Forum:Quotes Format

Howdy all,

As you all well know, I do a lot of work on character quote pages. I'm currently doing so in Sunshine Islands, and have done extensive work in Harvest Moon DS/Cute, Save the Homeland, etc.

I try to follow the same format when I do each quote page, but there is a lot of differences in the issue of addressing names. Such as the name of the farm, an animal or the player's name when a character is speaking to you. Different editors have different preferences.

A few examples I've seen are:


 * "Hi, ______" (What I've been using, as a blank can be used to fill any gap for various names/objects).
 * "Hi, [player]."
 * "Hi, "
 * "Hi, MC."

We currently have all four of these used on different quote pages, depending on which game it is and who's done the editing. I really don't know what the best looking/most logical way would be, so I thought I'd ask the community for some feedback. I've simply been using ___ for the sake of consistency. Adding content is more my priority rather than adding more on my mountain of stuff to fix, but it's a future project to get it all stream-lined.

I also do not have a quotes page section laid out in the Style Manual and would like to add that in at some point as well. If we can decide on a format that looks good, it's mostly a matter of copy/paste to insert what we want to use. Some pages also have italics with the spoken dialogue, but I don't find this necessary. The 'sections' of dialogue are already laid out almost identically on all pages and I see no reason to change this format.

Feedback is appreciated for more streamlined and consistent pages. Thank you!

--Nixerix (talk) 00:41, December 5, 2019 (UTC)

Feedback
Use [player] instead of "____" to avoid confusion, or... so it won't confuse people. Clara Alexandra Djalim (talk) 05:38, December 5, 2019 (UTC)

I personally like ! MC is just a weird word for me and it looks awkward to use. Though it does the job.

____ is good and definitely does the job but you run into a roadblock when characters start talking about things you have named, such as animals or children. The ____ is now confusing to the person because ____ that is empty for the animal name but all the others were empty for your player's name. An example of this (though I'm kinda just making this quote up) -Waking up- "____, it's horrible! ____ has died" or naming a dog perhaps "____, what a great name!" Is the person saying your name or the dogs name? It's confusing.

[Player] simply looks awkward to me. Windy 17:08, December 5, 2019 (UTC)

That's wonderful you two, thank you! I too like how [player] looks. is fine and looks good to me too, although I prefer [player]. Very few pages are using [child], [player], [animal], etc or, , are both acceptable, It might still be BIT confusing. I know for example, Mark in SI says something like, "I knew ___ farm would win!" So do you then say [farm name] farm? Or 'I knew /[farm name] would win"? It still looks kind of silly, but it's not like you don't understand what it means.

I wish there were more than 3 of us so we had more input. But we will get there. :) --Nixerix (talk) 21:24, December 5, 2019 (UTC)

What if there's only one named protagonist, like Toy? Couldn't we just use his name? I like the way [Player] looks, if those aren't available. --Mai Is Me (talk)

But don't all characters have defult names? They're just able to be changed. Toy, Mark, chelsea, ect. I think Noby is the only one that can't be changed (except maybe old games?)

As for the [Farm name] farm, perhaps sub farm name out with [ranch] farm?. If not I don't think that would be that bad Windy 02:05, December 6, 2019 (UTC)

Using the default name wouldn't work in some cases so I don't think we should use it. In Animal Parade, you have a choice of two protagonists for each gender. Kevin/Kasey for a male and Angela/Molly for a female. In DS Cute, you will end up playing as either Clair or Pony depending on how you've answered the player questionnaire. Each character does have their own default name, yes, but each game doesn't necessarily focus on just one protagonist or gives you multiple choices. In every game that I've played, you can also always change the name (as far as I know). Plus, things like animals don't usually have a default name and we couldn't follow through on that format.

Aside from Windy, I'm seeing [player] be most favorable so far. If it feels less confusing, we could also do [name] instead of [player]. --Nixerix (talk) 05:56, December 6, 2019 (UTC)