User talk:Ganondorfdude11

Imprisoning War
Your work on the Imprisoning War page is very commendable. Great job on all you've done with it. 02:56, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Episode Titles
You can pipe link all of them and it will save time when creating each episode's article. The pipe links will show up red and place it in the Wanted Pages, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Great work on the page. I'll point it out to someone to get a template made for the information such as the writer and voice actors, etc. 06:03, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I've got a short set of reviews of the Zelda cartoon up at everything2.com if you want to reference that for any details. Might be some handy information in there. --Rootbeer277 14:14, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Re:About the edit war
That is fine man, I accept the apology and also apologize for any confusion or mistrust that has been caused. I agree with your idea to the detail, and that was what I was trying to suggest last night. I am very glad you have come back to the table and am very glad we have reached agreement. Perhaps we can work together on it to make it to what you described. I'd be very happy to help if I can. As far as citing sources, I am unsure about the coding required for it, since I was never very good with programming. Perhaps you can help me there. And I in turn can help you as well to craft the sections and bring the article up to speed as you said. For the record, I also agree this encyclopedia is far more credible than the other one, but in a respectful way. I can see that they may have different standards than we do, but they too love the series just as much as we do. I may not agree with all that they do, as I do believe we have a good policy and a good operation here, but as I said, I just live and let live. But I do agree with you that we have a more credible operation here and that we have good policies and a wonderful alliance with other sites, something that can't be said for the other wiki it seems. But they are entitled to their own standards if they like, even if we may not agree with their policies aesthetically. I appreciate your understanding and willingness to work together though, and I look forward to helping in the effort to improve not just the Great Cataclysm but others alongside you as well. Link87 16:59, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Edits
I've noticed that you seem to make multiple edits to the same pages. I wanted to tell you that instead of submitting your work every time you add information/correct something, you can simply press the show preview button. This will allow you to preview your work before submitting it. Which results in less edits and also keeps the page histories clean. 18:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The edits of the same page, a few minutes apart, and for the most part small (<1000) get annoying. If you can use the "Show Preview" button or even go to your preferences and click the box to show the preview automatically. 03:59, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Hyrule
Hey Ganondorfdude11, I saw you were helping with the work on the Hyrule article, and I thought I would ask perhaps if you would like to continue to help out with the restructuring of the article perhaps? I have been trying to restructure it to better meet standards for the wiki as well as look more organized, and you are one of the few that has shown interest in helping to put the meat on the bones of the article. An article like this is nearly overwhelming for one person to do alone, so I thought I would ask if you would be interested in continuing work on it and to collaborate with me and others working on it to get the article done in as quick and efficient a manner as possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated with it. And I hope you don't take offense at me replacing what you wrote on the sections about the appearances, I just wanted to make them more detailed about the plot of the games and the implications each has for Hyrule in those games, as was suggested to me by a couple of the admins in their vision for the article. If you could help add even more to what you wrote in some of those or in any of the other sections, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm just glad someone else is showing interest in helping. ;) Link87 18:13, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure. I added the "wars' section underneath the history section and am trying to flesh out the "appearances by game" section. I style of writing seems a bit more lacoic than yours, I tend to just state the important stuff and leave it at that. Maybe you could say something about the plot of each game in the "Appearances by game" section?Ganondorfdude11 18:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That's exactly what I'm trying to do, add the plots of the games and the parts that affect or involve Hyrule at large in them in the Appearances by Game section that you created. So yes, that's precisely what I had in mind as well. One area you could probably be of great help on is the Races section too, since those are more just facts about the races and how they've changed throughout Hyrule's history. We can also expand upon the section regarding wars and invasions as you suggested as well, so that is a good idea. Link87 18:23, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It looks like somebody went and wiped the entire "appearances by game section" because it was "unnecessary plot summary."Ganondorfdude11 22:19, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That's because it was. The majority of it was useless game synopsis. If you want to add those sections back, please refrain from making it a 40k kb page with 12 different game summaries. Maybe describe how Hyrule has changed with each game, but that should be it - they do not need to be large, cumbersome sections with copious amounts of information. -- Xizor 22:23, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually Xizor, I've had other admins (Dany and Axiomist to name a few) that actually want more detail in the history or appearance sections of the article. I was asked to expand upon the stories and how they affect Hyrule in the appearances section, so please let us continue work on things uninterrupted and we can cut things everyone thinks is too much when we're done. This has been a lot of work for those of us that have been trying to work on the article, and seeing that none of the admins that have been here for over a year did anything with this article in all this time, that doesn't leave much room for criticism toward those of us that are trying to improve it "as we see fit", like the label says. Link87 00:53, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

