Talk: Some Color Mage

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On spoilers[]

This whole discussion started when I became concerned that any information we have on characters that are released in one region well ahead of another may be spoiler content. What I was looking for there was some kind of disclaimer that the content may not be available in certain regions as yet and is subject to change at any time. And I figured anything in that case would be a spoiler where it's not out yet. Some have called it flat out censorship, but I don't think that's the case. Live content is its own animal, and needs to be dealt with just slightly differently than, say, an upcoming title. We don't really have a specific policy for live content, so the closest thing we have is a policy regarding upcoming games, which makes no mention of the spoiler policy. Can anything be done to make more editors aware of the policies we already have?

In the case of the demo that was just published, I would think all parties involved would be able to determine what is and is not safe for outside sources to publish. But here, We also have this weird case where most of the folks on here already know the original game and can kind of figure out how that plot will go. Going forward, I think it will be important to give the player as much information as is needed to form an opinion of something without necessarily spoiling the whole blasted thing altogether. Something like giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish. Trouble is, not all editors will use proper discretion in writing. I know that, and so do you. I'm not saying we shouldn't cover it, only that if it's a clear spoiler, then it should be packaged as such. Do you understand where I'm getting at here? Your thoughts would be most appreciated. Swordzmanp236 (talk) 01:00, March 4, 2020 (UTC)

Gameplay content that is released in one region but not yet another is not a spoiler. The spoiler policy is designed for story content. You keep trying to jam this square peg into a round hole and keep ignoring us when we try to explain why you should not be doing that. The spoiler policy does not and will not cover what to do about regional differences because that topic does not intersect with the intended scope of the policy. The correct thing to do in this case is to denote in some manner that the content is currently only available in certain regions. If there ends up being a regional difference in the content, that should be noted as well. I don't believe there is a specific policy for this because "Try to be as accurate and complete as possible" is not really a thing that the we have considered to need an actual policy, because it should be self evident.

As for FFVIIR, all the story content is to be spoiler tagged regardless of if it was in the original FFVII or not, because we spoiler tag the story of all the works we cover regardless of age or how familiar the editors will be with it. So yes, spoilers will be clearly marked where possible because that is already the policy.

My actual question that has somehow turned into this diversion on a completely different page to where the conversation is, was if we were failing to enforce the policy somewhere. You finally answered someone else by pointing out mobile issues. I asked around and the answer there is that the mobile skin does not display most old templates properly, but is due to be replaced soon with one that should work with this kind of thing. From my own testing I found that sections on the mobile skin are pre-collapsed anyway, which conveniently means the spoiler sections of pages are typically collapsed in a way that the spoiler templates can do anyway. For the visibility of the warnings, we'll just have to wait a while.

Now, were there any further ways in which we are failing to enforce the spoiler policy? -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 07:41, March 4, 2020 (UTC)

I suppose the question is this: pick any two articles on the same subject in the same game, and assume that they contain at least one plot point in common; why should one have spoiler tags, while the other does not? So, either the current policy must apply universally, or we go a route suggested by Techno and ditch the whole bleedin' mess altogether (implying that just about everything written here is a spoiler in its own right). To that, I say come on, there's got to be a middle ground somewhere.

Detail is King and nothing is sacred in this accursed age. How are we supposed to manage that? Swordzmanp236 (talk) 08:41, March 4, 2020 (UTC)

Then, assuming we keep the course and don't follow Techno's idea, then both should be tagged. The only place where it's plausible that something could be tagged in one place and untagged in another is if the context changes to one where it's not a spoiler (i.e, an article about X-2 talking about the ending of X), but they will still likely both be tagged in these instances anyway.

