41, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Surafbrov[]

we have https://wow.gamepedia.com/EU_English_realms_info would be nice to also have a classic realm list with dates and such, i dont know if you could do it or not, but thought i would ask, thankyou friend! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xeexeegg (talk · contr).

I'll look into it. As a side note, be sure to sign your messages with four tildes (~~~~). Thank you. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 01:37, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
Classic realms list. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 17:04, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
that is awesome bro, one thing though, could we have the dates of realms launching? thankyou friend —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xeexeegg (talk · contr).
Most of which are going to take time to figure out the date when the realm launched. Feel free to be bold and add the information to the article. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 17:21, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
only thing left now is to add europe realm dates and we have done a excellent job! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xeexeegg (talk · contr).
Hi last comment from me, one last thing to say could you put the english speaking realms dates please https://wow.gamepedia.com/Classic_realms_list thankyou —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xeexeegg (talk · contr).
I've got a lot on my plate right now. Though you can become an editor yourself, be bold and start by digging for that information then adding it to the article! I'd recommend checking out the Help Wiki that contains a lot of useful information on editing wikis of which can help you with that article. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. As a side note, when making comments on talk pages (such as my talk page you're on right now), you'd want to sign your comment with four tildes (~~~~). — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 21:17, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Hey mate[]

hey friend, you did very good with US, but english realms in europe would be amazing, if you ever have spare time, adding them would be awesome and id be truly grateful thankyou for everything, you a good person! :D Xeexeegg (talk) 23:40, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Account name[]

heya, I think something's messed up... do you know what should I do or who to contact regarding the account name change? Morderi was my fandom name which I very rarely used, and I'd like to get my old name back. Or are you able to change it? --HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 17:41, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

did you try to log in via twitch ? (Yuvalal (talk) 19:23, 6 August 2020 (UTC))
I can't do anything account related. Submit a ticket. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 19:37, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
Relogged via twitch and still that name. Ok will try the ticket. Ta --HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 20:09, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Heya, any news with the rename thingy?

After the recent migration, User:Mordecay lost all the content that was on the page. I contacted the gamepedia support, and they said that the account is deleted. Do you know if the content can be somehow recovered? I noticed a file that was on the page still shows up as being linked there. Do you know if moving User:Mordecay to User:Morderi would make the content appear? HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 08:55, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Nothing as far as I know. User articles that exist on a non-existent account name is a known issue but they can be recovered. I've moved all your pages over to the new name (with redirects). Once you get your old name back, they all can be moved back just fine. Hopefully sooner than later; I've kept note of this. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 09:14, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Okay, cool, thanks! HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 09:51, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Css[]

One more question, is it possible for me to display this in the search results? Change the "About 1,200 results for SEARCHED THING" to be "About 1,200 results for SEARCHED THING" (basically add link to it)? HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 10:09, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

I believe that can be done with JavaScript, like the one I'm using that creates an "original format" link on file pages that includes format=original in that link. Though, I'm not very familiar with JavaScript so I can't really help there. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 17:51, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
I see. Do you know who could do this? --HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 20:03, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Pcj knows stuff about JS, you could ask him. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 20:06, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello[]

Can you have a look at Amelior.--Spenpiano (talk) 01:14, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

What about it? Surafbrov (talk) 01:37, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
I created it and I thought this name would be a perfect idea for the Brokers that lived in this realm.--Spenpiano (talk) 15:56, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Chromie Edit[]

Apologies, I confused you for someone else. Thought people were just being stubborn about the edit. Baal added some unsupported speculation on Chromie's page after an argument he had on the story forums. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jarlboi (talk · contr).

Instead of initiating an edit war, simply starting a civil conversation on the talk page and lay out your thoughts on the matter would've been a viable option. There was no reason for this. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 23:22, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Daelin Proudmoore[]

Excuse me, may I know the reasons of undoing my edits--Oxlord (talk) 06:07, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Excuse me, please respond. Do you know about the argument regarding Daelin Proudmoore's Warcraft 3 class?--Oxlord (talk) 11:34, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