That sounds acceptable to me, I'm going to just mark things as patrolled and not touch anything until the two of you independently tell me or other staff members that you are done. At this point some trimming will likely take place. The many readers have been finding redundancies and I'll get them to hold off on the whole thing bc the wiki loses when tempers flare up. 01:46, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * As I told Christopher, there were many of us who thought the article was bulky and that the entire section should be removed - it was not an independent decision on my part. As I also told Christopher, I'll hold off on reducing it again, but if the article only continues to get larger and larger, then that's not the point. Do not summarize each game - mention why it affects Hyrule, but after that, we don't need to know the story of each game. That's what the pages about each game are for. --Xizor 10:47, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * And as I told you, I understand what you're saying and we will certainly take that into account and we will edit out what we don't need when we are done. It's better to start out with too much than not enough. You just took it upon yourself to wipe out all that we'd done, and that's not right either. Just because you're an admin doesn't give you the unilateral right to just wipe out an entire section of an article simply because you think it's too long. You could easily have just let one of us know and we could have told you we weren't yet done with it, it's a work in progress. It's amazing that all of a sudden, you're saying something about an article that's been sitting dormant for over a year, and I have seen no attempt on your part to do anything about it up to this point. To criticize those of us that are actually trying to get the job done smacks of hypocrisy. Ganondorfdude11 and I have been trying to deal with a mammoth of an article, with no thanks to you or some of the others that tried to verbally attack me a week ago but backed off when they were told they could do it themselves. Have they done anything as far as helping the article move along?? No. Have you Xizor, beyond wiping out the work we'd done so far and complaining like those others? No, of course not. I understand that you want it to be good quality, and it will be when we are done I can assure you, but you can't rush us on this, this is a mammoth article that's not going to be done just 1, 2, 3. Any help is greatly appreciated, it's a lot for just two people to deal with in a topic this large. But complaints and actions like those you took prematurely just get in the way. All you have to do is talk to us, we're not going to bite. If you'd like to help in some of the writing of the article, it would be greatly appreciated, but what we don't need are road blocks and whining. Link87 13:33, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Hyrulean/Hyrulian
Hey Ganondorfdude11, sorry to make this seem like an edit war, but the community's general consensus has been that the proper spelling is "Hyrulean" as was stated in the FSA game. In TP, the term was considered misspelled in translation from Japanese. Please understand we are trying to remain consistent with what the community already has come to accept. This is not personal, just about consistency. Link87 18:09, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay, this is a deal to minor to get into an argument about. I'll accept that both spellings are correct. but if the community's decided on one, then we should use it.Ganondorfdude11 18:12, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree, both are typically correct and mean the same thing to me personally, but for the purposes of the general community and for consistency, I think we ought to stick with what has already become the accepted standard. It cuts down on confusion that way. Link87 18:16, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Off topic, but I just wanted to say I am very pleased with the picture you chose for the main picture of the Hyrule article, very nice choice indeed! :) Link87 21:02, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Light Force widget
Hey Ganondorfdude11, I have a question for you. Do you know perhaps where we could get the small game widget of the Light Force that is seen on the game menu for a completed file for The Minish Cap?? It may not be called "widget", but it's the in-game form of a character or item, I forget what the proper term for it is, but do you know what I'm talking about?? It's the little golden triangle that appears beside the Four Sword on the file menu whenever you complete a file for the game. If you do, do you think you could find a copy of that which we can put beside the "Description" section of the article?? I'd be grateful, b/c I'm not sure where to get those things. I can search for images, but I'm not sure what those in-game things are. Link87 19:04, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how to get one of those. Maybe you can search for a screenshot of a completed file and crop it?Ganondorfdude11
 * That's true, I'll try that if I can find an image of the file menu, I can crop it. I'll try to find a picture of it if I can.


