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I think this is where this goes, Anyway: File problems
I only noticed this page now I provided a TL:DR at the bottom if you don't care about the ""backstory"" or """"context"""", and just want to get to your admin duties.

Note: I have the memory of a doornob, so I might get things out of order but the general timeline is close enough to what happened. This happened like a week ago I think.

So, I've been having trouble with a specific file. I've been trying to add a new row to the Status Effects page on the first table, which I can do perfectly fine. I then middle clicked the "Upload file" link on the left, to open it in a new tab, Uploaded the file fine, under the name "Skill Instantfill.png" if I remember correctly. all's good so far. The issue is, when I went and clicked "Insert" -> "Media", in the editor searched for "Skill", and....... It wasn't there.

The file I've uploaded previously called "SkillCTDown" was there, perfectly fine. I deemed that, ya know, maybe I used a seperate tab to upload, while I was in the editor at the same time (which ive done before, and succeeded, but thats ok), and maybe my ""local page"" as i'm going to call it, still hasn't updated. So, I refreshed the page, tried the same thing "Insert" -> "Media", searched for "Skill" and it still wasnt there. I gave it a minute, refreshed, tried again, no luck. Waited 5 minutes, refreshed, tried again, no luck. I then renamed the file to "SomethingisWrong.png", refreshed the editor still in the other tab, tried again, and still no luck.

I then waited a day if I recall correctly, refreshed, tried again, searched for "Something" this time, since the file is no longer called "Skill Instantfill", and still nothing. I then tried using the direct upload thing, instead, since I reasoned if I could directly upload it to the page, it'll be guarenteed to pop up. I input the file, named all the things, and clicked upload, but it started complaining that the file already existed, and im pretty sure it said something about "thinking twice about if you want to upload the same file twice", but never gave me the option to, it only prevented me from uploading twice. Thats a complaint for some other thread.

Anyhow, renamed the file to "please delete me" or something like that, aswell as updating the file to a Triangle I just randomly had in my doccuments folder. (This was before I knew there was a "delete" flag, tag, thing. so I reasoned that if I just update the file to something not grand summoners, it'll get deleted, I only found the tag/flag/whatever after, and at that point I was too lazy to re-edit the page so I just left it with the spam-looking name and description, aswell as the tag.)

I gave it one last attempt, now that the file was a triangle, it shouldn't be a dupe, and therefore I can upload the original file directly to the page. I tried, yeah nope it still got detected as a duplicate and didn't let me upload it.

I waited I think... maybe 4 days or so, I dunno, and came back to find my file deleted, as I requested, so thank you to that admin, or... I think his rank was mod and i'm not sure if those are equivilant, I don't think they are. eitherway thank you. I then tried one last time, to upload the file directly to the page, and........ this time it complained that "this file has been deleted, think twice if you wan't to reupload", or something similar. Once again, there was no way to confirm if I wanted to upload despite the warning, but again thats a complaint for some other time, as I dont think it belongs here.

Even in death this file is giving me trouble.

I have no clue what's changed from all my other uploads, since I had zero problems with the (atleast) 41 other files I've uploaded. And if this happens to me again in the future, I'll.... record it or something incase that provides more evidence, or something like that.

TL:DR TL:DR TL:DR

So... Could... could someone do something about this?

Upload this file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kpGyytfR2REibc38eASjFlz3v58109-j/view?usp=sharing (google drive link, sorry)

To the Status Effects page, here: (Master-crafted Artists Rendition) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a0QYpDDniDWKuiDqV7nPBfNK2uu61lPE/view?usp=sharing (another google drive link, sorry again) (I see the "drop files here" bar, but I have ptsd :p, ok well I don't that was a joke. I just feel like using Drive because I've had less issues with it within the last 2 weeks.)

because I've given up on doing it myself.

While i'm here, Assuming you've read the "backstory", (I still don't know what word im looking for, so stick it in bunny ears), please see if you can do something, although maybe this was a gamepedia issue as a whole, and not just this specific fandom, and therefore this specific fandom's admins can't really do anything about it.

Final Final statement, if this isnt where this belongs I'm sorry I typically don't need to contact admins of any platform, so when I do, im lost and I just hope for the best that I guess right. Throwawayaccount766tyjfgnhhng (talk) 13:39, 1 June 2021 (UTC)