He uses water-type abilities. Completely different abilities from what a base unit paladin would use. Obviously Blizzard went out of their way to change these abilities. Additionally, the navy of Kul Tiras had hydromancers as well. There is a possibility he could've very well been one of these hydromancers as well which the abilities supports this case. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 21:40, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
Even if Blizzard went out of their way, his class is still legalised by them. And he's also a warrior type, judging by his primary attribute and melee attack. And there's no legalised hero class of "hydromancer" in Warcraft 3. We're talking about Warcraft 3 here. Not every WC3 character of certain classes have the same abilities. Also, the hydromancer and elite hydromancer units only have crushing wave ability each, the rest of their abilities are the abilities of Sorceresses (Slow and polymorph), archmage(Blizzard and Brilliance aura), and shamans (Lightning shield). I have a better suggestion: That is his Warcraft 3 class shall be removed, as it's getting out of hand.--Oxlord (talk) 00:14, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Not sure what the argument is base on Hydromancer (Warcraft III) and Elite Hydromancer. Their names are a dead give away that they're indeed Hydromancers. As for Daelin, that WC3 icon is there to say he is a Hydromancer for WC3, referenced by the abilities that support this case. He is a warrior base on the TCG which is non-canon. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 00:33, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

After discussing with other editors via Discord and looking at Daelin in-game which does say "Paladin", this seems like a more reasonable thing. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 01:24, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

What about not-listing classes not supported by lore in infoboxes? --HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 11:26, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
While I do think on one hand the current way it is laid out is fine but on the other hand, others may not look at the footnote and just assume he is a Paladin which really isn't the case. Maybe just moving these kinds of situations to the notes section would be better suited but I'm not going to decide what is best. Feel free to start a discussion on the character's talk page regarding it. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 21:17, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Article deleted[]

Instead of deleting articles as they're being written, how about you help add to them, ie: add the correct templates. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ‎Aetyleus (talk · contr).

Feel free to properly fill out the article using a boilerplate instead of just adding placeholder text. Thanks. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 02:51, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Luminar[]

Hi Surafbrov, I was hoping if you would like to take a look at one of my pages: User:Spenpiano/Luminar and User:Spenpiano/Amelior.Spenpiano (talk) 20:51, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Wiki got closed?[]

Hello, I honestly don't know why but looks like my wiki got closed? I created like, 2 pages. I don't know if I did something wrong, I saw you also made some edits, do you know why this happened? Thank you and sorry for the issue... --Paperman02 (talk) 12:41, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

It got closed because it currently duplicates another wiki. I've already asked about it. I'll let you know. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 13:06, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Thank you... They actually told me this just after I created the wiki, but I explained to them my reasons... The Italian WOW wiki has been inactive for years and is very messy, so I thought an Italian Wowpedia was a good idea, also I don't see the problem since we also have 2 English wikis (Wowpedia and WOW Wiki)... But after I explained this, the wiki got suddenly closed. However, I'll wait. Thank you so much for your support. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Paperman02 (talk · contr).
Well the English WoWWiki is archived, in favor of the English Wowpedia you're on now. Same case with Wowpedia PL archived in favor of WoWWiki PL. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 13:23, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
Got it. Then I'm sorry for my misinformation, I should have checked better before even starting all of this. Just let me know if there's a way out of this, or else I'll just start editing the existing Italian wiki. Thank you again. --Paperman02 (talk) 13:59, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
The wiki won't be opened. It is best to fix up the already existing one. Let me know what you need help with there and I'll see what I can do. The url should have or will be renamed to wowpedia.fandom.com/it. I'll import the articles to there (which you'll still need to move them to their translated names), promote you and make the necessary tweaks. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 18:37, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
It's okay, I get it, also thank you for all your support. Yeah, if you could just export the articles I translated here on Wowpedia, that would be great. I think I'll take it from there, I'm already editing the existing wiki so, no problem. Thank you so much! Actually there's just one thing, but I'm not sure you can tell me, also I hope I'm not annoying asking this: I noticed the article content area here on Wowpedia is WAY wider than other wikis, so the articles look so much better and less "clenched", is there any way to import it on the Italian wiki so it matches? It's okay if you can't tell me, not a big deal, just a thought. As usual, sorry for my English. --Paperman02 (talk) 21:15, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
You can have the wide content width by setting it as your default here: Special:Preferences. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 01:34, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Patch 9.1.5 Edit[]

Thanks for correcting that. I thought that patches and hotfixes were contacted in that manner. --X59 (talk) 20:07, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Yea, hotfixes happens pretty much every day. The patch articles are just specific to build releases as per Public client builds. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 18:19, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Trying to correct stats[]

