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{{Admin noticeboard}}
== Vandal issues ==
Please don't report anonymous users here after only a single vandal/spam edit. There's no point to blocking an IP if they are already finished with whatever mischief they were doing.

''Starting with the most recent vandals.''

; {{user|Boostupexpert}}
: As reported by Yimo below
::Also blocked by me. - [[User:Tanetris|Tanetris]] ([[User talk:Tanetris|talk]]) 17:23, 20 September 2024 (UTC)


; {{user|24.129.226.243}}
: They did a bunch of dubious edits in December regarding ways to force spawn certain champions / legendaries of which some I can confidently say they are wrong and I have reverted but others that are similarly bogus that would seemingly need some involvement to verify / disprove to revert them. The output on the Silverwastes legendaries makes me think it's possibly someone just manually pasted some AI slop without thinking anything bad. [[User:Endaris|Endaris]] ([[User talk:Endaris|talk]]) 15:47, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
:: Whilst its true their edits were of dubious quality, this isn't really an admin issue (incorrect content (''assume good faith'') vs intentionally malicious). Even if it was malicious, at this point I can't revert any of their edits since they've been superseded, and blocking them wouldn't be appropriate for a one-off IP. -[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 20:11, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

== Unable to reset account password Bennieboj.2607 ==
I made my account with username Bennieboj.2607 21/01/2017 according to my password manager.
My password doesn't work. I think something migration wise must have gone wrong.
I tried resetting the password by either supplying my email, my username all on different days (24h limit).
I never received any email.
I think I must have not set an email or something.
Could this be resolved. Not sure if I can/want to paste my email here. —''The preceding [[Help:Signatures|unsigned]] comment was added by'' [[Special:Contributions/84.197.251.219|84.197.251.219]] ([[User talk:84.197.251.219|talk]]) at 13:40, 16 December 2025‎ (UTC).
: Only a Bureaucrat can help you with this, admins (like myself and Kvothe) cannot.
: Your old account was created on 08/10/2016 (per [[Special:Log/Bennieboj.2607]]). According to [[Special:Contributions/Bennieboj.2607]], that account only had one edit.
: As it seems highly improbable that anyone would bother impersonating a 1-edit account, I'd suggest:
:# a b'crat could rename your old account (similar to [[Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Requests for user merge]] but just 'rename' instead of 'merge'.into your old account to something boring
:# you can then create a new account with the same name as the old one, and this time register an email.
:-[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 19:22, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
::As Alex suggested, one option would be to rename the old account to 'Bennieboj', and then you'll be able to recreate an account called 'Bennieboj.2607'. If this works for you, please let us know. [[User:Greener|Greener]] ([[User talk:Greener|talk]]) 20:34, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Edit: For some weird reason I can login now. Feel free to remove this section when you want to close this topic. Thanks for the help!

:Glad it's working for you, and thanks for letting us know. [[User:Greener|Greener]] ([[User talk:Greener|talk]]) 16:02, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

== not receiving email address change confirmation ==
i changed the email address associated with my account, but haven't received the confirmation email to actually confirm it. i waited several minutes, requested another. tried again hours laters. it's been about a day since i changed my email, and i have yet to received the confirmation email. i checked my spam/junk folders, as well as searching for anything gw2 wiki related, but came up empty. i hope i've put this in the correct place—it seems to me that it is something that only an admin could assist with. thank you! [[User:Gauzy|Gauzy]] [[File:User_Gauzy_Signature.png|20px|link=]] 23:18, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

== Spam: Overly large or inappropriate new title ==

I cannot create pages titled "Tyrian Alliance Report: Questions about the Astral Ward" and "Tyrian Alliance Report: Impact on Underwater Societies after Soo-Won", which are the title of books from Janthir Wilds, I get the message pointing me to this page: "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: Spam: Overly large or inappropriate new title"

And while I'm here, is it possible to create an account here and claim on it all the contributions made from this IP? —''The preceding [[Help:Signatures|unsigned]] comment was added by'' [[Special:Contributions/194.42.192.40|194.42.192.40]] ([[User talk:194.42.192.40|talk]]) at 05:36, 23 August 2024‎ (UTC).

