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 == List of Pokemon ==
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 Why did you remove some of my autopick edits? [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 20:31, May 27, 2022 (EDT)
 :Did you read my edit summary? --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 20:33, May 27, 2022 (EDT)
+Hello, Im a different user from the one you were speaking two, and the user who was doing the edit to the Eruption page regarding it probably being better if it had an aura effect. I apologize for the constant edit and mistakes. I just assumed that there were errors due to internet. I had no idea they were being removed. Ill be aware next time. <small>—Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:98.252.50.46|98.252.50.46]] ([[User talk:98.252.50.46|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/98.252.50.46|contribs]]) 15:11, August 11, 2022 (EDT)</small>
+:If you suspect that it is an internet issue, then check the edit history to be safe; it should update as soon as the page appears on your end. Also, it is recommended that if you want to respond to a post on your talk page, you respond on your talk page. It helps keep things organized so that all involved don't get lost. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 15:24, August 11, 2022 (EDT)
+Alright then.
 == Team rocket trio or Jessie and James? ==
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 :::It doesn't matter. It is the [https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/seel Sea Lion Pokémon], it is not spelled "seal" in any language, and we already have a [[Seel|redirect for it]]. I see no reason to include it. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 21:16, May 31, 2022 (EDT)
 ::::That page ironically enough says that Seel is at least named after a seal. Comparing deals to sea lions are like comparing alligators to crocodiles and [[King K. Rool]] is based on both. Also, I’m pretty sure some people might spell Seel’s name as Seal. But, this discussion only belongs on Bulbapedia. [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 21:32, May 31, 2022 (EDT)
+:::::One more thing, Seel doesn’t have ear flaps or feet, can’t walk, and is mainly found in water like seals, meaning that it has more seal traits then sea lion traits, and the Japanese category name might refer to Seel as a seal pokemon, but I don’t know that. <small>—Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] ([[User talk:174.55.24.64|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|contribs]]) 22:07, May 31, 2022 (EDT)</small>
+(reset indent) For the IP's sake, I went through [http://web.archive.org/web/20220403162222/https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Seel_(Pok%C3%A9mon)#Trivia an archived page of Bulbapedia's Seel page]. The wiki does mention that Seel is '''seemingly''' (emphasizing on seemingly) based off of the earless seal. However, it also notes that Seel's body characteristics are also reminiscent of several other animals that reside in the Arctic Ocean, including whales and narwhals. Nevertheless, it's still pointless arguing whether Seel is based off a seal since Seel's species is specifically mentioned to be the "Sea Lion Pokémon", and [https://www.americanoceans.org/facts/difference-between-seal-vs-sea-lion/ seals and sea lions are certainly not the same animal]. [[User:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia;color: black;">Cookies</span>]][[File:CnC Signature.png|20px]][[User talk:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;">Creme</span>]] 23:21, May 31, 2022 (EDT)
+:Tgere is a TV Trooe called Mix and Match Critters, and Seel and Dewgong seem to be that with them being based on seals, sea lions, dugongs, manatees, whales, and narwhals, just like how Charizard is both a lizard and a dragon and how Jigglypuff is both a balloon and a cat (around the ears), and even Pikachu itself is a hamster, a mouse, and a rabbit around the ears. That’s all I have to say about this because Pokemon of course, doesn’t copy from real life animals and just makes their own fictional species. [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 23:36, May 31, 2022 (EDT)
+::I also searched Seel and the trope name together, and it said on TV tropes that it has a narwhal horn, walrus tusks, and a mermaid tail. [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 23:57, May 31, 2022 (EDT)
+== Redrict suggestion ==
+Maybe you can make a Tauros redrict too since like Krabby and Muk which evolves from Grimer, they were all Pokémon Ash sent to Professor Oak’s lab in season 1 of the Pokémon anime. [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 20:50, June 11, 2022 (EDT)
+:That's... not a reason to give it a redirect, and neither Muk or Grimer appear in Smash; you should also know that Grimer's redirect has been removed. The reason why Krabby and a few others have redirects is because they appear somewhere in Smash. The ones pointing to the Pokemon list are namely from Melee's opening movie or Poke Floats. I might go through the list at some point and see who does or doesn't have redirects and go from there. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 21:03, June 11, 2022 (EDT)
