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)

You can convert BMPs to PNGs. Mario JC 02:44, May 3, 2024 (EDT)

Duly noted. Thanks for the clarification. DandelionSprout (talk) 05:39, May 3, 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)

I'm just telling you for your information mistakes that need to be addressed, it's not a criticism or anything of what you're doing. And my second point was not because of readability, it's because it's grammatically incorrect. Mario JC 23:30, April 17, 2024 (EDT)

So, the thing was, I've had the unfortunate tendendy to look at Special:RecentChanges ("Curiosity killed the cat", I guess. 😓), saw a whole lot of edit notes, and presumed "Oh man, do I have a whole lot of things to live up to, to make it big on this wiki." However, on advices from e.g. my secretary, I am now instead presuming "Okay, if it's not something that is brought up on the usertalk page(s), then it's not a crucuial hasty matter for me to handle." DandelionSprout (talk) 12:59, April 19, 2024 (EDT)

Amazing job on Princess Peach: Showtime!

I agree with Sparks, you're doing a great job at expanding the pages! Please keep contributing; you're doing a fantastic job! Have a great day! -- FanOfRosalina2007 (talk · edits) 22:46, April 17, 2024 (EDT)

Singular/plural verbs

A common mistake I'm noticing is you're using singular verbs for singular subjects. If one person is doing the action, the verb should be plural ("If Peach chooses to read" and not "If Peach choose to read"), and vice versa with multiple subjects ("Theets dance" and not "Theets dances"). Mario JC 11:59, May 15, 2024 (EDT)

English is a very complicated language, I admit, and word tenses are even more complicated; I struggled with "is/are" until last year, at which point I was 28, and I still struggle with "crisises/crises" to this day, unfortunately. I'll attempt to follow the verb tense tip, but I personally would call it very advanced material to handle. DandelionSprout (talk) 23:53, May 15, 2024 (EDT)

Advice

I would very strongly advise against creating any more pages on subjects that are neither explicitly Super Mario, including any subjects without any direct involvement, since the Memory Card page has been deleted, and a few also believe the Microsoft page should be deleted. As a result, there are lots of red links left behind that need to be cleaned up. Super Mario RPG (talk) 15:13, May 31, 2024 (EDT)

It wasn't even I who created the Memory Card page, first of all. You're not a moderator, you're not even a patroller, so you have no business demanding me to follow policies on false grounds that I don't think even exist unless otherwise proven. DandelionSprout (talk) 15:52, May 31, 2024 (EDT)

Also, it wasn't even "a few" people who want to delete Microsoft, it's literally just one user besides you. DandelionSprout (talk) 15:57, May 31, 2024 (EDT)

That other user who wants the Microsoft page deleted is a bureaucrat, and an administrator here originally proposed the Memory Card page for deletion (which can now be found at the NintendoWiki, apparently). I know I'm not a mod. I was giving advice, since the same result could occur if you try to cover something that isn't Super Mario from its inception. Super Mario RPG (talk) 16:00, May 31, 2024 (EDT)

Multiple edits

Hello, DandelionSprout. When editing, if you'd like to see how your edits affect a page, use the "Show preview" button next to the "Save changes" button. This allows you to check over your edits for any errors and make any additional changes or fixes before you save, which will prevent edits from flooding the page history and recent changes. (If you are on mobile, make sure to check the preview page thoroughly before proceeding to save.) Please try to avoid making excessive, consecutive edits to a single page within a short timespan and instead limit them to as few as possible.

You are making too many edits in one time span. Instead of editing per section, please click the "edit" button on the top corner of the page to edit all in one go. I'd also recommend to click the preview button before saving your edits, so that you can see if they are finished and edit some more.  ^P_nn^yC_ryg^r  23:01, June 17, 2024 (EDT)

The way I personally saw the situation, was that I added info as I went along learning new things, which was comparatively often during testing. I'd think "Okay, so I'll do one edit to add both the time limits and at least one new language name", and then I'd think "Wait, did I forget to add some info I had planned to add?" or perhaps "It seems that microgame's details (e.g. names, time limits) differ strongly between Gold and their previous games", so it was not usually a matter of "One section at a time."

Given that the microgames I researched earlier tonight had appeared in two games each, I also thought "I'll research one game at a time and (if needed) add info on one game at a time so I don't forget to add info on either game at all", as I was completely unaware of that policy and at least I know about it now. DandelionSprout (talk) 23:15, June 17, 2024 (EDT)

Redirect links

MarioWiki:Redirects#Linking to redirects - Links should always link to the exact title of the page, so "[[font]]" should be "[[List of fonts|font]]". Mario JC 03:01, June 20, 2024 (EDT)

Good to know. I've tended to think by default "Redirection pages exist for a reason, I suppose", but your method sounds like it will work better. DandelionSprout (talk) 14:20, June 20, 2024 (EDT)

Korean logo and DSi menu logo for WarioWare Snapped

Can you add the Korean logo and DSi menu logo for WarioWare Snapped? (Originally unsigned; was written by Special:Contributions/5.82.57.96)

I suppose I can add Template:Image to that page, and then we'd see how it'd go in general or not. DandelionSprout (talk) 16:58, June 26, 2024 (EDT)