Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Final Fantasy/Archive/11

message: I apologize if this is shameless self-promotion, but I thought I'd let you guys know that I've gone ahead with translating a bunch of the important stuff from the UOG and compiling it into an FAQ. With all the references and such I've added, I had a good bit of interesting stuff translated already and it didn't take me long to finish. The FAQ I made has translations of the notable stuff from the Story Playback section, as well as a complete translation of the The truth of Final Fantasy VII section. For now, it's only on Neoseeker, but I've also submitted it to GameFAQs and IGN. Here it is.
I hope you guys will like it. And, hey, it does have Wikipedia relevance! I'm informing my fellow project members of the official explanations of FFVII's story! Haha! Loophole! XD Ryu Kaze 02:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, if there's anything specific any of you are wondering about that's not mentioned in there, let me know; I can probably translate it pretty easily. Ryu Kaze 02:32, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way again, that includes character info you may be wondering about, as well. There's tons of character profiles in there (though only 10 of them are in-depth). Ryu Kaze 02:36, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In case anyone is interested, I've added bios for Ifalna, Johnny, Zangan, Bugenhagen and the Turks to the FAQ. Ryu Kaze 02:24, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Massive translation now complete

message: If anyone is interested in uploading some of these rare pictures (mostly of FFI-VI bosses and summons, FFVII and IX player characters, Kuja, Squall, Rinoa, Yuna, and Tidus), just let me know. Crazyswordsman 20:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I own quite a few of Amano's books, but I don't have a working scanner. :( I'd recommend uploading some yourself and placing them in articles. Make sure it's Wikipedia:Fair Use though! --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 21:21, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good.  Most of the images I find are from image archives which are linked to directly from the pages that have them, so I'm assuming that they're public domain.  Is there a way we could cite the source of the images? Crazyswordsman 05:18, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know for a fact that none of Amano's art is public domain. They must be licenced under fair use. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 18:25, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Wikipedia policy looks non-violated to me if we're uploading Amano art.  Most Final Fantasy databases have them, so they MUST be under Fair Use.  We'd honestly be seing more legal trouble, if any at all, with the original hosting site than Amano himself. Crazyswordsman 02:11, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You have confused me now. There should be no problem uploading his artwork as fair use (so long as that use conforms to Wikipedia:Fair use.) But in your first reply you said "I'm assuming that they're public domain". Fair use is different from public domain. None of Amano's art has been released to the public domain, not matter what website uses them. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 12:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm building up a collection of rare Amano Art 

message: How does everyone feel about me starting up a Final Fantasy Colloboration of the Fortnight? I think this would be great way to further improve our FF community and get more FF articles up to Featured article status and further expand those FF articles that are lagging behind. What do you think? -- CHANLORD [T]/[C]  00:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the idea—it'll be a more efficient way to increase the number of FF articles in GA and FA status :).  —Mirlen 00:21, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, especially considering that we've had a recent surge of GAs (FF, FF4, Mythology, Spira, FF8, FF9, and so on). This may help us get 'em up to FA status. — Deckiller 00:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I'll start working on it today. -- CHANLORD [T]/[C]  01:08, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you need a hand Chanlord, feel free to tell me so.  I feel like I have to do something more as a member, since everyone seems to be taking the larger share of the workload. —Mirlen 01:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: None needed. Just finished. Have a look. -- CHANLORD [T]/[C]  03:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks great :). —Mirlen 22:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work. Has inspired me to get working on the WPSW MoS page :) — Deckiller 22:41, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Final Fantasy Collaboration of the Fortnight|Final Fantasy Collaboration of the Fortnight]]

message: I don't think there's enough to warrent an article for them, but I think the Fiends should have a place in the Bestiary (I mean like Kraken, Kary, Timiat, Lich, Milon, Rubicant, etc), as they are an important enough to the series to at least have a proper paragraph or two somewhere in this project. Crazyswordsman 05:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Elemental Fiends (Lords) of Final Fantasy IV can be found in List of Final Fantasy IV characters. The fiends from Final Fantasy should probably be placed in List of Final Fantasy characters if the article is ever downsized for the first game in the series only, which is something I've been planning to do myself for quite some time now. ~ Hibana 12:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Do we have the Fiends in the bestiary?

