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{{Bluer|10:37, October 19, 2009 (UTC)|Not sure what your reasoning is, kupo, why would a "staffmember" template be incorporated when they're just used in the user namespace? The reason why I suggest the "FA icon" template should be incorporated into the "Gameicon" template is because both of these templates are used quite extensively in an article namespace, kupo. | {{Bluer|10:37, October 19, 2009 (UTC)|Not sure what your reasoning is, kupo, why would a "staffmember" template be incorporated when they're just used in the user namespace? The reason why I suggest the "FA icon" template should be incorporated into the "Gameicon" template is because both of these templates are used quite extensively in an article namespace, kupo. | ||
Additionally, I think the | Additionally, I think the "Real" template be reduced to an "icon" as well, kupo. There will be less scrolling, especially since those "notice templates" wasn't suppose to stay on a page for very long, kupo. It's exactly why "spoiler" templates are just reduced to a single line of text, kupo. | ||
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{{DTN|time=04:14, October 22, 2009 (UTC)|text=Wow, these are... almost perfect. There is one flaw in just one icon: the ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'' one. You see, ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'''+''''' is the compilation of ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'' and ''Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories''. The actualy game alone is just ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix''. No "+". This is because the "+" is to say that this Final Mix has more than the last; the addition was Re:CoM. If that one icon could just be changed, I would find the icons to all be completely perfect. Great idea with adding the Real template up there, as well. However, where shall it link to?}} | {{DTN|time=04:14, October 22, 2009 (UTC)|text=Wow, these are... almost perfect. There is one flaw in just one icon: the ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'' one. You see, ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'''+''''' is the compilation of ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix'' and ''Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories''. The actualy game alone is just ''Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix''. No "+". This is because the "+" is to say that this Final Mix has more than the last; the addition was Re:CoM. If that one icon could just be changed, I would find the icons to all be completely perfect. Great idea with adding the Real template up there, as well. However, where shall it link to?}} | ||
{{GS|time=05:02, October 22, 2009 (UTC)|text=Even if it was talking about the bundle with Re:CoM, it only came bundled with Re:CoM, and it's really not that big of a deal. Now we're just getting too picky, I say we keep the plus sign, it looks good.}} | {{GS|time=05:02, October 22, 2009 (UTC)|text=Even if it was talking about the bundle with Re:CoM, it only came bundled with Re:CoM, and it's really not that big of a deal. Now we're just getting too picky, I say we keep the plus sign, it looks good.}} | ||
{{KrytenKoro|What I mean was, if it takes ''me'' a minute or two to figure out which is which (especially coded and Chain of Memories), what's that mean for people unfamiliar with the games? These look ''really good'', don't get me wrong, but they seem to basically be the original logos with the text removed - wouldn't that make them harder to decipher? Then again, we are going to have these work as links to the games as well, so I don't know...I wish there was some way to get input from readers and infrequent editors, because those are the people these are supposed to be of most benefit to. | |||
I'm also not sure how the behavior would be different between these logos and the originals, squish-wise. Is there any way to test these out before implementing them?}} | |||
{{KrytenKoro|For example, if you look at [http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Chief], which is the type of thing we are trying to emulate here, they ''do'' use the entire logo, even with the text shrunken down (actually, they use the full box-art, with some cropping). It's not the easiest thing to read, but there's really no opportunity for confusion as to what is what. Even with the original logos we had - even if the text is hard to read, you can tell that one is KH2, and one is KH2 with some text below it. "Well, obviously the second one must be final mix". And if you're familiar with the logos, there's that. If we make our own, it seems like readers would have to either read the template documentation or explore the links often enough to get familiar with them. | |||
Again, all of this is moot if this format is what the readers want. If they understand it and it works for them, that's dandy.}} | |||
{{GS|time=17:49, October 22, 2009 (UTC)|text=These icons really don't seem that difficult to understand in my opinion. Using the original icons is terrible, because it makes the icons stretch more than necessary. Lots of wikis with icons use custom icons too, and that seems to work fine. I mean, if you hover over the logos, they're going to show the title name anyways.}} | |||
{{Bluer|15:01, October 29, 2009 (UTC)|I will go ahead and do the changes as necessary,}} | |||