User talk:BrownDerby

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Image categorisation

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New Move list format

I'm trying to switch the move lists to use an easier format for arranging the pages which reduces the amount of transcluding pages in multiple places. Please create all the move lists on the /Moves page, and then transclude to Character pages from there. This avoids all the hidden character specific pages that appear everywhere, and all pages can be linked from the Table of Contents. -- Prod (talk) 23:12, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

How do you transclude from a /Moves page? I saw there was a Movelist template but I couldn't figure it out. -BrownDerby (talk) 23:36, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

I've done all the updates to SNK Gals Fighters. It's easiest when there's only one game in the "series". When you have multiple games it gets complicated. I've got a to-do list for all the old games in the previous format that i'm slowly working through, so I'll take care of all of those. I just want to direct you for new guides, as you seem to be on a roll :). -- Prod (talk) 23:49, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

I'm glad to see you getting into the wiki editing so well, and merging the Samurai Shodown 2 guide. Unfortunately, when merging guides, we have to be careful to make sure all editors are still attributed based on the license we follows (see my recent edits). For now I'd suggest that if you're adding to an existing guide, follow whatever standard is already used, and let me take care of the format migration. However, if this is a task that interests you, come on Discord and I can show you a few ways to maybe make the process easier. This series of games is actually a few entries down my list since it has almost 150 pages to update. -- Prod (talk) 05:05, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Character pages

The Street Fighter games have a lot of back story spanning multiple games, so individual character pages make more sense there. Some of these other games probably don't have as much content for each character, so it may be easier to just have one /Characters page which lists all the characters stories together. -- Prod (talk) 17:59, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you

Feel free to add this to your user page instead. Procyon 21:37, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

SW Punch

A little thank you…
For For all the hard work you've done adding fighting game moves!.
Hugs, Procyon 21:37, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Discord Chat

I saw you had some other changes to make. I'm regularly on discord if you need more help with anything. -- Prod (talk) 16:51, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Walkthrough vs Getting Started pages

Before you power through too many guides, I've actually been thinking of switching the way we handle the GS/Walkthrough pages. How to Play to me sounds like it would fit fine under "Getting Started". Where as walkthrough is supposed to cover any story mode. I haven't really gotten anywhere discussing with the other Move Lists editors, but was wondering what you thought. -- Prod (talk) 20:28, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

The story mode in these games is usually just fight some random characters and then the boss, so you don't really need a walkthrough for them. But on every page of every game there are the walkthrough links, so I think it's fine to put the "how to play" stuff there. -BrownDerby (talk) 22:30, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Even the "How to Play" stuff is pretty basic, so really just having the Moves list linked via the Custom Nav seems like the main benefit. -- Prod (talk) 00:02, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Also, the ToC in the sidebar has the "How To Play" link right at the top, so what's in the header doesn't really matter. -- Prod (talk) 16:18, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

I just think it's fine how it is now. I don't see the benefit of changing it, and then all these games would have no walkthrough. -BrownDerby (talk) 18:10, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

I've posted here to get some feedback from more people. -- Prod (talk) 14:57, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Character pages for fighting games

I have a bot that will take care of setting up the basic structure of the character pages. I don't like having it create empty character pages, so I haven't let it create them for guides which only have the moves list and nothing else. If there's a guide you feel like writing character pages for, please let me know and I can have it set up the structure for all those pages so the only thing that would be needed is description. -- Prod (talk) 22:23, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

I probably won't add much but you could do The King of Fighters NESTS Collection, The King of Fighters XIV and Street Fighter X Tekken. -BrownDerby (talk) 06:09, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Done. -- Prod (talk) 15:18, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Why do some of the characters have different page names than their link names? When looking at some videos, some games showed short names in some places and long in others. Would it be possible to have the same (short) name used for their links and for the pages? -- Prod (talk) 01:52, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Which ones are you talking about specifically? I try to go by whatever they use on character select screens or under lifebars or whatever and sometimes that might be the last name instead of the first. -BrownDerby (talk) 02:06, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

I was thinking pages like Fatal Fury/Table of Contents linking to Fatal Fury/Geese. However, checking the histories, I realized you may not have worked on the guides which have names like that. -- Prod (talk) 02:13, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Samurai Shodown

Can you please update these links as well? Special:WhatLinksHere/Samurai Shodown/Shiro and Special:WhatLinksHere/Samurai Shodown/Rashoujin. -- Prod (talk) 19:49, 27 February 2020 (UTC)