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Deletion Appeal
The reason my pasta felt "unfinished" was because my browser tends to crash unexpectedly a lot, so sometimes when I am working on stuff like that, it usually crashes without warning, and it doesn't save my work, so I do slight edits on it and save so my browser won't crash on me and my masterpiece will be gone ;) --Liammeister (talk) 01:28, October 24, 2016 (UTC)

Old Account and Deletion Appeal
If you're interested, I'm here to verify my email to lend credibility to me being SP, as it was mentioned on my application for rollback, and I thought of the idea to add a vehicles category (random but old so maybe that will help). I have sent it to you before regarding the slack channel when I was SP. Would you add me to the slack channel?

Also, would I be able to help out on deletion appeal? It's something I used to do and never had any issues with other users and I did thorough reviews there. That would help out the wiki IMO.

TenebrousTorrent  02:40, October 27, 2016 (UTC)

You're reactivated. ClericofMadness (talk) 03:28, October 27, 2016 (UTC

Profile
There's a link on your profile that leads to a deleted category (it says "There are currently 0 unfinished pages pending review."): User:ClericofMadness

TenebrousTorrent 10:13, October 27, 2016 (UTC)

Rules Addition
I remember there was a rule against adding posts that contain links to other wikis (or maybe it was adding posts that mention other wikis), but I can't find it. That was a good rule IMO. Do you think that should still be a rule? If so, it should be added to the rules under "General Rules", "Spam Pages and Troll Pastas", "Blog Rules", "Talk Page Etiquette", and "Article Comment Policy". There's a post here about another wiki.

TenebrousTorrent  03:04, November 4, 2016 (UTC)


 * There definitely should have been an No Advertisment policy somewhere in there.  I'll poke around tomorrow to see if it is and if it isn't, it will be. ClericofMadness (talk) 05:26, November 4, 2016 (UTC)

New Category Idea: Houses
Houses would be a nice distinction from the places category, and searchers could save time if they're more interested in either places or houses. I think there would be more than enough stories to fill the category. I'd obviously help with adding the category to stories.

TenebrousTorrent  05:58, November 4, 2016 (UTC)


 * Fairly sure this is waaay too broad of a category.  ClericofMadness (talk) 06:39, November 4, 2016 (UTC)


 * It would narrow down a broader category, Places. Why would it not be a good idea if it is too broad?


 * TenebrousTorrent  08:46, November 4, 2016 (UTC)


 * Because, define for me the parameters of this category. Just...do that. ClericofMadness (talk) 16:14, November 4, 2016 (UTC)


 * A place would be an amusement park, for example, and a house would be a house. If somebody was interested in houses they could search the places category, but it would be faster if they could have all the stories about houses. If they were looking for a story about an amusement park, they wouldn't waste time sifting through the stories about houses. The work is already done.


 * TenebrousTorrent  00:00, November 5, 2016 (UTC)


 * By THAT logic, we should make a category for amusement parks, towns, forests, etc. Which would be deemed excessive. that's just me though. I personally don't think it's necessary. Psychobilly2422 (talk) 01:56, November 6, 2016 (UTC)

Re: Delete Now
Ok.

TenebrousTorrent  05:30, November 6, 2016 (UTC)

Rules Pages
Did you add to the rules that there should not be advertising/linking of other wikis?

TenebrousTorrent  04:46, November 8, 2016 (UTC)

Apologies/Discussion
Tone is such a hard thing to convey at times on the Internet. What I meant to imply by that "Stfu or get banned" comment was that I intend to push to get my story on the site, but I'm not willing to get banned for it. Apologies if it was not taken that way.

Cleric, I'm not trying to insult you, Dupin, or anyone else. I'm not trying to take anything away from Banning, which is why I've reached out to him twice now, first for his permission to make the appeal, and then to ask him to throw in his support once Jay and Skelly seemed to make a case for me (which Banning has emailed me and told me he did.)

