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Post new topics below! Drago (talk) 
11:03, January 1, 2019 (EST)
Delete single-character species pages[edit]
There are currently 18 species pages for species that only contain a single character. All of them are no longer than one or two sentences, usually just describing what the character does or what they look like, which is already covered on that character's own article. Therefore, I propose that these pages be redirected to their respective characters' pages. The following pages would be affected by this:
- Axolotl (Dr. Shrunk)
- Camel (Saharah)
- Fox (Redd)
- Frill-necked lizard (Frillard)
- Fur seal (Phineas)
- Giraffe (Gracie)
- Gray langur (Niko)
- Gyroid (species) (Lloid)
- Manatee (Wardell)
- Panther (Katrina)
- Peacock (Pavé)
- Pigeon (Brewster)
- Reindeer (Jingle)
- Skunk (Kicks)
- Sloth (Leif)
- Tapir (Luna)
- Turkey (Franklin)
- Walrus (Wendell)
~ AlexBot2004 (Talk) 02:26, December 21, 2023 (EST)
Comment For the most part, I don't have any attachment to the single-special-character species pages, though it would be a loss for the fox, gray langur, peacock, and reindeer pages specifically, since those happen to have additional information involving related villagers that are depicted to be the same as those species, in appearance only (e.g. Audie and Chief on the fox page). Though that's not to say it means we should keep these species pages, because it's not like there's pages for every unique portrayal of an animal villager species (like zebra for Savannah, flamingo for Flora, etc.), just the villagers that coincidentally line up with special character species. Though I felt like it was worth noting for a fuller picture for the vote. HylianAngel (talk) 03:00, December 21, 2023 (EST)
Support I feel there isn't much point in giving a species a dedicated article if there's only one character of said species, cuz there really isn't much (if anything) the species page can cover that the character's article can't (lest we wanna fill 'em with a bunch of real-world info that has no relevancy to the character/series).
I also noticed that the axolotl page has an image of its real-life counterpart, with the only other species page with this distinction being raccoon. Admittedly I question the necessity of these images (mostly the raccoon dog pic, anyway), but I'll save that for different discussion, I just wanted to bring it up.
The Jacketed Terrapin
14:00, December 21, 2023 (EST)- Comment I feel that it would be a good cleanup, but yeah, as stated above, some pages show some details, like Julia resembling a Peacock or Deli looking like a gray tangur, although they are listed under different species. Briky
02:44, January 6, 2024 (EST) 
Oppose While I get the reasons behind this, I think we shouldn't rule out the possibilities of new characters based on these species in case if future Animal Crossing games comes around. Case in point: New Horizons brought several new characters like C.J., Flick, Daisy Mae and Gullivarrr, which represents beaver, chameleon, boar and seagull respectively, which prior to New Horizons also have only one characters. If they didn't get introduced, these species pages might possibly be on jeopardy as well. There's also some trivia but notable mentions like from Erik and Julia which were easily found in these species pages. For these reasons, I have to disagree with this. Starry Windy★ 18:47, January 6, 2024 (EST)
- If more characters in these species are introduced in later games, then we can recreate these pages then. But as it is now, these pages don't offer any information that isn't already on the character's page. I agree that it's worth noting the villagers who resemble some of these species, but that can be noted on that villager's page in the "Appearance" section. ~ AlexBot2004 (Talk) 18:55, January 6, 2024 (EST)
- Comment Could we not merge them all into a single page? --
Dorsal Axe (talk) 04:31, February 4, 2024 (EST)
- Just want to bump this discussion with another thought I had: we don't currently have a Species article, and I was thinking of creating one. Any thoughts on incorporating the special character-only species info there? I do agree the current arrangement with each one having their own article is excessive. -- Dorsal Axe (talk) 08:52, December 22, 2024 (EST)
- That sounds good! I Support having a general species article, while also redirecting the single-character species pages listed above to their respective characters' pages. ~ AlexBot2004 (Talk) 22:30, December 22, 2024 (EST)
- I'll play around in my sandbox and see what this could look like. I'm wondering if it's also worth merging all the different bird species (e.g. Pigeon) into Bird? I feel like it would be similar to Dog, where we've included special characters encompassing various breeds of dog rather than having separate articles for Poodle, etc. -- Dorsal Axe (talk) 07:12, December 23, 2024 (EST)
- Regarding merging the special-only birds: something I want to bring up is the fact that the e-Reader cards actually give special character-exclusive species their own species icons instead of a generic "SP" one. While all the special dogs and cats just reuse the same icon as their villager counterparts (For the cats, Bob, for example, compared to Rover, and Bianca; for the dogs, Portia, for example, compared to K.K. Slider, Copper, and Booker), none of the special bird characters use the "bird" villager icon (Admiral, for example, compared to Pelly, Gulliver, Blathers, and Franklin; notice how each of them have a unique icon on the bottom left corner).
