User talk:Notmyhandle

Clash of Ninja 2
I want to propose something about that CoN2 guide, and since you were the one that changed the level, I figure you know what you're doing. Is the sub-ToC really necessary? Strategies for the characters can be added on those characters' pages (especially considering how their move sets remain largely unchanged throughout the series) and dividing the game into story chapters really isn't necessary. The story mode is essentially Street Fighter with a bunch of text in between fights. The only major difference is the fights aren't randomized, and I'm not sure if that's enough to warrant having strategies down on every single chapter. The only basic strategy I can think of is beat the crap out of your opponent. :P I don't think each battle requires a strategy. A game like Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, where the bosses change phases throughout the battles after a bunch of QTEs, would need strategies for each chapter. Clash of Ninja 2 is just your average fighting game. Tell me what you think. :) -- Wario Talk 17:11, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry my response is so late. Between a defective computer and final exams, I couldn't respond as soon as I would have liked. Story mode strategies in one page sounds fine to me. I would think shared strategy pages could work (move lists don't change much across the games in the series - some combos from the Clash of Ninja games are even usable in the Ultimate Ninja Storm games) mostly because of the limited techniques available to the characters at that point in the manga/anime series (which would be built on in later games and added to the page), but if that isn't enough, strategy pages specifically for Clash of Ninja 2 could be done I guess. Now that my summer vacation is here, I'm free to work on the guide, but I want to finish the God of War guide first. That one is long overdue. -- Wario Talk 21:50, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Welcome back
Hey NMH, good to see you back. How was your vacation? Did you go anywhere cool?  Pro cyon  01:15, 18 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Awesome! I drove almost 1000 miles in less than a week; spent four days at this place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8YGTpglby8 -- 04:45, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

Reply
Sure. Will do. Thanks :D Uglyface86 (talk) 13:47, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Final Fantasy 3 jobs
It's just because in English you would say e.g. "Healing Mage", but for sorting purpose I swapped the two words e.g. "Mage, Healing–": this way, when you sort the table you get all the mages listed near each other. The hypen is the same as writing "Legend of Zelda, The–", I simply followed a grammar rule, but I think the table can be understood even without hypens. --Abacos (talk) 12:05, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Captcha problem
Hello Notmyhandle. Thank you for the welcome. I am trying to edit a page and it is giving me the cat captcha, but there is no submit button to continue on after selecting the cats. It worked just fine earlier when I created my account. I am using Firefox. Is there anything that I can do to get it working again? Thanks. Korrun (talk) 17:50, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes I am. Korrun (talk) 18:03, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

I understand the reason. It won't let me continue from the captcha. There is no submit button near the cats and if I click on save page again it just reloads new cats. If I select all of the cats (and no dogs) nothing happens and there is no button to click to continue. Korrun (talk) 18:08, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

I tried a link to wikipedia, so I don't think that it is an issue with the specific websites. These are the links I am trying to add:

heading: External links
 * [sc-room.stellar-crisis.net Stellar Crisis Room - Main hub for Stellar Crisis information]
 * [sc-room.stellar-crisis.net/SC.howtointro.html Stellar Crisis Room - Beginner's Guide and Tutorial]
 * [erick.freeshell.org/sc/ Aggie Land's Stellar Crisis - Fan site with information and strategy guides
 * [falcon.almonaster.net/ Almonaster - Server hosting another version of Stellar Crisis]

Thanks! Removing some of the links later makes sense. They could be useful to refer to while it is in development. Korrun (talk) 18:51, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It's a problem specific to IE8/9. Apparently a fix is in the works: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Extension_talk:ConfirmEdit/Asirra_not_passing. -- Prod (talk) 05:46, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Yet another thank you
Hey man, been noticing how much effort you've been putting into reorganizing and cleaning up many of the less well organized guides, and I just want to thank you for all the hard work.  Pro cyon  05:16, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Lol, don't worry about me, I'm just on my honeymoon. Had to promise the wifey that I'd keep the internet stuff down to a minimum for the week. ;)  Of course, being blocked at work now doesn't help either :P  Pro  cyon  14:44, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Soul Blazer
I did thought of notwide, but even with it there is too many black border/"space" there, so notwide is not the solution i seek. There must be something else to solve it. Paco (talk) 18:44, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Having two major columns side by side is causing our browsers not to make it appear correctly. I found a solution and re-ordered the weapons to match their locations in the inventory screenshot at the top. Also: avoid floating the image; by removing "|left" it reduced the bottom margin by a couple of pixels. The additional div that the float causes has a buffer that we can't adjust. -- 19:28, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Final Fantasy/Armor
Hi Notmyhandle. Sorry but I'm not sure what you're talking about. I didn't change any name on the page, just reorganized the tables. In fact, I'm re-playing the video game in French, and therefore English names are not my concern. --Abacos (talk) 19:45, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Anyway, I'd like to add the party that I'm using (and I think it's a great party for magic users like me: Monk, Red Mage, White Mage, Black Mage), but I'm not sure how to grade the various attributes. --Abacos (talk) 19:45, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi. About weapons and armors, I think there is a separate "NES name" line because the remakes for PSX and GBA are way more popular today. I think the matter could be settled just writing this at the top of the page. About parties, I wrote the ratings just by checking the parties similar to mine, at least it is coherent with the rest of the page. I think someday I'll rewrite the page adding first of all a Character Class Triangle diagram, and then listing just few short guidelines sections, like this: --Abacos (talk) 10:26, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
 * physical-oriented parties;
 * magic-oriented parties (my favourites, but generally avoided by guide writers);
 * balanced parties;
 * parties with two or more identical characters (these are the ones I avoid).

