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The Ore page

I noticed the Ore page has no selling prices to assist people. Can someone edit that in? Mayor Of Estrealla (talk) 14:01, January 8, 2015 (EST)

Thank you for telling us about this omission, it's been updated now with the selling prices. And welcome to Nookipedia! Just remember to place new discussions at the bottom of talk pages (using the "+" button next to the "edit" one to start a new section helps) and you'll be fine! Drago (talk) 14:36, January 8, 2015 (EST)

beta/talk

you need to add articles on beta versions of the games! also, make more talk pages Pac-banana (talk) 18:47, February 14, 2015 (EST)

Could you expand on what you mean by beta versions of the games? Right now, any articles we have on beta content is located at Category:Beta. ~SuperHamster Talk 20:43, February 14, 2015 (EST)

i mean beta versions of the games. also, i almost never see a talk page Pac-banana (talk) 14:08, February 16, 2015 (EST)

Yes, but do you have any examples of what can be covered? We do cover the development of games (e.g. NL#Development_and_Unveiling); I'm not sure what else there is to say? Nintendo doesn't really launch beta versions of games, so if there isn't much information available on pre-release versions of the game, there's not much to write about.

Talk pages can be made by users if there are comments to be made, so feel free to make one if you have something to say about an article. ~SuperHamster Talk 14:14, February 16, 2015 (EST)

FYI, "beta" can mean a certain pre-release development stages in the game too ("alpha" is the stage before "beta". You have to be more specific on "beta versions" of games. Finally, don't create talk pages for the sake of creating talk pages. We create talk pages when questions concerning the articles arise, simple. ™ 16:28, February 17, 2015 (EST)

Just chiming in here. There do exist what have been called 'beta worlds' or 'beta levels' by the AC community in ACGC (and I believe DnM, DnM+ and possibly DnM e+). These can be accessed by generating an invisible item (via cheating device) that when dropped and stepped on transports the player to a 'beta level'. There are half a dozen or so areas, most of which seem to have been designed to test different elements within the game. One of the 'beta levels' is actually the town from the start screen. Here is an example of one such beta world. (talk) 16:41, February 17, 2015 (EST) I am back! Who missed me? Lol! I can help with the beta pags, if you guy want. Your's truly, -- 21:12, February 28, 2015 (EST)

in super smash brothers

town & city is an animal crossing stage Pac-banana (talk) 11:48, March 1, 2015 (EST)

friend codes

post your friend codes here for village visits!

Youtube template not working?

{{Youtube}} isn't displaying the video correctly. What happened? ™ 19:11, March 26, 2015 (EDT)

username

i want to use an image instead of text for my username. how do i do dat? SuperCofee ᴛᴀʟᴋ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ (talk) 13:40, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

Upload an image, then use [[File:YourImage.png|link=User:SuperCofee]]. Replace "YourImage" with the image name, and change the extension ".png" if it's .jpg or .gif. The link can be either "User:SuperCofee" or Usertalk:SuperCofee. If you have any more questions, just ask! ™ 15:17, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

you mean use it as my signature?SuperCofee ᴛᴀʟᴋ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ (talk) 15:29, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

iMA SEE IF IT WORKS [[File:HWH.png|link=User:SuperCofee]] (talk) 15:36, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

HEY IT DIDNT [[File:HWH.png|link=User:SuperCofee]] (talk) 15:37, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

That's because you put a space in front of it, and there's a formatting problem. Try this.

[[File:HWH.png|link=User:SuperCofee|30px]] ([[User talk:SuperCofee|talk]])

(talk)

I suggest you resize your name (the one in red) and put it next to the image, since it needs to be scaled at around this size or smaller.

