User talk:Dprather

Welcome to StrategyWiki!
Hello Dprather! Welcome to StrategyWiki. Thank you for your contributions. If you have any questions, just contact a sysop through their talk page or post on the staff lounge, and they'd be happy to help. If you need help editing, check the StrategyWiki Guide. If you have a question about the content on this wiki, you can check out our staff lounge page. If you want to ask questions or hang out in IRC, we're usually around. On the other hand, if you have ideas for StrategyWiki, bring them up on the community portal talk page. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (    ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field as this helps to document all of your hard work. Feel free to delete this message from your talk page if you like, or keep it for reference. Happy editing! -- Prod (Talk) 21:40, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

Image categories
Hi Dprather. Don't create your own image categories. Please only use the ones listed here. The Pokémon artwork category is exclusively for Pokémon games. Your Mewtwo image belonged in the Game artwork category. I have corrected it for you this time. Procyon (Talk) 21:00, 5 July 2007 (CDT)

SSBM Contributions
Thanks for all the edits. Your image of Mewtwo is exceptional and I'm glad you uploaded it. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 02:21, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Image Naming
Hi, when you upload images, can you please make sure that you prefix the image name with the guide's name and an underscore. For example, images for Counter-Strike: Source all begin with "css_". Thanks and happy editing.--Rocky http://media.strategywiki.org/images/thumb/7/78/Rally-X_Rock.png/25px-Rally-X_Rock.png (Talk - Contributions) 10:53, 11 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Please re-upload Image:250px-Mario Party 7 boxart.jpg as Image:Mario Party 7 boxart.jpg to fit with our naming conventions. 99.99% of images from Wikipedia do not currently fit with our strict naming policy, so keep the policy in mind (viewable here) whenever uploading an image. Once you upload it with the proper name, and include it in Category:Box artwork, I'll delete the previous one and tell you how to add it into an infobox. -- 11:29, 11 July 2007 (CDT)

Cool, now to add your image to the infobox, put in the following under the |title=Mario Party 7 line: 11:49, 11 July 2007 (CDT)
 * boxart=[[Image:Mario Party 7 boxart.jpg]]

New pages
When using the preload templates, there is very little that needs to be removed. Except for changing the |ratings text to ESRB (or whatever) nothing should be removed from the page. When creating the ToC, except for very special cases, nothing should be removed (though some things could be added). The proper category is Category:Box artwork for box artwork images. The proper parameter is |image, not |boxart (which will add the page to the Category:Deprecated templates. If you have any questions please leave me a message. -- Prod (Talk) 22:26, 11 July 2007 (CDT)
 * My bad on that, didn't know infobox was changed. Dprather, if you want, I'll stop by and help with the Mario Party series walkthroughs after I'm done with my other projects. -- 09:51, 12 July 2007 (CDT)

Wii Fit
If at all possible, could you please upload the box artwork for Wii Fit and use that in place of the logo for the image parameter in the infobox? We generally only use the logos if a) the game's box has not yet been revealed or b) the game doesn't have a box. So if you could do that (categorise the boxart under Category:Box artwork), and tag the logo with delete, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- 19:08, 15 July 2007 (CDT)

Image:Gamecube-Button-Mb.jpg
Excuse me for asking, but what is the point of this image (i.e. what does it represent)? -- 15:00, 16 July 2007 (CDT)
 * Seriously, what is this for? And now that you have three versions of the same image, which one do you want to keep? I would like an answer very soon, before I delete all three. An upload summary of "Mario Party 7" is NOT sufficient in explaining the image's purpose, so please explain what it is for. Oh yeah, your .png version is a jpeg, not a png, so please upload the correct file type if you want it to stay .png. -- 15:37, 16 July 2007 (CDT)

Just wondering...
Could you, I dunno, wake up and realize it every time we have to fix up your image naming mistakes? I'm kind of tired of deleting your improperly named and improperly categorized images and reuploading them properly. I've done three so far tonight. I'd prefer not to do any more. 1) Name the images properly: Gamename_system_box.jpg 2) The category for all box artwork is Category:Box artwork, not the name of the game the box is for.

Smurf you very much. Procyon (Talk) 20:32, 23 July 2007 (CDT)
 * OK, first of all, do not leave messages for me in my talk archives. The term archive means old matters that are closed and stored.  Second, if you were offended by what I had to say, then that's all you had to say, but asking a sysop not to leave messages for you on your talk page is not going to happen.  I will leave messages for you whenever I feel it is necessary to do so.  Third, you have proven to be a user who requires a tremendous amount of monitoring and cleaning-up after.  I despise unintelligent behavior.  So if you truly want me to leave your talk page alone, increase the amount of intelligence that you use when adding new images or pages.  Pay attention to the instructions that we are giving you and learn how to contribute to the site responsibly and you will never hear from me again.  Good day. Procyon (Talk) 20:37, 28 July 2007 (CDT)

We're all friends here :) -- Prod (Talk) 22:19, 28 July 2007 (CDT)
 * I don't believe it. It's been three years and you still can't name uploaded files right.  My neighbor's little kid can do it correctly and he's not even in junior high school yet.  What is your problem man?  Glass.jpg and Turn.jpg?  From now on, I'm deleting every file you don't name properly.  I'm not putting the sysops through the trouble of having to properly rename files when we've been talking to you about this for three years!   Pro  cyon  21:27, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

New game pages
I noticed you created a bunch of new game pages with no content in them. Whenever you create a new page, can you put some basic information about the game at least? Wikipedia should have most of the infobox information, and a few sentences about the game would be great. -- Prod (Talk) 08:41, 28 July 2007 (CDT)
 * The same is true for pages like the SSBM single player page you created; they're useless without content, and may just be deleted. --DrBob (Talk) 05:38, 12 August 2007 (CDT)

Userboxes
You have two options -- Userbox and Wpuserbox. Unfortunately, neither have any documentation. As such, here you go:
 * background color or
 * background color

Background color, title, and contents are the only required parameters in each. Examples:

Hope that helps -- 00:55, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Image categorisation
When uploading images, please make sure to categorise them using the correct image categories and the guide-specific category, i.e.  Category:Game Name images. Please see our image policy for more details. Thanks for helping to keep our images neat! — Moy  dow  (ta lk) 17:14, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Images from The Spriters Resource
When copying sprites, the only thing you should be looking for are real sprites from games. These are owned by whoever owns the intellectual property rights to the game; they are not owned by the sprite ripper. This means that you do not need to credit the sprite ripper - however, if you're like me, do it because it's nice and we support the gamers who help each other.

For sprites that are not from a game (i.e. unique sprites drawn or created by someone online), you cannot copy them without crediting the author. -- 05:39, 14 June 2010 (UTC)