 * P.S. I'll be back to help you on Hyrule soon too, I just saw this article earlier this morning and thought I could do a rewrite for it fairly quickly since it appears in only one game. Link87 19:12, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Next Hyrule
Ganondorfdude11, I know we may be at odds about some things, but surely we can work out a compromise here. I have rewwritten the section to reflect that while it's not for sure to be called Hyrule, there is a possibility that it "may" be called Hyrule b/c Zelda makes clear that's what she intends to do. Never once does the King state that they should not name the new land Hyrule, he merely says that the new land will not be the Hyrule he is bound to. He was trying to explain why he could not go with them, nothing more. Please be reasonable here, b/c you're asserting something that is taken out of context. I'm willing to concede that it's not certain that it will be called Hyrule, but it's not unreasonable to state the possibility that it "may" be called Hyrule either. I would hope you would be willing to compromise here, b/c we're each giving a little to reach common ground. Link87 22:25, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The proper compromise would be to not assume that the new land is Hyrule. The current version of the page just says that they will go to find a new land, which is stated in the ending. Your interpretation disregards context. The king was the one who made the wish, and Zelda was misinterpreting him. He does not say that the land may be called Hyrule, he says that it will not be Hyrule. He refuses Zelda's suggestion to make another Hyrule outright. Axiomist is of the same opinion. To assume that the new land is Hyrule is presumptive and does not fit with the intention of TWW's ending. The very idea of a new Hyrule is rejected by the king, so why would Tetra disregard the king's wishes?Ganondorfdude11 23:08, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll just point out that Zelda no more suggested "Hyrule as a name than the King denied that as a name. She said they'd find the New Hyrule, not that the new land they find will be called Hyrule. 23:15, August 26, 2009 (UTC)
 * Here's the conversation in context:
 * Zelda:W-Wait! You could... You could come with us! Yes, of course... We have a ship! We can find it. We WILL find it! The land that will be the next Hyrule!
 * King:Ah, but child... That land will not be Hyrule. It will be YOUR land!

The context indicates that the old kingdom is dead, and that the new kingdom will not be Hyrule. The idea of a new Hyrule is rejected outright.Ganondorfdude11 23:23, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * While I disagree with the above statement in that there could very well be a new land named Hyrule, I just wanted to say I am pleased with the way the section reads now. It does not appear to take sides at all, and it mentions that though Zelda stated they would find a new Hyrule, Daphnes told them that it would be their own land and not the original Hyrule his spirit was bound to. So good job on the writing, but always try to keep an open mind buddy. If there's anything we should have learned by this point, it's that anything is possible in this series. ;) Link87 14:06, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

TetraForce Link
That link was there, bc it's the only article we are going to allow for the noncanonical 4th Goddess theory. You can make it take a more neutral stance between having a Goddess of Time and Fourth Triforce, if you feel it's slants that way too much. But one article is sufficient. 05:43, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah. I was under the impression that the Fourth Goddess theory was that the Goddess of Time was merely a separate entity, and not necessarily the goddess of a fourth Triforce. I thought the Fourth Goddess idea was that she was like Zephos and Cyclos, a minor deity who only controlled time and didn't have her own Triforce piece. Ganondorfdude11 15:42, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Uploading Images
Hey there. I noticed you uploaded a few images to the Wiki recently. Thanks for your contributions, but I notice you were doing something slightly wrong. You were not selecting any option from the Licensing drop-down. When you upload, please just select 'All Copyrighted images' if it is an image that is in fact copyrighted. All officially released materials, or even slightly modified or altered images fall under this grouping. Mases 17:05, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Agahnim
Hey, thanks for all of those references you added to Agahnim's page. It really needed to be done. Great job. :) 23:42, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Talk Pages
One thing to keep in mind after merging is to move the discussion content to the new page. There's really no reason to have a discussion on a redirect page. 03:37, 10 September 2009 (UTC)