User talk:Mases

Giveaway

His Mases,

I have edited various pages throughout the Wiki (mostly Majora's Mask and Minish Cap things). I was wondering, even if I have the required 2000 characters, do I still need to have 20 pages edited (I think I have around 15 now)? Thanks in advance!

-Bobbery18

The Free Giveaway

Hi Mases, I have written 3 small pages for the Great Butterfly Fairy, the Great Mayfly Fairy and the Great Dragonfly Fairy for the free Link plush contest. Do I have to write more things on the wiki to try to win the Link plush? Or is this enough? Moon Rain (talk) 06:27, November 24, 2013 (CST)Moon Rain

Thanks for the edits. Can you contact me on Skype (username: armochicken13) or e-mail: [email protected]. I think you are on your way but still need to make more edits. Thanks. ~Mases

Userpage

Nice user page! Curly 14:23, October 26, 2011 (CDT)

Skyward Sword Pages

Hi Mases,

I was browsing to see what other Skyward Sword pages were needed, and I noticed that the Amber Relic was on the list, however, I have already edited the Amber Relic. I think I know why, but... It's a little odd. The page I edited was titled Amber relic. The one that's needed is Amber Relic. One is capitalized in both words, and the other isn't. So... What should I do? Zelda geek 14:01, October 27, 2011 (CDT)

I moved the page to the correct Amber Relic title. Thanks for pointing that out. << Locke^(T·C) >> 14:18, October 27, 2011 (CDT)

This is something that normal users can't do, so please continue to notify patrollers (orange names) or administrators (green names) via their talk page for problems like this. << Locke^(T·C) >> 15:34, October 27, 2011 (CDT)

Should we not just place a redirect in the page and move all of the information to a new page? -InoShikaCho-^(Talk) 16:14, October 27, 2011 (CDT)

It's best to move the page so that edit history is carried over to the new page. << Locke^(T·C) >> 16:24, October 27, 2011 (CDT)

Walkthrough Pages

I have noticed that many of the pages for the Ocarina of Time dungeons have full walkthroughs for the dungeons. This obviously does not belong on the wiki (or at least on these pages). Is it fine to delete them, or should I move them to a new location? -InoShikaCho-^(Talk) 21:00, October 27, 2011 (CDT)

Don't remove them yet, please. Those are pages for the Zelda Dungeon Master Quest walkthrough that was written when this wiki was for more staff matters. We'll work on getting them in their proper places. — ~David ^(Talk) 21:10, October 27, 2011 (CDT)

Index Page

Hey Mases,

I think that we should edit the main page a little bit. What do you think though? -Ninten* 15:54, December 30, 2011 (CST)

I definitely think the index page needs a revamp. It's been talked about, but feel free to try some things out on your own sandbox page first and we'll see how it goes. Mases 00:04, December 31, 2011 (CST)

Three Things

Hey Mases three Things
1.How do you find out a youtube ID so more videos could be added to the Wiki quicker
2.Should there be a Walkthrough page on the Wiki?
3.Please make a Video Walkthrough for The Minish Cap! Please! Thank you!
Noop3451 05:22, April 21, 2012 (CDT)

File types

Hey Mases, The wiki files only have photo files. However, I think the wiki should also except MP3 Files. This is because people who never played let's say, minish cap could listen to the mount crenal music. they could also hear sound effects like navi so they understand how annoying she is. (and it would make the site more wiki-like)! Your Truly, Noop3451 ^{(Talk|Contribs|Uplds)} 11:51, May 31, 2012 (CDT)

Add other spin-off titles to the navigation bar

You should add other completed spin-off games page such as Tingle's Balloon Fight DS, Too Much Tingle Pack, The Legend of Zelda Game Watch, and Zelda (Game & Watch) to the navigation bar of ZD. Other Games navigation bar currently only have 2 games added...

Items for Faron Province

Hi Mases! I see you are on alot for this Wiki, so I think you might know the answer for my question. When adding the items to this page (Skyward Sword), should I include the Goddess Cubes or not? Also, should I put every item you recieve with in the Faron Province (Beetle, Water Scale, etc) or should we leave those items for the dungeon/area you get them (Skyview Temple/etc)?  the preceding unsigned post by Odd300 (contribs) at 14:14, October 18, 2012‎ (UTC)

I'm not sure if I'm understanding your question correctly, but Goddess Cubes can be included in item lists. The Skyward Sword page already has these items, so I assume you mean the pages for different areas in SS such as Faron Province. I'm not sure how useful an item list would be for the regions, but I suppose it makes sense to include items you receive in sub-regions, such as dungeons, to an extent. You do receive the Beetle in Faron Province even if it's within Skyview Temple specifically, but it wouldn't make sense to list certain things like Small Keys. << Locke^(T·C) >> 13:27, October 18, 2012 (CDT)

Thanks for answering my questions, Locke. I see now that my second question doesn't make that much sense.

