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Welcome to The Roost, a hub for editing help and community discussion. New topics go at the bottom of the page. This page is for general discussion regarding the wiki itself, policy and guidelines, and any questions about editing. To discuss off-topic subjects, such as the games themselves, please join us on our Discord server. Issues that require the attention of a staff member should be posted on the staff noticeboard.

Tasks 3494 things to do Topics 5 To-do's 51 Moves 2 Merges 1 Stubs 380 Stub sections 215 Rewrite 11 Cleanup 2 Outdated 4 Images 340 Image quality 660 Deletion 2 File del. 1815 Unused 6200+ Categorize 0 Wanted 5800+ Specific tasks Our villager pages could use house descriptions. At the top of villager house sections, add a description describing common themes and changes to the villager's house throughout the series. Examples available on Eunice and Alfonso. Add "Appearance" sections to our New Horizons wallpaper and floor pages to describe what they look like. Example at Underwater Wall. Screenshots of all walls and floors located here and here, respectively. Restructure and populate our fossil pages with info for Animal Crossing, Wild World, City Folk, and New Leaf using our new fossil info templates. Our New Horizons info is already complete - see Brachiosaurus for an example for how to replicate. Work on our Pocket Camp coverage; visit Project Pocket Camp for more info. Coverage needed includes Gyroidite Scavenger Events, fortune cookie sets, Happy Homeroom puzzles, and memories. Our merchandise coverage needs lots of expansion! Help expand our existing lists and create new ones using the {{MerchSeries}} and {{MerchCell}} templates. Add "Characteristics" sections to our special character pages. See Redd#Characteristics for an example. Write a synopsis for Pocket Camp memories. Be sure to remove the {{Stub}} template from the Synopsis section when completed in order to remove the article from this list. Pocket Camp Memory pages that need a synopsis:   A Glowing Idea   A Minor Mail Mishap   A Musical Shrine Visit   A New Queen of Hearts   A Pizza Party for Ketchup!   A Rivalry to Remember   A Scenic Sakura Treat   A Shared House   A Sweet and Sour Surprise!   A Weekend with Agnes   Alfonso's Ideal Campsite   Almost the Ocean   An Amusing Park Haunting   An Extra Spooky Surprise   An Irresistible Nap   An Unexpected Taste Test!   Apollo's Feature Film   Aspiring Santa   Beach Sport Rentals & Recs   Beau's Bakery   Beauty by Pancetti   Behold Bonbon's Bunny Park   Belles and Spells at the Ball   Bianca's Gift Delivery   Bob's Back Under the Big Top   Bree's Passion for Fashion   Capturing Precious Memories   Carrie's Family Recipe   Celia's First Gig   Cheery Donut Shop   Chief's Mysterious Magic   Chrissy's Super Huge Tea Party!   Colton's Prophetic Door   Cookie's Popular Crepes   Cozy White Toy Day   Daisy's Strawberry Fever   Detective Beardo's on the Case!   Diana's Fay Flight   Dobie's Hot Spring Village   Dom's Dream Theme Park   Dotty's Sophisticated Tea Party   Dreamin' of Diners   Ema Wishes   Fang's Fine-Dining Rescue   Flora's Tropical Pep-Plan   Floral Notes with Friends   Flowers Have Feelings Too   Flurry's Gift of Music   Flying Through Work   Food Truck Festival!   Frozen Fun with Hamlet   Fuchia's Signature Dish   Goldie's Catastrophic Cake   Goldie's Library Lesson   Greta's Creative Cookery   Grizzly's Big Break   Guided by the Stars   Hopkins vs. Roald: A Friendly Competition   How to Create the Ideal Room   Inspiration for a Haiku   Ione's River of Stars   Isabelle Apprecation   Julian's Constellation Creations   Kevin and Cyd's Day-Off Dilemma   Kiki's Curios   Kitt's Plushie Project   Kitty's Chocolate Twist   Leopold's Mastery of Magic   Lily and the Rainbow Hydrangea   Little Red Riding Bunnie   Lobo's Table for One   Lovely Lighthouse Encounter   Lyman's Beautiful Blooms   Maelle's Exciting Mall Day!   Maple's Secret Hideout   Marina's Fish-Friend Concert   Meet the Sea-Floor Explorers!   Mermaid Mystery   Mint's Tip-Top Tea Shop   Miranda Takes the Stage   Mitzi's Mystery Friend   Molly's Cozy Bookshop   Muffy and the Eerie Encounter   Music Fans Band Together   Mystery Floral Decor   Mystical Nightime Sakura Walk   Nonstop Aquarium Adventures   Olive and the Mushroom Village   Pancake Pleasantries   Peewee and Hamlet's Big Race   Petri's Botany Lab   Pinky's Decor Dilemma   Plucky's R&R and PR   Pâtisserie Perfection   Queenie's Good Fortunes   Quinn's Café Close-Up   Ruby's Mysterious Moon   Sasha's Stargazing Festival   Scorching Summer Paradise!   Secret Scenic Picnic   Sherb's Rainy-Day Respite   Snake's Exciting Escape!   Snowstorm Salutations   Space Dreams with Filbert   Starlight Wedding Show   Stitches and the Big Bear Climb   Tasha Sets the Stage   Teddy's Jungle Hideaway   The Great Room-Key Pursuit   The Happy Hatter   The Legend of Gladys's Bridge   The Legend of Poncho   The Li'l Devils' Epic Jam   The Library Super Sleuth   The Lonesome Queen   The Magic of Pop-Up Books   The Mystical Mirror Says...   The Princess in the Clouds   The Purrfect Pastry Shop   The Rumored Photo Spot   The Savvy Stylings of Alice   The Subtly Sweet Chocolatier   There's a Pirate Ship?!   Tia's Rosy Bath Time   Treats with Even Sweeter Views   Unique Shop Display Windows   Vesta's New Style   Vivian's Sunburst Song   Welcome to Cozy Calico Books   Welcome to the Rose Oasis Spa!   Wendy's Winter Picnic   Wish Upon a Lantern   Yuka's Chic Chapel Expand content Stubs need expanding. (122 pages) Articles under construction should be finished. (7 pages) Stub sections need filling in or expanding. (215 pages) Wanted pages — These are "red links" on the wiki. Fix the link reference by removing it or pointing to a pre-existing article, or make a redirect, or start a desired article. Work on images Articles needing images (342 pages) Articles needing images fixed (412 pages) Category:Files needing improvement – Files that need to be replaced with higher quality ones More tasks For even more tasks, see Nookipedia:Maintenance. Join an ongoing project Project Clean-Up Leader: Kalina70 Project Clean-Up is dedicated cleaning up unused files, redirects, unused or uncategorized categories/templates, and miscellaneous other formatting. In addition, it seeks to have the To-do list cleared of a majority to all of its entries. Project Database Leader: SuperHamster Project Database aims to generate a Nookipedia database that contains factual information on all aspects of the Animal Crossing Series. Project Images Leader: Kalina70 Project Images involves categorizing every image based on game, character, and content, replacing outdated/poor quality images, uploading requested images and renaming images to be more concise. Project Interface Leader: Wanted Project Interface works to develop Nookipedia's interface and templates across all devices. Project Items Leader: Wanted It's a project. And it's about furniture, clothing, interior, and many other items in the series. Project Museum Leader: SuperHamster Project Museum covers fish, insects, sea creatures, paintings, fossils, and constellations. Over 150 articles and counting! Project Music Leader: Vmario97 Project Music lists and provides a sample of all the music in the Animal Crossing series. Project Pocket Camp Leader: PanchamBro Project Pocket Camp focuses on keeping the Pocket Camp coverage up-to-date. Project Villager Leader: Wanted Project Villager maintains the article pages of all Animal Crossing residents.

