User talk:Shadow Reaper/Archive

Kudos
Hey there, just wanted to congratulate you on all your work so far with the Tingle enemies. You've only been around a few days but already it seems you're into the full swing of things. Keep it up! :) 18:17, 16 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Thanks Hylian King, I'll do my best. --Shadow Reaper 18:49, 16 June 2012 (EDT)

About the Zelda's Adventure enemies
I felt I better explain my actions before I potentially revert some of the edits you've made recently, because I don't want to come across as opposed to what you've done because you're making good additions; but at the moment the gallery pages tend to not include any CD-i enemies, even though we do have sprites for them. I personally prefer it this way, and I think it would have to be something to discuss as a group before we include CD-i enemy images on the main pages for each character. So I will be removing some of the images you've uploaded from the enemy pages they're on; but I am more than happy for them to be included on their own gallery page. Any additional information is fine, but the images should not be included, unless we plan to include all the CD-i enemies there, which at the moment we don't. 07:25, 21 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Glad that was cleared up, I do have a question for you though! Sheepman. Is this an official name, is it mentioned in the game, or did you source it from somewhere? If you think it's a fan name, use the tag like this to make it clear. If you're unsure on an enemy name, it's best to go with a descriptive name rather than a name that sounds official but isn't, to avoid confusion. I suspect there are a number of CD-i enemies without official names, so if you find one without a name, best to make it clear.  07:47, 21 June 2012 (EDT)
 * IGN had it on there page about the game. Technially they had it as Sheepman but as the page was about all three I made it plural. Where they got the name I have no clue. The only new enemies that I know what there called is the Kelpies. So I don't know. --Shadow Reaper 07:51, 21 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Here's the page from IGN the enemies section is Section L http://www.gamefaqs.com/cdi/564215-zeldas-adventure/faqs/15120--Shadow Reaper 07:54, 21 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Looks potentially fan-made by the FAQ writer (it's a GameFAQs guide, so it's fan-written) but it's possibly sourced from the manual. There may be a transcript of the manual online somewhere. I'm not sure they're meant to be sheep, but it's very hard to tell. Those games are so weird. 08:04, 21 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Well if you look at them from the side they sorta look like they have sheep heads. But I have a couple of friends who own the game so I'll see if I can either borrow the manual or see if they can find if Sheepman is in there. --Shadow Reaper 17:11, 21 June 2012 (EDT)
 * I found a scan of the manual online, you can find them on replacementdocs.com, so check it out. It doesn't seem to list any names whatsoever though. Still, worth a look if you're interested, but it's pretty short and lacking in much detail. I suspect the enemies weren't named at all. 17:57, 21 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Thanks Fizzle, and on a side note they do list Swamp Zola under the repellent and Avianna under Feather. Oh well this will definitely help in the Items of ZA page. :D --Shadow Reaper 18:12, 21 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Just commenting here since the talk page on that gallery was getting a bit long. I just saw your reference for the Sardak. It's a goldmine of names, at least for enemies that appear in dungeons. I think you're on to something: if you can locate the same guides for the other two games it could give names for pretty much everything. Well done! I'm really impressed with that find. Plus it confirms that the names in these Dutch magazines are genuine too. I'm saving the text for future reference, do let me know if you find the other two. 08:31, 5 July 2012 (EDT)

Thanks the link is friend from youtube under the user name Showsni. I'm probally going to keep up the Dutch translating just on the odd chance that I can find an enemy not listed in the other guide. There are a couple. :) --Shadow Reaper 17:46, 5 July 2012 (EDT)
 * Good idea. Incidentally, I think there MIGHT a way to rip the graphics from the game. I'm looking into it, but it may take some time. I'm hoping the game is as basically coded as it looks. If I succeed you won't have to screenshot everything. 09:16, 6 July 2012 (EDT)
 * Heroofstuff mentioned a couple of sites that rip sprites from games Spriters-resource.com and Spritedatabase.net. I dont think they have anything on ZA but they may take request. --Shadow Reaper 20:22, 6 July 2012 (EDT)

German names
Hey, I see you've taken to adding German translations to pages. Always glad to see someone take interest in that area of the wiki.

Thought I'd let you know you could be killing two birds with one stone by adding Template:de as well. Adding   at the very bottom of a page creates a link in the sidebar to the corresponding page of our German affiliate, Zeldapendium. I'm not going to ask you to go over every page you just edited and add it, but from now on it you could at the bottom of the page that would be great. Not that you have to, though, just thought I'd let you know. 08:07, 29 June 2012 (EDT)