Is this an actual problem or a hypothetical? -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 08:55, March 4, 2020 (UTC)

Hypothetical, for the most part. Do you think anybody really has time to search through almost 40,000 pages for plot similarities? Of course not! I don't have any doubts that it exists as a problem, however. That's why I think we need to prevent that kind of thing going forward. Swordzmanp236 (talk) 09:23, March 4, 2020 (UTC)

Well, when there are explicit examples of the problem, they should be fixed. Preventing new examples of a problem are forming is what RecentChanges is for. Cat (meow ∙ hunt) 09:28, March 4, 2020 (UTC)

I expect almost all of our guidelines have been accidentally broken somewhere. We will fix problems as they are encountered, as we always have. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 09:45, March 4, 2020 (UTC)

Breaking Wikipedia links[]

I can't remember if it started not too long after we subst-ed {{W}}, or the issue was highlighted because we subst-d {{W}}. It's been happening for years, and it's the Visual Editor. JBed (talk) 19:28, March 5, 2020 (UTC)

Huh, right. I remember there having been a problem, it just hadn't shown up for me for a long while so I thought the older problem may have been fixed. Welp. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 20:18, March 5, 2020 (UTC)

Catching leftover Bravely bits[]

I don't plan to do this as an ongoing project, but here goes. I have to pick up the deletion logs first, and then paste them here. I have no idea how far these things go back. That one tag caused a cascade of about 45 actions. I don't think we are meant to flood discord with all that stuff, but I'll do the best I can. Thanks again for following up. Swordzmanp236 (talk) 21:30, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Log data follows

(Removing this log because it's too long and was breaking syntax highlighting in the editor. I know how to access the delete log, and I will get to this once I am not in the middle of dealing with a bunch of personal crap. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 01:47, 18 August 2021 (UTC))

Was it okay for me to delete the Bravely things manually? Job for bot only?Keltainentoukokuu (talk) 16:04, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

They were incorrectly marked for deletion because somebody didn't check if the pages were correctly copied over. Not your fault, and I can fix it myself, I just need to undelete, export them all, and delete again. Probably not a bot job as I don't think it can use Special:Export. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 00:40, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Adding Images[]

This is kyle11067. I am sorry about the problem with editing images. I will leave them alone for now, and I will probably not try to position the images as I have trouble with them. I may add images occasionally, and when that happens, I will try to leave the positioning for you to handle.

You don't need to stop because you make a mistake. If you're having a hard time getting the positioning right, use the button in the top right corner of the editor to switch to source, you may get finer control of where to position the image. If you take a look at the pages we fixed, you can see that the image code is placed just before the paragraph we want it to appear to the left of. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 01:47, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

RE: LR[]

Sorry didn't initially see your message. The reason I wanted to edit them was because I was the one who told anonymous to use "cactair" to fix the formating, and then you yelled at them for it. You were barking at the wrong tree! I needed to take accountability for the edits they made under my advise.Keltainentoukokuu (talk) 13:28, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

About etymology[]

Hi. I am sorry. I am an Asperger, that is very bad at social relationships. I did not mean to snark at anybody. I was afraid to be considered pedantic, and I thought that commented-out line was funny. I thought editors would read it, smile, and think: "ok, he is not a pedantic, we can have a civilized discussion with him".

I hope you accept my apology. Can we have a dialogue about what etymologies are? ---Abacos (talk) 09:10, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

The thing is, the wiki is using the word "etymology" in a fairly standard sense, at least to my understanding. Etymology is the study of the origin of words, and we are interested in the origin of nonce words that were introduced by Square (Enix) for use in Final Fantasy. Their evolution to the state they were in before Square Enix converted them to a nonce word seems outside the scope of the wiki since it doesn't have much to do with Final Fantasy, but this final step in their evolution -- from non-nonce word to nonce word -- is in the scope. Cat (meow ∙ hunt) 14:28, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

First of all, thank you for the link to "nonce words". I learned something.

About etymology, I beg to differ. The wiki is using the word "etymology" the wrong way. Etymology is the study of the origin of words, meaning "why is a word written that way, and since when?", whereas this wiki's "etymology" pages are about whatever the words refer to.

