User talk:Technobliterator

Hello!
We don't have guidelines as such, but we're trying a new approach when it comes to pages on series' or franchises; Final Fantasy should ideally have a series page and a franchise page. The series page should be focusing on the main games in the franchise (i.e. the ones that have a numerical reference that we can quantify as a series. We can include direct sequels, such as Final Fantasy X-2). This way, we get to give an overview over the games, and expand on where advances were made over previous games. The franchise should be more about the impact on Final Fantasy on gaming history, as well referencing characters from its games making appearances in other games, such as Kingdom Hearts.

We do have working templates for things such as References, I can always dive in to insert those where needed.--TwoTailedFox (talk) 22:46, October 27, 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, that's an interesting way of handling it, I like it. I think most of the content I'll be adding will end up on the Final Fantasy (franchise) page, but I get the feeling a lot of the content for the series and franchise pages will be similar? At least in the Development and Gameplay sections (you can check the series page on the FFWiki to see an idea). As for the refs, my problem is more that I'll have to copy some citations over, and they used different reference templates on the FFWiki, and there are 86 of them...so yeah...:P
 * Other than Final Fantasy, I can help a lot with the Jak and Daxter, Ratchet & Clank and Metal Gear series if you need anything for them.--Technobliterator 01:06, October 28, 2015 (UTC)
 * I think at this point, I think everywhere needs some form of help. Our references are a mix of standard links, and template usage that Wikipedia was using back in 2008. I'll have a look at FF Wiki when I get back home later today and see how your references work.--TwoTailedFox (talk) 09:23, October 28, 2015 (UTC)
 * It's actually not as bad as I thought (but will need a little conversion work). Your Refwebsite template is very similar to our Cite web template; page url can be changed to url and page title can be changed to title. access time would change to accessdate, but I don't think there is a function for site url and site name. I'll see if that can be added if it brings something to the table, or if another variable(s) covers those.--TwoTailedFox (talk) 18:23, October 28, 2015 (UTC)
 * Done. site url and site name now translate to siteurl and sitename, although publisher can be used to reference a site with just a Wikilink rather than a URL if desired.--TwoTailedFox (talk) 18:40, October 28, 2015 (UTC)
 * Ahh, sweet. Good to know I can easily (re)use the refs when moving some content over. I'll try and get stuff done on Final Fantasy by the end of the week, and hopefully work on the others after! One thing, do we want to use a ref to the wiki these pages are from, to attribute to the main wiki, similar to what's done on gameshub?--Technobliterator 22:35, October 28, 2015 (UTC)
 * We have a template called RelevantLinks, which allows us to link back to both the Wiki, and it's article there.--TwoTailedFox (talk) 07:40, October 29, 2015 (UTC)
 * Alright! I've done both FF series and FF franchise page. Wasn't sure what you wanted to do about moving images over, but I can move images that I used the main FF series page on the FFWiki over here if that'd help illustrate things. I also removed the "Reception" section when moving it over here, because I noticed that wasn't something used on this wiki, but I can add it if that'd be preferred. Feel free to trim/fix up the pages if they're too in-depth or something.--Technobliterator 20:53, October 31, 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks! For note, Reception is used on old game articles, but I see no reason to discourage its use on video game pages. Images being moved across I have no issue with, they would make the page more attractive. I did notice that you used (I had no idea this even existed). I knocked up another version of it here (I included X-2 to see how it looked, it can always be removed to de-clutter it), that might look a little clearer. Let me know what you think.--TwoTailedFox (talk) 21:52, October 31, 2015 (UTC)

Franchise, series, etc.
Don't forget we're also allowing individual pages for each game in a series/franchise ;)

P.S. I'd love to go through at some point and completely rip out all the pages that don't conform to the new focus. Raylan13 ( talk ) 17:23, October 28, 2015 (UTC)
 * Our new focus, or a new focus over at FF?--TwoTailedFox (talk) 17:41, October 28, 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, yeah. I've been rewriting some game pages too, so I can move content from some of them over as well. Will probably give me more motivation to do that, in fact.--Technobliterator 22:35, October 28, 2015 (UTC)