Thank you for editing the page! It was my first page creation for the wiki, so I expected it to need rough patching from a more experienced user. Are there any suggestions I can get from you for future edits and page creations? I've done my best to follow the Sample Article and Editing Guide.
User talk:Blackbird
Welcome to PCGW! For the first page it was rather decent. I'd suggest
- Don't remove any part of the default templates even if it makes no sense. Imagine if the game gets released on GOG/Steam etc. later. It'll be annoying for editors to re-add the GOG/Steam stuff.
- Don't put too many key points. Only focus on important technical stuff. The ones left are fine-ish imo.
- Game cover name should always be Game name cover.jpg/png. : is not allowed in filenames so you need to omit it.
- If you want to do this easily just put the image name first, hit the Show Preview button, middle-click on the red link and upload it there. Then save the edit.
- Network play modes only accept Versus (Player vs Player) and Co-op (Player+Player against AI) since that way PCGW can scrape the info into a list. If you need to specify actual modes then use the notes line below.
- Don't fill in false in the API table for stuff that the game just can't have due to its age. If you're not sure just hit the Show Preview button and if the X doesn't appear it means only true value is needed.
- For System requirements section you need to check the Editing Guide's part of it since PCGW tries to keep it consistent and cuts lot of fluff that isn't needed.
Glad to be of service and happy editing :)
This is all incredibly helpful! It was hard to traverse the thick editing guide, so your guidance simplifies that prospect. For clarification...
- I see entries left blank don't show up. I didn't know the API was selective enough on sections to omit when they're left blank, it was my attempt to keep the visuals of the guide clean. I'll note this for the future.
- Great advice. I'll keep things simpler in the future.
* I immediately regretted the file name when I was introduced to the page showcasing uploaded files after uploading my file, it will be noted for the future. (How on earth did you manage to tab the bullet point in your reply? I wanted to copy the format for your answers so that it would be easy to see which question I was answering. I've been struggling with it, because pressing tab on my keyboard makes me select elements outside the typing window instead.)
- That's really helpful. I thought I would have to track down the upload menu in the editing guide every time. It was just now while typing this that I realized there was a link to the page in the sidebar.
- So that's what those weird marks () were representing, missing information! No wonder it was impossible to remove! That leads to a question though, what do I do if the multiplayer supports various modes? For example, a game has a horde mode and a versus mode in online play. Do I choose Versus or Co-Op in this case?
- Noted, i'll keep an eye on it for the future.
- "Any requirements beyond "Recommended" are considered overkill at the time of launch. That being said, these requirements can be added to the section as an information ({{{ii}}}) footnote below the tables." While you didn't do this necessarily, i'll take it that I should just leave the section blank for games not mentioning recommended specifications.
Again, thanks for the help! My reply serves as a self reflection for memory and an acknowledgment of your detailed answer!
Enabling multithreading is essential to get higher frame rate on Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Shuldn't "Enable multithreading" remain in "High frame rate" section?
I get what you mean, but no. You can't add custom fixboxes to default sections ie. anything not in the standard tables. In this case it could even be in Essential improvements if it's really really needed.
Good idea, will do, thanks.
The command line argument "-nonixxes" you provided to skip intro videos does not seem to work for me.
I didn't provide it. I only changed the formatting. This guy added it
Thank you for your help in editing the page.
No problem! Keep up the good work.
This post by Blackbird was moved on 2016-06-25. You can find it at Thread:User talk:Blackbird/Your Assassin's Creed Liberation HD reverts.
This post by Blackbird was moved on 2016-06-25. You can find it at Thread:User talk:Blackbird/Your Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga reverts.
Blackbird,
While I appreciate your diligence in trying to enforce "proper" fix submissions, an editing war over 2 separate articles is not the way to do it.
It doesn't help that both you and Gordonfreeman1 are acting in an amateur and embarrassing manner.
Simply put: Stop this nonsense both of you. I will start handing out bans if this continues further.
And to clear things up (based on what I read): New fixes should generally have a reference associated with them. That being said, there is no requirement (at the moment) that they need to.
If a fix is added and there's no associated reference (or online source that mentions said fix), just add a Citation Needed tag ({{cn}}).
Fixes should only be removed if the issue got officially patched, the instructions provided are intentionally malicious, or the fix is specific to pirated/cracked copies of the game.
When I get the time, I'll try to write out something in the Editing guide that will make this detail clear.
Just some random reference isn't enough. If it's the game developer speaking of Windows API it's a thing. If it's some random dude that just magically "I have fixed by unplugging the joystick" no.
Nonsense should also counts for removal.
And not being able to reproduce the thing, should always be an alarm bell for "something is wrong here". Be it just more precision needed, or "this is total BS".
Examples here of what I mean.
And if I had to have kept every stupid idea for fixing GTA:SA over the years, that page would look like a battlefield.
Why would you say the recommended vram is 4GB? The R9 280X is a 3GB card, they don't exactly say how much vram they recommend.
There was 3 or 4 GB listed. I just picked the highest one. Change it if you want.
Regarding your recent Manhunt edits, if you need square brackets in link text you can use HTML entities: [ for [ and ] for ]. Entities are displayed as intended without being interpreted as wiki formatting. This fix is applied when I process a page with AutoWikiBrowser via Garrbot, so these instances are also resolved over time.
Cool. Thanks for the info!
Hey,
I just wanted to thank for all the effort you've put in on keeping the many images on the wiki consistent, are replacing them with better, higher quality versions. Keep up the good work!
No problem! Thanks for the acknowledgment. It really motivates me further :)