With the info I provided, it seems clear the special bird characters were meant to be considered their own species instead of a variant of the general "bird" species. While this technically doesn't confirm the statuses of Brewster, Pavé, and the dodos (since amiibo cards didn't retain the special species icons), in my opinion, I think their species are distinct and clear enough that it makes more sense to separate them as well. This only leaves the OK Motors birds into questions, whose exact species were never directly confirmed (their color scheme and some of their European names suggest they're supposed to be corvids, and their filenames all begin with "cw", which likely stands for "crow", but that's all there is to go off of).The Jacketed Terrapin 20:44, December 23, 2024 (EST)
- Ah, I've seen that before actually. I am wondering though if they abandoned the idea since they stopped using those symbols after that? I'm not super opposed to keeping them separate. Though I do think Reindeer should be merged into Deer, since its literally just a type of deer, and possibly Gray langur into Monkey for similar reasons.
- Also, looking at the special character species articles in more detail, I think we should actually just merge them all into the Species article. There's very little content on any of them, even the ones with more than one character. I don't feel there's much scope for expanding them either. I've been drafting what this could look like in my sandbox (note that it's very unfinished).
- I've also got to something to raise about Katrina in relation to all this, but I'll make a subsection below for this since it's only tangentially related.-- Dorsal Axe (talk) 08:19, December 24, 2024 (EST)
- Regarding merging the special-only birds: something I want to bring up is the fact that the e-Reader cards actually give special character-exclusive species their own species icons instead of a generic "SP" one. While all the special dogs and cats just reuse the same icon as their villager counterparts (For the cats, Bob, for example, compared to Rover, and Bianca; for the dogs, Portia, for example, compared to K.K. Slider, Copper, and Booker), none of the special bird characters use the "bird" villager icon (Admiral, for example, compared to Pelly, Gulliver, Blathers, and Franklin; notice how each of them have a unique icon on the bottom left corner).
- I'll play around in my sandbox and see what this could look like. I'm wondering if it's also worth merging all the different bird species (e.g. Pigeon) into Bird? I feel like it would be similar to Dog, where we've included special characters encompassing various breeds of dog rather than having separate articles for Poodle, etc. --
- That sounds good! I
- Just want to bump this discussion with another thought I had: we don't currently have a Species article, and I was thinking of creating one. Any thoughts on incorporating the special character-only species info there? I do agree the current arrangement with each one having their own article is excessive. --
Katrina's species[edit]
I think this has come up on the Discord before, but we have Katrina's species listed as "Panther". But this isn't really a species. Well, there's a mythological creature called a "panther", but I'm pretty certain she not based on that. I think it's likely that Katrina is in fact a Black panther, which is supported by her internal ID being bpt, i.e. black panther. However, a black panther is not a species in itself, but rather a melanistic colour variant of a leopard or a jaguar. She also has an alternate leopard-print or jaguar-print outfit in Happy Home Designer, which would further support this IMO.
The question is:
- Do we change her species designation to "Black Panther" (despite it not really being a species), and note that she is a variant of either a leopard or jaguar?
- Or do we determine whether she's a leopard" or jaguar and change it to that, while noting she is specifically a variant known as a "black panther"?
Any thoughts? --
Dorsal Axe (talk) 08:19, December 24, 2024 (EST)
- If we can't confirm if she's supposed to be a jaguar or a leopard, then I say change her designation to "black panther" and only make a note about her ambiguous "true species". The Jacketed Terrapin 14:09, December 24, 2024 (EST)
- Just wanted to point this out, and it's not like it can be used as evidence either way since the characters themselves might have a misunderstanding, but maybe it could be useful as part of the explanation if a note is used, but anyways, Leonardo is under the impression that Katrina is a black leopard (クロヒョウ, kuro hyou), according to his e-Reader card letter in Doubutsu no Mori e+.
