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Coca cola pee review

Hi Hippo! I wanted to let you know that it looks like you made a slight capitalization error with the article you submitted for pee review. Coca cola is the article you recently edited (or more accurately, rewrote entirely, nice job by the way!). Coca Cola is what you submitted for pee review, and that still redirects to Frog Semen. I was gonna go ahead and move everything to Coca-Cola, since that's the official name of the soda, but then I saw that Coca-Cola already has its own article. I don't know if you want to try to combine the articles or something. Normally I would say it's best not to have multiple articles with near-identical titles/subjects. However, in this case, since your concept of calling Coca cola an animal is different, I think it's probably fine to keep both. Let me know what you think, and then I'll get rid of any coke-related redirects that still go to frog semen. If you decide not to combine the articles, I'll probably have make things like "The Coca-Cola Company" redirect to the soda article and things like "Coke" redirect to your article, but again, let me know your thoughts.

As for the pee review, I'm happy to do it myself, but I want to wait at least a day to see if a more experienced editor here would like to jump on that. MrX blow me 16:05, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Just did the pee review, hope you find it helpful! Let me know if you have any questions. MrX blow me 17:21, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

I fixed some grammar issues and marked page as patrolled. --Gale5050 Complain about me! 20:48, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Coca cola infobox

Hey, so as you may have seen, I tried adding an infobox to Coca cola. It didn't quite work. I've reached out to User:JPLSilva, an editor who has helped me with this exact problem before. Hopefully he'll be able to help soon. In the meantime, I recommend leaving the broken infobox there so that he can see the problem. Sorry that it looks crappy for the time being. MrX blow me 18:45, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

Ok, you can go ahead and undo my edits that messed it up, if you want. At some point (hopefully in the near future) I might try to reach out to someone else who can help with the templates. MrX blow me 20:06, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Ok, sure. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles 

Yo, thanks to JPLSilva and especially thanks to Zombiebaron, the infobox for coca cola now works! The only thing that's kinda wack is the picture of bottled coke is a little bigger than necessary. The best way to fix that might be to just use a different photo, but later I'll try and see if there's another way to make it smaller. I think the infobox in general makes the article funnier, but if you disagree, feel free to remove it. Cheers. MrX blow me 22:10, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, I will upload a smaller version now. Thanks for fixing the infobox! ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  09:16, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

@MrX: Done it. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  12:11, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Sweet! MrX blow me 19:00, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

Signature test

Just changed my sig in Special:Preferences with Nosubst. Ok, here goes. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  19:02, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

It worked! ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  19:03, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

Hey

Winninnng!

I don't know if we're quite acquainted, but thanks for nominating my Thanksgiving article. It caught me off guard that it was even nominated, much especially nominated for quickly. I didn't realize I had such a winning strategy writing about this pandemic. Either that or (more likely) Uncyclopedia's quality has finally reached rock bottom. I'm looking pretty good either way! -- Thankful Kippy Share blessings Bountiful harvest 11:58, Nov. 23, 2020

@Kippy: Either way, it's a very good article (congrats!). I was bored so I compulsively looked through Special:RecentChanges, and I came across this article. Nommed it as I thought it was funny. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  13:11, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Pee Review on I-95

Hi. You said after I removed the redlinks you'd re review in a while, and you haven't. Normally I wouldn't care, even though it was just 2 months, but a few thinks have changed. I have been caught block evading on enwiki and was since globally locked. (Now, it was just a wp: WP: MEAT vio, but that is still an issue.) As such I will be far more active on Uncyclopedia so I am looking for a date that you are avaliable. Stay safe, --Gale5050 complain about me! 16:13, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Also, I saw you're joke on Uncyclopedia: VFH/Among Us, but due to sanction I can't edit the article. --Gale5050 complain about me! 02:15, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

@Gale5050: Really? Although the sanction doesn't specify an exception for voting on VFH on non-interstate pages, I think nobody will care as long as you do it non-disruptively. As for the pee review, I'm quite busy right now, so I'll do it when I can. Probably by Tuesday, but no guarantees. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  09:53, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