Special characters in names
I think we should try to replicate the game name as closely as possible, within the limits of what mediawiki allows. As long as we have all the appropriate redirects in place, people should find what they're looking for. -- Prod (talk) 04:40, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Ultima 5 guide
Hi. I just cleared Ultima 5 and got to the end of the walkthrough. Can you give me some suggestion to bring the guide firmly to Completion Stage 3? I created the guide and am the main contributor, but right now I think I need some feedback --Abacos (talk) 11:36, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Cookies
Hmmmm... that template is long overdue. Perhaps we should create cookie specially for it? -- Prod (talk) 01:59, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I made an example cookie using thank you a while ago. Check it out. cookie could simply call that example... -- 15:14, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Dragon Quest 3
Hi. Sorry, I don't know how to mark a page for deletion yet. Here's the link to the "sentenced one", anyway: Dragon Warrior III/Bonus Dungeon --Abacos (talk) 17:23, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Dota 2 Heroes
Here it is. Thanks for helping me out with the hero pages. Filling in templates is tedious work. T.testLP(talk) 01:42, 15 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I think that using the skill icons from the overview of the hero page instead of the ability descriptions is better, since it is smaller and thus doesn't affect the layout of the page that much. Still, thanks for helping out with the Sven page. T.testLP(talk) 07:27, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Oh, I understand. Funnily I was also thinking about changing them back to level 3 headers because I just had a new idea for the page layout of a certain hero, and would need changing all the others to make them consistent.T.testLP(talk) 07:05, 20 September 2012 (UTC)


 * I know you're currently busy with other things, but can you delete the Magic Wand picture? I uploaded the wrong one by accident and it bugs me that it hadn't been deleted for a few days. T.testLP(talk) 07:15, 1 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Huh, I reuploaded and it still shows the same image as the Null Talisman. It looked like the correct file in my folders, but when I upload it it just changes to the talisman picture. Is it just on my computer? If it is, it should looks like a straight stick with a burst of magic at one end. T.testLP(talk) 07:08, 2 October 2012 (UTC)


 * That worked. Thanks! T.testLP(talk) 07:19, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Happy to Help!!
I got heavily devoted to college and my own pet project- a web series. I'm always trying to drop by and give this place some love whenever I get the urge. I never forgot the wiki for a second. Now, I'm going back over a lot of edits I did in the past when I was a little younger- my vocabulary was crud back then, which led me to make a lot of pages look a little greenhorn. Thanks for the praise- you're firing me up again!!! --|Superpowered  Mario  (talk) 19:59, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Soul Weapon System
There you go, added a note to the table! If you still don't understand, refer to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENAXo1QdHTk --Maplefreak26 (talk) 01:22, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

MapleStory
While checking MS monster list i found this Dark Tree. The Thumbnail view is broken. Paco (talk) 07:32, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

E-mail
Can you check your sw email, or send me one if your address has been updated? -- Prod (talk) 05:09, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

NPCs
Sure! It'll take a while because school is a pain in the- but I'll help out whenever I can! :) --Maplefreak26 (talk) 05:09, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

