User talk:C0deB1ue

Hi!

Hey, thanks for deciding to join the wiki and help out!

Just wanted to mention, I'd rather that you didn't copy any information or pages from Medabots Wiki (since it violates the license that the pages were published under, and most of the pages there are badly written anyway). I really appreciate you adding new pages but it would be better all-around if you could write your own content instead. ^^

Also, for any Medarots from Medarot 1 or 2, you should be able to use the Medarot 2 sprite by changing the M4 to an M2 in the file name (since all of the M2 sprites are uploaded). The Medarot 4 sprites aren't all that different, so you shouldn't need to worry about uploading them for now. *nod* ~ Kimbles 22:21, 16 October 2012 (MDT)

I don't mean to nag, but could you pretty please stop creating pages without any text on them? ): Infoboxes are nice, but they don't really add enough info to warrant making the page when there's nothing else there. I just don't like the idea of a reader coming across tons of nearly empty pages... If you could even include just a tiny bit of information on the page that isn't copy-pasted it would really help.

By the way, you can use the M2 sprites in the infobox for any of the Medarots in Medarot 1 or 2. For the "image" part, just put M2-(model number goes here).gif. For Paradiver for example, you'd put M2-BOP-0.gif. ~ Kimbles 22:43, 6 November 2012 (MST)

Replacing images

Hey, I'm just curious why you're uploading your own versions of the M2 sprites when they're all already on the wiki... I spent a lot of time on them making them consistant, so I'd prefer to leave them with the same colors and spacing as before. ): If you really think the sprite images need changing, please actually explain why, otherwise I'm going to go ahead and revert them to the versions I uploaded. (I'm giving you fair warning here.)

I understand that you're trying to help, but this is what happens when you don't communicate! ~ Kimbles 05:46, 17 May 2013 (MDT)

Image sources

Thanks for adding some nice pictures to the pages. ^^ Any chance you could tell me where you got the pictures of the model kits and Medarot DS/7 cards though? I don't like the idea of taking other people's pictures without at least citing the source... Did you take any of the pictures/scans yourself? ~ Kimbles 21:17, 23 May 2013 (MDT)

Images

Again, thank you so much for adding these! I'm still missing sources on a lot of the non-dual models and figures though, as well as the M7 AR cards... I'm worried that some of the models (like this one) are actually fan-made custom figures, which we probably shouldn't include because they're essentially fanart.

As for how the images are used on the pages, I think that including every picture of a model kit might be overkill... Including one or two representative pictures and linking to the webpage with all of them would be a better use of space, plus it would be more respectful to the person who's picture's we're taking. I'm also thinking of changing the infobox picture to the front-facing "design" art when it's available. What do you think? (You can reply on this page.) ~ Kimbles 12:49, 22 June 2013 (MDT)

Recent edits

Hey again. I haven't been able to check/edit the wiki regularly for a while (and won't be able to for a while yet), but I see you've been really busy! Thanks again for adding a lot of pictures that we needed.

Now's the part where I start nagging. ^^; (I would have mentioned a lot of this earlier if I had been around to notice it!)

• Game sprites (from the GB-GBA games) are all already uploaded, and I'd appreciate if you didn't upload resized versions of them since the sprite galleries work better when the sizes are the same. :(
• Sprites in Medarot 7/8/Brave... aren't a thing that exists. "Sprites" generally refer to 2D images, so what you're uploading are 3D models. They'll need to use a separate template for the terminology to be right, which I'll try to create soon.
• I'd still appreciate if you added sources for the pictures you're finding, especially the card scans and 3D model screenshots. I think some of the screenshots come from the Medarot 8 wiki, right?
• Model numbers... should use the old format (DOG-0) if the Medarot existed before Medarot DS, and the new format (DOG04) only if it came after. (That's how we've been doing it up to now, since it doesn't hurt to show which era a Medarot came from.)
• The "Navbox-Type" template should state the Medarot's motif under "type", not the model (i.e. Devil-type instead of DVL-type), and only list a single model number for each Medarot (old format if it's old, new format if it's new). *nod*
• The Medarot 8 "magazine scans" actually mostly come from the trailer video on youtube, not a magazine. The pics are still good, just misnamed.
• You don't have to specify that a card scan is a "bad scan" on the page, since the quality should be obvious from looking at it. ^^;

I think that's everything. Sorry again for not mentioning these earlier... If you have any questions, please feel free to ask on my talk page (I'll try to keep a close eye on it)! ~ Kimbles 11:50, 2 November 2014 (MST)

Sprites

Really wish you wouldn't keep re-uploading the GB/GBC sprites. :/ The reason they're un-centered is to show which ones have "floating" sprites and which ones are touching the bottom, so if you center them all, you lose that detail. I hope that makes sense. I also don't think it's a good idea to make the backgrounds transparent since you're bound to misinterperet whitespace vs. shading at some point. I'd rather leave the sprites on the wiki as they appear in the game with no modifications/interpretations if possible. :/ Let me know what you think. ~ Kimbles 10:46, 7 November 2014 (MST)

Some notes on formatting

Hello, back again... I've been looking through the Medarot 1 Medarot pages and there's just a few things I wanted to mention:

• With few exceptions, animal names (and other motifs) are NOT proper nouns, so they don't need to be capitalized in the middle of a sentence. In the infobox, only the first letter of the motif needs to be capitalized (unless it contains a proper noun).
• IMO, the text in the "appearances" section of the infobox doesn't need to be treated like titles, so only first letters and proper nouns need to be capitalized (i.e. Medarot DS promo cards, not Promo Cards). Same goes for the captions in the image gallery. *nod*
• For cards in the "other appearances" section, I go with the name of the set it appears in, so "Medarot OCG" and "Medarot DS promo cards". It's referring to the whole set, so you shouldn't use the singular "card" there. (This is a really minor nitpick, but it's still something that I want to keep consistant. :S)
• Lastly, please avoid adding new section titles (like "In Medarot R") unless you have content (text!) to put in them. It makes the pages look messy when they have empty sections, and there's not much point IMO, since the fact that it's in Medarot R is already mentioned in the infobox. Nobody will "forget" that it needs Medarot R information if you don't add the section title, but the pages will look much neater without it. :D

Sorry I complain so much, but I still don't have much free time so I haven't been able to keep up with all your edits. ^^; I also recommend trying to combine your changes to a page into a single edit, rather than changing one small thing at a time, since it makes the recent changes and page histories easier to follow. *nod* Keep up the good work! ~ Kimbles 12:20, 2 December 2014 (MST)

Shingata Medarots

I'm removing links to the Shingata Medarots for the time being, since the spelling of the names are still undecided (see here). I also wanted to note that every single Medarot from Medarot 3 is also found in Medarot 4, so you can add Medarot 4 to the infobox at the same time you start the page. :) ~ Kimbles 11:01, 10 December 2014 (MST)