I'd be careful, I really don't want to be blocked, but I will notify Zombiebaron and let him decide. I'll fix up Pennsylvania now. --Gale5050 complain about me! 14:53, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Yeah sure, let's say you can edit all voting pages for now. I'll update the OFFICE entry. -- The Zombiebaron 15:48, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Baked potato

Join in the writing here. Be bold. Add, edit, cut, do what you like. We have to be fast though! ShabiDOO 23:43, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Added a bit. An image would be nice, I'll find one today. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  08:55, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Colab

Hey Hipponias. Good work so far. Keep it going. Be bold. Don't be afraid to make cuts with material you think is defficient. Add stuff to. Even if its just a concept or idea (even if the idea doesn't really pan out putting some scraps of material could help another writer expand on it)! Any addition helps and you've certainly made good additions so far! ShabiDOO 13:07, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm trying to get this featured in time to end the 12 nights of potato. So please make any additional edits and vote for it (only if you think its feature worthy...no pressure). Time is super limited (less than 48 hours) ShabiDOO 23:17, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the good work and funny writing on the baked potato article. You helped us feature an article in only two days!!! You now have two collab credits (one full writing credit). All you have to do is feature 2 more articles (or a combination of features and collabs) and you'll be inducted into the hall of shame!!! I have no doubt you can do it! ShabiDOO 12:50, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Shabidoo: Huh? My other article, Extinctionism, I wrote by myself. MrX did contribute a paragraph and gave me some tips, but I think that still counts as full credit for me, as I wrote most of it. Also, UnPoetia:Triste et malum est is going to get featured on the 13th, so I'll have 2.5 FAs soon. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  12:57, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Ahh yes you are totally right. I was basing everything of what I saw on your userpage. Hey if you'd like to get that .5 credit take a look here in this section. Back in 2011 we had a week long competition to spit out a featurable article. It was Orchids and we wrote a pretty good one but it just needs one more section and a little editing here and there. I think we could get it featured easily. What do you think? ShabiDOO 13:18, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Copyright violations

While we have to be wary of UN:BITE, copyright violations(UN:(C)) takes precedence. Violating copyright issues can get Uncyclopedia in legal jeproady; any copyvio not providing any initial attribution should be deleted. Copying within Uncyclopedia without providing attribution is an issue. Persistent copyright offenders will be banned; so it is very important we deal with these seriously. Gale5050 complain about me! And see my Wikipedia contributions! 17:57, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

The Creative Commons ShareAlike License 2.0 requires the author(s) to be given attribution. Boston, Massachusetts, which Wikipedia Be Sucking copied to Beantown, is still a redirect to that article. The original history is still intact on that page. Therefore, the page does not violate the CC-BY-NC-SA, as the editors of that page are attributed in the page history. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  18:46, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

I just made a null edit and left in the edit summary saying content copied. Saying "As a Bostonian, this is funnier" does not quite do the job. --Gale5050 complain about me! And see my Wikipedia contributions! 18:52, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Eruditron

I have finally peed your article. You are welcome to check it out. I have left some improvement comments. --Gale5050 complain about me! And see my Wikipedia contributions! 16:06, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

"Disruptive bug"

I saw in the recent changes feed that you commented out RedWarn due to a "disruptive bug", but can you clarify what said disruptive bug is? JJP...MASTER!_{[talk to] JJP... master?} 15:46, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

For some reason, the RedWarn settings popup comes up every time I open an Uncyclopedia page. I can close it, but it won't let me save changes, so it comes up every time. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  15:56, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

If the thing says "Congratulations! You've successfully installed RedWarn, the user-friendly counter-vandalism tool.", you can just scroll to the bottom and click "apply settings and continue". If it doesn't say that, please let me know. JJP...MASTER!_{[talk to] JJP... master?} 16:00, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

It does say that, but the button doesn't do anything. I'll try again. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  16:05, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