はあー <player>ー
このまえ、 ステキなじょせいを
はっけんしたんだー！
クロヒョウのハッケミィさん・・
ヒョウなのに、 くろいけなみが
キレイで、 そのうえとーっても
ミステリアスなんだー！
これって、 こい？ ヒョウタ- HylianAngel (talk) 16:26, December 24, 2024 (EST)
- Oh, that's a great find! Although there's a small chance that there's a misunderstanding, that seems like pretty good supporting evidence IMO that she's meant to be a leopard -- Dorsal Axe (talk) 17:13, December 24, 2024 (EST)
- Oh, that's a great find! Although there's a small chance that there's a misunderstanding, that seems like pretty good supporting evidence IMO that she's meant to be a leopard --
Use screenshots instead of artwork on special character pages[edit]
Right now, on special character pages in the "Appearances" sections for each game, we generally have artwork of that character from that game. However, I think screenshots from that game would be much more useful to readers, both in showing how the character appears/works in each game, and to better illustrate what is being described in the prose. I think artwork doesn't really add much and is better suited for the character's gallery page. ~ AlexBot2004 (Talk) 16:44, December 25, 2023 (EST)
- Support That's the most logical system for portraying the content and how it should consistently be everywhere. I think the only reason why it's not already like that is because of the lack of special character screenshots for each game in the series. Blanca and Katie in the older games would be especially difficult. HylianAngel (talk) 20:38, January 6, 2024 (EST)
- Comment I don't think it would be too difficult to get pictures of elusive characters, as there are fairly straightforward ways to hack and/or use emulation on older games to force them to show up. K1ttyTheK4t (talk) 09:38, December 26, 2024 (EST)
- Support Makes sense to me. We already showcase the artworks from each individual game in the gallery section, so better to use the Appearances section to show screenshots instead of duplicative artwork. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:26, December 25, 2024 (EST)
Cantonese spelling[edit]
I'm not sure if it's alright to create a new section here because I've covered this on several threads before, but I think it would be a good time to discuss which kind of spelling that will be used on Cantonese romanizations. As described on previous threads, I'm not a Cantonese speaker, but I wanted the Cantonese spellings to be filled. The thing is, Cantonese has several known spellings which makes me not sure which one to put in.
You see, Yale romanization and Jyutping are two of the things that I considered. Yale seems to be used in a certain NIWA sites that I know of, like Bulbapedia, and some of the spellings here are Yale-esque. On other side, Jyutping is considered to be newer, and sites like Wiktionary seems to be fond of using it. I'll give some examples for comparison, but I'm taking cues from a certain pinyin converter, so I'm not 100% sure if it's accurate, but here goes:
Blathers (傅達)
Yale romanization: fuh daaht
Jyutping romanization: fu6 daat6
Brewster (老闆)
Yale romanization: lóuh báan
Jyutping romanization: lou5 baan2
Isabelle (西施惠)
Yale romanization: sāi sī waih
Jyutping romanization: sai1 si1 wai6
Now, I've been thinking three options. Option A is to have Yale romanization being used entirely, or Option B where Jyutping is used in all the pages. There's also Option C where Yale and Jyutping romanization being used side by side, even though I'm not sure if infoboxes would allow two of them. Or is there another way to do it? And what do you guys think? Please respond kindly, thanks. Starry Windy★ 11:15, January 3, 2024 (EST)
- I'm down to changing how we do romanizations in general. A thing that bothers me is that there aren't many good sites out there that can get us accurate romanizations for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (like any of them really). Definitely a goal to be made when Project Languages comes into fruition. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 07:36, January 6, 2024 (EST)
- Actually, I think Chinese romanizations are pretty much standardized. For Simplified Chinese, we often use Hanyu Pinyin which is widely used in Mainland China and Singapore according to Wikipedia, and is considered the international standard. And I'm pretty sure we've used this one in practically all articles that has it. Other notable romanizations include Gwoyeu Romatzyh which was used back then but rarely so nowadays, and also Wade-Giles and Yale.