message: I redid the FF7 template to conform to the FFX one (especially now that FF7 goes beyond one game, much like FFX).
— Deckiller 00:29, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good. Nicely done. Ryu Kaze 02:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I like it a lot.  But should the compilation titles be italicized? – warpedmirror (talk) 03:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Fixed :) — Deckiller 03:28, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This gives me a checklist of the story-related pages that still need references. Only 11 to go. *sigh* Ryu Kaze 17:24, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 10 now. Tifa's good to go. Ryu Kaze 18:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And now 9. Red XIII's ready. I'll let you guys know when they're all finished. Ryu Kaze 19:29, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

text: It looks good, but is there any particular reason why the main characters' names are small too? Ryu Kaze 20:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I'm going to go ahead and remove the last names from the characters. Tilmitt takes up it's own line  (at least on my browser). If everyone else prefers the last names, feel free to add them back in. – warpedmirror (talk) 20:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good, and per Ryu Kaze on the small font. —Mirlen 21:14, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Small font has already been taken care of =P — Deckiller 21:17, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking even better. Nice work, guys. Ryu Kaze 22:28, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just noticed that Last Order was missing from the box. I've gone ahead with adding it in. Ryu Kaze 14:36, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: FFVII and FFVIII templates redone

message: Alright, guys, I've finished adding references to all of the story-related FFVII pages (I think; I'm not counting the character and location list pages, but I will be taking care of those, as well). I've also corrected errors in them, clarified the information and added extra links (such as to the translations from the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega) where appropriate. Here's a list of all the pages I've worked to completion so far:
*Cloud Strife
*Tifa Lockhart
*Barret Wallace
*Aerith Gainsborough
*Red XIII
*Cait Sith
*Yuffie Kisaragi
*Cid Highwind
*Vincent Valentine
*The Turks
*Rufus Shinra
*Sephiroth
*Jenova
*AVALANCHE
*Midgar
*Shin-Ra
*Materia
*List of Final Fantasy VII characters
*List of Final Fantasy VII locations
*List of Final Fantasy VII terms
Next, Final Fantasy X's story pages need to get the same treatment. Over there, the following pages have already been taken care of:
*Mythology of Final Fantasy X
*Spira
*Auron
*Rikku
Be aware that I've not even looked at the Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy X pages themselves, but when and if I complete the other pages, I'll try to give them the same treatment as the Final Fantasy VIII page if they still need it. If there's any suggestions or things that I've missed, please put them forward. Ryu Kaze 17:16, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. When and if I complete both of these projects, I hope that no one will hold it against me if I take a WikiVacation. XD Ryu Kaze 17:57, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, now all of the FFVII story-related pages are done, including the two list pages. Please let me know if I've missed anything before I move on to the 8 FFX pages I've got to do. Ryu Kaze 00:19, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh hell. Now it occurs to me that I've got the character list pages for X and X-2 still to do, as well. So that's 10 more pages. Oh well. I'll just have to get started as soon as I can. Ryu Kaze 01:32, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah hell again. There's still the List of Final Fantasy VII terms page to do.  Oh well. That one's not too bad. Ryu Kaze 01:38, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, the List of Final Fantasy VII terms is done. Still leaves 10 Final Fantasy X related pages to go, though. *sigh* Ryu Kaze 17:26, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wakka's page has been completed. I started with it first since it's short. From here I'll move on to Lulu, then Kimahri, and then go to Yuna Tidus, Seymour (the three biggest pages), Jecht and Paine. Then the character lists. Still a while to go. I'll add them to the list above each time I complete one. Ryu Kaze 20:05, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great job, Ryu Kaze! See if I can do for the rest later. —Mirlen 20:15, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the compliment, and, yeah, if you'd like to help out you can. Just let me know which page you're going to be working on so we won't be trying to edit it at the same time. I just finished Lulu, so Kimahri's my next target, then Tidus, Yuna, Seymour, Jecht, Paine, list of X characters and list of X-2 characters (in that order). Just leave me a message here or on my userpage. Ryu Kaze 21:14, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' references project complete

message: Alright, everyone, now all of the Final Fantasy X story-related pages are good to go:
*Mythology of Final Fantasy X
*Spira
*Auron
*Rikku
*Wakka
*Lulu
*Kimahri
*Tidus
*Yuna
*Seymour Guado
*Jecht
*Paine
*List of Final Fantasy X characters
*List of Final Fantasy X-2 characters
From here, I'm going to be taking a huge break. I'll still be regularly keeping track of the edits people make to the site and monitoring them for validity and an appropriate presence, but this may be the last big project I work on for a while. I'll probably take a look at the Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 pages to see if they need any work to look like the Final Fantasy VIII page, but this is going to pretty much be it for me for a while.
Between all the VII, X and X-2 pages (a total of 34), I'm downright burned-out on editing, especially where references are concerned. However, the process is much more lengthy and involved than just that, as -- by necessity -- it requires you to go through every last sentence and make sure that the information's valid, if it should be sourced and if there's a need to add/remove/fix any links. So, at this point, I'm darn well tired. XD Thanks go to Mirlen and Deckiller for their continued support -- and compliments -- during this project. It helped more than you think, guys. Ryu Kaze 04:27, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' & ''[[Final Fantasy X-2|X-2]]'' references project complete