It works now. Does the setup page load from Wikipedia? ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  16:09, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Yes. JJP...MASTER!_{[talk to] JJP... master?} 16:09, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

I think I know what happened then. Also, can you use nosubst for your sig so the code doesn't clog up pages? Just follow the instructions on the template. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  16:18, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Is this better? JJP...MASTER!_{[talk to] JJP... master?} 16:26, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Yep, that's good. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  16:30, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Xi Jinping

Hey, so as you may have seen, we had a very short article for Xi Jinping, then I moved Xi Jinping to my user space to avoid deletion. It's now at User:MrX/Xi Jinping. I'm not sure when I'll be able to work on it, almost for sure by the end of the month, but I'll probably try and work on Scientology first and then Joe Biden also inspired me to write an UnNews article today. Anyway, please feel free to add/change anything in Xi's article. Uncyc should definitely have an article about the world's largest country's leader, especially since we can expect him to be around for a while thanks to his elimination of term limits. And we could definitely use the help of any and all Chinese/Chinese-speaking Uncyclopedians, but no pressure, no rush. Cheers. MrX blow me 22:41, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Forum vote

Hey Hipponias, don't know if you noticed, but when you moved your vote on that forum, it somehow also copied Gale5050's against vote and duplicated it ahead of your for vote. Looks like it's all square now, no big deal, we all make mistakes. Cheers. MrX blow me 21:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't realise that, thanks for telling me! I encountered an edit conflict twice, so I was getting quite frustrated. I probably copied the text over by accident in the edit conflict boxes. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  21:37, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Yeah that's what I figured. Edit conflicts are annoying. MrX blow me 21:56, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Collaboration on Apostrophe

I have written some funny things in the article Apostrophe. It says that the apostrophe is an animal. Would you like to write more about it? Feel free to reject. --Jabberwock (talk) 03:29, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

No need now, I can write it myself. --Jabberwock (talk) 03:41, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Regarding your edit of that one Chinese-Character's talkpage that happened like a minute ago

Do you know how to write Chinese? If so, that's so cool! ---WohMi, the best damn duelist on this website (talk) 16:48, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

@WohMi: Yeah, I have a Chinese input method on my computer, although I haven't written anything physically for quite a while. The original text in Chinese actually meant "Chinese people are very poor (if they are poor)" instead of "my Chinese is poor" so I had to fix it.

P.S. If you thought the characters in their username were complicated, it's because they are. Their userpage says "My name only has difficult Chinese characters". I'm fluent in Chinese and I don't even know the half of their meanings. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  18:06, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Happy Monkey Competition 2021

Hey its HAPPY MONKEY TIME 2021 (Feb 21-28). Your favourite writing competition where we write articles on one another's suggested topics. Go ahead and sign up because the more users we have competiting the more ridonculously fun it is. If you don't wanna write you can sign up to judge! Sing up here. Remember it's not about writing a sure fire VFH article, but pushing the limits of your originality and creativity and spitting out an article on a topic you had never thought about writing before. Also...Shabidoo will love you forever and owe you like a zillion favours for it. He will literally do anything to please you if it means you participate. Happy Monkey Farts!!! ShabiDOO 15:17, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

I've signed up already, but thanks for the reminder. I'll send my chosen topic over soon. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  15:21, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Uh, VFH

I did some more cleanups on New York (state), does that change your mind on the VFH? --Gale5050 complain about me! And see my Wikipedia contributions! 13:54, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Notification

Hello, Hipponias. You have new messages at Talk:Interstate 95#Good article review.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Gale5050 complain about me! And see my Wikipedia contributions! 13:40, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

This edit has been approved by Cassie as in compliance with UN:OFFICE sanctions.  Cassandra  (talk) 01:44pm  February 15, 2021

Please

Please vote against my article HowTo:Mess up Uncyclopedia on VFH. But make sure you read it before voting. --Jabberwock (talk) 08:35, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Hey, Hipponias, thank you for helping me add more creative content to my idea and execution. I love how you always add more laughs to everything! Captain MarcusL (talk) 17:39, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

@Captain MarcusL: Well, with time you can become good at writing articles too. It's all about experience. Humour doesn't come right away. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  17:51, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice! Captain MarcusL (talk) 18:57, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

PFP

You might want to check out UN:PFP, where you can vote on images after they were featured. I think you'll enjoy it. --Gale5050 complain about me! And see my Wikipedia contributions! 21:53, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Fun stuff

Yo!

