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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) Erm, wait, hang on. I just tried using the Twilight Princess one and it-- well, let me show you. I typed Twilight Princess and the piped link appeared just fine, but everything after it appeared in the box you're viewing now. What happen? --Ando (Talk) 16:48, 7 March 2008 (EST) Okay, I tried out every other link in an area that wasn't the bottom of the page, and it all worked fine, including. It seems that if the template is added to the bottom of the page, it does what's shown above, but if anywhere else, it works just fine. Let's test this theory: Phantom Hourglass and some test text. Oh dear. --Ando (Talk) 16:56, 7 March 2008 (EST)


 * The box appears because of the space at the start of the lines; where did that come from? —Adam (talk) 17:13, 7 March 2008 (EST)
 * Example:

Without box With box

Twilight Princess Testing, testing. Hey, what do you know? It works. I guess now I gotta go through and edit them all. :P --Ando (Talk) 20:50, 7 March 2008 (EST) Oh, I suppose I should have stated that I edited the Twilight Princess template to see if it worked. Looks like it does. --Ando (Talk) 20:51, 7 March 2008 (EST)