An example: the word "house" and an actual house are two different things. The former is a word, the latter is a building (usually). Etymology could tell you since when the word "house" is written with those five letters in that order, why and since when the final "e" is not pronounced, and so on. Etymology deals with words, letters, phonemes, spellings, and so on, but not with the object a word refers to. The definition of "house" ("There are houses in FF. What is a real-world house?") is not etymology at all. --Abacos (talk) 15:01, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

I'd honestly rather just delete all etymology pages and I was never fond of the etymology namespace to begin with. To me all it does is add bloat when we could easily just do a wikipedia link to the original word being referred to (i.e. wikipedia link to Shiva instead of forcing editors to write a longass section on Shiva and then have that duplicated across 20 pages). Definitely the Project:Etymology page should be deleted and moved to an abridged version in the Project:Manual of Style, but I'd rather just can the whole Etymology project so editors can focus their efforts elsewhere.--

Technobliterator ^T_C 17:16, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to the discussion. Your opinion is an Okham's razor. I love it. No etymology pages, no problem (Bob Marley rules). A bot to put 2600 "etymology" pages to the bin? Wow. --Abacos (talk) 17:29, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

I'd like to link to wikipedia and wiktionary (or if there is a more suitable website, then there instead) as much as possible rather than put the stuff here, and mention only the parts specific to Final Fantasy. I dislike the explanations on common words, too! An English-speaking person knows what "fire" or "lightning" is. I'd like something that encompasses both etymology and symbolism, but can't think what that would be called. If something in the series seems fashioned after some real world thing, then it's interesting to mention at least briefly. Like how a lot of the early series is influenced by D&D, this seems notable to mention. Wiktionary-given antonyms to "in-universe" are "doylist", "extradiegetic" and "out-of-universe" and none of those sound like good headers!Keltainentoukokuu (talk) 20:00, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Okay Techno, if you want to turn my user talk into impromptu policy discussion...

I'm not a big fan of etym pages for things that are just a normal word, especially if said normal word is an English one, it comes off as assuming a level of literacy of our readers lower than that needed to actually read the site. This is not an argument against etym, but a feeling that it over-expanded to the point where everything was given one, even if it doesn't need it.

The fact that it's just templatespace 2 is also kind of an issue, but one I'm not sure how to fix effectively. I also have zero opinion on the name. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 20:07, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

ETA: Also if you all actually want to make a policy discussion out of this take it elsewhere, please. 20:08, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

I see Technobliterator's and Keltainentoukokuu's point. This wiki is about Final Fantasy. If a reader wants to know where in the real world the authors took inspiration from, a link to Wikipedia and/or Wiktionary is all that is needed. If anyone needs an actual etymology, a link to the [www.etymonline.com Online Etymology Dictionary] is my suggestion. Three bullet-point links under an "external links" section title, similar to Wikipedia. Simple and elegant. ---Abacos (talk) 20:19, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Shall we move all this to the Final_Fantasy_Wiki_talk:Etymology page? ---Abacos (talk) 20:19, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Regarding the "Lemon" article[]

May I ask why it was removed under rule A1 and not rule A3? 172.56.34.161 21:02, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

They were both valid options and the drop-down list only lets me select one. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 23:55, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I am Fandom's new Senior Community Manager for Gaming[]

Hello there! My name is Jieyang and I'm going around saying hi to admins in the community. I joined about two weeks ago but you'll be seeing me around more in the future. I'm looking forward to FFXVI but even more so the Crisis Core remaster. I spent hundreds of hours playing that game on my sister's PSP when I was younger.

You can learn more about me through my blog. Feel free to drop me a message on Discord as well! Itsjieyang (talk) 18:22, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi! Sorry for not getting back to you, I've been busy this past week. Always good to see Fandom staff getting in touch.

If you ever need to get into quick contact with the admin team, most of us are on our discord server, we have the staff roles here set up there so admins/mods can be group pinged when needed. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 12:55, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Module:Refs[]

Hi there. I noticed that you have this module, but I don't think it is needed, since you already have "Module:Ref", which has the return of the same info from the Fandom Developers Wiki. In addition, for vandalism reasons, I think all your module pages should be protected. Ellis99 ^{XIII - XIII-2 - LR:XIII} 15:20, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

We're working on deprecating it. AFAIK there's still two templates left using the old module. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 20:37, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Yes, the templates are {{refwebsite}} and {{refwebsitedead}}, both of which need replacing. Problem is this would need to be done manually because those templates did not require an author field whereas we now do. Feel free to delete it.

p.s. We have no need to protect modules because they've never seen vandalism, vandals aren't gonna look that far, no need to stop normal editors from contributing.--

Technobliterator ^T_C 23:13, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Firion[]

Isn't Firion one of, if not the, first video game protagonist ever to be shown having dialogue in cutscenes? Already from the original FFII in 1988, Firion had dialogue in cutscenes. Doesn't he hold the record of being the first protagonist in all of gaming who does it?Tokoyami no Nietzsche (talk) 00:09, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

The adventure game genre was already in full swing by 1988, plenty of those had scenes where the main character talks.