Once you're done, create a userpage entitled User:SuperCofee/sig (click on the red link). Copy and paste the code provided here and save the page. Now, once you type ~~~~, this signature should show up as a stamp. ™ 16:19, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

How do i put my name besides the image now? [[File:HWH.png|link=User:SuperCofee|30px]] ([[User talk:SuperCofee|talk]]) (talk) 16:34, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

lemme see if the stamp works [[File:HWH.png|link=User:SuperCofee|30px]] ([[User talk:SuperCofee|talk]]) (talk) 16:34, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

Well,It dosent matter anymore. im going to stick with my text signature. And my Small letter remarks. ᴇᴇsʜ,ɪ ᴅɪᴅɴᴛ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴍᴀᴋɪɴɢ sɪɢɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴇs ᴡᴀs sᴏ ʜᴀʀᴅ. SᴜᴘᴇʀCᴏғᴇᴇ(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (talk) 16:52, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

Ok. But you have consistent problem with the text. You have these weird marks in the wiki coding, which is screwing up the formatting. They show up as brackets in my computer when I try typing it. Make sure you use [ ] on the keyboard. I'll delete your page, then. :/ ™ 17:04, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

did anybody notice im the only french user in the entire website?

SuperCofee ᴛᴀʟᴋ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ (talk) 14:26, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

I have French heritage if that counts for anything. My first name's (Emilie) distinctively French. ™ 15:18, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

Both my mom and dad are French (though im partly belgic) SuperCofee ᴛᴀʟᴋ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ (talk) 15:28, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

I have a Chinese father and a French mother (who is from the Alsace-Lorraine region of France). It's nice to know such little things, I guess. :P ™ 22:41, May 9, 2015 (EDT)

How do i put a pic?

heidy.isabel ~ I have a great pic of Goose's house. It's from my miiverse page, but i saved the screenshot on my phone, idk if that affects anything. I really want to upload it, but idk how? How do i upload that pic??? May 20, 2015

New topics go at the bottom of the page, just to let you know! Anyhow, to upload a file, click on the "Upload file" link on the bottom of that left green column, under "Tools". Once you get to that page, pick the image file, give it an appropriate name, and then upload it. Once it's done, to add the image in the page, embed the page title in double brackets like any other link (e.g. [[File:Example.jpg]]). If you need any more help, don't hesitate to ask! ™ 16:31, May 21, 2015 (EDT)

Distribution

Just to let you guys know, there was a distribution in New Leaf for the Taurus bathtub after the Aries rocking chair. It ended already, but I don't know the exact date of the distribution starting and ending. Right now, they're distributing a Gemini closet. --Safyire (talk) 22:13, May 27, 2015 (EDT)

Sorry about that! We keep forgetting to update the Main Page with new DLC. Red (talk) 05:54, May 28, 2015 (EDT)

how do i make a new page

asked by SᴜᴘᴇʀCᴏғᴇᴇ(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) (talk) 11:39, June 8, 2015 (EDT)

The best way to do it would be to search for it in the search bar or Special:Search. You'll get no results, but a "Create the page "Example" on this wiki!" message will appear, with a red link inside. Click that red link to go to the editing screen and start creating the page. Red (talk) 11:45, June 8, 2015 (EDT)

Is page creation barred to regular registered users? If yes, are you autoconfirmed? ™ 16:23, June 8, 2015 (EDT)

Official romanization of Japanese-only titles

As I was creating redirect pages between the two romanizations of the Japanese-only Animal Crossing titles (e.g. Doubutsu no Mori redirects to Dōbutsu no Mori) I did some research and came across some evidence that we are using the unofficial romanizations for these titles. This picture of a Japan-only Club Nintendo exclusive Nintendo GameCube jewel featuring Timmy & Tommy features a romanization of the first game's title using "ou" instead of the "ō" to represent the long "o" sound. Furthermore, the Japan-only e-reader cards for Doubutsu no Mori+ also feature the "ou" spelling, and they show the plus mark in superscript! I wanted to get public input on this before changing our primary page names (and having an admin fix our newly created link templates). (talk) 14:46, July 11, 2015 (EDT)

I suppose a rename would be reasonable, but there's no incorrect or correct romanization. It's still reasonable to assume that long vowel would use ō, oo, or ou. ™ 00:00, July 12, 2015 (EDT)

I understand that 'ō' is still technically correct, however using it over 'ou' is a fairly arbitrary decision. If we switch to 'ou' at least we have a reason/precedence. (talk) 13:03, July 12, 2015 (EDT)

A Pikmin e-card?

