User talk:Skua

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All them images
Hey, just wanted you to know that your contributions to the Merchandise page have been GREAT! Thank you, and keep going! Have an unofficial barnsquid!


 * Oh cool, thank you! Skua (talk) 04:54, 22 April 2020 (UTC)


 * you are welcome! 12:56, 22 April 2020 (UTC)


 * just to let you know: if you move a file from one name to the other, instead of blanking the page, please use the tag . Thanks! (otherwise, good job on uploads) Trig - 13:12, 29 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Sure thing, sorry about that. And thank you. Skua (talk) 05:52, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Hey, I just have one thing to ask you. Can you start putting a summary of your changes in the summary box? For example. This helps in many ways, for example people browsing a page's history will be able to find a change they are looking for way faster, as they can just look at the summary. Thanks, 09:18, 3 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Will do, sorry about that. Just didn't think most of the edits were significant enough for a summary. Skua (talk) 09:34, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Improving the wiki
Hey, I noticed you were going to great efforts to clean up various things like duplicate files and categorization. I truly appreciate your efforts. Thank you! 😁 Heddy (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No problem, thank you! Skua (talk) 15:15, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Hmm, why did you remove the character categories and replace them with broad ones like "Splatoon 2"? Categories should be as specific as possible. Heddy (talk) 04:46, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Almost all of the characters don't have their own category so it didn't make sense for the ones who did. I think at least for now that images of specific things like characters are better off as galleries than categories. Skua (talk)
 * I see what you're saying, that those topics are too specific at the present time. If that's the situation, then we should create a slightly broader category that is not too specific. Like "Category:Screenshots of characters in Splatoon 2". This would be better than placing them in a high-level category like "Category:Splatoon 2", which makes it more difficult for people to find files grouped by kind, type, subject, or quality (which is the purpose of the category structure). Heddy (talk) 23:39, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Of course, I only intended for those to be there temporarily for replacing the previous category. I understand categories but having ones that are too specific means it's likely that every file could apply to several categories and it'd be impossible to categorise all of them perfectly. Skua (talk) 05:47, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks again. Heddy (talk) 13:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

On a related to images note, do you happen to use any optimizers when uploading new versions of images? If not, would you be willing to perhaps learn one?

I have a section on my userpage about what they are, but could also go into more conversational detail if you'd like. Trig - 03:55, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I use PngOptimizer. I'd like to see what PNGMonster/Monstrous is like but can't get it to work. Skua (talk) 05:14, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


 * If that is not providing success, PNGgauntlet appears to be something successful for PNGs only, but I have not had experience with it so you would probably want to test it out before actually implementing it. Trig - 14:21, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Just tried it and it's about the same, thank you though. Skua (talk) 08:27, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

RE: Splatoon 2 Octotrooper variant.png
Hi, I noticed you uploaded a file from Tumblr that you marked as low quality. For Tumblr, there is a way to get larger files, but it takes a lot of steps. I grabbed the slightly better image that was available and cropped and uploaded it. The steps are: I hope this information is useful to you! Heddy (talk) 02:02, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Create a tumblr blog.
 * 2) Find posts you want images for and press the reblog button on each of those posts.
 * 3) Go to the tumblr settings page and press the "export [blog name]" button to export your blog.
 * 4) Wait (several hours?) for the download button to appear, and then download the exported blog. The downloaded images will be in the original size.


 * That will be really useful, thank you! I thought that was impossible after the url trick was removed a while back. Skua (talk) 05:02, 20 May 2020 (UTC)