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Contents 1 Welcome to StrategyWiki! 2 Editing Tips & Tricks 3 Your Image 4 Please sign your posts! 5 Your recent upload 6 {{All Game Nav}} deprecated 7 Unreleased information 8 Mario Party 6 9 New Sig 10 Mario Party 6/Mini-Games 11 Image categorisation 12 Zelda OOT images 13 Super Mario 64 and DS

[edit] Welcome to StrategyWiki!

Hello Superpowered Mario! 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 editing article or 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! -- Lunar Knight ^{(Talk to me + Contribs)} 17:36, 20 April 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Editing Tips & Tricks

I've noticed you've been making a lot of minor edits on the same page recently. While it is perfectly acceptable to improve how a page looks, please try to reduce the amount of edits it takes to get there. Here are a few tips that can help with that:

• Use the "Show Preview" button! This is one of the first things experienced editors do after they finish typing out their content (or revising pre-existing content). This allows them to see what the page looks like before they actually save it. If they don't like how something looks, they can change it and preview again, and nobody but them will know.
• Have an idea of what you are going to type before you actually begin typing it. That way, it won't take multiple edits to complete one section of a guide.
• Read the StrategyWiki:Guide and our policies. If you are confused about something, feel free to ask us.

Thank you, and I hope you continue to contribute to StrategyWiki! --Ryan Schmidt^{Talk - Contribs} 15:35, 24 April 2007 (CDT)

Also, if you could please add the {{Header Nav}} to each new guide page you create by putting {{Header Nav|game=<insert game's name here>}} on the very top of the page, I would very much so appreciate it! --Ryan Schmidt^{Talk - Contribs} 17:30, 15 May 2007 (CDT)

If you accidentally upload the wrong image, rather than uploading to a new name, just upload over the old image. Also, please remember to follow the categorization guidelines. -- Prod (Talk) 16:42, 1 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Your Image

Hi, you might not know this but this image is actually a .bmp, not a .png, this will mean that you will have trouble linking to it. Do you mind if I upload a .png version of it?--Rocky ^{(Talk - Contributions)} 14:24, 5 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Please sign your posts!

If you don't, it makes it difficult to know who said what. Thanks. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 17:14, 5 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Your recent upload

What is the point of Image:Gamecube-Control-Neutral-Left or Right.png? I see no places where it would be particularly useful, especially since I have no idea what it is trying to represent. --Skizzerz^{Talk - Contribs} 15:27, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

I'd recommend a picture of a green shell with an arrow in front of and behind it, as it represents what it means a bit more. Also, you could just say that it can be thrown both ways in text with no image required. The button templates are really for widespread use of the images, across multiples of guides not in the same series. I'll try to find an image like that online (or doctor one myself) for you to see what you think of it. --Skizzerz^{Talk - Contribs} 15:37, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

How about ? --Skizzerz^{Talk - Contribs} 16:21, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] {{All Game Nav}} deprecated

{{All Game Nav}} has been replaced with {{Header Nav}} (same template, just a better name), so please use Header Nav instead of All Game Nav. Also, the backpage, backname, and customback parameters on {{Footer Nav}} have been replaced with prevpage, prevname, and customprev respectively. While AGN and the backs still work, we are trying to discontinue their use (see the discussion). Thanks (and I'm glad you liked the image). --Skizzerz^{Talk - Contribs} 15:41, 8 June 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Unreleased information

Hey, thanks for your help with the Mario Kart Wii guide. When adding unreleased information, try not to jump a step ahead and add empty or unknown sections like the TBA stuff. Until a name is released, just don't worry about it. Also, there's no need to add {{stub}} to such a section as well - think of it like this: the stub promotes people to help add information, but on a section for a thing that doesn't exist, such information doesn't exist, thus it's not possible to add information and thus we don't need to use the stub template. More importantly, we don't need the section at all (as I said before). Thanks, but just be patient! I'll help you as much as I can. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 15:59, 25 July 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Mario Party 6

Anybody willing to finish this article???? Superpowered Mario 17:21, 22 August 2007 (CDT)

It's a little silly to ask this kind of question. If someone was willing to work on it, don't you think they would have done so? It's not as though someone is going to see your question and think, "Oh thank goodness somebody asked about this, now I can go ahead and contribute." Also, it is really important that you learn to use the Show Preview button, and that you do not save until you are completely finished editing a page. Thank you. Procyon (Talk) 19:16, 22 August 2007 (CDT)

