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Archives   Archives 2010 (April-July) Archiving complete. - ZeldaMan (PostboxStatus) 22:59, 1 July 2010 (UTC) Template Hey, I think we need a game template for the bottom of game pages. I would make one, since I know how to make templates, but I'm not sure how you make them (as in colors, styles, all that.) So, maybe you could make one, or teach me how you make templates here. :) -Supernicknobros For those on the bottom of pages, Do you mean like the Metroids Template? If so, then really all you have to do is copy/paste. Okay I'll start one, Template:Games, that one has all the colors and junk. All you have to do is change the words around and change the pics. If you have trouble with anything just ask me. Also, if you go to your Preferences and under signatures copy/paste this exactly: {{subst:User:Supernicknobros/sig2}}, maybe that'll fix your signature --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 03:23, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Ok. Thanks. I'll see about making other templates after this one. Also...did my sig work? XD ***Super!~Nickno 03:33, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Yep, it works perfect now :) Yeah any useful navigation templates you could make would be nice, we're trying to reorganize the wiki's structure. Just make sure Category:Navigation Templates that it isn't already made. And don't place navigation templates on articles until most of the articles it links to have already been made. For example, we use Template:Beams but not Template:Space Pirates-nav yet. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 03:47, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Ah, that will help a lot. XD Also, how does Template:Games look? All it needs is a sprite of Samus from Metroid (to replace the Metroids). You have any sprite pics? Just a few more questions: Should the NES Classics version of Metroid be a separate article? And should I put links to games related to Metroid, like Smash Bros? ***Super!~Nickno 04:03, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Yeah, they should be separated, Zero Mission is pretty huge itself and is very different from Metroid despite being a remake. And yeah include spin-offs, although only the Super Smash Bros. series as far as I can see. Godd job though, it looks great, and let me see if i can find any pics. NES Classics should not be a different article. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:08, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Actually, scratch that last part, go ahead and make the "NES Classics Metroid" and name it exactly that. Just don't write anything for the plot or of the sorts. It shouldn't be such a lengthy article, like not a repeat of Metroid (game). --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:13, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Ok, I guess that's all Metroid games + Smash Bros. So now all that's left is to get the images, make sure there are no dead links, and then add the template to all the game pages, right? ***Super!~Nickno 04:20, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Yep, pretty much it. I've got the images covered, I'm making some sprites transparent now, so don't worry about them. Thanks, nice job, and it was pretty quick too. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:24, 4 July 2010 (UTC) That's a good Ridley sprite. Maybe for the other side a Samus sprite? I dunno. ***Super!~Nickno 04:48, 4 July 2010 (UTC) That's actually exactly what I got haha, Super Metroid Sames Sprite --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:59, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Hey, I'm gonna go to sleep now. Maybe you could finish adding the template to the rest of the game pages that I didn't add it to. Or I could in the morning. So, good night. ***Super!~Nickno 05:06, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Alright I'll add them, have fun sleeping. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 05:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Yay, new template finished. Now, any other templates I could make? Just shoot em at me, and I'll get to work. :D ***Super!~Nickno 18:03, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Umm, i dunno. If you think of one, come back to me. There are actually all sorts of specific templates to make, such as MP2 Bosses, but we don't have enough articles to make such templates yet. So if you could add info to them, or think of another template to make that'd be Awesome. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 18:13, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Well, I'll eventually think of one. One quick question, should I add Metroid Dread to the game template? Maybe under other games? ***Super!~Nickno 18:30, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Noooo, haha, Metroid Dread is not a real game and shouldn't be added to the template. I mean, for all we know, Metroid Dread could be the name of Samus's son haha. That page doesn't really apply to any Nav Templates I could think of. I don't even think it should be under the Games category, I'll think of a better category to fit it in eventually. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 18:38, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Ok, just making sure. ***Super!