I spent part of last night figuring out, and straightening out, what went wrong on the wiki. Basically: people and IP addresses that look suspicious (they make lots of edits, particularly small ones over a short period of time; create new pages that seem to have little data, etc) get blocked. That's valuable to me, so I don't want to stop it. Instead, here's how you can make sure you don't get accidentally targeted:
- LINKING: Make sure any links you make are properly formed. For instance, if a page refers to "her teacher" and you want to turn "her teacher" into a link, search on the wiki to find the full name of the page before linking (it's "Kellen Grove" ). You can make a link to a page and still use a different word as a link. This:
[[Kellen Grove| her teacher]]
...will still display "her teacher", but link to the page "Kellen Grove."
Regardless, doublecheck how you link things. Characters are inevitably known on the wiki by their full name and should be linked that way: [[Liral Sura Eddings]] not [[Liral]] [[Sura]] [[Eddings]].
It's all right to make links to pages that don't exist, but it should be rare. Check to make sure if some form of them exists first.
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NEW PAGES: New pages with almost no text on them always trigger 'this is spam'. While there are no set guidelines on when you should create a new page, the guideline I use is "it can support more than one heading." So, for instance, right now I would put shock-staves on the "Alliance Military Technology" page, but if I wrote up some canonical data about their history, or some guy who used them famously, and it started getting to the point where I needed a history section, and a warnings section, and a military vs civilian versions section, then I'd make a new page for them.
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EDITORIALS: Questions from you to me, and editorial comments by you, should go in talk sections, not in the page itself. If you look at the top left, there are two tabs on every page, a "Page" and a "Discussion" tab. Choose the discussion tab and leave questions/comments you're not sure of there. Most pages right now don't have a talk page, but feel free to start one if you have something you want to put there. I've added a graphic there so you can see where to look for it.
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GUIDE: @madamebadger wrote us a really handy guide to common actions and formatting for the wiki. If you haven't already read it, please do! This is it:
https://peltedverse.org/wiki/index.php/Common_Actions
That should fix the issue going forward, and hopefully this guide helps. :)
