Often, it can be difficult for every moderator and admin to find every single violation within the Rules and Guidelines. This thread is for any violation or violator that a moderator or admin was not able to reach to, whether it being them not being present or them simply overlooking it. Notifying us about such incidents is highly appreciated, even the small ones that go under our noses.

Please stick with the Rules and Guidelines to report incidents rather than reporting something out of a bias against a person. Any moderators and/or admins present, please follow this thread so you can keep up with the reports as they come and go.

Often, it can be difficult for every moderator and admin to find every single violation within the Rules and Guidelines. This thread is for any violation or violator that a moderator or admin was not able to reach to, whether it being them not being present or them simply overlooking it. Notifying us about such incidents is highly appreciated, even the small ones that go under our noses.

Please stick with the Rules and Guidelines to report incidents rather than reporting something out of a bias against a person. Any moderators and/or admins present, please follow this thread so you can keep up with the reports as they come and go.

Often, it can be difficult for every moderator and admin to find every single violation within the Rules and Guidelines. This thread is for any violation or violator that a moderator or admin was not able to reach to, whether it being them not being present or them simply overlooking it. Notifying us about such incidents is highly appreciated, even the small ones that go under our noses.

Please stick with the Rules and Guidelines to report incidents rather than reporting something out of a bias against a person. Any moderators and/or admins present, please follow this thread so you can keep up with the reports as they come and go.

It has recently come to the attention of some of the Administrators that a rather tedious habit has been going around.

So whenever a What-If? DEATH BATTLE on this Wikia actually becomes anything that isn't a DBX, OMM, or DEATH BATTLE such as an episode of Fatal Conflict, Strife, Rewind Rumble, the list goes on; it has been noticed that some Users will often link that Battle onto the Wikia Page of the Battle in Question here, which while harmless and perfectly understandable is causing a slight issue.

So while their are various issues that can be seen with Users doing this, I will name the biggest one In My Opinion and if anyone wants to know the other issues then I will gladly explain in the Comments of the Thread Further however I will go into the Biggest Issue this has from my Perspective;

My Issue with this being done is that it that the Episodes of Fatal Conflict, Strife, and Rewind Rumble are being advertised, which is the problem; The Episodes simply just sit there in the Comments of the Page on a Battle that Someone is working on and that Video doesn't help the Page as it is only riding off the coattail of the Page's Popularity and Work which lies the problem.

It is understandable that if they are being posted because the Battle has been Animated in some capacity by a skilled Animator and because it is the same match-up as the Page in question then it holds relevance too the page because of the fact that it is the same exact battle however that doesn't change the fact that the Animation is riding off the success and hype of someone else's work rather than using it's own to get attention and such which is ultimately not okay.

HOWEVER

Do not take this as me or the other Admins saying that you aren't allowed to share these Animations and Other Vs Match-Up, that is far from what we are saying because that instead of posting them not in the Comments on the Page of the Battle, you Instead Post them in the Comments of one of the Combatant's page

Example: If Dante were to appear in an Episode of Fatal Conflict, then I'd post the Episode in the Comments of his Page rather than in the Comments of the Battle page.

By doing this, The Battle Pages aren't being used to Adverise the Episodes of Fatal Conflict and the rest and People can freely link the Episodes without issue or Problems.

In the theme of Highlights being removed, anyways:

1. Go to Special:AdminDashboard and hit Announcements, or go to https://deathbattlefanon.wikia.com/announcements manually

2. Specify the name of the announcements, i.e. the text the users will get to see

3. Specify a destination URL - where will the user end up when they click the Announcement?

4. Hit Post.

NOTES:

• Only one announcement can be active at once.
• They last for thirty days.
• Every single user who contributed in the last 90 days is sent this nonetheless of what wiki they are on

More in-depth guide at https://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help%3AAnnouncements

So it has recently come to my attention that we have Characters and by extension some battles with rather misleading names.

Too explain what I mean, basically when a Character is referred to as a certain alias then they will usually be added with that alias in mind despite the fact that their have been multiple characters who go by that specific title but I'll list some examples.

Venom: An alias in Marvel shared between Harry Osborn (Depending on the Verse), Eddie Brock, Mac Gargan, and Flash Thompson

Lancer: A alias in Fate shared by Cu Chulainn, Karna, Scathach, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and numerous other Servants

And their are various other examples on the Wikia that can be used, now then I know some of you are wondering... "Ghost? Why are you bringing this up though?"

Well the reason is because that simply referring to those characters as simply that specific alias is causing a rather large issue of confusion when it comes to which of those characters are being used with some examples being: Kyoko Sakura vs Lancer, Scorpion vs Meruem, Lancer vs Pyrrha Nikos, Polnareff vs Lancer and various other battles that do this issue.

The issue in question is that the lack of specification causes confusion due to various characters sharing the same alias such as Venom, Lancer, Scorpion, as well as numerous other characters and in most instances the specification only comes in the form of Thumbnails however that can also cause problems as sometimes the Thumbnails are portraying the wrong character.

So what is to be done? Well it's actually very simple and that is too just specify the person for pages and for battles specify which character who uses that alias is through the title with examples like this: Mai Hazuki VS Lancer (Cú Chulainn), Saber (Artoria Pendragon), Scorpion (Marvel Comics), Vergil VS Berserker (Lancelot), Dante (DmC: Devil May Cry)

By Specifying which version is being used in the title, it removes the likelyhood of confusion for those who are unable to know which character is being used due to the alias  being shared by various other characters.

So I was thinking about the rule for battle royales & verse fights that was set awhile back, and how there's no real way to have more than 12/24 combatants unless the characters are really simplistic (in which case it's 20/40). Since the aforementioned rule was made to keep incomplete battles from plaguing the wiki, I thought maybe it'd be okay to have these battles made in blogs.

However, that was when I had an idea, the subject of this thread actually. Now before I say it, I'm by no means trying to challenge the old rule, just wanted to see if there was a way for users to have larger fights without causing problems.

Anyways, my idea is this. Users who want to make fights containing more than the rules allow can make it in a blog (or some text software, I guess it doesn't matter). Then when it's finished, AND ONLY WHEN IT'S FINISHED, could it be allowed on the wiki. That way people can make the fights they want without leaving incomplete fights on the wiki.

I made sure to think this over, but no one's perfect. If you have any questions/concerns, or notice any problems, then please let me know.

BIG’S EDIT: I have decided to highlight this thread in order to get more user’s opinions on the matter.

Hello everyone, I just wanted to take a moment to discuss the inactivity of the majority of this wiki’s ‘Help Threads’.

For the last couple of months the vast majority of this wiki’s Help Threads with the expection of the ‘Thumbnail Rating Game’ have been pretty inactive and when users ask for support on said threads (particularly on the ‘Fight Render Request Thread’ and the ‘Thumbnail Request Thread’) the majority of them haven’t received the support they have asked for as the following screenshot shows below, so I now want to encourage the community to start using the vast majority of the Help Threads more frequently so that all current and future users of the wiki can receive the support they need with the various aspects of creating their own What-If? Death Battles. Since the majority of this wiki’s Help Threads were particularly popular from February - May of this year I know that this is a task that we can accomplish and I will be highlighting all of the Help Threads over the coming days to try and increase the popularity of said threads.

Big out.

I blocked the new user: DENSTIFY2, as he or she only seemed to be using the account to rename battles to gibberish names. The block is for one week only. Perhaps it should be 3 days? I see that "1 to 3 days" in the rules, but this looks to me to be an account created just to commit vandalism.