Hi. You may have seen me trying to correct the stats on items from the Well of Eternity dungeon. In truth, fixing the stats on Wowpedia after the squish is a project I would like to contribute to, but there are inconsistencies. a) I have been checking Wowhead to confirm the stats on items that I am not able to access in game, either directly or through the dungeon finder tool. There are inconsistences between this database and the game itself, which concern me greatly considering that the majority of items are things I cannot check without rolling up alts (and considering scaling, what is the appropriate level of an alt to document, for example, the value and statistics of a drop from a dungeon?). There are even inconsistencies with items bought from vendors, which I again cannot always check without using another character; for example, the items from the Caverns of Time reputation vendor have weird price fluctuations from one class of armor to the next and even between pieces of the same set on Wowhead as compared to the game/other available data. b) Due to the aforementioned issue of scaling, I am not sure which set of information to use from Wowhead or elsewhere. As mentioned, the values on a particular item are in flux based on factors external from the item itself (the level of the player obtaining it, for example; this is why there is a slider on the Wowhead page of many times, in order to examine what will be received at different levels). Is this ultimately a futile project? I am afraid that I will contribute no small measure of time and effort only for the stats to be changed again and progress erased. There are also small bugs and issues that I cannot resolve (for example, the Inv scroll 05 [Pattern: Drums of Panic] tooltip still has "Requires Leatherworking 350" in it even though this is no longer the case, and I have not figured out how to resolve this. Thank you for your time. I know that World of Warcraft is not the titan it once was, but I believe that an up-to-date compendium of information is something that we can still accomplish. If the Star Wars fans, with two whole canons under their belt and far more rabid adherents than we, can pull it off, why not us?

For Azeroth, StrangeStatue (talk) 04:51, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Keeping the stats up-to-date on Wowpedia is near to impossible, especially with scaling now-a-days. We're not a database... so having the data, to some Wowpedians, doesn't make sense. I've thrown the idea of implementing a slider and just stating what items have what stats would be better (slider to calculate the stats for the specified level). This is still an ongoing discussion, but it hasn't really gone anywhere lately. In terms of what stats to use for now, typically in-game is better to use regardless. Regarding Inv scroll 05 [Pattern: Drums of Panic] displaying the "Leatherworking" instead of "Outland Leatherworking": it is pulling the tooltip from the item's page. So Inv misc drum 06 [Drums of Panic] would've needed to be updated (which looks like someone already took care of it). — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 21:03, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

N [60] Drust and Ashes map[]

Heya, there's a special world map during N [60] Drust and Ashes, but I don't see it in your gallery, do you have the means to find it? --HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 11:51, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Never mind, it's this one --HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 12:07, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
I haven't bothered with the maps yet since SL. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 13:54, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Why are we not allowed to create topics related to "community drama"?[]

There have been many major events in WoW history that have been related to "community drama", and I personally believe that they are just as important to store as other information, especially if they had impact on how the game developed further.

If we stick with the principle of no "community driven articles" then any articles relating to how e.g. the AQ gates were opened on various realms, what the Leeroy Jenkins meme is, and so on are not acceptable.

Could you please provide the rule that prohibits this? I don't want to offend anyone but I wrote tons of text to detail one of the largest events in WoW PvP history that basically everyone who was competitive at that time knows about, and apparently it's not "relevant"? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Konjunktur (talk · contr).

The trivia note on Season 11 works just fine. There is no reason to go in-depth, especially having its own article, about that situation on the wiki. AQ gates was an event and Leeroy Jenkins is a community article. Those don't compare. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 15:27, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Respectfully, I completely disagree. The note in Season 11, as it stands right now, doesn't even describe why it was a controversy. Anyone who reads it is left with more questions than when they started reading, and it doesn't even begin to explain the consequences it had. Additionally, this event is the quintessential event of the entire Cataclysm expansion from a competitive PvP perspective. Now I'll admit I don't know what a "community article" is, but why wouldn't a PvP event qualify as one? E.g. the Swifty ban, or inofficial tournaments and the happenings around during them, or the most (in)famous competitive PvP happening of all time, which ended up having massive consequences (for the game, not the players involved)? Related to the examples, the distribution of arena titles and the PvP season is also an event (which in this case had massive effects).
The main reason why I think it deserves being stored on the wiki (with details) is because it is the number one event that PvPers remember from the era. Konjunktur (talk · contr) 18:12, 20 July 2022 (CEST)
Solely being remembered by some people doesn't make it a notable thing and I haven't even heard of this until now. Leeroy Jenkins (video) is marked as a silly article and mentions "has nevertheless become part of the World of Warcraft culture or community" which defines it as a community article, however community articles don't necessary need that template to be one. Leeroy got so popular, that even Blizzard added references to that video and eventually made the character official. If Swifty had an article (not sure if they need one tho), that ban could surely be a trivia note but the whole thing doesn't need to be in-depth. Even the official tournaments aren't here, Liquidpedia talks about those fairly well.
Thinking on how the trivia does not describe why it is a controversy: It doesn't really need to describe it. It is a trivia. It should just be a mention of this thing that happened "hey, this thing happened during this season". The one thing that could be added tho is a reference, probably that Arena Junkies link. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 16:50, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Real-world religions pages[]

