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Real life template usefulness

This topic of the real life notice template's scope came up in the Discord chat: Gaming32 pointed out certain articles such as Splatoon 3 ought to have the notice, which sparked debate as to where the line is drawn between "real life" and "in-universe" differentiation.

I'm in agreement that real life product articles such as Splatoon 3 would qualify to have the notice, but the more I thought of it, started to think there's a boiling point after which we are disclaiming the obvious about something the reader could reasonably intuit immediately as they start to read, or even already know before reading our article. It's typically very clear from the first few lines of an article, and there are ~200 pages to which this template has been applied, with even more article candidates should we widen its scope.

The concept of discerning between "real life" (developers, artists, products, merchandise) and "in-universe" (characters, locations, mechanics, "lore") topics across the wiki is helpful, but it's already achieved by sorting into the related categories. The concept of disclaiming topics as clear-cut "real world only" is additionally somewhat muddied by certain promotional content "crossing over" with real-life brands or such that are per the storyline extinct/nonexistant/impossible in the Splatoon world, but are directly mentioned by the in-universe characters as if they're "canon". I bring this up not with the concept of canonicity in mind, but rather whether or not a page like our idol concert article would technically necessitate a "real world" notice; it's obvious from the article's lead section the topic concerns a real life event that still holds some degree of direct connection to the in-universe continuity.

I'm of the opinion we should do away with the real life notice and instead focus on related categorization, as the distinction exists mostly for wiki navigation; readers should be able to tell what is or isn't a real life product, person etc. from the opening paragraph. Organization tools like the games category should be placed within the real life topics category, without the need for a "note: this game exists in real life!" message on game pages. Yoshifan52 (talk) 08:00, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

A point that was brought up by a user in the Discord discussion was that this user felt a high number of our pages currently using the notice would be significantly dampened by its removal because of them being insufficiently constructed so as to obviously be about a real-life subject at a glance. While I haven't gone over the list of these pages with a fine-toothed comb to verify this grievance (as Yoshifan has said, there are minimum a couple hundred articles), I don't believe we should be relying on a notice template as a band-aid solution to articles being poorly constructed. Even if the notice is not retired immediately because it is believed that it is currently acting as this band-aid solution, I do believe we need to act to overhaul any articles deemed problematic with the ultimate goal of removing this template. Driftin Soul [Talk!] 08:17, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree that notices should not convey information that should be in the article in the first place, so the focus should be on cleaning up those articles (though it'll likely be no small undertaking). Ideally we'd get cleanup fully done and then get to removing the template. underFlorence (talk | contribs) 18:54, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Gonna agree with you here, if a page isn't built in a good enough way that it's clear it's about a real world topic, it should be redone. I'm in favor of phasing this out. ArgentuTA164 (talk) 00:41, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

I like the usage of the real life template but I would exclusively use it on pages where there is an in-game equivalent or a similar concept. For example characters vs real people; bands; companies; teams; events; etc.

I don't think it's that necessary and a bit redundant for stuff that doesn't have an equivalent in-game as I don't think there is as much confusion and specifying it on the first paragraph would be enough imo. It's moon [Talk!] 19:10, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Lesser-known title handling

In Splatoon 3, a handful of instances of options giving players the option to replay/revisit certain "one time only" occurrences in menus have been added in the past year or so. These option menus contain title-like phrases/terms:

• The foyer contains two memory cubes with options from which missions/bosses/cutscenes tied to story progression can be replayed:
  • Remember First Climb: replays the tutorial
  • Remember Saving Marina: replays the Marina Agitando bossfight
  • Remember Epic, Vibrant Battle: replays the final boss
  • Remember Elevator to the Skies: replays the credits sequence
  • Remember Entering Inkopolis Square: replays the first cutscene

• Scanning idol amiibo post-9.1.0 shows a menu allowing for the Grand Festival Grounds to be revisited as if mid-event:
  • Remember Colorful Evenings: loads the player into the event's first phase (equivalent to the first 48 hours)
  • Remember The Night of Unity : loads the player into the event's second phase, a.k.a. after Halftime (following 24 hours)
  • Remember That Tranquil Dawn: loads the player in the the event's post-Splatfest phase (following 2 hours)

The question is whether or not to treat these option titles as equivalent to formal names for the related topics, i.e. referring to the Marina Agitando bossfight as "Saving Marina", or using "[That] Tranquil Dawn" to refer to the post-event phase for Grand Festival. And if these titles are to be considered formal and proper, should they possibly be used in place of terms like "Marina Agitando bossfight" altogether, since that phrasing is technically less official?