"The first" is an extraordinary claim, which would require citation, especially when it's possible to refute the claim by going to pretty much any site that documents video game history and looking at the list of games released in 1987. "Among the first" is not a worthwhile inclusion. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 00:48, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Lightning Returns New world[]

So one of the moderators thinks Bhunivelze destroys the New world and that humanity went to Earth instead. But that doesn't make any sense. Could you please talk to him/her? Yellowlightning1996 (talk) 20:47, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't remember the plot of Lightning Returns. Kelt's explained herself on the talk page, if you can point out how she's wrong you can explain it there. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 21:47, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Updating code[]

Hi Some Color Mage! I just wanted to reach out to make sure I'm not stepping on any toes here :) I'm a Wiki Specialist, where essentially I just go in and help get a few things updated for upcoming titles.

I noticed there was an odd "sunset-esque" gradient that was going on on the background of dark mode that didn't seem to flow well into the graphic header at the top so I removed it out of the CSS. But then realized maybe you guys had a good reason for that for the site, so if so I do apologize and reverted it back.

I also wanted to reach out to you and some of the other admins as we wanted to see about adding an extra box to the main page soon that is just a small synopsis of FFXVI. We were thinking of adding it to the area above the Navigation section if possible. If that's workable, please let me or another wiki specialist know! Mechemik (talk) 23:05, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

If the background isn't flowing correctly, that's a design bug, as the black section at the top is designed to give sufficient room for the negative space at the bottom of the header image to cleanly transition into the gradient. Granted, I can't test with everything so something may have slipped through.

As was stated to the other member of Fandom staff that approached us about the main page change, we need to see what the proposed change looks like before we'll OK it. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 07:56, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Rust remover: we're both wrong.[]

Had to do a little digging on this one. In short, "Rust-Rid" is the dominant name for the rust solvent, occurring in all three scripts of FFVI.

I don't know where "Rust 'B' Gone" came from. I'll assume it's FFXI. I know by looking at it that it isn't proper use of the omission apostrophe, so it has to be a typo that stuck around.

Adventures of Mana (2016) used "Rust-B-Gone" with hyphens, and I have the screencap to back it up, but it wouldn't be of much use in this discussion. It would be the most current, but it, too, gets thumped by FF6. I even tried checking for any differences between the GBA, 2014, and PR scripts. Nothing doing, but I have the PR screencap to back it up.

So, I'm thinking that page should be titled "Rust-Rid" over anything else. Would you agree?

--Swordzmanp236 (talk) 06:10, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

I didn't revert because of that, I reverted because of your comment about the single quote marks being "not kosher", which I can't tell if you meant that it violates MoS, which it doesn't, or page name technical standards, which it also doesn't. Also when counting recurring appearances, a single title can't occur multiple times for each script revision, it occurs once.

From there I don't really care which one you use (Rust-Rid has survived every revision of the script that exists so you could consider its single appearance to be either 1994 or 2023 and I do not know if we have a proper standard for that), just, please, going forward, actually communicate whatever you're talking about before staff has to intervene! -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 09:13, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

ETA: See this is what I meant by not communicating, by saying the usage in AoM wouldn't be of much use, I thought you meant you had already discarded the option, instead of waiting for me to give a magical approval for an out-of-scope option. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 20:58, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

From my perspective, AoM falls under "might be out of scope, but not quite so far out of scope that debate is not warranted." By name alone, it's not a Final Fantasy title, but it is notable as a 1:1 remake of FFA that restores the original's FF connections, where the previous Sword of Mana is an entirely rewritten story. It's at least a Tier 2 in that respect. But it's also the only readily-available version of FFA in modern day (that everyone can get if they choose to); other ways require significant investment or questionable methods of procurement. The other thing it has over FFA is a not-so-muddy translation with more comprehensible language.

