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)