+::I meant to say you edited the Grimer Japanese page and it made me think of Ash’s Muk and kingler because you edited Krabby’s page, and all the spirit debuts don’t have redirects yet. [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 21:05, June 11, 2022 (EDT)
+== File format ==
+On [[Texas Power Rankings/Austin Power Rankings]] why did you remove my .png upload with a .jpg upload [https://www.ssbwiki.com/index.php?title=Texas_Power_Rankings/Austin_Power_Rankings&diff=1659456&oldid=1659454 here]? I uploaded in .png because .jpg loses data with its lossy compression. --[[User:Meester Tweester|Meester Tweester]] ([[User talk:Meester Tweester|talk]]) 08:00, June 14, 2022 (EDT)
+:Seems the reason he did that was because the original file was a jpeg. Though there is some advantage to converting jpegs to pngs when downscaled for articles, as this won't produce further compression artifacts. jpegs generally look better at the original resolution than a scaled down resolution, while with pngs aside from the obvious downgrade of having fewer pixels, there isn't really much further degradation. ''[[User:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: blue;">'''Alex'''</span>]] the [[User talk:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: red;">'''Weeb'''</span>]]'' 08:35, June 14, 2022 (EDT)
+: (at work and forgot to update my autofill) The image in the tweet that was linked is a JPG. If I recall I think I saw JPG artifacts in your PNG upload, meaning the JPG was converted to PNG. PNG prefers smooth transitions and JPG is inherently noisy, making a PNG'd JPG worse than a normal PNG in terms of file size. I uploaded straight from the source link so there wouldn't be any further artifacting from resaving it. If you have a file that is originally PNG and not converted from JPG then I say go ahead and replace it; if it is still too big in filesize, you can use FileOptimizer to further compress while being lossless. But for now I would say the JPG upload is best because it is 1:1 with the source in quality and size. [[Special:Contributions/172.58.146.36|172.58.146.36]] 08:45, June 14, 2022 (EDT)
+::Now that I'm home, I no longer have your PNG upload that I saved to check for artifacts to check it again, but the above would be why. The JPG is 1,526,893 bytes and using GIMP to export to a PNG at max compression gave 9,485,347, 6.2x the file size (FileOptimizer got it down to 5.97x, not much better). JPG chokes on sharp edges (which is in abundance, especially with the half-tone background), resulting in a lot of artifacts. Said artifacts create messy areas that PNG will then choke on, but would do better on a cleaner input.
+::"Though there is some advantage to converting jpegs to pngs when downscaled for articles, as this won't produce further compression artifacts", hypothetically yes, in practice it barely matters. JPG's artifacts are almost always in 8x8 pixel blocks (sometimes 16x16 but much less often). The article image was scaled down to 500x250 px with the source being 4000x2000 px. This is an 1/8x scale, meaning the source artifacts would be scaled down to single pixels and thus have little to no influence on the discrete cosine transform (DCT, the part of JPG that causes the artifacts) when resaving. Even at 1/4x scale any resulting artifacts would be unnoticeable except to someone like me who scrutinizes this kind of stuff, but even then that kind of person would directly open the image to see it raw instead of an inferior copy. 1/4x is pretty common on the wiki with most game screenshots being 1280x720 and scaling down to a reasonable 300xWhatever size.
+::In short, better to keep JPGs as JPGs and PNGs as PNGs. It is extra disk space for the wiki, extra bandwidth for the wiki, probably longer load times (because of the larger file size and the more convoluted rendering sequence), and extra disk space for whomever downloads the image for whatever they need&mdash;which will probably be turned in to another lossy format, so double artifacts. If the source is a video then artifacts are inevitable and a PNG is preferred to prevent double artifacting, though the highest quality available should be used if possible. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 16:15, June 14, 2022 (EDT)
+== Voice Vandalism ==
+Why is the [[List of voice actors]] page being vandalized all the time? [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 19:24, July 6, 2022 (EDT)
+:Not all of it is vandalism, quite a bit is good faith edits that don't quite cut it for one reason or another.
+:Take the Wolf/Ja Green edit recently as an example. Ja Green did voice Wolf at one point, just not in a Smash appearance. This is an easy thing to happen because someone can go to a voice actor repository or another wiki and see "ACTOR NAME... CHARACTER (voice)" and assume it applies everywhere but in actuality is only for select instances.
+:Another case of assumed vandalism that turned out to be true was "Mr. T" as Snorlax. It took a while for another editor to find information that Mr. T did voice Snorlax. But it wasn't {{iw|wikipedia|Mr. T}} the American actor, instead it was a Japanese actor that (I think) used that name to be anonymous, essentially being listed in credits as "Actor T".
