User talk:NerdyBoutKirby/Archive 1

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 * Take your Tofu crap somewhere else. Once more and you're gone.--
 * In that case, it seems like block time. 98.117.158.220 21:23, December 27, 2009 (UTC)

Editing the anime episodes
Stop removing the swear examples. I don't care if you think it's inappropriate, the readers have a right to know.--

sorry. Nothing to do with teh anime, but at least do a link to your profile...KirbyKnights 04:07, July 18, 2011 (UTC)

Pictures
Please refrain from uploading low-quality camera pictures.--
 * Stop uploading crappy camera images kthxbai--

who?
who do you think should be in a new kirby game? Dr.Eggman rox 2

fan art
fine!i'll make my own verson of this wiki!and it will allow fan art!

The Kirby of the Stars Tournament
Hey, I heard you like and know a lot about Kirby. So can you help me with my tournament, the Kirby of the Stars Tournament? You can find it on my blog. Thanks. Para Goomba 348 18:06, February 12, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Quote generator
Hi there =) I've seen your query to GameFreak about the quote generator box. I made the whole system (took 11 hours...) so I suppose I'll answer your question.

The code can look daunting, which is partly intended - to deter spammers/vandals who can mollify the quote box; changes on template pages are not seen on recent wiki activity, and they can put junk on it and as there are 30 over quotes there it would take some time to find out. But, once you work out the formula, it's really intuitive and modular.

Tell you what, head to my profile page, and post the 2 quotes and the episodes/games that they come from (if you know them) under the off-the-record conversations area (Yeah the main profile page :p and not the talk page, 'cause I don't maintain one at the moment) and I'll put them in. I did put editing instructions on the template pages but I suppose I'll make another set on my profile page if someone else is having trouble and direct them there.

Cheers, and have a nice day! Changtau2005 05:36, April 2, 2011 (UTC)

The one about the DDD perfume, this  video at 08:17 shows Escargoon talking about air fresheners and saying DDD (life formula??) instead of DDD perfume is great. I'm assuming it's the difference between dubbed versions as the show is broadcasted 2 times, but can you give me the link to the vid you got the quote from if possible?

RE: Music files + upcoming games
Haha I'm glad you liked the music. I don't know about the other wikis but i believe music in Kirby games is as big a part of the game as it is playing-wise or visually. The other wikis don't cover them, coz i think it's something to do with copyrights but I'm not putting the files on here so... I guess it's ok. If Youtube is ok with all the Kirby episodes on there a couple hundred songs wouldn't hurt right? :p

KRR has a much more complete collection in music than over here so you might want to check out this page. It's not as convenient to play though as you have to listen to them one by one. Because I made the pages using Youtube plugins, people can add it to their playlists and listen to good ole Kirby stuff while editing or doing anything, really. If I have time I'll expand it further, but the earlier music is kind of .. synthy, and much more difficult to find, but nothing to blame on Big N coz it's old music. Plus each of these pages take like 3 hours min to convert all the files and upload then put them up here in HTML, so it's kind of a slow work. I hope I'll get it done soon. Probably won't be as big a collection as KRR's, but my main motive is to put a theme music below the important characters or places so people can identify the music when they see it in a new game, but first I'll have to put them all together in one place. Sure would help a lot if I had sys-op access to the site CSS page, but Starman hasn't replied me yet so... I'll just have to slog on the hard way.

My current project is to mimic something like Wookieepedia's galactic era icons, and put a nav bar across the top of each page that links the games and titles each article is covered in. Work has not started yet, but I'm prepping the templates like Template:PortalLogo. Other wikis are doing something like Template:KA for each game and stacking up the (collapsible) boxes at the bottom of each page. While there's nothing wrong with that, I think it works out a lot prettier using the navbar, plus if users want to find out more about the game they should be navigating to the game page and not through a watered-down template, right? The template works excellently for articles about one game but since I'm integrating the whole site together via the portal system the nav bar should work great, but it's a lot of work.

