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Archive: October 2011 - June 2012

Misc. Q&A

If you have any small quick questions, post right below this paragraph. This section probably won't be archived, and may be purged periodically. For discussions, please create a section or use an existing one further down the page. And remember, always sign your comments on Talk pages! << Locke(T·C) >> 12:24, March 7, 2012 (CST)

Figurines

I made a new sizing for figurine template pictures I need you to approve of it. You can see it in my Sandbox but here is the text for it

{|class="wikitable" style="border: 2px solid black; background: silver; text-align:center; width: 450px;"
| style="border: 2px solid black;" colspan=2 | '''{{{1|Figurine}}}'''
|-
| style="border: 2px solid black; width: 50px;" | [[File:{{{2|No Image.png}}}|67px]]
| style="border: 2px solid black; width: 400px;" | {{{3|}}}
|}

Thanks Locke
Yours Truly, Noop3451 (Talk|Contribs|Uplds) 09:54, June 22, 2012 (CDT)

Random notes

"galleries do not need onlyinclude unless they're transcluded on another page."

— Locke

Thanks! I didn't realize; I'll try to catch and fix any pages I happen upon/did that you didn't get to, and leave it out in the future. I have a habit of having to come back and go through everything I've done anyway~ to double check it and for uniformity's sake. If you see anything else I'm doing that can be changed to help improve the work flow, let me know. You have better things to do than clean up after me. This is my first wiki, I'm trying to learn quickly; but sometimes I'm dense.

Speaking of that, I've also noticed (don't know if there's a code mode so: ) that I've caused you unnecessary inconvenience and cost time by doing A Link to the Past instead of A Link to the Past etc. -So I've been trying to catch that in my edits and make a habit of doing it the right way. AND, another random note based on the extra work I've noticed I've caused you. I'll be going back through and re-tagging my uploaded images. I would have loved to do them the first time, it's just been making working incredibly slow and difficult for me. Typing starts to hurt later in the day, or randomly (recovering from arm surgery, mostly working with only the left hand with the mouse) so I figured I am going to make a copy and paste template for the image tags, finish with LttP, and then just go through my old uploads procedurally. (which I need to do for the character/enemy sprites anyway, so they're double size and look nicer in the gallery code) I've had the motivation to finish the dungeons, so I was hesitant to break that flow to go back. (Plus, I wasn't sure how I wanted to tag them, -or what tags were preferable,- at first.) I understand this is messy and not preferable for a wiki, but it seemed a better alternative to not working on it at all or making a billion typos in the tags like I was doing. I kept trying different things and screwing up; it was annoying me to see all my problems. So, again, apologies. I guess I just didn't want you to think ill of me over it. Melora 14:46, June 22, 2012 (CDT)

Regarding your LttP links, that hardly took me any time at all, so don't worry about it! There's a feature that lets me automatically replace text in bulk. Let me know if there's anything else that would be useful for, so you don't have to waste your own time.
Making copy-paste templates is a good idea. I'll put together a little tutorial for a really convenient method I use.
When you say "tagging" files, that's something that the staff hasn't really reached agreement on. Some think it's unnecessary. It can also be done by including them in categories, or by adding them to galleries. I think right now what we're doing is creating "Gallery" pages for this sort of file. For an example, check out the Gallery of The Legend of Zelda Enemies. Galleries have their own namespace and their titles closely follow the category titles. << Locke(T·C) >> 18:18, June 22, 2012 (CDT)
Oh wow! That LoZ gallery is awesome! I had know idea there was something like that on the wiki... I LOVE art, so that actually makes me super excited. That's something I'd really like to help with one day. Like, seriously. It's why I've been making 600dpi scans of all my guides/Zelda books. I'm going to be doing art for my own site soon, (me being here is kind of a form of procrastination from that project, lol) I'd love to add that same art here as well. With the link you provided for the LoZ art, I found this page (and some others) http://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Gallery:A_Link_to_the_Past_Enemies I will add to it as I update the sprites (so they're not blurry) ~as long as that's fine for me to do :3
Also, honestly and personally; I wouldn't mind just adding images to a gallery rather than tagging them (unless I think there's something that specifically needs to be credited/sourced to a more random thing.) It kind of seems to kill two birds with one stone, and (maybe?) keeps there from being quite as many links to change when info might change. Not that I really know; just babbling things as they come into my head.
Really good to know about the mass editor for text, though I'll still try to do it right; I was feeling really bad about my past transgressions ;) Thanks again! Melora 18:57, June 22, 2012 (CDT)