User talk:DandelionSprout

Amazing work on the Princess Peach: Showtime! articles!

Hi there! You're doing a great job creating and editing articles related to Princess Peach: Showtime! Keep up the great work! Sparks (talk) 13:34, April 6, 2024 (EDT)

Great to hear. 🌞 DandelionSprout (talk) 13:38, April 6, 2024 (EDT)

Image optimization

Just as a heads up, the image use policy discourages reuploading images just to optimize them because it takes up additional space on the server. -- Too Bad! Waluigi Time! 19:23, April 6, 2024 (EDT)

Huh. Good to know. On other wikis, I had followed the logic of "The smaller the filesize is, the faster a wiki page would load", and I had utilised it with partial success on The Sims Wikia. But I do acknowledge that it'd be a problem on self-hosted wikis indeed, so I appreciate the tip. DandelionSprout (talk) 02:43, April 7, 2024 (EDT)

In the future, if possible, could you save your images (whether it's game capture screenshots and self-made infographics) as png or jpg rather than webp? They're much more preferable since they're more commonly used and universally supported. Mario JC 10:11, April 9, 2024 (EDT)

I took a liking to WebP a year or two ago, after I noticed that lossless WebP exported by PaintNET, were still 15~20% smaller filesizes than OptiPNG; and I've also been in beefs with a fair few people on social media who strongly hated WebP for made-up reasons. So I had presumed "Okay, surely crops of screenshots can be in WebP?", but I give you technically right for using PNG for crops, since Elgato saves the whole-frame screenshots as PNG in the first place, so for those cases I agree to using PNG from now on. DandelionSprout (talk) 11:13, April 9, 2024 (EDT)

RE:The wiki's Ruby template makes the rubies unreadable on Chrome

The page is fully protected, so I can't edit it on my own. I'll bring up the issue with an admin instead. ^(T|C) 19:58, April 16, 2024 (EDT)

Understandable. I can add to a "Discussion" page note for the Template:Ruby page in the meantime. Thanks for the general understanding. DandelionSprout (talk) 19:59, April 16, 2024 (EDT)

Edits

A few things regarding your edits,

• Avoid adding sections with nothing in them except a stub notice. They should only be started when there's content to add with them.
• You tend to do this often: a comma doesn't go between a subject and a verb associated with it (some examples from your edits which shouldn't have commas: "Completing the level, allows Peach to buy the dress", "Stella's color, corresponds to the ribbon she's wearing", "Effects [that can play on the rear speakers], include approaching shells [...]")
• Don't italicise names for objects of significance (like the costume names) or use them as substitutes for quotation marks. Italics are reserved for titles for games, series, shows etc. (see MarioWiki:Manual of Style#Italicizing titles). Mario JC 10:42, April 17, 2024 (EDT)

I admit that №1 and №3 were mostly the result of a template I designed specifically for PPS pages. I've attempted to implement the requests now (empty sections like "Gallery" will of course be removed entirely from now on, if nothing can be found for them before a page is created). №2 I had never personally seen any problems with on any site, as the goal had been to make sentences easier to read, but sure. I must also admit that I don't feel particularly welcomed on this wiki, but I also figure "Okay, sure, let's see how long things go well." DandelionSprout (talk) 16:20, April 17, 2024 (EDT)

As a side note, the template cuts down the time needed to create a PPS level page from approx. 70min to approx. 25min, so that template will remain in use, but changes will be applied when needed (which has turned out to be pretty often, I admit, often so after I noticed shortcomings with the template personally). DandelionSprout (talk) 16:29, April 17, 2024 (EDT)