Help talk:Guidelines

Proposals
stemming from discussion on IRC ==Videos== Videos are a handy method of disseminating information, however they can be abused. Videos do not act as a replacement for a text description; don't add something to TCRF and have it link to a video for the reader to watch. YouTube videos are not guaranteed to stay up forever so if possible, upload anything that needs to be a video (for instance, unused video content) onto TCRF. If you cannot do this for some reason (for instance, the filesize is larger than the cap), contact an admin.

Filenames
USE DESCRIPTIVE FILENAMES WITH NAMES THAT STATE WHAT GAME THE CONTENT COMES FROM. Calling something "Unused enemy.png" is useless to us and error-prone to other users who break this rule. proposal text; TCRF doesn't have video upload ye tso IDK how this should be done also this page should be on the sidebar - Andlabs 23:41, 14 September 2011 (EDT)
 * https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Extension:FlvHandler
 * Here you go. --Afti 00:02, 15 September 2011 (EDT)
 * (also, we have an IRC channel? what is this?)
 * Yeah; surprised we don't have it on the fornt page: irc.badnik.net #tcrf
 * (you get auto-joined if you use the Jul IRC client)
 * Also:

==Say How To Do Something== That. Looking at a page, seeing a cool debug feature, but not seeing how to get to it is VERY annoying. If you don't know how to do something, say so and add it to The Cutting Room Floor:Content to expand or point it out on the forum and someone who knows can find it.
 * Again, these are just suggestions; if you have a problem with the way I worded it here, change it =P - Andlabs 19:06, 15 September 2011 (EDT)

One thing

 * Hard as it may be at times, keep the snark/fanboyisms to a minimum. While it's all right to mention a game being good or successful/horrible financially, remember that this is a wiki for unused and hidden content in games, not a place for you to praise or haze a game or system you like/dislike. As such, even the worst games deserve respectfully written articles.

This is inconsistent with how things are and have been done; clearing this up would avoid debacles like with the Wii Cave Story page.

How's this sound?


 * It's okay if you let your opinion on a game flavor its article- provided that doesn't impede your ability to discuss the unused content in it. The vast majority of any snark/gushing should be kept to the introduction. The tone of the article should be set by the people doing the brunt of the work on it- don't edit an article just to mock a game you dislike, and don't edit it just to make it more favorable to a game you do like. If you have a problem with the tone, discuss it with the article's author, or a member of the staff.

and another idea:
 * If an edit you made seems to have magically disappeared, don't add it back in — it was done for a reason, and adding it back in only ticks the administrators off. Admins leave the reason why an edit was reverted in the edit summary, which you can get to by clicking the History link at the top of every page.
 * Don't worry about excess space or things clashing. For horizontal space, multiple spaces will be ignored. For vertical space, remember that everybody runs their browser at a different resolution and window size, so what you see isn't necessarily what everyone else sees. Of course, in some cases, a single 

 before a new section wouldn't hurt.

- Andlabs 20:54, 28 December 2011 (EST)

Headers and the guidelines' size
I propose a guideline about how headers should work, but... Everyone has different opinions, as usual. It's just that it's a bit jarring to see some headers "Being Typed In Capital Case" (or whatever the name of that is), and others "Being typed in sentence case". In my opinion, which is the same as most wikis and Wikipedia itself, headers should have the first letter capitalized and that's it. After all, in "Unused level objects", for instance, there's no point in having "Level" or "Objects" start with a capital - neither of those are proper nouns, nor are they so super special that they deserve to be glorified with a capital letter. Of course, if the header does contain proper nouns within, they should remain proper nouns with their right capitals.

Another thing is the fact that the guidelines are starting to grow a bit... Sometimes, a user wants to contribute, checks out the guidelines and damn! That's a lot of text! It can easily drive the laziest contributors away from adding juicy info, in fear they might break a rule because they didn't read the guidelines. It's also starting to get hard reading through all of that to find something. Should we remove some redundant and obvious guidelines to reduce the size? {EspyoT} 08:24, 21 February 2012 (EST)

Exception?
"In the case of unused music, voice clips/dialogue, or sound effects, there is never a reason to embed a YouTube video instead of uploading an OGG." Since My computer is dead, and my school blocked all streaming sites on their network + computers(Stupid Sophos Protection -.-), can I have an exception to upload the unused music via YouTube, and when I can get my computer + not grounded, I will try to convert the YouTube to .ogg?Chaossy - The Computer Geek 17:15, 20 October 2012 (EDT)
 * Don't convert the YouTube music to OGG, it will only introduce more compression on top of YouTube's existing (often crappy) compression. You need to get clean rips directly from the game (whatever it is). --BMF54123 17:57, 20 October 2012 (EDT)
 * Although, of course, these are guidelines. If the files are really needed, you can upload something mildly crude, and it can be updated at a later date. But even still, remember to have a basic level of quality. If it's audio ripped from a video taken with an older cellphone, with some kid doing voice-overs, it's better to not have anything. Maybe you can bring it to the talk page of the game, and someone might be up to ripping it for you. {EspyoT} 19:08, 20 October 2012 (EDT)
 * Like the story of Avatar, loljk. I was going to make the page for the game with that, though.Chaossy - The Computer Geek 19:26, 20 October 2012 (EDT)