Calling active admins: Greetings, Surafbrov. I have something to talk to you. It's about the pages: Heretic, Blasphemy, and Animism. I give them a term: "Real-world religions" pages I think it's best to get rid of them from the Wowpedia, users have been over complicating these pages. I think, like many other early pages, these pages were made when the Wowpedia was still in its early stages. When pages lacked contents, they used categories, infobox sections, and pages based on real-world philosophies to expand the contents. Nowhere days, Wowpedia have moved to fandom, the pages have gotten bigger, and details regarding any character reformation can be noted in the contents, which mades these "real-world religions" pages obsalete. What is your personal opinion about this subject? Are we going to keep them or remove them? And I already messaged the other admins about this.Oxlord (talk) 00:27, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Those pages are discussing the in-universe religions, not the real-world.
"Nowhere days, Wowpedia have moved to fandom, the pages have gotten bigger"
Wowpedia had the same bigger pages when it was just Curse and Gamepedia. Not sure what you're trying to say here. There was a change on having real-world articles (like weapon-types) with WoWWiki -> Wowpedia but these religion articles are about religions in the game, not about irl religions. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 18:40, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits[]

Hey! I saw the edits you made to the images I uploaded. I wanted to give a short thanks since I wasn't entirely sure how to work that stuff. That was my first time making a user page on the wiki for fan-content. Erkorr (talk) 21:35, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Not a problem. When uploading images, there is a drop down near the bottom of the upload page with the list of available licenses. Since you're uploading just fan art, that would be the first option under the "Player" section in that list. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 22:24, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Errors[]

Heya, could you check the errors in N Shaman [10-45] Tech It Up A Notch and N Paladin [10-45] Tech It Up a Notch? --HordeRace bloodelf male Mordecay (talk) 22:02, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Due to the migration to 1.39, our UsingData extension needed to be updated to work with the new version because of changes done to MediaWiki. But with this issues like this have come around which is being looked into/high priority, but for the meantime we can make some fixes as we come across them. In this case, the Inv orderhall orderresources [Order Resources] was inserted into a <using> tag (from {{Itembox}}) but currencies don't have #data in the currencytips like itemtips do. We could add #data to mitigate the issue for the time being but the issue will still be there for redirects if they're placed in <using> tags as well. For the two cases you listed, since it is just one or two items, the itembox usage isn't needed. So if you come across more, that's more than likely the reason for the errors. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 23:35, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

RE: Recent uploads[]

Hi, sorry about the images, but some of them can't be found in good resolution (even the HS wiki uses them). I was uploading the images with Cleanup, so other users don't need to add it. Senescalzin (talk) 19:29, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

It is adding unnecessary additional work then. Please refrain from uploading them until good quality images become available from the artists. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 19:33, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Ok, I will stop, even that some of the images are better than TCG arts uploaded. Senescalzin (talk) 19:43, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
Yea, those TCG crops weren't helpful either and they're also all marked as cleanup if not already. But just because those exist, doesn't mean we should continue adding more work for the future. We should be getting a good quality image from the start, not start with a grainy image or a bad crop. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 19:49, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

PDF uploads[]

Dear Surafbrov,

I'm not entirely sure that this is the best way to approach you, if its inappropriate please apologize me!

I came across a few of your created PDFs on the website and that got me thinking: I want to find and download all the available PDFs that you have uploaded throughout the years on the site (usually free short stories that were published on the official WoW website), how can I search for them? When I select "File", the results are filled with image files and I can't really sure how to filter out what I want.

Looking forward to hearing from you, thank you and best wishes. Pocok —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BladePocok (talk · contr).

You can find them at Special:MIMESearch/application/pdf. These kinds of links are available at Special:MediaStatistics. — SurafbrovWowpedia administrator T / C 20:59, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
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