MediaWiki talk:Community Portal/Archive14

Foreign name format

I just found the foreign names doesn't have an unified format.

For example, some are

Hungarian name: Kerék ("Wheel"^{(with or without "")})

others are

Hungarian name: Kerék (meaning Wheel^{(or "Wheel")})

I suggest we could use an unified format like the below:

Foreign name 1: Name A (Form A), Name B (Form B)

Foreign name 2: Name ("English meaning")

Take Hot Rod for example, it will look like:

Japanese name: Hot Rodimus (Hot Rod), Rodimus Convoy (Rodimus Prime)

Hungarian names: Nagyágyú ("Hot Shot"), Rodimusz Fővezér ("Prime Commander Rodimus")

Thoughts and idea are welcomed :) --TX55 09:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't have a strong opinion on how the international names are standardized, but I strongly agree that they should be. I nominate someone else to go through and do it. -LV 21:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Wookiepedia has a darn nifty interface

What would it take for us to create something similar but Transformers-y?--Rosicrucian^Talk 21:36, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

I think the admins were adament that we keep a simple, bare-bones default look to the TF wiki, in keeping with our 'let's not take this stuff too seriously' attitude and tone. At least that's what I remember them saying when I suggested an orange layout like what Teletraan I looked like in the cartoon. --FFN 09:34, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

The current Wookieepedia also doesn't seem to want to cooperate with my comp here at work. --M Sipher 18:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Characters lacking visuals category?

It's dawned on me that there are actually quite a few characters who don't have any form of visual representation. They may have been described, but there are no pictures. While a bulk of these are from prose stories, there's several who were simply mentioned by name in comics, or in external sources (Key Code info, S7 site, etc). More than enough to justify a category.
I think that maybe there should also be a template/visual for this to call attention to this fact on the page right up front. I'm thinking a variation on the current {{mainpic}} template... a silhouette, (different from the mainpic one) and some text saying "This character has no known official visual depiction" or something. Anyone? --M Sipher 18:33, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, for the characters with the mainpic template, the idea is that the mainpic image is there as a placeholder, and to annoy people into tracking down an image.

However, characters that have never had any visual depiction, and are unlikely to ever get one, don't need a placeholder for their image, and the template will just pointlessly take up room. I'm against the template, but I think the category is a good idea, and will suffice to identify these characters. JW 18:44, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. The point is specifically to call attention to their lack of imagery, so nobody thinks "maybe they do have an image". And considering how little there is to most of those characters, a little extra visual pizzaz to their pages can't hurt. --M Sipher 19:06, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

so nobody thinks "maybe they do have an image" Are you intending to convey that message to editors, or casual users? Editors will, in theory, know enough to look for the category. I'm not sure casual users need to have the point brought to their attention.

And, it's not like we have scads of frantic editors running around trying to find pics for characters who have only appeared in prose. This may be a solution without a problem. JW 19:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Timelines disambuig

There doesn't seem to be a consensus on how to name the various Timelines articles.I feel that any disambiguation in the article title should be limited to keeping the articles separate. For instance, Optimus Prime (Shattered Glass) should be at [[Optimus Prime (Timelines)]] unless there is another Optimus Prime who's first appearance in anything was in Timelines. G1 Prime appearing in the 2007 Timelines comic does not affect this, as he is already at Optimus Prime (G1). If G1 Prime being in a Timelines comic affected this, we would need to moveCyclonus (Armada) to "Cyclonus (Armada whatever size class he is)" because a version of G1 Cyclonus appeared in Worlds Collide. The only reason to include the set name in the article title is two separate characters who first official anything is in Timelines. --FortMax 17:18, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Shattered Expectations

Um, shouldn't those¹² who appear in Shattered Expectations have their own page like others¹² even their counterparts' article would be short? --TX55 06:28, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I brought this up on Category_talk:Mayhem_Suppression_Squad. As I said there, I think they should either get their own articles or if that's not warranted just be covered on the Mayhem Suppression Squad article. Either way, I don't think "Shattered Expectations" fiction sections belong on the normal-verse guys' pages. --KilMichaelMcC 07:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)