: Heya. I can fish out the edits which were automatically rejected.
: I'm afraid there isn't a way to allocate your IP edits to an account once you've created it. After making 10 successful edits and waiting a couple of days this type of edit restriction is lifted on registered accounts. -[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 05:52, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

:: Created the two pages which got blocked for you. I've also added an exception to that filter for any pages with the "object infobox" in them (it already had an exception for hearts and events as those have always had long titles). -[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 05:58, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

== Attempting to Edit Guild Chat page, but blocked for large deletion ==

I finished the transcription and breakdown of the Guild Chat 35 page, however because of the large amount of un-transcribed text, it's blocking me from editing it. Giving me the 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: Content: Non-talk page namespaces, large removal (not autoconfirmed)

If I could get that approved, that'd be great.

[[Guild Chat - Episode 35]] —''The preceding [[Help:Signatures|unsigned]] comment was added by'' [[Special:Contributions/FaisUrsine|FaisUrsine]] ([[User talk:FaisUrsine|talk]]) at 22:02, 7 September 2024‎ (UTC).

: Heya, amazing job transcribing the whole guild chat episode. Added the content that you had submitted but been prevented from saving. -[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 22:25, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

== Spotted a spam user ==

User account by the name Boostupexpert recently triggered a change notification on [[Help_talk:Editing]] which I reverted, cleared the entire page and replaced it with what appears to be an SEO advert. 
If this is the incorrect place to report this, please let me know; I couldn't find anything about where to put it. [[User:Yimo|Yimo]] ([[User talk:Yimo|talk]]) 03:38, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
:This kinda thing goes in the [[#Vandal issues]] section above, for future reference. I've copied your report there, and also blocked the user in question, and also archived some older issues. - [[User:Tanetris|Tanetris]] ([[User talk:Tanetris|talk]]) 17:23, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

== Username Change Request ==

{{user|Aelantiel}}
If possible, I would like to request my Wiki Username to be changed from Aelantiel to Stardust in order to match my other accounts. —''The preceding [[Help:Signatures|unsigned]] comment was added by'' [[User:Aelantiel|Aelantiel]] ([[User talk:Aelantiel|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Aelantiel|contribs]]).
:Stardust already exists as a user account. Unless you control that account as well, this cannot be done. - [[User:Tanetris|Tanetris]] ([[User talk:Tanetris|talk]]) 07:30, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

== Unable to create account ==

My first attempts created an error for spamlike username for "DarkDragoon63" which I thought was maybe an error so attempted again adding my Real Name to show it wasn't spam. No dice.

Now I tried just "DarkDragoon" and it's flagging my IP address for creating 2 accounts in 1 day but the previous attempts didn't work. Is there anyway to resolve this? Or is there a lock out timer that I need to wait out? Honestly just trying to turn on the dark mode within the wiki.

Additionally what are the guidelines for usernames? Might be helpful to provide example of what the system deems as spamlike. —''The preceding [[Help:Signatures|unsigned]] comment was added by'' [[Special:Contributions/71.232.199.26|71.232.199.26]] ([[User talk:71.232.199.26|talk]]).
:Hey, sorry for the inconvenience! We don't want to share the specific rules for filtering account creation, but broadly speaking your first choice matched a naming pattern that's very commonly used by automated spambots. Our support engineer has reset the account creation limit for your IP, so please try creating "DarkDragoon" again and report back here if that doesn't work. We'll get you your dark mode one way or another. 💪 - [[User:Felix Omni|Felix]] [[User talk:Felix Omni|Omni]] 16:36, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

This worked beautifully. Thank you for the support and understand not wanting to share specifics. That makes sense. Thank you again.

:: To help guide users towards creating names that won't trigger filter 35 after receiving the first message, I've also added a custom message [[MediaWiki:Abusefilter-disallowed-35]]. -[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 18:08, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

== Username Change Request ==

{{user|HannahTheSlater}}

I just created my account, but I realized I misspelt it after it was too late. If possible, may it be changed to HannahTheSlayer to make it the same as my Arena.net account HannahTheSlayer.1968. Thank you regardless.