I'm not sure what exactly to call these pseudo-titles when talking about them; they're in line with other less formal-seeming menu phrasing choices carried out throughout the Splatoon series (i.e. "Remember Inkopolis"), but they're somewhat nonstandard. This topic has come up a few times in the Discord chat, which hasn't lead to any concrete consensus or rulings. I wanted to bring it up onwiki to collect further input on how to handle the matter. All feedback is welcome! Yoshifan52 (talk) 08:51, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

I think these should be handled on a case-by-case basis depending on context & how convenient they are to use when referring to the subject in question. I think redirects for many of these would be good, as well as some mention in the relevant sections of where they are used, but I don't believe we need to go out of our way & bend over backwards to use all of them in every context possible.

Ex. "first climb" is significantly less flowery & more utilitarian than many of these other monikers (it's also directly used in dialogue by Pearl, so there's that to consider also). Driftin Soul [Talk!] 11:28, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

I particularly remember bringing this up.

I do agree that it would be important to consider this on a case-by-case basis, with at least one mention of what it actually refers to if necessary, since it's the closest thing some of these have to names (e.g. The Night of Unity being the only reference for the third day/second phase of the Grand Festival).

As for redirects, I do think redirecting to the relevant sections on the Grand Festival page would be best. (Worth noting we do need an efficient place to put the NioLs for these names.) ArgentuTA164 (talk) 00:49, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Agree with Judith, I think those should be treated as either redirects or article / section titles on a case by case. In my opinion the two main aspects to have in mind when deciding if each of those should be treated as a page title are:

• If it's been a unique title or there are other instances of it being used at some point in the saga to refer to somewhat else in which case a disambig would be better.
• If there have been other official titles given to each event, in which case I think a redirect would be better rather than using these pseudo-titles as page titles due to their ambiguity.

If they are unique enough and there are no other official titles given to the event, they would be okay to use as article / section title imo. It's moon [Talk!] 15:39, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

maybe they just thought that Orderlord boss fight sounded boring 𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 (talk) 21:30, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

I do think redirects for these are a good idea, but I personally feel like as article/section titles they might be too nondescript and feel out of place if someone who does not know where those come from is reading the article. underFlorence (talk | contribs) 11:12, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Will 3D Models Say That They're Used?

I noticed that some 3D models like this say that they're unused. Should I add the valid unused template, or should I mark them for deletion? PawnShop75 [Talk|Contribs] 21:04, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

These files are called by a module, so they are in fact in use. Please do mark them as valid unused. Yoshifan52 (talk) 22:54, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! PawnShop75 [Talk|Contribs] 22:56, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Main page restructure proceedings

The related proposal has passed; as mentioned in the proposal, since other editors have suggested alterations be made to the related demonstration's styling, the changes will be discussed and tested here before the redesign is applied.

I've updated the demonstration to reflect main page's current state (events have shuffled around in the interim). This demo and its related subpages are open to be edited by anyone (subpages links 1 / 2).

Here's a list of suggestions and concerns brought up:

• Adding an icon to signal whether a news entry concerns Splatoon (official/community) news or Inkipedia (wiki) news.
  • I'm very on board with this; I think something like using this image for official news and this image for wiki news could work great.
• Miscellaneous spacing issues, particularly the news section being too small relative to the left-side adjacent event.
• Setting up the new news system to allow for the optional inclusion of images, like the previous system (both are handled by the same template).
• Potentially placing the two event sections side by side (as it is on the non-demo version of main page presently), rather than interrupted. This would simplify handling on the related subpage (as it would need no changes).
• To avoid listing new event announcements in the news section, as they're handled by the larger dedicated event pages.
  • I slightly disagree with this, I think since we have no other news-like stream of official announcements sans maybe the Twitter archive (not all announcements are made through Twitter), the repetition of information creates a clearer listing of every Splatoon announcement in order. Under this system, once an event is removed from main page due to its relevant time period passing, there would be no mention of the announcement/event in the news section at all.

Any and all feedback is very welcome. The motions towards a restructure have been in the works for about a year now, but I'm less CSS-savvy than other editors and generally haven't been able to coordinate a meeting to get others on board to help fix the demo's styling properly... until now! Yoshifan52 (talk) 04:43, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

I was trying to fix the large space around the Current Event box. One option would be to reduce the height of the News box—though I'm not sure how to do that.

Another option would be to extend the News box to the right of the Schedule, so it would occupy the space to the right of both the Current Event and Schedule boxes.

The last option I see would be to make the News box horizontal instead of vertical and place it under the Current Event box, or possibly rearrange everything entirely, tho I'm not sure how.

