User talk:Hower64

Capitalization
I wrote a reply on my talk page. —kpreid 13:01, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Btw, one of the reasons why many of the common nouns are capitalized (e.g., the Player and Wooden Planks) is because the article titles are capitalized. It's easier and faster to directly link to the article name instead of involving a bunch of redirects. And I'd rather not do a bunch of unnecessary piping, and just leave it as is. I sort of consider them to be proper nouns because they are in-game things with specific names (tooltips), and aren't really like real-world counterparts. Edit: I'm going to go check the tooltips to see if they really are capitalized; if they aren't then there's going to be a lot of page renaming. - Asterick6 (talk) 01:02, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Update: Er yea, the reason why the article names are capitalized is because the tooltips are caps as well. Maybe we could tell Mojang to lowercase them, but I don't really care much about this. - Asterick6 (talk) 01:04, 10 June 2012 (UTC)


 * What's wrong with the player and wooden planks? Doesn't that redirecting occur in every redirect on Wikipedia anyway?
 * If you're are talking about the tooltips that come up when you mouse over an item they are obviously capitalized because they aren't part of a sentence and they're on their own. However, in the patch notes that come up in the launcher and everywhere else, item names aren't capitalized. Hower64 01:13, 10 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Well if you want to fix them go ahead, but try to use piped links instead of redirects. I just think it's better to arrive directly at the target page instead of being redirected unnecessarily. - Asterick6 (talk) 01:33, 10 June 2012 (UTC)


 * The wiki automatically capitalizes the first letter of page names; wood and Wood are equivalent, so you never need to have . However, wooden plank needs a redirect or piped link to reach Wooden Plank. A compromise might be to put only links in title case (and preferably only link terms the first time they're used in an article), but that has the same old problem of appearing inconsistent. I don't see any ideal solution to this; having redirects for multiple-word pages is the least effort for editors, as many of them already exist. I'm not sure about how much they affect performance/server load, but Wyntyst or one of the other admins should know. -- Orthotope 01:46, 10 June 2012 (UTC)


 * (Yes I already knew about wikilinking since I started editing Wikipedia more than a year ago). I've heard that redirecting may cause servers to be slightly slower, but Ultradude says there's pretty much no difference. Editing the article to fix existing links causes more server load than using the redirect/original link. Having consistent and proper style/capitalization is more important anyways. - Asterick6 (talk) 02:53, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Off-topic content
Hey Hower, when you remove off-topic content, make sure to move/merge it into the intended article. In the case of emerald, the content would be moved/merged to the Emerald Ore article. - Asterick6 (talk) 00:51, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Sure, thanks for reminding me! Hower64 00:58, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

History
Hey, also make sure not to leave out the details when you're converting to the template as well. For example, you removed the part about the Zombie Pigman never forgiving the player when they were initially added in 1.2.0. This causes the reader to lose context about the changes. - Asterick6 (talk) 01:13, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Another example: you didn't include the content about cow horns being added to the texture. Make sure not to leave stuff out when converting! Thanks for starting the conversion process though. - Asterick6 (talk) 03:38, 10 June 2012 (UTC)