[[User:HannahTheSlater|HannahTheSlater]] ([[User talk:HannahTheSlater|talk]]) 10:43, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

:I am so sorry for the delay in renaming your account! It has been taken care of. [[User:Greener|Greener]] ([[User talk:Greener|talk]]) 02:24, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

== Special:WhatLinksHere 403 Forbidden ==

Was there a recent permissions change? It may be blocking IPs from accessing these links, which shouldn't be the case. [[Special:Contributions/24.23.247.110|24.23.247.110]] 00:09, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

:The wiki is currently being hit hard by AI bots trying to scrape the wiki for their language models. They're effectively DDoSing the wiki, and actual users such as you are unfortunately paying the price. [[User:Greener|Greener]] ([[User talk:Greener|talk]]) 02:19, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

::Can you elaborate on how bad it is? Are bots ignoring robots.txt/ai.txt and/or have found ways to circumvent rate limiting? Shouldn't the CDN you are using prevent exactly those kind of things? User experience has degraded massively over the past month, i.e. the wiki responds terribly slow in general and more often than not returns a 403 (to an oridinary user request).[[User:Necropola|Necropola]] ([[User talk:Necropola|talk]]) 10:58, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

== Unable to Update User Page ==

{{user|Hyliombi}}

I am creating a page to answer a variety of questions from my friends from Final Fantasy XIV as they look into potentially getting into Guild Wars 2. After adding a few more Youtube links showcasing things like mount usage, I got flagged with the following message even though I believe I was following the formatting properly:

Warning: This action has been automatically identified as harmful due to using a type of formatting common to non-wiki environments. If your edit was constructive, please go back and adjust your links to use appropriate wiki formatting.

EDIT: I have also attempted to remove all links from the section I am trying to add and still getting the same error...
EDIT2: Please ignore, I found the problem... Somewhere in the text it had a drawn out "ew" which got flagged as a link. Sorry about the trouble...

== darkmode ==
i want to create [[User:Reader/vector.css]] with content
<nowiki>@import "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Gadget-dark-mode.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css";</nowiki>
to activate darkmode, but i get error msg:
External links: New user creating page with external links.
pls help --[[User:Reader|Reader]] ([[User talk:Reader|talk]]) 17:30, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

: Copying the code should work, but be aware that most of the custom styling will be lost. Are you aware that Vector 2022 is the dark mode on this wiki? It can be found under Preferences -> Appearance -> Vector (2022). —[[User:Kvothe|'''K'''vothe]] [[User talk:Kvothe|'''(talk)''']] 21:26, 31 January 2026 (UTC)
:: no it dont work. i only get error message (see above) --[[User:Reader|Reader]] ([[User talk:Reader|talk]]) 21:00, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

::: The content of the edit is fine but you are being caught by the abusefilter since your account is not [[Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Autoconfirmed users]] yet. If you made 10 little allowed edits to your userpage (even if they don't add anything of value), you'll become autoconfirmed and no longer subject to the majority of Abusefilter rules. In the meantime, i will copy the edit that was prevented + submit it for you. -[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 21:52, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

::: Also, Kvothe suggested a valid alternative where you can change your wiki-skin preference, as we have configured Vector as a darkmode version on this wiki. (e.g. [https://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&useskin=vector how the mainpage looks]) -[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 21:53, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

== History merge of Currency exchange and Currency Exchange ==

Requesting merge of edit history for [[Currency exchange]] (lowercase e) into the current [[Currency Exchange]]. The article was copy-pasted over a redirect a couple years ago. --[[User:Hazasoul|Hazasoul]] ([[User talk:Hazasoul|talk]]) 15:37, 5 March 2026 (UTC)
: Done. -[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 22:26, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

== Merchendise page contais a large number of discontinued items. ==

I tried to move the discontinued items to the Merchandise/historical page. However due to the large number of items I'm unable to do so.
I have alredy aded the items to the historical page, altho they will reqire a bit of formating as I am quite inexperienced. Also the links may need to be altered [[User:Taburian|Taburian]] ([[User talk:Taburian|talk]]) 12:03, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
: Hello thank you so much for updating the page, I can see your edit got caught by the abusefilter ([https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Special:AbuseLog/520236 link for admin team]), I've pasted your proposed text straight onto [[Merchandise]] ([https://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Merchandise&diff=3122248 diff]), which looks good to me. Once you're [[Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Autoconfirmed users|autoconfirmed]] this problem won't happen again. -[[User talk:Chieftain Alex|'''Chieftain '''Alex]][[File:User Chieftain Alex sig.png|16px|link=User talk:Chieftain Alex]] 17:54, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

== Username Change Request ==

I would like to request a change to my wiki username, from "AnarchaKitten" to "Lunature", if that is possible. I changed my ArenaNet account name in the same way and I'd like them to match. Thank you regardless! :) [[User:AnarchaKitten|AnarchaKitten]] ([[User talk:AnarchaKitten|talk]]) 03:37, 25 June 2026 (UTC)

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