User talk:Astrogamer

FE0 Template
Sorry about the text. I've changed the background to make the template more readable. 𝓟𝓢𝓘 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓮 (talk) 19:54, November 8, 2017 (UTC)

Requesting that Kevin Squidy must be blocked
This user seem to be spamming talk pages and has ignored numerous warnings that we gave him. Doesn't this qualify for a block? 𝓟𝓢𝓘 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓮 (talk) 17:45, November 9, 2017 (UTC)

The State of this Wiki
Hello. I would like to start by saying that I am technically not new here, though it has been a LONG time since I have been here. I was most often on here during the Bentendo days in 2010 and 2011. Then a little more recently I would pop in here and there a couple of years ago to try to assess the state of things for this wiki. I found that there weren't many consistent contributors at that time, and many of the newer articles lacked quality. Rocketslime_1_1 and I talked back and forth, trying to figure out how things could be improved. And so after another long hiatus, I was disheartened to discover that even he has become inactive.

So, I hope that this does not seem rude, but how would you honestly describe the current state of this wiki? Is there a sufficient number of reliable contributors these days? Do most of these articles have a good level of quality?

Again, I hope I am not being rude. I would just really like to return and help make this wiki the best it can be. But obviously I can really only do very little. So I would just like to know how much slack has been picked up since I last checked in a couple of years ago.

Wyluca2 (talk) 01:47, November 10, 2017 (UTC)Wyluca2

The current state of the wiki is alright. There isn't that many contributors but, most of the ones that are contributing are pretty good. A good portion of the articles are a decent level of quality though a fair share need to be reworded since they copy from other wikis and several need to be expanded on. I think we are a bit lacking on covering particular aspects of games. For instance, we don't really have any pages for Splatoon weapons, not all the kingdoms from Super Mario Odyssey have pages and certain major locations like Skyloft don't have pages yet.

There's been a bit more of a focus in the past few years on Nintendo staff with most of Nintendo's games having credit pages and many of their employees getting pages (particularly the ones with interviews or pictures) so if you can find credits to games that don't already have credit pages, that would be welcome (just posting a link in the forums is fine if you don't have time). Astrogamer (talk) 06:55, November 10, 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the response
Thank you for responding. Your answer is pretty much what I was expecting, though I think things have improved from a few years ago.

It is disconcerting, though, to hear that important things like Skyloft still have no pages, even six years after the game came out. When talking with Rocketslime, I remember making a big deal out of pages like Dark Pit being a stub.

What really was a big help back when I was really active was that we had people from other wikis also coming here to help. We had someone focussing on Animal Crossing, someone focussing on Donkey Kong, someone focussing on Pokémon, someone on Pikmin, etc. It would be nice to try to draw people like that here again, but you obviously also have to try to avoid drama at the same time.

What I really see that you need help with is that there are articles that are good, but out of date. For example, Bowser's article does not go beyond Galaxy 2. It would probably be a pretty good idea for his article to also talk about 3D Land, 3D World, and especially Odyssey.

It's kind of the same thing for Ganon. No information about Breath of the Wild. I have a feeling that there are a lot more examples like that that I could find.

Wyluca2 (talk) 12:38, November 10, 2017 (UTC)Wyluca2

Poppi
I saw that you fused the pages of the two Poppi, they are not the same characters unlike Pyra and Mythra, we even have gameplay where Tora has both of them equipped at the same time. --Ghirahim le fabuleux (talk) 20:55, November 14, 2017 (UTC)

I was double checking the Direct and the Poppi beta looks to be an alternate mode that she transforms into. I checked the Japanese site and while it shows that he has both of them equipped, that isn't enough proof considering you can only have one blade out at a time. It's more evidence that the site calls alpha just Hana with beta being Hana JK and that they share VA to point that Poppi just transforms in battle.

Edit: Found a proper translation of the site. For Poppi Beta's description, i t says:  a powered-up version of Poppi

http://www.perfectly-nintendo.com/xenoblade-chronicles-2-official-website-open-japan-plenty-of-details-pictures-footage/

Astrogamer (talk) 21:25, November 14, 2017 (UTC)

You're not against the idea to separate those pages again if we discover that the Poppi are not the same character once the game is out? If you have nothing against it, I don't have any problem with the fusion of the pages until we get clearer informations. --Ghirahim le fabuleux (talk) 21:40, November 14, 2017 (UTC)

That's reasonable. Astrogamer (talk) 22:02, November 14, 2017 (UTC)

Discussions and Forums
Hi there! I don't know if we ever asked you guys if you'd be interested in enabling Discussions, our Forum feature replacement we developed for our communities last year. We no longer support Special:Forums and will be sun-setting that feature eventually (no set date yet). In the meantime, we have switched all new communities to Discussions and are manually enabling it on already established communities who are willing to make the change now.

