User talk:PerseusStoned

For the wikia impaired (thanks to Sathka)

 * 1) Cheatsheet
 * 2) How to edit
 * 3) How to markup
 * 4) Style Manual
 * 5) For the undetermined future...

Sathka's Messages
What is all this junk at the bottom of Harvest Moon 64? It looks like javascript to me. Whatever it is, it shouldn't be visible in an article. Sathka 15:08, April 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay, that's strange. I'll take a look around. I took it out and it popped up after your edits so I thought it was you, but that doesn't make any sense. Sathka 15:33, April 9, 2010 (UTC)

Personally, I'm in favor of keeping the singular pages (Tomato, Turnip etc). We can move relevant info to singular pages and then mark the plurals as candidates for deletion with Sathka 14:49, April 10, 2010 (UTC)

There are a few places you can look for help. These might give you a basic idea. It also helps to know a little HTML, but you'll have to go elsewhere for that. Sathka 15:20, April 10, 2010 (UTC)

Actually, with regard to the plural pages, let's just redirect them to the singulars. For example: #redirect Turnip (HM64)

On character pages (well, every page to a certain degree) I want to keep a declarative sentence that ties the article to HM64. So things like "Stu is a character in Harvest Moon 64", just leave that there and add further description after it. Since this wiki has so many different versions of the same things and people sometimes, it's good to differentiate them more. Plus, it gives articles a nicer look with an intro, followed by the stuffy info. Otherwise it just likes a wall of text.

Not a big gripe! Just thought I'd let you know my style plans. Don't worry about making any changes to things you've already done; I'm going to go through the HM64 pages and tidy everything up soon. Sathka 16:22, April 11, 2010 (UTC)

Some tips
I came across these the other day and thought they were pretty awesome.

Pipe trick: shorthand for typing a lot of pages with parentheses after without retyping the whole page name again. You put a pipe | after the parentheses but before the closing ]]. Example: Popuri (HM64) comes out as Popuri but you'll notice the page goes right to Popuri (HM64). It'll also trim out alternate namespaces such as Template: and Category:.

Link inflections: if you need to inflect (add suffixes, etc) a link to an article, you can put the suffixes outside the  and it'll automatically convert the whole word to a link. This works really nicely with the pipe trick above. Example: Doug (HM64)'s Chicken (HM64)s and Cow (HM64)s outputs Doug's Chickens and Cows. I thought it included the apostrophe-s but I guess it doesn't. Either way, it's cool!

Enjoy! Sathka 05:23, April 12, 2010 (UTC)

Re. capitalizing article links
I don't know why it didn't hit me before. You don't need to capitalize article names in links. barn (HM64)| works just as well as Barn (HM64)|. This makes it so much easier and now I fully support lower-case links when they seem appropriate. Keep seasons capitalized, since they're kind of important, but dog, horse, barn etc. don't need to be capitalized. Sathka 15:49, April 13, 2010 (UTC)

Character links w/ images
How do you feel about widespread implementation of links such as this: Ann or Ann?

Simplifying templates
I'm simplifying the design of the larger navigation templates, let me know how you feel. They're on my User page. Sathka 01:29, April 15, 2010 (UTC)
 * Correction: they're on my Sandbox. User:Sathka/Sandbox Sathka 01:47, April 15, 2010 (UTC)