User talk:LinkTheLefty/Archive 2

Re:Grinder/Ukiki
Well, technically, your message got to me a minute too late, but I'm not such a stickler for the rules that I won't say "eh, close enough" (plus, admins are allowed to veto things after the fact if we want, anyway, so w/e, there's many reasons for it to be doable). Anyway, once I'm done here, I'll go cancel it to make way for a full move proposal. And in regards to your other question, since you'd have to move the stuff by manually cutting and pasting, the corresponding page history would have to stay here, which is less than ideal. However, this method of archiving is allowed as long as you only do it sparingly (it's discussed on MW:Userpsace, if you're curious), so feel free to move the extra 2014 stuff if you want. - 19:19, 5 January 2015 (EST)

Re:Little Mouser / Mowz
Thanks for telling me; I've changed my vote since, as other have said, Little Mouser appears to be the latest and most commonly used name. Chocolate Mario (talk) 11:59, 9 January 2015 (EST)

Fire Bro.
All I know right now is that it's spelled "Fire Bro." in Super Mario 3D World.

Really it's just me feeling the spelling with the period is the most common.

-Toa 95 (talk)

The name doesn't show up in Captain Toad and as far as I know there isn't a trophy or anything in the latest Smash Bros., though the latest spelling actually would be without the period apparently, according to Mario Golf: World Tour, unless they're mentioned in the Mario Kart 8 strategy guide just in a throwaway line for a description of Bowser's Castle mentioning how they show up or something. At the same time, I also don't know if uses with the period outweigh those without.

-Toa 95 (talk)

Seeing as how it's used in the Smash Bros. trophy, not entirely.

-Toa 95 (talk)

Well... huh... I could have sworn it was... I guess I'm just used to that spelling...

-Toa 95 (talk)

Super Mario "Big Dictionary"
Is that an official site? From what I can tell, it's a fansite and, though its cache of WL4 names are reportedly good, the same can't be said for Yoshi Touch & Go, the Propeller Mūcho's game of origin. I don't want to create any facts from erroneously citing something.
 * Not allowing email responses would be going too far. You're implying that the user supplying the email could be making it up (if I'm wrong on this, please correct me), but going in with the idea of "don't trust the editor" is ludicrous for an editor-driven site. If a brand-new account is claiming this, sure, but any other user should be perfectly allowed to provide emails that reveal information.

re:Old Guide Question
The content is uploaded for informative purpose, so yeah, sure. --Glowsquid (talk) 12:45, 25 January 2015 (EST)

Proper nouns
Hi, I've noticed you moved a few enemy names to be lowercase based on their spelling in the level titles, but MarioWiki:Naming actually states that proper nouns (like enemy names) should always be capitalized regardless of what the source did. This is mainly for consistency (the vast majority of enemy names are capitalized, so having the odd lowercase name would stick out and look strange), but also clarity within the articles (so the names stand out). The Mario series is pretty dreadful when it comes to being consistent with its names, so we take some liberties where we can to avoid being similarly all over the map, at least for grey areas like capitalization. I'm not sure about the level names themselves, but the enemy names we extract from them should definitely be left uppercase. I hope you understand. - 13:10, 29 January 2015 (EST)
 * I'd actually forgotten we had it written down somewhere at first myself: I remembered discussing it, but only after checking the proposal archives turned up nothing did I think to look at the actual policy page... My knee-jerk reaction is to capitalize everything always, but that's probably just me (hence I made sure to check for neutral policy before saying anything). The level titles are more like phrases than isolated proper nouns like the enemy names (and also don't tend to appear outside of game-specific lists), so I think it should be okay if they're lowercase - the hope being that the games at last have internal consistency about how they write the titles, of course. - 14:22, 29 January 2015 (EST)
 * My guess is that it's the exclamation marks. Pretty sure it won't stop me from moving them, so give me a list of the pending renames and I'll do what I can. I'll also fix the talk page issues: if there's anything besides a redirect back to the being-moved page on the destination page (including delete templates), it'll block the move, hence some of them won't go through. - 11:01, 30 January 2015 (EST)
 * Okay, pretty sure I did them all correctly. Does Invade Wario Castle also need to be moved? Also, I wonder if it'd be better if Defeat the giant spear man (Go to the cellar) and Stop that train! (Go to the cellar) had exclamation marks in the identifiers, seeing as the chapter name (Go to the cellar!!) does. Also, is it really "Ruins at the Bottom of the sea"? All the other chapter names remain uppercase, so this halfway-lowercase title seems rather bizarre... - 19:30, 30 January 2015 (EST)
 * I guess it makes sense that they're treating Wario Castle as a proper name, same with Syrup Castle, but yeah, that "Bottom of the sea" is cringe-worthy (same with "the Syrup's treasure", for that matter - Engrish is fun until it gets into the page names). The lack of consistency in the chapter titles is also regrettable. I really want to smooth both matters out just to make things easier on the eyes and memory, rather than forcing folks to try to keep track of which isolated ones are the exceptions to the capitalization rules... - 21:42, 30 January 2015 (EST)
 * Or maybe they just changed the graphics and didn't really pay attention to the text and whatnot that didn't need to be converted. It's pretty easy to miss little extraneous things like that when you're focused on a given task. I wish the Japanese name related to Syrup so we could figure out what was meant there, but alas, that part doesn't seem to be a translation at all. - 00:23, 31 January 2015 (EST)
 * A mistranslation of Syrup-tachi is definitely be plausible for the first screen. Moving the "Time Attack" to the Story label position of the level title screen might've been to try and fill the space more evenly, but even so, you'd think "steal the treasure" on its own would be wordy enough for the name. And at the same time, I feel like there isn't really enough room in the Japanese page for　シロップたちの to be added to the treasure part (but maybe I'm underestimating, idk). Whatever happened there, it's an interesting little quirk. -  19:19, 1 February 2015 (EST)

Captain Falcon
re this: I've heard the "leading site" in question is the official english site for F-Zero X, but I've been unable to locate the url for that one (and apparently wayback archive doesn't have it archived). Wish I had someone to sleuth this case. --Glowsquid (talk) 22:01, 12 February 2015 (EST)
 * One of the characteristics about Captain Falcon is that nobody knows anything about him; he's from Port Town, he's an amazing bounty hunter, and that's it. Honestly, I doubt that any official site would casually drop his full name. From what sleuthing I've done, his first and last "names" first popped up on Wikipedia in 2005, from a user who popped up for one day and that's it. His middle name was actually later added by an IP who mostly made minor, but still reputable, edits throughout 2005. Neither of them provided a source. The name was later removed for being unsourced... in 2014. It seems to me that the damage had already been done.
 * If it's official, then signs definitely point to "a leading but defunct website" being the F-Zero X one, but the legitimacy of it is in question when it was silently added to Wikipedia as late as 2005 if the original site had been down for years (and the site doesn't appear to have any backups, nor does wayback seem to help). This also spread to the Spanish, Italian, and even Japanese Wikipedia (the latter contributes this to the North American localization, but again fails to adequately specify), as well as various wiki sites in other languages. I'm thinking this is just a big game of messenger, but it could be that the exact source, if it indeed existed, may very well be lost. Since there is no real way to verify...best to treat this as a rumor. LinkTheLefty (talk) 13:20, 13 February 2015 (EST)