You're good with the aesthetic stuff right? Care to help with designing our 2020 "Best" of logo??

Forum:Top 10 Articles of 2020 Logo

MrX blow me 09:03, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

I've made a first draft here. It's a bit blurry, but hopefully people can comment on the design. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  13:22, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

I love it! Thanks! MrX blow me 15:39, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi --The ills might a bartakesome who sled beary losice knot or'd ent grubles ay, beam. (a proverb) (talk) 19:03, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Score:

Happy Monkey Competition Topic

Hey. Ready to dig deep into your creative juices? Your topic for the Happy Monkey Competition is:
 Contract bridge.
Please write an article on this topic in your userspace/sandbox (if you don't know how to do so just reply here and I'll help you set it up). You have one week starting right now to complete an article. It can be anything (you can write a standard article, something off the wall, a news piece, an unbook...whatever you like). Remember that you are being judged quite strictly and equally in points by three categories: Originality, creativity (with the topic) and humour. Being original is as important as being funny (you can reference other works if you like...just do it in an original way). So go outside of your comfort box, be bold and write something you've never written before. Most importantly have fun. Happy monkey wishes you luck and pisses all over your face. ShabiDOO 21:18, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

What?! That's literally the topic I chose! I thought I wouldn't get that. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  21:23, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

CorrectedShabiDOO 21:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Hey there. You still have until Sunday to write. Hope you can finish an article :) ShabiDOO 00:37, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Huggle message

Hi _Hipponias!

Uncyclopedia has been on a growth spurt as of recently, and as such, we are introducing a brand new feature to the table tonight: Huggle! Yes, the same tool you know and love from Wikipedia has made its way into the Uncyclomedia Foundation's impenetratable walls.

Huggle makes it easy to revert vandalism, leave messages to users and basically speedily process edits here on Uncyclopedia. You may also use it to block users and do other things, if you are a sysop!

To use Huggle, you must be both extended-confirmed (having 500 edits and 30 days' existence), and you must also have rollback rights. If you are an admin who does not have either of these rights, feel free to grant them to yourself. Some features, such as page protection and user blocking, are locked behind the walls of adminship.

If you wish to install Huggle, feel free to do so now! For assistance, please contact either JJPMaster or Cassie, who are jointly responsible for this implementation of Huggle.

Have a wonderful day, and may Sophia bless you, Charlie the bot (talk) 01:39, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

The Happy Monkey Competition is ending soon

Hi Hipponias!

The Happy Monkey Competition 2021 ends in less than 22 hours! Please make sure that you article is sufficiently good in quality by the time this time limit elapses, since your article will be judged, regardless of quality, at the aforementioned time.

Remember that you will be judged on:

• Originality
• Humour
• Creativity, with the topic

Good luck! May Sophia be with you, Charlie the bot (talk) 02:07, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Protect from vandalism

Many pages protected from vandalism. Why? Тима Мурашко 10:33, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

It's because they are extremely popular (e.g. AAAAAAAAA!), visible (e.g. Main Page), or they are frequently vandalized. Once you get autoconfirmed (reach 10 edits), you'll be able to edit pages with semi-protection, which is the most common type of protection. If you want a page unprotected, ust ask Cassie on his talk page. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  10:46, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Reverted edits

A few notes:

• The info template I used is less bytes than what is there now. If you don't like the look of it I understand, it's your article so it's up to you. Keep in mind that this is not Wikipedia, and we don't necessarily care about looking 'encyclopedic.'
• The China template needs to be alphabetized, if you don't like the link to the Ming Dynasty you should add a section where it is appropriate to link to such things. Keep in mind that it should be a place for all China-related articles, not just articles that you like or approve of.
  • The yellow that was used in the template previously was illegible and the overall design of the template is somewhat deprecated for mobile development going forward.
  • The png image used in the template is actually the wrong format, it should be a jpeg or have a transparent background.

