User talk:TheycallmeBrick

PNG VG images from JPG

Hey Brick. When you download a video game JPG image, convert it to PNG and upload it, replacing the JPG ones, could you add it to this place, please? Example. Thanks.
One other thing: May I suggest adding a link to your talk page archive? Just for easier navigation. Becasita ^Pendulum (talk • contribs) 21:15, February 24, 2017 (UTC)

Lores

You've been told this before, but there's no decent reason in removing the links from foreign card lores, even if you can't understand the languages. Just compare the texts side-by-side, by putting a line break beneath the original text and placing the database text underneath, then using Preview. If the lores differ, then sure, feel free to replace the entire text without all the links. But if they're the same, then you're doing nothing more than removing the links, which is bad. --UltimateKuriboh (talk • contribs) 17:07, March 31, 2017 (UTC)

Speed World 2 WC10 lore

Hey, can you explain why you removed the WC10 lore from Speed World 2? If it's because it's identical to the WC11 lore, we actually want both lores, since that shows that both games have been checked. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 15:05, April 16, 2017 (UTC)

I feel that multiple VG lores should only be present on a card page if they contain any differences, so that anyone reading the page knows from a look that the lores are different. In this case, listing both the WC10 and WC11 lore felt misleading, so I kept the card's most recent incarnation and removed the older.

Though, thinking of it now, perhaps I should have kept the older and removed the most recent, to show that the lore never changed between games.

In any case, these are my reasons, but I won't protest if you wish to replace the removed lore.

TheycallmeBrick (talk • contribs) 15:54, April 16, 2017 (UTC)

I do actually agree with you, but in the case of cards using {{CardTable2}}, they need the parameters to show the card appeared in the video game in question. Though that requirement could potentially be relaxed for the World Championship games, if it turns out that they fully share their card lists (i.e. cards were only added from one game to the next, and never removed); for example, this is the case for the first four Duel Monsters games. 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 16:44, April 16, 2017 (UTC)

RE: Set lists

Hey there, Brick. You can create them, but not with {{Set list}}. You'd have to create them the other way, with the boilerplate. {{Set list}} is still too heavy and I doubt I'll be able to make it cheaper for now. Becasita ^Pendulum (talk • contribs) 15:32, May 8, 2017 (UTC)

You don't need to revert back to the boilerplate, since the other are fine. Unless you plan on, then, reverting all pages using {{Set list}} to the boilerplate. Becasita ^Pendulum (talk • contribs) 18:50, May 8, 2017 (UTC)

Licensing

Hi Brick, I was just looking at your image uploads. Are you aware that you can add the licensing during the initial upload, rather than then having to go and edit the page after the image has been uploaded? Just type it into the "Summary" box on the upload page. --Golden Key (talk • contribs) 19:41, May 9, 2017 (UTC)

Sorry that I didn't catch on sooner that you hadn't realized. You're welcome. :) --Golden Key (talk • contribs) 19:52, May 9, 2017 (UTC)

About that Card Trivia:Grace Princess Kana page

I only wanted to occasionally add some pieces of trivia, but currently I've been dealing with this one eager beaver named User:NumberC17. I left a message calling him out on his pattern of repeated fabrications, arbitrary editorializations, and generally tailing other people's edits and being fussy about their writing style, while contributing nothing and and making things more confusing with his poor grasp on both Japanese and English. He had no response, and instead keeps on his bad behavior, because he's gotten away with doing this sh*t on low-traffic trivia pages for so long. He reminds me of that one kid who ruined the low-traffic Scots Wikipedia website for literally years because he had nothing else going on in his life.

This "warring" you're referring to is mostly his doing. I've dealt with this kind of public nuisance before and it's not fun. Unfortunately this kind of know-it-all school truant is very resistant to criticism, and they always think they have to have last say on everything. He now chooses the method of staying as quiet on his ignorant rampant destruction as possible. I've read his "editorializations" and they're god-awful: they're riddled with misuses of terms he doesn't grasp, they contain blatant fabrications based on shoddy research that even a high schooler could do better with seconds of Googling, they have inexplicable grammatical errors and confusing phrasing for someone who claims to speak English and is overly eager to editorialize other people's writing, and they suffer from this baffling bullet-point formatting style that interrupts paragraph flows and does nothing for readability. As the ultimate arbiter of wordsmithing, writing and page layout, this individual has provided no justification for his relentless, arbitrary and overall irritating editorializations (which we call pixel f*cking in visual design).

I'm not talking about someone who gets things slightly wrong at times, I'm talking about a serial making-sh*t-upper who thinks he and he alone knows what's right. I mean, seriously, "Valentine's Day is on February 14" and "boogie refers to dancing"? "The Japanese pronunciation of "Grace Princess" (いとをかし Itowokashi) is based on the Japanese phrase referring to the transient beauty of things."? This is next-level cringe. How the hell did he even come up with this "transient beauty of things" bullcrap is beyond me, but I could hazard that he took one look at the inadequate English translation and thought to himself, "Yup, that's all the research I need."

And again, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to fact-check his made-up nonsense. Just Google the goddamn Japanese words. If you don't speak Japanese, you can use Google Translate and it's oftentimes enough to glean correct information from that. If anything, it's more preferable to literally pulling fabrications out of your ass. But you know what's best to do if you don't know anything? Do nothing. Nobody asks him to make sh*t up. He could just be doing nothing, but instead he chooses to do things that amount to no things or even negative things, by which I mean blatant misinformation. I remember this childish idiot on Wikipedia who changed Sūjikukoku to Sūjiku kuni on the Wikipedia page for axis powers, which has been thankfully rectified, but only after a frustrating exchange I went through on the Talk page. Why? Why do this while you could be doing nothing?

Ultimately, I'd rather not keep myself occupied with this kind of person, but even though I'd like to keep my engagement with these self-proclaimed "experts" who can't write a coherent English sentence as low as possible, I think this behavior of tailing other people's edits and screwing them up should be disciplined accordingly. That's why even though it brought me no joy, I decided to register an account and report this to someone with admin privilege.Iyao (talk • contribs) 16:17, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

• I’d hate to be the one to who comes across fanning the fires of internet flaming, but I don’t appreciate the aggression just because someone strongly dislikes the way I write the trivia, and I don’t appreciate how someone would say I don’t contribute to anything on the wikia. I do what I can to clean up and organize poor and shoddy grammar around the website, and apparently, this person is not much different from all the rest. And I do this while maintaining some form of level-headedness while this person comes off as rude and unnecessarily belligerent. I contribute as much as the next used by cleaning up messes and reworking certain pages that have little to no structure, like episode summaries. And isn’t there a policy regarding multiple accounts on the wiki from the same person?NumberC17 (talk • contribs) 18:35, 20 May 2024 (UTC)