- Speaking of Yale, it has two kinds of romanizations, one for Mandarin and one for Cantonese. The latter apparently is still widely used, it's systematic in how things are spelled, which somehow almost mirrors Hanyu Pinyin in some ways. Apart from Yale, I also think of Jyutping as systematic spelling. And I haven't even get started on Cantonese Pinyin, which is a real deal as well. Things to note, the reason I'm not sure on how accurate the Cantonese romanizations are is simply because I didn't learn much on Cantonese yet. Starry Windy★ 08:45, January 6, 2024 (EST)
- It's moreso the fact that it's harder to find sites that can auto-romanize them, but I do feel it's important to have someone experienced with that language to handle that romanization. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 08:48, January 6, 2024 (EST)
- Well, I do found one site for it. For the examples I gave above, I was taking reference from this site, and I find the spelling for Marina was a 100% match. It's from this site that I knew Bulbapedia used Yale spelling, too. Still, I also agreed that we need someone experienced on Cantonese, too. Starry Windy★ 08:55, January 6, 2024 (EST)
- It's moreso the fact that it's harder to find sites that can auto-romanize them, but I do feel it's important to have someone experienced with that language to handle that romanization. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 08:48, January 6, 2024 (EST)
- Speaking of Yale, it has two kinds of romanizations, one for Mandarin and one for Cantonese. The latter apparently is still widely used, it's systematic in how things are spelled, which somehow almost mirrors Hanyu Pinyin in some ways. Apart from Yale, I also think of Jyutping as systematic spelling. And I haven't even get started on Cantonese Pinyin, which is a real deal as well. Things to note, the reason I'm not sure on how accurate the Cantonese romanizations are is simply because I didn't learn much on Cantonese yet. Starry Windy★ 08:45, January 6, 2024 (EST)
A new Project?[edit]
Idea: Project Languages! It would be centered around interwiki links and modifying the villagers' articles to make them more... accessible for those who don't speak English, such as links to the Spanish and German Animal Crossing wikis, and... More details in other languages than just the names, such as the photo quotes and catchphrases. You know, make the wiki more open to people who don't speak English. Briky
16:37, January 6, 2024 (EST)
I actually just looked at the top post here, so maybe we could combine this with that? And I also saw an idea that comes from 2021 on the Projects talk page: Something called "Project Linguistics". Well, if it's okay for the creator of the original idea, I think I've found the name for this project! Briky 16:43, January 6, 2024 (EST)
- Hi, that was my idea and I think thats super cool! Thanks, --SunsetBay (Talk)
15:27, August 1, 2024 (EDT)
Possible Incorrect Genre for the Wild World Rubber Plant[edit]
Hi there! I've been playing Animal Crossing: Wild World quite a lot lately and had a villager that was into collecting Old-school furniture. The Rubber Plant was in Nook's store and is on the old-school list, so I grabbed it. When I gave the villager the rubber plant, he rejected it saying it's not old-school. He refused to take it when I tried again. I'm not sure which genre it's supposed to be corrected to though. (Sorry if I'm doing this the wrong way, I'm new!) MadRayne (talk) 16:21, January 8, 2024 (EST)
- It looks like all the items in the House Plant Set had incorrect genres; they have all been corrected to Chic. All the genres are now taken directly from the game's files, so there shouldn't be any more errors. Thank you for pointing this out! ~ AlexBot2004 (Talk) 14:45, January 9, 2024 (EST)
Userbox question[edit]
Hiya im Ceariah im new to the wiki. Just a question how do you make a userbox? Ceariah (talk) 06:25, January 21, 2024 (EST)
- You can go to the Userbox page to find some userboxes and a guide on how to use them. Have a good day and welcome to Nookipedia! Briky 12:28, January 24, 2024 (EST)
i got a black rose by accident[edit]
woke up today to find a black rose, which surprised me because i don't even have a special red rose (i think), which you get by crossing a purple and an orange. i don't even have a purple rose anywhere in my town, only way i can see this happening is if theres another way to create a special red rose.
--Erick7477719 (talk) 10:42, February 28, 2024 (EST)
- There is a chance that breeding red roses will give you a black rose. At least you got one! DriftveilBread (talk) 12:53, March 21, 2024 (EDT)
- Water the black rose with a gold watering can and you might get a gold rose!
Acnh Player (talk) 11:40, April 9, 2024 (EDT)
- Water the black rose with a gold watering can and you might get a gold rose!
If I find vandalism, where should I report it?[edit]
Where do I report users? Acnh Player (talk) 23:55, March 24, 2024 (EDT)
- Nookipedia:Staff noticeboard is the best place on-wiki. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 00:07, March 25, 2024 (EDT)
Memes[edit]
Should users be allowed to post meme images related to animal crossing here? Vote underneath. 