While we're on the subject, I just want to hop in with a word of warning; I've noticed you taking the names from the German wiki, which is fine to an extent, but do note that many of these names are actually just simply translations of English names on this wiki, rather than official German names, which is what the template is for I believe. For example, the Buzz enemy is called Eidechse, which simply translates as "lizard", which is the old fan name we had before we moved it to the Japanese name. So not only are these names not official names, they're not always accurate translations of the ones we're using either. Ideally, these names should be sourced from the German games or guides themselves. 13:12, 29 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Well crude, I thought the Zeldapendium had the actual german name for the enemies not the english traslations for the enemies. No real point on going on with the adding german translations if ya can't tell which is accurate and which are simple german translations. -_-* Okay thanks for the heads up Fizzle. And Hylian King looks like I'm droppin' out of the translating area unless I can stumble across a german guide. The only one I have like that is the ZA manual. --Shadow Reaper 18:33, 29 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Well if you run them through Google translate and they don't come up with a direct translation of the page names here (or a previous version of it in some instances) that should be a pretty good sign that it is a genuine German name rather than otherwise. Don't worry about it too much, some names are better than no names at all, and some names WILL just be direct translations of the names we've got anyway, I don't want to put you off, I'm just giving out a warning to be careful. I have a feeling the German ALttP guide is scanned online somewhere, maybe I can find it out. If I do I'll let you know. 07:03, 30 June 2012 (EDT)
 * Well when it came to google translating the pages, I don't how this happened, but it caused my computer to crash. Like literal Blue Screen of Death, that was on Rebonack's page so I'd like to advoid a repeat of that. I dont know if it was because I was translating, because some pages did just fine (Big Poe being called Night Owl for example) but while I was translating the page....(Boom, DEAD, Me saying various bad words). --Shadow Reaper 11:17, 30 June 2012 (EDT)
 * That's unusual, but you might want to try translating just parts of pages rather than the whole thing since translating a bunch at once might cause the translator to take awhile. Sounds like your browser might be damaged somehow though, I'd do a virus check if I were you, and if it happens again, reinstall the browser or use a different one. I recommend Firefox or Opera. 13:16, 30 June 2012 (EDT)

An answer to Pakkun's Question
Barr1213 and I are have a conversation on each others talk pages. I'm not sure how it started that way but thats how it ended up. Sorry for the inconvinence. :) --Shadow Reaper 04:19, 2 July 2012 (EDT)

I gotta go and edit my user page see ya!!:)

Great Work on the Enemy Galleries
Hello, I just wanted to say that your work on improving the enemy galleries for each game is outstanding, also all of the pictures of enemies you uploaded is making my project a ton easiers! XXSuperXXNintendoXx 16:16, 7 August 2012 (EDT)
 * Thank you XXSuperXXNintendoXx, as you can tell by my user navigation box I love the enemies in the Zelda series so I'm always patrolling the galleries for minor errors (even though I'm not a patroller XP). --Shadow Reaper 19:17, 7 August 2012 (EDT)

Also, thanks for helping me with the galleries for dungeons (I'm too lazy). As such, remember to include every varitiy of enemy, specifically Bokoblins, Keese, ChuChus, Bubbles, and more! XXSuperXXNintendoXx 16:08, 16 August 2012 (EDT)
 * Okay, I was going off a guide which didn't specify which type of enemies were in the dungeon (hence me forgetting about the blue tektites in the Goron mines) and other then that most of the galleries I merely just alphabetized so missing enemies would more then likely go unnoticed. --Shadow Reaper 22:35, 16 August 2012 (EDT)

May I ask...
What are you doing by removing certain categories and re-adding them in the next edit? I don't understand what that's doing, can you explain? I haven't noticed anything wrong with the categories to my knowledge. 13:11, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * When I was looking at the TRR enemies page (not the gallery but the page itself) enemies who were moved stayed in the same spot dispite being renamed (Like Alien Cow becoming Cow (Enemy) but remaining at the top of the page only now in the C section. So the page was like C, B, A, O ect. I did a test to see if removing the TRR category from the page and later readding it would work to cause the page to become alphabetical again (which it did) however on the Category:Enemies page I saw the same problem was going on and when I attempted to do the same for that page nothing moved to its correct position so it currently goes A, C, O, B instead A, B, C ect. Kinda confussing I know but there was a reason.--Shadow Reaper 14:16, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Try purging the cache when you look at the category. It may solve the problem or it may not. I think there may be a magic word to alphabetize categories, too. I'll have to look it up. 14:40, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmmm okay I'll next time as for the Tingle games they're all fixed up now so I'm focusing on the CD-i games. Thanks for the tip though. --Shadow Reaper 14:42, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Didn't Work --Shadow Reaper 15:03, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * In that case, I don't know how to fix it :/ 20:50, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh well, we tried. --Shadow Reaper 02:49, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

One thing
I've noticed you putting up galleries in the Faces of Evil pages. You're placing those galleries under "Minor Enemies and Traps" but you're also inserting the bosses. You should either change the section or simply omit the boss from the gallery. It would be more appropriate to simply link to the corresponding boss' page, actually. 03:06, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Well I'd have to change the name of the Section due to each level not having a dungeon so ones with a boss have no where to be added. So maybe Enemies and Traps? Its weird I know.--Shadow Reaper 03:09, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hm...alright, you do what you think is best. I trust you because you seem to know a CRAPLOAD more than I do about these games.A Link to the Past 03:15, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah as I said its wierd TECHNICALLY those are dungeons but some are straight out, out in the open or even towns. Anywho thanks for the tip Justin. --Shadow Reaper 03:18, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Featured article voting
Hey, so Mandi brought up a good point here about our Featured Article and Image voting systems. I personally would like to see a change, but that just won't happen if no one says anything or voices their opinion. I'm asking you to please voice your opinion on changing the system so we can move forwards with proposing actual changes and actually GET somewhere with this. Please and thank you! 04:35, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Only problem is I dont vote usually and I'm fairly laid back. I'm good with one or the other so I really dont have any opinion on the matter sorry @*@ --Shadow Reaper 13:38, 6 December 2012 (UTC)