User talk:Dacromir
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Images[edit]
Hi there, as far as I know, user images should have the prefix "User", e.g. File:User Dacromir emblem.jpg - I've moved your image accordingly :) If you have any further questions, I'd recommend asking someone who has been here longer than two days... (i.e. not me.) Chieftain Alex 13:45, 26 October 2012 (PDT)
- Oh, I didn't know that. I tried "User:Dacromir/File:Emblem" and "File:User:Dacromir/Emblem" and a few other things like that, but it didn't work. Then I did some research on MediaWiki, learned what a namespace was, and facepalmed. I never found anything suggesting how to deal with user files (in terms of naming) so I just did what seemed best. However, now that I've done some searching for "User " in multimedia, I can see that's what the consensus seems to be.
- Thank you very much! Really appreciate it :D Dacromir 13:50, 26 October 2012 (PDT)
- You're welcome. ^^ Although I have trouble finding such pages on this site, GW2W:Practises and processes has most of the elemental stuff linked from there, and I should say that I'm going to edit the page of the emblem image, and add the text "{{Screenshot}} & {{User image|Dacromir}}" which will mark the image as taken in game/property of arenanet + that it has been uploaded for your usage. (this can also be done in the initial submission summary or selected when uploading.) Also sorry for edit conflicting you :D Chieftain Alex 14:11, 26 October 2012 (PDT)
- Okay, so it's technically not a screenshot. I actually got it from this emblem creator. It's still an Arena Net image, but is {{Screenshot}} the best way to mark it or would {{ArenaNet image}} be better? I don't think it matters much either way (copyright is the same), but I like to do things right. -Dacromir 14:20, 26 October 2012 (PDT)
name parameter[edit]
Instead of populating the blank name =
parameter in infoboxes, you can just remove it. Our infoboxes use the page name as the default, and we only provide name
as a necessity for when the page name has a disambiguation suffix (like Impale (warrior sword skill)) that we don't want displayed in the infobox. —Dr Ishmael 16:15, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, thanks, I didn't realize that. You guys changed the {{item icon}} template to use Property:Has game icon. That caused a bunch of my images to stop displaying in tables. I poked around, and realized that all of the ones having image issues had
name=
in their infobox, and that the icon wasn't showing for the infobox either. I checked several pages that were working, and all of them had thename=
parameter filled in. I figured that was what needed to be done.
- Should I go back and delete the parameter, or is it okay as-is? Also, can you link me somewhere I can read about properties (like Has game icon)? I don't really understand how they work. Reading the wikipedia Template Help Page really helped me understand how templates worked, and I had hoped there would be a similar file on properties but I can't find it. I'd love to learn more about how wikis work. -Dacromir 16:32, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, yes, we also use the
name
parameter in determining the filename for the icon, if theicon
parameter is not present or is present but blank. The problem you're seeing is due toicon =
being present, but not having a value. Leaving blank parameters is really bad practice in any case, and unfortunately our boilerplate pages on the formatting guides encourage this practice. I'll see if I can do a bot run to clean up blank parameters quickly - and in the future, the stricter infobox code should make it obvious that leaving blank parameters is bad. —Dr Ishmael 17:29, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, yes, we also use the