Just brainstorming. It's moon [Talk!] 06:48, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

This is now fixed! ^{^^} It's moon [Talk!] 22:32, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

I'm on mobile right now, but I think it looks pretty good! Maybe the Inkling girls for the stage rotation links could be made a bit smaller, since the boxes take up a decent amount of space on my screen and I'm pretty sure it's because of the images. As for the icons for the news section, I'm 100% on board with adding the ones suggested. FancyRat 20:03, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

• News section icons - Done ✓
• Spacing issues - Fixed ✓
• Optional news section images - Done ✓
• Two events side by side - Done ✓
• Smaller schedule section Inklings - Done ✓

Anything else that we need to address? ^くコ;彡 It's moon [Talk!] 05:53, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks so much! It looks like that's everything for now. I'll apply the restructure to the page, and leave this topic open for further discussion in case others have further suggestions. Yoshifan52 (talk) 04:56, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

I feel like the splatfest/event box could be a little smaller. It feels a little out of place with all of the open space surrounding the splatfest it's self. Then you could also add another box for a different topic. Or you could make the middle part with the image of the splatfest, name, etc bigger to fill the box more. Otherwise I think the redesign is going great. Sporocket (talk) 20:44, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Some suggestions I would make is switch the order of Schedule and Featured to make the stage schedule appear left on desktop and before news on mobile. In order to fit with the overall way we handle colors, I changed the Orange, which is way too similar to Salmon Run colors, with the Generic. However, for Featured we could go with the violet (141, 7, 156), currently used for real people Infoboxes or a new color to make it destinguished.  Perfectionist  (talk) 14:18, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

I also though that switching Featured News and Schedule would be a good idea. Thumbs up from me.👍 As an idea for the colors, we could use the same color for the squid icon and the outer box. Check all the squid colors avaliable:

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  Current

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  Previously discarded

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Last one kinda matches the real people infoboxes' violet. The icons' color has already been discussed on the discord sv some days ago with an agreement on using the deep purple current one but we just had two colors at the time it was discussed. It's moon [Talk!] 15:27, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

I'm on mobile rn and I haven't looked at the desktop yet but I think it would make more sense for the stage rotation links to be S3 above S2 versus it being the other way round as it rn if it's possible as the mobile looks is not top priority Ikasó (talk) 22:20, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

This has been done now 👍 It's moon [Talk!] 10:56, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Can We add a featured page? Frye Fan 48 (talk) 20:37, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

A featured section on the Main Page would require consistent upkeep from users with permissions. There has been some discussion about featured image/article sections along with the resurrection of polls, but it was ultimately decided against due to a general lack of interest to maintain. FancyRat 00:47, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

If you don't mind, could I please suggest an idea? I don't know if I have room to speak here, but perhaps we could create a sort of automated system where we could input a load of articles when we are able, then every day it would take one article and automatically put it into the Featured Article section, allowing it to maintain itself even when we are unavailable. Thus, it would then be a feasible task to create such a thing on the homepage. I don't know if such a thing is possible with just source, because a system like this might require going into the websites code which likely wouldn't be an available option, so if it's not possible through source, we should just leave it at that. Stay Fresh! NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 17:40, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

An automated system like that can likely be set up. However the entire concept of such hinges on a source list's creation and separate maintenance. The process of nominating, assessing and judging if an article should be featured or such requires human involvement. It wouldn't suffice to generate a list once and leave an automated queue running for possibly years.

A completely automated system that additionally handles nomination and judging somewhat goes against the intended goal; why should a reader bother engaging with a curated list of articles if we could not be bothered to curate such a list? A project like this by definition needs to be started out of a community's desire to upkeep it, not out of wanting to make our front page resemble other wiki's front pages. Yoshifan52 (talk) 01:59, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

With all due respect, I personally think a fully automated system would work great, preventing anyone from having to overextend themselves to a dedicated project. I don't know much about this subject or how we would go about creating this, but if you don't want it, I can understand. It was only an idea after all. Perhaps, we could ask about the other administrators opinions on this matter? NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 02:25, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

I don't mean to shut down the conversation or possibility of a Featured section/script, just wanted to offer some explanation on how such a section would need to operate. Yoshifan52 (talk) 21:43, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

That seems very fancy, like pearl family fancy Cybertrax 21:29, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

(This was made in Google Slides so I apologize if it looks a little shabby)

If we do go through with this, would it look something similar to this? NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 20:33, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

That is along the lines of what I was thinking. Thanks for making an example. Frye Fan 48 (talk) 12:42, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