Acnh Player (talk) 18:51, April 11, 2024 (EDT)
- No. Trig Jegman - 00:31, April 12, 2024 (EDT)
- Oppose Sorry, but it's too off-topic for a website that has dedicated itself to making an encyclopedia about Animal Crossing. There's a channel on Nookipedia:Discord that is much more suitable for memes. Drago (talk)
11:12, April 12, 2024 (EDT)
- I said "Related to" animal crossing. Acnh Player (talk) 11:14, April 12, 2024 (EDT)
- They still wouldn't have any use on articles though. You could maybe upload them as personal images if they're not inappropriate. Drago (talk) 11:19, April 12, 2024 (EDT)
- If you're referring to a mainspace page that does allow Animal Crossing meme images, the closest thing would be the "Pop-culture phenomena" section on the "List of Animal Crossing references in other media" page, but I feel a meme should have widespread notability to be listed on that page lest it be severely bloated with unnoteworthy memes. The Jacketed Terrapin 20:02, April 12, 2024 (EDT)
- How about if you want to post memes it has to be approved by a staff first. Acnh Player (talk) 20:17, April 12, 2024 (EDT)
- How about if you want to post memes it has to be approved by a staff first.
- They still wouldn't have any use on articles though. You could maybe upload them as personal images if they're not inappropriate. Drago (talk)
- I said "Related to" animal crossing.
Removing "count by game" from Infobox Species and Infobox Personality[edit]
Dorsal Axe (talk) 15:56, May 26, 2024 (EDT)- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.
I wanted to get some feedback from users on the idea of removing the count of villagers by game from Template:Infobox Species and Template:Infobox Personality and integrating it into the species and personality articles as tables. Currently, this information is cramped within the infoboxes, and I feel this is only going to get worse with each new game that is released. Additionally, we're using a crude custom implementation for these two templates, instead of utilising the standard Template:Infobox.
What I'm proposing is that we adapt this information as a table in its own section within the species/personality articles. We're already using Cargo to query the database for the exact count, so it shouldn't be too difficult to adapt this. We would leave the current running total counts in the infoboxes as is, but replace the custom implementation of these templates with Template:Infobox.
Any thoughts? -- Dorsal Axe (talk) 09:11, May 18, 2024 (EDT)
- I'd be down to make this info more accessible. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 10:23, May 18, 2024 (EDT)
- Actually should we remove this, we may in fact have to delete the infoboxes themselves since they aren't particularly special anymore. It doesn't help that for Template:Infobox Personality, the other category left, which counts if a villager is an islander or not, is redundant for big sister and smug, which do not have this info. I'm more lenient with how this is used for Template:Infobox Species, but again I could just see this being moved altogether.
- With that said, I Support their deletion. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 00:32, May 19, 2024 (EDT)
- With that said, I
- Support I agree that these infoboxes are becoming cramped, and I'd support switching to something tidier. Drago (talk) 11:46, May 18, 2024 (EDT)
- Oppose I think the count is necessary for the infoboxes, as it can be helpful ate certain times, like when a user wants to see how many of those are in each game. I don't really think the infoboxes are cramped. Acnh Player (talk) 18:22, May 18, 2024 (EDT)
- The information is not being removed, just moved to the body of the article. ~ AlexBot2004 (Talk) 23:47, May 18, 2024 (EDT)
- Support ~ AlexBot2004 (Talk) 23:47, May 18, 2024 (EDT)
- The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.
Notice Box template cleanup[edit]
As part of my work on some interface improvements, I'm looking to rework Template:Notice Box. I've already come up with a massively simplified template (code-wise, visually it's identical) but there are two points of discussion I would like to raise with the community before proceeding with the implementation. -- Dorsal Axe (talk) 18:58, May 19, 2024 (EDT)
Templates for discussion[edit]
- Deprecated Template:Event, Template:Missing Information, Template:Rewrite, and Template:To-do, and made the necessary changes to other templates that replace their usage.
- Deleted Template:TemplateWIP as it's completely unused and basically the same as Template:Construction (which has been updated to adapt to when used in the Template namespace).
- Moved Template:NH Content to Template:New Content, and made some tweaks so we can re-use it for future games.
- Left Template:Future Page as is, since everyone seems to like this one
Dorsal Axe (talk) 08:05, December 20, 2024 (EST)- The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.
I've been going through the different notice templates, and feel that there is scope to merge some and remove others. I'm proposing we deprecate, merge, or delete the following:
- Template:Event
- No longer used in any articles, so could be deprecated or deleted. It would be more suitable to add a field in Template:Infobox Event to denote region-exclusivity than to have a notice.
- Template:Expansion
- Has a lot of overlap with Template:Missing Information, and incomplete sections should be using Template:Stub. We could merge this with Missing Information and alter it to not only refer to empty sections (which should be removed from articles anyway IMO).