Hey all. Some days ago, I found this while searching up "Pikmin e-card" on Google. The thing is, nobody I know knows what this is all about. Do any of you have any clue? I'd like to add the info to Pikipedia, but I'd rather not add just a picture from a supposed eBay auction (check the URL) and say we have no info on it. Thanks! – (Espyo from Pikipedia), 89.152.247.250 12:25, July 25, 2015 (EDT)

Hey there, Espyo. :) That card is indeed legitimate; it's part of Series 2 of the Animal Crossing-e series of cards compatible with Animal Crossing and the Nintendo e-Reader. More info can be found here. If you have anymore questions feel free to ask. (talk) 12:37, July 25, 2015 (EDT)

That's amazing! Thanks a bunch! 89.152.247.250 15:37, July 27, 2015 (EDT)

Oh, well, I'm a genius. Turns out we already had that on the wiki. It's just that nobody remembered, and because we don't have any picture of it on the article (too cramped), I just assumed we didn't. Thanks anyway! 89.152.247.250 15:41, July 27, 2015 (EDT)

Distributed Items pages need updating

The pages for DLC are heavily outdated and need to be updated. Especially the PAL-specific DLC page.

• Distributed Items
• Distributed items/All
• Distributed Items/North America
• Distributed Items/Japan
• Distributed items/PAL

The City Folk section seems to be alright for North America. The Japan, PAL, and All pages need to formatted with this template as well as be updated. Lastly, the base DLC page, the NA page, and the Japan page need to be moved to Distributed items instead of Distributed Items. -- Pokebub (talk) 03:16, August 5, 2015 (EDT)

Thank you for pointing out the capitalization problems, it seems Red Snapper has taken care of it. As for updating the pages, yes, they need some work. Unfortunately we're rather short-staffed at the moment; I'll add it to my to-do list though! (talk) 16:48, August 5, 2015 (EDT)

Merge handheld items

Things like ice cream, coffee, sparkling cider, pinwheels, Bunny Balloon, glowlights and other items should be merged into a single article called "handheld items" (dandelion can be mentioned as well). These items all have something in common: the players hold them, they serve no practical use, and they are not sold within the stores unless they are special occasions (such as glowlights; this makes them different from umbrellas). But, you guys can disagree; if that's the case, then at least put them in a category. They do have something in common, and it would be helpful to group them some way. ™ 16:05, August 14, 2015 (EDT)

I'm definitely in favor. As individual articles very few of these will ever escape their stubby fates. Also don't forget Balloon (item), Party Popper, Sparkler, Roman Candle, Firework fountain, and Bubble Wand. We also need to decide whether to merge umbrella. I think it should remain a separate article but have a small section in Handheld items with a link to the main article. (talk) 16:27, August 14, 2015 (EDT)

amiibo card file name conventions

Nintendo has opened up a new section of the animal-crossing website that features images of all the NA versions of the amiibo cards. I have also verified that the European version of the cards will have villager names in 5 different languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian and German) and will have a different serial number printed on them. I think it's important to have images of the cards from all regions, if only to have easy access to official names for most of the villagers in 6 languages. So in order to distinguish between the different regions I will be converting all existing images to the following naming convention: ### Name amiibo card Region.png (Example: 001 Isabelle amiibo card NA.png)

### will be the card number (between 001 and 401). This is important to include because some characters have more than one card (e.g. special edition Isabelle card). The region will be a two letter abbreviation (NA = North America, JP = Japan, and EU = Europe). I will be moving or deleting a lot of different files during this process and as a result pages with links to the old files will no longer display correctly. I will be fixing all the links as I go, but I just wanted to let everyone know that things are going to look weird for several hours as I upload and fix all the images. (talk) 12:19, August 25, 2015 (EDT)

How do I add a picture to my profile?

I'm new here on Nookipedia; I started editing about a month ago. I'd like to add a picture to my profile, but I don't know how. Could anyone explain how?

Sorry to disappoint you, but...you can't! That's a feature limited to Wikia and the Bulletin Board forums. You could, however, upload a file from your computer, etc., making sure to mark it as a 'personal image', and then place it on your user page. Hope that helped! Red (snappity snap snap!) 06:52, September 1, 2015 (EDT)

Thank you for clarifying.- unsigned comment from Wren (talk • contribs)

Purple background

I like the purple background on Nookipedia(when it's "happy birthday Nookipedia")

--Pachisu123 (talk) 15:37, October 23, 2015 (EDT)

agreed.

