User talk:Procyon

I welcome any and all feedback here, so please post your thoughts. Thank you.

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Re: Preview your changes before you save

I'll make sure to limit the number of Saves I do in the future. However, I would like to point out that it's impossible to see the effect editing a template has on a page that uses that template in preview. That's one reason there's so many edits. Weird things happen when you use html and css in wikis so it's hard to get it right using Preview. That being said, I'll try to use it whenever I can.

"I would like to point out that it's impossible to see the effect editing a template has on a page that uses that template in preview": That's why many templates have self-references included in a <noinclude> section. :-) (Sorry for butting in.) --DrBob (Talk) 08:59, 10 September 2006 (CDT)

Now that I'm trying to create a complex template for the first time, I understand exactly what he's talking about, and it's very frustrating. You can make a change to the noinclude section all that you want, but until you commit the changes you made in your template to the database, you can't ever preview your alterations. I might start using regular wikipedia as a sand box ^_^ Procyon 13:40, 12 September 2006 (CDT)

Wiki Knowledge

Thanks for the welcome message. I am an Administrator on Wiki Knowledge and I thought that sometime within the next few days I might import over some of the articles that are relevant that I created over from it, namely my articles on Eggerland, Mega Man, Mega Man 2, Rockman & Forte: Challenger from the Future, and the now work-in-progress Mega Man Timeline.

If you want to see what these articles look like before I import them, take a look at:

http://www.wikiknowledge.net/wiki/Eggerland

http://www.wikiknowledge.net/wiki/Mega_Man

http://www.wikiknowledge.net/wiki/Mega_Man_2

http://www.wikiknowledge.net/wiki/Rockman_%26_Forte:_Challenger_from_the_Future

http://www.wikiknowledge.net/wiki/Mega_Man_Timeline

Yes, the games have a lot of information with them along with some strategy, but that's because I always want to include the story/backstory and detailed info along with each game. Additionally, I make sure that everything I write with each game is properly cited so that users/readers know that the information is correct.

--Brahman 23:29, 27 September 2006 (CDT)

Mega Man

I finally got around to copying over my work on Mega Man 1 and Mega Man 2, as well as Rockman & Forte: Challenger from the Future. The pain in the ass came in when I had to find all the images and copy them over as well, but now it's all good. I even put the Game Info box in that you all like, so hopefully you guys will enjoy it.

Any game-related articles that I write on WikiKnowledge I will most likely copy on over to here so that people can benefit from my contributions.

Also, I noted that the Mega Man 1 and Mega Man 2 pages are now marked for clean-up, but this is most likely because a lot of it isn't sub-paged. Oh well, that's mostly because I didn't sub-page it when I designed it in WikiKnowledge, but if you guys really have an issue with it's current layout, I suppose you can subpage the information. Still, hopefully you'll appreciate all the cool information that I put on it (such as the information provided by the Rockman Perfect Memories sourcebook).

Enjoy! --Brahman 02:12, 2 October 2006 (CDT)

Thanks so much Brahman! You did an awesome job. It's true, the articles could use some sub-paging, but that should be easy to take care of. By the way, I love that sourcebook, I have a copy at home as well. I dunno if you are aware, but I'm one of the earliest FAQ writers for the Mega Man series. Some of my content is still on gamefaqs. A small amount of the stuff I wrote got used by Capcom in the Mega Man 7 anniversary booklet without any credit to me (primarily what features premiere in each version. That FAQ was published before MM7 came out.) So, I'm a hard core original Mega Man lover at heart. Great to have you on board! Procyon 13:39, 2 October 2006 (CDT)

Will you be adding those FAQs here? Garrett^Talk 17:36, 4 October 2006 (CDT)

No, I wasn't planning on doing that per se. If you look at how I wrote them, they're not sufficient for StrategyWiki. I wrote them back in like 1994 or something, when FAQs didn't look they way they do today. If anything, I'd write something from scratch, but I'd rather just contribute to someone else's Mega Man project as I'm spinning pleanty of plates at the moment. Procyon 20:09, 4 October 2006 (CDT)

Move lists category

Why did you put all the sub-pages of Move Lists in the category of the same name? Isn't it a bit redundant? --DrBob (Talk) 15:43, 4 October 2006 (CDT)

Well, I couldn't think of a better way to provide a comprehensive way to present all of the available pages to a reader other than using the category. I'm open to suggestions. The main reason I did the work that I did today was to break all of the subpages out of the M category that they were all stuck under. At least now if someone wanted to look at, say, Raiden, they didn't have to look all the way at the end where he was, and their eye could jump to the big R so they could find him more easily. Believe me, I would like to find a better way to present that whole mess. Like, if you go to the Move Lists/Capcom page, that's more of what I had in mind. The irony is that the Capcom page has no move lists on it :/ Procyon 16:45, 4 October 2006 (CDT)