- Template:Future Page
- Template:TemplateWIP
- Neither of these are used very much, and are basically the same thing as Template:Construction. These could be deprecated or deleted.
- Template:NH Content
- Was used specifically around the launch of New Horizons and is no longer needed for its intended purpose. Alternatively, we could make this one more generic so it can be repurposed for future titles.
- Template:Rewrite
- Template:To-do
- Both of these overlap with Template:Cleanup, though the latter covers more use cases, and is clearer than the to-do one. These could all be merged IMO.
-- Dorsal Axe (talk) 18:58, May 19, 2024 (EDT)
- {{Event}} - Agree. On pages where the template might be used, version exclusivity is already mentioned in the first line. Also official WiFi support for the applicable games has ended so very few users will be looking to attend these events anyway. Also agree that it makes sense to highlight this info in the infobox.
- Agree with {{Expansion}} x {{Missing Information}} merge.
- I actually like {{Future Page}} because when used properly it helps us see what pages other users are working on in their sandboxes, as it has an associated category. Its counterpart {{TemplateWIP}} is less useful/it can go.
- Agree that {{NH Content}} should be made generic. Maybe turn it into Template:New Content?
- Toss {{Rewrite}} & {{To-do}}, agree that {{Cleanup}} is good enough on its own.
(talk) 01:22, June 27, 2024 (EDT)
- Support for any that deals with deprecation/deletion/merger. As for {{NH Content}}, I would definitely support repurposing it for future game content. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 21:52, August 29, 2024 (EDT)
- {{Event}}: Agree on deprecate or delete. I think a full notice like that at the top of the page is too excessive. Region exclusivity is sufficiently covered in the lead prose (and perhaps the infobox).
- {{Expansion}}: Agree on merging.
- {{Future Page}}: I'm fine with this one. Might not see frequent use, but nice to have for drafts and sandboxes. {{TemplateWIP}} is kind of repetitive and can be merged/deprecated/deleted.
- {{NH Content}}: Deprecate, or turn more generic if possible. IMO don't delete, good to have for history's sake.
- {{Rewrite}} & {{To-do}}: Agree on tossing, merge into {{Cleanup}}. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 23:50, August 29, 2024 (EDT)
- The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page.
Standardising color schemes[edit]
I want to make a potentially controversial proposal that we standardise the notice template colours. This would make them easier to maintain in the backend, give users a clearer indication as to the purpose of a notice, and allow us to better ensure accessibility standards are met for their design.
I've identified several categories our existing notices could fit into, and the idea is that all notices within the categories would share the same color scheme but can still have unique icons and text. I've not included file licensing templates, as I would like to make a distinct template for these instead of using the Notice Box template (and they currently all share the same design anyway).
| Category | Description | Templates |
|---|---|---|
| Nookipedia | All notices relating to Nookipedia itself. This would use the brand colors. | |
| System | System-related messages. Many of these already share a similar color scheme. | |
| Warning | Advisories of user blocks and critical system notices. Would match the scheme of the warning/block templates. | |
| Advisory | Notices to users reflecting the content of the page (that needs more elaboration than using Template:Content Notice). | |
| Editing | Editor-focused notices for articles that need attention or improvements. | |
| Request | Editor-focused notices for page change requests. | |
| Game Update | This one already uses styling to match update-related content on the wiki, and I think it should stay that way. |
-- Dorsal Axe (talk) 18:58, May 19, 2024 (EDT)
- Oppose Sorry but I disagree with this. I am a big fan of colors, and I would like templates to use different colors whenever possible. Acnh Player (talk) 21:25, May 19, 2024 (EDT)
- Great idea! This makes sense and I think will help give our pages/the site a more cohesive look. (talk) 01:28, June 27, 2024 (EDT)
- Support I like the idea as well, per Sunmarsh's remarks! 😄 ~PoizonMushro0m
17:49, June 27, 2024 (EDT) - Support I think it looks really nice! I think that it’s cool. Thanks, --SunsetBay (Talk) 15:25, August 1, 2024 (EDT)
Page Creation Request[edit]
I Want To Create A Page Request For Something I Want To Call " Terry Cloth Nightcap Colors By Villager In Animal Crossing New Horizons"70.70.61.15 11:12, June 2, 2024 (EDT)
- I'm not sure if an entire page for that is necessary. That information could go in the terry-cloth nightcap item page. ~ AlexBot2004 (Talk) 22:31, June 2, 2024 (EDT)
What pages should I edit?[edit]
Hello guys! I just created an account on this wiki, and I'd really appreciate it if I could get a couple suggestions on what pages I should edit. Any Ideas?TJS113 (talk) 09:51, July 8, 2024 (EDT)