+:This isn't helped by the fact that, prior to Ultimate, you would need a certain region's version of Smash to know if the voice actor was different. In a lot of cases the actors are listed in the credits but not along with their role. Even in Sound Test the voice actor might be listed, but usually ''only'' for Japanese, which as an English wiki can be a little hard to get info on. Many actors don't publicly announce or list their roles for any number of reasons. This often results in editors needing to dig through other websites, many of which don't give a citation (sometimes they'll cite another site which repeats the issue) and with voice acting it can be hard to give a citation in the first place.
+:Obviously we'll get someone who thinks it is hilarious to say Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson is Mario and it gets removed. But in a lot of cases it is just a complicated mess. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 20:07, July 6, 2022 (EDT)
+== Yousei  ==
+How did he come back to SmashWiki to argue about voices if he’s already blocked? [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 17:47, July 10, 2022 (EDT)
+:Blocks can have different settings, such as removing the ability to edit articles, use email, create accounts, etc. It is common for blocks to allow users to keep the ability to edit their talk page so they can attempt to get unblocked, such as there being a misunderstanding or their username breaks the username policy (which would need the being able to talk to suggest an appropriate name); for obvious bad-faith/vandals or a user refusing to use the talk page to repeal and continue to be a nuisance, then they often get that ability removed. In Yousei's case, they still have access to their talk page but can't edit articles. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 18:05, July 10, 2022 (EDT)
+== Yousei sockpuppet ==
+Edited the [[Blastoise]] page. [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 21:57, July 15, 2022 (EDT)
+:<s>If you're gonna warn SmashWiki about potential sockpuppets, don't go on a random user's talk page. We have the [[SmashWiki:Administrators' noticeboard|Admin noticeboard]] for that (you could alternatively ping an admin on Discord if you have an account on there).</s>Actually scratch that, IPs can't edit on the Admin's Noticeboard, so never mind what I said (If you do eventually make an account, though, then please use it next time). [[File:JacketTerraSig1.png|20px]]'''The [[User:The Jacketed Terrapin|<span style="color: blue;">Jacketed</span>]] [[User talk:The Jacketed Terrapin|<span style="color: green;">Terrapin</span>]]'''[[File:JacketTerraSig2.png|20px]] 23:07, July 15, 2022 (EDT)
+:I have a tab open just for Recent Changes, I saw them. Even if I didn't see them before your message, I (or someone else) would have eventually. Yousei's edits aren't the kind that need immediate attention. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 23:35, July 15, 2022 (EDT)
+:Also, we have people on Discord notifying the admins about Yousei, so the people who are supposed to deal with these situations know what's going on. [[User:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia;color: black;">Cookies</span>]][[File:CnC Signature.png|20px]][[User talk:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;">Creme</span>]] 14:55, July 16, 2022 (EDT)
+::Why wasn’t the Yousei sockpuppet added to the administrator’s noticeboard yet? [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 18:59, July 17, 2022 (EDT)
+:::He's blocked already. Stop posting about him. ''[[User:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: blue;">'''Alex'''</span>]] the [[User talk:Alex the weeb|<span style="color: red;">'''Weeb'''</span>]]'' 19:05, July 17, 2022 (EDT)
+:::I'll think you'll want to read [[Special:Diff/1671432#The_ban_of_74.75.9.45|this thread on Omega Tyrant's talkpage]] to understand why that sockpuppet might not have been reported on the Admin's noticeboard. In short, Discord is just the quicker way of notifying admins about troublesome users and it's likely most users online at the time just assumed that somebody already alerted an admin on Discord about Yousei's sockpuppet.
