User talk:Dukeruckley

I was supporting your idea for board game and other guides.--Filthy swine 13:17, 7 June 2006 (PDT)
 * Ya, I know. I just felt that I needed to clarify myself for others.--Dukeruckley 13:21, 7 June 2006 (PDT)

Roger. My main priority right now is trying to flesh out the FF6 guide, and then I'm going to throw some help in on the FFT one. FFT is one of my favorite games.

Hey, do you think you could add to the enemy images that you upload? It helps keep all the images together and organized. Also, where are you getting your sprites? I'd like to keep them all the same scale, so if you aren't already, upload them from  here, and preferably keep their naming scheme. Its just so if we do enemy lists and things like that, we can do it without having to find the names of all the enemy sprites again. --blendmaster 10:44, 15 June 2006 (PDT)
 * Sure thing, that makes sense... I like the larger size better, I just didn't know about that website.  I'll go back and change the other images.--Dukeruckley 10:51, 15 June 2006 (PDT)

ISO GTA:SA writers
Hi Duke, thanks for your tip. Is the GTA:SA project pretty stale? I'm having trouble finding any who contributes to it besides myself. I have some ideas for it but I'd like to talk to the people who care most about it Sympleko 12:56, 3 July 2006 (PDT)

To follow up with my ideas: I feel like the GTA:SA guide should be less like a wikibook and more like an encyclopedia. There should be a page for each vehicle indicating its various specifications, where/how you can find it (especially if it's a special vehicle like the Rhino), and what it's good for. A mission page that mentions the Rhino can just link to that page for details on how to get )it.

You can have pages for locations, too, especially the ones that house minigames, or are based oon real-life buildings, or are properties CJ can buy. Maybe this makes for short pages but I don't think that's so bad.

I also think that directories below GTA:SA aren't needed. Can't categories be used instead? Then you don't need a list page for all the cars, say; the Category page will create the index page and paginate it. Articles can be categorized more than once, so a car page can be marked as a car and as a sedan. If you need to distinguish between, say, OG Loc the character and OG Loc the mission, you can use parentheses like they do in Wikipedia: [[OG Loc (Character)/] ]. Mission Pages can be categorized by as missions, and also by their locations, and also by what stage of the game they occur (for instance, there are Officer Tenpenny missions in all the cities throughout the game).  Contents pages aren't necessary, either, except for maybe one for the mission walkthroughs.

Right now there's not too many pages under GTA:SA and there are few links betwwen them besides navigational ones. So if such a refactoring were to be me made, now would be the time. I know SA is not a current game but maybe such work can be rationalized as an investment into learning how to make a really stellar GTAIV site. The potential is there to be much more than an open-source gamefaqs.

I'm new to guidewriting and come from a wikipedia backgournd, which is all probably reflected in what I just said. Does it make sense and is it a good idea?

It's getting late and I'm going to bed. Take care. Sympleko 21:58, 3 July 2006 (PDT)

Image renaming
I've finished and tested the code in my bot to rename images, and I've just run it through the list you gave me. For some reason, it didn't find any links to any of the images you listed – which makes me think that part of the code is broken – so you might have to clean up some broken image references on some pages. :-( Just leave a message on my talk page if you need any more done. --DrBob (Talk) 13:34, 14 July 2006 (CDT)

Cleanup project
You've been doing a lot of housecleaning tasks recently, and I thought that maybe you'd like to formalise your participation in such mundane tasks (chain yourself to them forever :-P ) by putting yourself down as part of the cleanup project? --DrBob (Talk) 11:14, 18 July 2006 (CDT)
 * Haha, didn't even know about that... I'm adding myself now!-- Duke  Ruckley  11:16, 18 July 2006 (CDT)

Boilerplate text
If you come up with some standard text for something somebody's done wrong (e.g. here where he wasn't naming images properly) to put on their talk pages, could you add it to the Cleanup project/Boilerplate text page so that we can use it again? Of course, it'll need to be standardised and de-personalised, but it would save some time later. Cheers. :-) --DrBob (Talk) 13:22, 25 July 2006 (CDT)
 * I was planning on it eventually, just haven't gotten around to doing it yet :)-- Duke Ruckley  13:24, 25 July 2006 (CDT)