- I would recommend the gallery pages, because they definitely need more images on them. NookipediaCrossing (talk) 21:41, July 8, 2024 (EDT)
Keeping track of villagers[edit]
is there a way to see when your villagers came and left my island? i forgot to write it down :( Charlotte (talk) 22:29, September 3, 2024 (EDT)
Question from 82.69.99.76[edit]
I've been using Nookipedia a lot lately and it's so helpful so I wanted to help edit where I can but I can't seem to be able to. I've tried editing Julian's villager page because for some reason the sentence regarding his music hobby is broken (cut in half and repeats), and I've also noticed that the species for Snooty the anteater is missing in the NL villager tables but not sure how to fix it... Perhaps someone else can? - unsigned comment from 82.69.99.76 (talk • contribs)
Australia flag[edit]
I'm continuing this from a discussion started on PanchamBro's talk page, as it does concern me that the Australian flag has been changed site-wide to the Aboriginal version without any discussion beforehand. Given that this is a change affecting many pages (the flag appears next to release date and DLC information, for example), I feel that any change should ideally be agreed upon first, possibly even as a Proposal. Reasons cited for the change include avoiding confusion with the New Zealand flag (although that one is rarely used on Nookipedia) and human rights violations, but there's disagreement about whether the Aboriginal flag is even official enough to be used as the Australia flag on Nookipedia. Personally, I'd rather use the official flag unless there's an overwhelming case for changing it. Does anyone else have any thoughts? Drago (talk) 14:13, September 14, 2024 (EDT)
- I support reverting to the official national flag. I know the Aboriginal flag is one of several official flags, and I recognize the movement to make it the national flag. However, my understanding is that the Aboriginal flag represents the Aboriginal people of Australia, and I'm not sure it's apt to generalize the flag to mean all of Australia until Australia formally recognizes it as such. We should default to using what is considered the official national flag. Template:UB Australian was also changed to use the Aboriginal flag - I think we should revert this, but have the flag available as an option via a parameter. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 15:27, September 14, 2024 (EDT)
- I think it would be better if we kept the Aboriginal flag to represent Oceania on this wiki since that's the general market that Nintendo sells at. Leaving only the Australian flag as it, but as a separate file, for users and stuff. Of course, this would also come with discussions on how we handle flags here, because North America doesn't have a unified flag to represent Canada and the United States. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 17:51, September 14, 2024 (EDT)
- I am also in support with Drago and SH with reverting back to the official flag per their prior points. It might be a flag of Australia, but in my 20+ years on the internet, I've never seen it used in an official capacity and here, I feel it shouldn't be used as such to lessen confusion and fit more in line with our MoS with other official flags for say the United States, Canada, etc. Unless it was changed on a national/international level in Australia and/or discussed in a proposal with team members, these changes should not have taken place and a more formal process should have been done before mass changes to this flag and another countries were done. ~PoizonMushro0m 02:23, September 15, 2024 (EDT)
Given the above discussion, I've done the following:
- Moved the Aboriginal Australia flag from
File:Flag of Australia.svgtoFile:Flag of Aboriginal Australia.svg File:Flag of Australia.svgis now the official national flag of Australia (and used across our articles)- {{UB Australian}} now displays the offiical national flag again, with an optional
aboriginalparameter that changes the userbox colors and displays the Aboriginal Australia flag. - Created {{UB Aboriginal Australian}} as its own userbox for Aboriginal Australians.
Thanks, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 06:06, September 21, 2024 (EDT)
- I'm late to this discussion, but just thought I'd add my two AUD cents. I think this is a good resolution. I don't want to get too much into it, since it's a complex and nuanced sociopolitcal discussion that isn't relevant here, but as an Australian (who has lived abroad for a long, long time) I've never seen the Australian Aboriginal Flag used to represent the country globally in any official capacity. Having the option of which flag to use in the userbox a good, inclusive idea though. Some users may wish to use it to represent themselves, and should have the option to do so. Meanwhile, many non-Aboriginal Australians support usage of the flag but do not feel comfortable appropriating it for themselves due its historical and cultural context.