I'm not trying to attack Dup. I love Dup. I've got a long working relationship with him. I originally reached out to his talk page when I made the appeal because of that relationship: I knew he would make sure the appeal got looked at. I made my responses on his talk page because he is the one that has been responding to me and I'm trying to get a clear cut answer on why my appeal is being denied.

You say that the rules are up for reexamination. That's all well and good...but as Jay said, they have not yet been changed.

You say you aren't a dictator. What am I supposed to think based on my current circumstances? As of right now I have at least three of the, I believe eight now that we have PsychoBilly, administrators giving their support for my story making the site. Dupin has given the story a positive review in the past so at the very worst I feel he is a neutral vote, though I may be wrong. That leaves Tom and SloshedTrain, neither of whom I've heard from so far. You, sir, who are the only one to have come out with anything negative to say about my story, at least that I have been privy to. I have probably spent close to thirty hours writing, editing, and revising this story. I am (God help me) an artist and for my art this amazing website you've created is the single best place for me to put my work so others can see it right now. And I am will to fight for that.

I can't argue with you that this story is shackled by the original. Hell, that was the point: everyone said it was impossible to take the original Jeff the Killer narrative and turn it into something that met the quality standards of the site. I took that as a challenge, and think that I succeeded. I am asking, begging if that's what it takes, for you to please reconsider.

If I've reached the limit of your patience, please feel free to tell me to STFU or get banned. (I say..ah...I say that's a joke son.). Thank you for your time.

Shadowswimmer77 (talk) 06:23, November 8, 2016 (UTC)

Cleric, what do you want me to say?
That doesn't answer any of the points that I made. And yes, I feel that the decision is being railroaded as I currently have, by my count, a vote of 3-2 from the admins to let the story on the site (it appears I was incorrect and Dup is against it). And once again, I don't want to get banned for this, and I'm serious when I say I'm not trying to insult you. But please, try to see it from my perspective.

As for combative? I'm not calling names, I'm trying to be civil. Am I passionate? Sure. But I want to walk away from this still friends with everyone, regardless of the outcome. I've commented on things that I don't understand and am trying to convey how it appears from where I'm sitting.

Shadowswimmer77 (talk) 06:41, November 8, 2016 (UTC)

So excited
That I got the great Cleric of Madness to make a train noise on my talk page. That makes my day regardless of the outcome here.

Shadowswimmer77 (talk) 06:47, November 8, 2016 (UTC)

Sounds fun
First person to ever have the Creepypasta admin team run a train on him. Wait...

Shadowswimmer77 (talk) 06:59, November 8, 2016 (UTC)

Good times. Look I have to call it as it is getting way late here and I, unfortunately, have to get up for a job tomorrow that has nothing to do with Creepypasta. I hope y'all actively consider my appeal...id appreciate knowing how the final decision is made (particularly if it's in the negative) as it would make me just feel better about everything for my own sanity. I'm also hoping I've managed to clear the air...I'm being 100% honest when I say this is a great site/community you've built and I really do feel privileged to have my small part in it, and would hate to do anything to jeopardize my reputation as an (I think) generally easy going, agreeable individual. Cheers and thanks for the discussion. Shadowswimmer77 (talk) 07:11, November 8, 2016 (UTC)

Blocking Policy
The wording on the Creepypasta Wiki: Blocking Policy page is too harsh IMO, that was an issue with the quality standards revamp a while back. Would you change "category abuse" to "a category violation"? A lot of times the mistakes with category violations are from first-time users. The templates regarding category violations all stick with the term "violation" even that term is a bit severe.

TenebrousTorrent  01:28, November 10, 2016 (UTC)

There's violations, and there's also abuse. Abuse gets you banned. Violations gets you warned. This is abuse:


 * I can agree with that. The page does say "in most cases of first-time category abuse", would you change it to "For first-time category violations"? It's not really necessary to block someone for a first-time category violation like that unless they were warned already, IMO. Some new users reading the rules may think the wiki is cutthroat reading about abuse of categories, especially with mentioning first-time offenses. And I don't think intentional category violations should be explained on that page, it's pretty rare and self-explanatory. But it could be iterated that going overboard with new categories after being warned is normally a reason for a block. There's also a missing word: "users should be given (a) warning". (CTRL+F to locate specific words on the page).