Oh yea the game! We'll just have to wait till E3 I guess. Since Epic Yarn was the only title I played, trying copy abilities out on K Wii should be fun.

Oh if you happen to chance upon more quotes just post 'em, as I'm kind of occupied between the music files and templates at the moment.

I made a new guide in my user page under the public section. You might wanna check it out (wink).

Till next time, cheers!





 Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  03:20, April 25, 2011 (UTC)

Read more
Sorry, but the read more section is automatically generated by one of Wikia's extensions, I think, but I'm certain three is as many as it will display. It takes the category of the page being read and randomly displays other pages within that category, and the last image added to that page.

I already added browsing capabilities to the infobox for the episodes, so that already links the most relevant episodes to each, which is the previous and the next episodes. There's a nav box at the bottom of each article leading to every episode sorted by J or E names, or episode number. I suppose I can add something similar to Kirby: Right Back at Ya! to that nav template, so it gives navigational thumbnails as well instead of just links.

Cheers,  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  19:55, July 2, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Articles to edit
Hi. You can check out Portal: Help Out, and click on the dynamic lister tab. Depending on what you like doing or fixing, it randomly lists stubs or articles needing clean-up or articles needing images, and so on. If you don't find what you're looking for (it lists 4 of each every time the page loads) click on purge at the top bar and it'll generate another selection of four. If you like to see the whole list, simply click on the icon representing that category.

Stubs usually need information to patch up some aspect of the article, so if you like composing new paragraphs, that's probably the thing to look at. Clean-up ones usually need some minor formatting done, or paraphrasing, but not so much in the way of new information.

Hope that helps a bit   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  16:32, July 5, 2011 (UTC)


 * About the images on Here Comes the Son, I'm not sure which one you're referring to, but yeah, remove it if you're certain it's from the other episode. About asking me questions, lol. I don't mind it at all; most of my work is behind the scenes but I'll answer anything that I know about.


 * You probably know this already, but since you touched on the issue of adminship, you can nominate yourself to becoming one on Kirby_Wiki:Requests for adminship if that responsibility interests you, and that the privileges would help you contribute to the wiki better. It is up to Bureaucrats to decide whether the request goes through, but anyone can vote on the request page. If the wiki is inactive and voting is not viable, you might be able to do the same by asking a Bureaucrat directly on his / her talk page.


 * Cheers,   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  03:36, July 16, 2011 (UTC)

KRBAY articles
Ref: GameFreak75's talk page

User:Pkstarstorm1up decided to rename several of the articles to their Romanized Japanese names / Japanese translations without nomination. All such changes have been rolled back.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  03:09, July 9, 2011 (UTC)

Images in infoboxes
About that pic, it's inside one of our infoboxes, that's Template:Episode in particular. I made those infoboxes, and they're somewhat more powerful than before as they have automatic categorization, limited text parsing (processing), interlanguage capabilities and certain if-then-else tests for all sorts of other things, but they have their own quirks simply because of how they are coded to work.

Pages containing them are best edited in source mode. If you navigate to Template:Episode, there's a gray box under the title "Usage", so, for example, open Here Comes the Son in source mode, and you should see text that looks like what's in the gray box on the template page, but not necessarily everything. The problem with the missing picture is that an "image" parameter was declared i.e. there was "image = ....", but what it was equalling to was blank, so it gave a blank image field. Since you said the original image on the page is from Monster Management, I removed the whole part including the "image = " bit, and the feature of the template is that it automatically puts on an image needed notice and categorizes the page into articles needing images.

If you have a picture that's suitable as the main image of the page, simply put back in "image = (image code here) and it'll appear again.

Cheers,  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  04:19, July 18, 2011 (UTC)


 * Referring to one of Wikipedia's guidelines, Be Bold! As long as the edit is reasonable and makes logical sense, by all means publish it proudly. You've been contributing for over two years; that makes you more aware of the Wiki's culture and what makes a good edit, than half the people here including myself.