- I do think future changes to any flags should be subject to discussion first, unless a nation very clearly changes their national flag on the global stage in an official capacity. -- Dorsal Axe (talk) 06:14, October 12, 2024 (EDT)
- I don't know if this needs saying, (and it's a bit of a late comment, but the topic is still here, so...) but I think for our purposes here it's best to just use whatever flag the government accepts as their national flag. I think it's a little silly for us as an animal crossing wiki to challenge a sovereign nation on what their flag ought to be. --LeoGrun (talk) 16:25, March 19, 2025 (EDT)
Pages with reference errors[edit]
The reference errors exist because templates themselves have a {{Note}} without a {{Note list}}. Would it be better to create a Note section par page with a single {{Note list}} or to have a {{Note list}} in the footnote of each Table having a note? WulFaz (talk) 09:35, October 4, 2024 (EDT)
- Thanks for letting me know. I'm currently fixing those pages by adding
{{Note list}}to them. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 16:20, October 4, 2024 (EDT)
something about HHP[edit]
For villager pages, should there be an image example on how their HHP vacation home will look like? there's already that for HHA, so why not HHP? RedPikmin95 (talk) 11:33, October 10, 2024 (EDT)
- The Happy Home Designer (HHD) villager boxes utilize house examples that were officially posted by Nintendo of Japan (see here for all images). For Happy Home Paradise, Nintendo did post a few examples of house requests (some can be found here), but it's not comprehensive like they did for HHD. This is why HHP doesn't have an equivalent. HylianAngel (talk) 15:18, October 10, 2024 (EDT)
Properly recognising "situations"[edit]
I've had an idea about making properly splitting out "situations" into their own category. By this I mean the small scenarios/mini-events that occur in the games. "Situations" is more of a technical term, I suppose, though the devs have used this word in NH patch notes to refer to these. Currently we've got things like Group stretching, Spotlight item, and Tortimer's Lighthouse Request classed as events, when they're not really true events like the Fishing Tourney, or Halloween and such. Meanwhile, scenarios such as moving, sickness, and visits are all lumped under the increasingly bloated Category:Gameplay elements (which seems to be serving as a catch-all for anything that doesn't fit neatly into a box). The navbox for that one is huge, yet somehow also missing a ton of articles in that category. Shifting these articles out of there would free up room to add the links that are missing without it becoming too monstrous.
I'm not sure what the best form would be for this idea to take. It could either be a sub-category of Events or Gameplay elements, or maybe it should be its own separate thing entirely. Should these artcles have their own "situation" infobox? I don't know, so I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this. -- Dorsal Axe (talk) 06:28, January 4, 2025 (EST)
- Could they be listed as Scenarios rather than Situations? I think it just sounds better imo. Or maybe Scene? --- AmbidexHex (Talk)
- I Support creating a Category:Situations—probably as a subcategory of gameplay elements since they do fall under the broad term "gameplay". They are definitely notable and different enough from the normal gameplay to warrant having their own category/navbox. ~ AlexBot2004 (Talk) 22:14, January 12, 2025 (EST)
How Reese, Tom Nook, Isabelle and possibly more (I think) are on the Brake Tapper item.[edit]
Just play with it, literally is true. Miss Khealsea Lady!👌🏽 23:20, January 10, 2025 (EST) - unsigned comment from Mrs. Khealsea (talk • contribs)
Section where I can make opinions and jokes?[edit]
I feel like bursting them out everywhere, tho I’m REALLY not going to vandalize! Miss Khealsea Lady!👌🏽 00:47, January 25, 2025 (EST) - unsigned comment from Mrs. Khealsea (talk • contribs)
- There really isn't a designated place on the wiki for dicussing opinions and jokes. Places like social media or Discord servers tend to be better for casual discussions like that. You may use your userpage to share a tasteful amount of opinions or jokes (e.g. some users will have a "Favorite Villagers" section on their userpage), but it shouldn't be the primary purpose of your userpage nor your main focus. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 02:17, January 25, 2025 (EST)
- Okay! Maybe we can update myself with my talk page. Let’s connect and I’ll get started on this! Miss Khealsea Lady!👌🏽 17:40, January 25, 2025 (EST) - unsigned comment from Mrs. Khealsea (talk • contribs)
Error[edit]
I am getting a strange error when I try to go to the user creation log. Instead of going to the page it shows a mostly blank page with some information and coding fragments.Help! --Leafinder5 (talk) 21:09, March 14, 2025 (EDT) Now it's happening to my talk!Leafinder5 (talk) 21:13, March 14, 2025 (EDT) Never mind. Leafinder5 (talk) 21:16, March 14, 2025 (EDT)
an error[edit]
So... I went to talk:Fish and an error message popped up
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