It'll take a minute, but I think I can clip the screencap I've got to show the difference, sir. Swordzmanp236 (talk) 21:57, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

It is far enough out of scope that you don't name a page after it. Also, it's not the only way to buy FFA in the modern day, the original's on the Switch! I have it! -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 22:21, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Of course you don't, chief. I, on the other hand, have AOM since I had a smartphone before I ever upgraded my set-top hardware as a Sony guy, and that got here before the Switch version did. But I'm bot here to debate the merits of one console/platform vs. the next -- to each their own. My point is that the text used for the item in question is at least equally as valid as any of the others and should be recognized as such. As an aside, I can't find any product in the real world that shares the FFXI item's stylistic quirks, which are usually seen around an N to shorten "and". Closest thing I know of is the old children's clothing brand "OshKosh B'Gosh". Not really looking to make a mountain of an anthill, but I'll be damned if that isn't what's happening. Swordzmanp236 (talk) 22:53, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

STOP. FUCKING STOP.

Me pointing out that I have a legal copy of FFA on the Switch wasn't an invitation to compare our history with the series, it was to directly refute you claiming that Seiken Densetsu is only available in the form of AoM in the modern day.
It does not matter if FFXI made a formatting error of the kind of thing the name is parodying. The thing it's parodying isn't in-universe, so it doesn't exist for the purpose of naming the page.
None of this rambling addresses the fact that AoM is not first-tier scope.

This is a formal warning to you to drop the topic, because like hell am I going to put up with another nowhere conversation with you that takes up the whole day like the "what does 'archive' mean"/"don't call non-GBA versions of FFV 'FFV Advance'" double-whammy shitshow. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 23:28, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Admin+[]

Hey there! I’m reaching out to introduce the Admin+ program (if you haven’t heard about it already!) & let you know I’m here if you have any questions about it. Take a look at the details here & feel free to send over any questions you have. pikushi ✧.* 14:36, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

New codename needed?[]

Hello. Just wondering if the backend code is in for FFVII EC? As seems to be the case with anthologies, we've got characters NOT playable in one game, but playable elsewhere, so that we have those nice tabbed infoboxes for each. I don't know what else needs to happen BTS, so that's why I've come back here. Thanks in advance. Swordzmanp236 (talk) 02:04, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

VIIEC. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 21:19, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Thrustaevis - Weakness and Vulnerability[]

At level 1-19, it will be vulnerable to Wind. Level 20-29, Thrustaevis will experience no effect from Wind-type offenses. Level 30+ will have Thrustaevis absorb it. I don't know the best way to insert this information into the Thrustaevis page. If you play the game, you must experiment on this yourself without Tonberry's GF ability. I'll consider sending clips or photos later. TryMucinex (talk) 00:05, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

New CM introduction[]

Hey there. I'm Reverie, and I'm a Community Manager working with gaming wikis at Fandom.

I'm here to introduce myself, as I've just been assigned to this wiki (same as a Wiki Representative used to be), and will be a point of contact going forward, here to provide any assistance the Final Fantasy Wiki needs - technical, with bug reports, or anything else raised by users regarding Fandom and its features. I'm also going to be sharing any relevant updates that the wiki should know.

If you or anyone else are in need of assistance from Fandom or have something to report, you can message me, and I'll be happy to help! –ReverieCode 10:46, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, good to know. By the way, if you want to join the Discord server, we grant managers access to the admin channel. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 06:25, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

That is great to know, I ended up joining the server. My Discord tag is reveriecode –ReverieCode 09:55, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Two things[]

1: I thought I was helping by adding all those links to Johnny Yong Bosch's page. He is on all those other wikis. 2: I'm adding a gallery to Christy Carlson Romano's page.

Neither of the things you've mentioned are within scope. We only cover staff to the degree that gives an overview of who they are and what they do in content that we cover. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 20:38, 14 September 2024 (UTC)

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Page[]

Why isn’t the plot to “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth” not updated and/or completed yet? ——Preceding unsigned comment was added by Magixa1989 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~~~~.

...Because it isn't? I dunno what to tell you, the wiki is written by contributors at their own pace/ability and writing story summaries is not really in my skill set so asking me about it isn't going to get much done either. -- Some Color Mage ~ (Talk) 09:33, 3 February 2025 (UTC)