Overcategoryization

Not exactly a part of the main convo, so I'm asking here. What exactly is overcategorization? -- Prod 09:20, 9 October 2006 (CDT)

Simply providing too many categories for pages to fall under. Every new category that you create is another category that an author has to remember to potentially include their game under. Inevitably, someone will forget to use a particular category, and then another user will potentially search for a game under this forgetten category and not see the game and assume the page doesn't exist. Now your response may be, "That's OK, if someone forgets to use a particular category, we'll come in afterwards and add it ourselves," but think about all of the work you've just added to people like DrBob. Where as, if we bolster and support the use of the categories that we have now, there's no way a user should not be able to find a page if it truly exists on this site. I'm all for categorization, but I guess I'm a minimalist. I'd rather see the bare minimum categories be used consistantly then try to create every conceivable category and see them used sporadically. Procyon 09:29, 9 October 2006 (CDT)

His point of adding it to the infobox kind of makes the problem with it pointless. We continue doing what we're doing, which is having an infobox on every guide main page, and the advantages just become slightly more. Same effort, slightly more benefit (even if it's just POSSIBLY more benefit), why not? -- Mason11987 ^{(Talk - Contributions)} 21:52, 9 October 2006 (CDT)

Re: Inaccurate revisions

Garrett, I'll start out by admitting that I am being extremely sensitive about this subject, but a lot of the revisions that you've been doing appear to me as being a blanket action taken without thought or consideration. The Pinball nav thing, I can understand, but the Samurai Shodown/Samurai Shodown! redirect is inexcusable. If you had just taken a few moments to look at the infoboxes or the categories, you would have seen that they are distinct games. Furthermore, if you had looked at the history, DrBob made the same mistake previously, and I made that very correction once before. Please do some research before taking a similar course of action next time. Thank you. Procyon 16:04, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

Hm. Well yes it was sort of a blanket action. I'd been using the completion categories to keep track of how many guides we had (the total was approaching 250, a nice round number worth celebrating), but Category:Games showed me that there were many more than that! Therefore I went to work adding nums as close as I could guess. In the case of Samurai Shodown I checked Wikipedia--"!" redirected to the main article, so I decided it was an alternate title (like Mega Man vs. Megaman) for yet another port. Some ports are done years later, so the date didn't clue me in either. Garrett^Talk 19:40, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

Re: Street Fighter II Nav

Oh and I was meaning to ask you about the Street Fighter versions. I used Street Fighter II as the nav of its variants so that they could share the TOC and walkthrough of whatever info isn't in the move lists. Is this the best way to handle them? Garrett^Talk 19:40, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

Oh wow, that's actually an excellent consideration that I hadn't thought of. Unfortunately though, now that I've switched to using the Fighting Game Nav and the Move List Nav, I would regret losing that functionality that links the two pages together. Alternatively, though I am loathe to borrow anything from WikiKnowledge, perhaps we could adopt their Street Fighter II navigation system. Look at the bottom of this page to see what I mean. As another alternative, we are making use of the Street Fighter category. Procyon 19:44, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

Well, another way would be to add a parent= variable to control the other links. That way the advantages of both types of template would remain, and the two fighting templates could be merged into one. Even better, the dropdown could also hide a series nav like WikiKnowledge's. Garrett^Talk 20:07, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

I'm cool with that Garrett, if you would like to oversee the change. I like the idea of merging them, I just couldn't figure out how to do it and keep the functionality. Now I realize that the variable "movelist" is only used in the Fighting Game Nav template, so obviously it can serve as the conditional between being a Fighting Game Nav and a Move Lists Nav. I'll leave it to you to make the changes to the templates, and then I'll follow behind and fix up the affected pages. (Man, I gotta clean up this page...) Procyon 20:09, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

Yeah, I can do that when I have the time. You can add the template any time, however; just call the merged template whatever you want and insert it like {{SomeTemplate|game=Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival|parent=Street Fighter II|movelist=Capcom/SSF2T}}. Assuming you want gameplay-related links hidden when viewing the movelists, leave off the movelist= variable when adding the nav to cover/walkthrough pages. This way me writing the template doesn't hold you back from adding it. You could also decide what links you want the gameplay pages to show (Stages, Characters, etc.). Garrett^Talk 20:48, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

Hi Garrett. I've gone ahead and merged the functionality of those two templates, so only Template:Fighting Game Nav remains. So any change that you would like to make only needs to be made on that template. While I understand what you mean by parent, I don't exactly understand how you intend to use it, so for the time being, I have not added it to any page. When you are ready, I would be happy to add the variable at that time so just let me know. Thanks. Procyon 21:29, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

Well, will the walkthrough info fit on a single page nicely? If walkthroughs are likely to use subpages it would make sense for the nav to have links to common page names (such as Stages). The idea behind Parent was that variants like Street Fighter II Turbo and Super Street Fighter II could link to shared info pages (e.g. Street Fighter II/Stages), rather than each having their own stage descriptions. Like the current template, the links would default to the game= name if no parent was defined, and would be hidden if movelist was undefined. Garrett^Talk 22:24, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