Good isn't it? Pity it only appears from October 21st to October 23rd. Red (snappity snap snap!) 20px 11:47, October 24, 2015 (EDT)

Well, it makes it altogether more special I guess. :O}) ™ 15:37, October 26, 2015 (EDT)

Gradients in the notice templates

I'm not sure if I like them on there. I'm thinking about changing it to a plain color for the sake of better readability. ™ 21:19, October 26, 2015 (EDT)

I don't think they're bad, but I don't think they match the rest of the site (which, other than the header of the site, most everything else is a solid color). I'd support changing them back to solids. ~SuperHamster Talk 22:22, October 26, 2015 (EDT)

Well, sunmarsh, the person behind adding the gradients isn't active in a while, so I'll wait a bit in case sunmarsh suddenly pops up or something. ™ 14:48, October 27, 2015 (EDT)

HHD icons

I actually like the icons for Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, and I'm actually tempted to use those instead for our furniture articles (they look better and are available to the general public unlike the current images), but on the other hand, we don't have a lot of information for Happy Home Designer itself, and I'm not exactly sure how the game works. Maybe it's a good idea to squeeze those images in an external gallery for the time being? ™ 00:10, November 5, 2015 (EST)

I've been playing Happy Home Designer for a few weeks now (currently working on some articles) -- I can confirm that the items in HHD are exactly the same as those in New Leaf. But the catalog icons are incredibly high-quality, as you can see -- they look even nicer than the NL catalog, even though they are smaller. I think it would be safe to use them in furniture articles. Nikol (talk) 16:14, November 18, 2015 (EST)

Mobile version?

I would like a mobile view. For all those nookipedia road trips. Xander503 (talk) 18:49, November 28, 2015 (EST)

I think mobile view was experimented with a while back, but it didn't work very well. It might be an option worth exploring again. ~SuperHamster Talk 00:53, November 29, 2015 (EST)

Nice. - Xander503 (talk) (contribs) 02:20, November 29, 2015 (EST)

I'd like to see a mobile version. I'd occasionally use it. :) Red (snappity snap snap!) 20px 13:49, November 29, 2015 (EST)

IKR? - Xander503 (talk) (contribs) 14:57, November 29, 2015 (EST)

Today's my birthday!

Yay!

--Pachisu123 (talk) 11:34, January 9, 2016 (EST)

HHD Icons

As some of you have already noticed, I've uploaded HHD furniture icons for all ACNL furniture series. Editors may feel free to use these in the appropriate articles as a replacement for ACNL furniture images in tables. Any existing ACNL furniture images should be moved to a Gallery section at the bottom of the page. I plan to continue uploading icons for furniture themes, sets and categories as well as wallpaper and flooring. Eventually I hope to add every icon if possible, but we'll see how things go... I apologize for any confusion or inconvenience my mass image uploading may have caused thus far. ;P (talk) 16:22, February 15, 2016 (EST)

Amazing work, nice job Sun! ~SuperHamster Talk 04:11, February 16, 2016 (EST)

Thanks, SuperHamster. :) Just making a note here, for some flooring, the game stores two images- the background image and the carpet or pattern that sits on top of it. When this happens, I have to piece together the background and foreground images in an editor. In some cases I was unable to identify the exact way the patterns were used to create a given piece of flooring. In these cases I did my best but the results aren't 100% accurate matches. Two files that come to mind...

• Egg Floor HHD Icon.png

  Egg Floor (wrong background)

• 

  Lab Floor (no clue- my best attempt)

Establishing furniture pages for odds and ends

I've been uploading HHD icons and updating furniture pages for the past few weeks. I'm nearing the end of the established furniture sets and will start to upload the odds and ends in the next few days. This brings up the age-old question of how to group the furniture into meaningful units. I've been browsing the wiki to see how this is currently being done... and to be frank- it's a mess. We've discussed this before over on the forums (point 2) and I'm still of the same opinion- the unofficial groupings aren't very helpful and only serve to confuse and clutter our furniture pages.

