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Welcome to The Aquarium Wiki Chromis!

We strive to provide the aquarium community with a central repository of information to promote responsible fishkeeping.

We hope you will enjoy your time here sharing what you know, or just browsing what we have to offer.

We don't bite, and would be happy to help you learn how to edit this resource.
Just leave a message on the talk pages of any of the administrators - Brian, Quatermass, or Catxx.

Thank you for your edits! --Brian 01:30, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Haha! Thank you. A bit of OCD goes a long way! --Cat 11:46, 18 June 2013 (UTC)


So at first I thought you were having issues with this page Rhinecanthus rectangulus, Humuhumunukunukuapua'a is quite a name. Is there a reason you chose that as the primary name over a more english name? If I don't hear back from you I'm going to update it. --Brian 00:03, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your edits, looks like you are doing a great job. Let me know if there is anything you need from me --Brian (talk) 20:47, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Answers

To answer your questions:

1) Yes there are some pages and templates missing. This was due to the fact that we had hundreds of spam edits daily and the DB ended up maxed out on size (on disk). I had to take some action to clean up the legacy of these bots, and some stuff appears to have been removed in the process. I have a local backup of the wiki from a bit ago, but most of the missing pages I have gone looking for are missing from that too. The WayBack machine may be of some help here, but I haven't looked yet.

2) I removed that page redirecting to the Blank page. If you stay around for a bit Cat and I will talk about giving you the mod powers to do some of the more destructive actions :)

3) Generally it is better form to make a typo-ed page redirect to the correct page. That way external links or internal links still work. However as you seem to be hinting at, a redirect that is a typo shouldn't be linked to though (or really mentioned otherwise).

As for my absence, you can blame my 3 yr old and 4 month old for that :) Catt and I are always around and take care of spam in 1-2 days.

Also you can write --~~~~ to auto-sign your comments

A pleasure that I did my part in making this wiki a great place to be! :)

--Brian (talk) 22:25, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Fishbase

Done! It just needs the ID number in the code (look in the edit source option). You can get the ID code for the species either from the Fishbase URL or if it says the species name instead, if you go to the species' synonym page you'll be able to see the ID code in that Fishbase URL. Does that make sense?? --Cat (talk) 17:42, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey thanks for responding, I'll try some of your suggestions and let you know If I still have an issue.

I quickly tried again and got the following error?:

"This action has been automatically identified as harmful, and therefore disallowed. If you believe your action was constructive, please inform an administrator of what you were trying to do. A brief description of the abuse rule which your action matched is: More Magic"

I was trying to add the following info to my user page;

Jack Dempsey has over 20 years of experience with freshwater aquariums and loves to share his passion for the hobby with beginners and his children. Jack lives in Edmonton Alberta, Canada with his wife and two wonderful children. Jack is a Project Manager by Day and an Author/Blogger by night. Jack's goal is to help beginners avoid the biggest mistakes when getting started in the fish keeping hobby and writes about his own fish keeping mishaps & adventures on his blog.

Thanks for any help you can provide. Take care.

I'll give it another go

Hey Peter, You are correct I am using a work computer (that's my only one) so I'll try again, but if not no worries. I would love if you could update my page - but If I can't contribute to anything until I get a new computer it might not be worthwhile right now. I'll keep in touch, thanks for your help.