User talk:Locke
Misc. Q&A
If you have any small quick questions, post 'em here. This section probably won't be archived, and may be purged periodically. For discussions, please create or use an existing section further down the page. And remember, always sign your comments on Talk pages! << Locke(T·C) >> 12:24, March 7, 2012 (CST) Should we delete our comments after we get answers or just leave it to you to do whatever you want to do with them? Zelda101 12:30, March 7, 2012 (CST)
- Nah, I think I'll handle the organization of my talk page. If an answer is deleted too soon, one could always check the history. << Locke(T·C) >> 14:36, March 7, 2012 (CST)
Also, how did you get so many people to go to your talk page?????? I am so sorry I have so many questions!!!!!!Zelda101 12:36, March 7, 2012 (CST)
- I'm currently one of the most active admins and patrollers, so a lot of people come to me with various wiki issues.
- While I have your attention... Article Talk pages are meant for discussion of the article itself (how it's written, etc.). If you want to talk about Zelda in general, I encourage you to join our forums. You'll also have better luck meeting people there. << Locke(T·C) >> 14:36, March 7, 2012 (CST)
how do you create a new page????? For an example on the The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword under story there is a link to another page called Skyward Sword Story where on the legend of Zelda Twilight Princess there is no little link thing. I want to know how to make a little link thing to make a new page.Zelda101 14:18, March 7, 2012 (CST)
- That link uses the {{Main}} template. For Twilight Princess Story, you would type {{Main|Twilight Princess Story}}. The page name goes after the pipe (vertical line). << Locke(T·C) >> 14:44, March 7, 2012 (CST)
I did that but I cant seem to add topics. on the Skyward Sword thing there were topics but I cant add any topics. Is it just because you cant add topics for that page or is it something completely different? I am new to this and just signed up today. I am a very curiouse person so I have a lot to ask. Sorry if I bother you too much, but I am asking you because I know that you are an administrator or whatever it is.Zelda101 15:10, March 7, 2012 (CST)
- Ah, you mean headers like "Back Story" and "Beginning" on the Skyward Sword Story page? You can add those buy surrounding the header with double equal signs, like ==Backstory==. << Locke(T·C) >> 15:12, March 7, 2012 (CST)
OoT 3D Language stuff
Greetings! As you may or may not have noticed, I have been using my PAL copy of OoT 3D to aquire item descriptions in other languages and posting them in my sandbox. Is this something you would be interested in having on the wiki properly, or shall I simply keep it in my sandbox? I want to produce a text dump, but feel at the moment it would be too much to do and very time-consuming. (Especially in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian!)
Regards, Curly 15:29, October 29, 2011 (CDT)
- Alright, I made a template for it. Here's an example using your Spirit Tracks Treasure Table:
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
 日本語
|
Template:Languages/JPN |
 English
|
Template:Languages/ENG |
 Française
|
Template:Languages/FRA |
 Español
|
Template:Languages/ESP |
 Deutsch
|
Template:Languages/DEU |
- I may have to tweak it a little bit, and there's an organization issue I thought of: This only handles descriptions from one game, so putting this at the bottom of a page for something that appeared in several games might not make sense. We could dump all the games' descriptions in the description attribute with <br>s, unless you have any better ideas. << Locke(T·C) >> 13:07, November 1, 2011 (CDT)
- That template looks pretty good. What's <br>s? I was thinking we could have different tables for different games, e.g. for the Hookshot, you'd have ALttP table, OoT table, MM table etc. Curly 13:38, November 1, 2011 (CDT)
Formatting
Hey Locke. I have a question. When I edit articles (Deku Scrub, for instance), I use H1 for different topics (Appearances, trivia, gallery) because that's how it is on the Deku Baba page. On the main page it says to follow that page as an example for formatting, so how come it's always changed to H2? -- TSterTheGreat (Talk) 21:21, December 5, 2011 (CST)
- Actually it should be H2 as the highest heading. H1 is buggy, breaks some our scripts, and isn't the right size. It's too big. If you see H1 where it should be H2, change it to H2.— Emma (Talk) 21:54, December 5, 2011 (CST)
- Alright, thanks. I'll be sure to do that from now on - TSterTheGreat (Talk) 21:58, December 5, 2011 (CST)
Focus note
Hey Locke, recently I noticed you placed a focus note on the goron mines page. I basically built that page and I am always trying to update it, and thus am always revisiting it. I dont understand what the focus note means. Appropriate page? Merging? Could you please shed some light on what you are trying to say to the editors of the page? the preceding unsigned post by Fused shadows (contribs) at 10:15, March 4, 2012 (UTC)
- Well, the biggest thing is that I don't think it's appropriate to have detailed boss strategies on the Dungeon page; those should go on the Boss's page. I say "Focus" because the article should be focused on the dungeon itself. Obviously the boss, mini-boss, items, etc. are part of the dungeon, but they should be described as they relate to the dungeon, and the specifics should be left to their respective pages (using the Main template). I've also noticed that some dungeon pages (besides the ones you've been working on) are becoming very walkthrough-ish, which also isn't appropriate (we have walkthroughs on the site).
- As another example, I don't think it's necessary to explain what a small key is for each dungeon - there's already a whole page for that. I guess it might be okay to note how many there are, or anything unique about them (e.g. in OoT Fire Temple they're found by freeing Gorons), though I almost think it would be best to just list them, like the enemies. So, in short, I'd like to cut down on repetitiveness. If something is dealt with on another article, then only the relevant aspects should be touched upon. << Locke(T·C) >> 16:23, March 4, 2012 (CST)
- Oh yeah, also, try not to link to redirect pages, just like with disambiguation pages. Always link straight to the appropriate article. If you want a different name to appear, use the pipe notation. Thanks! << Locke(T·C) >> 16:26, March 4, 2012 (CST)