Here's some examples:

In the Nintendo Power guide to Animal Crossing is a list of furniture called "Household Items". Included in this list are the Retro TV and Wide-Screen TV. In the Wild World guide these items are moved to a separate list called "Color Televisions" and in the City Folk guide they are listed as just "Televisions". Back to the Household Items list, the Barrel and Keg will move to the Pirate Ship Theme in Wild World onward. The Toilet and Super Toilet stay in the "Household Items" list in the Wild World guide but move to the "Water Closet Set" in the City Folk guide, even though they are NOT an official set in that game, and on Nookipedia they are found on a page called Toilets.

I could go on and on. The major problem here is that the lists in these game guides are arbitrary groupings created by the guide writers and are not official designations. They just made these lists up. We're essentially doing the same thing with pages like Digit lamps. I agree that it's nice to see similar items grouped together on the same page, but there comes a point where these groupings become a hindrance rather than a help. For example, we have a page for Miscellaneous Items and Odds and Ends. How is a user to know, just by looking at the name of the page, which items it's going to contain?

So what's the solution? I don't know that there is one that will satisfy everyone, but I think we need to throw the names and unofficial groupings of items from the game guides out the window. They are totally inconsistent and in some case (e.g. Water Closet Set) just plain wrong. I also don't think that we can do much better. Even if we group the items together more consistently across titles, we are making completely arbitrary decisions that may seem logical to us personally, but may not be so transparent to the users of the site (e.g. How does a user know what items will be on the Household Items page? All furniture goes in the house!).

My vote is to create master lists of 'unsorted furniture' (name is a WIP and open to discussion, perhaps 'all other furniture in Game Name' would be more appropriate?) that would list all furniture that is not part of an established series, theme, set, or category. This would eliminate the dozens of unofficial item groupings we've created. Items can be grouped logically within the table rather than alphabetically- e.g.Zero Lamp, One Lamp etc. listed one after the other.

What are everyone's thoughts on this? If you are in favor of creating pages for unofficial item groupings, how do you plan on grouping together 'random' items? Any feedback would be appreciated. (talk) 10:33, March 3, 2016 (EST)

I have to agree that the miscellaneous furniture is tricky to group conveniently. In the meantime, we should create articles of "Miscellaneous furniture in [game]" (much neater and concise than "all other") and scrap articles based on arbitrary groupings, which means most of the articles under "Other Furniture" in {{furniture}} have got to go, and I'll rewrite parts of Nookipedia:Project Furniture to comply. There is a lot of confusion on how these lists are grouped and how should we group, which is Not Good. For instance, I've never figured out what "Household Items" is supposed to contain. What doesn't help is that there are no official lists besides the data mining that shows items being grouped by themes and sets. For your suggestion to group logically within the table, there might be question to what should be grouped. Some are obvious like the Digit Lamps, others, not so much. ™ 16:45, April 14, 2016 (EDT)

Just FYI, I've already created a page called Unsorted furniture. I agree that grouping together like items on this page will be rather arbitrary, and actually quite difficult, mostly because there are just so many items. It's also going to take a very, very long time. :| (talk) 17:05, April 14, 2016 (EDT)

I think "Miscellaneous furniture" would be a more suitable name because, well, that's what they are. I also think they should be split into articles by game so we don't get a list that's 171,052 bytes long and that's before filling in data and images. Right now, I'll get started to fill in some information. ™ 14:25, April 15, 2016 (EDT)

Sorry for the slow reply! After some thought, I agree that the name 'Unsorted furniture' is confusing (it implies the furniture needs to be sorted- it doesn't), and have moved the article accordingly. I've also incorporated the gamelink feature from Template:TableHeader so that the table now links to separate pages for each game in the series in the upper right hand corner of the table. I am still concerned about the article's size, but haven't really thought of a way to manage that as the whole point of the endeavor was to consolidate arbitrarily-named item pages, not create more. (talk) 17:52, May 7, 2016 (EDT)

One more thing, how are we going to organize refurbished furniture? Yes, some miscellaneous items, such as the patchwork and the digit lamps, can be refurbished. ™ 19:31, April 15, 2016 (EDT)