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Post new topics below! Drago (talk) 11:03, January 1, 2019 (EST)

How to upload images (Mobile)

Hi, I’m trying to figure out how to upload an image. It says that I removed the file info template even though I didn’t do anything. How do I fix this? Thanks, BadTime123 (talk) 06:57, December 30, 2021 (EST)

Hi, you need to add {{File Info}} template to the image and fill it (Add source and description). Also here is example File:395 Cally amiibo card JP.png. Kalina (talk) 14:00, December 30, 2021 (CET)

How do you make a bot?

Hi, Does anyone know how to make a bot code? Cheers, ToadetteFan007 (Talk) 04:47, February 5, 2022 (EST)

Majority of bots used here are operated using a programming language (e.g. Go, C++). My bot (PanchamBot), uses Python for parameter additions, file moves, and page creation functions. Warning tho, you will need to have administration permission and lots of coding experience if you want to operate your own bot someday. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 10:20, February 6, 2022 (EST)

HHA furniture theme collection mergers

I'm proposing for Pirate Ship Theme and Mario Theme to merge with Pirate Series and Mario Series (with or without Super Mario Set merged) respectively. A big reason has to be how they are transcribed in different languages. For Pirate Ship Theme and Pirate Series, they share the same Japanese (かいぞく), Korean (해적), Spanish (pirata), and German (Piraten) translations. As for the Mario Theme and Mario Series, their translations are pretty identical,

I have another reason, that given how furniture series have changed in New Horizons from having the same bed, drawer, table, and chair features to diverse furniture parts that may or may not have all of the following classifications, that it addition to the translations, they are justified because of the changes made to New Horizons's furniture collection classification. So they are the same collection, just under a different name.

