User talk:AKB

Hey, welcome to my talk page!

Global changes in the last 24 hrs? And a couple questions...
Hi AKB New to this Wiki editing thang so forgive the ignorance. I have a couple questions if you don't mind.

Changes to global page layout within the last 24hrs? Yesterday I populated near all of the Serpentis System (some of Serpentis III had been done), by using the template of the Jemison page everything started to look great. I uploaded images grabbed from my Xbox (that's a feat in itself), cleaned them up also using the guidelines as best I could, such as the naming convention etc. I did use 'planet' and 'moon' to disseminate between them (question within a question here...should they all be nominated 'planet' in the naming convention or did I do right).

This morning when I came back to see if I had a reply from another user (which I did), about his approval to change the image he had on Serpentis III being 16:9 to follow the 1:1 format for the images I'd entered for the rest of the system, he replied, "go for it". But then I noticed the images have moved from the being at the top of the righthand spine of information to the lefthand side of the page. I also notice the image captions are empty and just show '' whereas yesterday they seemed fine. Please tell me what I did wrong or what am I missing?

Apologies for the long-winded couple questions... I just wanted to be sure I didn't break anything yesterday. Also if this was the wrong place to ask this question, apologies... still learning the ropes.

PS... Please disregard this... my desktop browser cache acted up. Following the topic about changing the image of the planet from 16:9 to 1:1 to conform with the other planet/moon images I added the new image to the system however the appearance of the planet on the page is warped and I don't have a reason why it would do this?

Tropolite (talk) 19:11, 9 October 2023 (EDT)

Biome table on Planet/Moon page
The first post was too long to add any more questions to it so here is another. On the planet pages I've added the 'Biome table', (found on the Jemison page), and used it as a guide when populating the pages I've been working on, primarily the Serpentis System.

The Biome table has as its last column 'Minerals' and I see that as superfluous and trying to populate that column would be excruciating to do. Can this column be dropped?

Tropolite (talk) 22:52, 9 October 2023 (EDT)


 * We might be nearing a solution to this specific problem, where we will be able to determine exactly what minerals can be found in each biome, and then list them all with a bot. So don't worry about filling them out, but it'd be nice to copy them over. --AKB (talk) 10:33, 10 October 2023 (EDT)

Thanks for the update, appreciate it. Two things I noticed, if you can confirm, Jeancey made a couple minor changes to the Serpentis VI-b details;
 * 1) Changed the image name from File:SF-moon-Serpentis VI-b.jpg to File:SF-planet-Serpentis VI-b.jpg. Can I take this as name all planets/moons as "planet" in the naming convention?
 * 2) Jeancey removed the rarity tag in the Benzene resource. I take it this variable is no longer necessary? I will go through the previous pages and take these out if that is the case.

Is there a better place to discuss changes/edits in the SF Wiki? I don't want to harass you continually and I should ask the editor of the page to be fair.

And finally, is there a planet page that is complete and properly formatted so I can use this to learn the code quicker (currently using Jemison as my goto page).

Thanks for your help and sorry to be a pest.

Tropolite (talk) 19:49, 10 October 2023 (EDT)


 * You're not a pest at all!
 * Yeah the plan is to standardize all images of the planets themselves to SF-planet-[Planet/Moon Name].[File Extension].
 * Not sure about the benzene resource thing off the top of my head, unfortunately.
 * It's perfectly fine to use talk pages to discuss development of the wiki. We also maintain a Discord server for slightly more casual/real time discussion about the wiki and Starfield itself.
 * Jemison is probably the best example at the moment of the direction we want planet pages to go. Unfortunately as there isn't a really great previous example of planets in Bethesda games, it's sort of an ongoing process of us learning what information is unique and can be presented on these pages in a meaningful way. For example, in the future we may learn more about how planet generation works, and discover that it is a fixed seed, so all the cells will actually be the same for every player. That would greatly change how we go about documenting planets. --AKB (talk) 06:04, 11 October 2023 (EDT)


 * Appreciate your feedback it's very helpful AKB.
 * Don't worry I will become a pest soon enough :)
 * I've been on a learning curve working on the wiki ... it's fun. I'm a retired IT Professional and use to Web Design and development as part of a great bundle of things an IT career throws at you. Reading through as much help files as I can I probably should have put this whole thread on your Discuss page, not directly on your Talk page.


 * And that leads me to my last question for the current hour, what is the protocol for replacing images on the Planet pages? I've populated two Systems (Nirah and currently working on Tau Ceti), and there is one image in each that have been uploaded there for some time. I've created a talk on the two uploaders pages (one asking approval, and one suggesting I will replace the image), but in both circumstances I suggested I will add a Note and a Gallery including their images at the bottom of the specific planet pages. One image is from the Starfield Direct promotion on Ka'zaal and the other is on Tau Ceti VIII-b being a gameplay screenshot running on the planet. (And here I've learnt you can abbreviate 'Starfield' in the tags to SF ... nice).


 * I don't want to peeve anyone by arbitrarily replacing their image if protocol doesn't permit, but when I'm on a roll editing I really don't want to bypass one page here, and another there. Check out the surrounding planets with the graphics I've uploaded. Any suggestions in this would be helpful.
 * Thanks AKB, I'll check out the Discord server. Appreciate your time.

Cheers Tropolite (talk) 07:20, 11 October 2023 (EDT)