Forum:Anon edits

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Since it's been almost a month now with no fixes or responses, I think we should take some temporary measures regarding the visual editor and the qref template since it makes it hard to catch vandalism and errors when anons use the visual editor. The only idea I could come up with is to temporarily disable anon edits until the problem is fixed. 02:35, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

This has nothing to do with videos. SeaTerror (talk) 06:51, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

I put it here because we also discussed this above. 08:16, June 29, 2014 (UTC)

After pushing so hard last year so that anons and new users would be allowed to edit after that legal fiasco that is still affecting some wikis, I am hesitant to follow your suggestion. A few bad apples may seem to spoil the whole bunch, but it really doesn't. 05:29, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

Some users also use it too anyway. SeaTerror (talk) 05:44, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

Stopping anons editing isn't going to fix this. All they're going to do is make an account and do the exact same thing, and that's not including existing users who use visual editor. All we can do is wait until we get the option to disable visual editor, and keep fixing pages.

09:04, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

Most of the time those people who use visual editor need to be undone anyway. SeaTerror (talk) 09:09, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

Maybe we could add something to the main page asking new editors to turn off the visual editor before editing. It won't affect vandals but it might mean fewer good edits that mess up refs. 17:27, July 1, 2014 (UTC)

What's the VE problem? Examples?

Editing in visual messes around with references and add pointless spaces to them. As an example, http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Rob_Lucci?diff=prev&oldid=1167519

However, we don't have any real option to fix it beyond just reverting any edits using it we see. Staff are seeing how it does, and until they're done testing it we can't remove it.

14:35, July 5, 2014 (UTC)

I should point out that spaces are commonly used to separate the parameters hence the VE might do it to "fix" the syntax. Also you talk about "fixing" but those spaces don't change anything so I don't really see the problem here. You are just used to the old style of this wiki of writing each parameter without any space at all... remember when infoboxes used to do the same what a real mess that was?

Those spaces actually do do something. They make the articles look bad in source mode and also make the articles larger data wise. SeaTerror (talk) 07:16, July 6, 2014 (UTC)

They also make it harder to spot vandalism and mistakes since we have to go through the entire article to see what they actually edited and what was just automated. 19:05, July 6, 2014 (UTC)