 * TenebrousTorrent  01:47, November 10, 2016 (UTC)

Deletion
Would you delete this redirect page?

TenebrousTorrent  03:43, November 10, 2016 (UTC)

Old Forum Thread
Would you close this thread? It's old and gaining posts.

TenebrousTorrent  04:48, November 10, 2016 (UTC)

Interview request
Hi,

I'm contacting you as Mr Dupin suggested I get in touch for a project on which I'm currently working.

I'm an author and journalist for the UK's largest horror site and I'm currently writing a series of features on the most iconic, frightening and culturally significant Creepypastas and internet legends, later to be collected into an eBook.

Here are a couple of examples to give you an idea of what I'm doing: http://www.ukhorrorscene.com/dark-web-steven-hickeys-essential-guide-to-creepypasta-part-17-penpal/

http://www.ukhorrorscene.com/dark-web-steven-hickeys-essential-guide-to-creepypasta-part-20-funnymouth/

I wondered if I might be able to ask you a few questions about the Creepypasta Wikia and the whole Creepypasta phenomenon?

Needless to say I would be more than happy to show you the article for your approval before publishing and would be sure to include all credits and links to your sites, plus references to any upcoming projects for which you might appreciate any additional publicity.

Thanks so much for taking the time to read this, I really do appreciate it.

Best wishes and kindest regards, Steve

MisterStuff MisterStuff (talk) 13:20, November 14, 2016 (UTC)

Interview request
Wonderful, thank you so much! I tend to conduct interviews via email, is that OK? MisterStuff (talk) 15:55, November 15, 2016 (UTC)

why did u delete my pasta?

We Go Bump IV
Cleric, just curious if there were any updates on this. Is it still happening? Shadowswimmer77 (talk) 05:27, December 7, 2016 (UTC)
 * Completely unacceptable. We of the CP wiki community demand you sacrifice your so called "normal life" to appease our omnipresent drive for approval and validation. There are dozens of us! Dozens!
 * You...you monster!

Testing
Yo yo@ Psychobilly2422 (talk) 06:42, December 8, 2016 (UTC)

Re: Sig
Dunno. You can see my test here after my "oppose" vote. http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Creepypasta_Wiki:Requests_for_Rollback/Derpyspaghetti Shows up as four tildes to me (and I wrote them in source mode). Either I'm crazy or my user account is haunted. Either way I have the basis for a cliche-ridden pasta. Shadowswimmer77 (talk) 07:04, December 8, 2016 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know it's not how it works. And I did that. And then I hit publish and the nowiki text repopulates. Like I said, crazy, or haunted account.
 * Yay? I guess? Thanks anyway, appreciate you looking into it. Have a good one. Geez, how is it this late already? I may be crazy after all...

Forum Question
Excuse me, admin? I was wondering if in the off-topic board, I could upload my outline for my story to fix any plot holes that it has.

Thanks for your time.

Creeper50 (talk) 16:51, December 10, 2016 (UTC)Creeper50


 * Addressed.


 * TenebrousTorrent  Talk 17:54, December 10, 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism
There's vandalism by this user: Special:Contributions/Ranoutofideasforaname. All of the user's contributions through 02:37, December 11, 2016 (UTC) need to be reverted.

TenebrousTorrent  Talk 02:37, December 11, 2016 (UTC)


 * Addressed.