A very good question, Mario! And one which I've been thinking about myself as I've browsed our pages. My current thinking is a complete overhaul to the bare bones refurbishing furniture page. The revamped page would provide a complete list of refurbishable items in table format with either a) a collapsible container with images of the different refurbishing options or b) a very simple list where each item is a link to a section of a page called Refurbishing furniture/gallery where all the refurbished photos for every item are displayed. The up-side to creating the big page with sections for each piece of furniture (or furniture series) is that we can transclude that information onto other pages. For example, we could have Refurbishing furniture/gallery#Blue_Series transcluded into a section called "Refurbishing options" on the Blue Series main article page. Just some ideas I'm throwing around right now. Would love to hear other people's thoughts. (talk) 17:52, May 7, 2016 (EDT)

Fish Capitalization

Back in 2014 I moved some of the fish articles to lowercase (Sea bass, Red snapper etc.), but in line with our current policy, I now feel they should all be moved to uppercase (Sea Bass, Red Snapper etc.). Any other opinions? Red (talk) 14:07, May 29, 2016 (EDT)

Although I fully supported capitalizing the names of furniture items for aesthetic reasons, I am not so keen on doing it to bug, fish, and fossil articles. That said, the results that I got from searching "white tailed deer" were about half and half. Government and higher education websites had the entire name capitalized, while other sites (including Wikipedia) only had the first word capitalized. I don't really care what we do to be honest. --XXSuperXXNintendoXx (talk) 16:19, May 29, 2016 (EDT)

You should probably do so for consistency reasons. ™ 00:16, May 30, 2016 (EDT)

I've just thought of a problem, though. I'll have to move a bunch of images to uppercase otherwise Template:FishInfoWW and Template:FishInfoCF won't display them properly. Maybe it's more trouble than it's worth... Red (talk) 13:52, May 30, 2016 (EDT)

Or just redesign the template so that won't happen. I'm not a template wizard though. ™ 21:42, May 30, 2016 (EDT)

If the template is redesigned then we would need to manually insert the link to each image on every fish page, which is just as troublesome. I'll move all the critter pages and fix the image links as I go, hopefully within the next week. Thanks for the heads up. (talk) 15:50, June 12, 2016 (EDT)

Anything to do?

Is there anything that I can help do? Sadly I don't have any Animal Crossing games yet. Mr Random (talk) 14:27, May 30, 2016 (EDT)

Nookipedia:Project Furniture has information AND useful resources that can be a help for someone who even hasn't played a single Animal Crossing game. And yes, we're definitely not complete there, but thanks to sunmarsh (talk | contribs | logs)'s hard work, you might have to look a little bit. ™ 17:38, May 30, 2016 (EDT)

Nookipedia Decals

I was going to post this on the forums, but decided to bring it up here for increased visibility; my apologies if this isn't the right place to discuss this.

I wanted to have a few decals printed with the Nookipedia logo to stick on the back of my car and was wondering if a) anyone know of a good site/service/person to order the decal(s) from and b) if anyone would be interested in splitting the cost or purchasing a decal from me (at cost, of course). If anyone is interested let me know here or on my talk page. I'll post here again before I do any ordering so you have a chance to think about it. :) (talk) 11:42, June 19, 2016 (EDT)

I don't know of any decal services personally, but if you let me know which logo you intend to use I can try to get you a higher quality source file if I still have it around. Most print shops ask for files to be at least 300 DPI. --Jake 13:48, June 19, 2016 (EDT)

That's a great idea Sun! My go-to site for stickers and decals is Sticker Mule. Can be pricey, but the quality is top-notch. In my dream world, I'm thinking we might as well order a bunch to give to all our editors, and maybe host giveaways on other platforms (our social media + /r/animalcrossing) - though shipping costs could quickly add up...might be a cost I'm willing to shoulder. ~SuperHamster Talk 14:29, June 19, 2016 (EDT)

Well, I'm all for a quality product, but I don't think I can afford the sticker mule price tag by myself. I think having stickers we could send out to editors (or editors-to-be) would be a fun way to get users involved and spread the word about the wiki, but shipping costs are something to think about, and I don't think I can commit to sending them out, so if we were to go that route someone else would have to be responsible for that. ^^;

As for the logo design, I actually intended to recreate the logo. I've been meaning to for a while now but haven't had the chance. I came up with the design below while playing around. I have an alternate version without the Nook eyes, but I thought it was pretty fun so I wanted to see what everyone thought. I'm not necessarily petitioning to change the logo, but I did want to create a new version for the decals that isn't all fuzzy wuzzy. ;P Let me know what you think.

