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To Do
- Consider recording all splatfest dance animations & general player npc animations and compiling them on the wiki. this is probably only possible for splatoon 2 with hacking. we still have time for doing it legit with s3 though !
Merge stage sections with hub sections, making a single table with a location column
While this will lead to a lot of repetition of "Lobby/Hub" for Splatoon 3, a lot of advertisements found in Splatoon 2's stages can also be found in the hub. Having separate tables for hub ads & stage ads doesn't seem like it'll work for Splatoon 2, and possibly won't work for Splatoon 3 in the future. Regardless, this should be done for consistency.
Rework/fix tables
Currently, the tables don't look great on mobile. This is because the column widths are percentages as the default widths make the description as wide as possible and the outer columns very thin. This should be fixed.
Content
Add Splatoon 1 ads/graphics
Note: Will have to be recorded in-game as converting them to video using their frames is much more difficult than with Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3.
Add Splatoon 2 ads/graphics
Add 'First seen' information to Splatoon 2 tables
This will be tricky, but you may find information in the trivia sections of some articles, as well as in the version pages
Things to consider
Renaming the page
'Video advertisements and graphics' is a bit of a mouthful and is somewhat vague. Under this definition, the animations that appear on Splatoon 3's lobby tower could count, alongside the videos that play on the Squid Sisters' Splatfest trucks. The 'graphics' part was added due to non-advertising videos being included (the animations above the lobby entrance in S2, and now fest animations) but maybe "animation" would be better? but "video animation" doesn't sound great. Something like "Video advertisements and animations"? "In-game commercials and animations"? First one is basically just as vague, and think I prefer 'advertisement' over commercial, but that may just be me. Anyway, I'm still thinking about it.
Incomplete sources
This is mostly useless so I'm probably never going to go back and do this again, but if you search "Source=ingame" or "Source=in game" on here you will find over 150 files with like "in-game screenshot" or "in-game file" as their source. im guessing these all come from new users, misinformed users or before the file template was a thing. The plan is to stick a {{Incomplete Source}} on all of them, then ask the uploaders in question what their source was where thats sensible (e.g. a screenshot from 2022 at the latest and uploaded by an active user). My eyes hurt from staring at a computer all day though so I Will Not Be Doing That
The promotional player characters of Splatoon (2015)[1], as well as many hub NPCs across the series, seem to be named after Miis. While these are sort of documented on the FANDOM wiki, they arent documented on MiiWiki. The FANDOM wiki has good comments but it's not good for sourcing (and MiiWiki is a NIWA partner so we NEED to use that), so in order for me to talk about the Miis the Splatoon promotional characters are named after, I need to make the pages for these Miis (at least Kaori and John cmonnnn). I don't have a Wii U so it will be a bit hard to document the important ones (Kaori, John, Rui.. they are all from Wii Sports Club on the Wii U) & I have a Terrible way with words but I will figure something out.
The ones needed:
Main promotional
Name
Page created?
Kaori
☐
John
☐
Mizuho
☐
Yuriko
☐
Laura
☐
Rui
☐
Yuya
☐
Pit
☐
Hub NPC
Name
Page created?
-
-
Unlabelled excused fansparencies
A lot of the amiibo images from the Splatoon-Splatoon 2 era have fan-made transparency. These were uploaded when fansparency was allowed, so it makes sense. These are supposedly exceptions due to their use in infoboxes for amiibo gear, though they are still used in galleries and articles. In the case where fansparent images are used, we need to make sure they are ONLY used for infoboxes (& maybe as inline icons in text) and not anywhere else, and they should be properly labelled as unofficial transparent images that should only be used for the infoboxes (also can be used in userboxes since that's userspace, but thats unrelated to wiki stuff...). Maybe they could be marked as Inkipedia images? We also might need to rename the images to reflect their uses. The infobox templates might need to be modified as a result.
In the case where fansparent images are used with no official alternative, new files with proper sources need to be uploaded & replace all instances of the fansparent image being used. This is so if higher resolution official images are found, we can upload them as a new upload without messing with the infobox amiibo icons. Edited images should also be presented as unofficial since users may assume otherwise, with it being against policy (for the ~5 wiki viewers out there that know Inkipedia policies..).
List
File:S amiibo Callie.png (Edit) (this one has already been reverted by Stink, but it should be re-reverted, so the official version can be uploaded under a different name)
I need to wake up in 3 hours so I can't finish this rn. Additional information should be added regarding signatures and their suspected owners (within reason). I am not sure how to format it yet. Also I should probably reupload these images as texture crops... you gotta wait for that though, sorry.
As I'm unfamiliar with handwritten Japanese and what features of letters are most important, I'm not sure if this interpretation is within reason. Though the さ is hiragana and the rest is katakana, the letter looks more like an upside-down さ than a サ, to me. LMK if I'm wrong, though I don't think I will add this without checking beforehand anyway.
I have been told this looks like 'generic signature scribble' so maybe not....
Maybe the Murasaki drawing is supposed to feature an upside-down M, meaning the ム is actually a U and we have 'MUラさキ' murasaki???!
Next to what seem to be the signatures of Quinn and Ichiya (band relation)
Next to what seems to be the signature of Yoko, and close to one that looks like Kitamura's (band relation)
Current trivia point
The signatures on the exterior of Hotlantis appear to belong to several in-universe musicians from Splatoon and Splatoon 2. Various signatures have text that resembles a combination of English and Japanese writing (such as a signature that resembles "Mやや" likely being Maya from Ink Theory). A handful of signatures additionally feature the physical characteristics of musicians, such as a signature featuring a drawing of Murasaki's face.
The front window appears to bear signatures from the Squid Sisters and Off the Hook. Callie and Marie's signatures from Splatoon 2 can be seen on the central panel, and on the left is a large "ひめ" signature and a smaller "eだ" above and to its left, likely Pearl and Marina respectively.
Updated trivia point / appearance section / whatever
come back later
Promotional Characters in the Splatoon series intro desc
Promotional characters refer to the characters used in promotional material that are meant to stand in for a player. Typically, these are the Inklings and Octolings present on the box art, amiibo and crossovers. [talk about how there is a main duo and a main character in every game + oe bc idk how to do that right now. also talk about how theres a main 8 characters (oe messes with things here but we'll figure it out)] [talk about inconsistency and how they are not actual characters like the idols but are stand ins for players and can act as a representation of their respective games].
A sort of maybe forever WIP plan to make a more complex tumblr archive template, that lets you put images wherever. Splits the template up into 3 parts: Header, Content & Footer. Header & Footer are the same as the regular archive, but Content will just let you put in raw wikitext, that'll be contained within a div and formatted by a class. I need to look more into templates to see whats possible and what's not. I hope it could be all 1 template, but I think each section could be its own template if needed. If thats too confusing then we could have another template that calls on those templates. I'm not sure if that's a good idea though.
The solid flags are not very readable. If you are some Stranger that has come across this page and wants to steal those ones, please lighten the colours first.
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