No problem! If you want me to add anything, don’t hesitate to let me know. NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 13:32, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

I think a featured page is not only a great idea but if you were to put it next to the event box you could make the width of the event box smaller (getting rid of some empty space in that box). I also think that a featured monthly artwork would require less upkeep than other things since it only needs to be changed once a month (and there is a lot of Splatoon artwork out there so it shouldn't be to hard to find). Sporocket (talk) 00:38, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

The event box spans the full page width to reserve space for a second event when two occur close together. Placing a featured page box beside it would likely conflict with this layout. It's moon [Talk!] 11:12, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

I'm extremely against the idea of featured articles and would strongly urge us to steer clear of their addition. I think they are conceptually flawed, and would not benefit Inkipedia in any reasonable fashion. Instead, I am concerned that there would be a subsect of users that become overly focused on the featured article and featured content and how those processes work instead of actually contributing to the benefit of pages. I have seen this happen repeatedly on other wikis, particularly over the last two years. Featured Articles effectively serve as a point to say "this is some of our best work". You...wouldn't feature it otherwise, right? I've always felt it weird to highlight those on the main page, because what ends up happening is that you implicitly say every other page on the wiki is inherently worse than what ends up on the featured rotation. I think we both can agree that not every page that isn't featured is bad, but it sends a message that only a handful or selection of pages are up to snuff. Given how Inkipedia handles a lot of content generation (weapon descriptions, tables of data, etc), it becomes difficult to even let in a selection of pages in regards to at least weapons and gear because either you have them the best they can be, and due to the similarity of how those pages get written you now have 100 pages that are featured (which makes it functionally useless to highlight them all) or you feature no pages and have a severe gap in your coverage/presentation.

Look, I get featured articles look fun and appealing, but you really need to think about how they actually impact the reader and their use of the site. I don't think most readers are going to use the featured article as their first or fiftieth visit as a launch-point to look at our pages. If they have an understanding of the game already, they're probably going to be going directly to the page they want via search, the category of what they're reading (weapons, characters, etc), or outright bypass the mainpage entirely because they clicked us through a search engine. People that do not know about the Splatoon franchise are probably not going to inexplicably click on a weapon, location, or character as their first point of entry into the franchise, it will almost assuredly be a game page (Splatoon 2) or a plot synopsis.

If you really really really insist on doing a featured article selection, I have a process that I've set up on other sites that would make our ability to have featured content pretty streamlined, but I don't want to add here period unless there's some overwhelming majority for it to be properly maintained, overseen, implemented, and used. Trig - 14:42, 4 May 2025 (UTC)

Know what, I agree with Trig here. They do make a good point. Having people work on this would actually take away from them working on other pages, and although not being too bad, there's no reason to have such a problem. I don't agree with them when they say "Featured Articles effectively serve as a point to say "this is some of our best work". You...wouldn't feature it otherwise, right?" I believe all our pages (or most of them) are of equal quality, otherwise they wouldn't be ours and we would've likely fixed them by now. But I do agree with pretty much anything else. Nobody comes to a wiki thinking, "Hrmm I have no idea what I want to view, let's see what they have for me to look at!" Our wiki (as well as wikis in general) are in no means entertaining, we simply tell the reader about a form of entertainment. (Starts with an S and ends with a platoon!) If a reader wanted to be entertained, they have YouTube, Twitch, or quite literally anything else. You come to a wiki because you specifically want to know something. You have an objective, and that's usually just to remind yourself of something you forgot or to check up on a fact. Sure it's cool, and there's no harm in it, but working on this would probably be a waste of time, now looking at Trig's perspective, I think it'd likely be ignored. (Not to mention we already have a random page and random file button, why'd we add those?) I'm not saying Featured Article sections/portions are completely useless and bad, but in our case, they certainly aren't going to be very useful. If this does get passed, I'll volunteer to help out, but as of now, I'm against the idea. (Also Trig could you show us that process bc I'm rlly interested in that) I apologize for the wordy reply, but I just wanted to share a few thoughts. Thank you for reading this, and I hope you Stay Fresh! NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 15:35, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

How about a featured trivia? It could be cool see a fun fact when you log on. It could be a daily or weekly trivia. Frye Fan 48 (talk) 19:40, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

A potential "did you know?" section is being discussed on this talk page. Yoshifan52 (talk) 20:36, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

I've seen. I'm not sure about my stance on the matter, but I'm leaning towards a no here. Sure a did you know would likely be more equal across pages compared to a featured article, but I still don't think it's worth the effort. NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 13:24, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