 * About my contribs, blehh :p I just take care of the presentation and coding - not much of what I type is actually read, but it's a pleasure :)   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  16:26, July 20, 2011 (UTC)

Signature
When you sign your posts, use four tildes ( ~ ), that way, there is a link to your user page. If not, users encounter difficulty finding your user page and better yet, your talk page. See here as well. Thank you,  BNK [ E 13:05, July 21, 2011 (UTC)
 * You still didn't sign with the tildes, and to add an image you need to edit your signature in your preferences.  BNK [ E 00:06, July 22, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Sig
Hi. You just need to head to Special:Preferences and look under custom signature, and use it. About designing a custom sig in the first place, there's a 256 character limit to it (for the code), so if your code exceeds 256 characters, you need to design it in a template file and put in   in custom signature so it knows to use the template in place of your sig.

Designing the sig is the same as coding any page, but you can only do it in code view like you have to do in templates. You'll invariably need several spans, and maybe a div or two, and positioning code. For example, the code for my signature is   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees! 

The bigger one goes:   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees! 

If those code blocks didn't make much sense to you (they're in HTML), you'll probably need to read up a bit on HTML before you can make one. I can make the sig for you although it's never as good as making one yourself. If you'd like me to do it anyways, pick a picture, one as flat as possible or as small as possible so it doesn't stick out and disrupt text lines (sprite images are great), say what text and in what color you want, and I'll get it done. It takes five minutes to make a simple one. The text line including all the padding is about 25 pixels high, so if it's a sprite I'll probably make it that high.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  03:57, July 25, 2011 (UTC)


 * The reason your sig does not link to your profile page is probably because you have a custom signature defined, has the checkbox "use custom signature" checked, and it doesn't code the link properly. In fact, from the signature displayed, I'd say in your custom signature box it goes  (NerdyBoutKirby)  or something like that. Regardless, paste this into the signature box in Special:Preferences to use your new sig. Just make sure "use custom signature" is checked afterwards. Sign with four tildes as usual and it should appear. Three tildes only will omit the date, but this isn't encouraged.

NerdyBoutKirby  That's what I am. Savvy?


 * It gives: NerdyBoutKirby  [[Image:Dark Daroach.png|x30px|link=]] That's what I am. Savvy?


 * The text behind the picture links to your talk page but since this is the talk page, they do not do so right here. You can make color adjustments easily enough I think, since the code is verbose enough to make out what each section does. The picture is set to 30 pixels high to avoid disrupting text lines too much.   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  16:51, July 25, 2011 (UTC)

Re: fake DVDs
Reply to:

Only administrators or Wikia Staff can block users, not an anonymous IP. If you see questionable information without a verifiable source or obviously not added in good faith, just remove it. If the DVDs were any real thing at all, he'd have to support it with box art (which I'd have emailed to Nintendo of America to see if it's a pirated or made-up copy or authentic), or a reputable website selling it. By experience, information posted by users threatening (emptily) to block other users who remove it are fake.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  03:08, July 27, 2011 (UTC)

IGN pics
Illegal pics? If you mean to ask if taking pictures off IGN count as plagiarizing pictures, no, such sources are good. It's just not good or courteous to take pictures straight off other Kirby wikis and Kirby's Rainbow Resort since they also spend a lot of time collecting them from various sources and cleaning them up like we do.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  15:54, August 1, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Yarn stages
Yeah I agree that in their current state, they're better off merged with the main world article. However, it really isn't that difficult to make an article about it - for example, see Mad Mechanism of Kirby: Canvas Curse, which most of it is written by Timson622222. There's just a section that says what level it precedes and what comes after as a formality, then the theme of the level e.g. bouncy mushrooms for Mushroom Run, where to get the treasures for the level, and a few places to watch out for.

