User talk:FolksCallMeHilbert

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Link templates

FYI, some things like Pokemon do not have pages directly at their name, like "Rockruff", their pages are at "Rockruff (Pokemon)". So if you just link Rockruff, that's a redirect; it's better to link directly to the correct title, which you can do with {{p|Rockruff}}. You may even have seen some of these being used when you've edited. There's a few other such simple templates for other things like moves and Abilities, try to familiarize yourself with the most basic ones like that if you can. Thanks! Tiddlywinks (talk) 09:51, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing that out to me! I admit that my last group of edits felt a bit rushed, and I did not think to include that. I will try to be more meticulous with future edits. FolksCallMeHilbert (talk) 23:03, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

User:FolksCallMeHilbert/Wisp

Hey there! Since this is a needed article, I'm going to move it to the mainspace. It looks so good so far! I think having it there will help other people see it to add some of the content that you're missing. ^Maverick _Nate 01:36, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

In-battle quotes

This may be a preference question, but I've always thought the in-battle quotes should be separated instead of piled under an "in-battle" asterisk. That's how it's previously been. --FinnishPokéFan92 (talk) 08:06, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

My main reason for implementing these changes is to hopefully make it easier for readers to follow. The way I see it, the bullet points are meant to convey dialogue progression in a chronological sort of way. The battles themselves occur between certain dialogue, but the dialogue contained within that battle may be presented in random order, if they are even activated at all. So, in a loose sense, it's almost treating them like dialogue options (which are formatted with bold text and indentation). I believe it also helps alleviate quote pages from having an excess of bullet points under certain location sections, especially for notable Trainers in SwSh and SV which have a lot more in-battle quotes than Trainers in previous generations. Hop's quote page already has his in-battle quotes formatted under single asterisks; since he has so much dialogue already, the formatting highlights his battle quotes at a glance. FolksCallMeHilbert (talk) 01:15, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

I had been planning to edit Hop's battle quotes to be the other way, but never got around to doing it. --FinnishPokéFan92 (talk) 07:54, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

Vessa

I saw that you had added the {{incomplete}} tag to Vessa's page. You also forgot to mention a reason. Is there anything specific that the page is missing? After your major update, it feels pretty complete to me. If there's anything specific you want added to the page, can you specify it in the reason on the incomplete tag, or remove it and the {{stub}} tag altogether? → Pika Tepig 999 20:14, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Apologies for leaving out the reason. I went and adjusted the template to address what's still needed. FolksCallMeHilbert (talk) 03:19, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Merging cells in shop tables

Hey! I super appreciate the little improvements you've been making to the Masters event pages, like 4-digit ndex padding and table rounding—I try to do some of that myself, but I get bored of it too quickly lol. So thank you for that! However, I noticed that in a few of your recent edits, you've been merging the cells in the shop exchange tables when the maximum number of exchanges is the same in subsequent rows. That was the old standard for shop tables, but in recent months I've been deliberately removing that kind of thing because it makes the table harder to read in my opinion. So I was wondering why you're re-merging the cells now. (I've also had the idea in the back of my mind for a while to templatize the shop tables, and I've been thinking about moving forward with that since I've noticed a few cases lately of little errors in shop tables like item names not matching the images. I feel like it'd be easier to make the template if each max exchange amount is only a single row.) Storm Aurora (talk) 00:14, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome! I like doing maintenance like that, so it's no problem. Regarding the cell merging in the shop tables, I tried to replicate the style from older event pages when I found cells that were all individualized—I didn't realize this was an intended decision. With the way the tables are currently set up, I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea to have identical adjacent entries in the last column combined into one cell, I think it reads similar to a flowchart just with a little less repetition of info. However, if the plan is to templatize it (which I second, I agree it would make things a lot easier in the long run), keeping the rows independent of each other works just as fine. FolksCallMeHilbert (talk) 01:19, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi there!

I sent you a DM on discord. Please check it out! Thanks. ^Maverick _Nate 07:49, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations

From one junior admin to another, I thought I would share my congratulations and welcome you to our team.--BigDocFan, Junior Admin Bulbapedia (talk) 00:44, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

Pokémon Masters Day music

Heyo, I was just looking again at the edit you made to Pokémon Masters Day/2023 last month where you added a music table to the page. I super appreciate you adding it, but I was wondering if you have a source for the statement that Battle! (Wild Pokémon: Paldea) was added to the song pool on August 25, 2023? As I recall, that remix was added to the game for the Paldea starter egg event, which was in September 2023. So I don't think that remix was in the game in August? I could be wrong, though. I remember noting at one point that they'd added the Paldea wild battle music into the rotation, but I don't know when that was... Storm Aurora (talk) 20:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

I was under the impression that all newly-introduced music tracks for an upcoming monthly update were present in the games files at the time of the update? Version 2.36.0 released on August 24, 2023, so although I'm not entirely sure if it was used during the battles or not, the track itself did exist by August 2023's Pokémon Masters Day. FolksCallMeHilbert (talk) 21:38, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

OK, so yeah, the music was in the game files then, but that doesn't guarantee it was used then (I'd bet it wasn't, because the data for August 25's Pokémon Masters Day would've been included in the update at the end of July). The best way to tell would be to find video footage of it, but unfortunately, most people don't bother posting their Pokémon Masters Day co-op battles on YouTube. The earliest gameplay I was able to find with the Paldea wild battle music was from December 25, 2023, but I only found like one video for each day, so I don't have a lot of data points to go off of. I feel like the most accurate thing to do would be to change the note to say something like "this was added to the pool in late 2023 but the exact date is unknown" Storm Aurora (talk) 05:08, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

That makes sense. I didn't have much luck finding a video example either, so I went ahead and changed the note so it's more accurate. Thanks for bringing it up! FolksCallMeHilbert (talk) 05:54, 28 August 2024 (UTC)