BRUH Cybertrax 21:33, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Also, can we add the mechanic character in playable characters (cuz she was viewed in the Splatoon spinoff) (or is that up to us idk) Cybertrax 21:32, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Japanese Inkipedia page

Splatoon is a Japanese video game. I think we need to make Japanese pages! Cheesecake2960 (talk) 07:37, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

But not everyone can understand Japanese. Yeah, I guess you could do it, but put it in English as well. Princess Moon (talk) 17:24, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

@Cheesecake2960 There are already Japanese wikis for each game in the Splatoon series. I can't speak for Inkipedia's host, but they have generally been supportive of hosting new language wikis for Inkipedia, as long as there is a sufficient number of interested people who want to work on the project. However, since the needs of Japanese speakers are already met by existing wikis, I think it's unlikely that you would find enough people to create such a project.

Regarding Inkipedia EN (the wiki you are browsing right now), articles must be written in English, and non-English content must be accompanied by an English translation. Heddy (talk) 17:35, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

I have been able to gather a bunch of Japanese wikis that cover Splatoon in some way, in case you are interested in checking them out.

Hosted by WIKIWIKI:

• Splatoon: https://wikiwiki.jp/splatoon2ch/
• Splatoon 2: https://wikiwiki.jp/splatoon2mix/
• Splatoon 3: https://wikiwiki.jp/splatoon3mix/

Hosted by Niconico - Niconico Pedia

It's moon [Talk!] 04:51, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Wildcard rotation name handling

The topic of whether or not the Salmon Run term "wildcard" used on the wiki (example links 1, 2) has official basis has come up a couple times in the Discord chat (message links 1, 2). "Wildcard" is used to refer to the occasional SR rotations in which one or all four weapons are represented in the schedule via a green question mark . "Rare weapon wildcard" is used to refer to rotations that're listed as four golden question marks .

In looking into it, I haven't been able to find an instance of these rotations being called "wildcard" in an official capacity. There's instead two official mentions of the question mark icons from these rotations being called "random": this S3 Tweet regarding the first Big Run, and this magazine page. Worth noting is while the magazine page's translation is officially provided by Nintendo, there's been a couple instances where it's been found to be somewhat rough compared to the original Japanese, moreso than standard localization discrepancies. Still, I think we should consider it as a piece of evidence here when there is otherwise very sparse official terminology on this topic; there's a stunning lack of directly addressing these rotations with any terminology at all.

Further research is very welcome; this is all I could find in my combing through official posts and our related archives but there could very well be more to work with.

I'm of the opinion we should move away from "wildcard" and instead use the official term "random", designating "wildcard" as solely a community-made term and treating it accordingly. "Standard wildcard rotation" would become "random weapon rotation" while "rare weapon wildcard rotation" would become "rare weapon rotation". My logic here is an official term, even if imprecise, is highly preferred over an unofficial term. We could have "wildcard" continue to redirect to the "random" sections for readers' ease of use, possibly also mentioning such in the related sections (something like "random rotations, also called wildcard rotations"), but should overall use the official term now that there appears to be one as of S3. My understanding is there was no official term during S2's time, so either the wiki adopted a term used by the community, or the wiki's coined term was adopted by the community.

Do note that renaming away from "wildcard" would not be difficult, especially with the use of tools available to staff, so that should not be a concern. I mention this because various users have brought such up in instances of debating renames. Yoshifan52 (talk) 02:27, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

This is a sensible change. The real question is, where did wildcard come from, and does it need to be in the community glossary? Heddy (talk) 04:08, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Honestly, even without considering the possible official basis of the term, "random weapon rotation" and "rare weapon rotation" make perfect sense on their own — so I don't see any problem with switching to those.
 ♥ #6-Frisk   ‍  09:41, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

I'm in agreement with moving to "random weapon rotation" as the main term, while keeping "wildcard" as an "also known as" (and in the community glossary too, then). It's more immediately clear than "wildcard," too, in addition to having more official basis. underFlorence (talk | contribs) 15:45, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Page mashups???

So basicly,ya know how I keep on asking the community for info on how to do stuff? Well,I figured to save space on the ink pump and save old computers from crashing, we could make a lil mashup page explaning the basics of inkipeidea like how to insert images, how to get custumisable name tags and other stuff that beginers on inkipeidea could have qwestions about. Kinda like a virtual manual! but if there is already a page like that please let me know!

thank you for reading this.

𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 17:32, 19 March 2025 (UTC)Jadeaxolotlgirl

I've archived the inactive topics of this page, so it should load quicker now. We have some wiki help pages to help new editors learn how wikis work, as well as wiki policy pages to outline the rules and guidelines editors must follow when editing. If you have any questions or need help with anything not covered in those pages, feel free to ask! Yoshifan52 (talk) 18:15, 19 March 2025 (UTC)

What is the Octo Samurai?

A while ago, when I was playing Splatoon 2's Story mode, I came across the Octo samurai. When I splatted it, A "ghost" that appears whenever you splat an Inkling or Octoling appears. The Octo Samurai does not look like an Octoling, so what is it? Splatoon 2 to 3 player (talk) 17:57, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the Ink Pump isn't the place for these kinds of questions. The purpose of the Ink Pump is to be a general question place about wiki-wide topics. Whether this question even belongs on our wiki, I don't know, but this question would be better asked somewhere else like X, Reddit, or Discord. Either way, don't forget to Stay Fresh! NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 18:56, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

It could be similar to a normal Octarian, but more advanced. Or it could be like DJ Octavio. Princess Moon (talk) 17:07, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

The Ghost that appear are actually the soul. When inklings and octlings get splatted, their souls will travel to a respawn point. However, some octairians souls just disappear. So, the octo samurai is an octarian, just like octlings, octotroopers, and other octarians. Frye Fan 48 (talk) 19:36, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

Splatfest Tee Replica

So, when I started Splatoon 2, I received the Splatfest Tee Replica. I don’t know why I got it and I can’t find a mention of it on the Inkipedia. Princess Moon (talk) 14:59, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

You can find our page on it at Splatfest Tee Replica. It should hopefully answer any questions you have! Driftin Soul [Talk!] 15:03, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! Princess Moon (talk) 15:03, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Help

I forgot what the mashup page for how to's on this wiki is. Its been a while since i last used it and I really need it. 𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 20:37, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi! I'm assuming you are talking about the wiki policies and guidelines, in which case they can all be found in Inkipedia:Policy. If you don't understand something or have any questions feel free to ask me or any staff member via here, their talk page or on Discord. Stay fresh! It's moon [Talk!] 21:36, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

I meant like the page to accses how to's like userboxes and username editing...

not the policy. 𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 12:53, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

oh wait i found it nvr mind. 𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 12:54, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Grizzco Weapons note

Hi! I feel like a line about armor piercing in the Grizzco weapons' infoboxes would be useful at a glance, at least for the Grizzco Slosher and Grizzco Splatana :> Popamolamola (talk) 17:47, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

i agree with this

<3 Ikasó (talk) 11:18, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

And where can I find these pages? Big man fan24 (talk) 10:46, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

linked in the original comment but just click on them or these --> Grizzco Splatana or --> Grizzco Slosher

Any green text on this wiki is a link to another page, and anything blue is a link to an external page <3 Ikasó (talk) 21:51, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

exept for the reply button lol 𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 22:08, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Not really sure this is super necessary... it's a rare trait for weapons to even have in the first place, with only two main weapons and a handful of special weapons (and the latter only within Salmon Run). I think mentioning in the description of a weapon (ideally with some detail about what 'armor piercing' actually means, since there are multiple different & separate gameplay mechanics that use "armor" as an umbrella term) is sufficient, personally. Driftin Soul [Talk!] 20:54, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Full songs

Ok, WHY can't I listen to the full songs anymore? Big man fan24 (talk) 11:40, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

It's generally for copyright reasons, you can read the site policy on audio for a more in-depth explanation. As a note, this wiki was not meant to be a place to listen to the music in the first place, as it's meant to be a source for information rather than say, a streaming service. Gallium![Talk] 13:59, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

For listening, I suggest the Nintendo Music app, or the in-game jukebox. Heddy (talk) 04:25, 2 May 2025 (UTC)

Where are the gadgets?

So as the name suggests i cant find the gadgets menu. Just tell me what tab its under. Thanks!!! 𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 22:17, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

I was confused as well, but if you read carefully, you find the directions. First, go to the home page of Inkipedia. Then click the icon in the top right that looks like a little person, then click Preferences. It'll take you to a preferences page. Find the section titled "Gadgets". Scroll down to where it says, "Skins — Only pick 1, not compatible with dark mode" (I assume that's what you're looking for) then pick a skin, and then click "Save". If you don't, then the theme won't change. Then that's it, go back to the main page and see if it worked! If it didn't, feel free to let me know. Stay Fresh! NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 22:42, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

or click here. Trig - 01:23, 7 May 2025 (UTC)

