November 2022[]
Hi. I appreciate your work on the Minecraft Dungeons namespace, but I would like to talk to you about how articles are generally set up, which involve your recent edits.
In regards to enchantment pages, galleries and references are not required on the page. The former is not needed if the gallery only has the enchantment icon (example) and the latter is not needed if no references exist on the page (example).
I ask that you please read over MCW:FEATURES and the style guide in general. Thank you. BDJP (t|c) 15:39, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
- Apologies, I'll take this into consideration in the future. I'll have all unneeded Gallery and References sections removed over the next few days. HMPilatus (talk) 15:47, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
Icons in prose[]
Hi there. Please avoid including icons in prose. They are fine in lists. There is a proposal to amend Minecraft Wiki:Style guide to include this prohibition, because it is already a standard practice all over this wiki. I'm having to clean up after several of your edits (this one for example, which you changed from a link to an icon that adds no value to the text). Amatulic (talk) 23:30, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
- The example you gave was using an icon in a list. Icons should be used in the properties section, it doesn't hinder readability as it does when in paragraphs. HMPilatus (talk) 14:57, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
- It was used in a parenthetical note. The fact that the note was in a list doesn't matter in this case; the icon was still embedded in the prose. I disagree that icons for enchantments are needed in such property notes, and I have been removing them wherever I see them, as they are part of the prose, not merely list items. Amatulic (talk) 18:39, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
Order of merchants in Obtaining sections[]
While I like your edits, I do think that you should tone it down a bit so that people can keep up with you to correct any mistakes that you made. I say this because in many of your edits, you are making the order of merchants in the Obtaining sections alphabetical, when they should actually be listed in order of what mission they are initially encountered in.Drour1234 (talk) 19:41, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
- Okay, sorry. What is that order? I made it alphabetical because each page seemed to have them listed differently. HMPilatus (talk) 21:22, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
- If the mission that a merchant appears in comes before anther mission that another merchant appears in, then that first merchant would be listed first. For example, the Village Merchant appears within the Creeper Woods and the Gift Wrapper appears within the Soggy Swamp. Since the Creeper Woods mission comes before the Soggy Swamp mission, it therefore would make sense that the Village Merchant would be listed before the Gift Wrapper. Apply this to the other merchants, and you would therefore have the order in which the merchants should be listed on the various pages.Drour1234 (talk) 23:25, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Harristic. But it does have a lot of Easter eggs though. LogicEcho (talk) 18:26, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
- The page is about an April Fools version, April Fools content is generally separated from main game content (even in categories) which is why nothing from the April Fools versions is on the Easter eggs page. It's harder to distinguish what in the April Fools versions are Easter eggs and what aren't, considering everything in them is either a reference or joke in some way. - Harristic | Talk | Contributions 13:38, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I might put in an appropriate redirect later though, to make it easier for anyone searching for Easter eggs and associated April Fools jokes to cross-reference. LogicEcho (talk) 16:07, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
Ender Dragon[]
I would greatly appreciate if you could please explain 1. How Notch's words on the Ender Dragon are wrong when he referred to the dragon as a female, 2. Why the unofficial Wiki can't refer to the Ender Dragon as female, 3. The Dragon Egg's existence, and 4. Why we're not allowed to refer to the Ender Dragon as a female outside of this Wiki. Is it wrong for us to personally call the Ender Dragon a female? GoyangiStudios (talk) 06:45, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
- 1. Notch's words could be considered correct at the time, however since that time, his statement about the dragon being female has been contradicted. In the Minecraft Game Design book, written by Jeb, it is stated that all mobs are genderless. Kingbdogz has said the same thing in a tweet. Most interestingly, Notch himself said specifically "All the other mobs in the game are genderless" in a blog post, he said this after he said the dragon was female.
- 2. Whether or not the wiki is official is irrelevant to this matter. The information we provide should be accurate, whether or not we are deemed official by Mojang.
- 3. Mobs can exhibit traits from any/multiple sex, in the blog post I linked in the first point, Notch said this in relation to mobs "usually exhibit the most prominent traits of both genders. Cows have horns and udders (even if I’ve later learned that there are some cows where the females do have horns), and the chicken/duck/whatevers have heads that look like roosters, but still lay eggs. For breeding, any animal can breed with any other animal of the same species." Therefore, while laying eggs is a female trait, these traits do not define their gender in the world of Minecraft.
- 4. If you want to refer to the dragon with female pronouns, you are allowed to do that and nobody is stopping you. Personally, I often refer to some characters with male pronouns, despite it not being accurate. However, the pronouns used on the wiki should be accurate. - Harristic (talk) 14:03, 19 August 2023 (UTC)