Stubs and notability
There are a lot of stub articles here that have no reasonable room for improvement. For example, what more can one say about the ID Card? Its relevance in the plot of Breath of Fire III is to access an area in the Black Ship. There's not a lot more to be said about the key item.
My idea is to redirect all of these articles to a list for a category of items. That way, navigation via the search bar is still possible, and the wiki won't be cluttered by stub pages that have no room for expansion.
As for the issue of notability...
- Is the item featured in multiple games? If so, it might be more helpful to create an article about the item, listing the item's stats in every game it appears.
- Is the item featured in only one game? If so, create a redire…
Recategorization project
I aim to reorganize the categories in this Wiki. Following English Wikipedia's guidelines on categorizing...
- Categories should have an is-a relationship. For example, "Breath of Fire II Offensive Item(s)" is a "Breath of Fire II Item(s)"
- A category should only be created if it has at least two items in it
- Set categories should be written in plural. For example, "Items", "Weapons", etc.
- Topic categories should be written in singular. For example, "Breath of Fire" is a topic category about the first game in the series
- An article with a category "X" should not be categorized under "X"'s ancestors. For example, Firecrackers should not be categorized under both "Breath of Fire II Offensive Items" and "Offensive Items".
- By corollary, an article should…
BoFIII and IV skill lists
- 1 Adding screenshots
- 2 Breath of Fire IV Combos
- 2.1 Table Format
- 3 Breath of Fire IV Dragon Spells
- 4 Completion (2021/08/20)
?Shouldn't be too difficult. Open up RetroArch, start going around different places to add some variety to the screenshots, wait for random battles, and use the skills. Use the PCSX reARMed core to minimize aspect ratio distortion, take a screenshot, upload, and you're done.
I do not recommend using Beetle PSX as it seems to distort aspect ratio severely. PCSX screenshots come out pretty okay, with an aspect ratio of 3.998:3. Beetle PSX is a lot more stretched out horizontally, with an aspect ratio of 4.3636:3 (!!), which is a difference of around 51 pixels, considering the resolution of the screenshot that Beetle PSX outputs. …
Fixing Breath of Fire III skill articles
- 1 List
- 1.1 Main work already done, might need polishing
- 1.2 Not done
- 1.3 Needs an article
- 1.4 Add info for other games
- 2 Consistency, consistency, consistency!
- 2.1 Words to use
Here are the articles I found that need improvement:
- Flying Kick
- Air Raid
- Death (Ability)
- Purify
- Timed Blow
- Sirocco
- Simoon
- Quake
- Venom Breath
- Weaken
- Shield (Ability)
- Tornado
- Magic Ball
- Dream Breath
- Egghead
- Disembowel
- Sanctuary
- Double Blow
- Benediction
- Lightning
- Multistrike
- Focus
The list may change from time to time
The article Inferno is a good starting point here, it's well written and pretty tidy. For now I'm going to tidy up the articles in the list above, then I can start with making everything consistent.
- Single
- Multi-target
- Attack ability
- Healing ability
- Assist ability
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