Korean release date templates

Can you or another admin create the template necessary for adding Korean release dates to game and console pages? I'm asking because in all other wikis I've been to, admins are the only people that can make such changes, so I think that applies to this wiki, too. Wwtoonlinkfan 15:32, November 20, 2012 (CST)

Thanks, we're editing the Template right now to include Korea. Locke edited the template and we just uploaded the image. Thanks. Mases 15:53, November 20, 2012 (CST)

Check out the {{Region}} documentation for adding Korean release dates. For example, {{Region|kr|y=2012|m=11|d=18}} produces November 18, 2012 . You can go ahead and edit pretty much anything that isn't protected and doesn't explicitly say not to. Just be careful with high use templates. << Locke^(T·C) >> 15:58, November 20, 2012 (CST)

Thanks! wwtoonlinkfan 16:53, November 20, 2012 (CST)

Images from Zelda Wiki

Hey, Mases. Greetings from your old friends at Zelda Wiki. I'm Hylian King, by the way, the wiki's rookie admin. I don't think we got to really know each other well, but we did talk in the ZW chat a bit if you remember.

So anyway, it has come to our attention that one of your users has uploaded quite a few of our images on Zelda Dungeon Wiki and has not sourced them (here are a few examples). I just wanted to make sure the ZD staff was aware of this. It would be much appreciated if we could at least be credited as a source for these images, as Zelda Wiki has always done for ZD's images in the past.

Wiki's looking good, by the way. The progress you guys have made in such a small timeframe is pretty impressive.

All the best, Hylian King 12:17, January 22, 2013 (CST)

Hi Hylian King. I didn't know ZeldaWiki.org changed its policy on image sourcing. It originally didn't have a policy, and then we implemented one back in... Circa 2008-09, and then ended up getting rid of it in 2009 after long debate. For the main reason being, most of the images in question were from official artwork pieces released by Nintendo, scans from magazines, or images extracted from games such as models and screens. Thus, I believe Fan Artwork was the only type of image work that had been credited.

It was way back in 2011 when I stopped making considerable edits to ZeldaWiki.org and launched our Zelda Wiki, but if you see post 2009 edits by me and the several 100 images I uploaded. We abandoned the image sourcing policy, per discussion. My Contributions. Can you refer me to the location of your sourcing policy at ZeldaWiki.org in regards to image citing. Thanks. Mases 13:29, January 22, 2013 (CST)

This page details the policy. "Every new image uploaded must be correctly attributed to its creator, editor, or re-distributor."Justin 14:06, January 22, 2013 (CST)

That policy dates back to December 2008 after we made that policy. In early 2009 there was heavy discussion about this. I had populated the Wiki with 1000's of images, sourcing Zelda Dungeon. Everything from artwork pieces, screenshots, sprites, etc... This was later viewed as an abuse of the image system, since it was creating 1000's of links to Zelda Dungeon for images that were really copyright to Nintendo and not to me. Doesn't matter if I captured and edited them. Thus we implemented a new policy. It is still at Stone Watchers and can be viewed. Look at the archives section, should be somewhere around March of 2009. You should update the Wiki Image Sourcing page as well since it still shows the old policy from pre-2009. Mases 14:22, January 22, 2013 (CST)

I can't speak for anything that happened at the wiki circa 2010, and perhaps our policy pages do need updating, but I assure you the current stance of the wiki is to give credit where credit is due. This is encouraged via the "Source" field of our upload form.

Let's cut to the chase here: I'm guessing you don't intend to credit us as a source. I do not believe it is unreasonable to ask it of you, but so be it. You're not legally obligated to comply, of course, and since quibbling about it would only be a waste of time and effort for everyone involved, I won't pursue the issue any further. I just wanted to make sure you guys were aware that these images are coming from a competing wiki. Past that, the situation is evidently yours to deal with as you see fit.

Best of luck in all your future endeavors. Hylian King 15:29, January 22, 2013 (CST)