User:☯/Sandbox

Sandbox! Wooooo! ☯ 00:37, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Sweet! Alright, let's talk about sig first of all. I'm sure you've seen em, and I know you want one. Let's make one. Your first task is to make yourself a simple sig. Create User:☯/sig and use your current knowledge of wiki markup to make a sig. It must include a link to your userpage, your talk page, and preferably a link to your contributions. I don't have a contributions link, but I have one to my bibliography. Go for it! Report back here when you're done. And of course let me know if you have questions, that's why I'm here. ~Minitrue Sir SysRq! Talk! Sex! =/ GUN • WotM • RotM • AotM • VFH • SK • PEEING • HP • BFF @ 01:14 Apr 6

All right, I created one. I'm not a contributor on any wikis, so I don't really know 100% how to set it as my sig. Also, how do you make a custom timestamp? ☯ 02:20, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually, since I'm bored and awake at a weird hour, I stalked around a little bit and I think I got it. - ☯•♫•©  05:05, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Good job, it looks pretty groovy. As for custom timestamps, here's a hint. I have that up in my preferences instead of User:SysRq/sig and I only sign with three tildes instead of the usual four. If it's not perfectly obvious, don't worry. I'll help you out. But I'd really like to focus on other basic site functions. Some of this may seem boring, since you may know most of this. But let's go up the foodchain, starting at the bottom: VFD.

Episode I: I CAN HAS QUALITY CONTROL?

Article deletion comes in two different flavors: VFD and QVFD. Judging from your writing, you'll never have to fear either of these. But you can still play a part in purging Uncyc of the worthless drivel that plagues our wiki. The difference between VFD and QVFD is simple.

QVFD articles are unquestionably crap. They're your one liners, your vanity articles, your misspelled garbage that no one understands. If a strange odor comes out of your monitor upon viewing the page, it's probably a QVFD candidate. Simply tag it as such (using the {{QVFD}} tag at the top of the page) and add it to the list. A sysop will sweep through and delete the entire list whenever s/he feels like it.

The alternative to QVFDing an article on sight is the {{ICU}} tag. This is for articles with some potential. Make sure you go to ICU and read up on how the template works, because it requires you to add 5 tildes or some shit. This keeps the IPs from bitching at the admins and gives them some fair warning. If the ICU tag stays on their page for more than 7 days and no improvement is made, then it is deleted.

On the other hand, if there is an article of considerable length (not a stub) that you still feel needs to be taken behind the barn, consider tagging it with {{VFD}} and making it a voting template over at VFD. After you do that, other users come and decide its fate by voting on it. You can also go and vote for articles that are already up for deletion. If you decide to become a regular voter, which takes up maybe 15 minutes of your day to sort through all of the crap, then you will be adored and praised by our resident poopsmith.

But that's the basics of quality control. This is very basic gruntwork that is NOT MANDATORY but is a great way for you to contribute to the site when you're out of ideas to write about.

Your assignment

1. Find me an example of an article that would normally be sent to QVFD. Link to it here.
2. Find me an example of an article that would normally be tagged as ICU. Link to it here.
3. Find me an example of an article that would normally be sent to VFD. Link to it here.
4. Vote five times at VFD. I don't care if you vote "keep" or "delete," I just want to make sure you know how to vote.

Get to it, kiddo! Next time, we'll go into my favorite subject: Pee Reviews. ~Minitrue Sir SysRq! Talk! Sex! =/ GUN • WotM • RotM • AotM • VFH • SK • PEEING • HP • BFF @ 23:23 Apr 6

1. Pretty sure that Everything you don't want to know would be QFVD'd, seeing as it's an exact replica of all the DYKs and then some other dumb stuff thrown in. It'll probably be QVFD'd by the time you see this, actually.
2. This one was hard, because I'm kind of a "kill-it-or-fix-it-NOW" person, but I guess Nesquik would fit the qualifications.
3. Coventry. It could be because I live across the pond that I don't get it, but something tells me this should probably be killed.
4. VFD'D!

VFD is fun stuff. - ☯•♫•©  14:34, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Well done. I would probably disagree with you on the first one, that would be either ICU'd (which it was) or VFD'd. If I had gotten to it first, I would say VFD. Nesquik could be either QVFD or ICU, although ICU would be the better option right now since we've been scaring off an unusually large number of noobs as of late. Good work. I would say that I trust your judgment now, so feel free to tag any articles you feel need to be tagged. However, do me a favor and use the Poopsmith's Lounge for the next week or so before you go nominating articles straight to VFD. What that does is allow the poopsmith to decide if the articles you want to nominate actually deserve the nomination. Also, don't mind my sig, I'm in the middle of some shamefully silly sig swapping right now. SirS.R.Esq. VFH | CUN | Natter | Lt? | Pee 15:43, Apr 7

All right. I'm going to try and adjust myself to the general Uncyc. deletion policy before I start willy-nilly nominating things for this and that. To the Poopsmith's Lounge!

Speaking of sigs, I finally figured out the timestamp thing, and I'm ridiculously proud. SEE? HUH? SEE? - ☯•♫•© 15:46 Apr 7

Episode II: The Golden Blessing & Other Services

Many writers have no clue that Uncyclopedia is ready to work for them. There are a number of services at every user's disposal, to include Pee Review, the Proofreading Service, and Image Request. You, yes you, can utilize these resources and make them work for you at no charge. All of these pages have their own rules and guidelines, read up on them. It's good to know that there are people just waiting to help you with an article.

Perhaps the first place you should go (assuming you are both an adequate speller and chopper) is to Pee Review. We (and I'm going to refer to it as We because I'm a prominent member of the committee) provide an all inclusive review of your article, giving you constructive criticism and a solid number at the end which tells you where your article should be right now. If your article got a 40, you should consider nominating it for VFH. If it got a 48, then it's already nominated for VFH. On the other hand, if it got a 12, then you can find it at VFD.

If you want to become a reviewer, then we'd be more than happy to have you. We always need new young talent. But it's not for everyone. Try looking at a few of my reviews, or checkit the current scoreboard to see some of the best in action. But for now, I'd just like to focus on utilizing Pee Review.

Your assignment

You're going to make me a mock Pee Review page. Follow these instructions carefully.

1. Go to UN:PEE.
2. Type "User:☯/Sandbox" into the box at the bottom and click "Create Entry".
3. Copy the contents of that page into User:☯/Sandbox/Pee Review. DO NOT CLICK ENTER ON THE OTHER PAGE!
4. Post a little comment as if you were submitting an actual article.

Yes, I am going somewhere with this. Bear with me, that's for next time. For now, I'm off to work! SirS.R.Esq. VFH | CUN | Natter | Lt? | Pee 16:07, Apr 7

Doooone. This is good, seeing as I have no idea how to fill one out. - ☯•♫•© 18:44 Apr 7

Good job, meet me over there.   ~  '  SysRq!  Talk!  Sex! 18:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)