(talk) 20:24, June 19, 2016 (EDT)

Hey, sorry for the late reply! Regarding stickers for a Nookipedia giveaway of sorts, I certainly don't expect you to take on the cost :) Something I'm thinking we could do either using Nookipedia's funds or my own.

As for the logo, I'm loving it - really creative idea. I think it's worth discussing if we want to officially change the logo - from a branding perspective, I wouldn't want to hand the stickers out on Nookipedia's behalf unless they're an official logo. ~SuperHamster Talk 01:48, June 28, 2016 (EDT)

Yes, I agree about the logo. I've actually been trying to find time to redesign it but school has kept me busy this summer. The current logo was originally designed as a temporary placeholder but has long overstayed its welcome. Perhaps we could open up some kind of community contest/collaboration to work on new logo designs and give feedback? And of course if we go through with the decals the cost can be covered by Nookipedia's funds. --Jake 14:19, June 28, 2016 (EDT)

A logo design competition sounds great! Perhaps guidelines for submission can be posted at Nookipedia:Logo Design Contest and we can advertise for it on the main page? I'm not sure to what extent we want the design to be print-ready (e.g. ask for CMYK vector files), but I would be willing to convert the final design to the appropriate format for printing, if need be. I know not everyone is proficient in graphic design but I don't want that to prevent anyone from submitting an entry. Glad to hear Nookipedia can help with the costs- thanks for the replies! (talk) 16:13, June 28, 2016 (EDT)

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Just an update, I've taken the initiative to create the submission page here. I know we didn't come to a consensus on the submission details, so feel free to edit the page as you see fit. For legal reasons I think it's best not to describe the submission page as a 'contest' or offer a 'prize'. If the vinyl stickers do end up coming to fruition the decision can be made at that time whether or not to offer one or more stickers to the logo's designer as a 'thanks'. (talk) 17:36, August 10, 2016 (EDT)

Awesome Sunmarsh, thanks for jumping on this! I can push it on our social media and the rest of NIWA in the coming days. ~SuperHamster Talk 21:58, August 10, 2016 (EDT)

Sidenote - I think we have an issue with just doing CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensing. That license would require all uses of the logo to have an attribute back to the author, which wouldn't be feasible for our logo. Should we require the logo's copyright be released to Nookipedia? ~SuperHamster Talk 22:03, August 10, 2016 (EDT)

Main page

I just wanted to point out the Event Notice regarding the fireworks show. They're only in August yet in July the notice is going off. Can someone please fix it? I'd also like to thank whoever added the "Creatures out right now" section, it's incredibly useful! Thanks! Finch (talk) 17:56, July 4, 2016 (EDT)

Hey Finch! Thanks for pointing that out. Our event notices are based on the days found at Schedule:Months - it looks like the schedule still has holidays from the original Animal Crossing, and is missing a few from Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I'll work on adding these in during the next few days (and anyone else reading this is welcome to help!)

As for creature notice, that was put together by our very own Sunmarsh. ~SuperHamster Talk 01:05, July 5, 2016 (EDT)

We are missing something

We need an Admin noticeboard where users make Sockpuppet and Vandal reports. That's all. Princess Peach 18:15, August 4, 2016 (EDT)

Hmm, good point. That wouldn't be a bad idea. I think we've traditionally not had one since we're a relatively small wiki, in which nearly all edits are patrolled / it's easy to get in contact with an administrator. Having a central location for making requests to staff could be useful though, and would make the process more clear for editors. Anyone else have any thoughts? ~SuperHamster Talk 00:26, August 5, 2016 (EDT)

MarioWiki set up an admin noticeboard not so long ago, but I'm not certain that it's necessary here. We have a low amount of vandalism and sockpuppetry, and I'd rather not draw attention to vandals. If you see something, tell any administrator, although it's likely that we'll check the recent changes and see vandalism on our own. Red (talk) 11:32, August 6, 2016 (EDT)