That's really it, unless one is really keen to provide a full walkthrough like those on a few of the levels in Grass Land, which is good but IMO not really that helpful as it says go up here, go down here, and most of the levels are fairly linear and the paths are fairly obvious. The new articles which are deleted are one-liners or not helpful / opinionated - on how hard the level is and whatnot instead of actually explaining the stage. I think a good article on one of those levels would need not be longer than the infobox itself. It just needs to put the correct points across i.e. if an article exists and someone had accessed it by searching for it, it must at least be able to answer some of his/her questions, right?  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  04:59, August 15, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the welcome. I really appreciate it.Cheesywhale123 01:55, August 19, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Spray Paint
You know what, I don't think the room labels make any sense since the levels are not linear. Regardless of whether they do have actual labels or not (none that I know of), the locations where they can be found are covered by Kindarspirit's maps on the levels' articles. I think you could remove those room 1-2-ex labels if you think it's best.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  21:10, August 22, 2011 (UTC)

Untitled
File:Nago.jpg|thumb|364pxHere is the picture you requested. I hope you like it.

Regarding your question
You can ask for a drawing any time, but it has to be Kirby-related and appropriate.

Hey thanks for the welcome, although im not exactly new to wikia. Im a veteran user on Fantendo wiki so I know how to use wikia just fine, thanks anyway though :) Number-1-Pokemon-Fan-Eltario 09:27, August 31, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Pics
I dunno. The gallery in SSBB maybe? They look like they're taken using a camcorder or something though, so there's the interlacing and other distortions. Maybe you can run the disc or image using Dolphin and get a screen capture from there from your PC?  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  03:13, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Minibosses
I really don't know. There's this thing about strict categorization that doesn't really work - there's all this vagueness in the games, like whether Meta Knight is supposed to be categorized as a Kirby or not, and categorization is either yes or no. These enemies are just called "big bouncy" or "bouncy ty" or something like that and they're also a lot weaker than usual mid-bosses, say Bonkers for example.

Regardless of whether they should be categorized or not, do you have a whole list of them? Those big enemies I mean.

Oh and.. I'm 75% through Atsumete! Kirby, and it's going to be a nightmare to categorize whether an enemy is in that game or not. A lot of them are only in the minigames and not in the main story. That game is also a lot harder than the others to get a gold medal =) One single hit to one Kirby and make him blue... bye bye gold.   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  17:35, August 31, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Glitches
I did.

And some attention-seeking user moved your talk page. I just moved it back =) This might be a bit late, but enjoy your trip to Cedar Point amusement park.

 Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  03:13, September 1, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Demon Beast
That's not for me alone to decide. If you think "Monster" or "Monster (anime)" would be a better page name, suggest that on the talk page and see what other editors think. Dedede calls Customer Service "Salesguy" too.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  04:04, September 4, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Undead
I suppose. Not sure.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  03:56, September 6, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Category
About whether air ride machines would count, that's the point. There's these categories like undead or birds, which aren't necessarily the strictest defined categories, such as whether a character is in a game or not. IMO a category (containing articles) only works if it's strictly-defined and constantly maintained - it contains every single article it's supposed to contain at that point, and only those it's supposed to contain with no arguments about which or what. Otherwise we get changes here or there that are not always picked up and may not necessarily be correct. I spent nearly a week cleaning up categories when I made the database; There were more than a few incorrect or missing entries that made making enemy lists a headache. That's why I was trying to make a template that categorizes everything automatically by referring to database lists. It worked but it loaded the server too much, so it was junked.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  04:50, September 7, 2011 (UTC)

Untitled2
I hope this is what you're looking for.File:Ninja_sharbon.jpg|thumb|374px

Hi There!
Thanks for the welcome! I cant really argue about this being the best wiki around so far(I am NUTS about Kirby!!) Happy editing! GreenHillTraveler 17:08, September 8, 2011 (UTC)

Re:
Well, we shouldn't endeavor to link every single word that has an article on it, but links should generally be aimed to be made to aid users who we assume are completely new to Kirby. On Wikipedia, editors put the clean-up template on articles with too many links, but then again, they have millions of articles, and if everything is linked, the whole page would be blue. They allow for repeated links across sections on long articles, i.e. say Kirby is only linked once in each section. We don't generally need that though.

