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Formatting/capitalizing
According to the Help:Style guide, keywords and tribes should not be capitalized. However, in many articles it seems that they are, by default, capitalized. Should the style guide be updated or should we start fixing the incorrect capitalizations? I recommend the latter, based on the current style guide as well as the rules of English language. Blue Banana whotookthisname (talk) 14:29, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Main page needs to be updated
The main page needs to be updated to show the three upcoming mechanics. Additionally, the gameplay section does not mention dungeon run. Quater (discuss) 12:20, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 21:29, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
 * @OOeyes Just an idea, but I can't help but think that saying "before April 30" is more ambiguous than saying "sometime in April". At the moment, it implies it could be released in March, which we can assume to not be the case given their previous release cycle. Quater (discuss) 11:00, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Updated. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 15:05, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Given KnC was released months ago, it's probably best to change the featured video to this. Quater (discuss) 10:02, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Updated. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 16:23, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Official release date for TWW has been announced. It's April 12. Quater (discuss) 11:12, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Monster Hunt should be added to the Gameplay section. Quater (discuss) 07:47, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 21:31, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

K&C
See here. Surafbrov 07:33, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't consider this to be an administrative decision. If you're concerned about community reaction, feel free to see if there are any objections by posting on Project talk:Community portal and waiting a few days. But since leaving the redirect behinds doesn't break links, you could just go ahead and do it too. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 16:22, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Apostrophe Bug
Any card with an apostrophe in its name (Woodcutter's Axe, Al'Akir the Windlord, Mukla's Champion ect) is currently bugged when viewed in a chart. It displays a broken 200x link instead of the card. When hovered over, the page its trying to link to is written as "Everything before the apostrophe"& (Woodcutter&, Al&, Mukla&). I have no idea what caused this. TheMurlocAggroB (talk) 16:10, 22 June 2018 (UTC)


 * This is totally unrelated, but, fun fact: commas (not apostrophes) did not start appearing in the names of Hearthstone cards until Whispers of the Old Gods. Aegonostic (talk) 18:45, 22 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Fix is in. I had to do it in Card infobox, though, so it won't be reflected in all cases immediately. I'll run a bot over card pages to try to speed it up. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 01:49, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Secrets page has a problem
It shows the following error: A database query error has occurred. Did you forget to run your application's database schema updater after upgrading? 138.75.236.188 16:20, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Descriptions are always showed collapsed (solved)
Names were fixed by using the purge cache option on the top right of the page. Table content is always collapsed. For reviewing cards and correcting errors it's necessary to be able to see and copy paste the table uncollapsed. For example https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/The_Witchwood_card_list Grommpy (talk) 17:25, 4 August 2018 (UTC) I've tried updating my hydra.js but it doesn't work. Grommpy (talk) 17:57, 5 August 2018 (UTC)


 * just worked fine for me, at least on custom card table. Are you using it like this?


 * If so, it shouldn't collapse. Also, the variables in your hydra.js won't affect the card table collapse script; they have nothing to do with it. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 04:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I tried  in 2 browsers both with and without loading java script, try and copy pasting the Black Cat entry: You'll get the Spell Damage +1, but not the next line: Battlecry: If your deck has only odd-Cost cards, draw a card. Grommpy (talk) 21:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The complete data is in the .html source code, so I downloaded the page, edited it, cut out all the java and css going on, and only left the  to the   attribute of a   surrounding the references. That's where the magic is happening. The sole link between the list styles and grouping is the use of the   template parameter for both things. &mdash;  oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 23:05, 1 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Yea I got a bit confused and thought the CSS "list-style-type" was within the Cite extension, thanks for clearing that up. But I still don't know why this wiki isn't able to utilize the "liststyle" template parameter for in a normal reflist template such as Reflist tester. This is pretty unimportant, but it's really weird. :(


 * The problem is here if you want to take a look: User:Aegonostic/Sandbox8, but you don't have to Aegonostic (talk) 06:38, 3 October 2019 (UTC)