Discussions is a feature that users can use to post questions, thoughts, images, links, videos and polls. They can upvote posts and even share them on social media. Users can edit their posts for the first 24 hours, but Admins and Moderators can edit posts anytime. Users can report posts they feel do not comply with our guidelines, or that of the community. Admins and Moderators can remove them. We give you the tools you need. Since the introduction of Discussions, we have seen a pretty big increase in community interaction. You can find more information on Discussions here.

As part of the process, we can import your current Forums into Discussions. Your current Forum can co-exist with Discussions temporarily if necessary but we would prefer to just import them into Discussions when we enable it. The current forum topic would be imported as categories, so everything stays in order. You can learn more about migration here.

Let me know if your community would like to have Discussions enabled and your forums imported, or if you'd like to keep forums and enable discussions. I would be happy to take care of it for you. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

Thanks so much! Jamie (profile)•(talk) 22:21, November 22, 2017 (UTC)

I think we would like to import forums into Discussion. Astrogamer (talk) 16:38, November 25, 2017 (UTC)


 * Great! I'll get that ball rolling for migrations. It should take a week or so. Thanks so much! Jamie (profile)•(talk) 03:21, November 26, 2017 (UTC)

Portraits for the Fire Emblem character pages
Should we really use character portraits as normal character artwork in the Infobox templates? Just wondering. PSI Fire 18:41, December 2, 2017 (UTC)

For the Fates characters, they don't have official art beyond that. The 4koma art isn't really official enough. Astrogamer (talk) 20:54, December 2, 2017 (UTC)

One more question, is there any requirements here to swap out a character image on the main pages? PSI Fire 22:20, December 2, 2017 (UTC)

Not really. It should be generallly official artwork but, it isn't 100% needed if there isn't any recent avaiable ones Astrogamer (talk) 00:54, December 3, 2017 (UTC)

Aegis
I changed the page to Pneuma due to the true nature of the Aegis, it is not only Pneuma but two other Blades. I created a section in the "Blade" page about the meaning of Aegis, calling Pneuma's page "Aegis" is incorrect. --Ghirahim le fabuleux (talk) 07:12, December 16, 2017 (UTC)

I changed it back to Aegis because I don't want to spoil people at this point. For a long RPG, I want at least a few months to pass before major page content reflects endgame spoilers.

Astrogamer (talk) 15:01, December 16, 2017 (UTC)

Ok, understandable. Excuse me but without context this change was really confusing, I think I will create the spoilery pages later and concentrate on the pages related to the first two game for the moment. --Ghirahim le fabuleux (talk) 20:36, December 16, 2017 (UTC)

Featured Articles
Hey, about the featured articles template that you got rid of, I only added it because I thought the Nintendo Wiki could use a featured articles template. Other Wikis have them, so why not the Nintendo Wiki as well?

Abrouwe1 (talk) 18:56, February 17, 2018 (UTC)

We have one already. It's on the main page though it hasn't been updated in a while since nobody has been giving nominations. Articles can be marked as Featured Articles using the Head template by putting something in the featured category.

Astrogamer (talk) 19:11, February 17, 2018 (UTC)

Okay, and how do I do that?

Abrouwe1 (talk) 19:21, February 17, 2018 (UTC)

Click on the nominations link in the featured article section and add your suggestion as indicated by the top of that page. Astrogamer (talk) 19:58, February 17, 2018 (UTC)

Classic Editor
Do you know if the ability to switch between mode in the classic editor was removed or if it is a problem that is exclusive to me? --Ghirahim le fabuleux (talk) 03:10, February 23, 2018 (UTC)

I can still access it. Astrogamer (talk) 04:58, February 23, 2018 (UTC)

Then it must be just me. I am not using my regular PC right now so that must be the cause. Thanks. --Ghirahim le fabuleux (talk) 06:38, February 23, 2018 (UTC)

Hey, uh, I'm a new Fandom contributor. I was messing around with the menu when it said I could start a Wiki of my own. I decided to give it a try and see what it was all about when it said that there was an error and I needed to reconfirm my email address. I did and it still said that I needed to reconfirm my email. Is this supposed to happen or am I doing something wrong?12Mr.18Master05 (talk) 23:34, April 1, 2018 (UTC)

I'm not actual staff at Fandom so I don't know the specifics of it but, I'd assume that Fandom likely has a waiting period for new contributors to reduce spam. I'm not sure of how long this period would be but, if I had to guess, it would be a few days Astrogamer (talk) 01:58, April 2, 2018 (UTC)

Error on Xenoblade 2
Just thought i would alert you that there is an error causing the picture for xenoblade 2 not to show up on the home page. I would fix but do not know how.

Polar84 (talk) 14:01, April 12, 2018 (UTC)

Why was my edit reverted
Why was my edit on Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions rollbacked? I’m pretty sure I didn’t vandalize, I just added a photo to the page. Why was it reverted? The RPG Gamer

I moved it to the actual gallery and reverting it was the simplest way to remove it from the wrong place.

Astrogamer (talk) 12:22, April 26, 2018 (UTC)

Block that user!
Dogfarts101 ruins the page. Can you block him? Carloscreate100 (talk) 04:45, May 2, 2018 (UTC)