And about the pictures, they're not official pictures and count as user pics, and their numbers should be minimized. The wiki's policy states 3 to 5 for each user but it isn't strictly enforced like on community central, where everybody is allowed only one. Still, it's something to keep in mind, and images can be downloaded onto the PC and taken off the site since it's only relevant to the user and not the wiki. If there's any old user pics to be phased out, they should be tagged with the delete template   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  05:17, September 9, 2011 (UTC)

Welcomes
Hey I've noticed that you have been welcoming users new to Kirby Wiki. Several of them aren't nearly new users to wikis, really - some of them have 10k+ edits elsewhere on the Wikia network.

I think you might want to use

as a standard greeting instead. Such greetings using the template used to be automatic, but the bot that does that has been disabled since it masquerades as administrators by signing using their signatures. Manual use of the template is still acceptable.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  09:58, September 9, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the warm welcome. I appreciate it. WrathOfTheNerd9000 00:21, September 10, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Pics
Generally users are allowed "a couple" of pics not relevant to the wiki to express themselves - like 3 to 5 are usually fine (of course, no spam etc). What I mean by usually is that I take issue with those users who just come in and post irrelevant pictures while not doing proper constructive edits - they just clog up our image library. The guidelines are common sense, really. By Wikia Community Central and Wikipedia standards, one user pic per person is the limit, and I agree with them, but most people aren't that austere, and we do have a smaller community to take care of. If you're adding in new ones, just remove a few of the older ones and tag the old file(s) for deletion. Official art / screenshots do not count as fan art, but just avoid uploading duplicate / equivalent copies of existing files. Screenshots / official art / other media which are taken from the mainspace / templates aren't counted as user pics - use however many you wish.

About modifying talk page content, if you wish to remove a pic, just don't completely remove it. Change it to a pre box or if you don't know how to do that, just remove the brackets to make it into text I guess. It's just like de-linking unhelpful red links.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  20:27, September 12, 2011 (UTC)

Re: Common enemies
I don't know. I didn't make that template in the first place; When I overhauled infoboxes that parameter has to remain inside or else it won't display. I suppose you can include the three most common enemies in any level so long as they're plentiful enough to keep reappearing throughout the level   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  05:49, September 14, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Quiz
Well, I don't know what you mean by posting on the wiki since you didn't say where, but you can post the finalized version in the sandbox or talk page to see? If you mean putting it up on the front page as a poll, there's certain criteria it has to meet beforehand: It should ideally
 * Be entertaining (subjective)
 * Have minimal statistical bias in wording and ordering (Did you know, to an uninterested reader, the first choice is picked most of the time? We cannot randomize the poll ordering like statisticians do.)
 * Have longetivity - quiz / poll remains relevant for at least a month
 * It should give the reader certain information / facts about the character / title etc. from the wording - i.e. the reader ideally learns something from contributing to the poll. That makes it a more interesting poll.

If you mean it's a large quiz or storybook-like project e.g. this one on KRR, you'd need a whole lot of templates which you can create as subpages under your user page, because the wiki architecture is not ideal for this type of thing.  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  05:31, September 17, 2011 (UTC)


 * You can always implement it on the sandbox and see what other people think, if you want to. We don't know what it is or how it looks like, and so cannot decide how it can or cannot be integrated into the wiki.   Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  21:29, September 17, 2011 (UTC)

Re:Blue Comet
Oh, sorry I forgot about the whole comet discussion. I think the red ones resemble meteors / meteorites more than comets as they have a rocky center. Certainly not asteroids as asteriods refer to the meteorites in the asteroid belt, but they should probaby belong in another article altogether, maybe "Red meteors".  Changtau2005  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Ribbon agrees!  09:53, September 18, 2011 (UTC)

Sidebar
Hey, I'm normally from the Kingdom Hearts wiki, but I was looking around here and noticed that the sidebar had 2 broken links in it, Current Events and Community portal. I tried to fix it, but the page is locked, so I couldn't do anything. Is there anything you could do about it? RoxasNobody 19:05, September 18, 2011 (UTC)

We should keep ? ? ?
im talkin about that dark meta knight in disguise. Keep it please!