I noticed that when you moved "File:DO Tombow.gif" to "File:Dragon Saber enemy Tombow.gif", you asked what "DO" meant...
...so I feel obliged to point out that it was the two-letter identity Namco gave to Dragon Saber when it was originally released in the arcades twenty-two years ago (given that the identity of DS had already been taken by its predecessor, Dragon Spirit, when it had originally been released in the arcades three years previously). Namcorules (talk) 16:46, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. -- 16:52, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Hey NMH. I saw all the work you did with JBA, but I'm not sure (PlayStation) was the correct disambuiguation. Essentially, the Arcade, PSX and DC versions are all based on the same game, with a few extra features thrown in on the console version. I think either (Arcade) or (Capcom) would be more appropriate choices. Technically speaking, that guide could have the "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" title all to itself since the SNES version only game out in Japan, so technically that guide should be listed as Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken because it was never released with the translated title. I know I'm splitting hairs and stuff, just trying to be accurate.  Pro cyon  03:25, 11 October 2012 (UTC)


 * On second thought, I would prefer to make JoJo's Bizarre Adventure a disambiguation page. Given the cross-over features of the PS and Dreamcast versions, I felt that they may need their own, separate pages, but without playing them I have no way of criticizing or explaining the differences.
 * But... that's completely different from how we do any other disambiguations on the site. We don't have disambiguation pages like Wikipedia does.  We use the Category pages for that.  Are you proposing that we change policies?
 * We have individual disambigs, see Category:Disambiguation and as an example, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (disambiguation), so why can't we have JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (disambiguation)?. I don't mind linking to the category and moving the info there if that's what we tend to do. I hadn't thought of doing that. -- 15:56, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, cool, thanks for bringing that to my attention, I was unaware of that. I'm cool with that approach, but that still leaves the issue of the correct name for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (PlayStation).  I still contend that PlayStation isn't the correct disambiguation for it, and that a majority of the content will apply to the arcade, PSX, and DC versions of the game (I am somewhat familiar with the series), so the choices are:


 * 1) Change (PlayStation) to (Arcade) since both the PSX and DC versions are based on the arcade version, although this can be misleading.
 * 2) Change (PlayStation) to (Capcom) to give it some kind of disambiguation.  Capcom produced a lot of games using the JoJo license, but that is the only one with that specific title.
 * 3) Remove the disambiguation and refer to the SNES/SFC version by it's Japanese title since it was never officially released as "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" (with a disambiguation notice at the top of the Capcom version page).


 * Off topic: I am also not a fan of combined fighting game series pages, as most games vary in their move timing and interfaces, which drastically alter the strategies for combos. Not to mention moves may change or be removed. I have gotten frustrated a few times with editing games with combined ToCs and movelists, mostly because I would rather a fully unique page for each character for each game, to explain not just a movelist, but also how to use them in combos. -- 15:33, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a whole other can of worms. The reason behind that is to reduce the repetition of content.  The character bios and 90% of the "Getting Started" and "Walkthrough" content is identical for every version.  If they were split up, much of the content in those guides would be copied across every guide (unless we use transclusion...)  Any thoughts on how to get around that issue?  Pro  cyon  03:55, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I understand why we're attempting to do this, but it is ineffective and very difficult to manage. We should have duplicate information, like we would in any other game series (e.g. Super Mario Bros.' Getting Started pages could all be effectively combined, but we don't because it would be convoluted because of all of the differences). Combined pages, like Dragon Warrior III/Enemies are 100x harder to build than multiple "duplicates", but in some cases we push for it. In this case, DWIII has three significantly different ports, but they are the same game. With our fighting games, we are combining significantly different games, not ports.


 * Since the games we are trying to combine are usually not at stage 4 or featured, their content is essentially unconfirmed. If I look up a version of Street Fighter, I don't care about any other game in the series, especially Arcade games if I'm on a console. The controller itself, and the computer's hardware, changes the gameplay considerably. With each port, hit boxes may change, which goes hand in hand with timing nuances for potential combo strategies. One reason we need actual individual character pages on a per-game basis is because of these unknown strategies. Like, if I go to the Street Fighter II guide and I'm playing on a SNES, I want to be told how to kick some butt and win every time. I don't care what the names of the moves are or how to do them, I want to know which is the best and when to use them. How am I supposed to beat Dhalsim with E. Honda when he outranges me in every way? We don't have character matchup strategies or any of the sort. The current E. Honda description lets me know in a general way some good nuances to timings for the HD version, but not the original, nor any of the moves. It lets me know what each move does and maybe how many times it could hit a guy, but it doesn't tell me how much damage it does or what can combo after it without being countered. I mean, what we have is nice. What I want is awesome. Our character pages should let editors expand the details of how to fight - our pages could be at least four times as long as they are now (in a finished state).


 * Here's what we do well:
 * Move lists (all characters in a game on one page; great for Ctrl+F)
 * Cross-series move lists (e.g. all E. Honda move lists on one page; great for analyzing how a series has changed, useless for strategies)
 * Set up character pages.