~Nickno 18:50, 4 July 2010 (UTC) I want to help write up Logbook data, so how should I start that? XD Something to do while I think of a new template. :) ***Super!~Nickno 21:22, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Umm take a look at Template:Logbook, that one should explain how to enter logbook data on pages. If there are any pages missing logbook data that you have, it'd be nice to have it :D. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 21:31, 4 July 2010 (UTC) Hey, someone told me to reference Logbook data like it is Metroid (species). Just wanting to make sure, because all it does it restate the data. To me, it looks like a waste of space. What do you think? ***Super!~Nickno 03:52, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Although it does seem like a waste of space, it's important to cite it, even if it is restating. Oh and btw that guy that told you was an admin :] If you go to an admin's user or talkpage you can see a Metroid icon at the corner. It can get boring, you know a lot of copy and pasting, I've noticed that copy/pasting is a big job of wiki editing lol, so long as it's not from another website of course. But yeah if anything is word for word something in the game, it should be cited using the cite template, it pretty much lets people know we aren't making crap up and junk. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:00, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Ah eh oh. oops. XD I didn't know. Well...now I do. :D So...I'll make sure who is saying what before I speak. :X ***Super!~Nickno 04:03, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Haha, it's alright. There are three Metroid_Wiki:Staff and Contact|admins right now and we're all pretty laid back, so long as people listen. The other three Bureaucrats are too busy and generally not active, with the exception of Mel. So ask any of us for help, but I don't need to tell you that I guess :) --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:11, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Ok... OOH! I got a new template idea. How about an Expansion template? For stuff like Missile Expansions, Ship Missile Expansions, Power Bomb Exp, Energy Tanks, etc. Would that be a good template? ***Super!~Nickno 04:14, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Sure, there wouldn't be any other kind of Nav Templates on those pages, so yeah, go for it. Those pages should be found in Category:Expansions|Expansions. We don't have all the pages for them though, like Beam Ammo Expansions. But if you make the template now, it'll save us the trouble of having to do it later. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:21, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Would the Suit Expansions page be the main page about expansions? ***Super!~Nickno 04:29, 5 July 2010 (UTC) It is. Unfortunately it's dreadfully tiny, I meant to put information on the other expansions in different sections but I never got around to it... On the template, link the title of it to Suit Expansions the same way Template:Games does. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:41, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Template:Expansions|Done. Now all it needs are different pics. :D ***Super!~Nickno 04:43, 5 July 2010 (UTC) It looks amazing :) We'll tweak it after we're done with Beam Ammo. As for the pics, we got a new feature installed that allows random things to be displayed, it's pretty sweet. You'll see what I mean when we change it. Great job again. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:48, 5 July 2010 (UTC) By randomly changing, is that similar to how Bulbapedia displays the different forms of Pokemon, like how Arceus' type is different every other visit? If so, then that's cool. ***Super!~Nickno 04:50, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Actually we tried their coding for it and it didn't work at first. Then we tried a different method and it worked awesome. Then we looked at Bulbapedia's method and it worked fine. So EXTREMELY similar to that. Is bulbapedia where you noticed Metroid Wiki? --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:55, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Actually, I've been with Bulbapedia and the Super Mario Wiki before NIWA. After the NIWA site was made, I noticed on a few of the Wikis that they had links to the Metroid Wiki, before it was officially added to NIWA. Also, I didn't really care at the time because I never even played a Metroid game till I recently got Prime Trilogy (2 months ago, i think) and then Fusion. Then my Fanboyism kicked in and I joined here. :D Yay! ***Super!~Nickno 05:02, 5 July 2010 (UTC) AND...I'm ready to go to bed. Night. I'll see how the template looks tommorrow. ***Super!~Nickno 05:08, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Alright, see you then. You know if you have skype it's much easier to contact myself or the other admins through IM. Yeah, many users find themselves interchanging between NIWA, you may be the first I've known that was on two different NIWA wikis before NIWA was created. And yes, the Prime games are freaking amazing, as is fusion. They say Super Metroid is cool too, the best some say, but I've never played that one. