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Obviously our context was different.
 
Looking at one of my proposals that passed a few days ago, I'm kinda unsure what to do with Dribble and Spitz's taxi. I was going to redirect it, but now I'm thinking that it's rather unlikely that anyone would search for it and I didn't want to tag it with a delete without consulting anyone.
 
Just make it a redirect. There's no harm in it, and if anyone ever questions its existence, they just have to look at the talk page and go "ohhh, it used to be an article and got merged, I see now, makes sense".
 
This has bothered me for quite a good time. I'm willing to create pages for all the comics belonging to WarioWare: D.I.Y., however, I'm not sure if adding screenshots of the comics (4 shots per comic) step in the area of "We're not an alternative to the games ." policy.
 
Porplemontage once explained it to the admins as "Something like scanned images of every page of a comic book is what we wouldn't want, but a cover and sample page is ok."
 
Even so, for something like the Super Mario-Kun, just get a single-cell. Obviously having all pages in the comic book is akin to pirating software.
 
Walkazo said:
Porplemontage once explained it to the admins as "Something like scanned images of every page of a comic book is what we wouldn't want, but a cover and sample page is ok."
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in that case, I reckon uploading each comic's shelf sprite and one of its panels, then sticking them in a huge table with the comic's flavour text would be a better way to go than giving every comic a page. They're only four panels long and there's hardly enough depth in them to squeeze out a sizable page for each
 
Game Boy Toadvance said:
Walkazo said:
Porplemontage once explained it to the admins as "Something like scanned images of every page of a comic book is what we wouldn't want, but a cover and sample page is ok."
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in that case, I reckon uploading each comic's shelf sprite and one of its panels, then sticking them in a huge table with the comic's flavour text would be a better way to go than giving every comic a page. They're only four panels long and there's hardly enough depth in them to squeeze out a sizable page for each
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They sound like yonkoma. Having them all on one page sounds reasonable ("List of WarioWare: D.I.Y. comics", unless they have a more specific name), however in addition to a table with the shelf images and the flavour text, I also suggest making a regular section in the page divided into subsections with brief summaries of the comics in paragraph form (probably one little paragraph per comic), and then putting the screenshots in a gallery at the bottom of a page.

Baby Man said:
Even so, for something like the Super Mario-Kun, just get a single-cell. Obviously having all pages in the comic book is akin to pirating software.
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A single page of a comic book won't duplicate the comic book reading experience, so I'd say the occasional full-page scan of Super Mario-Kun is fine as long as there's a good reason (i.e. "look at all the crazy-ass shit that can go down in just one page of this comic series, olol").
 
Hey that's what I do! Except when it comes to making some specific character cameos in the comic though...that's when I usually crop a single cell.
 
Baby Man said:
Hey that's what I do! Except when it comes to making some specific character cameos in the comic though...that's when I usually crop a single cell.
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Walkazo said:
They sound like yonkoma. Having them all on one page sounds reasonable ("List of WarioWare: D.I.Y. comics", unless they have a more specific name), however in addition to a table with the shelf images and the flavour text, I also suggest making a regular section in the page divided into subsections with brief summaries of the comics in paragraph form (probably one little paragraph per comic), and then putting the screenshots in a gallery at the bottom of a page.
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As for the table, here is a small example of what I'm going to do:
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Megaman said:
Walkazo said:
They sound like yonkoma. Having them all on one page sounds reasonable ("List of WarioWare: D.I.Y. comics", unless they have a more specific name), however in addition to a table with the shelf images and the flavour text, I also suggest making a regular section in the page divided into subsections with brief summaries of the comics in paragraph form (probably one little paragraph per comic), and then putting the screenshots in a gallery at the bottom of a page.
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As for the table, here is a small example of what I'm going to do:
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I'm not sure that adding (worried) is a good idea. It alters the comic.
 
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I couldn't think of anything better than "worried", I also put it between brackets so the reader can know that this is just showing the emotion, not that there is text saying "worried" or anything.
 
Megaman said:
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I couldn't think of anything better than "worried", I also put it between brackets so the reader can know that this is just showing the emotion, not that there is text saying "worried" or anything.
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I do have the game I'm just saying that it may be confusing or misinterpreted as false information. If you want to show that he's worried, maybe do something else. Or at least that's how I feel about it.
 
You can't add the whole script: there should only be a summary in addition to the image, title and description.
 
New Game! #1 --> An employee suggests a cooking game for the DS but his boss says he hates cooking and tosses away the proposal, asking for another idea instead, to his employee's dismay.
 
Eh, this sounds a tad radical.

Anyhow, is there going to be any standard on how rumors should be implemented? With the advent of the Internet, rumors are almost everywhere. I'm just concerned that this may open up the door for speculation and stuff. Like, are we even going to cover "leaks" and stuff? This, I'm very iffy on.
 
the concept is pretty much "Blatant ripoff of the Transformer's wiki "Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers" page, if that's any help indicating the coverage.

"leaks" and quote-unquote E3 presentation list photographed at a weird angle are useless noise as far as I'm concerned, the entries should be about stuff that sticked (so "L is real" would get an entry based on ~histrorical value~, but random gamefaqs and 4Chan "leaks" about smash bros. wouldn't).
 
Okay, thanks.

I hope the page doesn't invite people to vomit out rumors, that's all I'm concerned.
 
Shouldn't we have a policy page on this new page or...? To prevent the guys from inserting everything from 4chan and stuff...
 
Bet 100 bucks that Ridley will be on there soon It probably would be a good idea to add a policy, even I'm unsure about what to add.
 
I posed the question a while ago, but seeing as it has not had any input I'll put it here as well. Do we really need Ladder? The only possible thing that gives this article merit is the Donkey Kong '94 info.
 
Ladder: It's pretty stupid.

Ninelevendo said:
Bet 100 bucks that Ridley will be on there soon It probably would be a good idea to add a policy, even I'm unsure about what to add.
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Well, I added Donkey Kong's nomenclature legends, sources taken from Snopes. :P It's probably legit.
 
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