 * Here's what we don't do well:
 * Set up character pages for each game.
 * Individual character timing analyses (there's no good place to put this for games that have had their character link combined with a previous game).
 * Character A vs. Character B strategy sections non-existent/no good place.


 * Here's how to fix it:
 * Attempt to detail one game's getting started page, expanding on the current combined one. If expanding the details goes out of the bounds of the common Getting Started info, then create a separate Getting Started page for that game.
 * For each game, make their own character list that doesn't link to other character pages in the series. On these pages, the individual movelist should be transcluded. Additional room for details is now available for expansion.
 * Make a combined move list page (all characters in the game) in the ToC under Appendices (e.g. /Move list).
 * Make a separate combined move list page for each character beside their name in the ToC (e.g. E. Honda (Move list)). Again the transcludable move list for E. Honda for a specific game would appear on three pages: /E. Honda, /Move list, and SeriesTitle/Characters/E. Honda.
 * Create a combined ToC with collapsible lists for similar games (e.g. SFII games), like Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, if significant info exists. Alternately: don't combine them, separate them.


 * What I really don't like is forcing combined pages when there could be differences that you or I haven't confirmed or cared to look for. I'm not asking for a complete overhaul, but something less restrictive. The worst thing right now is the combined character pages for the series - this is a terrible idea. The only thing that's the same is the background info and maybe the intro, which can be transcluded. The character sprite on the page should be the one from each specific game or version, so that needs to be able to change.


 * We also have a mess with pages like Street Fighter II/Walkthrough that have a header nav enclosed in tags. So many pages link to it, how are we supposed to figure out what is transcluding it or why? Transcluding whole /Walkthrough pages makes no sense to me. -- 15:56, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, before I say anything else, I really want to thank you for your thoughtful and thorough analysis of this issue. I agree with you on a majority of your points, and I do agree that the state of some of our fighting guides is a bit confusing.  So please understand that I hear you, and I appreciate your input on this.  That being said, I think some (not all) of what you suggested you'd like to see falls under the question of scope.  I will go out on a limb here and assume you're familiar with the shoryuken.com wiki.  They definitely have the kind of details you're talking about.  But sometimes when I'm on there looking for simple information, my eyes kind of glaze over because of how complicated their pages are, and the tremendous amount of data they are trying to present.  When I personally think about what SW's purpose should be, I think about three types of manuals; instruction manuals, strategy guides, and technical manuals.  To me, instruction manuals present way too little information for SW, and technical manuals way too much.  Naturally, I think strategy guides are the perfect amount, and I tailored a lot of the content for fighting games on existing strategy guides that I have (not to mention most online FAQs.)  What you proposed up above sounds like a technical manual to me.  I'm not opposed to that content (and it isn't even up to me anyway), but then it becomes a question of time and effort vs. results.  First, someone has to be willing to put in the time and effort to generate those kinds of character vs. character fight analysis, and second, enough people need to want to come here to find that kind of analysis.  I think as you go from less complicated (instruction manual) to more complicated (technical manuals), the amount of people looking for that quantity and quality of information drops off considerably.  It's not to say that no one is interested because clearly you are, but that's a lot of effort to put into a guide that fewer people will read.  Having said all that, I would be happy to work with you on finding a more user-friendly presentation for those guides.  I need to review some of your suggestions to get a better idea of what you mean, but if you'd like to prototype a design in your user space, I'd love to see what you have in mind.  Thanks again.  Pro  cyon  04:59, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I can imagine these technical guides being on SW because when I was playing a bunch of Naruto fighting games, I found a guide on GameFAQs that really helped me figure out some useful combos, but there's no place for this info on our current setup, so I abandoned my efforts to improve our guide. We can also make technical subpages for people like me who try to play games to their most accurate, efficient, and fluid way (e.g. wave dashing in Super Smash Bros. Melee opens up an entirely different way to play the game).


 * The problem is that we have scope, and we have opinions. Since you and I vary, it is clear that the rest of the world is also going to vary, and probably with more disparities. SW is a framework for the content we want. I don't think we should be stopping people from publishing helpful information because there's too much of it. That said, I wouldn't want to make "technical" pages our focus, as they are usually unnecessary to complete the game. Also, character match up strategies are way different than timing and hitbox breakdowns. Also, I'm a tech guy, so it makes sense that everything I do tends to get reduced to its components. We could expand ToCs to have the character listings with special subpages in parentheses next to them, like "E. Honda (Matchups · Technical)" or something like that.


