How to delete pages...

Since YC members who AREN'T admins or editors cannot delete Wiki pages and articles and often get themselves in a situation where they'd like to delete a page and find that they can't, I've created a template that users can add to a page that will include it into a category where we editors and those with all-mighty deleting powers can review and remove unwanted pages. Simply add {{delete}} to the page you would like to have removed and we'll get to it sooner or later. Please include if possible why you would like to have the page removed. This is done as follows: {{delete|Your reason here.}}

The category is here: Category:Pages Requested for Deletion

and the actual template is here: Template:Delete

This idea was suggested by Laogeodritt, so I thank him.

Edit: ... The emotes parsed in the links are a novel decoration, but really, is there a way we could eliminate this issue? Mike? Other Mike?

Edit: Fixed.
-Hill

Dude, try the "disable smilies in text" option below the post box. =P

EDIT: For the full posting/edit page only (click "Go Advanced" for quick post/edit).

IT IS???

Never saw that. Oh well, it doesn't do what I'd want. I can't use smilies when I have that checked. I was talking about disabling emotes when they happen to appear only in links ... as a global feature, that way other smilies can appear elsewhere in the post.

That'd require some regex magic in the smilie-parsing code of vBulletin. =\

Hmm, or defining an escape character that makes the following character(s) be interpreted literally and not converted into a smiley. But yeah, checking with a regex whether there are url tags around it should work too.

This is much helpful.

This is a rather bloody good idea. Thanks chaps

Originally Posted by Gardener

Hmm, or defining an escape character that makes the following character(s) be interpreted literally and not converted into a smiley. But yeah, checking with a regex whether there are url tags around it should work too.

Well, wouldn't the easiest way of checking for the escape character and whether it actually precedes a smiley be using a regex? I'd assume the escape character should itself be interpreted literally unless it precedes a smiley combination and is not itself escaped.

I guess you're right there.

For the record, the easiest way to make smilies not appear in a situation such as that is to use the [noparse] and [/noparse] tags.