User talk:Comet 7

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BTW, not sure if that was you who moved the story off the main page of Super Mario 63, but according to our guide, there should be at least a brief synopsis of the game's story on the front page.

Thanks for the details ; ) !Comet 7 (talk) 00:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

(PS: I don't know who moved the Story section, but I think it should be on the Story page anyways.)Comet 7 (talk) 00:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

A synopsis of the plot should be on the main page so people understand what the game is about. A detailed story page is not necessary, but optional, and for Super Mario 63, it should be incorporated into the walkthrough (since the game is linear and there is no back story or extensive world lore outside of the plot). --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 17:08, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

OK... But it's good that you made another intro on the front page so thanks! :) Comet 7 (talk) 04:08, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Oooohhhhh...Now I understand now! There should be a plot on both pages. Thanks so much! Comet 7 (talk) 05:58, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

To be clearer, the one on the main page should be spoiler free and should be worded like the back of a game's box. We often take the official story from the box or manual and put it in this front section. For example, see Chrono Trigger. Then we don't have to make anything up, or we can add some details to make it better or more epic/obscure. The walkthrough of the game can be as detailed as a guide writer wants. Our walkthroughs are supposed to be spoiler free, however, so we use {{spoilers}} and {{spoiler}} to help mask those details that cannot be omitted. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 19:18, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Oh, oops! Now I really understand this time. I think I was pretty confused when I wrote it on the main page, sorry!
PS: Can you edit what I wrote on the story page of Super Mario 63 and make it better? Thanks so much! Comet 7 (talk) 04:27, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

The story on there now looks fine. I may have modified what you wrote. It has been a few years since I played/beat Super Mario 63, so I can't remember any details to change. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 16:40, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

It's okay, but thanks for modifying it! :) Comet 7 (talk) 04:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Your new sig

Hi Comet, it may be better to change the line in your preferences to just {{User:Comet 7/My sig}} (just remove the subst: portion). If you sign a page, and click edit on it so you can see the code, you will notice a ton of code inserted to the page when using subst:. If you want it to be clean, my suggestion here, after you make the change, should make it just display {{User:Comet 7/My sig}}. Give both a shot and compare the resulting code. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 18:38, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, you're right! It is pretty disturbing! But I changed it now, so it should be better. Thanks for telling me! -- Comet 7 [talk  · contributions] 21:19, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Um...it kind of didn't work. I changed it to {{User:Comet 7/My sig}} and saved it, but the "SUBST:" just reappeared again in the signature. Have I made a mistake? --Comet 7 [talk  · contributions]

Never mind, it works, sorry!--Comet 7 [talk  · contributions]

=) Well, I don't know what you did. I think I ran into that subst: problem myself, so what I did was just make the first template point to a second template. That way, even though my preferences would subst the contents of the template, the contents of the template was another template... lol. I use User:Notmyhandle/Sig and User:Notmyhandle/Sig2. I was hoping you would get it to work without using two templates, and it looks like you did! Way to go. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 00:36, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! BTW: I am confused by what you just said. :o Comet 7 [talk  · contributions]

The trick is to type in "{{User:Notmyhandle/Sig}}" when you need to use your sig instead of the four tildes (if that is what you did, then I don't know). Comet 7 [talk  · contributions]

Aha, I knew that would be confusing. In my preferences (prefs) I have: "{{subst:User:Notmyhandle/Sig2}}" (without quotes). This will insert the contents of Sig2. User:Notmyhandle/Sig2 contains just "{{User:Notmyhandle/Sig}}" (without quotes). So my prefs call Sig2, which places Sig1, which is all I need. So when I use "~~~~" the result is what you see here when you edit the page: it adds Sig1 and the time stamp (the time on the server and the date). --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 18:19, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me that, because I'm wondering how to put on the date and time after my sig without having to look at the clock and calendar and typing it in myself. And you just told me what to do, so I guess we do need to use two templates in order to make our sigs neat AND have the date and time printed after it. Problem solved! Comet 7 [talk  · contributions]

Yup, it works. (BTW check your talk page) Comet 7 [talk  · contributions] 19:54, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

=) Thanks for the thank you! I love helping people, but we don't get a lot of people who want to discuss issues or learn about these platforms. So, consider yourself one of the special ones. Also, thanks for helping me understand why I set up my signature that way. Aha, I knew I did it for a reason (it works; that's why)! The only reason I have a custom signature is because I wanted a quick link to my contributions, though now that I think about it, I rarely click on that contribs link next to my signature (I usually go to the top right of the page to click the link - I am using the Monobook skin, the classic Wikipedia look; you can change your skin in the preferences). Dolphin's skin looks way nicer, but I like Monobook because it removes the fluff, everything is standardized, and there is more room horizontally for content (Dolphin compresses everything). The only reason we have Dolphin configured is so that people know our Wiki isn't just some fresh install some noob installed. It catches peoples' eye. We used to have a different main skin that I loved, Blue Cloud, but it broke with one of the MediaWiki updates. Feel free to ask about anything here if you don't know what I am talking about. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 00:58, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! : ) Right now I'm using the dolphin skin. I guess it's because it's the default skin so I got used to it when I came here for the first time, or maybe it's because I just like blue. Anyways, I think I tried the blue cloud skin and kind of liked it, so I wonder why they took it away? Comet 7 [talk  · contributions] 19:01, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

BlueCloud was created by Teddy (talk · contribs) for us when StrategyWiki first started. No one wanted to have to maintain some of its peculiarities after MediaWiki upgrades caused some problems around 2010-2012, so we found a skin that was available with the updated version. I don't know where Dolphin came from. Prod or Procyon would know. I tried to make my own skin at one point; a dark red version of BlueCloud I called "CrimsonNight" - it looked kind of like a Virtual Boy game. I really like BlueCloud because it was a better looking version of Monobook. Sad that we can't really use it anymore. I think it can't render/show some stuff. I didn't know it was still an option in the user preferences. (Edit: oh, looks like it is gone. Good). --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 19:24, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Oh, so that's why... Wait, you can create your own skin? How? And where? Please tell me, thanks! =) Comet 7 [talk  · contributions] 05:28, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

BlueCloud was made by someone else (don't remember who), and it just had so many hacks to make it work that eventually I couldn't get it to work with the newer versions. Every time I changed one thing, 3 other things would break. By the time I disabled it, I couldn't even navigate around the site. Dolphin was created by Teddy with maintenance in mind, and was based on the newer Vector skin that MediaWiki released, so I've been able to keep it working properly with all the changes they make to vector. Stay tuned for something big coming ;). -- Prod (talk) 06:17, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the corrections, Prod! Comet: skinning is not worth the hassle unless you are working on your own, freshly installed Wiki. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 17:27, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I got it. So, BlueCloud was not made by Teddy, and it have some problems. Ooohhh... so that's why I didn't use BlueCloud, I knew I didn't use it for a reason! I can't wait for that "something big" to come! Comet 7 [talk  · contributions] 04:51, 10 January 2014 (UTC)