 * It looks like help from an admin was unavoidable. With another trip down the rabbit hole, I found this small bit of CSS needed to be added to prevent Cite from overriding the indicated style:

div.reflist ol.references { list-style-type: inherit; /* Enable custom list style types */ }
 * It's now in MediaWiki:Common.css. That only fixed the lists, though. I eventually found I had to add pages like MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-alpha for the inline links to properly work for each group. So there is indeed a Cite extension feature that needs to be used, but we gotta bring our own labels. -_- &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 09:18, 3 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Ah, cool, gracias. :) I just did a quick google search on that mediawiki page, putting it here for reference for future reading: Help:Cite_link_labels. Thanks for the fix. Aegonostic (talk) 16:16, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Update home page
Hey admins, could you update the Outdated home page for mobile ? Minhngoc25a (talk) 03:45, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Oops. *facepalms* Alright, updated. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 18:15, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Card infobox for Battlegrounds
&larr; moved to Hearthstone Wiki talk:Community portal

Caching problem
For some reasons, the recent data I've created haven't recognized pages using them. Is there any way to fix this? Use25 (talk) 08:41, 6 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry. That was due to my Cards table changes. The table was in read-only mode while a replacement table was generated with the new fields. I've swapped in the replacement and things should begin functioning normally again. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 17:24, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Problem with attempting to setup for Battlegrounds queries from card table
So, right now there are 253 pages in Category:Battlegrounds cards, which is a category derived from specifying  in card infoboxes. (Category:Battlegrounds_card_data is also a derived category)

I'm putting in  in the infobox of Battlegrounds minion pages to categorize the page as a purchasable minion in Battlegrounds, but when I try to query for these cards using , it doesn't work. I believe it is querying from the card table Special:CargoTables/Cards, so the query doesn't work and results in zero results, since  is specified in the infobox, thus not registering these pages into the card table. However, due to caching issues, I am unable to verify if this is true.

Should we:
 * Delete "|category=Battlegrounds" for all these 253 pages in Category:Battlegrounds cards and just use the regular card table Special:CargoTables/Cards?
 * Then the query  should work, but right now I think I'm getting caching issues and I can't verify if this query will work, but it works for Wild cards such as.
 * Or should we make a new cards table specifically for Battlegrounds? And then alter List cards to query the appropriate card table?

I feel like the first option is best, but as of right now, I don't know whether I'm querying correctly because there seems to be a caching issue. Aegonostic (talk) 22:54, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm getting results when I add  as well to remove some automatic conditions, though List cards needed a fix because it was ignoring  . I probably need to figure out logic to remove the automatic check for Category:Card data when certain bg_types are supplied or something else so the   isn't needed, but with the List cards fix, this seems to be getting the desired results.
 * Categories have no effect on whether a card goes into the Cards table. They are supposed to be added in the _pageData table, and the queries join them when checking, but that seems to be what's affected by the caching issues. &mdash;  oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 02:38, 19 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Sweeet, thank you, adding  works, though it does seem weird these two parameters are needed. I'll try to work with this now. Aegonostic (talk) 03:34, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Broken homepage
The homepage has two featured videos played at the same time. One video can be paused, but the other one was found nowhere. Minhngoc25a (talk) 18:21, 8 June 2020 (UTC).




 * It should be fixed now. A weird issue cropped up recently with Twitch VODs where if you explicitly disabled autoplay with, it did the exact opposite. We should have all of those removed now. &mdash;  oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 23:41, 9 June 2020 (UTC)


 * @OOeyes: Unfortunately, this still happens to me and I had to use uBlock Origin to block all Twitch players in this site. Minhngoc25a (talk) 17:53, 10 June 2020 (UTC).