Help moving a page from sandbox to a new article

I've made a page on my sandbox documenting the NPCs that appear when the player is offline. here is a link to the sandbox. I would like some assistance with turning it into a proper page. I've never done that before, is there anything I should know? Anemone oh no (talk) 04:59, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Be very sure nothing is left out, and make sure it isn’t a stub right off the bat, that was the biggest problem I had when trying to make an article mainspace. NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 12:59, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Looks like you've made the page move; your page is in a great state and the move seems to have been performed smoothly. Great work! I'll update the current links to your sandbox to instead link to the final page, as that's an article moving-related maintenance task to look out for. Yoshifan52 (talk) 03:19, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Swapping mentions of "North America" region to just "the Americas"

This came up while discussing this talk page topic in the Discord chat. In line with how the continent is described in the Switch's setting menus as well as in-game in Splatoon 3, I think we should swap mentions of "North America" as a region/localization setting to just "(the) Americas" across the wiki.

Background info: there are two versions of certain localizations (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese), one intended for the American demographic and another intended for the European demographic. The two versions of each localization employ different regional dialects. When it comes to the English localizations, during Splatoon's time there were significant discrepancies between the American and European localizations, but in the time since they have become more or less homogeneous with only promotional material having major differences (usually spelling). For Spanish and French however there are some more drastic differences between each language's two options. The Portuguese localizations have thus far only sparsely covered certain promotional materials rather than full game localizations, but nonetheless should be noted.

As an example, swapping between the Spanish localization that makes use of a dialect intended for the Americas' demographic in Splatoon 3 requires swapping your Switch's region to "the Americas", whereas toggling the European Spanish dialect localization requires selecting the "Europe" region. The two versions of the Spanish localization are not options straightforwardly presented to players, instead requiring swapping regions, a separate setting entirely.

We were discussing potentially renaming what we have been calling per policy "North American French" into "Canadian French" and "North American Spanish" into "Latin American Spanish". Since both of those language options are marked for the Americas region as a whole, I think we should simply go with that official naming rather than go with the assumed-to-be-intended specific regions' names (even if these assumptions are highly likely to be accurate). The goal is to cast a broader net for where these language options are intended to be used per how Nintendo officially self-describes them. It definitely isn't fully accurate to the IRL global distribution of such languages and dialects, but works within intending to keep things more neutral, rather than claiming those Spanish and French options are only for North or South America, when they are evidently meant for the Americas as a whole.

Instances where "North America" is mentioned with specific context to indeed refer to just North America outside of region/localization would remain untouched. Yoshifan52 (talk) 23:17, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Even with this will we still use American English when speaking about English for the Americas? PearlFan99 (talk) 00:20, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Yes, we would move towards phrasing it as "American English" and "European English". Yoshifan52 (talk) 00:32, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

I mean, in a way it's already there for American English, European French, European Spanish and European Portuguese as it’s basically what the languages are also called outside of games. PearlFan99 (talk) 00:40, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Hang on, I want to emphasize the main point of this topic is suggesting we use "Americas" instead of "North/South America" (the issue is we default to "North America" when that isn't always the case). You've brought up both in the Discord potentially renaming "NA French" to "French (Canada)" and such; just to fully make everything clear, that should be a separate topic which I'll add below. Yoshifan52 (talk) 01:43, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Just found the new section underneath. PearlFan99 (talk) 01:55, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Languages for which there are 2 regional localizations naming

Related to the above topic as well as the aforementioned talk page topic, we should consider our current handling of languages with several regional localization versions' names. At the moment we use "North American" and "European" (note, the above topic suggests swapping "North America" to just "America" in line with official terminology) as modifiers eg. "European French". Previously we had described such as "NOA" or "NOE" variants of a language; this is now discouraged per policy but not all remnants have been cleaned up at this time.

PearlFan99 pointed out that a new Switch 2 promotional video in the Nintendo Today! app uses the following distinguishing terminology in a language options menu:

• English (US) and English (UK)
• Spanish (Latin America)
• French (France)
• Portuguese (Brazil)

This phrasing suggests it may be possible to choose regional language variants directly on the Switch 2, rather than it being automatically toggled based on region settings. We'll be able to gather more information on this once the Switch 2 releases soon. The use of new more country-specific descriptions in an official capacity would give us reason to potentially swap to using that system instead.

