Zelda Wiki:Discussion Center

Userboxes
How do you make user boxes--Zanramon 13:25, 24 January 2008 (EST)


 * To create a new userbox:
 * 1. First, choose a name. This should always be (where xxxx is your description)
 * 2. To create it, just edit any page (such as the Sandbox), type and preview. This will give you a redlink to your desired userbox template.
 * 3. Then, just copy and paste the code from any other existing userbox. Substitute a new image, text, hex colour codes (help available here), and usage instructions. --Adam (talk) 11:44, 25 January 2008 (EST)

Movies
How many movies are on the wiki?--Link hero of light 14:21, 7 February 2008 (EST)


 * All of the pages which contain videos should be listed here; I add to the list each time an article not already listed there has a video inserted into it. --Adam (talk) 15:02, 7 February 2008 (EST)

Merging
How do you redirect/merge page? At first I thought only sysops could do it, but I've seen other non-sysop users do it.--Link hero of light 23:53, 12 February 2008 (EST)


 * Merging two (or more) pages into one is actually quite simple:
 * First, you should identify the articles which you want to combine, and ideally check that there is a general consensus from others that merging is a good idea (either the tag should be placed on the article beforehand, or the merge be discussed).
 * The initial step of the merge itself is to identify which article is to remain (i.e. which of the articles you will merge all the information into). The other will later act as a redirect to this article. Usually, the smaller of the two articles will be merged into the larger, however if for example one article has an incorrect name, the one with the correct name would be retained. For simplicity, I'll call the article where the information will be merged to A, and the article which will be cleared to make a redirect B.
 * After having decided step 2, the next step is to read all the information in A and B, and decide where and how the information in B should be inserted into A. It will normally have to be rephrased slightly, although sometimes it can simply be cut and pasted. It may be appropriate to place the merged information from B under it's own header within A. Try to avoid duplicating any information already within A.
 * Once the information from B has been transferred to A, the final step is to delete all text from B and replace it with the syntax:
 * #redirectArticle A
 * This turns B into a redirect page. If the information added to A has been placed under a new header, it may be appropriate to point the redirect there:
 * #redirectArticle A
 * I hope I've explained clearly enough, please leave a comment here if you have any other specific queries. A good place to start merging would be the articles here, or in Category:Articles to be merged (as long as no objections have been raised on the relevant talk pages, it's safe to assume that everyone is happy for the merges suggested here to go ahead). —Adam (talk) 01:42, 13 February 2008 (EST)

The new game link templates
So... what exactly is the criteria under which these are used? Are we now to use these instead of piped links, or what? --Ando (Talk) 15:51, 7 March 2008 (EST)


 * They're used to automatically generate exactly what you would type manually to create a piped link. For example, typing instead of Four Swords Adventures has the exact identical result, but you type only 13 characters instead of a whopping 73! Good time saver, no? (I got sick of hand typing these links a long time ago...) —Adam (talk) 16:12, 7 March 2008 (EST)

Alright, awesome. I guess I'll start utilizing these. :D --Ando (Talk) 16:16, 7 March 2008 (EST)

something strange
Something strange happened and I was wondering if someone could explain it. I attempted to flag a picture that was no longer in use for deletion. I saved and saw that everything looked fine. I was just checking the recent changes and I saw Captain Cornflake had deleted it, well there would be nothing strange about if my contribution had not been recorded in the recent changes and my cotributions, I even checked and made sure that I hadn't clicked the "hide my edits" button.--Link hero of light 23:46, 8 March 2008 (EST)


 * When an article is deleted, all revisions to that article are also deleted. That's why they would disappear from Recent Changes. Does that clear it up? —Adam (talk) 07:18, 9 March 2008 (EDT)

Yep.--Link hero of light 11:31, 9 March 2008 (EDT)

Subdivision formatting
Many pages use subdivisions containing the name of one of the games, but many of these pages use different formats. Some pages don't italicise the game names, whereas some do; those two pages also demonstrate how some pages use the subdivisions to link to the games mentioned in the subdivisions, and others don't. My point is, this creates a great inconsistency throughout the Wiki, and needs to be addressed. I personally prefer just a straight-up, non-linked subdivision (most articles have a link to the game right under the subdivision anyway), italicised to match the rest of the mentions of the games. --Ando (Talk) 09:58, 9 March 2008 (EDT)


 * I'm sure you and I aren't the only ones to have pondered this subject in the past. I've always had trouble myself deciding which of the many options I prefer; I don't think they should be links (as you point out, any correctly written article will reiterate the game name below the header, making a title link redundant), and I don't think it's necessary to use the full "The Legend of..." prefix. Am I reading correctly that the format you'd propose is as below? (If so, I would concur) —Adam (talk) 10:30, 9 March 2008 (EDT)

 A Link to the Past 


 * Yep, that would be what I'm thinking. I guess we'll go with this then, eh? Sounds good. --Ando (Talk) 10:35, 9 March 2008 (EDT)

Questions
Moved to The Heart Container

Tables
How do you make the tables that have an abbreviation of the game, times beaten, times started, and Greatest completion in the game that i see on some peoples user pages? --David (Talk) 18:25, 4 April 2008 (EDT)


 * Well, the easiest way to do it is to just go to edit the user's page that you see one of these tables on, only instead of actually editing it, just copy the code for the table off of the page, then paste it onto your page, editing it as necessary. Tables start with  {|  and end with another }, so it should be easy to find. --Ando (T : C) 20:00, 4 April 2008 (EDT)

Thats the problem. I am having a hard time finding the persons user page. I will continue to look though. --David (Talk) 20:35, 4 April 2008 (EDT)


 * Well, Douken has one, which he ripped off of me, which I ripped off of someone else whose name escapes me at the moment. :P --Ando (T : C) 20:37, 4 April 2008 (EDT)

Yes! That was his name! I'm going to write it down. Thank you. --David (Talk) 20:48, 4 April 2008 (EDT)

Oh boy, make sure you add that little bit of info to your user page "I ripped this off of someone's user page who had ripped this table of of someone's user page who had ripped it off of someone else's userpage". LOL.--Link hero of light 20:54, 4 April 2008 (EDT)

I will be sure to do that!

--David (Talk) 21:05, 4 April 2008 (EDT)