~Formerly Annoying Crap 12:38, 4 March 2021

The reason I reverted the infobox change was because it looked off (at least to me) and a proper infobox looks better. We are not Wikipedia but we do parody them and having some elements look similar to theirs is beneficial.

I know the navbox design looks off on mobile, but I don't have the expertise/time to change it to a mobile-friendly format. If you can do so, please do (by the way, thanks for the gradient!). I've added Ming Dynasty to the 'culture' category and I hope that's appropriate.

Go ahead with converting the png to jpeg and alphabetize the list, I don't mind at all. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  12:53, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

I like the new infobox. It feels cozy. --WohMi, the Dueling King (talk) 13:27, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, Wikipedia has actually updated their code to be more like mine since I coded it in 2009. The taxoboxes versus infoboxes is a debate over a decade old. Ultimately we are moving from grey to color. I wish I got paid for this stuff. ~Formerly Annoying Crap 20:12, 4 March 2021

You did it! 3rd Place!

Hey Hipponias! First thanks for participating in the Happy Monkey 2021 Competition. Was a lot of fun this year. You got a VERY respectable third place. Your article on your clear misunderstandings about contract bridge made us laugh out loud.

You article Contract Bridge scored 82/120 points.

You can see the full scores and feed back for your article here.

Full competition scores and results are here.

Consider telling 1st and 2nd place how awful their articles were and how you totally should have won!

Thanks again and happy monkey lovingly farts all over your article. ShabiDOO 10:51, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Happy Monkey Competition articles

Hi Hipponias! I just wanted to remind you all that you may now freely move the articles you have written for the Happy Monkey Competition '21 into mainspace, and subsequenty, say, throw 'em into VFH or something. Everything's now in your control!

Congratulations to Scofield, Cat and Hipponias for scoring the most points this year! The articles this year were of very high quality; I sure do hope that you can replicate such impressive performance once Poo Lit Surprise comes along! Honorable mention goes to WohMi, who managed to score the most points per word used: 5.8 points per word!

Have a great day, and may Sophia bless you! Charlie the bot (talk) 00:49, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Hippidoo

Hey Hippidoderoo! I haven't seen you around in a bit. Hope all is well and you come back soon! ShabiDOO 12:12, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Uncyclopedia is usually blocked at my school, so I can't always edit it. I haven't forgotten about this and I will be much more active during the holidays! ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  17:29, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Totally understandable. Don't be a strangeroo! ShabiDOO 19:32, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Uncyclopedia:Universal Top 10 Election

You are welcome to vote in Uncyclopedia:Universal Top 10 Election (or erection). --Jabberwock (talk) 01:19, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Interstate 98

Yeah I know everything's all over the place.A redo may be the only option, but I'll keep trying. Gale5050 aka Andrew5 let's talk! See me on WP! Do not click before August 21:49, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Reverted edits...

Hello, I'm sorry but I do not like the way the {{Q}} template looks on the mobile website, it is a blatant ripoff of Rasmussen College. Since Marmot is one of my articles, I prefer to use the {{nicequote}} template. Perhaps you can look into why the regular quote template renders with such oversized text across the mobile website, it is garish. Thank you. ~Formerly Annoying Crap 04:55, 30 March 2021

Sorry for rollbacking your edit. I was on mobile and I was trying to click something else. IMO the quote template looks fine on mobile. ~ Hipponias^CUN - Talk - Contribs - Articles  07:50, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

UnNews:East Coast receiving severe weather to end March

Thanks for moving. Then again, the grammar was still messed up, so I moved it again. Just letting you know. --Gale5050 aka Andrew5 let's talk! See me on WP! Do not click before August 20:49, 31 March 2021 (UTC)