 * TenebrousTorrent  Talk 04:00, December 11, 2016 (UTC)

Hi, this is Sandwicheater199. Today, I just made a story called " The red el camino ". But for some weird reason, my story got deleted because it said that it did not meet any standards. Is their anyway you can bring this story back on this wiki, because this is my first post on here and it makes me feel bad that I didn't follow the rules, but I did, I think. Please reply back if you get this message. Sandwicheater199 (talk) 21:26, December 11, 2016 (UTC)

I'm trying to write a pasta named "(C) FILENAME IMSCARED", and i was nearly done. Then a pop-Up said i was doing illegal things to MY OWN PAGE!!!!. All i wanna tell you is that i was trying to write a pasta.

-CHARACTER NOT SHOWN

Thought of Something
I'm here to suggest the parental page be moved to the front page, there's an empty space in the top right area of the screen. It's on a good spot on the navbar, but there's no reason to keep it off the front page.

TenebrousTorrent  Talk 08:02, December 15, 2016 (UTC)


 * The Creepypasta Wiki:Style Guide for Writing has "attacked" where it should say "attached". Would you please fix that?


 * TenebrousTorrent  Talk 08:26, December 15, 2016 (UTC)

Hello There!
My name is Hailey Sawyer and I was wondering if you could take a look at a story I'm currently working on. So far, it contains about 14 chapters so I can send you a certain amount of chapters per message if that will make reviewing the story easier for you. The story is called A Trip to Cape Cod That I Won’t Forget (Originally called R.L Stine’s: The Haunting Hour Season 4 Episode 13) and it's basically a lost episode pasta that goes for a more psychological approach. I've made sure to use as few cliches as possible and to correct any grammar error I see. If you're interested in reviewing the story, let me know and I'll send you the first three or four chapters.

Heeere's Hailey!  Wanna Talk?   23:35, December 17, 2016 (UTC)

Reply to "Yes and No" Message
Oh my god! I totally forgot here were different types of admins! Ha ha! Forgive me for that! Also, I'll remember to post the chapters off site the next time I want to show certain chapters from the story.

As for Lost Episode pastas, yes I agree. It's a genre that tends to follow the same formulas over and over and I can see why they wouldn't normally be allowed on here in this day and age. But I do like a good challenge and making a Lost Episode pasta that seems at least somewhat fresh is definitely no easy task. Though, if it is going to be featured on this wiki, I'm really going to have to up my game or just post it off site if that doesn't work out.

I have a copy of the full story (it's at least 14 chapters long and at this point us unfinished) if you're interested in looking at it. I've been writing this pasta for nearly two years now and it has gone though a ton of changes (you should see how the first draft turned out. Spoiler Alert! It sucked!) Though, I'll look it over to see how I can make the beginning of the story less formulaic. You see, for this story, I'm aiming for a more psychological approach (which is something very few if not no Lost Episode pasta has tried before) which should help set the story apart from others in the genre. I'm also reviewing every episode of the show that the pasta is based on for research purposes.

Thank you for voicing your opinion on the matter! It really gave me an idea of the odds I'm up against.

Heeere's Hailey!  Wanna Talk?   08:57, December 18, 2016 (UTC)

alternate endings
can alternate endings be thier own catagory. it would be quite usefull.

The Right and Honerable King Of rapture, SonOfRyan (talk) 15:01, December 21, 2016 (UTC)

Mindfuck catagory
Hey! I'd like to add a new catagory that, well I accidently added anyway. (it was deleted)

The catagory is "Mindfuck" or something like that.

Its pretty simple, anything that really shifts your reality or makes you question your own existence is a mindfuck.

ThisIsLucid (talk) 14:40, January 25, 2017 (UTC)Lucid


 * Answered as this seems like a rehashing of the 'shock ending' category. EmpyrealInvective (talk) 14:46, January 25, 2017 (UTC)

I love you.

EugeneKKKrabs (talk) 11:36, February 3, 2017 (UTC)Secret Lover

Please message me, i'm in love with you.

Non - NSFW Page
I think there should be another page or category for stories that aren't NSFW (or all NSFW stories should be labeled) because it's easy to accidentally pull up an NSFW story.

MysteriousApplesauce (talk) 15:55, February 6, 2017 (UTC) MysteriousApplesauce