+:::As I've told you [[Special:Diff/1708937|on this talk page post]], you could've at least tried contacting an admin on their talk page to let them know of the situation, and you need to be patient and wait for the situation to be dealt with (which, as Alex stated, this case has already been) because your continuous pestering is being disruptive to the Wiki. [[File:JacketTerraSig1.png|20px]]'''The [[User:The Jacketed Terrapin|<span style="color: blue;">Jacketed</span>]] [[User talk:The Jacketed Terrapin|<span style="color: green;">Terrapin</span>]]'''[[File:JacketTerraSig2.png|20px]] 19:38, July 17, 2022 (EDT)
+== Oshawott spirit  ==
+About what you said on your [[Cool Blue Summer]], you said [[Oshawott]] doesn’t have a spirit but it indeed does, and I forgot {{pkmn|Sobble}} in my edit too (paired with the other Galar starters). [[Special:Contributions/174.55.24.64|174.55.24.64]] 23:47, July 27, 2022 (EDT)
+:You really do not need to make a post on something as trivial as this. The point CanvasK is making is that the trivia point is barely unique at all, if not worded atrociously. [[User:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia;color: black;">Cookies</span>]][[File:CnC Signature.png|20px]][[User talk:Cookies and Creme|<span style="font-family: Georgia; color: black;">Creme</span>]] 23:49, July 27, 2022 (EDT)
+:I may have meant one and not the other, it is late and I'm tired from looking up a bunch of stuff today. Besides, it boils down to "of the 3 applicable starter water types, only 1 is in the event", which is too specific to be interesting. And there's probably a dozen spirits that aren't in the event that could be, so it is too specific and not unique. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 23:59, July 27, 2022 (EDT)
+== Zelda Wiki links ==
+I'm trying to have it so that the images don't link to Fandom at all to avoid any future potential problems from that site. I also downloaded them directly from Fandom without any conversion on my end, so any transparency lost can be easily fixed without resorting to linking back to them again. '''[[User:Voqéo|<span style="background:#000; color:white; padding:2px 6px;font-size:12px;">Voqéo</span>]][[User talk:Voqéo|<span style="background:#e70012; color:white; padding:2px 4px;font-size:12px;">T</span>]]''' 18:40, August 2, 2022 (EDT)
+:It just seemed silly to me to have multiple places have exact copies of something, though I guess that is imgur's job. I won't pushback against it, especially if other users feel the same way. Just make sure that things with transparency are properly saved as PNG; try to keep the format in general if possible. Fun fact, while trying to find a workaround for FANDOM's nonsense, I learned it is not an issue with their software [https://community.fandom.com/f/p/3685233706663939045 but deliberate]. --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 19:06, August 2, 2022 (EDT)
+== How did you find out that air acceleration values were altered by Monado Arts? ==
+This isn't me trying to be rude or prove that I'm right, I'm just curious. But how did you discover that air acceleration was affected by Speed and Shield? I just assumed that only air speed was affected because air acceleration has never been acknowledged to be changed by different arts. [[User:SacredFire37|SacredFire]] ([[User talk:SacredFire37|talk]]). 18:45, August 13, 2022 (EDT)
+:First I checked the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rwDPL1jhE-KuEbbcBkkTb44z1smJp9rYme_xb4BIJTk/edit#gid=314137474&range=E23 vl param spreadsheet] to see if it was documented by the dataminers. Then I tried to check if they were correct by doing pixel measurements as I lack access to position values. I do this by going to Dream Land GB BF form, going to the right edge, jump, pause, hold right, unpause, then let Kirby/Shulk move and repeat for the other Arts. I then cause the match to end so I can save it as a replay (exiting doesn't allow replays for some reason). Then I view the replay and use the "Next/Prev Fighter" thing to lock the camera onto one of them with a good amount of zoom; the camera is tied to their position unlike the Training camera which slowly trails. I use a capture card to record it since it lets me get the max 1080p but you can also use the built-in converter which gives 720p and grab it from an SD card (lower resolution but you work with what you got). I then extract a handful of frames using other software (I use Blender 3D since I know it), load them into an image editor (I use GIMP), then line up the background features of the stage (Dream Land GB has next to no parallax and a lot of crisp lines, making it nice), and note down the amount needed to line them up. Doing all that I got the following values in pixels:
+::Base: 4, 8, 11, 16
+::Jump: 4, 8, 11, 16
+::Speed: 5, 10, 15, 20
+::Shield: 3, 6, 9, 11
+:These are the first few frames of when Kirby started to move from a standstill, meaning these are the acceleration frames. As you can see Speed and Shield have a noticeable difference from no Art and Jump and thus they affect acceleration and Jump doesn't. What these translate to in units doesn't matter since <code>(p1*c)/(p2*c) = p1/p2</code>, but to make sure that this method works to begin with I know that the zoom makes Steve's Crafting Table 410px wide/tall at 1080p, the CT is 10 units wide/tall, thus 1 unit is 41px, thus 1px is 1/41 units and doing some math on the no Art values was fairly close to Kirby's coded values (0.9756 vs 0.095, acceptable). --[[User:CanvasK|CanvasK]] ([[User talk:CanvasK|talk]]) 19:16, August 13, 2022 (EDT)
+:::I see, thank you. [[User:SacredFire37|SacredFire]] ([[User talk:SacredFire37|talk]]). 12:02, August 14, 2022 (EDT)
+== reply ==
+https://www.ssbwiki.com/Talk:List_of_voice_actors#Other_or_Unknown_Role <small>—Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:126.141.164.103|126.141.164.103]] ([[User talk:126.141.164.103|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/126.141.164.103|contribs]]) 01:29, August 20, 2022 (EDT)</small>