Talk:Seven Soldiers Annotations

From Barbelith

I'm wondering if we should start building an "SSOV Characters" category or page -- some sort of listing of every character who appears in the stories.

That way, there'd be a page for Ed Stargard, All-Beard, Olwen, Gloriana Tenebrae, and all that.

I was thinking in terms of the Who's Who area of The Bomb.

What would be the best way to set something like this up?


I'm now also wondering if we should provide scans or thumbnail images of individual covers on the anno pages, or if that'd lead to all sorts of unfortunate repercussions....--grant 11:40, 22 Jun 2006 (EDT)

A Thought: Do we want to clean up this page some? Maybe trim the fat, banish the more detailed background info to an FAQ page, and, in general, make it more like the opening page to The Bomb, which is succinct and to the point?

--Bystander #3 14:16, 22 Sep 2006 (EDT)

  • Yeah, I think that might be good. Maybe move the current opening page onto a sub-page? Like a "Beginner's Guide" or something? --22:34, 22 Sep 2006 (EDT)

Okay, I'm going to try it. -- Bystander #3 15:30, 14 Oct 2006 (EDT)

During the past few days, the wiki seems to have become a target for all-out attack by Spam-Bots. They're not just adding invisible links anymore, but actually deleting all the content of some pages and replacing it with a list of spam links. I would hate to see the content of the wiki disappear, especially the Seven Soldiers Annotations, which so many people put so much time and effort into.

Some of the pages that are getting hit have been reverted and cleaned up two or three times, so it looks like the Spam- Bots are going to keep doing this. We need to come up with a plan to prevent this sort of thing.

Some recommendations:

  • Some of the pages being targeted are "Talk:" pages that have never contained any actually content that wasn't Spam. I recommend that these pages either be deleted in thier entirety or locked to prevent them from being repopulated with Spam.
  • An ideal solution to our current Spam problem would be to disallow all edits that contain URLs that appear on a Spam-Blacklist as described at this link: Spam. Does anyone know if this would work? Does anyone know how difficult it would be to implement?
  • I would suggest blocking the accounts of known Spammers, but they seem to use a different, randomly-generated string of numbers and letters as a username every time they sign on. They only way I can think of to defeat that is to place editing restrictions on all newly-registered users and I don't want to propose that because I think it would be very un-welcoming to the general public and counter to the philosophy of having a wiki in the first place.
  • If we can't block the Spam-Bots based on content or based on username then the only other option I can think of is to lock all the pages of the Seven Soldiers Annotations for a while to deter the Spammers.

Please let me know what you think we should do. I really don't want us to be in a situation where we have to re-edit every page in the wiki on a daily or weekly basis just to delete Spam all the time.

--Bystander #3 12:01, 4 Jul 2007 (EDT)

    • Christ, it's gotten a bit out of control, hasn't it? I can try locking the Talk: pages. I don't know anything about removing the ability to post URLs or that - that's up to Tom Coates. If things don't let up in a couple days, then I'm all for locking the annotations for a month. --grant 15:43, 5 Jul 2007 (EDT)
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