User talk:Bufo

Welcome

Welcome to Metroid Wiki Hello, Bufo, and welcome to Metroid Wiki! We're glad to have you here, and we hope you'll stay and contribute. Make sure you check out our help guides so you can learn the ropes and policies. Make sure you also check out the Discussion Center, our community hub page where you can talk with other editors. Most importantly, enjoy your time at Metroid Wiki. - The Metroid Wiki Staff

Image Uploads

Hi Bufo, first of all your image uploads are AWESOME!!! Keep 'em coming!! I just wanted to drop by to give you a proper welcome and also a few pointers that will make your image uploads even better. Don't worry about applying these to images you've already uploaded, I'll go adjust them for you. Just try to keep them in mind for the future:

• Name your pictures a little more descriptively. As per our Naming conventions, a good pattern to follow is "[Name] [Game abbreviation] [Description/Number]." So for example, File:Meditation Vista mp2 Screenshot 02.png is very descriptive and easy for other users to find.

• Especially in room articles, try to capture as much of the room in a single image as possible. Look over the instructional videos at Help:Screenshots for demonstrations of how to do this. And you're right, at the moment there is a cap for image size uploads (I think it's 5 MB), so take that into consideration when compressing your images.

• Use the Source Template (Template:Source) to source your images. Using it not only adds a license to your screenshots but also categorizes the image. You can watch a demonstration of this at Help:Screenshots, but basically this is the code you'll need to add to your upload summary:

{{source
|type=ss
|game=mp1
|screenshot=Bufo
}}

The |type= parameter denotes the kind of image (screenshot, artwork, boxart, etc), the |game= parameter is the game it's from (mp1, mp2, mp3, etc), and the |screenshot= parameter is an optional way to give yourself credit.

• Finally, I noticed you were having a little trouble adding the images to pages! Don't worry about it, everyone hits snags at first. We have a Help Guide that will get you started with basic coding skills. Here's a rundown on how to add an image to a page: Use a set of square brackets to link to a page (for example, [[Luminoth]] becomes Luminoth) and do the same when putting an image on a page (for example: [[File:Metroid Wiki Logo Small.png|20px]] becomes . The "|20px" denotes the size you want the image to appear).

Sorry if I overwhelmed you at all! Don't worry about trying to do anything perfectly, there's nothing you can do that's irreversible. If you have any questions at all, feel free to browse our Help Guide, or leave a note on my Talk Page or on this talk page (I'll see it because I practically live on the Recent Changes). Hope you have fun editing! —Embyr 75  ^--Talk-- 17:06, 22 July 2015 (UTC)