User talk:WilliamLC

Hello
-- TheStoneWatcher (talk) 06:16, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Notice Templates by Game
Hey William,

Thanks for helping out with this project. It's much appreciated. :) 06:47, 23 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Of course, I am happy to help out! 06:49, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

New Project
So here's that new template I was talking about: Template:ExpGame. The goal is to replace instances of Template:Exp with this new template, in infoboxes and Names in Other Regions. Like so.

See Template:ExpGame for more info on why this is an important step forward. If you have any questions please let me know.

Hope you're interested in helping out! (It's totally cool if you aren't, though.) 05:23, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

References Sections
Please stop inserting new reference sections reliant on the non-existant template "Template:Reflist". Most, if not all, articles have reference sections already, and those sections should already be making use of the existant templates Template:Ref and Template:Refbar depending on the article's needs (if they're not, they should be converted to one of them). --Shiningpikablu252 (talk) 20:10, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I didn't know I was doing that. Must have been something AWB was doing. Still ironing out the bugs with that. 22:20, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * My bad, I forgot to tell you to disable "general fixes" in the Options tab. Most of these do not apply to Zelda Wiki and should not be used.
 * Also, you might want to change the AWB script to remove two empty newlines above the Reflist section. Your edits are leaving two extra new lines in the article that can cause gaps. Example Not a big deal, but still... 02:09, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I figured that out. I unchecked it the first time I ran it, but I was rushing around so much this morning that I forgot to uncheck it, so now I have it set to remove it (The reflist that it added). At least half of the pages I told it to edit (4000 pages) have already been processed, so I don't think changing the rule now will make too much of a difference.  02:26, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * No worries. Are you using a text replace to remove reflist? 02:34, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes. Why, is that bad? 02:38, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * No, it's fine. But if you could modify it so that it removes the two extra newlines, that would be great. If not, don't worry about it. I've set a bot to remove them.


 * How would I fix that, just put two lines before the piece I need to get rid of? 02:45, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Precisely. 02:51, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Okay, I just set it. What do you have your auto save delay set at? 03:13, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I just set it to 0. Saving pages takes long enough on its own. 03:28, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * For the record: the Refbar template has been rendered obsolete. Just wanted to follow up on Shiningpikablu's comment. 20:59, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * If that is the case, should I set the bot to remove it/change it to the Ref template? 01:10, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * No need. Pakkun has already done it with the ReplaceText admin tool. It's a lot faster than AWB, although not nearly as versatile. 03:34, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Oh I know. I'm trying to get my server guy to install it on my wiki, but he is just so busy. I assume it can also apply the appropriate game tags as well? 07:17, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Really? It only takes a few seconds to download the extension and copy it onto the server...
 * ReplaceText can handle the game link templates, but only one game at a time. That means edits to over a thousand pages, several times over. I think it's a job better suited for AWB because it can handle all the games at once. 07:33, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I'd love to do it myself, that and a lot of other extensions would really help me out, but only he has server access. I'm hosted on a server I share with about 15 other sites and wikis, so maybe he just doesn't trust me enough.
 * It is quite a lot of pages, by the time AWB had processed pretty much every page on the Wiki (excluding community pages and non-canon pages) it had skipped more than 4000 pages and made almost 1500 edits.
 * So whats next on the list of things to do? 19:54, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Well, we're going to have to get rid of Template:Bosses and Template:DungeonNav2 in favor of collapsible navigation templates by game (see Category:Dungeon Templates). You could help me make the new templates and replace the old ones with them. (All-game "master navs" seemed like a neat idea at the time, but now there's getting to be too many games and so the templates are too bulky.)
 * And of course there's still Template:ExpGame to implement. 20:17, 10 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I'll see what I can do in regards to making templates,, but I can certaintly implement them. I was under the impression that someone else was doing ExpGame, based on what I saw in Recent Changes. I'll try to get back on the ball with regular editing once the whole E3 thing dies down a bit. 20:27, 10 June 2014 (UTC)