 * Also, for Getting Started pages, redundancy is better than missing parts.


 * My goal here isn't to re-do the current setup at this time, but to revise our framework so that future guides won't have the same problems. I'll try and work on a sandbox example soon. -- 20:55, 13 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Proc, see the mockup here: User:Notmyhandle/Sandbox. Notice that in this ToC we retain each version and links to their movelists. The character pages are still combined, with movelists from each game on it. I think we could leave that. I changed "How to Play" to Walkthrough. The content on /Walkthrough should be subpaged to /Getting Started and /Controls. We don't use "How to play" on any of other games except the ones whose ToC you set up. -- 17:52, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * One problem I can see about going for a more in-depth guide is that earlier games in a series a usually less documented, like MSFvSF or SFII:CE, so it is much harder to find information about it than...say, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. That said, I think the idea is great and I will certainly try to contribute. Just my two cents. T.testLP(talk) 07:58, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Depends on the marketing. Like Capcom vs. SNK had little visibility (the decline of people going to Arcades and we all know the Dreamcast wasn't a smash hit) has barely been played compared to Capcom vs. SNK 2, which debuted on all major consoles at the time and appeared in every store I went to four a few years (from Box Store electronics departments to Cost Co). Side note: the PS2 version of Capcom vs. SNK 2 is way better than the GameCube version because of the controls. -- 16:34, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Also, Proc, I don't think these should be completion stage four, as they clearly don't meet the criteria: "These are completed guides in the sense that these are quality guides that can accurately lead readers through the game; these guides include as many screenshots as is necessary to properly illustrate situations. Also offered in these guides are appendices, maps, and other highly relevant information." -- 16:36, 19 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree. When I saw Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo in the completion stage 4 section, my first impression was "Oh, boy! Now I can learn how and when to use which moves to hopefully be able to defeat the CPU consistently!". Then I viewed the guide and only saw movelists. It is actually quite misleading. For that matter, Pocket Fighter shouldn't be considered a Featured Guide. Sure it describes the basics and all the flash combos well with accompanying pictures, they don't actually help with making players better at the game. There's no section about which flash combo is best at which situation, or which gem colour should be prioritized to upgrade a certain move. T.testLP(talk) 06:00, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I think it all depends on how you play fighting games, honestly. Strategy makes sense to me since it can not only help the player get better with a certain character, but also helps you see if the character is right for you in the long-run (with all the ranked online battles and whatnot being added to fighting games nowadays, I'd say finding a character you're comfortable with can be important to the replay value of games in the genre). But technical analysis is just not something I can agree with as a gamer, nor is it something I would even care to see. That would be a ton of work which begs the question: Is it really necessary? Reading up on step-by-step walkthroughs of how to defeat every single character as every single character would kind of detract from the whole fighting game experience. I mean, isn't that what fighting games are all about? As someone who has actually used the move lists on this site, I have to say that they are really all I ever needed.-- Wario Talk 09:56, 21 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm fine with conceding on the technical point. No one has pursued that sort of information here. It is a dream of mine, but let's keep things simple for the most part. Perhaps we should find a fighting game wiki to partner with for that aspect. That would also simplify the ToCs and significantly reduce the number of links. I've updated the sandbox example accordingly. -- 16:01, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Kickle Cubicle
Hi Notmyhandle. If it seems like I'm holding back some information, it's just because I don't have enough time to put everything in: just give me more time :-) If it is about the Kickle Cubicle islands that were moved from the Japanese Cake and Toy Lands to the Western Special Game, as soon as I have all the Western Special Game islands screenshots ready, I'll create the page and move such Japanese Cake & Toy islands there. If you mean something else, please tell me specifically which type of information you're talking about, and I'll be glad to write it down :-) --Abacos (talk) 11:46, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
 * In other words, I wanted to avoid "orphaned images" that are not used in any page. --Abacos (talk) 11:48, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi. It's not necessary at all to set extra pages for the Japanese version, because the solution of the islands is absolutely the same, the differences are just the number of enemies and the order of the islands. Japanese pages would only repeat the same identical things of the Western version, with just eight extra stages (out of 97: it's just 7%). --Abacos (talk) 18:44, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

My plan is to put a map of the land with numbered islands in each page. The numeration in the captions, both Western and Japanese, is already done according to that. A note could be added reminding the reader of the existence of "Ctrl+F". (You know, I chose my nickname because I find the alphabetical order obsolete since we can use Ctrl+F, and Abacos is the first noun in a dictionary, just to crack the alphabetical system.) --Abacos (talk) 21:22, 23 October 2012 (UTC)