Let me know what you guys think of these changes. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 18:08, February 27, 2022 (EST)

 Comment Are there existing pages where themes/sets and series have been merged? I'd like to know what they look like. Also I don't understand why translations should matter in decisions like these since this is an English wiki. Could you clarify/expand your reasoning here, please? Melicent (talk) 19:07, February 27, 2022 (EST)

 Comment Jingle Series merging with Festive Series and Pavé Series merging with Festivale Series on the premise of shared Japanese translation for each are instances. And translations can matter in situation in regards to if a furniture series/set/theme is the same as before or if it's a different series/set/theme overall. Office Set and Office Set (Clerical) is an example of this. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 19:31, February 27, 2022 (EST)

 Comment Thanks for taking the time to explain! I was wondering specically about sets and/or themes being merged into series pages (or sets being merged into themes) and whether there were already precedents, in which case what you suggest is usual modus operandi on the wiki and I'm all for it. I've tried looking for some but only found the cases you mention (series being merged into other series with similar names/furniture, etc.). However, I don't know the franchise and the Nooki well enough. Melicent (talk) 07:08, February 28, 2022 (EST)

Festivale Feathers

Hey, I noticed that when referring to the Feathers collected during the Festivale event, the hyperlink for ‘Feathers’ leads to the disambiguation page for Feather. I was wondering whether I should create a new page for specifically the Feathers collected during Festivale or if I should change the hyperlink to one of the individual feather pages and if so, which one? Thank you for the input and of course please tell me if I have overlooked something or made an error in someway!

--TapDanceDruid (talk) 11:32, February 28, 2022 (EST)

Welcome to Nookipedia, TapDanceDruid! In response to your question, I'd say the link should just be removed. The feathers already have individual item pages for New Horizons and I don't think they're notable enough for their own page. Drago (talk) 11:41, February 28, 2022 (EST)

Drago beat me to it, but I'll say what I was suppose to say: in regards to the disambiguation page I would probably add the item pages associated with the feathers to the page (e.g. Green Feather, Blue Feather, Red Feather, Purple Feather, and Rainbow Feather) but a new article about feathers doesn't sound bad to me. I would like to know how it would look like first, so I recommend creating a user sandbox here. But as Drago mentioned, there might be some notablility problems, so keep that in mind. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 11:49, February 28, 2022 (EST)

I agree that the wiki could use a Feathers page. They are collectibles in both New Leaf and New Horizons, having a centralized page that's all about feathers would be useful. HylianAngel (talk) 16:46, February 28, 2022 (EST)

Create villager/special character ID redirects

I've been thinking a lot about the implementation of IDs for villagers and special characters, and if it's plausible to have redirects based on a villager or special characters's ID. It would certainly be somewhat easier to search for a particular codename and then go to the character associated with it.

There are certain articles that will need to have a notice due to this (e.g. Doc already exists as a villager so a notice would need to be added to redirect people to Wilbur in the event that someone wanted to search his codename). -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 10:00, March 14, 2022 (EDT)

 Support It makes sense to have them. It makes things easier. --Dr. Peach (talk) 12:01, March 14, 2022 (EDT)

 Comment It seems really cool in theory, but does the wiki really need these redirects? I feel like it is not a very practical way of searching up a character. A person who is like "I want to go to cat #5's page," I feel would either want to go there because of these two main scenarios:

• They already know from memory that cat05 is Tangy. However, if that's the case, they would just look up Tangy anyways.
• They don't know who cat #5 is and they are curious who it is like a game of chance. However, if they really wanted to learn that info, they would just go to the page of villager ID's (which hasn't been created yet but has been a WIP by Chubby Bub).

Anyways, I don't see this being a very practical feature. I don't think the redirects would be that helpful just because I would say 99% of players wouldn't know villager ID's by heart, and that the number of people who search for a villager based on ID rather than the villager's name is too small or nonexistent. And if they desired that info, the most practical thing would be for them to go to the ID page. I can't imagine that many scenarios where a person would want to go to, say, kpg's page. I would say the villager ID's page that hyperlinks to each villager page would serve as a more useful trivia and type of "search" feature. Also, along with doc causing confusion, there's also fox, man, and owl. HylianAngel (talk) 16:34, March 14, 2022 (EDT)

 Oppose for the same reasons HylianAngel says. This seems unnecessary (I see no real use for it) and honestly I think it will just create confusion, especially where redirects are necessary. If someone wants to find a character's ID or what an ID is they can go to the list page, the character's page or search for the ID. But on this topic, I'll try to finish the list pages so we can move them to the main namespace. Chubby Bub (talk) 21:43, March 15, 2022 (EDT)

 Oppose per above. I don't think redirects for this are necessary or would even be used much. If people want to see which ID links to which villager, then the newly created ID list articles would be far more practical and informative for this. Also IMO we have way too many WrongPage (etc.) notices in the villager articles already without adding even more to cover edge cases like Doc/doc. -- Dorsal Axe (talk) 05:43, March 17, 2022 (EDT)