User talk:Lil'Layzie-One

Image Tagging for Image:Tiamet.jpg

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Category:MK Main Characters

Did you need help with something? I'm just trying to figure out what you are trying to do with Category:MK Main Characters? If so, just ask on my talk page. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:35, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for Image:Herald.jpg

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Meat

First of all, remember to sign your posts on talk pages to make things easier to follow. Second, Meat is already listed on the Minor Mortal Kombat characters. If you want to add Meat to Category:MK Main Characters, he needs a separate article (it should be silly to put the entire Minor MK characters article as a major character). From there, you would simply need to add [[Category:MK Main Characters]] at the bottom of the article (stylistically, it's done that way) he will be there. For more information. the main article on categories is Wikipedia:Categorization. If you need anything else, just ask. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 17:48, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image descriptions

If you wanted to edit, for example, Image:5-5.jpg, there is a "edit this page" option on the top that works exactly the same as for articles. Also, can you put your posts on the bottom of my talk page? The easiest way is to simply click on the "plus" that is next to the "edit this page" option, and it will format the heading and section appropriately. Also again, remember to sign your post on talk pages. It is really difficult to follow if you don't sign. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Tiamatmk.jpg

I just went back and fixed your image tagging for Image:Tiamatmk.jpg. Since it is not your creation (Midway who created Mortal Kombat owns the rights to that image), it is not your right to make the decision to release the image under GFDL. However, although that image is probably copyrighted by Midway, we can argue that under fair use, we can use its image to describe the character in question. This is probably the same logic you can use for Image:5-5.jpg. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:10, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Signing your posts

Hi, you don't sign your posts with that unsigned stuff. That's just for my record keeping (to remember who is talking to me). You just need to write ~~~~ to post your signature. There's more information here, including how to customize your signature (which some people tend to go overboard with). -- Ricky81682 (talk) 01:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Curse words

Some people may mind, but it's still your user page. Wikipedia:User page has more details on exactly what's allowed. Official policy, for articles, is that Wikipedia is not censored and that profanity is allowed. Believe me, a little profanity is fine; there have been some who went really overboard with offensive images and text. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:57, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image on user page

Two things I've noticed. First, unless I'm wrong, the dates on your signature are off a month (this is June, not May). Second, you should remove that Image:200px-Scorpionkjpg.jpg image on your user page; you can do an in-line link (just add a column after the brackets so it's like [[:Image:200px-Scorpionkjpg.jpg]]) but not the image itself. This is because the image you uploaded doesn't have a free license and is only usable under fair use; under point nine of our policy, "Fair use images should be used only in the article namespace." I really don't care too much about these legal distinctions, but there are some users here are more strict on that kind of stuff and tend to removes of that type from user pages. Don't take it personal; I know that this is an extremely detailed, specific, obscure part of Wikipedia and will probably never ever come up again, unless you find an interest in this stuff. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 07:07, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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License tagging for Image:R mortal-combat.jpg

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Meat

Let me see if I can explain this more clearly this time. You can put only articles into categories. Editing the category itself does nothing in regard to specific entries. If you want Meat as a main character, you will need to create a separate article for him; otherwise, it will take the entire article with it into the category. By the way, the category is now known as Category:Mortal Kombat main characters so don't use anything else (if you look at the code, you will see that I add a colon before the Category so that it is simply visilbe and not making your talk page a part of the category (the same also works for images and templates). -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:17, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you need help creating a new article, just ask me. Actually, it's just best to copy the information from List of minor Mortal Kombat characters to Meat (Mortal Kombat) (say what you are doing in your edit summary). You also should edit the template to add him in as well (I can show you how to do that as well). -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:19, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'd do a simple cut-and-paste. Open up both links I gave above. The link for Meat should simply be a redirect back to the minor characters article. However, you will see on the second line (just below the title), it says "(Redirected from Meat (Mortal Kombat))" which will get you directly back to the old article. I would then simply cut the information from the Meat section of the minor characters article and paste it onto the Meat page (remove the redirect) and add [[Category:Mortal Kombat main characters]] at the bottom of the Meat article. Make sure to say what you are doing in your edit summaries or else, people may think you are simply vandalizing the article. Go ahead and do it. I'll watch and help if there's any problems. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 19:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

MK template

If you look at the markup for any article (take List of minor Mortal Kombat characters at the bottom, you see {{Mortal Kombat series}}, which means that you have to edit template:Mortal Kombat series. Editing the template is exactly the same way as editing an article. Make sure to link to the actual Meat article and not just Meat, like [[Meat (Mortal Kombat)|Meat]]. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 18:19, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Starting a new page

See Help:Starting a new page. Actually, it might be a good idea to just go through the help link on the left side of the page. The Wikipedia:Editing FAQ is a pretty good source. If you keep needing to find the same information, why not put a "for my reference" section on your user page like I do or better yet, put it on a user subpage? I'd put some your raps on subpages if you want to keep your userpage short. And don't worry about asking me for help; if I take too long, you can always use the Wikipedia:Help desk. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 22:08, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at my edits, you'll see that it's a completely random series of articles; no real pattern at all. I sometimes just see what people are working on and try to fix up articles for them. Frankly, I love learning stuff through the random article function. A word of warning: don't go nuts with subpages and stuff. While people are generally tolerant of stuff, if you spend all day playing on user pages, people will remind you that the goal is to create an encyclopedia. Also, remember that anybody can edit your work (good or bad). -- Ricky81682 (talk) 22:19, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: MK arenas

Yeah, I think that the arenas page is coming along. It still needs plenty of work, though.

A couple things that need to be kept in mind:

Everything should be a complete sentence. "Made its first appearance..." is bad form; although it may get repetitive, "This arena made its first appearance..."
Spell-check is your friend. :)

Really, I think there's only so much that you and I can do on it before other people have to start working on it. EVula 04:27, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and also...

...could you please start signing your posts with ~~~~? The way you do it now, while it does display your name, doesn't display the time you posted, which is important information when reading responses. EVula 04:39, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]