User talk:Gener4l Cl4ank4

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Feel free to contact me on my talkpage if you need anything. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 18:50, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Making use of edit summaries

Hello General Clank! I noticed that you took the initiative to make a major update to the "Ezio Auditore da Firenze" article recently. Because of the size of the edit (9,454 characters), it helps your fellow editors if you let them know what the edit is about through an edit summary. That way, they know what to look for as they review your edit. While edit summaries are not strictly required, they are strongly encouraged with most edits, especially major ones (or ones where the edit is likely to be disputed, is being disputed, is a dispute, or may invite questions or confusion). Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 18:50, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Correct ref names

Hello General Clank, I noticed that for the "ref name" of citations, you have been using numbers like ":5", ":22", etc. This actually goes against the best practices of our wiki, where ref names are supposed to refer to the source in some way, whether in abbreviated form, fully typed out, etc. For example, the ref name for the citation to the novelization of Assassin's Creed Odyssey could be "novel", but it should not be ":22" as ":22" cannot be easily recognized as the citation for the novel by other editors who may work on the article. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 01:08, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

From what I can tell, Sol, this numbered system is a feature when reusing any reference through the visual editor, which is how Gen. Clank has done basically all of their edits. The source editor style, such as that used when editing talk pages, allows for fully typing ref names, e.g. <ref name="TheWayTheWindBlows"/>. – Darman (talk) 04:00, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Oh, I had no idea this was the result of the visual editor. Thanks for letting me know! Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 05:31, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Status of legendary Assassins

Hello General Clank, I noticed your edits on the "Iltani" and "Wei Yu" pages and thought you should be informed that our community actually came together years back for an extensive discussion about how we write about the legendary Assassins of the Sanctuary given Assassin's Creed: Origins's retcon. The result of our deliberations was to continue treating the status afforded to these figures by the Italian Assassins as factual in-universe. That is to say, Origins showing that the actual organization wasn't founded until much later than we expected doesn't mean what we see in AC2 about how they're remembered is false. I see in your edits that you may have already caught a little wind of this, but we're still bit precise about the wording. To be exact, no source ever explicitly said that "Iltani is no longer considered a proper Assassin"; this is just our own inference from Origin's retcon about when the Assassins were founded. So we're trying to carefully avoid such language, especially in light of the fact that a couple of works like Mirage and Dynasty also now imply a soft retcon in the other direction back. Sol Pacificus^(Cyfiero) 00:36, 12 November 2023 (UTC)

Forgotten Temple pics

Hello Gen. Clank,
I see you've recently uploaded a fair number of images from Forgotten Temple to the wiki. While your efforts are applauded, I'd like to advise you that just citing as {{Fairuse}} is not enough. Image categories like [[Category:Edward Kenway/Images]] are also missing. Please note that you need to source any and all images you upload to the wiki in accordance to our image policy. For more information on how to source images, check this page. Also check the information about naming images appropriately. Badly named or unsourced images will be deleted. Feel free to reupload your deleted image with proper sourcing. Thank you. – Darman (talk) 01:40, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for sourcing the old pics and continuing to do so for the current ones. Great job here, may I add! If I may add one critique, when sourcing them, you tend to have all the infobox parameters as a continuous line of code, as such:
{{Information |attention=|description=|source=|author=|filespecs=|licensing=}} To make it easier for reading, could you please. separate them line-by-line as shown in the Special:Upload page? It should look like this:

{{Information
|attention=
|description=
|source=
|author=
|filespecs=
|licensing=
}}
[Relevant categories]

That's all. Thanks, and keep up the image work, it really helps! – Darman (talk) 16:15, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Page expansion

Hello Gen. Clank,
Thanks for the page expansions you've done so far! I notice, though, that you always link every instance of main media in the references. For example, a section would look like this:

This is the first sentence.<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' – [[Memory 1]]</ref> A second sentence followed,<ref>''Assassin's Creed II'' – [[Database entry]]</ref> with an additional clause afterwards.<ref>''Assassin's Creed II'' – [[Memory 2]]</ref>

and every instance of Assassin's Creed II etc. would be made a page link, even if it have been already linked once before. Why are you always adding it? Is it a new standard the site is using? I was under the impression that the refs were fine before when just italicized so long as the original media was linked minimum once> In my view, it seems redundant to always link the media especially if entire sections, or even whole pages, are sourced all from one game/book. – Darman (talk) 16:15, 13 February 2024 (UTC)