 * Yeah, okay, Twitch embeds are doing funky things this week. I guess there was probably an API change on their end. But might as well switch to a more current Youtube video anyway, which neatly avoids the problem. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 15:35, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

Portuguese card pages bleeding into English card tables and category pages
I'm noticing the creation of a lot of Portuguese card pages. These are starting to bleed into the English category pages and card tables. I'm wondering if there is a more established or more formal way to set apart other localizations for this wiki so that they don't collide with the English localization. I know Fandom does this, but I don't know if this wiki has a natural way of doing so. Aegonostic (talk) 02:55, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Uh, it has been 3 days and I'm starting to worry. I wonder where the old admins or Gamepedia staffs are... Use25 (talk) 13:05, 10 August 2020 (UTC)


 * I've talked to the person who made the edits, and they should be marking their pages for deletion... They were just trying to help translate the wiki for people who don't talk English, unaware that it wasn't the best way to do. I don't know where the admins are too, but seeing the List Files flooded with Brazilian cards bothered me a bit x) --Mattheus 45 (talk) 20:13, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm very sorry for missing this. I was unknowingly having issues with notifications after the user merge ended up renaming my account. I finally looked into it after realizing the notification volume was unusually low, and I think I have things sorted now. -_-
 * Anyway, it looks like the translated pages are using Card infobox pt instead, so I've just removed the auto-categorization and card table storage from the template. As long as they are all using that, they should disappear from the lists. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 22:27, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Also, I'll just leave a note for future reference: translations should not use Card infobox or copies of it directly, but there should be no problem in using Card infobox/layout (or copying that). I separated that part out specifically for cases where the cards shouldn't go into the proper card categories or lists. &mdash; oOeyes  [[Image:User-OOeyes-Sig.png|link=User talk:OOeyes]] 22:36, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Main page update for Scholomance Academy
If the main page can be updated for Scholomance Academy, that would be great. Aegonostic (talk) 01:04, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Queries for Battlegrounds doesn't work
Something is wrong when I use or other card-listing templates for Battlegrounds cards. They simply don't appear. For example:

The only way to list the Battlegrounds is to use, but it only lists Hero Powers and Heroes. Hopefully someone can take a look at this. Use25 (talk) 15:10, 10 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I also would like to know why this is happening. It's a pretty big issue but if solved can automate some BG lists. Aegonostic (talk) 15:22, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Not able to add external links into pages because of captcha malfunction
Whenever a new external url is attempted to be written into a page, the edit will not go through because of a malfunctioning captcha. Hopefully this will be resolved soon. Aegonostic (talk) 16:47, 24 September 2020 (UTC)


 * This has been resolved. Aegonostic (talk) 04:53, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

It appears that all images on the wiki have been changed visually to low res
All pictures in card infoboxes, called from Card, and from code such as  appear visually as low resolution images on their respective pages. Hopefully this can be resolved soon. This is probably just another small side effect caused by the migration to the Fandom platform. Aegonostic (talk) 04:52, 28 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Can we get an update on why all images on the wiki appear blurred? It makes the wiki hard to use when looking at the text boxes of cards. This is a pretty serious issue. Aegonostic (talk) 14:40, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Cards that have another version in other sets
Cards like Twisting Nether (they all get new spell schools or new changes) have multiple pages: Twisting Nether (legacy set), Twisting Nether (Core), Twisting Nether (Classic). Since Core is the most played set because it's in Standard, why don't we rename the Core card wiki page to the card name only without brackets. For example, Twisting Nether => Twisting Nether (legacy), Twisting Nether (Core) => Twisting Nether. Minhngoc25a (talk) 10:56, 10 April 2021 (UTC).
 * We have already discussed about this. You can check it out here: here. Personally, I prefer the original set versions to be the main pages too because:
 * Core cards are temporary and can be removed in the future.
 * Original cards stay forever.
 * Organzing pages based on play rate is very subjective, and we don't have any official data from Blizzard Entertainment. Ultimately, we choose to deal with Core cards like how we used to deal with Doom in the Tomb cards, since they are functionally the same. Use25 (talk) 19:01, 10 April 2021 (UTC)