I think the best option at present is to stick to referring to the variants as "(North) American [language]" and "European [language]" across the wiki regardless of the Swich 2's terminology, instead adding additional information on how each language has been officially described to the region and localization page. Even if there is an official basis toward using the more granular per-country descriptions à la "French (Canada/Québec)" and "French (France)", in my opinion the wiki should keep to the most neutral option with the broader continent-based descriptions. Yoshifan52 (talk) 01:43, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

In the case we do rename and follow how Switch 2 will handle those languages, I was wondering if we should change the flag for Canadian French into the one for Quebec or even a mixed Canada/Quebec flag. In the case we do I already tried 2 designs but haven’t made them into SVGs yet. PearlFan99 (talk) 05:58, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

UPDATE: The Switch 2 first boot was leaked this morning, and I was able to get a picture of the language screen which shows the split varieties for English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, although IDK if I should upload it now depending on policy. PearlFan99 (talk) 16:34, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Leak policy is here: Inkipedia:Policy/Rumors and leaks. In summary, leaks of future content are not allowed on Inkipedia, but leaks may be documented after the relevant content is officially released. Heddy (talk) 03:33, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Now that it’s June 5th, the language screen for the Switch 2 has been shown off too, showcasing the split varieties for those languages, now instead of just English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, this is what is shown:

• English (United Kingdom)
• English (United States)
• French (Canada)
• French (France)
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Spanish (Spain)
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Portuguese (Portugal)

PearlFan99 (talk) 16:21, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

Have "Night wave" redirect to "Known Occurence"

Hi! Can we have a redirect to Known Occurrence? I've called them night wave the whole time I've been playing the game and I also learnt it from splatubers (Hazmy, rachelski). Idk much about inside SR communities though. Otherwise I might have called them "special waves" but I don't think it's as prevalent as "night wave". Only time I saw the term "Known Occurence" was when I was working on the wiki and then checked the field guide haha Popamolamola (talk) 20:34, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

hear me out...

so i was reading splatoon manga volume 10 (the manga being the one featuring team blue and stuff and the volume being the one featuring the square king ranked battle cup.) and i saw that in #37 (manta maria) that when goggles acidently falls off the ship while trying to cheer for team gloves he falls in the water and yet he does NOT die. And when gloves tries to save him he ends up in the water too but he does NOT die. Also in the same volume in the bonus manga bobble hat gets drenched in the rain and yet she is COMPLETELY fine.is it possible that as long as inklings and octolings keep their head above the water they are fine? And is it possible that they are also immune to rainwater? it is ok if you dont respond to this btw.

𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 16:15, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

oh ya btw the bonus manga is the strategy meeting on a rainy day. 𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 16:16, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

There are several instances of characters in the manga being submerged in water, but it does not line up with official material. The Splatoon manga is unofficial and therefore not considered canon, and so it should not be used for explanation/lore purposes. FancyRat 16:24, 27 May 2025 (UTC)

sorry it took me so long to reply. I HAVE A COUNTERCLAIM!!! when falling into water in the game ur charecter struggles to keep their head above waterand when their head finaly goes down well they d!e.

does that work? 𝕁𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 20:44, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

The devs have specifically stated that they dissolve due to osmotic pressure, basically, their skin is so thin that if they get in a deep enough body of water, the water gets through their skin and they dissolve. They have stressed multiple times that they can't be submerged, and the manga either doesn't know this or chooses to ignore it. Them submerging their heads has nothing to do with it. Olivia (talk) 05:49, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

another example of the manga not being canon is when dogs are mentioned despite being extinct in the splatoon universe Beckett.spl (talk) 01:53, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Switch 2 Joy-con 2 and Pro controller 2 as controller modes on splatoon 2 and 3 modes?

The switch 2 launched a few days ago, being compatible with (almost) any switch 1 game that exists. Do we add "Joy con 2" and "Pro controller 2" to the "Controllers supported" thing? Pikmingamer9539 (talk) 10:12, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

No reason not to. Olivia (talk) 12:44, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

I mean, they are supported on Switch 1 games, so why not… PearlFan99 (talk) 15:58, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

NEW SPLATOON GAME

This is not a drill: a Splatoon spin-off has been announced for Switch 2! It’s called Splatoon Raiders, and it looks like a cross between an action/adventure and a 3rd person shooter. Watch the official review here.

Autoconfimed users can help us make the page for the game, so head here to help us edit! Lofiguy (talk) 14:14, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

That's really interesting! I'm super excited, but for now I guess it's time to work. We can expect a lot of Splatoon fans to come here for info, so it's time to prepare! NewSquidbeakSplatoon (talk) 14:35, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Also, Splatoon 3 getting new weapons, Urchin Underpass, and freshness levels are raised from 5 stars max to 10 stars max. I can't wait to get work on all this new content in 2 days. (talk about Splatoon/ask a question) 15:15, 10 June 2025 (UTC)