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 05:09, 5 July 2010 (UTC) I have Skype. So, I guess I'll use it. Save some more space on your Talk page for other people XD. And I just finished making the rest of the Expansion pages and added the template to all of them. Now...I think of another. o.O ***Super!~Nickno 23:13, 5 July 2010 (UTC) Awesome, try adding me as a contact, Malake256. TheSuperZeldaMan added pics to that template I believe. And how bout Lore as one. The different types can be found on the Logbook page. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 00:03, 6 July 2010 (UTC) Ok, maybe after that add something to organize the data on the logbook pages better. I dunno, just looks sorta bleh with no pics, so maybe some sort of infobox-type template would work, to give it a more ":D" appearance. If that makes any sense. XD ***Super!~Nickno 00:27, 6 July 2010 (UTC) Er, wait. There is an infobox template thing for it. Just needs to be added to the pages. O.O looks like a lot of copying/pasting. ***Super!~Nickno 00:28, 6 July 2010 (UTC) Correct Malake is Correct. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 00:41, 6 July 2010 (UTC) Hey, the Template:Lore Nav|Lore template needs another image. It's still an expansion. XD I gotta go to bed right now, so maybe just shoot me something else I could do for tomorrow. :D ***Super!~Nickno 03:13, 8 July 2010 (UTC) Yeah I know, i haven't forgotten about it, i just can't think of another nav template, and i don't want it to look the same as the artifact pic, but that's what it'll be for now. Hmm, well there's plenty still to do on this site. If you're into images you can check Metroid Wiki:Picture Requests|Picture Requests. There's a lot of referencing to do, but that's better saved for the patient people haha. I've started messing with roundness around here, but there's so much other work to do around here it might end up taking a lot of time, that whole server stress thing won't be a problem here so if you want to mess with templates and try roundy magic, go for Logbook or any infobox template. If you can make those templates better in any way that'd be awesome, don't worry nothing is permanent. If you're planning on that look at TTE's Roundy and subRoundys for reference and coding. And of course there are plenty of stubs and WantedPages here, so any help like that or even tiny grammar edits are more than appreciated. I guess this message goes out to anyone spying on my user talk lol ;D. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 04:22, 8 July 2010 (UTC) Hey, on the logbook template, the words are a little hard to read. I think the text on it should be changed to black. Just so it would be easier to read. Sacrifice beauty for practicality? O.o I dunno. Just want to make sure it was ok to change it. ***Super!~Nickno 22:37, 10 July 2010 (UTC) Yeah i know. The colors on that logbook template has been a pain lately. I tried to get them to look like the varia suit, but now it seems impossible to do that without it looking horrible. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 01:34, 11 July 2010 (UTC) Images Hey Malake, what am I supposed to do with the images which I've just transparified? Pinecove 05:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC) Upload them to Metroid Wiki (: Haha. If you mean the old ones that have like a jpg extension, mark them with {{Template:ImDel|ImDel}} template so that we can delete them. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 03:27, 4 September 2010 (UTC) Knowing Nate I know he won't. :P I was being sillyz Yusei 20:50, 13 October 2010 (UTC) Well doesn't hurt to try of course. And you'll be linked to eventually on Metroid Wiki --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 22:35, 13 October 2010 (UTC) Dang Malake! You're so awesome and amazing! Your templates are so amazing! I like the way you test things like anonymous editing! 69.232.118.149 18:06, 16 October 2010 (UTC) Wikitroid Article I'm posting this here cause my Skype's being a piece of crap today, plus I don't know when you'll next be on so you don't need to receive the message in a week. I'm making the start of the article on a user subpage... could only think of one sentence. If you finish it while I'm gone, feel free to move it to the main space and delete the old page. MK 18:19, 22 December 2010 (UTC) Sure, no prob :] stupid Skype.. That's part of the cons of Skype --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 18:25, 22 December 2010 (UTC) Alright, thanks again. Also I suggest you ask The Exterminator to proofread it cause he should be more familiar with it that we are. MK 18:53, 22 December 2010 (UTC) One more thing to add, don't let vandals or spammers destroy the wiki while I'm gone! MK 18:53, 22 December 2010 (UTC) I'll try o.o Haha, yeah sure. Oh hey Christmas sig's back, hadn't noticed. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 19:00, 22 December 2010 (UTC) Incomplete Sentence You left an incomplete sentence on the Rinka article, any idea what you were trying to put? MK 22:32, 20 March 2011 (EDT) Yes, resolved lol. I never could get around to expanding that page :/ --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 18:48, 23 March 2011 (EDT) That would be partially incorrect, Rinkas only give Energy and Missile ammo in Zero Mission. MK 18:51, 23 March 2011 (EDT) Reply I apologize for that. I was trying to replace the code for the template on the Ferrocrusher image with the template, as I had copied the code of the entire thing. I inadvertently ended up editing the actual template when I thought I was editing the info of the image. How exactly that happened, I have no idea. Metroid4Ever 23:23, 27 June 2011 (UTC) Test site Prod wants us to run a few tests on the beta site to make sure nothing will be broken when we update to 1.17. Please let me know when you'll next be on Skype so we can coordinate what we're going to do. MK 18:44, 28 June 2011 (UTC) I'll likely be on today and tomorrow for sure, so maybe one of those days. Other then that, I'm not too sure when I'll be on or off. --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 14:29, 29 June 2011 (UTC) Music That works. It looks neat and is easily accessible. Any preference on which theme to use for bosses that have multiple themes (e.g. Kraid)? Metroid4Ever 23:49, 30 June 2011 (UTC) I see. As for characters in a game that share a theme (e.g. Spore Spawn and Botwoon), do they both get it or do we give it to whichever appears first? Metroid4Ever 00:47, 1 July 2011 (UTC) All right, thanks. Metroid4Ever 00:52, 1 July 2011 (UTC) Yeah, having the music actually on the site would be nice, and it would spice up the articles that use it. If that can't happen, I do agree that just having a link in the infobox does well enough. Metroid4Ever 01:57, 1 July 2011 (UTC) It's better than nothing, I suppose. I've never edited music, so I'll just let you trim it down to size. I've really got no complaints about that limit (it's not like people come on here just to listen to music) except that it is impractical for songs that really don't "get going," if you catch my drift, until much later (Flaahgra's theme, for example, especially since Trilogy fixed the glitch that's in the NTSC Prime). In those cases (which should be few and far between), I think it best to just link to whatever VGM it is, as then we're not held liable if someone wants to listen to an eight-minute piece. Metroid4Ever 05:23, 1 July 2011 (UTC) I think that the best course of action (in other words, the course of action that would result in full appreciation of any music added) would be to upload boss music (specifying which ten seconds are to be used in the file description (if I or anyone else who hasn't edited music uploads)) and to just link to area themes (like Norfair, Phendrana Drifts, etc.). Metroid4Ever 05:20, 3 July 2011 (UTC) Ok, I'll work on getting music uploaded...Ogg Vorbis format, right? Metroid4Ever 00:24, 8 July 2011 (UTC) Ogg needs to be added to the list of permitted file types here. Metroid4Ever 00:24, 8 July 2011 (UTC) Activity That storm I mentioned in Skype hit and knocked out numerous powerlines. I won't be back on until all electicity is restored. Could be a couple hours or a couple days. MK 16:31, 1 July 2011 (UTC) Dang that sucks dude, have fun playing idk solitaire or whatever it is you do during a storm lol --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 16:40, 1 July 2011 (UTC) Storm past but damage has been done. For amusement, I got my DS. I can get onto a computer for a few minutes as long as our portable generator has gas but not really long enough to do anything here. Also glad we got the countdown to work, after I get back to regular activity I'll recommend a few images to use on it. MK 17:57, 1 July 2011 (UTC) Yeah, Prod got it working. I've actually got a few ideas already ;) But we'll see how it turns out, I'm thinking we should have it up by today.--Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 18:08, 1 July 2011 (UTC) The way it is now looks great, well done. MK 16:34, 2 July 2011 (UTC) Thanks! I'm not even sure it really needs game themes, considering it is Metroid 1's anniversary, but themes are always fun. Oh btw, I customized my css a bit, you may wanna take a look and try it out. The only noticeable changes really are diffs, galleries (which you noticed), thumbs, and a lil image in the cat box (that was just for fun lol) --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 00:32, 3 July 2011 (UTC) I've already checked out the gallery thing (Prod told me about it), but I'll check out the other stuff too. MK 00:50, 3 July 2011 (UTC) And I didn't read all that you posted, as you can guess from me stating the obvious. But everything else looks excellent MK 00:55, 3 July 2011 (UTC) Coolness :D I don't think I can edit stuff like the site's background from here though, so the skin may be left to an expert skiner lol --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 00:58, 3 July 2011 (UTC) Template:Cite manga If you look at my recent edit to my work page, you'll notice that when I used that template for referencing, I had to split conversations between Samus and Old Bird up into separate references based on page number and speaker changes. Is there a way around that? Bop1996 (Talk | Unfinished projects) 00:07, 8 July 2011 (UTC) I considered it when making the template, but I really couldn't think of a very practical way to approach it. The easiest thing to do involves removing the link to the exact page. But I really like that we could link to the exact slide. Do you have suggestions? --Malake256 {Talk | Contribs} 00:13, 8 July 2011 (UTC)