Community talk:Zeldapedia (2005-2019)
Neutrality
Seriously, just read this article. It's one paragraph and it screams "BLAAAAH ZELDAPEDIA IS THE WORSTEST ONE BECAUSE THEY HAVE LESS EDITS AND ACTIVITY AND THEY RIP OFF WIKIPEDIA AND ZELDA WIKI" (which, that last point's a little moot; has anyone ever compared our Majora's Mask "Reception" section with Wikipedia's?). I think I'll edit this a bit, but I might need some help. --Ando 18:19, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Well, the original page created a year ago said: "The Zelda Wiki is a wiki hosted on Wikia. It is very similar to this one."
- Very informative. I took it upon myself to write something meaningful, so I thought I'd state a few facts. I think at the time I wrote it they had about half the number of articles as we had here (maybe around 1000), and I compared their user list with ours. They're just numbers summarised in a brief sentence, I wasn't aware of any negative overtones. I took out the wikipedia bit since it could be taken as defamatory (again it was another fact, I was just aware that many of the longer articles I glanced through last year had been dumped verbatim from wikipedia). And I'm not sure if one example is enough for the last statement, but again it was just a fact I added; I often see images which I've edited/retouched and uploaded here appearing there soon after, and I don't have any particular issue with it. Anywho, improve away! --Adam 18:41, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Should there be an article for the NeoSeeker Zelda Wiki? Wikis Zelda 16:18, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Issue
"Many criticisms commonly raised against Wikia itself are potentially extended to their hosted wikis such as Zeldapedia, including criticisms of being primarily financially motivated."
I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that wikia users weren't paid, with the exception of the people that run wikia. That being said, can we really accuse ZP of this? --Wilbur 21:04, 22 August 2010 (EDT)
- It's not an accusation towards Zeldapedia, rather Wikia itself, whereas Zeldapedia was simply being used as an example. Furthermore, it is stating that the criticism goes beyond Wikia as a whole, and into the wikis themselves, but I do suppose the wording is bad.— Steve 21:08, 22 August 2010 (EDT)
April Fools Day
Should it be listed here that for April Fools Day 2012 we modeled the Zeldapedia skin off of the Zeldawiki.org skin? --Jäzzi 18:04, 11 April 2012 (EDT)
Adding in a gallery
Since Zeldapedia has two different (forced upon by Wikia) skins, I was wondering if there should be a gallery for the page since I tried combining the two images and it didn't work for the infobox. Of course, this is just an idea, and since this isn't Wikia, it's not exactly needed. Edit: I was also thinking of having the wordmark/wiki.png as the infobox and the skins as the gallery. Jäzzi 11:16, 28 June 2012 (EDT)
- I don't see why not. Feel free to add in whatever you deem necessary to the gallery and the article as a whole! --Dany36 11:52, 28 June 2012 (EDT)
- Added the logo to the infobox and the skin images to the gallery. I don't know if I uploaded them properly, sure hope I did. Jäzzi 12:09, 28 June 2012 (EDT)
- They are uploaded properly as long as the upload form is not jammed.--Brandondorf9999 14:20, 28 June 2012 (EDT)
- Added the logo to the infobox and the skin images to the gallery. I don't know if I uploaded them properly, sure hope I did. Jäzzi 12:09, 28 June 2012 (EDT)
Language Section of the Infobox
I was wondering if in the infobox, under the language section, if we could add breaks instead of forward slashes. In my opinion breaks look better, but you guys have the final say, of course. – Jazzi (talk) 16:43, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
- To be honest, this page looks like crap. For starters, yes, I do think that the languages should be separated with line breaks. In addition, we should probably have an actual screenshot of the layout instead of just the logo. I'm really embarrassed by how this page looks. We strive to cover all things Zelda, and having such a poor excuse for coverage of a fellow Zelda site is unacceptable. I wanted to bring you guys in to help us because, like I said, I don't keep up with y'all ever since I was banned from there. I don't browse Zeldapedia at all. I would love to collaborate with you to help fix this article up and bring it up to our quality standards.User:Justin ZW/sig 16:54, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
- There are some things that I personally would like to remove (such as the links to other Zelda sites in other languages, since if you click the links to those sites you'll notice that most of them subpar). The logo was chosen for the infobox since there are two skins, which are in the gallery to simplify things. I'd have to talk with the other users, of course. So I'll come back with that. – Jazzi (talk) 17:04, 10 July 2013 (UTC)