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The Back Alley

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A place to sit in a dumpster with your own bottle & moan about the saloon bar

Musha rig um du rum da
Whack fol the daddy o
Whack fol the daddy o
There's whiskey in the jar

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What is the validity of that statement.[edit]


How do I add a topic to the Saloon Bar?[edit]

I can't find a way to add a topic on the saloon bar I want to discuss. NewUser (talk) 19:55, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

At this time, posting in the saloon bar is a privilege restricted to autoconfirmed users because of excessive trolling. You may try again later when the protection is lifted. —cosmikdebris talk stalk 21:35, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
I will point out that it's not hard to get autoconfirmed. KarmaPolice (talk) 04:07, 18 December 2024 (UTC)
Would it be possible to autoconfirm me? Or am I not trustworthy yet, as a new editor? If I was a troll I could have vandalised already anyway, I'm just trying to start a topic on the Saloon Bar. NewUser (talk) 20:40, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
It's something that gets added to your account automatically after a certain number of edits and time after your account was created. Plutocow (talk) 20:43, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

I have selective autism; I can choose when and when not to be autistic[edit]

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Donglepuss (talk) 07:45, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Conditional Commons Block / LTA Management[edit]

We've got another problem here. An regular LTA troll (probably the same one that vandalized my userspace last fall) is spamming images and using hateful edit summaries at high speeds. Yet the blocked Commons image situation is difficult to manage since it's a blanket solution. Any way to block the image but create exceptions to one article? TheEternalOutsider (talk) 23:35, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia already has a feature on its Bad Image List that creates exceptions for only one or a few articles, and Wikipedia has an LTA report dashboard. Anything that RW can similarly use to defend itself? TheEternalOutsider (talk) 23:37, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

VIP Bar[edit]

The main bar can get quite rowdy and chaotic, and that's often a bad thing for many reasons. I've already brought it up once, and I'll bring it up again for this. Do we need a sysop-only VIP section of the Bar for sysops to talk about things without the risk of vandals or trolls derailing them? TheEternalOutsider (talk) 23:51, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

No. Spud (talk) 14:57, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
Definitely no! Scream!! (talk) 19:27, 5 March 2025 (UTC)
It would hardly be a proper bar without the occasional brawl, now would it? Kencolt (talk) 17:54, 7 March 2025 (UTC)