OK, it's late for me, so that's probably why I'm confused. I understand that you would like to establish a relationship between the original game Street Fighter II, and it's many derivatives like Champion Edition, Turbo, Super, and Super Turbo. But if you look at the different home conversions that each one has spawned, they really are distinct titles in and of themselves. So while I agree that there is a clear relationship between SF2 and all of the other titles, treating the different versions as "stages" of the parent doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Not the way that, say, Dinosaur Island is a stage of Super Mario World. You know? I thought you wanted to use the "parent" variable to show all of the titles in a series (like SFA1, 2, and 3). If there's a way to do that, I'm all for it. Procyon 23:03, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

I've kinda skimmed this conversation (TLDR sorry), and I quickly visited the guides. Is there a reason why all the SF2/SSF2 games can't be put on the same page with a subpage going in-depth into their differences. From what I can tell, all the guides are the same (except for the special moves in the the last one). -- Prod 23:44, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

If Street Fighter II Champion Edition is ok with you, I'm going to put it on all the MK and SF2 pages that currently use Fighting Game Nav

Yup, it looks good. I'll work on the combined "walkthrough" I just wish we could change the text from "walkthrough" to "how to play", but I don't want to stir up another hornets nest. Procyon 16:06, 11 October 2006 (CDT)

Yea I agree, cause walkthrough doesn't give the right meaning. Perhaps the actual page can be named something else (Such as Street Fighter II/Game mechanics or something) and just have Walkthrough redirect there. Each of the main pages will have the full toc (which will call it the actual name) so that link may not even be used. -- Prod 16:10, 11 October 2006 (CDT)

Name

As in the star, the raccoon genus, or the release group? -- Prod 23:51, 10 October 2006 (CDT)

lol, the raccoon genus. If I can't use Procyon, I sometimes use Lotor, or Plotor. ^_^ Procyon 07:58, 11 October 2006 (CDT)

Layout change suggestion, would like your input

On the project boxes (stub, needscat, ect.), if you could give your input here it would be appreciated. -- Mason11987 ^{(Talk - Contributions)} 10:25, 15 October 2006 (CDT)

Elements page

Why not just call it Controls & Characters (or 'and')-- Prod (Talk) 14:37, 23 October 2006 (CDT)

I dunno, it started as a reference to older gaming publications like Joystik and the Official Nintendo Player's Guide, as well as a now-worthless habit of keeping directory names small. Plus now I feel locked in to it in order to be consistant with all of the other guides I established. :P Procyon 14:48, 23 October 2006 (CDT)

Joystick directions

Just a thought, but those hold letters, especially now on the 24x24 buttons, are extremely hard to read. It might be good to change the hold to just a circle with an "H" in it, instead of squished text. If you don't want to though, I'll probably get around to making SVG directions anyway, and will do that. --blendmaster 22:55, 30 October 2006 (CST)

Re: WTF?

I read on digg that Contra was coming to Live Arcade, so I added a blurb about that. In the process I noticed it didn't mention the arcade version, and when I checked Category:Contra it also mentioned a SMS version. Garrett^Talk 14:51, 7 November 2006 (CST)

Snesmaster

Check out WP:WP:BITE for some hints about dealing with newcomers. I cleaned up the Rygar pages (why can't game companies come out with unique names :/ ) but adding links is useful. It would be nice to get users to add major content, but some are only here to promote their favourite sites. And even links are good for the site since it increases our "resourcefulness" (good links from here, means that they will look for other good links here on a different game, worked on my bro). -- Prod (Talk) 21:09, 8 November 2006 (CST)

Helping to add games

Hi, I am new to strategy wiki. Rygar was the first game I ever added. It was more a test to see if I could figure out how to do it. Thank you for the warning, and I when I have more time I will work on helping add more content to this site other then just maps. Snesmaster 16:14, 9 November 2006 (CST)

Anti-Wiki Sentiment

I know this isn't Wikipedia, we have goals that differ greatly from that site, however I think that StrategyWiki should still be a site that encourages anyone and everyone to contribute in any way they like. However, I have noticed a couple comments from you which suggest that you disagree with this principle.

I don't want to object to any specific circumstances, I just want to say that I think we should be careful, especially as administrators, to not discourage any types of meaningful participation, or hold people to an elitist standard of how they should contribute. If a visitor/editor enjoys writing new content, but doesn't like to spend excessive time on the images or the formatting, their contributions should still be seen for the helpful influence they truly are. Personally, I am just the opposite. I much prefer touching up articles or adding images to them in my spare time then putting in enough thought to write an article. There should be no particular formula, set of steps, or minimum time investment that an editor must adhere to in order for their work to be worth while. The goal is to be accessible to everyone and gracious for their assistance. --inarius(T) 21:57, 9 November 2006 (CST)