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Facebook, Google, Twitter "acceptable" advertisements
You know, I love keyboard shortcuts and I use the mouse as little as possible. ''The new Windows is quite annoying already: many two-buttons shortcuts became "two buttons plus one", and this slows me down a lot. In particular, "Alt+Tab" became "Alt+Tab, then Esc". WTF??? Yesterday I did it wrong in a way that it reset all Firefox settings, including Adblock. The new Adblock is less efficient than the previous, because of the "Acceptable Advertisements" policy.''

Now, a series of "colorful squares" appear on the right side of Strategywiki pages (FB, G+, etc; are they called widgets?). Before the time they were there, I did my edit, then press Tab twice or three times, and I could see the preview or save the edit. With those annoying "acceptable advertisements" I have to press tab seven more times! That's annoying. Could it be possible to move them down in the page script, so that they get selected after the preview and save buttons, and not before? Thanks. --Abacos (talk) 22:38, 25 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I checked the page script (using Ctrl+U and Ctrl+F). Strange enough, the text area ends on line 236, "Save, preview and differences" are on lines 246-249, whereas the lines about Facebook etc. are already below them, on line 362. I wonder why pressing Tab I pass from the edit area, to the summary line, then through those 7 annoying thingies, and only then I get to the save/preview buttons. --Abacos (talk) 22:53, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I've updated the tab index for the addthis buttons. You may need to clear your cache.  Please try now. -- Prod (talk) 20:15, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Prod. It works great now. --Abacos (talk) 15:08, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Suggested new infobox parameter: titleimg
I came across a glitch in some of our page layouts that have a title screen image at the start of the article. Check out Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon for an example of an affected layout. This does not affect marquee like on Donkey Kong because that does not use CSS' float.

The title screen appears below credits, not because of a header issue, but because we added the social media text box table without combining it into a single div. Since the infobox class has the clear:right attribute, the social media text box table is forced downwards and it starts a new block on the page (forcing all other in-line objects downwards). To get around this, I propose adding a titleimg parameter that would add the thumbnail div between the main infobox and the social media infobox tables. See the image on the right for a highlighted fix (code and layout-wise). Can you find a better fix or propose a different solution? -- 05:08, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I may have found a superior solution. I wrapped both tables in a div, floated right, and that seemed to do the trick. Anyone have an even better solution before we add it? -- 05:16, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I do! A one-cell invisible table. See the "Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu" or "Ultima III: Exodus" main pages, as examples.
 * But I would support your idea of "title images" instead of "box artworks" in the infobox. I always considered the title shown by the game itself as the "TRUE title", and the title on the box or elsewhere (if different) just as a mere "official title". This is just my humble opinion, and nothing more. --Abacos (talk) 14:30, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

The Sims 3 handhelds
To be honest, I searched everywhere and none really have a walkthrough for the handheld versions of The Sims 3 example DS, 3DS. Can anyone add a category so you can find it? I just found inspiration to work on this. It's my first time working on handheld versions and I need a good start to this.

Thanks. Johnnyauau2000 (talk) 13:22, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

GraphViz
I've updated GraphViz to the latest code which appears to work much better now (no more random file uploads). Please feel free to use it on any of your pages. -- Prod (talk) 00:48, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Maps from a site: can they be used?
http://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/SuperNES/#T

This place has maps of the levels from True Lies, that I'm trying to get the walkthrough completed. And as you can see, someone else did capture them. If they were to be posted here, would this count as fair use, or should I ask?

(MatthewLM90 (talk) 16:57, 17 April 2017 (UTC))


 * Looking at those maps, it does not appear that the author necessarily asserts a copyright on his work, so in theory you are safe to use them. However, to be on the safe side, I would advise against using them unedited.  Rather, I suggest that you use the maps as a basis for your own work, and cut them up into more usable pieces for your guide, like per floor or per section, wherever possible.  You can still credit the original author for the work in the upload description.   Pro  cyon  17:21, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Formatting Question
Does anyone know how to remove the space between the bolded letters and the start of the bullet points in this table?

For Example a plain table looks like:

there is a large space between "Equips" and "*2x Leather Shield", also between "Longsword" and "Items:". I found that if you make the bolded text part of a bullet list and nest the origional bullet below it that gap isn't there(see below).

any ideas of how to remove the giant gap without using the nested bullet points? Also if this isn't the right place to ask let me know! Jpolk91 (talk) 05:33, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is the right place for your question. Try this:


 * which produces:

 Pro cyon  15:09, 19 April 2017 (UTC)

Replacing Pictures
I've been working on the RollerCoaster Tycoon walkthrough and I'm wondering how I can replace some of the old jpgs with cleaner-looking pngs. I've tried searching the help files, but couldn't find how to do this.

As an aside, RollerCoaster Tycoon/Mels World should be nuked since it's missing the apostrophe. Sorry about that. Antwan 04:43, 1 May 2017 (UTC)


 * While you can convert from one image format to any other format, when it comes to losslessness (what you're calling "clean"), you can't go from jpg (a lossy format) to png (a lossless format), because image integrity has already been lost. The only way to do what you're asking is to retake the screenshots from scratch and make sure they output in png format.   Pro  cyon  14:37, 1 May 2017 (UTC)


 * That is exactly what I plan to do. I have the new screenshots. How do I replace the old ones with the new ones? I still can't find that feature. Or do we delete the old ones first, then put the new ones?
 * Antwan 06:01, 3 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, since you're switching to a new file extension, it won't count as a file replace. Just go to the existing jpg images and add a delete tag to the top of them.  That will flag one of us to go ahead and delete it from the site.  Then upload the new image to site and you're all set.  Thanks!   Pro  cyon  13:32, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Long pages
Long pages are listed under Maintenance reports on Special pages: is this just so we can see which pages might benefit from subpaging or use of templates, or beyond a certain point does page length cause technical problems? I ask because, despite the use of templates, 12 of the longest 50 are Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic pages, the main guide to which I've been contributing. Onderduiker (talk) 21:17, 1 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that's the basic idea behind that list. If a page is on there, we don't necessarily have to subpage it, but it might be a good idea.  This is primarily a consideration for people browsing the site on mobile devices, which we don't do a particularly good job of taking into account.   Pro  cyon  13:32, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Star Wars templates
First, a heads-up that the following guides are in the Star Wars category but don't match wanted pages in the Star Wars series template:

Star Wars: Lethal Alliance and Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels are in the category but not the series template. There are also many wanted pages that look like they should be prefixed with Star Wars: or Star Wars, but I'm not sure how to proceed (I'm much more interested in contributing to specific guides, rather than researching SW titles in general).

Wanted pages for Star Wars: Racer Arcade and Racer Arcade may also be the same game, and there may be more sub-series (like Super Star Wars, or per episode or trilogy), particularly if a series is defined as just more than one (Rebel Assault, Force Unleashed, Angry Birds and possibly Starfighter).

Second, I'm thinking of creating a template for opening crawls, since based on the 14 (yikes) SW titles in my own library most, if not all, SW games have these. I've previously added opening crawls with yellow text on a black background to the Walkthrough pages of five guides, including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, although I now think they'd be better placed on the main game page, below. Using KotOR as an example, something like this:

Any feedback appreciated! Onderduiker (talk) 19:44, 4 May 2017 (UTC)