I'm going to completely chew you out here, so try to stay with me, mmk (you have been warned)? First of all, you aren't a new contributor, you KNOW how wikis work (at least, I think you know how they work). However, you seem to be neglecting the Show Preview button to check over your work before you submit it. Also, you know about those little buttons over the edit box (not the blue-background ones, but the white-background ones above them), right? They set up a page with the proper formatting if the page is new. Use them. The "Guide Page" one would be most appropriate for *gasp* Guide Pages! If you tried it out, you would notice that {{All Game Nav}} has been deprecated in favor of {{Header Nav}}. Plus, you edited after we made that change, so check out Community Issues every so often (it might help to put it on your watchlist) so that you know what kind of changes are being made to the site. Also, you know about that button that inserts the horizontal line (----), please read its tooltip. It says "use sparingly," which means that you shouldn't use it when a better alternative exists. Let's see, since you were making a list there, perhaps a * would have been in order (which, as you probably already know, makes a bulleted list - if you didn't know that, here's a link for you to get acquainted with these things). Also, you should know by now that we have a strict image naming policy, yet every single image on that page is incorrectly named. The policy is viewable here, so look at that and re-upload the images with proper names. Let's see what else... oh yes, when putting stuff on pages, try to think what could go into Getting Started or Walkthrough, as having big bolded red links in the Table of Contents isn't really fun. The entirety of that page in Mario Party 6 that you've made about the spaces and such would fit perfectly under "Getting Started." I really hope you know how to change it's location (hint: there's a tab entitled "Move"). Also, please read the documentation on {{stub}}, you'll find that it says in nice bolded letters "at the top of the page", not the bottom, so keep that in mind for later on (it goes above the Header Nav). Finally (yes, I'm almost done), this hasn't changed (well, names-wise that is), but the {{Footer Nav}} is what goes at the very bottom of the page, not another Header/All Game Nav. It might have been an oversight, but that's what show preview is for, right? Normally, I wouldn't be yelling at people for this, but you've been around since April, that gave you four whole months to learn how things are done here, yet it seems that you either have chosen not to learn them or chosen not to care. Complain about how mean I am to you, flame me, I care not. I just would like to see a veteran (you have more than 250 edits and have been here for a few months, so I think I can call you that) actually conform to the standards that many people worked hard to create and uphold since the conception of StrategyWiki. -- Safety Skizzerz ^{{{ Talk | Contribs | Spel Chek™ | VFG | RTFM }}} 20:57, 22 August 2007 (CDT)

Err, I'll help with the image renaing--Rocky ^{(Talk - Contributions)} 02:56, 23 August 2007 (CDT)

Wow, a day later and I read that again... I really sounded like an ass, didn't I? Anyway, it seems that Rocky renamed the ones on that page (you just need to move it to its better location, if you feel that it is a better location). Yeah, show preview is a nice feature, and I'm sure you'll catch onto it (and the rest of the things above) rather quickly now that you have been informed yelled at about them. As for your sig, see below. -- Safety Skizzerz ^{{{ Talk | Contribs | Spel Chek™ | VFG | RTFM }}} 20:25, 23 August 2007 (CDT)

[edit] New Sig

Try not to use yellow... Yellow on white = blinding and incomprehensible. Plus, it's McDonalds themed right now. Ahaha. --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 14:53, 23 August 2007 (CDT)

More like fast-food themed in general, as like mustard and ketchup (or catsup, depending on how you like to spell it). Although, I do see where you're going on that angle w/ the McDonalds NMH. Anyway, if you want to use yellow, may I suggest a nice #909000 (go into editing to see how I did it)? Of course, you might want to darken the red to #900000 too. Oh yeah, and if you want that extra pipe in front of the Superpowered part, you should probably darken that too to go with the rest of the colors (#000090 would be ideal). And, I know it's more typing, but try to use <span style="color:some color"> instead of <font color="some color">, as <font> is slowly being deprecated. -- Safety Skizzerz ^{{{ Talk | Contribs | Spel Chek™ | VFG | RTFM }}} 20:25, 23 August 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Mario Party 6/Mini-Games

How are you going to do the strategies? Page by page for each individual one? Why not just do them by section (which is why I had the ToC laid out like that)? --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 16:43, 7 September 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Image categorisation

Hi. When uploading images could you please make sure to categorise them according to our image categorisation guidelines? Thanks. --DrBob (talk) 17:17, 7 December 2007 (CST)

[edit] Zelda OOT images

Hey SM, for images like Image:OOT eyeballfrog.jpg (that aren't screenshots), you need to put information in the description regarding where you found/got it. Aren't those from the OOT website? --Notmyhandle (talk • contribs) 18:51, 8 December 2007 (CST)

Do not put anything on the images themselves. They should not have any watermarks or such markings on them. If you need to put the website, add it to the description page. -- Safety Skizzerz ^{{{ Talk | Contribs | Spel Chek™ | VFG | RTFM }}} 17:35, 10 December 2007 (CST)

You need the http:// in there for the link to work. Also, check out the guide, especially it's markup section, to see how to do other forms of external links. -- Safety Skizzerz ^{{{ Talk | Contribs | Spel Chek™ | VFG | RTFM }}} 15:04, 11 December 2007 (CST)

[edit] Super Mario 64 and DS

Hi SM. The solution to this problem is not to separate the games into two guides, but rather the clean the existing guide up. Since Super Mario 64 DS is a super-set of the original game, 95% of what applies to SM64 applies to SM64 DS. Therefore, we group the guides to prevent redundancy. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is another example of this, as it originated on the SNES, and was later remade for the GBA. The best way to clean up the SM64/DS guide is to differentiate the DS content from the original content with headers or side-boxes. Procyon (Talk) 22:22, 12 May 2008 (CDT)